Lemonspark
Finding hope, inspiration and a sense of belonging from entrepreneurs who beat traumatic experiences and share their story of triumph.
Episodes
52 episodes
Living By Design: A conversation with Jen Kodadek
Meet Jen Kodadek, a transformation and mindset coach who after struggling to find her true purpose now helps others find their life's meaning. To quote Jen, life should be lived "by design, not default." So many of us struggle with finding out ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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17:14
Job Loss Leads to Writing a Book of a Lifetime: Craig Nelson
Meet Craig Nelson, a friend and colleague who 10 years ago lost his position at an insurance company - a place he had worked for 23 years. Suspecting his job was on the line, Craig started to worry about what to do next until his wife planted a...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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13:35
A Mother's Mission After Daughter's Cancer Battle: Get to the Root Cause
Meet Jennifer Bouchard, a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner by trade and current functional medicine nurse practitioner. Functional medicine helps individuals find the root cause of their disease or illness and approaches wellbeing with improv...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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27:52
Paying it Forward with Type 1 Diabetes: George Huntley
Meet George Huntley, a multi-talented professional who has lived with Type 1 diabetes for over 40 years. In this podcast, George explains the differences between Type 1 and 2 diabetes, the epidemic diabetes has become in the United States, and ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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22:08
Staying Calm in the Storm: Lisa Elsinger Discusses the Importance of Mindfulness in the Midst of Trauma
Meet Lisa Elsinger, PhD, Associate Director of Workplace Wellness at Broward College in Florida and expert in mindfulness and wellness. After a recent car accident, Lisa realized the value of staying calm in the face of traumatic events. In thi...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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24:19
No More Pretending: A Discussion with Niki Bergler About Overcoming Childhood Abuse and Neglect
Meet Niki Bergler, a Wisconsin resident who overcame childhood abuse and neglect from her parents. She lived on the street and eventually found her way to love and success. Hear Niki's incredible story on this podcast and buy her book, She's Do...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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35:09
A Second Chance at Life: Overcoming the Loss of a Child and Family - the Inspirational Story of Sarah Miller
Losing a child is probably on the top of any parent's list of worst nightmares. Sarah Miller lived that nightmare and suffered even more after losing her 4 year-old daughter. Hear how Sarah received a second chance at life and what she is doing...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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22:06
Childhood Discipline and COVID19 Pandemic Lead to Manifestation Coaching Business
Meet Rita Roushdy, a manifestation coach who tries to help people realize their dreams in 90 days or less. Learn how her experience with harsh discipline as a child and the COVID19 pandemic led her to do the difficult inner work to find the roo...
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19:18
Loss of a Parent Leads to Publishing Career - Kira Henschel
Meet Kira Henschel, owner of Henschel Haus Book Publishing. Kira started her journey that led to her owning a publishing house after her father died many decades ago. Listen to Kira's story that took her to Austria, where she lived for 13 years...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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21:27
Divorce and Kids: How Having Them Saved Bridgette Stewart
Meet Bridgette Stewart, a Senior Lecturer and Director of Integrative Wellness at the University of West Georgia. Bridgette recently went through a divorce and found herself struggling to make sense of it. But what got her through that difficul...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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19:40
From Childhood Abuse to World Traveler and Author: Joric McLean
Meet Joric McLean - the ONLY Joric McLean in the world. Born in the United States, he now is an expatriate living in Portugal. But he wouldn't have been so worldly if it hadn't been for a painful childhood full of severe physical and mental abu...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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19:48
From Bedridden to Hiking: Stephanie Corder the Warrior Mompreneur
Stephanie Corder was a busy mom living life to its fullest when chronic illness stopped her in her tracks. For seven years, Stephanie struggled to get out of bed and find peace with the pain. Western medicine failed her. But then, by some mirac...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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25:37
Beating Cancer Paved Way for Career in Financial Healing
Meet Dr. Wendy Labat: an author, speaker, entrepreneur and cancer survivor. Dr. Labat had been helping others achieve financial stability when she decided to practice what she preached and purchased insurance protection for severe illness. Litt...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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17:54
Hearing Loss and Job Loss can't Stop Michelle Faust from Achieving Success!
Meet Michelle Faust, founder of Lemonade Legend and storytelling strategist. Michelle has experienced hearing difficulties since childhood, but she was still able to become a top selling professional in the pharmaceutical industry, until they f...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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34:09
Divorce and Abuse Leads to Fulfilling Life: Kristine Binder
Kristine Binder, teacher, author, runner and mother of five children, can look back now at the time she was going through a divorce because of financial and emotional abuse from her then spouse, and say "100%" that life is now better. Listen to...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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21:44
Feeling Alone Battling Cancer as a Young Mom: Natasha Hill
Natasha Hill is a police officer in Devon and Cornwall, United Kingdom. When she was 29 years old, she was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkins Lymphoma. She had two children under age two. Never in her life did she expect this kind of lemon, or her...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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27:18
Childhood Financial Struggle Carves Path to Academic and Literary Success: Kathleen McDonough Mundo
Kathleen McDonough Mundo experienced first had financial challenges as a child. Her father left her family when she was still in grade school, after he had moved the family of eight from Illinois to Wisconsin. Kathleen found distraction and pur...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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16:44
Divorce Leads to Career Change: Michaela Conley
Meet Michaela Conley, an energetic and inspirational human being who like many of us, has faced many lemons. In this episode, Michaela shares a story of when her two-year old daughter underwent eye surgery, Michaela learned that her husband had...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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23:15
Bouncing Back After an Economic Crash: Karen Briscoe
Mega Real Estate Agent Karen Briscoe was thriving as a commercial real estate agent until the U.S. economy tanked in 2008. In addition to the market decimating the real estate market, Karen also lost her business partner to an illness. Karen ha...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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29:27
Fostering Kittens after Arrest
Marisa Perhaes is a retired New York City Police Sargent and mom of five, including triplet boys! She is also an author of the book When I was Blue, available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/When-I-Was-Blue-memior/dp/1546373829.
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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20:40
Unmuted: Rachel Druckenmiller Delivers Inspiration and Joy to Promote Resilience
Rachel Druckenmiller aimed to start her own speaking and consulting business after years of working in wellness. Barely a year into her new venture, COVID19 hit and then she was hit by a truck. An agonizing back injury gave her perspective like...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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24:42
Dear Husband: Letters to an Addict
In this episode, we speak to author Nancy Peterson, who wrote the book Dear Husband: Letters to an Addict after her husband of many years died from conditions caused by addiction to alcohol and drugs. Nancy shares the complexities of living wit...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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23:26
Nancer the Dancer: A tribute to a beloved sister
Judith Adrian's sister Nancy suffered from Dermatopolymyositis, a debilitating condition that hit her when she was in her forties. Despite this terrible diagnosis, Nancy not only learned how to live with the disease, but she adopted insipiring ...
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20:55
Bipolar Condition Launches Author Career
Meet Bill Zaferos, author of Poison Pen, a funny adventure about a person who writes poison pen letters for hire. Bill wrote Poison Pen while on an upswing with his bipolar disorder. In this episode, we discuss how many great works of art...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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23:30
Cancer Sparks Nancy's List: Nancy Novack
Listen to Nancy Novack, founder of Nancy's List, tell her story of battling Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer and what she learned about herself, and the community of cancer patients, in the process. After listening to so many patients express fear about ...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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27:30