Episodes

Dena Rueb Romero is the daughter of a Lutheran mother and a Jewish father, both refugees from Nazi Germany. All for You is her first full-length book. Dena still lives in Hanover, where she sings in a women’s chorus, volunteers at a daycare center, and works with a recently arrived refugee family. She shares the following nuggets of life wisdom:

• have empathy for refugees
• strive to be generous and kind

https://shewritespress.com/portfolio/dena-rueb-romero

https://facebook.com/people/den-rueb-romero-author/61555226342021

tags: Dena Rueb Romero, writer, author, All for You; a World War II family memoir of love, separation and loss, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean, https://storiesthatempower.com

1970, pre-Choice America. After their eighth move in her thirteen short years, the lonely only child of a high-ranking naval officer and a socially ambitious mother, Tracy Mayo longed for a normal adolescence – to have friends, to feel rooted. What she got was a pregnancy at fourteen and exile to a maternity home. There, she bore not only a child but also the weight of the culture’s shame. She was required to surrender her baby boy at birth and pretend it never happened. Twenty-two years later, her longing undiminished, Tracy set out to find him – and perhaps, through her search, to reclaim her self. She shares the following nuggets of life wisdom:

• we are greater than our pains
• strive to have thoughts without judgement
• the search is for the ‘self’
• the quest can be liberating
• we can feel empowered, when we belong to a community

https://tracymayo.com

tags: Tracy Mayo, writer, author, Childless Mother; a search for son and self, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean, https://storiesthatempower.com

Mimi battled self-doubt to serve as the doctor and only woman on a remote Everest climb in Tibet. This journey of curiosity, self-discovery and vulnerability enabled her to face down childhood messages to stay small and safe and to venture into the unknown. Mimi shares the following nuggets of life wisdom:

• it’s ok to feel afraid and to move through them
• listen to our bodies
• be present, be curious and open to the world
• it’s ok when we’re not really in control and to make ourself vulnerable
• be passionately curious
• stretch beyond our comfort zone
• we can do more than we think we can
• connect to our inner voices
• it’s great to let our bodies lead

https://mimiziemanmd.com

tags: Mimi Zieman, Tap Dancing on Everest, A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure, story, stories, that, empower, empowering, empowerment, inspire, inspiring, inspiration, encourage, encouraging, encouragement, hope, light, podcast, Sean, https://storiesthatempower.com