Motivate Me! With Lynette Renda

Live from the Road: Talk about getting outside of that comfort zone. Talk about the power of asking. Talk about kind, generous people in the world. Listen in as the Motivate Me! crew and the staff at Paul Kramer's Learn to Fly Center discuss the special experience they shared in a 4-seater airplane! What would happen if you were brave enough to ask someone to help you? What would happen if you were brave enough to gift an experience to someone else? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Christine Sneeringer uses her passion for education and helping others to get up on stage and perform her comedy. Witty and funny, let Christine entertain you, inform you, and inspire you. What would it take to push you into what others see as your gift? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Holly Macpherson is someone who took her passion for massage to the next level by becoming a certified Yoga-Inspired Praise Moves instructor. Let her introduce you to Praise Moves, and let her get you thinking about how you can take the passion you are currently practicing to the next level. Grow yourself and grow your business. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

What happens when Lynette and the crew stop at an Alabama hot spot,The Hangout, and do random interviews with the staff about passion? This episode is testament to the idea that one's passion does not need to be a full-time endeavor to be something that makes life more exciting, more meaningful, enriched.  http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Jessie Zenor and her business partner, Kait Sukiennik, opened the coffee, biscuit, and beer shop, Greenhouse on Porter, in order to create a sense of community in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. You can hear Jessie's passion when she talks about how leaving her old job of home design has enabled her to wake up each morning and be happy about making people nourishing biscuits! Her advice to you: Keep going until something stops you, and the chances are there will be no obstacle big enough to stop you - just keep moving forward. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Corey Christy's passion is a combination of community, art, and music and how these three things marry. He is able to embody all of this as the Marketing and Development Manager of the popular Walter Anderson Museum, and as a band member of Blackwater Brass. Maybe your passion bleeds into multiple roles, and the embodiment of them all is for what you have been searching.  http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

There is no denying the passion of Public Information Officer Chris Vignes of Gulfport, Mississippi. There is no denying the passion of Public Information Officer Chris Vignes of Gulfport, Mississippi. He uses the power of voice for promotion. Are you the type of person who loves to talk, engage with others, connect people? A pursuit similar to Chris' may be best for you! http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/ 

Musician Emelie Guidry is just completely grateful that she has a career that allows her to play music. She is part of a team of dueling pianists in the French Quarter of Louisiana. She battles her shyness to interact with the crowd, but says when you are passionate about something, you go to greater lengths to keep it in your life in anyway that you can. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Sean Barros and Rand Owens took an establish New Orleans pizza place and put their own spin on it. They are passionate about creating a unique pizza experience with highly creative pizza concoctions. They acknowledge the intense workload, the equipment and staffing issues that arise, but they push past these obstacles, because the feeling they get watching people enjoy their establishment surpasses any of the struggle. What obstacles can you push through to follow through on a dream?  http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Darcy McKinnon, Executive Director at NOVAC, a community media arts center, gets to live her passion as a full-time career. Darcy oversees the NOVAC facility in New Orleans and they provide resources, such as the technology and training required to tell stories through digital media. Some films created are viewed on a small scale, while others are distributed to a larger audience, but making sure people have access to these resources is what Darcy is most passionate about. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Artist Brittany Schall had a creative idea, she pushed through fears, and in the end, developed a portrait style all her own. Her drawings are life-like portraits of hair that omit a person's face, yet, allows their identity to surface. She urges artists to takes risks that can sometimes only be discovered from failure, and she gives important copyright information that she wished she'd had. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Josh Hailey, an artist living in an artists' community in New Orleans, is someone who takes an idea, big or small, acts on it, and completes it. Josh will inspire you to take your own ideas more seriously, to understand that they matter, and to see that you can change your life with it. Just look at his website and all of the projects he has completed to believe it. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Janice Hunter takes her responsibility to be conservative and preserve the environment seriously. While this was, originally, a passion of her mother's, it has quickly become her own. Her way of life.  http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Meet Hanna Ellaham and Melodie McMath who, while owning separate businesses, joined forces to make their passions their careers. They will share with you how filling a need can uncover a passion, and how desire can inspire you to be creative in the acting out of it. The bottom line is: How badly do you want to live your pupose? To what extent will you compromise and collobrate to do that? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Meredith Johnson uses writing to get her thoughts on paper, to allow herself to be vulnerable, to create the person she wants to be in life. She journals daily, and puts her thought into poetry and fiction. Meredith shares that "It's not about how good you are, it's about putting pen to paper..." So many of us want to know: What makes a writer? Writers write, folks, that's all it is! So... are you a writer? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Disc Golf vendor, Tyler Sonnier, from the company Geaux Throw Disc Golf Co sits down with Lynette at Magnolia Park during a Louisiana rain storm to share his passion for the game disc golf. If getting your passion into your life is challenging, Tyler suggests going about it creatively: start a business! He says facing the consequences of fitting a passion into your life are better than facing regrets, and in the end, it could just create more family time, an interest for your children, and added income! http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Carolyn Murray discovered her passion for comedy later in life. She discusses how she finds her material, and how she tricked herself into getting on stage the first time. She shares thoughts that had the potential to hold her back, and she performs a few jokes! The airport nearby, apparently, had a sense of humor as well. http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Alexander Muse had a single-dad conundrum: cooking healthy food for his kids. That is until he found a healthy-cooking technique that is foolproof. Alex evolved from eating out too often, to cooking in the kitchen with his kids, to throwing dinner parties. Visit Alex's blog to find out everything you need to know to take the anxiety out of meal preparation: https://medium.com/sous-vide http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Courtney Edwards has a marketing and branding background, and with her sister, she created a blog and a jewelry line. They saw a need and became the designers of a quality city skyline jewelry line. The two had always envisioned being in business and they turned this vision into a reality. What has your vision always been? Are you living it? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/

Eric Spigner is a chef at the gastropub Nova in Dallas. A term new to me, gastropub is a pub, bar, or tavern that offers food of an elevated quality. And that, is Eric's passion. The restaurant's diners the beneficiaries. Cooking is a passion for so many, and it often is born in the home. Are you secretly wishing you could use your love for the culinary arts as a profession? http://5ed.8db.myftpupload.com/