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.
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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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.
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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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?!
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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“for the LOVE of Music” with Sara Troy and her guest Gene-O, on air from November 21st.
Gearing up for the release of “Time for Change,” the infectious, insightful and timely debut single from Classic Twist – the fresh, grooving and innovative, multi-genre duo he’s formed with veteran writer/producer Kevin Flournoy – renowned R&B/jazz singer/songwriter Gene-O played the track for some industry movers and shakers in their home base of Southern California. Their response was auspicious – it reminded them of a modern version of “We Are the World.” If ever the planet needed a hopeful and uplifting new anthem to inspire us to look past our differences and come together in a spirit of love, the time is now.
Written by Gene-O and produced by Flournoy, “Time for Change” is an emphatic call to action that pointedly reflects on everything we need to do to come together and achieve a better world. Over a unique musical vibe that, true to the fusion-driven spirit of Classic Twist, incorporates elements of pop, R&B, country and rock, Gene-O passionately sings, “It’s time we leave our comfort zone/It’s time for you and I to rearrange things/Cause everybody knows it’s time for changes/It’s time we see the light/It’s time to do what’s right. . .So much love/That’s what we all should be thinking of…”
“We recorded this song and are releasing it as our first Classic Twist single because globally we desperately need to effect major change,” says Gene-O, whose most recent solo albums were the back-to-back releases of Born to Love and Christmas with Gene-O. Having spent years performing around the world (China, Japan and the EU) and the U.S., the singer started his career recording and performing with such artists as Baby Bash, N2Deep, The Jets, Maserati, and Sheila E to name a few. Once designated as Best New Artist of the Month by Talking Smooth Jazz Radio – more recently he has shared the stage with the likes of Brian O’Neal (The Bus Boys), Howard Hewitt, Eric Darius, Dru Hill, Lenny Williams (Tower of Power), Joe, and his mentors, Phil Perry and the late great Ricky Lawson.
“Our world is so crazy right now on so many levels,” he adds. “I had the message in my mind and I felt it was something we needed to do together. Kevin and I talk about these issues all the time. Every time we turn on the TV or listen to the radio, they’re talking about more division. The song, like all of the music we’re making together as Classic Twist, reflects the way we live, just loving people. Love and unity form the concept of everything we’re going to do on this project.”
“As veteran musicians and live performers, we know the joy that’s possible when thousands of people from all different backgrounds and beliefs come together to hear music and experience an elevation of positivity,” adds Flournoy, who has written, performed or recorded over the years with Chaka Khan, Babyface, Donny Osmond, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Teena Marie, Jeffrey Osborne, The Pointer Sisters, Jennifer Hudson, Howard Hewitt, Jamie Foxx, The Jazz Crusaders and contemporary jazz greats Boney James, Norman Brown, Kirk Whalum and Harvey Mason.
The duo plans to follow “Time for Change” with several other original singles before releasing an EP or full-length album comprised of new compositions and explosive re-imaginings of classic rock tunes. One of these is the whimsical, high-energy country-soul-rocker “Things are Changing,” a lighthearted song along a similar theme about going out and having some fun. The other is “You’re My Hero,” an inspiring, R&B/gospel flavored tribute to the love of hard- working, self-sacrificing women everywhere that was picked up by an international women’s foundation as their new anthem; Gene-O and Flournoy will be shooting a video for this song this fall. As for the covers, down the road, Classic Twist is excited about presenting their dynamic versions of Simply Red’s “Holding Back the Years,” Journey’s “Faithfully” and Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind.”
The concept of Classic Twist is rooted in the longtime friendship and musical camaraderie of Gene-O and Flournoy, who first played together informally at jam sessions hosted by smooth jazz bassist Darryl Williams at Simply Sharon’s restaurant in Temecula, CA. Sometime later, when Gene-O was at one of Flournoy’s gigs at Felix’s Barbecue with Soul in San Diego, the two got to talking about their mutual musical passions, became fast friends and began gigging together.
Over the years, while perfecting their chemistry doing regular gigs at San Diego area hotspots like Covo and countless high-end parties, the two began talking about developing a unique hybrid style that incorporated two of Gene-O’s all-time favorite genres – country and classic rock – that he never had a chance to record or perform because of his success in jazz and R&B and the popular demand for him to continue in that vein. Flournoy, a veteran arranger and producer who loves those styles as well, helped develop and bring to life some of Gene-O’s new songs in a way that incorporated such elements as banjo and steel and electric guitar. They plan to bring in some of the top musicians in the business to cut each song live like an old school ensemble, leading to a transcendent, one-of-a-kind sonic aesthetic that will inevitably be Classic Twist.
Having sung at church from the age of seven, Gene-O began his professional career at seventeen with a Bay Area band called Sho-fur. He has written, produced and collaborated with mega- producers Felton Pilate, Preston Glass, and Tank as well as contemporary jazz greats Adam Hawley, Blake Aaron, Darryl Williams, Cal Harris, Jr. and Will Donato. Flournoy, who earned a B.A. from the UCSD in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Music Science and Technology, is the owner and CEO of Kay-Flow Productions, LLC, a division of Flournoy Entertainment, Inc. His first major label success as a producer was Big Mountain’s international hit “Sweet Sensual Love.” As an artist/producer, this past year he released two versions of a cover of the Jam/Lewis SOS Band Top 5 R&B hit “Tell Me If You Still Care” – the first featuring Phil Perry on vocals, the second with saxophonist Richard Elliott.
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