Season Three, Episode 123

Join your hosts, Carmen and Sophia Micsa, to learn more about Gail Showalter’s mission to help everyone grow and reach their true potential through some tweaks to how they approach life, motherhood, and careers.

For the last 18 years, Gail Showalter has been helping single moms navigate their lives. The nonprofit she founded in 2007 supports single moms pursuing degrees that lead to employment. In southeast Texas, she is known as the “Old Bird with Feathers of Wisdom for Women and a Soft Spot for Single Moms.” Gail was a single mother of three for sixteen years before she remarried. Her first article on returning to college as a single parent was published in Single-Parent Family magazine.

Her book, Living, Learning, Loving, was published by Morgan James Publishing on September 9, 2025. Gail holds degrees in speech, art, and special education, as well as a Master's in Curriculum and Instruction. She is also a Certified Life Coach and Personality Specialist.

On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:

• As a single parent, Gail took what she learned as a single mom and helped other single moms navigate their lives.
• Gail’s life lessons resulted in a beautiful book Living, Learning, Loving.
• A big believer in the power of stories to shape our lives, Gail turned each chapter into a sharing of her personal experiences with readers, offering motivation and inspiration.
• Gail knows that when we take care of ourselves and get our priorities right, we are all better off. Gail’s primary goal is to help single moms who need it to get through college, and I have pointers for those individuals depending on where they live. Gail created a nonprofit program to help single moms get through college.
• As for Gail’s seeds of sunshine, she believes it is important to set reasonable goals related to lifestyle, raising children, finances, and more.

To connect with Gail and buy her books, please follow her:

Gail Cawley Showalter | helps single moms finish college | 152 Grandchase Drive, Nederland, TX, USA

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Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
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3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at carmenmicsa@yahoo.com

Season Three, Episode 122

Join your hosts, Carmen and Sophia Micsa, to learn more about life's indelible moments through komorebi, as well as the latest real estate updates.

On this Seeds of Sunshine:

• Looking back at our mother/daughter podcast that Sophia and I started three years ago. We plan to continue with the same great and inspiring content, with Sophia continuing as the editor and introducing our guests from UC Santa Barbara, where she will be starting college next week.
• I came across a great concept, Komorebi, a Japanese word which literally means sunlight leaking through trees, or as I described it in my article published on Medium, I see it when I stand still during my runs, I feel like I'm steeping in nature to sip sunshine, living and loving the light in a world of shadows.
• Komorebi - the topic of this episode is this light that we all want to welcome into our lives and to seek during our daily lives, maybe during a walk, during a run, or just by being in your office or in your home.
• Author Hector Garcia defined komorebi as "the sunlight leaking through trees, a display of sunbeams filtering through tree branches."
• As far as our real estate market, there is beauty in being a buyer right now. You can see some komorebi out there, some light after experiencing really crazy prices that kept going up and up for us in the Sacramento region.
• Price negotiations are quite possible. The sellers are still understanding that they have to adjust their prices. So we see a lot of price reductions or price improvements out there in our real estate market. And basically, that's a really good thing for the buyers.
• And another great thing for my buyers is the fact that, finally, they have more choices. In recent years, there were very few listings on the market, so everybody was fighting for a few out there, and now that has become much better for the buyers and the sellers that I work with.

Please follow your host, Carmen Micsa, Broker/CEO with Dynamic Real Estate, BA/MA in English, podcaster, and published author:

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To purchase my tennis and poetry books, please go to Amazon or wherever books are sold.

For real estate, check out my website. Receive up to $2,000 credit when buying or selling a home with me if you mention this episode. https://dynamicsacramentohomes.com/

Support the show

Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at carmenmicsa@yahoo.com

Season Three, Episode 121

Join your hosts, Carmen and Sophia Micsa, to learn more about personal transformation and finding the light within us with international bestselling author David Richards.

David Richards is a former Marine Corps officer with 15 years of service, a corporate leader in Customer Experience at Cisco, and a sought-after executive coach specializing in Executive Presence and Transformational Leadership. His work has guided senior leaders at some of the world’s largest financial and IT companies, including Fidelity, Microsoft, and Cisco, helping them elevate their leadership and communication impact at the highest levels.

As a #1 international bestseller author, he helps people awaken their divine identity and step fully into their faith-driven purpose. With a unique blend of biblical wisdom, neuroscience, and practical leadership strategies, David is here to challenge the way we think about success, faith, and personal transformation.

On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:

• David talks about his fascinating journey from a near-death experience as a child to serving as a Marine Corps officer and later thriving in the corporate world.
• After his near-death experience, David realized that his life had purpose, which inspired him to write his book Becoming One with Christ - The Lessons of King David.
• David believes that we possess intellectual mastery, which involves understanding something. There's also cognitive mastery.
• Because through the power of incantation, through the power of our voice, we can actually change our physiology and change our nervous system.
• And just because someone grows up in a different culture, with a different background, or with a different belief system, that doesn't mean they're wrong. There's no reason that we should judge them for that, because that's what they've grown up believing.
• There's a universal nature to what it means to be human.
• David encourages his clients to get clear on what they want from life.
• Our journeys of transformation begin within our hearts, with ourselves being ready to make those changes.

To connect with David Richards and buy his books, please follow him:

David Richards - International best-selling author, speaker in NC

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Support the show

Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at carmenmicsa@yahoo.com