Strong Single and Human

E72 - Sonja Galyon Kamonika - 10 Things I Wish I Knew as A Single Parent

This week’s guest is a mother of 4 adult children and a grandmother to four grandchildren. 
She was a Single Parent for the majority of her children's childhood but is now a wife and serial entrepreneur teaching financial principles, assists her husband with his landscape and hardscape business and is also a Real Estate Investor.
After reading many articles on child abuse and cruelty; Sonja felt a need to reach out and help Single Parents.  Author of a new book “10 Things I Wish I Knew as A Single Parent. " Financial and Life Principles. and she is trying to reach 1 million single parents to help them.
Find Sonja here
https://www.amazon.com/Sonja-Galyon-Kamonika/e/B0BDW4VYZ6/ref=zg_bsnr_11373_bl_sccl_23/000-0000000-0000000?pd_rd_i=B0BDSNL31R
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6d4KxVhCkEnEKY0N45upaA
 

E71 - Lynette Louise (The Brain Broad) - FixIt In Five

This week’s guest is an international brain change and behaviour expert specializing in leadership and brain optimization. She is an award-winning speaker, author, performer, and humanitarian with a gift for teaching complex concepts using storytelling, humour, and memorable metaphors. Her candid style and loving nature are powerful.
Additionally, she’s a renowned neurofeedback & autism expert. Her international docu-series, FIX IT IN FIVE with LYNETTE LOUISE aka THE BRAIN BROAD, airs on The Autism Channel and is also available via Vimeo. (Update: Due to the pandemic and isolation, Lynette has also released her FIX IT IN FIVE series free on YouTube.)
She has written articles and guest posts for diverse publications such as, FutureHealth.org, Kars 4 Kids, An Educational Blog for Parents, Tribal Woman Magazine, BrainSpeak.com and OpEdNews.com
She has been a featured guest on radio shows ranging in tone bravo from parenting eg. (DoriDeCarlo’s World of Mom) to disability activist (Insight on DisAbilities) to health and wellness (Transforming Health with Brad King) to timely topic call-in driven (Black Porch with Lon Schmidt) and every style between!
Television appearances have ranged from lifestyle inspirational segments to interview driven news stories and expert panels, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, Bravo and more. Follow this link to see Lynette help a celebrity feel calm on BRAVO’s The Millionaire Matchmaker in this segment called Hooking Up the Brain to Calm Down.
She is also the single mother of eight now grown children; six were adopted and four were on the autism spectrum. Only one of her sons retains his label and remains dependent.
Find Lynette her
www.lynettelouise.com
www.facebook.com/thebrainbroad
 

E70 - Lana Allen - Discover Your Inner Power

This week’s guest is a life improvement author whose aim is to help you enjoy life and be happy now.
She uses simple yet powerful techniques to help you be peaceful, discover your inner power, and overcome your challenges.
Lana Allen is the author, publisher, and narrator of: Love Yourself Being You: A Way to Live Your Best Life (Quiet Your Mind, Eliminate Stress, Find Inner Peace), and Mindfulness: From Chaos to Calm (The Simple Success System, Book 1). She is currently working on book 2 in the series titled: Being Who You Are and Loving It: Kindness and the Courage to Be Yourself.
Lana is a wife, a mom, and a child of God. She loves photography, writing, reading, spending time with her family, long bike rides and being outdoors in nature.
And if you are listening from Melbourne Lana also home schooled both children…. I know she is a legend in my eyes.
Find Lana here
Website: https://lanahallen.com/contact/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lana.allen.14
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lanahallen 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanahallen/

E69 - Jodi Richardson - Managing Your Child’s Anxious Mind

This week’s guest had anxiety since she was 4 years old. No-one - not her parents, teachers, her first psychologist, or even later, the people in her workplace - understood what she was going through or how to help.
It took over 20 years for me to get a diagnosis. And another 20 years to research, learn and develop the insights, understanding, thinking skills, and physiological strategies to get anxiety out of my way.
She now shares practical, evidence-based insights, strategies, and skills to help parents, educators and other professionals, and the children in their lives, find freedom from anxiety, fulfil their potential, and thrive.
A combine nine years of university study with more than twenty years of professional work in education, clinical practice, and elite sport. She has seen it all, heard it all, felt it all, and flourished through it all. and her ambition is to assist others to flourish too.
Author of 2 insightful, practical, and impactful books on Anxiety 1stly her bestselling debut book Anxious Kids and now her latest book, Anxious Mums 
Find Jodie here 
www.drjodirichardson.com
www.instagram.com/drjodirichardson
www.facebook.com/DrJodiRichardson

E68 - Kaye Parker - The Trauma of Miscarriage

This week’s guest was born in St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada and was adopted at birth.
She is a mother of 3 amazing children and over the last 3 years she has had to deal with so many challenges, all which pales when compared to the trauma of losing her son. The word "miscarriage" doesn't properly paint the picture of the horror and deep trauma that Kaye - and others who live through this - endure. She is coming on Strong, single, and human to hopefully help anyone who has been through a similar experience to heal and talk about their feels
She is an increasingly well-known influencer in the mental health space and the host of "Trials and Tribulations," where she shares her struggles and interviews others about theirs
Find Kaye here 
www.tiktok.com/@kayeparkerofficial
www.instagram.com/kayeparkerofficial
 
 

E67 - Michelle Mitchell - Self Harming and your Teen

This week’s guest has been on the podcast before and is back to talk to us about the very worrying subject of Self harming that seems to be happening more and more in schools and with Kids nowadays.
She began her career as a classroom teacher but quit and established a harm prevention charity, called Youth Excel. she soon became well known for successful outcomes with tweens and teenagers who did not flourish under more traditional forms of therapy.
Over the next 20 years, Youth Excel continued to grow and expand. The Youth Excel Centre was established – a multi-disciplinary clinic offering psychology, counselling, mentoring for children and teenagers.
Today she uses her experience to write and speak in schools, community events and through media. Her best-selling parenting and children’s resources, including the highly popular Everyday Resilience Journal, have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into several languages.
She has been termed the ‘teenage expert’ by the media and is sought after for her compassionate, and grounded advice. Her innovative work has been featured on The Today Show, Today Tonight and Channel 10 Morning News and Sky News, as well as countless print media including The Age, The Courier Mail and The Daily Telegraph.  You can hear her on radio in Australia on a weekly basis.
Find Michelle here 
www.michellemitchell.org
www.facebook.com/michellemitchellspeaker
www.instagram.com/michellemitchell.author
 

E66 - Sabrina Osso - A New Way to Deal with Domestic Violence

This week’s guest is Founder and CEO of OSSO SAFE…Feel safe where you live, work, and play.   She is a TEDx Speaker, Real Estate Agent, and Consultant on promoting safety and preventing violence in the workplace, schools, and in places of residence.  Sabrina’s personal and professional experience with the subject allows her to bring a unique and holistic approach as a solution.  By combining education and technology, we can save lives and bottom lines. 
She is also a professional dancer/teacher who uses her performance abilities to educate on the subject. 
Her TEDx presentation at New Jersey City University can be viewed online. Its title is "If You're a Victim of Home Violence, Don't Leave...Stay". and she has done over 80+ radio podcast interviews to shine the spotlight on entrepreneurs doing amazing things
Find Sabrina here
www.ossosafe.com
 
 

E65 - Doug Noll - How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less

This week’s guest is an award-winning author, speaker, and trainer. After 22 years as a trial lawyer, he became a peacemaker and mediator. Today, he helps people solve deep and intractable conflicts and teaches others to do what he does teaching Decision Making Under Uncertainty Conflict.
He is the co-founder of the award-winning Prison of Peace Project, in which he teaches murderers in maximum security prisons to be peacemakers and mediators.
He has trained mediators and leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in his innovative peacemaking and mediation processes. He has personally mediated over 1,500 disputes, including sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church and criminal victim-offender cases.
His honours include California Lawyer Magazine Attorney of the Year, a Purpose Prize Fellow, and Best Lawyers of America Lawyer of the Year.
And if all that wasn’t enough - he has written four books - his latest released on September 12, 2017, entitled De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less (Atria/Beyond Words).
Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts
Peacemaking: Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Human Conflict
Sex, Politics & Religion at the Office: The New Competitive Advantage
He is the creator of online video courses in legal negotiation and emotional de-escalation and has conducted dozens of webinars. His video offerings on YouTube have garnered over 87,000 views.
Doug's special offering to podcast listeners
www.dougnoll.com/podcast/claire-martin
Find Doug in all these other places
www.dougnoll.com
www.facebook.com/doug.noll.52
 
 

E64 - Terry Tucker - As long as you don’t quit, you can never be defeated

Today’s guest has been a college basketball player, Customer Service Manager then after his daughter was born, he became a police officer with the Cincinnati Police Department, where I was a SWAT Hostage Negotiator.  
In early 2012 he was diagnosed with a rare form of Melanoma, which presented on the bottom of my foot. By the time the melanoma was detected, it had metastasized to a lymph node in my groin.
After two surgeries to remove the tumours, he was put on a weekly injection of the drug, Interferon, to help keep the disease from coming back. 
He took those weekly injections for almost 5 years before the Interferon became so toxic to my body that I ended up in the Intensive Care Unit with a fever of 108 degrees.  
There were times he felt so poorly and was in so much agony that he prayed to die. Each day was a struggle to use his mind to override his body's apathy and distress.
One thing he learnt during all his pain and suffering is that you have two choices. You can succumb to the debilitating discomfort and misery, or you can learn to embrace it and use it to make you a stronger and better human being and he chose the latter.
I realize pain and discomfort can beat you to your knees and keep you there if you let it. But I also came to appreciate that I could use my hurting and anguish to make me stronger and more resolute.
He has recently written a book, entitled Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life, to help people find and live their uncommon and extraordinary life. His hope is that people who read the book will lead a life of significance, as well as a life of success. 
If there is one thing, he’s learnt is that as long as you don’t quit, you can never be defeated.
Find Terry here
www.motivationalcheck.com
www.facebook.com/motivationalcheck
www.instagram.com/sustainableexcellenceauthor
 
 

E63 - Jem Fuller - The Art of Conscious Communication

This week’s guest I have interviewed before about his separation from his wife 10 years ago and now his co parenting tips.
He has also written some books which provoke important conversations.
His first book, What Matters Most, is the distillation of the most important and effective strategies taught on his Conscious Series retreats in the Himalaya, Bali and Australia. It covers 4 conversations in a free easy read are:
Identity – Relationship with Self
Connection – The Greater System, Humility and Flow
Purpose – Meaning, Significance and Contribution
Others – EQ, Collaboration and Compassion
He has now written a second book - The Art of Conscious Communication: A Series.
The first book – for thoughtful men encourages us to rewrite the stereotypes of men; to access our emotions and abilities and to expand our self-awareness.
Where to find Jem:
www.jemfuller.com
www.linkedin.com.au/in/jemfuller
www.facebook.com/jemfuller.me