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What happens when heartbreak becomes the starting point for a whole new purpose? In this episode of Unstoppable Mindset, I sit down with Heather Christie, author, educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Love Notes, a storytelling movement built around real stories of real love. Heather shares how commuting alone to New York City as a teenager shaped her independence, why she walked away from her creative dreams after marrying young, and how writing helped her rediscover herself after the end of a 30-year marriage. We explore storytelling, resilience, creativity, publishing, relationships, and the power of authentic human connection. You will hear how Heather transformed loneliness into hope through Love Notes, an off-Broadway storytelling series that is now expanding across the country and helping people reconnect with the many forms love can take. Highlights: 01:25 - Learn how early independence shaped Heather's confidence and resilience. 16:03 - Discover why staying true to yourself matters in life and relationships. 19:29 - Hear how heartbreak inspired a search for real love stories. 27:21 - Learn how writing helped Heather reconnect with her creativity. 32:35 - Discover the mindset that helped her push through years of rejection. 47:17 - Hear what Heather believes is at the heart of real love. About the Guest: Heather Christie is a speaker, writer-producer, educator, and the creator of LoveNotes! — Real Stories. Real People. Real Love.®—an Off-Broadway storytelling show that's expanding through satellite productions alongside an award-winning anthology. An award-winning YA author, she wrote What The Valley Knows and The Lying Season, which debuted as an Amazon #1 bestseller in Young Adult Soccer Fiction. Her essays have appeared in Salon, NextTribe, Writer's Digest, Baltimore Style, Scary Mommy, Elephant Journal, The Good Men Project, Grown & Flown, Baltimore Child, Parent.co, Her View From Home, the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, and The Lighter Side of Real Estate. Heather holds a BA in Literary Studies from UT-Dallas and an MFA from Pine Manor College. She is CEO of SocRoc Soccer and an adjunct lecturer at the City University of New York. Ways to connect with Heather: Website: www.LoveNotesWorldwide.com & www.HeatherChristieBooks.com Instagram:@_heatherchristie/lovenotes_worldwideFacebook: @heatherchristiebooks / @LoveNotesWorldwideLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-christie-mfa-4b976049/LoveNotes! AnthologyWhat The Valley Knows (book)The Lying Season (book) About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! 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Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:06 John, thank you for being here with me on Unstoppable Mindset. I hope today's conversation left you with a fresh perspective, a new insight, or at least something worth thinking about. If you're ready to go deeper into the ideas that shape how we see ourselves and others, I have a free gift for you. Head over to Michael hingson.com and download my free ebook, Blinded by Fear. It explores the invisible beliefs that hold us back and shows you how to reframe them, so you can move forward with clarity and confidence. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast, leave a review, and share this show with someone who can use a reminder that growth starts with mindset. When people think differently, we all move forward together. Thanks again for listening. Keep learning, keep questioning, and keep choosing to live with an unstoppable mindset. Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset. Today we get the opportunity and the honor of chatting with Heather Christy, and Heather, Heather is an author. She and her brother have formed a company, so she's clearly an entrepreneur. She's acted, she's a keynote speaker, and I don't know what all we're going to find out in the next hour or so, but definitely an exciting person to get a chance to chat with. So, Heather, welcome to Unstoppable Mindset. We're glad you're here. Speaker 1  01:47 Thank you, Michael. I'm so honored that we're going to have a conversation today. Michael Hingson  01:52 And Heather lives in New York City, she lives in Manhattan, or as we all know it, the city. And before we started this, we were talking about the fact that winter is coming everywhere. Ah, well, what do you do as long as you don't get too much snow back there? Speaker 1  02:11 Yeah, the winters have been pretty mild here the last couple years, so see what happens. Michael Hingson  02:16 Yeah, time will tell. Well, why don't we start? Tell us about the early Heather growing up in some of those things. Speaker 1  02:22 Okay, well, as a young person, I, I wanted to be an actress, and I grew up in a really small rural town, about two hours due west of New York City, in Pennsylvania. It's called the Holy Valley. Michael Hingson  02:37 What town? Speaker 1  02:39 Oh, it's called Oli Oley Valley, it's actually a Michael Hingson  02:42 valley. Okay, Speaker 1  02:43 historic site. And so I had a really interesting sort of upbringing, because I, before it was really in vogue, I was on a work-study program, and I would spend half my day in this small Pennsylvania town, and then I would jump on a bus - it was called the Bieber Bus back then - and drive to New York City on the bus, and that was like two to two and a half hours each way, get off in the, you know, huge metropolis of New York City, go on auditions, go sees, or if I had a booking, I'd do the booking, and then I would jump back on the bus and go all the way back to rural Pennsylvania, and that's how I spent like all my high school years was back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and then I actually graduated early. I graduated halfway through my senior year. I had enough of my credits done that I'd actually, the first half of my senior year, I went to community college, and I took a class in the evenings, so I could be done by Christmas break, and the only requirement I still needed to fulfill was my physical fitness, so I ended up moving to New York City, and then I would take my physical fitness classes at Steps Dance Studio, and then I was still able to graduate with my class in June, but I was living in New York City from January on of what would have been senior year. Yeah, so it was like the early me, and the one thing that was sort of interesting when I was on the work study, my mom was a mathematician, and my dad was a an ER doctor, so they actually tutored me. My mom tutored me in math, and my father tutored me in chemistry. And then, like my history teacher back back in the day, we had Walkmans, and he would record his three lessons on a Walkman, and I would listen to them on the bus back and forth from New York. Michael Hingson  04:43 Yep, Lockmans were the big thing back in time. Sony created a very clever thing, but as with everything, the technology has advanced beyond that. Now Speaker 1  04:58 that's right. Yeah, now my kids. Wouldn't even recognize a Walkman, Michael Hingson  05:02 they wouldn't recognize a cassette either. Speaker 1  05:05 That's right, yeah, it would be like an ancient artifact. Michael Hingson  05:08 What's really strange is there are a lot of people who don't even really know anymore what CDs are. Speaker 1  05:14 That's true, yeah. Michael Hingson  05:16 Much less, well, and DVD is sort of going the same way, it hasn't quite got there, but we, we are new now, moving more into streaming and things like that, but, gee, what a crazy world. Well, so you went through high school, basically commuting to New York. What did your parents think of that? Speaker 1  05:35 Well, I was one of four children, I was the oldest child, and what's remarkable is in the beginning, my mother would go with me, but it was hard to do that, and have you know three other children at home, so by the time I was 15 I was doing it on my own, and when I.. it's just like such a different culture that children are raised in now, there's sort of this idea that we, we can't let them kind of do their own thing, you know, like there's, we're so follow every move and thing they do, but that was like a lot of independence my parents granted me at such a young age, and so they thought, I mean, it was great, and they gave me the support I needed, but at the same time they allowed me to be really independent at a pretty young age. I know when I tell people, "Oh, yeah, I moved to New York City when I was 17 by myself, they're like, "And your parents let you do that? And New York, and this was in the late 80s, early 90s, and New York was like a whole different place, like when I get off the bus at Port Authority back then, like now that whole strip Times Square is kind of sanitized and disified, but back then it was, it was a little rough, Michael Hingson  06:56 it was a lot of X-rated things, and all that, I did some commuting more in the early 90s. I sold products, and I would travel back to New York, because that's where I sold to. I traveled from California, and I remember it was there was a lot of stuff on 42nd Street that was very X-rated, and so on, a lot different than the musical 42nd Street, but that's okay. Speaker 1  07:20 That's right, yeah, Michael Hingson  07:21 but it is a lot, a lot cleaner now than it was, and I remember times I would go out of my hotel and there would be people who would say you really shouldn't be walking around on your own, and why not, and they said, well, because it's pretty dangerous here, and you know, the the angels that that were out there insisted on escorting me everywhere I went, just because they were concerned about me, and I wasn't, although I understand the the situation, but I wasn't going to go in the middle of Central Park at night either, so you know, Speaker 1  07:58 right, and I was a lot the same for me. I remember, though, getting.. I would get off the bus at the Port Authority, for people who know you, New York City, it's on Eighth Avenue, and then I would feel like I wasn't like fully safe until I could get to Lord and Taylor, which was on Sixth Avenue. Yeah, and then it felt like everything got a little bit safer and calmer, the energy changed. Michael Hingson  08:23 Yeah, Speaker 1  08:23 that Michael Hingson  08:24 was a lot different. You could always go to St. Patrick's Cathedral for refuge too. So, but yeah, the Port Authority was an interesting place to go, and I understand. Well, how did.. how did all that affect you, and how did, how does what you did back then kind of affect you in the way you think today, especially with children and so on? Would you give them that same level of independence today? Speaker 1  08:52 That's a really interesting question. And my children are a little older than I was at that time now, but I do think about when they were 15, 1616, years old, and if I'm to answer the question really honestly, I don't know that I would have. I just feel like, and I don't know what's changed about society that makes it that way, that and part of it I think is maybe like the news cycle just is constantly highlighting everything that's wrong and fear based that that's what we see and it's in our faces so much more because we have all this access to it through social media that it it creates sort of this, this like undercurrent in parenting that, that we're, that we're oftentimes afraid, like, what could happen to our children. So, I don't know if I actually would have let them commute like that by themselves, you know? Like, yeah, I don't think I would have. Michael Hingson  09:56 Yeah, it's definitely different now than it was then, and. And I think you're right with especially the news cycle and also in reality there's there's so much gun violence and other stuff going on and I ask people when we talk about it I ask is it really that there's more now or it's just more visible in the news, and I'm not sure that it's just visibility. I think there is more stuff going on, and it's not being stopped nearly as effectively or as aggressively as it should be, and it does make it a scarier world. It's tougher, I think, by far to be a kid now than it was when you were a kid, much less I believe when I was growing up. We just didn't see the kinds of things that we see today, and I don't think it's all just exposure from the news. I think there's there's some truth to the fact that that there are other issues going on, Speaker 1  11:00 right, that it actually is a more dangerous world that we live in. Michael Hingson  11:03 Yeah, and I think that it is something that we do have to think about, and hopefully someday sanity will come back to it all. I agree, I'm of the opinion that eventually it will, but you know, so that's cool. But, but still, we have to do what we do, but I also think that we can't stifle our children, we have to give them the opportunity to grow. It may be that you might, when your children were the age you were, you might have decided, well, one of us just has to go with you all the time, and we're going to just to keep an eye on you, or you have other people that help, but I think being so aggressively smothering that you don't let children grow is a problem too. Speaker 1  11:53 Yeah, I agree. I think that's, I mean, there's that saying, and maybe I'll get it right, or maybe I'll get it wrong here, that we need to give our children roots and wings, Michael Hingson  12:02 yeah, Speaker 1  12:02 and that's the challenge, is to find the balance, Michael Hingson  12:06 yeah. Well, and so for you, you were given a lot of independence. How did that shape kind of your attitude, and how does it shape the way you look at life today? Speaker 1  12:20 Well, that's a really great question, and for all the independence that I had as a young person, and maybe, maybe I was given too much independence in some ways, because I, I ended up marrying very young, and and I often wonder, like, had my parents not given me as much independence, if I would have done that, but yeah, I still think I'm very independent now, and I've tried to instill that in my children as well, and I think they're, they're really great kids, and they've launched really well, which I know is a common problem with today's young adults, is the this sort of inability to to launch, and I, I feel really good. My both my kids have done that and done it well. Michael Hingson  13:15 Well, and all you can do is your best, Speaker 1  13:19 right? Michael Hingson  13:20 I think we don't do this nearly as much as we should, but it ultimately comes down to, you know, kids want all sorts of independence, and so on. Parents are, are.. I'm talking about parents who really think about what they do, they may not want children to have that much independence, but I think the key is that you really need to communicate with your kids and teach them what's going on and why, Speaker 1  13:48 right. I think that's it's to be open and transparent with, with our children is very, and to have like the hard conversations and give them a safe space in which they can speak to Michael Hingson  14:02 the other side of that is that we should hold them to the same standard and say when you have issues and so on, we're here, we're not going to judge you, you need to have the hard conversations with us too. And I don't think we do nearly as much of that. I know when I was growing up, we had a lot of conversations. Of course, I was blind. I've been blind my whole life, and I encountered a lot of different things growing up, and my parents were glad to talk with me about blindness, and glad to talk with me about different things about independence, and it also was true that they allowed me to be independent. I mean, I rode my own bike around the neighborhood, and some other.. I'm not the only blind kid that did that in the world, but in my town I was brand.. and I think that, you know, I'm. Sure, that I was watched, but parents didn't interfere. I mean, I even fell off the bike a couple times until I really learned how to ride it, but they allowed me to have the opportunity to grow, and I think that there is a way to do that without, without, well, without stifling your kids, and that you can, you can let kids grow, and we should really emphasize curiosity a lot more than we do. Speaker 1  15:29 I agree, I think that's really important, is to give kids the space to grow and encourage curiosity. Michael Hingson  15:36 Yeah, we don't probably do that nearly as much as we ought to, well, so you mentioned you got married at 19. Well, I guess that's a little young, but, but you did that, huh? Speaker 1  15:48 I did. Yes, I did. I married young. Michael Hingson  15:54 How did that work out? Speaker 1  15:56 Well, it, it worked out for a little, well, it worked out for a while. I stayed married a really long time, but I eventually divorced 30 years later, and part of that had to do with I was, I did marry young, but my ex-husband also had some addictions that you know in time just became too hard to manage, so that ended the thing, and he Michael Hingson  16:29 wouldn't, and he wouldn't deal with them Speaker 1  16:31 well. At one point, I mean, we'll ask a lot of times in relationship with addicts, you kind of, there are times when they deal with them, and then times when they don't, Michael Hingson  16:39 right? Speaker 1  16:40 Yeah, so ultimately it dissolved. Michael Hingson  16:44 It's too bad when things happen. Speaker 1  16:47 That's right, yeah, but I'm grateful for the the union, because it produced my two great kids. Michael Hingson  16:56 And what, what else did being married for 30 years teach you? Speaker 1  17:01 Well, wow, that's a great question. I think probably it taught me most of all it's a lesson learned, sort of, that you really need to be true to yourself and listen to yourself, because I think deep down we know, and my I was always trying, like, to try harder, if I just try harder, you know, things will get better, but there's part of me deep down that knew I was sort of trying harder for everybody else but myself. And when I left New York, I had given up everything I'd worked on, and in, you know, in hindsight, when I look back, I, it was in a way I sort of abandon all my dreams and hopes, and ultimately I don't think that's a good thing when you give up yourself for someone else. Michael Hingson  17:50 So, after you got married, what did you do? Where did you go? Speaker 1  17:54 Well, my ex-husband was a professional soccer player, so we ended up going around the United States, he played for a couple different teams, and I went to college, and I finished my degree at the University of Texas, and then I, I did a couple things, I was a flight attendant, and I eventually fell into real estate, and worked in real estate for a long, long time, but along the way, I, there was a, there was a point where I kind of really missed that young creative person that I had started out my life as, and I'd always loved books and lacher, and my undergraduate degree was in literary studies, and I started writing stories, and then at midlife went back to graduate school for a master's of fine arts in creative writing, and and started writing. So I was, I was always doing a bunch of things. I was a real estate broker, I was managing a company, and then I was, I was writing, and began writing novels on the side. Michael Hingson  18:58 What was your bachelor's degree in Speaker 1  19:00 literary studies. Michael Hingson  19:02 Oh, okay, Speaker 1  19:03 yeah. Michael Hingson  19:04 So, you never did get degrees in what either of your parents did. Speaker 1  19:09 No, no, no, Michael Hingson  19:10 you weren't that into math. Speaker 1  19:12 No, not at all. No, I always liked words, words. Michael Hingson  19:16 Yeah, I understand. I do pretty well with math, but by the same token, I've been learning more about words, having now written three books, and appreciate it. I also like to collaborate, so when I write, I generally write with someone. I think that the team approach works, at least it does for me, and there are a lot of people who don't use a second person on their team, other than their publishers, editors, and so on, but for me the collaborative way works, which is fine. Speaker 1  19:49 I've had a little bit more experience later now in my creative career, because I've, and maybe we'll talk about this in a little bit, but I've started producing storytelling shows, so I. Work with the storytellers in helping them in their stories, so that's a much more collaborative exercise, and one one I really enjoy. Michael Hingson  20:09 Yeah, well, well, let's, let's, you know, we could talk about it now. What the heck, we don't have to do this in a linear way. Tell me about storytelling. What you think about storytelling. Why is it so important, and so on. Speaker 1  20:25 Well, for me, so the storytelling that I do, I'm working on this project called Love Notes, which real stories by real people about real love, and that came to me during the darkest, loneliest period of my life. It was, you know, after the disillusion of this 30 year marriage, and I was really despondent and, and disillusioned, and thinking, you know, like, does love even exist, and what does it look like, and I just, I just really didn't even believe in love anymore, and being in the storytelling community, I produced some storytelling shows, stories about motherhood. I put out a call to writers and actors and just regular people to share their true love stories, and so from that, people started sending me all these true stories, they had to be 1000 words or fewer, and so to answer your question, like, what does storytelling do in, in this case, I think story, storytelling, it's different than other mediums, like the personal essay or the novel, it's, it's a, it's a testament, it's a first person testament, and what's really great when you see the different storytelling communities around the country is anybody can do it, and so that's part of the beauty of storytelling. Michael Hingson  22:00 I think the key is, though, it has to be a genuine story. Making it up isn't the same thing, Speaker 1  22:06 right? And that's the difference, right? Because people will write a short story or story thing, but in storytelling, you're exactly right, Michael. It needs to be a true story, and that's what makes it so compelling, and I think so relatable, is that people can see themselves in other people's stories, so like in my case it was a way, it was like the evidence, the proof of love, like what it really looks like as it walks around in the world, Michael Hingson  22:36 so that's it, sounds like changed your view of love, and that you believe in love again. I Speaker 1  22:46 do, I do, and it's it, and even like during the first season of Love Notes, because we do an off-Broadway show here in Manhattan, and we have an anthology, a companion anthology. I remember that first year, like some I'd wake up in the morning and just like be not despondent but upset, like, oh, like this doesn't happen. And then literally there was like a little voice in my head that would say, oh well, don't you remember Stacey's story or Sarah's story? And it was like just like the the universe providing this evidence and this this proof and just hearing enough stories and story after story, yeah, it really did fortify my belief in love, and that love is for everyone, and it comes like from all these different angles, and when you least expect it, and it shows up in so many different forms. Michael Hingson  23:43 Yeah, well, and I think there's there's a lot of merit to that. I know when I was writing this last book that I wrote, which is entitled Live Like a Guide Dog: True Stories from a Blind Man and His Dogs, about being brave, overcoming adversity, and moving forward in faith, I spent a lot of time talking about each of the eight guide dogs that I've had and the lessons I learned from them, and also using those lessons in the book to show the importance of different aspects of what happens in our lives, but I have maintained for years I've learned a lot more about life and learned about leadership and teamwork. I've learned a lot more from these dogs than I ever learned from all the experts in the world, and that's primarily because we'll have some interesting observations. One, I allow my dogs to express themselves, but they also learn what the rules are. Because dogs really want to hear from humans, they want humans to set the rules, they want humans to be the pack leaders, by and large, and they want humans to be the ones to say this is what I expect, but when. That relationship forms, and it forms well. There's it's second to none, and you learn so much. Dogs love unconditionally, but they don't trust unconditionally, but they're open to trust, and we're not. And we really should learn to be more open to trust, and just so many different kinds of things. It has really given me a lot of pause to think over the past several years, while we were writing the book, and, and I, and I think about it now. There are a lot of neat stories in there that really ultimately are love stories in one way or another, and I think that makes a lot of sense. Speaker 1  25:36 Oh, that's so.. I'm actually a new dog owner, well, not too new, I.. I'm for the first time in my adult life have a dog, and I just.. it's such a wonderful, like, experience, and it's opened me up to, yeah, like so many different levels of love. Michael Hingson  25:53 Yeah, dogs want to establish a relationship, but as I said, I don't think that they are open to just trusting they do pretty much love unconditionally, unless something just totally traumatizes them. But trusting is a different story, and that's a trust that has to be earned both ways. It's not just us earning their trust, but they're earning our trust, and the people who really take that to heart and develop that relationship and think about it, find that they have a bond that's really second to none. It's as close to knit a team as you could ever find. Speaker 1  26:35 That's beautiful. Michael Hingson  26:37 So, it's a lot of fun. What kind of dog do you have? Speaker 1  26:40 I have, well, because remember I'm in a small New York City. I have a teacup poodle. Michael Hingson  26:46 Oh, so it isn't a Saint Bernard, okay? Speaker 1  26:49 And she's, she's an eye, she's a, she's a character. She, she acts like she's a cross between a teacup and a pit bull when she's in the, when she's out on the street. She does not like she's a scaredy cat on the street. She would prefer to be carried when we're on the street, so she's got sort of a split personality, but she, and she doesn't take too many people. So, just like you were saying, I can identify with that, like the whole trust element, and she's, she only trusts a few people. Michael Hingson  27:25 Yeah, well, trust isn't something that happens overnight. I've maintained for a long time. I think it takes a good year for me when I am meeting a new guide dog. I think it takes a good year for the trust to become so seamless that we really know what each other is thinking, and I think that we really do understand each other. There's a lot of empathy there, Speaker 1  27:52 that's really great. So, Michael Hingson  27:53 I think it's, it is kind of cool. Well, so, but going back to you getting married and all that, so you gave up for a while a lot of your dreams, that that must have, whether it was conscious or not, been a little bit frustrating. Speaker 1  28:08 Yeah, and I didn't realize it at the time. It was only later, like when my younger self sort of came calling, and I had given up a lot for this marriage that didn't really turn out the way I had hoped, and yeah, so writing was a way for me to find myself again, was not only a refuge during that time in my life when I wasn't really happy, but it also really opened up that whole creative part of myself, which felt really good, and it's, you know, it's been something now I've been working on for the last decade and a half, Michael Hingson  28:57 but it sounds like you didn't really, or at least consciously you didn't really know that you were unhappy. Speaker 1  29:03 No, I didn't, and that's a really interesting observation that that you make, because you know, I had my children, I loved my children, and I loved being a mom, and I had a really fulfilling career, but there was something missing, you know, and I wasn't really able to put my finger on that until I started writing, and then it became more and more obvious that, yeah, this is the part that was missing, this, you know, who you had thought you were going to be a creative, you, you had denied that, and you're right, so it wasn't really conscious, but, like, once I sort of, it started to become more noticeable to me, then it sort of came back with a vengeance. Michael Hingson  29:49 How much writing did you do before you got married? Speaker 1  29:53 Before.. well, I really didn't, because I was more in the.. I read a lot. Lot, and, but I was more into that, the acting, so I didn't really, I mean, I would write some really bad poetry, but not anything. I know some writers will say they were writing from the time they were six years old, but I, it didn't come to me till much later. Michael Hingson  30:16 So, what got you started back writing after your marriage ended, what was the trigger that made that happen? Speaker 1  30:25 Writing and the marriage, it was like the last 10 years of, of my marriage, I was writing, and it's, I sort of wrote my, my way out of the marriage in a way, but what was the trigger, and I do remember there wasn't an absolute trigger. I had a friend who had self-published a book. Michael Hingson  30:45 Okay, Speaker 1  30:46 I was like a friend of a friend. And one afternoon, it was a summer afternoon, we were over at her house because she had been hired to go to an elementary school and do a presentation, and so we were brainstorming and about what she could do at this presentation, and I went home from that, and I was like, I felt like so energized again. I was like, wow, well, I could do this, I could write a children's book, and so I sat down, and I wrote this book called Beatrice Bumblebee is busy. I didn't know anything about publishing, and I thought to myself, okay, well, now I'll just write it, and I'll send it to publishers, and I'll get it published. Well, it was promptly rejected by every single publisher, and I knew nothing about the publishing that point, but it was enough of a spark. And then I did start just sort of playing around, and I had this scene in my head of a girl, like a young girl who's been in a car accident, and she's on the side of the road losing consciousness, and she has this terrible secret that she wants to tell her boyfriend, and this, the scene, it was like a dark, wet Pennsylvania night, and it was an autumn, and like, I could see the mist, and so I had written this scene, and I remember giving it to my father, who was a huge reader, and he's like, well, Heather, this is really good. Why don't you keep trying to work on it? And, and so I did, and I love school, so I was like, well, I don't know how to write, like, how can I learn how to write? And then I sort of discovered, oh, well, there's these MFA programs, and so I ended up applying, and and going back to school, and then it was in my MFA program, where I wrote the first draft of my first novel, but yeah, so the actual trigger was a friend who had published a self-published a book, and it really kind of triggered something in me. Michael Hingson  32:38 Whatever happened to Beatrice Bumblebee is busy, Speaker 1  32:41 she is in a drawer, but I do keep.. I have here on my bulletin board. I'll pull it down if we're on camera. I have this little bumblebee, it's like a rhinestone bumblebee that I keep stuck on my bulletin board as just a reminder that the address in my life. Michael Hingson  33:07 Well, are you ever going to publish it? Speaker 1  33:10 Oh, I don't think it's very good, Michael. Michael Hingson  33:12 Okay, well, maybe you should go back and rewrite it, but Speaker 1  33:16 then, and maybe if I have grandchildren someday, maybe I'll, I'll be, yeah, that's kind of interesting that you say that. Maybe I will go back and just look at it. It would be fun to look at it all these years later. Michael Hingson  33:32 Yeah, well, so you got rejected a whole bunch, which is a pretty common story. What did you learn from that? Speaker 1  33:42 Well, and I do, I do talks at different places, and one of the talks I say is I started with the, you know, Calvin Coolidge said most of humanity's problems can be solved with two simple words, press on, and and that's what I learned through the process. My first book was on submission for like 520 weeks before it finally found a publisher, and it was every degree of rejection that you can get when you're publishing, you know, I'm, and for people who understand the publishing hierarchy, you know, the coveted placement is to land a book deal with one of the big five traditional publishers, and then from there it works its way way down, and we had gotten close on some of the big fives and other places where we'd made it to acquisitions, and we finally ended up with a small indie publisher, but it took so long, and it was so soul crushing in a way, and not so much the first book, and the first book I was still like super, super hopeful, and then once it was published, it did go on, and it won the new. National Indy Excellence Award, and I kind of was always thinking of it as a, you know, a stepping stone, a stepping stone, and that the second book would, would land the big publishing deal, and the second book took just as long, and it ended up right back with the same publisher, so the rejection taught me, yeah, that you just need to keep going. I mean, sometimes people hit really easily, or you know, the way the wind's blowing that day, whatever's on trend or top of mind, and, and sometimes it doesn't, but you have to do it because you, you love it, and you're called to do it. Michael Hingson  35:46 When you were getting rejected, did you get any substantive feedback that helped, or do do publishers do much of that? Speaker 1  35:54 Well, actually, I did, especially on my second book, and on the first book, too, it depends how interested they are in the book, and I did have a couple that were pretty interested and gave what's called like an editorial letter, and oftentimes they won't even do that unless you're under contract, but I did have a couple that had liked it enough, so on my second book, especially my agent and I then took that information and did some like hard edits and rewrites, but that's not always the case. I mean, and I have a lot of friends who are also in the business, sometimes you don't get any, any feedback. Michael Hingson  36:39 So now all together, how many books have you written? Speaker 1  36:42 Well, I've written two, and then I've edited and curated the anthology, the Love Notes anthology, Michael Hingson  36:48 right? Speaker 1  36:49 Which, and I've written a small bit of that. Um, yeah, so I'd like to say three books. Michael Hingson  36:54 Are there more books in you? Okay, Speaker 1  36:58 for sure. We have, you know, we'll. well, first, the second, the second Love Notes edition, I'm definitely editing and curating the stories for that, and that's through a small publisher. And then I have been really sort of toying around with, like, what's my next book, and my first two books were young adult romance, mystery, and thriller, and I kind of think I'm done with that genre, so I have talked about an adult, adult fiction, or even a that would go kind of hand in hand with Love Notes, the my story type of book, you know, rebuilding after divorce and being on, you know, what the space that love notes came out of, and going on, you know, hundreds of dates, and what that, that looked like, but that's in a very sort of nebulous state. It Michael Hingson  37:54 will be fun to see what happens. You'll have to keep us all posted, Speaker 1  37:58 yeah, for sure. Michael Hingson  38:00 But you've, you've described your creative journey, your whole creative journey is basically transforming heartbreak into healing. Tell me more about that. Speaker 1  38:14 Yeah, like I touched on earlier, Love Notes came out as sort of this really dark, lonely time in my life. My 30 year marriage had ended. My children had both left for college, and I'd relocated to New York City. So I was living alone for the first time in my adult lifetime. I was 19 years old, and New York can be a really.. for as many people who live here, it can be a really lonely place. I was really, really starting over, and I started dating at midlife, is, you know, it's not for the faint of heart, and I was going on a lot of dates, and just really discouraged by the whole process, and, like, I had sort of mentioned earlier, that's where I kind of was like almost indignant, like you know, I want proof, like show me proof that that love is real, and and that's where this this call to like look for people's love stories came from, so I do say it, it truly came out of a place of of loneliness and darkness, and then hope, though, too. You know, I was hoping I wanted to, I wanted, I wanted the stories to give me proof. I wanted them to be the evidence, and then, and then that sort of became a calling that, well, then I want to share that with other people and give other people hope, and that's been the most gratifying part for me is when somebody like they come to the show and the shows are really great, these storytelling shows, and now I've started to franchise them, so we have them popping up in some other cities, and I've gone around to some of the other cities, in fact, if you have any listeners who. When I produce a love note show, but the audience members, they're like, "Oh, wow, this, this was.. they don't expect it, first of all, coming into it, and everybody walks out feeling good, and that is like so gratifying to me, that, like, you know, in this, in these like divisive times, that they can come to a show, they can recognize part of the human experience, and they can walk out feeling uplifted and Speaker 2  40:25 hopeful, and that some readers, Speaker 1  40:27 you know, in the book do that too, like having read the book, and someone will reach out and say, "Oh, well, that just really gave me hope. So, hope that answers the question a little bit. Michael Hingson  40:40 Does it? Does it? Does get so the two books that you've written are what the Valley Knows and The Lying Season. Tell me more about those. What the interesting titles, to say the least. Speaker 1  40:52 Yeah, okay, so the both books are they're not ones, they're not a sequel and a prequel, but I would call them a series, because they're both in this fictional town of Millington Valley, which is much like the small town I grew up in, the Oley Valley, and it's all set around this high school, so the peripheral characters in the book stay the same, like the English teacher and the principal, but the kids, you know, because kids are only in high school for four years at a time, so different kids kind of like move through both of the books, they're both mysteries or are thrillers, and they both have like a big kind of like moral question at their center, both sent it set in this Millington Valley, which is a small Pennsylvania town, Michael Hingson  41:45 right? And they're, they're for juveniles, primarily. You said, I think, right. Speaker 1  41:52 Well, they are. They'd be considered young adults. What the valley knows, that's told from three point of views: two kids, and then one of the kids' mothers, so it has a lot of crossover appeal. So you and that book originally started at six point of views, and that was when I was in graduate school, and I remember my professor saying to me, Well, Heather, that's that's just too ambitious to try to do for your first book, you need to cut it down, and, and just whoever's story has to be there, that's the point of view you, you include, and so it kind of fell into the young adult category by accident, but I have a lot of adult readers who, who it really resonates as well, Michael Hingson  42:43 yeah. You know, I know a lot of people say, especially the early ones, the Harry Potter books are for more young adults, and so on, but I certainly had no problem enjoying them as a full-fledged, real-life middle-aged adult. So I think there's a lot that we can learn by stretching and not necessarily just falling into the trap of reading one kind or, or one sort of book that's, oh, this is for more adults or this is more for for children. Think there's a lot to be learned all the way around. Speaker 1  43:17 I think you're, you're right, Michael, and that's it's kind of like a modern thing that we do, like classifying books as adult fiction, like when we think about Catcher in the Rye, like what would that be considered now? Because the protagonist is a young adult, would it be considered a young adult book? But yeah, that's a really great point that you're making. Michael Hingson  43:40 Well, so you, you wrote these books, and you said that, so they've been published, and I assume they're out there. Do you know if they're audio books also? Speaker 1  43:52 Well, yes, and but here's the thing, I, because I didn't get to pick the publisher, I mean, the, you know, I didn't get to pick the narrator, so the what they both, okay, so what the bally knows is narrated. Yes, I don't like the narrator's voice. I know that's a terrible thing to say, because I would love for people to go and listen to the audio book, but I don't know, and maybe it's just me. And then the second book the publisher actually used like an AI kind of, I don't know exactly how it works, and I didn't really even know it happened till I went on Amazon one day, I was like, oh, they made an audio book of this, and it was in like an AI voice, so, so the answer is yes. Both of them are on audiobook. Love Notes is not the other bar. Michael Hingson  44:49 It's interesting, I'm on several lists that deal with audio books, and so on, and I hear people talking or. Emailing on the list all the time, and what people have often said is nonfiction books that are not what they're necessarily as much into as fiction books, they don't mind it being an AI voice, but when they're reading good fiction, where they really want to be absorbed, AI and synthetic voices text to speech just doesn't do it, and in fact I buy into that. I agree with that. I don't think that we have yet gotten computer synthesized voices to really take the place of human readers, and I don't know that we ever totally will, because we're so used to what people sound like, but it is an interesting thing that does come up. Speaker 1  45:47 Yeah, I agree with you. Michael Hingson  45:50 So, I prefer human readers in general. I've never been as great a fan of having a synthetic voice. Nothing against computers, but they just don't talk as well as humans do. Speaker 1  46:03 No, I agree with you too. I much prefer the human voice. Michael Hingson  46:09 Well, so you, when did you start writing love notes? When did that really start coming to fruition? Speaker 1  46:17 Well, love notes. We're coming into our third off-Broadway season this Valentine's Day, so it started that would, so it was started in 22 Michael Hingson  46:27 Oh, yeah. Okay, Speaker 1  46:29 so it's a relatively young project. We're going into our third year, but I'm super excited. We just cast the show for this upcoming performance, and that's really exciting. We have, you know, a bunch of local New Yorkers, but then we also have about the cast is 12 members, and six of them are from other parts of the country, so it's, it's got a, you know, flavor from from from all over. Michael Hingson  46:57 Now, is Love Notes available in any way online, or is it strictly just the shows, and they're not recorded and disseminated in any way. The Speaker 1  47:06 the all-star show, which is Valentine's Day at Symphony Space in New York City, the APM show is live streamed. Yeah, so it can be enjoyed from anywhere in the world. Michael Hingson  47:19 Okay, but outside of that one being live streamed, are there recordings of any of the shows that are out there for people to hear? Speaker 1  47:28 There are on my website, actually. Both the 2023 show and the 2024 show are available for resale. I think it's like $15 and you can, you can watch it's like it's a great, like date night kind of thing to watch the Love Notes show. Michael Hingson  47:48 Okay. Well, so from all that you have heard and seen and interacted with in doing Love Notes, how do you define real love today? Speaker 1  48:01 Oh that's it. Oh, Michael Hingson  48:03 that for a question out of left field. Yeah, Speaker 1  48:06 that's a great question. How do I define real love? So, I think real love shows up in a lot of different ways, and it.. and what's interesting in love notes, is I've seen all sorts of examples of it. I've seen the type of real love that ignites people when they're young, you know. Speaker 3  48:31 We'll love Speaker 1  48:31 that's the other thing people will say, "Oh, well, you were too young, that's why it didn't work out. But I don't think that's necessarily true. I think I think a little bit sometimes is luck of the draw, but the I've seen examples of people who met when they were 20 years old, and they've stayed together their entire lives, and that shows up in commitment and the ability to grow up together and to grow and evolve together, so I think real love shows up like that, but I've also seen real love, like the second time around type of love, and that sort of love, where people really need to be able to integrate their past and understand they're both two people carrying bags, and now they're going to carry those bags together, and so that shows up in a different way. Real love, and I've even seen it love showing up for people like in their 80s, third time around, or having never had partnered, and finding a partner very late in life, and that shows up in a whole different way, that's absolutely real too, but I think at the core of all types of real love is one, the ability to both people have to want the relationship, and they have. To be willing to work for the relationship, it's not just like what I want or you want, but it's oftentimes if they can ask the question, like what's the problem, and how is are we a team against the problem, or to be able to solve the problem, and I think that's sort of like the realist type of love that's out there, Michael Hingson  50:26 and I would, would also say it goes back to something we talked about earlier with, with dogs, dogs are are very much open to and do love unconditionally, and when we develop that kind of a relationship, it's as strong as any other kind of relationship that we can develop. When both sides of that relationship sense it and know it, it creates a bond that's, as I said earlier, second to none. Speaker 1  50:58 Yeah, that's a really great way of putting Michael Hingson  51:02 it. I would, I would not want to do anything to betray my guide dog or any of the guide dogs that I've had, but I've learned how to create those teams, and I think that's very important. One thing that that sticks in my mind dealing with dogs is when I lived in Northern California, we were very close to the Marin Humane Society, which is one of the more famous organizations of that type in the world. We were talking to one of the people at the Marin Humane Society one day, and they were talking about the fact that they're growing in class sizes and growing in the number of classes that they have to offer, but what they also point out is that 90% of the training isn't training the dog, it's training the human, which is really true. There's so much that humans don't really work to develop the relationship that they should, and that if they really truly understood it, it would, it would be a whole lot different relationship that they would experience, Speaker 1  52:05 yeah, that's a really nice way of looking at it. Michael Hingson  52:10 Well, so you have love notes that are growing by loops and bounds in a lot of ways, and you have, how many different places are doing the shows now? Speaker 1  52:24 Well, so far we have Indianapolis, Chicago, Redding, Pennsylvania, and then we have another Pennsylvania city, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and we're in talks right now with Atlanta, Georgia, and Tampa, Florida. Michael Hingson  52:42 Wow, so it's growing, Speaker 1  52:45 it's growing, it's starting to spread. We're starting to spread some love. Michael Hingson  52:51 I get it. What do you think about that? Speaker 1  52:54 I think it's great. Like, I hope I'd love to see one in every city. Such a nice event that really brings the community together. Michael Hingson  53:04 So, how often do the shows run? Is it just like on Valentine's Day, or do they go throughout the whole year? Speaker 1  53:10 It can be any time of year, and it's usually just a one-day event. Sometimes there's multiple shows on one day, but yeah, it's just a one day. Oftentimes the local producer will partner with a local charity, so we try to give back in that way too, and they can choose the charity they want, or, or sometimes they're trying to fund like a scholarship fund, or or something like that. I do encourage that, and and we have like a mastermind group among the producers just trying to support each other as creative entrepreneurs. Michael Hingson  53:46 Well, you're you're seeing a lot of success with it. What kind of surprises have you experienced? This must be kind of a thrill, and a lot of, a lot of surprises for you. Speaker 1  53:58 Well, one of the surprises. well, I'm not surprised by it anymore, but I, I can, I'm certain, always surprised when I have a cast member who, at the very last minute, you know, they've gone through all the rehearsals, all the prep work, all the editing, and then at the very last second they pull out of the show, I've had that happen each show, so now I know how to plan for it, and know how to prepare, you know, producers for it. But yeah, that, that's always surprising to me. Michael Hingson  54:34 It's an adventure, isn't it? Speaker 1  54:35 Sure is. Yeah, gotta sing quickly on your feet. Michael Hingson  54:39 Yeah, you definitely have to do that. Tell us a little bit about Socroc, the company you and your brother formed, and what that's all about. Speaker 1  54:47 Sure, well, my brother was a professional soccer player, and he, when he retired, he moved to Manhattan, thinking he was going to be an actor, and as most actors. Oh, they need a second job to support themselves. Yeah, so became a personal trainer, and he was personal training, and some of his clients got word that he'd been a professional soccer player, and they begged him, they're like, can you teach our kids soccer? So it kind of happened by accident, and just a few balls and cones in Central Park, teaching soccer to little kids, and over the years it's grown and grown and grown and grown. We're in our like 20th year, and so during it was like maybe five years ago, he, it just got out of hand, like it was getting too big, and he needed help, and that was when I had gone through the divorce, and I like explained I'd been in business before, and I wanted a change, so he offered me, you know, a position to come and help him and run, so I run the business side of the soccer, and he runs the soccer side, and we're all throughout Manhattan, we, we do public classes in the parks and playgrounds, and then, like, now in the winter time, we rent space all around the city, and then we also partner with private schools and public schools throughout the city, and we do birthday parties and personal training, and we're starting a kids of all abilities program, and that's that's like our new initiative right now, and and then the spring we're expanding into actually into basketball too, BB Rock, we're calling Michael Hingson  56:29 it. Oh, that's cool. Well, you're doing a lot of different things, you speak, you're an author, you're an educator. We haven't talked about, I guess it's you work with Speaker 1  56:39 SUNY. I teach at the City University of New York, which is part of SUNY, and that work I really love. Yeah, Michael Hingson  56:47 tell, tell me about that. Then, Speaker 1  56:49 so they have an initiative, it's through the Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center, and SUNY provides grants for adult students returning who need to get their high school epilepticy, their GED. So I teach writing the writing section of the GED, and this I - these are the students I like the most, and I've taught at all levels, from freshman comp all the way up to graduate level MFA, and it's the GED adult student that I enjoy the most. So, I'll, when I, when I'm done with you, I actually will zoom up to Harlem, and I'll be teaching GED time tonight. Michael Hingson  57:35 Okay. Well, you're doing all of these different things. How do you keep yourself grounded, and how do you keep the creative juices going? Speaker 1  57:44 Well, that can sometimes be a challenge. Michael Hingson  57:46 I bet, Speaker 1  57:47 but I do. I exercise. That's one thing I really, I love to exercise, and I'm getting better at just taking time for myself, but I also feel like what I do isn't work, like I enjoy what I do, so I always try to bring a sense of gratitude to each day in that way. Michael Hingson  58:13 Yeah, well, and taking time for yourself is is important to do, and and now you have a teacup poodle to share it with, and I'll bet you guys have some interesting conversations. Speaker 1  58:26 Yeah, we sure do. She's a cutie, she's just lying on the little chair right over here. Michael Hingson  58:33 Yeah, my, my dog is over here on his bed, so he, he, he monitors me. Speaker 1  58:41 Yeah, she's been really good, because sometimes when I'm on the Zoom like this, she, she'll start to bark. She doesn't like paying attention to somebody else. Michael Hingson  58:48 Well, one of these days we'll have to end up in Manhattan and come and meet her. Speaker 1  58:54 That sounds Michael Hingson  58:55 be kind of fun. Speaker 1  58:57 That sure would. Michael Hingson  58:58 Well, so tell me, what's next for you? What do you envision going forward from here? Speaker 1  59:04 Well, my hope is actually, I would love, because there have so much fodder now, all these different stories, love stories. My hope is to launch a podcast, a Love Notes podcast that would feature the storyteller and their story, and then I would do an interview of the story behind the story, because people always have questions. They'll hear a story, or they'll read the story, and it's really short. It's like 700 or 1000 words, and they'll always want to know, like, well, what happened to them, or how did that end up. So I envisioned this podcast of love notes, real stories by real people about real love, and that would be like the the meat of it, and then they're at the end of each one, there'd be like a love letter, and people could write love letters that would be shared on the podcast, and tell Michael Hingson  59:55 me, Speaker 1  59:56 you know, like, dear Michael, this is why I love you, and then it would be a. Letter, so that's that's I'd like to see more satellite cities. I'd like to get the next edition of the book out, and then launch the podcast by Trifecta. Michael Hingson  1:00:13 Lots going on, needless to say. Well, if people want to reach out to you, talk about creating their own love notes, or as you said, you'd love to find people who want to help produce in various cities. How do they do that? Speaker 1  1:00:27 Well, probably the easiest thing to do is first, if they just want to learn more about the project in general, would just be to check out the website, and that's at www dot Love Notes worldwide.com and from there, then you can, you can get a hold of me, but I'll give my email address also, it's Heather at Heather Christy, C H R I s t i e books.com so either just hit the website or send me an email directly, and I, yeah, I'd love to talk to anybody who's got a story they want to share, or anyone who's thinking like maybe they'd love to bring a love notes to their community. Michael Hingson  1:01:19 Cool. Well, I hope people will reach out and that you'll get lots of interest from our podcast. It's a, it's a fun thing, and I hope that people will respond. So, all of you out there, email Heather. Speaker 1  1:01:34 That sounds great. And my last little plug: if anybody would love to watch the Love Notes show on January, february 14 for Valentine's Day. You can find that information on the website too. Michael Hingson  1:01:48 What I'm trying to remember, what day of the week february 14 is going to be in 2026 Speaker 1  1:01:53 It's a Michael Hingson  1:01:54 Saturday, great day to Speaker 1  1:01:57 do it. So you can watch it, and actually the live stream will stay live for a week, so if you're not able to watch it that night, you can watch it during the week. Michael Hingson  1:02:05 Oh, cool. Well, I hope people will do that, and I want to thank you for being here. But I want to thank all of you out there for being a part of this today. Heather has had a lot of interesting things to say, and I hope that you'll help her and help yourself by helping her to be more successful. I'd love to hear from you. We'd love to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to email me at Michael H i@accessibe.com that's M I C H A E L H I at Accessi B A C C E S S I B e.com We'd love it and would greatly appreciate it if wherever you are listening or watching the podcast, if you'll give us a five star review, but also, or a rating, but also give us a review. We love reviews, we appreciate reviews, and we really value all the people who have done it so far, and we ask that you do it again, or you do it for the first time. So, please let us know what you think by writing reviews. If you know anyone who ought to be a guest, we'd love it if you'd let us know. Heather, you as well. Anyone that you think ought to be a guest on Unstoppable Mindset, we would really love to be introduced. My belief is everyone has stories to tell, so don't be shy. We'd love to hear from you. But Heather, once again, I want to thank you for being here. This has been absolutely wonderful. Speaker 1  1:03:26 Thank you so much, Michael. It's been so much fun to talk to you this afternoon. Michael Hingson  1:03:32 What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingson, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others each week. I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started, 1:04:24 I.

Heather Christie created and hosts LoveNotes! The storytelling event also inspired Heather's popular book of the same name. LoveNotes! mines all kinds of love stories, including first love, last love and all the messy love in-between. This Valentine's Day, on February 14th, LoveNotes! returns to New York and will be performed for three special shows at Symphony Space. LoveNotes! has also been seen in in cities across the country and is currently expanding to other markets. This episode was recorded on February 10, 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From HGTV star to Hollywood actress to theater producer, Wanda Colon's creative journey has come full circle as she returns to her Reading roots with an exciting new project. After conquering television as a design expert and even sharing an on-screen kiss with Jean-Claude Van Damme (which she hilariously describes as "the worst kiss of my life"), Wanda is now channeling her passion into "LoveNotes Berks," a powerful storytelling experience premiering October 11th at the Miller Center.The show features twelve brave performers sharing deeply personal stories about love in all its forms—the heartwarming, the heartbreaking, and everything in between. During her conversation with Brad Weisman, Wanda reveals how the project came together through her connection with Heather Christie, who originated the LoveNotes concept with successful performances in New York. What makes this production unique is that each storyteller not only performs but has written their own authentic narrative, creating an intimate evening that moved even Wanda's husband to tears during rehearsals.Having spent nearly two decades away from Reading pursuing her entertainment career and co-founding the Academy of Home Staging and Design, Wanda speaks candidly about the unexpected joy of returning home. "I have such an appreciation for home," she reflects, touched by how warmly the community has embraced her vision. The production represents more than entertainment—it's a celebration of vulnerability, connection, and the universal experiences that bind us together.Whether you're a theater enthusiast or simply looking for a meaningful date night, "LoveNotes Berks" promises an evening of emotional storytelling complemented by musical performances from talented vocalists. The night continues with a special afterparty at the Peanut Bar featuring dinner specials created for the occasion. Secure your tickets at lovenotesberks.com and be part of this extraordinary homecoming celebration that might just inspire you to share your own story.Hi This is Brad Weisman - Click Here to Send Me a Text Message ---Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman!

Selección musical de Clara Vilar, directora de Espacios liminales.Imaginary - Kr3ture, King KairósCircus - AViVA, Mblue, Shiah MaiselRevenge of the Orchestra - Apashe, Magugu, MotezWicked Game - Maddy O'Neal, Lhasa Petik, EyezicA feast of modern Ghosts - Karma Whiff, Mehmet Denizci, QualistaTornado - Timmy Trumpet, Mark With a KNaughty Sax - MatrodaIn the dark - One True GodVikings - Brohugalina adrena - Marcu RaresSisteron - KiasmosBasta Boi - AlfonsSo tight - Alfons, Viva La Panda, Edmundo SilvaBahyay - Savej, Twerkaba, KallumBroken Whole - Tahüm, Heather Christie, EinkiTake your vibes and go - Kito, Kah-Lo, brazy, Baauer, DJ ADHD, Chloé RobinsonSweet Cuddles - WhoMadeWho, Blue Hawaii, Denis CruzEscuchar audio

In this episode of the Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, I talk with Heather Christie. Heather is a fellow Berks County native and author.  She is the author of three books, so far.  Additionally, she is the producer of the storytelling show, LoveNotes!, which is True stories of first love, last love, & all the love in between. LoveNotes! is a storytelling show, a book, and a podcast in which real people share real stories about romantic love in all its incarnations. So, tell the poets, lovers, dreamers and anybody else who's ever been in love that I'm looking for TRUE LOVE stories–from heartbreaking to heartwarming. Any story about romantic love in any of its incarnations fits the bill. A LoveNotes! story is the kind of yarn in which Cupid has shot someone in the heart and that person has lived to tell the tale. To find out more about Heather, you can check out her website at https://heatherchristiebooks.com/. Some other important notes from the conversation are listed below: ·        Links for tickets to the live LoveNotes! Show or livestream: ·        3 PM In-Person SHOW: https://tinyurl.com/3PMLoveNotes ·        8PM In-Person SHOW: https://tinyurl.com/8PMLoveNotes ·        8 PM LIVESTREAM: https://tinyurl.com/LoveNotesLivestream LoveNotes! Bus 2/15 - $40 Round Trip (departs 10 AM Joanne Fabrics' Parking Lot, Wyomissing PA to NYC, Leaves NYC 8 PM), Show ticket must be purchased separately. Email Sandy Barber at sbarber@epexinc.com to reserve a seat.  Submit your love story (1000 words or fewer) at 71StreetBooks.com  Instagram, Facebook, & TikTok are @heatherchristiebooks   LoveNotes! Real Stories. Real People. Real Love. THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/40VIiUv

Hi This is Brad Weisman - Click Here to Send Me a Text MessageFrom Actress to Realtor to Author, Heather Christie takes us on her transformative journey from commuting to New York City in high school to embracing her passion for writing.  Discover how her diverse experiences shaped her storytelling, leading to the creation of her debut novel, "What the Valley Knows." Heather's story is a beautiful testament to following one's true calling, revealing how her roots in Berks County became a wellspring of inspiration. Join us as she shares the pivotal moments that influenced her decision to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and ultimately publish her first book.As we venture into the enchanting world of "LoveNotes," Heather introduces us to this captivating project centered around stories and love.  Picture an annual off-Broadway event where America's best love stories come to life through memoirs and music, now expanding to cities like Chicago and Indianapolis. With an anthology releasing on November 11th, filled with enchanting tales and engaging activities, it promises to be the perfect holiday gift.  Dive into the strategic integration of storytelling across mediums, and learn how crafting a cohesive brand can be the key to a sustainable artistic livelihood, culminating in a special "LoveNotes" reading event in Berks County."Heather Christie's energy and passion for her craft of writing and producing is so evident when you watch this episode.  We were fortunate to have her in the studio to go over all that she's doing with her 2nd upcoming production of LoveNotes as an Off-Broadway show, a brand new book, and in 2025, a weekly LoveNote podcast.  Check out this episode to hear where, when and how she's doing it all!" - Brad Weisman Keller Williams Platinum RealtyBrad Weisman has been a Realtor since 1992 and proudly sponsors this podcast!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.---Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show (formerly known as Real Estate and YOU), where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman!

Selección musical de Clara Vilar, presentadora de Espacios liminales, en Radio3 Extra.Weekend - Timmy Trumpet, Karol Sevilla, FAULHABER, ZORBACha Cha Cha - San Pacho, Bruno FurlanROLLIN UP - BLVZE, JawnsinDay Dreams - Mindchatter, Mona YimThat Feelin' - KR3TURE, Heather Christie, NSEK4U - Matroda, Martin Ikin, Sian-LeeThat Boy - BROHUGSiéntelo - Mefjus, Camo & Krooked, SOTA, CircadianSomething to say - Kidnap, ChelouBread - Sofi TukkerNapalm - Pendulum, Joey Valence & BraeScars - Will Sparks, Darren StylesArtik - Oliver Schories, Thrid SonDeeper Underground - Jamiroquai, Don DiabloNo Promises - NXSTY, Coka Cobra, One True GodPtit vin blanc - Mandragora, DYOR AtelierImagen - MandragoraEscuchar audio

Held within the passing of a partner she was preparing to marry and then later with the birth of her daughter, Ashira tells her story on how grief, motherhood and all in between opened a portal to her highest self, giving her the grit needed to follow all of her dreams-in music, as a therapist and practitioner of healing modalities.Ashira Sōl is a singer, songwriter, and producer who is dedicated to being of service to humanity through music, motherhood, mental health, and subconscious healing modalities. With a soulful voice and heart centered lyrics that dance across vibrant landscapes, she draws listeners in and invites them to move with her. Her music reflects her journey with grief, love, and spiritual awakening and is inspired by a variety of musical genres, including pop, downtempo, deep house, and electronica.She has performed at Lightning in a Bottle, Envision Festival, W1SE Castle, and has sung the national anthem at a San Francisco Giants Game. Her collaborators include DJ Taz Rashid, Momentology, Heather Christie, DTO, Entheo, and Brandyn Burnette. She is also the daughter of R&B artist O'Bryan Burnette who is known for singing the Soul Train theme song. She is currently based in Long Beach, California. “Don't Die With the Music Inside” out 9/6!⁣Connect with Ashira:IG @ashirasolmusic www.ashirasound.com www.goldlighthypnosis.com

Joel, and Jonny welcome ArchaeoPlays, Dr. Heather Christie back to the show for a retrospective conversation about archaeology in Minecraft, an ambitious Egyptian pyramid project, and first impressions of the armadillo.

On this episode Nick sits down with Heather Christie, an independent artist who is also the founder of motherhood-focused record label Möonbabe Records and Mind Body Music, a "holistic music school" with the focus of teaching female artists how to navigate the independent music industry.Heather was a 2016 American Idol contestant and founder of several independent music acts, such as Silk Drop, Honeywild, Sirens of Soul and Feral Fauna, the latter of which earned international recognition and millions of streams with their single "Tincture." Join us for an hour-long discussion on women in the music industry, combining family with a music career, music marketing and PR tips - and much more.

On this episode Nick sits down with Heather Christie, an independent artist who is also the founder of motherhood-focused record label Möonbabe Records and Mind Body Music, a "holistic music school" with the focus of teaching female artists how to navigate the independent music industry.Heather was a 2016 American Idol contestant and founder of several independent music acts, such as Silk Drop, Honeywild, Sirens of Soul and Feral Fauna, the latter of which earned international recognition and millions of streams with their single "Tincture." Join us for an hour-long discussion on women in the music industry, combining family with a music career, music marketing and PR tips - and much more.

Jonny, and Joel are joined by Dr. Heather Christie for an in depth discussion about what it's like to see Minecraft through the eyes of an archeologist, and how a potential archaeology mechanic in Minecraft could change, and challenge, how players think about, and interact with the world.

On a beautiful golf course in Vermont, you'll find the new brewery and taproom of Kraemer & Kin. With a great food menu, including delicious wood oven pizzas, they offer everything you need, whether you're out there golfing or not. Check out this interview to find out how the co-owners' upbringing in Alaska influenced the beers that they make. All Beer Inside is a podcast by and for craft beer lovers. We travel near and far to sample the best brews and meet fellow aficionados. Drink craft, not crap! Please like, share, comment, subscribe and hit that notification bell! Beers tasted:- Honey Ale- Spruce Tip Ale- Red Ale- Black IPA Kraemer & Kin230 Rt.129, Alburgh, Vermont3275 US Rt.2, North Hero, VermontWebsite, Instagram, Facebook All Beer Inside:Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Untappd: @allbeerinside The video portion of this interview can be found here Search for All Beer Inside in all your favorite apps. #CraftBeer #CraftBeerLove #DrinkCraftNotCrap #KraemerAndKin

On a beautiful golf course in Vermont, you'll find the new brewery and taproom of Kraemer & Kin. With a great food menu, including delicious wood oven pizzas, they offer everything you need, whether you're out there golfing or not. Check out this interview to find out how the co-owners' upbringing in Alaska influenced the beers that they make. All Beer Inside is a podcast by and for craft beer lovers. We travel near and far to sample the best brews and meet fellow aficionados. Drink craft, not crap! Please like, share, comment, subscribe and hit that notification bell! Beers tasted: - Honey Ale - Spruce Tip Ale - Red Ale - Black IPA Kraemer & Kin 230 Rt.129, Alburgh, Vermont 3275 US Rt.2, North Hero, Vermont Website, Instagram, Facebook All Beer Inside: Website, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Untappd: @allbeerinside The video portion of this interview can be found here Search for All Beer Inside in all your favorite apps. #CraftBeer #CraftBeerLove #DrinkCraftNotCrap #KraemerAndKin

Many music artists partner with prominent labels because of their wide audience reach and significant impact. But if you want to escape the messy world of the music industry and get your creative self out there, an indie label may be the best fit for you. Bree Noble is joined by Heather Christie of Moonbabe Records, emphasizing why passion always trumps fame. Heather shares how her label builds female-centric communities of fully confident artists with every work they release to the world. She explains why she brings empowerment to moms, breaking the stigma that motherhood hinders achieving success in the music scene.

1963 - Skye and Quinn finally arrive on Hirta to find their home empty and forgotten. 1930 - The islanders are faced with a final decision; for their community to survive, they must leave Hirta for good. Sloane oversees the evacuation with the help of an old friend. Skye contemplates what future waits on the mainland. And Evie writes her final letter.  Featuring: KIRSTY FINDLAY as EVIE MCCORMICK SEBASTIAN LIM-SEET and David Hayman as QUINN WHYTE  DANIELLE FIAMANYA as SKYE SINCLAIR Richard Rankin as sloane Sinclair KATE DICKIE as MS CAMERON LAWRENCE SMITH as ARLO MCCORMICK John Kielty as Carey Whyte Blythe duff as Fiadh McCormick Iain Stannage as Boat Captain Jeff Lamont as Captain of the Hebrides AINSLEY HAMILL as THE VOICE OF HIRTA  SPECIAL thanks to ADAM KAPLAN, TYLER COLLINS, BRIAN JAMES O'SULLIVAN, JOHN MACAULEY, CAROLINE LYELL, ELEANOR GILMOUR, KATIE LUNDIE, TOMMY GA-KEN WAN, LAUREN GILMOUR, FINN ANDERSON, BLAIR ANDERSON, SAM COLL, JEFF LAMONT, HEATHER CHRISTIE, IAIN STANNAGE, STEFAN DEITERS, GRANT ANDERSON, MELANIE BELL AND JOHN GILMOUR for Additional Voices throughout the series. Live musicians: SALLY SIMPSON, MATTHEW HOWELLS, MARISSA WAITE, JOHN KIELTY and Andrew Huggan Atlantic: A Scottish Story was written and created by Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie. Produced by Noisemaker and The Big Light. For more information about the cast, band and creative team, go to: www.thebiglight.com/atlantic

1902 - A steam boat arrives on Hirta with a new kind of cargo for the island; tourists. Fiadh and Ms Cameron come head to head. Sloane misfires on preparations for the wedding. And Evie comes to terms with her choice. 1964 - Quinn takes stock on Harris. The final stop before St Kilda.  Featuring: Kirsty Findlay as Evie Mccormick Sebastian Lim-Seet and David Hayman as Quinn Whyte Blythe Duff as Fiadh McCormick Richard Rankin as Sloane Sinclair Kate Dickie as Ms Cameron Lawrence Smith as Arlo Mccormick Tommy Ga-Ken Wan as Sandy Duncan Brian James O'Sullivan as Tour Guide Finn Anderson as Minister of Glenorchy Iain Stannage as Boat Captain Danielle Fiamanya as Skye Sinclair Ainsley Hamill as The Voice of Hirta Also featuring Janice Forsyth, Fiona White, Cameron Angus Mackay, Brian McAlpine, John Gilmour, Grant Anderson, Blair Anderson, Eleanor Gilmour, Sam Coll, Iain Stannage, Jeff Lamont and Heather Christie as The Tourists. Live Musicians: Sally Simpson, Matthew Howells, Marissa Waite and John Kielty Atlantic: A Scottish Story was written and created by Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie. Produced by Noisemaker and The Big Light. For more information about the cast, band and creative team, go to: www.thebiglight.com/atlantic

Heather Christie & Gregory J. Gordon discuss "music-preneurship", remixing songs for more reach, the negative effects of American Idol, and the Hero's Journey in music. Heather shares her range of artistic experiences in dancing, acting, producing, and performing, as well as her transition from musical theatre to singing and songwriting. Heather talks about her influences from Latin American culture, her travels to Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala, and writing songs in Spanish. She then reflects on her experience on American Idol, and how that sparked her to learn music business and take control of her own career. Heather talks about practicing, performing and producing music with her husband and partner, multi-instrumentalist Vir McCoy and using the stems of many differents world instruments from many of his recordings to create new and exciting dance music geared towards the ecstatic dance community. Opening and closing music is Space Between, by Heather Christie. Book a Mentorship session with Heather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Jamie-Lynn Warber from Wisconsin in the USA. Jamie is an Inspirational Speaker, International Best-Selling author, Public Speaker, Empowerment Coach, mother of 2 and of CEO of Arise Empowered LLC. Having endured sexual assault as a child by 5 family members, JamieLynn spent ten+ years working on personal development and leadership training, transforming her life from survivor to Thriver. Out of her transformation she founded Arise Empowered LLC, whose mission of empowering lives, one voice at a time, offers products, courses, and empowerment coaching around sexual assault. A trained public speaker, Jamie-Lynn delivered a talk on thriving after sexual abuse at DEBx Tempe. She hosts the Breakthrough & Thrive Summit. Through her own healing and discovering her voice, JamieLynn saw that she was making a difference for others and has chosen to lead others in finding their path to healing. A seeker and mystic, JamieLynn also provides energy healings. Contact: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamie.warber Arise Empowered LLC: https://arise-empowered.teachable.com/ To book JamieLynn for speaking engagements: Infor@ariseempowered.com Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Jamie-Lynn Warber from Wisconsin in the USA. Jamie is an Inspirational Speaker, International Best-Selling author, Public Speaker, Empowerment Coach, mother of 2 and of CEO of Arise Empowered LLC. Having endured sexual assault as a child by 5 family members, JamieLynn spent ten+ years working on personal development and leadership training, transforming her life from survivor to Thriver. Out of her transformation she founded Arise Empowered LLC, whose mission of empowering lives, one voice at a time, offers products, courses, and empowerment coaching around sexual assault. A trained public speaker, Jamie-Lynn delivered a talk on thriving after sexual abuse at DEBx Tempe. She hosts the Breakthrough & Thrive Summit. Through her own healing and discovering her voice, JamieLynn saw that she was making a difference for others and has chosen to lead others in finding their path to healing. A seeker and mystic, JamieLynn also provides energy healings. Contact: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamie.warber Arise Empowered LLC: https://arise-empowered.teachable.com/ To book JamieLynn for speaking engagements: Infor@ariseempowered.com Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Serena Carli originally from Perth Australia & currently living in Bali, Indonesia Serena is a DFY Marketer, Keto Certified Coach, NLP, TLT & Hypnosis Trainer and amongst her many accomplishments was voted Entrepreneur of the year August 2016. She’s also been in the army reserve for 10 years… Founder at Ultimate Business Detox, Business Owner of Philippine  Outsourcer and Business Owner at Just Simply Health Serina has worked in real estate, management in the hospitality industry, has spent time in the Banking sector, & been a great support of JT Foxx & his wealth building Business Coaching enterprise. She is Managing Director and CEO of Philippine Outsourcer, Co-Founder of Ultimate Business Detox. Serena connects with people all around the world and helps businesses with digital marketing. Serena has spoken globally, conducting business, and moving with some of the world’s most successful people. She has appeared in interviews in various international magazines. Having started her first business at the age of 50 and now a multi business owner, she is well known for her quote, “it’s never too late to start something new” & “never let fear get in the way of your goals,”  Serena’s message – “Internet marketing for small local business can seem like the complete “unknown”! A dark, scary, and uncharted path that is best avoided. The TRUTH is far from that vision. There has never been a better time to take advantage of the amazing opportunities that await you on the Internet for local business owners. The easy thing for anyone to explain Internet marketing to a business owner would be to just “blind you with science” and confuse you even more. That is not what enLocal is about. At enLocal we strongly believe that our job as experts and professionals in this area is to help, educate and most importantly get new and valued business through your door. The economic climate has not been good, and we all know this. However, why wait for your competition to get ahead of you? The tide is slowly turning and at enLocal we are proving to local business the opportunity that lies in the World of the Internet. Many of our clients are experiencing incredible results and getting new and valued customers each day of the week.” Contact Serena: http://www.productsbyinternet.com/ http://www.philippineoutsourcer.com/ http://www.ultimatebusinessdetox.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/serena.carli Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Gloria Grace Rand From Oviedo, Florida – U.S.A.  Gloria is known as ‘The Insightful Copywriter’ at Gloria Grace Rand, Certified Health Coach with Optavia at Be Fit Get Healthy and Inspirational Speaker, Author and Coach at Live Love Engage with Gloria Grace Rand.  She studied Copywriting at AWAI – American Writers & Artists Institute – Continuing ED, and is the owner of Web to Wealth Marketing and the only SEO Copywriter for service-based businesses who guarantees to capture your unique voice and translate it into copy that attracts, engages, and converts web visitors into qualified leads for your business.  Studied TV/Radio/Film at Wayne State University BA in Mass Communications School year 1984 Former Producer at Florida's News Channel 1998 – 1999 Tallahassee, Florida Former Stocks Producer / Writer at WPBT2 South Florida PBS 1987 – 1998 Miami, Florida Nightly Business Report Gloria is also the host of 'Live. Love. Engage.' podcast which provides entrepreneurs with practical advice from a spiritual perspective on how you can live fully, love deeply, and engage authentically.  She is the author of the book, “Live. Love. Engage. - How to Stop Doubting Yourself and Start Being Yourself”  Also Contributing Author of the best-selling books, “Unscripted: How Entrepreneurs Leap and Find Success” and “Connect: 100+ Mind-Blowing Strategies to Use Social Media and Drive Business Growth.”   Contact Gloria here - Website: www.gloriarand.com Facebook: @gloriagracerand LinkedIn: n/gloriagracerand YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/y8f2kyph Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveloveengagewithgloriagrace/ Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Patricia Maddalena from the Wye Valley, Wales the United Kingdom ‘Queen of Happiness Hacking’ at Patricia Maddalena Living Free Patricia Maddalena is a Mum, an NLP Master, Trainer, Integration Therapist,and Soul Retriever. Her book ‘The Happiness Hacker Reveals’ became an Amazon #1 Best Seller in the USA and the UK.  Patricia was a leading expert on the international online platform Transformation TV where she broadcast a live weekly show reaching thousands of people worldwide and now a teacher on IAMUSM (pronounced I am awesome).  Founder of two successful businesses, a kids yoga and mindfulness teacher training and an online self-development business dedicated to releasing old trauma and clearing emotional wounds from individuals and the collective consciousness.   Creator of the Quantum Quest where she tracks up and down timelines locating and reintegrating the fragmented parts of the soul that is lost, confused and playing out old coping strategies and control dramas that keep people stuck and unable to move forward in their life.  Patricia has worked on a global scale for the last 10 years and is dedicated to helping with The Great Awakening that is currently happening on the planet right now.  She believes it starts with each and every one of us and by bringing the lost parts of your soul back to wholeness we can empower, awaken, and raise the consciousness both collectively and personally. Patricia lives with her partner and 3 children in the UK and loves rainy days, tea, and cake. Contact: Website: http://www.mum.uk.net/ Website: http://www.Livingfree.eu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patricia.maddalena Twitter: livingfree.eu Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/happiness-hacking-with-patricia-maddalena/ id1441969248 Instagram: @the_happiness_hacker Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Gurleen Khokhar from Chandigarh, India Gurleen holds a master’s in psychology from Punjab University and works as a psychologist in the Indian Suicide Prevention Squad, She is a Published Author, Public Speaker, a Passionate advocate of women’s rights, is part of a Jury panel at Womennovator, as well as being a Fashion Model in the past with the house of Zameen Asmaan, She is also a Bollywood a celebrity! Gurleen is passionate about providing employment by connecting people to each other through networking opportunities and has a very successful talk show ‘Deep Talks’ where she interviews people worldwide Proud daughter of daughter of wing commander Bikram Dev Singh & loves to share that her sister, Jasleen Khokhar is a gold medallist in women studies. Also, that her mother Amrit Kaur master’s in literature form Punjab University. Contact: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GurleenPsychologist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sochkiudanseshkenaam/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gurpsychologist/?hl=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gurleenkhokharinspirer/ LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/gurleen-khokhar-77499618 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc8JYEM-qt4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/counsellorgurle?lang=en Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Dr Julie DuCharme from California, United States. Julie is a Motivational Speaker, Author, Coach, Entrepreneur, Executive Consultant Bestselling author with her newest book, ‘Authentically You’: Empower Your Way to Success Which is an honest book providing a roadmap for embracing your true self and living a more authentic life.  She is regularly called on by national media to share her advice and opinions on topics from women in leadership, businesses, and more. Whether it’s in Inc Magazine, Journals, Universities or on the television, you will find Dr Julie. Julie is a dynamic speaker who empowers her audience. In addition to bringing her expertise and enthusiasm, Dr Julie transforms leadership, strengthens businesses, and inspires and motivates women to thrive professionally. As a Coach, Dr Julie will guide you if you have a great business idea but no clue how to move it from idea, to business, to making money and will help you move your idea to a successful business that actually makes money. Contact: Website: http://drjulieducharme.com/ aceBook: https://www.facebook.com/julie.taylorducharme YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/juliemducharme/videos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julietaylorducharme/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-julie-ducharme-2bb0a213/ Website: http://synergylearninginstitute.org/ Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Patricia-Jo Grover from Maine in the U.S.A. Patti is known as the ‘Goal Achievement Strategist’. She studied Business Management Techniques at the University of Maine and is a Published Author, Public Speaker, Consultant, Coach, Conquering Skills Educator, Mentor and also has her own podcast, ‘The Patti Jo Grover Show’.  Following the process, she has laid out in her book, Patti guarantees that a person will be prepared to weave dreams, create S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals, and navigate through the process of achieving them with curiosity, courage, and consistency.  Patti does this by helping people see outside of their own box of limiting beliefs so that that they can live in their new reality of achieved goals and dreams.  The book assists people in the process of getting an understanding of what is needed to achieve their dreams and goals, helps them to identify the barriers that they may face, and helps them to move past those barriers.  Along with her book, Patti has other products and services available in her platform to also aid in the process of Dream Weaving through Achieving… 3 C process of Consulting, Coaching, Conquering Skills Education, Individual Mentoring, Webinars, Courses, and a Peer-to-Peer Mentoring / Accountability Program which makes her process unique.   CONTACT DETAILS Website: https://patriciajogrover.com/ YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/y2m5yl8d Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patti.grover Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattiJoGrover Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pattijogrover/ Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Peter Symons from Perth, Western Australia Peter is the co-author of the book Brain-Fuel Depletion: Making Sense of Anxiety and Depression. Brain-Fuel Depletion [BFD] is a simple explanation about how and why the condition currently called ‘depression’ occurs. He is the Director of the Positive Workplace Foundation, is a Public Speaker, Trainer and is known for his Strategic Planning expertise & Leadership Peter is a veterinarian, author and winner of Momentum Women’s Forum’s 2008 Most Inspiring Man for speaking about Brain-Fuel Depletion; a model that, finally, makes sense of ‘depression’. Amongst his achievements he has completed the Rottnest Channel swim (18km) in 1992. Has a Record duo swim of the English Channel (33km) in Aug 2005 & Climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, in 2006 Contact: FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/peter.symons.988 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-symons-60202924/ Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest John Boggs from Los Angeles, U.S.A.   John is known as “The Action Man” and has turned a business that was a “4-time” failing start-up into a thriving company with over $60 million dollars in annual revenue.  He is passionate about helping businesses develop strategies for lasting success and thousands of business professionals have benefited from his training and motivation.  In 2010, he branched out starting his own coaching, consulting business called Maximum Sales Power, traveling and speaking on leadership, business organization and success, appearing on stage with many of the top leaders in the personal development industry, such as, Bob Proctor, Les Brown, Mary Morrissey and Paul Martinelli. John has spent 22 years in the resort hotel industry and again, he is a Nationally recognized executive. He was responsible for developing and leading a successful business with 1000’s of employees, producing 60 million dollars annually. Thousands of business professionals have benefited from his training and motivation. (Including me). And has personally coached and consulted for executives with Johnson & Johnson, Toyota Motors, Pfizer, The Marriott Corporation, Citi Group, Century 21 and the World Bank. His executive clients have enjoyed greater clarity, increased revenues and tangible strategies that empower more effective leadership. John’s executive clients have enjoyed greater clarity, increased revenues and tangible strategies that empower more effective leadership and as a national and international award-winning executive, he founded the Business & Leadership Division of the Brave Thinking Institute where he also serves as the CEO. CONTACT DETAILS Personal Website http://www.johnboggs.com Maximum Sales Power http://www.maximumsalespower.com Life Mastery Institute http://www.lifemasteryinstitute.com Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Jonathan Symmonds, originally from Durban, South Africa & Zimbabwe & currently on set for a Netflix Film in Mauritius, Indian Ocean. (NETFLIX America's - "Untitled Alicia Keys, A NETFLIX Original feature film)  Jono was previously the lead Animator on the HBO blockbuster series Game of Thrones at PIXOMONDO in Germany for 5 years working on season 5,6,7 and 8. Nominated 3 times for a VES award for the work on the Game of Thrones. He is widely recognized as the "Father of Dragons" after completing work on the Game of Thrones & has since created his own dragon, "Atourian." Jono has his own VFX company and online academy by the name of Sophoria VFX. He has completed a TED talk about his life. To date he has taught over 3000 students in the art of animation!  Jono is an incredible Creative and here are some of his amazing achievements: Lead animator on the “Game of Thrones” in Frankfurt in Germany ~ “The Nutcracker.” ~ 3rd series of “Primeval” ~ as James Cameron’s “AVATAR” ~ “Where the Wild things Are” directed by Spike Jones ~ pre-visualization on “Prince of Persia,” “Your Highness,” and “Nanny Mcphee.” ~ lead on a film called “Trollhunter,” in Norway ~ worked at a company called Qvisten Animation and worked on a film called “Knerten 2,” ~ “Ark Survival Evolved” ~ “Carnival Row” ~ “Iron Sky – the coming Race” ~ “Dark Tide” ~ “Twigson Ties the Knot” ~ “ARK: Survival Evolved” ~ “Siren” (TV Series) ~  Contact: Website: http://www.soph-oria.com/ Website: www.sophoria.acdemy. Website: https://jonathansymmonds.com/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/GOTanimator/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathansymmonds Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jono_zim Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/jonathansymmonds YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBS7BROldk&feature=youtu.be Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBS7BROldk&feature=youtu.be Behance: https://www.behance.net/JonathanSymmonds Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Donald Vasicek from Colorado, the USA  Donald is the founder and owner of Olympus Films+, LLC, a global writing, filmmaking and consulting company, in business since 1993, and studied producing, directing and line producing at the Hollywood Film Institute and at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute.  He studied screenwriting at The Complete Screenplay, Inc., with Sally Merlin, (”White Squall”, “Short Circuit”), as his mentor. Don has acted in 20th Century Fox’s “Die Hard with a Vengeance”, NBC’s Mystery of “Flight 1501″, ABC’s “Father Dowling”, and Angel Street Films LLC’s “Running Horses.” These activities have resulted in Don’s involvement in over 100 movies during the past 25 years, from major studios to independent films. His documentary film, “The Sand Creek Massacre” won best film at three film festivals.   It was awarded the prestigious ‘Golden Drover Award’ and has been archived in over 300 libraries in the United States, and was recently catalogued into Smithsonian Institute Libraries in the Films Media Group, the largest educational video distributor in the world, is now distributing the film. Don has also written, directed and produced “Faces”, “Oh, The Places You Can Do….”, acted as a writer consultant for MGM’s “Warriors of Virtue”, American Pictures ”The Lost Heart” and “Born to Kill”, story credit for Incline Productions Inc.’s “Born to Win”, Executive Producer for Pamela Cuming’s film, “The Road Home,” Associate Producer for Angel Street Films LLC's award-winning short film, "The Rose Garden," and actor in Angel Street Films LLC’s “Running Horses.” He also has written, ghostwritten and published over 500 books, short stories and articles, including his first novel, “The Real Ghost”, which won the Waldorf Best Book Award. It was published by Waldorf Publishing and released on October 15, 2020. His novel, “The Eyes of Death”, has been published on Amazon.   Contact: Website: http://www.donvasicek.com –  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheZenofWriting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dlvasicek/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/donaldlvasicek Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donaldvasicek/ Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan Kathleen interviews Special Guest Lou DiMaggio from Los Angeles, California - U.S.A.  Lou is a celebrity actor, stand-up comedian, and writer.  He began his career as a stand-up comic in New York and has performed in nightclubs, television, film, and commercials and is best known for his work on Seinfeld, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, NCIS & many more. From 1985 to 1989 Lou DiMaggio was a regular at the iconic "Catch a Rising Star" comedy club in New York City. For four years Lou worked alongside of and made lasting friendships with a small group of comedians who are today some of the absolute best in the business: Larry David, Colin Quinn, Suzie Essman, Joy Behar, Jeff Garlin and Chris Rock After moving to Los Angeles in 1989 to pursue acting, Lou, in a mysterious act of career and self-sabotage, stopped doing stand-up comedy forever & you can find out why in his documentary “Where have you gone Lou DiMaggio?” Some Awards & Movies he has received & played in are: Vegas Vacation (1997) and The Rich Man's Wife (1996).  And his incredible documentary ‘Where have you gone, Lou Di Maggio?’ Nominations: Daytime Creative Arts Emmy award for Outstanding Writing Special Class (Won for Win Ben Stein’s Money – Comedy Central Emmy Win for his work on Win Ben Stein's Money Best appearance being the recurring role I did in Season 3 of Curb Your Enthusiasm Known For: 2 Broke Girls - Detective James Where the Bears Are - Toby Marsden NCIS - Nestor Carbone CONTACT DETAILS Instagram: @loudimaggio Twitter: @loudimaggio Apple TV: https://tinyurl.com/y52xt47p Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/prime-video/actor/Lou-DiMaggio/nm0227155/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lou.dimaggio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lou-dimaggio-2127948/  Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more. The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

As the Black Lives Matter movement spread across America earlier this summer, many Asian Americans began to reflect on their personal history of struggling for racial equality.  In particular, one civil rights group has pushed for attitude change among Asians to reach across the racial divide and join African Americans and other communities of color in the fight for social justice. In Season 5 True Colors: Episode 6, Jenny Chiang and Dr. Mabel Lam of the Asian American Commission (AAC) in the state of Massachusetts share their personal story of growing up with and without Black friends, and their own reckoning with the urgent need to come together for the greater good. Listen to our conversation here. Music used: One in a Billion Theme Song by Brad McCarthy The Way I Feel by Derek Clegg Break Through by Pictures of the Floating World Rain by Unheard Music Concepts Chill Out Theme by Komiku Above the Clouds by Bio Unit The Army’s March by MMFFF Silver on the Outside by Heather Christie and Vir McCoy That’s Exciting by Pictures of the Floating World Dr. Mabel Lam is a psychologist in Cambridge, MA and a commissioner of the AAC.  Jenny Chiang is the Executive Director of the AAC.  True Colors – a Season 5 Special Series – is about the color of one’s character in a time of crisis. In this 10-part podcast series, we have expanded our focus beyond Asians to include the African American experiences in Episode #1, Episode #3 and Episode #5. We want to include you in this conversation. To send us your comments or stories, email us @ info@oneinabillionvoices.org Or go to our Facebook page or our website at OneinABillionVoices.org under “Pitch a Story.” Share your thoughts? Pitch us a story? “One in a Billion” connects Asians and Americans through storytelling, one person at a time. Subscribe to “One in a Billion” below: PRx | iTunes | SoundCloud | RadioPublic 

This week on Awaken Your Mind MagicSusan Kathleen interviews Special Guests: Heather & Louise Reiss-James from New Zealand & Australia.They are Metaphysicians, Healers, Teachers, Trance Channel communicator, Public Speakers, Authors and Modern-Day Shamans. Their teachings are provided exclusively through It Is Cosmic, a school of disciplines and personal guidance designed to help people develop inner power and perception. They are married and work together by following the guidance and teachings received from the Ascended Masters, over the last decade. Heather & Louise share the techniques and tools given to them by the Higher Energies, which have been used in their own lives and have seen the changes and are the living testimonial that ‘doing the action with trust’ worksContact Heather & Louisehttps://www.facebook.com/itiscosmic https://twitter.com/itiscosmic/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-woRk8cFvYlBqh7e_0u8w www.itiscosmic.comJoin Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more.The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Today's Special Guest is Rocky Krogfoss from Canada who for over 25 years, has been helping primarily women heal chronic pain and mental health challenges. The modality he uses is called Quantum Emotional Healing and it is a hybrid of Quantum Sciences and Core Belief programming, that treats the root cause in the subconscious mind, not the conscious mind or the brain.By helping women reconnect to a deeper state of self love, he helps them shift their cellular frequency.The science behind conscious energy has given us a clear understanding of how pain is created in the body, and how mental health issues are also created in the body.If you can create mental health and pain issues… Then you can heal them as well.Rocky welcomes all inquiries regarding chronic pain, depression, anxiety and any other issue that is causing someone pain or trauma.He offers a free one hour introductory healing session where you will discover the root cause of your pain or trauma.Contact Rocky:www.migraine1mastery.comYou can book your free healing session online on his website.Email: stressfreeme99@gmail.comHe offers these healing sessions online anywhere in the world.Rocky Krogfoss, PresidentNew Beginnings TherapyQuantum Emotional HealingJoin Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out moreThe theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Susan's guest speaker today is April Mahoney... host of On the Edge with April Mahoney www.blogtalkradio.com/aprilmahoney.April is Poet, Author, Producer, talk show host, radio personality, community activist amongst many other things that they will talk about here during Awaken Your Mind Magic…Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out moreThe theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Today's guest is Loot Bryon-Smith who creates Self-Empowerment Music. He is one of the most inspiring and creative musicians, songwriters and poets around.He has this ability to make a person feel empowered, liberated and positive after listening to his compilations.Loot is a certified life coach, motivational speaker and mindset empowerment music artist.Check out Loot's Videos at contact you.https://www.youtube.com/c/LootBryonSmith?fbclid=IwAR0rEeobUASjhBYPSdPNVo1IrUNV1fMYm2mKbTKFW0cR6jiNR9pEJeQDiIEJoin Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out more.The theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Your mind is limitless, the possibilities are endless.Awaken Your Mind Magic shows you how you can dream limitlessly and live your life on a new level.Susan Kathleen, speaks with ordinary people who are living extra ordinary lives using the power of their mind. Abundance, prosperity, and success. There are no limits to what you can dream.Join Susan Kathleen on a journey into your dreams, making a difference, and living life on your own terms. This is Awaken Your Mind Magic. Visit www.awakenyourmindmagic.com to find out moreSpecial Guest Speaker Sherine Lovegrove Bio:Sherine Lovegrove: is an author, feminine coach and cryptofemmepreneur and resides in the U.K.Her passion is inspiring sensitive empathic professional women and entrepreneurs to step into Sovereignty and take back control, realign with their Destiny Blueprint and create an abundant lifestyle which is Healthier, Wealthier, Happier and Fun.With many years in therapeutic practise and having a masters in cognitive neuroscience Sherine truly understands how a capable, stong women can fail to reach her potential because she is trapped in her old story. And moreover, that women require a different orientation system from men, to help them go forward and self-actualise.Feminine research suggests that when women co-create from a place of immense power they are unstopable. Therefore by consciously activating our innate potentials we can use the energy, freed-up to catalyse us towards our Destiny.Sherine coaches women through her Online Signature 90-Day Live Sovereignty programme. Here she provides a framework that supports women to undergo the deep inner work needed so that she can reconnect to her source, remove limiting beliefs and re-install new paradigms that are aligned with her Purpose.Her latest book, “Hiding in Pain Sight No More”, is an autobiography of her journey from separation back into wholeness. It highlights the impact of how childhood emotional and physical abuse can have real impact on adult wellbeing and success.If you would like to contact her you can reach her on on of these links:https://www.sherinelovegrove.comhtpps://www.facebook.com/SherineLovegroveUK/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherinelovegrove/https://twitter.com/WalkSovereigntyhttps://www.instagram.com/sherine_lovegroveThe theme song is by Heather Christie & Vir McCoy and is Called Silver on the Outside. Download the album here - https://heathercsongs.bandcamp.com/album/stars-that-fall

Heather Christie (Indie Neo-Soul, R&B, Pop Singer, Songwriter) - Website: HeatherCSongs.com

Contact info Heather Christie President Evolve Global (239) 220-5900 (Business) heather@heatherchristie.com http://www.HeatherChristie.com  Bio: Heather ditched the cold weather in Chicago along with a very lucrative legal career as former Partner of a 100 attorney law firm specializing in Legislative and Regulatory Law. That is a fancy way of saying that she was a Lobbyist. Heather is a student of success. She took her learnings from some of the most influential people in the world during her legal career and in 2005, founded her Business and Executive Coaching Firm in Southwest Florida where the sun always shines. Heather’s clients will travel from around the world to come to Southwest Florida – whether it be a Strategic Executive Retreat or a personalized Executive Coaching Alignment Session. Heather is dedicated to developing leaders. She brings a new approach to Coaching and Training by combining her legal, lobbying, business and leadership coaching background to help Executives and Emerging Leaders improve corporate and personal performance. For several years, Heather owned a coaching franchise with the number one ranked business coaching company in the world. Heather was consistently in the Top 20 coaches in the world over the years, at the height of her career ranking #1 female coach and #2 overall in the world. Heather is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and serves on the Board of Directors for the Florida Speakers Association South Florida Chapter. Heather has been married to her husband, Paul for over 10 years. When she is not speaking, coaching or facilitating corporate retreats, you will find her on the tennis courts practicing her game and her patience. Heather ran her first (and last) marathon in Athens, Greece in 2010 where she and Paul retraced the steps of the original marathon route from Marathon to Athens on the 2,500th anniversary of the original marathon. Heather and Paul are affectionately known as DINKS (Dual Income No Kids), but they are breaking the DINK rules by hosting foreign exchange students from around the world.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good Adventures, This week, author Heather Christie chats about her multi award winning novel What the Valley Knows. It's a gut wrenching must read. Heather's multi award winning book, What the Valley Knows Heather's Website: http://heatherchristiebooks.com/ Comment over on our YouTube channel.  Find out why a monkey was wearing June's bra. Get a free prequel to my June Nash MisAdventure series here.  For more about me and my books everywhere else, click here. Go read a good book. Melissa

Your time is your most valuable asset! In our fourth and final podcast we will share our Four Results Principles to help you get the most out of your time each and every day.The Four Results Principles:PlanningAccountabilityReflectionCelebrationIn this podcast we will share practical tips that you can implement in your world immediately.Of course, the application of these principles will require discipline. Discipline is the ability to do what needs to be done even when you don’t feel like doing it. The results of your discipline are worth it.Bonus Share: What is the 80/20 reading rule?When you read, watch or listen to anything designed to help you grow, use my 80/20 rule. Invest 80 percent of your time reading, watching or listening and take notes and then take 20 percent of your time to review and reflect on the action steps that you want to take. Knowledge alone is not power - application is power!What actions are you committed to taking after listening to this podcast series? How will you change? Please share with us - what are your biggest takeaways?These podcasts were designed to help you create more results, that’s why we called it “Power Planning”. But Power Planning is a means to an end. Results aren’t the ultimate end, our hope is that you are able to create more results, have more fun, and make more meaning in your life.Leave a comment at www.HeatherChristie.com or www.MarkSanborn.com.

Your time is your most valuable asset! In our fourth and final podcast we will share our Four Results Principles to help you get the most out of your time each and every day.The Four Results Principles:PlanningAccountabilityReflectionCelebrationIn this podcast we will share practical tips that you can implement in your world immediately.Of course, the application of these principles will require discipline. Discipline is the ability to do what needs to be done even when you don’t feel like doing it. The results of your discipline are worth it.Bonus Share: What is the 80/20 reading rule?When you read, watch or listen to anything designed to help you grow, use my 80/20 rule. Invest 80 percent of your time reading, watching or listening and take notes and then take 20 percent of your time to review and reflect on the action steps that you want to take. Knowledge alone is not power - application is power!What actions are you committed to taking after listening to this podcast series? How will you change? Please share with us - what are your biggest takeaways?These podcasts were designed to help you create more results, that’s why we called it “Power Planning”. But Power Planning is a means to an end. Results aren’t the ultimate end, our hope is that you are able to create more results, have more fun, and make more meaning in your life.Leave a comment at www.HeatherChristie.com or www.MarkSanborn.com.

Your time is your most valuable asset! In our fourth and final podcast we will share our Four Results Principles to help you get the most out of your time each and every day.The Four Results Principles:PlanningAccountabilityReflectionCelebrationIn this podcast we will share practical tips that you can implement in your world immediately.Of course, the application of these principles will require discipline. Discipline is the ability to do what needs to be done even when you don’t feel like doing it. The results of your discipline are worth it.Bonus Share: What is the 80/20 reading rule?When you read, watch or listen to anything designed to help you grow, use my 80/20 rule. Invest 80 percent of your time reading, watching or listening and take notes and then take 20 percent of your time to review and reflect on the action steps that you want to take. Knowledge alone is not power - application is power!What actions are you committed to taking after listening to this podcast series? How will you change? Please share with us - what are your biggest takeaways?These podcasts were designed to help you create more results, that’s why we called it “Power Planning”. But Power Planning is a means to an end. Results aren’t the ultimate end, our hope is that you are able to create more results, have more fun, and make more meaning in your life.Leave a comment at www.HeatherChristie.com or www.MarkSanborn.com.

Your time is your most valuable asset! In our fourth and final podcast we will share our Four Results Principles to help you get the most out of your time each and every day. The Four Results Principles: Planning Accountability Reflection Celebration In this podcast we will share practical tips that you can implement in your world immediately. Of course, the application of these principles will require discipline. Discipline is the ability to do what needs to be done even when you don’t feel like doing it. The results of your discipline are worth it. Bonus Share: What is the 80/20 reading rule? When you read, watch or listen to anything designed to help you grow, use my 80/20 rule. Invest 80 percent of your time reading, watching or listening and take notes and then take 20 percent of your time to review and reflect on the action steps that you want to take. Knowledge alone is not power - application is power! What actions are you committed to taking after listening to this podcast series? How will you change? Please share with us - what are your biggest takeaways? These podcasts were designed to help you create more results, that’s why we called it “Power Planning”. But Power Planning is a means to an end. Results aren’t the ultimate end, our hope is that you are able to create more results, have more fun, and make more meaning in your life. Leave a comment at www.HeatherChristie.com or www.MarkSanborn.com.

What is on your list that you are currently resisting?Your answer is a vital step in the path towards successful Power Planning. Join Mark Sanborn and me in Episode 2 of this four-part Power Planning Podcast Series to create more results, more predictably and more enjoyably.Resistance is the single biggest blocker to achieving your goals. The challenge is that most people are unaware of their resistance. In this podcast, we will help you identify what resistance looks like for you and how to diminish it.Resistance may come not only from you, but from your team when you are expecting them to buy into the changes needed to reach your goals.We’ll show you how to make change a priority for you and your team. Innately, people experience inaction through passive or active resistance. We’ll give you tips to overcome that resistance.You can combat your personal resistance with passion. Passion will ignite in you the willingness to get started.LISTEN TO EPISODE 2 NOW!Meet Your Power Planning Partners:Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service and change. Mark is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame and is recognized as one of the top professional speakers in America.Heather Christie, JD, is President of Evolve Global, a strategic leadership company focused on employee selection, leadership development and team building. Heather is a Master Executive and Leadership Coach, Professional Speaker, and "Recovering Attorney".

What is on your list that you are currently resisting?Your answer is a vital step in the path towards successful Power Planning. Join Mark Sanborn and me in Episode 2 of this four-part Power Planning Podcast Series to create more results, more predictably and more enjoyably.Resistance is the single biggest blocker to achieving your goals. The challenge is that most people are unaware of their resistance. In this podcast, we will help you identify what resistance looks like for you and how to diminish it.Resistance may come not only from you, but from your team when you are expecting them to buy into the changes needed to reach your goals.We’ll show you how to make change a priority for you and your team. Innately, people experience inaction through passive or active resistance. We’ll give you tips to overcome that resistance.You can combat your personal resistance with passion. Passion will ignite in you the willingness to get started.LISTEN TO EPISODE 2 NOW!Meet Your Power Planning Partners:Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service and change. Mark is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame and is recognized as one of the top professional speakers in America.Heather Christie, JD, is President of Evolve Global, a strategic leadership company focused on employee selection, leadership development and team building. Heather is a Master Executive and Leadership Coach, Professional Speaker, and "Recovering Attorney".

What is on your list that you are currently resisting?Your answer is a vital step in the path towards successful Power Planning. Join Mark Sanborn and me in Episode 2 of this four-part Power Planning Podcast Series to create more results, more predictably and more enjoyably.Resistance is the single biggest blocker to achieving your goals. The challenge is that most people are unaware of their resistance. In this podcast, we will help you identify what resistance looks like for you and how to diminish it.Resistance may come not only from you, but from your team when you are expecting them to buy into the changes needed to reach your goals.We’ll show you how to make change a priority for you and your team. Innately, people experience inaction through passive or active resistance. We’ll give you tips to overcome that resistance.You can combat your personal resistance with passion. Passion will ignite in you the willingness to get started.LISTEN TO EPISODE 2 NOW!Meet Your Power Planning Partners:Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service and change. Mark is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame and is recognized as one of the top professional speakers in America.Heather Christie, JD, is President of Evolve Global, a strategic leadership company focused on employee selection, leadership development and team building. Heather is a Master Executive and Leadership Coach, Professional Speaker, and "Recovering Attorney".

What is on your list that you are currently resisting? Your answer is a vital step in the path towards successful Power Planning. Join Mark Sanborn and me in Episode 2 of this four-part Power Planning Podcast Series to create more results, more predictably and more enjoyably. Resistance is the single biggest blocker to achieving your goals. The challenge is that most people are unaware of their resistance. In this podcast, we will help you identify what resistance looks like for you and how to diminish it. Resistance may come not only from you, but from your team when you are expecting them to buy into the changes needed to reach your goals. We’ll show you how to make change a priority for you and your team. Innately, people experience inaction through passive or active resistance. We’ll give you tips to overcome that resistance. You can combat your personal resistance with passion. Passion will ignite in you the willingness to get started. LISTEN TO EPISODE 2 NOW! Meet Your Power Planning Partners: Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE, is president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea studio dedicated to developing leaders in business and in life. Mark is an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service and change. Mark is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame and is recognized as one of the top professional speakers in America. Heather Christie, JD, is President of Evolve Global, a strategic leadership company focused on employee selection, leadership development and team building. Heather is a Master Executive and Leadership Coach, Professional Speaker, and "Recovering Attorney".