Stories of Our Journeys

- Greg Dickson, Business Coach and Author

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What does a business coach do when he needs a life? He goes out and gets one.

For over 20 years, Greg Dickson has coached and trained more than 11,000 entrepreneurs in the United States, Canada, UK, and South Africa to manage their businesses.

A long-time professional business consultant, Dickson has worked with startups and mature companies to help them restructure their finances and strategic investments, turning them into successful and profitable businesses. Long hours working, traveling and speaking many months out of every year, writing and publishing books, it takes a toll on anyone. And sometimes even business coaches need coaching.

In this frank interview with host Kym Huynh, Greg Dickson opens up about the moment when he realized he’d reached his limit. Tired, worn out, recently divorced, he realized that when you don’t love yourself, you can’t love others. You can’t, because you would be giving from a deficit. Nothing left. He knew he had to find that healthy place in his spirit and reconnect with the passion he knew was there inside himself. Hear the rest of the story…

- Jeremy Wright, Blogger and Entreprenuer

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Listed in Wikipedia, a rags to riches real life story, living the high life as one of the few bloggers to rake in the money, traveling around the world as the CEO of a major blogging network and publishing company, Jeremy Wright has come a long way since he first started playing with websites with Microsoft and IBM in 1993.

Like many in the evolving web industry, Jeremy Wright has had his fair share of wiggles along the path of his story.

According to Jeremy Wright in our interview:

People see the stuff like b5. Hey, I use to be a professional drummer. I pumped gas for a living. I was in the army. I was homeless. I was a youth pastor. I always kinda believed in not just following your heart but taking advantage of opportunities. Not being afraid of taking the next step even if it isn’t conventional.

As one of the founders and former CEO of b5media, he told of the riches early adoption of blog buy-ups and consolidations brought the company in an article in The Star. Hear the rest of the story…

- Michaelina Argy and Maureen Seiger, Thalidomide Survivors Part 1

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Mikey Argy and her young daughtersBorn with deformed arms as a result of her mother using thalidomide, taken on prescription to aid sleep, Michaelina “Mikey” Argy survived her mother’s attempts to get an abortion, her deformities and disabilities, to marry and raise children of her own, take on the German and British governments and GrĂ¼nenthal, an international pharmaceutical company, testify before parliament to win financial support for thalidomide survivors, and win the Outsider’s Erotic Award for her strong voice and courage to defend the rights of thalidomide survivors.Her struggle and recognition for her achievements isn’t over. As chair member of the National Advisory Council for The Thalidomide Trust, Argy recently won a battle on behalf of thalidomide survivors in England in 2009, receiving a long awaited apology to thalidomide survivors and settlement from the British Government: Hear the rest of the story…