C15/34a How to Make Your Political Voice Heard

August 14, 2015August 16, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Craig Richardson aired August 25TH

We have a voice and if we do not like what is going on we must speak out. Dont be fooled by the charltons who are pulling the wool over your eyes, be aware and really ask what is going on, you’re just as responsible by your inaction, don’t make them billionaires with your lack of interaction.

Craig Richardson co?authored, Red Tape in America, published by the Heritage Foundation. The book details excessive government regulation, and its impact on the U.S. economy, and its citizens.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a non-profit watchdog group advocating free market environmentalism, produces a number of investigatory reports. In July, E&E Legal released, “Big Donors…Big Conflicts; How Wealthy Donors Use the Sierra Club to Push Their Agenda,” that examines some of the biggest contributors to the Sierra Club and their self-interested motivation for donating. What is clear from examining the large contributors to the Sierra Club is that these donors seek to use the Sierra Club to manipulate government policies in order to irrevocably alter the world’s energy portfolio in a manner that benefits the donors and their businesses. This strategy appears to have been put in place in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Craig Richardson is the Executive Director of E&E Legal, and is a seasoned professional with more than twenty-five years of experience. He previously served as Executive Director of the American-Danish Business Council, a group he helped establish at the request of the Danish Embassy, The National Park and Recreation Foundation, and Leadership for America’s Future PAC (LEADPAC), a PAC founded by former Congressman Steve Largent.

In addition, he has provided strategic communications and fundraising services to political clients, including serving as a key aid to former Majority Leader Tom DeLay. He also worked for the re-election campaigns of several U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives. He co-managed Largent’s bid for Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, and has participated in numerous issue campaigns including anti-tax and deregulation initiatives.

Richardson began his career in 1984 working for former Secretary Elliot Richardson’s U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts. He then served as a Research Analyst for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington for the 1986 Cycle, and returned to Boston in 1987 to work at a regional public relations and advertising agency. In 1990, he returned to Washington to serve as an Account Supervisor for a Weber Shandwick-owned national public relations firm. In 1993, he started his own research, communications, and fundraising business before co-founding Washington Strategies, where he worked for nearly 10 years. In 2002, he sold his interest in Washington Strategies and joined DCI Associates as Vice President. In November 2003 he founded Richardson Consulting.

Richardson received a B.A. degree from Bowdoin College and holds an M.A. degree from Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College. A native of Brookline, MA, he and his family reside in the Metro Washington, D.C. area.

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C15/34b Coaching, Memphis and Murder what do they have in common?

August 14, 2015August 25, 2017Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Julie Starr airing August 25th-31st

Julie believes;

‘The issues organisations face right require a basic shift in the principles we operate from. Most importantly, we need to move from a mind-set and perspective of ‘I’ to a felt sense and practical application of ‘we’. This ‘I’ and ‘we’ are just two small words and yet they a world away from each other. When we create results from a need to create ‘win-win’ solutions are so different they become unrecognisable from any results created from a more fear-based, independent view.’

Julie Starr is a highly respected coach, writer and speaker with 20 years’ experience in the coaching field. She is the founder of Starr Consulting, and a leading provider of coaching solutions to support organizational change.

Julie combines many years of coaching practice with a continuing study of human success and fulfilment. She is a Master Practitioner of NLP, with extensive training in Emotional Intelligence, Transformational Leadership and linguistics. She is a Practitioner of The Journey Method (an emotional processing approach) and a graduate of Byron Katie’s school for The Work.

The other side of Julie is her new non business book on living from the inside out

Magic to Memphis

– What if you discovered that your life works from the inside out?

The new novel, by Julie Starr

Jessie is seventeen years old, a runaway musician living rough in a trailer with a pit bull dog called Bear. That’s fine by Jessie; she’s got big plans. A music contest in Memphis offers the chance of money, fame and escape from a nowhere town with no real prospects.

Turns out there’s more in Memphis than music. When Jessie’s mom sends her a box of things belonging to her dad, she finds out that he made the same trip years ago. She’s determined to find hi but has no idea that the ring her dad left her is being hunted by a sadistic killer. Nor does she realize that he will stop at nothing to get it back.

Suddenly, a simple music contest turns into a fight for survival and only a puzzling traveler called Finch has the answers Jessie needs. But will she listen? And can she trust in herself enough to change her luck and make magic happen?

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Julie is also the author of The Coaching Manual which defines the key principles and practice of personal coaching and is translated into many different languages.

Julie’s book, Brilliant Coaching targets Managers in the workplace, and distils the key principles and tools into practical, bite-sized chunks.

Her latest book, The Mentoring Manual, supports mentors to be effective in helping others grow and develop. Julie also writes novels for young adults, check out www.ruffdogbooks.co

She builds on an early career in project management and larger scale business redesign initiatives. She provides coaching support to senior leadership of major corporations across Europe.

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PVR 15/33 Loving the Author you have become.

August 14, 2015October 24, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 3 Comments

Positive Vibrations Roundtable with Sara Troy and her guest Carrie Stuart and Cathie Devitt, aired FROM August 18th

Was I born to be a writer?

Some people know out of the gate what they want to be in life, my brother new at the age of 6 years old that he wanted to write, but so many of us take a different path only to DISCOVER the author in us later in life.

What does it take to become a writer and how does one start? Join my 2 lovely guests Carrie and Cathie as they share with us the art of becoming an author and what it takes, and how one book naturally led to another.

She has a pencil … and she’s not afraid to use it!

Can a forensic artist reconstruct two centuries of suppressed history . . . before it repeats itself?
In A Cry from the Dust, Carrie Stuart Parks utilizes her own background as a celebrated, FBI-trained forensic artist to blend fact and fiction into a stunning mystery.

Now with her second book her heroin stumbles on a new murder adventure in “The Bones Speak”

A killer with a penchant for torture has taken notice of forensic expert Gwen Marcey . . . and her daughter. When Gwen Marcey’s dog comes home with a human skull and then leads her to a cabin in the woods near her Montana home, she realizes there’s a serial killer in her community. And when she finds a tortured young girl clinging to life on the cabin floor, she knows this killer is a lunatic. Yet what unsettles Gwen most is that the victim looks uncannily like her daughter. The search for the torturer leads back in time to a neo-Nazi bombing in Washington state—a bombing with only one connection to Montana: Gwen. The group has a race-not-grace model of salvation . . . and they’ve marked Gwen as a race traitor. When it becomes clear that the killer has a score to settle, Gwen finds herself in a battle against time. She will have to use all of her forensic skills to find the killer before he can carry out his threat to destroy her—and the only family she has left.

Carrie Stuart Parks is an award-winning fine artist and internationally known forensic artist. She teaches forensic art courses to law enforcement professionals and is the author/illustrator of numerous books on drawing. Carrie began to write fiction while battling breast cancer and was mentored by New York Times best-selling author Frank Peretti. Now in remission, she continues to encourage other women struggling with cancer.

Now writing is her calling and she brings such murderous adventure in her novels along with some lost history.

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Cathie Devitt First joined us in 2014 to share the motivation behind her book “Don’t Drink & Fly!”The first in a trio of novellas about the life of Bernice O’Hanlon a witch from Glasgow: Bernice is a witch with many skeletons in her closet. She has an addictive personality, works as a holistic therapist, and struggles to maintain any intimate relationships. Her spells are not always as accurate as they could be, often the result of her having a few too many goblets of red wine. When mysterious letters start appearing at her door, she begins to think about her childhood and, with the help of her long-suffering friend Maggie, tries to come to terms with her past and the family she left behind. But nothing in Bernice’s life is ever simple…

Part Two is at the final edit although Cathie has not confirmed the title. Something that she has thrown open to our Self Discovery Radio audience. But first, you must read “Don’t Drink and Fly!” available on Amazon, Barnes and Nobel, Waterstones and all good book retailers, then contact Cathie with Title suggestions for the next book.

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Cathie has recently embarked on a Mindfulness course which she says helps her focus and make time for herself.
” If you don’t take care of yourself how can you expect to take care of others?”
Mindfulness means waking up to the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of the present moment. That might be something as simple as the feel of a bannister as we walk upstairs.
Awareness of this kind doesn’t start by trying to change or fix anything. It’s about allowing ourselves to see the present moment clearly. When we do that, it can positively change the way we see ourselves and our lives.

Born in Glasgow Scotland, Cathie’s mother says that her daughter’s first words were, “But Why?” and her second “But why not?”
Some things never change.

“I wrote and performed in my first play at primary school aged 11 years. Life took over and writing was consigned to work-related bumf the quality of which somehow stopped me from being sacked or evicted.”

“I studied at Glasgow and Strathclyde University whilst working and bringing up my two daughters alone. Oh what fun we had!Tears, tantrums, hormones and hooch. (The girls sometimes kicked off too.) The studies resulted in bits of paper that no-one ever asked to see but somehow greased the rungs of the career ladder high enough to ensure that the three of us never went hungry.

The flame of desire to write has flickered on and off but never been snuffed out. Encouraged by publication in various genres, Cathie Devitt moved on to support others by facilitating creative writing workshops. Cathie has also written and performed drama workshops in a corporate environment to showcase company policies and practices, such as Health and Safety and Equality in the workplace. Add to that writing and performing in Festival Theatre and training as a Laughter Yoga Therapist and you can see why Cathie Devitt is in a class of her own.

Cathie has very little time to dedicate to her own pleasures. Work and family commitments make sure of that. However, to release her D.I.V.A within Cathie has-

Trained as a laughter yoga leader
Performed as an actress and stand up comedian
Zip slid in the forest and tackled rope bridges and swings
Explored various countries and cultures whenever the opportunity arose
Loves her daughters two dogs (Lhasa Apsos) Darcy and Sparkle
Embraced Creative writing
Fell in love with a poet when she was 50!

Is always keen to try new activities – has enjoyed taster Hatha Yoga, hot stone massage and meditation while listening to Self Discovery Radio shows.

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15/33 Community what does it mean how far reaching is it?

August 13, 2015September 2, 2015Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Saras View of Life with Sara Troy airing August 18th-24th

What is community and how far reaching is it?

Our community is not just in our immediate vicinity, it is global for everything that goes on in this world has an affect on us. We here at Self Discovery Radio are serving a global community with universal knowledge, tools and inspirations. So it was inevitable that our next step would be to advocate communities and the much needed work that they do.

So we have an initiative that serves us all.

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Community Enablement is where you find the coaches, healers, mentors, teachers, liberators that can provide services to help the people in need. community-enablement-directory

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15/33 Off With Their Heads: What History Teaches Us About Innovation

August 13, 2015August 17, 2017Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired August 18th-24th

In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod shares the executive perspective on using metaphor to inform change management for businesses. One of her leadership coaching clients, (let’s call him ‘Dave’), went to Great Britain this summer and after visiting the Tower of London, came back across the pond with a question: How can we marry tradition and innovation? The answer to the question offers many insights for businesses and organizations on what’s needed to make change happen, and still honour the traditions and values that matter to you and your business.