This week Clint talks with Nellie Harden.  Nellie is an author, speaker and Family Life & Leadership Coach who focuses on helping parents love & lead their teen/tween daughters in a way that teaches them to love & lead themselves while building a strong foundation of worth, esteem & confidence all before they leave home!

She is a wife, a mom to 4 teenage daughters, a retired homeschool parent and an adventure chaser. She has a background in biology and psychology from humpbacks to humans and years of personal, family and faith leadership development. She believes the best way to change the world is through one living room at a time!

This week Clint talks with Donesa Walker. Donesa was born and raised in Texas. Married a Louisiana boy and birthed two wonderful young men! Loves reading, gardening, and growing minds! Donesa had planned to be a medical doctor when growing up but her love of learning quickly led her into the field of teaching when a personal crisis showed her the importance of knowledge. Donesa taught for over 20 years in the public school systems of Texas and Louisiana at all grade levels from PreK through college. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Clinical & Educational Psychology and is the first Board Certified Cognitive Specialist in the State of Louisiana. Donesa is a pastor's daughter and vividly demonstrates her love for Christ in all that she does. Donesa loves skydiving and traveling but she is most impressed when someone conquers their own weaknesses in learning through brain training as this is what brings her joy! She says, "teaching someone to read and learn to learn is like giving them a gift that keeps on giving." Donesa spreads contagious joy to all those around her with her smile and gift of love for everyone. She opened the LearningRx centers of Shreveport-Bossier in 2008 and prides herself in being one of the best brain training centers in the world! She has been Franchisee of the Year and received various awards such as the Founder's Award, Glia Award, Top Center in the Nation, Top Customer Care every year that the center has been open and so many more...both local and national awards. Her infectious joy and love of learning is certainly contagious!

Jeremy Pierce and Andy Bond came on the podcast to discuss the Sex Offender Registry and the systemic problems in our country when it comes to reconciliation and recovery vs punishment and behavior modification. This conversation was heavy and also very informative. We hope that it brings light to the effects that these charges cause on the families of victims and the families of the offender as well. Jeremy started an online church for men and women on the sex offender registry to bring healing and stop the cycles of abuse. 

This week Clint talks to Dr. Sean Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder and CEO of OnePerfect, an enterprise mental health and wellness platform that delivers personalized mindset ’shifting’ experiences called Shifts. 

Dr. Sullivan began his formal psychology education at Harvard University and completed it with a psychology residency at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and postdoctoral training based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He has since been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times, Forbes, and Huffington Post, to name a few.

Dr. Sullivan’s clinical research focuses on applying technology to improve mental health — particularly by teaching anyone how to shift their state of mind on demand. As a psychotherapist for over twenty years, he also wrote popular psychology books and articles and created countless digital mental health, wellness, and peak performance psychology courses, apps, tools, and virtual reality (VR) treatments. 

Based on researching the impact of teaching his patients how to strategically shift their state of mind in a few minutes anytime (i.e. ‘shifting’), Dr. Sullivan developed Shift TherapyTM to guide anyone through shifting into a better state of mind from their smartphone in under 10 minutes anytime.

Demonstrating a major endorsement for shifting, the Regents of University of California approved piloting Shifts at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) during the pandemic. After two years of successful pilots, UCSC’s Health Center subscribed their entire 20,000+ member community to receive Shifts in 2023.

Dr. Sullivan believes teaching ‘shifting’ is the best way to address the massive US and worldwide mental health and unhappiness crisis we currently face and would love to introduce the concept to your audience.

This week Clint talks to Andy Howard.  For over 20 years, Andy has served in ministry as a youth pastor and marriage ministry pastor. He has found that not much changes in each role, just that some come with more wrinkles and less hair.

Andy is an advocate for mental health awareness as he has known the heaviness of depression himself. He is passionate about fighting against the awful attack of mental health issues that are running rampant across the human race. 

At his heaviest Andy weighed 345 lbs and his wife Tiffany weighed 317 lbs. Together, they have lost over 350 lbs combined and have co-founded a health coaching business called Taking Back My Life where they have helped thousands of people get healthy as well. Through this journey, Andy has become passionate about fitness and working out.

Andy loves traveling and sharing his and his family’s story with churches, conferences, and youth camps. In his spare time, he enjoys following his favorite sports teams and shooting zombies on Playstation (you probably didn’t see that coming). 

Andy was born in Bryan, Texas and currently lives outside Dallas, TX with his wife Tiffany and their three beautiful daughters Payton, Parker, and Presley.

Website: www.andyhoward.com

Andy's Book:  When Word Don't Come Easy - https://a.co/d/3pEPd0G

This week Clint talks with Dr. Amy Moore.  Dr Moore is a cognitive psychologist at LearningRx in Colorado Springs, CO at the headquarters of the largest network of cognitive training centers in the world. She specializes in cognitive rehabilitation training and cognition assessment for ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders, brain injury, learning disabilities, and age-related cognitive decline. She also serves as VP of Research at Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research. Her ground-breaking brain training and assessment research has been published in peer reviewed medical and psychology journals and presented at conferences around the country.

This week Clint talks with Britt Elizabeth, Britt is a photographer and a life long resident of Shreveport Louisiana. In this podcast Clint and Britt talk about her faith journey, her love for photography and storytelling. Check out her bio below:

At Britt Elizabeth Photography, I believe that every moment of your life is epic. We have and do a lot but one thing we never get back is time and photography is the only thing I have found that can at least capture it. Each stage in life, every relationship releases a different emotion and I want to make sure that in every photograph taken, I encapsulate the very essence of you in your story, whatever it may be. Every story should be written and captured in and with its own right. So, yes I am a photographer but I’m also a storyteller who wants to capture you in the realness of you so that when you look back at that moment, you don’t just see it but you also feel it!

Facebook -Brittany strickland and Britt Elizabeth photography

Website- brittelizabeth.com

Instagram - @thebrittelizabeth

This week Clint talks with Katie Walker.  Katie is an actress who produces films, teaches with the online study for The Passion Translation, and speaks around the world. She co-hosts the Katie and Philipa show/podcast encouraging women to rise up into the destiny in which God has called them. Katie lives in Shreveport, LA with her four children and husband, Todd. 

How to connect: www.katieandphilipa.com

Katie's Books:

Arise, You Are Called to Influence 30 Day Devotional: https://a.co/d/81JTstY

Break The Dawn: https://a.co/d/6uS6FTk

Exit the Highway of Destruction : https://a.co/d/1DGxJiq

This week Clint talks with Meghan Riordan Jarvis.  Megan is a, MA, LCSW is an author, podcast host, two time Tedx Speaker, and psychotherapist specializing in trauma and grief and loss. After the deaths of both of her parents within two years of each other Meghan began speaking on a larger scale about the importance of supporting grievers. Founder of Tacking Point Partners, Meghan and her team consult regularly with companies addressing grief in the workplace. Meghan’s podcast “Grief is My Side Hustle” and grief writing workshop “grief mates” can be found at www.meghanriordanjarvis.com

Meghan’s memoir. “The End of The Hour” https://www.amazon.com/End-Hour-Meghan-Riordan-Jarvis/dp/1958506206/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22CUVI0IF4RQ2&keywords=the+end+of+the+hour+meghan&qid=1681413559&sprefix=the+end+of+the+hour+meghan%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-1

Meghan's Second Book: “Can Anyone Tell Me Why: 25 Essential Questions About Grief and Loss” publishes with Sounds True Media in 2024.

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain https://www.amazon.com/How-Emotions-Are-Made-audiobook/dp/B01MZJ08US/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VHK9OGD9OGAN&keywords=how+emotion+are+made&qid=1681413686&sprefix=how+emotion+%2Caps%2C137&sr=8-1

This week Clint talks with Michael Trezza. Michael is a 20+ year technology entrepreneur and CEO with a formal education in fine art and computing. His experience and love for tech, psychology, nature, art & music shaped his unique perspective on work and life. Becoming a father opened his eyes to the shortcomings of traditional education to prepare a new generation for what he sees as a rapidly changing world and he discovered his why. Michael's mission is to inspire and engage people to become curious, capable, passionate, purposeful, and globally aware leaders, and to find true success in all aspects of their lives.