Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Kanchan Bhaskar, on air from March `14th
According to The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), on average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.
Within the South Asian community, the number may be even higher, but it is underreported. Leaving: How I Set Myself Free From an Abusive Marriage (She Writes Press; April 11, 2023; paperback; 978-1647424756) is a powerful and inspiring memoir by Kanchan Bhaskar.
“A gripping story of one woman’s self-emancipation from marital despotism.”
—Kirkus Reviews Raised in New Delhi, Kanchan enters into an arranged marriage with the expectation of a happy and fulfilling partnership. However, she soon discovers that her husband is a narcissistic, abusive man, and she is trapped in a nightmare. Despite the challenges she faces, Kanchan is determined to protect her children and herself. She turns to her faith and determination to guide her as she fights for freedom. “It takes immense courage to leave an abusive relationship. Kanchan Bhaskar’s memoir is an easy-to-read roadmap from leaving to recovery and thriving. Her compelling story equips readers with the means and grit required to rekindle a healthy relationship with Self and others.”—Pat Davenport, CEO of A Safe Place
Kanchan Bhaskar (Kan-chan Bhas-car), an Indian-American, is a first-time author. She holds a Master’s Degree in social work and a certificate in life coaching. She is also a certified Business Coach. Being a successful Human Resource professional, her expertise is in training and mentoring. She is a certified advocate, speaker, and coach for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Kanchan lives in Chicago.
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Eco solutions and Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Cynthia Tina, on air from March 14th
Meet Cynthia, the “community matchmaker,” who will show you how you can find a home within an intentional community for more connection, support, and purpose. There are a wide variety of intentional communities out there— ecovillages, agrihoods, cohousing, land trusts, tiny house villages, and more. They come in a range of sizes, styles, and levels of sharing, so it’s possible to find a community that fits your values and lifestyle… without having to build one from scratch. Join this inspiring and practical conversation to re-think the role of community in your life.
My passion is helping people learn about intentional communities and join the one that’s right for them.
Cynthia is the founder of CommunityFinders and the original “community matchmaker.” Over the past decade, she has visited and worked with hundreds of communities around the world, including the ecovillage where she lives in her self-built passive solar home.
Formerly the co-director, she is now a spokesperson and educator with the Foundation for Intentional Community. She’s also the founder of Ecovillage Tours and a former trustee of the Global Ecovillage Network. She holds a degree in Sustainability from Goddard College and certificates in Permaculture, ecovillage Design, and Yoga Teacher Training.
Which type of community is a fit for you? Free Quiz —>
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from March 14th
I am proud to be a woman in todays world, for we are the answer to what the world needs. The era of famine energy is upon us, and no matter how the misogynistic men of the world complain and try and take us backwards, we are already to far forward from the lasting restraints.
We have fought a long battle to be heard, seen, listened to and embraced for who we are, but no longer, for we are that higher consciousness of a loving vibration, and nothing is going to stop us now.
Embrace your womanhood, be the strength and value you are, and become the love and peace you seek, for that will guide both men and other women to embrace all that you are.
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“for the LOVE of Music” with Sara Troy and her guest Swapna Abraham, on air from March 14th
After pursuing music as a singer-songwriter for twenty-four years, primarily as a gospel music artiste, releasing twenty-one albums and performing the world over, I, Swapna Abraham, arrived at the decision to give up music altogether feeling unfulfilled. The rest was short-lived. The very next day I decided to compose, produce and publish a song a day for a thousand days; set a date to the start and finish, and started prepping for the challenge. From learning recording to the dialogue with world record organizations, funding, finding a place, arranging for equipment, getting in touch with press and getting out of a futile relationship; I was soon going to realize that the envisioned challenge had very little to do with the grind of making a song every day.
‘She Played In The Dark’ is the story of a protagonist that found her own definition of and path to fulfilment and success if one may call it that. All this with the responsibility of caring for two college-going children, one of which got married and had two babies in the course of the challenge; aged parents who were always at the back of her mind, the hustle with a rather busy day job that paid the bills, health matters, any travel whether it was on the road to work, by air reaching family and friends or in a lift headed for home (and the challenge).
As the author shares from her life’s narrative, the book covers the power of past failure, managing unhappiness, how parents should also work on their dreams, why we should try, recognizing opportunity, dealing with change and when there is no Plan B, using your will, inculcating discipline and habit, the secret of work, working by decision rather than inspiration, working when you cannot work, working with life going on in the background, that the world has place for all, what we can do about jealousy, the importance of quality and detail, prioritizing, choosing our battles, a whole new understanding of time, dependencies to preserve sanity, finishing what we start, leaving a legacy, about withdrawal symptoms, and that it takes a certain kind of person for a certain (t)ask.
The thousand-day endeavour resulted in four world records, and for reasons explained, not 1000 but 2321 songs (all made ‘live’) and a couple of other feathers in her hat, most importantly fulfilment.
What playing in the dark was all about… Well, for the most part she used to play the piano with the lights off. Truth be told, even after then, it was in the dark that she played.
A multiple world record holder and award winner, Swapna Abraham is a singer-songwriter, actor, author, interior designer, mentor, and marketing and branding enthusiast with her roots and formation in India and prime experience in the UAE. Swapna has authored and produced 21 musical albums and performed extensively on the international gospel music platform (www.swapnaabraham.com). Holding 4 world records in singing and songwriting with the Golden Book of World Records (www.1000songsin1000days.com), she has also published a memoir “She Played In The Dark” entailing the journey and lessons through the 1000-day world record journey. A mentor in singing and songwriting, Swapna championed the first branded karaoke café “Kafeoke” in India with a school for singing and songwriting and a recording studio. She is also known for her acting performances as Donna in the Mamma Mia musical directed by the late Mithran Devanesan, and Meenakshi in the Tamil feature film Nadunissi Naaygal directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon. Her years at the T A Pai Management Institute and Indian Institute of Management Kolkata led her to becoming an avid marketing and branding enthusiast. Leaving no flair unpursued, Swapna is also an interior designer and member of the Designers Society of America (www.alikainteriors.com). She is also the India Country Chair for G100 Media Arts & Communication. In culmination, Swapna is the recipient of the NeedStar Award (2010), a Women’s Day Citation “Role Model for her progress and success in the field of Mainstream Career, Art & Entrepreneurship”; the Lamp-Icongo Karmaveer Chakra for Gospel Music Maestro Award (2012) for the contribution to gospel music from 1991-2012; the Aspire World Award (2019) for her Passion for Excellence at the 31st Global Women’s Empowerment Summit, Dubai; and the Women of Excellence Award at the Women Economic Forum (2022).
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Carmel Ecker, on air from March 7th
Why do people procrastinate or please other people to their own detriment? What is it that makes some people feel the need to control everything or become so focused on winning that their relationships deteriorate?
Everyone has habits and behaviours that help us in some ways but cause problems in other ways. They are coping mechanisms we’ve developed in life that once helped us but have become an overused default that can negatively impact our success, our happiness and our relationships.
The good news is that changing these behaviours is simple. The key is to build 3 core mental muscles.
Just like exercising a physical muscle would make it stronger, exercising these 3 mental muscles helps you to overpower old, unhelpful habits and create powerful new ones. The result is called Mental Fitness.
In this episode, Life Coach Carmel Ecker will share the practical lessons from research that combines the fields of Positive Psychology, Performance Science, Neuroscience and Cognitive Behavioural Psychology with independent research by Executive Coach, Stanford lecturer and Author Shirzad Chamine, creator of the Positive Intelligence program Carmel uses in her coaching practice.
You’ll walk away with new insights into why you sometimes make unhelpful choices and how you can effectively change them with a simple daily practice.
Carmel is a life coach who focuses on helping you tame your mental gremlins.
She’s on a mission to help you untether yourself from all the “shoulds” and “can’ts” that have been holding you back.
She knows what it’s like. For too many years, she believed she was meant for something big but every time an opportunity to shine came along, she hid. She made “safe” choices. And she failed spectacularly at living the life she didn’t really want in the first place.
By age 35, she was a divorced single parent working a job that no longer interested her. And she wondered what the heck she was supposed to do. The more she developed as a person, the more she realized the supposedly safe path she had chosen was never the one she was meant to follow.
When she finally got tired of hearing her own complaining, she hired a coach and started taking full responsibility for the results in her life. That coach guided her from being a burned out, exhausted and bored 9-5 employee to launching her own business and dramatically improving her quality of life.
Now, as a mental fitness and life coach, she helps others change the unhelpful stories in their minds so they can perform better, feel happier and improve their relationships.
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