Transforming Relationshipswith host, Julieanne O’Connor, aired from October 27th-
“The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.”
Should you stay or should you go? Is the grass greener? These questions may apply to your lover, your job or any number of other decisions you might need to make. Tune-in for a candid discussion about when to throw in the towel and how to make decisions based on your own self-worth. Julieanne shares a candid approach to the boot camp of life, and discusses why sometimes those things we most struggle with, can sometimes be the greatest gifts to help us grow and change in ways we never dreamed.
The Universe sometimes works in mysterious ways!
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Ann Betz aired November 10th
At BEabove, we help people understand that the most important thing is not what we DO, but who we ARE.
Through our Seven Levels of Effectiveness, we provide a road map of human effectiveness which elegantly and clearly shows us not only where we are, but where we want to go to find that new level of thinking so badly needed in today’s world. We undergird this roadmap with current research on neuroscience and psychology, providing an easy to understand comprehensive model of human transformation.
Ann Betz, CPCC, PCC, CNTC, is the co-founder of BEabove Leadership and an international speaker and trainer on the intersection of neuroscience, coaching and human transformation. Ann serves as the neuroscience consultant to The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and provides neuroscience, leadership and coaching consulting to many other corporations and non-profits.
Ann say “I have always been passionately interested in the human spirit, from studying philosophy in college to becoming a coach back in 2001 to developing a powerful model of consciousness with my business partner, Ursula Pottinga (see BEabove Leadership for more on this!) Lately, these explorations have taken me deep inside the brain through studies in neuroscience.”
Ann is also the co-developer/leader of BEabove Leadership’s popular training program for advanced coaches: Neuroscience, Consciousness and Transformational Coaching, currently available in the U.S, Canada, Mexico, Turkey, China, Norway, and the U.K.
A certified professional coach for over 14 years, Ann is the author of a groundbreaking white paper on brain research and coaching. She contributes to Choice Magazine, Coaching at Work, Coaching World, the International Coach Federation’s and CTI’s blogs, and other coaching and HR publications.
Ann is the lead author of Integration, the power of being Co-Active in work and life, an exploration of consciousness and the future (John Hunt Publishing, 2015). She is also an international speaker on neuroscience, leadership, and coaching, and she excels at making the complexities of the brain come to life with depth, humor, and simplicity.
She lives in Celebration, Florida with her two very enlightened cats.
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Their Story Matters with Sara troy and her guest Jason Bergen aired October 20th-on
Migration the world is made of immigrants from all over the world. Some are running from tyranny a home torn from war and regimes, some come looking for a better life for their family, we need migrants for we need people to fill the jobs left by an ageing working population there are not enough people left. Is it not all bed and roses for them, no, some are held for years waiting for a visa to work, some have a hard time trusting and some are still in such shock of what they have had to run from. But they are here and it is time to welcome and integrate and build cohesive communities for that is how this Global World was built.
Jason Bergen is a Canadian (raised in Abbotsford and Saskatoon) who has lived and worked in Malawi, Nepal and Sri Lanka with Canada World Youth, World University Service of Canada, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has lived in the UK since 2000 and has worked in social justice, equalities and communications with charities (such as Oxfam), local authorities & European programmes mostly supporting refugees and migrants. In 2010 he helped establish Migrant Voice and is a volunteer Chair of Trustees. Migrant Voice is a migrant-led charity to support migrants (from all migrant backgrounds – refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, etc.) share their experiences and stories in the media and the communities they live in. MV organises training and ‘Meet a Migrant’ sessions with journalists, broker pro-active and reactive media stories and speaking events with migrants, and produce an annual Migrant Voice Newspaper (100,000 distributed free), conference, events and research.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Mary Claire Kendall aired October 27th
We all love to hear the stories of the Hollywood Legends of yesterday, for they paved the way for all actors today, what really went on in their lives? Mary Claire knows.
Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends, Mary Claire Kendall writes about all, “all-star twelve” from film’s “Golden Age”—including: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Cooper, Bob Hope, Mary Astor, John Wayne, Ann Sothern, Jane Wyman, Susan Hayward, Lana Turner, Betty Hutton, Ann Miller and Patricia Neal. She also writes sketches of more stars in her opening chapter, including: Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Ethel Barrymore, and Spencer Tracy. The book uncovers stories of recovery and conversion, with intimate portraits that often contrast with the more common profiles, of these all-too-human movie stars.
Mary Claire Kendall is a Washington-based writer, with a special focus on Hollywood. Her book, “Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends,” was published in April 2015. In 2012-13, she transformed the manuscript for “William ‘Bill’ Walton: A Charmed Life,” about a Kennedy confidante who changed the face of Washington, published in 2013.
Currently, she is working on several books, including a follow-on to “Oasis” and one about Hemingway. She is also producing and hosting an interview show about Hollywood legends, for which four episodes have been filmed.
She has written three feature film screenplays; three pilot sitcoms; a TV action drama pilot; two feature film treatments. In 2013, she completed a collection of short stories and continues to add to it.
She has been published in Forbes, where she was a regular columnist in 2012 and 2013; and Breitbart, where she was a regular columnist in 2014; as well as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Examiner, The Weekly Standard, Washington Times, San Francisco Examiner, NY Daily News, New York Post, Newport Life Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, and Our Sunday Visitor, among other venues.
She has done numerous TV, radio and other public appearances, most recently to discuss her book “Oasis.”
Starting in November 2012, Mary Claire took time away from her writing for several months to spearhead the “Friends of President Reagan’s Chicago Home,” a cause she wrote about in many national publications. She was formally elected President by the Board of Directors on March 4, 2013.A graduate of Wellesley College, Mary Claire served as a political appointee in the Administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, at the Departments of Education (1987-88) and Health and Human Services (1989-93), respectively, as a speechwriter, policy analyst and representative spearheading various initiatives.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Aura Imbarus, originally aired October 27th
A Story of Tyranny, Freedom, Love and Identity by Aura Imbarus
OUT OF THE TRANSYLVANIA NIGHT explores tyranny and freedom, love, success, and the price paid for misaligned dreams in an epic tale of identity and the human spirit. It is a deftly woven narrative about finding greater meaning and fulfilment in a free world, and an exploration of how social issues affect the human spirit. An incredibly powerful memoir.
I’d grown up in the land of TRANSYLVANIA, homeland to Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and, worse, the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu—who turned Romania into a land of gray-clad zombies who never dared to show their individuality, and where neighbours became informants, and the Securitate made people disappear. Daylight empowered the regime to encircle us like starved wolves, and so night had always been the time to steal a bit of freedom. As if bred into our Transylvanian blood, we were like vampires who came to life after sundown. I buried the family heirloom jewels, tucked the flag into my sweater and left my outpost to join the action . . . tonight Ceausescu would die!
Known for using stand-ins to pose for him, Aura doubts if it was even Ceausescu himself who was killed that night. Nevertheless, when her countrymen topple one of the most draconian regimes in the Soviet bloc, Aura Imbarus tells herself that life post-revolution will be different. But little in the country changes. With two pieces of luggage and a powerful dream, Aura and her new husband flee to America. Through sacrifice and hard work, the couple acquires a home, cars, and travel—but trying to be Americans is much more complicated than they expect. More difficulties set in the stock market crash takes their savings, house, and cars; thieves steal three centuries’ worth of heirloom jewels, and Aura’s beloved mother dies.
Aura’s marriage crumbles under the stress. Devastated, she asks herself, ‘How much of one’s life is owed to others?’ Tested even further by the vagaries of fate, Aura discovers a startling truth about striking a balance between one’s dreams and the sacrifices and compromises that allow for Serenity, selfhood, and lasting love. More resolution comes when in 2010, Ceausescu’s body is exhumed to answer questions of a cover-up, and Aura can finally lay to rest the haunting mysteries of her past.
“Aura Imbarus, Ph.D. is an awarded educator, freelance journalist, and author of “Out of the Transylvania Night,” a memoir detailing her life in Romania during the communist regime. Her latest work, “Returning Home: A Journey of Finding Oneself” is due out in early 2016.
She has a BA in Foreign Languages; MA in American and British Literature; Ph.D. in World Humanities. She has been teaching high school and college level classes in So Cal since 1998. Aura was featured on NBC, CNBC, ABC, CNBC, Good Morning San Diego, Forbes Romania, etc.
She is the President and Co-Founder of RAPN- Romanian-American Professional Network. She is on multiple boards including Wesley Foundation UCLA serving underrepresented students; Scott J. Schwartz Foundation helping children with disabilities.”
Author of “Out of the Transylvania’s Night” and “Returning Home: A Journey of Discovering Oneself”
She writes for The Global Woman Magazine in London, Eden Magazine in LA; Beverly Hills Times Magazine, The Immigrant, Hermannstadter Zeitung in Transylvania and she also works as a freelance journalist for Entertainment and Sports Today!
Aura Imbarus, PhD
“The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.” 
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