****************************** If you'd like to get a $300 dollar package from today's guest for FREE, make sure to listen! ********************************** It’s not every day that Patty has a rock star on her show, but today is that day. Michele Blood was a popular Australian rock singer for years doing long, sold out tours for the fans of her band. But while riding on the tour bus she got into a terrible accident and was hospitalized for months. During this time she discovered the power of l...
Feb 20, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Riches are not about the ‘what,’ but the ‘who.’ That is the philosophy of today's guest Angela Marshall, a motivational speaker, professional writer, columnist, bestselling author, creative consultant, ex-NFL wife and business owner. Angela defines true riches are things that you cannot replace. Family, close friends, and mentors that get you to the best places in your life. As an ex-NFL wife, she took lessons from what she saw in the sports world. Respecting yourself, self-discipline, cooperati...
Feb 13, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Today's guest is giving the best gift that anyone can give, the gift of health and balance. Patty welcomes Beth Shaw, Founder and CEO of YogaFit Training Systems. Beth shares the message of health and wellness, so people can make more informed choices on nutrition, sleep, and how to take care of the their mental, physical, and emotional health. She brings YogaFit to a wide spectrum of clients, from nursing homes to Fortune 500 companies. Beth reminds us that we only have one body in this life, s...
Feb 06, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Today's episode is important for anyone that wants to hear about living your life with more purpose, happiness, gratitude, understanding, and want your life to be in a place where -it's just good. Patty has invited a guest that spreads this wisdom across the podcast platform. Lauren Abrams is the founding member and managing partner of Employee Rights Law and creator and host of the podcast 52 Weeks of Hope. At the start Lauren states that she's dropping the lawyer hat for the day and is here to...
Jan 30, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 5
We all face challenges growing up. Some people let it define them, keeping them stuck, others use the experiences to make them stronger. Today’s guest falls in the latter group. Kevin Cassidy joins Patty today for an inspiring episode. Born with a facial birth defect, he battled a speech impediment and bullying throughout his youth. Throughout that time neither he nor his parents allowed him to be viewed as a victim. Later in life he became a college and pro athlete, a schoolteacher, and highly ...
Jan 23, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 4
It’s a new year and so many people take that opportunity to start fresh. What is better than a fresh, clean, organized home? It’s not easy sometimes, but today’s guest is a professional at doing just that. Julie Coraccio is an award-winning professional organizer, author, speaker, and certified life coach. The clutter that surrounds us each day may not be as haphazard as you might think. Decluttering is part physical and part psychological. Julie talks about practical, bite-sized strategies to g...
Jan 16, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 3
So many of us think that we are being kind, good people by helping others with whatever needs they might have. But when does it cross the line of being detrimental to our own wellbeing? Today’s guest, Janice Burt, aka Spanish Janice, is a Spanish interpreter, voiceover artist, yoga instructor, author and inspirational speaker, and is here to give you the knowledge and insight of how to recognize the issue of people-pleasing, and more importantly, how to break away from it, to become the person y...
Jan 09, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 02!!! Thank you for making the show such a success. Today we are kicking off the new year and new season with a guest that is making the rounds on national tv because of the impact that he's making in people's lives. Today Patty welcomes Yuri Williams, Founder of A Future Superhero and Friends. After losing his mother and suffering years of depression, he created A Future Superhero and Friends, a non-profit organization helping to lift up underserved and under protected individ...
Jan 02, 2023•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Today Patty is doing a special solo episode to close out a successful 2022. She shares some of her best holiday memories, from her dad's unique gift giving, being a pen pal with an elf, the best gift she ever received, and an almost unbelievable story of the most disastrous holiday vacation you may ever hear. Thank you so much to all the listeners who have made the show such a success. Let's keep the momentum going into 2023 and give the gift of good news by sharing this podcast with family and ...
Dec 26, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 51
You know from listening to the show that Patty has lots of connections and brings extraordinary guests each week, but she has outdone herself this time. She has scored an exclusive interview with Santa Claus, yes, ol' St. Nick himself. No spoilers here, but listen to find out how Santa began his life of gift giving, how he delivers all those gifts in one night, just how old Santa is, and a behind the scenes look at the work the elves do, the reindeer, and some of the most heartwarming requests f...
Dec 19, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 50
While Patty takes a brief break in December, she is bringing you some fun-size episodes leading up to the launch of season 2. Listen to a heartwarming story, think about friends you want to reconnect with, get a little silly, and listen to a holiday song brought to you by Patty herself! Your Daily Chocolate is in the top 25% of most shared podcasts worldwide, so let's boost it up even higher. Take 10 seconds today and share the show with some friends that you know will love it, and make 2023 an ...
Dec 12, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Today's guest started a highly successful organization with hard work, agility, and prioritizing the things that matter most. Leah talks about the long hours she would put in to build her profitable business, but saw the time with her husband and family crumble. She knew that she had to make a change, but she didn’t want to make it a choice between a “happy marriage OR a profitable business.” She wanted both. She learned to schedule the most important things in her life first. She arranged her t...
Dec 05, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 48
No matter who you are, there is probably some area of your life where you feel you could use a boost of confidence. Today Patty welcomes an extraordinary guest, Tamara Pflug, a fun and confidence coach! She didn’t start with the confidence she has today. She was caught up in people-pleasing and caring too much about what other people would think of her. One of the most important parts of her style is that fun is in the forefront. She reminds us that life is too short not to be more relaxed and l...
Nov 28, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 47
After years of marriage or being committed to a partner, there can be times when we feel some drifting apart, and not feeling as connected. The usual remedy is better communication and opening up about the changes in our lives - but it can be difficult to initiate. Today's guest Diana Indries, Creator and CEO of Better Topics, has spent years perfecting a fun and effective game to kickstart this process, and achieve real, meaningful results. Diana began her career as a manager in the one of the ...
Nov 21, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Many of us have had struggles, and followed a much more winding path than we first imagined, and that is true of today’s guest Kimberly Spencer, best-selling author, podcaster, and high performance coach. Her winding path came from her ability to follow her intuition. She credits her parents being entrepreneurs as helping her to have a “go for it” attitude, to go with her gut, and be open to taking risks. She started out wanting to pursue acting and the arts, and instead of going the college rou...
Nov 14, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Today’s guest Terry Tucker has played many roles in his life, marketing executive, police officer, SWAT Team negotiator, and basketball coach to name a few. But he never expected to have the role of cancer patient. Terry talks about all rollercoaster of emotions that occurred after his diagnosis, and then finally choosing to come to terms with it and fight for his life, and then work to inspire others. Terry is the author of 'Sustainable Excellence: The Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon an...
Nov 07, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Patty continues to bring impressive, high-profile guests on the show. Today she welcomes, author Joe LeValley to the show to discuss his amazing journey of becoming a successful crime fiction author late in life. He began as a daily newspaper reporter, covering lots of crime cases including murders, which planted seeds in his mind about trying to write a crime novel. He then switched to working in communications in healthcare, but still writing in his free time, he decided to take a crack at tha...
Oct 31, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 43
You may think you had some hard times growing up. You may think you just don’t have enough time during the day to get it all done. Today’s guest will help to bring all those things into perspective. Patty welcomes Dr. Katrina Nguyen to the show to share her incredible story. As a toddler and the youngest child of eight, Katrina came with her family to America from Vietnam on her father’s fishing boat, coming close to death a couple times along the way. Her parents had little to no formal learnin...
Oct 24, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Art evokes passion and feeling and transporting you to another place. But artists aren't always born - they are often made. Along they way, they may have find themselves in very unartistic circumstances. Today's guest is artist, Linda Riesenberg Fisler. While working at Proctor and Gamble she had some very... Interesting roles, but after reaching management, she set off on a new direction that changed her life completely. Feeling the pull of her creative side, Linda headed to USC for film, and t...
Oct 17, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Remember the days of your youth, when everything was new, exciting, and bright? What if you could recapture even a part of that again in your life now? Patty brings you a duo today that may just make it possible. Thomas and Landa Penisten, creators of the hit book, A Time For Colors: A Book About Joy, join the show. The beauty of this book is that it crosses all generations. Children, adult parents, and the elderly. Everyone finds something true, real and meaningful from it. Thomas talks about h...
Oct 10, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 10
When treating veterans with PTSD, your first thought is probably not farms or cows. But today’s guest is changing lives using just those things. Patty welcomes Marvin Frink, wounded veteran and owner/operator of Briarwood Cattle Farm in North Carolina. Marvin begins the episode by explaining the physical setup of the farm that is uniquely designed to be comfortable for veterans with PTSD. He then explains how it isn’t just working with the animals, but talking with them, leading them, and allowi...
Oct 03, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Get ready to have some fun today with today’s guest. Comedian, author, and motivational speaker Marklyn Johnson joins the show. This high energy episode will keep you thinking and laughing the whole way through. Marklyn begins by talking about his childhood upbringing and the role of his no-nonsense father that helped him to grow and learn through a bit of tough love and building resilience. He gets into his issues with authority, not fitting in to the corporate mold, and not liking being told w...
Sep 26, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 38
So many times in life we can get in a rut, get down, feel angry or upset about our situation. The fact is that everyone feels this way from time to time, but what if there was a way to set your life on a new path simply through gratitude. It's a bit more complex than that, so Patty has brought on a wonderful guest to really dive into the subject and how you can benefit from it. Deborah Hawkins, author, blogger, and coach isn't your run-of-the-mill, over-the-top, rah rah!!!! type coach. She grew ...
Sep 19, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 37
What better way to start the week than with a story of a strong determined woman that helped her husband save tens of millions of lives? Patty delivers with her amazing guest Bee Bloeser. Bee is a speaker and the author of the incredible book, ‘ VACCINES & BAYONETS: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War' . She recounts her memories and experiences of her family, including her two children, during their time in Western Africa helping to eradicate smallpox. She ta...
Sep 12, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Our electronic devices help us in many ways every day. They also distract and consume too much of our time many days. When it comes to kids and devices, it’s a much more difficult circumstance. Kids with appropriately set guidelines and rules can go about their day productively, but some children find themselves easily sucked into a device addiction which can wreak havoc on their sleep, diet, behavior, and social growth. Fortunately, Patty knows someone who can help. She welcomes Mike Jacobus, a...
Sep 05, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 35
You've come to listen for good news and inspiring stories. Well today, Patty's guest has both of those in spades. Andrew Malcolm is an author, father, and veteran foreign and national correspondent with long experience at the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and currently writing a weekly national politics column at RedState.com among other topics. Today Andrew utilizes his exemplary story telling and gives us a glimpse into some of his most memorable assignments, relationships and connections ...
Aug 29, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 34
For those of us that live in cities or the suburbs, it’s always so gratifying to see and be able to visit large, picturesque preserved natural areas. Patty’s guest today is someone that works every day to ensure those spaces are kept safe for communities in California’s East Bay area. Linus Eukel is the Executive Director of the John Muir Land Trust. He oversees a budget of 50 million dollars, and the group has now preserved almost 4000 acres of land in the area. Linus discusses the mission of t...
Aug 22, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 33
There is one universal truth we all can agree on. We all grow older. Today Patty welcomes author, humorist, and memoirist, Ruth Yunker to talk about living vivaciously no matter your age. Ruth discusses the importance of staying curious and trying new things. She is taking on new sports and even going back to sports she did as a kid, while also trying her hand at modeling, She continues explaining the benefits of exercise both physically and mentally, and how therapy can keep you in a place of b...
Aug 15, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Patty continues to bring A-list guests to the podcast. Today, senior advisor and a Chief of Staff in the Reagan administration, James Rosebush joins the show. He had unprecedented access to all of the behind the scenes, inner workings of the White House at the time. James and Patty discuss how Reagan changed the way that the president was viewed because of his communication and leadership. Reagan had a powerful way of lifting people up and making them feel better about themselves and the country...
Aug 08, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 31
New parents know that those first couple of months are full of sleepless nights, getting up and down with feeding and changing. But after six months, getting up every hour, today's guest knew she needed something to help her baby sleep through the night. Not finding anything that worked, she created her own solution - a weighted sleep sack. Like a miniature, wearable version of a weighted blanket for adults, she thought it might just work. And work it did. Listen to the incredible difference it ...
Aug 01, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 30
