Erin Clements continues her evaluated life experience by discussing life boundaries. When her counselor asked her to define her life boundaries, she was taken aback without a response. As she reflects on her life, she now realizes her failed marriage was due, in part, to her lack of boundaries and her confidence to confront her former husband. Facing others remains an area of growth in her journey, moving forward and upward. She is passing along her positive life learning experiences as she grow...
Mar 16, 2023•41 min•Ep. 250
The Cooper Culture is a catalyst to transform a person’s mindset of quiet desperation to one of confident assurance. A catalyst in this context inspires action. We do this through: · Public speaking · Partnering with principle-based organizations · Our “Overcomers Overcoming” podcast series Many people of all socio-economic strata are experiencing varying degrees of quiet desperation as manifested by expressing or feeling anxiety, loneliness, uncertainty, unworthiness, and other forms of low sel...
Mar 15, 2023•7 min•Ep. 261
Erin Clements continues to chronicle her life testimony of recovering from a traumatic divorce. After several months of experiencing grief and emotional turmoil, Erin purposed to seek forgiveness to begin her journey to recovery. Initially, she wasn’t sure what forgiveness “looked” or felt like. Might forgiving the offender marginalize the hurt and sin? Through prayer and therapy, she experienced freedom from the stress of harboring bitterness. After all, Jesus felt the ultimate agony with His d...
Mar 14, 2023•42 min•Ep. 249
Charles Smith felt overwhelming grief from his father's death when he was 11 years old, followed by the deaths of his grandfather and uncle. He did not have an inner circle of friends in whom he could confide. As a result, he bottled up his emotions to the point of thinking ending his life might be the best solution. Thankfully, his friends engaged in his life at the right time to avert this outcome. Charles was very quiet and subdued at the time. His friends merely chose to be with him for no r...
Mar 09, 2023•33 min•Ep. 248
Ron and Marty Cooper discuss taking action in the context of the account of the man wanting to go into the pool of Bethsaida. Jesus healed the man and told him to begin walking. We cannot continue doing what we have done in the past and expect different results. If we are not getting fulfillment with what we are doing, we must take action to do something different. God promises to direct the path of those who surrender to Him, and submitting to Him is the first action to bring about better resul...
Mar 08, 2023•12 min•Ep. 258
Erin Clements continues her life testimony with a focus on trust. Trust requires a lifetime to build, a moment to lose, and forever to repair. Enduring trust is earned – it is never demanded, and it is an essential value and character trait. So, how can you know if a person is trustworthy? Erin shares her experience while offering consideration for others to consider. The axiom “pay me now or pay me later” as relates to time to establish or reestablish trust applies. There are no shortcuts to es...
Mar 07, 2023•41 min•Ep. 247
Erin Clements continues her life journey of recovering from her marital trauma. She evaluated her life experience and shares her lessons learned. As a Christian, this life experience devastated her. However, God brought her through this and has made her a better person despite the devastation. She explains how God can strengthen and provide opportunities through life experiences. Through her life experience, we can learn about God’s desire for us to have meaningful, lasting relationships.
Mar 02, 2023•44 min•Ep. 246
Ron and Marty discuss empathy and how we can effectively relate to others without enabling poor behavior. Empathy is identifying with a struggle or pain a person is experiencing. While doing so, we want to help them with a hand-up without being the handout. The handout mindset could enable a person to continue with poor thinking or behavior that brings them despair or anguish. We should want to inspire people to become self-sufficient and not dependent on others. There is an art to discerning th...
Mar 01, 2023•8 min•Ep. 255
Anthony Davis is on a life journey to transition (aka pivoting) to a new life experience. It is a matter of determining what provides fulfillment and income to sustain his desired lifestyle. His journey considers his commitment to his wife, who has multiple sclerosis. He candidly describes some perceived limiting beliefs that can keep him from pursuing his passions. Even with 62 years of life experience, retirement and pursuing an easy path are not options.
Feb 28, 2023•38 min•Ep. 245
Damian White is a poetry writer who has pivoted through various life encounters to identify and refine his strengths and fulfillment.. He authored the poetry book I Made A Place For You , which is his debut collection. It is available at https://www.amazon.com/Made-Place-You-Damian-White/dp/1639885706/. After battling two bouts of homelessness, he channeled those experiences into poetry to heal a fractured identity. When not writing, he will likely be exploring art galleries, playing tug-of-war...
Feb 23, 2023•43 min•Ep. 244
Ron and Marty begin a weekly solo podcast with thoughts to consider based on evaluated life experiences. Ron and Marty have experienced thoughts resulting from statements made to and/or about them that have, through trigger statements, evoked thoughts of the past. The words may have been meant well; however, our personality or disposition at the moment of those statements caused us to process those statements negatively. Those negative thoughts can dominate our conscious thinking unless we are a...
Feb 22, 2023•16 min•Ep. 252
Erin Clements continues sharing her life journey of overcoming the trauma of learning her former husband was sexually active with women outside of their marriage. This revelation was devastating, uprooting nearly everything she had believed about God, life, and marriage. Through her devotion to God, He gave her the confidence to advance her life and the courage to develop a support team to help her cope with what would necessarily be a new life. God is equipping her to start a support ministry f...
Feb 21, 2023•42 min•Ep. 243
Amanda Kirby experienced the hanging suicide of her 10th-grade son, Tyler Matthew Bland. For those who might say, “I have no idea what to say to him/her,” Amanda shares her life experience with the desire to help; others cope with this type of life trauma. She speaks candidly about her emotions, having experienced her son’s life trauma on May 12, 2016. Everyone has their process of overcoming grief, and empathy is one of the most helpful factors. Tyler’s life and remembrances are documented in t...
Feb 16, 2023•43 min•Ep. 242
Erin Clements was committed to marriage permanence when she learned of her husband’s sexual infidelity. The revelation stunned Erin to the point of total devastation. For a while, she felt she had lost her life purpose. She felt betrayed. She wondered if God still loved her because He allowed her to experience this break in trust. “How can I possibly recover from this?” Through therapy and the trust of close friends, Erin is now purposing her life to help others overcome similar experiences. Kno...
Feb 14, 2023•45 min•Ep. 241
Charles Smith experienced and overcame several life setbacks but is now dedicating his life to passing forward how to become resilient and advance beyond those setbacks. His father owned multiple Nursing Homes in the Worcester, MA, area, which would become his legacy. His family lost everything for reasons he never determined when he was three years old. His mother died when he was five years old, and his father died when he was 11, leaving him as an orphan. His father's death caused a shock res...
Feb 09, 2023•35 min•Ep. 241
We continue our journey to learn the positive attributes of Nicholas through his parents, Chris and Loise Letchford. Each of us has a learning style, and our learning is best advanced by learning and adapting to our and others’ learning styles. Nicholas had a negative first-grade experience when a teacher described him as having learning difficulties. Through perseverance and understanding, Chris and Lois adapted to Nicholas and inspired him to learn. He, Christ, and Lois had a transformational ...
Feb 07, 2023•38 min•Ep. 239
Gina Urrichio continues her insights and life-learning experiences with Ally, her autistic and artistic daughter. Each person advances with a customized mix of flexibility, regime, interaction, and connected communication. Everyone seems to understand love and care when those attributes originate from the heart. Gina documented some of her experiences in the books, “The Art and Voice of Autism,” and. “Through the Seasons.” You can learn about these books at https://www.motherasana.com/.
Feb 02, 2023•38 min•Ep. 238
Janna Macik, through her persistence, relentless passion, and strong faith in God, learned to communicate with her non-verbal daughter (Sharalene) through sign language and other sensory receptors. The communication journey began with determining an effective communication method. After some study, sign language seemed to become the best communication method. Every family member learned sign language. However, does Sharalene understand to engage in dialogue? Learn how, through sensory receptors,...
Jan 31, 2023•40 min•Ep. 233
Lin Hapner continues her life testimony in this episode by explaining other aspects of her past that led to her increased reliance on God to bring her to a healthy self-image and confidence. David, Lin’s husband, was her human catalyst to increase her reliance on God to overcome her past feelings. For some, her life choices could have led some to give up on their marriage. Instead, she and David chose to work through and allow God to transform each of them and lead them on a journey of reconcili...
Jan 26, 2023•39 min•Ep. 232
Dominic “Slice” Teich chronicles his journey of overcoming doubt and other limiting beliefs to become one of today’s F-16 pilots. Through his life experiences, he has determined his purpose and why. Having that mindset (personified as the single-seat mindset), we, too, can determine our purpose and why. Coaching, mentoring, and fellowship with others with the attitude of advancing others helped Slice refine his life purpose. You can learn more about Dominic “Slice” Teich at https://www.singlesea...
Jan 24, 2023•41 min•Ep. 231
Lin Hapner describes a portion of her past in the context of the church people’s response to her previous life. She was and still is recovering from some of her past decisions,. Her hope was and is to be wholly accepted to feel worthy. Some in the church did not accept what she acknowledges were poor decisions of her past. Her desire to be accepted nd have others bear her burden for transformation was dashed when people judged her instead. Rather than be the target of criticism, she chose to lea...
Jan 19, 2023•47 min•Ep. 230
Diana Indries and Scott Allen discuss how we can know a person before we start dating. Too often, we focus on the physical attributes of a person, and the physical will likely change with time. However, our values tend to remain constant throughout life, and we can adapt to physical changes more quickly than we can cope with disparate values. Scott devised an innovative game to help us learn each other’s values. It is very interactive to help the participants become aware of topics they would no...
Jan 12, 2023•41 min•Ep. 228
Lois Letchford is a model for transforming a negative into a positive. She became aware of her abilities which inspired her to learn her son’s abilities to achieve what others thought was unachievable. Learning can be very laborious when teaching and learning are “forced” onto a person without adapting to their learning style. However, learning can be fun when we learn our and others’ learning styles. Lois and her husband dedicated themselves to learning their son to help him achieve a doctorate...
Jan 10, 2023•39 min•Ep. 227
James Ortiz was born in Nicaragua in poverty without a dad in his life. As he reflects on his life, there are aspects he wishes weren’t so. He knew there was something more to life than what he was living. There was a portion of his life when he felt very unworthy. However, he decided to commit his life to Jesus Christ, who has given him a new life purpose and fulfillment he had been seeking. James is now living a transformed life with a new purpose and vibrance he wants to pass on to others. Th...
Jan 05, 2023•36 min•Ep. 226
Brad Carlson describes how he is living a transformed life having overcome a divorce, home foreclosure, obesity, and a very unhealthy lifestyle. His book “MindStrong: A Step-by-Step Guide for How to Transform Your Life, Raise Your Success, Go Beyond Mental Toughness, and Power Your Way From Ordinary to Extraordinary.” Brad acknowledges he is on a life journey. That journey is a marathon rather than a sprint. He has repurposed his life by taking the good of the past and looking to a brighter futu...
Jan 03, 2023•41 min•Ep. 225
Through expressive writing, David Richman can transform a mind that has been traumatized through any means. David joins us for a third episode to pass forward his life experiences to advance people to get beyond trauma. David is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, trainer, and consultant. Numerous studies document the benefit of stress relief and consequent health benefits. David wrote the books “Cycle of Lives” and “Winning in the Middle of the Pack.” You can learn more about David a...
Dec 29, 2022•36 min•Ep. 224
Janna Macik continues her life learning experience in this second episode by sharing her experience of raising eight children, two of whom have different learning styles. Her daughter, Charalene, was born non-verbal and largely continues that way today. Janna’s and her husband learned to communicate with Charalene through sign language. Learning how to adapt to Charalene while learning sign language and a different communication method was a trying experience. With prayer and God’s wisdom, Janna...
Dec 27, 2022•39 min•Ep. 223
Kevin Palmeri has a backstory that could have kept some people from achieving their best. Rather than focus on what could have been, he has chosen to adopt a life journey that focuses on his unique strengths. His failings have become his railings to a new future. Despite his past and life’s setbacks, Kevin has learned to overcome limiting beliefs and look at everything as an opportunity. After hitting his six-figure income goal, Kevin realized there had to be more. He had the car, the money, the...
Dec 22, 2022•35 min•Ep. 222
Kristy Marie Houle has learned to accept her abusive past without having those hurts define her future. She acknowledges she is on a long-term journey. \Various events or statements can trigger memories of the past. However, she has learned how to process those negative thoughts so they do not dominate her current thinking. She has valuable life experiences to pass on to help others who may be living their past hurts. Kristy acknowledges her relationship with her father and grandmother as two de...
Dec 20, 2022•34 min•Ep. 221
Lois Letchford is a model for transforming a negative into a positive. She became aware of her abilities which inspired her to learn her son’s abilities to achieve what others thought was unachievable—words matter. Some people believe how others characterize us, but some consider such characterizations unwarranted labels. With the right mindset, we can turn negative portrayals into positive actions. Lois did. You can learn more about Lois and Nicholas (her son) at DisruptED TV Education at https...
Dec 15, 2022•34 min•Ep. 220
