Energizing You

Feel frustrated by a current situation? Stuck in a rut? Wish things were different than they are? Allowing can provide a pathway out, and to a more peaceful existence. Join me as I summarize the principles of allowing, and encourage you to apply them in your own life.

According to the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention, aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. It is also one of the leading causes of cancer death among women of all races and Hispanic origin populations. In 2007 (the most recent year numbers are available), 202,964 women in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer, and 40,598 women in the United States died from breast cancer. Join me and two time breast cancer survivor Elaine Doroff as we discuss how to best Navigate Heath Care with Breast Cancer. Elaine has been in the Health Care Industry for the past 20 years, as a Health Care Consultant. Her clients have been up and down the eastern seaboard and in parts of the Midwest of the U.S. In the last 4 years she has survived breast cancer twice and in the past year she has become a speaker for the Susan G. Komen Foundation in the Boston area. People repeatedly approach Elaine after she has told her breast cancer story and share that they both learned a great deal about breast cancer, and learned more about being an advocate for their own health, as well as their family and friends. Elaine feels her background was instrumental in helping her navigate through a difficult medical system and come out with at positive outcome.

At some point, we are likely to inherit belongings that are not ours. Unlike the experiences of our ancestors who might have inherited a small collection of items, in our modern lives, those items will run the gamut and can quickly overrun our lives with excess. This episode aims will help you make successful decisions about the inherited belongings in your life. Gain both insight and support for your journey through the myriad decisions involved in organizing your inherited belongings. Find YOUR way to honor their life without losing track of yours.My guest, Erin Elizabeth Wells, is a Certified Professional Organizer (CPO®) and CEO & Founder of Living Peace, LLC, a professional organizing company that assists residential and small/home office clients to improve their organizational systems throughout greater Boston and beyond. They work as far north as Southern NH, as far south as South Barrington, RI, and as far west as Shrewsbury, MA.Living Peace®'s holistic approach to professional organizing examines the entire picture of the client's life to develop systems to support the client's needs on all levels- physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. With a Masters of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a background in interfaith work, Erin and her team help their clients create the systems and habits to support their clients’ goals on all levels of their lives. Through her company, Living Peace®, Erin also offers productivity and strategic life consulting services as well as motivational speaking and workshops internationally. Find out more at . www.Living-Peace.com.

Families and holidays: sometimes just the thought of this scenario gives people stress and/or anxiety. Arm yourself with powerful strategies for surviving your various get-togethers with tips from my guest, Jessica Robinson. As a highly qualified success coach, author, and speaker specializing in family relationships, Jessica has dedicated herself to creating new, faster, and more sustainable ways for people to relate healthily, no matter what their past history. Jessica has seen that, once close personal relationships are in harmony, the client is freed up to achieve incredible results in all other areas of their life. If you have any relationship that feels strained, abusive, stale, unhealthy – or just in need of a tune-up – Jessica will show you how to turn it around instantly, and with lasting results. To learn more, visit www.familyrelationshipcoach.com

Do you crave more calm and peace in your life? More ease and focus? Mindfulness Meditation may hold the keys for you. Tune in and learn more with my guest, Lisa Tiernan. Lisa has been a student of Mindfulness Meditation for ten years. She studied with Andrew Weiss, the author of "Beginning Mindfulness, Learning the Way of Awareness" for over 6 years and assisted Andrew with classes. Lisa has been teaching Mindfulness classes and workshops for the past 7 years. Lisa incorporates Andrew’s teachings as well as mindfulness techniques she has learned from various teachers through study and reading, including Cheri Huber, Pema Chodron, Eckhart Tolle, Larry Rosenberg, Wayne Dyer, and Louise Hay. Lisa is also a Reiki Master/Teacher and began practicing and teaching Reiki workshops in 1999. She works as a Course Developer writing training materials for software products. Her hobbies include creative writing, drawing, painting and playing drums. Learn more about Lisa's mindfulness meditation classes at http://www.artfulmeditations.com.

Do you look at your closet in the morning and freeze? Running around trying to create an outfit for work, a meeting or interview? Even preparing to catch up with friends over coffee, or prepare for a social event. You can be more at peace in the morning as you dress for your day - join me and my guest, Stephanie Deitzer of Style At Work. Stephanie’s love affair with fashion began at the age of four when she learned how to sew from her grandfather, an Italian tailor. She grew up observing fabric, style, silhouette and fit, and began to understand that everyone is born with his or her own look. After 20 years of corporate life, Stephanie left to continue her life-long love of helping others through style and created her full-time practice, Style at Work. Putting her talents to use, she recently developed the FACE the Day Stressless Dressing Formula, to take the stress out of dressing and make it fun for others. She is currently VP of Membership for the New England Chapter of the Association of Image Consultants International.

Changing habits to better ourselves: why is change difficult for so many? What holds us back or gets in the way? What needs to be in place for successful change to occur? Join me and my guest Maureen Weisner, as we discuss these and more aspects of change. Maureen Weisner, M.Ed, PCC, is the President of Women Living on the Edge of Transition. A sought-after experienced, humorous, and engaging coach on current women's issues, she brings a special brand of motivational strategies to women on the edge of transition. Maureen guides clients in developing rich and fulfilling lives focused on personal and professional evolvement, and success. She is certified by the International Coaches Federation (ICF), as a professional life coach, and a graduate of the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and the Co-Active Leadership Program of San Rafael, California.

This show is a family affair, with my sister and sister-in-law as guests. Each is the mother of two, my sister-in-law the mother of fraternal twins. We will explore different stages of mothering children from birth through 11 years of age, and highlight the unique stressors of each and effective ways to manage.

Mediation is a good way of resolving family and relationship conflicts because it is flexible, efficient, compassionate, and private. It allows parties in conflict to be in control of their own process and outcome, while giving them the support and information necessary to reach fair and acceptable agreements. A good mediator helps clients solve problems respectfully and effectively in a way that improves your life today, tomorrow and into the future by increasing understanding of each other’s point of view and building a new foundation for satisfying and successful communication. Join me and my guest, Kate Fanger, as we discuss this important topic for those experiencing conflict in relationships and within families.Kate Fanger is the sole proprietor of Kate Fanger Mediation, in Somerville, MA, where she provides family mediation services including divorce mediation, marriage mediation, elder mediation and communication coaching for parents and teens. She is a board member of the Massachusetts Council on Family Mediation, and a member of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, as well as a Massachusetts attorney in good standing. Kate is a mediator at heart. Her training includes law school, professional mediation trainings, step-motherhood (currently with two teenagers), motherhood, and life in general. Kate is also a large-scale consumer of art and craft supplies.

"As a manager, the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.” – Kenneth Blanchard. Create more hours in your day. Take a stress-free vacation. Control your schedule. Join us as we discuss 3 practical and powerful techniques you can apply immediately to grow your business, motivate yourself and your employees, and Delegate so Work Gets Done. A lifelong learner and advocate of leadership development, Andrew Winig created the Collective Engineering™ Leadership Model based on his 20 years of experience developing high-performing teams as an entrepreneur, software engineering manager, franchisee and community leader. He shares his unique and effective approach to teamwork with business professionals through email newsletters, webinars, 1-on-1 coaching and keynote speeches. As President of ImprovAndy, he empowers entrepreneurs to Delegate so Work Gets Done (even when they are not there). Andrew holds a BSCS from Yale University where he was awarded a Magna Cum Laude and elected to the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society.