Return To Authenticity
Join the Return to Authenticity podcast where host Eric Sardina interviews guests who have made awesome and inspiring pivots in their lives toward their authentic selves, toward their values and purpose in life and toward lives filled with meaning and fulfillment. Our guests often felt out-of-sync, empty, or just plain stuck at some point in their lives before making the return to authenticity shift that made all the difference. Join us weekly to hear these stories and be inspired to explore your own alignment with your authentic self and the life you were born to live.
Episodes
Episode 122!
Joining me in the studio today is my guest, SSG Aaron Hale. Aaron is a 14-year veteran of both the US Navy, where he was a cook and chef to admirals and dignitaries while he sailed in the Mediterranean, and the US Army, where he was an Explosive Ordinance Demolition tech finding, and diffusing or disposing of enemy bombs before they could harm US or Allied service members.
While deployed in Afghanistan in December of 2...
Episode 121!
Joining me in the studio today is guest Damon Lembi. Damon is a 2x best-selling author and leader of global training company Learnit, a live learning platform that’s upskilled over 2 million people. As CEO for over three decades, Damon has gained insights into what helps organizations grow, how great leaders learn, and why learn-it-all companies outpace their competitors every time.
Damon is also the podcast host of ...
Episode 120!
Joining me in the studio today is Erin Bradley, a dynamic speaker, seasoned trainer, and bestselling author of “Pursuing Freedom: Be Yourself, increase your referrals and have more fun growing your business”. She’s also the host of the acclaimed real estate podcast "Pursuing Freedom".
With extensive experience in the real estate industry, Erin has faced the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, riding the roll...
Episode 119!
Today’s guest is Chris Widener. Years ago, Chris was personally selected and mentored by two of the legends of the speaking and personal development world, Jim Rohn and Zig Ziglar, and he now carries on their legacy. Jim Rohn, known for being Tony Robbins first mentor, made Chris his last protege. Chris and Jim co-authored Jim's book “One Year Success Plan” as well as Jim’s last book, “The Twelve Pillars”, which...
Episode 118!
Today’s guest is Dr. Gary Lawrence, known by many simply as, Dr. G.
Married for 57 years, Dr. G and his wife Sylvia, bring their knowledge, experience, and deep passion to individuals and couples who wish to resolve personal, marital, family, and parenting conflicts by leading them to “identify, isolate, and eliminate” the root cause of the emotional turmoil in their lives.
Dr. G specializes in break...
Episode 117!
Today’s guest is Wyatt Graves!
Wyatt grew up in Louisiana with a younger sister and a half brother. Money was tight and his family struggled to make ends meet. The stress of living paycheck to paycheck created a strong desire in Wyatt to become a successful businessman, so he wouldn’t have to worry about money again. When his mother was able to open her own business, it provided a financial cushion for the first tim...
Episode 116!
Today’s guest is Kyle McDowell. Kyle was formerly a successful Fortune 10 executive where he led tens of thousands of employees over several decades at some of America’s biggest firms. Through it all, he became caught up in his own race to the next promotion, bonus, and expansion of responsibility and control.
Along the way, Kyle noticed the workforce is overwhelmed, employees feel unappreciated and ...
Episode 115!
Today’s guest is Stacey Chazin! Stacey is a dynamic leadership development coach, and a proud introvert, and she is rewriting the narrative on introversion. Having grappled with societal expectations that favored extraversion, Stacey learned to embrace her introverted qualities, turning them into powerful assets that allowed her to thrive personally and professionally.
Now, as a fervent advocate a...
Special Christmas Episode!
That last gift that was hiding behind the tree is this week's episode of RTA Uncut #6 with my guest and friend, Nicky Billou. Nicky is back in the studio to catch up with us since he was last on Episode 60 of Return to Authenticity back over a year ago on May 3, 2023. Go check out episode 60 to hear Nicky's powerful story.
A brief summary of that episode is that Nicky was born in Iran...
Episode 114!
Joining us in the studio today is Austin Davis. Austin earned a Bachelor of Science in Pastoral Ministry from Lee University in Cleveland, TN, and furthered his education with a Master of Arts in Counseling from The Church of God Theological Seminary. This education laid the foundation for his professional journey in clinical counseling and church ministry.
Austin is now a leader in teenage behavior...
Episode 113!
Today in the studio, I have guest Liam Naden. Liam was an ambitious success-seeker who became a business entrepreneur and multi-millionaire - only to lose everything and become homeless and penniless in his mid-40s. In rebuilding his life, Liam uncovered how to use his brain in a way to reduce stress, anxiety and the “fight or flight” mode, and make better decisions, solve problems quickly and effectively, see...
Episode 112!
Struck by the events of 9/11, which took place when he was 15 years old, James (J) was convinced stopping radicalization and violence was the best way to help his community. After earning multiple degrees, he went on to work for the City of Pittsburgh Office of Emergency Management & Homeland Security and Region 13 Counter-Terrorism Fusion Center.
As an emergency management specialist, J routi...
Ep111!
Joining us in the studio this week is Brianna Greenspan, founder of Brianna Greenspan International, an educational consulting firm helping adults and children throughout the world.
Brianna had to overcome her own genetic physical challenges being born with a rare connective tissue disorder that led to her losing the ability to walk at age 19. She made radical changes in her life to gain back her healt...
Episode 110!
Today’s guest is Anthony Trucks. At the age of three years old, Anthony was abandoned by his biological mother and placed into the foster care system, a system where 50% of kids will end up homeless upon aging out of the system, and 75% of prison inmates in the U.S. are former foster kids. His future did not look bright.
For much of his childhood, Anthony felt adrift, unworthy and listless, living...
Episode 109!
Catherine Nikkel joins the show from Toronto, Canada where she is a writer and a bestselling author specializing in ghostwriting books and blogs for CEOs, entrepreneurs and influencers where she has authored 15 books.
Catherine is the author of The Lightbulb Moments Journal, an Amazon bestseller and has been featured in leading publications, including Forbes, Business Insider, NY Weekly, HuffPost a...
Episode 108!
On this episode, Bodhi Aldridge joins me in the studio all the way from Byron Bay, Australia where he lives by the beach with his wife of 40 years and their 4 children and 10 grandchildren. He spends time in the ocean daily enjoying surfing and walking on the beach with his wife and also travels the world where he coaches executives from companies like Google, Tesla, Netflix, YouTube and Amazon to find their ...
Episode 107!
This conversation with Sam is all about mental health from the perspective of someone leading what is now one of the world's most respected Ketamine clinics. Ketamine has it's proponents and it's naysayers in the mental health treatment space and Sam covers the risks and benefits to this therapy that has been a key aspect of therapy for many of his clinicians' patients' suffering fro...
Episode 106!
This was a conversation I was so excited to have with my pastor, Father Edwin Leonard, who is the pastor of St Ann Catholic Parish in Coppell, Texas. We talk about his childhood, his early faith life, and his conversion to living his life as a disciple of Jesus Christ and shepherd of one of the largest Catholic churches in the region as a Catholic priest.
Followers of the show know I talk a bit ab...
Episode 105!
What a great conversation with Darryl Lyons! Darryl tells his story of coming from humble beginnings in a trailer park before rising to the heights of success in the financial world. Along the way, Darryl faced hardship, struggle and loss. He found his own will and mental toughness would only get him so far.
At one low point, Darryl heard God say to him "Are you done yet? You're livin...
Episode 104!
After the tipping point moment of not achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Major Annette Whittenberger (ret.) left the military after 17 years of service. She had experienced and seen others struggle with depression while in the service and struggled to find her own way post-military career. Annette started writing a blog called "A Wild Ride Called Life" and now sees her role as mentoring ot...
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