24-18. Senior Energy

April 29, 2024May 11, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air form April 29th

As I watched my Grandson’s play with other children from one of my Grandsons 1st birthday, I realized that it was wonderful to witness, but also wearisome. It’s truly delightful to see the innocence and joy in children as they interact with each other, forming friendships and creating memories. However, as a grandparent, keeping up with their boundless energy and constant activity can also be tiring. Balancing the joy of the moment with the exhaustion it brings is a part of the beautiful journey of parenthood and grandparenthood. Nonetheless, these experiences are cherished for a lifetime, creating a tapestry of precious moments that contribute to the richness of family life.

It is important to recognize that taking breaks and allowing ourselves time to recharge is not only acceptable but also essential for maintaining our well-being. As we mature, our energy levels may not be as boundless as they were in earlier years, particularly when our children were young. This means that we may tire more easily and be more susceptible to feeling drained by raucous or energetic environments, such as those filled with lively, rambunctious noise. Recognizing our personal limitations and taking the necessary steps to address them is a vital part of self-care and ensuring that we are better equipped to engage with the world around us. Whether it means taking a breather or returning home to regroup, it’s important to prioritize our own needs in order to effectively navigate the demands of our environment.

Do not feel shame or apologies for that is not necessary, feel no guilt, for we all if lucky enough to get to a mature age, will feel the same at some point. It’s important to recognize that experiencing these emotions is a natural part of the human experience. Instead of feeling shame or guilt, it’s essential to practice self-compassion and understanding. By acknowledging and accepting our emotions, we can work towards healing and growth. Everyone faces challenges and moments of vulnerability, and it’s okay to seek support and understanding during these times. Remember, you are not alone in feeling this way, and it’s okay to be gentle with yourself as you navigate through these emotions. Embracing our vulnerabilities can lead to greater empathy and connection with others, ultimately enriching our human experience. Allow yourself the space to feel and grow from these moments, as they are an integral part of our journey through life.

So enjoy the party what ever it is, but know when to take a break, or leave and do not feel guilting about it, if people do not understand, that is on them.

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AK24-18. Barbara J. Taylor’s Scranton Trilogy

April 29, 2024April 29, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Barbara J. Taylor, on air form April 30th

Barbara J. Taylor, author of Rain Breaks No Bones Set in 1955, this final installment in Taylor’s best-selling Scranton Trilogy explores a family’s legacy of loss and a sometimes mystical vision of a better tomorrow.

Though the novels are connected, they each stand alone.

EVERYBODY HAS SECRETS. EVEN THE DEAD.

Fifty-year-old Violet has had a good life. The love of an honest man. The joys of motherhood. Yet, even in 1955, her heart still aches over the death of her sister more than four decades earlier. Lately, Violet can’t help thinking about the little girl, picturing her in the moments before the accident, wearing that pleated white dress and a hair bow to match. Maybe if her big sister were here now, she could tell Violet what to do about the secret she’s been keeping from her daughter Daisy.
Daisy has a secret of her own. When she first moved back home to Scranton, she wasn’t ready to give up her dreams of performing in Atlantic City. Then she met Johnny, a man who needs music as much as she does. Her first real chance at love. If only they can find the courage to buck small-town thinking when it comes to interracial dating.
Small-town thinking. Zethray had seen her fair share of it. That’s why she advertised a room to rent in The Negro Motorist Green Book. Give folks a safe place to stay away from home. That’s how Johnny ended up at her door. Now he’s sweet on some young woman. Not that he told Zethray, but she knows. The dead like to talk, and she listens. If only her mother would tell the secret behind her shocking death. Instead, she stands silent, while that little girl with the bow in her hair runs wild.
Rain Breaks No Bones, is the final novel in the Scranton Trilogy, starting with Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night, followed by All Waiting Is Long. Though the novels are connected, they each stand alone.

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Born and raised in Scranton, PA, Barbara J. Taylor sets her novels in the hometown she loves and fills them with miners, evangelists, vaudevillians, nuns, gangsters, prostitutes, widows, musicians, dreamers, and a seer or two. She is the author of Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night and All Waiting Is Long. Her latest book, Rain Breaks No Bones, is the final installment in her Scranton trilogy.

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IG24-17. Judith Orloff “The Genius of Empathy,”

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Dr Judith Orloff, on air form April 23rd

? In “The Genius of Empathy,” Dr. Judith Orloff offers practical advice on how to cultivate and enhance empathy. which I believe readers will find of great value.”

—His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from the foreword to The Genius of Empathy.

The Transformative Power of Empathy

How to use empathy in supporting self-healing, the healing of

relationships, and healing the world.

In our stressful world, many feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Now more than ever, the transformative practice of empathy offers a healing balm.

Empathy is a form of emotional intelligence that enables us to offer care and compassion with intention.

In Dr. Judith Orloff’s new book, Genius of Empathy: Practical Skills to Heal Your Sensitive Self, Your Relationships, and the World (SoundsTrue, April 9. 2024), the bestselling author shares the magic of empathy to find greater self-love and to embody our most compassionate selves in our relationships with others and with our world.

Drawing on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and energy medicine, Dr. Orloff introduces empathy as a daily healing practice. Readers learn how to access their sensitivities, soothe their nervous system, and stop absorbing the emotions of others — a skill set that will make navigating the world feel safer. Each chapter contains real-life stories and offers actionable exercises to practice expressing empathy, especially with relationships that are difficult or draining.

In workplace settings, The Genius of Empathy provides a roadmap for how to use empathy to improve communication with coworkers who may be hard to get along with, and to model grounded ways to support kindness and innovation among teams.

Dr. Orloff includes a self-assessment test for readers to evaluate their current level of self-empathy, to learn their own “empathy style,” and to find out how their style affects their relationships.

Key Messages: Providing insights for those who want to develop empathy as a new skill, Dr. Orloff addresses:

• How to treat ourselves with more kindness and stop beating

ourselves up for perceived shortcomings

• How to practice empathy with family, friends, and coworkers —

even if you don’t like them

• How to set healthy boundaries and loving detachment to prevent

overwhelm or burnout

• How to be an empathic caregiver while managing your own needs

• How to recognize and protect yourself from people with Empathy

Deficient Disorder

• How to use empathy to change the rules of power games

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Judith Orloff, MD is a New York Times bestselling author with the upcoming book The Genius of Empathy: Practical Skills to Heal Yourself, Your Relationships and the World (Foreword by the Dalai Lama). She has also written The Empath’s Survival Guide and Thriving as an Empath, which offers daily self-care tools for sensitive people. She integrates the pearls of conventional medicine with cutting edge knowledge of intuition, empathy, energy medicine, and spirituality. Dr. Orloff specializes in treating empaths and highly sensitive people in her private practice and online internationally. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Oprah Magazine, the New York Times and USA Today. Dr. Orloff has spoken at Google-LA, TEDx U.S. and TEDx Asia. More information about Dr. Orloff’s Empathy Training Programs for businesses, The Empath Survival Guide Online Course and speaking schedule at

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BB24-17. Marisa Thomas, The Power to Lead

April 22, 2024February 25, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Marisa Thomas, on air form April 23rd.

I am an executive coach and speaker who helps leaders preserve, curate, and optimize the five key energy sources that they inherently possess to elevate organizational outcomes and experience personal fulfillment.

I journey with individuals and organizations through a proven methodology outlined in my book The Power to Lead to unlock the perfectly imperfect hero leader within. Leaders learn to harness the foundations of balancing their energy and optimizing their unique and authentic leadership power, resulting in increased employee retention and productivity, improved decision-making, and sustainable growth. Ultimately, the goal is for every leader to live their best life.

I have a variety of ways to come alongside leaders and teams:

Individual coaching, corporate coaching
Speaking and leadership training
The Rising Catalyst App, a unique on-demand leadership tool

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Marisa Thomas, Author, Executive Coach, and Business Owner, is a talent amplifier, forward-leaning visionary, and strategic business leader. She is the Founder of DoorSeffect LLC, and describes herself as a “constructive optimist”, striving to continually lift, adapt, and evolve the way business leaders think and approach their people and business growth.

She is charting a new course to bring a more profound sense of relatability and connection between business outcomes, technology, customer needs, and the “Humanforce.” Her mission is to – Transform the thinking, Evolve the person, and Arrive! Because every leader deserves to live their best life!

I grew up in Leicester, England, with Italian parents who moved to England in their early 20s. I am the youngest of four children, and I often isolated myself to sit in the shadows of my more accomplished siblings. I struggled with academics, which caused me a lot of inner turmoil. My family is incredibly supportive of each other, so there was really no need for me to feel the way I did, and I think my dad tuned into this early on. He never judged but always reminded me of what I was good at and inspired me to elevate those strengths. What I was good at centered around a love for the arts. I found my confidence in dance and theatre, which taught me so much more about myself and shifted my mindset to turn my academic struggles into my biggest superpowers in leadership.

After a short career in teaching, I turned to the corporate world and started a 25-year career at Capital One. I started on the phones, quickly finding myself in the training department within 6 months, and continued to grow my skills in eliminate the overwhelm . Throughout this journey across various disciplines, from supplier management to operations and strategic business management, I maintained a love for developing the leadership of others. I have been coaching and mentoring emerging and experienced leaders for over 2 decades, and it is now the fully committed focus of my business, DoorSeffect.

I’m on a mission to eliminate the overwhelm that comes with the responsibility of leadership and shift that toward elevating the foundational strengths of great leadership. From 2 decades of research, coaching, and practicing as a corporate leader, I have found a formula that has amplified the talents of so many who were lost in the speed force of life and the fast-paced, constantly increasing super-human expectations.

I have helped countless leaders step out of the speedforce of life and find value-driven clarity and purpose to strategically preserve, cultivate, and optimize their energy to live their best life. The best part is that these transformations toward amplified fulfillment at work and in life have a compounding impact on their teams, organizations, and communities at large.

That’s why I am on a mission to help leaders live their best lives. When they do, they pay it forward tenfold and everyone wins.

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AK24-17. Jim B. Flaherty EMBRACE YOUR AGE

April 22, 2024April 23, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

AUTHORS KISS with Sara Troy and her guest James (Jim) B. Flaherty, on air from April 23rd

EMBRACE YOUR AGE – YOU CAN BE BETTER THAN EVER because it speaks to the subject of aging cheerfully and productively.

Mr. Flaherty, who says he’s an EMBRACE YOUR AGE – YOU CAN BE BETTER THAN EVER says EMBRACE YOUR AGE nails your self-doubts and insecurities whether you’re 40, 90, or in-between, with some direct calls to action. Besides acknowledging your bathroom mirror as your most meaningful psychiatrist, Flaherty makes you confront your toughest critic–yourself–and gives you the emotional ammunition and point of view that will help you wake up on the right side of the grass tomorrow, with a smile and a purpose. He challenges you to summarize your life in a six-word statement. For himself, he says: I am present–Living, Giving, Loving. You’ll find wisdom, loving guidance, a few honest laughs, and Did He Really Say That? in this easy-to read shot of adrenalin. This isn’t just another one of those smile and the whole world smiles with you books. Every chapter (and they’re not lengthy or overly wordy) asks a question, and most are going to make you think. For example: Why do you exist? Do you think you’re a little weird? Do you think you’re old? How are you going to handle it when they die? Jim, (I know him well enough to use his first name) was thinking of You when he wrote this book. You’ll find it’s very personal. He, personally, has had a hell of an interesting life. Self made, a corner office MadMan in NYC, even four years abroad, while raising two children (who still enjoy him), grandsons from Japan to Brooklyn, and almost too many friends. He tells them, “straighten up, get your act together, stop whining, we all have things to do.” At 88 he’s still writing every day, has preached at his church, is a public speaker . . .and a terrific joke teller. You’d like him. He says he needs an agent, to sell his novels to film producers. He also has a TV series and screenplay in his portfolio. And you’ll learn something about getting more out of yourself when you read EMBRACE YOUR AGE–You can be better than ever.

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Jim Flaherty was an international advertising writer/creative director, has published two novels, and two non-fiction books. Was also creator and innkeeper of a five star country inn/conference center. He is a frequent motivational speaker about aging cheerfully; the pain and pleasure of writing; the joy and OMG of parenting; living abroad; and embracing an ancient quip of Noel Coward: Work is more fun than fun. A strong believer you are only as old as you think, Jim thinks 88 (going on 58) is terrific, and is a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Besides his books, he has a TV series, screenplay, and musical ready for public viewing. Home is a 1940’s art-filled dairy barn in the foothills of the Berkshires. He sings in his Church choir. And has appeared in regional theatre.