Today we discuss the power of personal passion and how it can be used as fuel to push past limitations and overcome tragic obstacles in life.


Our first guest, Marie White, has lived through what many parents feel would be their worst nightmare, and that is the abduction of her child. She has taken her family’s pain and turned it into a guidebook for others which includes the coping mechanisms that allowed her family to survive and thrive.

Our second guest, Altovise Pelzer, took her tragic suffering through homelessness and molestation and used this to fuel her decision to motivate women and youth to find their unique voice. She takes women from abuse to applause by equipping them to define, accept, and use their own unique voice.



We Discuss:
The power of personal passion and what to do when you lose that passion
Common reasons that many people lose their passion
The questions you need to ask yourself to reignite your passion
The powerful combination of passion and purpose
Finding hope through struggle
Marie’s painful story of the abduction of her child and how she transformed her family’s pain into the coping mechanisms that allowed them to survive and thrive
The many different types of missing children
The emotional and physical struggle that parents of missing children experience
What to say (and not to say) to someone that’s grieving their missing child
3 things that people can do to gain the strength to sustain this pain
Making the choice to not be broken and bitter, and instead be better
Changing into the person you were always meant to become
The vicious cycle of abuse and how “hurt people, hurt people”
Abuse victims major struggles with communication
How people lose a sense of themselves after being abused
Finding confidence after suffering through a traumatic experience and moving from tragedy to triumph
The passion and breakout zones to move forward in life and initiate a rebuilding process
Defining, accepting, and using personal stories to help others


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