BB26-32. Terisse Louise Bell Walker Builds with Purpose

August 10, 2026August 5, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Terisse Louise Bell Walker. On air from

For more than four decades, I’ve watched hardworking families and business owners do everything “right,” yet still find themselves financially vulnerable when life unexpectedly changes. After experiencing personal loss, career transitions, and becoming a caregiver for my aging mother, I discovered that my greatest purpose wasn’t simply building a business—it was building people. Today, I help individuals, families, and aspiring entrepreneurs create stronger financial foundations through education, protection, leadership, and business ownership opportunities. My message is simple: when we lead with purpose, serve with integrity, and invest in others, we don’t just change financial futures—we create legacies that impact generations.

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Terisse Louise Bell Walker is the founder of Terisse Walker Insurance Agency, an independent life insurance professional, leadership coach, speaker, and Amazon #1 bestselling co-author of Built With Purpose. With more than 40 years of executive leadership experience spanning finance, accounting, human resources, operations, and entrepreneurship, she has dedicated her career to developing leaders, strengthening businesses, and serving families with integrity.

Today, Terisse mentors entrepreneurs across the United States while educating families and business owners about financial protection, living benefits, retirement strategies, and legacy planning. Through her agency, speaking, writing, and leadership coaching, she equips others to build businesses with purpose, lead with compassion, and create generational impact.

Her mission is simple: Protect People. Build Leaders. Leave a Legacy.

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C26-32. Michael Wood, Learn To Love Being You.

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Michael Wood, on air August 11th

For most of my life, I lived with a constant noise in my head — fear, self-doubt, and the kind of quiet anxiety that turns every situation into a problem. Through years of intense internal work, meditation, education, and facing the fears I’d been running from, I found something I didn’t know existed: real, lasting peace. And once I had it, I started seeing pain everywhere — in friends, family, strangers — people who had simply normalized feeling bad. That’s why I built Learn To Love Being You: to give people the actual mechanical tools to take control of their minds, rewire the subconscious programs running them, and remember who they are underneath all the noise. My message is simple — your thoughts aren’t who you are, your pain doesn’t have to define you, and peace isn’t something you have to earn. It’s something you come back to.

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Mike is a Consciousness Awareness Professional and the creator of the Learn To Love Being You program, a 10-week journey designed to help people break free from anxiety, self-doubt, and the emotional spirals that keep them stuck. After rebuilding his own life from the inside out, Mike has dedicated himself to helping others rewrite the beliefs that shape their reality and reconnect with the part of themselves they forgot they had. As COO of Jarrett Companies, Mike has led hundreds of high-stakes, emotionally charged conversations—experiences that shaped his direct, no-nonsense approach to personal transformation. He blends spiritual insight, grounded psychology, and a goofy sense of humor to help people open up, relax, and finally breathe. Whether he’s teaching breathwork in a maximum-security prison, building businesses that actually uplift their people, or guiding someone through a major breakthrough, Mike’s mission is simple: help people remember who they are, unlock what they’re capable of, and actually enjoy being themselves.

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C26-32. Kathleen Tonnesen -Art Beyond Sight.

August 10, 2026August 5, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Kathleen Tonnesen ie Katon. On air from August 11th

An Artist’s Search for Creative Ways to Overcome Life’s Obstacles: How Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido Helped Me See Beyond the Light

In our previous interview in 2018, Kathleen Tonnesen publicly shared her journey with vision loss—an experience she found deeply helpful. Since then, practising Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido has opened a new path in her rehabilitation and artistic development.

Kathleen believes the discipline and intense focus of Aikido have helped her retrain her right eye to read, draw, and paint again. Although this is her personal experience rather than a medical conclusion, she feels the practice may have helped her brain develop new pathways and delayed the progression of her vision loss.

Since 2023, Kathleen has continued forging a new artistic path. Her work reflects her changing vision and explores light, balance, geometry, human interaction, and connection beyond sight. Her focus is on developing skills that expand the creative boundaries of the heart and mind.

As Kathleen says, “Your life is an unfolding rose in the bouquet of God’s love.”

Current Art Exhibition: Energy

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In this solo exhibition, Kathleen explores the felt sensations of balance, timing, posture, and geometry found within Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido. These works are presented alongside large botanical paintings celebrating colour, creativity, resilience, and the continuing evolution of her sight.

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Kathleen Tonnesen, known artistically as Katon, is a Canadian self-taught painter, sculptor, author, poet, and inventor. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she immigrated to Canada in 1998. A professional artist since 1990, Kathleen creates meaningful, thought-provoking work that enriches public spaces and connects communities.

She is also a certified Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido instructor and Shodan—first-degree black belt—currently preparing for her Nidan, or second-degree black belt, test. Drawing upon her experience in psychology, early childhood education, performing arts, visual art, and martial arts, Kathleen inspires personal growth and encourages adults to rediscover their inner child.

Following vision loss, Kathleen used the discipline and intense focus of Aikido to support her rehabilitation. Through consistent practice, she retrained her right eye to read, draw, and paint again. Since 2023, her evolving artwork has explored light, human connection, and perception beyond sight.

Kathleen’s artistic roots were inspired by the charcoal portraits of her South African grandfather, Charles Holton Peers.

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26-31. Be Mindful of What You Create

August 3, 2026August 1, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara’s View of Life, with Sara Troy. On air from August 4th

Your words, thoughts, and actions toward yourself are reflected outwardly. Be kind, considerate, and compassionate with yourself, so you may discover the love and light that already live within you.

What you feed will grow. Our thoughts, words, and actions shape how we see ourselves, how we move through life, and how others receive us. When we continually criticize ourselves or become consumed by the negativity around us, we give it the power to define us. But when we choose encouraging words, compassion, gratitude, and hope, we begin creating a healthier and more positive life.

Self-love does not mean ignoring life’s challenges or accepting poor treatment. It means honouring your worth, setting healthy boundaries, learning from your mistakes, and surrounding yourself with people who lift you rather than diminish you. Some people will be inspired by your light, while others may try to extinguish it—but you do not have to make yourself smaller to make others comfortable.

I also reflect on the lessons within Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese? When something familiar disappears or life suddenly changes, do we remain angry and demand that everything return to the way it was, or do we adapt and search for what comes next? Perhaps we will not find more cheese; perhaps we will discover something completely new and even better.

In this week’s show, I explore positive self-talk, resilience, change, gratitude, and living in flow. Be mindful of what you say to yourself, because your thoughts create and your actions shape. Speak kindly, protect your peace, embrace change, and remember: you are the love, wisdom, and light you seek.

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IG26-31. Steven Cole & Catch the Wave

August 3, 2026August 3, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Steven Cole, on air from August 4th

Catch the Wave: Experience the Thrill of Spirit Empowered Living, he shares his view that the Holy Spirit is not meant to remain a vague doctrine sitting at the edges of church life, but the active, guiding presence of God in the everyday life of believers. Cole says the modern church often talks about God the Father and Jesus while neglecting the Holy Spirit, even though the Spirit is presented as God’s presence, God’s voice, and God’s power on earth.
The book was developed from a Holy Spirit seminar that he presented at his church, a monthly two-hour seminar that he did for two years. He encourages readers to hear the voice of the Spirit. His main message is that ministry is not reserved for a select few. In his words, the whole point is that “you can minister, too.”

Catch the Wave begins with Cole’s own life story, because it serves as the foundation for everything that follows. He describes a lonely childhood marked by bullying, dyslexia, and a sense of being out of place. His first awareness of God comes in a small, almost ordinary moment: as a boy, he prays for help memorizing the Boy Scout oath and feels that God answers him. Later, in college, his life changes more dramatically when he attends a Christian gathering and hears the testimony of a man transformed through Teen Challenge. Cole is struck not by polished theology but by visible change; he wants what that speaker has found. That moment leads to his conversion, which he describes as overwhelming and deeply emotional. Soon after, he is introduced to the idea of baptism in the Holy Spirit, asks for prayer, and experiences what he understands as a second life-changing encounter with God. That pattern becomes the backbone of the whole book: first salvation, then empowerment.

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Steven W. Cole holds a degree in electronics and retired from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004 after 25 years as a Senior Instrumentation Systems Engineer. He was saved in 1966 and filled with the Holy Spirit shortly thereafter. For 25 years, he has taught adult believers in local churches, and in recent years, he has developed a Holy Spirit seminar that has been well received. Steve and his wife, Linda, moved to Dewey, Arizona, in 2006. Sadly, his wife passed away in 2021, due to Alzheimer’s.