Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Sheryle Ann Wilson, on air from September 14th
I am a singer, songwriter, author, speaker and a seeker. My story started from early life experiences and then later in her early 30’s I was deemed disabled. This brought out the researcher and writer as well as speaking, in me as I was initially involved with a disability non-profit where I learned much and was consistent in speaking up for the disabled people, as well as dealing with new disabled category illnesses that came to me in my life. I continued being involved in several different non-profits either being an advocate, board director, or president.
I am a seeker and so I also took part in community writer get-togethers as I was always good at English throughout my school years, and this brought out the writer I am. I have been writing books since 2013, I continue to do my spiritual seeking and continue to write during my lifetime.
I been both speaking and singing on many different types of stages since age 5. Music and singing are a large influence on my life and others, as I get compliments every time I sing.
Sheryl Ann is researching and taking action to have an online presence to both markets her books and to make a difference in this world. By helping women who wish to spiritually open themselves to find their artistic talents, blending with their life vision for betterment of life for themselves and our world.
Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from September 14th
The courage I had when I was young was in some way mindless, we believed as a young person does, that we can do anything and nothing will hurt us, we learn through life’s lessons that is not always so. I was such a timed person until I went to South Africa at the age of 14 y. Old. I was desperately shy, but loved one on one conversation (still do). When we arrived in S.A, I was frown into the deep end and had to get social very fast, that is when I discovered my courage.
I had in many ways had to fake it before I convinced myself, but in doing so, I discovered a person I never knew was there. I became and still am an extrovert introvert, an Alfa Beta personality. To others I was this exuberant young woman who tried everything, I did not know if I could do it until I tried to do it, which means I could not do it a lot of the time, but I would not know what I could do unless I tried.
I went into jobs like that, always unqualified, but in belief, I could do it, how would I know unless I tried. I realized my strengths and weakness and learned to focus on my strengths. We sell ourselves short, thinking we can’t when we from the inside out, know we can. It is different from when we were young, we were daring, challenging, excited, and sometimes unthinking. Now as we age we understand that our courage has a different purpose and that we can still be daring but in a more soul heartful way.
I have leaped at many things in life, now I am slower to leap, but that does not mean I am not still adventurous, it just means more discerning. Realistically, my body can not do what it used to, and my spirit may be a bit dulled. I have still within me, much to explore and do, but now it is within my energy and infusiasim.
Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Ellen M. See, on air from September 14th
Ellen M. Snee, EdD, a former Catholic nun and author of LEAD: How Women in Charge Claim Their Authority. From the C-suite to the Senate floor, women in leadership positions are at historic highs. And research now shows that women are more effective than men in 84% of competencies associated with leadership. Yet many accomplished and capable women continue to struggle with issues related to ambition, power, and authority. What explains this disconnect? Dr. Snee, who has been at the forefront of women’s leadership development for more than 25 years, is available to share her unique perspective on women leaders in roles of authority.
Informative, uplifting, and empowering, LEAD is a leadership book for our times. It has received advance praise from business leaders, academics, and experts on women’s leadership including Sally Helgesen, best-selling author of How Women Rise, The Female Vision, The Female Advantage.
Snee’s earlier experience as a Catholic nun affords her a unique perspective on women leaders in roles of authority. She lived and worked with women who ran large educational and non-profit institutions. There she learned how:
women can collaborate with other women while navigating the male hierarchies
to mobilize individuals, teams, and organizations toward a shared mission
to assert her authority when necessary without harming relationships with others
to gain critical—and transferable—skills that apply to all women who want to exercise power and authority as a leader
Possible Topics that Dr. Snee speaks to include:
Claim Your Desires, Communicate With Purpose, and Lead With Authority In this inspiring, actionable talk, she lays out her proven coaching model for leading from the inside out. Rooted in psychology and real-world experience, she shares illuminating stories and practical tips that audience members can immediately put to use.
Performance vs. Promotability: The Key to Career Advancement
Women often see merit as the best way to get ahead: Keep your head down, get the work done, cultivate good relationships with your team or staff. But there is a difference between performance and promotability and it’s key to advancing in your career.
Holding Power and Embracing Discomfort
Leading with authority means embracing power, not just “influence.” Power means you are in control, including the ability to hire, fire, manage assets, and impact lives. This includes the unique challenges — and opportunities — inherent when women have authority including over other women.
Networking With Authority
The power of a network is not “who you know,” but “who knows you.” It’s vital to build webs of connection with individuals and organizations outside and beyond your own company. These relationships become increasingly important over the course of a career.
ELLEN SNEE, EdD, has been at the forefront of women’s leadership development for more than 25 years. Her original research at Harvard University on women’s experience in roles of authority formed the foundation of her company’s work with Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco, Goodyear, Marriott, Pfizer, and Schwab. Later, as Global VP of Leadership Development at VMware, she launched its business initiative, VMwomen, to attract, develop, advance, and retain talented women. Ellen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.For more information, please visit:
ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Andrew P Michael, on air from September 14th
Raising Consciousness to Heal the Planet and its Inhabitants
‘Soul Pal’ fables from modern-day Aesop, environmentalist Andrew P Michael, teach truths about our environmental crisis and the consciousness needed to resolve it.
Earth is in peril. Severe droughts parch some areas while torrential rains flood others; gargantuan wildfires consume whole territories while freakish ice storms crash city grids. These and other environmental stresses are flaming human conflict and inflaming our health and the wellbeing of the animal kingdom.
A modern-day Aesop, environmentalist, and attorney Andrew P Michael uses stories and animal characters (Soul Pals) in his new e-book, Arising Soul Pals: Keep Your Eyes on the Rise, to illustrate the environmental and cultural challenges facing Earth and its inhabitants and to posit a solution to those challenges- raising consciousness.
Though the Arising Soul Pal stories are fictional, they are based on facts about nature, animals, people, and culture, providing the backdrop for understanding the environmental and social conditions that are causing our environmental crisis. Readers learn how climate change directly affects the octopus, pelican, hummingbird, elephant, rhino, and hippopotamus and simultaneously raise their consciousness of the attitude needed to prevail over these challenges. By recognizing the innate but unique heart, intelligence, and courage that each Soul Pal applies to resolve the immediate hurdle threatening them, their family, and friends and practicing what Michaels refers to as Acronym Mantra Power (AMP), readers can “live in higher attitudes on an upward spiral of higher consciousness” and manifest solutions to the existential crisis we all face.
Andrew P Michael, environmentalist, attorney, author, and as an environmentalist he has traveled the globe to implement evergreen, regenerative development projects for people, animals, and the environment and an attorney who has specialized in advancing legislation to enhance sustainable personal, community, and global development. Michael is currently Co-Director of Partnerships For Change, a nonprofit implementing international projects to promote compassion, empower women, and abolish cruelty to people, animals, and the environment.
After passing the California state bar and graduating from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, Michael worked with State Senator John Vasconcellos drafting environmental legislation and co-authoring a national proposal to catalyze public-private partnerships to promote community empowerment. Following work in the legislature, Michael directed Partnerships For Change and designed and implemented the Community Summits and Resource Exchange Bank programs to realize greater local self-reliance. He devised plans and identified resources to convert military bases to sustainable and civil uses for the Center for Economic Conversion and coordinated national conferences on the sustainable development of former military bases, featuring a national summit at the Presidio Officers’ Club in 1996 with Mikhail Gorbachev and Oscar Arias as keynote speakers. Michael then served as Vice President of Sustainable Development responsible for the Bay Area Council’s water, energy, and environmental policy work from 1999-2011. He helped write and pass the country’s most advanced system to address Climate Change.
This year, Michael completed Arising Soul Pals: Keep Your Eyes on the Rise. Based on global stories sourced from Andrew’s visits to the Indian subcontinent, China, and Africa, Arising Soul Pals is meant to inspire action to halt the deterioration of nature and the environment by raising personal and global consciousness.
I always wanted one of mine to be a daddy’s girl. So when I started going through my painful divorce due to abuse and had two toddlers while just finding out I was pregnant yet again (all 4 kiddos from the same bio father)…what kept going through my mind was what if they never have a daddy in their life? And I guess this means there will be no such thing as a “daddy’s girl” in our family. I say this because not only was I single mommin’ it, but their bio father wanted nothing to do with any of them. After we lost our son, Samuel, he leaned towards drugs and I leaned towards my Faith in Christ. Actually, that’s when I accepted God to be my Lord and Savior. (My testimony is another story for another day, but feel free to hit me up if you wanna know). Which also leads me to say…how quick Joey was later down the road to sign over his parental rights, which was a HUGE blessing from Above (so yes I’m thankful) so they could be ADOPTED by you know who-yours truly, Jeff.
So here I am 7 months later and very preggo with Harper and I receive a little thumbs up on match dot com on the silly profile my sister, Christina, had set up for me. Then came a message. It caught my attention because it was a profile pic with a man and his children. I had not seen anything like it at all. Not at all. It was very intriguing. And just like that…BOOM! Bahaha. Ok. Ok. As much as I want to say the rest is history, that is far from the truth. But, what did happen immediately is I fell head over heels in love with my Prince Charming. We had our first date on December 31st 2012, in NYE. We were engaged by February 14th, 2013, and married June 8th, 2013…so needless to say, “When you know, you know”.
Which brings me to the point of this part of my life story…In the beginning, I feared for what kind of relationship my babes would have with Jeff or if any, to be honest. Would they love him like a father or like a friend or maybe not at all?
You see I met Jeff when Lillian was 2, Coleman was 1 and I was 7 months pregnant with Harper. And his kids were 8,4, and 1 year old. But what transformed right after we met was a love I had never seen before. Jeff loved my children like no other. He treated them like his very own. To this day, if you met all 6 of our children you would have no clue which ones were his bio kids and which ones were mine that he ended up ADOPTING before the first deployment we went through together. Needless to say, Jeff is the only daddy that they have ever had and they have only known Jeff as their daddy. So here comes the “daddy’s girl” part of the story…Harper, without a doubt, is completely a daddy’s girl. Jeff has known her since the beginning of her life. He was even in the birthing room at the hospital when I gave birth to her…funny how that worked out cause he had just started Navigator School and his schedule was craaaazy!! When Harper and Jeff look at each other it is undeniable love. It honestly is something a mother dreams about. To this day, even with Jeff’s crazy work schedule, she will tell you right away that “daddy is her favorite”. It’s such a beautiful relationship. So yes…I have 6 living children, I’ve had two miscarriages, and I have lost a son who I found lifeless in his crib when he was merely 9 weeks old. All my biological children are amazingly close to their daddy and that dream I feared that would never come true about my loves having a true daddy in their everyday life and one of my girls being a daddy’s girl…well, that dream came true and that wish was very much granted.
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