Episodes
6 days ago
6 days ago
Ron talks with Max Friedman, author of "Painful Joy", memoir writer and second-generation Holocaust survivor.
Max shares with us how his mother and father survived the horror of the Holocaust spending several years being imprisoned in concentration camps.
Max will explain to us the difficulty of living in a family where both parents were haunted by the war and the atrocities they experienced and somehow managed to survive.
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Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Risa August-The Road Unpaved
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Ron talks to Risa August, an artist, writer, world traveler, certified Gestalt practioner, endurance athlete, and a Acromegaly patient and survivor.
In 2011 Risa noticed something was wrong with her body, she began to grow and get larger despite being on a strict
regimented diet and competing in endurance events such as cycling, triathlons and mountain hiking.
She tells her story of her medical journey of being finally diagnosed after eight years and of her 1845-mile soul healing journey on the Pacific coast highway from Canada to Mexico on a bike while still having a tumor in her body.
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Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Dr Charley Ferrer-The Cancer Tamer
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Meet Dr Charley Ferrer, world renowned clinical sexologist and sex therapist. She is an award-winning author of several books on relationships, sexuality, self-empowerment and breast cancer.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and thyroid cancer in 2017, she became frustrated with the lack of information and treatment options provided to patients. Dr Charley created the Cancer Tamer Foundation which focuses on education and empowerment.
Dr Charley's philosophy on breast cancer is realizing cancer is not an "outside force" invading but an "inside force" residing. Her revolutionary new way of thinking about cancer is turning heads, creating controversy and reminding women and men that we should not be at war with our body.
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Dan Clouser-The Journey of my Mother’s Son
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Meet Dan Clouser, author, podcast host, speaker, coaching trainer and consultant.
In 2019 after founding and running a non-profit youth sports organization for 30 years working with kids and
teaching them leadership skills and life lessons through sports, he felt a calling from God to leave his comfort zone.
He started a new journey with his wife and dog selling most of their material things and setting out across the country in a RV to meet and work with people to make this world a better place.
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Links: https://journeyofmymothersson.com
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Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Timothy J West, Stevens Johnsons- Syndrome Survivor
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Meet Tim West who is legally blind and lost all his skin at age 4 due to Stevens- Johnsons Syndrome. Tim stands tall, he is a disability and mental health advocate who fights for those who feel they cannot.
Listen and get a sense of what living with a disability is like from someone who tells it like it is.
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Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Eric Christiansen-Unmasking Hope
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Ron talks with Eric Christiansen, an acclaimed documentarian and seven-time Southwestern Region Emmy Award recipient whose films focus on the impact of trauma on individuals, families and communities.
A trauma survivor himself, having lost his home in the Santa Barbara, California Painted Cave Fire disaster, he understands trauma and the resilience of the human spirit and how important hope is to heal.
By spotlighting these survivors and their journeys, Eric has been able to unify a variety of audiences around the power of HOPE and educate the general population about the complexities of trauma.
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Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Leslie Hope Holthoff-The Evolution of a Teen Mom
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Ron talks with Leslie Hope Holthoff, a mom by the age of sixteen. Leslie tells us of her experiences in turning a life destined for failure into a life of abundance which inspired her to help others using herself created Hope to Happiness method.
Leslie has authored the book "Not Mary, Not Roe" the survival story of a reluctant teen mom which is a stereotype shattering story that explores teen pregnancy.
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Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Kim Sorrelle-Love Is All You Need
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Meet Kim Sorrelle, author of the best seller "Love Is", serial entrepreneur, director of a humanitarian organization, activist, mother and lover of all people.
In 2009 while battling breast cancer, her husband Steve received a pancreatic cancer diagnosis four months after her diagnosis. Her first book "Cry Until You Laugh" chronicles that journey.
Kim's award-winning best seller "Love Is" chronicling her year long quest to figure out the true meaning of love that led to life changing discoveries found mostly on the streets of Haiti.
Today Kim is a regular radio, television and podcast guest who speaks to audiences all over the world.
Inspirational and educational, Kim entertains CEO's, industry leaders, company staff members, educators, women's groups and more.
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Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Michelle Shekhinah, From the Floor to the Door
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
Meet Michelle Shekhinah who was married for many years and was a stay-at-home mom with two special needs children. In 2015 she realized her husband was addicted to drugs. In this time, she had experienced financial, emotional and sexual abuse from him, which turned into him sex trafficking her.
Michelle spent many nights crying on the floor, until one night she saved her life and ran for the door.
Since then, she has been healing herself, with therapy and other techniques.
She has become a strong mom for her children, in addition to being an advocate and mentor for other women and teens who have suffered any form of trauma and abuse.
Her story is compelling, heartbreaking, yet full of hope and reconciliation.
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Friday Oct 06, 2023
Tyler Wittkofsky-You Are Not Your Past, Moving Forward
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Meet Tyler Wittkofsky, multi-genre author, poet, mental health and travel blogger, podcaster, winning marketing and communications professional who grew up homeless and abused by his father for the first ten years of his life.
Tyler was constantly made to feel like a lesser person which led the way to quite a few mental health disorders that stem from that kind of trauma, but this remarkable young man has overcome so much to be here with us and tell his story.
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