My Independence Report
Episodes
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Kristi Russ-”the Maverick Pharmacist” Functional Medicine Health Coach
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Kristy Russ is the Maverick Pharmacist Functional Medicine Health Coach with over 25 years of experience in helping people both improve and preserve their health. She helps discover and fix the underlying cause of your health issue, rather than the bandaid solution of standard medicine. She especially works with those struggling with exhaustion, chronic pain, autoimmune disease and the never-ending weight loss battle. Kristy empowers you to take control of your health. She does this by emphasizing realistic nutritional and lifestyle changes that everyone can make and tailoring recommendations to your specific needs. The experience of her own difficult health journey, knowledge and abilities as a pharmacist, as well as her functional medicine training are valuable tools in accomplishing significant results.
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Beverly Kievman Copen Author and Coach” It’s Your Life Isn’t It?”
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
My new book, It’s Your Life, Isn’t It? paints a picture of how to look back at your past, analyze your present, and reimagine your future. It provides a way to assess your desires, your strengths, and weaknesses and to put these into a framework that will help you construct a more fulfilling lifestyle.
The theme of the book is based on how to manage change. Throughout my lifelong career as an entrepreneur, as well as seminars I have attended, and countless ones I have conducted, in many parts of the world, I believe that I have a broad perspective. It openly discusses the successes as well as the failures, and the lessons learned from the achievements and the errors. Many of the life stories came from those programs, as well as the friendships I have been blessed with over the decades. – Beverly Kievman Copen
You can purchase It’s Your Life, Isn’t It? On Amazon and Lulu!
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Lora DeVore- Author- ”Darkness Was My Candle”
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
AN ODYSSEY OF SURVIVAL AND GRACE
Birthed into poverty and violence, my early life was one of extreme vulnerability. I spent long evenings in the spell of neon lights outside the military bases of my childhood where my mother picked up men. My mother prostituted me for the first time at age nine. I found refuge in the world of language, books, music, nature, and the world of Spirit. There were human angels who came into my life, each for a short time, with the face of compassion and whispers that left behind miraculous seeds of hope and the ability to reach out and past the unbearable circumstances of my life, again and again. Institutionalized shortly after beginning college, I would not have survived if not for Sydney, a courageous nurse who fought for my release. When I first began this book, I searched for and then learned from her that the institution I was held in was conducting experimental research. My unwillingness to be compliant and take prescribed pills led to my commitment to the worst state hospital in the Illinois System.As I began writing this book, Sydney and I returned to Elgin State Hospital for a visit and conducted archival research. We discovered that throughout the Cold War our nation used thousands of vulnerable, unsuspecting citizens as research subjects: newborns, institutionalized children, African-Americans, Native Americans, prisoners, mental patients, and our own military. But this book is not just about surviving the impossible, it is about recovery of the soul, healing into wholeness, and the possibility of living a luminous life.
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Julie Gianelloni Connor- Author- Savoring the Camino de Santiago
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Julie Gianelloni Connor started out thinking she would be a writer, detoured into the U.S. Foreign Service, and after retirement returned to a writing career. She is the author of an award-winning book, Savoring the Camino de Santiago, and the owner and editor of Bayou City Press in Houston, TX, which focuses on writing about travel, Houston, and international affairs.
Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Julie finished prep school at The Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, before heading to Houston for Rice University. Her undergraduate B.A. in English and history was followed by an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston. She also studied journalism at Louisiana State University, during which time she interned at the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate.
Among her jobs in her 20s, Julie taught English as a Foreign Language in Lisbon (Portugal), Barcelona (Spain), and Wimberly (England); was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Houston; and worked in the private sector for a law firm and an audio company.
In 1981 Julie began her diplomatic career with the U.S. Information Agency, principally working overseas at embassies on press, cultural, and exchange issues. In 1999 USIA was absorbed into the U.S. Department of State, and Julie continued her diplomatic career there until her retirement. During a 33-year career, Julie rose to the senior Foreign Service while serving overseas nine different times in seven different countries: Israel (twice), Paraguay, Guatemala, Indonesia, Colombia (twice), Malaysia, and Chile. She worked in fields as diverse as anti-narcotics, nuclear nonproliferation, and women’s issues.
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
MIR- Dr. Karen Rigamonti - Culture Development Specialist
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
As a culture development specialist, Dr. Karen’s dream is to spread collaborative compassion within care organizations and communities and contribute to the creation of a global movement dedicated to the improvement of the life of children and adults with special needs including disabilities.
She is a certified professional co-active coach, organizational relationships systems coach, certified coach master toolkit coach, and a leadership facilitator at Johns Hopkins International.
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Julie Gianelloni Connor- Author-Savoring the Camino de Santiago
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Julie Gianelloni Connor is an award-winning author and retired senior Foreign Service Officer. Her book, "Savoring the Camino de Santiago: It’s the Pilgrimage, not the Hike," garnered no. 1 status on Amazon in both the category for new books on hiking and walking and the category for Spain and Portugal. It subsequently went on to win an eLit silver medal in the travel category and three other awards. Julie also writes a blog focusing on the Camino, Camino for Boomers.com, which complements her book. Julie’s short stories appear in three anthologies, and she has just released a children’s book (December 2020), "The Baby with Three Families, Two Countries, and One Promise." She is the owner and publisher of Bayou City Press in Houston, Texas, which focuses on travel writing, Houston, history, and international affairs. Julie founded Bayou City Press after spending 33 years as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, first with the U.S. Information Agency and later with the U.S. Department of State. She had nine overseas assignments in seven different countries: Israel (twice), Paraguay, Guatemala, Indonesia, Colombia (twice), Malaysia, and Chile. In Washington, DC, Julie worked on a variety of matters, ranging from nuclear non-proliferation to narcotics control to women’s issues. She has one son and two cats, Halloween and Charles Augustus IV. Her books can be ordered from her publishing website, BayouCityPress.com, or from her author website, JulieConnorAuthor.com.
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Rachel Sheila Kan- Founder of The Ecosystem Incubator
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Rachel Sheila Kan, Is the founder of The Ecosystem Incubator a brand new way for business to collaborate and make systems work for everyone! A great Idea for the sustainability for the future!
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Dr Raman K Attri is a multifaceted personality as a scientist, author, speaker, L&D leader, and artist.He is the world’s leading authority on the “science of speed” in professional learning and performance. A performance scientist with two decades of research, he has created a time-tested, proven system that can help leaders and organizations to positively speed up the path to mastery and leadership in any domain by two folds. Permanently disabled since childhood, he is often called a powerhouse of positivity and inspiration. He transformed his inability to walk into unique expertise to teach others techniques to walk faster in their professional world. Among his most recent projects, he founded the XpertX Research portal as a one-stop resource for anyone to learn the secrets of learning better and faster.A professional speaker, he shares research-based insights at leading international conferences with top business executives to master speed in business, shorten workforce time to proficiency, and accelerate employee development.A global training thought leader at a Fortune 500 technology corporation, he manages a Hall of the Fame training organization named as one of the top 10 in the world. A prolific author of 20 multi-genre books, he writes books and articles on various topics ranging from business & leadership, performance & expertise, training & development, HR & workforce development.Passionate about continuous learning, he has earned two doctorates in learning, over 100 international educational credentials, several degrees and diplomas, and some of the highest certifications. He is an authentic accelerated learning business coach who walks the talk. Featured in over 100 articles, interviews, and shows, he is a sought-after expert whose remarkable achievements continue to inspire everyone he touches to strive for true excellence in personal and professional lives.