Building your business with Sara Troy and her guest Gary A DePaul, on air from June 15th
Leadership is one of those concepts that is difficult to define but know it when they see it. During the past two decades, though, the way experts think about leadership has radically changed from the traditional view. Gary DePaul helps professionals demystify the leadership concept and learn how they can more effectively unify teams to achieve the extraordinary!
Gary is a leadership consultant, author, podcast host, and Researcher. He partners with HR and talent-development executives to strengthen the health of their organizations, teams, and themselves.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) where he teaches graduate students about leadership and management. Gary Completed his Ph.D. and Ed.M. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned a Bachelor of Art in History and Philosophy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) designated Gary as a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).
Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy onair from June 15th
FEAR, WE ARE SO CONDITIONED TO BE FEARFUL, THAT HALF THE TIME WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE ARE FEARFUL ABOUT.
Fear is necessary in times of danger, it serves us very well in telling us there is something to be fearful about. BUT, fear in our every day lives is crippling us and we only end up chasing shadows. Have you asked your fear why it is there? why it wished you to stop moving forward? why it holds you back? Maybe you can look at fear eye to eye and ask it to explain its self and justify its reason for holding on to you so hard.
I have known fear, real fear, and the fear of not being enough, not fitting in, of letting people down of never living up to everyone’s expectations, I know that fear, both fears very well. I had to have that conversation with fear, I had to face it and tell it that it could not control me anymore and that I needed to move on in wonderment, possibilities, and exploration.
Fear does have its place as a protector, but not as a dictator, and if we give it too much power it will take over and rule you in every way, then your life will be a string of excuses of why you can’t do anything instead of believing you can. We are so much more than we allow ourselves to be, so much more than we are told we are, and the only way to self-discovery is in the willingness to face that fear, discover our strengths, our incredible abilities, and see the possibilities that lay before us.
So even though your stomach is turning, you are shaking, even feeling sick, stand up, tune in to your divine senses and take that step forward, for when you do, again and again, you are telling fear where to go, and that you and the source energy is in charge and you are in the discovery of your true self and all the abilities you are here to share.
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Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from June 8th
Setting some new priorities and putting things in perspective. We look at our life and see that something has become more important to us and now how do we set new priorities. We know we have to pivot but do not want to walk away from what we have built, so we look for a way to include all of it by rescheduling and manage our time.
With my new Grandson, I am at that stage, I want to see him more, be more of his life and help my daughter and her husband, so how do I manage it all? This is my journey now, and one I need to find a balance to include it all.
Are your strings being pulled each way, are you feeling pulled in different direction and wanting to include everything in? We can do it all it just needs management.
“for the LOVE of Music” with Sara Troy and her guest Krisanthi Pappas, on air from June 8th.
ACCLAIMED SINGER/SONGWRITER KRISANTHI PAPPAS BRINGS US HER COVID RECOVERY ANTHEM – “HUG A MILLION TIMES” SOUND AND STYLE. Singer/Songwriter, Krisanthi Pappas, has been compared to Norah Jones and Diana Krall by JazzTimes Magazine and to Karen Carpenter and Carole King by All Music Guide. Her jazz songwriting style has been compared to Randy Newman by Cadence Magazine, while her pop songwriting has been compared to Carole King by All Music Guide. As well as her vocal gentleness, she has the husky-voiced passion of Bonnie Raitt and the swinging playfulness of Ella Fitzgerald.
PERFORMING Based in the Boston area, Krisanthi is a full-time entertainer playing an average of 200 performances a year at theaters, concert venues, singer-songwriter series, festivals, resorts, clubs, and private events throughout New England and New York City. She has also performed throughout the U.S., Caribbean, and parts of Europe. As a retro pop singer, she has performed pre-shows for Sheryl Crow, Heart, Queen with Adam Lambert, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, The B-52s, Chicago, and REO Speedwagon. As a jazz singer, she has opened for Branford Marsalis, Chuck Mangione, The Yellowjackets, Manhattan Transfer’s Cheryl Bentyne, Kevin Mahogany, Gary B and Makoto Ozone. Krisanthi has been the musical director and/or a performer for many prestigious events such as Governor Deval Patrick’s Inaugural Celebration as well as benefits including the Sister Friends For Life Concert for the Faulkner Hospital Breast Center in Boston, making Strides Against Breast Cancer, The Relay For Life, and others. Krisanthi also plays piano and drums on some of her songs as well as writing her band’s musical arrangements. She is fortunate to have spent many winters performing solo in The Caribbean.
Since COVID, Krisanthi has been performing a popular weekly virtual piano bar concert on her station Krisanthi5 on YouTube Live.
Hug a Million Times
TV, FILM, and RADIO You can hear Krisanthi’s voice and/or her original music and lyrics on recent and past episodes of “Parenthood” (NBC), “The Mindy Project” (FOX), “Once Upon A Time” (ABC), “One Life To Live” (ABC), “Containment” (CW), “Passions” (NBC), “Californication” (Showtime), “Younger” (TVLand) and “The Lair” (HereTV). Her music and/or singing in films include “I Dream Too Much”, “Happygram”, “Green River” and “Tying The Not”. Krisanthi’s music is played on radio stations and programs throughout the Boston area and several states nationwide and in Canada. Krisanthi’s songs recently surpassed three million spins on Pandora Radio and her music is also played on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Sirius XM, Amazon Music, and other digital radio.
SONGWRITING AWARDS As an ASCAP songwriter and publisher, Krisanthi is a past 2nd place Winner of the prestigious Billboard® World Song Contest and The Next Holiday Classic Song Contest for her song “You and Me by the Christmas Tree” as well as having been the 3rd place Billboard® winner for her song “One Slow Dance A Day”. She also tied for 1st place in NYC’s Cabaret Hotline Members’ Choice Songwriters’ Favorite Song Award for her song “My Back Yard” and was an Honor Award winner in the 10th Annual Great American Song Contest for her song “You and Me by the Christmas Tree”. She has continued to receive songwriting awards from the ASCAP Popular Music Awards Panel every year since 1999 for her music and lyrics in jazz, cabaret and pop. Krisanthi’s songs are also performed live in her own concerts as well as by many other cabaret and jazz performers in New York City, Boston and Washington DC. RECORDINGS Krisanthi’s most recent CD “Krisanthi sings Carole, Carly and Karen” is a great mix of retro soft rock favorites. Her CD “And The Sun Will Shine” showcases some of her best songwriting, including her frequently requested song “The Voice”. Her CD “Broadway Favorites …and All That Jazz!” is a live recording of Krisanthi and her band performing jazzy arrangements of songs from Broadway shows plus two songs that she wrote. Her holiday CD “You and Me by the Christmas Tree”, features her jazz and pop arrangements of holiday classics along with two new Christmas songs that she wrote. Her other CDs, “My Back Yard”, “A Centennial Tribute To George and Ira Gershwin” and a live recording of her show, “Celebratin’ Swing”, are a mix of her jazzy arrangements of classic songs as well as her heartfelt award-winning original songs. Krisanthi’s song “If I Had Only Known” was featured on the compilation CD distributed to the European subscribers of Jazz Magazine along with a full feature article about her and her music. Krisanthi’s CDs and digital downloads on iTunes, etc. have been purchased by fans in Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Brazil, Spain, Japan, China, Australia, Canada, and throughout the U.S. They have received many impressive press reviews and continue to sell thousands of copies, receiving airplay and high accolades on radio stations nationwide and in Canada. In other areas of musical employment, Krisanthi is the songwriter and singing voice heard on many New England television and radio jingles. As a private instructor of piano, music theory, and vocal performance, she is a member of The National Association for Music Education and The International Association of Jazz Educators. In other areas of musical enjoyment, Krisanthi likes to play several other instruments, tap dance, and swing dance.
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.
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