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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, welcome back to success made the last time, Rick Toulkeeney.
Over the last several weekends, I've had the occasion of
sitting right next to this best selling author named Sylvia
Worship as we go through this Lifecare program together, and
we got to talking about doing a podcast and Lloyd
(00:30):
and behold, I found out that she is a wonderful
author and that she left a super career at Pfizer
Pharmaceutical which is a great company to work for, and
now she's a life coach and she's also had experience
with the John Maxwell team. Her books are a Journey
(00:53):
to Me, Trust, the Wisdom of Change, and then most
recently in Faith I Thrive, Finding Joy through God's master Plan. Sylvia,
it's good to see you, not in the classroom but
on a podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I know it's kind of neat to be here with you,
and it has been a wonderful journey in those training
sessions and getting to know you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, that's what I think too. I'm going to jump
right into the questions, and the first one is about
Journey to Me and Faith and Faith I Thrive. They
both explore deep personal transformations and I want to congratulate
you on your gutsiness encourage as an author, What were
the pivotal moments in your life that led you to
(01:39):
write these books.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The most pivotal one was in twenty twelve when I
received three miracles within seventy two hours. It really woke
me up to a different purpose in life. At the time,
I was in corporate America, I was a single mom.
I had a young six year old boy for my
first marriage, which had just gone through divorce, and about
(02:02):
three years later, I started dating this man that would
become my second husband, and he decided he wanted me
to meet his family and for my son to meet
his family. And I knew, as a single woman that
a man doesn't do that unless he's serious. So I
jumped on a plane despite the pain I had started
(02:24):
having just two days prior, and I had gotten so
pale that my mom had called my brother who's a doctor,
to kind of check me out. And you know, a
mother's intuition always knows, But I still got on the
flight because love always conquers all dinner and I luckily
we arrive in Houston, which is a medical center here
(02:45):
in Texas, and when he takes one look at me,
he says, you know what, instead of driving to Louisiana overnight,
I think we're just going to spend the night, and
we do, and at three am I get jolted out
of bed and there's this massive hain in my chest
and through it all I heard this prompting that just said,
lean forward and you'll be able to breathe. And I
(03:07):
in my relationship with Christ at the time, I was
very close to him. I had been getting closer to
him since my divorce, and I just obedient. I was
such an obedient child of his. I leaned forward and
it saved my life. And the next morning I get
admitted to Saint Luke's Episcopal Hospital and this specialist walks
into my room and he says, you know that leaning
(03:28):
forward that actually did save your life. You had two
blood clouds going through your heart. They were super large
and they ended up in your left lung and now
you have pulmonary emblosms and you have them all over
your lungs, like, I don't know how you walked in
here today and your liver's inflamed and we don't know why.
So you're not leaving here, and you know, my boy
is outside with my boyfriend, and it's a mess because
(03:49):
I don't live in Houston. I live in South Texas
and BROWNSWI and he lives in So it's like a
big old mess. Long story short. The next day, they
do a scan of my abdomen and doctors walk into
my room and none of them are looking me straight
in the face. And I know, being in sales, that
that is a very bad sign. And they start to explain,
(04:10):
you know, we've talked to your dad and your brother
and your sister, all doctors by the way, and we're
all in agreement. We're going to give you this massive
drug and it has all these odd effects to it.
It's because you have a massive blood clod and it's
putting pressure on your liver and you're about to go
into a cute liver failure and that syndrome it's called
Bud Carrie syndrome, and it carries an eighty percent chance
of dying. And I just sat there stunned, like I
(04:34):
was like, great, I'm thirty seven years old. I'm like
at the height of my life career health, I was
like super healthy. I was exerciseand and seven days a week,
and I remember visualizing falling into God's arms in total surrender,
because I knew that science was only going to get
(04:55):
us so far. But then there was my faith, and
I begged God give me a second chance at life.
I told him, it's like, if you give me a
second chance, I will devote my life to you. I
will do whatever you need me to do. I will
be your messenger, whatever it is. And the next morning
was eas your Sunday Morning or Resurrection Day for Christians,
(05:17):
and then walks this lady from the Catholic diocese and
she says, you know, let's form a circle, let's pray.
And I remember saying, yes, let's pray. I need a
miracle because the doctor said explained that if that therapy
didn't work, then they really had to go to the
interventional route and likely I was going to die on
the table. So that's in the back of my mind.
(05:40):
And in that circle was my boyfriend who now is
my husband, Donnie, and the lady and myself and we're
starting the Lord's Prayer, the our Father for the Catholics,
and the part was says that I will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. I felt this
immense love that enveloped the whole room, and it was unmistable.
(06:01):
It was unmistakable. I knew it was God, and I
felt him cradling him in his loving arms, and I
felt a piece that washed over me and un knowing
that I was okay, that he had given me my
second chance, you know. And the third and final miracle
was when the doctors wheeled me in to take a
look at what had happened. The threat was gone and
(06:25):
they were expecting to see scarring in my lungs from
the immensely problems I was having with pulmonary embolisms, and
there was no long term complications whatsoever. And so those
three miracles in the seventy two hours I was in
Houston were the most profound turning point of my life.
And it shifted my purpose and my lens, if you will,
(06:47):
from what is my purpose in life?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Why did I survive when so many people die with one?
I had multiple I had There was no reason for
me not to surrect, right, So and I survived. So
I know there's a powerful reason behind all that. And
it just starts to quest.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So few people have been able to survive that it
is a miracle, and then talk about it, and then
write about it and inspire others. So that led to
you wanting to write a book go into a different
gear in life. Didn't it from almost from success to significance?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yes, very much so, because significance in the eyes of God.
Right he was shifting my lens to become the woman
he had initially created me to be. And he uses
this major turning point to kind of wake me up,
because I'm the type of child of God that I
need to be woken up in this way. I was
(07:47):
on track, I was a multiple award winner advisor. I
would have kept going had I not had the three
miracles in seventy two hours.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, what an inspiration. Those marks in lave, those inflection points.
I wonder how they now manifest themselves as you coach
others' lives. How does that come out and what is it?
How does it even mean something personal to those people
(08:19):
that you're coaching.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I think when they see the vulnerability, because in the book,
I'm very vulnerable. I share my journey from fear. I
think we all start off in fear, and that's very
relatable to individuals currently in the dark right now. What
(08:43):
they love about my story and about everything I talked
about in these books. Was just the relationship I had
with him. They want that, They're like, how did you
know the lank Vorn I said, well, because in those
years I was seeking him with all my heart and
I found him because he was always there. I'm the
(09:04):
one that abandoned him. I'm the one that turned away
from him the first marriage. And they can relate to
that too, because there's been so many moments in their
lives where they've been so angry with God that they
don't talk to him, they don't include them, they don't
invite him. But I was actively inviting him in my life.
And it's those turning points that when we talk about
(09:27):
it from the perspective of what's happening with our mind
and what's happening with our soul, which is where the
Holy Spirit resides, and where he's wanting to engage with us,
and what's happening outside of us, like in our environments.
All of that was talked about very extensively in the book,
and it was just kind of sharing with them, like
(09:47):
if I could be transformed, and I was someone that
was a high achiever who was motivated by her success,
like by her fear base beliefs, and God takes that
part of me and transforms it in such a way
that now I'm not motivated by my fear. I'm motivated
(10:09):
by my love for Him, for my purpose, for my mission.
Who doesn't want that. We all seek purpose in life.
I don't care if you're a woman, a man, a child.
We all want to feel like what we do makes
a difference in others. And that part, I think is
what really engages people that I coach.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, I sit there in class, Sylvina, I go, I
listen to your questions, and I remember the one on
one session where you volunteer. You always volunteer, by the
way you're You're so funny. It's like you're you're first up.
If you don't talk with if you don't volunteer within
a nanosecond, you got the rest of the class seaton.
But your motivation is so different. I sit there and go,
(10:54):
she may be one of the most qualified life coaches
in the room, sometimes better than maybe be some of
the video that we're seeing or other people that are there.
And I go, she's taking it to a different level. Now,
Is is that what's behind it? You just want to
are you a person of continuous improvement.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, I am. I'm internally motivated, and I'm motivated by Christ.
And Christ's expectations really higher than ours, right, I mean,
They're way, way higher than the human expectation. And so
to always level up and always try to reach those expectations,
are always going to be in growth mode always. And
(11:37):
the more I put myself out there, the more I learn,
and not only learn, but apply what I'm learning. I'm
I'm going to reach and reach higher levels of consciousness,
higher levels of being, which is what He kind of
commands us to do in life. The more you seek
(11:58):
him and the more you underst stand his word and scripture,
the more you realize I want his character, and his
character requires this stretch, right, stretching outside of earth what
we call the comfort zone. And I always call it
the law of the rubber band, which is one of
John Maxwell's laws and the fifteen Invaluable Laws of Growth
and the book he wrote many years ago. And I
(12:20):
always describe it as like if you were to pull
a rubber vand and let's say my chin is my
comfort zone, and the furthest I can push out that
rubber band is the capacity zone, and that tension you
create are the action steps that put you into this
higher level of being. That's how we reach goals, that's
(12:42):
how we continuously grow outside of we were yesterday. See,
my dad taught me that. My father always told me,
you're not competing with people. Honey, you're competing with your
past self, the person you were yesterday. That's who you're
competing with. And I've always taken that to heart and
done it from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That is great. We're going to wrap up this first
section with author Sylvia Worsham, and as we do, Sylvia
tell our listeners where they can purchase all of your
books and maybe even get a signed autograph copy of
any of them.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Absolutely my webpage www dot Sylvia spelled s y l
vs and victor Ia Worsham wr s h a m
dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Great, that's a wrap on this first half. You'll hear
a second portion that we're going to also post. But
for all of you that are listening, we hope that
you do read Sylvia's books and that you will be
inspired and that you are on track to your own
way of significance. We hope y'all have a great
Hey, welcome back to success made the last time, Rick Toulkeeney.
Over the last several weekends, I've had the occasion of
sitting right next to this best selling author named Sylvia
Worship as we go through this Lifecare program together, and
we got to talking about doing a podcast and Lloyd
(00:30):
and behold, I found out that she is a wonderful
author and that she left a super career at Pfizer
Pharmaceutical which is a great company to work for, and
now she's a life coach and she's also had experience
with the John Maxwell team. Her books are a Journey
(00:53):
to Me, Trust, the Wisdom of Change, and then most
recently in Faith I Thrive, Finding Joy through God's master Plan. Sylvia,
it's good to see you, not in the classroom but
on a podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I know it's kind of neat to be here with you,
and it has been a wonderful journey in those training
sessions and getting to know you.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, that's what I think too. I'm going to jump
right into the questions, and the first one is about
Journey to Me and Faith and Faith I Thrive. They
both explore deep personal transformations and I want to congratulate
you on your gutsiness encourage as an author, What were
the pivotal moments in your life that led you to
(01:39):
write these books.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The most pivotal one was in twenty twelve when I
received three miracles within seventy two hours. It really woke
me up to a different purpose in life. At the time,
I was in corporate America, I was a single mom.
I had a young six year old boy for my
first marriage, which had just gone through divorce, and about
(02:02):
three years later, I started dating this man that would
become my second husband, and he decided he wanted me
to meet his family and for my son to meet
his family. And I knew, as a single woman that
a man doesn't do that unless he's serious. So I
jumped on a plane despite the pain I had started
(02:24):
having just two days prior, and I had gotten so
pale that my mom had called my brother who's a doctor,
to kind of check me out. And you know, a
mother's intuition always knows, But I still got on the
flight because love always conquers all dinner and I luckily
we arrive in Houston, which is a medical center here
(02:45):
in Texas, and when he takes one look at me,
he says, you know what, instead of driving to Louisiana overnight,
I think we're just going to spend the night, and
we do, and at three am I get jolted out
of bed and there's this massive hain in my chest
and through it all I heard this prompting that just said,
lean forward and you'll be able to breathe. And I
(03:07):
in my relationship with Christ at the time, I was
very close to him. I had been getting closer to
him since my divorce, and I just obedient. I was
such an obedient child of his. I leaned forward and
it saved my life. And the next morning I get
admitted to Saint Luke's Episcopal Hospital and this specialist walks
into my room and he says, you know that leaning
(03:28):
forward that actually did save your life. You had two
blood clouds going through your heart. They were super large
and they ended up in your left lung and now
you have pulmonary emblosms and you have them all over
your lungs, like, I don't know how you walked in
here today and your liver's inflamed and we don't know why.
So you're not leaving here, and you know, my boy
is outside with my boyfriend, and it's a mess because
(03:49):
I don't live in Houston. I live in South Texas
and BROWNSWI and he lives in So it's like a
big old mess. Long story short. The next day, they
do a scan of my abdomen and doctors walk into
my room and none of them are looking me straight
in the face. And I know, being in sales, that
that is a very bad sign. And they start to explain,
(04:10):
you know, we've talked to your dad and your brother
and your sister, all doctors by the way, and we're
all in agreement. We're going to give you this massive
drug and it has all these odd effects to it.
It's because you have a massive blood clod and it's
putting pressure on your liver and you're about to go
into a cute liver failure and that syndrome it's called
Bud Carrie syndrome, and it carries an eighty percent chance
of dying. And I just sat there stunned, like I
(04:34):
was like, great, I'm thirty seven years old. I'm like
at the height of my life career health, I was
like super healthy. I was exerciseand and seven days a week,
and I remember visualizing falling into God's arms in total surrender,
because I knew that science was only going to get
(04:55):
us so far. But then there was my faith, and
I begged God give me a second chance at life.
I told him, it's like, if you give me a
second chance, I will devote my life to you. I
will do whatever you need me to do. I will
be your messenger, whatever it is. And the next morning
was eas your Sunday Morning or Resurrection Day for Christians,
(05:17):
and then walks this lady from the Catholic diocese and
she says, you know, let's form a circle, let's pray.
And I remember saying, yes, let's pray. I need a
miracle because the doctor said explained that if that therapy
didn't work, then they really had to go to the
interventional route and likely I was going to die on
the table. So that's in the back of my mind.
(05:40):
And in that circle was my boyfriend who now is
my husband, Donnie, and the lady and myself and we're
starting the Lord's Prayer, the our Father for the Catholics,
and the part was says that I will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. I felt this
immense love that enveloped the whole room, and it was unmistable.
(06:01):
It was unmistakable. I knew it was God, and I
felt him cradling him in his loving arms, and I
felt a piece that washed over me and un knowing
that I was okay, that he had given me my
second chance, you know. And the third and final miracle
was when the doctors wheeled me in to take a
look at what had happened. The threat was gone and
(06:25):
they were expecting to see scarring in my lungs from
the immensely problems I was having with pulmonary embolisms, and
there was no long term complications whatsoever. And so those
three miracles in the seventy two hours I was in
Houston were the most profound turning point of my life.
And it shifted my purpose and my lens, if you will,
(06:47):
from what is my purpose in life?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Why did I survive when so many people die with one?
I had multiple I had There was no reason for
me not to surrect, right, So and I survived. So
I know there's a powerful reason behind all that. And
it just starts to quest.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
So few people have been able to survive that it
is a miracle, and then talk about it, and then
write about it and inspire others. So that led to
you wanting to write a book go into a different
gear in life. Didn't it from almost from success to significance?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yes, very much so, because significance in the eyes of God.
Right he was shifting my lens to become the woman
he had initially created me to be. And he uses
this major turning point to kind of wake me up,
because I'm the type of child of God that I
need to be woken up in this way. I was
(07:47):
on track, I was a multiple award winner advisor. I
would have kept going had I not had the three
miracles in seventy two hours.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, what an inspiration. Those marks in lave, those inflection points.
I wonder how they now manifest themselves as you coach
others' lives. How does that come out and what is it?
How does it even mean something personal to those people
(08:19):
that you're coaching.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I think when they see the vulnerability, because in the book,
I'm very vulnerable. I share my journey from fear. I
think we all start off in fear, and that's very
relatable to individuals currently in the dark right now. What
(08:43):
they love about my story and about everything I talked
about in these books. Was just the relationship I had
with him. They want that, They're like, how did you
know the lank Vorn I said, well, because in those
years I was seeking him with all my heart and
I found him because he was always there. I'm the
(09:04):
one that abandoned him. I'm the one that turned away
from him the first marriage. And they can relate to
that too, because there's been so many moments in their
lives where they've been so angry with God that they
don't talk to him, they don't include them, they don't
invite him. But I was actively inviting him in my life.
And it's those turning points that when we talk about
(09:27):
it from the perspective of what's happening with our mind
and what's happening with our soul, which is where the
Holy Spirit resides, and where he's wanting to engage with us,
and what's happening outside of us, like in our environments.
All of that was talked about very extensively in the book,
and it was just kind of sharing with them, like
(09:47):
if I could be transformed, and I was someone that
was a high achiever who was motivated by her success,
like by her fear base beliefs, and God takes that
part of me and transforms it in such a way
that now I'm not motivated by my fear. I'm motivated
(10:09):
by my love for Him, for my purpose, for my mission.
Who doesn't want that. We all seek purpose in life.
I don't care if you're a woman, a man, a child.
We all want to feel like what we do makes
a difference in others. And that part, I think is
what really engages people that I coach.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, I sit there in class, Sylvina, I go, I
listen to your questions, and I remember the one on
one session where you volunteer. You always volunteer, by the
way you're You're so funny. It's like you're you're first up.
If you don't talk with if you don't volunteer within
a nanosecond, you got the rest of the class seaton.
But your motivation is so different. I sit there and go,
(10:54):
she may be one of the most qualified life coaches
in the room, sometimes better than maybe be some of
the video that we're seeing or other people that are there.
And I go, she's taking it to a different level. Now,
Is is that what's behind it? You just want to
are you a person of continuous improvement.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, I am. I'm internally motivated, and I'm motivated by Christ.
And Christ's expectations really higher than ours, right, I mean,
They're way, way higher than the human expectation. And so
to always level up and always try to reach those expectations,
are always going to be in growth mode always. And
(11:37):
the more I put myself out there, the more I learn,
and not only learn, but apply what I'm learning. I'm
I'm going to reach and reach higher levels of consciousness,
higher levels of being, which is what He kind of
commands us to do in life. The more you seek
(11:58):
him and the more you underst stand his word and scripture,
the more you realize I want his character, and his
character requires this stretch, right, stretching outside of earth what
we call the comfort zone. And I always call it
the law of the rubber band, which is one of
John Maxwell's laws and the fifteen Invaluable Laws of Growth
and the book he wrote many years ago. And I
(12:20):
always describe it as like if you were to pull
a rubber vand and let's say my chin is my
comfort zone, and the furthest I can push out that
rubber band is the capacity zone, and that tension you
create are the action steps that put you into this
higher level of being. That's how we reach goals, that's
(12:42):
how we continuously grow outside of we were yesterday. See,
my dad taught me that. My father always told me,
you're not competing with people. Honey, you're competing with your
past self, the person you were yesterday. That's who you're
competing with. And I've always taken that to heart and
done it from that perspective.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
That is great. We're going to wrap up this first
section with author Sylvia Worsham, and as we do, Sylvia
tell our listeners where they can purchase all of your
books and maybe even get a signed autograph copy of
any of them.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Absolutely my webpage www dot Sylvia spelled s y l
vs and victor Ia Worsham wr s h a m
dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Great, that's a wrap on this first half. You'll hear
a second portion that we're going to also post. But
for all of you that are listening, we hope that
you do read Sylvia's books and that you will be
inspired and that you are on track to your own
way of significance. We hope y'all have a great
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