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

Reggie McKiver has done a lot in his 4+ decades of life. From Navy, to police officer to commander and special operations. Now, as an author and success coach, Reggie helps others unlock their gifts and potential.

Meg's beginnings were humble - She grew up with immigrant parents, her dad was an alcoholic, and mom was very verbally abusive towards herself and her brothers. Meg grew up believing that there was something fundamentally flawed and unlovable about herself. That belief caused her to disappear behind a facade of people deceiving and growing secretly more and more bitter towards her loved ones.

Kirby is a leadership coach, and a combat veteran and hosts the TRUE Success podcast. His 26-year leadership and human capital experience have allowed him to provide results-driven, laser-focused, purpose-to-impact coaching to high-potential professionals since 2014.

Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M. Brown now calls the North Carolina coast home. In 2017, after finally getting out of an emotionally abusive 14-year marriage, Teri began dabbling in fiction, a lifelong dream. In 2020, she and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully healing her heart while raising money for Toys for Tots. Teri’s debut novel, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, is a historical fiction set in Ukraine.

Karyn Seitz calls herself The Happiness Mentor.

A far cry from the rebellious self-destructive partier that she was through her teens and 20's.

The greatest gift she ever gave herself was realizing she is the problem in her life and learning to take responsibility.

Now, she teaches others how to be happy by taking responsibility and growing and learning through life's challenges.

Growing up in a suburb in India, Mitadru did not have the opportunity to study English until graduation from high school.

He had his share of struggles, especially speaking up during meetings when he started working for a US Bank. At times he could not understand the western accent and then could not articulate thoughts during conference calls because he was nervous.

His career started much before the days when videoconferencing was normal. As long as he was in India, he could hide his uncomfortable body language behind the audio phone and convey his message.

He was exposed when he moved to New York and had to present every week to his clients. Many immigrants share this experience. Mitadru took it up as a challenge to improve his communication and trained himself to be a confident communicator.

This is Mitadru's story.

Sara Im spent four years in captivity in Cambodia, witnessing the genocide of over 2 million people. After enduring starvation and extreme exhaustion in a work camp under the Communist Khmer Rouge, Sara fled to the United States and now shares her story.

Tina McDermott spent most of her life struggling with digestive issues. She didn't understand that the embarrassing gas, bloating, constipation, and yo-yo weight gain/loss were all interconnected. Tina endured these issues until her 30s when she discovered she had Lyme disease that had gone undetected for years, wreaking unknown havoc on her body the entire time.

Dylan Sessler is an empath, survivor, author, mental health advocate, speaker, and US Army Veteran. He is a survivor of parental suicide, PTSD, child abuse, bullying, war, life-changing injuries along with depression and anxiety. He has since overcome PTSD, depression, and anxiety through intense self-awareness, learning, and focused self-empathy.

Jenn's story is about a young girl growing up surrounded by and experiencing abuse, poverty, and addiction, and later as a woman, struggling through traumatic losses including infertility, miscarriage, the loss of her adult son as well as some family members as she stepped out to share her testimony.