Live Your Legacy
Live Your Legacy is a conversational podcast that explores how life’s defining moments shape the legacy we leave behind. Hosted by Patricia D. Freudenberg, also known as Patty from New York, the show features thoughtful conversations with entrepreneurs, authors, leaders, and creators who have turned adversity, reinvention, or unexpected life transitions into purpose-driven work. Through these conversations, the show examines an often overlooked truth: the grief that transforms us is not always the grief of death. Often, it is the grief we experience within life.
The Strength of Stillness
In this reflective solo episode, Patricia D. Freudenberg, AKA Patty from New York, explores the quiet power of stillness during emotional storms and life's unexpected challenges.
Inspired by themes of stoicism, resilience, and mindful awareness, this episode examines how grief and hardship can leave people feeling emotionally overwhelmed, fearful, exhausted, and disconnected from themselves. Yet healing is not always about rushing forward or pretending everything is okay.
Sometimes healing begins by learning how to stand still without falling apart. Through perspective shifts, reflection, and emotional insight, Patricia discusses the importance of grounding yourself...
The Vehicle Within
A reflective solo episode on using the body-as-vehicle metaphor to explore grief, healing, imagination, emotional redirection, and legacy in motion.
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In this reflective solo episode of Live Your Legacy, Patricia D. Freudenberg, AKA Patty from New York, explores the powerful metaphor of the body as a vehicle and the soul as the traveler moving through the temporary journey of life.
Through storytelling, perspective shifts, and mindful reflection, this episode invites listeners to imagine themselves as the captain of their own ship, car, train, or airplane, navigating grief, healing, purpose, and personal...
Something Is Responding
In this solo episode, Patricia D. Freudenberg — AKA Patty from New York — reflects on her Legacy Café newsletter article, ‘Something Is Responding.’
This episode explores the idea that life is not silent. Something is always responding to our thoughts, our choices, our energy, our grief, and our willingness to move forward. Whether we are healing, rebuilding, remembering, or simply trying to take the next right step, every action creates movement.
Through the lens of grief recovery and legacy, Patricia invites listeners to consider how small shifts can create meaningful change. This conversation is a reminder that even...
From Broken to Boldness: Healing After a Narcissistic Marriage
Deborah Griffiths is a bestselling author, speaker, and founder of Broken to Boldness — a transformative space empowering women to navigate life's transitions and rewrite their stories. After overcoming the pain and isolation of an abusive marriage, Deborah discovered the healing power of storytelling.
Her works, including Torched – Burnt By a Gaslighter, inspire resilience and boldness. Through her coaching programs and online community, Deborah helps women turn pain into power and embrace the futures they deserve.
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Taking That Wobbly Step, Moving Past Life's Obstacles
Jake April was born with cerebral palsy and grew up being judged before he ever had the chance to show who he is. His story is about challenging first impressions and proving that ability is often misunderstood.
Through his TEDx talk and speaking, Jake shares how shifting from judgment to understanding can change lives — not just for people with disabilities, but for anyone who has ever been underestimated. His message is simple: a first impression is not a final one, and everyone deserves the opportunity to make a second impression.
"A first impression is no...Moving Forward After Cancer and Retirement — Stepping Into My Third-Half of Life
Special guest:
Holly Totten is a nonfiction editor and writing coach who helps people turn their ideas and experiences into clear, compelling stories. With over 30 years of experience, she guides writers in shaping their message so it connects, builds credibility, and serves their purpose.
Both Holly and her husband are cancer survivors. She retired after 30 years of teaching at 54 — during her husband's cancer journey — not knowing what her future would hold. She knew, however, that she was not finished impacting this world. Holly combined her love for teaching, writing, and editing to start helping others shar...
Moving Forward After Cancer and Retirement — Stepping Into My Third-Half of Life
Special guest:
Holly Totten is a nonfiction editor and writing coach who helps people turn their ideas and experiences into clear, compelling stories. With over 30 years of experience, she guides writers in shaping their message so it connects, builds credibility, and serves their purpose.
Both Holly and her husband are cancer survivors. She retired after 30 years of teaching at 54 — during her husband's cancer journey — not knowing what her future would hold. She knew, however, that she was not finished impacting this world. Holly combined her love for teaching, writing, and editing to start helping others shar...
The Life You’re Living Is the Story You’re Writing (Official Trailer)
Live Your Legacy is a show built on real conversations, with real people, each sharing the moments that changed them, shaped them, and called them forward into who they are becoming, one story at a time.
This trailer offers a glimpse into what you can expect:
Raw stories. Honest voices. Unscripted truth.
Because not all grief comes from loss.
Sometimes it comes from life itself—missed chances, unexpected detours, and the courage it takes to begin again.
Each guest brings a story uniquely their own.
Different paths, different chapters… yet one...
The Life You’re Living Is the Story You’re Writing
Host Episode · Patricia D. Freudenberg
This official introduces the heart of Live Your Legacy. What if legacy isn’t something you leave behind… but something you live, every single day?
This special trailer episode of Live Your Legacy offers a powerful glimpse into the show’s heart, featuring curated voices and turning points from past guests.
Hosted by Patricia D. Freudenberg (Patty from New York), grief consultant and founder of Miss-U-Gram®.
From adversity to breakthrough, uncertainty to clarity, pain to purpose, these are stories of vision, impact, and purpose in motion. Whether you...
Rising Beyond Adversity: Purpose, Resilience, and the CIA Framework
Special Guest:
Brian P. Swift, J.D. — known as 'The Quad Father' — is a motivational speaker, bestselling author of 10 books, nonprofit founder, and certified John Maxwell Coach dedicated to helping people rise beyond adversity and live with purpose. At the age of 17, a tragic accident left Brian a quadriplegic. Rather than allowing his circumstances to define him, he chose to redefine what was possible.
Brian graduated from Saint Xavier University and earned his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law. He spent over twenty years in corporate leadership before dedicating his life fully...
How Life's Hardest Seasons Can Reshape Our Relationship With Money and Purpose
Linda Grizely, CFP®, is a financial wellness speaker, personal finance educator, and host of the Real Money, Real Life™ podcast. Linda helps people build confidence and clarity with money — and helps organizations understand how financial stress shows up at work and impacts focus, engagement, and performance. Her approach blends financial expertise with real-life experience, making money conversations more human, practical, and judgment-free.
Linda is the creator of the MeMoney™ Method, a mindset-first approach to money that helps people move from guilt and overwhelm to intention and alignment. In this episode, Linda shares her personal story of resilience, reinven...
Empathy in Business
Adrienne Barker, MAS, is a business coach, fractional CMO, visibility strategist, and podcast host with more than 35 years of experience helping entrepreneurs and professionals grow their brand, authority, and opportunities.
In this episode, Adrienne shares the transformative power of empathy in business — how leading with genuine human connection can elevate your brand, deepen client relationships, and create lasting impact in today's competitive landscape.
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Elevating Purpose: From Survival Mode to Divine Providence
LaDonna McLemore — 'Lady of Truth' — shares her transformative journey from survival mode to purposeful living, blending spiritual insight, creativity, and holistic wellness.
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Mind, Body & Soul, Living with Purpose
In our premiere episode, Lois Villa shares the heart behind EverMindful and how a holistic approach to mind, body, and soul can help us reclaim our legacy after loss.
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