Simple Steps Real Change on Empower Radio

Are you consumed by the “What Ifs”? Have you been knocked to the ground and are wondering when the other shoe is going to drop? Do you live in fear of what might happen tomorrow? Next week? Next year? On today’s show, the second in a 8 part series about life’s challenges, Cheryl takes on fear in ways you may have never have considered it. Forget the sound bites about what fear does to your life and tune in for the Simple Steps to help you put fear in its place… out of your life. Learn why it makes your challenges worse than they already are and how to release it so it can’t hurt you. Find out how to move forward and put distance between you and your challenges by rendering it powerless to hurt you forevermore. If you fear not being able to pay the bills, fear being alone when your spouse had died, fear not being able to find a new job you are not alone. Millions of others have made it through challenges just like you are going through now. Discover how to leverage your strength and banished fear from your life.

Has your life been turned upside by by the worst life has to offer? Are you reeling from the reality of your divorce, job loss, or any other life changing event that you never wanted or expected? On this episode, Cheryl begins an eight part series Challenges - Surviving to Thriving the Worst Life Has To Offer. In this first show learn how to turn off the fear and tune into your new reality. Discover how to give yourself the time you need to understand the facts not the fears of your new reality. Discover how a simple shift in your focus can move you from the depths of darkness to a place where you allow your faith to free you. Amass the simple steps to deal with the best and worst intentions of others in a way that empowers you.

We live our lives thinking about the next thing. The next job, the next chore, the next paycheck… the next. Fears and worries overtake us and the time we have now is lost in the stress and churn of the past or the future. Today’s guest, Dawn Hafner, is here to help us understand the gift we give ourselves and everyone around us by “Being” where you are at this very moment. An advocate for letting go of the crazy scenarios we create in our mind Dawn will share with you the simple strategies she’s developed in her own life dealing with everything from health challenges to career stresses. This single mother of two teenage boys knows first hand how easy it is to get caught up in the events that pull you off into so many directions that you lost track of what’s really important. Join Cheryl as she and Dawn talk about how the blessing of being.

When your world turns upside down how to you gain your ground and start over again at a time when you thought you’d be settled, retiring and worry free? How do you come to grips with life changing events that make you want to run for cover and keep running away from the nightmare you never had until you were living it? Today’s guest, Meredith Maran, found herself uprooted from her home and living on friends couches when her marriage broke apart and she needed to support herself. Returning to a traditional job at the age of 60 where youth prevailed she came face to face with a culture that considered her irrelevant. It seems like our challenges come in waves and we don’t have time to adjust to one when we’re knocked down yet again. If you’re looking for inspiration to get back up and again and discover that there’s more to your life than the fall you’re not going to want to miss this show!

Do you work at your regular job and feel unfulfilled? Do you have a dream but set it aside because it’s not practical or realistic? Are you willing to take a chance that you know will make you happy even if it flies in the face of conventional wisdom? Today’s guest, world traveler and entrepreneur, Kate Yanov stepped out of the life she thought she was suppose to live to grab the brass ring of her dreams. Moving to Hawaii because it called to her, eventually leaving a successful career in marketing, Kate turned her desire to travel into a business, actually several businesses. She is an Amazon #1 Best Selling author and an adventurous soul joining us to share how leaving the world of expectations led to a place in life that dreams are made of.

How you’re holding yourself back from what you want most. Are you your own worst enemy? Are you just afraid of taking any step in case it’s the wrong one? What is it that is keeping you from being successful, happy, fulfilled in life? We often times think we’re ready to be more than we are now but we’re not moving anywhere. We’re stuck in a place that we’re tired of being yet we struggle with the very questions that will free us. On today’s show Cheryl welcomes back Josh Ubaldi for a candid discussion about how we convert what’s holding us back into the energy to propel us forward. Learn how to blast past your resistance and with it how to take positive steps towards those goals that are tugging at your soul. Join us to learn how to move beyond the “why's & what if’s” and embrace the “why not me?”

Have you always wanted to be able to quiet your mind and find a little peace in your life? Do you give up on trying to meditate because it just seems so complicated and not intuitive? Do you really even know what meditation is? In these days of craziness all around us finding our center is even more important than ever. On this show Cheryl welcomes master yoga and meditation practitioners Rob Dorgan and Steve Bolia. Tune in to learn about what mediation can do for you and how to make time for creating a meditation practice that works for you. Discover the simplicity of quieting your mind and accessing the part of you that’s been drowned out by the noise in your every day life. If you’re ready join us and take a simple step toward your own peace.

Do you do your best to spread positivity far and wide? Are you normally that way and your friends and family can’t help but do the same? Was there someone in your life who influenced you and your proud to be like them? Or are you not anything of these and want to be? Today’s guest is choreographer and coach Sandi Duncan is a role model for what her grandmother taught her as a child - that seeing the positive in this life makes it so much better. If you’re ready shift your attitude and your life into a more positive light, if you’re ready to laugh and understand it will help you with your challenges, if you’re ready to take a Simple Step to a better day tune in to this conversation with this masters of positivity and hope and get your juju back.

Do you need a cheerleader for your life? Someone who will pump you up and inspire you to take that next Simple Step that you know will move you to a new level in life? Are you waiting for a sign or even a person because then you’ll be able to do, be or have what you dream of? How’s that working for you? Patricia Love will share how shifting your mindset, your attitude is the first Simple Step to catapulting your dreams forward. A Cheerleader of Life and the creator of RahRah Real Estate this life coach and real estate professional believes that every failure becomes a friend and focusing in on finding the positive in every situation catapults us to a happier and more successful life.

Have you ever had a feeling it the pit of your stomach or coming right from your heart and you knew something before it ever happened? Do you have a sense of what is best for you but you’re not sure if you should believe it or chalk it up to your fears? If you’re ready to appreciate and tune into to that part of you that is both your beacon and your bellwether join Cheryl today as she welcomes Lisa Campion. Lisa is a psychic, counselor and energy healer who helps those that want to develop the ability to trust their own intuition and to make choices that feel right to them. Once believed to be a magical phenomenon Lisa will help us to understand how our intuition is the what we were born with and we can learn to use it to create a better life journey. Discover on today’s show the gift you were born with and learn how use it to take your next Simple Step to a happier place in life.

Do you just life happen to you or do you have plans, intentions? Are you sure they are intentions and not expectations? Are you u frustrated with where you are at this moment and don’t know why the simple steps you’ve taken haven’t taken you where you expected to be? Then tune in as Cheryl joins returning guest and dear friend Jordan Gray helps us to understand that what we may be doing is actually moves us further aways from what we wanted to get closer to. In his upcoming book “Graceful Intentions for Powerful Change” show us how with shifting our perspective and letting go our our expectations we can move closer to the light and the realization of what we are passionate to do, to become and to understand.

Have you ever had that feeling in the pit of your stomach because the stress in your life has hit an all time high? Do you quit eating or eat the wrong things for you when you’re stressed? Do you just feel sick to your stomach when things aren’t going right in your life? Stress takes a toll on our bodies and guest Pamela Nathan join us for this show to help us understand the chain of events that gets us to this point. Tune in to learn about the latest discoveries about the health of our guts and how through caring for our physical self we can help our emotional self.

Are you tired of the stress, adversity and unkindness in our country and the world today? Do you want to join the movement to lead with love and spread kindness far and wide? You’re not going to want to miss this show. Cheryl welcomes Dr. Julie Krull who’s movement “Love More” is on a mission to bring us together with courageous expression to ground the force of love with intention for the Good of the Whole. An advocate and leader in raising the consciousness of the planet Dr. Julie is passionate about inspiring and cultivating connections that support an enduring, unified expression of Humanity's creative potential for the good of the whole. Tune in the discover how every individual can make help raise the consciousness of the planet and lead with love.

Do you know where life is taking you? Have you realized the purpose of your life’s journey or do you just feel you are floundering? My guest today says she was tired of feeling lost and alone, and I wanted to heal everything that had been in the way of being my true self in the world. A life long student of personal growth she had a spiritual awaking and journaled her way through life and most recently published her book “Gathering The Fragments Of Myself.” Living through repeated patterns of abusive relationship Jan knew it was her responsibility to save herself. If you’ve been waiting for the white knight on a horse to save you tune into the show and discover how Jan found her own power and is here to help you find yours too.

Have you learned to love yourself or do you believe that it takes two? Do you feel sad and hopeless because on this Valentine’s Day you are alone? Whether you’re going solo or in a committed relationship love starts with you. In this show Cheryl welcomes Simple Steps Real Change columnist and “Heal For Real” creator Janet D. Thomas who shares how to nourish yourself emotionally and learn how loving yourself first is the key to your own happiness. Learn how putting you at the top of your own priority list creates the space for more in your life.