Life & Work with Sara Troy

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Sara Troy.

Sara, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin? 
I’ve been podcasting for 12 years in April and produced my own Self-Discovery Wisdom network for 11 years in June. My journey is rooted in the belief of staying true to one’s soul. I’ve been fortunate to gather insights from remarkable people worldwide, sharing stories that resonate and inspire. These narratives aren’t just stories; they’re beacons of hope and inspiration, guiding us toward solving our unique life puzzles. At Self Discovery Wisdom, we use the power of conversation to encourage you to take the reins of your life. 

Back in 2001, I launched “The Art of Positive Living,” dedicating over two decades to teaching about personal identity and soul growth, leveraging my 48 years of life wisdom. My role as a spiritual counselor is to unveil your life’s potential and provide a roadmap to your destiny, though the journey is yours to embark on. My drive is to help people fully embrace their true selves, understanding our choices, resilience, and courage, and navigating our purpose and service without losing ourselves. 

My pivotal moment came in April 2012 when I discovered my calling. I started hosting a talk show on a small station, which led to the creation of my own platform, PLV Radio, now known as Self-Discovery Wisdom. Over the years, I’ve interviewed over 3,500 inspiring guests, fueling my passion for connecting listeners with uplifting stories. 

Eager to extend this network of inspiration, I initiated the Orchard Mentors program, offering a platform for mentors to share their knowledge and services. This initiative and the Fund-Action program aim to support individuals financially and emotionally, helping them regain their independence. 

In 2024, we launched a book called Our Forgotten Children, with 15 authors speaking on what needs to change in raising our children and supporting families. We reached Amazon’s International Best Seller list, and I am very proud of this book, which is number 1 in the series. The next one will be Coaching Your Self Discovery in life, wellness, business, and joy. 

Self-Discovery and our Orchard of Wisdom invite those who wish to join us as mentors and authors, sharing their light and expertise. 

As a mother of three and grandmother to three, I’m proud to see my family finding their paths. My life has been a tapestry of experiences – from restaurateur to DJ, model, spiritual counselor, and more – all enriching my podcasting journey experience and skills. 

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
There have been many struggles along the way: health issues, mental challenges, divorce, poverty, and homelessness. 

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a professional Podcaster and Pod-book developer. With over 2700 shows personally under my belt, I have developed a style that puts people at ease and allows them to enjoy the conversation on our shows. I am a seerer and see the possibilities that lay in people and situations, I am very proud of my work; I know that sharing people’s wisdom, skills, and passions has made an incredible difference in the lives of others, and that is why I do what I do. 

I treat everyone with respect, kindness, love and intrigue. I am known for my heart and passion for raising energies and coming from a place of loving vibrations. I am a supporter. 

Are there any books, apps, podcasts, or blogs that help you do your best?
I read my guest’s books, I love Sam Hawksmoor’s books, and I love mystical books as they always reveal truths in reality. I need music to soothe me and keep me balanced. I network a lot, and each person who I interview is a resource. 

Pricing:

• $35.00 to do a podcast, shows done via donations starting at 35 donation starting at that point.
• To be a part of a book prices to come

Contact Info:

• Website: www.selfdiscoverywisdom.com www.orchardofwisdom.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selfdiscoverymedia_/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SelfDiscoverymediaHub/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/choosepositiveliving
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/PositiveLivings
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saratroy/videos
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/self-discovery-wisdom
• Other: https://www.pinterest.ca/chooseliving/

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In my teachings of soul awareness, I find that it is when you teach the woman to embrace her divine womanhood we end up teaching the world what a gift a woman is. I do not want to be a man to own my equality, I do not want to think like a man to be heard. I am a woman with a broad spectrum of understanding that needs that balance of woman and man.

When we stop apologizing for thinking, feeling, and living like a woman, we may give men a chance to know us in our own strength, in our own empowerment, and know what positive energies we bring to the whole. Women, you want to teach your sons how to respect and value women. Start by respecting and loving yourself. Women, you want to be seen in all your feminine light; step into the glorious light of womanhood. A man will treat you in the value you give yourself, in the truth of your soul, in the purpose of your spirit. So stand tall, a woman of the world, and be the wonderful feminine being you are, and live in that embracement of inner love for all to see.

Friendship is trust, honesty, and pure love.

Friendship is trust, honesty, and pure love of self

Sara Troy

WWW.SELFDISCOVERYWISDOM.COM

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WHERE’S THE LOVE,

WHEN TO LOVE

WHY TO LOVE

LOVE TO HATE

HATE TO LOVE

LOVE IS TRUTH

TRUTH IS IN LOVE

LOVE IS ALL

LOVE IS LOVE

LOVE IS DIVINE

ENERGY LOVE IGNITES

IGNITE THE LOVE WITHIN

SOLUTIONS ARE IN LOVE

LOVE HEALS

HEALING IS IN LOVE

LOVE IS THE ANSWER

ANSWER TO LOVE

LOVE CAN’T HATE

LOVE TRUTH HIGHER ENERGY

HIGHER FREQUENCY IS IN THE LOVE

LOVE WITHIN RESONATE OUT

LOVING IS CREATION

LOVING IS COMPASSION

LOVING IS ENLIGHTENING

LOVE IS YOUR LIGHT

SOUL LOVE IS YOUR WISDOM

SOUL HEART LOVE IS ILLUMINATING

WHEN YOU CHOOSE LOVE IT HEALS YOU, IT SOOTHS YOU, IT GUIDES YOU.

THE LOVE MUST COME FROM WITHIN YOU TO EXUDE OUT

LOVE IS YOUR GENERATOR, YOUR LOVE IS COMPASS

LOVE IS THE ONLY CURE

LOVE IS SEEDS POSSIBLITIES

LOVE WATERS HOPE

LOVE IS THE WARMTH OF THE SUN

LOVE IS OPEN LOVING ARMS

LOVE IS WITH IN AND IS YOU

LET US BE THE LOVE

YOU ARE THE LOVE YOU SEEK

By Sara Troy

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(An old story but always inspires me)

My mom only had one eye. I hated

her… She was such an

embarrassment. She cooked for

students and teachers to support the

family.

There was this one day during

elementary school where my mom

came to say hello to me. I was so

embarrassed.

How could she do this to me? I

ignored her, threw her a hateful look

and ran out. The next day at school

one of my classmates said, ‘EEEE, your

mom only has one eye!’

I wanted to bury myself. I also wanted

my mom to just disappear. I

confronted her that day and said, “If

you’re only gonna make me a

laughing stock, why don’t you just

die?”

My mom did not respond… I didn’t

even stop to think for a second about

what I had said, because I was full of

anger. I was oblivious to her feelings.

I wanted out of that house, and have

nothing to do with her. So I studied

real hard, got a chance to go abroad

to study.

Then, I got married. I bought a house

of my own. I had kids of my own. I

was happy with my life, my kids and

the comforts. Then one day, my

Mother came to visit me. She hadn’t

seen me in years and she didn’t even

meet her grandchildren.

When she stood by the door,

my children laughed at her, and I yelled at

her for coming over uninvited. I

screamed at her, “How dare you come

to my house and scare my children!

GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!”

And to this, my mother quietly

answered, “Oh, I’m so sorry. I may

have gotten the wrong address,” and

she disappeared out of sight.

One day, a letter regarding a school

reunion came to my house. So I lied

to my wife that I was going on a

business trip. After the reunion, I

went to the old shack just out of

curiosity.

My neighbors said that she died. I did

not shed a single tear. They handed

me a letter that she had wanted me to

have.

“My dearest son,

I think of you all the time. I’m sorry

that I came to your house and scared

your children.

I was so glad when I heard you were

coming for the reunion. But I may not

be able to even get out of bed to see

you. I’m sorry that I was a constant

embarrassment to you when you were

growing up.

You see……..when you were very little,

you got into an accident, and lost your

eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand

watching you having to grow up with

one eye. So I gave you mine.

I was so proud of my son who was

seeing a whole new world for me, in

my place, with that eye.

With all my love to you,

Your mother.”

the son got into tears, but it was too late.

MORAL LESSON:

Never neglect your MUM, Because she is a blessing.

One day YOU will cry when she will be gone.

Hit LIKE if you love your Mum.

Comment her Name if you are proud of YOUR MUM

unknown author.

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www.orchardofwisdom.org

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International Podcasts featuring illuminating people who share their Why’s, Skill. Serves, Tools, Books, and so much more. Come be our Guest.

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With So Many Experts In So Many Fields That Have Been Interviewed On Self Discovery Media Orchards Platform,  We Have Created An Orchards Mentors Directory To Spotlight Their Service For You. 

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We Believe In The Power Of Shared Stories, Especially Those That Resonate With Strength And Courage. The Most Profound Teachers Are Those Who Have Journeyed Through Trials And Tribulations, Emerging With A Renewed Sense Of Purpose. These Journeys, Often Through Darkness, Illuminate The Path To Self-Discovery And Reveal Our True Calling.

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Coming soon Ask the Author platform, and Ask the Podcast guest paid platform.

Wish to know more, about being a guest, an authors, a Mentor drop Sara a line.

selfdiscoverywisdom@gmail.com

https://linktr.ee/saratroy

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We were born in the 40-50-60’s.

We grew up in the 50-60-70’s.

We studied in the 60-70-80’s.

We were dating in the 70-80-90’s.

We got married and discovered the world in the 70-80-90’s.

We venture into the 80-90’s.

We stabilize in the 2000’s.

We got wiser in the 2010’s.

And we are going firmly through and beyond 2020.

Turns out we’ve lived through EIGHT different decades…

TWO different centuries…

TWO different millennia…

We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long–distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world.

We have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and Whats App.

From live matches on the radio, to black and white TV, colour TV and then to 3D HD TV.

We went to the Video store and now we watch Netflix.

We got to know the first computers, punch cards, floppy disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones.

We wore shorts throughout our childhood and then long trousers, Oxfords, flares, shell suits & blue jeans.

We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, swine flu and now COVID-19.

We rode skates, tricycles, bicycles, mopeds, petrol or diesel cars and now we drive hybrids or electric.

Yes, we’ve been through a lot but what a great life we’ve had!

They could describe us as “exennials,” people who were born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.

We’ve kind of “Seen-It-All”!

Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.

It is our generation that has literally adapted to “CHANGE.”

A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, which will be UNIQUE!

–Author unknown

– Artist the amazing Lisa Aisato

Keep on keeping on!

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Sara Troy

www.selfdiscoverywisdom.com

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Religion, what does it stand for? We keep hearing that God is good and that he loves all people, and that faith is based on love and kindness. So why are so many so-called religious people, spouting hate in the name of Gods? hate for each other, hate within themselves, it is all a disconnect to their God, for all Gods are based in love.

Muslims, Christians, Jewish, I don’t care, take responsibility for your hate for it is based on intolerance, pain, ignorance, fear, inner insecurity and arrogance and used as a control; you can not call yourself a person of God and hate in his name.

There are more innocent than evil people in the world, and when you embrace the hate and fear, it is feeding the evil powers within you, for in your hate, you have become evil yourself, is this what you want to be?

That evil hate is not you, but a trauma you have experienced that stays within in you blocking the love and possibilities that await you. Hate from within, exudes out and is a destroyer, of you and all around you; love from with in, is a healer and creator, that is the God I know, that heals our pain, embraces our fears, and shows us how to walk out into love of self and with love for everything else. fearlessly and in compassion, creation, and divine energy that sets us free to be our loving selves.

ALL GODS ARE LOVE AND KINDNESS, NOT JUST FOR THE FEW, BUT FOR ALL LIVING CREATURES; STAND UP AND SPEAK TO THE LOVE, NOT THE HATE, FOR YOU ARE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM BOTH, NO MATTER WHO YOUR GOD IS.

Sara Troy

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This is a poem written

by a teenager with cancer.

She wants to see how

many people get her

poem.

It is quite a poem,

please pass it on.

This poem was written

by a terminally ill

young girl in a

New York Hospital.

It was sent by a medical doctor Make sure to read what is in the closing statement

AFTER THE POEM.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched

kids on a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s

erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into

the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

Do you run through

each day on the fly?

When you ask,

“How are you?”

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,

do you lie in your bed,

with the next hundred

chores running through

your head?

You’d better slow down

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short

The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,

We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say,’Hi’

You’d better slow down.

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last..

When you run so fast

to get somewhere,

You miss half the fun

of getting there.

When you worry and

hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift….

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

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One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. ‘Really?’ she heard whispered. ‘I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!’ and, ‘I didn’t know others liked me so much,’ were most of the comments.

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn’t matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.

Several years later, one of the students was killed in

Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.

The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. ‘Were you Mark’s math teacher?’ he asked. She nodded: ‘yes.’ Then he said: ‘Mark talked about you a lot.’

After the funeral, most of Mark’s former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark’s mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.

‘We want to show you something,’ his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket ‘They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.’

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark’s classmates had said about him.

‘Thank you so much for doing that,’ Mark’s mother said. ‘As you can see, Mark treasured it.’

All of Mark’s former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, ‘I still have my list. It’s in the top drawer of my desk at home.’

Chuck’s wife said, ‘Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.’

‘I have mine too,’ Marilyn said. ‘It’s in my diary’

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. ‘I carry this with me at all times,’ Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: ‘I think we all saved our lists’

That’s when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don’t know when that one day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

And One Way To Accomplish This Is: Forward this message on. If you do not send it, you will have, once again passed up the wonderful opportunity to do something nice and beautiful.

If you’ve received this, it is because someone cares for you and it means there is probably at least someone for whom you care.

If you’re ‘too busy’ to take those few minutes right now to forward this message on, would this be the VERY first time you didn’t do that little thing that would make a difference in your relationships?

The more people that you send this to, the better you’ll be at reaching out to those you care about.

Remember, you reap what you sow. What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own.

Unknown

Brought to you buy Sara Troy

of Orchard of Wisdom.org

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Patience visited me

And it reminded me

That good things take time to come to fruition

And grow slowly with stability

Peace visited me

And it reminded me

That I may remain calm through the storms of life

Regardless of the chaos surrounding me

Hope visited me

And it reminded me

That better times lay ahead

And it would always be there to guide and uplift me

Humility visited me

And it reminded me

That I may achieve it

Not by trying to shrink myself and make myself less

But by focusing on serving the world and uplifting those around me

Kindness visited me

And it reminded me

To be more gentle, forgiving and compassionate toward myself

And those surrounding me

Confidence visited me

And it reminded me

To not conceal or suppress my gifts and talents

In order to make others feel more comfortable

But to embrace what makes me me

Focus visited me

And it reminded me

That other people’s insecurities and judgements about me

Are not my problem

And I should redirect my attention

From others back to me

Freedom visited me

And it reminded me

That no one has control over my mindset, thoughts and wellbeing

But me

And love visited me

And it reminded me

That I need not search for it in others

As it lies within me.

Words by Tahlia Hunter

Artwork by Jungsuk Lee

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