BB24-01. Anna Gradie & Women in Tech

January 1, 2024April 23, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Building a Business with Sara Troy and her guest Anna Gradie, on air from January 2nd

About five years ago, my husband of 15-years left me for our 25-year- old nanny. I was completely shattered and hired a coach to help me pick up the pieces of my life. I began a journey of self-discovery and personal growth with the support of my coach. Coaching saved my life both personally and professionally.
In my role as co-founder and COO at the EdTech company, RYCOR, I noticed the huge gender gap in the industry. Despite our goal of employing a diverse and inclusive development team, female developers will still grossly underrepresented. In almost 11 years of rapid revenue growth, only 15% of the total number of software developers hired by my company were women. I was also the only woman on the executive team and found it challenging to speak up and have a voice in that male-dominated environment. Being a strong introvert made this even worse.
In 2020, I took an exit from the company I had built and started my own coaching business. I decided to focus my coaching on supporting women in tech navigate the male-dominated industry. In my coaching conversations, I kept hearing about lack of confidence as the number #1 reason holding women back from thriving in tech. I’ve always struggled with confidence as well. So I am now a confidence coach for women in tech. My mission is to help close the gender confidence gap and to accelerate equality in the tech industry by empowering women.

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Anna Gradie is a Confidence Coach for women in tech. Using science-backed tools, she helps her clients 0X their confidence, accelerate their performance, and build strong relationships. In 2010, she co-founded and scaled an EdTech company into a multi-million-dollar business. She was the COO and head of HR but noticed a huge gender gap in the industry. After a successful exit in 2020, she created her coaching business. Anna’s purpose is to help close the gender confidence gap and to accelerate equality in the tech industry by empowering women.

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IG24- 01. Stephen Paul Chong AFTERLIFE

January 1, 2024January 2, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Stephen Paul Chong, on air from January 2nd

Serendipitously discovered within the text of ‘The Afterlife, a journey to: Now you know what will happen’, the “Laws of Heaven and Earth” provide a pathway for a richer, more fulfilling life – in this life and the eternal next.

‘The Afterlife’ was written after a profound spiritually awakening (near-death) experience, the author, Stephen Paul Chong now shares these gifts with a passion and purpose so that all may benefit from the divinely inspired wisdom.

“My name is Athar. At least it is now that I am here, in heaven. I can tell you the story only now. I couldn’t back then, when it was too painful, when it hurt too much. But now I know what happens. More than that, I now know why. I am not here to tell you what to believe. I am here to tell you what is true.” The Afterlife: A Journey To is an inspirational voyage of discovery through heaven’s many portals – you will experience heaven’s many levels BEFORE you get there.

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Stephen Chong M.Ed. is a Far North Queensland, Australian-based author who draws his inspirations from life’s themes that relate to us all – love, grief, struggle, overcoming obstacles. Culminating in his six inspirational novels, and multiple short stories, he has converted these ‘life themes’ into stories that we can all relate to. Stephen’s expertise of balancing modern work practices with personal life provides unique insights that make this life, and life in the hereafter, a much better place.

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QS24-01. Barb Smith Varclova’s “turning off traumatic responses”

January 1, 2024January 2, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Quantum Spirituality with Sara Troy and her guest Barb Smith Varclova, on air from January 2nd

From Dissident to Leading Pioneer: Barb Smith Varclova’s Journey Through Trauma

Recovery from Complex Trauma is possible! – after being told that have to learn to live with life debilitating diagnose at age of 17, Barb Smith Varclova started a search for solution outside of box of western medicine. Soon she found out that her physical issues are directly related to her childhood traumas, which weren’t even recognised as trauma in that time and through learning of connection between mind and body, quantum healing and many different modalities found a way to recover. Meantime started to helping others in similar situations and struggle to get better because that even many mental health professionals often don’t understand what trauma is and that can be healed. She recognises that more people than we realise suffering from childhood trauma and their behaviours often causing trauma for their children and that we need all need to stop this cycle of trauma.
Her approach marks a paradigm shift in the treatment of CPTSD, moving away from conventional methods that merely “dilute symptoms” to a more comprehensive approach of “turning off traumatic responses,” guiding individuals toward recovery, freedom, and purposeful life.

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Barb Smith Varclova’s life has been a journey marked by resilience, from growing up as a dissident in a hostile environment to becoming a leading pioneer in Complex PTSD treatment. Her story is a testament to the indomitable human spirit. Growing up was exceptionally challenging for Barb. Her family, as dissidents, were treated as traitors, outcasts, and sub-humans. In addition to the struggle for survival and dire poverty, they lived with the constant fear that any family member could be taken away at any time, never to return. Her father, a brilliant inventor and language expert, was under constant threat and control by the communist government in Prague. Barb witnessed her family being terrorized and her father arbitrarily taken by the secret police, never knowing if he would return. Their lifeline, her grandfather, who served as Deputy Minister, played a crucial role in securing her father’s release when he was on the brink of being imprisoned indefinitely. At the age of 28, a life-altering car accident almost claimed Barb’s life. Swerving to avoid a head-on collision with a truck, she suffered a near-fatal crash that broke her neck vertebra’s and shattered her spinal discs. Lacking immediate medical assistance, she was on the brink of death but was rescued in the nick of time, thanks to the nearby opening of a groundbreaking spinal hospital with innovative treatments. Despite the hardships, Barb’s determination and pursuit of a life of service helped her survive the traumas. Her journey led her to become a prominent figure in the field of trauma expertise and leadership. Her move to the UK in 2015 after she met her husband, just before changes in relationships with the European Union, marked a turning point in her life.

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BB24-01 .Judy Wilkins-Smith and Money Talk

January 1, 2024January 4, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Judy Wilkins-Smith, on air from January 2nd

Judy Wilkins-Smith – World-renowned Systemic Work and Constellations Expert, Motivational Speaker, and Author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns (Sounds True) offers guidance for disentangling your inherited family patterns so you can transform your relationship with money.

What comes to mind when you think of money? How do you feel about it? Do you tense up and feel fearful and stressed or do you feel joyful, relaxed, and at ease? Is money the “good guy” in your life or the “villain”? What does money mean to you? What kind of relationship do you really have with money?

Is it possible that we could be dealing with a generational ghost – a family pattern that keeps showing up from the past to haunt us and if so do we have the power to change or stop it?

It turns out Money is not just a commodity – it’s a relationship. And our relationship with money determines how much we can or can’t, will or won’t have. Money affects EVERY single area of our lives—lifestyle, relationships, education, health, opportunity, financial freedom, you name it. When our relationship with money is healthy, it supports us. When it’s not healthy, it seems to turn our whole world upside down.

You may think your relationship with money is based on your individual life experiences but it turns out we don’t just inherit our physical DNA we even inherit our money DNA through our emotional DNA. Neuroscience and epigenetics show there are many kinds of patterns we inherit – deeply unconscious, yet faithfully repeated patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors otherwise known as Emotional DNA. Every aspect of our lives, including our relationship with money, is subject to those inherited patterns.

So, how can you look at money with a fresh perspective and change the patterns that may be preventing you from living your best life? How do you elevate your money mindset and step into a new relationship with money such that money is now your valued friend who will gladly show up for you?!

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Talk Points:

Why is our relationship with money critical to manifesting more of it?
How can we best identify the limiting inherited financial patterns, our money DNA, that are not ours and no longer serve us?
Once we identify the patterns, how can we break through them and create a new relationship with money?
- Consciously laying down new neural pathways around money, one thought, feeling, and action at a time.
Money as the Good Guy, Not the Villain
- Letting go of common misconceptions such as “money is the root of all evil.” Strategies to help individuals view money as a powerful tool that can be harnessed for good, rather than something to be feared or demonized.
- Understand at a deep level that the myths about money being evil, greedy, unclean, unspiritual, and unnecessary, are just that: MYTHS. And they’re waiting for you to transform and vault beyond them!
Possibility Thinking: “Possibility thinking” is a powerful concept that can transform the way individuals approach their finances. The sky’s the limit!
- Practical tips on how to adopt a mindset of abundance and explore opportunities that may have previously gone unnoticed.
What are systemic sentences? How do they affect our relationship with money?

JUDY WILKINS-SMITH is a highly regarded Family Patterns, Systemic Work, and constellations expert, transformational coach, motivational speaker, and author who is passionate about individual growth, visionary leadership, and positive, accelerated, global change. The Founder of System Dynamics for Individuals and Organizations, she has 18 years of expertise assisting high-performance individuals, Fortune 500 executives (Chevron, JP Morgan, Kellogg’s, ExxonMobil), and legacy families end limiting cycles and create lasting breakthroughs and transitions into peak performance. She is a regular guest on TV news and entertainment shows and is the author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns (Sounds True).

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IG24-01. Stephen Chong & The Afterlife

January 1, 2024August 12, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Stephen Paul Chong, on air from January 2nd

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Stephen Chong M.Ed. is a Far North Queensland, Australian-based author who draws his inspirations from life’s themes that relate to us all – love, grief, struggle, overcoming obstacles. Culminating in his six inspirational novels, feature-film screenplays, and multiple short-stories, he has converted these ‘life themes’ into stories that we can all relate to. Stephen’s expertise of balancing modern work practices with personal life provides unique insights that make this life, and life in the hereafter, a much better place.