Haleh Gianni, certified Life Coach interviews with Mr. Farrokh Torkzadeh on Persian TV – Video
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Life Challenges, Life Coaches
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Having a preconceived impression of a life coach as being a New Age concept, I was quite surprised to discover that I knew one. I have worked with Barbara Marchand on any number of projects involving such decidedly down to earth organizations as the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Alameda Welfare Council. I have always known her to be level-headed, practical and honest. When she asked me if I would be interested in trying some coaching, I had to re-evaluate my whole idea of it.
When I first started talking with Barbara about this, I had just learned that my mother-in-law had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The family was in the process of sorting out her living arrangements, medical care, and financial situation, all the while grieving the future loss of a vibrant and brilliant woman. Because she had always been fiercely independent and (justifiably) proud, we were completely side swiped by this turn of events.
Unfamiliar with the process involved with consulting a life coach, I wasn't sure whether what I was going through was even an appropriate direction to pursue. My understanding of what I would address during the coaching process would be to try to organize my time and resources, or to try to get in the routine of regular exercise or eating right. How would those principles apply to processing the painful, frightening truth of what we were going through?
I have plenty of sympathetic ears and shoulders because we are by no stretch of the imagination the only people who are going through the ageing process with our parents. I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have a support network to help with the unfamiliar emotional terrain.
I am discovering, however, that there are actually very practical, organizational facets to this process. For example, I was trying to determine what government programs might be available to my mother-in-law. Navigating the Internet, I discovered that there are any numbers of government programs, but the qualifications for each of these programs differ in infinitesimal ways. The language is deceptive and unwieldy. Before long I felt as if I would never make progress on this relatively small project I had been assigned. Much like being the poor sap that catches the ball in the middle of the game, with no idea of what the rules are or what team I'm on. Like the team coach, Barbara is not on the playing field surrounded by all of the players, she is able to watch the "game" from a distance, and see the directions that are available to me. With a gentle nudge, she points out what she can see, and then the obstacles fade away. It might be a simple suggestion to call an organization to ask for help, or it might be a way to sort out the information that I have in order to be able to make heads or tails of it.
One of the most important tools that Barbara has given me, or should I instead say she has reminded me that I already have, is to write it down! Whether it is a note about a conversation I have had with a medical professional, a question that has come up that I need to find the right person to ask, or simply the way that I am feeling at any given time about the process, it is important to be able to access that again easily.
This is a long, arduous road we're setting off on. The way is frequently murky, and it certainly feels as if we're walking uphill both ways barefoot in the snow. In helping to guide me through this unfamiliar terrain, both emotionally and practically, Barbara is making it possible for me to navigate it, and share with you my journey.
Carrie Beavers can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For a free one hour coaching session, visit barbaramarchandassociates.com or call 510-410-8100.
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Coaching up the talent
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Rick Suhr says he has no use for the spotlight. Can you blame him??In his one big moment on the national stage, he was unfairly vilified for a perceived berating of Jenn Stucyznski after she won a silver medal four years ago in Beijing. People wondered what was the guy's problem.
What they should have been asking was, What's his secret?'
Really, now. Can someone explain it? How in the world could one man have produced so many elite pole vaulters? In an area that has been otherwise irrelevant in major track and field for decades, how could five national pole vaulting champions have come out of one makeshift training facility outside Suhr's home in Churchville.
Is there some unknown coaching technique, some mystical method for inspiring athletes? Some magical jumping beans, perhaps?
"It is a secret," said Jenn Suhr [formerly Stucyznski], who married Rick two years ago. She tells her husband all the time, in fact, that he's the best-kept secret in sports.
"It's amazing what he's done, going back to 2004," she said. "I look at all the records. He's produced a national champion every year. That's too many years and too many people for it to be a coincidence. It all revolves around one person, and that's him."
No, it's hardly a coincidence that three women's pole vaulters from Western New York will be in Eugene, Ore., next weekend at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. Suhr is the defending Olympic silver medalist, a 10-time national champion who is considered a virtual lock to make the American team.
Mary Saxer, who broke the girls' national record seven times at Lancaster High, will be there. So will Medina's Janice Keppler, who vaulted in college at Eastern Michigan and Arkansas and finished second last winter in the indoor U.S. Open at Madison Square Garden.
Suhr, Saxer and Keppler were all ranked among the top 10 in the nation recently. All three got their start in Churchville, where Suhr has been producing champions since putting a couple of quonset huts end-to-end to serve as a pole vaulting practice facility about 15 years ago.
"They all came out of a steel building in Buffalo," Rick said. "That doesn't make sense. I don't care what the records of the Bills and Sabres are. We've got the best pole vaulters in the country, hands down. I don't want to toot my own horn, but it is what it is."
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Coaching your child: Expert advice from T-ball to high school and beyond
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It's the second-most memorable line in Field of Dreams: "Hey, Dad, you wanna have a catch?" Kevin Costner is already an adult when he tosses a baseball to his ghostly father. For most dads and kids, the moment comes much sooner; and for thousands of families across the country, a simple catch leads to dad signing up his son or daughter with the local youth league, and then signing up himself as coach.
Then the simple joy of tossing a ball back and forth transforms into something more complicated. The team, of course, includes other players. And they have parents, many of whom have opinions about you as a coach. Practices are difficult enough to run smoothly, and they lead to games, and games are competitive. Are you a good coach or a poor one? Is your child a good player or a lousy one? Are you playing favorites with your child? Or are you harder on your kid than on the others, creating friction in the family?
Chipper Jones has enjoyed a 19-year career thanks to the teachings of his dad. (AP) None of that mattered during the backyard catch. Coaching a son or daughter, it turns out, is one of the most challenging pursuits a parent can take on. It can be exceedingly rewarding. And it can be exceedingly frustrating to the child as well as the parent.
Even if the child hits the sports equivalent of the lottery and becomes a professional athlete, memories of the years under dad's tutelage can be a mixed bag. Kevin Neary and Leigh A. Tobin co-authored a book, Major League Dads, which features 250 pages of big-league baseball players recounting being coached as youngsters by their fathers. Most of the memories are positive: the work ethic dad taught, the skills he honed, the fun he emphasized. Others are telling, and could help serve as a road map for any dad piling bats and helmets into his car and heading off to the field. Neary and Tobin even reference Field of Dreams (and its most memorable line: "If you build it, he will come.")
Another resource for parents coaching their children is Bruce E. Brown of Proactive Coaching, who has spoken to more than a million young athletes, parents and coaches over the last 12 years. His common-sense advice helps anyone involved in youth, high school and college sports maximize their enjoyment while avoiding pitfalls. He was the primary source for a story I wrote in February on how to avoid being a nightmare sports parent.
Brown points out that because professional athletes often have such freakish athletic ability, their success isn't necessarily the product of a dad who did everything right as a coach. Then again, some dads do get it right. The finest youth coach in tiny Pierson, Fla., 35 years ago was Larry Jones, whose son, also named Larry, was such a chip off the old block people started calling him Chipper. Of course, today Chipper Jones is a 19-year MLB veteran and seven-time All-Star with the Atlanta Braves.
"My dad and I still talk two or three times a week," Jones told Neary. "Whenever I get into a slump, my coaches ask me if I've called my dad. He knows my swing the best of anyone."
Greg Maddux, who ranks eighth all-time with 355 wins, is appreciative of something most children don't hear: "The greatest lesson I learned from my father was that you've got to think for yourself. You've got to learn how to do things for yourself. I know it was hard for a dad to do and say, but he did it."
Greg Maddux's father taught him how to be independent. (Getty Images) It's inevitable that a coach will say something to his child he wouldn't say to another player. When a pre-teen Derek Jeter wouldn't shake hands with the other team after a loss, his father/coach told him it was "time to grab a tennis racket, since you obviously don't know how to play a team sport." And Tampa Bay Rays slugger Evan Longoria's dad told him to stop crying when the boy was pitching at age 8.
"I can just remember him walking out to the mound and him giving me that stern look almost a yell, but not really saying, 'What are you doing crying out here?'" Longoria said. "But he made sure not to go too far with his look because he didn't want me to cry even more."
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Team SLE’s Health Hour Show (3D) – Video
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Free health screenings to be available in Thousand Oaks
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What: Community Safety & Wellness Day
When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza
Cost: Free
Information: 449-2142
Information on family and pet safety and free health screenings will be available at a Community Safety & Wellness Day on Wednesday at the Thousand Oaks Civic ArtsPlaza.
"The focus of the event is on the community and providing opportunities for free professional health screenings, therapeutic neck massages and exposure to various safety and wellness-related providers and services," said Cheryl Johnson, event chairwoman and associate human resources analyst for the city of ThousandOaks.
Sponsored by Thousand Oaks and the Conejo Recreation and Park District, the free event will offer information on nutrition, diabetes, childhood obesity, skin cancer, fitness, heart health, senior services and emergency preparedness. Visitors can get screenings for blood pressure, blood glucose and bodymassindex.
Also, American Medical Response, in coordination with the Ventura County Emergency Medical Services Agency and the Ventura County Medical Reserve Corps, will have CPR instructors on site to demonstrate the proper techniques of hands-only CPR. This training lasts only a few minutes and participants will have the opportunity to practice on mannequins. This training will not result in CPR certification, but information will be available on full trainingcourses.
More than 50 vendors will have free samples, information, therapeutic animals, giveaways and raffle drawings, Johnson said. Manna, a food bank, will collect nonperishable fooditems.
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Health fair kicks off Canton Marathon
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They came from near and far to sign in for the inaugural Canton Marathon.
The Aultman AultCare Fitness & Health Expo at Memorial Civic Center began Friday afternoon and runs today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Its a mandatory stop for everyone participating in marathon events.
Brothers Phil Sannes and David Resneck-Sannes will be running in familiar territory, sort of.
The two were Repository carriers in the 1950s. The full marathon course theyre running goes through both of their old paper routes, in the Belden Village area, which has changed since the advent of rock n roll.
It still amazes us when we come here how much things have changed and stayed the same, Phil Sannes said. The brothers grew up in North Canton. I played my last (Hoover) high school basketball game right there, he said, pointing to the Civic Center auditorium.
He flew in from Raleigh, N.C., to run, and his brother flew in from Santa Cruz, Calif. Resneck-Sannes, 69, has run in about 80 triathlons and 50 marathons, he said.
Ive only run in 30 marathons, 64-year-old Phil said. His best time is three hours, 35 minutes. A few years ago.
Davids best time is 4 hours, 32 minutes. The 69-year old isnt expecting to match that. The heats a factor, he said.
Their goal? At our age, survivals good, Phil said.
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Meet Miss India Fitness Physique 2012!
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At 35, Karuna Swami is in the best shape of her life and fitness is both her career and her passion. In an interview with rediff.com, she discusses how a super-fit mother of six inspired her, why Indians have no commitment to their health and how looking like a celeb is not the be-all and end-all of exercise and dieting.
The venue is UK Fitness Centre, the location Andheri, Mumbai. Uday Swami, a body builder, greets us and then proudly introduces his wife. Winner of Miss India Fitness Physique 2012, Karuna Swami walks in beaming, her face lit up. Giving all our contemporary actresses a run for their money, the lady claims her body is 'out of shape' at the moment.
"People these days simply associate being thin with being fit -- I don't understand why. If you have broad shoulders, be proud of your broad shoulders, but tone your body instead of losing weight," she starts off.
Despite being a sports enthusiast since her school days, Karuna faced opposition from her father initially -- he wanted her to be a teacher. "During our days, it was only if someone didn't do well after graduation that s/he was encouraged to resort to the fitness profession. It was one career which desperately needed professionals; even a person without any expertise or knowledge could become a trainer," she says.
Although her struggle wasn't easy, today she proudly flaunts her trophy and believes the respect she receives was totally worth the wait. With more than 15 years of experience in the fields of yoga, aerobics, gymnastics and body building, she breaks fitness myths for professionals who have no time for their well-being.
The Swamis recently launched a 'Fitness Modelling Programme' at their Juhu centre, which combines fitness training with body sculpting and brings any fitness enthusiast to par with international standards. The three month long rigorous training programme began in May 2012 and invites applications from everyone.
Karuna also conducts regular sessions for women and holds competitions on a mass level to encourage sports across the country.
In the following pages, she discusses her career, the fitness programme she and her husband are offering at their centre and simple tips to incorporate health into your daily routine.
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EXTRA: John Travolta talks marriage, family and new film
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Posted on: 6:16 am, June 16, 2012, by Nick Dutton, updated on: 11:55pm, June 15, 2012
GLENSIDE, Ca. (EXTRA) John Travolta sat down with Extras Jerry Penacoli to discuss his new film Savages and opens up about his 20-year marriage and dealing with personal adversity.
On working with Director Oliver Stone for his new film Savages:
It matters to him your performance. You dont get that a lot. Meaning that a lot of directors are preoccupied with everything, as they should be. But hes preoccupied with your performance. He listens to every word and every choice. And he takes it apart and wonders if it can be done differently or better.
On keeping his marriage together:
Well, weve always been stable with each other. We use our communication skills. We understand what is going on in life and in the industry.
Coping with personal family tragedy:
I think the toughest part was just the loss of our son and once we were able to get through that, and times we didnt think we were going to. I think we figured we could handle anything. Everything else pales in comparison.
Extras exclusive interview with John Travolta airs Monday, June 18 right after CBS 6 News at 7 p.m. withBill Fitzgerald.
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