Brave & True Life

Jodie is truly one of my favorite creatives on the planet. How can you not love her even just reading her bio? She's also a wealth of knowledge and is willing to share ALL of it with new artists. 

Jodie King is an artist, instructor, speaker and kitchen dancer whose mission is to help
others excavate their own authentic power and joy through the use of art and creativity.
She possesses a combination of playful irreverence and spirituality with almost 20 years
of art experience that resonates with her audience from around the world. Jodie’s “No
one is the boss of you” attitude about painting, life, and creativity encourages the novice
as well as the experienced to create, in her words, “honest art.”

Vicki is the photographer I learned the most from 20 years ago. She and her husband, Jed, created magic with their studio V Gallery in Morton, Illinois. Vicki specializes in photographing people, pets, and commercial shoots. V Gallery has been everything from a small home based studio, to a large storefront with multiple employees, and everything in between.

There were many twists and turns along the Taufer's journey, including adopting two beautiful kids from different countries. In this interview she shares her incredible story about her 6th month stay in Nepal. She is truly an advocate of the version of work/life balance that works best for her.

www.vgallery.net  or on social media @vtaufer

Betty Hoeffner is the co-founder and CEO of Hey U.G.L.Y. She is the author of STOP BULLYING HANDBOOK-A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS & THEIR FRIENDS, DEAL FEEL HEAL-KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING AND HEALING EMOTIONAL PAIN, and HUE-MAN KIND-A BOOK TO END RACISM. 

She created, and facilitates, Hey U.G.L.Y.’s Stop Bullying Boot Camps, Hue-Man Kind Art Projects,  and the DEAL FEEL HEAL-Emotional Healing  Program for youth. She developed and wrote the highly-effective Stop Bullying Task Force Program™ in use at schools across the country and in Canada. The Stop Bullying Task Force Program enables schools to set up student-run stop bullying teams to deal with bullying situations and maintain an environment of respect, acceptance and inclusion throughout the school year. She created Bullying Bystanders Unite, Project Apologize, Cyberbullied Unite, Laughtercising(tm), SEEIT and the Stop Self-Bullying & Love Yourself Enough Campaign. She created and hosts a weekly radio show on WRHC-FM called CHOOSE TO CHANGE™. 

Visit http://heyugly.org/

Elida is like no other human you’ll ever meet. I have the good fortune of calling her friend and also teaching retreats with her. Not only does she create beautiful art of her own, she teaches others’ to tap into their creativity and learn something new. From her “Art Van-Go” kids’ classes to her art tours of Italy, Elida has something for everyone.

Visit her site for all of it: https://www.elidaart.com/
For show notes: https://www.braveandtruegirl.com/blog

Brandee Sheldrake created Busy as the Bee, a community for people to start their health journey, creating good habits that will last. Her methods make so much sense.

“I’ve lost weight before doing conventional diets, only to gain it back when “real life” came along. When I decided to take action in the direction of my health goals, I intentionally started slow. I knew we would eventually need to overhaul what & how we were eating & incorporate movement but I only committed to a couple walks a week at first. I made the conscious choice to focus on developing a healthy relationship with food & exercise instead of focusing on the scale as the barometer of my success. “

Busy as the Bee.Com Brandee’s leadership and guidance is so valuable on the journey.

Mooniek is a parent coach,  certified master coach, mom, international best-selling author and speaker.

Her 7-week course Great Parents Empower has proven many times that any mom or dad anywhere in the world can become a beloved role model in their family.

Mooniek has coached parents, families, business leaders and teams since 2002. She travels all over the world to speak and meet parents and still manages to set aside quality time for her daughter who is now working as a singer and actor in England.

Mooniek’s site: https://greatparentsempower.com

Jill is a psychotherapist, writer, clinical advisory member for HeyUgly, and organization dedicated to improving the self esteem of youth. She also is the advice expert for NewMoon.com, a magazine for preadolescent girls. In her private practice, Jill works with primarily eating disorders and she gives some great advice in this podcast about how to identify and support a family member going through this crisis.
Her books include: "Picture Perfect: What You Need to Feel Better About Your Body" and "Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough: The 10 Things That Stress Girls Out and How to Cope with Them". 

Jen Rozenbaum s a portrait photographer, author, breast cancer survivor, hostess of the Shamelessly Feminine® podcast and the founder of the Reconstruction™ movement. Through her work, she is helping women celebrate their unique femininity and helping breast cancer patients and survivors put their lives back together after cancer.

Her mission is to help kick-as women who need a kick in the ass. So many great pieces of wisdom in this interview. You will be inspired!

There are moments during this unprecedented disruption in our lives when I'm just not up for hearing "we'll be better on the other side of this".

How I'm dealing as I enter the "acceptance stage" of this crazy season in our world.

Visit Braveandtrue.girl on Instagram to see the latest coping mechanisms in graphic design. :)

The website Yourteenmag.com and the Your Teen podcast have been so valuable in the journey with my own kids. I recommend it to all parents who's daughters attend my workshops. On this episode we dive deep into the compilation of advice these women have received about supporting quarantined teens.  There are some golden nuggets of wisdom in here!