ECO22-18 Lisa D. Foster is the ‘Bag Lady,’

May 2, 2022May 26, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

ECO Solutions with Sara Troy and her guest Lisa D. Foster, on air from May 3rd

Lisa D. Foster: is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and author of ‘Bag Lady,’ who took the germ of a green living idea and grew it into a national business phenomenon. When she realized that Americans were throwing away a billion bags a day, Lisa D. Foster discovered reusable bags. Over the next twelve years, she changed the way Americans shopped. She remained true to her original purpose to reduce plastic waste and beat the odds to create a thriving company with an environmental mission.

Recounting my experience as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, my story provides a blueprint for using entrepreneurship to make the world better.

I’m very excited to announce that my book, Bag Lady: How I Started a Business for a Greener World and Changed the Way America Shops, released on Earth Day, April 22, 2022.

Those of you who have known me for a while may remember me in my previous career as a leading supplier of reusable bags in the US. If you have known me a really long time, you might even remember me as the high school English teacher I once was.

About a year ago, during the lockdown in the middle of the winter of Covid, I sat down to write about becoming obsessed with reducing plastic waste and transforming myself into the Bag Lady, an entrepreneur on a mission to get Americans to adopt reusable bags. Last fall, I found Tim Ward, publisher of Changemakers Books for John Hunt Publishing, who recognized the value of my story for other people that want to make a difference in their communities.

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When I first learned about reusable shopping bags in 2005, the US was throwing away a billion plastic bags a day. The impacts of all those bags on our environment and our taxes kept me up at night. It hit my moral center. Getting other people to switch to reusable bags became for me, a moral imperative. I believed that if American shoppers knew what I knew, they would switch to reusable bags too. So, I did what any good English teacher would do. I took the facts about bags and turned them into a story. Then I took the story and turned it into the basis for starting a business for a greener world.

When I started, I had no idea how to build a business. I was an English teacher making cold calls overlooking the faculty parking lot. Very quickly, I found myself building an international supply chain and managing major accounts. I had to overcome the naysayers, an insanely steep learning curve, and my own mistakes. Ultimately, I beat the odds and created a thriving company with an environmental mission.

Now, I’m sharing the lessons I learned to inspire others to do the same.

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IG22-08 Vanessa Ferlaino on Self-belief + Personal Empowerment

February 21, 2022April 10, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Vanessa Ferlaino, on air from February 22nd

We often hear about the importance of positive thinking or terms like “Grabbing the bull by the horns” when we hear about people attempting to make positive change. For many, this can seem completely daunting, and in some cases unachievable. But Vanessa Ferlaino is proof that through self-belief and personal empowerment, we can not only make positive change in our own lives, but we can uplift and elevate others around us for the betterment of the world.

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Vanessa is a respected entrepreneur, a singer/songwriter, and a critically acclaimed author who has built her dream through hard work and sheer determination.

Through her music, business endeavors, and via her much-lauded book HUMAN, Vanessa is achieving her goal of inspiring by example and offering up words of wisdom, on how to achieve what we wish to achieve.

This is not mere lip service Vanessa, has overcome a myriad of personal tragedies and seemingly insurmountable obstacles on her way to achieving her success and being a positive voice for others.

“To me, being human is about standing tall when our truth, our voice, is challenged,” says Vanessa. “It is all about putting all different pieces of ourselves together so they can co-exist inside of you. What we uncover and discover about ourselves leads us further to our truth and authenticity. “

Vanessa hopes to empower those who feel powerless, through her words and actions with the goal of sharing her message across as many platforms as possible.

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C22-02 Monty Ritchings, Ascend Your Beliefs.

January 10, 2022September 19, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Monty Ritchings, on air from January 8th

We are much greater than we think we are. We have been conditioned to accept our childhood beliefs as the basis for the operating system for our lives. My Why is that I believe we can reframe childhood beliefs and be as powerful as the beliefs we choose as adults. I am driven to provide information and tools to help others and myself to grow to the best possible heights in this life.

I am an Author, Environmentalist, Entrepreneur, Mystic. I believe that we can only truly come to know ourselves by getting past ourselves through our relationship with nature and the Universe. I have been a member of the Rosicrucian Order AMORC for more than 40 years. My studies have included understanding how life works on a Universal level and intuitive medicine

My focus as a writer whether it be fiction or non-fiction is about mind management, core beliefs, and working beyond the. The mundane world supports us to be much more than just the limited beings we are presented as.

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I have written 4 non-fiction books in various aspects of mind management including Embracing The Blend 2007, 2009, Stamp Out Stress 2010, Charkas Demystified 21019, Healthy Children Only Need Three Things 2019, and most recently my first fiction book, soon to be a series called The Ascenders Return To Grace.

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C21-11 Issa Musharbash, Stay & Defy the Odds.

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Issa Musharbash, on air from March 16th

Issa Musharbash, author of Go Back To Your Country: Or Stay & Defy All Odds. Issa Musharbash is a recognized leader and founder of Provident Legacy and it’s family of companies. His iconic book “Go Back To Your Country” surfaces conversations of immigration, leadership, entrepreneurship, and the transformative story of an immigrant boy from Jordan who settled in the United States. The story of finding family, love, and faith resulted from his own adversity serves as the American immigrant story of the 21st Century.

Here’s some FAST FACTS:

Purchased his first property at 24 years old and started his multimillion dollar company at 26 years old.
The President of the university that he dropped out from wrote the forward for Go back To Your Country.
Currently taking classes at Harvard – Extension School.
Guest speaker at the headquarters at iconic institutions such as Zillow, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Went from making 40k a year to running his multimillion dollar operation in just 5 years.
Endorsed by Professor Jerusha Achterberg, MA, MPH, Harvard University.
Endorsed by Willie Alfonso, Chaplain, New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets.
Shared a stage with legendary speakers such as Les Brown.

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Author, speaker, father, entrepreneur, and community leader — Issa Musharbash is a recognized leader and founder of Provident Legacy and it’s family of companies that operate a real estate brokerage, licensing school, and development company. He is also the visionary leader behind the prolific media company Unshakable Productions — an award recipient of the Spirit of New Jersey Award from the Golden Door International Film Festival. Issa has shared the stage with legendary speakers such as Les Brown and spoke at the headquarters of iconic brands such as Zillow Group, Facebook and Linkedin, among other prominent organizations. As a teacher at heart, he finds a meaningful purpose in empowering the next generation of professionals.

His iconic book “Go Back To Your Country” surfaces conversations of immigration, leadership, entrepreneurship, and the transformative story of an immigrant boy from Jordan who settled in the United States. The story of finding family, love, and faith resulted from his own adversity serves as the American immigrant story of the 21st Century.

Issa is an active leader at the Cityline Church in Jersey City, NJ and a resident of Hudson County. He spends his time building life alongside his beautiful Ecuadorian-American wife and their three ethnically diverse children.

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TSM 17-16 “Living My Illusion” with Joel Van der Molen

April 11, 2017April 21, 2023Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Joel Van der Molen, on air from April 18th

Living My Illusion

Joel says “Like most people, I too have been a victim of living in an Instagram/Facebook world and have become very good at wearing masks to hide the pain. I take a selfie and say, look at me, I’m successful, my life is amazing and I have it all together, when inside I’m anxious, stressed, depressed and lonely.

In this interview with Sara Troy on SELF Discovery Radio , I share my journey working with the world renowned Life Coach and Human behaviour expert Tony J Selimi and how it ignited the idea to co-create the documentary series Living My Illusion.

It was not an easy thing to do, in fact, it was the hardest and most challenging thing to go through periods in my life where I had to address thoughts and feelings that deep down I was afraid to acknowledge.

Many people have grown up in a world where we suppress our truth and live our lives according to other people’s values and expectations, whether they are parents, society, culture or religion. I trust by sharing my personal story it becomes a lesson for millions of people to self-reflect, addresses their fears and awakens their true authentic being.

In today’s fast-paced, demanding, and the technologically driven world it is easy to move with the crowd and create our lives based on what everyone else is doing, and what we are told to do. We are programmed from birth about how the world is and what we have to do to fit in.

We learn to suppress our inner truth, voice, and heart desires in order to seek the approval from those we love, be accepted and feel worthy. It is this change in our way of thinking, feeling and behaving that brings us out of our natural state of inner balance, creates disease and drives the segregation we experience worldwide.

Recognising from a young age that something doesn’t feel right about his way of being, but unable to express it, Joel Van der Molen sought the help of Tony J. Selimi, the world renowned human behaviour and cognition expert known as The See-Through Coach to address the nagging feeling deep down which he could no longer ignore.”

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Joel is a serial entrepreneur, actor and speaker who grew up in South East England. He attended one of London’s most prestigious Drama School before following an entrepreneurial path that leads him to create and grow Vandercom into a successful Telecommunications & IT company.

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Joel’s mission is to use his creative abilities to move people into action through making inspiring films and documentaries that are emotionally engaging, mind illuminating, and heart awakening.

Today we will be talking to him about a new documentary series titled Living My Illusion, created to help people ask questions about their own reality and not be afraid to honour their truth and trust their inner knowing. In part 1, Joel turns the camera on himself, looking at the decisions and choices he has made based on social conditioning, fulfilling other people’s values and expectations of him, and how his life coaching journey, with world renowned human behaviour & cognition expert, Tony J. Selimi, helped him to get beneath the surface of his own lies and live his truth without fear of what others may think of him.