Tell Your Story; Radio Pre-Launch
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With billions of people around the world not living ten percent of their
full potential, and with the 21st Century just unraveling, it is just WE
start foc...
CATALYST FOR
CHANGE ℠
Embracing a Spiritual Mind CONNECTION™
for 21st Century Transformation
What is a Spiritual Mind Connection™?
How can the force of a God-given spirit, practical learning and emmerging technology support the quality of change needed in life today?
How does a shift in AWARENESS empower our resolve for living and transforming our inner essence and spiritual call into external realities for the present and future?
By far, how can the combination of spiritual motivation and personal development blend to provide wisdom, focus, fulfillment, insight, direction, purpose and transformation in you and me?
Why is it important we in America, lead the way?
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My name is Sandra Bueno and I am the founder of Live and Learn Enterprises LLC; a personal development and youth empowerment coaching organization, as well as, the creator of Rise 2Win 4 OUR YOUth Movement; A Grass-root Strategy for 21st Century Leadership;-my spiritual mission and vision for equipping and empowering at-risk youth (for ALL youth are at risk), with education, skills and resources needed for 21st Century Leadership.
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Since the age of nine, I have been on a conscious journey toward pursuing and fullfilling a higher purpose in life. As a child in South America, I believed I could have, live, and become my ultimate dream. As an immigrant and first-generation American, I fought with passion to hold on to the dreams of my spirit and needs of my soul, while facing and overcoming the challenges and struggles of everyday life and ordinary living.
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In hindsight, I was convicted to uphold my right to dream and not give into people's limiting beliefs and personal objections, fear and doubt. Without realizing it, I internally opposed the status quo, the labels, the judgements, (including my own), and criticisms, all while believing in who I was, who I could be, and who I needed to be in this world.
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Today I acknowledge through ups-and-downs, challenges and opportunities, we in America live in a country that provides resources, education, freedom and the unrivaled possibility for us to reach our highest potential and God-given essence, provided we understand the context in which possibility operates.
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SPIRITUAL
On a personal level, what supported my belief in my ultimate purpose and gave me faith through trials, setbacks, tests and temptations, was the unrivaled God-centered force and spiritual identity I always felt and nurtured in my soul, despite the circumstance, situation and consequence.
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This spiritual insight and inner connectedness provided me with my innate, God-given sense of Power - the awareness within for who I BE at the CORE, which entirely aligned the source and fueled my "WHY" for living with passion and purpose, no matter the challenge.
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This insight, which most people have yet to acknowledge and validate within themselves, served as the spiritual force that underlined my core and sought self-expression in a way only I was sent to reveal. This immesurably catalytic well within, once consciously accepted, became the guiding force for every thought, decision, feeling, spirit, emotion, and will to rise everytime I fell.
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Irrevocably, this powerful ability is the unquenchable spirit every human being has in their soul and human makeup, no matter their religion, geographical location, tradition, age, or physical mindset, which supports their higher essence and enlightened state of being.
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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom do I fear? Psalm 21; 1 Trust in God.
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PRACTICAL
On a secondary and practical level, my conviction and commitment for believing in me and for creating the vision I was willing to sacrifice for, stems from witnessing powerful breakthrough technologies and experiencing mastery learning techniques learned from the world's leading transformation coach, mentor and personal development expert in human development training; - Anthony Robbins.
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Through the tutelage and mastery training systems he developed and shared with millions of people around the world, I was inspired and convicted to transform my passion, creativity and innate sense of contribution to manifest my vision to help youth and those who serve them.
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Combined, these spiritual gifts and practical skills support the foundation for my CORE beliefs, models, programs and philosophy that today give me the certainty that positive change for the 21st Century is real and within reach to all who want or hope for it.
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Truth #1: We must learn to embrace our spiritual nature in order to manage modern-day forces influencing choice and opportunity today.
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RESULTS
Today, as a byproduct of my road-less-travelled journey, innate sense and learned expertise, I know individuals can overcome any issue plaguing youth, men and women in the United States as we have the resources, freedom, philanthropic spirit, and education to do so.
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Our willingness to embrace opportunity and our disposition of tolerance for eachother's differences, will allow the resources, options and solutions available in this country to support 21st Century transformation for ourselves and for the world around us. With spiritual awareness, purposeful awakening, practical coaching skills, tools and education, those who are willing to take responsibility for their choices and present life, will positively and intentionally alter the course of our personal, social, national, international, and global conditions for the better.
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Whether conditions represent life controlling issues such as drugs, alcohol, and sexual abuse, to physical, personal, or interpersonal challenges; or if they involve youth and family-related struggles, to national, international and global disunity and human rights abuse, the influences affecting our lives have one common denominator; that which represent both spiritual and practical deficiencies and answers within our own independent self.
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To our collective demise, we are living the results of what we created and accepted as a way of life. Today, many people have resorted to giving in or giving up, rather than taking charge and creating a renewed and empowered course of action.
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Nowadays, people are afraid to being singled out; to step out in righteousness in fear they will be ridiculed and marred by those with power. Media channels and advertising glory has taken over our reasoning and sense of propriety, moral judgement, ethical standing and human resolve. The time is now to transform the challenges of today, for the possibilities of tomorrow.
For too long:
- we have believed a limited perception of our abilities and possibilities as individuals,
- we have accepted the status quo of mediocrity, complacency, and disregard
- we have allowed the media to market to our emotions and confuse our sense of dignity
- we have relinquished our ability to reason, to be practical, to use our innate sense of awareness, perception, interpretation and creativity to pursue life,
- we have accepted to not use our spiritual power to overcome challenge and manage discomfort, while envisioning a greater meaning for our existence,
- we have encouraged the demise of our country as a nation created to guide the world,
- we have allowed ignorance and disengagement to hurt our own path,
- we have allowed religion and politics to rob us of our spiritual and human essence
- we have allowed money to become the source of power that humbles and defeats
- It is time there be positive change of transformation for humanity's sake; for our children's sake.
All of us have the power and innate ability lying dormantly restless inside us to contribute to life.
As the world's superpower and leader for civility, growth and abundance, we have fallen short of revealing our God-given potential and practical abilities to ourselves and the world. It is time we bring God, gratitude, belief and balance to our lives, families, schools, community, nation to make this a better and more loving world! Change must start with us first!!!
Are YOU willing to consider a shift in your awareness and practices to rise to the next level?
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Truth #2: We ARE being called to experience transformation for who we are at our CORE and for how we are being with eachother in the collective sense
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THE SHIFT
In every aspect of our lives, we are being confronted with the challenge of responsibility for the results we have created, most especially as it relates to the model of behavior and leadership we are using with children and youth. Without the spiritual component living in our identity, and the practical learning skills managing our daily choices, our efforts to create long-term, positive change will not be possible.
Provided we exercise our will to uncovering and applying both spiritual and practical solutions to our benefit, ensuing change will unleash decisive and transforming benefits.
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THE AWAKENING
Creating positive change for ourselves and the generations that follow, requires individual responsibility for who we ARE and whom we are BEING. For women, I believe this is our primary challenge and the window to uncovering our individual and collective empowerment in personal and interpersonal transformation.
For our children's sake and that of our partners, we must embrace the spiritual connection that runs through our hearts and makes us the nurturing human beings we were born to lead with.
Our choices for deciding and for living a life worthy of striving for, stem out of this level of unique and powerful awareness -thus "The AWAKENING."
With the insight and force of a Spiritual Mind Connection™ - the identification of the foundational power source within you, which positively guides and directs your thought process and subsequent choices, actions, and results; combined with the mechanics of practical and learn-ABLE tools, skills, and options for how to condition change, you will unveil the natural abilities and practical solutions you already have to BE and to CREATE.
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"If we are to demand more of our world, we must demand more of ourselves"
As we witness staggering accounts of lives and spirits hurt by violence, suppression, oppression, addiction and abuse from emotional, mental, physical and spiritual trauma, we see these issues are being created and supported by man's own doing. Issues that have solutions founded on personal will and resolve.
From around the world, down to our own personal existence, evidence, statistics, and case studies allow us to perceive the degree of pain and suffering that is undermining our essence as God's loving creations.
With conflicting messages by secular leaders, political agendas and religious doctrines and philosophies laden with guilt, distrust, manipulation and abuse, we are being robbed of the personal glory God has given us all, no matter who we are.
Worse, this level of social adversity is impacting youth with alarming consequence as they struggle to understand their emotional, mental and physical life without an inkling of spiritual awareness, in an environment that is everyday more set on removing human's being essence as a powerful force for good and for God, destined for greatness.
AWARENESS
Your quality of life, health, finances, self-identity, relationships, personal fulfillment and outward characteristics are an expression of the resources and influences you have used to help you decide, (and which you are using to influence others).
Who you are and what you have become up to now, is a physical window to the choices you have made with the resources you have had; whether they support you or not.
Going forward, the catalyst for change in your life is through your own willingness to engage in awareness and self-development; the awakening of your Spiritual Mind Connection™, which is the source for what you do, what you think of, and how you go about choosing.
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"Most people know what to do, but fail to do what they know!"
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Through your desire to engage and embrace, you will become present to considering how the mind and spirit work within you, to the source that guides your life, and to how through these two energy sources, your life's decisions become synonymous with your quality of life and feelings of personal fulfillment.
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Like the Pareto Principle metaphor, eighty percent of our fulfillment is driven by the spiritual force within us; the source and essence for our life. How we interpret that force and the value we give it, will affect our feelings in the present, and direct the choices we make.
The twenty percent remaining, are the mechanics and practical skills education we use to create the physical results we want to manifest. It is therefore crucial to having a quality of life you desire, that you align with your spiritual self and identify the resources that will help you live the life you want.
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Consider the following:
- Based on the results you are living right now, consider the quality of information, preparation, emotional skills, spiritual awareness and personal development education you have been brought up with and have used.
- Who and what did specific people teach you?
- The individuals who influenced you...what is their quality of life today? How are they living, physically, emotionally, spiritually and socially?
- How do they reflect values and priorities you consider important in life now that you are grown up?
Consider then, is the price you are paying for life worth the sacrifice you are struggling for?
Who and what are you living and fighting for?
Or have you given in and chosen to become a victim of circumstance as the solution to your plight?
Only YOU can answer that. Start living your purpose and passion before you give yourself away!
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A Snippet of Life; Mothers hold the Key
an excerpt from Sandra's Personal Release -
You must believe in yourself FIRST, before anyone else believes in you!
Believing
As I write these words, I am, and will continue to be a work-in-progress.
Growing and learning means just that...as you continue to expand in different areas of your life, you realize there is always more to know and must continue going forward, unraveling more layers of who you are...a cross between a rose and an onion coming into bloom as the layers are peeled off one by one.
Until I had concrete awareness of my God-given abilities and confidence in my learned skills, I was afraid to believe in me or my spiritual purpose to help others embrace their power.
I used to live my everyday life wanting 2Be, trying to appear on the outside like I wanted to feel on the inside; -secure, certain, valued, appreciated, loved, fulfilled, and acknowledged.
In my twenties and thirties, I engaged in activities, choices and experiences that gave me a temporary sampling of what I wanted to have in my life.
I wanted to embrace life to the fullest. That meant being open to opportunities as they appeared.
Oftentimes, I undermined myself and my self worth by engaging in relationships that did not support me. I was too young to understand the needs I was meeting through the choices I made.
Internally, I conceived that God had given me the skills I to become who ever I wanted 2Be.
I knew I had the abilities within to manifest my dreams and live the mission I came to fulfill in this world. I knew I was intelligent enough, pretty enough, talented enough to do whatever I wanted. The challenge was I knew it in theory and not in practice.
Externally, I did not HAVE A PLAN to manifest those ideas I had. I simply thought about them in a distant, possible future, not knowing or conjuring up how I would make life happen for me.
In my mind and heart, I
believed that within me lied the "seeds of greatness," yet, I heard messages that competed with my sense of certainty and determination.Unknowingly, I sabotaged possibilities with choices and decisions that did not support who I spiritually knew I was. I now know that I was looking to find in others, what I had not yet found in me.
Though I pursued making a difference for my life and had great learning experiences, I nonetheless took steps that went against my emotional and spiritual core identity. As a woman who reflected confidence, passion, love and joy on the outside, I was really a child wanting to be accepted, loved and protected.
I wanted to share the most beautiful part of me, only to hurt myself in the process. As a result, I was creating mental, emotional, and physical heartache that would one day overflow.
Living
As I passionately embraced opportunity and continued believing in being greater than my circumstances, I defended the dreams of my heart against the one person who had the greatest influence in me; my mother.
With her fears, perceptions and judgements of past, present and future, I fought hard not to assume her belief system and mental conditioning. Instead I chose to life with faith, hope and illusion in spite of her forceful stance.
As a first generation Hispanic American older sibling of three, I pushed to live my own possibilities, while breaking the mold of what, who and how my mother expressed and thought I should be.
In this quest, I faced her opposition with defiant love to show her that my dreams were possible, that I could believe in my purpose without having to sucumb to the expectations and criticisms she often voiced.
As much as I loved her, I struggled to not have resentment, discord or ill feelings toward her. I also fought to not feel the pain her opinions and judgements inflicted.
As a point, I showed her one could live life with vibrancy, fun and laughter by not focusing on the hardships and struggle. I shared opportunities of travel, excitement, learning, empowerment, philosophy as proof of my beliefs.
In my book, what she referred to as "failure" were "evidence and results." I vehemently contested and opposed her beliefs that not having enough was not the reality I had to live with in my life!
I positioned myself to be the difference I sought, commited to pursuing what I felt in my heart, while helping her move away from a life of limiting beliefs and misconceptions to a life of hope, faith and possibilities (an undying wish I will always believe in).
Not being emotionally mature enough to perceive how one creates the ideal quality of life one wants, I lived life almost entirely from a spiritual perspective; living, loving, laughing, enjoying and finding the hidden beauty and meaning in everything.
While this allowed me to develop within, and to identify with my higher calling, it also encouraged me to not place a great deal of importance on the financial and structure part of life that supported meeting the basic needs for existence. I felt that practical responsibility was boring, limiting and obstrusive.
At the time, I saw purpose and magic wherever I went.
I chose not do or believe what everyone else did, including my mother.
I created my own reality amidst a sea of perception I did not want to acknowledge.
In spite of my spiritual awareness, I lived below my practical potential. Realistic evidence I conditioned myself to live with. Fortunately, I was convicted enough to not give into fear or place conscious limitations upon my essence and future possibilities.Even as relationships dissolved, and life experiences assisted me in evolving, traces of self-esteem lost were beginning to show. The glass of heartache, unbeknowingly, was filling up...
Despite the emotional, physical, mental and spiritual challenges faced, I entertained my far-away dreams with belief, but a certain degree of subconscious skepticism.
As life does to those who believe, it brought a catalyst to direct me toward my higher calling.
At the turn of the 21st Century, I suffered a series of physical accidents working as an international flight attendant. Multiple injuries to my back and neck left me unable to physically function and recover to my full potential. While this became a personal challenge, it ultimately became the wake-up call to my spiritual empowerment and personal transformation.
It was then "The Road Less Traveled" took a purposeful direction. It was then when I decided to purposefully unravel and perceive who I truly was in my CORE.
Without hesitation, yet sheer determination, I embraced the difficulties head-on! I commited myself to defying the odds and not falling beneath my pain, discomfort, uncertainty and struggle.
With commitment to rise above circumstance and in defiance of my physical limitations and personal complications, a traumatic and life-altering experience became my source of courage and resolve.
It took almost four-years of inner-core workings supported by external life realities and challenging financial, moral, relational, family, academic, social, spiritual, mental, and enmotional circumstances to bring out the power I inherently connected with.
The results is what I now bring to free others from their own cell of pain and secret frustration.
I will not say the process was easy; for the hardest person to conquer is the image we hold in our mind of who we think we are.
While I finally understood the only one we can change is ourselves, I now know it is through our own change that we can impact the world around us and those we love.
I equally embrace the realization that as a woman, the love I have for myself and the value I give my spirit will directly impact every relationship and choice I make in life.
The love and acceptance I sought from others, most especially in intimate relationships, is only the love I can give myself.
More than ever, I thank God he has allowed me to see the place he holds in my innermost being. I thank God his spirit has always been inside, beside, beneath and above where I am. Had I known the value of this before, my life would not have this story to tell. Like they say, "everything happens in God's time."
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become - Charles Dubois
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BECOME Aware , TAKE Responsibility
COMMIT to Action
A master once said, "Change is automatic, Progress is not"
As your Catalyst for Change, my mission is to inspire you to transform your thinking and life by embracing your power within, no matter what anyone says. In so doing, you will be able to rise to your full potential and lead others, most especially youth, to do the same.
Through spiritual awareness, accountability and personal skill development and empowerment, you will uncover and embrace your innate God-given Power to become who you truly are meant to be. Unbeknownst to you, you already have this ability, you just have to be willing to recognize your gifts and put them to action.
Today, with 41-years of "been-there-done-that," practical, real-world experience, (including drama and trauma), traditional and higher learning academics, professional expertise in diverse fields ranging from international travel, military and journalistic training, performance artistry in media and commercial work, entrepreneurial marketing, a deeply-rooted, God-centered personal conviction for advocacy in the social reform, and mastery life coaching education, I no longer doubt my abilities or am consciously unprepared for my purpose in this world. That purpose being aligned with helping you recognize options, solutions and position to face and manage the challenges and struggles you are facing in your interpersonal world today.
Embrace your innate power as your source for creating the world and life you envision today. Live your dream and make your life be a vision of what you were called to be!
"For there to be change in the world, change must first begin with me."
-S. Bueno
Behind every challenge lies opportunity. Today's challenges in your life, are tomorrow's possibilities for the world. Use change to your advantage. Never has there been a more opportune time in history, education and advance to embrace possibilities and to channel a renewed course for your personal and spiritual empowerment. It is timely you embrace the rights you have for growth, service, and contribution by pursuing the unrivaled potential and power God has created you with; the power of a mind and the power of a spirit working in-sync to create the best creation of you!
I believe, above all, you have the God-given right to create the life you want to see; a life worthy of your dreams, wishes and hopes. Like everything else in our human condition, it is the choice you have been given- to choose. Recognize the power behind the Spiritual Mind Connection, and get moving toward conquering the fear you have inside by believing in you and the dream that makes you!
With blessings and gratitude,
Your Catalyst 4 Power and Change
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