Emra Smith, from the International School of Story, walks daily for HOPE! As she walks she spreads HOPE through coaching calls, giving out HOPE Dolls, smiles, warmth and encouraging words. God’s love pours through her for others and she believes that positive actions help facilitate personal and community change.
Welcome to discovering the answer to many things in your story! This leading website and newsletter is here for you to be inspired to live more, be more, love more and move forward in God’s purpose through 5 life changing challenges and through inspiring stories.
Our mission is to inspire and challenge you and to give you the tools to lead a happy, healthy, wealthy, and more balanced lifestyle. To create a community where millions of women (and some amazing men) from all over the world come together in support and celebration of what God has done in our lives.
You impact what our world will look like in the future. Your influence fosters growth or decline in the workplace, your business, home, church and society. We all need support and accountability and gain inspiration and courage through each others’ stories.
Please join us and be both inspired and challenged to live life to the fullest each day in purpose, achieving the great things that God has designed for each of us.
“I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full” – Jesus (John 10:10)
Five Essentials in Loneliness
Loneliness attacks us all at some time or another. Do you submerse yourself in it and let it choke your existence from you? Do you allow it to wash over you and bathe you to immerse fresh and renewed? I stepped into the shower and was blindsided by a hidden loneliness...
The Power of Process (Part 1)
Process is a systematic series of actions directed to some end (Dictionary.com). What a powerful statement – a systematic series of action. This is where the power of process lies. Not random, now and then actions. It’s the consistent, the regular, over and over,...
Are you ready to get Unstuck?
Is there any area in your life where you feel stuck? Need to discover life unstuck? I didn't really think that I have any stuck areas in my life - I have a plan, have learned to lighten up on my self-imposed deadlines and getting more disciplined with diet and...
It’s Time
IF you want more every day - more peace, more joy, more fun, more time out or just simply get more done . . . IT'S TIME! Take a minute to evaluate your life and how it's working for you. See what needs changing. Work out a plan. Make a decision. Take action. One small...
Strength and courage as 2015 unfolds
Two weeks in and this new year is barreling ahead already! For us it started with sadness as we rushed to the emergency vet in the wee hours of New Year's morning - our fifteen year old cat, Gunther breathed his last. Amidst the upheaval of boxes and re-arranging...
The 2014 Adventure Story
2014 - The year of adventure, in a different way. It was not a year of discovering new places or cultures, yet one of extraordinary happenings. It was an adventure story of not knowing what comes next, being open and experiencing inner change. I smile as I read...
Seventeen women share their stories to show that there is always HOPE.