Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Matthew M. Rouse, on air from November 18th
When I started doing research for my own company, I found out that AI was going to potentially kill our business if we didn’t make changes soon… very soon! So we pivoted our business (so far so good) but also I found that no one in the business world was seeing what I was seeing, so I wrote the book, Will AI Take My Job?
Matt started out decades ago working for several Fortune 500 organizations, contracting in IT for marketing groups at companies like Intel, Nike, and Shaw Communications. After crowdfunding his first book, Crush SEO, he followed that up with several Amazon Category Bestsellers, including his first two AI-related books of the same name, “Will AI Take My Job?”.
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Your Health is Your Choice with Sara Troy and her guest Kimberly Jackson, on air November 18th
At Crossroads Pregnancy Centre, the heart of our story is our unwavering commitment to women and families in Nanaimo. We exist to fill a critical gap in the system by offering free, confidential, and compassionate support during some of life’s most vulnerable moments. In a world that often presents complex challenges around pregnancy, our “Pro-Grace” approach ensures every individual feels valued, heard, and empowered to make informed decisions. We’re here because every woman deserves to navigate her unique journey—whether facing an unexpected pregnancy, experiencing the profound grief of loss, or entering early parenthood—with comprehensive emotional and practical support, fostering resilience and hope in our community.
My career journey began in the medical field, driven by a deep desire to help people, particularly from a supportive, administrative perspective. I thrived behind the scenes, ensuring the teams who worked face-to-face with patients had everything they needed. During that decade, raising two children shifted my focus. I sought a career that allowed me to contribute meaningfully to the community while offering the flexibility to be more present for my family. This led me from the corporate medical world to the non-profit sector. In 2023, I joined Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Vancouver Island, an organization that beautifully prioritizes families—both those they serve and their staff. This role allowed me the freedom to integrate my work schedule with my family’s needs, creating a powerful motivation to excel in a role that serves the greater good. In 2025, the board of Crossroads Pregnancy Centre approached me with the Executive Director opportunity. This felt like the perfect, rooted next step, allowing me to fully dedicate my passion to an organization that profoundly impacts the well-being of women and their families. It’s an honor to lead CPC, filling a massive systemic gap, and I am incredibly excited for this new chapter.
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from November 18th
Trust, it’s a small word carrying the weight of worlds. At its core, it means confidence, belief, and faith — in someone, something, or even in the unseen.
In our personal lives, trust is the heartbeat of connection — that quiet knowing that someone will be there when we fall, will hold truth when we can’t see it ourselves.
In relationships, trust is the invisible bridge between souls. It’s built one moment at a time — through honesty, reliability, and compassion — and when broken, it takes courage and consistency to rebuild.
In organizations and leadership, trust is the foundation of collaboration. It’s what turns a group into a team, a mission into a movement. Without it, even the strongest structure collapses under doubt.
I’m a strong advocate for AI as a powerful tool that can truly assist us and enhance our capabilities. However, in the wrong hands, it becomes a means of manipulation and distortion. Much of what we see out there that misleads or deceives isn’t AI acting on its own—it’s the result of people using it with the wrong intentions.
In the mind, trust is both rational and emotional — a blend of experience, expectation, and hope. It’s our brain’s way of saying, “I choose to believe.”
In the legal and financial world, trust takes on a structure — a fiduciary bond of responsibility and stewardship. It’s a promise, protected by law, that one will act for another’s good.
And in the spiritual realm, trust becomes surrender — the faith that life unfolds with purpose, even when we cannot yet see the path. It’s the whisper of the soul that says, “All is as it’s meant to be.”
Having a true belief means having faith in what cannot be seen. Many people say they trust in God—but do you actually see God walking around? Do you see any of your sacred figures in the flesh? No. Because the God you seek lives within you and is revealed through godly acts—kindness, compassion, caring, and consideration.
You may believe in what is written or housed within a church or a holy book, but do you carry that belief inside you? When you do, it becomes alive within—something you feel, trust, and embody. That inner knowing, that divine spark within you, guides your actions. And that, above all, is something you can truly trust.
When we trust the soul, its energy and intelligence aligned with our heart’s truth and our spirit in action, we begin to truly understand what information in the mind is relevant at the moment. We simply trust it.
It feels right. It just is. I don’t choose to believe it—I believe it.
When we rely only on the mind, belief becomes a choice based on facts or data. But when we move into the soul’s intellect, into that heart resonance, belief becomes knowing. There is no doubt—only truth flowing through you.
Trust is the thread weaving all these worlds together — personal, relational, professional, spiritual. It asks us to be vulnerable, to believe, to open ourselves again and again.
Because without trust, love falters, leadership fails, and life loses its rhythm. But with trust — everything begins to flow.
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An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Chester L. Richards, on air from November 18th
From Star Trek® to Crocodiles: Chester L. Richards talks new memoir, The Trek Continues
Award-winning author and rocket scientist returns with true tales of hair-raising adventure and resilience.
Retired rocket scientist and author Chester L. Richards. Author, inventor, and co-writer of the iconic Star Trek episode “The Tholian Web,” Chester L. Richards continues his acclaimed Treks Beyond the Great Potato memoir series with The Trek Continues: More Memoirs of a Rocket Scientist
In this second volume, Richards expands on the journey he began in From the Potato to Star Trek and Beyond, blending pulse-pounding adventure with poignant reflections on life, love, and loss. From near-death experiences with crocodiles in Africa to a white-knuckle flight back home in California, The Trek Continues dives deep into the real-life escapades of a man who helped imagine the universe onscreen—and then went out and lived it.
Richards shares what it meant to survive, to grieve, and to grow. Central to the memoir is his late wife Sarah, a brilliant and spirited presence readers first glimpsed in Book 1. Responding to fan letters asking to learn more about her, Richards infuses this new collection with her voice, her stories, and the extraordinary impact she had on his life. There are also stories of eccentric animals (including cats, a dog named Hector, and a horse—almost), scientific breakthroughs in aerospace and on earth, close calls with Neolithic tribes, and the unexpected wisdom of failure.
“Every story is a letter of love to Sarah,” Richards writes. “Each stands on its own. Each is an adventure. And each is true.”
Known for his witty, self-deprecating style and cinematic detail, Richards proves again that memoir can be both thrilling and intimate. A scientist by training and adventurer by instinct, he invites readers to see life not as a linear path—but as a series of treks, each one worth telling.
“Adventure starts when your gut clenches and you do it anyway,” says Richards. “That’s when you find out who you really are.”
Chester L. Richards is a retired aerospace engineer and inventor with nineteen patents, and a new one pending. While still in college, he co-wrote “The Tholian Web,” one of the most beloved episodes of the original Star Trek. He went on to lead a life of exploration and innovation—surfing Southern California, navigating deadly rapids in different locales, including Ethiopia in the midst of a civil war, and designing technologies for space exploration. He is the author of From the Potato to Star Trek and Beyond and The Trek Continues, and has had more than fifty essays published, so far. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California, where he writes, plays music, and reflects on a life well lived and still boldly going.
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Ignite your heart and soulwith Sara Troy and her guest Joey Vertino, on air from November 11th
Words that help everybody Genre: Evolutionary
The Heart of my story is Healing Wisdom. I am currently writing “The Reform of the Education System” and have an all-inclusive view that is everyone’s business! I have a video that is called “How Everybody can help everybody,” and it is all about self-acceptance- the other way around in life. And this is the Truth- the value of Spirituality can be found there. Since our mind tethered to the outside world is repeating and not-unique this core message is for us all. That the simple and serious attention, I call bringing the Light of awareness into yourself is the one key! And that’s all I do is for you! I am clearly a SPIRITUAL GUIDE! And my greatest joy is healing! I have tons of time and content and meaning to give – please inquire in how I can help you.
I was so enamored by pure being when I was a child- and would participate in observation as a habit- I later connected the dots that there was no clinging or aversion within reason and as an adult – I became a Spiritual Guide, Reiki master Healer- Usui, Musician, author with 7 projected books as of 2025; they are “My Own Religion: The Power of Love”, “The Nothingness of Love: A Buddhist Book of Poetry”, “The Reform of the Education System”, “The Reiki Bible: A Guide to Reiki Living” , to come “ My Work in Business as a Spiritual Guide”, “A Book on Saints” , “ROES Bless: A course for teachers” and “A Starseed Collection of Thoughts” ! I resonate deeply with my heart and my character. I have to being a master healer for the situations of you all to receive my benefit, which is my pleasure! I have a deeply relevant perspective and it simply just needs to be heard good enough for you to have a simple and rational loving experience with me and with your own life! I am from Buffalo, NY and am a very good listener and teacher naturally- and have such a respect for your life that I aim to make it a purposeful one!
On my website I have something fulfilling for everyone! I give you a great feast of free VIDEOS content that come in the forms of – Guided meditations, Podcasting, interviews, Spiritual Guidance, and Healing wisdom, I also have a depth of love that are BOOKS (plural), Music both originals and covers, hours of enjoyable child friendly MUSIC! I have my skills of one-on-one work that is Reiki energy medicine, And distinct categories of alignment that are: Spiritual, Relationships, Career, Artisitc, and meditation- and also my work in groups – have a depth of topics I can cover and host workshops, events, presentations, collaborations, anywhere in the world or online! One word for my work is SATSANG! I am familiar with the basics of Tai Chi Qi Gong and Yoga Asana! I am available for any and all work! I also can seriously contribute to the Reform of the Education System with my own formulaic foundation and implementation process and/or counsel/guidance internationally-craving involvement!
Free gift or offer- I do free consultation calls- have tons of free content constantly available- and free weekend events like “The Path of Healing” “Zen Sunday School” and “ZOOM forward- Personal Alignment”
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