Embers and Wind

Welcome to Embers and Wind!Guest Hanna Denny shares “If I never love again, I know that the love that I’ve experienced, people never experience throughout their whole life. So, forever I’ll be grateful for that. He’s not with me now, well, in his body, but definitely he’s always with me and will be. What can I say, before, before I before I do that, I just want you all to know that this is the first time I’m talking publicly about my experiences. So, you might hear my voice breaking a little bit. But tune in because this story is real, and I hope it can help you to go through your difficulties.” I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. In this episode, guest Hanna Denny shares that her beloved husband, Roy in February 2022. She talks about feeling angry at Roy for leaving him and experiencing other stages of grieving his death stages of grieving. She talks about the stress that she felt and being told that she looks older as stress ages people. Hanna shares that this is the first time she’s spoken publicly about Roy’s death, that she wasn’t ready earlier, hat her newest passion helping people heal from the loss of a loved one. it’s because she wants you to know that healing and aging gracefully is possible. This empowered her to be vulnerable by sharing publicly about both the devastation she once felt, about the youthful energy she feels today. She talks with excitement about when she first saw the men with their scuba diving gear enter the swimming pool, that Roy was a volunteer in a scuba diving class while she had always wanted to try was excited about going scuba diving even though she’d never gone scuba diving before they met. Hanna notes they first developed a close friendship during which he taught her to scuba dive, that their friendship evolved into a deep love. She shares that her healing journey began by helping someone heal from a serious disease and receiving feedback that what she was doing was helping him. Hanna notes she’s a practitioner of multiple healing modalities. She references utilizing Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Reiki, LifeWave patches, meditation, and energy healing. There is hope for all of us. Hanna would be pleased to hold your hand and lead you through your healing process.To connect with Hanna, her email address is denny.hanna.e@gmail.com . hanna.denny@hannadenny.com. Her Facebook profile is at this web address: https://www.facebook.com/hannadenny2017. Her LinkedIn profile is: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanna-denny/.  Her Instagram profile is the website listed for this website where she posts many reels about aging gracefully. Her Calendly link to schedule a convenient time for a virtual chat is: https://calendly.com/denny-hanna-e/30min

Welcome to Embers and Wind!Guest and digital marketing strategist Mileh Oztalay shares “Marketing is essentially a problem-solving discipline. It’s not about just throwing ads out there. It’s about understanding when you find a starting point, and you analyze that starting point, what do you do to make the program better, the campaign, the marketing efforts whatever they may be, could be public relations, for example. All these different elements, these are all problem-solving components. As you work through this problem-solving process, really, marketing, in itself, is a process. When you work through the marketing process, you gain a story. The idea is how do you take this story, how do you take this knowledge and how you share it. The best way to share it is just make it simple. Talk about it in a way that people are going to understand. Talk about it in a way that people are going to accept.”I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. In this episode, Mileh shares his fascination and interest in computers and technology began in his youth. He talks about the many changes that have happened over his 35 year marketing career including the highs and lows. Mileh shares useful marketing tips and stories to empower you. Mileh shares the 4 A’s of change that he frequently shares with business leaders, anticipate change, accept change, adapt change. He states “The second part is accepting change, and I think that’s the hardest part for especially when I’m talking with business and business owners or C-level people is this idea that I’ve just accepted this change and now all of a sudden you’re telling me that there’s this change. My response in most cases is very similar ‘You can fret and fume, fuss, moan and groan about that change. If you don’t accept it and move forward, your competition is going to get ahead of you by a factor of 3 to 5 times. Should you decide to re-engage after you get done fretting, fussing, and fuming, you’re going to be investing an enormous amount of money just to get caught up.’” To stay connected with Mileh, his company’s website is the website listed for this episode. His phone number is 1-248-568-2241. His email address is melih@smartfindsmarketing.com. The website address for his is LinkedIn profile Is https://www.linkedin.com/in/melihoztalay/. If you reach out, he’ll help you if he can.   

Welcome to Embers and Wind! Guest Lydia Busler Lowery states “And what happened at that moment is I just said ‘There’s nothing wrong with me. This situation isn’t acceptable.’ I had already, I had already let go of the competition. I was not going to be able to go there. But, I sure as heck wasn’t going to let the rest of my life go, that something in me knew that I was not going to, that I had something to do. I had already survived a lot. And I had this overwhelming vision of myself walking again outside in the garden with bare feet, working in the garden two whole legs. I felt it. I saw it. I saw it from above. I saw it from within. I saw it from every angle.“ I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.  In this episode, Lydia talks about walking again after being told by doctors and other health care professionals that she’d never be able to walk again due to the loss of nerves in both legs. She shares that she used their words as a challenge to heal instead. Lydia mentions a physical therapist who helped her believe in her ability to walk again, an osteopath who helped her regain the nerves in her legs by eating an abundance of eggs. Lydia shares about her first passion acknowledging she’s an international composer who also sings and plays the French horn in an orchestra. She notes if you want to hear her sing that she sings background music for meditation. While Lydia states she will always be a composer and musician, she wants people to Believe You Can Heal, she shares she got great compassion for people in pain which is why she’s also committed to helping people heal To stay connected with Lydia or to learn from her, her healing website is listed as the website for this episode. Her Linktree web address is: https://linktr.ee/improvisant. She’s also on Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media presence as a healing coach and as a professional composer and musician.

Welcome to Embers and Wind!Guest Sadiq Hussain shares about finding his passion as a coach to share his knowledge and skill to help other people, especially shy, introverted people like he used to be: “What drove me is I one day sat right here behind me on my bed and this was about a year and ½ into my personal development journey as I shared earlier here, reading these books and becoming confident and really learning about life, business, mindset and I thought one day while I was sitting on my bed I was just thinking to myself said ‘Sadiq, the only thing stopping you from extra growth, from extra value putting out into the world, that extra leadership to be fielded by more people.’ The only thing stopping me at that time was the fear of judgment, was other people’s opinions of me. I used to care too much about other people’s opinions, care too much about their judgments. So as I sat there that day, I asked myself ‘Sadiq, why are you being so selfish? You’ve learned all this amazing personal growth, mindset stuff, changed your life and helped you evolve. Why are you being so selfish and keeping it to yourself?’”I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.  In this episode, Sadiq describes himself as a shy, introverted man who became a role model for consistency. He cites recording daily videos on multiple social media websites as an illustration for how he first broke through his fear of being critically judged by others. He playfully shares that he’s thought about changing his legal middle name to consistency. He shares that his friend started him on his personal development journey when he was 21 by recommending he read Rich Man, Poor Man.  He notes with amazement that reading this book introduced him to mindset. Sadiq notes that he intends for actions to make consistency his legacy. He shares as an example of his consistency that he’s been posting videos daily on all social media platforms. He shares his story to inspire you break through whatever barrier is stopping you from fulfilling your purpose. He talks about his passion for learning and personal development. Sadiq asserts people can learn from anyone if they don’t let their ego interfere. He shares that his Muslim faith influences his work and his life in such a way that he is open and interested in connecting with people from other religions, with people who aren’t affiliated with and religion and with fellow MuslimsTo stay connected with Sadiq, his website is the website listed for this episode. You can also find Sadiq by doing a search for Coach Sadiq on the social media website you typically use. To learn from Sadiq, you can find him and then reach out to him on the social media you prefer. His LinkedIn profile can be found at this web address: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachsadiq/.

Welcome to Embers and Wind!Guest Mark Walton describes his passion for Toastmasters “It’s something I love to do. That’s why I’ve gone from visiting one time a week to 4. The other thing that keeps me fascinated by Toastmasters is how effective we are in taking people who are perfectly wooden, terrified and turning them into superb public speakers. That I’ve been a Toastmaster for ten years. Ten years a member of 4 clubs. I’ve got a lot of Toastmasters experience, and yet over and over again I’ve seen members join Toastmasters and in 2 years, they’re much better public speakers than I am. In my own, ahem not very humble opinion, I have a little bit to do with that because I can help people who are terrified of public speaking, but it is a real joy to see that happen.” I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling.  In this episode, guest Mark Walton notes that he considers Toastmasters his hobby during his retirement. Mark shares any one whose company struggles with an engagement problem can visit to explore how you can build communication skills and leadership skills through Toastmasters. He tells a story about recently winning Toastmaster’s humorous speech at the division level. Mark invites you to visit our Columbus (Indiana) Toastmasters club’s open house on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. EDT. He invites you to visit Toastmasters once. If you live in Columbus, Indiana, he encourages you to visit our open house in person at 1531 13th St., Columbus, Indiana in the 2nd floor large conference room at United Way’s Doug Otto Center. If you can’t visit our club’s open house in Columbus, he recommends visiting our meeting on Zoom. Mark recommends that our club be selective in contemplating who to invite as a guest speaker for our open house: “You would probably want someone who’s recognized as being worth listening to.” Mark also shares several inspiring stories.To stay connected with Mark through Toastmasters the Columbus (Indiana) Toastmasters club iLinkedIn pages listed as the website for this episode is the website listed for this episode. The web address for Mark's Facebook profile is: https://www.facebook.com/mark.walton.121. To explore learning from Mark, visit our Toastmasters club.

Welcome to Embers and Wind!Samuele Barrili, this week’s guest on Embers and Wind, describes how his faith guided him to become the first marketing company to serve waste managements by saving our planet waste through recycling“My faith draws me here and draws me where I’m now. I believe that everything depends on my faith, and it continues to influence my work every single day. I listen a lot to myself, my emotions, my feelings about whatever beliefs and for that I perceive a lot the connection with people. Because talking with small business owners, waste management owners, every single day I learn something. And I share with them feelings about the market, about the situation, about what is possible to do, about how to solve the waste problem in a positive way. Taking care of the opportunity that with waste is offering up.”I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. In this episode, Samuele Barrili shares both his parents were chemistry teachers where he grew up in Lisbon, Italy. He talks about being drawn to apply his degree in Toxicological Chemistry to educate waste management owners who then educate people under their care to help save our planet from waste by  changing people’s perception of waste. He calls plastic the endless material because there are so many products that can be made from plastics. Samuele mentions Nike as an example because their soles include recycled plastic. Samuele ends the episode with a benevolent Call-to-Action to start thinking about waste as material.Samuele’s company, Marketing4Waste is the website for this episode. To stay connected with Samuele recommends connecting with him on LinkedIn. The website address for his LinkedIn Profile is:https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuele-barrili/. He also mentions his company’s YouTube channel to stay connectged with Samuele. The Mareting4Waste YouTube channel’s web address is: https://www.youtube.com/@Marketing4Waste. To learn from Samuele about doing the right thing for your children and grandchildren, he share that he will have a book available on Amazon titled Making America Great Again Starting with Waste by the end of this year.