Get ready for an all new episode of Live2Inspire with special guest, Sussi Mattsson.

Sussi Mattsson is innovative, walks her talk, and she is not afraid to push the envelope. She takes great pride in remaining innovative and on the cutting edge. Sussi has a genuine belief in people and their inherent power to release their full potential. With her warmth, compassion, commitment, sincerity and respect for each client, she is instrumental in developing successful World Class Leaders.

Sussi is a real-life example of someone who has created success and overcome all odds and astounding adversity to live a life of authenticity with no regrets. Drawing on her challenges and unique life experiences, she has made it her mission to be a voice of inspiration for everyone who wants to live a life of significance and success.

As a child, Sussi grew up very poor in a small industrial town in Sweden. She has a remarkable childhood story of living with an abusive father who attempted to sell her abroad at the age of eight, just six months after she had lost her mother to cancer. To save herself from being sold, she ran away from home…at only eight years of age.

She transformed herself into a popular and trusted international coach, business advisor, thought leader and speaker.

Sussi’s extensive speaking and coaching experience spans more than two decades and she has delivered more than 2000 presentations to corporations, schools, associations, and business groups around the world.

She offers VIP Retreats in addition to having exclusive coaching agreements with a select number of private coaching clients.

.Sussi Mattsson is a remarkable thought leader and is the Founder & Creator of the

To read more about the movement, visit: http://sussimattsson.com/the-from-me-to-you-movement/

Welcome to a new episode of Live2Inspire with your host Krishna Lakkineni. Our guest this episode is Payton Comazzetto.

Payton is the Founder & Event Coordinator for Run For Brennan, and Post-Grad student taking Interdisciplinary Studies in Adventure Therapy.

Payton founded Run for Brennan (Brennan’s Ugly Sweater Run) in 2017 in memory of her older brother, Brennan, who was hit and killed by a drunk driver in 1999. The festive 5k family-friendly -run has hosted more than 850 participants and is growing quickly.

Since its inauguration, the event has raised over $27,500 for the Boys and Girls Club’s Power Start program, a breakfast program for at-risk youth. Feeding 217 children for an entire year, Brennan’s Ugly Sweater Run focuses on creating positive mental and physical well-being within the Kamloops community. With over $13,000 in prizes and giveaways in 2019, this is the most affordable run/walk and the only Christmas run in the Interior.

As of 2019, Brennan’s Ugly Sweater Run is the 12th and final race in the Runner’s Sole Kamloops Run Series, and is the second largest running event in Kamloops!

You’re not going to want to miss this episode!

To learn more about Run for Brennan, visit: https://runforbrennan.com/ and follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrennansUglySweaterRun

Happy New Year! Welcome back to Live2Inspire.

We took a quick break over the holidays but we're ready to kickstart 2021 with some new inspiring stories for you!

Tune in on SUNDAY, JAN.17th @ 7PM PST to watch this amazing episode with Jennifer Kauffman.

Jennifer Kauffman is a transformational speaker and teacher, an award-winning coach helping her clients achieve breakthrough results in their businesses and lives.

She is a best-selling author and co-produced the first ever sold out one-man live show on Broadway, called Dream Big featuring motivational speaker Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger reminding us all to never give up on our dreams. She is an Executive Producer of an Emmy and Telly Award Winning documentary called A New Leash on Life: The K9’s for Warriors Story, which portrays 3 amazing veterans who nearly took their lives due to PTSD. Their lives were forever changed when they were paired with their trained rescue dog provided by K9’s for Warriors. This inspiring movie illustrates that rising above PTSD is possible something Jennifer knows all about as a survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings.

Jennifer is passionate about serving people, including children, showing them how to rise above their traumas and challenges in life to create a happy life that they love and where they are thriving!

To learn more about Jennifer, visit: https://jenniferkauffman.com/

Or visit her Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/breakthruresults

Our guest this week on Live2Inspire is Steve Gainey. Steve is an entrepreneur, former NHL hockey player, and current coach of the Kamloops Storms.

In this episode, we discuss Steve's experience playing in the NHL, his current goals, and overall life focus. To all the aspiring NHL stars, Steve offers his key advice on how to build a career around hockey and what it takes to stand out in an industry flooded with dreamers.

Steve has a big heart and a passion to support his community. I can't wait to share this episode with you.

Welcome back to another episode of Live2Inspire. My guest for this week is Corey Hirsch!

A former NHL Goaltender, NHL Goaltending Coach, and Olympic Silver Medallist, Corey Hirsch was featured in an article in the Players Tribune opening up about his struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder while on the rise to a promising career in the NHL. He has since dedicated himself to ending the stigma of mental health and becoming the National Youth Ambassador for the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. Hirsch helped create and organize the CAMH program Gamechangers, geared to get mental health info into the hands of our youth.

Born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Corey was drafted in 1991 by the New York Rangers. He spent three years of his early career with New York where he was an active roster member when the team won the 1994 Stanley Cup. In April of 1995 he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks where he played the majority of his NHL games all while hiding and battling a mental illness.

After retiring from active play, Hirsch became an NHL goaltending coach for elite NHL goaltenders and prospects for another six seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and St Louis Blues. Corey has since transitioned from NHL coach to broadcaster where he currently works for Sportsnet650 as the radio color analyst covering the Vancouver Canucks.

To learn more about Corey, visit: https://coreyhirsch.com/

Welcome, friends, to another episode of Live2Inspire! My guest this week on Live2Inspire is Shelina Mawani, Co-Founder of Nana's Kitchen & Hot Sauce.

Growing up in a small town in Tanzania, big opportunities are far and few. Everyone is busy trying to make their own ends meet and making something of yourself requires another level of determination and unequivocal relentlessness.

From a young age, Shelina Mawani knew she wanted to make difference in the world. She began her working career, helping her father manage a series of local boutique hotels; soaking up her business acumen and learning valuable lessons, while she built a hospitality brand. In 1979, she landed herself the role of youngest Chairperson, for the Lioness Club, an internationally renowned organization dedicated to helping people in their communities through charitable causes.

In her first project, she was able to set up diagnostic camps for locals to create much needed awareness for Leprosy and also assisted in sending 8 children to England for heart murmur treatment, not available to them in Africa. This is where she first realized her successes in business would be the gateway to serving others and making her impact in the world. These same principles would continue to develop and build, then follow her to the complete opposite side of the world to Burnaby, BC; where she and her sister, Nasim, first opened their small family restaurant to celebrate the tastes of home they missed so much.

In 2000, this ambitious endeavour turned restaurant into a 1000sq samosa manufacturing facility, which has now grown to over 27,000sq, with room and plans to grow. Nana’s Kitchen today is a multi-million-dollar business producing over 25,000 handmade samosas every single day, shipping all over North America, landing in local grocery store deli sections and restaurants.

Understanding firsthand, the struggles that come with immigrating to a new country, Shelina makes sure she helps to create job opportunities for people who may not even know the English language. Employing a growing staff of 60 people, she has helped impact countless families as they integrate into their new communities far away from home. Her footprint in her new community and globally is immeasurable and she doesn’t cease to forget where she came from. Shelina is a philanthropist at heart as well as through her actions.

Rightfully deserved, Shelina has been honoured with countless recognitions over the years such as, 2014 BC Ethno Canadian Entrepreneur Award. 2015 Multicultural Business of the Year by BC Provincial Awards. 2016 Business Woman of the Year by Times of Canada, 2016 Best Export Business by Surrey Board of Trade, 2017 Shelina was invited to travel to India by the Women Economic Form and was awarded Woman of the Decade in Innovation and Enterprise. 2018 She then went onto becoming the only Canadian woman who was awarded the Bharat Saman Award, at The House of Lords in England. Her hard work has been highlighted in many TV programs, newspapers and magazines over the years. Some of her most recent and notable achievements is the Bank of Montreal recognized her by Celebrating Women for Community and Charity Giving. She has been listed as Top 15 Women Owned Business in BC.

To learn more and support Nana’s Kitchen & Hot Sauce visit: https://yournanaskitchen.com/

Are you ready for another episode of Live2Inspire?

Please help me give a warm welcome to my guest this week, Yvette Lehmann!

Yvette started her journey with curiosity about life, consciousness, and spirituality. Practicing yoga gave her ways to connect the physical body and the psychological inner being. She believes that without the emotional and mental health there can never be true physical health. It is the balance of all, that brings one back to their natural state of completeness.

She is trained and certified in iRest Yoga Nidra. The understanding and application of this system changed the way she practices and teaches yoga. She applies the system to help and guide people suffering from trauma, grief, stress, anxiety, and addictions.  ​Her Classes, Workshops, Meditations and Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher Training programs integrate the wisdom of the traditional 8 limbs of Patanjali Yoga Sutras, the Upanishads and the scriptures of the Bhagavad Gita.

Yvette weaves her 20 years of experience of all the different modalities into the physical yoga practice by helping the students understand better where the traumas are stored in the body and how to navigate themselves to where they want to be. Her workshops will guide the students to learn what tools will help release the traumas hidden in the body. She offers guided group meditations to help the students apply the tools to free the traumas. She gives one-on-one sessions to go deeper in discovering the root cause of the trauma from within.  Her heartfelt desire is to help all who seek to understand and know their true Selves other than the superficial ego self.

Those who are looking for more can benefit from her Teacher Training programs, retreats, and intensive workshops.

She lives in Kamloops with her son and serves at the Happyness Center. ​

To learn more visit: http://www.yogawithyvette.ca/

Welcome to a new season of Live2Inspire!

 We are starting this season off with someone who is well known around the Kamloops area as a trailblazer, go-getter, and all around amazing person. I’d like to introduce Jo Berry.

Jo Berry is a runner, mom, business owner, and philanthropist. The first thing she says each morning before her feet hit the floor is: "thank you,” and "please let me be of service to someone today." Jo follows this by devoting three minutes to prayer; during which she sends energy to her family, friends, coworkers and others. Taking these few moments at the very beginning of each day is the key as it sets her intention out to the world that there is no room for self-importance. Jo truly believes that life is about what you give to others each and every day.

Jo's mantra is "Movement is Change," a powerful statement that means movement on all spheres of health: physical health, spiritual health, emotional health, and mental health. Jo is best known for: Boogie the Bridge - a charitable fun run which to date, has raised over 1 million dollars for local Kamloops charities, and RUNClub - run/walk training group that has made runners out of those who never dreamed it possible. These two powerful programs integrate emotional and physical health, and have inspired thousands through her energy, enthusiasm and support. The programs have also led Jo to win numerous awards and accolades including but not limited to:

"Jo Berry is a trailblazer both literally, and figuratively. She has been synonymous with fitness in Kamloops and through RUNClub, she has inspired and encouraged thousands of people to become fit and live healthier lives."

​- Kamloops Daily News

To learn more visit:

www.boogiethebridge.com

www.gethappyevents.net

www.runclub.ca

Kerry Gibson is the President of EcoCentury Technologies, an engineering and consulting firm promoting clean technologies. She is also the Director of Strategic Partnerships for ZiphyCare, and the Partnerships Manager for N-EAT under SFU’s Faculty of the Environment.

Kerry serves on the Board of Directors of many Foundations and Organizations, along with serving on the Diversity Advisory Committee for the Joint Task Force of the Canadian Armed Forces, and is the President of Municipal party YES Vancouver.  She currently is focused on several collaborations that address the SDG’s both locally and globally using innovative solutions applying a business lens to causation.

Kerry speaks on platforms internationally including the UN and the House  of Commons, addressing economic development, clean tech innovation, diversity and inclusion, and labour rights, and has represented the private sector’s role in civil society at the UN.

She has been named UN Women Planet 5050 Champion, a Global Goodwill Ambassador, and has received a Times of Canada award for Excellence in Innovation, a Shakti Award, and the Honour Award by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organization.

From the slums of Port au Prince Haiti with special forces raiding a sex trafficking ring and freeing children to the Virgin Galactic Space Port in Mojave with Sir Richard Branson, 15-Time Emmy Award Winning Director/Producer, Nick Nanton, has become known for telling stories that connect.

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