Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guestBarrett Clemmensen Powell aired from October 13th-on
This project is so close to my heart. In fact, Lori Leak is my heart. She is me.
The story we tell ourselves about anything is the reality we manifest in our lives. The effect of that story can be seen in our lives in the reality we create for ourselves. With Lori Leak, I am able to tell a story from the heart about a father-daughter bond, a family, and exploring the world.
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Lori wonders why her father didn’t make it home for story time the night before but soon the curious, intelligent daughter of Lawrence and Adelle Leak learns that it was because he was preparing them for a great adventure. Lori and her parents are travelling across an ocean to Paris, France!
This funny, heartwarming story of an African-American girl and her parents exploring the beautiful and charming sights of Paris will make you laugh and feel good. Written from the heart by an intercultural consultant and author Barrett Clemmensen Powell and richly illustrated by award-winning animator Kristen Palana, it is a children’s book keepsake.
Barrett says that travelling for visiting, or living in other cultures is central to my heart. You learn so much about yourself and your origins when you spend time with other other people in their country and culture. Building bridges across cultures and between people is my mission, and travelling empowers me to accomplish my goal.
Books are treasures and I am in deep gratitude that in my lifetime I have been blessed with the talent and afforded the opportunity to create a character who looks like me and a story/book that shows African-American family life. I am especially thankful to my talented and patient illustrator, (and both kindred native New Englander and expatriate) Kristen Palana. gave my story rich and vibrant colours — like my vision.
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Barrett Clemmensen Powell is a New England native who later became a California girl, in sunny La Jolla, CA. She has travelled and lived in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. Her future travel plans include Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Barrett combined her former career as a former TV/radio journalist and her ordination as a minister to become a lifestyle entrepreneur focused on human lifespan, culture and spirituality. Barrett has an Associate of Arts in French from Grossmont College, a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from Emerson College, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Cultural Encounters, and a Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary. She is working towards a Ph.D. in Psychology. Barrett enjoys learning languages (including French-Danish and Hebrew). She is an American expatriate living in Copenhagen Denmark.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy with her guest Danielle Bussone aired Sept 29th-Oct 5th
Danielle Bussone says becoming a vegan was a life-saver for me. A surgeon inadvertently severed a crucial part of my anatomy, creating for me six years of pain and suffering, numerous surgeries and hospitalizations, multiple life-threatening complications, and a few near-death experiences. Discovering plant-based nutrition turned my health around and allowed me to not only survive, but to thrive.
Danielle Bussone’s journey through medical errors and complications devastated her health and nearly claimed her life. In severe chronic pain and disillusioned by the medical industry, Danielle turned to foods to recover her health.
In “Time for Change: Whole Foods For Whole Health!,” Danielle Bussone shows us that becoming vegan is an exciting expedition into a new world of flavors and cultural culinary experiences. Whether you wish to fully embrace a WFPB lifestyle or would just like to add healthy foods to your current diet, Bussone arms the reader with mouthwatering, healthy recipes that will make the inclusion of whole foods easy, delicious and restorative.
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For Whole Health!, I share my story of injury and recovery and show how creating a healthier, more energetic body can be as close as your dining table.
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TIME FOR CHANGE is comprehensive primer on to how to deal with the minor inconveniences of this life-style choice, how to deal with social situations, what new foods you’ll encounter, how to stock your kitchen, tips on preparing and cooking vegetables and, finally, delicious recipes to get you started. You’ll be amazed at how quickly your health will improve by making some small changes to the way you currently eat. I’ve lost 65 pounds, I no longer have acid reflux, and I no longer need blood pressure medication (or any medication at all). I am well and healthy, and the foods I prepare are delicious and satisfying. Please join me in making the next years of our lives the most productive, energetic and radiantly healthy years ever!
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“TIME FOR CHANGE”
“Time For Change” is a comprehensive, engaging and passionate book by an intrepid woman who fought through years of catastrophic medical events. By continuous reading, research, and diligently listening to her body, Bussone has found her way back to good health by means of a plant-based diet. Here she shares her story, her research findings, her contagious enthusiasm, her wonderful cooking methods and vegan recipes. This book is also a fervent cry against pesticides, genetically modified and highly processed foods. — Patricia Kandle, MD
So inspired athlete Kate Strong has embraced the Vegan diet and it has improved her performance completely.
Horrific. Heroic. A must read for anyone who has to deal with doctors and hospitals. — Bill Kaiser, Author of “Bloodroot” and “Hellebore: A Novel of Reconstruction.”
This book shouts, “Wellness happens!” An intelligent and enjoyable read for both laypersons and medical professionals. “Time For Change” offers a vegan lifestyle that creates and sustains vitality. Ms Bussone has done her research. Everyone should read this book! — Teresa Wood, DDS
Danielle’s story of adopting a vegan diet to recover her health is an inspiration. “Time For Change” offers a strong foundation to the benefits of a plant-based diet and is filled with delicious recipes to whet your appetite. This book is a must-have for every pantry and bookshelf! – Vegan Athlete, Kate Strong — 2014 World Champion Women’s LongDistance Triathlon
A Practical Guide to Health and Wellness”
Danielle Bussone is a free-lance writer, certified wellness coach and avid cook. After discovering the healing powers of food, she became fascinated with creating dishes that were not only health-promoting but bursting with flavour. Danielle is a graduate of Cornell University’s certification program in plant-based nutrition, in conjunction with the T. Colin Campbell Foundation.
She and her husband Rich are co-founders of Veggin’ Out And About!, a food and travel blog for plant-based diners. Danielle serves as a restaurant reviewer and writer for Veggin’ Out And About!, as well as editor for contributors from across the globe.
Danielle is currently working on several cookbooks of plant-based cuisines from the US and around the world. She and Rich divide their time between SW Virginia and East Tennessee, where they live with two dogs and two cats, collectively known as their “Beloved Monsters.” In her spare time she writes fiction and is currently working on a novel based in New Orleans.
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Try the recipe and see how delicious it is .
Coconut Curry With Indian Spices
This dish smells as good as it tastes. The aromas will drive your family and dinner guests wild while they are awaiting this treat. Again, don’t be intimidated by the number of ingredients needed. You’ll use these spices over and over. Measuring them out in advance into small bowls will prevent mistakes. It is easy to forget a spice if it isn’t handy. If you prepare the rice in advance, it will save you some time when you are scrambling to get food on the table. It is also very good served with French whole wheat couscous, which only takes 10 minutes to prepare. It is also excellent served over linguini.
Note that the cinnamon stick, bay leaf, and cardamom pods are for flavor and should not be eaten. Pick the cinnamon and bay leaf out before serving; the cardamom pods will be harder to find so just warn your guests that they are not to be eaten. They won’t hurt them, but the seeds are very fibrous and have a woody texture. Plus, biting into them may give your guests a jolt of cardamom flavor that could be overpowering.
Coconut Curry With Indian Spices
Time: 35 to 40 minutes Yield: 7 cups, plus rice
Ingredients:
Prepare in advance:
1 1/2 cups whole wheat French Couscous
2 1/4 cups mirepoix vegetable stock or filtered water
2 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas, or one can organic chickpeas (garbanzo beans) drained
Spice Blend:
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 tablespoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon ground hot chili powder (You can substitute cayenne.)
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
Main Ingredients:
2 cups diced onion (1 large onion)
2 bay leaves
6 cardamom pods
1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons minced ginger
1 can organic coconut milk
6 ounces baby spinach, washed and spun dry
1 pint cherry tomatoes, cut in half (1 3/4 cups or about 40)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Preparation: about 20 minutes
Prepare vegetables.
Transfer drained, cooked chickpeas to a bowl. Set aside.
Set aside cinnamon stick and cardamon pods. Measure remaining spices into a small bowl. Set aside.
Method: 15 to 20 minutes
In a dry skillet, sauté onion with bay leaves, cardamom pods, and cinnamon until soft and translucent, stirring frequently (about 10 minutes).
Stir in ginger and garlic. Sauté 2 minutes, adding a little water a tablespoon or two at a time if necessary to prevent scorching.
Add turmeric, garam masala, ground chili powder, and black pepper. Stir until spices are fully incorporated with the onion mixture.
Stir in coconut milk, tomatoes, and chickpeas. Cook for 5 minutes or so on medium heat until sauce is bubbling and tomatoes have wilted. Adjust spices to taste.
Just prior to serving, remove saucepan from heat and fold spinach** into mixture until wilted.
Stir in lemon juice and serve immediately over rice, couscous, pasta or grain of choice.
*You can cook chickpeas on your stovetop if you don’t have a pressure cooker, though it will take longer. Or you can substitute canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed.
**Don’t over-cook the spinach. It should be added no more than 5 minutes before serving. Spinach becomes a little slimy if allowed to cook for too long. Heat it only until it is wilted.
Note:
In cooking demonstrations, I often substitute couscous for rice, simply because of time limitations. Actually, couscous is very delicious with this dish. Coconut Curry With Indian Spices can also be served over linguini or angel hair pasta. Please refer to my book,Time For Change: Whole Foods For Whole Health!, for instructions on cooking beans, making vegetable stock and much more.
Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and Chris Williams aired from September 22nd-on with instant listening.
What would you do if someone took your loved ones away from you? Would you want revenge? none would blame you, BUT; how do you forgive. How do you JUST LET GO and let love heal? Chris Williams did, this is his story.
On a cold February night in 2007, a devoted father of four and a seventeen-year-old drunk driver both received life sentences. In one violent, devastating instant, each faced a drastically different and uncertain future. But as Chris Williams sat in his demolished vehicle, staring at the car that had just caused the death of his wife, his unborn baby, his nine-year-old daughter, and his eleven-year-old son, he committed to do something extraordinary: he would forgive.
Chris Williams’ story is the cinematic tale of how a person can forgive despite the retaliatory tendencies that surface within the dark corners of the human heart, showing the world that hope, love and forgiveness can overcome all when you let it go. In addition to the inspirational presentation of Just Let Go, audiences will be treated to an exclusive introduction from radio personality Delilah!
Chris Williams was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving a mission to Paraguay for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and graduating from the University of Utah, he went to work as an IT architect and systems engineer. He is now an executive with IBM. After the death of his wife Michelle and two of their four children, he married Mikkel Fuhriman Jones, a widow with two young children. They have since been blessed with two daughters. He and his family currently reside in Salt Lake City.
RISE & FALL – Ryan Innes (JUST LET GO – Soundtrack)
Positive Vibrations Roundtable with Sara Troy and her guests Belinda Farrell and Jeff Cannon aired July 14th-2015.
This is an opportunity for us to talk about simplifying and removing all those things that do not bring you joy. It is a process we all need to go through from time to time, removing the clutter in our lives, both in terms of “things” we attach ourselves to, as well as with people, work and even ideologies. I am delighted to have both Belinda and Jeff back again discussing in how we all can embrace our own Positive Friggin Conversations within us.
Belinda Farrell is a courageous woman sharing personal woes so that others may find strength in their own journey. She lights the path of hope, brightens the realm of despair and embraces the act of survival. Cal-Berkeley graduate, MomSnow White” almost CIA agent, stunt car driver, actor, writer, hot coal walker, Huna teacher, wild dolphin swim guide, she’s a New Millennia Renaissance woman offering good health and holistic healing.
Her new book Find Your Friggin’Joy is not for the faint of heart, but a manual for those brave enough to confront their demons, face their feelings, and exalt their potential”. This book takes you on a journey using Ancient Hawaiian Teachings that invite the reader to take personal responsibility to unplug from the old non-productive stories and step into the frequencies of your Higher Self. Connecting with these frequencies can heal your physical body, bring you back into balance, lighten your load, and fulfill your soul’s purpose. It’s all up to YOU! When Belinda was forty eight she collapsed with herniated discs and spinal nerve damage. Threatened with paralysis by her medical doctors if she didn’t have surgery, Belinda instead chose to apply the ancient Hawaiian healing practices she had been learning for the past three years which are covered in this book. Her back completely healed including childhood scoliosis. Belinda retired from stunt car driving and, for fifteen years has been sharing these healing practices with others. She offers Reconnective Healing and Huna in Santa Cruz, Ca. and takes clients to Hawaii to teach Huna and swim with wild spinner dolphins. The dolphins help us to dissolve fear with an open heart expanding our reality through their vibrational tones so that we experience our deepest joy.
The Conversation is less a book than it is an experience. Based on the five lucid dreams of the author and Modern American Monk, Jeff Cannon, The Conversation travels the energy of existence from the physical to the metaphysical and beyond as it takes its reader on a journey that balances God and Evolution, Spirituality and Science, the Human and the Divine.
This is a simple story of awakening through the transference Jeff experienced with his dream-guide on the Greek island of Ithaka and through the simplicity of Love.
The Conversation is the basis for much of Jeff’s teachings. It weaves Western science and Eastern philosophy into a wonderful tapestry and meditation on Life, Death, Love and Transcendence.
Jeff Cannon is the author of numerous books on meditation, spirituality and wellness. He is a member of NYU Hospital’s Patient Advisory Board and a contributor to Huffington Post, Mind Body Green and countless other websites and blogs. He wrote The Simple Truth: Meditation for the Modern World in 2009 after which he founded The Simple Truth Project where he teaches Modern Meditation privately as well as through public workshops.
Jeff has survived 8 brain surgeries that removed more than 22 tumors in as many years. He has witnessed the evolution of neuroscience through each surgery first hand. His first operation used a hand-drill in 1992. His most devastating operation removed six brain tumors in 2009. His latest surgery lasted 14 hours, after which he could not see, speak or stand.
Through each, Jeff has spent months watching his own brain heal and reboot itself.
He has spent years exploring how meditation can help to overcome the issues he has faced, and continues to amaze doctors and researchers with his ability to heal, to recover and to let go so that he can move beyond and live his life.
He now teaches others how to transform their lives through Modern Meditation – the union of traditional Eastern Meditation Practices and Western Science. It is a practice that refines traditional meditation techniques to better respond to the realities of the world we all live in, and to create transformational change in their lives.
Positive Living Vibration with Sara Troy and her guest Adele Green originally aired June 2nd
What is the Question and Who has the Answer?
Adele Green knew her life needed to change but did not know how to, what were the questions she needed to ask and who knew the answers? In the discovery of these questions and answers, she knew her calling was to help other women ask the right questions and provide them with the means to the right answers which all lay within us.
I am a Transformation Specialist and twice published as an international author for Can You See Me Naked: Grow in a conscious relationship & Empowered Women. In 2007 I founded a full-time private coaching and kinesiology practice to help women with what you need to make big changes in your life. I do this because when I could not find out why my soul pulled on my heartstrings, I left for Peru … and then another and another place on spiritual quests. In the end, I left a whole life behind to find myself. Before that, I was a professional corporate national buyer and category manager in the FMCG and fashion industry in South Africa.
I share my journey online because when I was looking for answers there were no other women that spoke as deeply as I needed to go. Everyone offered me answers, but few told me to look inside. The real teachers are those who teach us to look on the inside, and few can guide us there successfully.
Barrett Clemmensen Powell is a New England native who later became a California girl, in sunny La Jolla, CA. She has travelled and lived in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East. Her future travel plans include Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Barrett combined her former career as a former TV/radio journalist and her ordination as a minister to become a lifestyle entrepreneur focused on human lifespan, culture and spirituality. Barrett has an Associate of Arts in French from Grossmont College, a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication from Emerson College, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Cultural Encounters, and a Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary. She is working towards a Ph.D. in Psychology. Barrett enjoys learning languages (including French-Danish and Hebrew). She is an American expatriate living in Copenhagen Denmark.
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