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Rosie Paulsen | Ecuadorian by Birth, Hispanic by Heritage, American by Choice

Connect with Rosie Paulsen: Website: https://rosiepaulsen.com/ Book (Ñeque): https://a.co/d/0hjdkrDi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosie-paulsen/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealrosiepaulsen/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rocio.paulsen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealRosiePaulsen Chapters 00:00 Rosie's Journey: From Ecuador to America 05:18 Building a Business: The Birth of SNR Services 10:33 The Essence of Servant Leadership 15:41 Navigating the Medicare Landscape 21:36 Networking and Community Engagement 27:07 Lessons in Resilience and Grit 32:16 The Power of Networking 33:53 Understanding Medicare: Common Misconceptions 36:20 The Calling of Service in Medicare 38:31 The Four P's of Resilience 43:35 The Importance of Pivoting in Business 45:02 Engagement in Public Policy 48:58 Legacy and Generational Wealth 56:02 Servant Leadership: Leading with Purpose Rosie Paulsen's story starts on a soccer field in Quito, Ecuador. She was told girls don't play soccer, until she met an American girl who told her that in America, girls can do whatever they want. At ten years old she decided she would come to the United States. Years later she did, arriving as a teenager and moving in with a family where no one spoke Spanish. Her English came fast. As she tells it, after three days of waiting for someone to sit down for dinner, she figured she had better learn the language or she was going to starve. That same grit built a career. She spent nearly a decade at American Express Travel, working the call center through September 11th to get stranded travelers home. She moved into Medicare almost by accident and became rookie of the year having never owned or sold a policy. She went on to build multiple companies, including S&R Services, now a team of about 30 agents, and Rosie Paulsen Enterprises, where she mentors other servant leaders entering the Medicare space. What began in Florida now reaches seniors across the country. She is also the author of Ñeque, named for the Ecuadorian word for grit and resilience, built on four components: purpose, persistence, perseverance, and pivot. She chairs the Spirit of the Community Awards for the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. In this episode of The Cynthia Manion Show, Rosie sits down with Cynthia to talk about the soccer field that started it all, why she treats Medicare as a calling rather than a sale, the four Ps behind her book, sitting at the tables where decisions get made, and what she wants to leave for her family and the people she serves. "I'm an Ecuadorian by birth, Hispanic by heritage, and an American by choice. And I will die for this country." Subscribe to The Cynthia Manion Show: https://cynthiamanion.com/ #CynthiaManionShow #RosiePaulsen #Neque #ServantLeadership #Medicare #Entrepreneurship #Resilience

Sally Anderson | The Art of Living Courageously (Beyond Brave)

Connect with Sally Anderson: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallyanderson-exclusive-strategic-counsel/ Website: https://www.sallyandersoninternational.com/ Scandal Coach: https://scandalcoach.com/ Beyond Brave: The Art of Living Courageously: https://a.co/d/0bJhou1B Freefall: Living Life Beyond the Edge: https://amzn.asia/d/0hTXU6lt 60 Minutes New Zealand feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAi2HLO7xA Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Courage and Grief 03:54 Navigating Adversity and Leadership 08:03 The Impact of Grief and Trauma 15:16 Healing and Transformation 19:32 Co-Creative Leadership and Consciousness 25:13 Understanding Courage and Fear 27:17 Embracing Confrontation and Resistance 29:02 The Power of Discipline and Freedom 29:25 Confronting Societal Issues 31:33 Embracing Discomfort for Transformation 35:02 Navigating Grief and Self-Love 38:50 Understanding Forgiveness in Grief 40:31 Supporting Those Who Grieve 44:19 The Relationship Between Love and Grief 47:45 Identifying Costs and Payoffs in Life 52:36 Living Fully and Equanimity Sally Anderson is a leadership advisor, speaker, and author of three books, including her newest, Beyond Brave: The Art of Living Courageously. A former corporate executive who once led global change programs, she now advises leaders and public figures and writes about how people rebuild after life takes everything out from under them. She joined Cynthia from New Zealand for one of the most honest conversations the show has had. Sally has lived through extreme adversity, including profound loss, and she stepped away from public life for seven and a half years before returning to share her story and her work. Beyond Brave grew out of the years after her husband Roger died, and it centers on what she calls the empowered side of grief. In this episode, she and Cynthia talk about courage, fear, and faith, the three pillars at the heart of the book (embracing confrontation, resistance, and discomfort), what it means to be soft and gentle with yourself in the hardest weeks, and how we keep living fully when so much feels uncertain. Her core message is one of hope: "I think it's important that people realize that it is actually possible to get beyond what it is that you've experienced, regardless of the extremity." Subscribe to The Cynthia Manion Show: https://cynthiamanion.com/ #CynthiaManionShow #SallyAnderson #BeyondBrave #Grief #Courage #Resilience #Leadership

Katharine Franco | From Biblical Mothers to a Mob Boss's Daughter

Connect with Katharine Franco: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katharinejfranco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katharinefrancoactress Watch Virgin Birth (K-LOVE): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFg3TPuHzX0 Katharine Franco works across commercials, film, and television, and she is known for her range. In a single year she can play a biblical mother and a thriller's quiet menace and make you believe both. What surprised Cynthia is that none of it was the plan. Katharine was a shy kid who never performed growing up and came to acting later in life, after a friend pulled her backstage at a musical and the costumes in wardrobe hooked her. She comes from a family of working artists, and for ten years she has coached alongside her mentor and best friend Glenn Morshower. In this episode of The Cynthia Manion Show, Katharine walks Cynthia through the roles that built her: Elizabeth in the K-LOVE film Virgin Birth (now past a million views on YouTube and a K-LOVE Fan Awards nominee), Suzy in the thriller Kill Trip (the role her director Kristian McKay compared to Keith Richards), the western lead Dolorosa in Potters Ground, and a mob boss's daughter in Red Stone opposite Neal McDonough and Michael Cudlitz. She also shares what is next, and the advice that anchors all of it. "Know who you are, listen to your whispers." Subscribe to The Cynthia Manion Show: https://cynthiamanion.com/ #CynthiaManionShow #KatharineFranco #Actor #FilmAndTV #VirginBirth

Claire Brown | From Divorce to Empowerment, A PowerWoman's Journey

Connect with Claire:PowerWomen: https://thepowerwomen.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerw.o.m.e.n/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claire.b.brown/PowerWomen Podcast (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/@PowerWomenPodcastMove Realty: https://www.themoverealty.com/Book (Ring or Fling): https://a.co/d/07mJfAT8ForeWarn (Claire's recommended safety app for meeting new people): https://www.forewarn.com/After a divorce in 2015 left her starting over, Claire Brown called five women she barely knew and started a private Facebook group. Within three weeks it had passed 1,500 members, and today the original Little Rock group is more than 34,000 women strong. That group became PowerWomen: a podcast, a book, the Move Realty brokerage, and a nonprofit connecting women across the country.Timestamps:00:00 From Divorce to Power Woman01:05 Escaping Home Through Real Estate03:31 Finding Purpose in the Work05:12 Life Seems Crooked06:58 Divorce and Starting Over08:52 Heartbreak and Self Discovery09:28 Ring or Fling, Claire's Book10:06 Needing Women Friends12:08 The Facebook Group Takes Off15:05 Scaling Into a Media Brand17:44 Outsourcing to Grow Faster19:33 Building Move Realty Mentorship22:41 Nonprofit Retreats and Healing23:45 Addressing Trafficking Survivors25:06 Anonymous Post to Lunch26:49 Healing Into Advocacy27:30 Platform and Safety Fears28:43 Lessons From Survivors31:15 Grooming Explained33:26 Grooming on Roblox: A Close Call37:36 Report and Men Lead39:27 Women's Healthcare Gaps43:30 Purpose and Growth Habits46:12 Power Woman Vision47:58 Online Backlash and Burnout49:47 Carrying the Impact51:03 Community Mission and Farewell"This platform is not for me. It's for the voices of others to be elevated so that it can help the masses."Subscribe to The Cynthia Manion Show: https://cynthiamanion.com/#CynthiaManionShow #ClaireBrown #PowerWomen #MoveRealty #RingOrFling #WomenSupportingWomen #PersonalGrowth

Cynthia Manion AMA: Are You Living Your Five-Star Happiness Life?

Connect with Cynthia: Website: https://cynthiamanion.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cynthiamanion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cynthiamanion/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynthiamanion LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiamanion X: https://x.com/cynthiamanion No guest this week. Just Cynthia, her bookshelf, and one question: how happy are you, on a scale of five stars, right now in this moment? This AMA episode of The Cynthia Manion Show is an hour in Cynthia's living room. She opens with the five-star happiness check-in, then shares what her week looked like. She tells the story of meeting Pastor Ed at CBC San Antonio after being told he wasn't seeing visitors (she walked past four security guards to get there). She holds up two books Pearl Bailey inscribed to her back when they were classmates at Georgetown, studying Jewish life and thought with Rabbi White. She talks about her sister Carolyn's pottery, her mother's black pearl ring from the Seychelles Islands, and how that ring became the title of her first novel. Halfway through, Cynthia says something quiet that changes the shape of the hour: "My little list of everything I wanted to accomplish in my life, I've done now. So now it's time for a brand new list." From there, she picks up book after book from past guests and walks the audience through what each one gave her. The hour closes with a lightning round and the one sentence she wants everyone to carry home. "Are you living your five-star happiness life? Five stars every moment. I know it's impossible, but it is possible. Every day has perfect moments. Focus on them." Subscribe to The Cynthia Manion Show: https://cynthiamanion.com/ #CynthiaManionShow #AMA #FiveStarHappiness #CEOofYourLife #BlackPearl #SavannahSeas