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I have moved my blog to my self-hosted site http://www.madgemadigan.com. You will not receive email notifications that I have a new blog post up unless you go to my new site, go to the sidebar and fill in your email at “Subscribe to Blog via Email”. You can also fill in email at “Join my email list” but that won’t notify you of new blogs, just other fantastic stuff coming up, so do both!
Thanks so much for following my blog and I can’t wait to share more fun stuff with you!
Love,
Madge
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Psychic: relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance.
Intuitive: the ability to know something by using your feelings rather than considering the facts
Tarot Cards: a special pack of cards, now used mainly for fortune-telling,
Have you ever consulted or thought about consulting a Psychic, an Intuitive, or a Tarot Card Reading? How about a Life Coach? What if I told you a combination of Life Coach and any of the aforementioned is a great way to get yourself on the right path? I did it and it was fantastic! And it ain’t a buncha’ hooey!
To find out what happened listen to Episode 10 of my podcast…
10: Life Coach Intuitive Amy White Tells How to Use Your Intuition to Get Ahead
If you have ever felt stuck or not sure what next steps to take in your life regarding a relationship, job, financial situation, or child rearing, I HIGHLY recommend consulting a Life Coach and Intuitive.
Intuitive Life Coach Amy White uses a mix of intuitive readings, Tarot Cards, channeling dead people and life coaching to guide you in choosing a great path in life! That’s an odd combo but it really works! She also encourages you to use your intuition to make the right decisions.
Give a listen to the podcast now and learn how incredibly effective this method is to helping you get unstuck! Also listen as she gives me a reading and see how accurate she is and how it has changed my life!
For more information on Intuitive Life Coach Amy go to: http://farfromparadise.org/coaching-services/
Are you having to start over in life in any area? Relationship, job, finances, appearance, divorce? You need to listen to my podcast and find out how to overcome these obstacles and still remain calm, cool, collected, and successful… aka Fabulous!
Well here it is! My new podcast to help you! I’ve launched a new and improved version of my podcast! It’s called…
I’ve had some great episodes on my new launch! Episodes and descriptions below. Don’t forget to follow/subscribe while there! Listen to them all…
A short introductory episode to introduce my newly remodeled podcast! You’ll love what I did with the kitchen! I explore how to face challenges while maintaining your dignity, sanity and of course your… fabulousness! And a great way to do that is by laughing.
Madge speaks with Intuitive Life Coach Amy White who uses a mix of intuitive readings, Tarot Cards, channeling dead people and life coaching to guide you back on the right path! That’s an odd combo but it really works! For more info on Amy White Life Coach and Intuitive click here.
Don’t be a crazy person! Learn how to breakup and take rejection gracefully. Being a nutjub won’t help you get anyone back or win friends and influence people. Set boundaries and gain control!
Have you had a job loss, just hate your job, never worked and need a job, or just want a new career path? Become an Entrepreneur with the advice of Business Mentor Angella Luyk. For more info on Angella click here.
Maybe the other person is giving you a load of bull, maybe it’s just not going your way… either way stop whining, set boundaries, and be prepared to let it go. People will show you their true colors. Do it now!
If you would like to support my podcast and get bonus content please visit me at Patreon, it would be greatly appreciated to keep us going!
You can find my podcast on SoundCloud.com at https://soundcloud.com/madgemadigan
or ITunes which is rebranding to Apple Podcasts at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/remain-calm-and-stay-fabulous-with-madge/id1179114464?mt=2
My daughter Abigail is a senior in high school and had to do a mandatory service project that involved researching a societal issue. Abigail and her partner chose to do their project on foster care, and the shortage of foster parents.
One of the requirements of the project is to have a written piece published and to try to garner some feedback from the public on the subject. So, I would greatly appreciate it if you could leave a comment at the bottom with your thoughts on foster care. Thank you.
by Abigail Zableny
Imagine being 17 years old and moving into your 30th foster home. This is the life that real children here in Rochester have to face. There are thousands of children that are put into foster care because their parents are not equipped to take care of them. These children are often unsafe at home, abused, or neglected. If they are not properly loved and cared for as a decent family would treat them, then once they age out at around 18 years old they have to live independently without any basic skills or a family to fall back on when life throws obstacles their way. It is our job as a community to seek out these children that need our help and guide them towards bright futures that any child deserves.
As a senior at Our Lady of Mercy High School for Young Women I have found one of our own community members, gym teacher Stephanie Barbero, who took on the generous experience of opening up her home to a foster child. Upon interviewing Stephanie, she explained the process and somewhat strenuous tasks that she and her family had to experience. A 17 year old girl approached Stephanie and asked to be a part of her family. This request was one Stephanie could not refuse. Before bringing the young woman into her home, she held a meeting with her family to inform them on what was going to happen. She described the situation as being “in it to win it” with her entire family. The Barbero family was able to accept another member into their lives and thankfully not worry about finances being strained. However, mental and emotional life was a different story. Some of Stephanie’s children were the same age as their foster child so they had to learn to share with one another which is sometimes difficult for 17 year old girls to do.
Despite the emotional toll of taking in a child with a rough background and opening up her entire life to her, Stephanie states that she would do it all over again if she was presented with the opportunity. In the future however, Stephanie would be apprehensive in how she handles another foster child. She reports that her family actually gave the foster child too much which was hard for her to deal with since she had moved around so much. She wasn’t used to having her own bedroom or other personal items and the Barberos provided her with everything she could ever need as if she was one of their own children. This ended up being too hard for her which leads Stephanie to the conclusion that next time she would ease a foster child into this new life of loving care so that they feel more comfortable with having their own personal items for possibly the very first time in their life.
Stephanie’s final thoughts on the issue of foster care touched on what are called the Core Values of Mercy, which are held by our school Our Lady of Mercy. These are basic attitudes and behaviors that when fulfilled, live out a spirited life of Mercy. Two key values that relate to foster care are hospitality and compassionate service. Regarding hospitality Stephanie states, “You need to just open up your entire world to this one person”. She agrees that you must have compassion to open up and attend to whatever their needs are and try to understand their past but accept them and treat them like a human being no matter what struggles they have gone through.
Stephanie Barbero proves the point that being a foster parent is not an easy task, however it is definitely a rewarding one. From the very moment that 17 year old girl walked into the Barbero home, many lives were changed forever. Stephanie now knows what it is like to give to a young child that needs guidance and love but hasn’t received it until almost adulthood. Any child in foster care deserves to be treated with these qualities especially since that has been a vital missing part of their lives. The Barberos are just a normal Rochester family that did an extraordinary thing for someone else that they didn’t even know. As a community, we must be more accepting towards these children that so desperately just want to be reunited with their parents or just be with a family that will love them unconditionally. If we see someone struggling and we have the resources to help and provide for them, why not help them?
Hey! If you haven’t been following along at home, I have a podcast now! Yes, yes I do. And I just posted my 7th Episode entitled The Only Country Club Member on Food Stamps, the Story of Madge. Click below and have a listen! Funny, inspiring, a little sad, a little sex, and of course a lot of booze! Pretty entertaining stuff!
Ep 7 The Only Country Club Member on Food Stamps, the Story of Madge
Thanks for listening and don’t forget to follow me while you’re there! Oh and share with your friends! xoxo
Hey gang! So excited to share some good news with you! I have a new venture I’m about to unleash on the world…
Will hit the airwaves soon! That’s about all I can tell you right now. Stay tuned for more information…
But in the meantime, I have created a Patreon page. For those that don’t know, Patreon.com is a website that allows creative types (podcasts, authors, etc.) a way to allow their consumers/fans help to sponsor their work. Even if you just contribute $1 to let me know, “Hey I like your work” would be awesome! However if you have a business, it’s a great opportunity to sponsor my program and get your name out there and advertise your business through my work.
So if you’ve ever had any appreciation for my blog or books or my upcoming venture (it’s gonna’ be a good one), I ask you to please consider sponsoring my work, so that I can keep relaying my life mistakes to you so that it may serve as a warning of what not to do with yours! Just kidding! I appreciate all of you so much!
Thank you so much!
Love,
Madge
This presidential election is about to get on my last damn nerve…
It seems one thing it is rife with is hypocrisy and judgement. Oh and hate. And bullshit.
People throw around character assassinations like it’s candy and they’re on a float in a parade. Or like an Italian grandma with wedding cookies and she has visitors. Or like a new recruit in an MLM that just got business cards. But I digress…
And every claim of a flaw of a candidate is met with “Yea, well what about your guy did this…?” I don’t even let my children do that, not even when they were small. It’s the “But Johnny did it too” or “But Johnny did something worse” defense. My answer has always been “I don’t care what Johnny did, we’re talking about you. We’re addressing what you did.”
But getting people to stick to one subject is damn near impossible. So why bother, right? I mean let’s leave the personal stuff out of it anyway, right? Also, that’s just being judgemental and hypocritical, right? I mean, let he who is without sin cast the first stone… or whatever the saying is.
What if we did go back to the days of leaving personal stuff out? In reading about elections from the past couple centuries and the few I have witnessed in the past few decades of my lifetime, I don’t seem to recall much personal stuff being bandied about until maybe Nixon or Carter… 1972 or 1976 elections. It was still rather mild and not plastered all over, but then again we didn’t have the internet and 24 hour news stations with time to fill. You heard a little bit about Nixon being a crook (which ultimately became true) and that Jimmy Carter had a drunk, obnoxious brother (which ultimately had no bearing whatsoever).
But before that there were plenty of dudes elected to the office of President of the United States that had secrets come out that in this day and age would be scrutinized 24/7 non-stop. But some of those “shortcomings” turned out to have no effect on the ability to do a good job. Hmmmm…
Yes, there are some people who I think are terrible people but do their job well. Which totally goes against my nature. I’m all for good people, all around. I believe in God and karma and all that stuff where I couldn’t possibly be good at my job then be a shithead in my personal life. However, I’ve never been at such a high level of power and money that my judgement could be impaired, either. Here are some presidents who probably would have been taken down had there been the interwebz…
So… what does all this mean? Well it goes to show that journalists were a lot more polite and appropriate back in the day, for one. A public figure’s personal life wasn’t open season. They respected that and stuck to the facts and with politicians stuck to the task at hand… mostly. And people did mostly as well. But people will always dig something up on someone they don’t like, just because… And we didn’t have the internet to perpetuate it.
And oh it’s just not politicians! Look at Pete Rose, legendary baseball player, one of the all-time greats… so he did a little gambling, meh. I don’t think his gambling mattered in him being all-time leader in hits, at-bats, singles, etc.
What’s the answer? I don’t know. I like to think a person’s character matters but ultimately if they do their job well, it’s no one’s business I guess. Maybe I just prefer the days when journalism wasn’t so seedy and personal. Just something to keep in mind though… you really shouldn’t judge others if you don’t have a clean slate, well actually at all, you shouldn’t judge at all. Don’t be the pot calling the kettle black…
Hey gang! I’ve been asked this question many times and short answer is… busy.
Life got a little crazy trying to launch a few different ventures and working pretty much full-time at a part-time job while things get off the ground. Then there was the whole thing of my son graduating from college, trying to get another one home from college for the summer, and then the third one having all kinds of proms and junk. Life just rolls faster than you can keep up sometimes.
So, I’m trying to get a lot of things going. I started doing stand-up comedy, which you can see below. The sound is pretty bad but you get the idea…
It’s been a lot fun! If you want to book me for any event email me at madge@madgemadigan.com.
I am also starting a “Motivational Comedy” tour. It’s motivational speaking with humor that every day people like you and me can relate to. I know we’ve all seen Youtube videos of like the person who got both legs amputed but then became a triathlete… that’s heroic and you think “If he can do that, I can at least get off the couch to lose some weight”, right? Yea, well it doesn’t really relate to you on a personal level. I can tell you what it’s like to try to have the perseverance when you’ve lost your job and raising three kids alone and the bills keep mounting. And I didn’t just get through it, I thrived from it. So let me know if you want to know more.
I also did a guest host stint on a local morning radio show this morning and I got the bug to do radio again. That’s what I went to college for and spent my first 8 years out of school doing. Maybe I’ll even just start a podcast.
And of course I am still writing my blog for DivorcedMoms.com which you can read here.
So stay tuned, I’m going to try to get back to the funny on the regular. And I know some of you are like “Why start now?”… ha, you’re funny. And don’t forget to check out some of the new pages on my website! Until next time, folks!
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