Bold Becoming

Danielle grew up in a chaotic environment with a low income family that moved almost every year, and a dad who drank and was verbally aggressive. Danielle was the one who fought back, and she carried her rebellious nature into adulthood, always standing up for the underdog. And in between all this, Danielle chose to keep her baby when she was 16 with an unplanned pregnancy. It was during her transition to motherhood that she found out who she really was and proved everyone else’s predictions wrong.

Find out what it’s like to be 16, and know that the most important decision of your life was made solely by you. Why did that choice save her? What about motherhood helped Danielle discover who she really was, and become the opportunity to access that? How is helping someone find who they are better than telling them who they are?

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Danielle Thompson, Ph.D., is a visionary leader with a deep passion for fostering authentic connections and building a more connected world. Drawing from over 20 years of experience in education, she founded The UNA Collective to inspire meaningful connections at both personal and collective levels. Dr. Thompson's journey has been shaped by a profound understanding of the impact of disconnection, driving her commitment to creating spaces that nurture growth and community. As a sought-after coach, Dr. Thompson shares her insights and expertise, empowering people to reconnect with their true selves and forge deeper connections with others and spirit. Her dedication to education and community building shines through in her inspiring contributions, offering valuable perspectives for individuals on their journey towards a more connected and authentic existence.

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Wendy and her husband were very happily married when they found out that her husband, and two of their three children, were autistic. Around the same time, her third child was also struggling with disabilities connected to fibromyalgia. But rather than the autism diagnoses devastating her, they did the opposite. Liberated and joyful, they explained why life had been so challenging. They gave them the understanding they’d always needed to celebrate their differences and ardently advocate for accommodations. But when Wendy lost her husband to a heart attack, she had to piece herself back together to find a way to be happy with a forever hole in her life.

Find out how the autism diagnoses, and her husband’s early death, impacted Wendy as a parent and a wife. Hear about how she’s come out the other side of widowhood shining as bright as ever. See what one person with fire in her belly and an audacious mission is doing for her country. And check out the stack of books she’s written to help individuals and society support people on the spectrum. 

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Wendela Whitcomb Marsh is an award-winning author, speaker, and CEO. She’s also Mom to 3 brilliant disabled adult children, her favorite role. Learn more about her books at WendelaWhitcombMarsh.com and her group practice at AdultAutismAssessment.com.

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Can denial ever be a good thing? It served Cathy Shields for twelve long years, as she adjusted to the fact that her daughter would never hit many developmental milestones. Denial may well have protected her in a positive way. It was what gave her hope. Hope allowed her to spend every single day fighting for her daughter to access programs and services, as her daughter worked towards whatever milestones might or might not be possible. Denial, and the hope behind it, may have been the fuel keeping Cathy going like a well-oiled machine, never missing a beat around her daughter’s needs.

Find out how denial, and Cathy’s advocacy for her daughter Jessica, who was labeled as profoundly retarded, resulted in two happy, well-adjusted women enjoying life today. And then how did Cathy finally let go of denial to arrive at acceptance? What lessons has acceptance taught her? What’s it like to be a mom of a severely developmentally delayed child? And how did she manage parenting three kids while one overshadowed the care of the others?

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Catherine (Cathy) Shields writes about parenting, disabilities, and self-discovery. She is a retired educator with an M.S. Ed in Exceptional Education. In her debut memoir, The Shape Of Normal, A Memoir Of Motherhood, Disability And Embracing A Different Kind Of Perfect, Cathy explores the truths and lies parents tell themselves. Her book was named a category WINNER in the 2023 American Writing Awards, and her writing has twice been nominated for a Pushcart. Her essays have been published in NBC Today. Newsweek, Bacopa Literary Review, Grown and Flown, Brevity Blog, Mother Magazine, U Revolution, and Write City Magazine. Cathy resides in Miami, Florida with her husband. They enjoy taking long bike rides and kayaking.

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Julia’s fighting for her life…again. Surviving childhood physical and emotional abuse from alcoholic parents, and sexual molestation and voyeurism, from which her mother profited financially, she went on to survive a suicide attempt in her twenties, and most recently, an intestinal blockage. Now she’s about to enter cancer treatment, another leg of her 30+ years chasing wholeness.

Corbie’s had more than her fair share of challenges, beginning with a substance abusing mom who envied her for her intelligence and, from age eleven on, her Dolly Parton figure. Add to that, when her mom thought she’d had sex in high school, she called her a slut and told her she was only worth anything because of her looks. It was decades later when Corbie finally got the chance to find out who she really is, after her third bout with breast cancer and a double mastectomy.

Learn about how being large-busted, in addition to her mom’s influence, impacted Corbie’s life. Find out how one sentence can negatively impact a young girl’s life. Hear about how a changed figure freed Corbie to discover who she might have always been, had she not had her original figure.

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Corbie Mitleid has always been “the different one.” A writer and visionary in a medical family, she has always made her own path. Leaving an Ivy League university after two years, Corbie struck out to find where joy and purpose lived.

Surviving divorce, abuse, poverty and cancer, Corbie learned the value of the Examined Life: meeting challenges and always asking the next question, facing each new situation with strength, courage and humor.

Today, as an intuitive counselor and inspirational speaker, Corbie brings a full toolbox to her job as a beacon of manifestation and vision for her clients worldwide.

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Stephany Ann grew up in a family with healthy marital role modeling from her parents. She was also smart, capable, ambitious, successful, educated, became an attorney, and even won the governor's award for her work in domestic violence. So then, how did she end up in two abusive marriages with men with narcissistic personality disorders (NPD)? And why didn’t she recognize what was going on (the power-over dynamic in both relationships) and at least get out of the second one faster?

Learn about how brainwashing and trauma-bonding resulted in her turning into a person foreign from who she really was. Find out why and how she endured years and years of psychological abuse. Discover how she healed and recovered her true identity, and what to do when you, or a loved one, is stuck in an abusive relationship.

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Meet an extraordinary woman, an attorney, recipient of the governor's award for advocacy with survivors of domestic violence, and international best selling author who triumphed over narcissistic abuse. With two marriages to narcissists behind her, she’s harnessed the transformative power of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and the power of thought and mindset to guide others on their path to healing and personal growth. Her transformation came when she shifted from “why me” to “for me”. Hear her incredible story today!

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Layla Rahmeh enjoyed her life, tremendously, until she had to escape it. She came from a loving family, was well educated, and after surviving cancer, no longer took everything life has to offer for granted. But then war broke out in her country, Syria, and being who she was made her a target for detention, torture, and death. So she chose to escape to save her life, and lost who she was in the process. 

Find out what it’s like to not even be as much as a refugee, but a refugee claimant. Hear what it’s like to shut down your voice while your conscience is still alive, and how “feeling like [she] no longer wanted to exist” became a coping mechanism in the face of impossible odds. Discover the thread that kept Layla ‘s will to live stronger than the most unbearable pain.

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Layla Rahmeh is a transformational coach on a mission to redefine identities and guide individuals through life's pivotal moments. Formerly immersed in the corporate world, Layla underwent a profound transformation after surviving both cancer and the challenges of war. Drawing strength from personal resilience, she redirected her journey towards helping others navigate similar life-altering experiences. Now, as a beacon of inspiration, Layla specializes in empowering individuals to rewrite their narratives and embark on a journey of self-discovery. With a passion for rebranding lives after major shifts, she brings a unique blend of empathy and expertise to support others in rediscovering their true selves.

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For decades, Stephenie never knew who she was. She grew up in a home with addiction and abuse, and since birth, her mother struggled to figure out Stephenie’s unexpected weight gain. This sowed the seeds for Stephenie’s focus on weight and body image. By age 11, she was anorexic, and eating became the one thing she could control. This morphed into anorexia and bulimia and she struggled for decades until she addressed the underlying cause—trauma.

Learn about how one person landed on the hamster wheel of eating disorders and how it impacted her life and identity. Discover how she left that life behind and is prepared for triggers that put her at risk for falling back into it. Find out what she’s doing now to help others live lives free from eating disorders and how allies can help those still struggling. 

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As a woman who has personally experienced the pain of eating disorders, Stephenie deeply understands the unique challenges that accompany these struggles, especially for women over 40. Utilizing various approaches such as movement, mindfulness, and counseling, she provides invaluable support to women navigating these challenges throughout their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond. Stephenie's unwavering commitment lies in raising awareness about the profound connection between trauma and eating disorders, with a particular focus on women over 40.

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Andrea was really good at her PR job before she started working for her bully boss, during, and after. But working for him took a huge toll on her self-perception, to the point where she questioned whether he was right that she wasn’t any good. Andrea endured 8.5 years of chronic tears and a “living hell” until her breakthrough moment.

Ponder with us, the many reasons we stay in abusive, power-over relationships. Learn how resilience can sometimes be antithetical to our wellbeing. Hear about how Andrea stood her ground against a man who tried to break her. Find out what it’s like to come out metaphorically beaten and bruised, yet with enough agency to not have to break before you make an important change.

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Andrea Pass is the owner of Andrea Pass Public Relations. She is the expert at booking clients on podcast interviews as well as features, quotes and reviews in digital media, broadcast, print and more. She creates and implements public relations campaigns in a wide range of categories including consumer products, lifestyle, business-to-business, education, health/wellness/fitness, beauty, food, authors, non-profits and more. Andrea Pass Public Relations has an expertise in national, regional and local media relations outreach. Her strength in relationships coupled with her knowledge of the ever-growing media base results in securing top tier, targeted media placements to increase brand awareness, reputation management and sales for established businesses and growing entrepreneurs alike.

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Be careful what you ask for. Sara’s friend invited her on a trip. She said she’d only go if she got laid off and the rest is history. Sara began a journey away from abuse and bad behavior caused from stress, pressure, ego, and the drive for money and accolades. Leaving sunk costs behind her, she embarked on many trips, including with psychedelics.

Hear about toxic work cultures impacting Sara’s identity and how they lead to a breaking point. About how the mighty dollar erodes quality and function. And how one woman stepped away from it all to embrace trust, surrender, and faith on a journey back to herself. 

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Sara Roccisano spent over 20 years working on Wall Street as an Investment Banker and in Private Equity, Corporate America, and Government as a Renewable Energy Executive. As one could imagine, she became burnt out. Her spirit was unhappy, and she craved something more fulfilling. In early 2020, she answered a spiritual call to embark on a 5-Week Adventure around the world on the heels of coronavirus plaguing her home in New York City. The journey helped her to rediscover herself. By 2022, she surrendered by quitting her career and life as she knew it and began coming back home to self. 

Sara is a world-traveling, scuba-diving, spiritually transforming, International Public Speaker, Travel Storyteller, Author, and founder of Embolden Adventures. She has traveled to 42+ countries and over half of the United States from the tops of the mountains, the depths of the oceans, the mysterious megalithic, and everywhere else in between. 

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Iryna went from being on an all-consuming academic tract to motherhood, wife, caretaker of her mom with cancer, and divorcee, and in the process found herself in a hopeless dark hole. “It felt like burned out land. Nothing alive there, like dry land with the cracked bottom when there’s no water and the tumbleweed is rolling there. This is how it felt inside.”

Witness how Iryna’s life roles came out of her values, regardless of what it cost her. Discover what it's like to feel like nothing is alive.  How did Iryna move past that difficult phase? Find out how Iryna went from being defined by the relationships in her life and what she does to by who she is. 

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Iryna Ishchenko is a Master Certified Coach who became a coach for caregivers after taking care of her mother who had terminal cancer and medically induced dementia and solo parenting a newborn baby at the same time and not finding any help for herself how to survive that nightmare. After surviving that experience she decided to be the help she needed but didn’t have.

Taking care of your aging parents with dementia doesn’t have to be frustrating. If you want to get your life back, and thrive without resentment or feeling like you are merely “surviving” or “what kind of person am I becoming” Iryna can help you make it happen.

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I’m an average human being, a mother, a poet, a writer, a trauma survivor, and a coach and healer. 

I help parents who parent with a narcissistic partner or ex to preserve sanity, take their life back and support their children. 

My experience of growing up in highly narcissistic environments, and later being in narcissistic relationships, led me to reflect on my own life at a point when I was severely depressed and suffering from C-PTSD.  Since then, I’ve been healing from inner child wounds and narcissistic abuse to build a thriving life for me and my daughter. 

I’ve worked in the field of education for almost 20 years before I became a life coach and Advanced EFT and Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner. I also hold a diploma in NLP. I am a DISC Facilitator and qualified to work with narcissism and domestic violence. Other qualifications include MA, BA, CELTA, EYT, diplomas in teaching and in Montessori teaching.

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When her husband got a job in Japan and she became a trailer wife, Linda was already a globetrotter. But now she gave up a successful corporate career to live in Japan with her husband. And she quickly found out how much of herself was wrapped up in her own career status. She was at a loss when people asked what her husband did and didn’t ask what she did. The move to Japan was the beginning of many more international moves, Linda discovering what was happening to her identity, and intentionally reinventing who she was becoming. 

Learn how chosen change can end up with unexpected identity loss. Hear about how that impacted Linda and what she did about it. Find out how even returning home to your own country can cause immense, unexpected identity changes.

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Linda Mueller is a certified life coach and mentor who empowers international women to adapt and thrive wherever they may land. With extensive personal and professional international experience, she utilizes all that she has learned to coach with compassionate accountability during all stages of her clients' international journey. From preparation for an international move to adaptation abroad to repatriation, Linda uses proven strategies and tools to help globally-mobile women find purpose, connection, and a renewed sense of self that is independent of location.

Linda is a former corporate climber with 10+ years of accompanying partner experience in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. She fully understands the opportunities and challenges that partners encounter while living abroad and is passionate about supporting those on a similar journey. Linda resides in Chicago (USA) with her husband and teen third culture kid (TCK).

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This episode continues the conversation with Terry Mandel. It’s where the identity shift discussion really takes off…finding out she’s lost family members in the Holocaust, when for over 60 years she believed her family had been spared that atrocity.

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As a very young child, Terry Mandel had a sixth sense about her reality as it related to her family history. Growing up in LA, she sensed there was something missing from her family’s immigration story and her family vehemently prohibited questions on this topic. As an older girl, when she learned of the Holocaust, her family story made even less sense—things just didn’t add up.  

Now in her 60’s, Terry recently had a mind boggling and soul wrenching experience she’s adjusting to, after learning that a dozen family members were murdered in the Holocaust after having been told her entire life that all of her family escaped. Terry’s now on a mission to learn all there is to be discovered about her family’s saga and tackle problems inherent in systemic realities that keep people from knowing of and becoming the full version of themselves. In 2023 she founded The Unerasure Projekt, a not-for-profit dedicated to reclaiming hidden legacies in ourselves, communities, and the world.

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Terry Mandel has advised leaders and entrepreneurs in the US and abroad for decades. As a depth-oriented strategist, leadership mentor, speaker, and learning program designer/facilitator, she focuses on “the right things right now” to help clients bridge the gaps between their aspirations, operations, and communications. Her approach taps often-overlooked resources and illuminates systemic obstacles that deplete morale, block innovation, and depress profitability. The goal: Workplaces that attract and retain innovators and top performers, fully engage the team’s collaborative capacity, and deliver on the promise of their visions.

As the daughter and granddaughter of Jewish refugees from Nazi-era Germany, Terry learned early to navigate different cultures. In 2023, she founded The Unerasure Projekt, a not-for-profit dedicated to reclaiming hidden legacies in ourselves, communities, and world. Our programs and services inspire, educate, and facilitate hands-on expression, enabling participants to weave deep personal meaning in their present-day lives and communities out of painful, abstract history.

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https://unerasure.org (in development)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rightthingsrightnow/

As a very young child, Terry had a sixth sense about her reality as it related to her family history. Growing up in LA, she sensed there was something missing from her family’s immigration story and her family vehemently prohibited questions on this topic. As an older girl, when she learned of the Holocaust, her family story made even less sense—things just didn’t add up.  

Now in her 60’s, Terry recently had a mind boggling and soul wrenching experience she’s adjusting to, after learning that a dozen family members were murdered in the Holocaust after having been told her entire life that all of her family escaped. Terry’s now on a mission to learn all there is to be discovered about her family’s saga and tackle problems inherent in systemic realities that keep people from knowing of and becoming the full version of themselves. In 2023 she founded The Unerasure Projekt, a not-for-profit dedicated to reclaiming hidden legacies in ourselves, communities, and the world.

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Terry Mandel has advised leaders and entrepreneurs in the US and abroad for decades. As a depth-oriented strategist, leadership mentor, speaker, and learning program designer/facilitator, she focuses on “the right things right now” to help clients bridge the gaps between their aspirations, operations, and communications. Her approach taps often-overlooked resources and illuminates systemic obstacles that deplete morale, block innovation, and depress profitability. The goal: Workplaces that attract and retain innovators and top performers, fully engage the team’s collaborative capacity, and deliver on the promise of their visions.

As the daughter and granddaughter of Jewish refugees from Nazi-era Germany, Terry learned early to navigate different cultures. In 2023, she founded The Unerasure Projekt, a not-for-profit dedicated to reclaiming hidden legacies in ourselves, communities, and world. Our programs and services inspire, educate, and facilitate hands-on expression, enabling participants to weave deep personal meaning in their present-day lives and communities out of painful, abstract history.

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https://unerasure.org (in development)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rightthingsrightnow/

Patricia Loff remembers her first sign of illness: she got bags under her eyes when she was 10 years old. When she was about 15, she recognized something physical holding her back from reaching her pinnacle as an athlete. In her 20’s she was diagnosed with cancer. Patricia went through more surgeries than you can shake a stick at until she called it quits. And that’s when her life turned around for the better ever after story. 

Discover how stopping to resist death opened up new avenues for healing and health. Find out a little bit about thought control. Learn about the power of the subconscious mind and how to benefit from it rather than feed it with self-fulfilling prophecies. Join Patricia in one of her classes on how to experience pain and disease differently. 

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Patricia is a healing expert and founder of Rapid Health Transformation. After experiencing her own shift from a prognosis of 3-6 months to live to complete disease reversal, Patricia has spent the last 20+ years helping others do the same.

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This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Be sure to listen to Part l.

In Part 2, Quintina discusses how she’s in the 2% of people who don’t return to The Life (sex trafficking). She offers ideas around what we all can do to change this statistic and includes her educated opinions on the movie Sounds of Freedom, currently in theaters. 

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Quintina grew up in a dysfunctional family. She escaped the fate of her brothers—foster care and adoption. But by the time she was 20, she got caught between a rock and a hard place when she had to deal with untrue, serious legal charges levied against her, causing her already fragile house of cards to collapse. A man trafficking humans saved her and she began living under his spell: turning tricks, working full-time as a hairstylist, and giving all her earnings over to him.  

How does systemic exploitation turn people against even themselves? How did abuse in childhood set her up for giving her life over to a pimp’s lies and deception? Listen to how trafficking changed Quintina’s entire identity, even down to using a new name. Find out how she extricated herself and stays “square,” why 98% of people who exit return to trafficking, and what can preempt this. 

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Quintina Sonnie is a Lived Experience Expert and Conscious Choice Creator who has dedicated 7 years to the anti-trafficking movement. She is a survivor herself who has become a spiritual guide and healer. She lives her life fully barefoot, is a Breathwork facilitator, Tarot & Human Design reader and the founder of the Conscious Choice Creation Method.

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quintinalsonnie@gmail.com 

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Driving with high school friends, the car rolled four times. Fate intervened to save his life when his friend’s mom, and nurse, diverted the ambulance from bringing him to the nearest hospital, getting him straight to one that could properly treat his trauma. With a TBI (traumatic brain injury), Daniel began stepping into his uncertain future.

Hear about what it’s like when your life might never get back on track. Learn what kind of support made all the difference. Find out how Daniel discovered inner resources to overcome his prognosis, and how that journey created new resources that he repurposes for any new life challenge he faces. Get a glimpse of grief and loss from a teenager’s perspective. Find out how Daniel’s experience delivered new values and vision for a meaningful and fulfilling life.

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I sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury in 2009 from a motor vehicle accident. I needed to have brain surgery to save my life. I went through 3 months of physical therapy and 17 months of speech therapy after the accident. This event inspired me to go into the helping profession. I obtained my master's in social work and currently work in a hospital and started my own private practice business focused on mental health therapy, trauma, and TBIs.

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https://www.revitalizementalhealth.com/

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Jyoti is a young, smart, high-performing, American born and raised Punjabi woman. Depression and anxiety were foreigners to her until an uncle from India migrated to the USA and lived in her family’s home. He quickly went from being tolerable to an unbearable tyrant. Jyoti protected herself by working three jobs to stay away from home. His emotional abuse eventually lead her to becoming suicidal.

Find out how journaling, as part of therapy, and later writing her first (of many) fiction books, helped her healing process. Learn about the impact emotional abuse can have on a person. Discover how many ways trauma changed Jyoti’s life trajectory, the support that buoyed her through those years, and what it looks like to be one strong, badass woman, even while living with fear. 

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Jyoti Dhanota is a self-published author who began writing as a way of healing her trauma.

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Leeanne Brennan is an artist who realized she’d left part of herself behind after becoming a mom and making it big as a commercial artist. Not only had she lost touch with her internal drive for art—the drive that’s disconnected from anything other than personal desire—motherhood wasn’t cutting it either. She landed in a dark and desolate place with no hope and no idea where the way out was. She didn’t even believe there was a way out. 

Find out what sparked the beginning of regaining her full identity again. Learn how Leeanne brought creativity back into her life on her own terms, and what this looks like to her and other artists she helps. Discover basic steps she uses to help others bring creativity back into their lives and how they make it grow into a habit that keeps on giving. 

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Leeanne Brennan is an Artist and Mindset & Accountability Coach for Creatives living in North Carolina with my husband and 2 small children. She creates sensitive, whimsical art to help unblock limiting beliefs and manifest a life we love, and runs programs to help creatives start and finish their creative projects.

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From the age of two, Shell Lightning Spirit didn’t think about regular stuff kids think about. Now was she allowed to talk about what she was thinking. Add to this, drowning when she was seven and seeing what it was like on the other side. Shell lived between a rock and a hard place as she grew up and tried to make sense of life. To cope, she withdrew into a tight, tiny ball of a person until one night, in her first year of college. Struck by lightning, she fast-forwarded the process she’d already begun of reclaiming who she really was.

Hear about how a child who is “different” experienced a series of unfortunate events, including life threatening ones. Find out what it’s like to be in the light where you go when you die, and then coming back to the darkness of life as a human on planet earth. Discover how Shell’s spirit stayed alive and found its way to the surface over and over again, and how that gives meaning to her life.

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Shell Lightning Spirit Mualem is a Transformational Guide and Lifelong Learner. Her formal disciplines are Macro and Clinical Master Social Worker, Personal Fitness Trainer and Reiki Master. She is currently working toward a Doctorate in Metaphysical Sciences. Shell has been awarded Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor; Six Sigma Green Belt; LEAN Leader; Professional in Healthcare Quality; and Basic Nutrition Certificates. 

Shell has primarily worked with the most vulnerable, traumatized and marginalized populations. She is recognized and valued for her grounded open presence and expertise in guiding individuals, groups and organizations through complex change. Her experience includes teaching and speaking about human bioethics, cultural competence and trauma. She has published articles on gang violence. In 2016, she launched a large scaled comprehensive suicide prevention package for more than 50 Hospitals in her home state of Michigan and in 7 other US States. In 2020, she led an integrated well-being initiative to directly support doctors and nurses on the frontline during the Covid Crisis. 

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lightningspiritproductions@gmail.com 

Tina Brandau 1.0 was a high-achiever loving life in the corporate fastlane and a jet-setting mover and shaker. But one day she became Tina 2.0. She went from a 40-year-old to functioning like a 3-year-old and it took ten years to become Tina 3.0. Tina was going to be in a marathon when one day, out on a run, a tree fell on her and she got a TBI (traumatic brain injury). 

What impact did this have on her identity? How did she manage to lower expectations and keep her goals itsy bitsy instead of what she was used to? Learn how Tina never lost hope in herself and shows up today as an international speaker and best selling author of Standing Strong, inspiring others to never give up on their dreams. 

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Tina Brandau is the premier life, leadership, and business Success Coach who has dedicated her life to empowering others to create a greater impact. She's also a best-selling author, a speaker who has been on more than 500 stages, and the founder of Success Coaching Solutions, with decades of experience as a proven leader, C-Suite executive, and successful serial entrepreneur.

What sets Tina apart is her incredibly powerful story of surviving and thriving following an unimaginable accident while training for a marathon.

Tina is passionate about sharing her hard-won wisdom, experience, steps, and strategies with others. Her motivational talks are packed with practical insights, inspiring stories, and actionable techniques to help individuals and businesses unleash their full potential and achieve their biggest goals. She believes the biggest challenge in life is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.

Success Coaching Solutions Bio - The heart of Success Coaching Solutions' work is empowering executives, business owners, and leaders to master Your leadership skill-set, mind-set, and tool-set, to elevate your leadership, ignite your potential, and embrace your legacy while meeting life’s greatest challenge head on – “to become all that You have the possibility of becoming.” Success Coaching Solutions – Where Your Greatness Begins.]

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https://www.successcoachingsolutions.com

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TRIGGER WARNING—RAPE

Cara Lynn was an 8 years old when she was raped. Her mom didn’t find out the whole story until she was 15. She was raped a few more times and is also a survivor of a relationship with domestic violence. When her first child was born, she found out she was the product of a rape, and this then explained everything—rape is who she was.

But Cara Lynn never let these assaults break her. And after seeing the man who raped her for the third time, now in her 40’s, she fell apart and is piecing herself back together. 

Find out what it’s like for a child to live with a death threat, if she discloses the crime. How did Cara Lynn cope with her traumas without resorting to drugs, alcohol, or some other addiction? What helped her heal, and not choose death, and how can she now have compassion for these men who raped? Be the first to hear this amazing saga from an articulate, grounded and healed woman. And find out how my forthcoming book—MASTERS OF CHANGE—could have helped her. 

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When you discover your passion and true calling, it’s imperative you share it in the world. Hello, I’m Cara Lynn, founder of WalkNWisdom-The Magic of Becoming You™, and creator of the Post Traumatic Self Alignment Program (PTSA). I help Trauma Survivors Break Free Forever (BFF) from survival mode to live a life they truly love. Break Free Forever from the Trauma Drama. I apply the most cutting edge science and evidence based methods in neuroscience coupled with UFH sessions to show individuals how to create a life they truly love by getting into the identity of who they want to be. I use UFH sessions as a starting point for clients or as a stand alone experience.

I have an intimate understanding of trauma through my own existence and journey. I was tired of survival mode. I knew there had to be more to this life than discouraging overwhelm, depression, and people pleasing. I became the change I wanted to see. I reclaimed my power by healing the “trauma drama”. I did not try to fix myself, because I was not broken, and neither are you. I let go of the past with the methods I’m certified in to create the woman I AM, and LOVE today. 

I combine all my experiences, knowledge and training to create individual plans and healing maps that are client led. Together we discover the wisdom in the trauma, keep the lesson & neutralize the triggers as we integrate the information in a safe, and gentle way. As clients come back into self-alignment, they naturally shift into a new mindset of a conscious creator empowered by self-love and true choice. One learns to become THE powerful creative force in their life.

When you’re ready to upgrade, release the past, stop self-sabotage, and eliminate limiting beliefs to live an authentically aligned life, then let me show you how. Let’s go from Trauma 2 Sunshine together. Let it begin with Unity Field Healing. Together We Rise.

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Angela McCullough was a smart, successful, and happy high achiever. She made it her mission to break the stereotypes about her life trajectory and potential as a Black woman from Detroit. But when breast cancer in her early thirties brought her face-to-face with her own mortality, priorities turned into mirages as new ones became the foundation for the next version of herself. 

Find out how Angela used her mindset, community, and faith to survive. Discover what kind of support was fundamental to healing and how the possibility of death changed her daily lifestyle. Learn how this experience gave her a new perception of humanity that fundamentally changed her identity, auto-translating her purpose into a new mission of ensuring that problems of social equity are tackled instead of ignored or overlooked. 

Jenny had addiction in her family but didn’t know it when she was little. She became an alcoholic herself, then stopped during her marriage. But after the divorce, as a way to deal with the pain of shared parenting and single parenthood, Jenny started drinking again.

Find out how her thirteen-year-old daughter caused her to stop cold turkey. And then how three years later, Jenny was able to step up to the plate full force when that same child had a spinal cord injury. And discover how both of them are succeeding with flying colors, in spite of being paralyzed and living in a wheelchair. 

Bio

Jenny Grass D’Agostino 

•Over 16 million views on social media 

•Spoke on stages in front of hundreds of people all over the states to health & fitness enthusiasts, spinal cord injury advocate, stem cell therapy

•9+ years invested in Personal Development, Mind, Body, and Spirituality and Podcasting 

•Speaker-Teacher-Self Healer-Coach

•Reiki certified 

•daily meditation 

• Actively raised over 100k in fundraisers 

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FB- Jenny Grass D’Agostino 

IG- Jenny Grass D’Agostino and Dear Future Self Experience

TikTok- jennygrassdagostino

YouTube- dearfutureself 

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Susan Brown grew up in a small town in Mississippi. She made her escape after leaving college with enough credits for 1.5 degrees but not enough in one area to graduate. She and a friend went to Florida, shared an apartment, worked, and explored independence. But when her friend left, Susan couldn’t pay the rent on her own and made a bold decision after soul-searching for the right answer. Instead of moving back with her parents and risking getting stuck in her small town, she chose to live in her car.

Learn how the pursuit to keep momentum towards her new identity kept her in a good headspace as she navigated uncertainty and living on the edge of society. Find out the breakthrough moment that changed her trajectory and made it possible for her to come out the other side better off than she imagined. Discover how being bullied as a child helped her let go of internalized oppression that tainted her self-esteem and propelled her into a chosen new identity that embraces her potential.  

Bio

Susan is the Hope-Filled Efficiency Expert behind the LEGACY GAME CHANGERS movement. She is the author of the 5 star rated One Year Of Thankful Thursdays, the life changing Peace Of Mind Blueprint, Inspirational Speaker, and co-founder of Legacy Game Changers. 

She draws from her own inspirational journey including homelessness, being a paramedic, being a Health & Safety Director at the Red Cross during 9/11, nearly dying, and becoming a caregiver to her completely paralyzed mom. 

Susan talks about the hard stuff that most people shy away from, all while connecting in a unique way with compassion and pairs it all with practical high level strategies you can implement right away. 

Legacy Game Changers mission is simple. We equip Visionary Believers to break free from overwhelm and the fear of “what-ifs” and create and live out a game changing legacy that transforms generations to come! 

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https://www.legacygamechangers.com/ 

hello@LegacyGameChangers.com 

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Leonaura has always been ambitious: good at setting and achieving goals. She became a doctor. She became a mom before her age deadline. But then she stopped working because her son was critically ill. This all made sense and she managed these unexpected changes. 

But after her second son also required her to stay at home because of critical and chronic health problems, Leonaura reduced her self-identity to simply “a mother of two sick kids.” And depression kicked in full force.

How did she pull herself out of depression? What choices did she make that changed her perspective and got her doing things that brought her joy and meaning again, apart from being “just” a mom. Why wasn’t being “just” a mom enough for her? 

Bio

Dr. Leonaura Rhodes is on a mission to help people increase their happiness, health, and abundance. 

She began her career as a physician in the UK. When studying for her MPH she became obsessed with the science of wellness, illness prevention and peak performance. Her love for learning led her to train as a counselor, coach, relationship strategist, neurotherapist, and brain health coach. She is also a published author, course creator, corporate trainer and public speaker.  She has worked as a Results Coach and Business Results Trainer for Tony Robbins (Robbins Research International). 

Her own battle with chronic stress and severe depression led to a passion for helping people get physically and emotionally well. In 2014 she published “Beyond Soccer Mom: Strategies for a fabulous balanced life” (Morgan James Publishing), a guide to creating a meaningful, happy, healthy life for women. 

She has worked with thousands of people to help them intentionally create their future life with a process called  "Peak Life Design ". Her motto is "You can settle for an ordinary life, or you can become extraordinary". Originally from England, Leonaura now lives in Norwalk, Connecticut with her husband and two young adult sons. In her spare time you’ll find her kayaking, taking nature photographs and letting her hair down at concerts and music festivals. 

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Michelle Hammer began to sense that things were off in her teens. Her inner voice conversations took a turn and became more problematic. She got on some meds and didn’t tell her mom exactly what was going on. She was misdiagnosed as having bipolar when actually she has schizophrenia. Once she was properly diagnosed in college things became easier for her, knowing what was actually going on. 

Find out how schizophrenia impacts her identity and how she manages to live a pretty normal life with it. Learn about one person’s journey to reaching an accurate diagnosis and what happens in the interim when you’re treated for the wrong thing. Discover the many ways mental illness is misunderstood, ways others don’t support people as well as they could, and things that can make life better for people with mental health challenges. 

Bio

Michelle Hammer is a Schizophrenia Activist and spends her time passionately fighting stigma. She is an NYC native featured in the WebMD documentary Voices, which was nominated for a Tribeca X Award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2018. Michelle was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 22 after a misdiagnosis of bipolar at age 18. At 27, Michelle decided to use her artistic talents and fearless personality to do something that could benefit the mental health community. In May 2015, she founded a mental health-focused clothing brand. Schizophrenic.NYC is a clothing brand with the mission of reducing stigma by starting conversations about mental health. Michelle has also been featured in many publications such as Mashable, The Daily Mail, Stylist, and Buzzfeed.

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Insta: https://www.schizophrenic.nyc

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@schizophrenic.nyc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SchizophrenicNYC

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/schizophrenicny

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