In today's episode of Be Inspired! we have two special guest interviews. Hear how Carl Payne (of the Martin Show fame) and Forbes Riley both overcame adversity, beat the odds, soared to fame, and amassed wealth while making a difference in peoples lives. Carl Payne made people fall out of their chairs with laughter with his amazing role on the Martin show. The smiles on peoples faces and the laughter that has echoed around the world is more priceless than the fame and the fortune....

How to be confident consistently to move your life forward is a critical skill to have. And yes, you can learn how to gain confidence. You see, learning how to be confident is a skill, not some inborn predestined personality trait. Everyday, all of us are on the front lines of life fighting for progress. Of course how we define progress varies from person to person, company to company and even country to country. However you define progress, wherever the battle lines have been drawn,...

In a world overflowing with opportunities to succeed, is seems many people are overwhelmed by what they must overcome for that success. It’s so easy to become tortured by doubt. You may find yourself struggling with the idea of whether your success is possible or not. You may find yourself doubting your capabilities and worthiness. You may be able to see success happening for others but your own doubts betray you and take over your mind so your success soon becomes a fleeting idea....

One of the greatest discoveries you will ever make in your life, is the discovery of your true self... your true identity. It's time for you to discover who you really are without the labels from other people and filters of past events and current circumstances. To truly understand that you are uniquely and powerfully handcrafted by our Creator is far more powerful knowledge to live by than to allow the lying crafty hands of another man or women to mold you into a mere brick that fits their...

Booker T. Washington once stated, “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Wherever you are in your life right now, you arrived on the wave of obstacles. However, today’s obstacles tend to overshadow the obstacles we overcame yesterday and we forget how strong and resilient we really are. The real secret to finally breaking through barriers and overcoming obstacles is to realize that those barriers and...

Peak performance in life and business starts in your head, it get’s agreement from your heart and it shows up in your hands. However, we live in an environment where demands on our time, energy and money are increasing and along with that there is an increase in technology and the number of ways to handle those demands. Yet, in a world of hyper technology to help us manage better and get more done with less sweat, it seems like instead of taming our time, technology is taming us as time slips...

People often say “I want to change my life!” Here’s the good news, your life IS changing, even without your consent. Change is not only constant, it doesn’t require your consent. Now, whether change happens fast or slow is secondary to one of the most critical aspects of change… That most critical aspect of change that trumps speed, is DIRECTION. You see, whether change happens fast or slow, change in the wrong direction is bad by all definitions. Well, since change is happening, how do you...

Proverbs 24:16 says, "For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again:" In life, the question isn't "will you fall?" The question is, "what will you do when it happens?" How will you respond? Will you stay down, when knocked down? Will you curl up in the corner in a fetal position, licking your wounds, fearful to get up and go at it again? Or perhaps you are the resilient type, you're steadfast and you have an steel stomach to endure pain and the intestinal fortitude to press forward....

How do you perceive the world around? The answer to that question will reveal why you do what you do. Why you feel how you feel. You see, we don't live life based on what is going on around us, we live our lives based on our perspectives and interpretations of the events going on around us. How we view our past, how we look at possibilities for our future and how we live in today's moment is all filtered through our personal perspectives. When those perspectives don't support us, we...