Our very special guest this week is Michele Neff-Hernandez.

Michele is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Soaring Spirits International, a non-profit organization providing peer support programming for widowed people worldwide. Michele is the author of Different After You: Rediscovering Yourself and Healing after Grief or Trauma published by New World Library in February of 2022. Her passion for supporting widowed people and the power of integration fuels her presentations and her community activism.

Michele has received a local, state, and national recognition for her work in founding Soaring Spirits, including a letter of recognition from then Vice President Joe Biden. Michele was named a 2021 Top Ten CNN Hero and was honored to share the stage with Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter. Michele’s work is featured in an upcoming Apple TV docuseries and will be the focus of a PBS documentary available for streaming in 2023.

Michele resides in Simi Valley, California and shares her life with her three amazing kids, their awesome partners, her grand-cats, and one very Australian husband.

Find out more about Soaring Spirits International: www.soaringspirits.org

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Learn more about Michele's work & how you can purchase her book, Different After You: Rediscovering Yourself And Healing After Grief Or Trauma: www.micheleneffhernandez.com

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