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.

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.

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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.

Connie Maday. Educator, Mother, and Entrepreneur, shares insights and distilled research to support some big ideas around inspiration.

Learn three things you can do today to make a powerful impact on your life, so you can show up with more focus and clarity to become more creative.

Connie Maday shares some insights and inspiration and also gives a bit more of her personal story that led to the creation of the Spark Change Podcast. Listen as she dives into the topic of inspiration and leaves you with some ideas to consider.

This podcast is about reminding us of the power we each possess and celebrating the inspiring stories of change makers, tapping into ourselves to our own inner compass and get you out there changing the world.