Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Eli Love, on air from November 7th
When I was 5 years old, I noticed the difference between adults and kids. In my child’s mind, adults were always grouchy and preoccupied, and kids were always happy, playful, and present. I made a promise to myself at that age to find out why that was so. Little did I know that I had created a subconscious script to always notice what made people heal permanently. Not a medicine or mental technique, but what changed people from the heart for the better. After decades of studying, I finally found out that it is the School Of Hard Knocks that changes people from the heart. There are countless stories of people going through years of hardships or a traumatic event that changed their lives in a profound way. I said to myself that there must be a better way. At the age of 40 I found it. Children have it. We all had it, and then we got conditioned out of it. It is “Unconditional Expression.” The ability to express yourself positively or negatively until you are COMPLETELY finished and at peace. That is the magic of being a child. Leaving that process is what has created multiple levels of chaos and illness for us. Returning to it immediately creates spontaneous healings on all levels of our lives. My mission in life is to share that with people and make this information mainstream in the public’s consciousness.
I have been a private music teacher since the age of 13. I taught publicly for 25 years, and have performed musically around the world numerous times, but my real passion lies in what makes people heal organically. I’ve been a personal growth facilitator for the last 30 years sharing this work of Unconditional Expression.
Our Global Veterans Stories with Sara Troy and her guest Peter Michael Johnson, on air from August 8th
Set mostly in Latin America, it’s a semi-autobiographical tale of an idealistic, naïve Peace Corps volunteer who suffers a series of traumas abroad, leading to unlikely friendships. At 23, Peter has enlisted in the Peace Corps and finds himself teaching beekeeping in a tiny village in Paraguay. When a lynch mob kills several people in his local village after a disagreement over harvest proceeds, Peter flees with his 12-year-old homeless friend in search of safety—taking him through an indigenous community, a Mennonite colony, a squatters camp, and finally the lawless, chaotic city of Ciudad del Este, where he meets a kind transgender sex worker.
Nearly two decades later, a midlife crisis compels the protagonist to return to Paraguay and find the friend who had helped to save his life so many years before. Through this journey, Peter discovers some hard truths about himself, his faith, and the fluidity of memory.
Peter discusses:
Lessons learned in the Peace Corps
How living abroad can foster spiritual growth
When helping hurts: How good intentions in charity and international development can hurt the people we set out to help
How his experiences in Africa and Latin America helped mature his understanding of love
Interesting facts about the small, seldom-visited country of Paraguay
Peter Michael Johnson grew up in Colorado, Wisconsin, and Alabama. He studied English and philosophy at New York University before serving in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, where he taught beekeeping to rural subsistence farmers. After the Peace Corps, Peter moved to Senegal to compete on the amateur beach wrestling circuit. He has worked for a variety of nonprofit organizations for most of his adult life. His writing (all focused on his experience in Paraguay) has appeared in literary journals including Dappled Things, Seven Hills Review, and Rock & Sling and in a feature-length essay in the April 2017 issue of Christianity Today. He makes his home in Southwest Florida with his wife, Ashley, and three children.
Our Global Veterans Stories with Sara Troy and her guest Andrea Blakely Holloway, on air from May 23RD
“Why” do I wish to share: My why is my Father and my husband and the respect I have for their military service. I believe all service persons deserve services and benefits that they gave their life for.
Face It is Your Time, is a veteran to veteran with spouses assistance service. We help with getting them the right application forms. We also assist with understanding what needs to be replied to and how the reply needs to be stated. At the end of the day, it’s about veterans and spouses supporting one another through difficult times.
I am the child of a proud marine veteran and the wife of a proud army veteran. I’m a lifelong caregiver, who stands in the gap for my fellow caregivers who are family (children) or spouse caregivers. I am a servant of the Lord and a caregiver of his children. I continue to fight for the rights of service men and women and all the military spouses.
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Our Global Veterans with Sara Troy and her guest Kevin M. Hallinan, on air from December 19th
The Police force needs to understand the criminal mind to know how to combat it; there needs to be an expansion of education and integration of psychoanalysis, social workers, and even past criminals to show the way forward. Things so need to change on all fronts to combat criminal minds.
We are grateful for the brave men and women who help keep New York City’s streets safe, and we know the challenges they face every day. With your ongoing support, we can continue to provide peer assistance to struggling police officers who need our help. Thank you.
POPPA has responded to thousands of police officers who have reached out for help. The majority of calls to POPPA were by officers who just needed to talk to someone or wanted to meet to discuss issues in more depth. Approximately 45% of officers were referred to clinicians for ongoing confidential professional help. Of the officers who received POPPA services, the vast majority returned to full-duty with no career disruption, or chose to retire.
During the 10-year period (1986-1995) before the existence of POPPA, there were an average of 7 active-duty officer suicides per year. The 28 police suicides from 1993-1995 contributed to the urgent need for an organization of police peers, separate from the Department, but able to work confidentially and with the cooperation of the NYPD.
In the 26 years (1996-2021) since the creation of POPPA, the number of NYPD suicides dropped from an average of 7 suicides annually to fewer than 5 per year, with a low of 2 to a high of 10 in 2019. In addition to this reduction, more than 150 police officers who have reported to POPPA that they did not complete suicide as a direct result of calling the POPPA 24/7 Helpline and receiving services. The reduction in police suicide may be attributed to a variety of factors, including changes within the NYPD making officers more comfortable with seeking services, changes in attitudes reducing the stigma of needing and getting help, and the greater availability of resources, we believe that POPPA has played a significant role in the reduction of suicide among NYPD officers.
Nationwide, the number of suicides is greater than the number of line-of-duty deaths. This is true among NYC police officers if we exclude the 23 deaths on 9/11, an ever-increasing number of 9/11-related deaths, and police deaths attributed to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021. Suicide is consistently the number 1 killer of police nationwide annually.
Among NYPD officers, the suicide rate is lower than that of the National Police Suicide rate (13.8 vs 17.0 per 100,000). This may reflect a combination of the resiliency of NYC police officers and the availability of resources. POPPA has been a leader in developing initiatives to combat officer suicide. POPPA’s Suicide Awareness for Emergency Responders (S.A.F.E.R.) Program gives police officers the tools to identify specific warning signs of suicidal thinking and strategies to respond to an officer in crisis.
His fascinating inside look at a life in law enforcement spans layers of history, explores evolutions in national security, and features game-changing heroes and eye-opening innovations. Kevin M. Hallinan’s life and learning are at once informative, thrilling, entertaining—and perhaps most of all, truly inspiring.
Kevin M. Hallinan is known as an innovative leader in professional sports security and operations. Serving under four commissioners as SVP of Security and Facility Management, Hallinan oversaw security for all thirty Major League Baseball Clubs, creating revolutionary new systems to better protect the game and its players.
Prior to MLB, Hallinan was commander of the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism TaskForce, where he was recognized for his contributions in the war on terrorism. He testified before the U.S. Congress on domestic terrorism and received numerous NYPD/FBI citations and the U.S. Attorney General Award for Exceptional Public Service.
Hallinan earned his collegiate degree at Fordham University and attended the FBI National Academy.
Rob Travalino is a TELLY, EFFIE, GEMINI, and EMMY Award winner and a twenty-plus-year creator, writer, and brand expert. He has written dozens of television episodes, script doctored for feature films, and co-written for Hyperion Books. As a content creator and developer, Rob has overseen or contributed to the ideation and realization of some of the world’s most powerful and lasting franchises.
From books to platform and platform gaming, TV to film, fashion and social content, and across all demographics, there’s little Rob has not influenced. A member of the director’s Guild of America, Rob looks for projects of empowerment and meaning.
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Our Global Veterans with Sara Troy and her guest Navy Rear Admiral, Kyle Cozad, on air from November 15th
UNPARALLELED COURAGE IN SERVICE AND LIFE
Throughout his storied military career as a Navy Rear Admiral, Kyle Cozad showed grace, courage, and resilience in his service to the American people. Not only did he lead at various levels within naval aviation and joint multi-service during his career in five critical assignments, but he also served in a variety of diverse leadership positions within the Navy and Department of Defense, including as the 22nd senior director in the White House Situation Room, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, and commander of the Naval Education and Training Command.
His upcoming book RELENTLESS POSITIVITY: “A COMMON VETERAN BATTLING UNCOMMON ODDS allows the readers into the life of a remarkable human. Despite living with the challenges of being a paraplegic, the result of a tragic accident, the latter continues to live life as he always has, facing all potential roadblocks head-on and blowing past them with sheer abandon. Through faith and determination, he has imbued all of life’s challenges with the relentless positivity that is highlighted in the title of his new book.
Mr. Cozad powerfully and eloquently provides those who will read his story with a new life perspective on moving forward as our best selves through the power of … RELENTLESS POSITIVITY.
Author Kyle Cozad, retired US Navy Rear Admiral and current President and CEO of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, tells his story following a service-related spinal cord injury while on active duty.
Insightful, honest, and frank, his account describes how he bounced back from a debilitating spinal cord injury with one overarching motivation: to “give back” and make a positive difference for others. His leadership as a senior Navy two-star admiral serving on active duty and his current role as President and CEO of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation exemplify his grit, resilience, and commitment as a societal change agent.
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