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Risa’s family and many others lost their homes during the 1991 Oakland Hills fire in California. She had to start with nothing and was pushed into action. Risa had to rebuild a home for her 3 young children. She found glimmers of light to try to establish a sense of a normal life. Her neighborhood and community pulled together for those families. Risa shares the following nuggets of life wisdom for those that have lost their homes:
– we have the ability to rebuild
– we discover we have the strength, we didn’t know we had, when facing life altering experiences
– practice self care
– be patient with yourself, as recovery takes time

http://www.risanye.com/ 

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Rifka was the daughter of an unstable single mother and sought freedom from all limitations. Her attempted suicide was the turning point. She began a journey from a place of darkness to a place of light. Rifka discovered an inner voice and deep intuition that always knows what’s best for her. She feels that the hand of grace was evident in her life. Rifka now teaches meditation. She shares the following nuggets of life wisdom:
– there is an order to everything
– nothing is wrong
– who we are is the great self with vast wisdom and awareness
– the happiness you seek is within you
– if you’re hurting, allow yourself to feel the pain
– meditation is a valuable tool for empowerment

https://rifkakreiter.com/  
https://www.facebook.com/rifka.kreiter  

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Mary was the second illegitimate child of a single unconventional mother. She did not have the money to attend college, so she took a job as a stripper. Mary took the grim descent into the underworld. Fortunately, she met someone, got married, attended college and finished her university degree. Then, one day, her husband died at the age of 33. Mary and her young son were left with nothing to live on. She knew that she couldn’t afford to give up, she had to keep it together, as she was her son’s only support. Mary feels that education helped her to claw her way out of poverty. She shares these powerful nuggets of life wisdom:
– seek to have honest and equitable relationships
– our ability and desire to learn is primary
– travel activates our mind and senses

Mary C. K. Stein is a #MeToo octogenarian who started life as a Rust Belt farmgirl and learned the hard way the pitfalls that await the poor and unprotected in their quest for upward social mobility. After working for Bell Telephone, and then as a stripper in a mob-operated show lounge, and after that as a substitute teacher in an underserved middle school in Brooklyn, she began teaching AP/IB English abroad. That work took her to six countries on five continents: Greece, Egypt, Venezuela, China, Panama, and Taiwan. She wrote Fatherless, Fearless, Female in the hopes that it will give the current women’s movements their own embodiment

https://www.facebook.com/marysteinmemoir 

tags: Mary, Stein, writer, author, MeToo, social, change, storiesthatempower.com, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean

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