TSM23-37. The Arena: One Woman’s Story by Carol J. Chumney.

September 11, 2023September 11, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Carol J. Chumney, on air from September 12th

NEW BOOK EXPOSES GLASS CEILING FOR WOMEN POLITICIANS AND ELECTION SECURITY VULNERABILITIES

The Arena: One Woman’s Story, about her experiences as a woman in the political arena. In 1991, Carol gained election to the Tennessee state legislature at the age of 29. She passed a landmark childcare reform, as reported in TIME magazine and the New York Times. As a veteran state legislator, experienced trial attorney, and Memphis city councilwoman, in 2007, she came within seven points of being elected the first woman mayor of Memphis.

Women are still not proportionally represented in the U.S. Congress, state legislature, statewide executive and mayor positions in the United States. There has never been a female president of the USA.

In 1920, American women secured the right to vote. Tennessee was the 36th state necessary to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment passed by only one vote in the state house. Despite a hundred years of women’s suffrage, there has never been a woman governor of Tennessee. The portraits of 46 men who served as mayor hang on the wall in the Memphis city hall. To date, a female has never been elected mayor of Memphis. In an interview, Carol Chumney will talk about her experiences as a woman in this political arena. She will also address why two things need to happen in order for the doors to open to higher office for women: election reform and a cultural shift away from gender bias. She can talk about:

Gender bias and the “glass ceiling” in 2023 and her motto that “you first have to see it to defeat it”
What compelled her to public service
Her legislative work on a variety of women’s issues, such as the famous “potty parity” bill (increased the number of restrooms for women in public arenas), sponsoring Tennessee’s first stalking law, and a bill mandating a 48-hour stay in hospitals for new mothers
She was responsible for the legislation that dramatically changed Tennessee’s child care laws
Election integrity and the need for election reform
Her work taking the fight for election security to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress

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Carol J. Chumney is an elected Shelby County (TN) Circuit Court Judge (she took the bench September 1, 2022). Prior to this, she was an attorney in private practice in Memphis, TN. She served thirteen years in the Tennessee state house, earning numerous awards. Chumney served four years as a Memphis city councilwoman, standing up against pension and spending abuses by officials. She made valiant efforts to be elected county mayor in 2002 and Memphis mayor in 2007 and 2009.

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AK23-37. Ian Hawkins is the stories, storyteller.

September 11, 2023January 10, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Ian Hawkins, on air from September 12th

When I was really small, my amazing Granny Peg gave me some recordings of stories and got me hooked on storytelling. I knew that when I grew up, that’s what I would want to do.

So I did! I told stories on the radio and television, as well as to big crowds of people who enjoyed what I had to say.

One day I realised that sometimes the stories people tell themselves make them unhappy. Then I thought that if I understood how to change those stories, people wouldn’t be sad any more.

Now I have the best job in the world: I tell stories about stories, helping people make changes in their lives that help them do the things they want to do and make the world a better place.

The power of story

Stories are the software our brains run on. Whatever we do in business or personal life, our achievements depend on the stories we tell ourselves – and allow others to tell about us.

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Ian Hawkins is an author and business journalist whose work has appeared on CBS, Reuters and BBC World.

Ian has hosted events in Europe, the USA and Australia, and coached Olympians, cabinet ministers and CEOs.

Born with a debilitating heart condition, Ian spent much of his childhood in hospital. On leaving, he declared that he would refuse to live a boring life. This is a promise he has kept.

On leaving university, Ian wrote for BBC comedy shows including The News Quiz and Loose Ends. On the stand up circuit, he honed his presentation skills in front of live audiences in the UK and NYC and co-authored an acclaimed book on public speaking.

Ian’s abilities as a storyteller led to him taking on senior editorial roles in content creation and business journalism, reporting from the ground on subjects as diverse as pharma labs in Gothenburg to water purification in Nicaragua, whilst dodging muggers in Panama City and filming from a helicopter over an active volcano.

In the COVID pandemic, Ian started a business from his hospital bed which kept him busy throughout and beyond convalescence.

In keynotes, workshops and after dinner, Ian explains why stories are the ‘software’ that our brains run on and how a good story can be a catalyst for incredible change. Ian draws on stories from brands, his experience and films suggested by the audience. Audiences will be engaged, moved and motivated – and given powerful tools to create lasting change in their own lives, businesses and relationships. Expect insight, inspiration and interaction – wrapped up in Ian’s trademark humour.

Ian’s career began at the UK’s largest speaker bureau, working with some of the biggest names on the circuit. At the same time, he was a professional stand up, writing for BBC comedy shows including The News Quiz and Loose Ends.

Business journalism has taken Ian from pharma labs in Gothenburg to water purification in Nicaragua, dodging muggers in Panama City and filming from a helicopter over an active volcano.

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TSM23-30. Ruth Smith Aquatic Therapy

August 2, 2023August 2, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Ruth Smith, on air from July 25th

I was born with water in my veins – or so it seems.

As a child I often wished that gills had been standard issue for humans. Water and I have always had an inseparable connection. For forty-two years, teaching and coaching of swimming in pools in Australia and overseas has been my genius. At 14 I became an active Australian Surf Life Saving Club member and the first professional female Beach Inspector in New South Wales. My professional and volunteer hours were…wet. In my early career in the disability-care field I was fortunate to be introduced to hydroptherapy, The Halliwick Method and numerous influential mentors. Water is my ‘impact vehicle’, the medium through which I facilitate the transformation of lives, especially when children with intellectual or physical challenges are added to the mix. As National winner of the 2022 Australian ‘Teacher of Aquatics – Access & Inclusion’ award my work leading the Aquatic Therapy industry in Australia has been recognised by our national peak body.

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What is Aquatic Therapy? Put simply it’s a water-based healing modality that utilises specialised equipment and techniques to enhance students’ proprioception, motor planning, self-regulation, fine and gross motor skills, cognitive focus, muscle tone, communication and co-ordination. Water safety and propulsion is a common therapeutic goal.I’m inspired working with ‘neuro-diverse’ and physically challenged youngsters. It’s a soul-driven mission that I can’t explain. Simply, it’s a privilege from which I derive inexplicable and immeasurable satisfaction and sense of self-worth.My legacy is to remain at the cutting edge, develop both research and university-level post graduate courses and continue the development of the next generation of aquatic professionals. While ever I’m physically capable I’ll continue to have water logged skin and smell like a chlorine advertisement. Working with this challenged cohort is often like looking into another’s soul. At other times it’s like they have allowed me to cross over their threshold and am invited into their world. Maybe only fleeting at times, but it is there I have my greatest impact.My WHY.This if two fold.

Aquatic therapy – using the magical medium of water to work with students 1:1 with challenging behaviours which precludes them from participating in the traditional group swim class. For example, cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, autism, non verbal, hearing impaired, other rare conditions. AT uses the water to developed proprioception, motor planning skills, fine and gross motor skills, focus, pro social behaviours, co-ordination, etc. AT uses specialist equipment and has a multidisciplinary approach.
Around the world there is an increase of students with challenging behaviours into our traditional swimming lessons. Our teachers here in Australia are not well prepared for this neurodiversity within their lessons. I am concerned that we may lose more teachers from this industry if we don’t have them feeling empowered, confident and competent to work with this population. I, with my colleague Lyn, we are Aquatic Mentors and we are setting about providing training and support to swim school operators and their staff around this very subject.

It all started at Uni. I was doing Sport Science and was heading to the Australian Institute of Sport where I would be THE person to create the fastest swimmers on the planet. I was always interested in the way the body moved in water. I took an elective which saw me working with a pediatric physio who used the water as her therapy medium. I was hooked. Later in my travelling the world I was fortunate to work with James McMillan in England who developed the Halliwick method of teaching “handicapped” people to move efficiently throu the water. Returning home, another touch point was working with allied health professionals in the transport accident rehab facility – head injury unit. Again, water was used by the physios and OT’s for rehabilitation.Those years stayed with me as I grew a family. I continued to be involved with teaching, coaching while helping people with disabilities finding employment. I found it easy to be amongst the neurodiverse community and in 2015 I was able to combine by love of the water and my gift of working with students with challenging behaviours in my own swimming centre.I continued to travel and learn more and more after doing all I could here in Australia. I travelled to the USA and Canada and hope to plan another study tour to the Phillipines where they are doing interesting things in this space as well. My dream is to have a Centre of Excellence for Aquatic Therapy, a purpose-built pool in Australia where the allied health professions can have rooms for their clients as well. It would be a multidisciplinary approach for clients from around the world all under the one roof. It would also be a place where people can come and train to be aquatic therapists from all around the world.

So now you know a little about me. If you are open to a conversation I can be reached by either my LinkedIn profile linkedin.com/in/ruth-smith-aquatic-therapy www.aquatic-mentors.com.auor at rsmithuki1@gmail.com

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TSM23-30. Richard Battle’s Unopened Present

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara troy and her guest Richard Battle, on air from July 25 th

Fathers day has come and gone, but what about the other 364 days of the year? Many fathers react differently to the day depending on where they are in their lives! It may be especially difficult for a father who has lost a child. Award-winning author Richard V. Battle tragically lost his son when he was nine months old! Like every father, Richard wished to give his son a life full of possibilities, opportunities, and the future he deserved. He wrote his six-month-old baby boy John a letter sharing 43 truths, based on Christian scripture, just in case he didn’t survive to teach them to him. But the unthinkable reality did not give Richard the time or opportunity!

Richard’s new book ‘The Unopened Present’ reveals a father’s love and the gift left behind by a life cut short. It expands on the letter Richard wrote many years ago, filled with timeless truths in short, easy-to-read lessons to aid parents in teaching younger children and enable older kids to discover the wisdom in these life lessons on their own.

“It was important to me for my son to benefit from the lessons I had learned, without making the mistakes I had made,” says Battle, a father, media commentator, and award-winning author of ten books. “Unfortunately, we lost John in 1998, but my son taught me more than I had the time to teach him”, acknowledges Battle who offers his new book with a prayer that people find something in it to benefit them, their children, and family.

Richard’s battle with the loss of his infant son and his dealing with grief inspired him to help grieving parents and dads. “Our faith assures us we will see our loved one again. I don’t grieve where my son is, but where he isn’t,” believes Richard and this has been a beacon that motivates him to tackle each day with positivity.

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Richard V. Battle is a multi-award-winning author, media commentator, and motivational speaker on leadership, sales, and faith for over 30 years. He is an experienced corporate executive and has served in leadership positions at several leading non-profit organizations. Richard is a regular guest on or in dozens of leading media outlets, including Fox TV, Rush to Reason in Denver, The Al Travis Show in Minnesota, The New Rationalist, The Washington Times, WMT, Real America’s Voice, KMOX St. Louis, and Newsmax.

Signed copies of The Unopened Present are available at www.richardbattle.com. The new book is also available at Amazon.com, HeadlineBooks.com, and bookstores everywhere.

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TSM23-30. Ruth Smith Aquatic Therapy

July 24, 2023May 28, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Ruth Smith, on air from July 25th

I was born with water in my veins – or so it seems.

At 14 I became an active Australian Surf Life Saving Club member and the first professional female Beach Inspector in New South Wales. My professional and volunteer hours were…wet. In my early career in the disability-care field I was fortunate to be introduced to hydroptherapy, The Halliwick Method and numerous influential mentors.

Water is my ‘impact vehicle’, the medium through which I facilitate the transformation of lives, especially when children with intellectual or physical challenges are added to the mix.

As National winner of the 2022 Australian ‘Teacher of Aquatics – Access & Inclusion’ award my work leading the Aquatic Therapy industry in Australia has been recognised by our national peak body.

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What is Aquatic Therapy?

Put simply it’s a water-based healing modality that utilises specialised equipment and techniques to enhance students’ proprioception, motor planning, self-regulation, fine and gross motor skills, cognitive focus, muscle tone, communication and co-ordination. Water safety and propulsion is a common therapeutic goal.

I’m inspired working with ‘neuro-diverse’ and physically challenged youngsters. It’s a soul-driven mission that I can’t explain. Simply, it’s a privilege from which I derive inexplicable and immeasurable satisfaction and sense of self-worth.

My legacy is to remain at the cutting edge, develop both research and university-level post graduate courses and continue the development of the next generation of aquatic professionals.

While ever I’m physically capable I’ll continue to have water logged skin and smell like a chlorine advertisement. Working with this challenged cohort is often like looking into another’s soul. At other times it’s like they have allowed me to cross over their threshold and am invited into their world. Maybe only fleeting at times, but it is there I have my greatest impact.

My WHY.

This if two fold.

Aquatic therapy – using the magical medium of water to work with students 1:1 with challenging behaviours which precludes them from participating in the traditional group swim class. For example, cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, autism, non verbal, hearing impaired, other rare conditions. AT uses the water to developed proprioception, motor planning skills, fine and gross motor skills, focus, pro social behaviours, co-ordination, etc. AT uses specialist equipment and has a multidisciplinary approach.

Around the world there is an increase of students with challenging behaviours into our traditional swimming lessons. Our teachers here in Australia are not well prepared for this neurodiversity within their lessons. I am concerned that we may lose more teachers from this industry if we don’t have them feeling empowered, confident and competent to work with this population. I, with my colleague Lyn, we are Aquatic Mentors and we are setting about providing training and support to swim school operators and their staff around this very subject.

Those years stayed with me as I grew a family. I continued to be involved with teaching, coaching while helping people with disabilities finding employment. I found it easy to be amongst the neurodiverse community and in 2015 I was able to combine by love of the water and my gift of working with students with challenging behaviours in my own swimming centre.

I continued to travel and learn more and more after doing all I could here in Australia. I travelled to the USA and Canada and hope to plan another study tour to the Phillipines where they are doing interesting things in this space as well.

My dream is to have a Centre of Excellence for Aquatic Therapy, a purpose-built pool in Australia where the allied health professions can have rooms for their clients as well. It would be a multidisciplinary approach for clients from around the world all under the one roof. It would also be a place where people can come and train to be aquatic therapists from all around the world.

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So now you know a little about me. If you are open to a conversation I can be reached by either my LinkedIn profile

linkedin.com/in/ruth-smith-aquatic-therapy

www.aquatic-mentors.com.au

or at rsmithuki1@gmail.com

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