Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guests David Kaye and Elle. On air from August 4th
“Did you know wind makes sound?”
After being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and a rare genetic variation, Ella Coonen learned that she would eventually lose her hearing completely. In early 2025, she received her first hearing aids and, for the first time, heard the world as others do. Knowing time was limited, Ella created a bucket list of sounds she wished to experience for the first—and perhaps last—time. This film follows her moving journey to fill her heart with the beauty of sound while she still has the chance.
Ella Coonen is a recent high school graduate living life with profound hearing loss and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. She has spent the last year going on a journey of sound discovery. David Kaye is a filmmaker and longtime family friend of Ella and her mother. He has had films in festivals throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia. The Sound of a Bucket List is his first feature.
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Ignite your heart and soulwith Sara Troy and her guest Mark Springer. On air from August 4th
A New Novel Explores What The World Would Be Like. If Adam & Eve Never Gave Into Temptation. What could life have been like for Adam and Eve if they had never disobeyed God?
This is the interesting premise of Gardens in the Galaxies, the new speculative fiction novel by Mark Springer. It’s his second work of fiction, following Flesh Becomes Words, the debut novel that blends science fiction with spirituality.
Join Adam and Eve in this fictional adventure as they await judgement and sentencing for the original sin of disobeying God. Travel back in time with the first couple and an angel named Josiah who shows them how life began on earth. Then move into an unrealized future of gardens in the galaxies, the high life that God had always planned for them and all of mankind. Finally, return with Adam and Eve to their present situation as you witness the judgement and sentencing of their eternal fate by an all-merciful but just God.
The book is speculative fiction; historical fiction that poses a question of what would have happened if a single event happened a different way. In this case, what would have happened if Adam and Eve did not disobey God in the Garden of Eden and bring about the fall of mankind?
“The foundation of the book is based on an assumption of the truth of the scriptures,” says author Springer, “and it explores the connection between Adam and Eve, the first Adam, and Jesus Christ, proclaimed in the scriptures as being the “last Adam” and what that means for all of us today.”
Mark Springer has over three decades of experience as a senior-level writer, and editor of technical and scientific documents. He also has crafted promotional content for the medical device, biotechnology, and life science industries. For the past nine years, he has been working for Gilead Sciences, including the last five as the manager and technical editor in labeling operations.
Prior to that, he served for two years, as the senior technical editor for BD Biosciences, editing all customer-read documents that met factual, legal and regulation requirements. He received a Special Achievement Recognition Award there. His career began as a senior technical writer and managing editor of technical publications for change management software at a startup company. The biggest portion of his career consisted of 19 years at Life Technologies, where his positions varied from senior science writer in brand marketing, senior manager in public relations, to senior writer in technical communications.
He is the author of Flesh Becomes Words, his debut novel that blends science fiction with spirituality. His first non-fiction book, Identity Theft, was published last year. His newest book is historical fiction, Gardens in the Galaxies.
Along with a colleague of his, he developed an online magazine in the late 1990s called BioBeat Online Magazine. For about six years, he wrote articles for this publication and other trade publications that were associated with a life sciences company in the Bay Area. The articles were related to significant research and medical applications related to the use of DNA sequencing and genetic analysis technologies. He and his colleague won numerous Apex Publication awards for the content over this six-year period.
Springer graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a BA, double-majoring in Cell Biology and English Literature. He is deeply devoted to his faith, reading the Bible two to three hours daily. His books reflect both his science acumen and his dedication to faith. Born in Albany, NY, he grew up in Fresno, CA, and now resides with his wife in San Mateo, CA. They have two children.
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Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Steven Cole, on air from August 4th
Catch the Wave: Experience the Thrill of Spirit Empowered Living, he shares his view that the Holy Spirit is not meant to remain a vague doctrine sitting at the edges of church life, but the active, guiding presence of God in the everyday life of believers. Cole says the modern church often talks about God the Father and Jesus while neglecting the Holy Spirit, even though the Spirit is presented as God’s presence, God’s voice, and God’s power on earth. The book was developed from a Holy Spirit seminar that he presented at his church, a monthly two-hour seminar that he did for two years. He encourages readers to hear the voice of the Spirit. His main message is that ministry is not reserved for a select few. In his words, the whole point is that “you can minister, too.”
Catch the Wave begins with Cole’s own life story, because it serves as the foundation for everything that follows. He describes a lonely childhood marked by bullying, dyslexia, and a sense of being out of place. His first awareness of God comes in a small, almost ordinary moment: as a boy, he prays for help memorizing the Boy Scout oath and feels that God answers him. Later, in college, his life changes more dramatically when he attends a Christian gathering and hears the testimony of a man transformed through Teen Challenge. Cole is struck not by polished theology but by visible change; he wants what that speaker has found. That moment leads to his conversion, which he describes as overwhelming and deeply emotional. Soon after, he is introduced to the idea of baptism in the Holy Spirit, asks for prayer, and experiences what he understands as a second life-changing encounter with God. That pattern becomes the backbone of the whole book: first salvation, then empowerment.
Steven W. Cole holds a degree in electronics and retired from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004 after 25 years as a Senior Instrumentation Systems Engineer. He was saved in 1966 and filled with the Holy Spirit shortly thereafter. For 25 years, he has taught adult believers in local churches, and in recent years, he has developed a Holy Spirit seminar that has been well received. Steve and his wife, Linda, moved to Dewey, Arizona, in 2006. Sadly, his wife passed away in 2021, due to Alzheimer’s.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Ilene Dillon. On air from July 28th
Emotional Realignment is about developing the ability to work with the emotions we feel the way they are designed to work for us. My investigation began 55 years ago when my husband decided to divorce me, leaving me with a 10 month old child. I was incredibly angry—and alone with a small child. I couldn’t subject her to the on-going anger I was spewing. I set out to find answers: “What Causes Anger? Why do we have anger? Does Anger have a purpose? Can we get rid of it?” There were NO answers (social scientists did not study emotions separately from psychiatric diagnoses, I discovered), After nine years, I had found answers, tried them for myself, then shared with my psychotherapy clients who volunteered to try them. What I discovered worked for all of us! That led me to discover an entire system for how emotions work, which I’ve been working with, teaching and sharing ever since. Published my book in 2019 (Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System), which talks about 12 different emotions. I’ve also developed proprietary understandings and systems for “Outgrowing Manipulation” and “Parenting Consciously.” I’ve been sharing my discoveries with the world for 45 years. I’m now 83 years old, still writing, broadcasting, speaking and appearing on podcasts, spreading the word!
I’m a “Recovered Angry Person,” something I became as a result of my quest to get in charge of anger that spewed from me for nearly two years back in 1971. Already licensed as a Clinical Social Worker and Marriage and Family Counselor, I developed an understanding of what emotions are, what they’re for, and how they work, which I’ve been teaching to myself and thousands of others for the last 45 years. For 27 years I was an International Professional Speaker (NSA member), for 15 years a podcaster (Full Power Living and Building Conscious Families), and now for 54 years a therapist/Counselor/Coach—still working! I published “Emotions in Motion: Mastering Life’s Built-in Navigation System” in 2019 and am currently writing “Outgrowing Manipulation.” Through collaborative books I’m also a nine-time Amazon best-selling author. In April/May of 2026 I spoke at the “Soul Treat” Conference of The Wellness Universe, speaking about “Outgrowing Manipulation.” And for Hawk’s Nest parents (a private school in Jupiter, Florida) I gave a series of talks on “Parenting Consciously,” “Life Tasks for Children’s First Nine Years of Life,” and “Protecting Self-Love.” My husband, neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Fink, died in 2016. In 2017 I sold our home, bought a 24 foot RV and have been roaming North American in that van ever since. I’m mother of 6 adult “children”—2 birth, one adopted, three step—and grandmother of 5. Since 2017 I treated a breast cancer for a year, attempting to heal it (I didn’t heal it; but it did not grow—at all—and was surgically removed without chemo or radiation). I also traveled to Jordan, Egypt, Japan, Viet Nam and Cambodia in 2021 and 2022. I’m an organic veggie/fruit gardener (when I stay in one place long enough), and am an alternative medicine person who, at age 83, takes no prescribed drugs and has only had a cold/flu twice in the past 11 years.
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Ignite your heart and soulwith Sara Troy and her guest Patrick Marando, on air from July 28th
I am a psychologist, spiritual teacher, and author passionate about helping people reconnect with their authentic selves and cultivate greater peace, clarity, and emotional wellbeing. Drawing on both my professional expertise and my own journey of inner growth and transformation, I combine evidence-based psychology with timeless spiritual wisdom to share practical tools that help people navigate anxiety, stress, uncertainty, and the challenges of everyday life. Through my books, teachings, and healing work, my aim is to inspire people to move beyond limiting beliefs, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and live with greater purpose, freedom, and authenticity. My message is that lasting fulfilment comes not from trying to become someone else, but from awakening to the truth of who you already are.
My path to this work has been shaped by both professional training and a lifelong search to better understand the human mind, the nature of suffering, and what it truly means to live a fulfilling life. Along the way, my own experiences challenged me to look beyond conventional approaches and explore the deeper connection between psychology, spirituality, and self-awareness. Those experiences continue to inform the way I teach, write, and work with others today. Beyond my professional roles, I am someone who has always been driven by a desire to discover and express my own truth. This search for authenticity has flowed into every part of my life, from acting and screenwriting to writing, storytelling, and creating meaningful connections with others. Through creativity and human connection, I continue to explore what it means to be fully present, to embrace who we truly are, and to inspire others to discover and express their own unique truth.
Waking Up To Your Self: A Guide to Living Your Truth
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