Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Suswati Basu, on air from January 18th
I believe that knowledge is power, whether, through books or research, we can all know ourselves a little better. Even though I have faced many adversities in both mental and physical health, I feel that we never stop growing as people.
Suswati Basu is a multilingual disabled intelligence expert, journalist, mental health books show podcast host, and award-winning activist.
Winner of the Emma Humphries Memorial Prize in 2007, also shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize in the same year, and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. She has worked in China, India, and the UK and currently writes on a freelance basis. As a result, she speaks multiple languages including Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Bengali. Suswati has also appeared on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour with Jenni Murray as well as BBC News, speaking in regard to feminist issues.
Suswati has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post, and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 News, and ITV News.
As a survivor and thriver from trauma, living with both mental health and physical disabilities, she began the How To Be… podcast looking at helping mental wellbeing through reading and interviewing authors. Speaking to 36 authors in 2021, including powerhouse women such as powerlifter and journalist Poorna Bell, and the Year of Living Danishly author Helen Russell, Suswati gained huge insight throughout the year and has been developing and creating a like-minded community who discuss these topics on Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse on a weekly basis. She actually reads a book a day!
Suswati new show with Sara Troy airing February 7th.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Nadine Hanchar, on air from February 9th
I wrote this book because I had so much success with my clients and students with the PEP Personality Process that they kept asking me for more information. Since most of it in the early days was just in my head I began to define it and refine it into the system it is today and I am grateful that the feedback I am getting from the readers of the book is that they are getting value from it too. My intent is to assist people in having better relationships and communication.
This book is a guide that delivers an in-depth look at your PEP Personality Process and its benefits for those seeking self-development and improvement in their relationships at home and in the workplace. It is an excellent tool for gaining insight into the processing styles of all the key people in our lives.
Knowing our own style gives us insights concerning our tendencies and those of others. It teaches us, how we filter information, how we communicate with others, how we handle stress, how to feel more secure, how we best understand and learn. All of us have a need to be seen and accepted for who we are, to be heard and understood, to feel connected, and to make sense of the world around us.
Whether we know it or not, everyone has a processing style, and it influences how our environment affects us, how we make decisions, how we interpret things, and how we react to situations.
Throughout the book, readers learn about the various personality processing styles and their communication skills, behaviour patterns, challenges and talents. Gaining these insights will give readers the tools to build successful relationships with others.
Anyone who is looking for assistance with gaining a greater sense of self-awareness and feelings of empowerment will find that the answers can be found by developing a deeper understanding of who you truly are.
Our differences give a richness, a creativity, that can broaden our horizons. Our diversity illuminates different ways of doing things, allowing for innovations, new insights, and helps us grow and enrich our lives. Accepting ourselves, creates empowerment, freedom is gained when we accept others for who they are, and happiness is a result of acknowledging that we are all worthy of respect.
assists us in knowing how we learn and what is the best way for us to learn;
opens our eyes to our natural talents and abilities as well as our challenges and pitfalls;
gives us ways to regain peace and move back into balance when we get stressed or go out of balance;
shows us how we interface with the environments around us and how that can affect us;
helps us get a handle on what is going on when we feel insecure, and what we can do about it.
In short, it empowers us, helping us to make sense of our world and those in it.
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More about what I believe: Creating Better Relationships, Makes a Better World!
When we accept ourselves, we create empowerment. Freedom is gained when we accept others for who they are, and happiness is a result of acknowledging that we are all worthy of respect.
Our differences make us stronger, and our collaborative contributions innovate and build better, stronger organizations; more solid and trusting relationships; and diverse and growing communities that promote a more enlightened world.
In my 30 plus years of working and developing the PEP Personality Process with my family, friends, students, groups, business teams and clients, I have learned a few important things about relationships.
All of us have a need to be accepted for who we are, to be understood, to feel secure, and to make sense of the world around us. We all want to be connected, heard, and seen, and to know we are loved. As we get to know ourselves better, we have better relationships with others, communicate more effectively, appreciate our differences, and better accept one another.
The PEP Personality Process is an excellent tool because it assists us in gaining insight into the personality types of all the key people in our life: our spouse, children, bosses, co-workers, students, friends, and clients or customers. With it, you can discover what others expect from you in terms of communication and behaviour—and what you are expecting of them.
In studying and learning NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and human psychology in conjunction with my spiritual explorations and personal experiences, I discovered that people are rich and layered, and are fascinating. From a very early age, I wanted to know what made people tick. I was always asking questions and observing other people’s behaviours. I began to see patterns, then insights would come to me, and suddenly pieces would click into place.
It truly is my dream to live in a world where people are valued, respected, and accepted for who they are no matter what their culture, religion, country, sexual preference, financial situation, education, or gender. It is my dream to live in a world filled with unity, compassion, and joy. This book is a contribution to that vision. I hope people find it useful and enlightening.
Nadine Hanchar, is the developer of the PEP Personality Process and a Master Trainer of NLP, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Trainer, Counsellor and Consultant. Specializing in relationships, trauma, communication, personal and professional development. Her results-oriented approach allows the person, couple, family or organization to go forward with a better quality of life.
My Company Background:
Counselling: specializing in Relationship issues and Trauma.
Consulting: for businesses, entrepreneurs, management and leadership teams
Best Selling Author: “Knowing Me, Knowing You – The PEP Personality Process” , “A Book to Live By – workbook and journal”, “Sparks of Light – Sacred Hearts Rising”
Speaker: on a wide variety of topics
Trainer: Certification courses in NLP, Hypnosis, Counselling and Coaching
Facilitator of Personal Enrichment Programs personal growth & spirituality classes
My background:
I started my own personal growth journey at age 16 and started leading personal growth workshops at age 19. I then went into business opening a Sporting Goods Store which taught me so many things because as an entrepreneur you do everything. I then went to work for an Independent Newspaper where I quickly ended up managing the advertising department. I also continued my personal and professional studies evenings, weekends and holidays.
I have always been passionate about people, personal growth, and practicality. For over thirty six years, I have studied extensively in Canada and the US to learn about NLP, hypnosis, philosophy, spirituality, communication, nutrition and healing. I consider myself a very holistic person taking the body, mind and spirit into consideration.
I have been in private practice since 1986 and began and taught my Personal Enrichment Programs since then. I am a Certified Counsellor, Consultant, Speaker, Author & Master Trainer of Time Release Therapy™, Hypnotherapy, and Neuro-Linguistic Psychology™. I am the developer of the PEP Personality Process for which I published a book called ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You – The PEP Personality Process”. I opened the Private Post-Secondary Education Institute in 1994 where I then offered certification courses to others.
I work with individuals, couples and organizations
I specializes in the PEP Personality Process and how personality styles affect communication, behaviour and life
I assist people in discovering more choices
I assist people in building better relationships at home and at work
My Why:
I have always been fascinated by people. I moved a lot as a young person and had to learn to fit in and make friends and got to observe many different people in a multitude of settings and situations. People naturally gravitated to me with their issues and I seemed to be able to give people a different perspective which often assisted them and this was before I had done any formal training. It seemed like a natural fit and it was something I was genuinely interested in.
I believe that “Positive Action Inwardly Produces Love”
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Luis Gonzales, on air from July 14th
Our careers, our companies, our relationships, and our lives succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time. With Fierce conversations, we come out from behind ourselves and into our conversations and make them real. We have conversations that make a difference in our organizations, our careers, and our lives while enriching our relationships.
Luis has been an international training professional for over 20 years. He has lived and worked in Mexico, India, and Brazil, with organizations such as Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, and Microsoft.
Growing up as a gay young man in a Mexican American, Catholic, and misogynist culture was a challenge, for sure. But always the independent thinker, this situation only urged Luis to continue questioning authority, questioning reality, and seeking truth.
Luis Gonzáles is a Master Facilitator and Speaker with Fierce, Inc. Fierce is an award-winning leadership development company whose methodologies help increase a company’s performance through effective communication.
Luis loves his role with Fierce because he gets to help people have more effective, meaningful, relationship-enriching conversations. What he especially appreciates is that these Fierce principles work in our personal lives as well, helping us achieve our goals and enrich relationships.
Luis has been an international training professional for over 20 years. He has lived and worked in Mexico, India, and Brazil, with organizations such as Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, and Microsoft.
Growing up as a gay young man in a Mexican American, Catholic, and misogynist culture was a challenge, for sure. But always the independent thinker, this situation only urged Luis to continue questioning authority, questioning reality, and seeking truth.
Luis is also a massage therapist and healer. He continues to have his “hands” in it but only as a gift, not professionally. In his youth, he lived in his VW Bus for a time and traveled with a loose-knit group of like-minded hippies around the US, India, and Europe. These experiences have had a lasting impact on Luis and have also shaped his values and perspective on life.
Currently, Luis loves living the mellow Southern California beach life in San Diego. He enjoys body surfing, yoga, and sunsets over the Pacific.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guests Ann-Britt Bolinder and Leigh Hodgins, on air from June 12th
Ann-Britt Bolinder – Gustavsborg PRE andLeigh Hodgins – Willow Spirit Path Holistic Services, together they offer Heart Path – Compassionate Leadership Programs
The HeartPath Compassionate Leadership Program for Women is for women who want to take their leadership skills to the next level to be more successful in their life and career.
Each Compassionate Leadership Program consists of two components, the first component is LifeSpider™ Group Coaching and the second component is Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning™. The combination of these two programs will allow you to become a better leader by developing your emotional intelligence and leading more from your heart instead of your brain.
JOIN SARA ANN-BRITT AND LEIGH HERE IN UNDERSTANDING HOW HORSES AND THE SPIDER PROGRAM WORK FOR US.
Ann-Britt is a creative entrepreneur who started her career in advertising and then moved on to being a self-employed fashion designer, making beautiful dresses for Nobel Prize banquets, weddings as well as everyday clothing.
Ann-Britt was thrown into the horse world when her daughter started to ride, 1992.
Ann-Britt, who was a great admirer of horses, found out that she was terrified of them and to overcome that fear she decided to start riding. Ann-Britt quickly understood that horses are magnificent, loving creatures.
When she and her husband bought Gustavsborgs Gård they moved from Stockholm to the south of Sweden and quit their careers. Her husband Kenneth as CIO and Vice President for an international corporation. Gustavsborg PRE, a stud-farm for PRE-horses was founded. The whole family were involved in the business. Ann-Britt projected her creativity into their stud-farm arranging clinics, both for horses and dogs.
She is passionate about good food and during the clinics she provides lunch for their guests. This resulted in guests asking for recipes and she wrote two cookbooks, one of which she co-authored with her daughter.
FEEL turned out to be a life-transforming journey in personal and emotional growth.
Ann-Britt became a FEEL Practitioner in 2017 and an Advanced FEEL Practitioner in 2018.
Leigh’s love and passion for horses were kindled when she was five years old. Her Dad took her to visit a friend’s ponies and from that day forward, horses were a part of her life. If she wasn’t dreaming of horses, she was drawing them, riding or collecting them.
As an adult, Leigh’s passion for animals continued. While her career took her into the corporate world, her home was on acreage with dogs, a donkey, and horses she adopted over the years. Leigh honed her business skills, first in law firms as a paralegal, then as an Assistant Corporate Secretary for an energy company and finally for a governance consulting business. In 2007, while working at the energy company she went back to school and obtained a B.A. Integrated Liberal Arts and Business Studies Program from Simon Fraser University.
Over the years, there were some major personnel changes in her life and Leigh gradually retreated into herself and shut down her emotions. As she spent more time with her horses and became grounded Leigh started to ‘feel’ life again, with renewed mental and physical energy.
In 2016, Leigh decided to take some time off work to help with some family matters. During this time she came across the program to become a facilitator in Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning®. Becoming a FEEL Practitioner was a life-changing journey that allowed Leigh to partner with her horses and fully develop her intuitive skills and compassion and live her best life!
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Brent Marchant, on air from February 19th
Brent Marchant is a conscious movie critic, seeking out the movies that have an impact on our lives in a good way.
Each year we bring to you his Pick for the Oscars and why.
JOIN SARA AND BRENT AS THEY LOOK AT WHO WILL WIN AND SHOULD WIN AND WHY.
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A lifelong movie fan and longtime student of metaphysics, Brent Marchant is the author of the recently released book, Consciously Created Cinema: The Movie Lover’s Guide to the Law of Attraction, a reader-friendly look at how the practice of “conscious creation” (also known as “the law of attraction”) is illustrated through film. He’s also the author of a predecessor work on the same topic, Get the Picture?!: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies, which is soon to be re-released in a new, updated edition.
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