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While anxiety and depression are on the rise, there is hope for those suffering from mental health symptoms. Erin Kerry is on a mission to empower those struggling with mental health issues not to be limited by a label or diagnosis. As a survivor of PTSD, depression, and bipolar disorder, Erin knows firsthand how living with a chronic illness infiltrates every area of life. She now works as an integrative nutrition health coach and studies functional medicine in an effort to provide hope and restoration for mental health.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• The epidemic of mental illness in our world today
• How fear keeps us in "fight or flight" and the impact on the brain
• Tools to support depression and anxiety
• The gut-brain connection
• How chronic inflammation impacts mental health
• Erin's story of healing from mental illness
• How Erin coaches men and women to find renewed health

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Claudia Goetzelmann is a true global being with having lived on four continents. German-born, she is now based out of Venice Beach/LA California. Claudia spent most of her live traveling and working around the world as a fashion advertising photographer, capturing amazing places and beautiful faces for varied big companies and fashion brands.

In 2017, after a heart-wrenching divorce and "death of her old self" as she calls it, she became a certified End-of-Life Doula. At the end of 2018, she completed a Spiritual Life Coach training and founded "Permission to Bloom" coaching. She is also a yogi, and she grows her own veggies and holds guided meditations. She is currently studying Trauma and Grief Therapy with Dr. Gabor Mate as she would like to add this module of tools and knowledge to her coaching practice. She is now combining all her gifts, talents and wisdom to help others to live a more empowered and authentic life.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• How Claudia got into work as a well-known photographer
• The role death and trauma has played in her life
• How to have a better relationship with death, grief, and pain
• Claudia's work as an End-of-Life Doula
• The importance of human connection and vulnerability
• Different types of grief
• Navigating difficult transitions
• Coming to grips with grief as a transition

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Many people struggle to find their purpose in life, because they get caught in the insanity cycle of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Today's episode will challenge you with practical tools that help you get out of your own way and make lasting changes.

Becca Ribbing is the author of The Clarity Journal and has been a coach for over a decade. She's on a mission to help people break out of the cycles of uncertainty and struggle that hold them back.

What You'll Learn From This Episode:

• Becca's background and work coaching clients who feel stuck in their careers
• The way women value connection and purpose in the workplace
• Engaging your strengths so that work is enjoyable
• The purpose behind The Clarity Journal
• How what we envy tells us a lot about ourselves
• Signs that we are stuck and in procrastination mode
• The purpose behind her downloadable resource, Get Unstuck
• Becca's next book coming soon

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Is it possible to end a relationship in a healthy way? How can we find healing and understanding in the midst of loss?

Katherine Woodward Thomas is the New York Times bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and Calling in "The One": 7 Weeks to Attracting the Love of Your Life, as well as an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist.

Over the past two decades, Katherine has had the honor of teaching hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the globe to create conscious, loving relationships and to realize the higher potentials all their connections hold for health and happiness. Katherine also trains and certifies people to become Certified Calling in "The One" Coaches, and/or Conscious Uncoupling Coaches, and provides ongoing supervision and development to a vibrant community of her coaches from around the world.

She's a Billboard-charting, #1 iTunes jazz artist with her CD Lucky in Love, which was co-written and co-produced with The Brothers Koren.

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• How Katherine went from cabaret singer to therapist
• How she learned to change her life by creating a future
• The story behind her divorce and book Conscious Uncoupling
• The concept of "happily ever after" and how it fits (or doesn't fit) in the 21st Century
• The steps to conscious uncoupling
• Importance of emotional awareness and finding the truth

Katherine's Website | Calling in The One | Conscious Uncoupling

Sharon Valenti was born in England to an American military father and British mother. Her childhood years were affected by many forms of abuse. Deep rooted negative beliefs gained a foothold in her and ran her life unconsciously for many years. Consistently pursuing her own awakening, she is motivated to help others do the work and experience a shift within themselves, one that is in extreme contrast to the suffering they've been subjected to.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Sharon's personal journey of healing
• How our core beliefs as children affect our adulthood
• Sharon's spiritual transformation in India
• Generational strongholds and negative core beliefs of "not enough"
• Misconceptions of emotional health and mental health
• How to let go of others' perceptions of you and show up for yourself
• Where to begin the self-love cycle
• Sharon's unique courses to create self-awareness and growth

Grab your FREE eBook "Relationship Restoration" at ISITTRUE.com. It provides a head start on how to change any unhappy relationship into a loving one.

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There is a strong correlation between personal finance management and the way we see ourselves and show up in this world. In this episode with Dawna Campbell, she shares how the subconscious creates, and how the mind-body links you, your emotions, and your money.

Known as the Mind Whisperer, Dawna combines her past knowledge, wisdom, and experience to assist you in creating and restoring a life of happiness, prosperity, and love. Dawna has over 25 combined years of professional experience. As a former financial advisor, her book Financially Fit is a #1 international bestseller that brings together the world of money, the energy body, and the soul's essence. She is a professional speaker who shares her techniques in interactive workshops while maintaining an international private practice.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How happiness is on the inside
• The emotional tie to money
• Five human emotions
• The pivot and shift strategy
• How to shift the lower feelings to feeling fantastic

Get Dawna's free gift here from the website of her book Financially Fit.

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Meditation is a popular buzzword right now, but what is it, why do you need it, and how do you do it?

Ambika Devi is on a peace mission to help people realize their true nature so that they can step out of the churning river of thoughts and activity of the mind, stop wearing insane schedules like badges of honor, and begin their days reinforced with the calmness a meditation practice brings. Meditating since the age of six, with 44 years of teaching experience, 13,000 plus hours of study and having taught over 19,000 people the art of meditation, she gives you clear steps that lead you directly into a deep state of meditation.

She is a scholar of Yoga with expert knowledge of the philosophy and teachings of the Far Eastern Mystery Schools. As a teen, Ambika became fascinated with Astrology and Astronomy. This took her on a journey of apprenticeships with world-class astrologers and a degree in astrology from NorthStar University. As a coach, Ambika utilizes this skill to guide clients to make better decisions and to unlock their hidden potential. In 2012 Ambika received a Masters degree from the Hindu University in the teaching of Yoga and Meditation.

Her internationally best-selling and award-winning books delight readers with easy to comprehend yogic philosophy embedded in stories and poems. Ambika's two favorite techniques that she passionately teaches to students are Pranayama-Yogic breathing techniques and Primordial Sound techniques. She believes that a body, mind, and spirit in harmony makes good choices that promote well-being.

What You'll Learn From this Episode:

• How Ambika's early childhood practice of meditation and stillness became a habit
• What meditation is and how it trains the mind
• How to use meditation for improved sleep
• Getting in touch with intuition through meditation
• Digging deeper into Ambika's background with astrology
• Using mantras to quiet the mind
• The benefits of yoga
• Background to her six books

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Find Ambika's seven-day course packed with unique methods to create a soothing environment for deep sleep here. Use the code: SLEEPWELLNESS at check out for a HUGE 50% discount on the course!

Many people allow their fears, negativities, and self-blinding beliefs to stop them from experiencing life to the fullest. That is not the case with Gail Hamilton.

Gail Hamilton is an NSA certified international motivational virtual and live speaker, TEDx Breckenridge speaker 2021, author Soaring into Greatness, a Blind Woman's Vision to Live her Dreams and Fly, trainer, opera singer, and is totally blind. Gail motivates, facilitates, educates, and exhilarates her audiences unlike any other presenter, to fully open their eyes and change the way they see and change the way they live.

Her soaring spirit has led Gail to build her former Habitat for Humanity home, to climb the historic 75-story Cydney Harbor bridge, and to partner with six spectacular Seeing Eye dogs over the years. Her astounding experiences, immense knowledge and unparalleled determination have inspired thousands to live lives of vision, purpose and action. Gail believes that everything is possible and everyone can live an unstoppable, unforgettable, and unbelievable life.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Gail's story and how she overcame the challenge of blindness from a young age
• The turning point and book that changed her outlook and trajectory
• The importance of therapy and how Gail was inspired to get her master's in psychology
• How living a life of greatness means getting past the negative core beliefs and stigma and going for something more.
• The motivation and reason behind her book.
• The traits needed for a successful life.
• The importance of vulnerability and telling your authentic story.

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Learn more about Gail and access Twenty Ways To Soar, a handout of twenty ways to achieve your dreams on her website, Soaring into Greatness.

Grieving is a process we will all be familiar with at some point in our lives. Our guest for this week's episode of SecondWind, Emily Thiroux Threatt, is here to reveal healthy ways for us to cope with these profound emotions. Because she personally knows what it feels like to lose a loved one, she is able to connect to others while remaining sensitive to their emotional state.

Emily Thiroux Threatt is the author of Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief: A Comprehensive Guide to Reclaiming and Cultivating Joy and Carrying on in the Face of Loss.

Emily grew up in Porterville, California and earned her master's degree in English with a concentration in writing. She taught writing at the university level for 39 years. She currently lives in Maui, Hawaii.

Having gone through the experience of two husbands dying, as well as the deaths of her father, mother, sister, many family members and friends, Emily has much experience in the grieving process and has learned to face life with love, optimism, and joy. Her mission is to comfort and support those dealing with grief and loss focusing on happiness.

She earned a master's degree in English with a concentration in writing which led to her career teaching writing at the university level, so she naturally turned to writing to deal with her grief. She also is teaching those dealing with loss how to use writing to deal with their grief.

When she's not writing, you can find her in her tending to her garden, creating art, and walking on the beach.

"It's not that you're trying to get over grief, it's that you're trying to work with it so that you can move forward with the rest of your life…" Emily Thiroux Threatt

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• How Emily was brought face to face with the fragility of life at a young age
• Dealing with grief sooner rather than later will be easier in the long run
• The process of grieving isn't negative if you look at it from a certain perspective
• Parents often shield their children from death because they don't know how to explain or handle it themselves
• The process of creating Emily's book from what inspired her, to getting it published
• The interesting writing exercise Emily advises people who are experiencing grief to try.
• How we should interact with people who are grieving the loss of a loved one

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Public relations and marketing continues to evolve before our eyes, but as members of the public, we can only see these changes from the perspective of a consumer. Today, communications professional Jeanette Brown gives us a peek behind the curtain for a full picture of what it is like to work with a variety of famous brands. We delve into what it means to be successful, and how we should adapt the meaning of success to fit our daily lives

Jeanette Brown Green Founder of Excellence & Presence Communications - an integrated PR & Marketing Agency providing corporate, lifestyle and non-profit clients with brand development, communications campaigns, culturally relevant programs, crisis communications as well as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting.

Jeanette is a Brooklyn native whose family tree branches reach the Caribbean, including Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. Her appreciation for community, family, and culture developed while growing up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood, Bushwick. The sounds of Latin music filled every bodega, the aroma of exotic dishes infiltrated the air, and everyone was treated like family at celebrations.

She is a communications professional with more than 20 years of public relations, marketing, and branding experience representing a variety of brands, including wine and spirits, luxury, sports, and entertainment as well as high-profile personalities. Jeanette has led marketing communications strategies for brands like Ketel One Vodka, Maker's Mark, Pisco Portón, Bacardi Global Travel Retail, MillerCoors, Pepsi Global, Audi, Reebok, and many more. She has overseen the development and execution of all channel-neutral communications plans in support of a brand's PR and trade programs in addition to experiential and strategic partnerships.

"It took me a long time to build my confidence, a very long time and lots of experiences. I just wanna help people not have their bumps in the road be as hard as mine were." Jeanette Brown

What You'll Learn from This Episode:

• What it felt like growing up in a diverse neighborhood like Bushwick, Brooklyn
• How losing her mother at a young age impacted Jeanette Brown's life
• What motivated Jeanette Brown to take a moment to look at her family and friends and evaluate her life
• People have a tendency to work hard, but not recognize their own growth
• What motivated Jeanette Brown to process the loss of her mother years after she passed
• How starting her own PR & marketing agency allowed her to work on a wide range of marketing categories
• The types of amazing clients Jeanette Brown has, and how they continue to inspire her

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Effortless Happiness: How to Find Your Voice and Finally Ask For What You Really Want Paperback or Kindle copy.