Building your business with Sara Troy and her guest Hugh Culver, on air from November 3rd
How to use your blog to build your business. In a world of Facebook advertising and interruption media, blogging might seem old fashioned. In fact, your blog could be the secret to a highly successful marketing strategy. Learn how Hugh Culver built the BlogWorks team and how they create blog success for service professionals. Hugh Culver, MBA, CSP co-created the world’s most expensive tours (to the South Pole), has presented to over 1,200 audiences as a professional speaker, is the CEO of BlogWorks, and author of Give Me a Break – the art of making time work for you. His blog at hughculver.com reaches 500,000 readers a year.
I’m a recovering over-achiever who researches, writes, and speaks on how to THINK better, PLAN smarter, and ACT now on what really matters.
I speak 45 times a year either on the main stage teaching my Think, Plan, Act model (last year I had 25 standing ovations) or one of my three workshops (leadership, conflict, time). The rest of my work time is dedicated to helping other speakers grow their business.
Some facts about me
Co-founded the world’s most exclusive tour company and only private flights to the South Pole.
Built (or was a partner) in five businesses, including eco-tourism, construction, training and development, and whitewater rafting.
Selected to present (over 1,000 speeches and counting) to Telus, Royal Bank of Canada, Fortis, PepsiCo, Shoppers Drug Mart, UBC, Canfor, and Suncor.
Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest LYNNE COCKRUM-MURPHY, ED.D., L.I.S.A.C. on air from July 28th
An empowerment speaker, author, spiritual teacher, intuitive consultant, licensed substance abuse counselor and ThetaHealer®, Dr. Lynne lived an unusually challenging first 25 years. The multiple traumas she experienced amplified her compassion, wisdom and the spiritual acumen. As a result, she is gifted when helping people in their quest for healing and inner peace.
Dr. Lynne speaks, teaches and heals while on stage. People experience not
only insights; they grow and transform when engaging with her.
With her extensive background, years teaching meditation and healing practices, she is attuned to her audience and intuitively knows how to best address their pain and provide relief in short time.
Topics include Awakening, Healing, Releasing Limitations, Self-Validation and True Self.
What people have said about Dr. Lynne
“Dr. Lynne’s presentation would help anyone who is interested in personal growth and looking for practical tools to assist in moving forward through past pain.” Vickie
“Thank you for your presentation. It reawakened a part of me I had forgotten and will be very helpful in my journey.” Barbara
“That voice! You have no idea how much you’ve influenced me in my spiritual journey. Thank-you.” Allie
“Thanks for your workshop; your guided meditation brought me tears of joy!” Chris
Dr. Lynne is available for interview or to speak with your group on spiritual and personal development and growth. She travels as needed and has presented to groups in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Their Story Matter with Sara Troy, and her guests, Erica Ramsey-Bowen, and Barrett Clemmensen Powell, on-air from June 9th
We speak to the lack of representation of Black children in books as bright, adventurous and capable children. What do they have to be inspired by when they do not see themselves in any books?
“From both my personal experience as well as data compiled from various sources on the subject, it has been demonstrated time and time again that from an early age, children infer from the lack of diverse protagonists that there is a limitation to their abilities and potential. If the sight of the white cisgender Christian able-bodied protagonist keeps appearing in the majority of children’s books (and for me, particularly in fantasy literature), then there is an unspoken understanding that children of color, children who identify as a gender other than a cisgender male, children who are of a different religion than Christianity, and children who are differently-abled ARE NOT SEEN. Every year, an infographic is produced and shared showing the statistics for diversity in this country compiled by Sarah Park Dahlen and every year, children of color consistently have a much smaller percentage of children’s literature starring THEM vs books with a hero who is white, male, Christian, heterosexual, BUT there are ALSO MORE books featuring an animal as the protagonist versus children of color, or another gender, or religion or physical ability. So, just to be clear, a polar bear or a talking cat OR a naked mole rat can get more validation, if you will, of their abilities to be the hero in life than any of these other groups of human children. And last but not least, let’s examine this from the flip side: from the white, cisgender, male-identifying, Christian, physically-abled point of view if you are accustomed to literally seeing yourself as the hero and focus of most adventures, would that not shape your attitude towards the worth of others different than you that you never see in those same pages? It’s no wonder there is a broad unspoken assumption of that white male able-bodied Christian is always to be on the pinnacle, the indisputable top of the heap.
Born to working class parents in Durham, North Carolina in the 1970s, Erica believes her upbringing in the years following the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the integration of schools, Title IX, and 9-11 all contributed to creating who she is in the world.
“Born in the 1970s, I was the child of tomorrow, the one that was supposed to be the embodiment of my parents’ and ancestors’ dreams. I was supposed to enjoy the fruits of everything they planted during their struggles and I felt this almost cellular duty to be a reflection of their beliefs; I was supposed to break glass ceilings, sit at the front of buses, work alongside men, speak up, be bold, go wherever and be whomever I wanted to be. Instead, I found myself staying within a safe bubble of my own creation, working in corporate America for over twenty years, pretty much not creating anything and staying silent. Last year, I woke up, took a breath, quit my job, and took a leap into being who I have been all along. And I haven’t looked back.”
After “waking up”, Erica embarked on starting her own fledgling art company, Peach E Holdings, and successfully illustrated her first published children’s book, “A No Don’t Day”, which was penned by a childhood friend, Carla Wright-Jukes. On the heels of that, she ran an ambitious Kickstarter campaign for her own children’s book “The Little Bayou Fairy” and saw it successfully funded. Her fearless campaign and strong message of needing more diversity in the realm of children’s literature caught the attention of the Huffington Post Canada. Erica was interviewed for an article about the dearth of representation in children’s literature and was quoted throughout the article. (Link here: Huffington Post Canada Article ) After some delays due to the pandemic, “The Little Bayou Fairy” is scheduled to be published later this month, along with two other book projects that are in progress; “Flora” by Lissette Perry and “Omm Yoga” by Jessica Manfield-Carter.
Erica was one of the featured artists of last year’s “ART GONE WILD” project and exhibit at Zoo Atlanta and her commitment to community service and support of local shelters and animal charities gained her a nomination for LiveSafe Resources’ 2020 Tribute to Achievement. Although she was not selected as a finalist, Erica says that was a surprising and touching testament to the work she does and strives to do within Peach E Holdings.
“The core of who I am is the spirit of joy, playfulness, and peace in the universe. I want everything I touch and the art that I make with my hands, to reflect that. I believe that is how I can best support young people and help make this world, our village, a better place.”
Peach E Holdings, LLC (Art and Creative Imaging Company)
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An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Kathleen.a.Mccarthy, on-air from May 12th
The Magic Happens is a popular online magazine, The Magic Happens: Humanity Thriving Out Loud. I am Kat the managing editor and chief discoverer of talent for the magazine. The Magic Happens is my passion and the work that I put the most time into. I am a believer. I believe in what is happening right now. I believe in ‘the happiness movement.’ The Magic Happens invites us to relax and celebrate – be happy for happiness’ sake. TMH is about thriving, thriving is about being happy. Thriving and happiness are both choices. We choose to be happy.. Or Not… I/we, therefore, offer you choices. We virtually hold your hand while you explore the new choice. While you explore a new perspective so that you can see yourself thriving. So you can see yourself happy. Join us. Read with us. Love us, as we love you. 🙂 If you write, join us and discover the value of support among people who care about your passion and success.
We seek to inject uplifting content into the lives of our readers and to help those with that content to get their message and teachings to those readers.
I grew up on a farm in Ontario, Canada. By the time I was 6 it was apparent that I had anger issues. From there, I was a problem child and as a teenager, I was the sort that you wouldn’t want your own kids hanging out with.
At 17 I realized that I wasn’t liked by most folks and took my first personal development course – Transactual Analysis. Then Adventures in Attitude.
In my late 20’s my sister recruited me into Amway and I spend 4 years devouring their personal development materials, though I never worked the business.
From there, I landed on a team of people building an internet community for the website of John Milton Fogg, an author of some wonderful Network Marketing/personal development books. This is where I was introduced to the law of attraction and Ester Hicks/Abraham.
Most of that team moved together to build a new community called Powerful Intentions which grew to 200,000 strong. As things changed on the internet we drifted apart and went on to other things. That other thing for me was The Magic Happens Magazine. I was 44 at that time.
Some folks are still with us now who started with us.
I met my husband, who lived in Norway (though he is from Denmark) through The Magic Happens. After 2 years of us both flying back and forth between Canada and Norway to spend time together, we decided to get married. I moved to Norway permanently in 2010.
September 2015 I left Norway for almost a whole year to get custody of my grandchildren. July 2016, we brought them home to live with us. They are both special needs kids and require a lot of my time. They are doing well and we love them dearly.
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