Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Anthony Torino, on air from March 28th
Have you ever roller-coaster from serious to laughing in 0.2 milliseconds? If you haven’t, then you haven’t seen stand-up comedian Anthony Torino in action. He is an expert at making audiences laugh at every day thought-provoking topics like raising kids, preventing work injuries, incarceration, ageing, society, behaviour problems, and working towards the American Dream – just to name a few.
Growing up in the military (his dad was USAF) Torino was raised primarily on military bases. As a child – cancer got in his way. As a teen – histoplasmosis got in his way. As a 15-year-old, he was told not to lift weights because it would kill him. He lifted weights anyway, and the experience saved his life. He became an athlete, which transformed his attitude and view of the world.
At the tender age of 44, Torino made a decision to begin working as a comedian. He was told it would take 15 years to become a headliner at the comedy club level. He achieved that in five years.
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Torino’s background in healthcare, owning businesses, chasing his dreams, physical fitness, relationships, and his own Air Force experience is comical subjects he warms up with – what comes next is anybody’s guess!
Torino has appeared on Showtime’s Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor, and performed at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club (sold-out show), Improv Comedy Club, LOL Comedy Club, and the Laugh Factory.
Some of Torino’s Xtra special gifts include: speaking Redneck; creating comedy sketches, sitcoms, and screenplays; teaching comedy, writing short stories and books, and radio personality.
As a motivational speaker, Torino’s personal experiences and background as both an Occupational Therapist and Professional Counselor enables him to candidly talk about being a survivor, preventing work injuries, study habits, attaining goals, dealing with death and grieving, overcoming physical deficits, incarceration/loss of freedom, relationships, purpose-based living, and more.
Torino is a guy you will like. If you don’t – well, maybe you’re just not good with his kind of people.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guestMichel Pascal, on air from April 4
Michel Pascal, an inspiring meditation teacher whose programs are in Fortune 500 companies, in prisons, and in his recent multimedia meditation performance at Carnegie Hall, comes a new book with revolutionary and simple one-minute meditations to change our lives.
Drawing on his experience living at the Kopan Monastery in Nepal, meditation teacher Michel Pascal shares his simple method of meditating in the moment to calm the mind and break the cycle of stress addiction.
Meditation for Daily Stress: 10 Practices for Immediate Well-being is more than just an exploration of why we experience stress; it is a guide to a revolutionary meditative technique for finding peace, quiet, mindfulness, centeredness and simplicity in our daily lives. A true authority in meditation, Michel Pascal introduces readers to the power of meditation as the best solution for daily stress, anxiety, and depression. He prescribes a series of one-minute visualization and breathing practices and techniques that can be used throughout the day whether in the workplace while commuting, or at home to unplug in the moment, or before stress takes hold (or after if necessary).
Michel’s method includes ten easy practices that you can do for even a minute at a time, wherever you are. In this guide, you will learn how to:
Meditate Like the Horizon to unplug your brain when it is running all the time.
Meditate Like a Dolphin to discover your inner peace in high-stress moments.
Meditate Like a Mountain to feel more grounded when your mood is up and down.
Meditate Like a Wave to help you deal with difficult people and difficult interactions.
Meditate Like a Kiss to feel less stress in a romantic relationship.
Exploring both spirituality and physicality, mind and body, Meditation for Daily Stress is an essential read for busy people looking for an approach to meditation that will allow them to start a daily practice right away in order to live a healthier, happier life.
Michel Pascal is a French author, meditation teacher, singer, filmmaker, and photographer. Michel’s unique brand of meditation is being practiced at Google, Harvard University, and many other major organizations. Before moving to the United States, Pascal lived in the Kopan Monastery in the Himalayas. He has spent more than 15 years adapting traditional teachings and practices for students around the world. Pascal lives in Los Angeles.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Cheryl Bass, on air from March 28th
Seven Survival Habits Women Habitually Need to Master to Stay in Business’
1. Listen to that still small voice inside of you.
2. Know your story and it’s ending
3. Build a compelling vision that excites you and others
4. Begin everything with your end in mind
5. Find a tribe, join it ensuring you are surrounding yourself with people who will push you, make you accountable and will commit to pulling you up your next step 6. Know your numbers
6. Know your numbers, your competitor’s numbers, the numbers you need to master if you are to attain your vision
7. Understand at a global and pinprick level what makes what you do successful, scaleable, sell-able, sensational and sincere.
I AM WOMAN is a ‘heart centered’ family of aspiring women in business, management, and leadership, who motivate, inspire, empower and support one another through its network of Business Clubs and On-line Forums.
FOUNDER Cheryl Bass, Award Winning Inspirational Business Growth Speaker, and Coach
Cheryl Bass, The business expert, has spent over 24 years leading national and international businesses at the highest level, putting her in a unique position to deal with contemporary business challenges.
Her mix of vast experience allied with an accomplished ability to make business simple and her infectious enthusiasm and energy has inspired global audiences to seek Cheryl’s advice to achieve immediate, yet sustainable business and personal growth.
Her passion for women’s liberty and growth is evident in her conviction.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Rob Eastaway, on air from March 21st.
CHILDHOOD
I grew up in Cheshire in the North West of England in what – looking back – I realize was quite a carefree home environment where there were plenty of opportunities for imaginative play. I loved playing most ball sports. More unusually from a young age, I was also always intrigued by mathematical puzzles, an interest that was fed by my dad and later by one of my teachers who would often pose us riddles and quizzes.
TEENS
In my early teens, I had a few creative hobbies, including producing simple cartoon flick books and four-minute silent movies using an old 8mm cine camera. But the innocent enthusiasm behind those and some of my other interests often set me apart from my peer group whose interests were increasingly turning towards heavy metal and parties. I spent much of my mid-teens as an observer, watching how teenagers behaved with each other. I was never bullied, but I became very sensitive to the injustice of people being laughed at just because they or their ideas were ‘different’.
Around the age of 15 I immersed myself in the solitary activity of solving puzzles, and one day on a whim I had a go at setting a puzzle myself. I submitted it to a national newspaper – The Sunday Times. To my delight and amazement, they agreed to publish it. That launched me into becoming a regular puzzle setter, first for The Sunday Times and then for New Scientist magazine. Writing a monthly puzzle gave me early exposure to the world of journalism, and also took away some of the mystery of creativity. I realized that ‘new’ ideas often come from immersing yourself in old ideas and then repackaging them. There were other important lessons, too. The second puzzle of mine that was published contained a serious error (it required April to have 31 days) and I was inundated by letters from angry readers who had been wasting time on an unsolvable challenge. It was a harsh way to learn that while ideas are important, the end product has to work too.
My interest in ‘real world’ puzzle solving led me to do study Engineering for my degree (at Cambridge University). I then spent a few years working for Deloitte, one of the large management consultants. I was lucky that their culture turned out to be one in which encouraged eccentricity. Ideas and innovation were actively encouraged. It gave me an excellent grounding in professional creative problem solving, and it was a confirmation that ‘fun’ could have serious benefits. In 1991 I went freelance: I’d had my fill of working for big organizations and wanted the freedom to pursue my own passions in my own way. I began running creative problem-solving workshops for senior managers in government (it was a huge, untapped market!) and also for graphic designers. In my spare time, I also wrote a book about cricket. I’ve always loved cricket, as a player and as a spectator, but was aware that the arcane laws of the sport are a mystery to most people. The book (‘What is a Googly?’) is an explanation of cricket to the general public. Getting that first book published in 1992 was probably the most satisfying creative project of my life – taking a project all the way from the seed of an idea to the finished product over the course of about 18 months, after many rejections by publishers. The book did very well. Its biggest claim to fame was that in 1993, Prime Minister John Major presented a copy of it to President George Bush (Snr) at Camp David. (At the time it was an ongoing joke between the two leaders that Bush was a baseball fan, John Major a cricket fan).
BOOKS AND MATHS
In the late 1990s, an old friend Jeremy Wyndham asked me if I’d be interested in writing a book with him about the maths of everyday life. That book became the bestselling Why Do Buses Come In Threes? and it was to push my career in a different direction. I began to be invited into schools to give talks about maths for disaffected teenagers who couldn’t see the point of the subject. I also started doing talks on maths and magic for primary school children. Both of these proved to be a wonderful stimulus for generating ideas for new book material. Jeremy and I wrote a second book, ‘How Long Is a Piece of String?’, and I have since gone on to write/co-write seven more books, some but not all of them about the maths of everyday life. In 2004 I had the idea of putting on maths lecture shows for teenagers. To get away from the notion that maths only happens in schools, we decided to hold the shows in regular theaters such as the Bristol Hippodrome and London’s Gielgud Theatre. Our shows attract about 15,000 teenagers every year from across the UK. We have to come up with new material each year, so nurturing ideas is an important part of my daily life.
CREATIVE THINKING BOOK – COMING FULL CIRCLE
In the last few years, maths education has become dominated by the words ‘creativity’ and ‘problem-solving’. This has been a theme of workshops that I have run for maths teacher for several years, but until now I never formally made the link back to my previous life running workshops for civil servants. My new book ‘Any Ideas?’ has brought those two worlds together. The book is about the whole process of ideas – from having them, to implementing them. What distinguishes it from the many other books on this topic is that I differentiate between having ideas on your own, and having ideas with one or more other people. In most situations, there’s more than one person involved in the idea process, and that introduces all sorts of complications. A lot of the book is about how to overcome the natural tendency to kill ideas (either our own or other people’s). There’s also a chapter dedicated to the importance of SILLINESS: if we want to have new ideas, we have to tolerate a period of having ideas that may at first seem impractical, dangerous, crass or just silly. The other feature of the book is that it has puzzles dotted throughout. Puzzles are often a great way to illustrate the principles of creative and lateral thinking.
The book is aimed at the general public but it’s as relevant to maths teachers as it is to any other adults.
FAMILY
I’ve been married to Elaine, an American, for 18 years. We have three children, who help to keep me young and (most of the time) enthusiastic.
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Choose Positive living with Sara Troy and her guest Gloria Hass, on air from March 21st
Gloria Hass is a bestselling author, she has recently closed her business and life consulting business to concentrate on another passion of hers – professional speaking as a mental health expert on Dissociative Identity Disorder. Ms. Hass has been a professional speaker for 25 years. She has spoken on topics of evangelism, computer software and now educating people about multiple personality disorder and mental illness in the workplace to help lower the stigma that surrounds mental health issues. Gloria has over 39 years of personal counseling and therapy experience to reference from.
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Also, during the past 30 years, Gloria worked as a Court Appointed Special Advocate Coordinator At YCAP in McMinnville, Oregon (where she set up this program from scratch), a solutionist, mentor/coach as well as giving presentations and seminars. When she worked in a corporate environment, she streamlined work to make more money for the company and less work for the workers, she also streamlined departments so redundancy and theft were eliminated. Gloria has helped small businesses grow.
Gloria Hass spent many years living in a confused world of abuse, trauma, and terror which caused her brain to fracture into 38 alternate personalities. Gloria spent years in counseling, therapy, reading self-help books and taking courses. While she grew and healed to a point, Gloria wasn’t mentally capable of going any further in her life until she found the proper help. After five months of intense psychotherapy, she was able to integrate 13 of the 38 alternate personalities. After another six months, Gloria combined/integrated the other 25 alternate personalities. Gloria is now living with a unified brain and realized she has the personal experience, knowledge, and understanding of how to help people who have mental health issues to live a more successful life. She knows the importance of extreme healing and transformation of the mind in order for someone with a mental illness or disorder to gain empowerment and control of their life.
In my early teens, I had a few creative hobbies, including producing simple cartoon flick books and four-minute silent movies using an old 8mm cine camera. But the innocent enthusiasm behind those and some of my other interests often set me apart from my peer group whose interests were increasingly turning towards heavy metal and parties. I spent much of my mid-teens as an observer, watching how teenagers behaved with each other. I was never bullied, but I became very sensitive to the injustice of people being laughed at just because they or their ideas were ‘different’. 
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