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Hello and welcome back to the Relatable voice Podcast. Today we have Victoria J Hyla from Illinois. Victoria is an author of various books, a mom, wife and small business owner . She is also launching Author Spots, a platform dedicated to helping new and independent authors. Hello Victoria, tell us about yourself. My name is Victoria Hyla Maldonado. I’m an author, a mom and wife, small business owner (Victorious Editing Services/Author Spots), nonprofit president (Human Library of the Fox Valley), and on the steering committee for my new church (A New Way). I have 6.5-year-old boy/girl twins, a teenage…

Hello and welcome to the RV! On today’s episode we are heading to Sydney, Australia to talk to Suzanne Mann , AKA The Challenge Girl. Suzanne is a mother of 3, writer, changing maker, co-host of Voices Two Dream Podcast and co-author of Relatable Voices Anthology. • Suzanne, tell me about yourself. Ha! Where do I start? Mother of three, I studied microbiology at university (totally weird I know) and then ended up going into marketing, product management and change maker. I then took 12 years “off” to have children. I am very blessed not to have to work so when I realised I wanted…

The pace of life is steadily increasing. The list of daily tasks that need to be completed continues to grow longer and the pressure of time slipping away makes people stressed and anxious. People’s perspectives shift away from thinking about others, creating distance between them and the rest of the world. This distance causes people to lose touch with the basic human values that everyone shares and that assist in developing meaning and connection in their lives. Integrity, kindness, compassion, and love are gifts that go dormant when people cease to use their power to cultivate and nurture them. The…

Be of Service to Be Happy By Ron Hammond The fast paced world that we’re living in today isn’t showing signs of slowing down. The growing demands that come from having a family and a career can lead to feelings of stress and anxiety, which can cause unhappiness in life. If this sounds familiar to you, there is a solution to this challenge that doesn’t have to take much of your time. How do you do it? You do this by engaging in acts of service to other people. When you give of yourself, you elevate your happiness while simultaneously…

A good story is going to make the world a whole lot better, and that’s why there is no such thing as too much good literature. The time has come for The Relatable Voice podcast to form an anthology like no other, which will include 14 individual voices sharing their stories to the world. This exciting collaboration is going to offer uplifting and diverse literature that the world deserves to know. Voices that You’ve Heard Before If you’ve been listening to The Relatable Voice podcast (The RV), then you’re going to recognize each one of the 14 names that you…

“May You BE Healthy” is a must-read book, for everybody who wants to drastically improve his/her health. In fact, it is a great book to own, because it is, as dubbed by its own author, Ravi Sahay, an owner’s manual of our body. As such, it should be used to create healthy habits in many areas of our lives: detoxing, eating, exercising, recharging, resting and so on. In his books, Ravi Sahay exemplifies the power of lifestyle changes by using an integrative (holistic) approach in healing and prevention for chronic conditions. Ravi shares the wisdom in his book, May You…

Hello Bennet , welcome to BrandEducation! Please tell us about yourself.I grew up in Utah, I have been married for 6 years and have 3 kids.I have a door to door sales background where I have built teams and sold different products, always doing $1 million+ in revenue during the summer selling season.I co-founded Switch to Solar, and using the principles found in the book, E-myth, was able to work myself out of the business after a year and had a successful exit after 18 months from starting the company.I believe in having purposed based business • What do you…

It wasn’t quite Marie Kondo meets Grey Gardens in The Women’s Room, but it was close. Professor Ludwig Berg hoarded; Grace Berg gave away as much as she could. During their thirty-five years of marriage, Luddy was all about the concrete, while abstract Grace sidelined her career in music because marriage and the family required it. At sixty, Grace divorced him to claim her space in the arts, but, by taking his own life, it seemed that Luddy had written the last movement of their relationship. Or did he? A symphony can have a coda. Following Luddy’s tragic suicide, Grace…

“It’s My House, Too!”: Guidelines for Living with a Hoarder by Deborah Greenhut, Author, The Hoarder’s Wife During 35 years as a hoarder’s wife, author Deborah Greenhut explains that she had to change her thinking many times over. At first, she thought her husband could learn to pick up his things. When she realized that he did not choose to clean up, she tried to do it for him, and that intrusion became the source of many arguments. Whatever she brought to the trash can, whether it was spoiled food or broken furniture, he brought it back into the house. …

Can you tell us a little about your book in your own words?My book explained how I was kidnapped by Murahalin militias, fled my village, and how the Lost Boys spent much of their lives running from kidnapping and death. They escaped ruthless and well-armed Murahalin militias that kidnapped, persecuted, and murdered tens of thousands from the Lost Boys. After a journey of over three thousand miles on bare feet, I was the leader of nineteen to seven hundred Lost Boys from the Pinyido refugee camp in Ethiopia and the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya from 1988 to 2004. The…