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TSM20-15 Mark Balla Discovering my inner humanitarian

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Their Story Matter with Sara Troy and her guest Mark Bello, on air from April 7th

During a business trip to India in 2011, Mark Balla made an unexpected discovery, a discover that was to turn his understanding of our world upside down. He was so shaken by what he learned that he felt unable to simply walk away.

More often than not, when people are confronted by a major issue with global implications you will hear them say “What can I do? I’m only one person.” Mark decided that such a response would be unacceptable, and he made up his mind to get involved. Within three years he had walked away from paid employment, delivered a TED talk, founded a charity, joined a Rotary Club and started a project that has since impacted directly and indirectly on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

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After completing a degree majoring in Linguistics in the 1980s, Mark Balla took a job working for Lonely Planet Publications, first as an editor and later as a travel writer. Among others, Mark was involved in writing travel guides to various European and Latin American countries.

After leaving Lonely Planet, he spent a number of years working in the commercial shipbuilding industry with a particular focus on trade exhibitions and trade publishing. In the early 2000s, Mark and his wife Annie started their own business in the CD and DVD manufacturing industry. The business grew strongly and was eventually sold to an Australian based supplier. The buyer established  a joint venture manufacturing business in India and asked Mark to join the board. This is where his Indian adventure began.

Mark and Annie live in Melbourne, Australia. They have two adult children and a cat. Mark has a complicated relationship with both the cat and his golf handicap. He is an enthusiastic member of the Rotary Club of Box Hill Central where he will be club president in 2020/21. He and Annie are avid travelers, both believing that the world is far too interesting a place not to have a good look at it.

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TM19-40 Jay Westbrook Compassionate Journey Death with Dignity

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Crossing Over with Dignity, Death with Dignity, Grief & Loss  on Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Jay Westbrook, on-air from October 1st

Because of Jay’s deep, long, and intimate relationship with suffering, he has been able to comfortably bear witness to the suffering of the dying, to do so with a compassionate presence, and has been able to develop & cultivate tools to help people die more tenderly and their families to grieve more gently.

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Jay Westbrook, MS, RN is a multiple award-winning clinician, author, speaker, and Visiting Faculty Scholar at Harvard Medical School’s Palliative Care Department.

He has worked bedside with the dying & the grieving for over 30 years, is nationally recognized as an expert on the constellation of issues surrounding End-of-Life, and is highly skilled in working with the spiritual, emotional, & physical suffering of people approaching the end of their lives, and their grieving families and caregivers.

He has also served as Senior Grief & Loss Counselor for multiple Southern California treatment centers, assisting in breaking the pattern of grief-related substance abuse and relapse.

He is Clinical Director of Compassionate Journey, an End-of-Life Clinical and Education Service, and lectures nationally at both the keynote and breakout levels.

“Westbrook employs a narrative style, in the Native American tradition, to provide riveting, amazingly inspiring, and powerful presentations on the transformative aspects of suffering and on using suffering to awaken compassion.”

“Your stories & grace have haunted my thoughts & helped me tremendously.” – E. Richardson, M.D.

“Your heart is so beautiful, your courage endless.  In 90 minutes you filled my heart, renewed my soul, and changed – forever – the way I will approach & perform my work. Thank you”  –  C. Downey, M.D.

“Extraordinary care & teaching & modeling, Jay … You did an amazing job.”  –  S. Block, M.D.

Compassionate Journeys: Lessons From My Work With the Dying 

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“An amazing, profound, moving, & inspirational collection of powerful stand-alone stories – shared in the narrative style of Native Americans – each of which illustrates a tool for co-journeying with the dying, and which can be used equally well with the dying, their families, or to train clinical professionals.” 

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TS19-32 Caring for Our Elderly Wisdom Keepers with Phyllis Ayman

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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Phyllis Ayman, on air from July 30th

Phyllis Ayman, MS/SLP, CDP     PMA Speech Solutions, LLP

Caring for Our Wisdom Keepers.  Our Elder Citizens who have contributed to building our respective society’s, giving birth to the next generation, and have fought on our behalf in wars on foreign soils, deserve respect, dignity, quality of life and quality of care as they continue life’s journey into their advancing years, especially in the over 15,000 of our nationals nursing homes.

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Phyllis Ayman, an author of the international best-selling book “OVERDUE Quality Care for Our Elder Citizens”, published February 8, 2019, has become known as “The Voice for Eldercare Advocacy”. Her first book “Nursing Homes to Rehabilitation Centers…What Every Person Needs to Know” was published in December 2017. 

 She is an Eldercare Advisor/Coach,  Advocate, Keynote and Breakout Speaker, Speech & Language Pathologist and Certified Dementia Practitioner who brings an insider’s view into the nursing home industry after working in 40+ skilled nursing/short-term rehabilitation facilities for over 25 years. 

 Phyllis provides the necessary information and valuable unique insight from an insight perspective for individuals and families so they can become more effective advocates when seeking care for themselves or their loved ones in a short-term rehabilitation, traditional long-term or memory care stay within a skilled nursing facility. 

 As a speech & language pathologist and Certified Dementia Practitioner, Phyllis has been known for her empathy and high standards of care while building and creating innovative programs in an effort to improve the quality of life and quality of care for all nursing home residents. Her specialties have included working with patients having all stages of respiratory disease, including those who are ventilator dependent or have tracheostomy tubes, Parkinson’s Disease, strokes, and other neurologic impairments, Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias, and impairments in swallowing. 

 Phyllis has been a regular guest on WGCH AM Greenwich Business Talk Radio since November 2018 and now brings her own guests whom she interviews on the “Darby and Friends” show. She was also interviewed on the Sustainable Success Show and the Amplified Radio Show on the Voice America’s Influencer Channel.  She joined the team at HPATV as the host and Associate Producer of “The Golden Years….Understanding Better Living” in April 2019.  She has been interviewed on other podcasts and blogcast radio shows, independent TV stations, and has plans to launch her own radio show on the Voice America channel September 5th. 

She conducts Webinars and Seminars on Caregiving and “The Sandwich Generation” for national insurance providers, small business and major corporations in the public and private sector, and is a keynote and breakout speaker on Aging and Eldercare in America, Caregiving, Communication, Empathy and Cultural diversity. She serves as a board member of the Massachusetts Advocates of Nursing Home Reform.

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TH 19-27 PHILANTHROINVESTING Serving Communities with Ivan Anz

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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Ivan Anz, on air from July 2nd

Ivan’s company, Equity & Help®, Inc., was founded in 2014. Located in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, Equity & Help®, Inc. acquires US houses from banks and makes them available to investors at prices far below current *ARV (After Repair Value). Equity & Help®, Inc. then finds families to fix up, live in, and take care of the homes for less than the cost of rent, while paying a high rate of return to investors.

Ivan and his team provide outstanding value to real estate investors and home buyers alike. Using connections and expertise, Ivan helps investors achieve their financial goals while making a real difference in people’s lives.

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Ivan was born in 1984 and was married in 2007 to his wife, Bella, who is a fiction writer, Entrepreneur and Co- Founder for Equity & Help®, Inc. The two of them enjoy spending time with their dog while helping, learning, and doing philanthropy through their church.

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TSM 19-01 Retinitis Pigmentosa does not hold Amy Bovaird back

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Their Story Matters with Sara Troy and her guest Amy Bovaird, ON AIR FROM JANUARY 1ST

As the author of the Mobility Series, Bovaird uses personal experiences, faith and practical tips in her presentation “Thriving With Vision and Hearing Loss” One of the important tools for coping with adversity is attitude and Bovaird uses plenty of humorous anecdotes to illustrate her points. Bovaird doesn’t just speak. She involves the participants so that it’s a two-way sharing. A few of the topics she will address: • Diagnosis—from denial to acceptance • Faith, optimism and a positive attitude • Humorous anecdotes of coping • Practical tips for maximizing remaining vision Whether you’re vision-impaired or hard of hearing or you’re interested in learning more about vision and hearing loss, Bovaird’s presentations will give you the insights and the tools to move forward and reach out to others.

At age 28, she was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) and declared legally blind. RP is a hereditary, degenerative eye disease that results in blindness or near blindness. There is no cure to date. Today Amy has no peripheral vision. She jokes that she is at the end of the “tunnel” vision in her eyesight. She suffers from a dual disability: progressive vision and hearing loss, which may be due to Usher Syndrome, the leading cause of deaf blindness in the world.
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Amy joined a group of blind professionals who volunteer their time to help others cope with blindness at VisionAware.org, an outreach website of the American Foundation for the Blind.

Ohio Valley University, Amy’s undergraduate institution, awarded her the Distinguished Medal of Literature for Mobility Matters.

Amy is an active member of several community groups, which include Pennwriters, West PA Authors, Toastmasters, the West County Lions Club, and the National Federation for the Blind.

Amy is also a blogger, speaker, educator and active in community organizations (Toastmasters, Lions Club, City Mission, Church Food Pantry volunteer, Humane Society advocate, Sight Center supporter, etc).
Hobbies are running, hiking, attending cultural events (esp those that have food!) and I love animals!
My first two books were part of the Mobility Series
I am currently writing the third and final book in the series, which will come out in 2019.
Also coming out in 2019 is a very personal book about my dad, Don Bovaird The Tree Man and a travel book called Falling for Ecuador: One Foot on the Equator and the Other on a Vine (Tentative subtitle)
All my books are WhisperSync ready, which means readers can switch from reading the kindle version to the audio version, often at a big discount.
Though Amy no longer teaches in the classroom, she still educates by speaking to groups about the challenges of sight loss with anecdotes of faith and humor. She blogs about her experiences in hopes of bridging gaps between the sighted and the blind. She also talks about culture and travels. In the daytime, she spoils her aging cat and works on future publications.

Amy’s memoirs include: Mobility Matters:  Stepping Out in Faith, Cane Confessions: The Lighter Side to Mobility and a memoir / devotional, Seeking Solace: Finding Joy After Loss.

Other book Ideas in the works: The Light Series:
Fading Light (Losing my vision and travel)
Heavenly Light (Marriage and Miscarriage)
Traveling Light (Inspirational ‘Meetings’ in my travels)

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