Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Furkhan Dandia. On air from 24th of February.
My WHY is rooted in helping people reclaim agency, meaning, and dignity amid adversity. Having lived through professional upheaval, family and legal battles, loss, and deep inner questioning, I’ve seen how easily people can become trapped in victimhood, self-deception, or systems that erode their sense of self. My work is driven by a commitment to truth, compassion, and responsibility—supporting individuals in facing their pain honestly, integrating their shadow, and reconnecting with something greater than themselves, whether that’s purpose, values, faith, or service. I believe healing is not about being rescued but about being empowered to stand upright, make conscious choices, and live with integrity, even when life is unfair.
I began my professional life in engineering and business, spending two decades in high-performance, results-driven environments where problem-solving, precision, and accountability mattered. From the outside, things looked successful, but life slowly introduced deeper tests—family conflict, loss, legal battles, faith struggles, and periods of profound uncertainty that no spreadsheet or strategy could solve. Those experiences forced me inward and reshaped how I understood resilience, suffering, and responsibility. I ultimately chose to pivot into counselling and therapeutic work, not as a departure from my past, but as an integration of it—bringing structure, discernment, and grounded compassion into spaces where people are navigating pain, identity, and meaning. Behind the profession, I’m a father, a seeker of truth, a person of faith, and someone who believes that healing happens when we are honest about our wounds, accountable for our choices, and willing to stand upright even when life is unfair.
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Your Health is Your Choice with Sara Troy and her guest Christian Gonzalez, on air February 10th
Christian has spent the past 20 years living on Vancouver Island after moving to Canada from Chihuahua, Mexico. Fluent in both English and Spanish, his life journey has been shaped by cultural transition, personal challenges, and a deep commitment to growth. Like many people, Christian struggled with building healthy habits and truly understanding how to care for himself. While school covered the basics, it didn’t teach him how to develop a healthy relationship with food, body awareness, or long-term wellbeing. After high school, he made the courageous choice to pause, reflect, and turn inward.
Through two years of dedication and perseverance, Christian lost over 75 pounds—and in the process rediscovered his strength, confidence, and sense of purpose. That personal transformation ignited a passion for fitness that became both his career and calling. Today, Christian helps others improve their physical health while also guiding them toward deeper emotional and mental self-understanding. His work is rooted in compassion, self-awareness, and empowerment, reminding people that lasting change begins from within.
That personal transformation ignited his passion for fitness, which ultimately became his career and calling. Today, Christian helps others not only improve their physical health, but also understand themselves on a deeper emotional and mental level. His work is rooted in compassion, self-awareness, and empowerment.
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air since February 9th
As a senior, I deeply understand the value of what we still have to offer and the wisdom we carry within us. Our lives have been shaped by experience—not theory, not trends, but lived reality. We have walked bumpy roads, faced detours we never planned for, and more than once, we’ve had to repave the path ourselves so those who followed might have an easier journey. Every challenge refined us, every mistake taught us, and every triumph reminded us of our resilience.
We have loved fully, laughed deeply, and celebrated life with open hearts. We have also known grief, loss, and heartbreak, some of it so profound that words could never fully hold it. Yet we are still here. Not hardened, but seasoned. Not finished, but evolved. We carry perspective, patience, and an understanding of what truly matters. And with that comes a quiet readiness, to share, to guide, to remind others that life is not meant to be rushed or wasted. Our wisdom is not about telling others what to do; it’s about offering insight to those willing to listen, see, and learn, so they may walk their own path with a little more clarity, courage, and compassion.
A Message for the Young — A Gentle Warning
The stories of seniors are not just about the past—they are lessons for the future. How we age reflects what we prepared for earlier in life. Our triumphs show the strength of resilience and community; our challenges reveal the cost of neglecting aging and long-term care. Aging is not optional—preparation matters.
To the younger generations: pay attention. Invest now in your health, relationships, and sense of purpose. Learn from those who came before you, because how you live today shapes the life you will one day grow into.
First Steps: Book a chat with Sara Troy.
I invite you to join me on this meaningful journey of sharing your lived wisdom with a global audience through your chapter in Our Forgotten Seniors. Your story, insights, and experiences matter more than ever, and this book is a space where your voice can be heard, honored, and preserved. Together, we will amplify these stories through podcasts and summits, creating conversations that inspire understanding, connection, and respect for the depth of wisdom seniors carry.
This is more than a book project—it is a collective legacy. By coming together, we shine a light on the value, resilience, and contributions of seniors, while offering guidance and perspective to younger generations. Through shared storytelling and conscious conversation, we ensure that wisdom is not forgotten, but passed forward with dignity, purpose, and heart.
Writing Your Chapter
Chapter Length: Minimum 1,000–3,000 words
Author Bio:150-word bio for your author page, including a link and headshot.
You will contribute a chapter that shares your unique life experiences, insights, and lessons learned. Your story will highlight your personal journey, the challenges you have overcome, and the wisdom you have gained along the way to pass on to the younger generations.
Audiobook Inclusion
We are excited to announce that your chapter will also be included in the audiobook. You may choose to:
Record your chapter in your own voice, or
We can use an AI technology to create a voice recording that sounds like you
Please let us know which option you prefer.
Support and Guidance
You will be supported throughout the process, from brainstorming to final edits—with thoughtful editorial guidance to ensure your story is clear, impactful, and true to your voice.
Podcasts and Summits
As part of the project, you will:
Participate in two podcasts
One focused on your life journey
One dedicated to discussing your chapter
Join 2–3 summits, including one designed to introduce you to potential investors and another on launch day. These summits will be both live and pre-recorded, giving you the opportunity to share your insights and connect with a global audience.
Networking and Community
You will join a supportive community of contributors, connecting with like-minded individuals through shared stories, lived experience, and a common desire to make a meaningful difference.
Promotion and Reach
The book will be promoted across multiple channels, including podcasts, summits, and social media, sites, to ensure broad reach and lasting impact for every author’s story.
How We Gently Build Support for the Book
We approach support through connection and shared purpose. By sharing the vision through conversations, podcasts, summits, and social media, we naturally invite interest from those who resonate with the message. Support and sponsorship help cover the costs of publishing the paperback, eBook, and audiobook. When support arises, it is acknowledged with appreciation and respect. Our focus remains on trust, relationships, and creating something meaningful together—allowing support to grow organically.
We invite elders who are eager to share their wisdom, experience, and life lessons to join us in authoring this collaborative book. A commitment fee of $150 USD (with a payment plan available) supports the podcasting and development of the book project. Publishing costs will be addressed later through fundraising. This book is created to serve not only fellow seniors, but also to inspire and guide the generations that follow.
This is a seniors’ community book, we come together to illuminate the path for others to walk on. Come join me on this journey.
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Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Kassandra Hamilton, on air from January 27th
I do this work because I know what it’s like to look successful on the outside while feeling disconnected, exhausted, and unsure on the inside. After navigating burnout, grief, identity-loss, and the pressure to hold everything together, I realized that real change doesn’t come from pushing harder. Instead, it comes from listening inward and restoring safety, clarity, and self-trust in the body and nervous system. Today, I support high-achieving women who are tired of living on autopilot to reconnect with their energy, boundaries, and purpose, so they can build lives that feel as good internally as they appear externally. My message is simple but powerful: alignment is something you remember, not something you earn.
Kassandra Hamilton (known as Kazz) is an alignment coach, speaker, author, and local singer-songwriter whose work is grounded in her background in global and community health and her lived experience of burnout and reinvention. Through years working within health systems, she witnessed how burnout, over-functioning, and disconnection are often treated as individual problems rather than systemic and nervous-system realities; a perspective she shared in her recent TED-style talk. That insight became the foundation for her Inside Out Framework™, which supports sustainable wellbeing by addressing regulation, boundaries, and self-trust before performance, productivity, or purpose.
Today, Kassandra works with high-achieving women who appear capable and successful on the outside but feel depleted or misaligned on the inside. Through the Inside Out Framework™, she helps clients restore energy, reconnect with their bodies, and make aligned choices that honour both their humanity and their leadership. Her work spans private coaching, group programs, speaking engagements, and experiential healing.
Alongside her coaching practice, Kassandra is a practicing healer offering Ayurvedic head massage, bio-energy healing, and sound healing, and works weekly at Triple Moon in downtown Nanaimo. She is also a volunteer with restorative justice programs for youth, supporting accountability, repair, and reconnection. Outside of her professional work, she is a storyteller and musician who writes and performs original music, hikes with her dog, and loves learning about new cultures through travel.
Free Gift or Offer
A complimentary Energy & Alignment Check-In—a short guided reflection designed to help listeners identify where their energy is leaking and what their nervous system is asking for right now.
I have 5 Health Grants available to anyone who is listening today which can be used towards my 12 Week Energy Alignment Reset program. I can explain more once you book with me above.
I am also providing a free community event where I have 4 women speaking on Feb 10 to give back to women on how to boost your energy: Women Leaders Share Top Tips:
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from January 27th
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” George Orwell Quote
In a world fluent in public affection yet often clumsy with private listening, the sentence feels less like literature and more like a personal confession overheard.
To be loved can mean to be admired, desired, praised, or claimed. But to be understood requires something rarer: attention without agenda, listening without interruption, presence without the need to fix or reshape. Understanding asks us to sit with another’s inner weather, the contradictions, the unfinished thoughts, the unpolished truths, without turning away.
Many of us have been loved loudly and still felt unseen. We have received affection that warmed the surface but never reached the deeper chambers where our real stories live. Understanding, by contrast, reaches inward. It says, I see why you are the way you are. It acknowledges context, history, wounds, and becoming.
Perhaps what the heart longs for most is not applause, nor reassurance, nor even devotion, but recognition. To be met in our inner landscape. To be known without performance. To be allowed to exist as we are, not as we are expected to be.
Within the language of Knowingness, this longing is not emotional weakness, it is wisdom asking to be heard.
Knowingness is felt in the heart. The heart is the tuning fork. It is where truth is first felt before it is ever named. The heart responds with resonance or resistance, with a quiet yes or a subtle no. It does not analyze; it recognizes. When we feel understood at the heart level, there is a sense of safety, a softening, a feeling of being met without explanation. The heart says, This feels true.
Knowingness comes from the soul. The soul is the divine connection to wisdom, the place where truth is received, whole and intact. It carries memory, meaning, and purpose beyond the moment. The soul understands the why beneath our feelings, the life lived, the lessons learned, the wounds carried, and the wisdom earned. When the soul is understood, we feel seen beyond our roles and stories. We feel recognized in our essence, not judged by our expression. The soul says,This is who I am becoming, this is who I am.
Knowingness is activated through the spirit. Spirit is the life force that moves truth into expression. It is where courage rises, where insight becomes action, where wisdom finds breath and voice. Spirit bridges the inner and outer worlds, it turns knowing into doing, understanding into living integrity. When spirit is engaged, truth does not remain quiet or contained; it steps forward. Spirit says, I am ready to live this.
Only then does Knowingness rise into the mind. The mind’s role is not to lead, but to serve, to translate, articulate, and apply what the heart has felt, the soul has received, and the spirit has already set in motion. When the mind listens instead of dominates, it gains clarity rather than control. It knows what information is relevant now. It chooses wisely, not fearfully. The mind says, Now I understand what to do.
When heart, soul, spirit, and mind are aligned, understanding becomes embodied. We are no longer chasing love, approval, or certainty outside ourselves. We are grounded in an inner coherence that guides our decisions, relationships, and actions. This is the difference between reacting and responding, between noise and knowing.
Perhaps this is why being understood feels more vital than being loved. Love can exist without depth. But understanding, true understanding, honours the heart, receives the soul’s truth, ignites the spirit, and steadies the mind.
That is Knowingness. Not something we learn, but something we remember. Not something we force, but something we feel, recognize, and then live and BECOME.
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