The exceptional exploits, courage and leadership of British SOE Agent Trotobas have long been recognised in France but not in his own country despite being recommended for the Victoria Cross.Captured on his first mission, Trotobas led a mass break-out from Mauzac Internment Camp and eventually returned to England. He immediately volunteered to return and established and ran a resistance group around Lille and the Pas de Calais for a year. As the Nazis closed in, he refused to leave the Fre...

We are living in very challenging times. The level of anxiety is unprecedented. I see it every day as a faith-based life coach.This book is not about me, although I will share my experiences. It is about you and how you can live a life filled with confidence, calm, and purpose even as the world around you is exploding. This is what God wants for you. What I share really works and has changed the lives of thousands.God Bless you and your family.April 2017. Home from ...

Our Journey to a God Centered Marriage- a love storyDarlene and I met in October 1980 when we were Darlene and I met in October 1980 when we were both in the army. We were attracted to each other but for different reasons. By the end of the first week, we were becoming friends, soon, we knew our relationship had a very special and very different purpose. Darlene had a very strong spiritual relationship with God while my life had turned me relationship with God while my life had tur...

The sun was shining brightly, there was a warm breeze blowing in off the lake and the chapel was small and cozy. As I stood with my best man and the Navy Chaplain, all of us in our dress uniforms, my anticipation was off the chart and my pulse rate must have been peaked out.As I looked down the aisle of the chapel, I was completely overwhelmed with a deep, deep sense of love as my beautiful Darlene started walking toward me on her father's arm. That was the day that we were married...

I realized that the peace I was experiencing was from God. But what I had not yet realized was that the adversity I would continue to face was God's way of helping me to strengthen my spiritual self, which, I believe, is the main reason he put me on this earth. Furthermore, it became very clear to me as life went on, that achieving ultimate peace is a journey not a destination.Years of experience taught me that life does not allow peace to remain stagnant. Adversity will force it t...

For many years I lived in a state of anxiety and fear. In fact, as a retired veteran, I experienced severe PTSD. In December of 2015 I had a major heart malfunction and according to my doctor I was only twelve seconds from death. During that time, I was engulfed in the most beautiful light. The love, peace and calm were overwhelming. In this book I do my best to describe it and what I've come to understand as a result of this wonderful experience. One of the most important things is how to...

Your best people rarely leave because of pay. They leave because of how they are led.Most leaders are handed a false choice: drive performance and burn through talent, or protect the culture and miss the number. Retention and results get treated as opposing forces and every quarter, someone loses.That tradeoff is a failure of method, not a law of business.Lead to Serve dismantles the idea that servant leadership is a soft philosophy for leaders who lack the nerve to demand more. It...

Your best people rarely leave because of pay. They leave because of how they are led.Most leaders are handed a false choice: drive performance and burn through talent, or protect the culture and miss the number. Retention and results get treated as opposing forces and every quarter, someone loses.That tradeoff is a failure of method, not a law of business.Lead to Serve dismantles the idea that servant leadership is a soft philosophy for leaders who lack the nerve to demand more. It...

Your best people rarely leave because of pay. They leave because of how they are led.Most leaders are handed a false choice: drive performance and burn through talent, or protect the culture and miss the number. Retention and results get treated as opposing forces and every quarter, someone loses.That tradeoff is a failure of method, not a law of business.Lead to Serve dismantles the idea that servant leadership is a soft philosophy for leaders who lack the nerve to demand more. It...