​BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A STORY "BEHAS" – Details, episodes & analysis

Elona Lopari's journey from Albanian immigrant to corporate success showcases resilience and transformation. As her family's bridge to a new life, she balanced logic and discipline with her siblings' creative freedom.

Elona, CEO of The Life School, helps purpose-driven leaders build impactful businesses through alignment, branding, and team growth. As a bestselling author and speaker, she connects communities with heart and vision.

Elona's transition from corporate life to entrepreneurship sparked deep self-discovery. Confronting imposter syndrome and the search for validation, she gained strength by aligning her goals with her personal values. Through the emotional ups and downs of starting a business, she found stability in meditation and community support. Elona's journey highlights the interconnectedness of growth, tradition, and innovation, reminding us of the importance of connection and mutual support in life and business.
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To connect with Elona:
https://www.elonaloparicoaching.com/media-press-speaking.html
The Life School Masterclass Show

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Nancy Napier, a professor at Boise State University and the author of several books on organizational creativity and innovation, shares how her multidisciplinary approach has shaped her career. Inspired by her father's shift from military service to academia, she combines her languages, political science, and international business interests to enrich her teaching and research. Her story emphasizes the importance of having a wide-ranging knowledge and the diverse viewpoints it brings.
She highlights how her curiosity brought together leaders from law enforcement, software, and sports, fostering an exchange of ideas that led to her book, "Wise Beyond Your Field." This collaboration illustrates how diverse groups can offer unique insights to tackle leadership challenges.
This episode emphasizes how curiosity and embracing diverse opportunities can inspire greater understanding and compassion.
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To connect with Nancy https://www.nancyknapier.com/

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Living a life built on a foundation of addiction and deceit? Logan Hufford shares his profound and deeply personal journey through sexual addiction, starting with early exposure to magazines and leading to a series of destructive behaviours that nearly destroyed his marriage and family. He opens up about the harrowing moment his wife issued an ultimatum, forcing him to confront his addiction head-on and embark on an arduous path to sobriety.

Throughout this episode, Logan discusses the gruelling process of recovery, emphasizing the critical role of accountability, same-gender mentorship, and the essential support found in recovery groups.
By sharing his story, Logan aims to shed light on the pervasive impact of sexual addiction on relationships and the necessity of ongoing effort and support in overcoming such addictions.

Logan's transformation from a deceitful individual to someone striving for honesty and emotional openness is captivating. He reflects on the importance of vulnerability, open communication, and unconditional love in personal growth and family healing. Logan's leadership in recovery groups and his commitment to supporting others highlight the power of sharing personal stories and offering hope to those navigating similar challenges. This is an episode that, although you may not relate to, there are so many nuggets of insightfulness to grow our compassion for us humans. I hope you see that, too.

Let's gain wisdom from his story.

To connect with Logan: https://www.prodigalsofalaska.com/ 

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Eric Spitz is here to explain how he combines his passions of running and travelling by running a marathon in each of the United States’ 50 states before he turns 40. He also plans to have a book written by then. 

He is a member of the 50 States Marathon Club, and he’s already knocked 16 states off his list. Eric’s been writing about his experiences in each state on his Juxtaposed Journeys blog. Juxtaposed Journeys is also the name of his podcast, where he interviews other individuals who are following their life passions. This is an interesting story that offers new knowledge to the listener. Whether you’re a runner, thinking about starting to run, or are quite happy never having to run, ever, it makes no difference. 

Eric is a production planner, and podcaster.

It was so much fun having him on the show.

Let’s enjoy his story.

To connect with Eric and maybe share your success story:
https://www.juxtaposedjourneys.com/
@juxtaposedjourneys
#50statemarathonclub
#garmin
#greendragonboston
#raiserace

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Tonia Cordi is here to share how it started for her and how she helps others with her five-step process based on her experience with her clients. Her process encompasses intentions and values — everything from personal growth and sustainability to organizing and creating systems. She started her career as a teacher and, after 12 years, decided to follow her passion for helping people create spaces that match their ideal lives. Soon after starting this, she realized that while an organized space can be transformative, it was only the first step in making space grow and evolve. So Tonia applied her background in education, the arts, psychology, and some trial and error to create an integrated process for individuals to meet their intentions, goals, and values. 

Tonia Cordi is the owner of Time & Space Solutions. She helps people de-clutter and redesigns their lives, so they can slow down, reconnect to their values, and live out their days with purpose. This involves examining inner behavioral patterns that create the clutter and then learning how to organize life better. Tonia looks at deeper patterns and how they show up in their host's external world. Your space and how you spend your time mirror what's going on inside you.

I am delighted to have a fellow organizer on the show. Organized people are fantastic. 

Let's enjoy her story.

Check out her website for your own Clarity Call!

To connect with Tonia:
https://www.timeandspacesolutions.com/blog
LinkedIn
@timeandspacesolutions

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Carline Crevecoeur  is here to share why she wrote her memoirs and teach us some lessons along the way. I think you're going to like this awe-inspiring, resilient person.
Carline is a Haitian American obstetrician, gynecologist, and now also an author. She immigrated to the US at the age of 5 and was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she went into the medical field. After  20 years of medical service in New York and Pennsylvania, she gave up her career to raise and homeschool her five children. Carline was diagnosed with colon cancer and given 36 months to live. Eight years later, she's still very much alive. Following that battle, and now that her children are adults, she decided to write her memoir titled, Pressure Makes Diamonds: a journey from Homeschooling to the Ivy League - A Parenting Story. She is not only an author now but also the first black woman elected to a seat on the State College Area School District of Pennsylvania. 
Let's enjoy her story. 

To connect with Carline: https://www.carlinecrevecoeur.com/
@crevey22
https://www.facebook.com/carline.crevecoeur
https://twitter.com/medicrev

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Shlomo Freund is sharing his story on how he combined finance and travel. If you are a remote worker or a digital nomad, his story could be of interest to you. 

Shlomo is a location-independent entrepreneur, author and public speaker. He loves travelling and has always been fascinated by investments and finances. His primary residence is in Israel, but he usually takes workcations. Yes, that’s right, it’s a thing, he takes workcations. He picks a city in the world, and he moves there with his family for a few months to work and enjoy the life of a local.
One of his businesses now is called “Free Financial Self.”  He helps people organize their money to reach financial independence faster. 

To connect with Shlomo:  https://ffs.ck.page/5f5620c91
http://freefinancial.com/behas
@freefinancialself

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Marie Alessi

Marie Alessi is a mother to two boys, a bestselling author and speaker. After her husband passed from a brain aneurysm, she found and created her way back to Joy. She instinctively knew it was her only option when considering their young boys. Marie is a shining example of choosing love over fear and sadness. She has created a movement that approaches grief and loss differently than what society traditionally offers us. A movement interrupts the stigma of grief and spreads healing and hope into the world. This is now her purpose. She supports others in the journey of grief, because we will all experience it eventually. Life is there to be lived, to be happy. This is her story.

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Connect with Marie:  https://www.mariealessi.com/
Linked In www.linkedin.com/in/marie-alessi/
@loving.life.after.loss

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Joi Fisher-Griffin 

Author and entrepreneur Joi R. Fisher-Griffin is an experienced educator, a passionate adoption advocate and a patron of the arts. After going through her own struggles as an adoptee, Joi wrote her memoir, Finding Joi: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Love. She shared her story so that she could help others who sit in silence about their struggles, and she continues to find ways to be open about adoption, with adults and young people. She is the author of two best-selling children’s adoption books Choosing Joi: An Adoptee’s Journey and Finding Belonging and Singing with Joi: There Are Lots of Different Ways to be a Family. 
She believes adoptees, prospective adoptive parents, and adoptive and foster families can find resources and their community of support if WE all Stop Whispering and Let’s Talk Adoption. She is now serving as a Board of Directors with Miriam’s Heart. Joi believes Finding Joy is Possible! 
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To connect with Joi: www.FindingJoi.us
For all resources https://www.facebook.com/findingjoirenee/
IG @findingjoirenee
Information for adoptive and foster families, prospective adoptive and foster parents, and anyone interested in serving.  www.miriamshearts.org

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William "Bill" Cohen shares how he turned his pain and personal loss due to his mother’s Alzheimer’s into passion and an “encore career”.   We talk about managing care and practicing self-care and prevention. We talk about dementia, Alzheimer’s, their symptoms and treatments.  And also things not to do for a person living with dementia.

Bill is a caregiving support consultant, a very interesting job. We tend to always talk about the patient, but neglect talking about the roles of caregivers.  Just like patients, caregivers could feel alone and exhausted.  Bill guides caregivers along on their journeys.  He assists them in reducing the overwhelming stress that can come along with the job.
His creative and loving mother, Sheila, lost her home in Hurricane Katrina.  Then, her health, artistic skills, and life were ravaged by Alzheimer's.  Bill was her primary care partner for 10 years.  

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Visit: https://cohencaregivingsupport.com/
Join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/billcohensupportgroup/?ref=share
@cohencaregivingsupport
https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamscohen/

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