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.
Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from June 1st.
Celebrating 8 years of my own Podcast Community.
If you had told me 9 years ago, I would be doing podcasts for this long I would not have believed never mind having my own network. I started on another network live for 13 months, then in June of 2013, I started my own called PLV Radio (Positive Living Vibrations) the name has changed over the years, it became Self Discovery Radio for 4 years, the Self Discovery Radio TV, but as I was going into Podcast-books, Mentorships plus, I changed the name to Self Discovery Media.
No matter the name, the content has always been celebratory with the stories of courage, strength, resilience, and abilities from those who chose to walk their process and become the awesome flawsome people they are today. I always say, the best teachers are those who have gone through the process of struggle in life them selves.
I myself, have done around 2000 shows+, (my various host around 5-700) and I have learnt so much about my self through doing these interviews. It has also show me that despite the news of horrible things people do, we can when we choose to, be incredible people making a difference in the lives of others, because we made a difference in our own lives.
I went from 2-3 genres to 17 to be more directional on the topics, so our audience can find a show of their interest with out having to cruise all of them. We are on 11 audio platforms, 2 video platforms and featured on 3 sites, plus 3 Facebooks, Linked in, Tumbler, Twitter and Pinterest.
I want to do so much more, and I am in the process of the next Podcast-book on Our Forgotten Children series, and with a Mentors, Practitioners memberships, if you need help, we have the people who can help you.
So who knows what the next 8 years will bring, but I will endeavor to keep bringing you people who have stepped up to raising humanity up to all its possibilities and divine glory.
Ignite your heart and soul with Sara Troy and her guest Laina Orlando, on air from May 25th
Ascension to 5D is a process humanity is currently undergoing, understanding what it is, and how we progress through it, is crucial for a smooth transition from 3D to 5D consciousness.
I am an ordinary woman, who has undergone an extraordinary spiritual awakening.
I didn’t start off with plans of being a spiritual teacher. Oh no, quite to the contrary!
In fact, I had my life all mapped out, including my “must achieve to-do life right” and spirituality was nowhere on my list. I believed that to be recognized and rewarded for doing my life right, I needed to do many things, have tons of stuff, and be, well, perfect. Not spiritual!
Believe me, I had it all figured out, and I was diligently checking things off my long To-Do list: A husband, 3 kids, money, inside dog, outside cat, money, house in the burbs, vacation home in the mountains, SUV, money, career, lots of friends, money, I was hot & skinny, a member of the PTA, USTA tennis player, room-mom at my kids’ schools, on the neighborhood HOA Board, just to name a few of my overachieving antics…whew!
A modern-day mystic, Laina Orlando simplifies spirituality for today’s seeker of Truth, through her fresh and light perspective. Laina’s own awakening, which began to unfold in 2002 and intensified in August 2007, when she had an encounter of the best kind: with Source. As the Truth of All That Is was revealed to her she knew her life’s mission would be to share what she was discovering with others. Since then, Laina has been teaching, coach or facilitating workshops for those truly committed to navigating the path of ascension. As a mother, lover, sister, friend, author, speaker, coach, dancer and creator of the Ascension Academy, her mission is to awaken humanity to the magnificence within. The foundation of her teachings are found in A Course In Miracles, which is her manual for love, forgiveness, peace and freedom. Laina is very clear that if she can awaken and ascend, then anybody can. Her mantra is: Life is fun and easy!
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