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AK. 26-23. From Burnout to Burning Bright Anthology

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Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guests. Scott Holmes. Sara Jane. Dr Ruchi Mishra Sharma. Cora Pettipas. Sinja Baumann. Alessio Rizzo. On air from June 9th

There comes a moment when holding it all together simply stops working. . .
. . .when exhaustion, fear, and heartbreak collide, and you wonder if there’s anything left of you at all.

From Burnout to Burning Bright is a tender companion for those standing in that fire. R. Scott Holmes and twenty-four deeply intuitive, heart-centered experts share their raw stories of collapse and renewal and the life-giving tools they used to find their way back.

You’ll discover practices for calming overwhelm, reclaiming your energy, and meeting yourself with compassion instead of criticism. You’ll find sentences you’ll want to underline, tape to your mirror, and breathe into on the hardest days. If you’ve ever felt yourself wonder if healing is still possible for you, this book offers a steady, heartfelt yes, and walks beside you as you move from burnout to burning bright.

Today we have six of those authors sharing their perspective on burnout and their contributing chapter, and what it means to thrive again as a whole person.

Scott Holmes

R. Scott Holmes is a quantum healing practitioner, transformational coach, and Amazon bestselling author whose work bridges science, spirit, and the human heart. A Reiki Master Teacher, Polarity Therapist, RYSE Teacher, Theta Healer, Universal White Time Healing practitioner, and certified Find Your Voice Coach, Scott blends a decade of study with the hard-earned wisdom of lived experience.

Last show with Sara Troy https//www.rscottholmes.com www.facebook.com/Scott.Holmes

Sara Jane

Every experience we have and learn from, is not only a gift to ourselves but when shared, a gift to those who read it or hear it. The challenges I faced, coming so close to a nervous breakdown and more, are not unique to me. Being open and honest about them, supports others to know they aren’t alone.

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 Dr Ruchi Mishra Sharma 

Dr. Ruchi Mishra Sharma, a devoted mother, a thought leader,  award winning global transformational speaker, celebrated author and founder of Freedom and Empowerment Hypnotherapy with Ruchi – blends medical expertise with RTT hypnotherapy and spiritual wisdom to guide and empower women to breakfree from anxiety, low self confidence and the guilt and shame from childhood sexual abuse.

https://linktr.ee/drruchimishrasharmachyp

Cora Pettipas

Dr. Cora Lynne Pettipas is an award-winning global financial strategist, bestselling author, and creator of the Compass Star PATH model, redefining wealth through Passion, Abundance, Time, and Health. With a doctorate in finance and international leadership experience in financial strategy and digital innovation, she blends academic insight with real-world expertise. Featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Wall Street Journal, and Investment Executive, she is a leading voice in wellbeing-centered finance, where true success is measured by balance, authenticity, and a life fully lived.

https://corapettipas.com https://www.youtube.com/@compassstar_cora.pettipas

Sinja Baumann

Sinja Anna Baumann is the founder of the Amaram Café, a virtual gathering space for meditation, mantra singing, and heartfelt community connection. Originally from Berlin, Germany, she has spent much of her time since 2016 living in the Indian Himalayas, where meeting her teacher, Swamiji, profoundly transformed her life and spiritual path. Over the years, Sinja has guided hundreds of people through meditation and mantra practices, helping them discover greater peace, presence, and inner connection. Through her inspiring TEDx Talk, “Why Meditation?”, she shares the powerful doors meditation can open within one’s life and consciousness.

https://www.amaramcafe.com/en You Tube

Alessio Rizzo 

Alessio Rizzo (He/They), MA, MSc, is a liberation visionary combining liberation-focused IFS therapy with channeled energy healing to support marginalized communities. Creator of High Vibrational Boundaries and co-host of the Queering IFS Podcast, Alessio pioneers decolonized, anti-oppressive approaches to self-healing and empowerment. A published academic author, their work reaches thousands through their free IFS blog. Alessio identifies as queer and neurodivergent.

contact@therapywithalessio.com  www.therapywithalessio.com  www.highvibrationalboundaries.com

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AK26-12. Anna Binder Reardon’s Autonomy of Self-Confidence

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Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Anna Binder Readon, on air from March 24th

Lurking in the basement of her life is the ache of depression and the torment of life as an addict. Meet Amelia, a character closely based on the tumultuous youth of author Anna Binder Reardon.

In Reardon’s dramatization of her own life, Wethersfield Road is a moving story of healing. Through it all, Amelia has her besties by her side: a bottle and a bong, the binge-purge cycle, and risky hookups. She’s the cross-faded chaos queen of nobody’s dreams. Feeling lost, Amelia’s connection with her horse, Hope, seems to be her last reason to stick around. But even that simplest love can’t save her by itself. She topples into a shameful series of crash landings. From domestic violence to cringeworthy sexual encounters and drug-induced shame spirals, she can’t catch her breath. A brutal equine wake-up call propels Amelia to rescue herself in the way only she can. She must first resist her default setting: self-sabotage. In an interview, Reardon can share with us:

“This book depicts domestic violence, sexual trauma, substance abuse, eating disorders, and severe mental illness,” says Reardon. “The intention of exploring these topics is to tell the truth about the ways we as humans struggle. This is ultimately a redemptive story about recovery in all its various forms. Amelia’s journey can be messy, but as most of us know all too well, healing is anything but linear. May we all have the time and space we need to heal and feel whole.”

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Anna Binder Reardon is a former therapist who writes novels and personal essays about people in therapy. When it comes to mental health, her goal is to destigmatize the struggles and normalize care and support. Her core work embodies my core belief in the transformative power of vulnerability. Wethersfield Road, a critically-acclaimed novel, is her first published book

With a Master’s Degree in Counseling from St. Edward’s University, her three-plus years as a mental health therapist, and her own experiences on the fainting couch, she brings actual clinical and personal knowledge to her writings.  She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from St. Edward’s University.

An LMFTA counselor, she specialized in eating disorders, was a certified intuitive eating counselor, and she treated individuals, families, couples, kids, and teens.

Reardon was a competitive, semi-professional horseback rider for eight years. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, she moved to Austin, Texas at age seven, where she now resides with her husband, Tanner, and their Golden Retriever Jax, and their Corgi-mix Oliver.

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James Sulzer’s “All That Smolders” #AK26-01.  

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Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest James Sulzer, on air from January 6th

All That Smolders is a New Murder Mystery Focuses on the Search for Redemption on a New England Island with a Buried Secret. 

A past he can’t escape. A secret that won’t stay buried. A murder that changes everything. 
It’s 1980, a time of peace and tranquility on a legendary island off the coast of New England. Inhabiting the island is a vibrant cast of locals that includes scallopers, tradespeople, and a mysterious recluse -the wealthiest man in Massachusetts. But that peace is shattered by the murder of a prominent lawyer, a pillar of the community.

After writing two literary novels inspired by Emily Dickinson and John Keats, he turned to the mystery genre with All That Smolders, a shift that invited new creative challenges and preparation. Set on a small New England island, the story is deeply informed by his family’s more than forty years of living on Nantucket, where the rhythms, isolation, and intimacy of island life naturally lend themselves to mystery. His protagonist, Peter Christie, is given a compelling backstory as a distant relative of Agatha Christie, creating subtle parallels between Peter’s life and that of the famed author. Scalloping plays a central role in the novel—not only as a community tradition and industry, but also as a potential cover for murder—drawing directly from his own experience as a scalloper. While a murder mystery relies on pace, action, and carefully placed misdirection, he also explores how to craft characters who are vivid and memorable, revealing how he selected and shaped his cast, whether inspired loosely by people he has known or imagined from the deeper truths of human nature.

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James Sulzer was an Intensive English major at Yale, worked in television for a number of years, then moved with his family year-round to the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In his early years on the island, he labored as a commercial scalloper and sang professionally in a barbershop quartet, then taught English for three decades. Other published works include a novel about Emily Dickinson, The Voice at the Door and a novel about John Keats, Writ in Water, as well as the novel Nantucket Daybreak and a trilogy of middle grade novels for children, The Card People. All That Smolders is his first murder mystery and is written in honor of his mother, who was a big fan of Agatha Christie. Sulzer’s novel is heavily inspired by Agatha Christie. He even creates a backstory for his protagonist that places him as one of Christie’s relatives.

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AK25-48. Dr. Sheldon Greaves, The Guerrilla Scholar’s Handbook

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Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Sheldon Greaves, on air from December 2nd

The Guerrilla Scholar’s Handbook: A guide to the pursuit of learning for pleasure, empowerment, and changing the world. 

How to join the ranks of independent scholars, citizen scientists, recovering academics, makers, artists, activists, and other intellectual ne’er-do-wells pursuing a life of the mind—and changing the world.

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Sheldon Greaves completed a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in ancient Near Eastern Studies on a shoestring while living and working in Silicon Valley during the dot.com boom. Facing a sparse academic job market after graduating, he developed an unconventional approach to a life of the mind, what he calls “guerrilla scholarship”. Among his adventures was starting an educational software business, promoting science literacy in the nonprofit sector, publishing in his field, and co-founding the first private university designed to offer degree programs to members of the intelligence community. “The Guerrilla Scholar’s Handbook” is about how regular people can enjoy a life of the mind outside of academia and enrich their communities along the way.

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AK25-47. A Complete Fiction by R.L. Maizes

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An Author’s Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest R.L. Maizes, on air from November 25th

 A Complete Fiction  Told in a humorous vein, R.L. examines the very serious questions of who has a right to tell a story, and has cancel-culture gone too far in our social media–drenched world?

With little evidence, would-be author P.J. Larkin serves a “nibble” on the trendy new social media app Crave, accusing editor George Dunn of stealing the novel she submitted to him for publication. The nibble shoots to the top of the site’s Popular Menu Items, and before you can say “unpaid literary labor,” George is embroiled in a scandal, his job and book deal in jeopardy. P.J. ‘s novel is snapped up amid the publicity, but has she revealed her sister Mia’s secrets in the book? Some diners on Crave think so, and now it’s P.J.’s turn to feel the public’s scorn.

Fiction can give us a breather from the relentless churn of the news, and A Complete Fiction does just that—offering a thoughtful look at serious issues while keeping readers laughing along the way. Its very creation carries a touch of irony: a book critiquing the intrusiveness of social media must still rely on those same platforms for promotion. The author explores what makes social media so objectionable to her, from its noise to its pressure, while also touching on the quieter indignities of the writing life—like receiving the dreaded “remaindered” letter for earlier books.

Why she had her husband block her social media accounts for her while she wrote the book

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R.L. Maizes’s debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. She also is the author of the short story collection, We Love Anderson Cooper. Her short stories have aired on National Public Radio and can be found in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions 2020. Maizes’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. She is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and the recipient of a Fellowship Grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for 2024–2025 for her novel-in-progress. Maizes was born in Queens, New York, and lives in Boulder County, Colorado, with her husband, Steve, and her muses: Rosie, a dog who spent her first year homeless in South Dakota and thinks Colorado is downright balmy, and the ghost of Arie the Cat.

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