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The Resilience Podcast is brought to you by the Resilience Institute. Discover how we measure and build resilience skills within organizations at https://resiliencei.com. This episode is hosted by Brad Hook. What are the traits that "successful survivals" share? How can we use our pain to succeed? Is love something that can be learned and practised? The power of love to heal. How can we find our best selves? Noticing the awesome in us that already exists. The importance of our purpose and the ways to find it. Rhonda Sciortino, author of Succeed Because Of What You've Been Through (featured on The Today Show), as well as 14 other books, used the survival skills from an abusive childhood to create personal and professional success. She built two successful businesses, then turned her attention to helping others to find their purpose and live their authentic success. Rhonda hosts the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW podcast, she is the founder of the Successful Survivors Foundation, and she is the national champion of the Love Is Action Community Initiative. Connect with Rhonda Website | www.rhonda.org
Rhonda and I continue the conversation about the abuse and lack of love in her childhood. She overcame the inner vows and woundings of her heart to be a powerful advocate. She went from misery to so much joy and laughter that her jaw hurts at night! ;-) When people look at her and see she's still standing after everything she's been through, they think there's hope for them too.GOLD NUGGETS:The antidote for depression, despair, suicidal ideation, substance abuse disorder, and PTSD is real, authentic genuine love in our lives.Life circumstances that diminish love in our lives wound us deeply because they hit our soul, our worth.Staying “safe” in the smallness: Don't take up too much space, don't breathe too much air, don't eat too much, keep your head down - all LIES of the enemy!Bad relationships harm us and good, healthy relationships heal us.The “innocence” of how kids get trafficked.Our young people are our best hope for the future.Happiness is not about chasing stuff!Whatever path you've walked, you're now qualified to help the people coming from where you used to be.Own whatever hard thing you've been through so you can help others. Don't bury it. Don't live under the victim label.When we can get to the point where we can thank the people who have hurt us, we've taken our power back.LINKS:- More on Rhonda can be found at www.rhonda.org.- Her book: 30 Days To Love available now!- If you've survived hard things, this is for you Successful Survivors Foundation- If you want to change the world, start here Love Is Action Community InitiativeTake our FREE Business Assessment:SpiritCenteredBusiness.com- Join the Activation Ekklesia for Business: http://SpiritCenteredBusiness.com/activation-Spiritual Business Coaching: https://SpiritCenteredBusiness.com/coaching- Join the SCB Tribe: http://facebook.com/groups/scbtribeBe sure to answer the membership questions so we know you're legit! ;-)Copyright 2023 - Bralynn Newby Int'l. All rights reserved.
My new friend, Rhonda Sciortino tells the story of going after her dream with reckless abandon – quitting her job and selling all her possessions to follow her heart.Rhonda Sciortino, author of Succeed Because Of What You've Been Through (featured on The Today Show), as well as 14 other books, used the survival skills from an abusive childhood to create personal and professional success. She built two successful businesses, then turned her attention to helping others to find their purpose and live their authentic success. Rhonda hosts the FIND YOUR PURPOSE NOW podcast, she is the founder of the Successful Survivors Foundation, and she is the national champion of the Love Is Action Community Initiative.GOLD NUGGETS:From homeless, hungry and abused at 8 to the number one telemarketer in the United States for Farmers Insurance at 15.Finding her life's purpose at the intersection of what she knew how to do and what she cared deeply aboutStarted her own insurance agency specifically to protect and defend the organizations that care for abused childrenTrained childcare workers all over the United States on how to prevent tragedyNot wanting to trade on pityGotta be God journey of how her first book came aboutPray, listen & act on the prompting from Holy Spirit – and repeatHitchhiking to catechism class for a year so she could get baptized and confirmedLINKS:– More on Rhonda can be found at www.rhonda.org.– Her book: 30 Days To Love available now!– If you've survived hard things, this is for you Successful Survivors Foundation– If you want to change the world, start here Love Is Action Community InitiativeTake our FREE Business Assessment:SpiritCenteredBusiness.com– Join the Activation Ekklesia for Business: http://SpiritCenteredBusiness.com/activation– Spiritual Business Coaching: https://SpiritCenteredBusiness.com/coaching– Join the SCB Tribe: http://facebook.com/groups/scbtribeBe sure to answer the membership questions so we know you're legit!
No one wants to re-live the most painful experiences of their life, but before you click this off, consider that we learn survival skills by surviving--not out of a book or in a classroom. We acquire powerful, highly valuable character traits by going through hard things. In this episode, let's look at the character traits that were developed in you as a result of what you've been through. These character traits are the things that can be the rungs on the ladder of your successful life. It's not easy to revisit hard times, but remember that in doing it now, you have the perspective of a more mature person. You can revisit without having to relive it. Approach this like you would if someone else was telling you the story as if it were theirs, or think of yourself as an investigative reporter just gathering the facts. Then think of the ways that you were changed by what happened. We have a tendency to think that we were wounded. Permanently. And we may have been wounded, for a time. But after the wounds heal, we find that we're strong, resilient survivors. We know things because we've lived through them--not because we went to a classroom or read a book. We are EXPERTS in whatever experiences we've survived. To discover the character traits of successful survivors that have been developed in you, go to Findyourpurposenow.org and download the Successful Survivor Character Trait Checklist. A quick internet search of character traits will reveal many more, but these are the most common traits of survivors who have used their character traits to create personal and professional success. If you, or someone you know, is searching for purpose and meaning, please share this podcast. And be sure to subscribe and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. Please find us on social media @rhondasciortino and on Rhonda Sciortino's YouTube channel. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message or send an email to rhonda@rhonda.org. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For info on Rhonda or on FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to www.rhonda.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findyourpurposenow/message
In our hectic lives that run at the speed of electronics, it's important to stop from time to time and take an honest evaluation of our lives to make sure that we're on the right track towards fulfillment of our purpose. Think of it like stopping on a road trip to take a look at your GPS to see how close or far away you are from the things you wanted to do and the landmarks you wanted to see along the way. We'd all be disappointed to learn that we were just minutes away from the thing we most wanted to experience, but unknowingly drove right passed it. In this episode, Rhonda Sciortino talks about how to easily take stock of the things that are important to you. She also shares a story of advice that Warren Buffet (allegedly) gave to his private pilot--personal advice from one of the wealthiest men in the world. If you, or someone you know, is searching for purpose and meaning, please share this podcast. And be sure to subscribe and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message or send an email to rhonda@rhonda.org. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For info on Rhonda or on FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to www.rhonda.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message
It's amazing how the clues to your purpose will start falling into place to point you in the direction of God's good plans for your life when you begin to really seek your purpose. In this episode Rhonda Sciortino shares a huge clue to your purpose. It's significant because this clue forms the foundation of your identity. You can build the pathway to your purpose on this sturdy foundation. If you, or someone you know, is searching for purpose and meaning, please share. And be sure to subscribe and listen every week as we continue to move toward finding and living the purpose for which you were born and perfectly matched. You are not an accident. You are an "intentional!" YOU MATTER and your purpose matters. There are people who need YOU. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message. #purpose #meaning #beyou #youmatter #yourrealsuccess. For info on Rhonda or on FIND YOUR PURPOSE events, go to www.rhonda.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message
Do you ever feel like you're going backwards, away from your purpose? Or that you're going in circles instead of making progress towards your purpose? We all want our lives to be one straight line from where we are today to living the life of meaning and fulfillment, but the path towards fulfillment of our purpose is often a winding road filled with switchbacks and turns that we didn't see coming. It's tempting to veer off the path or to just give up. In today's episode, Rhonda Sciortino shares 7 of the "guardrails" she relies on to keep her on the path towards purpose, meaning, and God's perfect plans. If you, or someone you know, is at a crossroads in life, going through a painful breakup, have lost a loved one, lost a job, are dealing with a life threatening diagnosis, or any of the other things that bring us face-to-face with the question of purpose and meaning of our lives, we hope you'll consider attending an upcoming FIND YOUR PURPOSE Christian Women's Retreat. In these retreats, we take 2 1/2 days to lead you on a journey of self-discovery. You come away with a confident understanding of your authentic identity, your natural talents, strengths, personality and character traits--all the things that make you uniquely awesome. Importantly, you leave with an understanding of how the experiences of your life have worked together to make you the amazing person you are--this is true for even the most painful times of your life. Check out upcoming retreats at www.rhonda.org/events. Please be a friend and share this with someone who needs it. We hope you'll subscribe and listen to this ongoing conversation about finding and living the purpose for which you were born. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message. #purpose #joy #peace #love #hope #success #healthyrelationships #wellness #thrive #suffering --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message
Many people think they're living in their purpose, and they're not. Others are in their purpose and are still looking for something else. Either way, they aren't enjoying what's possible for them. So how do we recognize when someone is living in their purpose? If you want to find your purpose, please listen to this so that you can let these markers be your guide on the way to your purpose. In this episode, certified life coach, Jenny Christiansen, and author, Rhonda Sciortino, talk about what it looks like and feels like when someone is living in their purpose. If you're at a crossroads in life, maybe you're going through a painful breakup, have lost a loved one, lost your job, are dealing with a life threatening diagnosis, or any of the other things that bring us face-to-face with the purpose of our lives, we hope you'll consider attending an upcoming FIND YOUR PURPOSE Christian Women's Retreat. In these retreats, we take 2 1/2 days to lead you on a journey of self-discovery. You come away with a confident understanding of your authentic identity, your natural talents, strengths, personality and character traits--all the things that make you uniquely awesome. Importantly, you leave with an understanding of how the experiences of your life have worked together to make you the amazing person you are--this is true for even the most painful times of your life. Check out upcoming retreats at www.rhonda.org/events. Please be a friend and share this with someone who needs it. We hope you'll subscribe and listen to this ongoing conversation about finding and living the purpose for which you were born. If you would like to share a comment or suggestion, please email a voice note to https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message. #purpose #joy #peace #love #hope #success #healthyrelationships #wellness #thrive #suffering --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message
Confident people really stand out to us because many of us are insecure about our looks, the way we dress, the way we sound, our social status, our jobs, the money in our account, and just about any other aspect of our lives. We can all be confident, comfortable in our own skin, and relaxed and at ease with our lives. This is the result of living our purpose because when we are living the life we were built to live, we know that we're enough. In fact, we know that we're awesome at being the most authentic version of ourselves possible. In this episode, certified life coach, Jenny Christiansen, and successful survivor of childhood abandonment and abuse, Rhonda Sciortino, talk about the process of going from "not enough" to that peaceful, easy feeling of living in your purpose. Please subscribe and share this with someone who doesn't think they're enough. For info on FIND YOUR PURPOSE retreats and on co-host, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org/events. We want to hear from you. Send us a question, comment or suggestion here: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message. #purpose #joy #peace #love #hope #success #healthyrelationships #wellness #thrive #suffering --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposenow/message
Rhonda Sciortino is a survivor, successful business woman, author, speaker, and founder of the Successful Survivors Foundation. Rhonda joins the 1 Girl Revolution Podcast this week to share her inspiring life story and how she turned her survivor story into a story of success and purpose - and now how she's helping other survivors find their purpose. Rhonda was abandoned as a very young child and became a ward of the court until she emancipated at the age of 16. Except for a brief time with a great foster family, her first 16 years were spent with her abusive grandparents – her grandfather was mentally ill and her grandmother was an alcoholic and drug-addicted. At 15 years old, Rhonda decided to seek emancipation. One of the prerequisites was that Rhonda had to have a job, so she went to work for the first person who would hire her–an insurance agent. Rhonda worked hard and was finally emancipated at the age of 17 and that same year, she became California's youngest licensed insurance agent. Rhonda has had an incredibly successful career in insurance and throughout her career, she has dedicated her life to supporting people and organizations that protect children. In 2008, Rhonda left her career to serve as the chairperson of Successful Survivors Foundation, a non-profit organization she founded to help survivors of trauma find purpose, meaning, and happiness, what she calls, "your real success." This episode of the podcast is so inspiring. In this episode, you'll hear: Rhonda's life story, including being abandoned as a baby and surviving abuse; How she fought to be emancipated at a young age and then found success; About her successful career in insurance and how she went from survival to having a multi-million dollar career; The story of why she decided to start Successful Survivors Foundation and how she's now helping other survivors find their purpose and success; And so much more. For more information on Rhonda, please visit: www.1GirlRevolution.com/Rhonda
In this episode Rhonda Sciortino and Jenny Christiansen talk about the importance of finding one's purpose and what it reallly means to live one's purpose. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/findyourpurposewithrhondascior/message
In this episode, foster care alumni, Chris Chmielewski and Rhonda Sciortino, talk about how they created successful lives because of what they've been through. YOU can do it too because your experiences qualify you as an expert in what you've been through!! For more information on Chris, go to www.fosterfocusmag.com. If you care about foster care from any angle, check it out. For more on Rhonda and discounts and free shipping on her books, go to www.rhonda.org. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
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In this episode, Rhonda Sciortino joins Jonathan Sanborn on his radio show and podcast, COUNTER CULTURE to talk about how we can use the wounds of our past to inspire and help others. Please like, subscribe, and share so that we can help others #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Blaming others or constantly getting blamed can damage, or even destroy, relationships. In this episode of Live, Love, Survive, and Thrive, we talk about the mindset of blaming others or being blamed. Rhonda Sciortino, author of Acts of Kindness, 101 ways to make the world a better place, and Jenny Christiansen, Certified Life Coach, give tips and strategies for taking control over this destructive mindset. To reach Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so that we can all #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
A habitual mindset of negativity repels positive people, steals our joy, diminishes our relationships, and can ultimately destroy our lives. The good news is that you can change it. In this episode of Live Love Survive and Thrive, author of 30 Days to Happiness, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about how to change a mindset of negativity. www.rhonda.org * www.jennychristiansen.org Please like, subscribe, and share to help others #ive #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
If you spend your life striving for perfection that are impossible to attain or to gain the approval of someone who will never give it, THIS IS FOR YOU. There are three categories of perfection to strive for. Two can be toxic. The third will lead you to fulfillment, purpose, meaning, and happiness. Join us to hear about the kind of perfection we can strive for that will improve our lives and the lives of those around us. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To contact Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share to more people will #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We've all hard things when we were children that were hurtful. Some of those things go down deep inside of us and are carried with us and influence us for the rest of our lives. It's time to dig those shameful childhood messages out and throw them away! To ask questions of Rhonda Sciortino, author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe and share #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Some of us spend our lives never really being ourselves. We try to be what someone else wants us to be. We try to live up to the expectations of others. We try to make someone proud of us. WHY? We are afraid of being judged, being left out, being compared to someone else (and falling short), afraid that someone is going to be angry or reject us, and a host of other fears. In this episode author of Succeed Because of What You've Been Through, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life and Academic Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about being our authentic selves and enjoying the life that accompanies that. To reach Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. To get in touch with Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so we can all #LIVE #LOVE #SURVIVE and #THRIVE! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Childhood messages about ourselves or what we believe is acceptable can hold us back and damage our relationships. In this episode of Live Love Survive & Thrive, author of 30 Days To Happiness, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about identifying childhood messages and what they do to us. To learn more about Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To learn about Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share to help others #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
None of us has enough hours in the day to do all we need and want to do. But if we stop doing things that don't need to be done in the first place, we can add hours to our day and happiness to our lives. In this episode, author of 30 Days To Happiness, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about how to eliminate the things that don't need to be done and why it's critical to do so. We'll fall short of fulfilling our purpose and enjoying our unique success if we waste our time. If you missed the other 3 episodes on our biggest time wasters, go back and take them in. To contact Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so we can all #live, #love, #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We've all done it. We complain about the traffic, we complain about our boss and coworkers, we complain about what the people in our lives forgot to do. But WHAT DOES IT GET US? Not a darn thing except time lost that we can never get back. The same goes for blaming others. It doesn't change a thing—literally. When we fail to take responsibility for our part, we don't improve and grow. In this episode, author of 30 Days To Happiness, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about how to avoid blaming and complaining and why it's important to your health and happiness to do so. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share to we can all #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
There are never enough hours in the day to do all that we need and want to do. The good news is that we can identify and eliminate the BIG time wasters in our lives. This week we're taking on the big four of time wasters. Today we're talking about ARGUING. There are far more effective ways to communicate and persuade than arguing. In fact, people are rarely genuinely persuaded by arguing. In this episode author of 30 Days To Happiness, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about strategies for avoiding arguing and why it's important to do so. Please like, subscribe, and share #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Whether it's divorce, death, a child being taken into foster care, or any of the other circumstances under which families break, we have to acknowledge that the child experiences grief and loss. Children are resilient, but we can't gloss over the grief they experience when their families break. Step parents, foster parents, relatives, neighbors, and friends can all help children heal after the family breaks. In this episode Debbie Ausburn, former social worker, prosecutor of crimes against children, foster parent, step parent, and defense lawyer for child welfare organizations, talks with Rhonda Sciortino, author of Successful Survivors—the 8 character traits of successful survivors and how you can attain them, about the realities of being present when you're not the person who's supposed to be there. Please like, subscribe, and share #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Many of us are out of balance. Some of us aren't even aware of it. In this episode, Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, and author of Succeed Because of What You've Been Through, Rhonda Sciortino, talk about the signs of a life out of balance, and give strategies for gaining balance, which leads to fulfillment of your purpose and all the good things that accompany it. To reach out to Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so more people can #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We're harmed by bad relationships, and we experience healing in good relationships. When we don't have healthy relationships with good people, we suffer. Good relationships are the foundation of a successful life. You can have fame and fortune, but if you can't enjoy it with someone who has your best interests at heart, you will not feel truly happy and fulfilled. In today's episode of Live, Love, Survive and Thrive, author of How To Get To Awesome, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about how to develop and nurture good relationships and why it's critical to do so. Please like, subscribe, and share so we can help more people #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
If you are sad, depressed, or feeling anything other than determined and unstoppable, then you may not be clear on the meaning and purpose of your life! You're here for a reason, and in this episode, author of How To Get To Awesome, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about 9 strategies for finding your meaning and living your purpose. To reach Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. To get in touch with Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so that we can help more people #live, #love, #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
You will never create the life you want to live and deserve to live until you learn to hit the delete button on procrastination. But how? In this episode of LIVE LOVE SURVIVE THRIVE, Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, and author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, Rhonda Sciortino talk about how to deal with procrastination and why it's critical to do so. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so more people can #LIVE #LOVE #SURVIVE and #THRIVE! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We've all done it—things that we know we shouldn't do, because it makes us feel better (for a moment), or makes us feel nothing (for a time), or distracts us from the problem, giving us a little rest. But when the ice cream is all gone, they money is spent, the alcohol or drugs wear off, etc., the problem is still there. In fact, many times it's worse. Today we're talking about strategies for hitting the delete button on self-medicating. To contact author of Succeed Because Of What You've Been Through, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, share, and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Together we can help more people #LIVE #LOVE #SURVIVE and #THRIVE! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We all have them—those hurtful memories that get triggered by certain people, circumstances, holidays, songs, or smells that spike us right back into painful emotions. The good news is that we don't have to be vulnerable to those triggers! In this episode of LIVE, LOVE, SURVIVE and THRIVE, We talk about how to hit the delete key on bad memories. To contact author of Succeed Because of What You've Been Through, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share because together we can help more people. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Some people bring out the best in us. Unfortunately, some people bring out the worst and drain the life out of us. In this episode of #live #love #survive and #thrive, Rhonda Sciortino, author of 30 Days To Happiness, and Jenny Christiansen, Certified Life Coach, talk about how to identify healthy relationships, how to create them, and how to hit the delete button on toxicity. Please like, share, and subscribe. Together we can help more people to LIVE, LOVE, SURVIVE and THRIVE! https://youtu.be/-GiF8Qsdol8 #relationships #toxicrelationships #happiness #peace #joy #drama #nodrama #live #love #survive #thrive --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Have you ever known someone who has been fired from multiple jobs? Or someone who has been betrayed by someone they loved over and over again? There are some people who keep repeating their past, and who, sadly, keep reliving the same kind of pain. In this episode, Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, and author of 30 Days To Happiness, Rhonda Sciortino, talk about HOW TO STOP REPEATING THE PAST. Please like, subscribe, and share so that we can help more people #live, #love, #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We've all done things that we knew we shouldn't do. We've lied to the police officer about how fast we were going. We've eaten a pint of ice cream that we knew would show up on our hips later. We've said things that we wish we could take back. But why? In this episode, author of Succeed Because of What You've Been Through, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about HOW to quit doing the things we don't want to do, and how to make better decisions that will lead to the great life we want to lead. To reach Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. To contact Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share because together we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
In Rejection, Pain, and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE part 2, Pamela Cutchlow, founder of Orange County Children's Foundation shares the message that she has staked her life on. To connect with Pamela, go to www.facebook.com/PamelaCutchlow. To reach Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so that we can help more people #live, #love, #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
If you've felt the pain of rejection, you know how deeply it can cut. Rejection is a soul-wound. In this episode of Live, Love, Survive and Thrive, Pamela Cutchlow, founder of Orange County Children's Foundation, talks about the pain of rejection and the only thing that heals it—Love. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. You can connect with Pamela Cutchlow on Facebook and Instagram. Please like, subscribe, and share because together we can help more people #live, #love, #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
What would happen if we quit attacking people who have opinions or beliefs or values that are different from ours? What would happen if we simply stopped arguing? How much more peaceful would the world be if we acted like we actually care more about people than about the way they vote or the color of their skin?? Brian Molitor, author, TV producer, and founder of Malachi Global Foundation, and Rhonda Sciortino, National Champion of the Love Is Action Community Initiative talk about what the world needs now--LOVE, SWEET LOVE, not just for some, but for everyone. To contact Brian, go to www.malachiglobal.org. To reach Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so that we can help more people #live, #love, #survive, and #thrive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
When you're in a difficult situation or relationship, it can be very helpful to learn and talk about the issues. This is the 4th in a series of talks between foster alumni, Amber Jewell, LMSW and Rhonda Sciortino about finding hope. This one thing can help you find your way through tough times and emerge successfully. To contact Amber, go to www.amberjewell.org. To contact author, speaker, and child advocate, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so that together we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Two successful survivors of childhood abuse talk about setting healthy boundaries, like how to say now and why to say yes, so that you don't wind up exhausted, depressed, or bitter. We can all find hope by taking care of ourselves with healthy boundaries. For information about Amber Jewell, LMSW, go to www.amberjewell.org. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, author of 30 Days To Happiness (featured on Ellen show and in her Kind Boxes), go to www.rhonda.org. Please like, subscribe, and share so that together we can help more people #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Amber Jewell, LMSW, successful survivor of childhood abuse, joins Rhonda Sciortino to talk about how to find hope by finding your people. For more info on Amber, go to www.amberjewell.org. To contact author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so that together we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Life won't always be tough, but it‘s unrealistic to think that it will always be perfect. Tough times come and go throughout our lives, but you are tough too, and you can successfully survive through it all! Successful Survivors of child abuse, Amber Jewell, LMSW and Rhonda Sciortino, talk about how to find hope when life is tough. To contact Amber, go to www.amberjewell.org. To reach Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please like, subscribe, and share, together we can help more people #live #love #survive and #thrive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Do want to have a better life but have no idea how to make it happen? THIS could be the best 1 minute 10 seconds you ever invest in yourself. For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, go to www.rhonda.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so that we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
If you don't know what you want to do with your life, you are likely to wind up doing what someone else wants you to do. This episode is about strategies for knowing what you want, what you REALLY want, and then living purposely, deliberately, with intention. For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, go to www.rhonda.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so that we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Do you struggle to keep peace in your home? Are you trying to make it work in a blended family? If you're a step-parent, or a foster, adoptive, or relative caregiver for kids that you didn't bring into the world, you're going to want to hear this. Debbie Bailey Ausburn was a social worker (and single) when she decided to become a foster parent to teenagers. Over time, Debbie went back to school and became a lawyer. She was a prosecutor of crimes against children before she moved into defending the good people and organizations that care for children who have been traumatized. Her experience in all those roles prepared her for marrying a man who had 5 children. Debbie has created a blended family, and says, "Being someone's Plan B can be pretty wonderful." Look for Debbie's book, to be released later this year, Healing Blended Families. For more on Debbie, go to www.debbieausburn.com. For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, go to www.rhonda.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so that we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
There is so much more to say about succeeding because of what you've been through. We hope that you will go through all five steps that we've covered this week. And if you want to go deeper, Rhonda Sciortino wants to send you her book and the accompanying workbook, Succeed Because of What You've Been Through—FREE. For as long as supplies last, Rhonda will send you the set at no cost to you—even the postage is free. Go to her website, www.rhonda.org/shop, and use the coupon code COVID. It doesn't matter what you've survived, you can mine the lessons out of it and use those assets of character traits, learned abilities, perspective, empathy, and so much more, to create personal and professional success. Rhonda knows because that's what she did to go from foster care to millionaire—the title of her first of 13 books. For more in Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For info on Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so that we can help more people #live #love #survive and #thrive --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
This is where it gets fun! Step 4 is where we learn to articulate the good things about ourselves that we've extracted from our painful situations. No longer do we lower our gaze and shamefully admit what we've gone through. We don't have to talk about what we've been through at all. But what we do talk about are the good character traits, learned abilities, and perspective that we acquired as we went through adversity. When we can look someone in the eyes, and unashamedly explain who we are and what we're capable of doing that is of value in the world, we are the ones who get hired, who get the business loan, the patent, the partnership, or the relationships. To contact Rhonda Sciortino for more info, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach out to Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so that we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
THIS is the meat of the sandwich! This is where we mine the lessons out of our painful experiences. Even if you think that nothing good could possibly come from what you've been through, know that your difficult experiences have changed you. They have developed in you character traits and learned abilities that you cannot get any other way. You've survived! Don't waste your pain. Do this step, and you'll be prepared to use the nuggets of gold you extract from painful experiences to create your real success. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach out to Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please subscribe, like, and share, so that we have help more people #live #love #survive and #thrive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
I hate this part, but there's no way around it. If you don't give yourself permission to properly grieve what you've lost, what you hoped for, and the fantasies you had about it that were never going to be, your grief will show up in your attitudes, emotions, and your physical health. The key is to grieve for a time and then to move on so that you don't get stuck forever in grief. If you get stuck, you lose the good future that is your destiny. For info about author of Succeed Because Of What You've Been Through, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For info on Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please subscribe, like, and share so more people will #live #love #survive, and #thrive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
It is not only possible to succeed because of what you've been through, but that's the purpose of hard times. Don't waste your pain by not growing through the painful experiences and allowing them to become stepping stones to your good life. Today we're talkin about the first step toward succeeding because of what you've been through. Join us for all 5 steps. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach out to Jenny, to go www.jennychristiansen.org. Please subscribe so you never miss an episode of #live #love #survive and #thrive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Real, authentic success is made up of 5 distinct facets. One without a measure of the others is not true success. Before you go chasing success, take a few minutes with me to understand what you're going after. Know the 5 facets of real success so you'll know it when you see it. THERE ARE THREE FREE GIFTS AVAILABLE TO YOU HERE! The coupon codes are in the podcast. For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please like, share, and comment. Together we can help others to #live, #love #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
When you're stuck in difficult and challenging circumstances, whether short or long term, use these six steps to power through. For information on author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For info on Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share because together we can help more people to #live #love #survive and #thrive, and make our world a better place. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Whether you don't have enough time or money, or you lack the right education or connections, or you literally don't have a roof over your head and food to eat, we all feel as though there are things that we lack that are holding us back. Today we talk about how to get what you need to succeed. If you've missed the other powerful steps on your road to success, listen, subscribe, like, and share. Don't miss a single bit of wisdom from author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen. For more info on Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. For more on Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please share so we can all #live #love #survive and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Sometimes we don't even realize that we're speaking words that make our situation worse or that become self-fulfilling prophecies. In this episode, we talk about how to stop using words that emanate from past rejection. If you missed the other episodes about the things that hold us back and the obstacles that keep us from fulfilling our purpose, listen to those now. We've fallen in these potholes, and now we're telling you so you don't have to. For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For more on Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, share, and comment. Together we can help others to #live, #love #survive, and #thrive! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
When you feel inadequate or as though you're not enough, it steals your happiness and meaning, and can threaten the fulfillment of your purpose. We've all been there. In this episode, we address the feelings of inadequacy and what to do about them. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To contact Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. #live #love #survive #thrive #inadequacy #youmatter #meaning #purpose --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Fear and anxiety are normal human emotions, but when they interfere with our ability to embrace our authentic identity, fulfill our purpose, and achieve our maximum impact, we must take action. In this episode, we're talk about how to take control of fear, anxiety, and why it's important to do so. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To contact Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share. Together we can help others, and when we do that, we make our world better. #live #love #survive #thrive #purpose #meaning #identity #impact #fear #anxiety #rewards --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
In this episode, author of From Foster Care To Millionaire, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen give the 3 questions to ask yourself and the 6 steps to take to find and begin to fulfill your life assignment. Your assignment is your purpose. It is the meaning of your life, and you will never be fully content and happy until you have it. If you missed any of the segments in this series, listen to YOU HAVE A LIFE ASSIGNMENT, YOU ARE AWESOME, THE CLUES TO YOUR LIFE ASSIGNMENT, and WHAT ARE YOUR OBSTACLES, and watch for Rhonda's upcoming book, What's Your Assignment. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share. Together we can help others. #live #love #survive #thrive #overcome #purpose #meaning #success #succeed #peace #joy #happiness #provision #wealth #relationships #health #wellness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Every one of us faces obstacles to our real success, which is synonymous the fulfillment of our purpose. Today we're going to talk about those obstacles and how to climb over, tunnel under, go around, or blast through the obstacles that hold you back from living the life you were born to live. Don't let the obstacles hold you back! To contact author, speaker, successful survivor, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To contact Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please like, subscribe, and share. Together we can help others! #live #love #survive #thrive #obstacles #overcome #success #succeed #purpose #meaning --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
There are clues all around you just waiting to be recognized. Each one of your clues is a puzzle piece that will form the picture of what you were born to do. Don't miss this list of all the things that make you truly amazing! If you didn't hear the first two segments of this subject, go back and isten to “You Have A Life Assignment!” and “You Are Awesome!” And don't miss “Take Off Rejection” and “Your Next Steps.” For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, author of Succeed Because Of What You've Been Through, go to www.rhonda.org. For more info on Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. Please subscribe and share. Together we can help others. #live #love #survive #thrive #purpose #meaning #success #succeed #overcome --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
You are enough. You matter. You were born for a purpose. When you stop thinking about what's wrong with you, and begin looking at yourself for what's good about you, you will see that you have the goods! You have the potential within you to fulfill the unique purpose for which you were perfectly matched. For info on Rhonda Sciortino, author of Succeed Because Of What You've Been Through, go to www.rhonda.org. For info on Certified Life coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. To book one or both to speak, contact Successful Survivors Speaker Bureau at speaker@successfulsurvivors.org or 949.307.6067. Please subscribe and share. Together we can help others! #live #love #survive #thrive #awesome #youmatter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
If you know specifically want you want to get done, you're more likely to do it. There's less chance that you'll be distracted or detoured. This is true whether it's about getting your daily chores done or fulfilling the purpose for your life. If you aren't clear on what you want, you're far more likely to do what others want you to do. You'll inadvertently be leaving your dreams and desires behind while going along with what someone else wants to do. In this episode, Rhonda Sciortino, author of “From Foster Care To Millionaire,” gives you five questions to ask yourself that will help you determine what you want to do and importantly, why you want to do it. If you will do what Rhonda did, you will know what you want and increase your chances of doing it! To connect with Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. #rhonda #power #succeed #success #live #love #survive #thrive #successfulsurvivor --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
In this episode we talk about how to get unstuck from negative emotions. Even after the normal human reaction of anger and bitterness when there is legitimate injustice, we can take control of our feelings. And if we truly want to be happy, we MUST do so. Please subscribe and share. Together we can help more people. To contact Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. To reach Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
In this episode we hear about a fashion industry executive who left an enviable career to buy an apartment complex where foster kids can transition into adulthood. When they couldn't find jobs, she opened Framewerks Imagining to teach them job skills and a real trade. She engaged the community to become family to these kids who had no one. Meaningful, lifelong relationships are flourishing! For more information on Lisa Castetter and Teen Leadership Foundation or to launch these programs in your community, go to www.teenleadershipfoundation.org. For info on Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. Please subscribe and share. Together we can help more people. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Lots of us have legitimate reasons to feel sorry for ourselves. There is a place for acknowledging the ways we've been harmed, but there is a time to intentionally put those things behind us and move on. If we fail to do it, we will miss out on our destinies. We also give the person who harmed us the satisfaction of continuing the hurt for as long as we hold onto it. In this episode, we talk about how to move on and why it's so important to do so. Please subscribe and share. Together we can help more people. For more info on Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For info on Jenny, go to www.JennyChristiansen.org. #live #love #survive #thrive #overcome #succeed #success --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Fear is a natural human reaction, It can save our lives. But in the wrong setting, fear can steal our peace and destroy our joy. fear can hold us back and keep us from fulfilling our purpose. In this episode, author, speaker, and successful survivor, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, talk about how to put fear in its rightful place. Please subscribe, share, and give us a 5-star review. For more info on Rhonda, go to www.rhonda.org. For info on Jenny, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Author, speaker, and successful survivor of childhood abuse, Rhonda Sciortino, and Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen talk about getting “unstuck.” What are YOU ready to change? #change #improve #overcome #succeed #live #love #survive #thrive --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
We've talked about the dangers of limiting beliefs, but once we've identified those limiting beliefs, we have to replace them with the self beliefs that help us to live, love, survive, and thrive. In this episode, we talk about HOW to do that using our own examples and strategies. You can change your future by creating the life you want to live if you will begin by choosing the beliefs that you want to have about yourself. Once you've created your positive self beliefs, you will naturally make choices that lead you into the fulfillment of those beliefs. Please subscribe, comment, and share this. Together we can help more people. For info on author, speaker, and successful survivor, Rhonda Sciortino, go to www.rhonda.org. For more on Certified Life Coach, Jenny Christiansen, go to www.jennychristiansen.org. #live #love #survive #thrive #beliefs #limiting #potential #create #life #success #succeed #success #realsuccess #purpose #meaning #fulfillment --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
Rhonda Sciortino and Torrian Scott, of Masters In The Marketplace, talk about how to create your own success. Rhonda tells how she founded and built two successful businesses, and how others can do that too. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
In this episode Rhonda Sciortino talks with Amber Jewell, LMSW, both successful survivors of child abuse about how we each can find our role in stopping child abuse, and make the world a better place for all of us! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweringresilience/message
On today's incredible episode, I'm speaking with the lovely and talented Rhonda Sciortino, author of … Love is Action: How to Change the World with Love Rhonda is an author, speaker, business owner, founder of Successful Survivors Foundation, and national champion of the LOVE IS ACTION Community Initiative. Rhonda overcame abandonment, abuse, and poverty by mining the lessons out of her painful experiences and using those “assets” to create personal and professional success. Rhonda is the recipient of the Seneca Forever Families Advocate award, the Passkeys Community Leader award, and the Inland Register Women in Business Innovators award. Rhonda lives in Southern California with her husband, Nick, near their daughter and her family. For more information, visit rhonda.org. "Love is Action" is full of rich wisdom and practical tips that will lift your spirit, give you hope, and most importantly, inspire you to action. Become part of a community of love, one that is working together to find new and meaningful ways to show kindness, improve the world, and live lives full of hope, generosity, mercy, and, above all, love. So, if you are ready to hear more about "Love is Action", then stay tuned for this episode of the Daily Authors Podcast, with Rhonda Sciortino ... By the way, if you are ready to write your book, go to Write a Book University to get a free 4 lesson video course to help you on your journey to write a book ...
Guest speakers Rhonda Sciortino and Shaun Derik, who will be speaking at an opioid awareness summit this week join Dave & Sarah.
Unadoptable. A term that became a part of her identity at the age of seven. She said, “My mother asked her neighbor to babysit while she went shopping, but she did not go shopping. Her clothes were packed, her car was loaded and she moved out of state… She never came back.” A situation that made Rhonda Sciortino understand early on the concepts of abandonment and rejection. A situation that left her no other option, but to live her with maternal grandparents, a mentally ill grandfather, and an alcoholic grandmother. She said, “We lived in a little shack, about the size of a two-car garage… It didn't have working plumbing… No heat or air conditioning… Lots of times we went without food… Lots of times we had no electricity… Pretty rough upbringing.” She continued by saying, “I was abused… Physically… Emotionally…” A type of upbringing that most, if not all of us, would want to forget as fast as possible. But, Rhonda is different from most people, as she did not have the luxury of forgetting. An upbringing that took her on a journey from being a victim to becoming a survivor, and ultimately turning into an advocate. An advocate for those who've suffered abuse, abandonment, poverty, filth, and hunger. “My success is helping other people get theirs.” EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: On Hardship: Identify the takeaway to prevent future hardships On Avoiding Abuse: Learn to redirect the conversation On Relationships: Form quality relationships with healthy people On Communication: Give people the benefit of the doubt
Rhonda Sciortino was abandoned at the age of six months, and became a ward of the court until she emancipated at 16. Except for a brief time with a wonderful foster family, those first 16 years were spent in the custody of a mentally ill man and alcoholic woman–her grandparents. When Rhonda was eight years old, the little shack where she lived was destroyed by fire. They had no insurance, and for months they were homeless. Rhonda vividly recalls wearing the same filthy sundress and flimsy dimestore flipflops to school day after day for months after that fire. At age 15 Rhonda decided to seek emancipation. One of the prerequisites was that Rhonda have a job, so she went to work for the first person who would hire her–an insurance agent. When her employer explained the concept of insurance, Rhonda was flabbergasted. “You mean someone would have paid for our house to be rebuilt AND given us money for clothes and a place to sleep?” Rhonda learned everything she could about insurance. Despite being denied again and again, Rhonda repeatedly petitioned the Insurance Commissioner to allow her to sit for the insurance agent exam even though she wasn’t yet 18. An exception was finally granted, and Rhonda became California’s youngest licensed insurance agent at 17. At the age of 27, Rhonda’s passion for good child welfare providers and appropriate insurance intersected. She committed herself to protecting people and organizations that protect children. She had personally experienced excellent foster care during her short time with a foster family, and she knew the shame of homelessness as a result of inadequate insurance. Rhonda quit her job and started her own retail insurance organization. A few years later, she opened a national brokerage which helped insurance brokers all over the US protect the child welfare organizations in their areas. In 2008, Rhonda sold Child Welfare Insurance Services to Markel Insurance Company. She now serves as their National Child Welfare Specialist, helping child welfare organizations all over the US to manage the risks and realities of caring for kids. Rhonda is happily married to Nick Sciortino. They live in Newport Beach, CA near their daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons who are the joys of their lives.
Joining Can We Talk for REAL, Wednesday night will be Dr. Watson, from Real Woman Speak. RWS is dedicated to impacting the lives of women through visual media and print by collecting our stories and preserving our histories So many stories have been lot but so many have been captured and will hold our history forever.Most recently, she was featured on the LGBT Radio Nation Show the topic being Intergenerational Communication. Dr. Watson has also been a guest on the Rhonda Sciortino radio show Crack the Code and the Detroit Area Agency on Aging Senior Solutions Radio Show. Since her retirement, she has ventured into yet another genre, film making. Starting a production company, Reel Women Speak is dedicated to impacting the lives of women through visual media. Women will have the opportunity to become empowered, enhance and develop their quality of life and recalibrate their future, thereby strengthening families and transforming communities. Collective Voices: Wisdom of our Lesbian Elders is her first independent film. Dr. Watson states that “whether it’s in my writing, art or film I have a deep need to recollect traditions and generational legacy, this perhaps comes from listening to stories from my elders specifically, African American women sitting, laughing, talking on porch steps or around the kitchen table.” Dr. Debraha Watson describes herself as a mother of two adult children, a film maker, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor and retired higher education administrator. “I can be driven or complacent. Insecure or egotistical like all living creatures I am passing through stages. I am recovering, discovering and growing.”
Author and child advocate Rhonda Sciortino shares her journey from a childhood of abuse and neglect through her life-changing encounter with Jesus.
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