BB26-32. Terisse Louise Bell Walker Builds with Purpose

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Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Terisse Louise Bell Walker. On air from

For more than four decades, I’ve watched hardworking families and business owners do everything “right,” yet still find themselves financially vulnerable when life unexpectedly changes. After experiencing personal loss, career transitions, and becoming a caregiver for my aging mother, I discovered that my greatest purpose wasn’t simply building a business—it was building people. Today, I help individuals, families, and aspiring entrepreneurs create stronger financial foundations through education, protection, leadership, and business ownership opportunities. My message is simple: when we lead with purpose, serve with integrity, and invest in others, we don’t just change financial futures—we create legacies that impact generations.

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Terisse Louise Bell Walker is the founder of Terisse Walker Insurance Agency, an independent life insurance professional, leadership coach, speaker, and Amazon #1 bestselling co-author of Built With Purpose. With more than 40 years of executive leadership experience spanning finance, accounting, human resources, operations, and entrepreneurship, she has dedicated her career to developing leaders, strengthening businesses, and serving families with integrity.

Today, Terisse mentors entrepreneurs across the United States while educating families and business owners about financial protection, living benefits, retirement strategies, and legacy planning. Through her agency, speaking, writing, and leadership coaching, she equips others to build businesses with purpose, lead with compassion, and create generational impact.

Her mission is simple: Protect People. Build Leaders. Leave a Legacy.

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C26-32. Michael Wood, Learn To Love Being You.

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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Michael Wood, on air August 11th

For most of my life, I lived with a constant noise in my head — fear, self-doubt, and the kind of quiet anxiety that turns every situation into a problem. Through years of intense internal work, meditation, education, and facing the fears I’d been running from, I found something I didn’t know existed: real, lasting peace. And once I had it, I started seeing pain everywhere — in friends, family, strangers — people who had simply normalized feeling bad. That’s why I built Learn To Love Being You: to give people the actual mechanical tools to take control of their minds, rewire the subconscious programs running them, and remember who they are underneath all the noise. My message is simple — your thoughts aren’t who you are, your pain doesn’t have to define you, and peace isn’t something you have to earn. It’s something you come back to.

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Mike is a Consciousness Awareness Professional and the creator of the Learn To Love Being You program, a 10-week journey designed to help people break free from anxiety, self-doubt, and the emotional spirals that keep them stuck. After rebuilding his own life from the inside out, Mike has dedicated himself to helping others rewrite the beliefs that shape their reality and reconnect with the part of themselves they forgot they had. As COO of Jarrett Companies, Mike has led hundreds of high-stakes, emotionally charged conversations—experiences that shaped his direct, no-nonsense approach to personal transformation. He blends spiritual insight, grounded psychology, and a goofy sense of humor to help people open up, relax, and finally breathe. Whether he’s teaching breathwork in a maximum-security prison, building businesses that actually uplift their people, or guiding someone through a major breakthrough, Mike’s mission is simple: help people remember who they are, unlock what they’re capable of, and actually enjoy being themselves.

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C26-32. Kathleen Tonnesen -Art Beyond Sight.

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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Kathleen Tonnesen ie Katon. On air from August 11th

An Artist’s Search for Creative Ways to Overcome Life’s Obstacles: How Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido Helped Me See Beyond the Light

In our previous interview in 2018, Kathleen Tonnesen publicly shared her journey with vision loss—an experience she found deeply helpful. Since then, practising Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido has opened a new path in her rehabilitation and artistic development.

Kathleen believes the discipline and intense focus of Aikido have helped her retrain her right eye to read, draw, and paint again. Although this is her personal experience rather than a medical conclusion, she feels the practice may have helped her brain develop new pathways and delayed the progression of her vision loss.

Since 2023, Kathleen has continued forging a new artistic path. Her work reflects her changing vision and explores light, balance, geometry, human interaction, and connection beyond sight. Her focus is on developing skills that expand the creative boundaries of the heart and mind.

As Kathleen says, “Your life is an unfolding rose in the bouquet of God’s love.”

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In this solo exhibition, Kathleen explores the felt sensations of balance, timing, posture, and geometry found within Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido. These works are presented alongside large botanical paintings celebrating colour, creativity, resilience, and the continuing evolution of her sight.

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Kathleen Tonnesen, known artistically as Katon, is a Canadian self-taught painter, sculptor, author, poet, and inventor. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she immigrated to Canada in 1998. A professional artist since 1990, Kathleen creates meaningful, thought-provoking work that enriches public spaces and connects communities.

She is also a certified Shioda Yoshinkan Aikido instructor and Shodan—first-degree black belt—currently preparing for her Nidan, or second-degree black belt, test. Drawing upon her experience in psychology, early childhood education, performing arts, visual art, and martial arts, Kathleen inspires personal growth and encourages adults to rediscover their inner child.

Following vision loss, Kathleen used the discipline and intense focus of Aikido to support her rehabilitation. Through consistent practice, she retrained her right eye to read, draw, and paint again. Since 2023, her evolving artwork has explored light, human connection, and perception beyond sight.

Kathleen’s artistic roots were inspired by the charcoal portraits of her South African grandfather, Charles Holton Peers.

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IG26-31. Mark Springer, Gardens in the Galaxies

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Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Mark Springer. On air from August 4th

A New Novel Explores What The World Would Be Like. If Adam & Eve Never Gave Into Temptation. What could life have been like for Adam and Eve if they had never disobeyed God?

This is the interesting premise of Gardens in the Galaxies, the new speculative fiction novel by Mark Springer. It’s his second work of fiction, following Flesh Becomes Words, the debut novel that blends science fiction with spirituality.

Join Adam and Eve in this fictional adventure as they await judgement and sentencing for the original sin of disobeying God. Travel back in time with the first couple and an angel named Josiah who shows them how life began on earth. Then move into an unrealized future of gardens in the galaxies, the high life that God had always planned for them and all of mankind. Finally, return with Adam and Eve to their present situation as you witness the judgement and sentencing of their eternal fate by an all-merciful but just God.

The book is speculative fiction; historical fiction that poses a question of what would have happened if a single event happened a different way. In this case, what would have happened if Adam and Eve did not disobey God in the Garden of Eden and bring about the fall of mankind?

“The foundation of the book is based on an assumption of the truth of the scriptures,” says author Springer, “and it explores the connection between Adam and Eve, the first Adam, and Jesus Christ, proclaimed in the scriptures as being the “last Adam” and what that means for all of us today.”

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Mark Springer has over three decades of experience as a senior-level writer, and editor of technical and scientific documents. He also has crafted promotional content for the medical device, biotechnology, and life science industries. For the past nine years, he has been working for Gilead Sciences, including the last five as the manager and technical editor in labeling operations.

Prior to that, he served for two years, as the senior technical editor for BD Biosciences, editing all customer-read documents that met factual, legal and regulation requirements. He received a Special Achievement Recognition Award there. His career began as a senior technical writer and managing editor of technical publications for change management software at a startup company. The biggest portion of his career consisted of 19 years at Life Technologies, where his positions varied from senior science writer in brand marketing, senior manager in public relations, to senior writer in technical communications.

He is the author of Flesh Becomes Words, his debut novel that blends science fiction with spirituality. His first non-fiction book, Identity Theft, was published last year. His newest book is historical fiction, Gardens in the Galaxies.

Along with a colleague of his, he developed an online magazine in the late 1990s called BioBeat Online Magazine. For about six years, he wrote articles for this publication and other trade publications that were associated with a life sciences company in the Bay Area. The articles were related to significant research and medical applications related to the use of DNA sequencing and genetic analysis technologies. He and his colleague won numerous Apex Publication awards for the content over this six-year period.

Springer graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a BA, double-majoring in Cell Biology and English Literature. He is deeply devoted to his faith, reading the Bible two to three hours daily. His books reflect both his science acumen and his dedication to faith. Born in Albany, NY, he grew up in Fresno, CA, and now resides with his wife in San Mateo, CA. They have two children.

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AK26-30. Sam Hawksmoor & Saving Shannon

July 27, 2026July 27, 2026Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Sam Hawksmoor. On air from July 28th

A dying town. A falling star. A secret that could change everything .Sixteen-year-old Shannon has spent most of her life on a remote mountain, surrounded by forests, animals, and the endless mystery of the night sky.

When a mysterious object crashes into a remote mountain during a devastating blizzard, sixteen-year-old Shannon becomes the only known survivor. As her hometown is sealed off by the military amid rumours of alien contamination, an insurance investigator uncovers a web of deception surrounding the disaster. Pursued by powerful forces and searching for the truth, Shannon, Mika, and Lola must unravel the mystery of what really fell from the sky before it destroys them all.

Then the sky breaks.

Saving Shannon is a gripping science-fiction thriller packed with mystery, suspense, heart, and unforgettable characters.

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Sam Hawksmoor has been a storyteller for as long as he can remember, transforming a lifelong passion for writing into captivating tales of mystery, adventure, and imagination. Through richly crafted characters and immersive worlds, he invites readers to explore the unknown, uncover hidden truths, and experience stories that entertain, inspire, and ignite the imagination. Every book reflects his love of storytelling and his commitment to taking readers on unforgettable journeys.