IG22-03 A DISCIPLE by Feroze Dada.


Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Feroze Dada, on air from January 18th

A Disciple describes a singular journey with a universal appeal, on the path of Perennial Wisdom. There are lessons for us all as we recognise the call from our inner spirit, our yearning for ‘something other’ in a materialistic world that so often leaves us dissatisfied.

There is another way for us to live, and A Disciple asks important questions about faith and spirituality and connects us with the power of meditation. The author believes passionately that it is a meditation that provides the foundation for a caring and compassionate future.

The story is told with engaging candour, with tales from mythology, quotations from Rumi, and references to Sufi texts all adding colour to the Wisdom Teachings he is receiving. The wise ones spoke in parables and metaphor because that is the form that penetrates and transcends our defenses. We go to some deeper part of ourselves; non-linear and non-cerebral, which is what meditation is.

A Disciple is a fascinating exploration of how meditation can not only awaken our latent potential to live the best lives we can, but also transform the world.



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Feroze Dada was born in Karachi, and has lived and worked for most of his life in London. He worked in the finance sector and was entrepreneurial in helping several media start-up companies. A decade ago, his life changed when he went to Myanmar to visit his wife’s family. He became deeply involved in working with a Buddhist monastery in Shan Province, helping it over a number of years to become self-sufficient, supporting as it does some 1200 orphan children. SEE HERE
He became a meditation practitioner and continued to work with his Sufi teacher, learning how to live a fulfilled and meaningful life, and by helping others.
He is the interviewer and producer of the online TV series Discovering Humanity and Our One World, and author of Children of the Revolution; A Spiritual Journey to Burma and Buddhism. As well as his work as founder of The Inle Trust Charity, set up to help the children at the Phaya Taung monastery in Myanmar, he teaches and promotes meditation at The Sylvan Healing Sanctuary
in London. This is a community of healers, teachers and practitioners that offer energy healing, meditation and mindfulness.
His wife MuMu (Farida) is from Taunggyi, Myanmar. They have two children; Nadir and Sumaya, and grandchild Layla. They divide their time between their homes in London and Italy.


NEWS & REVIEWS

You may have found yourself reading these words out of curiosity or fascination but perhaps there’s a wish, like Feroze, to know. His book is a bridge to you from a world that is unseen by most except those that are seekers.

These pages are filled with personal anecdotal experiences that may seem straight from a fairy tale. However, they’re the experiences of a seeker who’s spent many years looking for his truth. His faith and acceptance of his experiences has allowed these pages to emerge from the mists into reality.

It’s more than a good story, it’s the path of one who’s been willing to plant his seeds of experience to build a bridge to us so you can go on to plant your own seeds as seekers, allow them to germinate and build your own bridges to the unknown.

These words will never be a substitute for your own experiences but they can act as a guide for you from another’s journey.

 Craig Rebuck
Sylvan Healing Sanctuary.

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When Feroze asked me to review his book, I replied that it would be a privilege and an honour to do so; it has not disappointed, this is a book which tells a wonderful story. 

 I practise as a doctor and surgeon, so professionally have much interest in the sections of the book devoted to healing; these are impressive and riveting. However, I also read the book from the position of a Seeker; this book is full of wonderful insights, into seeking the Kingdom of God within. It incorporates practical advice as to the different types of meditative exercises Feroze has mastered and his desire to share these things with fellow seekers to our potential betterment. 

 This is a timely and brave book as the world adjusts to the Covid 19 pandemic and across the globe there is an enhanced desire to care for our planet and ourselves, not just in mind and body but also in our souls.

This book shows us routes to spiritual well-being, via caring for others, meditation and prayer. I have always described Feroze as my Sufi Moslem, Buddhist, Franciscan Christian friend; this book confirms me in that view.

Feroze has much to share and he does it beautifully. 

Dr. J Richard Smith

Gynecological surgeon & Writer


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


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.


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C22-03 Suswati Basu and How To Be……

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.

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.

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22-02 What’s on your Canvas?

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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