Eric Coon, Financial Planner, helps others overcome the mindset of being financially undisciplined to develop new habits and disciplines to have a life of choices. It would be best to transition from thinking near-time (i.e., now) to long-term (i.e., then). Too many of us need instant gratification that is possibly driven, at least in part, through an image. Do I need a new XXXX? Or, can I be satisfied with the functionality? It is a matter of discipline that leads to life choices. Contact Eric ...
Oct 12, 2021•36 min•Ep. 98
Kimberly Bell chronicles her early life of having her biological parents reject her from birth. She always wanted to be accepted and loved. That never happened with her biological parents. The acceptance she longed for did happen through her adopted parents and her relationship with Jesus Christ. Through self-awareness and being mentored, she is overcoming feelings of inadequacy that she could have taken into other relationships in her adult life.
Oct 07, 2021•47 min•Ep. 97
Kareemah Emordi joins us for a third episode to address faith in action to achieve the seemingly impossible. “Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.” (Hebrews 11:1) God frequently works growth in us that we sometimes do not see. Some “God-sized” projects involve other people through whom God is working. Again, sometimes progress is not as visible as we hope. Therefore, sometimes we waiver and doubt. Let’s put faith into action and give God the gl...
Oct 05, 2021•48 min•Ep. 96
Jerry Fu has accepted overcoming life's encounters as a lifelong journey. He has learned never to accept criticism from a person from whom he would not seek advice. That isn't easy to do when you are building self-confidence. Jerry increases his self-confidence through life experiences by associating with those who are where he wants to be in life. Through connected relationships, Jerry has learned to feed positivity into his life to overcome his limiting beliefs. He acknowledges he is on a life...
Sep 30, 2021•39 min•Ep. 95
Lois Wagner was subjected to rape while losing her interest in a business in quick succession. Together, these two events caused her to harbor profound anger for 14 years. Her life was largely unsettled until she became resolved that she needed relief from the stress and tension from those years of harboring anger. She got her life back when she sought and received forgiveness for her feelings. Lois’ resolved approach to forgiveness is that she did not exonerate her perpetrators. Rather, she sou...
Sep 28, 2021•38 min•Ep. 94
Casper Awad was born into this world as an albino. He had to learn to deal with life’s adversities with that characteristic while acknowledging he is unique but different from some others. Through Napoleon Hill’s book, “Think and Grow Rich,” he began to build self-confidence that helped him overcome several of life’s failings. He has learned through various failings that evaluated experience is one of life’s greatest lessons. Casper has learned that everything in life can be an opportunity depen...
Sep 21, 2021•41 min•Ep. 92
Kareemah Emordi was raised in the nation of Islam, being surrounded by those of the Muslim faith. For much of her life, she knew only the Muslim faith while not having any need for “your Jesus.” It was through Rose’s life and Lee Strobel’s book, “The Case for Christ” that she questioned the Muslim religion. God spoke to her definitively to assure her that God, not Allah, controls all of our existence. He sent His Son to die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. Kareemah committed her lif...
Sep 16, 2021•38 min•Ep. 91
Ron and Marty Cooper talk about mental health in the context of wellness and their life experience. Ron and Marty each were candidates for getting help with mental health issues. However, they didn’t know what the term was, nor did they know how to ask for help. Asking for help would have affirmed their thought of having a mental disability. However, mental health means something very different in the context of wellness. We hope you will share your experiences and reach out to others who might ...
Sep 14, 2021•28 min•Ep. 90
Donna Tashjian joins us to discuss her Life by Design – Not by Default course. This 12-month course helps you know your spiritual intelligence. This course can help those who need to determine and focus on achieving their life purpose by employing their spiritual gift(s) and concentrating on their passion and purpose. This course will be taught weekly through virtual means and will nominally have eight participants in each session. Interested or potentially interested people can get more informa...
Sep 09, 2021•30 min•Ep. 89
Ben Baker is a skilled communicator who emphasizes several aspects of effective communication. Eye contact, body language, being in the moment, engaging with and similar terms are all part of effective communication. Do you possibly feel you are not communicating unless you interject your point in the conversation? Listen to this very conversational dialogue to assess where your communication skills are. Are you aware of your and your organization’s communication effectiveness? You will learn so...
Sep 07, 2021•41 min•Ep. 88
Tyler Foley, a 17-year old aspiring stage and screen actor at the time of this reminiscent podcast, experienced a major medical anomaly on New Year’s day 1997 when he awakened. Even after several diagnoses, medical technicians could not identify the cause of what he was experiencing. Symptomatically, he was experiencing something similar to palsy. While Tyler has largely recovered, as of this podcast, from the medical anomaly, you will learn how he overcame the mental challenge of possibly havin...
Sep 02, 2021•42 min•Ep. 87
Anita Santoyo describes a part of her past life where she felt she could not express her true inner feelings candidly. Through a combination of life factors, she did not have the confidence to respond candidly to questions involving her inner feelings. Through a self-affirmation process and support from friends, she defined a life purpose through which she discovered her value and healthy confidence. Through this life discovery journey that will continue throughout her life, she developed a heal...
Aug 26, 2021•40 min•Ep. 85
Kawan Glover joins us for episode #4 and shares his life experience of finding and affirming life passion and purpose. This is a process that could require several years to affirm while enlisting a group of accountability partners who believe you in and want to help advance you and others. Your life goals and pursuits might, and likely will, change as you gain life experience. Life experience will change your perspective of various pursuits as it relates to personal value and fulfillment. Be wil...
Aug 24, 2021•30 min•Ep. 84
Anita Santoyo and Antoine White are at the inception of building an organization of those with shared values to provide a listening forum. This group is an adjunct to Evoke Purpose, Inc. This listening forum can help others overcome any life challenges. The primary (but not exclusive) focus on this group is teenagers. This group is apolitical and multi-ethnic to promote the greater good of those they serve. Those with a heart and passion to serve others can be considered to participate in this g...
Aug 19, 2021•57 min•Ep. 83
Emiley Bargo is a relational person who had an emptiness that only Jesus could completely and permanently fill. We encourage everyone to listen to Episode 76 in conjunction with this episode to get a complete understanding of a father-daughter relationship and to know how Jesus fills our ultimate need for a covenant relationship. Emiley was six years old when her father, Steve Lane, was incarcerated. She knew, even at that young age, that her father loved her unconditionally. Jesus loves us unco...
Aug 17, 2021•37 min•Ep. 82
After spending several years blaming “god” for many things that were not right in his life, Steve Lane found a new life in Christ. Steve learned that the “god” he blamed in early life was not the God of the Bible. After spending many years incarcerated for his alcohol addiction, he found a friend who invited him to church. Through his friend’s persistence and friendship, Steve learned about the God of the Bible and what His Son did on the cross to pay for our sins. It is through that relationshi...
Aug 12, 2021•34 min•Ep. 81
Anita Santoyo is a successful person who overcame several life challenges. One of her greatest challenges was overcoming the thought of not having value because she did not fit a “stereotypical” life of college degrees, marriage, number of children, and several other images some people have of success. Anita has an entrepreneurial spirit in that she has ideas that meet other people’s needs. As she explains, she sometimes reaches a low point in her thoughts because she is uncertain if she can mak...
Aug 10, 2021•31 min•Ep. 80
Kawan Glover is an African-American who has experienced various forms of discrimination. He is confident enough to know who he is while striving to help others achieve their greatest potential. Kawan’s remedy to most relational problems is to try to establish a meaningful dialogue. If possible, have that dialogue in-person to know and experience each other’s facial expressions. Listen more than talk to understand the other person. Frequently, people will know your true intent for a genuine relat...
Aug 05, 2021•32 min•Ep. 79
Kawan Glover joins us for a second episode during his recovery from a third surgery to remove a cavernous malformation. He developed resiliency after a seven-year period that he describes as being latent in his youth. How can we be resilient to 1) Negative statements made to or about us, 2) Recovering from failures, 3) A dysfunctional upbringing, or 4) Failed relationships? Everyone’s situation is unique. However, resilience has some common traits. Let’s learn from Kawan.
Aug 03, 2021•28 min•Ep. 78
Coach James Johnson is the defensive line coach for the Calvert High School football team. He came from a broken family in which his parents divorced when he was 12 years old. Raised in the “hood,” he could have followed others to a life of drugs and other illicit activity on his street. However, his mother’s values prevailed along with a teacher and his police officer football coach, who were all three instrumental in his life to instill values and courage. He is passing forward his life experi...
Jul 29, 2021•31 min•Ep. 77
Donna Tashjian joins us for the sixth episode, where she explains the impact the Apostle Paul made on her with his message to the Church of Corinth in his second letter to the Corinthians. In this verse, he encourages his readers to focus on positive matters. The unseen influences on people’s lives are frequently negative. Those negative influences can include the media, people whose values are extremely aberrant from ours, toxic people, and those people who are fundamentally unhappy. As we are ...
Jul 27, 2021•29 min•Ep. 76
Kawan Glover describes the inception of and his current progress of overcoming the effects of three surgeries to correct and recover from a cavernous malformation of the brain. At the time of this recording, the left side of his mouth is numb while having about 40% mobility with his right side. Some people might declare themselves a victim of this type of surgery, its effects, and the recovery time. Kawan has chosen to have a very positive attitude. Listen for the resolve of his resilience. His ...
Jul 22, 2021•26 min•Ep. 75
Rick Bradley had an early life of feeling inadequate in many areas of his life. He turned to substance abuse to overcome these inadequate feelings. He learned that drinking was merely temporary relief. His mother had the temerity to ask for professional help because of her father’s alcoholism. Through her efforts and perseverance, Rick is now free of his past. He is passing forward his life experience by encouraging other families to seek professional help early. Do not feel ashamed, and never a...
Jul 20, 2021•41 min•Ep. 74
Donna Tashjian describes her life journey of forgiveness. As she details in Episode #1, she had a traumatic childhood that robbed her of what would consider a normal childhood. She describes her feelings of and journey to achieve a life of freedom. She describes forgiveness as freeing yourself of the past without feeling the person who wronged you is held blameless. She also describes the freedom of the past as being a life journey. That journey to freedom is very personal. That is, she admonish...
Jul 15, 2021•31 min•Ep. 73
Donna Tashjian experienced a major trust betrayal early in her life. For a period of her life, she could not trust males or females. Through this very difficult part of her life, she has learned the journey to re-establish trust. She is helping others establish and re-establish trust through her life experience. Trust is established through a life journey that involves working through emotions while learning to believe in people. Establishing trust requires time. Re-establishing trust requires m...
Jul 13, 2021•27 min•Ep. 72
Donna Tashjian discusses in this episode emotions that become feelings. Do those feelings accurately define who we are? Not necessarily. Those feelings may not accurately represent our values. Listen closely to the four aspects of gratitude, self-talk affirmations, self-care such as talk with God, and inspiration as it relates to our feelings. We must be intentional about our self-awareness to ensure we know if our emotions accurately reflect our values. Contact Donna at iVibrantLiving.com....
Jul 08, 2021•28 min•Ep. 71
Donna Tashjian, ordained Pastor and certified coach, has taken the best of her storied past and is applying life lessons to her and other’s future. Awareness is an important aspect of our lives, as Donna explains. Being aware of who we are and what inspires us to action are very important aspects of determining if we are performing at our full potential. Some of us allow past events to dominate our thoughts when circumstances provoke those thoughts. Those thoughts, at times, can negatively domin...
Jul 06, 2021•31 min•Ep. 70
Donna Tashjian became pregnant when she was 14 years old through an unfortunate circumstance. Because of this, she was socially shunned and left partially to defend herself. Rather than choose to be a victim of her circumstance or rely on others to support her, she became determined to become self-sufficient while overcoming many of her self-assessed inadequacies. Through her relationship with God and Jesus Christ, her Lord and Savior, she gained strength knowing He is with her through this life...
Jul 01, 2021•33 min•Ep. 69
Matt Koroncai was in third grade when he started a drug habit. He thought drugs would help him overcome the empty feeling of no relationships or connectedness. He longed for acceptance. For a time, drugs helped him overcome those feelings of deep inadequacies. That, combined with a strong will of defiance, led to a life of addiction. Through a friend he didn’t even like, that person chose to invest in Matt’s life and lead him out of his life of dependency. As of this writing, Matt is celebrating...
Jun 29, 2021•42 min•Ep. 68
Dan Bartol felt disconnected as a teenager. To gain acceptance, he turned to alcohol and drugs that led to a life of dependency. He endured this dependency for nearly 16 years. As of this recording, he is celebrating nine years of freedom from chemical dependency. He is now serving at one of the Recovery Centers of America, dedicating his life to showing he cares by serving others to help them overcome a similar dependency. Dan describes himself as a new man because of his freedom and relationsh...
Jun 24, 2021•42 min•Ep. 67
