Up next in 10
Hope Loss enCourage with Ann Collins
0 views
Oct 29, 2020
Caren Glasser goes live with Ann Collins on the next episode of Caren Glasser Live! We talk with her about her book Hope Loss enCourage. Pick up a copy of the book here: https://bit.ly/35PwWDj Even through hardships, we all have the ability to find a little ray of light and hope. Hope Loss enCourage is a roadmap for anyone seeking to find their sub- conscious winner. Check out more shows here: http://www.carenglasser.tv Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Visit The Super Boomer Lifestyle store: https://thesuperboomerlifestyle.com/ 📌 Subscribe to Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc #HopeLossenCourage #bestinterviewswithauthors #Hasmarkpublishing #anncollins #carenglasserlive My Direct Links, Programs and Equipment I use for my Shows and Promotion: BeLive: http://bit.ly/3p7E0DB
View Video Transcript
0:01
hello everyone karen glasser here and
0:03
welcome to karen glasser live i welcome
0:06
guests from all across the globe
0:08
who entertain us wow us and excite us
0:12
and today will be no exception so
0:14
whether you are here live or on replay
0:17
make sure to say hi in the comments
0:19
today's show is brought to you by has
0:21
mark publishing international
0:23
your number one co-publishing company in
0:26
the world
0:26
who service authors on a global scale
0:30
today i am welcoming ann collins to the
0:32
show
0:33
anne's education is from life and from
0:36
the ohio state university she has
0:38
professional experience
0:40
management sales marketing development
0:42
and indiana politics
0:44
in fact in 2016 anne ran from the
0:47
road monroe county indiana treasurer
0:51
anne enjoys writing however it doesn't
0:53
come easy her book began as a journaling
0:55
exercise towards healing when she lost
0:57
her
0:58
campaign and knows that the power of
1:00
writing has given her hope through loss
1:02
and she encourages her readers to engage
1:05
in journaling as a way to express
1:07
subconscious feelings and ultimately
1:09
work through the difficult spots
1:11
in their lives recently married and i
1:13
mean recently
1:14
like a month ago uh she now has seven
1:18
adult children and
1:20
four grandchildren so without further
1:22
ado welcome to the show
1:24
anne hi everyone
1:27
so one month ago you got married and you
1:30
now have
1:31
lots of kids you have a wonderful hubby
1:33
who i know is sitting right there with
1:34
you
1:34
so we just say hi to barry i'm glad that
1:37
you're here
1:40
um today our conversation is on your
1:42
book hope
1:43
loss in courage i love the name and i
1:46
love
1:47
how you actually named the book about
1:50
what you went through in order to um go
1:54
through that situation of not winning
1:56
the election so first let's just start
1:57
from the beginning tell us a little bit
1:59
about yourself
2:00
your background and how you came to be
2:02
here today
2:04
well like you said in the introduction
2:07
i've done
2:08
a lot of different things and kind of a
2:11
jill of all trades
2:12
an expert of none um
2:15
but i've always i've always been a very
2:18
uh people person
2:19
and i love to encourage people i love to
2:22
motivate them
2:23
help them and that's where the writing
2:26
and the book came from
2:28
and writing is new to me but i
2:32
so enjoy it so especially when you see
2:34
that face of on someone
2:37
that smile or eye contact that happens
2:41
and and it's always fun to also see your
2:43
book in the bookstore or on
2:45
online right i'm a public author
2:48
which is great so i normally like to ask
2:50
my authors how long you've been writing
2:52
but clearly you have not been writing
2:53
that long in fact this is your first
2:55
book and it just came out
2:57
so how long ago did you start on this
3:00
well i started thinking about writing i
3:03
should say
3:04
thinking uh after the election
3:07
uh in 2016 it takes me a while like i
3:11
mentioned in the book
3:12
there was a lot there that i had
3:16
kind of worked through um
3:19
but when i started to think about what i
3:22
went through
3:23
and how i learned a different way of
3:26
just trying to look at myself
3:28
more positively i knew other people
3:31
could use that
3:32
too so let's talk about what the book is
3:35
about what will people read when they
3:37
open up your book and the inspiration i
3:40
know is from the election but i'm sure
3:41
it wasn't just the election you pulled
3:43
from all facets of your life so what's
3:45
the book about
3:47
the book is about
3:51
a struggle and maybe something that you
3:55
just
3:55
know you are going to win you're going
3:58
to do great and
4:01
you and then you don't your face
4:04
and that's what the book's about and how
4:08
i learned to look not at
4:12
the actual falling on the face but to
4:14
actually
4:15
look at all of the the experiences
4:19
that led to that day where i fell on my
4:22
face
4:23
and that's how i figured out
4:27
each one of those experiences
4:30
actually was a win because i met
4:33
somebody
4:34
i encouraged somebody i learned
4:36
something
4:38
all kinds of things and i think the
4:40
message because you've said it now
4:42
several times already in in the short
4:44
time that we've been talking
4:45
you fell on your face you fell on your
4:47
phone so
4:49
would it be fair to say that the message
4:51
in the book is
4:52
even if you fall on your face yes
4:56
there is there is hope and there is a
4:58
way to come
4:59
out of that is that your inspiration is
5:01
to be able to help people
5:03
yes it is because i think obviously the
5:06
older you get the more experiences you
5:08
go through
5:09
you realize that experiences are
5:12
very valuable whether they were pleasant
5:15
or not
5:16
because you've met somebody you've
5:19
learned
5:19
something you've experienced an emotion
5:23
and all that stuff is for us to grow and
5:27
to learn
5:27
and i just want to help people
5:32
kind of look at the positive side of
5:33
some of the things that aren't so
5:35
positive
5:36
and i think that's so important um in in
5:39
in every day and every time but
5:41
especially in this time i think that's
5:43
so
5:44
important you say that winning is
5:46
finding the wins
5:47
in everything you consider to defeat and
5:50
using these to move forward would this
5:52
be a good example
5:54
yes um and i i think
5:57
uh my book is not a political book but i
6:00
think
6:00
it's actually uh would be a good
6:04
encourager just because of you know
6:07
life in general the world with covid
6:10
we have to kind of look at things
6:12
differently and and find the value
6:15
we do so we were talking about using our
6:20
our our wins to
6:23
take care of the defeats right that
6:24
we're finding the wins
6:26
in everything that we considered a dif
6:29
if you're just tuning in we're talking
6:31
to ann collins about her book
6:33
hope loss encouraged so obviously we've
6:37
already talked about hope loss and
6:38
encouraged
6:39
is that what where did you come up with
6:40
this title it's a really great title
6:43
well thank you um i think
6:47
we all need a little hope and i
6:50
the word lost is because every human
6:53
being
6:54
on the face of this earth is going to go
6:57
through a loss
6:58
you can get through life without it and
7:01
encourage with the emphasis
7:04
on courage because you need to encourage
7:08
others based on what you've learned in
7:10
life but also
7:12
sometimes it takes a lot of courage to
7:16
stand up and keep going absolutely
7:20
absolutely um what do you hope
7:23
your readers are going to take away from
7:25
this book
7:27
well i think it's it's more than just a
7:30
um
7:31
interesting read it's a short read i
7:33
think there's some humor into it
7:36
um so it's it's a fun read
7:39
but i hope these they can see throughout
7:41
the book
7:42
the process of you know and it could
7:45
have been something that happened
7:47
a week ago or five years ago but
7:50
how you can actually process that
7:52
experience in your mindset
7:55
and look at that loss or
7:58
failure or mistake and actually find a
8:02
win
8:02
in it so you say
8:05
i am only one but i am
8:09
one what does that mean
8:12
well i think a lot of us use
8:15
i am only one person and use that as an
8:18
excuse
8:19
an excuse well i can't
8:22
cure cancer or i can't feed the entire
8:26
world so i shouldn't do anything because
8:28
it doesn't matter
8:30
right um but it really does because
8:33
i can influence one person feed one
8:36
person
8:38
uh you know help one person
8:41
and that changes the world it does
8:45
it really does and it sounds like that's
8:47
something that's really important to you
8:49
that you do want to change the world so
8:51
the question begs to be asked are you
8:53
going to run for office again
8:55
no and i hear your your husband in the
8:59
background no
9:01
not not going to do that at all
9:04
i ran in 2016 and then i ran again in
9:07
2018 for another position
9:10
and um and i lost that one also
9:13
so i think i will just add to the
9:17
the world and the environment a
9:19
different way
9:20
hey that's fair that that's totally fair
9:23
if you're tuning in and you want to know
9:24
a little bit more about this book
9:26
hope loss encourage that is the name of
9:29
the book you can see it on the screen
9:31
and i've just put a link to the book in
9:33
the comments
9:34
uh for you to go pick up a copy because
9:36
i think that this is really i love first
9:38
of all i love the
9:39
the subtitle scenes from life's wins
9:41
that's exactly what you're talking about
9:44
um and i think this is important for all
9:46
of us i i don't think that there's a
9:48
single person on this planet that has
9:50
not had a defeat in something
9:52
and i think the trick is to figure out
9:56
it
9:56
how to turn it around and make it a win
9:58
and and it sounds like that is exactly
10:00
what you have done
10:01
with this book why do you do what you do
10:05
i mean why did you run for office why
10:08
did you just i mean i know why you
10:09
decided to write a book it took you
10:10
through your journey but
10:12
why are you doing what you're doing are
10:14
you going to write another book
10:17
yes uh it's actually about done so book
10:21
number two will be out soon
10:22
congratulations
10:23
um i do what i do because
10:28
again we're all on this earth for a
10:30
short period of time
10:31
and i want to make that time
10:35
memorable i i want to help others
10:40
if i can encourage people that makes me
10:42
feel good
10:44
and then i know my life made a
10:46
difference
10:48
so is writing books for everyone what
10:50
would you tell someone if they'd said
10:52
you know i had this thing going on and i
10:54
think this makes sense for me i'm going
10:56
to write a book what would you tell
10:57
somebody who wants to go write a book
11:00
i'd say get started and do it
11:02
for several reasons uh through
11:05
journaling
11:06
and writing this first book that's what
11:10
showed me that writing is powerful and i
11:14
don't think
11:15
or at least i didn't know before i did
11:18
this
11:18
writing is very powerful um
11:22
emotional mentoring cathartic maybe
11:26
yes and it's actually somewhat physical
11:29
i've noticed when i've gone back into my
11:31
journals
11:33
there you could actually see how hard i
11:36
was writing
11:37
usually when i was upset or angry
11:40
about something but you literally can
11:44
see the difference of the pressure of
11:46
the pen
11:46
on the journals so if you want to write
11:49
a book
11:50
get started now because it may take
11:54
six weeks it may take six years but
11:57
it's valuable time for yourself
12:00
because you are very important
12:02
absolutely absolutely well
12:04
i think that's great i think it's great
12:06
before the show went live i said to you
12:08
um do you have a superpower and i
12:11
i grab my little you know my little uh
12:14
wonder woman
12:16
and my super power is i'm fearless i
12:18
will do almost anything
12:19
just just ask what's your superpower
12:25
oh so uh you cut out just a little bit
12:29
but um i would say my uh superpower
12:32
is to encourage and that's not only
12:36
encouraging myself
12:37
that's encouraging others and
12:40
doing all i can that way so buck says
12:43
nice twist to the title he loved the
12:45
title one of the hardest things is to
12:47
find the courage to move forward after
12:48
any type of loss thank you
12:52
thank you for the comment would you
12:53
agree yes
12:56
vegan because as i say in the book there
12:58
there were
12:59
there was a short time where i just i
13:01
didn't want to come out
13:04
i'm sure i you know i i i never run for
13:07
office i've never done
13:08
any of that kind of stuff but there have
13:10
been times i'm a singer where
13:12
i've done something and and afterwards
13:14
it's like
13:16
it was no good it was not good but
13:17
enough you have to find a way to come
13:19
back out of it and you have to
13:21
just uh put that smile and and and and
13:24
move forward right and and do it again
13:26
back
13:26
get back on that so you did run again
13:28
but instead of but instead of running a
13:30
third time now you're just going to keep
13:31
writing those books
13:33
which i think is awesome which i think
13:35
is awesome
13:36
for those of you who are wondering how
13:37
to stay in touch
13:39
with anne we're going to give you some
13:41
uh places to go because she's everywhere
13:43
you can go visit anne on her website at
13:46
author anne authorannecollins.com
13:48
uh she's also on facebook and you can
13:50
find her on facebook at
13:52
author anne collins and
13:55
she's also on youtube at ann collins
13:59
imagine that and on instagram you can
14:02
also find her there at
14:03
author ann collins and finally on
14:05
linkedin if you go to
14:06
linkedin it's and dash collins
14:10
so what's one tip that you can share
14:12
that comes out of your life that has
14:14
really made a difference in your life
14:15
that you can share with our audience
14:17
what's a tip you can share
14:19
um the one tip i would tell people is
14:22
to take that time with themselves
14:26
personally
14:27
uh doesn't have to be a quiet space it
14:31
don't be closing your eyes while you're
14:33
driving but
14:37
i i think it's uh mentally emotionally
14:40
important
14:41
and as a as the mindset
14:45
you can look at something that didn't
14:47
work out and really find the value in it
14:50
and then life is a little different
14:53
because
14:54
i've fallen on my face so many times now
14:56
that i'm really not afraid of it anymore
14:59
um interesting and is that what you
15:02
think
15:03
will happen when people just kind of you
15:05
know step into that and step into their
15:07
their their wins from their defeats yes
15:10
i mean even like a bad day at the shop
15:13
i will maybe not be in the best
15:16
mood but i will look at that day and say
15:20
this is an experience i am going to meet
15:22
someone i am learning something
15:25
and so it just makes it easier to get
15:29
through the day get through the day
15:30
happy
15:31
and just know that there is a win from
15:34
every day
15:35
i i love that um again i'm going to put
15:38
the book right back into the screen one
15:39
more
15:40
time so people can go get a copy of it
15:42
hope loss encourage
15:43
scenes from life's wins by ann collins
15:46
the
15:46
link is sitting in the uh comment area
15:50
right now so you can go take a look at
15:51
it over there
15:52
i want to again thank has mark
15:54
publishing international for sponsoring
15:56
us today they are awesome we just love
15:58
them over there
16:00
um and i want to thank them for
16:01
introducing me to you
16:03
um because i i'm i have not yet read the
16:06
book i have it on order actually
16:08
and it's on its way to me so i can't
16:10
dive into the book
16:12
any last minute thoughts you want to
16:13
share with everyone before we say
16:15
goodbye
16:17
um just uh step back and look at your
16:21
life and
16:22
find find the beauty in it because it's
16:25
there
16:25
it is it is definitely there i want to
16:28
thank our
16:28
our guest anne for being on the show
16:30
today uh we really appreciate you taking
16:33
the time i was
16:34
i was laughing it looks beautiful out
16:35
there it looks cold where you are and
16:37
i'm sitting
16:37
sleeveless top you know 110 degree
16:40
weather
16:41
uh what a couple hundred miles you know
16:44
thousand miles
16:46
and i want to thank our audience because
16:48
you guys have a choice as to where you
16:49
spend your time and you chose to spend
16:51
it with us today
16:53
i am internally grateful as i know
16:55
anna's and we hope that you come back
16:57
and join us on the next episode
16:58
of karen glasser live goodbye everyone
#Books & Literature
#Self-Help & Motivational
#Writers Resources