TSM 15/33 Who Says You Can’t? Just Do IT.

August 4, 2015November 22, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Alvin Law aired from August 18th

Start an Attitude Revolution

Imagine if everyone in your organization saw themselves, and each other, as leaders. If they positively influenced each other by proactively jumping in and making things happen. If they inspired each other by consistently operating from a mindset of ‘yes’.

What could you accomplish? How far could you go? Maybe you need to work to be awesome

Like you, attitude expert and bestselling author Alvin Law has heard a lot of clichés about cultivating a positive attitude. But are any of them true? Does a positive attitude really guarantee success in life? Should we force ourselves to think positively, no matter what our situation? Will mantras and sound bites change how we view ourselves and the world? Or are we thinking about attitude all wrong?

With over three decades of professional speaking and over five (ahem) decades of experience living life without arms, his view is radically different.

Alvin’s mission is to spark a worldwide Attitude Revolution. Attitude Revolutions happen because people are inspired, from within themselves, to practice cultivating a more proactive and effective outlook on their lives. Alvin knows, and demonstrates to his audiences, that attitude is not about touchy-feely platitudes or ‘thinking positive’ – attitude is how we look at and interpret life overall. It is a skill that can be learned, and that must be practised. It is a tool that can be used. Most importantly, it can’t be imposed upon people – it has to come from a genuine place.

Alvin uses his story to challenge audiences to rewrite the negative stories they tell themselves about themselves; to stop feeling like victims in their lives and get proactive; to stop making excuses and start making choices. His fusion of storytelling, musical performance and down-to-earth humour connect with his audiences at an intimate, intense and individual level. Over 7,500 organizations on five continents, including Cisco Systems, Pfizer and Telus, have used Alvin to ignite, engage and transform their people.

Born with no arms as a result of the drug Thalidomide, Alvin was adopted by a family who taught him to use his feet for hands – and who by doing so gave him the gift of freedom. In addition to being a professional speaker, he is a trained broadcaster, fundraiser, award-winning musician and bestselling author. He has earned the designation of Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), an honour possessed by less than ten percent of professional speakers worldwide. In 2009, Alvin was inducted into the Canadian Association of Speakers (CAPS) Hall of Fame.

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Prior to his career as a professional speaker, Alvin worked for non-profit groups, in advertising and public relations, the civil service, and has even run for public office (unsuccessfully, but he got over it). He has appeared on countless telethons and media features and has been the subject of two award-winning television documentaries. He has played a direct role in raising over $175,000,000 for charity.

He shares his life with his wife and business partner, Darlene; his adult son, Vance; Raymond, the dog; and Trixie, the cat. They all live in beautiful Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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15/32 HUNGER for Food for Company for Life

August 3, 2015October 2, 2017Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara View of Life with Sara Troy aired August 11th-17th

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Why are we still starving? Why are people still dying of hunger? Why are we allowing this?

We have to stop turning our heads away because it makes us feel uncomfortable, we have to start doing something about it. Children in Africa are not getting food because of droughts, a regime who controls the food and a view that if you’re poor you a waste.

We are running out of food because we became too greedy, consuming more than we need, feeding an inner hole it is time to change that, for no one should suffer from hunger in or out today.

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In countries where food is abundant, we are so wasteful, so disgracefully neglectful that we don’t even see the hungry before our eyes. As human bodies we have to be fed, the spirit is not enough, but while many stuff their faces and waste so much, just within reach there is someone needing a meal just to live another day.

We are not just hungry for food but for company, for someone to listen to hear us, to care enough to spend a moment with us, the best commodity of all, our TIME.

Let us start seeing the world as it is and what it can be, and let us be part of the solution, care, share, do, be, for we are all one here and this planet is home to all of us.

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C15/32b Love Calls Nun to Calling

July 28, 2015February 24, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 2 Comments

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Kimberly Braun aired from August 11th

Explorer. Contemplative. Entrepreneur. Aries. Lover. Friend. Learner. Teacher. Guide. Guided.

Kimberly is a woman who knows how to invite the people in embracing their own divine soul, heart, spirit and open mind, she is truly an inspiration of living in divine harmony of life.

Kimberly’s contemplative leanings began around the age of five with over ten years spent as a Carmelite nun living in a monastery. Her Masters in theology was completed in 2001 and is concentrated upon the adult spiritual journey. She enjoys the officiating ritual, offering playful inspiring keynotes, writing articles and books and leading retreats. Her mission is to inspire others to live from their own YES found within. Her TEDx talk gives a taste of what it means to live a YES and is the inspiration for books two and three in her trilogy of insights. She is meditation faculty at Omega Institute and is a fellow seeker and friend on the path to living freely.

Currently, Kimberly is driving cross country on her Call To Compassion Book Tour to over 25 cities inspiring hundreds of people who gather to hear her story. She will be on her journey until the fall of 2015.

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Love Calls, Insights of a former Carmelite Nun, pulls back the veil on Kimberly Braun’s rich experience of self and Spirit as she lived in silence as a Carmelite nun. This first book in a trilogy will immerse you in her formative childhood moments and early mystical experiences in Cincinnati, inspiring the desire to plunge into the adventure of the spiritual path, taking you through the doors and into the hidden life in a Carmelite monastery in North Dakota at the age of 24. This radical choice comes after five years of inner transformation and absorption, taking placeoften timess for hours, into deep stillness and bliss.

Kimberly’s story telling is playful and insightful, unpacking the vicissitudes of thoughts and emotions that show up amidst the matrix of silence, chant and meditation. Every twist and turn of her soulful journey will inspire you to deeper understanding of your own life. The themes of Love Calls are universal to us all. Join Kimberly in her own search for deeper experience of being alive, feeling happiness and living in peace moment by moment.

Impelled by the same love that led her to join, Kimberly said YES to building a multi-million dollar monastery in Texas and eventually left the Order to share this deeply profound experience with others. Kimberly Braun is passionate about helping others live from that dynamic place of happiness, peace and life found deep within as she carries her insights into the world impacting all who experience her peaceful and joyful resonance

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TSM 15/31 Saving Life on the Farm Sanctuary

July 23, 2015August 1, 2024Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast 4 Comments

Their Story matters with Sara Troy and her guest Gene Baur aired rom August 4th on

Animals are our friends, not our food, are you ready to change? it is not as hard are you think, even one vegan/vegetarian meal a week makes a global impact on our health and environment, let us stop the suffering of helpless animals that live in pain and fear to feed us and start investing in our own health and future by not needing to eat them.

Gene Baur is co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, America’s leading farm animal protection organization. Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine. For nearly 30 years he has travelled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses inflicted by industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. Gene’s latest book, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Mindfully, Living Longer, and Feeling Better Every Day (Rodale) came out April 2015. His previous best-seller, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food (Touchstone), was published March 2008. CLICK ON BOOK TO BUY

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15/30 Community & Police Who Care for the Forgotten.

July 18, 2015August 1, 2017Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Saras View on Life with Sara Troy aired July 21st-27th

We hear so many stories these days on corrupt police and of the down and out communities in our city’s, but this is a story of dignity, of caring for each other, of looking out for each other. When you give a dam, spend some time with people and DON’T JUDGE, you see humanity uniting to support each other. Thank you Staff Sgt. Mark Horsley for seeing life as it can be.

00_17_van_wheelchair_vpd.jpg.size.xxlarge.letterbox — Vancouver Police Department Vancouver police Staff Sgt. Mark Horsley went undercover in the Downtown Eastside in May and June 2015 as a wheelchair user in an attempt to find a person who is attacking people in wheelchairs.

A veteran Vancouver police officer went undercover as a wheelchair user with a brain injury in an attempt to catch those responsible for a spate of violent attacks on people in wheelchairs since January 2014.

Equipped with a $16,000 wheelchair borrowed from GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre and a backstory that he became an incomplete quadriplegic in a motorcycle accident, Staff Sgt. Mark Horsley spent five days and nights in the Downtown Eastside leaving himself vulnerable to an attack.

“Essentially our operator was our bait, and we were trying to catch the predator,” Insp. Howard Chow said at a news conference Thursday.

Despite intentionally leaving cash hanging out of his fanny pack, he wasn’t robbed or attacked. Instead, Horsley was surprised and inspired by the volume of kindness and compassion he received from the community.

Two young men talked to him and returned an hour later with pizza. One man bent down to zip up his fanny pack. In more than 300 interactions, some of which involved bartering, no one took advantage of him or took any of his money – in fact, he walked away $24 richer.

“I was ready to be victimized. Our plan was just to take whatever the assault or the robbery was… I was really taken by the politeness, the courteousness,” said Horsley, who has been going undercover since 1986.

“In the DTES I found that far more people would get down to my level to talk to me,” he said, adding people would often check if he had someone to care for him.

Police didn’t find the person or people responsible for the 28 attacks on people in wheelchairs over the past 18 months (21 assaults, six robberies and one sexual assaults), the majority of which occurred in the Downtown Eastside.

But they aren’t considering this a failed operation. Instead, they’re using it as a chance to draw attention to the fact that it’s not just the police watching out for people who use wheelchairs – it’s the entire community.

“Part of what we’re doing, bringing awareness to a despicable person that might commit a crime like this,” Horsley said. “It’s an entire community that is supporting the vulnerable.”

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Walt Lawrence, a peer support worker who has used a wheelchair for 46 years after a diving accident, helped coach Horsley to use the chair. He called Vancouver fortunate to have such caring and compassionate individuals and said he feels bad for the perpetrator who has fallen to that level.

Ian Denison of GF Strong agreed. “If these perpetrators get wind of the video, they might be thinking twice.”

NEVER JUDGE, NEVER TURN A BLIND EYE, NEVER ASSUME, AND NEVER STOP CARING FOR EVERYONE NO MATTER THEIR SITUATION.