Own Your Awkward

Well-Being Strategist | Meditation Master | Speaker | Author | Yogini  

Oksana’s work supports positive behavioral change through elevating human and organizational well-being. A Master Meditation Initiator, she guides companies in the creation of evolutionary wellness cultures by inviting conscious executives and employees to a deeper relationship with themselves.   

No stranger to life’s curveballs, Oksana’s personal journey spans a challenging childhood in the USSR and solo immigration to the US, where her pursuit of the American dream resulted in massive burnout and depression. Ultimately, a transformational experience in the Indian Himalayas led her to found SattvaMe, a mental well-being training organization that bridges the gap between stress, anxiety, and the infinite possibility for people to evolve into their highest potential.   

Today, Oksana’s proprietary approach to well-being and pioneering mindfulness work with leading-edge businesses like Microsoft, BuzzFeed, and MIT, is reimagining the workplace as an energetic source of well-being that allows us all to experience the world as a magnificent interconnected place.   

Read Oksana’s full story in her bestselling book “NEXT LEVEL YOU.” Available on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/Next-Level-You-transformed-mindfulness-ebook/dp/B082DJCF3H/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=next+level+you&qid=1577924072&sr=8-1   

Learn more about her work: www.Sattva.Me and and www.oksanaesberard.com  

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Robin is a proud generalist who thought she was supposed to be an expert. Led  by curiosity, she wandered and wondered, trying on a variety of career  options and industries, hoping to find the right “one.” Her professional journey consists of wearing multiple hats across numerous industries,  usually in sales, marketing, and strategy. Like many generalists, she  struggled to find her “calling.” In a world of specialists, experts,  influencers, and entrepreneurs, she kept sampling from the buffet of  “possibility.” One of GoDaddy’s repeat customers, she’s been known to have more than a dozen domains at a time, each with its own business plan. Finally fed up with trying to figure out her true domain or  “calling,” she decided to just be herself. She went back through numerous journals, career assessments, and personality tests and discovered three main themes: curiosity, enthusiasm, and creativity. She now uses her innate curiosity, broad experience, and enthusiasm to help widget-makers, manufacturers, industrial companies, and B2B sales organizations turn their subject matter expertise into marketing and messages that are creative, fun, and make their audiences feel good.  Instead of trying to be an expert, she’s embraced being a fan, someone who follows what she thinks is cool and exciting, whether it’s a  product, component, winemaker, poet, rock band, or something else that tickles her fancy. As a marketer, she looks at things the way a fan  might look at them, saying to herself, “that’s cool; people should know  about that.” If she thinks your product, service, or brand is interesting, valuable, or awesome, she won’t stop talking about it. She lives by the motto that if you’re deeply interested, you’ll be  interesting.

Follow Robin online at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinabennett/
https://www.instagram.com/verseandvibe/

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Ashley Gutermuth is a New Jersey-based stand-up  comedian. She has appeared on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jimmy Fallon where  she was chosen by Jerry Seinfeld to win the ‘Seinfeld Challenge.’ Her  high-energy, positive style of comedy is irresistible. Ashley’s comedy is focused on her unusual relationships and observations about life.  Ashley has performed in the New York Underground Comedy Festival and in  June 2020, won Blue City Comedy’s Comic of the Month competition, based  in Boise, Idaho.

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Adam is an Achievement Coach who is passionate about helping people get clear on what they want in life, set goals to get there, and then a plan to take action to achieve it.

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An author, speaker and founder of DM Consulting LLC, Dawn Marcotte loves to share her insights in building a successful online business. As a mother who worked full time in the corporate world while being a freelance writer as a side gig, Dawn combines the lessons learned from both worlds to create processes that are repeatable and reliable. Her passion is to teach women entrepreneurs the skills they need to get clients and build a successful business while staying true to their values and being authentic.  

Please follow Dawn online: 

Website: https://dm-consultingllc.com 

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

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawn.marcotte/  

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“Pretty” Mike James, obstacle course racer, father, comedian, and safety professional. Founded BeastNet Podcast in November of 2017 as an outlet to discuss Obstacle Course racing.  In the first 2 years, Mike hosted almost every episode while talking to everyone from everyday Spartans, elite racers, semi-pro female hockey players, comedians who are into fitness, and more.  These days Mike runs daily, hosts comedy shows, and occasionally drops in on the BeastNet for hosting duties.    

Follow him on Facebook Mike.James.427 or follow the BeastNet on Insta, TikTok, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and more @BeastNetPod Listen to the show on your favorite streaming service or at www.beastnetpod.com  

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It's Deb’s mountain and it's hard to imagine living life outside its awe-inspiring shadow⎯ without the backpacking, skiing, and outdoor life they enjoy in Washington state. Her birth in software engineering took her away from Mount Rainier in exchange for the exotic lands of China and the Philippines.

In Singapore, Deb and her husband celebrated their 25th anniversary dining on Brazilian churrascaria.  Her adventures abroad have uniquely prepared Deb to work with people from diverse cultures. But the awkwardness, even here at home, is very real!  Good communication is essential. It's important to understand that not everyone is inside her head with her! People don't come with a help-manual. Unlike the world of software, there is no "help-desk" support.

Twenty years after it all began, she’s letting life lead her to places unknown. Deb traded the anti-social world of software design for the people-oriented world of real estate. Being a realtor led her to take to the airwaves. For two years, she hosted the real estate program, Lockin' it In with Deb & Per on KLAY radio. Her new YouTube channel, Deb Did That, is an adventure story driven by her passion to discover, on a deeper level, what it’s like to be another person, to experience another's life and work, their joys and tears. Deb and her guest experience the unknown (each other) together.

She’s enjoying the ride.

Please follow Deb online:

YouTube:  Deb  Did That https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtB5fL_0SLaeX1CwnOVteyQ

Facebook:  @DebDidThat | https://www.facebook.com/DebDidThat

Real Estate Sherpa on Facebook: @realestatesherpa | https://www.facebook.com/RealEstateSherpa

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Joseph Theis was born and raised in Hagerstown, Maryland. He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he earned his law degree from The  Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He is an avid reader and lifelong lover of the horror genre. His favorite horror authors are Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. He recently published his first collection of horror stories called SALEM  AVENUE through the Creator Institute at Georgetown University.
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Shelley Brown is a mindfulness educator and speaker best known as the creator of Weird Girl, a series of humorous essays written about real-life experiences.

Please follow and support Shelley online at www.weirdgirlsrock.com

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Doc Kennedy is a stand-up comedian and podcaster talking all things God, Family, Country.

Follow Doc online at his website at www.DocKennedyLive.com or social media at @dockennedylive

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