Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original

Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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What if the version of success you’re working so hard to achieve was never really yours? After a five-figure mentorship investment left Elizabeth Plancon spiraling under the pressure to reach a prescribed financial goal, the experience ultimately redirected her toward work more aligned with her own gifts and purpose—and taught her that the most consequential return on an investment may not be the one you expected.

Elizabeth Plancon is a Soul Purpose Activator, Intuitive Spiritual Mentor, and Healer devoted to helping women awaken their intuitive gifts, activate their soul purpose, heal past wounds and programming that no longer serves them, and step into their most radiant, magnetic, and abundant selves.

As the creator of The Light Council™, and her signature approach blends Light Language, energy healing, somatic work, Kundalini Yoga, subconscious reprogramming, and psychic guidance. Her work facilitates deep nervous system expansion, soul-level healing, and energetic embodiment, so her clients don’t just shift their mindset, they transform their entire frequency.

In her private mentorship containers, Elizabeth works with purpose-driven women who know they’re here to lead, to serve, to create impact, but feel stuck in fear, self-doubt, or old conditioning. She also offers individual sessions for deep healing and transformation.

www.elizabethplancon.com

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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How many times can you say yes before your body says no for you? Niky Hamilton was running a clinic, leading a retreat, supporting her family, carrying profound grief, and still showing up smiling at an awards night as her vision began to disappear. Nearly losing her sight forced a new standard for leadership, one that no longer required losing herself in order to be everything to everyone.

Niky Hamilton is a resilience speaker, coach, author and retreat facilitator who helps women and leaders navigate life’s setbacks and rise into stronger self-leadership.

Originally trained as a physiotherapist, Niky built a successful physiotherapy practice on the Sunshine Coast, growing a team of 14 women and developing a deep passion for leadership and team culture.

Her life took an unexpected turn when she experienced the devastating loss of her son. In the quiet aftermath of grief, where brain fog, exhaustion and overwhelming emotions often live, Niky began a journey of deep personal transformation.

Through further training in leadership, coaching, mindfulness and emotional resilience, she developed powerful tools to help others navigate life when everything changes.

Today Niky speaks, coaches and facilitates retreats that help people manage emotions, build resilience, lead themselves with courage and transform life’s hardest moments into clarity, strength and direction. Her message is simple yet powerful: resilience isn’t about bouncing back, it’s about rising into who you are becoming.

Discover more:

Website: https://nikyhamilton.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nikyhamilton/

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lead.her.rising

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/synergywomen

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niky.hamilton/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niky-hamilton/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@NikyHamilton

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Who are you when the life, business, relationships, and identity you built no longer exist in the same form? Amor Lumè speaks from what she calls “the after” (the disorienting space following profound loss), and explores what it means to unbecome an identity built around an earlier version of yourself so something truer can emerge.

Amor Lumè is a creative director, storyteller, and the visionary founder of Maison Lumè. Blending soulful artistry with strategic design, Amor works as a brand activator who helps others align their inner purpose with impactful business strategies. Dedicated to deep self-acceptance and personal empowerment, Amor's work transforms intentional storytelling into magnetic visual art and powerful brand narratives.

Connect with Amor’s creative journey on Instagram at @amorlume

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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Can learning itself become a sophisticated way of avoiding the work of becoming? After years of leadership training and a wall full of certificates, Tara Christmann Pilling still wasn’t getting the results she wanted; her breakthrough came when she confronted the gap between knowing and doing and began choosing imperfect action over endless preparation.

Tara Pilling is a Subconscious Transformational Consultant, speaker, and Certified Proctor Gallagher Consultant, proudly carrying forward the transformational teachings and legacy of her late mentor, Bob Proctor.

With decades of study and experience in human potential, leadership, personal development, goal creation, holistic and vibrational healing, yoga, and meditation, Tara brings a powerful whole-person approach to transformation.

Having studied with some of the world’s leading mentors in human potential and success, Tara helps people reprogram limiting beliefs, shift paradigms, elevate their self-image, and unlock the potential within to create extraordinary, lasting results.

Founder of Diamond Mind Consulting, Tara’s message is simple: change your inner world, and you change your results.

Book a complimentary 20-minute transformational session with Tara:

https://calendly.com/diamondmindconsulting/thediamondpath

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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What happens when you finally get the family and stability you always wanted—and realize you are drowning inside it? Daryl McInnis shares the difficult decision to leave the life she had worked to create, the tools she had to learn for herself and her children, and why becoming can lead somewhere better without erasing the grief for what was lost.

Daryl McInnis, MA, LMHC, SUDP, is a mental health counselor who specializes in nervous-system-informed therapy for anxiety, ADHD, burnout, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and relationship patterns. She offers a grounded, paced approach that blends psychology, somatic awareness, regulation tools, and attachment work to help clients build safety, capacity, and lasting change.

Learn more:

https://www.wavescounselingllc.com/

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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What if the most difficult person you need to confront is yourself? After the end of a twenty-four-year marriage and repeated losses in relationships and friendships, Raquel Ploum recognized herself as the common denominator and began a prolonged period of self-examination that changed the direction of her life.

Elba Raquel Ploum is the author of Meant for MORE: Uncover Repressed Trauma to Find Your Fuego Within. She is a tenacious and vivacious firecracker born to a Honduran immigrant and raised in the Louisiana heat. She was the second youngest of six siblings.

Raquel has a passion for global travel, and she has lived in Sun City, South Africa; Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France; and on both coasts of the United States. She prioritizes personal development and participates in healing retreats and coaching for personal growth.

After a lifetime of suppressing trauma, Raquel dedicated a few years to intentional solitude and taking an honest, in-depth look at herself. She found aspects she did not like and committed to working on them. While reflecting on her life, she organically created her 4-Step Emotional Intelligence Formula, a process to acknowledge and evaluate your inner world.

Now, she is that vivacious girl again, and spends her time dancing, reading, shooting pool, and soaking up every minute she gets to spend with her two grown children Ashley and Elijah, her granddaughter Mia, and her four-legged fur baby Gracie.

Read the book:

https://hopepublishinghouse.com/product/meant-for-more-by-elba-raquel-ploum-2/

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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What remains when the masks come off? Drawing from his experience of prison and the life that led him there, Matt Melvin reflects on the different selves he wore at work, at home, and in the world—and why authenticity, integrity, and real accountability became central to what came next.

Matt Melvin is the author of Bullied Behind Bars: A Gay Christian Trump Supporter Goes to Prison, a powerful story of faith, adversity, identity, incarceration, and redemption. His journey has taken him through significant challenges and unexpected accomplishments, including being part of a Guinness World Records achievement. Today, Matthew uses his experiences to encourage others who are struggling with rejection, difficult circumstances, or a painful past. His message is simple: your past may be part of your story, but it does not have to determine your future.

Find out more:

https://www.wcspeakers.com/speaker/matthew-melvin/

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Enjoying Excellence Becoming - A Gold Standards Original?

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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Who are you when the title, team, and packed calendar disappear? Losing the executive identity she had spent decades building forced Engy Neville to separate who she was from what she had achieved—and to rethink excellence around self-awareness, alignment, courage, and emotional intelligence.

Engy Neville is a Conscious Leadership Mentor, Emotional Intelligence Expert, and Transformational Coach who bridges nearly 30 years of corporate brand management and executive leadership experience with the deeper work of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and subconscious transformation.After decades building brands, leading teams, managing complex client relationships, and developing leaders, Engy now works with individuals and organizations to uncover the patterns, beliefs, and emotional habits that quietly shape how they lead, communicate, make decisions, and navigate change.Her work is rooted in a simple belief: sustainable transformation begins with awareness. Through coaching, leadership development, and her signature work around The Conscious Pause, Engy helps people interrupt the unconscious patterns that keep them operating on autopilot and create the space to respond with greater clarity, intention, and emotional intelligence.Known for bridging the practical with the deeply human, Engy brings the perspective of someone who has spent decades inside corporate environments while also understanding that the most meaningful leadership work often begins within.Her work has been featured in Brainz Magazine and The True North podcast, where she has contributed to conversations about the future of leadership, emotional intelligence, and what it means to lead consciously in an increasingly complex world.

Learn more:

https://engyneville.com/

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How do you remain open after people you trusted take advantage of you? After being burned in multiple business ventures, Daman Grewal had to learn how to become wiser without becoming closed—choosing integrity, trust, and future possibility rather than allowing someone else’s dishonesty to define him.

Daman Grewal is a Canadian transportation and logistics entrepreneur and the co-founder of LogisticsSales.com, a free global education platform dedicated to teaching practical sales, entrepreneurship, and real-world business skills. Through his work, he advocates for expanding access to opportunity by helping students and aspiring entrepreneurs develop the skills needed to support small and medium-sized businesses. His mission is to bridge the gap between education and real-world economic opportunity.

Discover more:

https://www.logisticssales.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@LogisticsSales/shorts,

https://www.instagram.com/logisticssales/

https://www.facebook.com/LogisticsSalesInc/

https://www.tiktok.com/@logistics_sales

https://www.linkedin.com/company/logisticssales-com/

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Discover what excellence looks like. Raise the standard for what you admire — and what you aspire to become.

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How much of your emotional life have you handed to other people without realizing it? Heidi Ferguson describes the life-changing shift that came when she stopped playing what she identifies as the “blame game” and began taking ownership of the space between what other people do and how she chooses to respond.

Heidi Ferguson is an author, professional speaker, and trainer with more than 15 years of experience exploring human behavior, emotional intelligence, body language, personal empowerment, and the beliefs and subconscious patterns that shape who we become.

Her diverse background has given her a unique perspective on why people think, feel, react, and behave the way they do. Heidi served seven years on active duty in the United States Army before spending seven years working in a Behavioral Health Crisis Center. Her career also includes work in crisis intervention, peer counseling and education, and becoming the first Workplace Violence Prevention Educator for her hometown hospital, where she trained more than 3,000 healthcare professionals annually in areas including de-escalation, situational awareness, body language, self-defense, psychological safety, emotional regulation, and personal safety.

Over the years, Heidi’s work evolved from teaching people how to navigate conflict and protect themselves physically to exploring a much bigger question: Why do we become who we become?

That question is at the heart of her work today.

Heidi is the author of The Blame Game and her newest book, Authentic Intelligence: Becoming More Human in the Age of AI. Her work explores how much of what we believe about ourselves, other people, success, relationships, emotions, and even our own identity has been unconsciously learned and programmed into us.

Through humor, real-world experience, psychology, neuroscience, and practical tools, Heidi challenges people to question those inherited beliefs, step out of blame, reclaim ownership of their emotional lives, and become more intentional about who they authentically choose to be.

At the center of her message is a simple idea: as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly sophisticated, perhaps one of the most important things humans can do is become more conscious of our own programming.

Because the future isn’t only about technology evolving. It’s also about us evolving into more conscious, intentional, and authentically human beings.

Learn more about Heidi and her work:

Website: www.HeidiFerguson.com

Book link: https://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Intelligence-Become-Human-Being-ebook/dp/B0GZS18QPT/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

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