A Purpose-filled Life | Tyra Garlington

Were it Not for Those Who Care featuring Ashleigh Conrad, Engagement Manager, Girls on the Run

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

The 1977 theme song for a film about Mohammed Ali, “The Greatest Love of All,” was written and composed by Michael Masser, with lyrics by Linda Creed, and sung by George Benson. The beginning lyrics lay the perfect introduction to this week’s Frankly Speaking radio show discussion, Were it Not for Those Who Care. “I believe that children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside ……
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Thank you for your service featuring Brig-Gen, USAF, Ret. Sandra Gregory

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Do you go the extra mile? Do you do more than what is expected? Do you expect the best? These questions pertain not only to your relationship with the world but also to how you treat yourself. Do you go the extra mile when it comes to you, or do you think that the least is enough for you? Going the extra mile means taking what you have and looking for ways to expand it— you believe in your ability to make it happen. Going the extra mile means doing just a little more than is expected, being just a……
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A Voice From the Future Featuring Ms. Amira Holland Speaking on L.O.V.E.

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

I intentionally created Frankly Speaking with Tyra G with an intergenerational, multicultural audience in mind. Thematic content helps keep our stories fresh and relevant. This evening, our story is curated from our HUMAN LIBRARY theme: Voices From the Future. Hearing the next generations’ hopes, dreams, and concerns is always delightful. It serves as a kind of report card on how we are doing. Legacy is an interconnection across time, with a need for those who have come before us and a responsibility to those who come after us. We need to understand that the world isn’t connected by molecules. Stories,……
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Legacy is about life and living, featuring poet, author, artist, and creator of The Urban Legend Series, Paris White

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Legacy is about life and living. It’s about learning from the past, living in the present, and building for the future. A legacy may take many forms – children, grandchildren, a business, an idea, a book, a community, a home, some piece of ourselves. Our legacy naturally intrigues us. It’s perfectly understandable that we would want to know how the world will remember us after we’re gone. How many of us will be surprised? How many of us are living our lives so that our legacy reflects all that we truly hold most near and dear? How many of us……
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Chocolate After Midnight: Own Your Magic featuring Deb Beroset

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Chocolate is an excellent metaphor for life. It’s rich, full of energy, and joyful to the senses. It also represents some of the struggles in life: guilt, complexity, and unrelenting desire for more. Midnight is the transition from one day to the next, a point in time. Today, Frankly Speaking with Tyra G invites all listeners to Chocolate after Midnight. Each time we share Chocolate after Midnight, we walk out of judgment and into a space of acceptance. We walk out of fear and into a place where “impossible” is merely a word to describe the degree of difficulty. Here……
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A Life Well Written featuring Writer and Director Christopher Derrick

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Are you a fan of Star Trek? Do you watch The Equalizer? You will love this week’s Frankly Speaking conversation if you answer yes to either of these questions! Once upon a time, Christopher Derrick’s father told him, “If you see someone doing something you want to do, you can do it.” And so he did. However, for Christopher, it was a process, not an event, a journey, not a destination. Christopher shares his journey from his graduation in finance at the Univesity of Michigan to his present position as Executive Story Editor on the television show The Equalizer. Christopher……
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Dr. Amile Exume Explores The Role of The Divine in His Life

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Today I share once more words that awaken from the life coach and author in her 2000 book, Until Today. And I quote: “Life will work for me when I realize …the experience of my faith keeps my faith alive. You must have faith and experience to live life fully. You must believe that everything you expect from life is possible. You must have faith that no matter what life brings to you, you will be able to handle it. You must have confidence that your faith will eventually lead to good experiences. Experience teaches you that your faith is……
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REWIND: A Courageous Convervation about Human Trafficking with Advocate Bill Woolf

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Saturday, July 30, 2022, marks the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons as resolved by the United Nations. This Year with the passing of the TVPA in the House, we have more reasons to be positive that change is happening. According to Bill Woolf, founder of The World Group in his recent speech, “Human trafficking has the potential to touch each and every community across the globe, especially through the use of technology. Current global statistics report that “one in every three victims detected is a child” and that “the share of children among detected trafficking victims has tripled, while the share of……
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New weapons in the fight against human trafficking revealed with advocate Ms. Anne Basham

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Researchers have found that sex traffickers often target children and youth with a history of maltreatment, sexual abuse, low self-esteem, and minimal social support. About 10,000 children a year suffer the horrors of commercial sexual exploitation in the United States. Each victim on average is forced to have sex more than five times a day. Yet the buyers who fuel the child sex trade are seldom held accountable. Most just blend back into their families, jobs, and neighborhoods. My guest at the table today is a wonderful resource to educate us about the human trafficking space. Beyond that, she is also an expert and advocate in the……
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Courageous Conversation: A Systems View of Sustaining All Life on Earth with Dr. Tom Hay

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Tyra Garlington • 0 Comments

Dr. Inger Anderson, Executive Director of the UN Environmental Programme addressed the UN in 2020 with the following words: “That we even need to utter the phrase “Sustaining All life on Earth” at all should ring alarm bells. We have long assumed that nature will provide for us no matter what. For too long we have seen the living world as an endless, inexhaustible resource for us to tap. But the veil is falling. Human activities are pushing the natural world’s limits to breaking point, placing the well-being of all life on earth, including our own, in grave peril. The……
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