Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Jennifer Fiedler, on air from January 23rd
I would like to speak of my passion for inspiring people seeking a deeper level of awareness, increased confidence, a greater sense of self-trust, more resilience, and less fear of uncertainty, my joy in helping them overcome their pain-points around self-worth, authenticity, and their connection to the divine, and my desire to show as many people as possible that if I can do it, they can too, by getting Cosmic Bitch-Slap out into the world.
Jennifer is a Film industry veteran, Filmmaking trainer and lecturer, Confidence coach, F1 racing fan, and Author.
The film industry is one of the most brutal, competitive, toxic work environments known to man. While working in this unique industry, she developed a serious addiction to the mind-blowing exhilaration and the non-stop excitement that can’t block out the toxic nature of what goes on.
After almost 20 years, Jennifer’s arms got tired of holding all that toxicity at bay and knowing she was burned out, she dropped out to pursue a radically different course resulting in an epic adventure spanning four continents and more than nine years.
Cosmic Bitch-Slap is the book Jennifer wrote about how she gradually discovered that her big bag of sharp shiny moviemaking tools could successfully be put to use in other contexts. It’s a true story that’s basically a parable about all the things we don’t know we already know.
A terminally curious truth speaker with a gift for communicating, possessed with confidence, at ease with risk, and comfortable with uncertainty, one of Jennifer’s greatest joys in life is working with spiritually curious beings seeking their own transformational adventure in self-discovery.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Nicole Gribstad, on air from January 23rd
What If One Single Event Shifts Your Entire Perspective and Transforms your Life?
The Faith Foundation System
This system is designed to create a stable base from which all other aspects of life can grow and flourish.
The Freedom Framework
Build emotional & spiritual strength to navigate life’s challenges with a sense of peace and confidence that comes from a deep connection with God.
The Divine Design Activator:
Understand how one’s unique abilities and passions can serve a higher, God-ordained calling and be the fuel to achieve your God-sized dreams.
The Godfident Living Blueprint
It’s about transforming not just the mind but the heart, leading to a life of purpose and peace.
Develop a step by step daily method of operating in confidence rooted in your identity and worth as a daughter of the King.
Avoid the mistakes that keep Motivated Professionals awake at night and feeling alone. Move from Chaos & Confusion to Clarity & God-centered Confidence.
Nicole Gribstad, an acclaimed Best Selling Author and dynamic Motivational Speaker, embodies the essence of transformative empowerment. As a seasoned Deliverance Mindset Minister and an insightful Practical Bible Application guide, she is a beacon of wisdom for those navigating their faith journey. With her unique role as a Homeschool/Parent Wellness Advisor, Nicole expertly tailors her guidance to uplift and enrich the family unit. She specializes in equipping Christian professionals, who are driven yet caught in the throes of overwhelm, confusion, and anxiety. Her approach is not just about finding solutions; it’s about embarking on a journey towards purpose and clarity. Nicole’s strategies pave the way for a harmonious blend of fun, fitness, freedom, and fulfillment, transforming both personal lives and professional endeavors into realms of boundless possibility. Join Nicole and discover how to turn your aspirations into tangible, exhilarating realities in both life and business.
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Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Darci Lang, on air form January 23rd
Darci’s 90% Philosophy Series starts here. Focus on the 90% represents a concept that one simple tool can change the way you view your life. Darci believes each of us holds a magnifying glass and’ we get to choose what to do with it. We can focus it on the negative 10% in our lives – those things and people that bother us and drag us down – or we can choose to focus on the 90% in our lives that is positive and empowers us to be and feel our best. What we focus on determines how we live our lives. Darci will challenge where you focus your magnifying glass when reflecting on yourself (looking after the person in the mirror), the people around you (leading, working and supporting others) and your personal life (being a positive influence at home and an example of wellness for others to follow). TheFocus on the 90% philosophy helps individuals reframe the way they look at, and think about their work, interactions and relationships with others.
Going into your memory box to slowly unpack the 10%, to understand it, release it or let it be your propeller to move you forward, for your 90% living is waiting for you to truly live.
Darci Lang has been an inspirational speaker for over 30 years. Her presentations reflect a “my life is my message” approach, pulling from early years of trauma to owning multiple successful businesses and earning a spot on the 40 Canadian Association of Professional Speakers Hall of Fame recipient list. Darci is proud to live in Saskatchewan and loves her quiet suburban life with her husband, Darren, adult children and rescue pets. Between books and engagements, Darci enjoys spending time outdoors, walking and relaxing in her yard. Darci loves hosting dinners and game nights with close friends, keeping up with the latest in interior decorating AND creating a never-ending honey-do list for Darren!
FREE E-BOOK to the first 10 people to listen to the show and answer the question asked by Darci on the show.
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Quantum Spirituality with Sara Troy and her guest Irina Vucheva, on air from January 23rd
I grew up with a lot of anxiety after my parents divorce at the age of 7. I struggled with low-confidence and difficult puberty. I knew something was wrong but had no idea what it is. I need to share the knowledge the the Good always wins! and I am not saying that just as a Christian but rather a Famine Warrior that I needed to be. I am here to teach people how to heal different serious conditions, to make them listen to their bodies and most of all understand that our Ancestors are behind us and many of our life questions are at our disposal. We are indeed limitless!?
I was born in a normal family, two people that were not destined to be together. My parents divorced when I was 7 and my puberty life was filled with a lot of anxiety , low- confidence and feeling like there was not enough power within my own existence and spirit! I then had to call somebody else a daddy, my step-father who was a mental abuser and a narcissist!
The breaking point came when her Step-father locked her mother out of their business, emptied their bank accounts, and seized their home and properties. Left destitute, they discovered criminal connections behind their misfortune. In a matter of weeks, the stress and trauma revealed stomach cancer in Irina’s mother. It was during this difficult time that Irina’s remarkable healing and intuitive abilities emerged. The following decade was marked by a relentless campaign of hate from house who had taken their wealth, a campaign that would haunt her family for a lifetime. In this time I went through a near death experience too when I saw the light that we often hear about!
My life took a dramatic turn when my 6 months old son underwent open-heart surgery. My story is one of resilience, transformation, and becoming a master interpreter for the less fortunate and holistic healer.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Italia Tornabene, on air from January 23 rd
Perhaps the thriving, wildly productive, inspirational life Italia Tornabene now leads after years of setbacks, struggles, and disillusionment was foretold by her prophetic Italian surname, which translates to “good outcome” or “to return well.” Yet the incredible, seriously surreal journey from increasing despair to powerful breakthroughs and enduring hope she chronicles in her cleverly titled autobiography Suits to Stilettos has a trajectory like no other.
Typical single moms sacrificing to build a stable family life for their child might turn first to sex work to survive, then educate themselves, leave that lifestyle, and make a so-called respectable career on the straight and narrow. While working full time, Italia committed years of her life to getting the education part down, ultimately earning three degrees – including an Associate’s in Business Administration Management, a Bachelor’s in Legal Studies and a Master’s in Criminal Justice. Yet with the longtime government employee ultimately finding her personal redemption as an exotic dancer, porn star, and high-level escort – in addition to her ongoing success as a serial entrepreneur – Italia’s story is the life-affirming opposite of how these female overcomer and empowerment narratives usually go.
To share a life story truthfully and make a profound impact on readers, nothing is more important than an author’s freedom to be raw and vulnerable and hold nothing back. Italia’s no-holds-barred approach includes harrowing descriptions of many harsh and challenging eras and milestones in her life. To name but a few: growing up in a financially strapped household, with her parents arguing all the time and her father (whom she otherwise loved) physically unleashing his fury on her mom and several times on her; being raped by a co-worker at the car dealership she worked at and the traumatic physical and emotional aftermath; giving birth to her son Dominic at 17 and soon being abandoned by his dad, who later made her life a living hell during years of custody battles; and dealing with horrifying corruption and institutional toxicity while working as a high-level analyst for a prison in the California Department of Corrections.
Yet at every turn, driven by her love for Dominic and her desire to give her son the best life possible, Italia somehow emerges from the muck, offering what she calls a “front row seat to witness the undeniable strength of the human spirit.” The title of Chapter Three in Suits to Stilettos says it all: “Beyond Boundaries: A Journey of Education, Sacrifice and Resilience.” One of the main threads in both her personal and professional life working for the government (including a lengthy stint as a Disability Insurance Program Representative for the State of California) is a foreboding sense of injustice pervasive in a system that is supposed to provide Americans with liberty and justice for all.
Italia’s passion for educating herself on legal issues – which ultimately led her to pursue her degrees – was sparked in part by learning, in the wake of her rape, that there was an impossible backlog of rape kits at Kaiser – which was one of the factors that allowed the perpetrator, who she mistakenly referred to as a onetime “friend,” to go free. The next indignity Italia suffered was the ridiculously drawn-out custody battle she had with Marco, her vindictive former husband and father of Dominic. At every turn, for reasons she delves into in the book, the system always seemed stacked to favor him – and they believed his lies about her being a bad, abusive mother. During her many years working for the government, her attempts at whistleblowing and making the right ethical choices were stymied and often led to harsh confrontations with and rebukes by her superiors.
While Italia turned to exotic dancing – first in San Diego and then in Las Vegas – to make great money to pay her bills and give Dominic stability, it quickly became her soul’s liberation, offering a lifeline of hope amidst despair. “In a world where stress and hardships threatened to suffocate me,” she writes, “the lights and music of the stage provided a respite. . . Within the embrace of those beats, I found solace and renewed purpose.” She danced for a total of 14 years while primarily working relatively low-paying government jobs. During this time, she exercised her ample entrepreneurial skills, launching and running a successful paralegal business for several years.
By the time the pandemic hit in 2020, Italia had happily worked full-time as a dancer for several years. In a time when many of her colleagues were panicking because the clubs had closed down, she turned fear into a portal of opportunity, launching a private housecleaning and grout cleaning business (Magic Maids) that grew into a large operation of 65 employees, ultimately scoring lucrative hotel accounts. After she resumed dancing, a life-threatening illness followed by a major injury suffered at the gym led her to explore and begin attracting clientele on multiple porn sites, which snowballed into a several-year career as a porn actress.
Italia writes: “As time went on, I realized the immense power that lay within me. I was no longer the victim; I was the master of my own destiny. Every interaction, every performance, became an act of defiance against the pain that had held me captive for so long.” As for our society’s often derogatory view of those who work in the porn industry and the stigma associated with it, she says, “I wish sex wasn’t so taboo in this country. People often think it’s easy work, but actually, it’s mentally exhausting and physically draining, which is why some performers turn to drugs. I don’t know why our government is so ass backwards with laws regarding it. When I talk to girlfriends in Amsterdam and Germany, they treat it like a regular career. It’s sex between consenting adults. I wish our society would catch on.”
Though Italia maintains an active presence on and generates income from dozens of sites, she has since transitioned from the porn industry to the more lucrative and higher-class world of private escorting. Over the past year, she has also added new endeavors to her ever-fascinating resume, becoming a high-performance life coach, a personal trainer (soon to launch a virtual platform), and a nutritionist. A successful investor for 20 years, she also recently published a book titled Easy Investing: A Beginner’s Guide to Financial Growth. In addition to Suits to Stilettos, Italia will soon be emerging as a fiction writer with Femme Fatale: Shades of Retribution, a harrowing story about the tragic drug-related downward spiral of a sex performer based on a dear friend she knew during her dancing days. “With Suits to Stilettos, I definitely have an important story to tell that I hope can inspire people, especially women who want to succeed against difficult odds,” says Italia. “There were times in my life where I felt like my life was over, and I hit that rock bottom many times. But as you’ll read, I believe when there’s a will, there’s a way, and thanks to my wonderful son Dominic, who is now 19 and doing well in his life, I was always motivated to succeed. Everyone has a purpose on this earth, and we all have to evolve and keep growing. I have learned that what brings me the greatest joy isn’t making money or having material things – it’s doing anything I can to put a smile on people’s faces and make them happy.”
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