Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Chet W. Sisk, on air from January 18th
Chet W. Sisk is the world’s most in-demand Futurist. He ties climate adaptation and resilience, equity and inclusion, the circular economy, and visionary leadership into one approach for you and your team.
CREATING ADAPTIVE AND RESILIENT PEOPLE, BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITIES.
Chet W. Sisk — Is a Futurist, author, and visionary. Chet’s focus is on developing organizations and individuals that can thrive and succeed in a time of massive change affected by climate change, technological evolution, and social/political disruption.
Chet has spoken on these subjects at the United Nations in 2015 and 2017. He has presented in almost 30 different countries, including South Africa, Albania, Malaysia, Nigeria, The Netherlands, and Bahrain.
As a Futurist, Chet’s push is to merge Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into our re-imagination of society and the future. All of the challenges and opportunities facing our community right now are intimately related to our DEI position.
He is the founder of The UBR climate strong initiative, an organization created to fund and counsel businesses that bring climate resilience and adaptation to communities of color specifically and our overall community in general.
He’s written several books on personal and corporate change, he was born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, and considers popcorn one of the important food groups.
We’ve created a business incubator to seed fund and develop climate resilience and adaptation businesses owned and operated by Black and Indigenous People of Color. We help our people manage their finances, write business plans, put together pitch decks, provide emotional support and give them seed capital to pursue their green enterprise. Even if you’re not a BIPOC entrepreneur, we’ll help you find a partner in our effort to address equity.
Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Suswati Basu, on air from January 18th
I believe that knowledge is power, whether, through books or research, we can all know ourselves a little better. Even though I have faced many adversities in both mental and physical health, I feel that we never stop growing as people.
Suswati Basu is a multilingual disabled intelligence expert, journalist, mental health books show podcast host, and award-winning activist.
Winner of the Emma Humphries Memorial Prize in 2007, also shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize in the same year, and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. She has worked in China, India, and the UK and currently writes on a freelance basis. As a result, she speaks multiple languages including Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Bengali. Suswati has also appeared on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour with Jenni Murray as well as BBC News, speaking in regard to feminist issues.
Suswati has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post, and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 News, and ITV News.
As a survivor and thriver from trauma, living with both mental health and physical disabilities, she began the How To Be… podcast looking at helping mental wellbeing through reading and interviewing authors. Speaking to 36 authors in 2021, including powerhouse women such as powerlifter and journalist Poorna Bell, and the Year of Living Danishly author Helen Russell, Suswati gained huge insight throughout the year and has been developing and creating a like-minded community who discuss these topics on Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse on a weekly basis. She actually reads a book a day!
Suswati new show with Sara Troy airing February 7th.
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Ignite Your Heart and Soul with Sara Troy and her guest Feroze Dada, on air from January 18th
A Disciple describes a singular journey with a universal appeal, on the path of Perennial Wisdom. There are lessons for us all as we recognise the call from our inner spirit, our yearning for ‘something other’ in a materialistic world that so often leaves us dissatisfied.
There is another way for us to live, and A Disciple asks important questions about faith and spirituality and connects us with the power of meditation. The author believes passionately that it is a meditation that provides the foundation for a caring and compassionate future.
The story is told with engaging candour, with tales from mythology, quotations from Rumi, and references to Sufi texts all adding colour to the Wisdom Teachings he is receiving. The wise ones spoke in parables and metaphor because that is the form that penetrates and transcends our defenses. We go to some deeper part of ourselves; non-linear and non-cerebral, which is what meditation is.
A Disciple is a fascinating exploration of how meditation can not only awaken our latent potential to live the best lives we can, but also transform the world.
Feroze Dada was born in Karachi, and has lived and worked for most of his life in London. He worked in the finance sector and was entrepreneurial in helping several media start-up companies. A decade ago, his life changed when he went to Myanmar to visit his wife’s family. He became deeply involved in working with a Buddhist monastery in Shan Province, helping it over a number of years to become self-sufficient, supporting as it does some 1200 orphan children. SEE HERE He became a meditation practitioner and continued to work with his Sufi teacher, learning how to live a fulfilled and meaningful life, and by helping others. He is the interviewer and producer of the online TV series Discovering Humanity and Our One World, and author of Children of the Revolution; A Spiritual Journey to Burma and Buddhism. As well as his work as founder of The Inle Trust Charity, set up to help the children at the Phaya Taung monastery in Myanmar, he teaches and promotes meditation at The Sylvan Healing Sanctuary in London. This is a community of healers, teachers and practitioners that offer energy healing, meditation and mindfulness. His wife MuMu (Farida) is from Taunggyi, Myanmar. They have two children; Nadir and Sumaya, and grandchild Layla. They divide their time between their homes in London and Italy.
You may have found yourself reading these words out of curiosity or fascination but perhaps there’s a wish, like Feroze, to know. His book is a bridge to you from a world that is unseen by most except those that are seekers.
These pages are filled with personal anecdotal experiences that may seem straight from a fairy tale. However, they’re the experiences of a seeker who’s spent many years looking for his truth. His faith and acceptance of his experiences has allowed these pages to emerge from the mists into reality.
It’s more than a good story, it’s the path of one who’s been willing to plant his seeds of experience to build a bridge to us so you can go on to plant your own seeds as seekers, allow them to germinate and build your own bridges to the unknown.
These words will never be a substitute for your own experiences but they can act as a guide for you from another’s journey.
Craig Rebuck Sylvan Healing Sanctuary.
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When Feroze asked me to review his book, I replied that it would be a privilege and an honour to do so; it has not disappointed, this is a book which tells a wonderful story.
I practise as a doctor and surgeon, so professionally have much interest in the sections of the book devoted to healing; these are impressive and riveting. However, I also read the book from the position of a Seeker; this book is full of wonderful insights, into seeking the Kingdom of God within. It incorporates practical advice as to the different types of meditative exercises Feroze has mastered and his desire to share these things with fellow seekers to our potential betterment.
This is a timely and brave book as the world adjusts to the Covid 19 pandemic and across the globe there is an enhanced desire to care for our planet and ourselves, not just in mind and body but also in our souls.
This book shows us routes to spiritual well-being, via caring for others, meditation and prayer. I have always described Feroze as my Sufi Moslem, Buddhist, Franciscan Christian friend; this book confirms me in that view.
Feroze has much to share and he does it beautifully.
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Raising our gifted children with Sara Troy and her guest Armin Brott, aka Mr Dad, on air from January 18th
“I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,” Musk explained on Monday evening, as recorded by the New York Post.“And yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control,” Musk continued. “It’s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers — if people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.”Following COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown measures, American birth rates have plummeted to their lowest levels in nearly a century. Talk To Mr. Dad The fourth edition of this best-selling, ground-breaking, information-packed guide for dads-to-be is now significantly, updated, revised, and expanded.
We are expecting! The twentieth-anniversary edition of this thoroughly updated and revised parenting classic remains the most informative and reassuring book for expectant fathers everywhere. In addition to sharing the wisdom of the ages, Armin A. Brott, Mr. Dad, presents new insight into the emotional, financial, and physical—yes, physical—effects of impending parenthood on men. Thanks to this handy reference moms-to-be will know their partner understands and supports them during this anxious and exciting time, and that he has all the tools he needs to be a fantastic, hands-on dad.
This information-packed, month-by-month guide incorporates the expertise of top practitioners in their fields, from obstetricians and birth-class instructors to psychologists and sociologists. It also draws from Brott’s own experience as a father of three and from the real-world experiences of the thousands of dads he’s interviewed. With the humor of New Yorker cartoons and Brott’s gentle approach, The Expectant Father serves as a friendly and readable companion for dads-to-be seeking confidence, guidance, and joy!
What’s new in this edition of The Expectant Father?
• The latest health and safety info • How technology is changing fatherhood • How men’s brains change by being involved during pregnancy • Society’s shifting expectations for dads • The amazing effects on children when fathers are active partners before birth • How pre-birth participation makes dads more likely to be active parents post-birth • Updated resources
. . . and new research on the big questions that haven’t changed much over the years:
• Am I really ready to be a dad? • How are we going to afford this? How do I balance work and family? • Will I be able to handle labor and delivery while being there for my partner? What if something goes wrong? • How will this affect my relationship with my partner? • Will we ever have sex again? • What am I supposed to do with a new baby? • How can I be a good dad? • Will I ever see my friends again or have any time to myself?
Hailed by Time Magazine as “the superdad’s superdad,” Armin Brott is a pioneer in the field of fatherhood and has been building better fathers for more than a decade. As the author of eight bestselling books on fatherhood, he’s helped millions of men around the world become the fathers they want to be—and that their children need them to be.
Armin has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows, including Today, CBS Overnight, Fox News, and Politically Incorrect, and his work on fatherhood has been featured in such places as Glamour, Time, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and many others. As a trusted spokesperson, Armin speaks on fatherhood around the country and teaches classes for expectant and new dads. Armin is a father of three and lives in Oakland, CA.
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Their Story Matters, with Sara Troy and her guest Kevin Ringstaff, on air from January 18th
Kevin Ringstaff has been a student of grief for many years. He creates products and activities on grief and invents ways to help teach grief to everyone. Kevin’s been through several grief certification programs over the years and he’s currently studying to be a Board Certified Hospital Chaplain. He spends his days talking about grief, creating activities and products around grief, and listening to the stories from people all over the country.
He founded his first company, PetCloud (www.petcloud.pet) to help those who are going through the loss of a pet, and his second company, Grieving@Work (www.grievingatwork.com) to teach management how to better support grieving employees in the workplace.
His life is currently graced and occupied by 3 pets, his Old English Sheepdog, Sir William Broderick (“Brody”), his cat Ponce de León (“Ponce”), and a Tarantula that he accidentally came into possession of, Lucy.
My name is Kevin Ringstaff, and I am the founder of PetCloud. I spend my days talking about grief and educating people on how to support their friends, family, and co-workers through their grief. Mostly though, my daily job is to listen to the stories of love and loss by other people.
I recently moved to San Francisco to build and grow this community into a place where anyone, anywhere can come and share their grief and get support from others who really do understand the pain and anguish we go through when we lose someone we love.
Through my studies and counseling over the years, I’ve learned quite a lot about grief. It’s safe to say that as a society, we all have a tendency to hold on to grief. It’s awkward and uncomfortable to talk about. We feel like we might be judged especially if we tell other people how much we are hurting because of our losses.
I got into this business because of a loss of my own, Henry “Fats” Rothschild “Henry”, who was my furry orange monstrosity of a cat. When I lost him, I didn’t have anyone in my life that I really felt comfortable talking with about that kind of grief. So, as I did with most grief in my life, I just pushed it down and held it in. I went on like this for a long time until I found out about the Association for Pet Loss & Bereavement (www.aplb.org), started by Dr. Wallace Sife. I got certified as a pet loss bereavement counselor through their program, and I’ve been helping people ever since.
Since that time, I’ve gone on to become a registered Pet Chaplain and a certified Grief Recovery Specialist ®, and now I’m in school again to be a Board Certified Chaplain. I’m always reading and studying more about grief and looking to speak to anyone who will listen.
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