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How To Share Your Story for the First Time
In my travels, I have the opportunity to share my story, and when I encourage others to share, I often hear two things: I don't have a story I'm afraid to share my story I lived many years believing I didn't have a story, and when I realized I did, I became paralyzed...
Learning to Look for New Beginnings
Many of us begin a New Year by reflecting on the past and meditating about the future. We look at the past year and see the things we've neglected as well as the things we've accomplished. Reflecting can make us feel successful or discouraged. We might look at the...
Learning How To Live Again After a Spiritual and Emotional Death
Do you feel like you're lifeless? You're barely going through the motions of your daily routine. It might even be hard to breathe. When we experience situations that cause trauma and deep pain, it is very natural to feel dead emotionally. At other times, unresolved...
How To Leave a Legacy of Giving
Christmas is the time of the year when giving is on everyone's mind, but it's also a time that consumerism is at an all-time high. Everywhere we turn, someone is telling us how important their product is. The pressure to buy is real! TV and internet ads, billboards,...
Learning to Give Outside of our Comfort Zone
We're in the season of giving and receiving. For some, it's all about giving, and for others, it's all about receiving. Which one is the most important to you? God gave more than was required, and we are the beneficiaries of His generosity. We celebrate the Christmas...
How To Be Less Selfish by Giving More
I love the promise, "Give, and it SHALL be given to you." I've seen it work in my life on many occasions and in remarkable ways! There are many ways to give. We often think of giving money, but in reality, we can do so much more than that. As I reflect on this...
Let’s Learn to Love Others Well
I believe that now more than ever, the world needs to experience love - a God kind of love - and all of us can be carriers of this kind of love. I am the recipient of love but certainly not the model of it. I hate to admit my limited success in being the carrier of...
The Difference Between Influence and Opinions
Have you ever stopped to think about the difference between opinions and influence? When I think about my family and the seven siblings I grew up with, I can tell you that we all have very strong opinions. We've had many opinionated, intense conversations around the...
Learning to Accept Your History and Move Forward In Life
Do you ever find yourself looking back and wishing things hadn't happened as they did? We all do it. We wish we would've made better choices so we would have a better life today. We wish others would not have hurt us. We wish we wouldn't have experienced trauma,...
How to Move From Regret to Acceptance
There was a time when I went to my counselor with a long list of regrets that kept me from seeing the goodness of each day and my life as it was. Regret kept pulling me back into my past of pain and guilt. Like the definition says, I felt sorrow caused by...
Learning to Right A Wrong
If you can never go wrong by doing what’s right, then what’s wrong with doing the right thing? In the Amish culture that I grew up in, doing the right thing meant being responsible, helping others in need, and never depending on others to do what you're capable of...
Finding the Courage to Face Hardships
Have you ever found yourself saying it takes a lot of courage to: Climb a mountain, Fight a good fight, Run a marathon., Apply for a job, Skydive, Start your own business, Or anything that would be considered high-risk? While that is all very true, it also takes just...
Overcome yourself and you can overcome any obstacle.
Overcome and Lead recounts the powerful stories and essential lessons learned from Anne Beiler’s time as the founder of Auntie Anne’s® Pretzels, the world’s largest pretzel franchise. With no capital, no formal education, and no business plan, Anne launched Auntie Anne’s after a series of tragic life events left her broken traumatized, and in a deep depression. As Anne and her team grew the company, she also grew herself personally and professionally. Learning to overcome her greatest obstacle – herself – is what she calls, her greatest success. And now, she’s sharing the leadership lessons and principles she learned to help you move from feeling overwhelmed and inadequate to empowered and confident.