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

After losing her Mom at the age of 25, she would spend the next ten years not processing the trauma, losing her self confidence along the way, and feeling alone in her struggles. ⁣⁣

This all came to a head in 2020 when the whole world was hurting, Melissa decided to turn her pain into her purpose and start healing.⁣⁣

Sherry Diamond is a Health & Wellness Coach in Los Angeles with over 30 years of sales & marketing, luxury retail & medical experience.⁣⁣⁣

Sheri realized that for most of her life her brain and her body were involved in a daily boxing match and were never friends. ⁣⁣⁣

She knew a change was imminent. After much research & personal experience she lost 103 pounds by eating cleaner & has kept it off for three years. Now she is teaching her secret to others.⁣⁣⁣

When Adam was 18 years old his girlfriend at the time told him she no longer found him attractive. ⁣⁣⁣

This led him into a spiral of yo-yo dieting going from excessive binge eating to extreme exercise and restrictive dieting till the point where he competed on a bodybuilding stage, but continued to binge eat off of it.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

From binge eating to the stage Adam’s Journey of working on his mind to change his relationship with food and exercise is so inspiring.⁣⁣⁣⁣

Adam now works as a part of A-Game Consultancy, where he and his business partner (also called Adam…), are helping people and businesses improve their mental, physical and internal health.⁣⁣⁣⁣

Driven by her motto, "Be inspired to be yourself and be inspired to empower someone else," Patrice Brantley passionately serves as a Teacher and Community Licensed Mental Health therapist who is committed to helping others heal from the pain of their past traumas, and walk into a healthy and WHOLE Future.⁣

Tony Winyard worked as a club DJ around the world for more than a decade, living in 11 countries and visiting another 80.⁣⁣

His focus in recent years has moved more towards health and wellness after his realisation that all of his close relatives have died of cancer, and in recent years has completed studies in nutrition, breathwork, sleep and behaviour science and now helps people to create and implement habits that improve their health.⁣⁣

Emily Thiroux Threatt is the author of Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss.⁣⁣

Founder of Lifestyle Performance Transformations Matt Sutton is not your normal Personal Trainer or fitness entrepreneur. ⁣

Former semi-professional Snooker player, 7 times Billiard Champion and World Championship quarter-finalist Matt initially chose his path into the fitness world to give him the freedom to travel the world and play at the highest level on the green baize.⁣

However as his love for fitness & business grew he chose to invest more of his time into impacting peoples lives. ⁣

Then aged 27 his world changed when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive Cancer.⁣

In battling his illness Matt discovered the power nutrition and mindset alongside fitness for improving health & wellness.⁣

From age of 11 Christine Handy was dependent on external value. ⁣

Then she started to get sick at 35, then again at 41, then aggressive cancer.⁣

The external facade crumbled and caused her to take a deep a look at who she was inside and changed it all. ⁣

At his first annual physical, he weighed 260 pounds. His doctor tried to prescribe medication for high blood pressure.⁣⁣

He didn’t want a lifetime of medication, so his doctor told him to lose weight. Turns out, that’s much easier said than done. ⁣⁣

Diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2015, Ray was suffering. Not just from the physical effects, but also because of the crushing stress of a job in finance.⁣

After over 20 years chained to an equity trading desk at investment banks around Asia, Ray's life changed dramatically in early 2019 when he took his first freedive course. He fell in love with the art of one breath diving immediately.

As of 2021, Ray is living virtually pain free, and he credits much of this to becoming a freedive instructor and how it has transformed his life - it's meditative effects, being in the ocean almost everyday, daily doses of sun and low impact exercise has dramatically contributed to improving his wellness.⁣

This is Ray's story.⁣