PEP Talks: People Empowering People
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35 episodes
# 116 I can do hard things
Happy Thoughtful Thursday, Today’s breath is the Alternate Nostril Breathing which Integrates both sides of brain, Clears your mind, Improves focus, and will Calm and energize you. · ...
Ray Bassin-No fear but of fear itself
Ray has experienced 35 years of drug addiction in and out of jails and hospitals where he spent 3 weeks in a coma and 2 months learning how to walk again. Ray survived 7 open heart surgeries (3 in 1 year), brain surgery, and an amputated left f...
Tracey Watts Cirino: Beyond Common
Tracey Watts Cirino..... is an entrepreneur, speaker, author of Beyond Common ‘12 Essentialsfor Success in Life and in the Workplace”, business consultant, and the CEO and founder of Lavish Color Salon Inc. She is a growth-minded, fun-Lo...
Tony Viola: Finding faith and perseverance in time of unfairness
Tony Viola, a former mortgage broker, was indicted three times and tried twice on identical charges by a multi-jurisdictional mortgage fraud task force. Prosecutors alleged Tony duped banks like JP Morgan into making 'no money down' mortgage lo...
Evan Scharfeld: Cultivate yourself
Evan is a yoga certified instructor and the owner of Cultivate Yoga Space in Avon and Cultivate Yoga Non-Profit which offers free yoga classes to underserved communities. He is a single father of two awesome kids. Even is also a scrum master at...
Therese Lynch: All you need is love
Theresa is a wife of 17 years and mom of two children through transracial open adoption. She has been a type 1 diabetic for over 30 years, which is why her husband and she chose adoption to create their family. Theresa is also a school-based sp...
Therese Lynch: All you need is Love
Theresa is a wife of 17 years and mom of two children through transracial open adoption. She has been a type 1 diabetic for over 30 years, which is why her husband and she chose adoption to create their family. Theresa is also a school-ba...
Dallin Candland: Actions Gave Me a Voice
Dallin currently is a college student at BYU in Idaho. He is studying business management with an emphasis in marketing. In school, he didn’t make the basketball team but later ended up becoming the basketball manager. This led Dalli...
Pearl “Escape” Howie: We all need to escape sometimes
Pearl comes to us having traveled the world to learn from healing masters: a Sikh yogi, a Toltec family, a Bhutanese monk, a Vietnamese nun, an African shaman, a Native American healer, an Indian guru and experts i...
Matthew Teck: Trust the Journey
Ask most kids who play an instrument what they want to be when they grow up. "I want to be a rockstar," they'll say. Well, our guest today, Matt Teck, got that opportunity! After touring part-time around his sales career, he got the call -- the...
Munira Premji: Choosing Hope
Munira is the author of Choosing Hope: One Woman. Three Cancers. the story of how she battled three advanced cancers: Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Stage 3 multiple myeloma, and Stage 3 breast cancer, within a period of five years. Mun...
Shannon Sabol: Grateful life
Shannon is a certified Holistic Health Coach, a yoga teacher for over a decade, and a mother of two awesome kids. As a health advocate and wellness guide, she helps parents prioritize their own self-care and bring more awareness into thei...
Jackie Anderson: A new HoriZEN meet yourself where you are at
Jackie Chavez Anderson is a Yoga teacher and certified Ayurveda Health Educator and founder of A New HoriZen, educating, encouraging, and empowering others to ignite their health evolution. Jackie’s goal is to share her passion, enthusiasm, and...
Lili Gordan: Get out of your own way!
Lilli is a US citizen living in Maine who came from Bulgaria 15 years ago in hopes to restart her life. She is a massotherapist, yoga instructor, and Ayurvedic health counselor. Lili shares with us her story of coming to America and trying to f...
Jessica: This, Too, Shall Pass
Jessica is a 29-year-old single mother, Ohio State University graduate, former special education instructor, and now podcaster who is always striving to better herself and her life. Over the last five years, Jessica has certainly faced her shar...
Brittany Witczak: The Storm before the Rainbow
Brittany Witczak is a 31-year-old hairstylist and wife. Brittany is married to Kyle and together they have been trying to have a baby with much heartache, peaks, and valleys and finally triumph over the past 3 years. Thanks to her selfles...
Alicia Svonavec: Alicia’s Angels
Alicia is a French teacher who is on parental leave to care for her two little girls who were each born with serious health conditions. Her oldest daughter, Penelope (PeeWee) was born prematurely and lives with apraxia of speech, a neurol...
Jessica Patzell: I have a choice to use my voice
Jessica Patzell: Jessica is a single mom of three, domestic violence survivor, and a believer in embracing your authentic self. For over a decade Jessica hid in the shadows ashamed of her abusive marriage. She had become a complete shell...
Suzy Remer: Vacuum in Squares
Suzy is an outgoing, active, and successful mother of two adult boys who recently wrote the book, “Vacuum in Squares,” a memoir of how her twin sister and she survived living with an abusive father. Her bond with her identical twin is what she ...
Maria Boulas: Making opportunity out of difficulty
Maria is a 14-year-old teenager who was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer four years ago when she was in 4th grade. Maria has undergone three surgeries and three isolated radioactive iodine treatments. Despite her cancer and ongoing treat...
Pammy Boulas: My ability is stronger than my disability
Pammy is a 20-year-old college graduate who not only graduated from Capitol University in three years with a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts in Philosophy, but also received a near full scholarship to attend Case Western Reserve’s law school. Pammy d...
Jen Hengsteler: Faith, Perspective & Gratitude
Jennifer is a special education teacher, single mother of two teenagers, and a widow of nearly 18 years. Jen became widowed when her firstborn son, Alec was 6 months old and her late husband and she had just found out they were pregnant with th...
Mary Fischer: Faith over Fear
Mary, a Magnificat Hall of Fame inductee and former professional basketball player for Dublin Ireland, is the mother of four boys ages 7 weeks to 8 years old. Her six-year-old son, Leo, was diagnosed with non-verbal Autism as a young toddler. H...
Maggie Schupp: Finding Positivity in Grief
Five years-ago Maggie lost her best friend suddenly and her world was turned upside down. She learned to surround herself with positive people, rid herself of any negative obstacles, and continue to keep her best friend’s memory alive. During t...
Shelley Soderstrom: Stay Strong
Shelley is a young mother and wife who over the past 16 years has been diagnosed with cancer in several areas of her body resulting in amputation, lung removal, several surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation. Throughout her journey which began ...
