Stories, Inspirations and Moving Forward
By Sarah Ayers
My name is Sarah. I am an author, parenting mentor, podcast host and mommy to three kids and an incredible English bulldog.
Episode 57: The Pain of Moving Forward
Episode 55: The Craft of Character Creation, Chatting with Author AG Flitcher
Episode 55: Lost Opportunities Due to Fear
Episode 54: Kindness When You Need it the Most
Episode 54: Mark Mears, The Purposeful Growth Revolution, Changing the World with Your Life's Work
The Story of Two Highschool Sweethearts, Episode 53 with Author Jeanne Gormick
Episode 52: Setting Your Hopes High
Rough draft for episode 52
Episode 51, Procrastinating, Playing and New Projects
Episode 50: Inside of the Scarcity Mentality
Episode 48: Loving the Life You Live
Episode 47: A Positive Spin on Rejection
Episode 47: Giving Yourself Space
Episode 46: Seeing Those Who are Suffering
Pushing Through the Odds to Create a New Beginning.
Another Perspective of the Rainbow with Rachael Poffenroth
The Story Behind My Book
The World Doesn't Need Perfect People
Reframing Your Story and Taking Time to Heal
Bonus episodes 3: Lara Elijah's Mom, Understanding Junior High
Bonus Episode: David's Story, First Love
Special Episode: Strong Mothers Strong Sons
Life Happens, A Missed Appointment
Christmas Episode!! Finding Your Reason
Episode 36: Looking in Through the Window
Conversation with Mohsin identifying your clients & designing multi tiered programs.
The Biggest Compliment
To This Day
First Thing in the Morning, Three Chapters from The Making of Mia
Chapter 31: The Words that Saved Me
Chapter 30: Jessica, The Girl Who Did Not Have Enough
Chapter 29: Connor's Sister: Noticing Children Who Don't Cause Any Trouble
Chapter 28: Taking the Time to Fly So High with Charity
Chapter 27: The Boy She Loved Very, Very Much
Chapter 26: Malachi, The Baby with Two Stories
Chapter 25: Choosing Another Chapter
Chapter 24: Where Broken Hearts Go
Chapters 21, 22 and 23
Chapter 19 & 20
Chapters 16 and 17 of The Making of Mia
Family Money Matters, Sarah and Nyree
One of the main lessons I have learned that just because plans don't always come to fruition as planned, they still can end up nicely. My husband says just don't get too attached to what you plan and I quite agree.
I stayed in bed longer than I planned and missed my scheduled interview. Thankfully my sweet co-host Nyree was able to join me to chat about our planned topic even though our guest was not able to join us. Hopefully she will be able to guest another time.
On this episode we refer to a youtuber that I have followed for a while. Her name is Jordan Page and the video we refer to can be found here.
Thanks for following us!!
Join us next Saturday. Our planned guest talks about designing a coaching program. But... I am not making any promises. If he can't make it, we will talk amongst ourselves again!
And... I am planning on continuing to put out a daily reading of the rough draft of my upcoming book The Making of Mia!
Chapter 13, 14 and 15 of my book!
Read my rough draft with me!
Not Just A China Doll, Sara Fowler
November 26, 2021
Thanksgiving Greeting from Sarah And Nyree
Happy Thanksgiving from both of us!!!
Though Australia (where Nyree lives) does not have the holiday Thanksgiving, it is still worth taking a moment to think about gratitude.
For me (Sarah) practicing gratitude is what has made everything possible.
We are excited to put out our Saturday morning episode. It is called No Longer a China Doll with Sarah Fowler as our guest. We are going to learn about developing self-care, but also hear an incredible story of healing and rising out of an impossible situation.
Slowly Building Up, Nyree Whittaker
I think I may just have found my co-host!!
What a lovely visit with a gracious (my kids got a bit loud mid-way through our chat) guest. I learned a lot and really enjoyed myself.
Nyree has her own podcast, which is called Stolen Our Hearts and can be found anywhere, but here is the direct link. Stolen Our Hearts (castos.com)
"The show for ferret lovers, new ferret parents and people who love all sorts of exotic pets and are interested in knowing more about pets and themselves."
Of course we talked about ferrets, but we also chatted about anxiety, her university experience, various environments that she has worked within in her career with children.
Today's show is entitled "Slowly Building Up" because Nyree described her success as allowing herself to grow little by little. She shared her experience of the results of being under immense pressure to make instant growth before given the chance to even fully understand. This is really important in a time of constant change.
A Call from New York
This episode I chatted with a life coach from New York. Her focus is helping women move past tramua, identifying what is blocking them from moving forward in their lives.
"Relaxing" is how I felt through the interview. She was an absolute delight and I hope you are able to listen to the full interview.
The interview was recorded from my cheap laptops audio system and the commentary before and after was done with the sweet bluetooth mic Justin just bought for me last week! I am absolutely in love with it and with it!
Rather than talking down or hating on whatever didn't turn out as I wanted, I would instead like to encourage you to keep moving forward and working on your projects, not waiting to share them with the world until they are perfect.
At the end of the show I shared where I am at in the progress of my book. Once it is published I will add the book to a regular part of the show by reading a section of it and then interviewing with someone with an expertise in whatever that chapter was about.
If you would like to guest on the podcast, please follow this link and you will be able to schedule a time!
This show is now a learning show primarily so I would like for you to be able to teach the listeners something.
This podcast is for you!
I have had this podcast for a full year this month and put out less than ten episodes?
The reason is simply because I have been far, far, far over thinking what it is going to be about, what I am going to say and dumbly asking myself if I am good enough to do it. All the while, doing at least a hundred live facebook videos a day, ten mini-videos in all different platforms, writing a book and doing all kinds of online programs.
The realization: this podcast is for an about you. You deserve a host who doesn't care about herself or how many people she is reaching. It is all about you and that is why I am going to put out a podcast every single Saturday and simply talk and share about what is going on. I will talk about my book, interview others and simply bring encouragement into a world that is spilling over with negativity and anger.
Orange on Thursday
My guest today was the lovely Elena Lubenets. We met way back in February and I knew I wanted to have her on my show, but was certainly lacking the confidence. If you would like to schedule time with Elena, she has Calendly (the scheduling software I use) and she would love to chat about how she can serve you.
So what is it that Elena does? Well.... she is in what I think of as one of the most intimidating industries to me. Her cause is educating and bringing women into the financial sector. She is a life insurance broker which means she is not tied to one company, she is able to shop around for whichever products and plans best serve her clients.
September is life insurance awareness month and that is why she especially encourages you to reach out to her. Elena explained to me that life insurance is a very competitive industry and there are always more products at different rates becoming available and that is why it is important to regularly look at your plan.
A top question I had in my mind as I planned our interview was how to engage people in talking about something so hard (which is what I want to do in my coaching business SarahAyersCoaching.com) and enabling them to take action on something of such great importance. I also asked what the most common misconception there is in life insurance.
Without a moment's pause she said it is the idea that getting life insurance is hard and that they will not qualify due to weight, smoking, drug usage, terminal illness and so on. With great confidence Elena told me that she can get high-quality life insurance for anyone and makes herself very available to serve.
There are two last questions I try to remember in each interview and that is a piece of life advice and their favorite song.
Today's advice: "Eat orange on Thursdays for joy."
Elena's favorite song: Happy!
"Thank-you" to Elena for your time! I absolutely love your energy and your kind spirit!!