The sixth episode features special guest Vicki Winchester, a health coach who began her personal health journey on April 2, 2018. To date, Ms. Winchester has shed 170 lbs, and reversed health issues as she took control of her wellness. Ms. Winchester began coaching others on August 1, 2018; she and her team now coach more than 200 individuals in Otsego County, and beyond.
Featured Guest on Episode Six
Vicki Winchester (Oneonta, NY) was born in 1971. She graduated from Cooperstown Central School in 1989, and continued her education at Herkimer County Community College, earning her Associate Degree of Applied Science in 1991. In 1994 she attended the National Tractor Trailer School and earned her Class A license. After working on the road for some time, she served at Milford Central School transportation department as a bus driver for 24 years, where she is still currently employed. In April, 2019 Vicki began her health journey, and in August 2019, became a health coach. Shortly thereafter, Vicki became a certified health coach. With the support of her team, Vicki currently serves more than 200 clients in the surrounding upstate NY area and beyond. She is a proud mother of 2 sons, an ecstatic grandmother of 3 grandsons, and has been happily married to the love of her life, Tony Winchester, since 1996.
From Heartache to Healing and Hope Creator and Host:
Bernadette Winters Bell, LMSW, PLLC graduated Summa Cum Laude from Adelphi University in 1994, with a Masters in Social Work, License No. and State: 049813-1 New York. She has more than 30 years of experience in the life, loss and grief sphere with children, adolescents and adults.
Areas of practice include therapy, counseling, hospice, trauma work and bereavement support groups. She has served as an educator for groups and organizations such as schools, houses of worship, businesses and municipalities, and as a first responder for crisis management. Her life-long practice of giving back continues with community pro bono work.
The pillars of Bernadette’s practice are emotional healing, psychological growth and spiritual exploration. Her goal is to empower clients to be stewards of their own well-being.
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To be considered as a featured guest, please email BCGA at [email protected].
Producer:
Beatrice Georgalidis is the owner of Beatrice Georgalidis LLC, BGCA (Beatrice Georgalidis Creative Agency) and the executive director of Bright Hill Press, a regional arts organization in New York State. She is the owner of Certain Grants LLC, a grant writing firm upstate New York that specializes in fundraising and grant writing. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Economic Development Council of New York, New York State Council on the Arts, Bader Foundation in Milwaukee and many more. She has worked for more than twenty years in film and television as a writer, producer and videographer for many companies including Sundance Channel, MTV, VH1, and for her own companies since 2013, Certain Grants LLC and BGCA
(Beatrice Georgalidis Creative Agency) serving the Catskills and beyond. She spearheaded the Experiential Learning Program, an apprentice program which has graduated more than fifty of the best and brightest college students, training hands-on in grant writing, production, design, fundraising and advertising. Her students have gone on to prestigious appointments at big five publishing houses, national magazines, broadcast television, and more. She is a 200 RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 hours) and a certified aerial yoga instructor, and teaches at Fit To Be Tied Yoga in Cooperstown, NY.
About From Heartache to Healing and Hope LLC
From Heartache to Healing and Hope LLC was founded in 2020 by Bernadette Winters Bell, LLC. Her offices are located in Oneonta, NY where she has been practicing for more than three decades.
http://fromheartachetohealingandhope.com/
BGCA (Beatrice Georgalidis Creative Agency, Beatrice Georgalidis LLC), a boutique advertising and production firm serving the Catskills, was founded in 2012.
https://www.bgcagency.com/
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
— Mark Twain
