Building Your Business with Sara Troy and her guest Mike Qu, on air from May 26th
THE FUTURE IS UNPREDICTABLE…
But it does NOT mean you leave your family’s future up to chance!
You are here because you take charge over your family’s future, and consider these factors independently:
My personal mission in life is to help families achieve their freedom. Of course, it varies by family. However, the critical overlap is in financial freedom. Imagine family function if every family can make decisions without financial scarcity , and the children growing up in a household where their upbringing isn’t bound by finances. I am fortunate enough to know at least one way to achieve this, and that’s the method I want to share with the audience. The fact that I’m at an oil and gas company providing direct oil and gas well ownership to investors is just a slice of that mission.
It’s one thing for me to share the concept and roadmap with folks and say good luck. But much more impactful if I can share the roadmap AND give concrete steps to take this year for people. That’s how I can actually achieve impact for families.
I started in the software industry and while the salary was great, life was just passing, with very little freedom to show for it. After close to a decade, it was enough for me. I went off to build my financial freedom first, and then show that path so people have at least one proven way to do it.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Sara Fernandes, on air from May 26th
Reinvention in Midlife: From Overwhelm to Clarity
I help midlife women who feel overwhelmed, scattered, or unfulfilled reconnect with themselves and create a life that feels aligned with who they are. My work is rooted in the belief that clarity doesn’t come from doing more, it comes from making decisions and honoring where you are. Through my own journey of navigating debt, uncertainty, reinvention, and starting over in a new country, I learned that growth isn’t about becoming someone new, but about returning to yourself. Today, through my work as a Clarity and Growth Coach, the Life Mastery Magazine, and the Life Mastery Circle, I support women in moving from confusion to clarity, from pressure to self-trust, and from simply coping to consciously creating a life that truly fits who they are now.
Sara Fernandes is a Clarity & Growth Coach, mentor, and the founder of Life Mastery Magazine, a digital publication created for midlife women who are ready to reconnect with themselves and create a more intentional life. After experiencing financial struggle, major life transitions, and rebuilding her life from the ground up in a new country, Sara developed a grounded and compassionate approach to personal growth, one that blends mindset with practical structure. She is also the creator of the Life Mastery Circle, a supportive community where women come together for guidance, accountability, and connection. Through her work, Sara helps women simplify their lives, organize their thoughts, and move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from May 18th
An honest talk around emotional fatigue, masking pain, burnout, and the liberation that comes from authenticity.
May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month, and after living with fibromyalgia for over thirty years, I felt it was important to speak openly about the wearyness of living with a debilitating disease that so often goes unseen, misunderstood, or dismissed.
Fibromyalgia is not simply about pain. It is an exhaustion that settles deep into the bones, the muscles, the mind, and the spirit. It is waking up tired no matter how much sleep you have had. It is trying to function through brain fog, chronic fatigue, hypersensitivity, emotional depletion, digestive issues, and a body that can change from one moment to the next without warning. Some days, even the smallest tasks can feel like climbing a mountain carrying invisible weight.
What makes it even harder is that many people living with fibromyalgia become experts at masking it. We smile, show up, continue caring for others, continue working where we can, and continue trying to participate in life while silently calculating energy, pain levels, recovery time, and limitations. People often see the face we present, not the internal battle we fight every single day.
Living with a long-term illness also carries grief. Grief for the life you thought you would have, the energy you once had, the spontaneity lost, the misunderstandings from others, and sometimes even the isolation that comes from people not fully comprehending what chronic illness does to the body, mind, emotions, and identity.
But within that wearyness, there is also resilience. There is adaptation. There is courage in continuing on when your body constantly asks you to stop. There is wisdom learned through pacing, listening, adjusting, and discovering what truly matters. Living with fibromyalgia teaches compassion in ways many cannot understand unless they too have walked this path.
This conversation is not about seeking pity. It is about awareness, understanding, and giving voice to the millions of people who live daily with invisible illnesses. It is about acknowledging that behind many smiles are people carrying extraordinary burdens quietly and bravely.
And perhaps most importantly, it is about reminding those who live with fibromyalgia that they are not weak, not lazy, not imagining it, and not alone and you are so much more than the desease.
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Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Liz Goll Lerner, on air from May 19th
The Journey of Becoming: From Inner Saboteurs to Soulful Strength
There are several ways that I came to the realm of healing and helping. I have long believed that whatever has been a struggle in my life, that I have been able to overcome, has within it some knowledge or experience that can help another find their own way through their difficulty or transformation.
The keys I have uncovered that I believe are the most significant in any life journey are: Being present to the WHEN we are living; Integrating the head and the heart; Learning how to have healthy boundaries; and Learning how to communicate that which is our truth.
I could speak for hours about parts of self, the archetypes that are our saboteurs or champions, and the specialness of finding the true spark that makes us know without a doubt that we are meant to be here. And that, the spark, although it sounds the hardest to people, is really the simplest, because we were born with it. The rest is taught.
For me, seeking, knowing there was more than the obvious, more than the physical world, made me a seeker – going deep early on. My own trials and tribulations, insecurities, and struggles were abundant- as was my strength. Life, specifically early trauma, taught me strength, fear, survival, self-preservation, and the ways to move on and eventually heal. That has made me the clinician I have been. Add wisdom and a great education to that, and the tools I have to help are immense.
Early stories of my work and the inspiration it brought are many, but later expanding the work by recognizing that I could integrate my knowledge of energy, medicine, mind/body, and an individual’s strengths as healing tools led to a more exciting and full methodology. I love to help people think outside the box, understand their early conditioning, and create the life they want to live and explore the work they are meant to do in the world.
I began as a teenage seeker. Majored in Anthropology, Art History, and Studio Art in College. I chose to go to graduate school in Art Therapy and become a licensed and board-certified art therapist because of one little boy, whom I met doing field work, who was afraid to go home because he lived on a dangerous street.
I’ve been working as a transformational coach and psychotherapist for over 40 years. I’ve worked in inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. I have a private coaching practice and a separate clinical private practice. Over the years, I created multiple psycho educational courses for men, women, involving readings, meditations, conversation- an exciting experience for all, including me. I work extensively with couples as well as all relationships. How we communicate is key as is how we feel about ourselves and couples. I’ve studied theosophy, multiple spiritual teachings, energy modalities, and neuroscience. I have come now to be working and playing in the sacred. Because all of this work we do with each other is simply sacred.
I began as a teenage seeker. Majored in Anthropology, Art History, and Studio Art in College. I ended up going to graduate school in Art Therapy and becoming a licensed and board-certified art therapist because of one little boy, whom I met doing field work, who was afraid to go home because he lived on a dangerous street.
I’ve been working as a transformational coach and psychotherapist for over 40 years. I’ve worked in patient outpatient, private practice, and created multiple psycho educational courses for men, women, and couples. I’ve studied theosophy, multiple spiritual teachings, energy modalities, and neuroscience. With all that I have come to be working and playing in the sacred. Because all of this work we do with each other is simply sacred.
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from May 12th
From sixty to seventy, I stepped fully into my purpose and into a life that finally felt like my own. This decade was no longer about searching—it was about living, serving, and sharing the wisdom that had been forged through every previous chapter of my life.
By this time, podcasting had already begun to anchor me. Starting in 2012, and truly building momentum from 2014 onward, I committed to this path of conversation, connection, and contribution. What began as a spark in my late fifties became a full expression of who I am. Week after week, year after year, I showed up—interviewing people from around the world, sharing their stories, their courage, their insights, and their purpose.
The years that followed brought profound personal change.
In 2015, my mother passed at the age of 95. She had been bedridden, and when the time came, it was as if the Angels came for her. With open eyes and open arms, she embraced them. It was a moment of peace, of grace, and of release.
My best friend took me to Mexico in March 2015 for two weeks, it was wonderful and and after Mums death a welcome divertion.
In 2016, I lost my beloved companion, Kokomo, my border collie she was 14.7 years old. To this day, I miss her deeply. She was love, heart, soul, and spirit, and she loved me in a way that was pure and unwavering, a bond that will always stay with me. January of 2017 our beloved cat Sativa left us at the age of 17.7 years old.
In 2017, my ex finally moved on, closing a long and difficult chapter. We had been living together, but the relationship itself had ended seven years prior. That same year, I left Vancouver. This was not just a physical move, it was a transition into a life more aligned with who I was becoming. Vancouver held many memories, both beautiful and painful, but I knew it was time to step into new spaces, both externally and internally.
Late 2017, I went to Toronto for a short time to be closer to my eldest daughter. It brought a very different energy, busy, loud, and demanding. It reminded me of the vastness of the world, the diversity of people, and the constant movement of life. It echoed the work I was doing through my podcast, connecting with voices from all walks of life. But I only stayed three months, it was simply too cold, and for me, perhaps forty years too late.
In February 2018, I moved to Victoria, where I would spend the next six years. Victoria became a place of reflection and integration. Its quieter pace and connection to the sea allowed me to breathe more deeply, to look inward, and to let the dust of previous decades settle. I lived with an extraordinary woman named Audrey, who was 84 at the time and a true example of how to live life fully. That chapter gave me space—not to escape my past, but to understand and integrate it.
Throughout this decade, Self Discovery Wisdom truly grew into what it is today. It became more than a podcast, it became a platform, a community, an Orchard of Wisdom a Self Discovery, where voices could be heard and wisdom could be shared. I was no longer just finding my voice; I was helping others find and share theirs.
Living with fibromyalgia remained part of my daily reality. The pain, the fatigue, the unpredictability—they never truly left. But I learned to live with it, to work with my body instead of against it. I learned to pace, to rest, and to honour what I could do rather than mourn what I could not. It became part of my rhythm, not my identity.
This decade deepened my understanding of knowingness, of listening, feeling, and trusting that inner guidance. Everything I had gone through—the trauma, the loneliness, the rebuilding, the illness, had led me here. I could see the threads clearly. Nothing had been wasted. Every experience had shaped my compassion, my insight, and my ability to hold space for others.
There were still challenges—financial struggles, managing my health, carrying so much independently, but my relationship to those challenges changed. I was no longer defined by hardship. I was guided by purpose.
I embraced my role as the Wisdom Weaver of the Airwaves. Through thousands of conversations, I witnessed the resilience of humanity, the courage of individuals, and the power of shared stories. I saw again and again that people are not broken—they are often simply unheard, unsupported, or disconnected from their truth.
Eventually, I moved to Nanaimo, where I now live just ten minutes from my daughter and grandsons. My life is beautifully divided between podcasting and grandparenting, and I feel full. I owe a deep sense of security and gratitude to my daughter and son-in-law, who helped provide me with a home where I truly feel at peace, and where my grandsons can come and play.
This decade taught me that sometimes we need to change our environment to truly see ourselves. Vancouver showed me who I had been. Toronto reminded me of the world I was serving. Victoria gave me space to feel and heal. And Nanaimo has given me a sense of home, family,grounding and belonging.
Through it all, I remained committed to my purpose, sharing stories, weaving wisdom, and reminding others, as I remind myself, that our journey is not defined by where we are, but by who we become along the way.
From sixty to seventy-one, I wasn’t just moving through places.
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