Choose Positive Living with Sara Troy and her guest Eileen Head, on air from March 28th
I see many women 50+ feeling “Is this all there is?” There is a low-grade depression and sometimes resentment.
They have raised the kids, maybe had a career and often feel stuck in the same patterns. Their relationship isn’t what they would like it to be or they may be single and still looking for a partner. Life become humdrum, monotonous, and hopeless that they may never fulfill the dreams they had or are afraid of even dreaming.
I will teach them how I have come to Thrive… and they can too no matter what your relationship status or situation is!
It is about changing sabotaging mindset patterns and releasing limiting beliefs. It is about transformation.
I will teach them using the laws of attraction how to manifest and Live Their Best Life
I used to believe that I would never be able to live near a beach for the winters until I shifted my mindset to be on the vibrational level to Create My Best Life.
Eileen Head has been called The Relationship Whisperer. She is a Live Your Best Life Mentor, Intuitive, Transformational Life and Relationship Coach, Speaker, Author, Hypnotherapist, and Reiki Master.
She teaches people to Shift, Thrive, and Live Their Best Life.
Eileen does that by helping you to raise your energetic vibration and allowing you to manifest a more positive life by releasing blocks, healing limiting beliefs and patterns that are sabotaging you. Using the Law Of Attraction and Manifesting practices, she mentors you to create the Life You Desire.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Kimberly Butler, on air from March 27th.
I first heard Kimberly when she was a guest speaker on Deb Drummonds Show Up, Stand Up and Speak up event, Kimberly blew me away, but more than that, I felt I heard her from the core of who she is, and of cause I had to interview her.
On this show which is long because we covered so much, we discuss her journey from an orphanage to opening up the biggest doors in the world as a photographer. Her experiences with stars, politicians and Barbara Walters (she was her personal photographer) and the trust they had in her.
We speak about her memoir, the books to come, and her linage which goes back one thousand years, related to royalty, presidents and leaders. Her life has know many struggles, seized opportunities and with a determination to succeed her way, from the very core of her being.
Photojournalist and celebrity photographer Kimberly Butler has published her first book, “The Art of Fear: A Photographic Memoir”, an epic poem featuring 34 exquisite yet disturbing images – without using Photoshop — where she faces her fears to reveal the childhood trauma she experienced when, at 8 years old, she was removed from her home and placed in Ottilie Orphan Home in Jamaica, New York. The young woman posing in the photographs wearing a gas mask – a metaphor for the protective walls Butler built around her life – is her own daughter, Caitlin, whom she adopted from a Lithuanian orphanage – coincidentally – at the age of 8 years old.
“I wanted to share my journey to help others,” says the award-winning photographer. “Those who are born into circumstances that make life even more difficult than it already is — whether due to dysfunctional childhoods or personal demons. And, of course,” Butler adds, “this turns out to be just about everyone to some degree or another.”
The locations for the photographs in this 104-page softcover book include a collapsed abandoned building, a deserted icy beach during winter, and an empty church and cemetery – each representing the loneliness, isolation, and fear she fought to overcome by using masks to cloak feelings of shame and worthlessness.
“The Art of Fear: A Photographic Memoir” features a foreword by award-winning novelistNeil Gaiman, whom Butler includes in her memoir among the photographs of her daughter. He describes it this way: “Kim produced several gallons of paint, and had me put my hands into the paint, and took photographs of me making marks on the paper floor; and photos of me just watching my hands drip. By the end of that shoot I trusted her completely. And in some odd way, she trusted me.”
Of the collection of photos in “The Art of Fear,” Gaiman writes, “It was stranger, more poetic, at once beautiful and in-your-face, futuristic and old. They seemed like messages from a future in which the air was harder to breathe, in which we were struggling to live in the world we had made…She says I’m her muse, but all I ever do is tell her how beautiful and strange her pictures are, and how hard it is for me to get them out of my head…There is nobody like Kimberly Butler.”
Kimberly Butler has photographed hundreds ofcelebritiesand world leaders including five U.S. presidents. Her credits include covers of New York Times best sellers andgallery shoots for major broadcast networks. She was also a regular contributor to PEOPLE magazine for more than a decade. Butler has traveled extensively in theMiddle Eastand the former Soviet Union as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker inJordan, Jerusalem, Gaza, and Chechnya. For the past two decades she has been the creative force behind the American Library Association’s CelebrityREADposter series, exhibited nationwide in public schools and libraries. In 2018 she exhibited her photographic series on banned books in NY called “CENSORED.” Butler is a native New Yorker and lives in Manhattan.
Please reach out to Kimberly in person for her book.
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Mental Health Awareness with Sara Troy with guest Kimberly Best, on air March 28th
“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences…. The world will be regenerated by the people who rise above these passive ways and heroically seek, by whatever hardship, by whatever toil, the methods by which people can agree.” ?Mary Parker Follett.
Kimberly says that, mediation, negotiation, and arbitration are dispute resolution skills that also include facilitation. The scope of use is anywhere from interpersonal to countries at war. Problems can be identified, their impact discussed, and each person’s needs identified in order to resolve the conflict. An easy way to describe it is collaborative problem solving.
Kim is also a volunteer mediator with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Dispute Resolution Program and Community/Police Unification Program. In addition, she is a practicing facilitator for challenging business and social conversations.
Kimberly Best, RN, MA, is a Tennessee Rule 31 Listed Civil and Trained Family Mediator Kim’s practice focuses on Family Mediation, Health, and Elder Care Mediation, Civil and Business Mediation, and Conflict Coaching in Franklin, Tennessee.
She is the author of “How to Live Forever, A Guide to Writing the Final Chapter of Your Life Story” and is a speaker and trainer on the topics of conflict management, dispute resolution processes, life transitions, and how to make difficult decisions – including end of life issues.
She is the author of “How to Live Forever, A Guide to Writing the Final Chapter of Your Life Story” and is a speaker and trainer on the topics of conflict management, dispute resolution processes, life transitions, and how to make difficult decisions – including end of life issues.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Marleen Karen, on air from March 21st
Maureen had a stroke which interrupted her career, but what she learnt from it and how it has helped her become a better mentor, is profound. She helps women of colour, find their own way forward into living a life of choice, care, community, and communication, so they are living their best life.
We empower BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) professional women who are stuck on the corporate ladder to move forward in their career.
?are you a professional female who’s sick and tired of only “staying in your lane” when you KNOW that you were meant for more?
?is the excuse of HR hiring another candidate who was the right fit when you not only have all the requirements, but EXCEED them as well?
?is being overlooked, ignored and only being given menial tasks no longer your cup of tea?
?are you exhausted from having those same old headaches and pain of constantly overworking in your position, but not being valued or appreciated for your labour?
Ever since leaving high school, I have always been either the only or one of 2 or 3 Black female students in the classroom. However, I did not let that disparity prevent me from excelling and proving myself and my worth. By continually progressing due to being denied advancement on the educational and professional front, I quickly realized that I was an example of a dichotomous division in those circles. Also, I became acutely aware of limitations that I, as a Black female, would have to face since there’s a huge lack of representation which hinders my ability to take part in innovative and inclusive practices.
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An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Abigail Child, on air from March 21st
Legendary Experimental & Documentary Filmmaker Abigail Child Receives Career Retrospective at NYC’s Anthology Film Archives March 24-28th
At times playful and at others intensely provocative, the cinema of Abigail Child has been a cornerstone of the American avant-garde film movement since the late 1970s. Poet, visual artist and filmmaker Abigail Child has absorbed the best of mentors like Jonas Mekas, experimental icons like Marie Menken, Len Lye & Arthur Lipsett, and has been a trailblazer for LGBTQIA+ artists alongside fellow game-changers like Barbara Hammer and Yvonne Rainer.
The work is emotionally probing, intellectually challenging, and visually arresting. Every image is a masterful flourish filled with power, and each sounds an alarm, a call to arms for each of us to march forward in our own personal journey.
A destroyer of boundaries and builder of bridges, the work traverses the finest experimental cinema and the very best of the documentary form.
These fantastic works have been lovingly curated in a long overdue career retrospective for Abigail Child, presented at New York’s Anthology Film Archives from March 24th to the 28th, 2023.
Abigail Childhas been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations and written six books. An acknowledged pioneer in montage, Child addresses the interplay between sound and image to make, in the words of LA Weekly: “brilliant, exciting work…a vibrant political filmmaking that’s attentive to form.”
About Anthology Film Archives
Opened in 1970 by Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, and Stan Brakhage,Anthology Film Archivesis an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.
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