Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Jacquelyn M Vasquez, on ait from May 10th
Finding true love for self through affirmations. Affirming one’s greatness is the first step to being your most amazing self daily. When we operate from a point of going after what it is we want we start in the mirror with a conversation with self.
Heyyyyyyy! My name is Jacqui Vasquez. I’m so grateful for each and everyone of you that are reading this. Growing up I never really felt like I fit in and I lost friends quickly and often. I started to fill the loss of friend with boyfriends. I was looking to feel whole, dare I say it, complete. This lead me down a dark road where I was looking for validation in others. I suffered from imposter syndrome so bad I felt like a fraud even in my own home.
In January 2008, I made a decision that changed my life. I decided to love myself unconditionally. And that’s where my love story begins. It started with me dancing in the mirror, to me dancing in the mirror naked (you should try it, it’s liberating), to me speaking to myself in the mirror. The tools I learned to love myself continuously grows over time. From that moment on I learned about my power of manifestation. I have manifested promotions on my job, apartments I wanted, and vacations I have attended. I even manifested my attendance on TV show The Price Is Right, where I won $20,000 and got to spin the wheel.
Jacquelyn is an Author, motivational speaker, and a soul-aligned success coach that helps driven moms find their passion and turn it into a profitable business so they can become their own BOSS. She is your happiness coach who is passionate about all things positivity, passion, and purpose.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Laila Tarraf, on air from May 11th
Laila Tarraf, author of Strong Like Water: How I Found the Courage to Lead with Love in Business and in Life. As women increasingly claim leadership roles in business and politics, and at a time in our nation when people are seeking authentic leaders, Laila Tarraf offers insights and inspiration for finding a natural balance and leading as a whole person—with compassion and courage, intellect and empathy. To be a successful leader, a woman needs to be tough—for years, that’s what Laila Tarraf believed. She prized her ability to be strong, firm, and impassive, like her hardline immigrant father. Her strength became her power, and, for a while, it served her well in her business life. It enabled her to go toe-to-toe with powerful male leaders and excel in a career that took her from a recruiter for the internet division of Wal-Mart to Chief People Officer for Peet’s Coffee & Tea, the company that launched the craft coffee movement in America. But always being in control and never letting herself be vulnerable bled over into her personal life with disastrous results.
In Strong Like Water: How I Found the Courage to Lead with Love in Business and in Life, Laila Tarraf shares her journey of awakening and profound transformation as a leader, a mother, and a woman. For much of her career, Laila, like many women, struggled to balance courage and compassion, intensity and flexibility, being respected and being likable. It took a series of three crushing losses for Laila to finally unlock decades of buried emotions and integrate the parts of herself that make her both strong and soft. As she attests: “I have come to see that true power comes from connecting your head to your heart.”
As the eldest of three children, Laila took on the dual role of mediator between her two warring parents and her mother’s comforter. At age seven, when her family left Lebanon for Las Vegas, her responsibilities expanded to serving as a bridge between two cultures and two languages. Her childhood training made her a natural for a career at the intersection of business and people: human resources. After seven years at Walmart.com, she landed a plum executive position with Peet’s in the San Francisco Bay Area. She thrived at work. She had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. Yet, intimacy eluded her. After two failed relationships, she fell into marrying Daniel, an attractive and seemingly carefree younger man. Despite the gift of a daughter, Nadia, her brief marriage was troubled and ended tragically—with Daniel’s death from a drug overdose.
In Strong Like Water, Laila recounts her shock—first over the loss of her husband, then at her parents’ lack of response. Struck with the fact that her cold, hard father and needy, helpless mother were both incapable of giving her emotional support, Laila was overwhelmed with grief. As she grappled with Daniel’s death and then faced two more tragedies, she knew it was time to seek out professional help for herself.
LAILA TARRAF is a senior human resource executive with over 25 years of professional experience. After graduating with her MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, she became one of the founding team members at Walmart.com. She then served as Chief People Officer at Peet’s Coffee and Tea, an iconic Bay Area premium coffee company. Currently, Laila is the Chief People Officer at AllBirds, a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs and investors, and a regular guest lecturer at Berkeley Law School. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her daughter, Nadia.
Choose positive living with Sara Troy and her guest Dawna Campbell, on air from May 4th
Social conditioning would have us believe that money is happiness. The problem is money is outside of us, without feeling. When we return to our own happiness, we have an awareness and an awakening that brings us back to a natural state of being. We only seek what is outside of us when we feel a lack inside.
Dawna Campbell has helped people around the world live the life they desire and deserve.
She is a #1 International Best-Selling Author, “Financially Fit, Living the Secrets to an Abundant and Prosperous Life.
She has been a Financial Advisor and Managing Principal of an Investment Firm.
She now mentors and Empowers Heart-Centered Business Owners and entrepreneurs like you to Realign your Inner Balance to Gain Infinite Prosperity
With over 25 years of experience, she has shared the stage with notables such as Lisa Nichols, Dr. Joe Vitale, Sharon Lechter, and Kevin Harrington. She has been featured on Fox News, NBC, The Los Angeles Tribune, Yahoo Finance and Roku TV.
She is here today to share the hidden universal secrets from natural healers all around the world that earned her the title of “The Mind Whisperer” for creating instantaneous results for you to step into your power and gain infinite happiness and prosperity.
We are discussing Augustus Wisdom Library and his featured book within the library; “the Bad Boy” (based on relationships)
Augustus V. (1992-Current) was born in Watts, California, to Los Angeles native parents, in the midst of the “92” Watts Riots, and he was sent to live with his uncle in Rome, Italy by the age of 4 for a better environment, and returned to America in 2003. For seven years he taught poetry and spirituality to fellow students and students of neighboring schools in the Los Angeles area. Months before his 18th birthday, he moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to attend a Bible School in hopes of becoming a minister to excel in his work, but “someone” had different plans for him. Instead of starting a ministry behind the pulpit, Augustus would visit people in need of assistance and did what he could to help (mostly advice) As time went by, Augustus started to notice the results people gained, so this inspired Augustus to write once more.
Augustus featured at every “open mic” poetry venue he could find until the state of Oklahoma was no longer a task to the young poet. So he was once more, drawn back to the sunny state of California where he would do charity work and discover what issues needed close attention in his area. Eventually, he realized that these issues were not just in his area, but nationwide, so decided to write his first book, “The Bad Boy”. Now, He runs an organization based on dealing with common issues through literature, features on well-renowned book sites like Barnes & Noble’s, Amazon, Audible, iTunes, etc. and has given full access to a free library on his own site, that he claims will soon be in the thousands. One may not be superstitious, but considering that Augustus was born on the same day that Caesar Augustus died (August 19) this might be the continuation of a great Empire.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Dravon James, on air from May 4tth
Shorten the Journey from Here to Your GoalsUnderstand Your True Longing
We all want something out of life. Some people want a big house and a yard. Some want money. Some want fame. Some want beautiful clothes or flashy cars. Others want a log cabin in the woods. No matter what the goal, there is a true, underlying longing that drives our desire for it. Ironically, however, that desire can never be satisfied by the goal itself.
By looking within, we may understand that the reason we want a flashy car is that we feel inadequate in some way. Having the car won’t change that. Introspection and self-love can, though, and once we’ve satisfied that ache with inner work, the car just becomes a trinket, and life feels good with or without it. Likewise, we may want a big house because we crave a sense of security, but the house itself will never give us that. Security comes from within, too.
It’s okay to want things- we should all be able to enjoy the perks of life, but they are only the icing on the cake, not the cake itself. If we are having difficulty reaching our goals, we can shorten the quest by discovering what it is we really desire.
Dr. Dravon James, Founder of Everyday Peace, Inspirational Speaker, and Author
Dr. Dravon James is the founder of Everyday Peace, the host of Everyday Peace on Unity Radio, a Life Coach, and the author of Freedom is Your Birthright. As an inspirational speaker, Dravon’s goal is to educate, empower and inspire others to build the life of their dreams no matter what shows up in their lives- good, bad, or otherwise.
Her journey began in poverty on the South Side of Chicago. Though she had always dreamt of a career on the stage, Dravon went on to earn a doctorate in pharmacy from Creighton University and has worked as a pharmacist all of her adult life. Along with her medical career and theatrical aspirations, Dravon has also always had a keen interest in personal development. After reading Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking in college, she went on to make a lifelong study of the power we all have to create the life we want.
Dravon is now the happy mother of two teenagers, a successful pharmacist, inspirational speaker, author, and an actress whose career credits include a recurring role on HBO’s acclaimed “The Wire”, many stage plays, and independent films. She continues to inspire and teach what she knows to be the most effective tool for transforming, creating and building a spectacular life—tapping into Everyday Peace. Her client list includes the University of the District of Columbia, New Hope World Ministries, Today’s Care Adult Day care, Stadium Place, and Next Chapter online radio.
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