Between The Before & After (The Stories that Shape Us)

Brenden Kumarasamy started out making videos in his Mom's basement, and now he's an internationally recognized speaker and founder of MasterTalk!

Leann's super power is being genetically optimistic.

She was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 2009 at the age of 29.

However, she believes that finding the positive in negative situations is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and perfected.

Her mission is to teach her time tested tools to as many people as possible, so that they can experience the magic of positivity too!

Alan Smyth is the Executive Director of Saving Innocence, and organization dedicated to fighting child victims of sex trafficking.

He's also the author of Men! Fight For Me!, a book about ending sexual exploitation of children.

This is a very uncomfortable topic, as most people would rather not know it exists. But it's a deeply important one. So, today, we're going there.

Karie was a dietitian, on the Board of the Canadian Diabetes Association, specialized in Chronic Disease and Sports Nutrition with the IOC Nutrition.

But then, things started falling apart both for her and her husband. Things needed to change.

Karie is now a bestselling author and her husband is living his dream as a singer in a band! This is Karie's story.

This week's episode was both heartbreaking and heartwarming with Lindsay Miller! Lindsay is incredibly open and vulnerable in sharing the story of her devastating struggles and how it led her to the amazing place she is in now.

Why should you take cooking tips or health advice from a snarky grandma who doesn’t own a restaurant, isn’t a reality TV star, doesn’t have a medical degree, and doesn’t particularly like to cook?

Here's why: her new book, "Brownies for Breakfast, A Cookbook for Diabetics and the People Who Love Them," is a cool, fun, beautiful, guidebook for anybody who wants to eat healthy: vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free and sugar-free.

Heather Markel quit her 25+ year career in corporate for a career break, that turned into a way of life.She's now been traveling full time for 4 years and been to 27 countries on 6 continents in that time, including being marooned in New Zealand for 2 years.

Daniel Junkins was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in April of 2017 with just weeks to live.

While receiving this diagnosis as well as one of the most powerful chemotherapy protocols in the cancer world, Dan discovered the powerful story of the peacock and its innate ability to ingest poison, created a powerful mantra, and mobilized support from all the communities of people in his life.

Melissa Mayer is a Holistic Physical Therapist and author of the book, "Recovering My True Self".

In her book she tells the story of the transformational journey she experienced donating her kidney to her husband.

Some people find rock bottom... Kevin found out that rock bottom has a basement.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

In his mid 20's... he had it all. A beautiful girlfriend, a high paying job, a sports car, his dream body... but still ended up sitting on the edge of a bed debating suicide... several times.⁣⁣⁣⁣

After his rock bottom moment, he went all in on self improvement, he was determined to overcome anxiety, and to overcome depression.⁣⁣⁣⁣

Kevin Palmieri is now a podcaster, speaker, podcast coach and podcast consultant. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

With years of studying self improvement and over 700 episodes discussing it, Kevin has learned a lot about a lot... but the most about himself!⁣⁣⁣⁣