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Annie is an Integrative Health Coach and works in collaboration with Wisdom 2.0 as their Director of Community Engagement, a production company that brings awareness and mindfulness to living in today's technology-driven world. In partnership, she runs healthy, collaborative digital communities, and she designs, produces, and hosts digital courses and events. She has recently become a Zoom-master thanks to the Pandemic and specializes in creating Digital Intimacy and meaningful conversation online. She has been an influencer, writer, photographer in the Outdoor and Nature industry for years as a full-time mom.  She's now taking the entrepreneur spirit to the next level and in the new year will launch a unique, community-driven Nature-based wellness platform around the Joy and healing wisdom of Nature. She is a mom to three teenagers and a puggle-chihuahua named Aspen. She is often found on a mountain-top engaging in athletic pursuits and considers herself a Compassionate, Joyful Warrior. Goes without saying, Annie complements our holistic wellness series with grace and joy.

Learn more about Annie through her social media links:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-gallagher-29464a93/
• https://www.wisdom2summit.com/heartspath. (Annie is the host of this course which is  in its 2nd year 2022)

For more info on my work, visit https://linktr.ee/omnimindfulness

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Julie Wright is an entrepreneur, speaker, sleep ambassador, and author of The Natural Sleeper [Tiller Press / Simon & Schuster] - an introduction to an extensive range of natural, complementary, and alternative solutions, therapies, techniques, practices, and tips to help improve our sleep.

Julie is also the Chief Sleep Orchestrator and founder of WeSleep, a wellbeing provider focused on sleep, providing webinars, workshops, lectures, discussion panels, 1-to-1 consultations, and therapeutic sessions on the topic of sleep deprivation and insomnia to a wide range of organizations and business clients such as tech start-ups, agencies, media and entertainment companies, banks, festivals, conferences, non-profit, education and government organizations and many more. In addition, Julie is an ambassador for World Sleep Day.

In Julie’ s own words

“Having battled with sleep issues for years, I embarked on a journey full of learning, discovery, and therapeutic experiments to resolve them. This gave me the idea to help myself and others with the issue of insomnia and poor sleep quality. Re-energizing sleep-deprived individuals by teaching them how to sleep naturally for optimal physical and mental health. With a good night’s sleep, nothing can stop you, and you could achieve your life’s dreams. I believe sleep is one of the answers to becoming a superhuman.”

Learn more about Julie through her social media links:

• www.thenaturalsleeper.com
• https://www.facebook.com/WeSleepUK
• https://www.instagram.com/wesleepuk/

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#thenaturalsleeper #holistichealing #juliewright #wesleep #wesleepUK #worldsleepday

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A mini app where neuroscience meets mindfulness. Reflect through Foundation, Transition, Vision — across mind, heart, and somatic body. AI-powered prompts + HeartMath + somatic awareness to keep your why as your north star.

$44/year — Founder's rate ending soon.

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Author of “Be Your Own Guru”,  Julie Dargis holds a Ph.D. in Integral Health, which is the next step up from integrative medicine because it incorporates not just conventional and alternative medicine, but all dimensions of healing—from physical to psychological and cultural to spiritual.

Julie’s life experience as a humanitarian, combined with her thesis work in Integral Health makes her the perfect podcast guest for the theme of Holistic Wellbeing.

Julie has held key leadership positions with the International Rescue Committee, the American Refugee Committee, and Save the Children where she accepted multiple subsequent assignments as country director in Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Indonesia, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

Her overseas postings include serving as an active member of the NGO Forum Steering Committee and NGO delegate on the Oversight Committee of the Multi-donor Trust Fund.

A former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, Julie has a long history working with renowned non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as World Learning, where she successfully directed country programs in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Georgia,  and managed multimillion-dollar USAID and World Bank-funded grants.

Learn more about Julie and her book

• Visit http://www.juliedargis.com/
• Read Book Review:  “Be Your Own Guru”

For more info on my work, visit https://linktr.ee/omnimindfulness

FOUNDER'S WHY COMPASS

A mini app where neuroscience meets mindfulness. Reflect through Foundation, Transition, Vision — across mind, heart, and somatic body. AI-powered prompts + HeartMath + somatic awareness to keep your why as your north star.

$44/year — Founder's rate ending soon.

👉 compass.omnimindfulness.com

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Lara is a Holistic Health Educator with certifications as an Ayurveda Lifestyle and Pranic Healing from the Chopra Center and as a Clinical Herbalist.

Her vision is to share with joy, the wisdom of medicinal plants, to bring healing and well-being

She guides her clients utilizing the many tools she has acquired on her journeys, such as meditation, Ayurveda, energy healing, crystals, oracle cards, and plant allies, and the fungi world

When she thinks of wellbeing she believes it is not a mere start to finish goal. The work is never finished. She describes well being as a dance of interacting within ourselves and others; and it is an act of balance, requiring that we learn to listen to ourselves,

Lara believes that Sometimes we need more fire, more water, more earth, or more wind. Lara believes that We are the magicians of our reality and keeping our body mind and spirit healthy is our art.

Learn more about Lara through her social media links:

• https://www.alchemywithlara.com/home
• https://www.facebook.com/alchemywithlara

For more info on my work, visit https://linktr.ee/omnimindfulness

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Kirsten Johnson has been in the Fitness and Wellness industry for over 25 years both in Europe and the United States. She has been instrumental in developing new and innovative group fitness programs, educating instructors around the world, and managing high-end fitness companies in Hamburg, Germany as well as San Diego and The Bay Area in California, US. She continues to follow her passion and training in psychology and started teaching Wellness Retreats in California and Mexico, offering Mind Body classes like Yoga, Pilates, and NIA dance as well as NSM® Neurodynamic Self -Management course. Her background in psychology coaching teaching Neurodynamic Self-Management seminars allows her to help clients with a deeper understanding of their intentions and learn how to create new habits to live a more fulfilled life. We are SO EXCITED to announce that we have partnered up with Kirsten to bring to you The MMM Transition Tool Kit Event that will be taking place online this coming December 4th and 5th, 2021.

For more on Kirsten, visit her social media links listed below:

• Website: https://kirstenjohnsonfit.com/
• and follow Kirsten on Facebook and Instagram for more information.

For more info on my work, visit https://linktr.ee/omnimindfulness

FOUNDER'S WHY COMPASS

A mini app where neuroscience meets mindfulness. Reflect through Foundation, Transition, Vision — across mind, heart, and somatic body. AI-powered prompts + HeartMath + somatic awareness to keep your why as your north star.

$44/year — Founder's rate ending soon.

👉 compass.omnimindfulness.com

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On Being Grateful for Accessing Stillness

Have you noticed that when you are present in the now with a feeling of gratitude, you tap into this peaceful feeling of stillness?

Our lives are full of things to be grateful for. This month’s podcast series has been on Holistic Wellness. This theme has allowed me to reflect on the concept of how or what makes me feel whole.

And on this Thanksgiving Day, I started my day acknowledging the simple and even silly things that I am immensely grateful for that make my body-mind-and soul feel whole and alive. For example, upon waking up today I felt grateful for my ability to wiggle my toes, stretch my limbs, and connect to my breath.

Each morning I have a ‘sadhana’ - a Sanskrit word for “spiritual routine”...my routine is grounded in a variety of mindfulness practices that includes a long meditation. I am grateful for these practices as it gives me the ability to feel whole.

I am so grateful for this routine as it allows me to start my day with intention and allows me to get centered, and most importantly feel stillness.

How often do we forget the immense value in feeling still?

I’ll be honest, it's taken me years to learn to slow down, and truly access stillness….

Meditation is such a gift, as it brings awareness to my consciousness that each of us has the ability to access stillness...

In honor of Holistic Wellness and Thanksgiving, I am sharing a short guided meditation intended to help you bring awareness to the feeling of gratitude, and help you access stillness in the present moment.

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[Correction: In our intro, we mistakenly mention Chernobyl as Lena's native town from Russia, when in fact she is from Zhitomir, Russia]

From fleeing Zhitomir Russia, as a young girl to Corporate Executive, Lena’s journey is a story of grit and resilience.

At the tender age of 2, during the heat of communism in Russia, Lena and her family lived behind a closet in a one-bedroom apartment issued by the government.

At the age of 3, Lena and her family are forced to escape her hometown of Zhitomir because of the poisonous gases.

By the time she is 7, Lena flees Russia with her parents and two sets of elderly grandparents without a dollar to their name and no worldly possessions. Escaping to the US as refugees in pursuit of a better life.

This young girl goes on pushing through all obstacles, translating for her family, growing, learning, prevailing against all odds. Never giving up and pulling her family and loved ones along with her with a heart of light and gratitude.

Lena is now a technology leader, a corporate executive director of the technology enablement vertical at TEKsystems, a mother of two increíble children, a wife to an amazing man, someone who uses her voice to help those around her, even when she’s tired.

Lena encourages others to know that YOU are enough and nothing is impossible with a light heart, persistence, and humor. This life is meant to be lived and we are all here for a reason so let’s.

Live. Do. Be.

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Denise ((bonaimo)) Sarram was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and on the New Jersey shore.  She relocated to Southern California in 2001 where she lives with her husband and son.

A graduate from Rowan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and specializing in metalsmithing and jewelry making, Denise also studied foundation art at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and spent an adventurous semester abroad traveling around Great Britain and taking college courses at Northumbria University in England.

Denise’s art assemblages and jewelry designs are thoughtfully executed with an artful eye, skillful hand, and heartfelt intentions. She is immensely grateful to have been immersed in a career creating, exhibiting, and teaching art and has also been instrumental in the local community to foster an environment of creative enrichment for various organizations for the last 25 years.

Focusing on jewelry design for many years, she has always approached it as “small scale sculpture” so making the shift towards larger-scale sculptural assemblage art was a natural progression. She bolts, drills, glues, collages, paints, sands, saws, molds, bends, sews, wire wraps, and forges the various parts of her designs to achieve a work of art that is both masterfully crafted and aesthetically intriguing.

Denise works on multiple works of art simultaneously, using elements from her extensive collection of found objects which she forages from thrift stores, antique stores, and resale shops. Throughout her entire career, there has been a theme of upcycling (which is the process of converting waste materials or cast-away objects into something of intrinsic, aesthetic, or practical value).

The theme of her current body of artwork orbits around her Sicilian family’s immigrant experiences in America and their journeys across the sea. Her pieces show the resilience of her people and that’s why she is a perfect fit for our theme of the month: Resilience.

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Keelin is a professional graphic designer, illustrator, and artist.

She’s worked at Amazon for the last 10 years.

While working at Amazon, she created an artistic event called the Amazon ArtWalk.

In 2010 Keelin was diagnosed with MS.

She chose to face this adversity by taking action, so in 2014 she created a bike race team for a cure.

While still searching for the right cure, she gave birth to her son. Shortly afterward she became a single mom, still searching for a cure.

The following year she underwent three years of a newly-FDA-approved treatment,   which has kept her in semi-permanent remission.

Fast forward to 2021, and Keelin is now writing a book about her journey with MS.

She hopes to share her story of resilience by offering insights on how she managed her MS through a holistic lifestyle that includes meditation, acupuncture, and yoga, cycling, rock climbing, and walking everywhere.

Keelin believes resilience is a hard-earned personality trait. It is a badge of survival. Resilience to Keelin means always looking for the silver lining, finding gratitude especially within difficult lessons, and never giving up.

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Nathalie teaches resilience and well-being through science-based positive psychology tools.

Her corporate experience acquired at several Fortune 500 companies coupled with her academic studies, her curiosity, and her love of learning have made her passionate about human psychology.

She is enthusiastic about sharing her passion for evidence-based well-being practices that everyone can implement to build a more resilient self, increase their well-being and flourish!

We are all faced with stressors, whether at work, within our family, or in our social lives. The key is to develop practical and simple tools to acquire relevant resources to mitigate their impact.

Nathalie translates the latest academic research into engaging workshops, where participants can expect to learn key concepts and most importantly the best way to apply them to everyday life situations.

Learn more about Nathalie through her social media links:

Workshop: https://nathaliegrand.com/resilience-toolbox-workshop/

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

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathalie_grand_resilience/

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