Building your business with Sara Troy and her guest Karin Knecht, CPC, ELI-MP, CCXE, on air from March 24th
Karin partners with leaders and organizations who want to leverage cultural differences and cultivating meaningful relationships that lead to success. In her book ‘Dare to Ignite Your Dreams’, she shares stories and experiences she had in different countries and how she overcame challenges. She’s an Energy Leadership coach who helps others shift their perspective so they can stop reacting and start responding – focusing on opportunities and win-win outcomes.
Karin is a global citizen who brings a unique perspective to leadership—blending German efficiency, British finesse, and an American can-do mindset. With more than twenty years of experience and a life journey spanning three countries, she has become a trusted partner to leaders seeking clarity, growth, and meaningful impact.
Guided by her purpose, “Making a difference—one leader at a time,” and fueled by her superpower of positivity, Karin empowers leaders to embrace authenticity, curiosity, and confidence as they step more fully into their leadership.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Romana Hasenöhrl aka Romana Rocks, on air from March 24th
Romana is an author and writing trainer from Salzburg, Austria and has written and publishes 11 books between 2013 and now. She has dedicated her working life to writing and all about literature. Her radio show “the literature hour” just started the second year and is well known in the region. Romana is a passionate trainer as well.In 2025 she had the idea of bringing together trainers and coaches from all over the world to talk about their growth and success. So she founded the “Voices of Growth and Success Summit” which will go live on April 1st.
Romana is a long-term traveler who travels three to four months per year in her old Volkswagen Camper supporting people to be brave and just travel. She has already published ten books and is working on her 11th. With this, she has discovered a system that allows young authors of every age to overcome the overwhelm of getting started their first book. She offers free webinars and writing courses for those who REALLY want to get started. With being a certified Laughter Yoga Trainer as one of her many credentials, she brings joy and understanding to people of just how amazing they truly are.
Here, heartfelt voices from around the world come together, people who deeply care about humanity and wish to share their wisdom, strength, and hope. This summit is a space where inspiration meets purpose, and where messages of inner and outer growth can truly make a difference.
The summit is completely free to join.
Just sign up with your name and email, and you’ll receive full access to the course content as soon as we go live.
We can’t wait to welcome you.
Your journey of growth and success begins the moment you say yes.
Summit Live is over, but you can catch all the speakers here
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Choose Positive Livingwith Sara Troy and her guest Mary Frias, on air from March 10th
I am an Economy Creator at heart, meaning that I have never fully embraced the traditional ways of earning money and having a “job.” Instead, I have followed my interests and desires and have found ways to earn money doing those things. For instance, my first job was as a gymnastics coach at 16 because I loved the sport, and I wanted to teach it to others. This was a focus for me for many years. When I wanted to combine my love of writing with the sport, I started my publishing company (IrisBlu Publishing) by writing and publishing a series of gymnastics books (called Gym Rats).
When my daughter was born, that evolved into opening a gymnastics center with my husband. As I coached and ran the programs, I felt the pull to do something even more. I was doing more than teaching gymnastics; I was teaching important life skills. But beyond that, I was teaching these kids how to believe in themselves. Because I wanted to be better so I could better serve them, I continuously looked to self-development resources to strengthen my coaching. I came across Bob Proctor, and in studying with him and his work, I realized that I had found the missing link: I found that although gymnastics was my path to get to this point, it wasn’t my destination. So in 2021, rather than rebuilding the gym after the pandemic, my husband and I decided to close it down and to go all-in as a personal and professional development consultant. Along with my new podcast and radio show, Economy Creators, I maintain my publishing company, and I use it as a way to further help my clients by publishing my own books, but also by publishing theirs, as well as spotlighting them and other economy creators on my show. I want to keep going to see where this journey takes me; I’m always listening to my intuition to guide me, following my desires.
The person behind the business is just as important as the person in the business. I believe in creating a YOU-shaped economy, one with each human being at its center. So a part of my economy, besides my businesses is that I’m a wife (husband, Marc) and mother of one daughter (Lola). I have adored horses since I was a child before I manifested my first pony, and now we own two horses now and spend every morning with them at the barn. We all eat a plant-based diet and have been for 12 years now.
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Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Janet M. Schwartz, Ph.D. On air from March 3rd
I am a forever believer in the potential for humanity. I want to help you, your family, your community, your state, our country, and all nations. As Authentic Human Beings, we yearn for Authentic connections, and we may discover them in random moments throughout our day. My hope is to awaken our need to attach to one another, to awaken our want to help every Authentic other, and to cultivate an interest in expressing Authentic caring in a conversational art form.
The dawn of each new day presents abundant opportunities for us to bring new energy to the forefront. One way to begin anew is by understanding our Treasure of Intelligences. By feeding our mental, emotional, and spiritual intelligences and making them work together, we will begin to view ourselves, those we love, and those we help through lenses of possibility rather than through lenses of limitations. Tapping into your Authentic Intelligence (AI+) is the only way to have the clarity and knowing you need to live your full potential and enjoy emotional well-being.
Improvements in how we treat each other, the quality of our solutions to our problems and more are on the horizon. Rise up, stand tall and raise your voices as we work one-on-one, family-by-family, community-by-community, state-by-state, and nation-by-nation to build a world unafraid to answer the call.
I currently serve as President & Forensic Behavioral Scientist of Forensic Fraud Research, Inc., a non-profit, not-for-fee investigative firm that became affiliated with the National White Collar Crime Center in 2003. To protect the confidentiality of sources and colleagues, I am the only face associated with the firm, though the organization is comprised of many skilled professionals along with federal, state, and local authorities.
Author & speaker Dr. Jan Mielke Schwartz, “is considered to be one of the most theoretically minded, hopeful, and erudite professionals in the fields of Criminology, Forensic Behavioral Science, Intelligence, and Homeland Security.” (LAWeekly.com: September 28, 2022) She brings warmth, authenticity, conviction, and a ‘knowing’ of how to navigate the fine line between optimism and pessimism into her projects. Noted by the University of Pittsburgh as “one of those who show high promise of significant contribution to society and progress,” her first book, Last Summer with Oscar: An Adventurous True Story of Love and Courage, launched as an international bestseller on Amazon.com which was followed by a how-to-do-it Last Summer with Oscar Workbook. Jan is presently completing a new non-fiction book, “Authentic Intelligence: How to Use Your Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Gifts to Create the Life – and World – You Want.
Jan was devoted to working with children and families for seventeen years. She taught grades K, 1, 7 and 8, coordinated a gifted program for middle school youngsters, and worked as a child counselor at a domestic violence shelter prior to receiving graduate training to become a family psychologist. However, the discovery of any evidence catapulted her from dreaming of one day having a free family therapy clinic to a career in forensic fraud research. With great effort and unusual collaboration, the evidence unfolded into numerous state and multi-state investigations. Over the subsequent years, Schwartz became an internationally known expert on the white-collar organized crime and the white-collar organized community as she continued her intelligence gathering efforts that contribute to strengthening our country and helping to build a better, safer world.
A forever believer in the potential of humanity, Jan cares deeply about helping individuals, families, communities, states, and all nations as they strive to thrive, heal, and further their growth and effectiveness. She welcomes hearing from one and all.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. Abraham George. On air from February 24th
Mountains to Cross: Finding Life’s Purpose in Service
From Global Finance to a building a school in India
Dr. Abraham George’s Story Redefines Service and Success
Dr. Abraham George’s remarkable journey spans continents and careers. After achieving extraordinary success in international business, he returned to India to devote his life to helping the most vulnerable. In Mountains to Cross: Finding Life’s Purpose in Service, he reflects on the experiences that shaped him—from narrowly surviving a military accident at 18, to building Shanti Bhavan, a world-renowned residential school for children born into extreme poverty.
Through gripping personal stories and a clear moral philosophy, Dr. George’s memoir delivers a deeply human message: You don’t need to be born into hardship to care about others. His work in education, environmental reform, and healthcare shows how one individual—armed with compassion and commitment—can create generational change. In an interview, he can talk about:
Dr. Abraham George is the author of the memoir Mountains to Cross: Finding Life’s Purpose in Service, a powerful reflection on his extraordinary journey from soldier and entrepreneur to social reformer. He began his career in the Indian Army as an artillery officer stationed at the Se La mountain pass on the India–China border, then the highest battleground in the Himalayas. Following his military service, he moved to the United States, where he earned two master’s degrees and a PhD in business administration from New York University. For nearly twenty-five years, he built a successful entrepreneurial career before returning to India in 1995 to confront systemic discrimination and economic oppression.
Over the decades, Dr. George has championed social justice and expanded opportunities for the underprivileged through groundbreaking educational and healthcare initiatives. His projects include founding a school that provides world-class education to socially and economically disadvantaged children, creating a postgraduate institution to foster an independent press, and establishing a rural hospital serving fifteen villages. His pioneering work in environmental health also played a pivotal role in eliminating leaded gasoline across India in April 2000—a milestone achievement in public health.
Dr. George has served on the boards of esteemed organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the International Center for Journalists, and he has been honored with awards including the Hind Rattan. In addition to his memoir, he is the author of three books on international corporate finance and two on social reform, further cementing his lifelong dedication to service, justice, and education.
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