Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Luis Gonzales, on air from July 14th
Our careers, our companies, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time. With Fierce conversations, we come out from behind ourselves and into our conversations and make them real. We have conversations that make a difference in our organizations, our careers, and our lives while enriching our relationships.
Luis has been an international training professional for over 20 years. He has lived and worked in Mexico, India, and Brazil, with organizations such as Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, and Microsoft.
Growing up as a gay young man in a Mexican American, Catholic, and misogynist culture was a challenge, for sure. But always the independent thinker, this situation only urged Luis to continue questioning authority, questioning reality, and seeking truth.
Luis Gonzáles is a Master Facilitator and Speaker with Fierce, Inc. Fierce is an award-winning leadership development company whose methodologies help increase a company’s performance through effective communication.
Luis loves his role with Fierce because he gets to help people have more effective, meaningful, relationship-enriching conversations. What he especially appreciates is that these Fierce principles work in our personal lives as well, helping us achieve our goals and enrich relationships.
Luis has been an international training professional for over 20 years. He has lived and worked in Mexico, India, and Brazil, with organizations such as Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, and Microsoft.
Growing up as a gay young man in a Mexican American, Catholic, and misogynist culture was a challenge, for sure. But always the independent thinker, this situation only urged Luis to continue questioning authority, questioning reality, and seeking truth.
Luis is also a massage therapist and healer. He continues to have his “hands” in it but only as a gift, not professionally. In his youth, he lived in his VW Bus for a time and traveled with a loose-knit group of like-minded hippies around the US, India, and Europe. These experiences have had a lasting impact on Luis and have also shaped his values and perspective on life.
Currently, Luis loves living the mellow Southern California beach life in San Diego. He enjoys body surfing, yoga, and sunsets over the Pacific.
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Anna intuitively brings us to a place of self love by taking us through the process of self-discovery and letting go of what does not serve us and helping us ignite the gifts that lay within us.
Anna says “I lead through example – both in my own personal habits – and through my work helping others do the same.”
In my youth, my wakeup call came after a failed suicide attempt.
I decided to choose life. I decided to not only choose life but a happy one. It was from that choice that I began my journey towards true holistic health: mind, body, and spirit.
As journeys are, it wasn’t seamless along the way. However, because my choice to live a happy life was so absolute, I was able to overcome copper toxicity, depression, weight gain, eating disorders, abusive relationships, and negative self-image as well as the stresses of being a single mother of two. I lead through example and though each experience may have been challenging in the moment, each was a gift as they provided me with opportunities for growth and the opportunity to learn the tools I now use to coach others.
My daughters are the big why behind what I do. My struggles with depression, unhealthy eating habits, and weight gain began in childhood. My biggest motivation is to give them the tools and knowledge they need to navigate their own self-growth so that they don’t have to go through the same struggle I did.
Through my professional training and certifications in counseling, holistic life coaching, sports nutrition, personal training, Reiki and my own spiritual intuition – I offer personalized and progressive healing programs, nutrition guides and workouts – along with support in the emotional, mental, and spiritual journey that comes with healing the physical, emotional and spiritual bodies.
I also have the amazing privilege of working with and alongside Rick Fischer, C.H.H.C; H.T.M.A.P (internationally respected HTMA advisor and mentor; Certified Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis Practitioner, a global authority on copper toxicity, and Nutritional Educator and founder of Mineral Mastery education). Rick creates one of the most comprehensive and personalized HTMA-based nutritional client reports and protocols that listens to each person’s symptoms and targets their specific bio-individual mineral imbalances.
When we clear negative beliefs and messages, raise our energetic vibration and choose to live from our authentic selves, while at the same time support our physical body through individualized nutrition and mineral balancing (minerals regulate nearly every function of our body and imbalances affect us both physically and psychologically) our ability to lead an active happy lifestyle becomes easier, automatic and fun.
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It is my mission and passion to help women reach their place of optimal health, self-love, life happiness, and to feel incredible living an incredible life!
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Life takes its toll on everybody. It comes to a point in our lives where everything stops making sense. Everything blanks out for the time being and just leaves you wondering that “Why Me.” Such a time came in my life too.
Those dark times I considered the worse years of my life, and sometimes I completely disregarded the existence of that period in my life. However, where this might have been the hurt inside me talking, now I cannot deny how it all changed and shaped me as a person. As I consciously chose that the trauma I have experienced is not going to define me and my decisions I make going forward, I noticed a shift of perspective.
My thought process and inner honesty became more apparent as I started this journey on becoming the person I am today. And now, when I look back, I feel like that changing point in my life solely came t teach me how to be more positive. As I started to replace my negative thought about what had transpired beyond my control, I learned to be more positive about life in general.
Positivity is what we all struggle with.
It is one of the virtues that are easier said than done because we can preach positivity to others but fail to see it when it comes to our own experiences. Recharging your own life with positivity is a challenge one must take.
Not only do you learn to deal with situations that evolve beyond your manipulation, but you become a better person at handling just basics of life as you embark on the journey of self-discovery.
How I Keep My Life Recharged With Positivity
As I list down how I keep my life recharged with positivity, I hope you can relate and seek help from this.
1. Dealing With Denial & Acceptance Of The Situation
The very initial fleeting feeling you go through after some tough time in life is of denial. You deny anything such has happened and continue to do it until finally, you give in. In human nature, as a general coping mechanism to minimize the hurt, we deny our emotions as far as to deny that anything has ever happened. However, to start a journey for moving on, you need to accept that yes, this has happened and ask yourself that now how do I get out of this situation.
2. Talking Myself Out Of The Dark Place
As you start accepting the situation, you deliberately begin questioning yourself. You doubt your emotions, feelings. You doubt if you will ever move on or would be able to forget. The answers to this stage lie in talking to yourself. I believe that talking to a friend would help only if you are willing for it to work. Otherwise, it will be just a waste of time and energy. You should invest that time talking to yourself and helping you get a grip on things.
3. Not Trying To Control Everything
After any trauma or negative experience, we become instinctively cautious to lot fall for another hurtful event again. Many people become rigid and build walls around them, not allowing anybody through to know any better. The problem here is that you are too hard on yourself. To resolve this and approach the situation with light in your heart, try not to control everything. Be open about the hurt. Let it be a lesson for you and not the bane of your existence.
4. Listening To Music, Podcasts, Documentaries
It is natural to find yourself relapsing back to negativity and harboring negative thoughts. But you can use external resources like music to help you stay positive. Music is scientifically known to make you feel good. So it can be a great way to keep up your spirits. In addition to music, there are now many motivational speakers and content creators as well that have an aura of positive vibes. Engaging with their content on cheap essay writing service UK can help you stay positive and distract yourself from going back to darkness.
5. Understanding Everything Happens For A Reason
As you are now on the right path, understanding that everything happens for a reason is the ultimate justification you can give to yourself. Even if you don’t believe in destiny or fate, just knowing that whatever that has transpired had the power to ruin you, but you have consciously decided to rise above it because you can is enough to motivate you. The critical point here is that positivity is not the same as being delusional. You accept the reality, and yet you understand that there is a more significant reason behind it than just to jeopardize your situation.
6. Finding Inspiration On Social Media
Where there might be many cons to the various social media platforms, they surely have made it easier for us to find inspiration. Platforms like YouTube and Instagram have increased our access to positive content and people, that if we do want to, it can make a stark difference in our lives. From following positive people to connect with friends, and also you gain access to various art forms. Social media can be very helpful if used for the right purpose and correctly so.
Conclusion
As we tend to lose hope relatively quicker even on the least bit of disappointments, positivity instills confidence in us that things will change. It gives a complete 180 degree turn to our mindset as we change our perspective and find the good in times of distress without losing hope. Hopefully, you can also accept things for how they are and assist yourself in moving on. Sending positivity and light your way!
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Building your business with Sara Troy and Andrew Scheffer, on air from June 30th
Are you suffering from
Burnout from putting out fires at work, managing their teams and meeting deadlines
Difficulty shutting off the inner chatter, stopping the inner critic, and unable to be present for meetings while at the office or family members when at home.
Supporting their teams as they navigate today’s difficult and uncertain environments.
Work-related stress bleeding into their family relationships
In college at The Johns Hopkins University, my freshmen roommate turned out to be suicidal. This, combined with being at a top university with an enormous workload, led to me feeling enormous stress and pressure. I sought out books and then teachers who could show me tools that could help me when I needed it most. When I first started practicing mindfulness, I was 20 and studied with westerners who had spent years in Asia living as monks and studying with great masters. I found something compelling about them as individuals because they had an intangible quality that I wanted for myself. Maybe it was happiness, maybe it was a lightness of being even beyond the normal experiences. Whatever it was, I sensed it and wanted it for myself. This led me on a journey over the course of 25 years of seeking out the living Buddhist masters and learning from them directly rather than through intermediaries. What I learned during that time, was that it was not necessary to filter the source teachings, but great benefit could reach more people if they were granted direct access. The only problem was, I understood that most people would not go to Asia or have the chance to study directly with a teacher. Fortunately, the system that they thought from I learned over the course of my 25 years and I am happy to share with you . I have done my best to pass on the direct methods and inspiration, without the cultural or religious aspects. I have applied these methods to my own life and career which has included high pressure jobs at global investment banks and wealth management firms. I have also applied these same methods with much benefit in my relationships with my spouse and children. Bio: Teacher & Technique
Teacher: Andrew Scheffer – The Wharton Monk is the only person with an MBA who trained for over 10,000 hours with world-leading meditation teachers and Buddhist Monks. He can save you years of searching for a method that works in the midst of busy careers and family demands.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guests Angel Hamilton and Lester Alfonso, on-air June 30th
We all have some kind of Birthmark we have and look to as our identity.
Private may not be the opposite of Public. What is arts-creation combined with social science research? Auto-ethnography, creative anthropology, and other research methods in BIRTHMARK.
ANGEL HAMILTON emerged from the video aisles at Blockbuster where she worked as a clerk (obtaining valuable research) and dove right into assisting to remount Global Visions Documentary Festival in Edmonton. A graduate of Anthropology at Trent University, she worked as a producer’s assistant at Red Storm Productions and Purple Productions in British Columbia and then went on to obtain a certificate in documentary production at Capilano University Bosa Centre for Film & Animation. Her passion for food justice was sparked by working with the Britannia Community Centre to help mount the Stone Soup FoodFilm Festival. She directed personal films and produced a number of student productions before moving back to her hometown of Peterborough in 2012 where she co-founded Media Arts Peterborough to produce a web series called WHAT IS ART? about local artists. A three-time honoree of Trent Film Society’s Snowdance Film Festival, she maintains a passion for transformation through creative response and she works invisibly in the background facilitating art and expression in all forms. Most recently, she worked as a co-producer on Lester Alfonso’s creative nonfiction project BIRTHMARK. She is also the co-producer for the documentary project CIRCUS BOY that premiered at ReFrame Film Festival 2020 These days, she’s exploring new ways to tell stories through video projection art. She is working on Mystery Father for the summer of 2020 and will be released online on her website.
Awakened to the power of moving images by Spielberg’s Jaws as a kid, LA was transformed by Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil when he saw it as a film student at York University. Best known as a filmmaker and a multi-media artist. His award-winning films include Twelve, for the National Film Board of Canada, about twelve Canadians who give advice to their twelve-year-old selves, Trying to Be Some Kind of Hero, a documentary tracing the footsteps of his missing grandfather, and This City Has Wings with timeless portraits of random passers-by as angels.
Lester Alfonso (LA) also creates podcasts, takes 35mm photographs, plays the ukulele, and constructs site-specific multi-media installations for festivals and performances.
In May 2019, he was a finalist in the Peterborough Arts Awards for the Mid-Career Artist category in Media Arts, he received the Public Energy Performing Arts Silver Jubilee Award for outstanding contributions in its first 25 years, and he updated his collaboration with Deepti Gupta’s performance and choreography of Static, then — mashed-up 25 years of dance footage for the afterparty.
In autumn of 2019, his first full-length feature film, BIRTHMARK, received a Making a Difference Award — Honourable Mention from Comfest Global Film Festival where it screened for a Toronto audience for the first time and screened at Bagnani Hall at Trent Univesity accompanied by a speaker’s panel of university professors.
In 2018 he performed a live film mix with the Art of Time Ensemble, created a site-specific video spectacle that transformed Peterborough Public Library for Artsweek, and premiered BIRTHMARK his first feature-length creative nonfiction film.
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