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Today we feature another children's book author and welcome Angela Smith to Epic Exchanges

Angela Smith is a New Zealand author who writes books on self-esteem and resiliency for 3 – 8-year-olds. These books are used in classrooms around the world and help children learn about healthy boundaries, resiliency, and how to stop bullying. Alongside her children's books, Angela writes wellness books for the teen-adult audience, introducing the reader to self-love and greater self-belief.

Exchange Quotes:

"Sometimes the only closure we need is to understand that we deserve better." – Angela Smith

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else." – E. E. Cummings

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www.truepotential.co.nz

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This week our guest is Vera from Flexibility with Vera

Vera is a Toronto-based personal trainer and flexibility coach who is working to create a space in the fitness industry beyond weight loss, diet culture, and fatphobia. Their platform, Flexibility with Vera, aims to help people worldwide discover body-neutral movement.

Exchange Quotes:

"Take your time and your talent and figure out what you have to contribute to this world, and get over what the hell your butt looks like in those jeans" — America Ferrara

"Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good." – Serena Williams

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www.flexibilitywithvera.com

@flexwithvera on Instagram and TikTok Flexibility With Vera on Facebook and YouTube

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

Today we welcome Kristin Ormiston back to Epic Exchanges

Kristin resides in Smithers, BC where she is a musician, best-selling author, and so much more! She has lived, taught, and played music all over the world, from Australia to Japan to Pender Island, British Columbia and more. The inspiration for Kristin's music comes from the people she surrounds herself with and reflects the 70s radio classics that she grew up listening to. Kristin's most recent release is "The Way Down Songbook" a book designed for children that incorporates images, words and music in an interactive way.

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"Music is one way for young people to connect with themselves, but, it's also a bridge for connecting with others. Through music, we can introduce children to the richness and diversity of the human family and to the myriad rhythms of life." – Daniel A Carp

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." - Plato

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Mrs. Kristin on Apple Music and Spotify

Kristin on Facebook

www.ormistonpress.ca

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

Today we feature another children's book author and welcome Shari Lillico to Epic Exchanges

Shari is a Best Selling Author, speaker, coach, and intuitive healer who has become a beacon of inspiration for those who have felt the need to hide their true selves. From her own experience of being a daydreaming child to becoming free of societal expectations her message is clear: You can find and do what you love, and you can do it your way by being you.

Exchange Quotes:

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." – Dr. Seuss

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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www.sharilillico.com

Shari on Facebook

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

This week our guest is Kelly Neff, a certified coach, speaker, trainer, and DISC Behavioral Consultant with the Maxwell Leadership Team. She is also a certified Enneagram - Motions of the Soul Practitioner. Kelly believes that consistent personal growth and a positive support system are two vital keys to success. She believes these two keys, in addition to her faith, have been the foundation that has helped her survive, revive, and even thrive after tragically losing her oldest son to suicide and her husband to cancer.

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"Redemption is not living as though it didn't happen, it's living differently because it did happen." - Randy Creamer "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." – Victor Frankl

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." – Wayne Dyer

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www.kellyneffspeaks.com

@kellyneffspeaks on Facebook and Instagram

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At the end of August, I was one of the featured speakers at the Purposeful You online summit. My topic was that we have one life to live today. And my presentation was, as expected, about how important our stories are – but even more crucial, is that we never know just how much time we have to capture those stories – our own, those of our grandparents and parents and other significant mentors in our lives, and those of our families. Here is that presentation.

Exchange Quotes:

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world." – Philip Pullman

"Through the art of storytelling, we can preserve our heritage, educate future generations, and inspire change." – Philipp Humm

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

This week our guest is Jennifer McFarland

Jennifer has been a TFT Tapping practitioner for 10 years and is also an international speaker, author of "The Monarch & The Manager". She works with women with ADHD and shows them how to vanquish the fear, shame, and loss that comes from inconsistent actions.

Exchange Quotes:

"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise Hay

"Ask yourself what is really important, then have the courage to build your life around your answer." – Unknown

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www.monarchdawn.com

Jennifer McFarland on LinkedIn

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

Today we feature another children's book author and welcome Shahin Najak to Epic Exchanges

Shahin Najak is a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Coach for parents, teachers and caregivers. Her passion lies in supporting adults and children, particularly parents and teenagers, in bringing back joy and connection and building better relationships using mindfulness skills proven to increase self-esteem and self-acceptance. She is the author of the mindfulness book for children, "Ariya Makes Friends with RAIN", which includes a parents' guide on using the acronym RAIN to work through our big feelings as adults and guide our children through their big feelings.

Exchange Quotes:

"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather." – Pema Chodron

"We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences and push away unpleasant ones." ― Sharon Salzberg

Exchange Links:

www.mindful-changes.com

Shahin and Mindful Changes on Instagram and Facebook

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

This week our guest is Markku Kostamo

Markku Kostamo currently serves as Director of Development with Sanctuary Mental Health. Markku has served in the non-profit sector for over twenty years and is passionate about seeing organizations grow and develop in executing their mission and impact.

Exchange Quotes:

"Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough." – Nicky James

"And like a tree, we grow from the ground up. Leaves will fall, and branches will break, but even in those moments, it still provides beauty to this world. So do not give up on all that you are and all that you could be for where you are and what you feel at this moment. Our strength and beauty still exist even when we cannot see them" – Hannah Blum

Exchange Links:

www.kaci.io

www.sanctuary mentalhealth.org

Markku Kostamo on Instagram and LinkedIn

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www.kellysniderauthor.com

Today I'm happy to welcome Rosemary Holbrook.

Rosemary is a yoga teacher, recovering addict, entrepreneur, researcher, adventurer, and experience collector. She is studying to be a yoga therapist and is a certified Vedic astrologer. When she's not immersing herself in the work of helping others heal from trauma and cultivate resilience in their lives, relationships or businesses, she can probably be found snuggling with her partner or two children, playing in the woods somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

Exchange Quotes:

"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." – Mark Twain

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www.yogiscopes.com

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