Mental Health Awareness.with Sara Troy and her guest Kimberly Best, on air from March 7th
She is passionate about helping others resolve conflicts in a productive, non-litigious way using mediation, facilitation and collaborative problem solving, in order to find optimal solutions for all parties. Kim’s unique, diverse experiences and her love of learning inform her work in conflict management.
Kim is also a volunteer mediator with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Dispute Resolution Program and Community/Police Unification Program. In addition, she is a practicing facilitator for challenging business and social conversations.
Kimberly Best, RN, MA, is a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed Civil and Trained Family Mediator Kim’s practice focuses on Family Mediation, Health, and Elder Care Mediation, Civil and Business Mediation, and Conflict Coaching in Franklin, Tennessee.
She is the author of “How to Live Forever, A Guide to Writing the Final Chapter of Your Life Story” and is a speaker and trainer on the topics of conflict management, dispute resolution processes, life transitions, and how to make difficult decisions – including end of life issues.
She is the author of “How to Live Forever, A Guide to Writing the Final Chapter of Your Life Story” and is a speaker and trainer on the topics of conflict management, dispute resolution processes, life transitions, and how to make difficult decisions – including end of life issues.
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Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Michael (UNBROKEN) Anthony, on air from March 15th
From homeless to hero, Michael Unbroken, is the Founder of Think Unbroken, best-selling author, award-winning speaker, podcast host, coach, and advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma.
At 4 years old Michael’s emotionally incestuous mother cut off his right index finger, she was a drug addict and an alcoholic.
At 6 his hyper-abusive step-father beat and hospitalized him.
At 7 he was molested by a den mother in the Mormon Church.
From 8-12 he was often homeless and in deep poverty and did what it took to survive from stealing food and only bathing at school.
He got high for the first time at 12 and drunk at 13. By 15 he was expelled from school for selling drugs.
At 18 he found himself deep in The Vortex and began chasing money to solve his problems.
By 25 Michael was 350 pounds, smoking two packs a day, drinking himself to sleep, and attempted suicide for the second time.
Then he had his mirror moment and decided to stop being a victim of trauma and to be the HERO of his own Story!
Since 2016, Michael has empowered over 100,000 trauma survivors to get out of The Vortex, learn to love themselves, and become the hero of their own story. Michael has written multiple books including the best seller Think Unbroken: Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma, spoken in over 80 countries, won investments from Undercover Billionaire Grant Cardone and is on a mission to end Generational Trauma in his lifetime.
About Think Unbroken: Our mission is to empower trauma survivors with the tools and curriculum of Think Unbroken to get unstuck, learn to love themselves, get “Out of The Vortex” and reclaim their power. We believe that by creating palatable and practical tools that Trauma Warriors around the world can overcome their past, heal from trauma, and BECOME THE HERO OF THEIR OWN STORY! How to become Unbroken Personal Development Topics: How to get unstuck and out of your own way Why you must educate yourself in order to heal Healing trauma through building a team Changing your life after rock bottom The power of Mentors Business/entrepreneurship Topics: How to own your story and stand out in the marketplace Leadership starts with real vulnerability How to commit even when you are scared You can’t build a successful business without help How to overcome fear to find power in your brand voice I also know the importance of sharing this interview and so if you are kind enough to select me, you can count on me sharing our episode with my entire audience when this goes live.
Do you have a scheduling link we can use? If not, I can send you mine. I have an audience of over 100k subscribers across platforms with who I would be happy to share our podcast with. Additionally, I have free value offers to share with your audience including my self-love course, book, and access to my private coaching group on Facebook. Here is my bio for a little more background: From homeless to hero, Michael Unbroken, is the Founder of Think Unbroken, best-selling author, award-winning speaker, podcast host, coach, and advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma. Since 2016, Michael has empowered over 100,000 trauma survivors to get out of The Vortex, learn to love themselves, and become the hero of their own story. Michael has spoken in over 80 countries, won investments from Undercover Billionaire Grant Cardone, and is on a mission to end Generational Trauma in his lifetime. Additionally, Michael has been an entrepreneur since age eight, led 500 people in his career, built multiple seven-figure businesses, and has consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies! About Think Unbroken: Our mission is to empower trauma survivors with the tools and curriculum of Think Unbroken to get unstuck, learn to love themselves, get “Out of The Vortex” and reclaim their power. We believe that by creating palatable and practical tools that Trauma Warriors around the world can overcome their past, heal from trauma, and BECOME THE HERO OF THEIR OWN STORY!
Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Elizabeth Powers, on air from
“All I do is help people with change, resilience and self-care, and alignment. And everything is done from the trauma-informed perspective,” she says. “Even courses directly about working with trauma are about change.”
Power develops cross-cultural adaptations of models of care for the mental health community as well as helping other countries like Japan develop their own models. The Trauma-Informed Academy recently released her new model, The Trauma Responsive System which focuses on mastering 9 elements akin to applied emotional intelligence.
Elizabeth Power, M.Ed., is an international authority on trauma-informed care, change, and resilience. She’s also an Adjunct Instructor in Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center and a veteran adult educator. Her new book, Healer: Reducing Crises is the first in a five-book series that reduces the time, trauma, and costs of healing from overwhelming events. Her clients include the National Center for PTSD, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and many more. A frequent conference speaker and trainer, Elizabeth’s target is to teach ways to refocus on skills over sickness.
Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Nina Purewal, on air from June 1st
Mindfulness has been a buzzword for the past few years and the number of people practicing in the US has tripled in the past decade. Yet, many people don’t know the real principles behind it. It involves self-love, forgiveness, compassion, authenticity, and perspective. Nina has 20 years of experience in mindfulness and a wealth of authentic strategies to share, including some from her year living in an ashram.
Nina can eloquently discuss how these tools can be used to address pandemic stressors, those with working or schooling from home, dealing with uncertainty, stress over racial tensions, grief, and all the other daily calamities.
Having dealt with her own personal trauma, losing her entire nuclear family, including her brother and father as a teen in a horrific tragedy, she has a unique perspective on how to leverage mindfulness in these difficult times. When Nina was 16, her parents were having marital troubles. Luckily, her mother came home from work early to take her shopping. While they were out, her father killed her brother and committed suicide by setting fire to the family home. This horrific experience put Nina on a 20-year path toward Mindfulness and Forgiveness and living an authentic life.
While Let That Sh*t Go is a light mantra, it is not an easy path. The premise of letting go is knowing that our true nature is joy, bliss & peace, but we have too much sh*t in the way to experience who we really are.
Now, more than ever we need guidance on how to navigate a world where so much is out of our control. We’re faced with confusion, loss, uncertainty and so many unexpected emotions as we face political divides, riots, pandemic-based health concerns and the many challenges found in everyday life. Nina’s book goes beyond the typical, trendy narrative of “tossing out the negative thoughts, instead of teaching us how to face and navigate through them in order to live a free and peaceful life.
After climbing the corporate ladder for nearly a decade, Nina left her flourishing career to take a year sabbatical. She moved to California to unplug and continue her pursuit for happiness while living in an ashram. It was at a peak point of stress sparked by the corporate grind that she took this drastic step to change her life. The outward move allowed Nina to look deeper inward. She wanted to see if there was a way to take ancient wisdom and apply it to modern day stressors and this led her to an international bestselling book and the founding of Pure Minds.
She runs mindfulness and meditation workshops for the public and corporate sector and has worked with over 50 companies, some of her biggest clients to date include Dyson, PepsiCo, lululemon, Deloitte & Under Armour.
Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy and her guest Dr. E. Everett Bartlett, on air from December 8th
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ANALYST:Dr. E. Everett Bartlett, the President of the Coalition to End Domestic Violence.
Domestic violence is a serious problem that knows no boundaries of sex, gender, economic status, geography, or education. The Coalition to End Domestic Violence (CEDV) is a broad-based network of concerned groups and individuals committed to finding substantive solutions to stop domestic violence in the United States.
Results from the recent November 3 elections reveal broad voter dissatisfaction with affirmative action laws and policies that afford preferences to certain gender, racial, and ethnic groups. The results suggest that domestic violence laws, which for years have given preference to female victims, are losing favor.
In California, a strong majority of voters rejected an attempt to resuscitate the use of sex, race, and national origin by universities and other agencies. Chinese-Americans led the opposition to Proposition 16, which was defeated by a 56% to 44% margin.
Liberal progressivism has long supported affirmative action programs that grant preferences on the basis of sex and race. But voters across the country rejected progressive ideals last Tuesday, as House Republicans registered a net gain of five seats.
Liberal stalwarts described the election results in apocalyptic terms. Democrat Jim Clyburn warned bluntly, if “we are going to run on Medicare for All, defund the police, socialized medicine, we’re not going to win.” One Democratic lawmaker commented, “It’s a dumpster fire.” Politico’s Jake Sherman described the election as an “abject disaster” for Democrats.
The federal Violence Against Women Act is a leading example of a sex-based affirmative action program. But the law’s focus on women is not confirmed by research. According California State University professor Martin Fiebert, 221 empirical studies “demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses.”
The Violence Against Women Act has given rise to an array of female-specific offices, programs, grantees, and commissions. For example, the Department of Justice sponsors a Task Force on Research and Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women. The DOJ does not have a corresponding Task Force on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Men, even though Native American men experience similar rates of domestic violence.
This omission led one observer to characterize VAWA’s neglect of male victims as “an insult to fairness.”
In contrast to the federal Violence Against Women Act, state-level laws usually are written using sex-neutral language. But bias is often evident in training programs. For example, research has found that 58% of domestic violence cases are bi-directional, with both partners engaging in abusive behaviors. But one training module by the Association of Title IX Administrators insists, without citing evidence, “To be clear, mutual abuse is neither common nor is it truly mutual.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year there are 4.2 million male victims of physical domestic violence, and 3.5 million female victims. For male victims of domestic violence, justice remains an elusive ideal.
The Violence Against Women Act needs a Fresh Start to address the causes of domestic violence, become responsive to the wishes of victims, support families, and end over-criminalization.
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