Speaking Topics
“Joy is a net of love by which we catch souls.”
-Mother Teresa
Business - the soul at work
Rose Averill is an award winning CEO and business owner of a multi-million dollar business. In this position, Rose is uniquely focused on the mission that God gave her to, "create a living template for the soul at work".
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Rose had no experience, training or education in business or in the health care industry. With a 100% learning curve, not even knowing what she didn't know, Rose leaped forward. She and her husband mortgaged everything they had ever earned and owned for this work that was guided by God.
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St. Francis Sleep, Allergy and Lung Institute was founded with a mission to create a place for the mind, body and soul. Rose created a physical environment that is unabashedly Catholic and opens and invites patients, visitors and staff to engage in the spiritual. Right off of the main entrance, there is a lovely prayer chapel. Books, CDs, rosaries, miraculous medals and green scapulars are freely shared. And prayers are frequently offered.
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Since a template is something that is created to help replicate, Rose has been reaching out to business owners and health care professionals with a desire to help them get closer to God so that they can more clearly see how they can live out their faith in their work.
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Rose's story of how God dramatically called her and what God made flourish, even though she had nothing to give but her yes, is one of the powerful "His-Stories" that Rose has to share.
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Relevant Rewards
Business Woman of the Year, Winner, Health and
Wellness Tampa Bay Business Journal 2014
Service & Charity
Rose has a long history of being a volunteer and seeking to serve others.
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When her children were young Rose involved them in various service opportunities such as, visiting patients in nursing homes, delivering food to needy people, making layettes for a pregnancy center, serving Thanksgiving dinner to needy families and being volunteer counselors at a camp for homeless children.
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In 2000, seeing a need that homeless children had for shoes, Rose purchased new sneakers and loaded them in her minivan, and with her children, she began distributing them to children at homeless shelters. This endeavor grew into Footprints Ministry, a charity that for over a decade, provided hundreds of thousands of new shoes to needy and homeless children.
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In her business, St. Francis Medical Institute, a focus of the management meeting is on how the corporal and spiritual works of mercy are being lived out in the workplace. One of the many results of this focus is an onsite food pantry for needy that is supplied by the company and its staff.
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Rose has launched a new charity called St. Francis Hope and Health Ministry. The purpose of this ministry is to promote and support mind, body and soul health. Through this vehicle she hopes to be able to accomplish a variety of activities such as the creation of a medical mission in Belize and providing spiritual programs, retreats and pilgrimages.
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All money obtained during and for Rose's speaking engagements, Rose wants to go to Kingdom work , and will be donated to St. Francis Hope and Health Ministry
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Relevant Awards:
Tampa Bay Volunteer Hero of the Year
Bay News Nine 2010
Education/ Homeschooling
Rose has been a professional educator for over 25 years. She has taught preschool to graduate school in public and private settings, in five different states. Rose has been a preschool teacher, an elementary school teacher, a middle school science teacher, a middle school english teach, a drama teacher, a tutor, a college instructor, and a homeschooling mom.
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Rose was a lead and a mentor teacher for other teachers. She also taught university courses such as "Principles and Practices in Education" as an adjunct instructor for graduate courses at New York University.
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One of her passions was the teaching of writing. She created an educational program to train teachers to teach writing that included a video she scripted, shot and edited an a companion handbook she wrote. This program was used by the New York City Board of Education to train their teachers.
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Although she loved her all of her diverse experiences of teaching, Rose has a special interest and affection for homeschooling. She feels it was a blessing in her family's life to be able to experience the special opportunities that homeschooling uniquely provides. In a two year period of homeschooling her son went from scoring at a second grade level, to scoring at a high school level, on the same standardized tests.
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Rose's undergraduate education focused on psychology, childhood development and early and elementary education.Her masters program focused on the creation, evaluation and implementation of educational mediums, ranging from written forms, to computer programs and videos. She also worked as an evaluator of educational computer programs before they were released to the market.
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This extensive and comprehensive background gives Rose the opportunity to have a great deal to offer and share with others regarding a multitude of topics that are encompassed under the banner of education.
Faith and Miracles
God has given Rose the gift of great faith. Starting with a mystical experience when she was twelve years old, God has had her on a journey. He has blessed her with decades of "His-Stories", which she knows are to share.
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Her relationship with God is the most important aspect of her life. She feels blessed to be able to be with Him daily, particularly at daily Mass and in Adoration. He has also graced her with the beauty of the experience the prayer which is suffering.
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Some of the experiences are truly miracles. She has been blessed to witness miracles and she herself has been healed three times. She was healed of a medical condition, from injuries from a car crash and from a broken leg. Since Rose is the CEO of a medical facility and her husband is a physician, she doesn't talk about these things lightly.
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As her husband embarks on the path to train for Diaconate, Rose is embarking on a course to study to obtain a Masters in Theology from St. Leo's University. She is also attending the Spiritual Director training program at the Cenacle of our Lady of Divine Providence School of Spirituality, which is in partnered with Steubenville University. Frank and Rose has been professed member of the Order of Franciscan Seculars(OFS) for almost 20 years.
More than anything, Rose desires to be used as God's instrument. She knows that God has called her to speak, to share "His-Stories" to lead others closer to Him. She desires only to humbly do whatever part God calls her to, for the salvation of souls and His Great Glory.
Health & Healing
This is a topic that Rose is experienced in from various angles from both inside of health care as the CEO of a medical facility and the wife of a physician, and as a patient who has received medical care and person who God has miraculously healed.
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As the founder, owner, and CEO of a medical institute, Rose took care to establish a place where mind, body and soul are honored. People frequently comment that they feel at peace the moment that they enter. There is a prayer chapel off of the main entrance, Divine Mercy pictures of Jesus in every room, a spiritual lending library and prayer intention journals. The entire staff gathers in the chapel every morning to read the scripture of Mass readings and pray. St Francis Medical Institute is noted for not only the quality of the medical care, but also the level of caring that patients receive. Rose's husband, Frank Averill MD, is the Medical Director. Frank Averill is a multiple board certified physician who trained at the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins and who currently is in training for the Diaconate.Rose and her husband were also cohosts of a weekly radio show called, "Dr. Averill Answers"
Rose has experienced various medical situations that have involved treatment and surgeries, she also suffers from chronic Lyme Disease. She feels blessed to have been graced with the joy and peace that comes from an understanding and embracing of the redemptive prayer of suffering for the salvation of souls.
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God has also chosen to Miraculously heal Rose on three separate occasions. Being a professional in health care industry and the wife of a physician, this is not something that Rose speaks of lightly. These are part of the "His-Stories" that God has given her to share.
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Related Awards:
Health Care Hero, Finalist
Tampa Bay Business Journal 2009
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Healthiest Employers, Finalist
Tampa Bay Business Journal 2009
Family & Marriage
Rose is a wife and a mother of two adult children. Her and her husband have been married for over thirty years. Rose is a dedicated mom who has experienced raising a family as a full time working mom, a part-time working mom, a stay at home mother and a homeschooling mom.
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For years Rose and her husband were the leaders of St. Petersburg Diocese's Engaged Encounter. Besides being a presenting couple, they hosted monthly meetings for the Engaged Encounter teams and annually organized a dozen week retreats for engaged couples. They also served on the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal for the Diocese of St. Petersburg.
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Rose and her husband decided to take concepts of communication in relationships beyond the church and created a relationship seminar business called Real Couple Seminars. They presented classes and weekend seminars and had a weekly radio show on Christian radio called " On the Air with a Real Married Couple" which included a series called "Conversations with a Christian Couple".
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Rose deeply believes that a marriage takes three and believes that the triple cord of God, her husband and herself have made her marriage last and grow through all the up and downs of "real life" Her decades of marriage and experience working with and educating couples has given her a lot to share on the topic of faith and family.