Stories Episodes

“Remember how powerful you are and that you really can do anything you decide is important enough and achieve whatever you deem worthy.” – Kate Eckman

"When you start to write, you're almost opening up this magic chest, gaining access to different parts of your brain that may not be available to you when you're speaking." - Lâle Davidson

“I've learned over the years to accept my imperfections and to just continue going forward.” – Kelly Majdan

“We have this terrible attitude that sacrifices are bad things. No, sacrifices are the things that make things meaningful to you." – August Turak

"You are far more powerful than you've been told. We have a sense of powerlessness now…I just want you to know that this power, which is usually denied by authority figures, is something you were born with." - Lynne McTaggart

"I just started writing and next thing you know I have a manuscript in front of me." - Marianna Buffolino

“After speaking to the teacher…she made me realize that it is possible, just as long as I'm willing to keep honing my craft, taking rejections well, and just keep going.” – Liv Arnold

"There can be many solutions to our financial problems, but most of us try to solve them by working more hours, and it's not an intelligent way of doing it. You have to work smarter, and the way you do it is to use your gift, use your talent." - Ken Honda

“Start doing things and figure out what it is that you want to do that leans into your creativity.” – Rella B.

"When you know who you are, it doesn't matter what anyone else says." – Richard Kweku EzeAgu Akinyemi

“There are no limits. If you're still alive, no matter what you’ve been through, God (Source, Creation) has not finished with you yet.” - Melanie Tonia Evans

"I was meant to be given this gift to share for others to heal. My challenge was cancer, but everybody has a challenge, whether it's death, divorce, changing careers, disease, and it's all meant for our own healing.” – Jennifer Greenhut

“Connect you to all of you.” - Janell Warkentin

"Fantasy is really healthy for the imagination…it allows people to escape and allows them to think of something different.” – Cyndi Brec

“You can't win with everybody, but you can win with yourself, so why not bet on you?” – Karin Freeland

“Writing your story is an incredibly empowering act." – Alison Wearing

“I speak very vividly in the book about redemption, because my dad at one point did seek redemption, and God did give it to him. God gives everybody a second chance and he took it.” – Felicity Nicole

"Luck is the ability to take the correct action in an opportunity." - Victoria M. Gallagher

“We wanted to do something that created a personal impact for women and men, and that's where our book kind of bloomed out of.” – Lisa Cox

“There's never a defined time when you can start something new.” – Farah Flisher

“The things you need to stop doing are more impactful in your life than the things that you need to start doing.” – Dominic "Slice" Teich

"It's not just fear of failure that's holding people back, it's the blame that happens afterwards." – Dustin Staiger

"Once I changed my relationship with myself, from not liking who I was to accepting and changing what didn't work for me, it changed my relationships with everyone else." – Martin Salama

“Books are such a powerful thing. Whether it's nonfiction or fiction, it's a way of seeing into the universe that you wouldn't have seen before.” – Zoë Routh