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Christine Tylee is the founder and CEO of Direct Sales Inspiration, an online training business for direct sellers. Her main goal is to encourage, help, and support several charities and families. Facing different hardships in life was never a hindrance to achieving and pursuing her dream. In this episode, Christine talks freely to inspire everyone and see the positive side of life.

• Her life living in Australia (1:00)
• Her Martial arts and Karate journeys (4:05)
• Having a series of strokes and its wide range of unusual symptoms (9:33)
• The source of strength is her daughter fighting leukemia (13:55)
• Her motivations to move forward despite various obstacles in life; The whole family joined in karate, supported and helped charity (17:56)
• How do karate and martial arts help her as an individual (19:34)
• Direct Sales Industry as additional security for her family (20:38)
• Realization after hardships and facing challenges in life (24:42)
• The secret weapon that helps her to prepare and train for tournaments and competitions is being part of Positive Prime (30:15)
• The people behind her determination to pursue her goal and dreams and to become successful in life (33:56)

https://au.linkedin.com/in/christine-tylee-8a4b9a2

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Ana Maria Ignat-Berget is a creativity coach and consultant, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Romania and grew up with her grandparents. She has ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Bipolar illness. Though she is suffering from these challenges of her life, it opens a door and leads her to discover her greatest gifts. Ana tells us that despite difficulties still, we can become a superhero in this world that we live on through the power of intention.

• Life living in Romania with grand grandparents (1:08)
• The cause of losing her confidence at the age of fifteen (5:04)
• Cared about on her mental health more than being in touch with everything (8:25)
• Reasons for choosing hospitality and tourism (10:28)
• Journey of self-discovery and self-improvement (16:00)
• Starts to paint, to write, and creates poetry (18:51)
• Her ups and downs in life after knowing that she has a Bipolar disorder (19:48)
• During an elevated state of life; creativity comes out easily (21:07)
• The great ideas of her and Arts as the great translator for that (29:19)
• Neurodiversity and her experiences having ADHD and depression in Bipolar (33:10)
• Feeling of powerlessness lead her to help people to become a superhero in their exceptional ways (35:33)

https://www.instagram.com/ani_in_marbella/?hl=en

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Pat Slattery is an International Public Speaker, Strategic Thinker, mentor, and coach. He has a positive attitude towards life experiences and businesses. He started to work at the age of 14 to help his family. Leaving school at a very young age is not a hindrance to becoming a successful individual. Pat explains that through determination in life, we can build, create and make something worthwhile. Just keep going.

• Life living with a big family (1:10)
• His journey while earning money at the age of 14 (4:36)
• Reasons why he left school at a very young age (6:50)
• The value of money and not the power of money (18:15)
• Time for him to serve after being a workaholic (21:54)
• Driving force to pursue his passion in finding his value (27:50)
• Realization of how to enjoy little things in life (34:43)
• Important reminders when you run a business (37:45)
• No regrets in life even if he was a workaholic (40:50)
• The environment supported and challenged him in different aspects (54:18)
• Person who inspired, molded, and shaped him in many ways to achieve his success (56:20)

https://patslattery.com

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Blake Jones is a Cinematographer at TGC Multimedia Ltd and Common Society Issues. He grew up in Nigeria and lived in Ireland together with his family. How does depression that hit him to commit suicide turns out into an opportunity to lead and help society conquer the battle of life? Blake states that giving up is not the solution to any issues and problems, but through those experiences, success will follow if you don’t give up.

• Both cultures, backgrounds, and knowledge teach him in his soul discipline (52:00)
• Experiences and difficulties encountered during college days (2:40)
• Reasons for his obsession with buying cars instead of focusing on business and why he wants to show off to people (7:48)
• How he figure out to change the wrong way into the right way (13:39)
• The lowest point of his life (14:47)
• From committing suicide into becoming a videographer and photographer (18:20)
• Where did the love for camera come from (28:00)
• Great ideas come from experiences lead him to create movies (30:50)
• The reasons why he comes up with CSI – Common Society Issues (37:36)
• Learning he gained from CSI, and from every story that he created (46:00)
• His inspiration for his change, focus, and to continue with his passion (53:55)

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Audrey Weidman is a Licensed Stress Master International Associate, Certified Stress Mastery Educator, and Certified Brain Trainer. From her post-traumatic stress that resulted in a heart attack, she started on the path of mastering and turning it into calming growth. Audrey gives voice to open the minds of everyone on how to manage stress and negativity to live with a healthy and happy heart.

• The path of her life living in stress (0:47)
• The primary source of her stress (1:15)
• The cause of heart attack and how she found out about it (5:54)
• How does heart attack change her life (9:19)
• The realization on enduring stress and worries (11:09)
• Speaking and connecting with people helped her to create awareness for heart disease (12:33)
• The Importance of educating people about heart attack and stress (14:02)
• Reasons why embarrassment and shame comes in getting a heart check, especially for women (15:24)
• From learning to handle stress to become a certified stress mastery educator (16:37)
• New process that helps examine inner beliefs that cause stress (18:19)
• Explaining different types and level of stress (20:15)
• Importance of recognition and knowing the state of one’s stress (25:03)

https://www.audreyweidman.com

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Cindy Teevens is the author of Alchemy and The Happiness Lie. She is one of the extraordinary happiness facilitators in leading inner peace. How does somebody find joy and emotional rest despite much grieving and suffering? Cindy shares about dealing with inner hurt and finding and discovering true happiness, peace, and love.

• How to get into the area of holistic spirituality (0:38)
• Her pain and unrelated suffering in connection with her family (2:04)
• Realization in the difference between suffering and grieving (4:55)
• The way of dealing with grief when somebody lost like her father (6:51)
• What does happiness feels like after grief (8:29)
• Imagination as a temporary source of happiness (14:23)
• The significance of peace and joy in one’s life (16:48)
• Experiencing true happiness, peace, and love (19:01)
• Discoveries about falling in love with love and God (23:10)
• Seeking for the truth and enlightenment some mysteries through bible reading (26:21)
• Realization after knowing about God (33:15)
• The brain to understand and sense the perception of the world (40:00
• Huge changes that happened to her life (49:13)

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Jana Danielson is a Pilates teacher, leader, author, and speaker and grew up in Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada. She lived with undiagnosed digestive pain every day. But how does her health issue turn into a success? By believing that her life has an impact on others. Jana speaks about her life’s journey and challenges living from farm to city, being a human resource consultant to wellness entrepreneur, and from inner pain to a favorable outcome.

• Jana’s homeland that molds her as a person (0:40)
• Different experiences being a farm kid (1:40)
• Reasons behind her health issues, pain, and suffering (3:52)
• Living from farm to city and as a Human Resource Consultant to Wellness Entrepreneur (7:21)
• Characteristic that drives her to build a business despite inner pain (14:25)
• How to manage and organize a variety of tasks every single day (16:58)
• A thing that keeps her moving and pushing is the word “Impact” (20:50)
• The new movement discovery, Pilates, and its origin and significance to one’s body (23:35)
• The importance and connection of Positive Prime Platform – Mental Health Experience and Pilates to her own family (38:32)
• Reaching and helping other people in gaining healthy mind and body (44:33)

Lead – Love the Life You Lead

http://www.leadpilates.com/

Metta District – Movement, Lifestyle, Community

http://mettadistrict.com/

Cooch Ball – Women’s Confidence, Pleasure

coochball.com

Gooch Ball – Men’s Confidence

goochball.com

Caleb O’Dowd is a copywriter. He grew up in Ireland and, at 16, dropped out of school and became a carpenter. How does someone go from being a carpenter to an expert in copywriting and direct selling? Through fearlessness and persistence, Caleb became a protege of Gary Halbert. For years they worked together on marketing campaigns. Caleb talks about his journey to copywriting and entrepreneurship, the fundamentals of selling, and the impact of the changing state of media.

• Getting into training horses as a teenager (01:26)
• Leaving school at 16 and what led to him turning things around (03:10)
• Going from carpentry to copywriting (08:22)
• What copywriting is and how Caleb found his mentor (11:50)
• Annoying Gary Helbert until he agreed to work with him(16:10)
• The experience of learning with Gary Halbert (21:48)
• That understanding the fundamentals of how to sell is non-transferable to all the different channels and platforms (28:08)
• The uniqueness of selling through newspaper ads (30:24)
• Some of the notable newspaper ads Gary did (32:24)
• The art of selling and persuasion (33:34)
• Finding the problem your product will solve (36:41)
• The changing state of media (39:01)
• That the fundamentals of selling work across all media (42:09)
• Moving from writing to being a teacher and his teaching philosophy and approach (44:22)

Institute of Entrepreneurship

http://www.ioe.info/

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Tony Robbins

https://www.tonyrobbins.com

Brian Tracy

https://www.briantracy.com

Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want by Wayne W Dyer

Gary Halbert

http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/

Chris Eva is a filmmaker and founder of Sub-Culture Productions Ltd. He has 15 years of filming experience for TV and corporate and companies.

As a TV shooting director and camera operator, Chris has a wide range of experience shooting for Current and Affairs, Factual Entertainment, and News. He worked shot for features such as The One Show for BBC (2019), documentaries for PBS and CNN, sports shows for Channel 5, and promotional content for RTE. 

He is confident recording high-quality sound and lighting interviews and shoots and directs capturing necessary shots for sequences required for the edit. 

Chris creates video content for businesses and organizations mainly based throughout the UK and Ireland as a Filmmaker with Sub-Culture Productions. He films for corporate working with PR companies, start-ups, and charities, it includes shooting and editing, coming up with the concept, and seeing projects right through to delivery. He often produces short-form documentaries, behind the scenes and events films for organizations such as Alzheimer’s Society, The Young Foundation, The National Trust, NI Executive, and Active Community Network, to name a few.

Chris made a TV documentary about Hip-Hop culture in Northern Ireland for Channel 4 with support from NI Screen. 

Chris is also a trainer and video coach and teaches people how to create video content for online campaigns using mobile phones and iPods.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/subcultureproductions