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The Fast Lane with Sara Jayne Podcast is for all women managing the hectic pace of life, and our mission is to share stories, ideas and life lessons that can help add a little humor, motivation and support to your busy schedule.

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Episode 33: Bringing Teddy Roosevelt to Life with Joe Wiegand

Thursday Dec 10, 2020

Thursday Dec 10, 2020

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Joe Wiegand from Medora, North Dakota who plays the former United States president Theodore Roosevelt. Joe Wiegand talks about his life in comedy and politics, his transition to playing Roosevelt, and the beauty of being in Medora, North Dakota. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

  • Sara Jayne shares personal memories of spending time in Medora, North Dakota. 
  • What is it about Medora that fascinated Theodore Roosevelt? 
  • Joe Wiegand performs as the older version of Theodore Roosevelt. 
  • Joe’s father was a stand-up comedian for 45 years. 
  • Joe has been married for 33 years to his wife Jenny Cook Wiegand.  
  • What is some of the comedic material that Joe Wiegand has performed? 
  • How did he transition into playing Theodore Roosevelt? 
  • How has COVID-19 affected his performances? 
  • What are some of the outdoor opportunities in Medora? 
  • What is Joe Wiegand’s favorite Theodore Roosevelt stories to tell? 
  • It has been said that Theodore Roosevelt wasn’t afraid to die? 
  • Why did his sister give him a book about Theodore Roosevelt in the first place? 
  • Joe’s wife Jenny Cook Wiegand has played professional golf and is a yoga instructor.  



3 Key Points:

  1. Theodore Roosevelt first went to Medora, North Dakota in 1883 to the Badlands to hunt bison and invested in cattle. 
  2. Joe Wiegand previously worked 25 years in politics and public policy as a campaign manager, a political professional, a public opinion pollster, a fundraiser, and a local officeholder. 
  3. The construction on the Lazy River is happening in 2021.  

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Episode 32: Unraveled: Addiction and Redemption with Author Tom Boldt

Thursday Dec 03, 2020

Thursday Dec 03, 2020

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Tom Boldt, the author of the book Unraveled: A Mother and Son Story of Addiction and Redemption that he wrote with his mother Laura Cook Boldt. Unraveled provides their personal mother and son stories of dealing with addiction as two people that both recovered from it. Tom Boldt opens up about near-death experiences under the influence that he survived, what he learned to overcome addiction, and the effects it had on his family and personal life. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

  • What is the book Unraveled about?  
  • How old was Tom when his mother became sober? 
  • Does being bullied tend to lead to addiction? 
  • What type of addictive tendencies did Tom Boldt have when he was growing up? 
  • Does his past experience with bullying worry him about sending a child to school?   
  • What was the experience like with panic attacks?   
  • When was the breaking point when he heavily got involved in drugs and alcohol?  
  • Painkillers were his drug of choice. 
  • In 2012, Tom got extremely high and fought with his friend who was injured. 
  • What was his family dynamic like with his parents and siblings during his addiction days?  
  • He discusses the serious accident he experienced at age 20.   
  • What was going through his head when he sat his parents down to tell that he was done with drugs?  
  • How was his rehab experience? 
  • Tom Boldt doesn't keep alcohol in his house. 
  • Was he an entirely different person when he was intoxicated?  
  • When he went to group therapy, what was he thinking about? 
  • Kids need educated awareness about drugs and alcohol. 
  • Is Tom anyone’s sponsor, and is anyone his sponsor?  
  • Does he plan to write any more books?  



3 Key Points:

  1. Addiction can dig its claws into anyone, regardless of their race, economics, educational level, or social standings.  
  2. It can be very dangerous coming off of a drug and alcohol detox, including seizing up and dying if they aren’t handled properly. 
  3. Addiction is a life-long battle. Quitting is just the beginning. 

 

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Episode 31: Energy Healing and Vibing Higher with Serena James

Thursday Nov 26, 2020

Thursday Nov 26, 2020

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Serena James, a holistic healer and the author of the book Vibe Higher that delves into the concept of energy healing. Serena James opens up about her work as an energy healer, pendulum dowsing, aromatherapy, how energy frequencies affect us, what it means to be an empath, and the importance of energy healing in our daily lives. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

  • What exactly does Serena do? 
  • Serena James explains the impact of energy in our lives.  
  • What are typical feelings that people have after healing sessions? 
  • Are there some people that just make us feel bad when we are around them?  
  • What are people’s ideal frequencies?   
  • How do you know if you are an empath?   
  • Even objects have emotions and sometimes they need cleansing. 
  • What is aromatherapy? 
  • Essential oils have high vibration frequencies and take about 15 minutes to get the diffusing benefit. 
  • How often should people meditate? 
  • With everything going on in 2020, people need energy work now more than ever.  
  • Your energy level can be beneficial to your neighbors and your community.  
  • Everything is energy and energy healing is like a “soul bath.” 
  • Distance is as effective as in-person healing, if not more so.  



3 Key Points:

  1. Serena James’ primary modality of energy healing is pendulum dowsing.  
  2. We all have energy and we all have an ideal energy vibration.  
  3. An empath is a “feeler” and it is a gift to transmute non-beneficial energy into energy that is more beneficial for themselves and others. 



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Episode 30: Unraveled: A Mothers Story of Addiction and Redemption with Laura Cook Boldt

Thursday Nov 19, 2020

Thursday Nov 19, 2020

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Laura Cook Boldt, the co-author of a book that she wrote with her son Tom called Unraveled: A Mother and Son Story of Addiction and Redemption, a mother and son story of addiction and redemption. Laura Cook Boldt discusses being the mother of four boys, writing her book with her son in such an emotional fashion, and overcoming alcoholism. 



Episode Highlights: 

  • How did she go about writing a book with her son? 
  • Laura Cook Boldt initially had fears of being sober and was all the way into alcoholism when her youngest son was 2-years-old. 
  • What were the circumstances of Laura’s car accident? 
  • When did she seek sobriety? 
  • Was her husband a drinker?  
  • Did Laura Cook Boldt have to get rid of her drinking friends when she was getting sober?  
  • Was it difficult to go through Alcoholics Anonymous? 
  • How was her family impacted by her sobriety? 
  • Is Laura Cook Boldt worried about any of her other children being alcoholics? 
  • How did the school system fail her child? 
  • The disease of alcoholism doesn’t have any boundaries.  
  • Does she struggle when she is around alcohol?  
  • What advice does Laura Cook Boldt have for anyone trying to overcome addiction?  
  • Laura shares how her Tom has been fighting off addiction.  



3 Key Points:

  1. The writing process for Unraveled was three years and Laura Cook Boldt was sober for four years when her son Tom got sober. 
  2. People tend to feel that they aren’t an alcoholic just because they feel that they are still functioning. But it is an obsession of the mind.  
  3. When you make the choice to get sober, your true friends will tend to stick with you and your drinking buddies will tend to go their own way. 



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Episode 29: Homeschool Guru David Rodriguez

Thursday Nov 12, 2020

Thursday Nov 12, 2020

EP29_FLSJ: Homeschool Guru David Rodriguez

 

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to David Rodriguez about problems with the U.S. education system, the work of John Taylor Gatto, the benefits of homeschooling, stigmas attached to homeschooling, and ways to create a more expansive understanding of what education is.  

 

Episode Highlights: 

  • Sara Jayne shares personal situations she has experienced with homeschooling with her children. 
  • Sara Jayne introduces David Rodriguez, who shares how homeschooling became his mission.
  • Why does he think there is such a stigma around homeschooling? 
  • Many employers like homeschoolers because they have their own minds.  
  • David Rodriguez is a principal at a private nontraditional school with graduation accelerations and apprenticeships. 
  • With homeschooling, playing is encouraged as a part of learning. 
  • Are homeschooled kids missing out on prom events?  
  • What are the fears people have about homeschooling?  
  • Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of knowing you did your best.  
  • The traditional education system is nearly impossible to individualize for each student.
  • Concentration is an important tool in education. 
  • We didn’t inherit this world from our parents. We are borrowing it from our children. 
  • There are as my education forms as there are people.  
  • Not breathing and bleeding are the only serious emergencies in life.  
  • Create learning projects that your kids can model their own behavior from.   
  • When kids are removed from schools the school district loses money. 
  • Kids are spending more time with strangers in schools than their actual families.  
  • The school system in the United States is a $700 billion overall industry. 

 

3 Key Points:

  1. David Rodriguez is working on the GATTO Project that stands for “Get All The Thinkers Out” of our schooling based on the work of John Taylor Gatto.
  2. David Rodriguez defines homeschooling as, “When a leader creates an atmosphere where personalized learning can occur.”
  3. The world is a classroom. You can learn from anyone and anywhere in your life with self-directed learning. 



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Episode 28: Demystifying Health with Dr. Lisa Palmer

Thursday Oct 29, 2020

Thursday Oct 29, 2020

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Dr. Lisa Palmer, known as ‘Dr. Momma Bear,’ talks about her work as a chiropractic doctor, holistic nutrition, dealing with patients that are feeling hopeful or skeptics, and the importance of cooking at home. 



Episode Highlights: 

  • What does Dr. Lisa Palmer do? 
  • Dr. Palmer discusses what types of patients she frequently sees. 
  • What does she say to impatient patients?
  • How did Dr. Lisa Palmer get involved in muscle testing? 
  • How does Dr. Palmer respond to skeptics? 
  • There has been a problem with doctors not referring patients to chiropractors. 
  • How does she encourage adults to eat better and live better?  
  • We all make choices when it comes to health education. 
  • People don’t know how to use the food pyramid. 



3 Key Points:

  1. Dr. Lisa Palmer looks for the causes of peoples problems and solves them with whole food supplements, chiropractic, massage, and sometimes stem cells. 
  2. Red blood cells take 120 days to go through their lifecycle and it takes seven years to have new lungs. 
  3. Dr. Lisa Palmer works with sports trainers with how to benefit from chiropractic to help their athletes’ athletic performance.



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Episode 27: Shamelessly Feminine with Jen Rozenbaum

Friday Oct 16, 2020

Friday Oct 16, 2020

Shamelessly Feminine with Jen Rozenbaum 

 

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Jen Rozenbaum, a Long Island, New York-based therapeutic photographer, writer, breast cancer survivor helping women celebrate their unique femininity. Jen Rozenbaum discusses her battle with breast cancer, expressing femininity through photography, writing, and her podcast Shamelessly Feminine.



Episode Highlights: 

  • Jen Rosenbaum shares her background and how she got involved in photography.  
  • Jen talks about being diagnosed with breast cancer.  
  • How did she find out that she has breast cancer?  
  • 85% of breast cancer cases don’t have breast cancer in their family.  
  • What were Jen’s next steps after getting diagnosed with breast cancer? 
  • Jen’s daughter was 12 when Jen Rozenbaum was diagnosed.  
  • We don’t see ourselves the way that other people see us.  
  • Jen Rozenbaum explains the therapeutic aspect of her photography work.  
  • People limit their lives based on their physical attributes that they assume other people are dwelling on.  
  • Look at yourself with love.  
  • What does Jen Rozenbaum do with the photos? 
  • What can we expect from Jen Rozenbaum’s book?  



3 Key Points:

  1. Jennifer Rosenbaum works to help women celebrate their unique femininity via photography, writing, social media, her breast cancer journey 
  2. Shed your clothes. Shed your inhibitions.  
  3. Both women and men need to check their breasts and get tested for breast cancer, 



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Episode 26: Writing True Crime Stories with C.J. Wynn

Thursday Oct 15, 2020

Thursday Oct 15, 2020

Episode 27: Writing True Crime Stories with C.J. Wynn

 

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to C.J. Wynn, author of the true-crime Wilder Intentions: Love, Lies, and Murder in North Dakota, how C.J. Wynn got involved in writing true crime stories, what was involved in writing her first book, and the future books that she is working on. 



Episode Highlights: 

  • C.J. Wynn shares how she got interested in true crime stories. 
  • Wilder Intentions: Loves, Lies, and Murder in North Dakota is C.J. Wynn’s very first book.  
  • The forward in the book is written by C.J. Wynn’s mentor. 
  • You have to have empathy and understanding for the people you are writing about. 
  • C.J. Wynn discusses the forms of manipulation that took place in the story.  
  • Was there any psychological analysis of the criminal culprits in the book? 
  • C.J. Wynn is calm at home, spends quality time with her family, and doesn’t really like to talk a whole lot. 
  • How did C.J. Wynn build relationships with the people that she spoke with when writing the book? 
  • What was it about this crime story that made her write the book? 
  • Is C.J. Wynn planning to write another book?  
  • Wilder Intentions: Loves, Lies, and Murder in North Dakota still ranks high on Amazon.com.
  • Is C.J. Wynn connected to other true crime authors? 
  • still ranks high on Amazon.com.
  • Does she ever want to meet Christopher Jackson? 



3 Key Points:

  1. C.J. Wynn has a Master’s Degree in Psychology.
  2. The three elements that C.J. Wynn finds most important in writing books is writing short chapters, leaving a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter, and describing everything so that the reader feels like they are inside the story. 
  3. The real-life victim in the book, Angela Wilder, wanted to be a mother and wanted to be in the medical field.  



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Episode 25: Addressing Child Marriages and Human Trafficking with Rima Nashashibi

Thursday Oct 08, 2020

Thursday Oct 08, 2020

Addressing Child Marriages Human Trafficking Problems with Rima Nashashibi

 

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Rima Nashashibi, of Global Hope 35, a California-based non-profit organization, with the goal of improving the lives of women and girls globally and nationally through advoking for their safety, education, and empowerment to save lives. Rima Nashashibi discusses the immense problems with child marriages, the work that Global Hope 35 does, and the issues involved with human trafficking, 



Episode Highlights: 

  • Rima Nashashibi shares frightening statistics about the rampant amount of child marriage in the United States and worldwide.  
  • The American Medical Association has come out against child marriages.  
  • More than 80% of child marriages end in divorce.  
  • Child trafficking is a $150 billion industry.  
  • 90% of women in the sex industry have been trafficked are American.  
  • Most victims of human trafficking are trafficked by a partner, a family member, or a friend.  
  • How can parents protect their children from human trafficking?  
  • What are some common scenarios that lead to kids being trafficked?  
  • Don’t judge or shame your children and make them comfortable to share their fears and difficult problems with you to keep them safe. 
  • The demand for human trafficking so strong that these perpetrators and buyers need stricter punishments. 
  • Traffickers keep moving girls around to avoid getting caught.  
  • Rima Nashashibi explains the EARN IT Act. 
  • What is so appealing to an older person to want to marry or have sex with a child?



3 Key Points:

  1. Child marriage is still a marriage in 46 states. For kids under 18. 
  2. There have been over 200,000 children married since 2000 in the United States.  
  3. Worldwide there are 40 million people in modern-day slavery, with 25 million of them in forced labor and 15 million in forced marriage.  



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Episode 24: Words of Wisdom with author Sara Widdel Beaudrie

Thursday Oct 01, 2020

Thursday Oct 01, 2020

On this episode of the Fast Lane with Sara Jayne podcast, Sara Jayne talks to Sara Widdel Beaudrie, author of the book Words Of Wisdom from the Wise Old Owls of North Dakota. Sara Beaudrie discusses what prompted her to write the book, what it consists of, how she gathered the stories and life lessons and insights that she learned along the way. 



Episode Highlights: 

  • Sara Widdel Beaudrie’s book Words Of Wisdom from the Wise Old Owls of North Dakota was inspired by her grandmother. 
  • Sara Widdel Beaudrie wishes for simpler times and not being so reliant on technology.  
  • What might the pandemic have been like when Sara Jayne and Sara Beaudrie were growing up? 
  • When people had less sometimes they were more willing to take chances to start businesses and passion projects.  
  • What were the ways in which Sara collected stories? 
  • Words Of Wisdom from the Wise Old Owls of North Dakota took a year and a half to write. 
  • People didn’t just get up to go to work in the past. They were working to survive. 
  • What were some of Sara Widdel Beaudrie’s favorite stories in her book? 
  • She knew about one-third of the people in the book.  
  • Working hard and having gratitude were common themes. 
  • What types of advice will people have in the next 40 years?  
  • Writing is a hobby for Sara Beaudrie 
  • Where in North Dakota is Sara Beaudrie from? 



3 Key Points:

  1. Words Of Wisdom from the Wise Old Owls of North Dakota is a compilation of short stories, poems, and bits of advice from senior citizens from all across North Dakota. 
  2. Simpler times in the past tended to emphasize personal connections with family, friends, and neighbors over material things. 
  3. Music, reading, education, poetry, and bible verse were big parts of entertainment for the older people that contributed to the book.  

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