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Monica Adams is a radio and television personality in St. Louis. After many years as a local newscaster on both Fox 2 and KSDK, she expanded her reach by adding podcasting and social media video content. She’s also a fitness trainer, life coach, and fashion consultant reachable at The Real Monica Adams website.
She talks to Cynthia about her early days as a goalie at Mizzou and the shocking way that her life took an unexpected turn. She covers her journey into broadcast journalism, and how it led to an even higher calling as a personal transformation consultant. Her words of wisdom will help anyone who wants to achieve greatness, no matter where they’re starting from.
1 – Intro 00:23
2 – Where Monica is from 01:49
3 – How did you get into this business? 02:37
5 – Transformation Journey Program 05:50
6 – College soccer background 07:17
7 – Dream to be a doctor, would you have suspected hospital error otherwise? 10:31
8 – Was this a higher power steering you? 12:41
9 – Transition out of newsroom 15:25
10 – Entertainment news 21:52
11 – Being intentional 27:14
12 – Impact of Negativity 30:10
13 – Why are people afraid to put positivity out there? 32:55
13 – Why is it so easy to give control away? 39:28
14 – Practicing the right positive habits 43:02
15 – the little things we wonder about? 46:32
16 – How do you stay real in the public 48:14
17 – Getting stuck in your head 51:08
18 – Strategies to be more positive 52:52
19 – Not retired just influencing on bigger scale 59:25
20 – Drive to pursue what you want 1:03:50
21 – Playing out the story without living it first 1:12:06
22 – Ripple effect of positivity 1:15:37
23 – Where can we find you 1:18:35
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“We outperform ourselves by 30% when we’re in a good mood… if you actually want to get more productivity, know what makes your people happy.”
“When you’re diagnosed with lymphedema, I feel like you go through all the stages of grief. And there are moments where I get angry still. There are moments that I’m very happy. There are moments that I’m sad.”
“Joy and gratitude will transmute anything. So if somebody’s going through a healing journey, focus on your joy, what lights you up, that’s the thing that’s going to heal you. So lean into that.”
“There’s people out there that think they’re good at everything and they’re not. So I think for us, it’s really that business entrepreneur that’s wearing a lot of hats, that wants to wear some hats but doesn’t want to wear them all.”
“I got thrown out of the OR the very first day after 10 minutes. The surgeon walked into the room and he opened up all the doors and he screamed as loud as he possibly could, ‘I will not have Dr. Feinberg’s wife in my room!!’ See, I wasn’t Dr. Feinberg. I was Dr. Feinberg’s wife.”
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