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Sponsored by Harford County LivingIn this episode of Conversations with Rich Bennett, Rich sits down with Heidi Johnson, a former kindergarten teacher turned children's book author and illustrator. Heidi shares her journey from teaching young minds to creating her debut children's book, Come to Me: A Journey to Jesus. Drawing inspiration from her love of art, faith, and storytelling, Heidi discusses how she combined her skills to craft a heartfelt Christmas story that resonates with readers of all ages. She opens up about the challenges of self-publishing, the joys of illustrating, and her passion for encouraging imagination in children. Sponsored by Harford County Living, this episode highlights the importance of supporting local talent and fostering creativity in the community.HonoringDesigns - EtsySponsor Message:This episode of Conversations with Rich Bennett is brought to you by Harford County Living—your go-to resource for all things Harford County! From uplifting community news to spotlighting local businesses, events, and podcasts, Harford County Living is dedicated to showcasing the best of our area. Discover how they support local talent, connect neighbors, and inspire a sense of community pride. Visit harfordcountyliving.com to learn more and stay connected to what makes Harford County truly special. Thank you, Harford County Living, for supporting conversations that matter!Send us a textSupport the showFollow the Conversations with Rich Bennett podcast on Social Media:Facebook – Conversations with Rich Bennett & Harford County LivingFacebook Group (Join the conversation) – Conversations with Rich Bennett podcast group | FacebookTwitter – Conversations with Rich Bennett & Harford County LivingInstagram – Harford County LivingTikTok – CWRB (@conversationsrichbennett) | TikTok Sponsors, Affiliates, and ways we pay the bills:Recorded at the Freedom Federal Credit Union StudiosHosted on BuzzsproutRocketbookSquadCast Contests & Giveaways Subscribe by Email ...

Kathy Jourdain and Jerry Nagel cofounded Worldview Intelligence as an antidote to fragmentation and polarization, inspiring hope and courage for the conversations needed now and for the future. Understanding worldview gives people the power to transform – themselves, their relationships, workplace cultures, and outcomes. Kathy co-authored Building Trust and Relationship at the Speed of Change, the first book describing Worldview Intelligence and its efficacy.Her work with clients and stakeholders includes strategic direction and operational planning, innovation, community, and cross-cultural engagement, leading change, and building team coherence.Kathy's memoir, Embracing the Stranger in Me: A Journey to Openheartedness, has been hailed as a deeply authentic sharing of the journey that has shaped who she is today. Kathy lives in Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. Kathy@WorldviewIntelligence.comwww.WorldviewIntelligence.comwww.WorldviewPrograms.comlinkedin.com/in/kathyjourdainContact or Follow Dawna on any one of these channels:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnahjones/Twitter: EPDawna_JonesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/insightful_dawna/Navigating Uncertainty Newsletter: https://dawnajones.substack.com/Medium: @dawnajonesWebsite: dawnajones.com Thanks to Mark Romero Music for the intro track, Alignment.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/insight-to-action-inspirational-insights-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lynette Bradshaw is a bestselling author, speaker, coach, and professional photographer. She is the owner of Restore Her Worth, LLC where she helps moms restore their emotional and financial independence, shift their stories, and evolve into the best version of themselves. Lynette’s coaching services are for women who are ready for their next chapter in life. She is passionate about helping women discover who they are on a journey of ownership and authenticity of self. Her bestselling books are: In Search of Me: A Journey to Self-Love, Self-Worth, and Purpose (available in paperback and workbook); Moments of Gratitude Journal; and The Locked Chamber: Healing the Hearts of God’s Daughters. Lynette also co-authored the bestseller, Soulful Prayers: The Power of Intentional Conversation with God. Lynette is a proud mother of four beautiful children and grandmother of two precious grandchildren. During our conversation, Lynette talks about: How she became a life coach for moms and what led her to serve in the way in which she does The struggle she faced to redefine herself after divorce How she reconnected with herself and reclaimed her identity The first thing she did during her process of redefining herself And more… Where you can find Lynette Bradshaw online: Website: www.RestoreHerWorth.com Facebook: Lynette M. Bradshaw   I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Lynette Bradshaw and are feeling encouraged. Life goes on after divorce. In many cases, it gets better! As you heard with Lynette, she was able to redefine herself, reconnect with her dreams, restore her worth, and is now walking in her purpose. I’ve been there, and I know how difficult divorce and rebuilding your life afterwards can be. The holidays are especially difficult – especially your first holiday after divorce. If you’re going through this right now, I have a special gift to help lift your spirits during this season. I created a 5-step guide that you can download – and it’s totally free! You can get your copy at: http://ericablocker.com/holidayguide. When you download your guide, you’ll join my VIP list and will start to receive inspiration, tips, and other goodies to support you in this season of life. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to leave your comments below the show notes at: ericablocker.com/158. If you’d like to send me a personal note, you can email me at: Erica@momswithdreams.com. I’ll be sure to respond to you. Thanks so much for being a part of my extended family! I appreciate you and am so grateful that you are here with me. Until next time – RECLAIM your dream. Do what YOU love. Make a DIFFERENCE. Take care, Erica  

Kelli O’Brien Watson is a best-selling author, coach, presenter and the owner of Studio 8 Academy, an online holistic wellness center. In addition, she recently, she co-founded Scriptor Publishing Group, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to helping fitness professionals share their stories and publish their books. Kelli holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Education and certifications in Personal Training, TRX and Youth Fitness. She is the author of Kelli’s Quips: Happy Thoughts for Busy People and Finding My Way Back to Me: A Journey of Self-Discovery. She has also co-authored several books, including, most recently, the Amazon best-seller, Author University. She is a Platinum Level Coach for the Todd Durkin Mastermind Group where she provides business and personal development coaching for fitness professionals around the world. She also runs a life coaching program called Finding My Way Back to Me. Kelli is the recipient of the Accent on Excellence Award for her work throughout her community, and she presents, locally and nationally, on topics having to do with health, wellness, mindset and performance. In 2013, she was honored to be a presenter for the first TedXUtica program. Kelli’s life purpose is to create, motivate, support and inspire people to get stronger in their lives, inside and out. She does that with enthusiasm in whatever she pursues. However, she finds her greatest joy in the time spent with her family – Graeme, Marcus, Caitlin, Katie, Cameron and Kira – and their overly exuberant, and completely loveable, dog, Cody. Join Kim and Kelli as they discuss the topic "It's Never Too Late." You can learn more about Kelli's publishing group Scriptor here: https://www.scriptorpublishinggroup.com/

Manny, Owner and Spiritual Director of the Yoga Center of Newburyport, is a certified practitioner of Thai Yoga Bodywork, Reiki I and II and is an Anusara-Inspired™ Yoga teacher. He teaches Asana, Meditation and Yogic philosophy. Author of "The Other Side of Me: A Journey into the Mystical & The Gems Revealed"  An entrepreneur his entire professional life, Manny founded and served as president of three corporations. He was also the founder and vice chairman of the board of the first public Montessori Charter School in Massachusetts. He holds a BS in Pharmacology and an MBA. Manny began his devotional meditation practice in 1995 as a way to balance his life, as a husband, father, & entrepreneur.  He began his study of yoga in 1998. His teaching style blends his study and practice of many spiritual pursuits - including contact and partner yoga, transformational breath-work, A Course in Miracles, and micro-chakra psychology, among many others. This diverse background gives him a keen awareness of the many available paths which lead to self-realization. Features: Ultimate Goal: Access Consciousness Yoga as a System The Optimal Blueprint of the Body The reality of ego: something we have, not something we are Mastery of your Own Life "When you take the worry away, what’s left? Pure Love"

This is Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. Here is the news. The production center for an innovative bus appears deserted with no sign of construction, raising questions about the scheduled launch next year. The bus is a sort of moving tunnel that straddles highway lanes to allow cars to pass beneath. The vehicle looks like a giant double-decker but is hollow on the ground level. Passengers can sit on the top floor while cars pass below. In December, a Beijing-based company signed a contract with the local authorities in Zhoukou city in Henan province to produce the Transit Elevated Bus in its research and manufacturing center. However, the Beijing Youth Daily reports that the site is now full of thick weeds; and farmers feed their sheep in the area. A local farmer surnamed Yuan told journalists that a groundbreaking ceremony was held last month. Yuan said "They built a platform. People who stood on the platform were dressed up. It seemed like it was a big day, but there has been no activity since." A local official said the project has been delayed. The environmental impact assessment of the project has not been approved yet, and many documents are still waiting to be signed. The contract includes an investment of 10 billion yuan, roughly 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, and an annual production of 1,000 buses. This is Special English. An insurance product has become a hot topic around the Qixi, the Chinese Valentine's Day, which fell on August 9th this year. It costs 600 yuan, roughly 90 U.S. dollars, and guarantees a payout of 11,000 yuan if the applicant marries his or her current sweetheart in three to 10 years. The applicants are required to submit non-marital status certificates for both prospective spouses when purchasing the product. If they marry within the specified time frame, they will get 11,000 yuan. A staff member with the China Taiping Insurance said there have been numerous phone calls inquiring about the product, but she declined to say how many policies have been sold. Some people saw the offer as smart marketing. They believe the insurance company set the bracket of years after painstaking calculations. Insurance companies cannot lose on the deal because the majority of sweethearts will break up. Others say it also shows that more than 5 percent of the sweethearts will finally become husband and wife. Relationships in big cities including Shanghai seem most fragile these days. Marriages are not long lasting. Almost 53,000 people divorced in Shanghai in 2014, second only to Beijing. Among them, 41,000 people were below the age of 40. The average age for marriage in Shanghai is 35 for men and 32 for women. In related news, flower prices in China started to recover ahead of the Qixi festival, after overproduction, combined with natural disasters, dampened sales. Last year, as many as 7 million flowers were sold during the festival at the Kunming International Flora Auction Trading Center. Seeing the profit, flower growers nationwide boosted their expectations and supplied most of their flowers ahead of the festival, which resulted in a 30 percent increase in flower production. However, disastrous flooding nationwide and unusually high temperatures since July have cut into demand. Torrential rains have caused massive outbreaks of diseases among flowers, damaging their quality and hurting business. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. A genome project for newborns has been launched in Shanghai to aid the early identification and treatment of hereditary diseases. The project was jointly initiated by the Chinese Board of Genetic Counseling and the Children's Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai. It will carry out genetic testing in 100,000 newborn babies over the coming five years. The findings will be recorded in a database and a genetic testing standard for hereditary diseases will be developed, which will improve the identification and treatment of such conditions. Experts say early identification can help doctors make better treatment strategies and improve the patients' quality of life. In another development, the Chinese Board of Genetic Counseling and Reproductive Hospital, which is affiliated with Shandong University, jointly launched China's embryo genome project. An embryo genome database will improve research and understanding of the development of embryos and improve diagnostic rates. There are some 7,000 kinds of inherited diseases and China sees around 900,000 babies born with birth defects every year. This is Special English. Chinese scientists are working on a new type of aerospace vehicle that will allow passengers to travel in space without any pre-training and at a much lower cost. China Central Television reports that scientists from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation have started to work on the new vehicle integrating different kinds of engine technology. The vehicle will use different air-breathing engines, allowing it to operate as a normal plane in the atmosphere. The plane will take off and land at normal airports, instead of using any kind of special launch pads. The viehcle will be reusable, and greatly reduce the cost of space travel. Scientist from the corporation said they expect to master key technology in around three to five years, and significantly improve the vehicle's capability during the application. The vehicle is expected to be used for suborbital flight and orbital insertion by 2030. The expeditions will be between dozens to hundreds of kilometers from the earth. Compared with the space shuttles and the partially recovered carrier rockets, by integrating different engines, the new vehicle has much more advantages in maintenance and application. In early July, the corporation said several institutes of the corporation were coordinating efforts to study the new vehicle. An engineer of the corporation said that in around 10 years, passengers will not need special training to travel to space on the vehicle. This is Special English. A Chinese firm FiberHome has developed a type of optic fiber that can transmit 400 terabytes of data per second, breaking the world record for the amount of data that can be transferred on optic fibers. Such capacity can allow for simultaneous phone calls by almost 5 billion people and the transmission of 40,000 blue-ray high definition movies in one second. The company is based in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei Province. The transmission of 400 terabytes of data is accomplished on multi-core mono-mode optic fibers, which can be simply understood as breaking down the fiber into multiple paths to enhance transmission capacity. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. You can access the program by logging on to newsplusradio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues. A training course for senior foreign police officers on United Nations peacekeeping missions has started in Beijing. It is the first time China's Ministry of Public Security and the United Nations have cooperated in this endeavor. The course focuses on passing on China's practical experience. The trainees include 17 senior officers from countries including Angola, Kenya and Liberia. Four Chinese peacekeeping police representatives will also attend the course. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced measures to back United Nations peacekeeping missions. Addressing a peacekeeping summit in the UN headquarters last year, President Xi declared that China will help train 2,000 foreign peacekeepers in the next five years. Since 2000, China has dispatched more than 2,400 peacekeepers to nine areas. At present, 170 Chinese police officers are still in Liberia, South Sudan and Cyprus. This is Special English. A new Confucius Classroom has been inaugurated Mexico. During the inauguration ceremony, Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong said Mexican students' fluent Chinese and great performances made her feel the charm of cultural exchange. She also sees the bright future of friendly ties between China and Mexico. Bilateral relations were upgraded to a comprehensive strategic partnership during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Mexico in 2013. Liu said China hopes to work together with Mexico to deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields and bring more benefits to people of the two countries. Next year will mark the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Mexico. Liu said that along with the deepened cooperation between China and Mexico, more and more young people in China are learning Spanish. More than 30 universities teach the Spanish language in China. Meanwhile, she said, the Chinese language is also gaining increasing importance in Latin American countries. Mexico has established five Confucius Institutes that together have 30,000 registered students, making an important contribution to cultural exchange between the two countries. You're listening to Special English. I'm Ryan Price in Beijing. Born in Harbin in northeast China, Maruyama Iwao was just 11 years old when he was repatriated to his native country Japan in 1946. Now 81 years old, Iwao's story has been made into a documentary entitled "Travel with Me: A Journey of Gratitude over 70 Years", which is being screened in China. The documentary tells the story of Iwao's recent bicycle trip, where he retraced the journey he made from Harbin to Huludao in Liaoning Province 70 year ago. He said that along the way, he was touched by the helpfulness of the Chinese people he met, just like in the old days. Tian Yuhong, vice head of China Radio International, which produced the documentary, said they would like the film to make people reflect on history, and enhance Sino-Japanese relations, and call for the respect of peace and life. When the war ended in 1945, more than 35 million Chinese people were killed or injured. During the following three years, more than one million Japanese people were sent back home. Iwao had the idea of retracing his journey in China in 2011 when he was working as a volunteer, following the massive earthquake in Japan. He met another man who planned to travel in China by bike and decided to join him. This is Special English. A survey has begun in the southwestern province of Sichuan to determine if wild giant pandas are at risk from epidemic diseases. Researchers will collect samples of droppings and hair across ten nature reserves in the province. The survey is the first of its kind in the province, and will be completed by the end of October. Sichuan is home to 1,400 wild giant pandas, accounting for 74 percent of China's wild panda population. The samples will be analyzed to identify the pathogens carried by the animals. Wild giant pandas are known to be carriers of pathogens, but a more detailed survey is needed to define the exact condition. This is Special English. （全文见周日微信。）

Opening our hearts to heal can be a painful path and yet, it is the key to the freedom that we all crave. Re-writing our stories and the outcome of our lives are gifts each of hold in our hands. On today’s show, we are talking about: embracing our courage.boundaries.knowing our truth.loving who we become. Guest Kathy Jourdain was born and raised in small town Nova Scotia. She is the author of Embracing the Stranger in Me: A Journey to Openheartedness, a memoir hailed as a deeply authentic sharing of a personal journey that has shaped who is today and as an invitation for others to enter or stay in their own unfolding journey. The book was born after Kathy, at the age of 46, found out she was adopted, at the same time she was in a deep spiritual journey. She is currently co-writing a second book arising out of her work as a global steward and practitioner of the Art of Hosting Conversations That Matter. Her consulting work is done through Shape Shift Strategies Inc. Her websites are: KathyJourdain and ShapeShiftStrategies. CTHRadio unites healing specialist with childhood trauma survivors. Your host, Susan Jacobi, a thriver after childhood abuse, knows healing is in replacing the trauma mindset. Her book, How to Love Yourself: The Hope after Child Abuse is available atamazon. Pick up her FREE ebook, 11 Tools for Happiness atconversationsthatheal. You can reach Susan directly at susan@conversationsthatheal.com.