Dr. Pamela presents PURPOSE BY DESIGN

Welcome to Purpose by Design! Dr. Pamela here, and it is a delight to have with me today two incredible spiritual leaders from the church I serve at. Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Pastor Jim Hammond, our current Executive Teaching Pastor, and Pastor John Gapp, who is heading our growing Online Church. www.lwcc.org

Pastor Hammond's.spiritual journey has taken him far and wide. Over 50 mission trips and has assisted in the establishment of five different churches including the Indonesian island of Bataan. Pastor Gapp, too, has served faithfully for more than a decade as a youth minister before taking the helm at the LWCC Online Church. www.lwcc.org

Today's conversation is about the profound Love of God and the Power of Grace, something both of my guests have a deep and meaningful understanding of. They will also share their personal experiences and backgrounds, giving us insights into their spiritual journeys.

Besides their pastoral work, both Pastors Hammond and Gapp are part of The Final Hour Podcast, along with their third co-host, Lonaiah Ferrell. This engaging podcast delves deep into scripture, Bible prophecy, and current events, offering insights on being a believer in these transformative times.

And here's the link for you: https://www.thefinalhourpodcast.com. Trust me when I say it us unique and educational

Stay tuned as we delve into an enriching and enlightening conversation full of love, hope and humor that promises to inspire and uplift you. Welcome Pastors Hammond and Gapp, and let's begin our discussion.

Today on Purpose by Design, Purpose Award Celebration #3

Dr. Pamela and her co-host Nichol chat with Purpose Award Winners...  Dr. Carolyn Brooks-Collins & Coach Kathy White

Carolyn Brooks-Collins is a #1 best-selling international author, organizational proponent, and CEO and Founder of M. Carolyn Brooks-Collins, LLC; a multi-dimensional coaching and consulting specialty fashioned to develop and educate professionals on how to eliminate personal and financial profligacy, to experience persistent victory, in their own lives.

Her mantra is simple: Carolyn is passionate about empowering women to transform their lives, step into their purpose, and become financially independent.

Carolyn Brooks-Collins. Leader. Organizer. Innovator.

Connect with Dr. Carolyn

Today on Purpose by Design, Purpose Award Celebration #2

Dr. Pamela and her co-host Nichol chat with Purpose Award Winners...  Dr. Deidre Calcoate, Jasbeen Singh, Dr. Tamika Hall, Dr Nora Shariff-Borden and Carmen Cadena

Dr. Deidre Calcoate

Being a late discovery adoptee Deidre Ann Calcoate’s career and life mimicked each other. Prior to dedicating her time serving others through transformational life coaching at Go Within Not Without, LLC, Deidre served children and families in Arizona through public agencies responsible for child welfare, behavioral health and developmental disabilities. She is a 2X best-selling author, international motivational speaker, suicide interventionist and brainspotting practitioner.

Please join us for an enlightening conversation with our special guest, Coach Dalia Ganzel, as we explore the relevance of Passover in our daily lives. In this episode, titled "Seder Talk," we delve into how the precepts and teachings of Passover transcend the story itself, providing valuable guidance for goal achievement, living your best life NOW, and discovering the true essence of leadership - which lies in serving others. Don't miss this insightful discussion that will inspire and challenge you to find deeper meaning in this timeless tradition.

Today on Purpose by Design, Purpose Award Celebration #1

Dr. Pamela chats with Purpose Award Winners...  Dr Lisa Yvette Jones, Delasber Griffin Sanders, & Dr Deborah Allen

Lisa Yvette Jones is a Best-Selling author, orator, success enthusiast, and CEO and Founder of iC.A.R.E Leadership, LLC; a multidimensional coaching practice aiding in the production, advancement, and transformation of professional leadership. Having experienced many years in the fields of business administration and counseling, Lisa Yvette Jones has built a meritorious acumen in influencing career professionals to prioritize their health, their love of self, and to develop a genuine appreciation for their vocations, at large. Her mantra is simple:  She supports leaders on their quest to attain professional success, while ensuring their availably to serve others from a place of personal overflow, removed from all exasperation. In short; she reminds clients that a leader’s life, matters too.

LisaYvetteJones@gmail.com (email)

(248) 952-8122 (contact number) 

Today on Purpose by Design, Dr Pamela shares another episode in her Wholeness and Health on Purpose Series.  Today's guest is Dr. Garrett Goggans

Dr. Garrett Goggans is an Author, Speaker, and Mindset Coach who has heard people state that working towards success is like moving upstream without a paddle. It is his mission to help others see that with the proper mindset they can get up that proverbial stream with no paddle needed.

Today on Purpose by Design, Dr Pamela shares another episode in her Wholeness and Health on Purpose Series. Today's guest is Minh Vu

Minh is a Holistic Health & Intimacy Coach who is a leading Naturopath who recalibrates your body, mind, spirit, and soul for an optimal divine life with purpose and passion. She is renowned for working with laser sharp focus and precision to curate simple HOLISTIC & NATURAL sacred journeys that transform lives from the chronic disease of endometriosis and infertility for optimal health: mind, body, and soul.

She is the epitome of heart, soul and fire combined. You can refer to her as the 'MODERN DAY SAGE NATUROPATH' 'INTIMACY ALCHEMIST' as she will transform your dreams and intimacy into miraculous restoration: body, mind, and soul to create your true inner power, while making a mega impact.

Join Dr. Pamela and Minh as they discuss the real life struggles that Minh endured and triumphed over as well as how she works with other women today to overcome and restore themselves: body, mind and soul!

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Today on Write Now Dr. Pamela again shares the stage with her "right hand" Nichol Perricci. Join them as the wrap up talking about the Purpose Award Winners. This week Highlighting: Mandy Penn, Delasber Sanders, Donato Perricci & Carmen Cadena

This Week on Write Now Dr Pamela and her Co-host Nichol are Announcing, Part 2 of the 2022 Purpose Awards Winners. Dr. Pamela created these awards to recognize individuals hard work, dedication, and contributions in their field. We are thrilled to celebrate them and share each one of them with you. Watch for interviews with each one of them Live on FB and here on each of Dr. Pamela’s Platforms.

THE ROCKY AWARD

Dr. Lisa Yvette Jones

Company – iCare Leadership

This Week on Write Now Dr Pamela and her Co-host Nichol are Announcing, Part 1 of the 2022 Purpose Awards Winners. Dr. Pamela created these awards to recognize individuals hard work, dedication, and contributions in their field. We are thrilled to celebrate them and share each one of them with you. Watch for interviews with each one of them Live on FB and here on each of Dr. Pamela’s Platforms.

COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD

Deidre Calcoate

Company - Go Within Not Without

This Week on Write Now I’m highlighting Purpose with Pamela. My fabulous Assistant and Editor of all of my shows spent time in the “studio” discussing all that we are doing in 2023.

You don’t want to miss this show. Here are all powerful opportunities we discuss in the show so you can take advantage of them.

This week we highlight:

Upcoming Book Launches:

Purpose by Design Workbook – Launching February 10th

Captivated “Revised Edition” – Launching February 17th

Becoming the NEW You – Launching February 22nd

Gratitude by Designs – Launching March 3rd

Current Anthology Projects Call for Authors:

This Week on Purpose by Design I’m highlighting Purpose with Pamela. My fabulous Assistant and Editor of all of my shows spent time in the “studio” discussing all that we are doing in 2023.

You don’t want to miss this show. Here are all powerful opportunities we discuss in the show so you can take advantage of them.

Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Eric Sean - who has been in the fitness industry for over 30 years, he’s a motivational speaker, minister, mindset coach, and personal trainer.

Our powerful guest talks about how all of these fit together for our mind, body, and spirit. His goal is to help the world discover that they are loved, and their outside presence should always match the love they have within.

Eric discovered over the last 30 years - there is a whole group of people who are prisoners of their body, and mental health is just as important as physical. He has niched down on his craft and helps women lose over 100 pounds. This started from meeting someone named Sally. She changed his whole perspective on fitness as Sally wanted to lose 100 pounds, she had wanted to for a long time. When she was in college - she was in the best shape of her life. She had an amazing physical presence. She got sexually violated, she was never able to deal with that, and her mindset changed. She believed that because she looked so attractive and that’s when he knew the mind controls the body.

Everyone should take responsibility for their personal body - why not protect our temple? Eric talks about how the mind’s job is to navigate. The body is designed to be a means of travel. The mind handles logistics and the body handles travel. Coach Eric talks about how doctors push pills on us for anything and everything - and how if people would just get into simple, good habits most of this would vanish. Most of us won’t prevent getting sick, but we’ll gladly take ownership when the doctor says, “You have this” - even though the CAUSE was self-inflicted.

He shares we are either expressing our emotions or they are eating us alive. We weren’t taught everybody has a different path and because we have been so domesticated - when we have a feeling that goes against that we do not know how to take ownership or express that so we hold it inside and it ferments and it creates so much dis-ease that we regurgitate to the world.

The goal should not be to stay on the medication, the goal should be to learn as much as you can learn to gather the facts, and believe that your body is capable of healing itself and one day you will not need this medication. The power is in your hands! Medication is not the solution, your mindset and your actions are!  It is important that we take responsibility for how we feel, and think and change what we need to to make the right decisions - it is NEVER too late to start!

Please share this podcast as Eric teaches so much about Body, Spirit, and Mindset!

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Purpose with Pamela is so excited to announce that we are partnering with Coach Kathy White in Utah for our next Women's Event... Join us for all the details!!!

Purpose With Pamela kicked off The First Annual 🎄 Fa La La Las Vegas Ladies Event on December 4-5th, LIVE at The Beacon Center🎬!  During this event we filmed two special Pamela Show Episodes. Are you ready to "Take Care Of Business" ⚡️with our 👑Holidazzle Guests? Then stay tuned and Viva Fa La La Las Vegas Baby 🎉❄️ Here is our amazing  Part 2 of 2.  With… Dr. Lisa Jones, Jasbeen Singh, Kathy White & Sonia Merritt

Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Mindi Davis Huebner - a mindset and strategy coach for female entrepreneurs as well as a mindset mastery coach, a hypnotherapist and practitioner.

She talks about how she started with health coaching, and life coaching and she knew mindset was the crux for everything. She is massive in rewiring your mindset. She talks about how shifting our identity is so important. Do you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? She helps women rewire their process and their way of being. You can’t pour into someone else's cup if your cup is empty. It is important to not be overwhelmed and to take life’s chores as an opportunity and have gratitude towards them.

Mindi talks about how words are containers that either give energy or take away energy. Mindi shares what her coaching talks about getting deep with her clients, how she uses hypnotherapy to retrain their brains and take the bull by the horns with their businesses. Too much self-doubt is where we have limiting beliefs. It is important to break those broken mindsets.

She touches on her hypnosis sessions and how it is completely up to the person - hypnosis is all about aligning your brain, body, and emotion. She does talk about not every session is a crippling belief. Our amazing guest talks about mental rehearsals are very important and explains how to do so, and become the human WHO. We don’t want something - we have an “of course” energy to do so: an empowered way that you show up without even thinking about it.

Hear this amazing interview now and please like and share as that supports Purpose by Design.

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Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Stephon Leary: a coach, trainer, 2X author, he runs a basketball and training program, and is a mountain moving explorer. He shares with us his story of when he got covid-19 after playing about 7 games of basketball. He got to a point of not being able to overcome the virus, and he actually passed out. He ended up going to the hospital and was told by numerous doctors that he was not doing well.

Stephon talks about how before we can move to the next mountain top, we must go lower (into the valley) before we can elevate. He talks about how though we may have a hard time in the valley, we need to trust the Lord as he provides. So often we try to understand why things are happening but we just need to lean on God, as he can see the forest while we can only see the next few trees ahead of us.

Our amazing, inspirational coach talks about how he is trying to release a new shoe-line and how God will send light. While Stephon was at the gym, a mother came over and thanked  him for imprinting on this mother’s son - who happened to be the project manager for Nike. This shows Stephon a light that God does know whats happening. God takes us through things in life to build us, mentor us, and make us stronger. To do something is not the purpose, to do something is to fulfill the purpose.

Stephon talks about trying to be a “manly man” and not trusting God to let the process happen and just lean into him. He talks about handling fear and giving it to God, as fear is such an easy thing to fear. For him, it was a fear of poverty. He remembered being evicted with his mom as a kid in a moment’s notice and he realized as an adult that he had not learned to let go and to let God take him to a place of cleansing.

Hear this amazing journey now where Stephon teaches that you are more than what you see and how he shares how he was viewing his purpose as an accomplishment, and neglecting the purpose of why things were happening the way they were.

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Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Stephon Leary: a coach, trainer, 2X author, he runs a basketball and training program, and is a mountain moving explorer. He shares with us his story of when he got covid-19 after playing about 7 games of basketball. He got to a point of not being able to overcome the virus, and he actually passed out. He ended up going to the hospital and was told by numerous doctors that he was not doing well.

Stephon talks about how before we can move to the next mountain top, we must go lower (into the valley) before we can elevate. He talks about how though we may have a hard time in the valley, we need to trust the Lord as he provides. So often we try to understand why things are happening but we just need to lean on God, as he can see the forest while we can only see the next few trees ahead of us.

Our amazing, inspirational coach talks about how he is trying to release a new shoe-line and how God will send light. While Stephon was at the gym, a mother came over and thanked  him for imprinting on this mother’s son - who happened to be the project manager for Nike. This shows Stephon a light that God does know whats happening. God takes us through things in life to build us, mentor us, and make us stronger. To do something is not the purpose, to do something is to fulfill the purpose.

Stephon talks about trying to be a “manly man” and not trusting God to let the process happen and just lean into him. He talks about handling fear and giving it to God, as fear is such an easy thing to fear. For him, it was a fear of poverty. He remembered being evicted with his mom as a kid in a moment’s notice and he realized as an adult that he had not learned to let go and to let God take him to a place of cleansing.

Hear this amazing journey now where Stephon teaches that you are more than what you see and how he shares how he was viewing his purpose as an accomplishment, and neglecting the purpose of why things were happening the way they were.

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Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Dr. Karen Hills Pruden: who helps middle-management women level up to senior management. She is also an International Best Selling Author with her book: Undefeated which we will have in the links below. She is CEO of her company: Pruden Global Business Solutions Consulting, LLC.

Dr. Karen talks about her journey as a housewife who did not work at all. Right out of high school she chose to get married and not go to college, then the babies came. Within 5 years, she realized that one of them was not made for marriage. She ended up going back to school and ended up getting her doctorate.

Once our amazing guest got into corporate America, she realized she had something to offer but there were no other women to mentor her. She tried Linked-In and reached out to a Vice President African American woman and after 2 weeks - she responded that she would for $350 an hour. Karen took the step and said she’d do 1 hour each month for 1 year.

Her mentor helped her apply for a senior-management position and she got the job! Karen talks about how not everything should come with an invoice. She has a free community called “Sister Leaders” where women can be there for eachother, talk about things etc.

Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Lee Mariano to the podcast. Today we delve into Lee’s past, present and exciting future. She served as a marine for 8 years after high-school, before climbing the corporate ladder where once she reached the top, she wasn’t fulfilled. She then decided to reinvent herself and started coaching other women in reaching their goals. She is an author, coach, public speaker, and a domestic abuse survivor. She shares her story to help many in the same situation and show them there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

When Lee decided to go into the military, people asked her why she does not do a safer or easier approach like the Air Force. She knew it came from doubt and she likes to tell her clients, “Let people doubt you, then do it twice, and take pictures”. She proved all the naysayers wrong and showed them what she is made of.

She talks about when she was married to her first partner, how she became a domestic abuse survivor during her military time. Her “Aha” moment was when she heard her young son begging his dad to not hurt mommy. That was the catalyst moment for her to make a change. Her commanding officer helped her out of that, and she picked herself up literally off the ground. Lee had to remind herself that she was more than a victim of domestic abuse and no longer felt ashamed. She began to own it as for years she had lost her confidence, self esteem, and was willing to accept what she thought she deserved.

In the corporate world, there was a point where she reached the top and she was an executive. She walked into an office and she was asked, “Are you here to take our lunch order?” She had to prove herself to them, and she ensured she became a presence to be reckoned with.

Lee has written 48 romance novels and talks about what got her into that and she teaches how to remove labels. Lee shares her coaching program, “Step into your Power” - where she teaches women to kick down doors and take names and show up every day as the person they are meant to be.

Please make sure you share this podcast and ensure you are doing everything to get this amazing message out there. What Lee talks about is so powerful and it is surely going to help people.

Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome  Joanna James, an Australian resident whose future is looking very bright. If you want to understand who she is in the context of her titles: chief ambassador at The Successful Women, business mentor, a professional speaker, and author. She is a generous, kind, intuitive, intelligent and capable soul who loves helping people. She’s trying to teach women to build successful companies by teaching them how to own a business, teach them how to be an entrepreneur and be successful so they can have an impact on this world.

Joanna started her working career as an architect and designer. Her  former husband and she formed a mortgage company where they worked together for 20 years, which turned into a very successful business. It took a very long time to learn that her master skill was handling variety. At the heart of that, she learned that she loves working with people, loves helping create an amazing experience for people and was able to create a retreat center for people to come to - Sting was their first celebrity who stayed there!

In 2016 - her life changed dramatically. She and her husband separated, and everything in her life was completely torn apart: her identity, her career, who she was and what she did etc. It was around that time that she hit rock bottom, and she needed to integrate a mentor, where she gives credit to her mentors and explains why that is important.

Joanna knew her purpose early on, but it took a while to visualize exactly what that looked like. She has faced adversity in life and has had a lot of experiences. She encourages women out there who are at a breaking point and reminds them that they are not experiencing something that they cannot handle. If you are experiencing intense sadness - know there is intense joy around the corner. This experience is going to mold you to be stronger, more resilient and make you wiser.

Lastly, Joanna talks about coming to the States and how it was a good call to action when she joined a call impromptu. She shares about the essence of writing and how it is clarification, as well as speaking.

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Website: thesuccessfulwoman.com

Freedom Formula - “Which area of my life is out of whack?”

Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Nicholette Hemingway - a native of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She is an author, speaker, business owner, wife, mother and grandmother. She does it all!

Her business is called “Nike H Speaks LLC.” - it teaches people to advance in life - her business will help with mock interviews, job-search tools, and will write up resumes for people. It is an amazing tool you can find in the LINKS section.

Nicholette tells us about what led her to where she is now. She explains how money was not always in the household and when she was in college - she was a wife, and a new mom and was juggling a lot in the air.

She had a very determined outlook on life on what she is going to do - so she ended up going to grad school. Once she got her Master’s Degree - she started applying for jobs and they all had a similar message: You need 2-3 years of experience.

This of course was disappointing to Nicholette - but she also had a family who she wanted to provide for and help with the bills. So - she did what many often do - and got a mediocre job that paid the bills. Inside of course - she was not fulfilled. She asked herself, “What do I do now?” She had these degrees - but not putting them to work. Her parents kept telling her how many opportunities there were west in the Phoenix area.

Shortly after she and her family moved to Phoenix - she ended up doing what she swore she wouldn’t do - be a 3rd generation military air force “brat” as she puts it. Her family moved to the Maryland area and did that for around a decade before moving back to South Carolina. A few years later, they were grandparents!

Our amazing guest talks about her fictional (but based on her life) book and how it has helped people out there - as well as what is in the book and why it will help you. It's called “A Little Black Girl on the Beach”.

Nicholette was abused as a child, tried masking it with marijuana and things that masked that life was not going well. She was on her knees in a hotel room, crying out to God asking Jesus for help. It was a total re-emergence with God and who she is now. What the devil wanted to use for harm has been transformed into how God’s glory has shined through in Nicholette’s life.

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Purpose by Design welcomes: Pastor Berlinda Love and

Latoya D. Buchanan - 2 powerhouses of knowledge.

Latoya is so endearing and inspiring - she is practicing nursing specifically in pediatrics. She moved to Houston, Texas but is originally from North Carolina. She does a lot of education training and teaching and sets priority on working with the families as well as does Missions work. God is her number 1 and she goes to him daily for meditation and centering herself. She believes largely in health which she shares and holistic practices. She talks about the confidence gained when God speaks to us, and her goal is to encourage people all over the world. She is a single mother, who shares a bit about her abusive marriage she overcame. She is writing a chapter in an anthology coming out in the future named ‘UNDEFEATED’ which you should definitely pick up to hear more about her story in detail. It will have multiple stories from different women who have overcome life’s challenges. Latoya shares that though sometimes we can THINK we are walking into a better situation but if it is not something we have prayed about, it may not be something of the Lord. Links are in the description to contact Latoya.

Our second amazing guest is Pastor Berlinda Love - she resides in Valdosta, Georgia where she relocated in 2018 after her parents passed in 2017.

She was born there, so it is like coming home in a way. Though, she was raised and had her career in New Jersey. She is a retired school teacher, and has several nephews and nieces that have her heart and she loves dearly. She talks about how the Lord has orchestrated every single step in her life, and how even from early childhood - people were put in her life to set her up for success. She says that even though life has hardships as it always will - there’s a reason why God allows those things to happen - they shape us, teach us, and mold us for what we are meant to be. Pastor Love thanks the teachers in her life, the adults in her life who encouraged her, and gave her a wonderful foundation. Our amazing guest shares how no student was left behind when she was in school - there was no such thing as not wanting to learn - students studied, and if there was time to play that was a bonus. The teachers cared for them, and wanted them to do well. She talks about what led her to be where she is today and shares some amazing advice on how to handle trials, and gives a cool perspective on how God led to where she has been to where she is.

Do not miss this incredible podcast - Hear what these 2 amazing ladies have to say and this goes without saying but please SHARE this and spread the good word!

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Purpose by Design welcomes our amazing and talented guest: Dr. Shervondaline Breedlove, she is so encouraging and breathes life in today’s podcast. She is originally from Monroe, Louisiana and currently lives in Texas with husband and daughter.

This incredible guest is a speaker, author, and a mentor in the special-needs community. Dr. Shervondaline shares that her daughter has autism - and is using her platform to help others dealing with special needs. Our lovely guest encourages them and inspires them uplift them because she knows what it is like to be on the journey as it can feel alone.

She and her husband brought their daughter to a doctor's appointment  that ended her up in the hospital. She shares that they need to keep their emotions in check as dealing with a family member with autism takes a lot and is a constant journey. Their doctor said that their daughter may never be able to walk, talk, or  live a normal life after a surgery took place. This led her and her husband to lean on God to carry them and give them strength in this time.

They spoke over their daughter and into her legs that she will speak, walk and so forth. She told the body that it will work and God has been showing up. As of now, her daughter and her have their doctorates together and what was meant for destruction is now being used for good and paid forward to help others. She now owns her non-profit where she is leaving a footprint to help so many people, giving them hope and direction.

Shervondaline gives wisdom to parents who are where she was - giving tidbits on how to speak things into existence as if they were. She talks about her struggle to keep her mindset and stay positive and how she could think differently from where her thoughts were headed before leaning on the Lord.

She talks about how she opened up her  organization as well as what her next steps are in writing, and where she is hoping to expand. Please be sure to pass this special interview so Dr. Shervondaline can touch others as she touched you.

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Welcome to Part 1 of Dr. Linda Goodline where she dives into everything Health! She talks about taking a natural approach to remedying an illness versus normal western medicinal avenues. She helps women become the CEO of their health and  live at their unlimited potential.

Linda believes that it starts with the individual - we have to take responsibility for how we handle news from a doctor. No one has the authority to tell us how long we have to live - we need to take responsibility for, “Where am I today?” One needs to make sure they have a great doctor as you both are a team when it comes to the patient’s heart.

The first step is taking responsibility - the first step is understanding you created the mess. NOW WHAT? Open communication goes a long way - analyzing what we can do better, eat better, etc. is a great start. You are in the doctor’s office for a reason - what actions have you done to get you in this office right now?

If someone has a question - Dr. Linda asks, “What are you thinking?” We do things out of fear or love - two very different frequencies. When we do things out of fear we are attracted to things that may harm us, or not be good to us. When we do things out of love - we do things out of selflessness. We need to be aware of what we are saying to ourselves. We also need to be aware of what we are putting in our mouth - for example, are you drinking ENOUGH water? The guideline is half your weight in ounces. We should be eating whole foods - think of foods that God made versus humans. Start with things that have a label. Do you have those ingredients in your pantry? If not - don’t buy it. Easy enough! Regular, uninterrupted sleep is critical for overall health as well.

Our knowledgeable guest mentions how our younger generations are having problems already and it is because of lack of minerals, lack of sleep, what foods they are eating etc. It is going to continue until people change habits!

Lastly, she does touch on how in her opinion - it is biblical and completely okay to eat animal meat. She says you need to find what works for you, if you want to go plant-based, go for it.

Dr. Linda goes over all of the above in great detail and drops knowledge bombs teaching a far better way to live. This is a 2 part series where Dr. Linda goes over everything in detail and you certainly will want to listen!

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www.drlindamarquez.com

Purpose by Design welcomes back Jodie Solberg to our podcast -  she is a certified business and transpersonal wellness coach, hypnotherapist, international best-selling author, and transformational speaker where she teaches people to shift their mindset and empower themselves to uplevel themselves in all aspects of life. Today’s podcast is focused on coping strategies in regard to stress.

Jodie is going to delve in and discuss things to reduce stress, and change her life-transforming experience where a car-accident propelled her into analyzing how she was dealing with life’s circumstances and what it was doing to her body.  coming from her own experience. Jodie speaks out of experience and has a history where she dealt with burnout, being overwhelmed and not having a quality self-care, take note on how she made a 180 degree shift.

Our amazing guest went to school to be a therapist, worked with court-appointed clients for a while, it was very taxing on her however. For Jodie, that was something that led to her burn-out story. She ended up getting in an accident, and realized during rehab that she was not healing as she should. She ended up going to one of her colleagues and started doing some sessions with her as she wanted to make sure this never happened again.

Jodie talks about the importance of taking the time to take care of yourself, how you should think and talk to yourself as well. You empower other people to allow them to do things with you and for you, it is important to be able to seek help, and be alright with the help. For those of us who put others before ourselves, that hurts us because we can’t help others before helping ourselves…that is what leads to burn-out.

Jodie captures how she made some awesome lifestyle changes, and teaches how we are conditioned to not pay attention to our body, we are taught to ignore. In work or school, we are told when we can take an R&R, now Jodie will take a break in between clients. We are taught that releasing is a form of weakness, and we should be able to just move on and fight through. But in reality, taking the time to better ourselves in a stressful moment means we are taking control of what we can control. Naturally we are reactionary - when we can learn to stop and pause, and choose how to respond to the things that happen around us - we really are more in control.

Lastly, watch what you let enter your presence. Be mindful of what influences you are letting your eyes see and your ears hear as our body takes those things in. Know that you can incorporate small strategies and little tools into your day and those will accumulate to be powerful.

Jodie has a FREE guide for our listeners which will be in the links below. The guide has relaxation techniques, and breathing exercises to get you started on the right path.

Learn from this, and please share as it is truly amazing!

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Purpose of Design is so excited to introduce Dr. Chris Leininger from Indiana. He has a lot of wisdom to share that can, has and will change many lives so stay tuned! He is a genius in acupuncture and has studied chinese medicine with upwards 20 years of clinical experience.

This is Part 2 and it’s truly knowledge-packed. Doctor Chris talks about how we breathe in our chest vs our diaphragm, and how it can matter in how we live. If you have an opportunity to be around a baby, and you watch the baby - they have perfect diaphragm breathing. The best way to do it is lying down.

Dr. Chris also talks about how supplements are not part of the Chinese way, but certain herbs help with stool and diaphragm. Listen to how Doctor Chris says that supplements are just a. If you were diagnosed today with something bad, you know you’d take advantage of these principles. It comes down to eating the right foods and enough of the right foods. Foods for the right  temperature and season. Don’t wait, and start TODAY with the proper steps of your health story.

Things like dairy turns cloin - which turns into things like mucus and flem, it doesn’t move through the body well, and it starts to create problems.  More perimeter food in general you will find calcium in those foods. He touches on things like iced water, soy etc. He has concerns about the estrogen side of soy, and how it affects the body.

This is an incredible Part 2 - Please SHARE!

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Purpose of Design is so exciting to introduce to you Dr. Chris Leininger from Indiana. He has a lot of wisdom to share that can, has and will change many lives so stay tuned! He is a genius in acupuncture and has studied chinese medicine with upwards 20 years of clinical experience.

This is Part 1 of 2 and it’s truly knowledge-packed. Doctor Chris talks about how he has evidence-informed practice meaning just because a study is published - that does not mean it is actually the best course of action. He talks about paying attention to what really works, and is adamant that the body truly is mapped out with design. Chinese medicine traditionally uses internal medicine and treats everything with herbs. There are doses just like western medicine that he touches on. He gives an example of how the simple dandelion has over 50 traditional purposes!

Doctor Chris talks about becoming ill and having to stop a high paying job as a commercial airline mechanic and how he tried everything but nothing worked - symptoms were still there. It got so bad his wife who had been home taking care of the kids had to go back to work as he was not suited to do so. No one could tell him what was going on. He touches on what turned things around and how that was the best, bad thing that ever happened to him as it led him to where he is now.

In this incredibly electrifying interview - Doctor Chris goes on about how we need to ensure we have a doctor who is humble and cares as any diagnosis starts with active listening on the doctor’s part. He also touches on self-healing capabilities which is a gift from the Lord and the difference between acupuncture versus acupressure!

Follow the seasons - with your foods, with your activity levels and your sleep. The Chinese fully believe that we need to cater to the seasons and what they are telling us. For example - having iced tea in the dead of winter. Follow your sleep - when the sun rises early - that’s a better time of year to get up early. When the sun goes down early - that is a more effective time to go to bed early.

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Today is a unique show… Today we continue with the ChiroThin program that Dr. Terry Drassel discussed in last week’s episode.

My pastor, Donato Perricci and my son-in-love are joining be today to discuss their success stories as participants in the ChrioThin Program. I will also share some of my journey through the program myself.

Donato is the pastor of Victory Celebration Family Church, a co-owner of DNP Designs with his wife Nichol Perricci, an IT Consultant for over 25 years as well as a New Author in the Greatness in YOU book by Visionaries, Les Brown and Jon Talarico launching August 31st.

Ben is my son-in-love, a Salesperson, a comedian in his own right and a strong man of God. Ben also, helps write most of the descriptions to my Purpose by Designs Podcasts.

I believe that taking care of our bodies is one of the most important and most responsible things we can do. ChrioThin was one of the ways I found that I could do that.

I know you will enjoy this episode and glean some amazing tips on Wholeness and Health on Purpose!

Dr. Terry Drassal

Purpose by Designwelcomes my friend: Dr. Terry Drassal. He is my health and wellness coach, fitness coach, chiropractor, and someone I have come to trust with many areas of my life.

He became interested in chiropractic care in high-school, when he injured his back during football season. That particular chiropractor fixed him up to the point he could play before the season was over, something Terry thought was impossible. As a junior in high-school: he knew what he would be doing for the rest of his life.

Dr. Terry teaches how our spines are starting to warp almost due to poor positioning of ourselves. He gives wonderful tips on how to avoid injury when shoveling, raking leaves, teaching our neck muscles to keep our heads upright and avoid bad posture, and so on.

Dr. Terry explains the program: Chirothin - an exclusive chiropractor-offered program that is doctor-supervised. It is a program that reduces fat and stabilizes hormones. It focuses on low-sugar and anti-inflammatory foods. When our body gains access to fat, it increases body inflammation and can do much harm to us. He explains why people might have ankle pain, hip pain and how it can be a domino effect by simple bad habits like hunching over at a desk, or lifting things incorrectly on the job, or for all the gym junkies: in the weight-lifting room.

In 1996 - Dr. Terry had the blessing of going to the Atlanta Olympics serving athletes as a chiropractor on deck. Dr. Terry has also served as the team doctor for the U.S. table tennis at the world-championship, then traveled with them to Malaysia and the Netherlands

Chiropractic fits in very well with athletics because it focuses on movement.

Dr. Terry shares how the chiropractic field is critical, why it is so important as a natural way to heal the body,

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BRAIN SPOTTING AND GAZE SPOTTING

Purpose by Design is so excited to introduce to you: Deidre A Calcoate:  a Transformational Life Coach, Brainspotting Practitioner, Trainer and Mentor, as well as Author.

Today is focused on Brain-Spotting and Gaze-Spotting where Deidre takes Pamela through a Gaze-Spotting Session you will not want to miss! She quit her 9-5 to do her 24-7!

You may wonder what brain-spotting is - it started in 2003 from David Grand, Ph.D.

Brain spotting is a brain-body-mindfulness therapy…what we know is where you look affects how you feel. We know that our brains are remarkable parts of us - where we feel things in our body - our brain is associated with it. Brainspotting is using a pointer, and we have people look at that pointer so they can go deep within their brains to connect with those cells that hold trauma, other experiences that they’ve had that have not been able to heal. Your eyes and brain are connected - but where you look matters. A client can be looking at the ground or looking at the pointer and talking the whole time or not talking at all….the client is the lead. This can be used with other forms of therapy as well. Deidre uses brain-spotting with her life coaching skills with this depending on what the person wants. When working with couples - she wants to talk to them individually as well as together.

What started this was called EMDR, and eye-movement therapy. She talks about how Dr. David helped an ice-skater who couldn’t do a triple-loop

and he noticed where her eyes were going - he went deep with her and discovered some trauma had not been healed, healed her, and she never had trouble again doing that stunning move.

Deidra was physically and emotionally abused as a child, some of those memories were not healed and she has since been doing brain spotting and healing - those things have come up and are healing.

Desire talks about Gaze Spotting as well - a guided meditation as you are finding that place where you can gaze and put your focus on. I got something to look at - I'm ready to reflect and think, I'm ready to hear what my next steps are. When you gaze at a spot - you want to feel where you are activated. You are too look at the horizon straight ahead, stay there for a minute and breathe and feel God coming through. Then you look at either the right or left as far as you can, identify where you are feeling more grounded or neutral, and that is where you should stay.

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Purpose by Design is so excited to introduce to you Reverend Jim Hockaday - he starts out powerfully speaking about his past sharing he grew up in denominational thinking. Everything changed after college, when Jim got into some music groups where he traveled around the country.

What are you praying about? Sure, we pray for better cars, houses and jobs. Things we pray for in the spirit, Reverend Jim says those prayers were certainly answered. He talks about that in depth and gives so much knowledge. We don’t need to be right all the time, why argue about being right if we aren’t sure if we actually are.

Reverend Hockaday is like anyone else, he gets competitive playing a wicked game of Jenga or playing a sports game. What ended up knocking the fire out of him was Healing School. He learned that our prayers absolutely should be able to move everyone in the right posture. The church business is the only business who can fail miserably and still keep the doors open. He got this mentality by being honest with himself rather than just running numbers and seeing success by numbers. He asks the bigger questions - “Oh God, Please help me because I’m not being successful.” Successful not in the sense of being on TV - he means people aren’t getting healed even though they’re praying for it. There’s certain principles you begin to recognize that propel you forward.

He shares a powerful story of a nurse who had cancer and when asked does she think God will heal her - she said “I don’t know.” The reason she said this was because everything up until now she had failed. She was prayed over by Jim and she knew she was healed. 10 days later the oncology department told her she was cancer-free.

This is a powerful interview, and a life-changing mentality shift if you’ll let it. It teaches a perspective shift, that with God we can do ANYTHING. It’s not a mind game, it's a value-game. What value do you give disease versus God?

Powerful stuff!

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Purpose by Design welcomes my friend Ryan Hodge, owner of THE REALTY FIRM: a real estate company he co-owns with a partner. He is a true entrepreneur who has quite the story to tell and motivate. He is also a coach, and owns a coaching real-estate company called RYAN HODGE COACHING AND CONSULTING Inc.

Ryan shares how he grew up in Ontario, Canada and lives there now. He graduated from high-school and college there to which he graduated from both. He worked in the corporate world for a decade before getting into real-estate which came naturally to him. He switched careers because he was motivated to do better by and for his family. Ever been there?

He starts us off talking about the  law of purpose. It is a linear path that requires us to make specific choices to  understand and unlock our purpose. He explains how it requires us to go back to our roots to eventually understand our past, and understand why we are programmed the way that we are. When we can understand those circumstances that made us how we are, it allows us to unlock some of that past and purpose and move forward in fulfilling us at a higher level.

He talks about the spiritual aspect of feeling fulfilled and how we need to serve ourselves first - that it takes helping ourselves first - so we can help and be present for the others that we love. Ryan talks about ritualistic habits that help everything else fall into place, which comes down to simple small choices. Every choice leads to an outcome, and every outcome rather negative or positive will teach us to learn, grow and expand further.

Mr. Hodge explains how we can change bad habits by taking responsibility for our actions and analyzing what cycle we are in, and then making changes to move out of those bad routines. You will never be stuck even if you feel stuck because if you switch your small choices up, and make new habits - you will be on a linear path marching into your future and purpose.

Ryan talks about the importance to pat yourself on the back in the moments of small victories because celebration is healthy and needed to continue focus. Finally, he talks about accountability is absolutely crucial for growth rather it be business, or your personal life so you can ascend with your accountability partner(s).

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Purpose by Design welcomes Lilian Okech - a child of the Lord, a mentor, speaker, author, entrepreneur and so much more. She inspires and encourages women to design a whole new life for themselves.

Many will be able to relate to Lilian, as she can reach so many in  similar situations. Lilian was in a bad relationship for 10 years, and came across Mr. Les Brown's teaching. Lilian would listen a lot, so much she called him “Uncle Les”. One day she heard him talk about living with someone or dying with someone - and that resonated with her. She gives Les a lot of credit and said he may have saved her life!

She was so lost in that relationship, with no job and no light at the end of the tunnel (seemingly). She asked God what to do and cried out to him. She gained strength and ended that tumultuous relationship after moving to America from Uganda. God brought her from Sudan, to Uganda, to America. When she left a refugee camp, she was 15 years old when she arrived in America. She knew no English. She learned the ABC’s and got basic education as a teenager. You can imagine the disbelief when she arrived - bathrooms are indoors, free-flowing clean water anywhere you turn. We Americans are blessed.

She was depressed and started to take pain pills to get rid of the pain. What she did not know is that she was overdosing accidently. It was around that time that Lilian broke up with her partner and everything started to change.  Eventually she joined Les Brown's,Power Voice Academy . Lilian then joined Jon Talarico’s ‘Thinking into Results’ Program.  Her life has never been the same!

Lilian has since started her own business with her current husband - that is a community outreach effort. Her goal is to help build internet cafés for local schools to help the local population, and increase their knowledge with computers, the internet, computer training and to connect to the World Wide Web.  She wants to die empty, she does not want the cemetery to take anything. She does not take it for granted being in America and counts it as a huge blessing to do God’s work here.

She encourages people to better themselves, and give into God’s amazing plan for your life! A year and two months since choosing to make changes in her life, Lilian is a best-selling author for two times now, and speaks fantastic English. God has such a big plan for your life - listen and seek Him.

Purpose by Design is so excited to introduce to you Dr. Shauli Mukherjee - an Indian native who is a director at Adamas University, a global thought leader and inspirational speaker. Her passion is education, where she’s worked for 23 years. She talks about the way things are old or backwards when it comes to education and the habits of teaching our kids the wrong things like competition instead of a collaborative mindset. She says the education system is at fault for a lot of these tendencies, as well as it is one of the few things that has not evolved like everything else. She also touches on intelligence versus emotion and how both are needed to be a productive member of society.

Dr. Shauli challenges the education system as it is today and pushes a new way of learning:  STEM - a system that is about looking at and educating the whole person. It’s not just about getting textbook facts in the head. If we don’t know how to appropriate it - it does not drop down to who we are and it doesn’t change us then we continue with the same results - here we are in the century we are living in and the education is ancient. She talks about how schools will teach subjects separately and who's to say that you can’t teach history through music and drama? We can learn literature through movies and theater - it depends on a teacher’s creativity and how they amalgamate subjects to make sense to the kids.

She touches on how some kids just learn differently - our children do not require fixing - the only proper fixing is our old mindset - and we need to change the way we teach our kids. We should be celebrating our kids’ hard work when they put the effort in because it is teaching work ethic and grit. It is important that we focus on what is happening on the inside of our kids and not the outside. We need to focus on emotion, spirituality, social, adversity and not intelligence. Are we teaching our children how to deal with life, with a proper mindset or are we just shoving facts down their throats?

We need to be “in the now” - this is the most powerful moment. What you are creating right now is super powerful. Or are we teaching them to be stressed through our actions? We need to leave that worried zone - critical thinking is the ability to think in a very sane way. It means to think what is necessary and not let emotion get in the way. We were an idea in God, and now we are here with a purpose to fulfill.

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Purpose by Design is stoked to introduce to you: Dr. Angie Gray - a powerhouse woman of God. She is an author, wife, mother of 4 daughters, entreprenuer, inspirational speaker and so much more.

Dr. Angie encourages us to lean into the Lord, and know that we are called to his kingdom and an opportunity to glorify his name even in the storm. Our lovely Guest  tells us that when a problem comes - instead of looking at it as a negative, we can flip it over and thank God for an opportunity to see him move!

Dr. Angie went through something insane - right after losing multiple people close to her. A medical situation turned dire quickly last year where our guest found herself fighting for her life. She contracted legionnaires disease - her husband saw she became increasingly ill and rushed her to the hospital. She was on the brink of life or death - and when the doctor asked her she gave a firm “Do Not Be Resuscitated” and even emailed him to make sure he knew her decision…she was hard-pressed. She took a look at her doctor after some time who had a tear falling down her face and Dr. Angie heard the Lord tell her that her time was not over. Amazingly, the doctor came back a second time and Dr. Angie was able to share that she was choosing to live. Dr. Angie later came to find out that The Women of the Power Voice Book came together to pray for Dr. Angie and lift her up - How amazing! She talks about how she thought she knew purpose until this experience - and how we all will learn perspective as things change in our lives.

Dr. Angie is so happy her story can bless others and help inspire others throughout the world. Be sure to check out  her incredible testimony in full detail on the pages of her new book “Back from the Brink” - in the links below.

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Purpose by Design is so excited to welcome Linda Ellison - a woman who holds so many titles: believer, wife,career-mom, grandmother, motivational speaker, author etc.  What is most important to her is the Lord and family - to the point she put herself on the backburner when she became married and had kids.

Linda is the definition of persistence, as life through some curveballs. She started in nursing and got married and had kids before she was done with her school. She transitioned to pharmacy and now works on the mental health side. God had a different plan for her clearly - now she’s thriving where God wants her to be. Linda went all the way around the path on this journey, and maybe isn’t the path she would have chosen, but she has gratitude for everything good and bad that has happened.

Linda was used to where life was at and God put it on her heart to go back to nursing school. Just a little while later she is speaking on stage with Les Brown!  Linda shares how surreal it was to be on screen with him and share her story - what an incredible experience! Linda talks about having already written her speech out as if she knew she would be on the summit - and God showed up!

Our postiving-minded contagious guest shares what it was like being in a collaboration like ‘Women of the Powervoice’, and all about what God did in less than one year’s time.

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Purpose of Design is so excited to welcomes Daliesha  Murray, a follower of Christ, #-1 Best Selling Author, and motivational-speaker.

Daliesha heard her supervisor one day talking about Les Brown, the legendary speaker and up until then she hadn’t followed him or knew much about him. She was convinced from the way her superior talked about him, and she did some due diligence and searched him.  She decided to type in “Yes!” to a Les Brown offer.

Our lovely guest was willing to go ask for help and borrow money from her dad, and she was willing to make the investment, show up, put her hand up and speak at a summit with Les Brown which he described as a “mic-drop” moment. Don’t ever let doubt cloud your future - look at Daliesha and where she is at today. Listen to God’s subtle voice!

Ms. Murray delves into her backstory and what brought her to where she is today. She came from a very different background before she was a power-house. She was timid, and had self-love issues. She recalls looking in the mirror and just seeing pain - tears rolling down her face asking herself, “Why am I here?”

This was caused by damaging words, and she touches on how we need to hold our tongues and choose to speak life. When we are wronged, we need to understand that hurt people hurt people. It often has nothing to do with us, but of the accuser.

Daliesha teaches us that a person and their words do not dictate how you should think about yourself. You can reach out to Daliesha many different ways below in the Links.

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Purpose of Design is so excited to welcome Kelisha Worrell, a mother of a champion, #-1 Best-Selling Author, coach and speaker.

She’s been speaking for almost 10 years as well as coaching. She started her first business nearly a decade ago with the vision to help millions of people transform their lives through helping them unveil their story about themselves as sometimes it's hard to see your whole picture from the frame point-of-view.

Kelisha wasn’t the most proud of her grades, she felt rejected in school and she ended up meeting face to face Les Brown. She chose to stop surrendering to fear, and to charge through it in strength. Kelisha talks about when we receive a blessing, we need to be able to keep it! We need to be aware, with understanding.

Kelisha met her mentor Barry Overton at that first speaking engagement. She speaks that you may miss opportunities if you are not staying true to who you are - as that is going to keep coming around. That is probably the thing that you are called to do! Kelisha talks about how she learned that you can’t have success without pain. She talks about how people surrender to fear and don’t do what they are called to do - they live a settled life. We are always going to have a new level of “you” and that committee (small voice) telling you that you can’t do it and we will start feeling fearful. In that moment- we can make a choice in that moment to press through it (facing the fear and having courage) and if you face it and press through - you will embrace all kinds of greatness.  Kelisha came to a point where she realized that everything she had gone through that was painful was for a reason, and that they were building blocks to where she was going. She came to a strong realization that our outer world does not determine our inner world.

Lastly, Kelisha blesses us with wisdom talking about how showing up and pushing through is half the battle. She teaches that we embrace the thoughts or vibes someone puts our way - and only we can decide if we are going to be angry or happy or if something is going to affect us.

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Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Martinette James who has such an amazing testimony that is sure to touch many. She grew up in the Caribbean which sounds like a dream, but it wasn’t for her which we will delve into later. Martinette is a mother of 4 beautiful children, formerly was a child educator, and is currently working in the health-care sector. She explains she is just living experiences. She also is a co-author for the international Amazon best-seller anthology book “Women of the Powervoice”

She grew up being told her voice didn’t matter, her story didn’t matter etc. As a young child which is a very molding time - paralyzed her for a time where she felt she shouldn’t speak her opinion or share what was on her mind. If this was not enough, Martinette suffered from experiences that no child should have to.

It was a vicious cycle that was brought into a failed marriage where she married a man at 18 young years of age. She was told that she was lucky she got her prior husband as she was “used goods” as she had gotten physically abused. It got so bad she contemplated taking her life, but the Lord stepped in by using her 3-year-old.

Martinette speaks on how she attracted bad things in her life due to the paradigm she was in. She was at a point where she could not look men in the eyes, and was getting beaten to a point she had to wear sunglasses to cover the bruises around her eyes. Her sister stepped in, offered to watch our guest’s children, and told her to essentially “You need to get out of here!”

When Martinette got to the United States, after about 3 weeks in a bed New York and felt no new bruises - this was so refreshing for her. She went to school and earned her degree. She ended up getting divorced and remarried to another guy - where the same tragedies happened as she was still stuck in a paradigm prison.

She thanks the pandemic for letting her find Les Brown, find her power voice, and find her destiny where her story can help others who are going through something similar.

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Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Irma Matos, co-author of Women of the Power Voice as well as Boss Your Lane, she owned her own business for 33 years and now resides as a consultant for the company. She is currently writing a book called A Noble Profession - Life Lessons to Inspire your Soul and Live in Abundance.

Irma moved from Cuba being born there to the United States and currently resides in Miami as she has for the last few decades. She credits a very special friend, teacher and mentor Jean for her being where she is today. Irma was very nervous to speak English but her teacher helped her confidence-build and now she speaks perfect English and is changing people’s lives. Irma says that teachers are one of the most needed and important professions but aren’t given enough recognition.

She is a child of God, who says she is a spiritual being having a human experience. She is also a real-estate investor and missionary. Irma talks about the goodness of the Lord and how he gave Irma a god-daughter on a mission trip.

Irma shares how she got to where she is now because of Jean and how that has turned around so Irma is now carrying Jean’s legacy and helping people with her story. She went from being a quiet, focused businesswoman to having a life-changing experience at a retreat serving women and doing missions and soon joined Jon Talarico’s Thinking Into Results.

She talks about service / serving is the most important to her. She invokes the Holy Spirit when she writes to ensure that she can help people with his message - not hers. She connected to vision which led to fulfillment, and now she is living her purpose. Irma encourages you to get uncomfortable as if you keep doing what you are doing nothing is going to change.

Irma encourages to be still, and listen to your still small voice. Years ago she was going to rent a townhouse, but the still-small voice said “Don’t rent to these particular people” – and she ended up doing so anyway and it was wrong. She paid attention after that you can bet!

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Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Dalia Ganzel, who goes by Change…her real name. She is a free-spirit, best-selling author who is part of ‘Women of the Power Voice’, and an amazing person overall.

She talks about joining Les Brown’s class and how she came in and hid. During Power Voice class with Mr. Les Brown Dalia would be nervous to share her story, and how that changed with a mindset shift. She realized she has a story to tell and a motivating one! Dalia is now empowered to help people bring out their power voice as we all have something valuable to help someone else.

Dalia says it is important to not hold onto things holding us down, when Life or God wants us to empower and release the illusion of what the world has told you, or the false beliefs about yourself that you have believed for so long.

She gives such wisdom on giving thanks to God even though he does not deliver exactly how you would have expected. She says to listen to that still small voice that is speaking to you, and act on it - “Come and join the nut club and if you don’t like it go back to your sofa!” as Dalia put it, and do not give up on yourself! Ms Ganzel talks about when a person goes numb, when a person is not asking themselves questions anymore, they are losing life as they have stepped out of the game.

Dalia talks about how when people are on their deathbed, it is not what they did that they regret, it’s what they did not do. Dalia closes with telling us to act immediately when we hear that voice, don’t talk yourself out of it - just do it.

Small Gift from Dalia: Dalia wrote up an awesome work book that she is giving out for free! Reach out to her today to get your copy!

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Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Donato Perricci, my long-time friend with many titles - he is a pastor, husband, child of the Lord, father, IT specialist and so much more. Donato has much wisdom in today’s podcast so please listen up and be ready to be rocked!

He talks about when life gets you down, you get to choose the cards to a degree that you play. He had many things challenge him through life and Donato could have let those things make him bitter and jaded and mold him into a very different person. Instead, he let God renew him and let it be part of his testimony. He shares that mindset is everything when it comes to dealing with life.

Donato shares with us some troubles he had in his childhood when his parents got divorced when he was young. He talks about how he has had the Call of God in his life for much of it - once he knew the Lord, Donato was changed forever. He talks about how it is a lifelong commitment. Knowing Christ can and will shift you into a very different person than who you could be.

He talks about what led him to be lead pastor at a local church here in Minnesota, where he was a youth pastor (for all of my kids), and helping out at church in various leadership roles. Donato opens up about how he met his lovely wife and how they’ve been successfully married for 10 years now. They met a long time ago at camp and he knew she was the one…however it wasn’t for quite some span of time before they reconnected after then came into each-other’s lives.

God brought a lot of what was lost in Donato’s life… brought 3 wonderful kids to him through marriage.  He got fantastic in-laws to the point he calls his mother-in-law: “mom”. Finally he is loving being a grandparent.

Donato talks about DNP Designs, he and his wife’s entrepreneurship endeavor. They own a website design company that helps with blogs, social media, advertisement, IT help - the whole nine yards.

Finally, Donato talks about how his church transitioned online and how now anyone can watch and learn of the Lord. He talks about the importance of being fed, and to continually seek after God.

*If you need ANY HELP with website design or IT help - reach out to Donato and Nichol on their DNP Designs Facebook Platform (in the Links below) and let them help you out. They are fantastic (they run all my website and email stuff for my business) and I can’t recommend them enough.

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Purpose by Design welcomes my friend and best-selling author Kathy White who holds many titles. She is a funologist, a mindset mentor, an author, and owns a virtual reality company. She lives in Utah and loves to go snowshoeing and hiking the Utah mountains.

She talks about living at a Happiness-level Frequency which naturally brings more abundance into your life. It is important to find our lost voice and bring it to the surface.

She explains when you are having trouble going through stuff how wrong it is to feel like you cannot go to counseling due to outside pressure or opinions. Her former husband had some personal issues that led to him attempting to take his life. She explains how draining it was when she would have to drag him up to a good frequency where he was ok to be her husband and her kids’ dad. This was the beginning of falling out of love with him. A couple years later - she filed for divorce as enough was enough. She met her now husband Jeff a bit later and is so incredibly happy. She talks about how God wants us to be happy and how life is not supposed to just be okay. He wants to prosper us.

She talked about how she stayed in a marriage for so long due to believing that God was going to be so angry at her for separating from an emotionally abusive relationship as well as her mother who stayed in a suffering marriage for so long.

She found out that Mike got the counseling he needed after she left him, as she found she was enabling his toxic dependency on her. Essentially and very probably - their divorce may have saved Mike’s life.

Kathy talks about her part in Women of the Power Voice which catapulted her into a new life that she did not know was possible. She is so excited to share her story with you and the world.

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Website: coachkathywhite.com

Throwback Thursday on Wednesday!📅

🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎊🎊🎊 to my AMAZING assistant, Nichol Perricci and her Wonderful Momma, Pastor Sandy Brookens.  This Mother/Daughter Duo 💞💕share the same birthday and a whole lot more!  Their story will have you cheering, crying then cheering again. 🙏

Almost two years ago I had the honor of interviewing these ladies for a Purpose by Design Series on Adoption Awareness.💫 We pulled this episode out of the vault🔏 and it is one of my absolute favorites. 🤗 Some life details need to be updated like… They have all moved in the past 2 years.  Sandy to her own place.  Donato is now the Senior Pastor with Nichol by his side, still at Victory Celebration. Nichol’s journey to find her biological family at least on her dad’s side and has a trip planned in April to meet several of them. Nichol has worked the last few years with myself to help grow her platform and audience. We are both so excited for what is ahead for Purpose by Design. Nichol and her husband have also started a Design business, DNP Designs in which Nichol has expanded her wealth of knowledge and expertise. They have also added another Grand to the mix :)

But the theme of “Family” is still the same.

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📣HAPPY BIRTHDAY🕯🍰🥳🎁 Lady Nichol and Pastor Sandy you both deserve to be honored on your special day! ❤️ 😘

Thank you for allowing me to interview you both and share your story with the world.🌎 I love you tons!!❤❤- Dr. Pamela

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Purpose by Design is honored to introduce to you Deidre Calcoate, a dear friend of mine who lives quite a fulfilling life: serving others. Deidra has been dealt a lot in life that could have caused her to be bitter but she has allowed those lemons to be made into lemonade.She is a transformational life coach, International Best Selling Author, trainer, and suicide interventionalist. Plus, she has an infectious laugh.

Deidre takes us on a journey surroinding her adoption story and how that molded her into who she is today.  Amazing!

Today is a serious topic: suicide prevention. It’s truly a helpful, knowledgeable interview that everyone needs to hear so they can be aware of what to do if they ever are in this predicament. She shares how someone close to her tried taking their life many times and that is what got her into being an interventionist.

Deidre goes into detail on how to navigate a situation when someone is “up on a ledge” and how to talk them down, as well as how to navigate someone perhaps thinking about it. She gives huge gold nuggets on this very critical topic and we need to spread the word. She spreads awareness around if someone is starting to give away things that are important to them, maybe making arrangements for their pets - please ask them questions, and watch them because that is a tell-tale sign. She gives insight about saying someone committed suicide as comitted implies criminal activity. Think about that for a minute. This is just touching the surface - you’ll need to listen to hear all of the incremental details.

This is a powerful episode. Please make sure you carve out  time it .

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Purpose by Design welcomes Stephon Leary - a child of the Lord, a mentor, speaker, author and so much more. He is so motivating and has a powerful testimony to share.

Stephon had a tremendous situation happen at the age of 17 - he was adopted by a white family (he compares to the Blind Side) - which did change his life indefinitely.

For many years until 2020, he always lived like he was a black man adopted by a white family. When the Corona virus hit - it all changed. He shares a bit about his rough childhood that had domestic abuse on a normal basis, until his mother grabbed him and his siblings ran away to Houston, Texas to start a new life.

Stephon revisits how he and his siblings would come home during the school day and go back to bed until their mother was threatened with jail time if they don’t attend. As life went on, all of his siblings dropped out of school using substances daily. Stephon chose to stay in school, and go a different route. He started playing sports and got noticed fast. He had an attitude however.

He had a humbling and quite painful moment when there was an MVP award up for grabs and he got turned down saying his character didn’t fit the award. See, Stephon thought it was about fighting your way to the top no matter what it took.

God lined things up where Stephon had the opportunity to go to a Christian school, where his adopted mother who worked at the school told Stephon that God put him in her heart and said he has a place to stay if he goes to that school. He was welcomed with open arms and he was a part of that family, and was going to a solid school. The love he got from that family showed him God’s love and broke the curse.

Stephon’s message is to bring out and tap into the greatness inside of you because you do have it, and can do so much in your life. He encourages that we are built to last through tough times, go through seasons in our lives. God is there through it all.

You are strong enough to go through it. He explains the most in-depth Lion King analysis you will ever hear of Rafiki talking to Simba, telling him to look deeper at his reflection, and how his father lives in him even though physically gone. Does this sound like our God a bit? Something you surely will want to hear!

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Today, Purpose by Design welcomes my dear friend and colleague: Ify Mccoy who calls himself blessed and unstoppable. He had this recurring thought of “Unscripted Voices”, so he knew it was from God. This thought came to him a decade ago, it was just a thought. He had a mind of bringing people together with impromptu speeches. Now Ify has branched out adding Unscripted Voices Academy.

What is Unscripted Voices Academy you ask? It is a program geared towards adolescents and teenagers to train them how to speak, think, and grow into unstoppable confidence.

Ify talks about the importance of nurturing our kids on discovering their purpose: including and not limited to: improving reading and writing skills, public speaking, emotional intelligence and so on.

Check out Unscripted Voices in the ‘Links’ section below.

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Purpose by Design welcomes Nompumelelo Real Kunene - a child of the Lord, a mentor, speaker, author and so much more. She inspires and encourages people to have a mentor as it is critical.

If you have dreams and goals in the next six months - she says to take amazing action, put on your oxygen mask first before you assist others, otherwise you won’t be able to help others. This simply means to get a coach to hold you accountable for your actions, both in your personal and business life.

Real talks about the injustice that happened to George Floyd and our human rights and encourages you to have a wake-up call. Don’t ever hit the snooze button because forever is a long time so why don’t you wake up and get going!

Ms. Kunene goes over “Rise to Greater Heights” - her best-selling book that motivates and teaches leadership, empowerment, being purpose-driven, mentorship, coaching and so much more. The book is in the LINKS section below. She talks about how you should not let your legacy, your talents and your gifts be buried with your body in the cemetery! Impact the world, as it is important. She teaches that for us to make a difference we need to have a difference.

She encourages that we need to embrace our failures, and have the proper mindset so we can move forward after learning from our mistakes. We need to have resilience, we’ll rise from the ashes and change the world!

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Purpose by Design welcomes Dr. Eseverere the CEO: her favorite title is mom, but also is a friend, sister, doctor, queen, motivational and life coach, and much more. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.  She is a best-selling author with the Women of Power Voice (in the description) and was Ms. Tennessee Global Continental 2021.

Dr. Eseverere talks about when she did a pageant in her church, and making a difference in the children's lives that she felt God pushed her to touch. She feels led to touch these girls’ lives and make a difference in them. She wanted to help other women who has stood on the sidelines of their lives.

She explains what it means to show up in life, and what it means to be your own boss and the CEO of your own life. She teaches that names and words have power. Dr. Eseverere says that you need to create the life that you want, empower that life - and own that life. She shows up daily with the mindset that a fresh start is just a choice away. If you do not like where you are, change that! Boss up to it, and take action! She beautifully says that she is smiling again, as she is happy again as she’s taken prior pain and turned it into joy - she is truly inspiring!

She talks about how God gives us sweet surprises and we will not always see the whole picture. She teaches that God is wanting to bless us, but we get programmed in bad paradigms. She talks about how she likes associating herself with people who use words like “greatness” as it matters who we do spend our time with.

Please share this incredible and inspiring testimony so all can be blessed by it!

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Purpose by Design welcomes Selina Bornes: a mindset strategist. She helps women change their mindset, confidence, business, and lifestyle 180-degrees. Why 180-degrees? When you take a 180-turn, you end up in the opposite direction of where you are right now.

She talks about when she was married and in an abusive relationship and learned in 2016 that she was responsible for the energy in the house, and that she had a voice that was being pushed down. Her daughter ran away and that changed everything, her assertive side came out then and that is when she realized things could and should be different. She hired a coach then, wound up writing her first book: All That Glitters: From Selfishness and Despair to Restoration, a book to women about how to get out of your comfort zone, and learn to take a 180 from where you are at. She explains that taking a 180 is simply polishing your mirror to make it clear.

Her pastor taught her to live with commas behind our titles, not periods. Your title doesn’t end with your title, but may have continuation and extension - do not limit yourselves. She told her daughters that they sit and acknowledge themselves in the mirror is how they think of themselves. She encouraged them to improve the image of themselves in their mindsets and their subconscious will catch up.

Selina explains how many people walk around in life ignorant that they are perfect or nothing is wrong with them, as they are in denial. It takes realizing the problem first to fix the problem, which she says is so much fun to witness various clients / women work through their humps to get to their 180-degree point.

Journaling is an important step in women’s progress. Selina journaled to get everything out, as it was therapeutic. She will have her clients journal about the deep-rooted issues of fears to procrastinate. There is something else deep inside that people don’t acknowledge that Selina helps her clients get to the bottom of.

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Purpose by Design welcomes my dear friend, Lori Paul who dons many titles: she is a mother, grandmother, writer, author, speaker, ministry leader and more.

Lori grew up believing success was growing up, getting married and having children. Her mother reminded her that she can do anything she wanted, which in her heart: was to be a pastor which was not a thing for females being pastors back then.

A little later in time Lori went through a very serious traumatic experience: she was set up by a pimp and got into some trouble - and led her to have identity issues. Lori decided to bury that traumatic experience deep down and not tell a soul: including her soon-to-be future husband who she never told as she wanted to forget it. Ms. Paul said she wanted to forget her last name and change her identity as fast as possible.

Later in life, God led Lori to a meeting that focused on trauma specific to what she went through - and she realized it was not her fault…the hurt, the guilt, the shame fell off of Lori. The Lord has a way of taking past situations that were hard and use them for his glory. Lori was asked to help promote a sex-trafficking bill and was asked to speak on how to spot it. She touches on how pornography starts young and can be targeted at our kids, and how she furthered her ministry. Lori also teaches that we need to nurture our BOYS just as much as we nurture our girls and give them equal love.

Lori is focused on helping people through her ministry visiting women at jails to listen, and help in any way she can in directing their future. She is staying busy writing her future book as well so keep an eye out for that in 2022.  Lori touches on how important being present, listening to someone who has gone through something is critical, and how little moments of support can change everything for someone. People of passion are a powerful entity that can help change this world.

This is an amazing interview and if you know anyone who has gone through traumatic experiences - please be sure to share this special podcast with them.

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Purpose by Design welcomes Suesara Imadojemun originally from Liberia, West Africa. She has endured much in her life from a rough childhood during a Civil war in Liberia at a young age. Around 20 years ago, Suesara was blessed with coming to the United States with her mother. Prior to that, her father was a politician in Africa.

Before moving to the States, Suesara lived in Africa where her father was a politician. She explains that you can pretty much set anyone up to be murdered there. During a civil-war there, her mother was almost shot point blank in front of her but God protected her, as the gun did not go off.

Around the age of 18 years old, Suesara and her mother came to the United States where Suesara runs her ministry: “All for Grace”. Suesara gives thanks to God for where she is now, and speaks on the importance of pleasing God not just in our public lives, but our private as well.

Suesara encourages believers who are going through a tough time to look to God as he is far bigger than what we are facing. Jesus is real and faithful and he WILL get you through it. Suesara wrote her first book called “Self Reflection - Walking with Jesus”, a book that helps people on their walk with God. It encourages us to live a God-driven life.

Hear this amazing interview and please share!

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When You Find Your Purpose - You are Aligned With Greatness

Purpose by Design welcomes Terryl Daluz - an award winning playwright, creative writer, actor, and change-agent and mindset coach who shares with us his amazing journey and some wonderful wisdom.

At a young age, Terryl loved speaking in front of his class, entertaining people and putting smiles on his classmates' faces. Around 17 years of age, he toured with numerous rappers and was an avid dancer. He talks about being turned away at a local acting spot where the greats used to hang at in the beginning of their careers. He was initially turned away but went back and said he will start from the bottom and persisted for a chance.

One night out, he ended up in the middle of gunfire and was actually shot. God had a plan for this young man - the doctor said that if it was a couple inches over, he would have been paralyzed. God protected Terryl.

Terryl motivates and talks about manifestation, intentionality, and mindset. He talks about a dream he once had of a chair he came across in a local store that was a little out of his price range at the time. He said to himself that he WILL sit in the chair in his yard at one point in time, though not today. That night, he had a dream of that very chair and told his wife about it the next morning. That very day, he was driving and saw something in the middle of the road. He stopped and went to take a look: it was that very chair even with the price tag on it. He to this day has that chair in his yard, which has been designated his “writing chair”.

Mr. Daluz encourages those who don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel to keep pressing forward, and to keep your attention on the dream, not on your current circumstances. intentionality is important, and if you are not where you envision yourself being, that is just fine and likely you will be stronger, and be molded for your future purpose (rather it is this or something else). He teaches that mindset and intentionality and what we pay attention to matters!  We need to keep our eyes on the prize as when we limit ourselves we limit our greatness.

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