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You Are Not Alone

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From tragedy to triumph, best-selling author, speaker and transformational coach April Joy Ford offers this show for those seeking answers and solutions to their stress, strains, struggles and setbacks. Gain insight on tools and truth to get empowered. Know that you are not alone and that there is hope. There are golden blessings to be discovered even when life throws you a curve ball and you can still experience joy. Being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and becoming a widowed single parent at 32 years old, April’s trauma and tragedies gave her the opportunity to hit the reset button on life to discover who she was truly meant to be. She teaches you to do the same by taking a holistic approach with the 4 step formula to breakthrough the barriers. If you’re ready to create a blueprint and roadmap to rise above life’s challenges and discover the powerful you, this show is for you. Each listener is a life and each life matters, get your tools and truth to get empowered.

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Tempe, AZ

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From tragedy to triumph, best-selling author, speaker and transformational coach April Joy Ford offers this show for those seeking answers and solutions to their stress, strains, struggles and setbacks. Gain insight on tools and truth to get empowered. Know that you are not alone and that there is hope. There are golden blessings to be discovered even when life throws you a curve ball and you can still experience joy. Being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and becoming a widowed single parent at 32 years old, April’s trauma and tragedies gave her the opportunity to hit the reset button on life to discover who she was truly meant to be. She teaches you to do the same by taking a holistic approach with the 4 step formula to breakthrough the barriers. If you’re ready to create a blueprint and roadmap to rise above life’s challenges and discover the powerful you, this show is for you. Each listener is a life and each life matters, get your tools and truth to get empowered.

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English


Episodes
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Encore: Everyone Can Choose To Heal From Childhood Trauma or Abuse and Transform Their Lives

11/29/2016
How can you now heal from your abuse as a child? Could your adversities of anxiety, depression, PTSD, conflicts within your relationships, or overall well-being be linked from your childhood trauma? If you're a parent with kids now, ask yourself how would your kids answer this question when they become adults, 'how was your childhood'? Maybe you have an adversity that you can't relate to such extreme but you could use the same healing methods and principles in your own life. If they worked for Survivors with extreme situations, why not you?

Duration:00:55:01

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Encore: Marianne Williamson's New Release: Tears To Triumph

11/22/2016
From Tragedy to Triumph herself, bestselling author, speaker and host of the 'You Are Not Alone' radio show April Joy Ford, invites Marianne Williamson with her new release, 'Tears To Triumph'.

Duration:00:58:16

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Encore: Marianne Williamson's New Release: Tears To Triumph

11/22/2016
From Tragedy to Triumph herself, bestselling author, speaker and host of the You Are Not Alone radio show April Joy Ford, invites Marianne Williamson with her new release, Tears To Triumph. In her new book, renowned spiritual teacher and bestselling author Marianne Williamson offers an impassioned spiritual perspective on the epidemic of depression sweeping our society, and joins a growing chorus of voices addressing the overmedication of America. Williamson challenges the broad appropriation of deep sadness as a medical issue, claiming there is a “spectrum of normal human suffering” that calls for spiritual, not medical, intervention. Tears To Triumph is a clarion call not only to the reader, but also to society to heed the deeper message of our suffering and the suffering of others. Could a dose of love and forgiveness really be a radical solution to the epidemic of depression?

Duration:00:58:21

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Encore: The Psychology of Self-Motivation

11/15/2016
When you encounter a trauma, tragedy or just everyday stress in life that drains you, do you feel inspired, motivated and empowered?

Duration:00:57:07

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Encore: The Psychology of Self-Motivation

11/15/2016
When you encounter a trauma, tragedy or just everyday stress in life that drains you, do you feel inspired, motivated and empowered? Virginia Tech's E. Scott Geller as featured on Tedx, will explain how can we inspire people and ourselves to be self-motivated, this is what empowerment is all about. Imagine how you can change your life just with a little self-motivation. We're all inspired by something but it takes motion and action to see change; hence the word motivation for motion. Do you know the 3 questions that will lead you to feeling empowered? Geller shares these 3 questions.

Duration:00:57:12

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Encore: Women's Empowering Stories Inspired by Napoleon Hill Principles

11/8/2016
More women need to hear the success stories of other women. Often times we feel alone in our struggles and setbacks and wonder how other women have done it. What is her secret to success: managing work, home, and personal life? The latest release in the book series 'Journey To Success' is 'Women's Empowering Stories Inspired by Napoleon Hill Principles.' If you are looking not only for inspiration of authentic and real stories from struggle to success but also implementation, these stories are for you. It is interesting to see the diverse stories from various backgrounds and each woman has their own personal favorite success principles from Napoleon Hill. Whether you have read Napoleon Hill’s work before or not, you will find your favorite chapter in here and when that story speaks to you, identify which principle it is that you can implement in your own life.

Duration:00:56:13

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Encore: Abundance Now, Amplify Your Life and Achieve Prosperity Today

11/1/2016
Is it hard for you to believe that prosperity is your birthright especially when adversity is at your doorstep? What if you can still have abundance even during the stress, strains and struggles of your setback? Listen in as host April Joy Ford interviews Lisa Nichols with her latest release, 'Abundance NOW, Amplify Your Life and Achieve Prosperity Today' the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to Lisa’s New York Times bestseller, NO MATTER WHAT. Abundance and prosperity is more than a lifestyle. Know the attitudes, behaviors, habits and choices that will transform your life. Abundance Now focuses on the four areas of life that must be refined to bring true abundance, or the 4 E's—Enrichment, Enchantment, Engagement, Endowment—outlining steps everyone can take to create abundance in career, relationships, self, and finances.

Duration:00:54:02

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Encore: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems

10/25/2016
Host April has experienced insurmountable challenges in her life and she created this platform to share her secrets of how she's turned her tragedies into triumphs.

Duration:00:53:29

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Encore: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems

10/25/2016
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems. When life throws you a curve ball or a boulder of adversity, how is the brain affected? And how does this affect the other areas of your life? Host April has experienced insurmountable challenges in her life and she created this platform to share her secrets of how she's turned her tragedies into triumphs. With no exception for this episode, she shares the methods she has used. Her guest, Daniel G. Amen, M.D., renowned neuroscientist, psychiatrist, brain-imaging expert, and New York Times bestselling author, says it's possible to change your brain and, in doing so, change your life. Dr. Amen can prove it--healing the brain systems that run your life which impact; love, depression, anxiety, fear, nervousness, inattention and impulsivity, and how to achieve total focus.

Duration:00:53:34

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Encore: Panel Discussion Breakthrough The Barriers To Live A Life of Bliss

10/18/2016
What to learn how others broke through their barriers to live a life of bliss? Create a diamond life using the four pillars

Duration:00:54:32

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Encore: Panel Discussion Breakthrough The Barriers To Live A Life of Bliss

10/18/2016
What to learn how others broke through their barriers to live a life of bliss? Create a diamond life using the four pillars; Health-Wellness, Personal Development, Life Skills and Leadership-Mentoring by implementing a simple 4 Step process. Host April J. Ford created the 4 Steps (Recognize, Respond, Re-evaluate, Rebalance) and invites a panel to discuss how they've utilized this powerful process for their breakthroughs. Mary will share her story of how she had a difficult time focusing and was overwhelmed with the grief of loosing her 7 yr old son. She grew by developing her own passion to help others and gave her power to heal herself. The support network that she was provided allowed her to take steps to mend her heart to heal from loss. Nissa has dealt with her own difficulties of generational patterns of abuse from her childhood, health challenges that nearly took her life that was featured in Oxygen Magazine.She appreciated the process on how we respond to life challenges.

Duration:00:54:37

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Encore: Billions Of Dollars In Modern Day Slavery

10/11/2016
Did you know the largest global crime industry worth over BILLIONS of dollars involves modern day slavery?

Duration:00:54:58

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Encore: Billions Of Dollars In Modern Day Slavery

10/11/2016
Did you know the largest global crime industry worth over BILLIONS of dollars involves modern day slavery? Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or labor services against his/her will. Sex trafficking has been found in a wide variety of venues within the sex industry, including residential brothels, escort services, fake massage businesses, strip clubs, and street prostitution. Labor trafficking has been found in diverse labor settings including, domestic work, small businesses, large farms, and factories. (resource: NHTRC website) Today's guest Shannon Forsythe is the Co-Founder of Run 2 Rescue. Their mission is to reach, rescue and restore victims of sex trafficking. She has been featured in People magazine and received congressional recognition from the US House of Representatives for her work. Don't be oblivious to what's going on around you.

Duration:00:55:03

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Encore: 'Dear April' Q and A Session - Life Is About Seeking Answers

10/4/2016
Do you have adversity or challenges in your life weighing you down? Are you sick and tired of feeling depressed, down, and just plain unhappy?

Duration:00:54:32

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Encore: 'Dear April' Q and A Session - Life Is About Seeking Answers

10/4/2016
Do you have adversity or challenges in your life weighing you down? Are you sick and tired of feeling depressed, down, and just plain unhappy? You don’t have to feel that way any longer. Life is about seeking answers that provide solutions. You won't get a solution until you ASK a question! Get advice from Host April herself in this segment of her version of Dear April (like Dear Abby). Continue to submit more of your Q's even after this episode airs: contactus@joysofyah.com and April will respond. Some of the questions April answered in this episode: Why do people stay in unhealthy abusive relationships? Do you believe in soul mates? Why would you 'befriend' an abuser?

Duration:00:54:37

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The Gentle Power Of Highly Sensitive People

9/27/2016
Calling 'HSPs' -Highly Sensitive People- out of their comfort zone to help, heal and empower the world! Do you have a strong reaction to your environment or emotions? Then you're probably an HSP according to Elena Herdieckerhoff. Elena is a mentor for highly sensitive and empathic entrepreneurs and TEDx speaker. In her TEDx talk, she explains why we need to change the prevalent cultural narrative around highly sensitive people. Tune in to find out more what it really means: how can you claim the power of sensitivity in the business - entrepreneurial world, what self-care is needed to become an empowered HSP? Remember April Joy's tip, 'Boundaries or Burn-Out'!

Duration:00:54:32

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Think Less and Feel More - Verbally Promiscuous Yet Emotionally Impotent

9/20/2016
You don't have to suffer from a severe brain injury to gain helpful insights with this episode. Within modern society, technology has enabled people to become verbally promiscuous yet leaving them emotionally impotent. ‘Think Less and Feel More’ - The physical and psychological benefits to the body and brain of interacting face-to-face rather than through electronic communication. Tedx speaker Claire Balfour will be speaking again on Tedx about human connection and how technology is becoming an influential factor to loneliness and depression. Claire is a specialist adult speech and language therapist, neuro-linguistic programming practitioner, and adult educator and trainer who has lived and worked in Scotland, England and New Zealand. She works with people who have severe brain injuries and trauma. Her motto: change your language - change your feelings - change your life - aims to redefine life stories and build new narratives.

Duration:00:55:28

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Heal Your Mind, Heal Your Life

9/13/2016
Have you experienced a pain that just won't go away:emotional, psychological, or physical? Our guest Danna Pycher will inform you on how our minds program our memories with our experiences and sometimes it doesn't serve us the best way as our bodies harbor pain. Danna shared her survival story in TEDx about trauma and the transformative insight she gained that allowed her to harness the healing power of the subconscious mind.

Duration:00:55:03

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Good Boundaries Free You

9/6/2016
Your story is being shaped by what you say yes and no to: choices set your boundaries. How do you build boundaries? How do you heal when your boundaries are violated? For seasoned listeners of the You Are Not Alone show, you've heard the host April Joy speak on the 'Wonder Woman Syndrome'. One of the syndrome is--saying YES to everything! Saying yes to everything indicates that there's room for improvement on creating healthy boundaries so you are not drained, depleted, in distress or disappointed. Not having healthy boundaries spills over to one's self care. And if we want to dig deep, could it be that someone's core foundation needs to be healed from a trauma that prevents these boundaries from forming: some say yes to everything because subconsciously they want to be accepted, validated and understood. Sarri Gillman will empower you on how to support your boundary 'compass' of saying yes or no: have less stress and be in-tuned with your purpose!

Duration:00:56:48

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Designing Perseverance: How Design Thinking and Experience Design Principles Can Help You Overcome Adversity

8/16/2016
Can you really design perseverance to overcome adversity? Guest Julian Scaff will educate and empower you how design thinking and experience design principles can help you conquer life's challenges. He'll share how to practice and apply this to any adversity so that when life throws you a curve ball, you'll have the tools to overcome. Wouldn't you want to know how you're suppose to develop a skill during survival mode when you're already depleted, overwhelmed, and exhausted from the challenge itself that you are facing? Julian is an professor, designer, filmmaker, electronic musician and media artist. He has been a professional designer for more than 20 years working for many tech companies and non-profits. Over the last decade Julian has taught at universities in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

Duration:00:54:20