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“If we start and end our day with hope, and sprinkle hope throughout, we will be continually motivated to accomplish all our dreams.”

-Soraya

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“Be Convinced! Sharing Lifechanging Stories of Hope” with Soraya

Get a Big Dose of Hope in Just 30 Minutes!

Hope, along with the courage and confidence that arise from that hope, can be yours! For just 30 minutes, listen to each of these lifechanging stories of hope told by ordinary people who overcame life’s obstacles. Soraya engages people from various backgrounds who tell their inspiring stories of how they overcame challenges that wonderfully and often amazingly transformed their lives. She collects and enthusiastically shares their stories with the goal of encouraging, inspiring, and convincing you that we should all believe in, hope for, and work towards a better future for ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world.

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“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

— Robert H. Schuller

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Ep. #108 - Pastor, Author, Coach and Motivational Speaker Chip Nightingale Shares Important Tools to Help You Manage Conflict in Your Life

What do you do when you suffer a lot of personal loss such as when your parent dies, you go through a divorce, or lose your business? My guest is author Chip Nightingale who did not give up and encourages you not to either. He is a husband, father, pastor, businessman, author, coach, and motivational speaker who will definitely inspire you.

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Ep. #106 - Author Holly Frances Inspires You with Her Recovery Journey From Being Bedridden with a Rare Disorder to Becoming a Fitness Trainer

My guest Holly Frances is the survivor of a rare illness who turned her recovery into advocacy and is now a writer, speaker, and fitness trainer. What happened and how did she recover? At 26 years old, she gave birth to her beautiful daughter Casey. Within a few weeks, tragedy hit, and Holly was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

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Ep. #105 - Social Media Whiz Shaily Hakimian Inspires You to Overcome All Fears of Social Media and Use It to Your Advantage

Are you an entrepreneur or career professional who often finds the workings of social media daunting, but you know that you must use it? Meet my guest Shaily Hakimian, a 31-year-old social media whiz who has been using social media to her advantage since high school. During her school years when she was taunted and bullied, it was social media that helped her safely connect with others. Now, she teaches and supports those who need insight and direction.

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Ep. #104 - Emmy Award-Winning Media Advisor Vinnie Potestivo Is Passionate About Helping You to Build and Promote Your Own Personal Brand

Are you looking for ways to build and promote your own special brand? Then this is definitely the inspiring episode for you. My guest Vinnie Potestivo is passionate about helping to build personal brands. He is an Emmy Award-winning media advisor, who has over 25 years of experience with defining, creating, and distributing his clients’ stories in various forms of media and content.

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Ep. #103 - Thought Leader, Consultant, Coach and Author Carrie Schmidt Teaches a System for Impactful Transformation That Will Enable You to Make Lifechanging Improvements

My guest Carrie Schmidt is a transformational thought leader, consultant, coach, and author. She is passionate about teaching a system of transformation that has proven to be effective and impactful in her life and the lives of many others. She shares about her personal struggles growing up and as a young adult, and how she could have allowed those struggles to define and limit her dreams and achievements. But, she didn’t!

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Ep. #102 - Physician, Scientist and Writer Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey Seeks to Empower You By Providing Information About Health, Wellness and Mental Illness

My guest is Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, a physician, scientist and writer whose passion is to empower people by sharing information about health, wellness and mental illness. Dr. Smalls, as she likes to be called for short, knew that she wanted to be a scientist and study infectious diseases from when she was young. She accomplished her dream of becoming a scientist and then went on to medical school where she studied to be a psychiatrist.

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Ep. #101 - Physician and Author Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington Shares Her Passion as a Patient Advocate to Help You Understand and Fight High Healthcare Costs

Are you dealing with medical debt and health insurance issues? My guest Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington is not only a physician but also a dedicated patient advocate who is a medical billing expert too. She shares how her professional work in the medical and insurance fields gave her special insight into the billing practices of the healthcare system and how she got involved with helping people who faced high medical bills.

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Ep. #100 - Master Christian Life Coaches Jake and Whitney Roehl Inspire You to Develop a Lifestyle Steadfastly Committed to Improvement

Did you know that being steadfast in your decisions and achieving your goals requires a lifestyle committed to improvement? My guests Jake and Whitney Roehl are master Christian life coaches who provide elite mindset coaching based on Christian values. They share their personal stories that are filled with challenges from alcoholism to instability to financial lack to children and blended families.

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Ep. #99 - Speaker and Group Leader Kim McIntyre Encourages You to Regain Joy and Laughter in Your Life and Watch Your Life Transform

Are you wondering what happened to the joy and laughter in your life? Are you stressed, overwhelmed, or drained by the many demands on you? Then this is the podcast for you! My guest Kim McIntyre is passionate about helping you to regain joy and bring back hope into your life! She shares how she faced a medical challenge involving a facial tumor that left her feeling overwhelmed and extremely stressed.

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Ep. #98 - Author Laura DeSisto Inspires You to Plan and Then Do What You Are Passionate About

My guest Laura DeSisto will certainly inspire you to explore what your passions are and then do them! Laura is a wife, mother, and author who like many mothers, lost herself in raising her children. When they left home, she went through a period of depression. With the encouragement of friends, she decided to do something she always wanted to do, learn to dive and regain her love for the ocean.

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Ep. #97 - Author, Wife and Mother Molly DeFrank Shares How Parents Can Successfully Rescue Their Children from the Clutches of Digital Devices

Are you tired of your children being glued to their digital devices from the minute they wake up until they go to bed? Do you feel powerless to do anything about it? Join me and my guest author Molly DeFrank as we discuss her new book Digital Detox – The Two-Week Tech Reset for Kids. Molly is a wife and devoted mother of 6 children (natural, adopted, and fostered).

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Ep. #95 - Award-Winning Author, Educator, and Inspirational Speaker Madonna Hanna Inspires You to Rise to Your Full Potential

My guest Madonna Hanna is a bold 69-year-old and much sought-after inspirational speaker who loves to use her personal experiences, talents, and skills to encourage people of all ages. She shares her story of growing up being bullied while in school and then in the work environment, even as an executive in the corporate world.

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Ep. #94 - Grandmother and Author Kathleen Donnelly Israel Shares Her Inspiring Story of Forgiveness and All She Learned on Her Pilgrimage Walks Through Spain

My 73-year-old guest Kathleen Israel is a daring woman, but she doesn’t think so. I think that you will agree with me though when you hear her inspiring story. She is a mother of 5 and a grandmother of 11. She shares how she cared for her husband Ron for 17 years as he struggled with Parkinson’s disease. At the age of 69 and after her husband’s passing, she did a pilgrimage walk of 500 miles known as the Camino from an area in France to Santiago, Spain.

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Ep. #93 - Mindset Coach Kyle Gillette Wants to Use His Gifts and Talents to Help You Develop a Growth Mindset to Achieve Big Goals and Dreams

Meet Kyle Gillette, a mindset coach who works primarily with business owners to help them gain clarity, build confidence, and generate clientele. His business is named Sage Mindset, where he created a 4-part framework to help you achieve big goals and dreams – it is self-awareness; accountability; growth; and empowerment.

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Ep. #92 - Registered Holistic Nutritionist Amanda Elise Love Shares Her Inspiring Journey Toward Health and Her Passion to Help Others

My guest Amanda Elise Love is a 32-year-old registered holistic nutritionist and a podcast host who is on a life mission to teach others how to eat and cook allergy-friendly, nutritious food and lead a happy holistic life. She shares her long struggle with fibromyalgia, which is a debilitating disorder where a person suffers from muscle pain and tenderness throughout the body, and causes fatigue, alters sleep patterns, and affects memory and moods.

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Ep. #91 - Certified Dream Coach Debby Kruszewski Encourages You to Fulfill the Aspirations that God has for You

Have you ever heard of a dream pollinator? Meet my guest Debby Kruszewski, or Debby Krusz for short. Debby is a certified dream coach, business consultant, and author. When we are talking about dreams, we are not referring to the ones we have at night but the aspirations that God has put in our hearts. Debby concentrated in business studies in college and graduate school, focusing on business management.

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Ep. #90 - Author, Productivity Strategist, and High Performance Coach Cici Castelli Inspires You to Become More Productive and Build Healthy Habits

My guest Cici Castelli has had a very successful career, especially in the technology field, and is now a productivity coach, eager to assist you in unlocking your ultimate competitive advantage. Cici is originally from Venezuela and came to the U.S. as a teenage exchange student. She shares her challenges of staying in the U.S., against her parents’ wishes and despite the many obstacles she had to overcome.

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Ep. #89 - Author and Consultant David R. Edwards Uses His Extensive Experience to Assist You with Building the Foundations for Success

David R. Edwards is an author and consultant who wants to help you become the captain of your own life through building the important foundation of personal motivation. He was the first person in his family to attend college and worked at a job that paid just $3 an hour to support himself through school. After working for many years in the integrative healthcare field, he realized that personal motivation was key to bringing about lasting changes in a person’s life. His book is titled New You- Who Knew?

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