Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. on air from November 29th
Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is an international leadership guru who rose from humble origins. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading leadership educators, authors, speakers, coaches, consultants, and practitioners. He is a C-Suite advisor and a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He has thirty-eight years of experience in executive coaching and conducts leadership development training programs for various corporate and educational institutions. He brings a strategic eye and long-range vision given his multifaceted professional experience including military, teaching, training, research, consultancy, and philosophy. He coined a new leadership learning tool?Soft Leadership Grid; a leadership training tool?11E Leadership Grid; and an innovative teaching tool?Meka’s Method.
His areas of interest include executive coaching, executive education, and leadership. He is passionate about serving and making a difference in the lives of others. He trains a new generation of leaders through leadership education and publications. He advocates gender equality globally (#HeForShe). He shares his leadership wisdom freely with the world on his four blogs. His vision is to build one million students as global leaders by 2030.
He is the Father of ‘Soft Leadership’ and Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India. He has authored over forty-five books including the award-winning ‘21 Success Sutras for CEOs’. His book ‘21 Success Sutras for Leaders’ was selected as a Top 10 Leadership Book of the Year?2013 by San Diego University, USA. He is the recipient of the International Coach of the Year 2013 and ‘Heart-repreneur® of the Year 2019, USA. He has published more than 250 papers and articles in prestigious international publications including Leader to Leader, Thunderbird International Business Review, Strategic HR Review, Development and Learning in Organizations, Industrial and Commercial Training, On the Horizon, and The Journal of Values-Based Leadership. He maintains four popular blogs including ‘Professor M. S. Rao’s Vision 2030: One Million Global Leaders.’
I am an author on Mindful Leadership, CEOs and Executive Coaching. Here is the link to my bestselling book titled, ‘See the Light in You: Acquire Spiritual Powers to Achieve Mindfulness, Wellness, Happiness and Success.’
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Allan Roberts, on air from November 29th
Allan Never worked at school and left at 15 with no qualifications. He was Sent to Radio school but dropped out.
At 17 I had a major mindset shift, and was Top of my City and Guilds course.
He joined army and was a top student, and excelled, and it earned him a luxury posting, with responsibility, and promotion.
Continued with the new mindset for next 60 years so very successful career.
He married but didn’t recognise her mental issues, and their lost luxury home, business, and eventually was deliberately put £200,000 in debt.
Bank ran PPI scam and he lost finally his home, and was still equivalent to $200,000 in debt, homeless, living on the streets, no money for food, and lost over 70lbs in weight, he was a body builder to skeleton in 5 months, living of tea only.
Rehoused by housing association, and driving and a job, he created a 8-year plan to clear debt and make my fortune.
He started a Business coaching, bought more courses to advance his business, and got top of the range Ford Ranger so I have good quality , reliable transport.
Five-year point completely clear of all debt.
That period of starvation had destroyed his stomach so for 5 years he hadn’t eaten properly, he was rushed into hospital for laparotomy, and work stopped for three months.
Thirteen years ago, in less than 20 minutes while recovering from the laparotomy, I go from driving my car, to complete blindness and enter that frightening and solitary world, of darkness and isolation.
My coaching practice crashes.
However, with my mindset, it is only a change of direction.
I have a new world to explore, thrilling new concepts to experience, exciting new challenges to discover.
What have I done since losing my eyesight in 2009?
1. Worcester Association of Carers, I contact and support Carers every week for over 12 years as a volunteer.
2. Public speaking to raise money and awareness for RNIB Talking Books
3. Join Probus (PRO – Professional, BUS – Business) now in my twelfth year (Made vice chairman last year, now chairman)
4. Elected a town councillor, the council rep for Age UK., and eventually Trustee at Age UK.
5. Join U3A and the local history group
6. Join Toastmasters – five years
7. Introduced and taught Public Speaking to the local high school – annual event now run by toastmasters
8. Invited to be the Keynote speaker at a Support Workers Conference. Receive standing ovation and many messages.
9. Saltars investment club. (ten years, just resigned)
10. Volunteer a day each week at a Museum of Ancient Buildings talking and presenting to visitors. – 5 years.
11. Sight Concern Worcester – Cookery course, Woodworking course, Computer course. – learnt to touch type and software for the blind so I could return to my computer.
12. Published – Three books, a personal development book, and two novels. Not good, but I did them for personal achievement.
Surgery on both eyes returns very basic vision, enough to get me around.
14. With extra-large font on my computer, just able to physically read my personal development book. I find many mistakes, correct, expand, and republish 2019.
15. Have one of my novels republished 2021.
16. Co-Authored – The Transformation Within, released last week.
I have five more books in progress. (Mindset, Business, Life Story, Public Speaking, Short stories)
17. SOBBs – Save our brine baths campaign.
18. Become trustee for a rundown Community Centre.
19. Hear about Mentor Link, train and start mentoring school children that have fallen behind due to bullying or abuse.
20. Despite being disabled and limited sight, have sponsored training at the gym for 9 months to cycle Lands’ End to John O’Groats (Around 1000 miles avoiding the dangerous roads) to raise money for the charities where I am a volunteer. Unfortunately, cancelled two weeks before riding due to lockdown, but may get going again in 2023.
21. Co-host support Zoom – relationships, counselling, finance, mindset. for 2 years now
22. Completed a twelve-month public speaking course with one of UK’s public speaker trainers
23. Completed two, 12-month Mindset courses
24. Completed TEDx training but no location to give talk yet.
25. Completed two more public speaking courses
26. Created Debt Management Course
27. Grand Connection Mastermind Group
28. My original Mindset shift was as I approached my seventeenth birthday, last June I turned seventy-seven, that is sixty years I have been building and developing my mindset.
Working on a Mindset Membership Programme. “Sixty Layers of Mindset, Developed Across Sixty Years of Experience.”
29. I talk about collaboration
30. I have been asked to create Mindset programme suitable for older children at school.
31. Presently mentoring a girl in Uganda, teaching her learning techniques to help her through University.
32. Working with Pat Little, ( Sara has just interviewed Pat ) on constructing her speech.
I am no longer a town councillor and stepped down from being an Age UK trustee when they merged with another Age UK branch.
I am no longer in Toastmasters or volunteer at the Museum of Ancient Buildings.
That is a summary of what I have achieved since losing my eyesight thirteen years ago.
I am constantly on courses and have achieved at least one course every year but averaged 4 or 5 for sixty years.
ALLAN L ROBERTS
Allan Roberts is on a mission to transform vulnerable students into high achievers with a secondary passion for supporting men facing retirement. As a business coach, inspirational speaker, and mentor Allan supports this current and next generation of men to succeed. His own seventy-seven-year life journey would have been smoother with the benefit of such a mentor.
Allan shares his tales from the trenches—from his troubled youth in Preston, Lancashire, to a disastrous marriage resulting in debt and homelessness and on to the loss of his sight. The development of his mindset enabled Allan to overcome these traumatic challenges. His continued interest in mindset guaranteed a successful career in electromechanical engineering, sales, and coaching, both in the army and in civilian life. He is the author of Wake Up, Don’t Let the World Pass You By, The Great Bank Heist Mystery, Mountains, and Rivers, Wake up, Live the Life You Love, the Power of Team, and My Creative Thoughts.
Continuing to venture from his comfort zone, Allan refuses to give up, renewing his zest for life taking on new challenges as town councillor, a trustee for Age UK. a community centre, a Toastmaster, the chair of a Probus group, and introducing Public Speaking to local high school students.
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Richard is the author of eight books, including Surviving Grief by God’s Grace, which details Richard’s loss of his first and then only child, his son John. It is a story of the grief, spiritual quest, and grace that helped Richard and his family survive that loss and live with hope for the future. Richard has provided free copies of his grief book to the Uvalde library to help families cope with their irreparable loss.
HELPING PEOPLE WIN EVERYDAY. Richard’s mission is to share ideas and experiences with the desire to help people win life’s race.
His uplifting messages will encourage, entertain and inspire audience members to attempt and attain new levels of personal performance
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Mike Zhao, on air from October 11th
Mike Zhao, author of Critical Race Theory and Woke Culture: America’s Dangerous Repeat of China’s Cultural Revolution.
Yukong Mike Zhao is a nationally recognized Asian American community leader, former Director of Global Planning at Siemens Energy, and a Chinese American author who cares deeply about America. With rich and inspirational life experiences, proven problem-solving abilities, and outstanding leadership skills, he is devoted to serving the public and to protecting the American Dream for you!
Mike grew up in communist China where citizens did not have the basic freedom to pursue their dreams. His father was politically persecuted during China’s Cultural Revolution, which led to extreme poverty, a broken family, and devastating personal loss.
In 1992, Mike legally immigrated to the United States to pursue his American Dream. After receiving an International MBA degree from the University of South Carolina, he moved to Orlando, and joined Westinghouse/Siemens Energy. During his private sector career, Mike demonstrated outstanding strategic management expertise, and led numerous mission-critical corporate strategy development projects for American and global markets.
Alarmed by the extreme left, which wants to introduce socialism and use censorship, cancel culture, and racial division to tear down America, Mike felt a calling to serve in public office. As state representative, he will support Governor DeSantis’ efforts to protect Floridians’ political and economic freedom. He will bring smart, constitutional solutions to help you and your children achieve the American Dream!
Mike Zhao and his wife Wendy Li have lived in Orlando since 1996. They have two children who have recently started their careers as a software engineer and a financial analyst respectively. Mike loves history, travel and cooking delicious Chinese food.
Yukong Mike Zhao is a nationally recognized Asian American community leader, former Director of Global Planning at Siemens Energy, and a Chinese American author. The Publius National Post is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid. As the radical left introduces socialism and uses Critical Race Theory, censorship, cancel culture, and racial division to tear down America, there is reason for grave concern over the future of the country. Unfortunately, it appears that history is repeating itself and America is in danger of a cultural revolution from which it will not be able to recover. Based on his firsthand experience of the horrors of communism, Mike Zhao crafted Critical Race Theory & Woke Culture / America’s Dangerous Repeat of China’s Cultural Revolution to reveal how the radical left is using the Maoist playbook to destroy America. He provides a striking overview of the similar tactics used, which include employing divisive Marxist ideologies, changing cultural values, rewriting history, indoctrinating citizens, and silencing the opposition. Zhao warns of the dire consequences of many of the “virtuous” liberal agendas, such as censoring “misinformation,” canceling dissidents, mandating racial equity, and dividing Americans into the oppressors and the oppressed. Zhao survived communist China’s Cultural Revolution and thrived in capitalist America. During China’s Cultural Revolution, Zhao’s family endured political persecution, extreme poverty, and devastating personal loss. Zhao’s unique life experience enables him to draw parallels between what the radical left is doing in America and China’s Cultural Revolution fifty years ago. Zhao is an accomplished conservative author and nationally recognized Asian American community leader. By fiercely defending America’s founding principles such as the protection of individual rights, the rule of law, freedom of speech, election integrity, the free market system, equal opportunity, and meritocracy, Zhao aims to inspire Americans to fight against Critical Race Theory and “woke” culture.
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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy with her guest Gisele Huff, on air from September 26th
The Remarkable True Story of One Holocaust Survivor’s Resilience, Tenacity, and Purpose
At 86 years old, Gisèle Huff is truly a force of nature. Her life has been a remarkable journey, filled with tragedy, triumph, and accomplishment. Having survived the Holocaust, where eighteen members of her family were murdered, she and her mother left war-torn France, emigrating to America with only $400 to their name. Gisèle is someone who embodies “The American Dream,” and a testament to the idea that, if you work hard in America, you will be successful. A life-long Libertarian, Gisèle ran for Congress as a Republican in 1998, but made a 180-degree ideological turn 20 years later.
In her new memoir, Force of Nature: The Remarkable True Story of One Holocaust Survivor’s Resilience, Tenacity and Purpose (August 30, 2022, Simonet Press), Gisèle tells how she embraced the value of education, earning her PhD from Columbia University and launching a career in K–12 education that spanned decades. Her tireless work to revolutionize the school system changed the lives of countless children and gave rise to the integration of technology into the curriculum. Having worked with intellectual and political giants on both sides of the aisle, including Milton Friedman, Jeb Bush (R), former governor of FL and Bob Wise (D), former governor of WV, Gisèle repeatedly champions the idea of collaboration. It was Jeb Bush who named her the “First Lady of Blended Learning.”
However, it was her late son Gerald who introduced Gisèle to the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI), a government program in which every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly, with no “strings attached.” As automation replaces our workforce and the idea of technological unemployment is a not-so-distant threat to our economy, Gisèle began to recognize that the “American Dream” will not be obtainable in the future as it was for past generations. At the age of 72, Gisèle began to embrace progressive values so whole-heartedly that she is now an ardent promoter of UBI and the founder of The Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity.
“Who would have thought that I, a dedicated believer in the power of the free market, would eventually head a foundation devoted to ensuring every citizen receives a basic income? I’ve learned that there is so much power in changing your mind. No matter how attached a person is to their ideas, anyone can change and grow just as I did—all it requires is an open mind.”
:Gisèle Huff was born in 1936 in Paris to working-class Russian Jewish immigrants. She moved to the US when she was eleven and went on to earn a PhD in political science from Columbia University. For more than two decades, Gisèle served as the executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation, which invested in nonprofit, national organizations that worked on transforming K–12 education. She received the Thomas A. Roe Award and the iNACOL Huff Lifetime Achievement Award. She is deeply involved in raising awareness about technological unemployment and promoting universal basic income, the legacy of her late son. She is the founder of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity. She lives in San Francisco, California. This is her first book.
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