All Spark Change Podcasts


  • "I think we all have a responsibility to put more good into the world."

    Olivia Seltzer, Founder of The Cramm

  • "I want people to know that they're not alone and that there is support, there's community, and that through healing, actually you're a more resilient, connected, dynamic being than you were before."

    Mary Firestone, Author of Trusting the Dawn

  • "...It's really about choosing every day to live out what you believe in."

    Dr. Anne Alaniz, Pothawira International

  • "Be brave, stay determined, never give up, and keep on trying until you save the world."

    Justin Sather, Founder Justin’s Frog Project

  • "Connecting with nature is a direct path to connecting with self."

    Dan Fontaine, Wilderness Youth Project

  • "I wish that everyone in the world knew that it's cool to be kind."

    Jacob Cramer, founder Love for our Elders

Author, Inspiration, Organization Connie Maday Author, Inspiration, Organization Connie Maday

The Secret Language of Your Body with Lauren Roxburgh

Lauren Roxburgh - “The Body Whisperer” is a world-renowned Board Certified Structural Integration Bodywork Practitioner, Pilates Pro, Bestselling Author, and Fascia Mind-Body Expert. Lauren is the co-founder of the Aligned Life Studio - a virtual platform that offers a new paradigm in health and fitness - with a unique focus on fascia wellness - designed to help people align and strengthen their bodies, and shed physical and emotional weight while enhancing resilience and confidence.

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Author, Inspiration Connie Maday Author, Inspiration Connie Maday

Trusting the Dawn: Insights for Parents, with Author Mary Firestone

Today on Spark to Empower, Connie Maday sits down with Mary Firestone for a special conversation with Parents in mind. Mary shares insights around how we as parents can show up as our best selves, what we can do to release the traumas in our life, and how can harness our own power.

Mary Firestone is the author of Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma. Mary's story of survival and rebirth along with her background in clinical psychology offers an integrated handbook for anyone healing from trauma.

Mary has been featured in Goop, Well+Good, and Forbes, been interviewed on various podcasts and news stations, and featured in articles all across the country. You can read more about her at maryfirestone.co or Learn more at firestonesisters.com.

Find out more at sparktoempower.com or @sparktoempower

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Dr. Anne Alaniz – A Rock In A Pond: Miracles, Medicine, & Malawi

In this incredibly impactful episode of Spark Change, Connie Maday shares a conversation with Dr. Anne Alaniz who is a Board certified gynecologist in Houston Texas. Dr. Anne Alaniz was born in a small impoverished village in Malawi, Africa, and is the oldest of eight siblings. At the age of 16, an ER doctor from Texas visited her village and saw Anne’s potential. The doctor, wanting to make a lasting impact, offered to host Anne for a US education. With her family’s blessing, Anne moved from Malawi to Texas where she attended high school, college and medical school. While in medical school, she held a garage sale with her friends raising $3,000 she used to buy land in the Salima District of Malawi near the village in which she grew up.

On this land, in 2012, Dr. Alaniz founded the US non-profit Pothawira International where she raised funding and subsequently built an orphanage, primary school, computer lab, farm, mill, birthing center, and outpatient health clinic – the ONLY health clinic in Daniel Village (population 10,000).

Dr. Anne Alaniz shares her life story, how she realized her purpose and the mindset she embraced to get her through the adversity and challenges in her life.

She is a true example of how one person can make a difference in the world and shares about the ripple effect when you throw a rock into the pond.

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All Children Need Nature — Wilderness Youth Project

Connie Maday from Spark Change interviews Dan Fontaine, Executive Director of Wilderness Youth Project, a non-profit working to provide nature connections for all children.

He shares the tremendous impact WYP has in their local community and how they are able to support programs guided by inspired, skilled, and committed mentors and volunteers. For WYP it is about building relationships and connecting with kids in the beautiful outdoors.

Listen to learn about what makes WYP unique.

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