Never Ever Give Up Hope

After life as a consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies, David Wood built the world's largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching. Based on his core values of authenticity, courage, and connection, David coaches rock-star business owners to double revenue, double their time off, and be a more extraordinary entrepreneur, partner, parent and leader. As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! In his interview, David explains how 30% more courage can double YOUR revenue and YOUR happiness.   "Being an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, I know what it’s like to be assailed by ideas, strategies, and options. I discovered that peaceful, focused action is available for me, and for ALL business owners - allowing us to fulfill our missions in a much shorter time. As I discover how to be more extraordinary myself, it’s a joy to pass the learnings to others." David also shares how he found a way to cope and thrive with anxiety and depression that had been chasing him through the years. You do NOT want to miss this interview:

The "Brand Named You" will show you how to achieve your goals through strategic personal branding. There are thousands of books written about personal branding. However, Olesija Saue's book is the first one to offer you clear, thorough and hands-on tools with a step-by-step process for creating your personal brand.  Olesija Saue is a Personal Branding Strategist and Executive Coach. Olesija Saue is also a Social Media Strategist and Partner at Goal Social Media Marketing. She is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in Sales and Marketing. As a former CEO of Forbes Estonia, she helped to bring the world's most trusted business media brand to the business audience in Baltics. Today she helps corporate clients as well as aspiring start-ups and small-to-medium sized businesses to stand out from the competition and achieve their business goals through the strategic use of social media and personal branding of the CEOs and employees. Olesija Saue is a co-author of a book on Personal Branding "The Brand Named You." In Olesija's interview, she explains the misconceptions about personal branding and your personal branding DNA as your unique competitive advantage. Facilitating self-discovery processes help people find out who they truly are, what they really want, and find the inner drive and motivation to achieve their goals and make their dreams a reality. Empowering individuals and teams to take inspired action when they start believing they have more ability than they thought they did, challenging to do more than they have done before, and providing them with the right knowledge, tools & support to make efforts that will yield a positive result. Sharing my knowledge, and expertise as well as a personal story and inspiring people to realize their utmost potential and contribute the most to the world.

Blind since birth, Heather Hutchinson, a once-spirited kid with big dreams now finds herself in a locked psychiatric facility—a wounded young woman in the midst of a global pandemic. Heather Hutchison is the author of Holding On by Letting Go: A Memoir, and an award-winning singer/songwriter with three albums released to date. Blind since birth and having struggled with mental illness from a young age, she is passionate about educating people on disability and mental health through her music and writing. An avid traveler, Heather has spent time living and teaching English in Latin America. During her interview, she shares how anyone can rise above prejudice and disabilities. You will love her story.

Blindsided by her 14-year-old daughter’s suicide attempt in 1995, Jackie entered a world of depression, addiction, medical mysteries, and deadly silences.  TEDx speaker, Radio Show Host, International Best-selling Author, Mindset Magician, co-founder, and Director of the Teen Suicide Prevention Society, Jackie Simmons is best known for her mission to “Make teen suicide a thing of the past.”  The journey into the world of mental health services and cultural taboos left Jackie feeling lost and alone.  “I’m fine” on the outside, Jackie hid her deep, psychic wounds behind a façade of frantic entrepreneurial activity.   Then on August 3, 2019, Jackie’s now 37-year-old daughter, broke the silence. Jackie calls August 3, the day her “purpose tapped her on the shoulder.”  For Jackie Simmons, the leap from “Sales Trainer” and “Stress Management Consultant” to “Emotional Resilience Training” and “Mindset Mastery” was short in linear time and long in unwinding the limiting beliefs that held her back and kept her playing small.  Along the way, Jackie explored many dead ends and followed several false prophets. Jackie also worked with amazing creators of transformative training and technologies.  During her interview, she shares her story but more importantly, what you can do to help stop the pandemic of teen suicide.

Have you felt hopeless? Or that your life was beyond your control? Have you dealt with the emotions surrounding those feelings and wondered if things would ever be different?   Do you want to know how to overcome traumas in life that seem overwhelming and realize what you were created to become?  Kimberly Anne Bell holds a degree in human growth and development/psychology and one in theology. Her story is a perfect example of allowing your past to help, rather than hurt, you.  Kimberly never gave up hope even in the direst circumstances.  The main factor that helped Kimberly overcome trauma in her life was to accept her past and realize she was created unique, wonderfully made, with flaws, feelings, and emotions, and that I was a gift from above. Just as important I had to accept that I was created to be loved, have abundant life, and achieve God's purpose to be blessed and to be a blessing to others.  During her interview, she shares her physical, mental, and, emotional struggles as well as sexual abuse and childhood abandonment, PTSD and healing from trauma. The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept and Embrace it All, is an eye-opening memoir that takes you beneath the surface into some of the harshest realities of a child’s life. It is the unfiltered true story of Kimberly Anne Bell, who is faced with a life of abandonment, and sexual and physical abuse from a young age. As you read on, you will sense the trauma and silent pain as well as the divine intervention in her life that allowed her to overcome and be who she is today. You will be inspired by how life became more precious to live and experience after Kimmy found love, peace, and acceptance within her soul. It will move you to also find resilience, embrace your destiny and overcome all adversity. It is about accepting that which is beyond your control because there is a long road ahead and you still have so much more to look forward to in life.

Cori Wamsley, CDO of Aurora Corialis Publishing, can help you change your career path and become the writer you want to be.  Cori felt trapped in a career that was not using her talents or skills. Essentially, she was 'putting in the time' with little reward for herself.  Cori Wamsley works with business owners who have a transformational story to share. She helps them quickly and easily write and publish a book for their brand that helps them create a legacy and be seen as an expert.  As a bestselling author, Cori understands the frustration that comes from not knowing how to write or publish your first book. She overcame those challenges and wrote five novels, two children's books, and one nonfiction book as well as contributing to anthologies.  Cori will work with YOU to help you unleash your own powerful story.  In Cori's interview, she will show you how to break away from the mundane, leave your comfort zone, and create what you always wanted to do. She will show you how to be seen as an expert while building a relationship with the reader that leads to coaching and other business goals.

1.6 seconds. That's how long it takes to fall two stories. That's how long it takes for life to change MICHAEL MURPHY is a motivational speaker, paralyzed athlete, and writer. His journey began in April 2007 when he fell off a roof in college, shattered his spine, and was paralyzed. He was 21. Michael had to adapt to life in a wheelchair over a long rehab process to find his “new normal,” regain his independence, and return to school. Despite his accident, Michael remained the competitive athlete that led him to play both football and baseball in college. n 2008 he found a new passion when he was introduced to hand-cycling and adaptive sports. His first race was The Marine Corps Marathon that year after he teamed up with The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation to raise money for spinal cord research. Michael has since helped to raise more than $50,000 for a cure. Today, Michael is a 12-time marathoner with Top 5 finishes in New York and Boston. He was also featured on NBC after completing two Tough Mudder competitions in 2012 and 2013 with the help of his teammates and an off-road handcycle. Michael's interview is one you will want to listen to more than one time. He offers insight and motivation to live your life to the fullest - no matter what cards you have been dealt. He explains Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) which is positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis of traumatic events.  Recently, Michael Murphy was featured in the documentary, "Snow to Sand" as the lone hand cyclist riding with a team of 15 strangers from Denver to LA in 2016. Their goal was to raise money for people suffering from paralysis by embarking on a 1,300-mile cross-country bike ride that pushes them past their limits and beyond what any of them thought they could achieve as individuals. He now trains with the Competition Team at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, CO, with every intention to make the US Ski Team…and go to the Paralympics.   

Follow your passion .....If you don't you will always wish you had! Cymber Quinn grew up in a deeply abusive family environment. There was no escaping what was happening. She turned to music and beauty as a way of coping - just as many children and adults are doing today - to gain purpose and hope.  Cymber is a transformational music coach, specializing in harp, piano, and voice. She weaves world, classical, jazz, and nature into soundscapes of inner peace. Fifteen years ago she left the corporate world when an illness prevented her to continue and then returned to her first love - music and the harp.  Cymber Lily Quinn is the creator of The Purpose Cafe Coaching masterclass, The Ultimate Life Purpose Roadmap, which provides a straightforward blueprint for women in their 40s and beyond.  Cymber hosts The Purpose Cafe podcast, where she interviews women who are already living their life purpose. Click HERE for a FREE 30-minute laser coaching session to help you start on your Three Steps to Reclaiming Your Life Purpose.  Cymber is an award-winning professional harpist and singer featured on National Public Radio and Hawaii Public Radio. The Music Place in California named her a master teacher of music and is a Level 111 practitioner of Somatic Voicework. She teaches in her online studio, Rosalani Music, and has recorded three CDs. She won five Big Island Hawaii Music Awards as well as a Music Achiever by the National League of American Pen Women.  Connect with Cymber at Purpose Cafe Coaching and Podcast created to answer these questions:   How do I find my purpose? How do I make a present-day version of that purpose? How do I share it with others? During her interview, Cymber shares her story as well as tips on how to have a careful application of intentional practice until you do it without thinking about it!   Cymber's upcoming class The Ultimate Life Purpose Roadmap, is a three-week course with step-by-step instructions navigating feeling lost, and creating your own roadmap for your life purpose. Click here   The Purpose Cafe classes, workshops, and one-on-one coaching is for professional women in their 40s and up who are tired of feeling lost and overwhelmed when looking for their life purpose.    Do you want to feel free and excited about the prospect of reclaiming your life purpose after years of giving to your family or career?

Kelly J. Stigliano grew up in a quiet Amish town in Ohio in the 1970s and was always searching for excitement. A handsome young musician, home from the U.S. Navy, shared his drugs, music, and experiences beyond her naivete. How could she have known that behind this charming facade hid a misogynist, eager to take control of her life? Kelly progressed from being a rebellious teenager to the position of an abused spouse. Having been hit in the head and told she was worthless had taken a toll and she felt helpless and hopeless.   Kelly J. Stigliano is an author, speaker, and survivor of abuse whose mission is to help women who are in an abusive domestic situation, leave safely without harming anyone in their family.  She is also a volunteer for the First Coast Women's Services, a pregnancy resource center.  In Kelly's interview, she discusses how women find themselves in domestic abuse situations, how it's not as easy to leave as one might think, and how with God it is possible to leave safely without harming anyone.  When I asked Kelly what motivates her to help women, she responded: "I had always seen my past as a string of stupid, embarrassing mistakes to be kept to myself. One day in 1986, I stood in the church foyer comforting a mother whose teenage daughter only communicated in anger, threatened to run away, and threatened to kill herself. In obedience to what I felt the Lord told me, I opened the door to my past a tad, sharing a tiny bit of my tumultuous teen years. Having me, the Christian school principal’s wife and mother of two elementary kids, share that one sliver of fact literally made her contact lens pop out of her eye! I think that was a good thing. She hugged me and thanked me for giving her and her husband hope. I’ve been sharing my story in various forms since then." Kelly's stories have been published in magazines, e-zines, and thirteen anthologies including three Chicken Soup for the Soul editions. Her memoir, Praying for Murder, Receiving Mercy: From At-Risk to At Peace; My Journey from Fear to Freedom has touched lives across the globe.  Having been hit in the head and told she was worthless took a toll on Kelly and made her feel helpless and hopeless. During her interview, she shares that no matter what type of abusive situation you find yourself in, you can change your circumstances once and for all.

Have you wondered what was missing in your life?   Jenny Toh was a qualified lawyer in the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia for almost three decades who worked as a litigator, a corporate attorney, and a derivatives legal counsel. On her personal front, she has a supportive husband and three children. Yet, there was an inner yearning for something more. She felt that she was not living life to its fullest potential.  During Jenny's interview, she shares how she switched careers to fulfill her full potential and will coach you on how to do the same. Jenny is an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach and runs her life coaching practice, River Life Coaching Pte. Ltd. She has coached many professionals in the legal industry, banking, and finance, energy sectors, and entrepreneurs on concerns such as work-life balance and integration matters, career transition, time management, and dealing with stress and negative emotions.  Jenny Toh also volunteers at the pro bono coaching initiatives organized by ICF Singapore and is one of the facilitators for the ICF Singapore Peer Coaching Community of Practice.    Additionally, she is a Christian mentor in GBN Marketplace Ministry and an active global mentor in The Mentor Ministry, an online mentoring platform. FREE Coaching Opportunity for You