LM21-36 Swapna Abraham BREAKING MUSIC RECORDS

September 6, 2021June 30, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

“for the LOVE of Music” with Sara Troy and her guest Swapna Abraham, on air from August 31st

My Why

To share my story of realizing my calling after having reached what I imagined was a dead end. There are people out there who are probably at that dead end and cannot see the light of day. If mine could help them see and navigate, I’d have achieved far more than I did through my 1000-day challenge that set four world records in singing-songwriting and everything until then.

Swapna Abraham is a singer-songwriter from Kerala, India, who recorded hundreds of songs in a career spanning twenty-five years until she embarked on a world record challenge in 2017, composing, producing and publishing 2321 songs, setting four world records based in Dubai. This challenge was self-imposed just after her decision to give up music for good. Primarily a gospel artiste, her style of music stretches across the entire gamut from pop and country to folk and soul. She has to her credit twenty-one albums (nineteen gospel and two secular) in English.

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In 2010, she received a NeedStar citation ‘Role Model for her progress & success in the field of Mainstream Career, Art & Entrepreneurship’ in Chennai, India; in 2012 she was awarded the Maestro Award – LAMP-ICONGO Karmaveer Chakra for her contribution to gospel music in Delhi, India; and in 2019, the Aspire World Award for Passion for Excellence at the 31st Global Women’s Empowerment Summit in Dubai, UAE.

An alumnus of the T. A. Pai Management Institute and the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, Swapna is known in her professional network as the former Administration Manager of Arthur D. Little, a global management consulting firm.

Wearing many hats, this mother of two and grandmother of three is a mentor, entrepreneur and interior designer from the New York Institute of Art and Design. Additionally, she played the lead in the musical ‘Mamma Mia’ and acted in a pivotal role in the Tamil feature film, ‘Nadunissi Naaygal’.

Swapna embarked on her maiden voyage as an author in 2021, sharing her learnings through the thousand-day challenge, interspersed with relevant glimpses from her life.

Swapna Abraham contributed a chapter in Our Forgotten Childrens book

see here

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www.1000songsin1000days.com

https://www.swapnaabraham.com/songs-song-diary

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19–28 Entitlement versus Gratitude

July 8, 2019September 29, 2021Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy

Entitlement, a belief that you are owed more than anyone else and the fact you do not care who suffers because of it.

Are we entitled to live a happy productive life? Yes, we are, if we are willing to work for it. We can have all the abundance in the world if we are willing to work for it. We can be enriched and prosperous if we are willing to pay our dues along the way. BUT, we are not entitled to have what we want when we want it just because we want it, especially if it comes at the expense of the planet and people.

Opulence and entitlement are incredibly dangerous in the hands of those with no heart, no soul connection, and no consciousness, for as long as they have, they don’t care who suffers for it.

We have seen so much evidence of this through history, and now thanks to CNN and Twitter and all media sensationalism we are seeing even more opulent behaviour than ever before. Over the last 30 + years the media advertising has made zombies out of us and sold us a bag of rubbish that more is more, and if you don’t have more, you are worth nothing.

This push to consumerism is not only killing our planet but has killed our morality, empathy, respect, consideration, and heart, for we have been taught that you need things and status to define your value, your self worth and this has caused a deep disconnect within our hearts, souls, spirits and has polluted our minds.

ENTITLEMENT needs to be made obsolete, and Gratitude NEEDS TO BE INSTILLED in our daily lives.

Over the last few decades with my counseling and podcast interviewing, I have come across so many empty people who feel heart, spirit, and purpose conscious poor. They rode this wave of more is more and at the end of it found they were not only financially poor but spiritually and heart poor too. Most people had to deal with some sort of illness and debt and a disconnect from the loved ones as communication had been lost due to this divide. All of them felt sick and empty and devoid of any joy in their lives, more like they had become slaves to the need to be and have MORE.

Their journeys back to heart, back to spirit and stepping into a more meaningful purposeful life, has given them an abundance that no exterior purchasing every did. They became ENRICHED by becoming of service to others which ignition of GRATITUDE in deeply meaningful ways.

EGO = ENTITLEMENT

Our EGOS, when ignited out of proportion, can make people feel superior and more ENTITLED than others, a false illusionment and one that can cause an incredible amount of harm to the egotistic and those in their path. EGO can become narcissistic which = Entitlement but is derived by a deep sense of insecurity within the entitled person.

This entitlement is not just on consumerism or a sense of superiority, but on race and religion too. We see people of a so-called faith dictating who is worth God’s love and who is unworthy. That is not a job for mankind by that only of the spirit of God.

We see MAN demean and abuse women because they think they are a superior race, again not God’s message. We see people condemned by the colour of their skin and treated as less than, again not God’s message. We see the poor made poorer to keep them in place as servants to the rich, not God’s work. We see opulent people using other people for their own gain and believe that they are entitled because they are richer, because of their status and superiority, and believe that is power, again not God or anyone else’s message.

The need for Power, Greed, Superiority, over others is a dis-ease that has damaging consequences to all.

YOU HAVE TO DESERVE WHAT YOU HAVE AND BE GRATEFUL FOR THE BLESSING.

Our purpose here on Earth is in Self Discovery of our gift that we share in service with our communities.

Only with the willingness to go through life and face our challenges and become stronger, more courageous and empowered by the experience can we become that beautiful instrument that serves the Orchestra of Life.

So let us look at ENTITLEMENT in our own lives and question if that attitude warrants being there, for being humble and grateful for this incredible planet that provides us all we need, by being a participant in all areas of life, by sharing, giving, and creating opportunities do we then truly understand why we are here.

When you step into Love and Gratitude and understand that the struggles are just a self-exploration of our meaningful purpose here, then you will know that everything you are and everything you have you deserve because you journeyed for it and you are grateful for the experience.

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18-22 Does Childhood Neglect and Trauma make Villians?

May 26, 2018August 13, 2022Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Sara Troy, on Sara’s View of Life, on air May 29th

When you look at leaders who become dictators and narcissistic egomaniacs, do they have in common a traumatic childhood in common? We see in adults today an insecurity that very often stems from an unloving childhood, it can come in abuse both psychical and mental and also in a form of neglect. We know children develop their empathy frontal lobe early on in childhood, and if they are not shown love and how to care for others, animals and nature, they become very immersed in self, the self-importance, self-obsessed, self-motivated, everything self and very often at the expense of everyone around them. See more here on Narcissistic Sociopath and Psychopath

Something we see in common with villains that we see in the movies is that they are terrible at connecting to the heart as it was neglected as a child and very often through abandonment. Are all the people that are evil today, hurt children that are cruel to other people because they were hurt themselves in childhood and that pain was so much they need to inflict on others to release it?

You would think that if they have suffered such pain that they would seek love more, strive to find love within themselves to heal, look to placing love around them in order to love that inner child. Alas, what we see is a blame game and inflicting their pain on others to try and feel better themselves. Is it entrenched in the patterning of their DNA? a habit so built in they cannot see a way out? Very often we see this leads to addiction, be it drugs or alcohol or manifesting in many other forms of addiction? or is it a choice to stay in victimization because it is easy to blame others for your pain, rather than do something about it?

When do we stop holding on to our past and start taking ownership of our lives now and choose a better more loving life? Only when we choose not to make our childhood an excuse for our behaviour today and when we do something about finding our way back to love by loving our own inner child.

Being a tyrant, a villain, a dictator, a power-hungry leader who hurts its own people to feel more powerful only makes that so-called leader weaker than everyone else. True power is in the EMPOWERMENT of your people, not bullying, terrorizing or crippling your people to feel important.

What do you feel about this topic? Can you see the correlation between our power-hungry leaders of today and their past as being children of neglect? If so what can we do to heal them or empower our selves with love against their infliction of pain upon us?

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WJ 18-21 Mindful Methods of Staying Calm In The Midst of Chaos

May 20, 2018May 21, 2025Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

The Wellness Journey with Lynnis Woods-Mullins and her guest Julie Potiker, on air from May 22nd

Life is full of potential stressors, from those on the home front like strained communication with family members to those that sometimes catch us off guard out in the world like an unhappy boss or a traffic jam that makes us late. We can’t control what other people bring to the table or what the world will throw at us on any given day, but what we can do, according to attorney turned mindfulness expert Julie Potiker, is learn to stay calm amidst the chaos. She shares a moving series of trials and triumphs — as well as tangible tips for how anyone can add the calming effects of mindfulness to their life — in her new book: “Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm In the Midst of Chaos.

According to Julie, “Mindfulness is the first step in emotional healing,” says Julie. “It’s being able to turn toward and acknowledge our difficult thoughts and feelings — such as inadequacy, sadness, anger, or confusion — with a spirit of openness and curiosity. Self-compassion involves responding to these difficult thoughts and feelings with kindness, sympathy, and understanding so that we soothe and comfort ourselves when we’re hurting. Research has shown that self-compassion greatly enhances emotional well-being. It boosts happiness, reduces anxiety and depression, and can even help maintain healthy lifestyle habits such as diet and exercise. Being both mindful and compassionate leads to greater ease and well-being in our daily lives.”

Julie shares with us not just how impactful mindfulness can be during various stages of our lives, but how during our mid-life stage mindfulness can be a great tool to maintain out mind, body and spirit wellness.

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In 2006, Julie began exhibiting symptoms of a possible brain tumour. “The wrong words kept coming out of my mouth,” she shares. “I’d say ‘captino’ instead of ‘cappuccino,’ ‘maginal’ instead of ‘magical,’ ‘bunkey burvey’ instead of ‘topsy-turvy.’ I went to a neurologist fearing the worst. After a thorough exam, the doctor asked me about my life — what my days consisted of, my family constellation, my schedule and volunteer work. I was a typical baby boomer, sandwiched between three adolescent kids (including identical twin daughters) and ageing parents. He asked me whether I had ever heard of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction; I hadn’t. He suggested that mindfulness training was what I needed in order to improve my health.”

On her doctor’s recommendation, Julie signed up for her first MBSR course at the University of California San Diego Center for Mindfulness. After that initial eight-week class, she became deeply interested in the way our thought patterns can train our brains to act and feel differently.

“In short,” says Julie, “what you think changes your brain. And it doesn’t stop until you’re dead.”

She dove head first into full-blown mindfulness training, taking more than a dozen courses and exploring multiple avenues of study over the next several years, including the groundbreaking new practice of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC).

“Mindful Self-Compassion was MBSR with the extra component of compassion practice,” Julie shares. “Adding a self-compassion practice was just what I needed to take healing to the next level. MBSR was instructive in learning how to locate emotions in my body but not as helpful to me as MSC in handling the difficult emotions once I found them. I learned skills to soothe myself when times turn rough. My depression vanished, and I managed my issues with anger much better and in a completely new way.”

In 2014, Julie was in the first small group of people trained to teach Mindfulness Self-Compassion. Now, she shares these and other mindfulness techniques with the world through her Mindful Methods for Life training and her new book.

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IG 18-18 Victorious Living with Charles Eduardos

April 23, 2018May 16, 2018Self Discovery Wisdom Podcast

Igniting Our Heart and Souls with Sara Troy and her guest Charles Eduardos, on air from May 1st

Charles Eduardos is a native of Cleveland, Ohio and an ordained minister with 40+ years of experience in pastoral and evangelistic ministry. He is Pastor at All Saints Lutheran Church in Olmsted Falls, and also serves on the Advisory Board of Cleveland Clinic’s CPE Program and Chaplain for the Olmsted Township Police Department. He is an experienced Executive/Corporate Coach, trainer/facilitator (Registered Corporate Coach with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches) Certified Hypnotherapist and Certified NLP Master Practitioner who has worked with organizations (profit and non- profit) to support them in identifying and tackling their challenges. Charles is an attentive listener, who gives a different perspective to perceived barriers.

Charles has attended Cuyahoga Community College (major in LE), Cleveland State University (major in psychology), Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and is currently completing his Doctorate of Ministry.

Charles is an excellent communicator who has a great sense of humor and the ability to get his message across with clarity. Charles’ clarity leaves him well equipped to take on the most demanding clients, customers, and colleagues. He has the natural ability to recognize the talents and abilities in people and help them see their gifts and use them. He has a strong understanding both of business principles and human behavior and spirituality. His diverse background, deep knowledge and experience of the coaching process make him a powerful agent of change.

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Charles provides consulting services, Workshops and Seminars on Diversity, Team Building, Stress Management, Listening and Strategic Planning. He is also an award winning conference speaker. He has most recently presented at Cleveland Clinic, Baldwin Wallace University, CEOGC, Eliza Jennings, R.E. Warner & Associate, Inc., OASPE Local 744, Aflac Regional Training, U.S. Department of Justice regional and national conferences in Houston, TX., San Jose, CA., Indianapolis, IN., & Fort Worth, TX. and has also been published in newsletters and magazines.

He has served as Executive Director of Euclid Weed & Seed (a crime prevention and neighborhood revitalization initiative of the US Department of Justice), Community Policing Specialist for the Euclid Police Department, Vice President/General Manager of WRDZ Radio.

Charles was also a member of the Communications Commission of the Greater Cleveland Inter-Church Council and the Greater Cleveland Radio-TV Council. He has also produced, directed and hosted programs on radio & TV around the country.

Professional & Other Affiliations Include:

Member of Spiritual Directors International
American Hypnosis Association (AHA)
Certified Hypnotherapist through the Hypnotherapist Union Local 432 AFL-CIO
Technical Assistance Consultant for the Department of Justice through the Institute for Law & Justice
Certified Basic & Advanced CIS De-briefer
Certified Law Enforcement Chaplain through the International Conference of Police Chaplains
Certified Prevention Specialist through Ohio Crime Prevention Association