IG22-03 ‘Zen’ Benefiel, Stubbing my T.O.E on Purpose.

January 17, 2022January 18, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Bruce ‘Zen’ Benefiel, MA, MBA, on air from January 18th

Bruce Lee Benefiel, although in 1988, ‘Zendor’ was a name given after asking internally, ‘Who am I?’ and a friend sitting next to me answering with, ‘You are Zendor.’ Zen came a couple of years later while doing One World TV show when a crew member called me Zen during a taping one night. It cascaded from there and I just embraced it.

Adopted young, his quest for truth and understanding began early in life. His father a Master Mason/Tool and Die Maker and his mother was an English teacher; they encouraged his academic and athletic development as well as demonstrating core ethics, values, and unconditional love.

Adoption brought questions that led deep into his psyche and the exploration of self over his lifetime and continue as an ever-present observer in his life. Since a child, his life was full of conundrums and enigmas.

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A unique Near-Death Experience his first year in college on a Pre-Med program sent him on an internal quest, switching his major to Psychology. Leaving college, he married at 21, father of four, and then divorced after 10 years. Trials and tribulations in life were noted in the NDE; dissolution of marriage, job and church happened simultaneously.

After leaving aerospace production management, his role as church Elder, earning two Masters’s Degrees, and teaching for a decade, he became a certified life coach, Be The Dream. While building his practice, performed pre-construction team-building sessions, traveling the country for projects serving several Federal and State agencies and municipalities.

Balancing responsibilities with passion and purpose, professional opportunities continued life-learning roles in various industries, including facilitating environmental and social activist groups. Gaps in an activity offered time to work on his passions; building websites, playing music and writing books about life experiences, garnering a little wisdom.

He hosted One World TV show and co-hosted 2 Small Biz Guys talk radio show, crafted a school/village concept and co-founded WeCanDoBetterArizona.org.

Businesses he owns include Transformational Coaching, Planck Social Media Agency LLC, Team Partnering LLC and United We Stand Productions LLC.

Books on Amazon invite readers into other worlds and offer practical wisdom and interviews with a renowned host and a presentation (IANDS 2010) challenge the status quo of many current philosophies.

Zen is a renaissance man with a new millennial mindset – one skewed toward harmony among people and planet. He resides in Arizona with his wife, Luba, a Kundalini yoga teacher and conservatory-trained pianist from St. Petersburg, Russia. Life is ONEderful now.

FIND ALL OF HIS BOOKS HERE

http://bethedream.com

coach@bethedream.com

https://facebook.com/zenbenefiel

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https://youtube.com/c/OneWorldinaNewWorld

https://youtube.com/c/ZenBenefiel

https://zenbenefiel.com

Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, Medium, Twitter, YouTube

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C22-03 Suswati Basu and How To Be……

January 17, 2022January 31, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Suswati Basu, on air from January 18th

I believe that knowledge is power, whether, through books or research, we can all know ourselves a little better. Even though I have faced many adversities in both mental and physical health, I feel that we never stop growing as people.

Suswati Basu is a multilingual disabled intelligence expert, journalist, mental health books show podcast host, and award-winning activist.

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Winner of the Emma Humphries Memorial Prize in 2007, also shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize in the same year, and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. She has worked in China, India, and the UK and currently writes on a freelance basis. As a result, she speaks multiple languages including Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Bengali. Suswati has also appeared on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour with Jenni Murray as well as BBC News, speaking in regard to feminist issues.

Suswati has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post, and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 News, and ITV News.

As a survivor and thriver from trauma, living with both mental health and physical disabilities, she began the How To Be… podcast looking at helping mental wellbeing through reading and interviewing authors. Speaking to 36 authors in 2021, including powerhouse women such as powerlifter and journalist Poorna Bell, and the Year of Living Danishly author Helen Russell, Suswati gained huge insight throughout the year and has been developing and creating a like-minded community who discuss these topics on Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse on a weekly basis. She actually reads a book a day!

Suswati new show with Sara Troy airing February 7th.

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TM22-03 Kevin Ringstaff, Grieving for Pets & People.

January 17, 2022June 30, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters, with Sara Troy and her guest Kevin Ringstaff, on air from January 18th

Kevin Ringstaff has been a student of grief for many years. He creates products and activities on grief and invents ways to help teach grief to everyone. Kevin’s been through several grief certification programs over the years and he’s currently studying to be a Board Certified Hospital Chaplain. He spends his days talking about grief, creating activities and products around grief, and listening to the stories from people all over the country.

He founded his first company, PetCloud (www.petcloud.pet) to help those who are going through the loss of a pet, and his second company, Grieving@Work (www.grievingatwork.com) to teach management how to better support grieving employees in the workplace.

His life is currently graced and occupied by 3 pets, his Old English Sheepdog, Sir William Broderick (“Brody”), his cat Ponce de León (“Ponce”), and a Tarantula that he accidentally came into possession of, Lucy.

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My name is Kevin Ringstaff, and I am the founder of PetCloud. I spend my days talking about grief and educating people on how to support their friends, family, and co-workers through their grief. Mostly though, my daily job is to listen to the stories of love and loss by other people.

I recently moved to San Francisco to build and grow this community into a place where anyone, anywhere can come and share their grief and get support from others who really do understand the pain and anguish we go through when we lose someone we love.

Through my studies and counseling over the years, I’ve learned quite a lot about grief. It’s safe to say that as a society, we all have a tendency to hold on to grief. It’s awkward and uncomfortable to talk about. We feel like we might be judged especially if we tell other people how much we are hurting because of our losses.

I got into this business because of a loss of my own, Henry “Fats” Rothschild “Henry”, who was my furry orange monstrosity of a cat. When I lost him, I didn’t have anyone in my life that I really felt comfortable talking with about that kind of grief. So, as I did with most grief in my life, I just pushed it down and held it in. I went on like this for a long time until I found out about the Association for Pet Loss & Bereavement (www.aplb.org), started by Dr. Wallace Sife. I got certified as a pet loss bereavement counselor through their program, and I’ve been helping people ever since.

Since that time, I’ve gone on to become a registered Pet Chaplain and a certified Grief Recovery Specialist ®, and now I’m in school again to be a Board Certified Chaplain. I’m always reading and studying more about grief and looking to speak to anyone who will listen.

www.kevinringstaff.com

kevin@kevinringstaff.com

https://www.facebook.com/kevin.ringstaff

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-ringstaff

https://www.youtube.com/channel

PetCloud ® (www.petcloud.pet)
Grief Support Services for Pet Loss

kevin@petcloud.pet

Free Virtual Pet Loss Support Groups

Every Sunday at 3:00pm & 6:00pm PT

Toll-Free Pet Loss Support Line: 1-833-PET-1234; 9am – 9pm PT, Everyday

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Grieving@Work ™ (www.grievingatwork.com)

Grief Education and Training for Management

A SHOW ON THIS COMING SOON.

kevin@grievingatwork.com

Free Weekly Grief Workshop

Every Wednesday at 1:00pm PT

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22-02 What’s on your Canvas?

January 10, 2022January 9, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from January 11th

We all have yearly good intentions, and we wish to meet certain goals, so what is on your canvas this year? Self Discovery and I are one and the same, and the brush we desire to paint on our canvass this year is….

Write Sara’s book (Sara has been asked to share her life story)

Produce “The Forgotten Children’s” a collaborative series book (see details here)

Draw more ways of funding to the station. (Fund Us here) (WE ARE FUNDED BY YOU THE AUDIENCE )

Growing deeper in wisdom both personally and in our shows.

I do not believe in new year resolutions, but like to paint some commitments I desire to achieve. I know that I can not achieve all of these on my own, and I am asking my Self Discovery Community to be a part of this journey in making some of it happen.

Wisdom is a life experience fully felt, knowledge is learned and stored for future use. When we use our wisdom to guide our knowledge, then we have a clearer picture of how to paint our canvas of possibilities. I am painting in the direction of desire, but what comes out on the canvas is what is meant to be. So allow your brush which is armed with knowledge, and tap into its wisdom, and paint that desire into reality.

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AK22-02 Charlie Sheldon, Strong Hearts Ancient Wisdom pt2

January 10, 2022January 9, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Charles Sheldon, on air from January 8th

Charlie will be talking about the themes in his tales concerning the power and truth of the ancient legend, as well as our notion that people from long long ago somehow had less wisdom or insight than we do today – there seems to be a widely held view that humans before writing were somehow less sophisticated than we are. Really? We dive into his 3 books and what the common thread is in all of them.

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I have always been a writer, always a hiker, trained as a wildlife biologist, living in the Pacific Northwest, a husband, father, grandfather, and friend. In my work life, I was a graduate student teacher, a commercial fisherman, a house painter, a fisheries consultant, a treasure hunter, then a planner, a construction manager, a project manager, even an executive for various seaports – for 28 years. During my years working for seaports, I was involved with several difficult environmental cleanups, including Superfund sites, and for many years I worked with local tribes negotiating fishing agreements between their salmon fishermen and harbor operations in Seattle. After I retired from port work at age 65 in 2012 I went back to sea as a merchant sailor, container ships and military reserve vessels, as a watchstander and able-bodied seaman, for four years, then quit for good to write these books about Olympic National Park, the Gulf of Alaska, a certain ornery young girl, and ancient history – I call it the Strong Heart Series.

Before writing my latest series of books I did years of research into human origins, archeology, geology, ice ages, and climate change to develop the foundation for my Strong Heart series of books, which ask the question: could the ancient legends of most First peoples of North America that they have always been here – always – be true? Along the way I have learned much about what we know, and how much more we do not know, plus a healthy dose of aversion to zealotry and people who are absolutely convinced they know what is best for the rest of us.

Charlie went to Yale University and UMass, where he received a Masters’s Degree in Wildlife Biology/Resource Management. He worked in the fishing industry for 15 years as a deckhand, mate, skipper, and consultant, then relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1990 to be near Olympic National Park. He worked at seaports for nearly 30 years as a planner, project manager, and executive. When he retired from seaports in 2012 he returned to sea as a merchant sailor for four years, working on the various container and military vessels as Able Bodied Seaman and Bosun. He retired in 2016 to work full time at his writing. Nowadays he hikes in the Olympic National Park whenever he can, cooks for his wife, pesters his grandchildren and continues to scribble tales.

www.charliesheldon2.com

charliesheldon2@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/CharlieSheldon2

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