Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. on air from November 29th
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is an international leadership guru who rose from humble origins. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading leadership educators, authors, speakers, coaches, consultants, and practitioners. He is a C-Suite advisor and a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He has thirty-eight years of experience in executive coaching and conducts leadership development training programs for various corporate and educational institutions. He brings a strategic eye and long-range vision given his multifaceted professional experience including military, teaching, training, research, consultancy, and philosophy. He coined a new leadership learning tool?Soft Leadership Grid; a leadership training tool?11E Leadership Grid; and an innovative teaching tool?Meka’s Method.
His areas of interest include executive coaching, executive education, and leadership. He is passionate about serving and making a difference in the lives of others. He trains a new generation of leaders through leadership education and publications. He advocates gender equality globally (#HeForShe). He shares his leadership wisdom freely with the world on his four blogs. His vision is to build one million students as global leaders by 2030.
He is the Father of ‘Soft Leadership’ and Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India. He has authored over forty-five books including the award-winning ‘21 Success Sutras for CEOs’. His book ‘21 Success Sutras for Leaders’ was selected as a Top 10 Leadership Book of the Year?2013 by San Diego University, USA. He is the recipient of the International Coach of the Year 2013 and ‘Heart-repreneur® of the Year 2019, USA. He has published more than 250 papers and articles in prestigious international publications including Leader to Leader, Thunderbird International Business Review, Strategic HR Review, Development and Learning in Organizations, Industrial and Commercial Training, On the Horizon, and The Journal of Values-Based Leadership. He maintains four popular blogs including ‘Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders.’
I am an author on Mindful Leadership, CEOs and Executive Coaching. Here is the link to my bestselling book titled, ‘See the Light in You: Acquire Spiritual Powers to Achieve Mindfulness, Wellness, Happiness and Success.’
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Allan Roberts, on air from November 29th
Allan Never worked at school and left at 15 with no qualifications. He was Sent to Radio school but dropped out.
At 17 I had a major mindset shift, and was Top of my City and Guilds course.
He joined army and was a top student, and excelled, and it earned him a luxury posting, with responsibility, and promotion.
Continued with the new mindset for next 60 years so very successful career.
He married but didn’t recognise her mental issues, and their lost luxury home, business, and eventually was deliberately put £200,000 in debt.
Bank ran PPI scam and he lost finally his home, and was still equivalent to $200,000 in debt, homeless, living on the streets, no money for food, and lost over 70lbs in weight, he was a body builder to skeleton in 5 months, living of tea only.
Rehoused by housing association, and driving and a job, he created a 8-year plan to clear debt and make my fortune.
He started a Business coaching, bought more courses to advance his business, and got top of the range Ford Ranger so I have good quality , reliable transport.
Five-year point completely clear of all debt.
That period of starvation had destroyed his stomach so for 5 years he hadn’t eaten properly, he was rushed into hospital for laparotomy, and work stopped for three months.
Thirteen years ago, in less than 20 minutes while recovering from the laparotomy, I go from driving my car, to complete blindness and enter that frightening and solitary world, of darkness and isolation.
My coaching practice crashes.
However, with my mindset, it is only a change of direction.
I have a new world to explore, thrilling new concepts to experience, exciting new challenges to discover.
What have I done since losing my eyesight in 2009?
1. Worcester Association of Carers, I contact and support Carers every week for over 12 years as a volunteer.
2. Public speaking to raise money and awareness for RNIB Talking Books
3. Join Probus (PRO – Professional, BUS – Business) now in my twelfth year (Made vice chairman last year, now chairman)
4. Elected a town councillor, the council rep for Age UK., and eventually Trustee at Age UK.
5. Join U3A and the local history group
6. Join Toastmasters – five years
7. Introduced and taught Public Speaking to the local high school – annual event now run by toastmasters
8. Invited to be the Keynote speaker at a Support Workers Conference. Receive standing ovation and many messages.
9. Saltars investment club. (ten years, just resigned)
10. Volunteer a day each week at a Museum of Ancient Buildings talking and presenting to visitors. – 5 years.
11. Sight Concern Worcester – Cookery course, Woodworking course, Computer course. – learnt to touch type and software for the blind so I could return to my computer.
12. Published – Three books, a personal development book, and two novels. Not good, but I did them for personal achievement.
Surgery on both eyes returns very basic vision, enough to get me around.
14. With extra-large font on my computer, just able to physically read my personal development book. I find many mistakes, correct, expand, and republish 2019.
15. Have one of my novels republished 2021.
16. Co-Authored – The Transformation Within, released last week.
I have five more books in progress. (Mindset, Business, Life Story, Public Speaking, Short stories)
17. SOBBs – Save our brine baths campaign.
18. Become trustee for a rundown Community Centre.
19. Hear about Mentor Link, train and start mentoring school children that have fallen behind due to bullying or abuse.
20. Despite being disabled and limited sight, have sponsored training at the gym for 9 months to cycle Lands’ End to John O’Groats (Around 1000 miles avoiding the dangerous roads) to raise money for the charities where I am a volunteer. Unfortunately, cancelled two weeks before riding due to lockdown, but may get going again in 2023.
21. Co-host support Zoom – relationships, counselling, finance, mindset. for 2 years now
22. Completed a twelve-month public speaking course with one of UK’s public speaker trainers
23. Completed two, 12-month Mindset courses
24. Completed TEDx training but no location to give talk yet.
25. Completed two more public speaking courses
26. Created Debt Management Course
27. Grand Connection Mastermind Group
28. My original Mindset shift was as I approached my seventeenth birthday, last June I turned seventy-seven, that is sixty years I have been building and developing my mindset.
Working on a Mindset Membership Programme. “Sixty Layers of Mindset, Developed Across Sixty Years of Experience.”
29. I talk about collaboration
30. I have been asked to create Mindset programme suitable for older children at school.
31. Presently mentoring a girl in Uganda, teaching her learning techniques to help her through University.
32. Working with Pat Little, ( Sara has just interviewed Pat ) on constructing her speech.
I am no longer a town councillor and stepped down from being an Age UK trustee when they merged with another Age UK branch.
I am no longer in Toastmasters or volunteer at the Museum of Ancient Buildings.
That is a summary of what I have achieved since losing my eyesight thirteen years ago.
I am constantly on courses and have achieved at least one course every year but averaged 4 or 5 for sixty years.
ALLAN L ROBERTS
Allan Roberts is on a mission to transform vulnerable students into high achievers with a secondary passion for supporting men facing retirement. As a business coach, inspirational speaker, and mentor Allan supports this current and next generation of men to succeed. His own seventy-seven-year life journey would have been smoother with the benefit of such a mentor.
Allan shares his tales from the trenches—from his troubled youth in Preston, Lancashire, to a disastrous marriage resulting in debt and homelessness and on to the loss of his sight. The development of his mindset enabled Allan to overcome these traumatic challenges. His continued interest in mindset guaranteed a successful career in electromechanical engineering, sales, and coaching, both in the army and in civilian life. He is the author of Wake Up, Don’t Let the World Pass You By, The Great Bank Heist Mystery, Mountains, and Rivers, Wake up, Live the Life You Love, the Power of Team, and My Creative Thoughts.
Continuing to venture from his comfort zone, Allan refuses to give up, renewing his zest for life taking on new challenges as town councillor, a trustee for Age UK. a community centre, a Toastmaster, the chair of a Probus group, and introducing Public Speaking to local high school students.
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from November22nd
Winter is upon us and this means we go inside. No more meeting people down at the beach or at the park or just out and about, we are staying in where it is warm and cozy. But, what of the people who now feel isolated who used to feel connected when people were about? How do we include them in our lives now?
This is a tough time of the year; no matter the age, people can feel so isolated and alone because, due to whatever, they can not go out and about or are not part of an organization. Loneliness kills, the isolation, hurts, the feeling that no one cares, and the day-to-day of being alone with one’s self. Some people work from home and are not mingling with work friends, and some are trapped at home due to health or age. Some are stuck at home with children and have nowhere to go. Whatever the circumstance, please connect, reach out, knock on doors, make a phone call, use social media, email, write a letter, anything to connect and make them feel connected.
We all want to feel we belong and that there are out there people who care about you, so reach out, speak out, invite, and if you are on of those who are alone, do not be shy, reach out too, go out even if to a mall to be around people, strike up a conversation and see where it goes, for you never know where it might happen until you try and connect.
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Richard is the author of eight books, including Surviving Grief by God’s Grace, which details Richard’s loss of his first and then only child, his son John. It is a story of the grief, spiritual quest, and grace that helped Richard and his family survive that loss and live with hope for the future. Richard has provided free copies of his grief book to the Uvalde library to help families cope with their irreparable loss.
HELPING PEOPLE WIN EVERYDAY. Richard’s mission is to share ideas and experiences with the desire to help people win life’s race.
His uplifting messages will encourage, entertain and inspire audience members to attempt and attain new levels of personal performance
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Our Global Veterans with Sara Troy and her guest Navy Rear Admiral, Kyle Cozad, on air from November 15th
UNPARALLELED COURAGE IN SERVICE AND LIFE
Throughout his storied military career as a Navy Rear Admiral, Kyle Cozad showed grace, courage, and resilience in his service to the American people. Not only did he lead at various levels within naval aviation and joint multi-service during his career in five critical assignments, but he also served in a variety of diverse leadership positions within the Navy and Department of Defense, including as the 22nd senior director in the White House Situation Room, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, and commander of the Naval Education and Training Command.
His upcoming book RELENTLESS POSITIVITY: “A COMMON VETERAN BATTLING UNCOMMON ODDS allows the readers into the life of a remarkable human. Despite living with the challenges of being a paraplegic, the result of a tragic accident, the latter continues to live life as he always has, facing all potential roadblocks head-on and blowing past them with sheer abandon. Through faith and determination, he has imbued all of life’s challenges with the relentless positivity that is highlighted in the title of his new book.
Mr. Cozad powerfully and eloquently provides those who will read his story with a new life perspective on moving forward as our best selves through the power of … RELENTLESS POSITIVITY.
Author Kyle Cozad, retired US Navy Rear Admiral and current President and CEO of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation, tells his story following a service-related spinal cord injury while on active duty.
Insightful, honest, and frank, his account describes how he bounced back from a debilitating spinal cord injury with one overarching motivation: to “give back” and make a positive difference for others. His leadership as a senior Navy two-star admiral serving on active duty and his current role as President and CEO of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation exemplify his grit, resilience, and commitment as a societal change agent.
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