Rev. Cathleen Zahradnik
Cathleen Zahradnik is a pastor, author, and speaker. Her YES adventure led her to become an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and a trained life and leadership coach. She is Vice President of The YES Adventure.
Cathleen is passionate about helping people discover the MORE they were meant for. She especially loves to inspire women to passionately pursue all that God has designed them for. She is proud to serve on the lead team for the New York Network of Women Ministers and serves as the liaison for women pursuing credentials.
She loves to coach leaders and aspiring leaders. When Christian leaders fulfill divine potential they advance the Kingdom of God.
Rev. Tom Zahradnik
Tom has served as a pastor, police chaplain, community chaplain, and government chaplain. He is an ordained minister and endorsed chaplain with the Assemblies of God.
Tom’s personal mission is to reach people and help them discover and fulfill their God-given purpose. He is passionate about encouraging people to Christ-centered living that precipitates community change.
Currently, he serves as a Chaplain at The Rescue Mission Alliance and a Chaplain Intern at Upstate Medical University Hospital, Syracuse, NY. He is the Chaplain’s Community Director of the New York Ministry Network of the Assemblies of God and President of The YES Adventure.
Tom is a broadcast professional with 30 years of experience in radio and television and served as the CEO for a non-profit Christian radio network based out of Kingston, NY.
Tom enjoys aviation, cooking, and football, is a huge Pittsburgh Steelers and Penn State fan.
Tom and Cathleen have known each other since childhood and don’t even remember meeting!
They have been married for nearly four decades and have three grown children.
One of their favorite things to do together is to share a cup of coffee and drive through the countryside or take a walk in nature. But their most favorite shared activity is watching Hallmark movies!
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You’ve left the room, but the argument is not over. Your thoughts are stuck in a loop. The same hurtful exchange of words flashes across your mind over and over and over. You can’t seem to reset your inner replay. All the emotions that should have stayed in that room follow you everywhere you go. Hurt and anger continue to shout in your ears. Your heart rate is through the roof. Hot anger rises in your flushed face. The war is far from over.
Your inner screening room then begins playing out possible outcomes for a future exchange. You don’t really know what will happen, but your mind is already strategizing your next offensive in the war of words. Your emotions rise and fall with every imagined interaction. When you hurl an imagined barb at your intended target proud and triumphant vindictiveness rises to the surface. You feel all the emotions of a situation that hasn’t really happened and then you carry that resentment into the next conversation which turns into another altercation. Your emotions have become attached to an unreality. Nothing actually happened before you walked into the room. Do you truly want to spend your emotional energy on something that isn’t even real?