Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Kate Strong aired Sept 29th-Oct 5th
Where to begin? It would be easy to start with something positive, such as “you never lose, you only learn” or “your greatest challenges hide your greatest lessons”, but this wouldn’t be just. I doubt that anybody during their ‘greatest challenge’ ever boasts a huge smile and says “I’m so happy to be in the midst of some brilliant future lesson”.
Kate is a Welsh-born international traveller. She has spread her wings far and wide not only geographically but in every aspect of her life. Having graduated with a double Masters in Mechanical Engineering from French and English universities, Kate has had a diverse career path from having a career in fashion in Italy to working as a Divemaster in Mexico!? Until recently, Kate owned and operated a guesthouse and restaurant in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Only in 2013 did Kate decide to balance her life by taking care of her physical self and committed to the sport of triathlon.
Initially, struggling to run just 5km, she dedicated all her spare time into becoming a triathlete. Within eleven months of her first triathlon, Kate found herself on Australia’s age-group team and competed and won her age-group in the ITU World Championships and is currently World Champion in long-distance triathlon (4km swim, 120km cycle, 30km run).
Great Way to Start the Day Muesli Recipe Ingredients 50g rolled oats 2 tablespoons chia seeds 1 tablespoon activated linseed (flaxseed) 1 teaspoon poppy seeds 1 teaspoon sesame seeds 15g dried cranberries 10g goji berries 10g pepitas (pumpkin seeds) 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup apple juice, or water Seasonal fruit – the unpeeled variety! Method 1. Combine the oats, chia seeds and linseed into your breakfast bowl and add water. Leave for 5-10 minutes to soak. The ingredients will absorb all the water in this time and almost ‘set’. I activate the linseed by soaking them in water overnight. 2. Add all other ingredients and pour over apple juice, or water. Apple juice sweetens the muesli and is a great alternative to milk and soy milk. I use water because when I travel I know I always have water available and the juice is seen as a treat. 3. Add 2-3 different seasonal fruit to the muesli for added crunch and flavour. I tend to eat fruit that doesn’t require peeling. Peeled fruit has, on general, a higher sugar percentage than fruit that can be eaten without peeling. 4. Find quiet spot and enjoy! Nutritional Count (excluding additional fruit): Calories: 405.1g Total fat: 18.3g Cholesterol: […]
Today, Kate is a mentor to individuals and SMEs assisting in creating positive change through conscious questions. She works from the inside out ensuring that all the core values are in alignment and working together to achieve the desired result.
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Kate is also continuing her passion for personal excellence and is attempting to break a World Record in static cycling at the end of this year.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy with her guest Danielle Bussone aired Sept 29th-Oct 5th
Danielle Bussone says becoming a vegan was a life-saver for me. A surgeon inadvertently severed a crucial part of my anatomy, creating for me six years of pain and suffering, numerous surgeries and hospitalizations, multiple life-threatening complications, and a few near-death experiences. Discovering plant-based nutrition turned my health around and allowed me to not only survive, but to thrive.
Danielle Bussone’s journey through medical errors and complications devastated her health and nearly claimed her life. In severe chronic pain and disillusioned by the medical industry, Danielle turned to foods to recover her health.
In “Time for Change: Whole Foods For Whole Health!,” Danielle Bussone shows us that becoming vegan is an exciting expedition into a new world of flavors and cultural culinary experiences. Whether you wish to fully embrace a WFPB lifestyle or would just like to add healthy foods to your current diet, Bussone arms the reader with mouthwatering, healthy recipes that will make the inclusion of whole foods easy, delicious and restorative.
In TIME FOR CHANGE – Whole Foods
For Whole Health!, I share my story of injury and recovery and show how creating a healthier, more energetic body can be as close as your dining table.
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TIME FOR CHANGE is comprehensive primer on to how to deal with the minor inconveniences of this life-style choice, how to deal with social situations, what new foods you’ll encounter, how to stock your kitchen, tips on preparing and cooking vegetables and, finally, delicious recipes to get you started. You’ll be amazed at how quickly your health will improve by making some small changes to the way you currently eat. I’ve lost 65 pounds, I no longer have acid reflux, and I no longer need blood pressure medication (or any medication at all). I am well and healthy, and the foods I prepare are delicious and satisfying. Please join me in making the next years of our lives the most productive, energetic and radiantly healthy years ever!
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“TIME FOR CHANGE”
“Time For Change” is a comprehensive, engaging and passionate book by an intrepid woman who fought through years of catastrophic medical events. By continuous reading, research, and diligently listening to her body, Bussone has found her way back to good health by means of a plant-based diet. Here she shares her story, her research findings, her contagious enthusiasm, her wonderful cooking methods and vegan recipes. This book is also a fervent cry against pesticides, genetically modified and highly processed foods. — Patricia Kandle, MD
So inspired athlete Kate Strong has embraced the Vegan diet and it has improved her performance completely.
Horrific. Heroic. A must read for anyone who has to deal with doctors and hospitals. — Bill Kaiser, Author of “Bloodroot” and “Hellebore: A Novel of Reconstruction.”
This book shouts, “Wellness happens!” An intelligent and enjoyable read for both laypersons and medical professionals. “Time For Change” offers a vegan lifestyle that creates and sustains vitality. Ms Bussone has done her research. Everyone should read this book! — Teresa Wood, DDS
Danielle’s story of adopting a vegan diet to recover her health is an inspiration. “Time For Change” offers a strong foundation to the benefits of a plant-based diet and is filled with delicious recipes to whet your appetite. This book is a must-have for every pantry and bookshelf! – Vegan Athlete, Kate Strong — 2014 World Champion Women’s LongDistance Triathlon
A Practical Guide to Health and Wellness”
Danielle Bussone is a free-lance writer, certified wellness coach and avid cook. After discovering the healing powers of food, she became fascinated with creating dishes that were not only health-promoting but bursting with flavour. Danielle is a graduate of Cornell University’s certification program in plant-based nutrition, in conjunction with the T. Colin Campbell Foundation.
She and her husband Rich are co-founders of Veggin’ Out And About!, a food and travel blog for plant-based diners. Danielle serves as a restaurant reviewer and writer for Veggin’ Out And About!, as well as editor for contributors from across the globe.
Danielle is currently working on several cookbooks of plant-based cuisines from the US and around the world. She and Rich divide their time between SW Virginia and East Tennessee, where they live with two dogs and two cats, collectively known as their “Beloved Monsters.” In her spare time she writes fiction and is currently working on a novel based in New Orleans.
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Try the recipe and see how delicious it is .
Coconut Curry With Indian Spices
This dish smells as good as it tastes. The aromas will drive your family and dinner guests wild while they are awaiting this treat. Again, don’t be intimidated by the number of ingredients needed. You’ll use these spices over and over. Measuring them out in advance into small bowls will prevent mistakes. It is easy to forget a spice if it isn’t handy. If you prepare the rice in advance, it will save you some time when you are scrambling to get food on the table. It is also very good served with French whole wheat couscous, which only takes 10 minutes to prepare. It is also excellent served over linguini.
Note that the cinnamon stick, bay leaf, and cardamom pods are for flavor and should not be eaten. Pick the cinnamon and bay leaf out before serving; the cardamom pods will be harder to find so just warn your guests that they are not to be eaten. They won’t hurt them, but the seeds are very fibrous and have a woody texture. Plus, biting into them may give your guests a jolt of cardamom flavor that could be overpowering.
Coconut Curry With Indian Spices
Time: 35 to 40 minutes Yield: 7 cups, plus rice
Ingredients:
Prepare in advance:
1 1/2 cups whole wheat French Couscous
2 1/4 cups mirepoix vegetable stock or filtered water
2 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas, or one can organic chickpeas (garbanzo beans) drained
Spice Blend:
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 tablespoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon ground hot chili powder (You can substitute cayenne.)
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
Main Ingredients:
2 cups diced onion (1 large onion)
2 bay leaves
6 cardamom pods
1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons minced ginger
1 can organic coconut milk
6 ounces baby spinach, washed and spun dry
1 pint cherry tomatoes, cut in half (1 3/4 cups or about 40)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Preparation: about 20 minutes
Prepare vegetables.
Transfer drained, cooked chickpeas to a bowl. Set aside.
Set aside cinnamon stick and cardamon pods. Measure remaining spices into a small bowl. Set aside.
Method: 15 to 20 minutes
In a dry skillet, sauté onion with bay leaves, cardamom pods, and cinnamon until soft and translucent, stirring frequently (about 10 minutes).
Stir in ginger and garlic. Sauté 2 minutes, adding a little water a tablespoon or two at a time if necessary to prevent scorching.
Add turmeric, garam masala, ground chili powder, and black pepper. Stir until spices are fully incorporated with the onion mixture.
Stir in coconut milk, tomatoes, and chickpeas. Cook for 5 minutes or so on medium heat until sauce is bubbling and tomatoes have wilted. Adjust spices to taste.
Just prior to serving, remove saucepan from heat and fold spinach** into mixture until wilted.
Stir in lemon juice and serve immediately over rice, couscous, pasta or grain of choice.
*You can cook chickpeas on your stovetop if you don’t have a pressure cooker, though it will take longer. Or you can substitute canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed.
**Don’t over-cook the spinach. It should be added no more than 5 minutes before serving. Spinach becomes a little slimy if allowed to cook for too long. Heat it only until it is wilted.
Note:
In cooking demonstrations, I often substitute couscous for rice, simply because of time limitations. Actually, couscous is very delicious with this dish. Coconut Curry With Indian Spices can also be served over linguini or angel hair pasta. Please refer to my book,Time For Change: Whole Foods For Whole Health!, for instructions on cooking beans, making vegetable stock and much more.
Sara Troy brings you Saras View of Life airing September 28th-October 5th Loss we have all had to face it at some point in our lives. How do we overcome? How do we go on? how do we LET GO? How do we CHANGE?
This week I look at the gifts and empowerment we receive from those we have lost, FROM THE THINGS WE HAVE LOST from a world that has collapsed to the new birth of a new day, OUR NEW BIRTH our new directions that are awaiting us….just go…do it……
Josh Daniel sings Labrinth’s Jealous, feeling the loss of a loved friend, how loss feels
Is Chloe on the right Paige. Free Me Now so I can more on, for moving forward is key
Anton Stephans is Changing, we all need to embrace the changes in our life.
Transforming Relationships with host, Julieanne O’Connor,airs September 22nd- 28th
Tune-in for a conversation about closing the gap between what you believe and what you do. Be inspired by your own beliefs, consciously choose your thoughts and live a life that matters. You matter, you are valuable and your contribution makes a difference. Your relationship with everything that happens to you day by day matters. Circumstances are just circumstances, but how you view them is everything.
Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and Chris Williams aired from September 22nd-on with instant listening.
What would you do if someone took your loved ones away from you? Would you want revenge? none would blame you, BUT; how do you forgive. How do you JUST LET GO and let love heal? Chris Williams did, this is his story.
On a cold February night in 2007, a devoted father of four and a seventeen-year-old drunk driver both received life sentences. In one violent, devastating instant, each faced a drastically different and uncertain future. But as Chris Williams sat in his demolished vehicle, staring at the car that had just caused the death of his wife, his unborn baby, his nine-year-old daughter, and his eleven-year-old son, he committed to do something extraordinary: he would forgive.
Chris Williams’ story is the cinematic tale of how a person can forgive despite the retaliatory tendencies that surface within the dark corners of the human heart, showing the world that hope, love and forgiveness can overcome all when you let it go. In addition to the inspirational presentation of Just Let Go, audiences will be treated to an exclusive introduction from radio personality Delilah!
Chris Williams was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving a mission to Paraguay for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and graduating from the University of Utah, he went to work as an IT architect and systems engineer. He is now an executive with IBM. After the death of his wife Michelle and two of their four children, he married Mikkel Fuhriman Jones, a widow with two young children. They have since been blessed with two daughters. He and his family currently reside in Salt Lake City.
RISE & FALL – Ryan Innes (JUST LET GO – Soundtrack)
Where to begin? It would be easy to start with something positive, such as “you never lose, you only learn” or “your greatest challenges hide your greatest lessons”, but this wouldn’t be just.
Kate is a Welsh-born international traveller. She has spread her wings far and wide not only geographically but in every aspect of her life. Having graduated with a double Masters in Mechanical Engineering from French and English universities, Kate has had a diverse career path from having a career in fashion in Italy to working as a Divemaster in Mexico!? Until recently, Kate owned and operated a guesthouse and restaurant in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Only in 2013 did Kate decide to balance her life by taking care of her physical self and committed to the sport of triathlon.
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