La’Quita Monely is an author, transformational coach, and mentor. Add to that, an ordained minister, wife, mother, and grandmother! She is passionate about helping you know your identity, understand your purpose, and walk in your destiny. And, she has a wealth of personal and professional experience to draw from, including the longevity of her marriage to a spouse who served in the military as well as living and working in various places throughout the world.

Dan Miller is a New York Times best-selling author, a very successful entrepreneur, and an all-around creative thinker. Dan’s beginnings were very humble, as he grew up on a farm, and he always believed in himself and his ability to succeed. He was a voracious reader, especially enjoying books by the great thinkers and motivators. His book 48 Days to the Work and Life You Love – Find it or Create It all started years ago as a Sunday school class titled Career Transitions that was unexpectedly filled with professionals.

Since my podcast is about hope, it was wonderful to have my guest James Belt share about his book titled Hope Realized-How the Power of Practical and Spiritual Development Can Diminish Poverty and Expose the Lie of Hopelessness. James is an author and a family man and businessman who is passionate about giving hope to others, not only in a physical or practical way, but also importantly spiritually.

My guest Glen Williams is a retired police officer having served 26 years in patrol and as a detective. Glen openly and honestly shares his story of developing PTSD after witnessing so much trauma and death during his career and not being able to talk about it. In his personal life, he suffered from two divorces as a result. Glen has reinvented his life and is now an author, speaker and communications coach who is dedicated to helping others.

My guest is David Richman, an author, motivational speaker, trainer, and consultant. Actually, David refers to himself as a transformation expert. He shares the many tremendous personal transformations he has made in his life, and I know that you too will agree that he is indeed an expert in transforming oneself into the best possible person that you can be. David went from being trauma and stress burdened, 50 pounds overweight and a smoker, to a 20-time Ironman finisher, having completed hundreds of endurance events, 100+ mile runs and a 4,700-mile ride that lasted 45 days.

My guest Donna Tashjian is a life mastery coach, author and speaker who has a passion to help you live a more vibrant life – spirit, soul, and body. She established Vibrant Living International, a nonprofit, to provide information and services so that you can be empowered to become the best person that you can be and live to your fullest potential.

My guest Osnat Benari is an author, leadership coach and consultant who specializes in helping you find opportunities when changes take place. Let’s face it – many of us don’t like changes! Osnat knows personally how challenging change can be and how starting from scratch can actually be an opportunity to grow and reinvent yourself. She shares how she boldly accepted a job in the United States and traveled with her family here from Israel.

My guest Monika Zasada specializes in helping homeowners with their home construction. She says she is likened to a conductor, strategist, advocate, therapist, expeditor, and facilitator. She has even been called “the glue”, “the optimizer” and “the castle builder”. She uses her extensive gifts, talents, knowledge, and determination to ensure that your home construction goes well.

According to recent statistics, over 70,000 drug overdose deaths occur in the US every year, with the percentage increasing at an annual rate of 4%. That equals to 190 persons dying each day from a drug overdose. This is a shocking statistic!

My guest Susan Gabriel is an author who established her own flourishing publishing company to help others become published authors and market their books. She has written both adult and children’s books and has had much success in publishing. We center our conversation on her memoir titled Wheels of Injustice: Saving My Child from the Child Savers – which involves tragedy and triumph.

Have you heard of the Life is Too Short Guy? Join me and my guest Scott E. White – the life is too short guy - as he shares his mission to make the world happier one smile at a time! Scott has a very accomplished professional and personal background. He has a law degree and an MBA degree and is a CPA too! He married his high school sweetheart, and they have two daughters.

Are you thinking about how to create a brand and feel confused and daunted? My guest Kim Derrick Rozdeba is a branding guru and author who will educate you on what a brand is and what it is not. He shares 5 key concepts to help you make the right choices. These concepts are the 5 Cs - commitment, construct, community, content, and consistency. We talk about his book titled Branding Queens: Discover Branding Secrets from 20 Women Who Built Global Brand Dynasties.

Are you ready to listen to a powerful, life-changing story? My guest Steven Snook will have you captivated by his story of profound transformation – going from a lifestyle in which he was entrenched in crime to one of serving God and spreading the message of the good news in the Bible. Steven boldly shares with us what led to his being incarcerated and how he spent 19 years of his life in prison.

My guest is mental performance coach, motivational speaker and author Ahmard Vital. This is part 2 of my discussion with him. If you missed part 1, please go to our previous episode #114. In this episode, we talk about his most recent book – Now What? 5 Steps to Get Up and Make the Most of Life and what motivated him to write it. Each of his 3 books were born out of tragedies and challenges in his life.

My guest is mental performance coach, motivational speaker and author Ahmard Vital. He shares with us the challenges and tragedies in his life and what he was able to do to overcome them. Importantly, he never gave up on himself! We talk about the 3 books that he has written – Awaken the Baller Within, I am More Than Enough, and his most recent book – Now What? 5 Steps to Get Up and Make the Most of Life.

This is part 2 of my podcast about the nonprofit organization Charity:Water. I read its founder Scott Harrison’s bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World and fell in love with the organization and all it does to provide clean water to millions of people all over the world.

Do you feel as if you need a boost in confidence but don’t know what to do? My guest Janelle Anderson is a confidence coach or confidence guru primarily for women, as well as a speaking and storytelling mentor and an author. She knows what it is to live with what she calls “a cloak of shame” and not feeling worthy.

My guest Laurie Besden is such an amazing lady! Laurie is an attorney who once lost her privilege to practice law due to severe drug addiction and the crimes associated with addiction. But, she turned her life around and has served for 8 years as executive director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of Pennsylvania, where she assists lawyers, law students and judges and their families with all sorts of mental health issues and addictions. Laurie shares her story in a very forthright manner, making no excuses for the life she once led and the manipulations and lies and crimes that entangled her world – all for the next fix.

As you approach your silver years and retirement, what are you planning to do? You have so much wisdom and experience to share so consider developing an encore career which is flexible and satisfying. My guest is Lynn Friesth and his expertise is assisting in developing your encore career based on your own special skills and talents. After a very successful career of over 40 years in the corporate world, Lynn became a silver entrepreneur.

Do you know that there are millions of people all over the world who still do not have access to clean water? Do you know that there is a nonprofit named Charity:Water that has been dedicated to providing clean water access through water projects? I did not know either of these things and I am ashamed to admit it. It was not until I read the NY Times bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World that I realized the desperate need of people in so many countries for clean water, the diseases and sicknesses that adults and children suffer from drinking dirty water, and all that this amazing organization is doing.