Thriving After 40

Veronica talks about overcoming stage 4 ‘incurable’ cancer, the importance of your thoughts and beliefs and the huge impact our words have on our world.

Veronica Villanueva, discovered her "why" after being diagnosed with incurable stage IV lung cancer and given six months to live in 2016. Veronica rejected her diagnosis and dove into educating herself on traditional and alternative treatments. A certified health coach and Cordon Bleu-trained chef, Veronica cured her cancer by developing her own treatment plan and at the same time starting her own Cannabis/CBD product line, Alive-Well-Thrive. The line consists of CBD and Cannabis infused foods, balms, and oils to help others who want to lead happier and healthier lives.

Veronica is also an author, having written, The Grace of Cancer, in which she details her wellness journey, as well as what her entrepreneurial journey has been like as one of the only female CBD producers in the US.

http://veronicavillanueva.com/

https://alivewellthrive.com/

Steven shares his path in the corporate world to learning about stems cells and the subsequent creation of Forever Labs. Steven Clausnitzer is the CEO and Co-founder of Forever Labs, where they store STEM cells so you can live longer and healthier.

Steven is also an avid supporter of young entrepreneurs helping them any way he can. Prior to Forever Labs, Steven Clausnitzer spent 15 years mentoring and developing top-talent at fortune 500 companies including American Express and Wolters Kluwer. Steven has extensive experience in strategic growth, commercialization, and team leadership.

https://foreverlabs.com/

Tosca talks about the greater influences in life, how she has overcome struggles and the things that caused the most positive impact on living a successful life.

Tosca Lee is the multi award-winning, New York Times, and Indiebound and Amazon bestselling author of 11 novels. Her book series, A Line Between and A Single Light were written as a pandemic - before our current global pandemic - and Tosca effectively predicted many of the situations that were happening globally. Her series is garnering strong positive acclaim including being optioned and is in development for television. Tosca has not only experienced endless awards and success in her writing over the past 13 years but also tasted success at the beginning of her career in the beauty pageant world becoming Mrs. Nebraska and first runner up to Mrs. United States.

To learn more about Tosca, please visit ToscaLee.com.

Literary Accomplishments:

·2017 Realm Makers Book of the Year (Firstborn

·2016 ABA IndieBound bestseller list (The Progeny)

·2015 Finalist, ECPA Book of the Year Award (Legend of Sheba)

·2014 Library Journal “Best Of” list (Legend of Sheba)

·2014 ECPA Book of the Year Award (Iscariot)

·2012 New York Times Bestseller List, Hardcover Fiction (Mortal)

·2012 New York Times Bestseller List, eBook (Forbidden)

·2011 New York Times Bestseller List, Hardcover Fiction, #17 (Forbidden)

· 2013 ECPA Bestseller List (Sovereign)

·2013 CBA Bestseller List (Sovereign)

·2012 Christian Retailers Retailer’s Choice Award (Forbidden)

·2008 Foreword Book of the Year Bronze (Havah: The Story of Eve)

·2007 Foreword Book of the Year Silver (Demon: A Memoir)

·The Line Between listed as one of the top 15 medical thrillers by Pop Sugar

·She is a former Mrs. Nebraska-America 1996, Mrs. Nebraska United States 1998, and first runner-up to Mrs. United States.

·Her episode on The Beautiful Writers Podcast was selected as one of the best of for 2019 sharing billing with Tom Hanks, Dean Koontz, and others

Offering an alternative to positive thinking, John Vespasian has created a genre of books around rational living. Vespasian is the author of 11 books and has lived in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and The Netherlands. He has turned his international background and his interest in history into a breed of personal-development books that emphasize rationality, resilience, and learning from real-life examples. His books contain the wisdom he has accumulated through decades of research.

“It's all about learning from other people's successes and mistakes, and figuring out how to apply those principles to your own life. In every book, I go through biographies and historical events with the goal of extracting from them lessons we can use right now."

His books include

“When everything fails, try this” (2009),

“Rationality is the way to happiness” (2009),

“The philosophy of builders” (2010),

“The 10 principles of rational living” (2012),

“Rational living, rational working” (2013),

“Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief” (2014),

“On becoming unbreakable” (2015),

“Thriving in difficult times” (2016),

“Sequentiality: The amazing power of finding the right sequence of steps” (2017), “Undisrupted: How highly-effective people deal with disruptions” (2019), and "Asymmetry: The shortcut to success when success seems impossible" (2020).

Find his books here: http://bit.ly/JohnVespasianBooks
Fresh Blood - John Vespa

[00:00:00] Hello, and welcome to Fresh Blood, a podcast about killing it in the age of age-ism, where we prove that new blood does not necessarily equal young blood here to discuss what it takes to have continued success through life. I'll be your host Jolie downs. With over 20 years of executive recruiting experience, I've learned how much we can grow and be inspired by other people's stories.

[00:00:25] I'm excited to share that with you. Here on fresh blood.

[00:00:32] Thank you for joining us today on fresh blood today, we are speaking with John . He is the author of 11 books about rational living. He has turned his international background and his personal interest in history into a breed of personal development books that emphasize rationality, resilience and learning from real life examples.

[00:00:54] His latest book was recently published "Asymmetry, the Shortcut to Success. [00:01:00] When Success Seems Impossible", John, thank you so much for joining us on fresh blood. Please tell us a little bit more about your path to becoming a published author. I'd love to hear how you ended up becoming a writer and then, how you found success in this field.

[00:01:15] And it's a very interesting story I have to say because the reason why I started to write, it was now 11 years ago, was out of pure frustration. I have to say that I'm a voracious reader in areas like history, personal development, psychology marketing, personal finance, where I read a lot and at a certain point I cannot find the kind of books I wanted to read.

[00:01:41]Especially on personal development. I wanted to find books that are very practical, very factual very low key. I'm not so much in favor of this positive thinking fashion we have now. So I started to write the kind of books I could not find. And I have been doing now this for 11 [00:02:00] years.

[00:02:00]My books are useful in the sense that they reflect my passion for history, my passion for personal development. So what I try to do in in each book is to go through really that history and of biographies of different people in different centuries, different countries, different professions to try to extract practical lessons.

[00:02:22] That we can use today in the 21st century. So this is what I've been doing for the last 11 years. And I have to tel

Special episode of Fresh Blood sharing my personal 3 part Bucket List Mindset that I've used to transform my life and illuminate the beauty and magic life has to offer.