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Vicki Moore spent most of her career as a corporate manager, leading diverse teams in both the US and Europe. For more than 15 years , she helped teams efficiently implement strategic changes, improve performance and achieve big goals. After founding and running a successful business in Los Angeles for ten years, Vicki pursued her dream of living in Europe. Now, she combines her skills in strategy, management and coaching to help others turn bold ideas into actions and pursue their dreams with confidence and courage.

After reinventing her life multiple times, Vicki constantly found herself explaining that everyone can pursue their dreams and bold goals, once they recognise the influences that block success. This led her to write Life Beyond Should in 2021. The book is a practical guide for overcoming expectations in order to embrace what makes each of us unique and confidently turn ideas into reality.

Website: https://moore2life.net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickimoore09
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moore2life.coach

Book: lifebeyondshould.com
Available on Amazon (kindle for only $0.99 until end of August)
Vicki will be glad to send a signed copy of the book to any listeners who request one.
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I have a confession, I was a rule follower. In my early life and career, I always did what I “should.”  It worked for a while... I went to the “right” college, got a “good” job, got married, bought a house and climbed the corporate ladder, just as I was expected to.  I had a nice life, but there was one small problem... I was miserable.  

Nothing I was doing was aligned with what I truly wanted or valued.  I was living the life everyone else expected me to and playing it safe.  Whenever I described the life I dreamed of, everyone told me it was impossible. I didn’t believe them, and I finally found the courage to prove it.  

I quit my job, gave away everything that didn't fit in my car (including the house), and drove coast-to-coast across the U.S. to start over again in California.  It was the best decision I ever made.  Since then, I have followed my instincts and pursued my dreams, even while people told me at every step that I wouldn't succeed.  

Here is what I would have missed... if I had believed people who said it wasn’t possible:

Living for 17 years at one of the most beautiful beaches in the world

Starting and running a successful business for more than 10 years

Doubling sales revenues during a recession

Living and working in Europe, and traveling to over 34 countries

In my corporate career, I managed training and development.  My job was to help people recognize their individual talents and use them to succeed. I gained experience in using a variety of methods to support teams in achieving results and maximizing their success.

Now I utilize that expertise along with coaching to help people take big leaps, move past limitations and significantly change their lives. I believe in taking bold actions, living great adventures and learning along the way. 

​I am committed to helping people dare to lead the life they want, because I know it is possible.

Traci Neal lives in the United States as a performing poet and professional writer. She is featured in The New York Times, Storyberries, Sheen Magazine, and InspireMore to name a few. She is the third place 2022 poetry winner in the United Kingdom Thalassemia Society for their Global Arts and Poetry Competition, the 2022 poetry winner of Empowering Justice Foundation Poetry Contest, the third-place 2022 State Winner of the SCCDA Poetry and Art Contest, and the 2021 second-place winner of the virtual poetry slam "Taking It Global" in Toronto, Canada.

To the Editor (New York Times) - April 17, 2021:
Imagine a young, Black, Southern teenage girl in middle school with thick glasses. This girl wants to do so well in school. She wishes she were popular. She desires to have more friends and be liked. She loves to read. She loves poetry. This girl was me.

I have one philosophy. In my teenage years and now in adulthood, I have believed that rejection motivates reach. Poetry would become my outlet in life. In high school, college and adulthood, rejection would follow me constantly. Still, it became my motivation to reach out to the hurting, helpless and those hungry for hope.

Rejection pushes poetry out of me. Poetry propels me to release my pain. Rejection motivates me to never give up. I think we all have felt rejection at some point in our lives. Let rejection be your motivation to reach.

Traci Neal
Columbia, S.C.

Website: https://www.tracinealspeakerpoet.com
Thank you: https://www.tracinealspeakerpoet.com/thank-you-blogs-articles
Poets & Writers: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/traci_neal

Envision yourself as a person who has a bright future, but then get diagnosed with autism at a young age, and you develop a lack of conversational skills when one of the requirements in society is discussing with someone.

Now, I do not converse with any male or female easily because I have the tendency to talk about what I only want to, and it leads people the wrong way. I have never been able to figure out the reason, but at the end of the day, I brush the dust off, and I reclaim my territory.

My voice is an attribute even though society may not agree. I have myself and others who would disagree with most of the human population. Each day before I go to bed I make sure that I lit my torch to know that I am here as well, so why are you not letting me in while giving me a chance at my redemption?

When I am conversing with someone, the person who saves me from fainting is me. The reason is no one knows how I talk to someone one hundred percent as I go off-topic too much along with coming across as selfish by not sharing thoughts with others. While I like to converse with my family and peers, it is damp and causes too much anxiety and depression to where I have to tiptoe on my feet.

There have been people who I feel more comfortable speaking to than others, but it will never be full-fledged comfortable. This will always be an almost mature and comfortable mood. However, I would not wish to change my conversing skills. If I had one wishing star come down, it would certainly not be that. I have so much to say that fire would eventually come out of my breath. I always wonder if others care about my thoughts, which has led me to not care about people who have not listened to my thoughts. Furthermore, I know I am a relevant human being and that is the only opinion that matters to me.

You can debate whether this could be me being a jerk or not? I am only just feeding you accurate information. The decision and the rest are up to you. My enemies have made me stronger so if you choose to not like me and throw me off the cliff, then go ahead, but my friend, you are wasting your time because you cannot start drama or make me feel bad about myself. I have been through too much to not have my life puzzled together. You once did push me, but I have officially resurrected and no matter what, I will keep coming back. Instead of saying stop drop and roll, we should say listen, open your ears, and include.

I am no longer a hidden gem. I am the gem for others who need my voice and others who just want a direction. Additionally, I’ve been shot in the head too many times while conversing, and I am now bulletproof to the negativity during a conversation. Each person has been manipulated into the negatives and their fifty-percent right when it comes to skills we do not understand or topics that we consider trivial. However, put us in our element, and it will become a different ball game.

We can converse with you like anyone else when it comes to our knowledge that we just want to share with the planet. It is time for everybody to become more open-minded when it comes to autistic people conversing. Instead of looking at autistic people blabbing as a foreign language, it is now time for us to see the rise of the Sun while others give us the undivided attention that we so desperately need for the world to hear us. Now let’s envision an autistic person who lacks conversational skills again.

The one thing I hope you took from this is that you know society puts pressure on people on the spectrum as they must converse with the human species and I do not think society will fully understand. They could always be a problem in the future, but let me ask this: Why can’t you become part of the solution?

Website: https://autismrocksandrolls.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autismrocksandrollspod
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/229025325159144
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamMitc95075321
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sammitchell100
TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/9qOVY7YI-Rw

I'm fifty-six and I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. About three years ago, I hit emotional-bottom and reached out to God. Since then, my life has changed in the following ways:

I'm no longer addicted to sugar.

My weight has gone from 235 lbs. to 170 lbs.

I work-out regularly: weight-lifting, yoga and daily, long walks.

I post videos of myself working out on my Facebook page. I'm not shy.

Most importantly, I've been pursuing my dream of becoming a professional writer of creative fiction with more passion than ever before. For me, at least. Now? I have over eighty books on-line. If you Google Indigo Books and search John Leister, you can check them out. I would be more than happy to send you one.

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/contributor/author/john-leister
https://www.facebook.com/john.leister.5
https://www.facebook.com/groups/497054801130251
https://bookgoodies.com/interview-with-author-john-leister

Useful resources shared by John during his interview:
https://www.draft2digital.com
https://www.postermywall.com

Having spent over 20 years delivering strategic change for the corporate and non-corporate worlds, Faris has experienced first-hand the fine differences between strategic success and failure.

His work has spanned numerous companies (from global behemoths to small start-ups), in numerous countries, across a range of sectors, supporting them all to unlock strategic success. 

He came to realise that often what hinders institutions from achieving their goals goes beyond the quality of their strategy; it is their ability to engage effectively with others at all levels and remove barriers in their way. This has led to his passion for improving strategic effectiveness within all businesses and individuals and the foundation of Shiageto Consulting.

Over time, Faris has worked to distil his knowledge of how to solve complex problems in a structured manner combined with his skill on engaging effectively with others and his ability to quickly determine the barriers to a strategy's success. This knowledge has formed the foundation of Shiageto’s workshops, courses and methodologies. Faris believes that any firm or team can adopt these improvements; all it requires is a little of the right support - something Shiageto provides!

On top of leading our business, Faris is now an accomplished speaker and contributor for a variety of outlets.

Website: http://www.shiageto.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farisaranki
Medium: https://farisaranki.medium.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farisaranki
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shiageto
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi9pqTZluGFRE01GDg3TsDA

Michelle Jewsbury is an international philanthropic, speaker, author, and breakthrough coach.  May 2014, she took her first humanitarian trip to Guatemala where she helped an orphanage on the Rio Dulce.  Her next mission trip took her to Kenya, Africa withKizimani, a non profit that focuses on bringing hope and sustainable change to impoverished communities.  In 2015, she embarked in a career as Vice President for Young Vision Africa, a non-profit organization that encourages young leaders in Sierra Leone to make lasting changes in their country.  Also in 2015, Michelle joined a team of people in Hyderabad, India where she worked with Back2Back at one of their orphanages. 

Michelle left her position with Young Vision Africa in August 2016 to focus her efforts on ending domestic violence.  Her desire to help victims of domestic abuse came from personal experience in such a relationship.  Michelle was with her assailant for three years where she endured physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuse. Michelle wrote, produced and performed a critically acclaimed play about her experience entitled But I Love Him. The play debuted at the largest Solo Festival on the West Coast, The White Fire SoloFest, with a nearly sold out performance in February 2016.  The show, also staged in the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival, received multiple reviews and commendations. 

She has since completed and published her personal memoir with the same title as her play.  But I Love Him is a painful yet inspirational true story of a strong, independent woman caught in the horrifying cycle of domestic violence and how she got out. In this book, she shares the details of her struggle with genuine honesty, taking the reader on a twisted journey of love, pain and unyielding brutality that eventually leads…to peace. Mixing statistics, research and resource with her own account (and even some humor), Michelle shows just how far someone in her situation can sink, why it happens and how they can always pick themselves back up. Those who hear her story walk away with a newfound understanding about the horrors of domestic violence, how to escape and how to build a new, healthier life. 

Websites: https://www.unsilencemyvoice.com + https://unsilencedvoices.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-jewsbury + https://www.linkedin.com/company/unsilencedvoices
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellejewsbury + https://www.instagram.com/unsilencedvoices
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michellejewsburyspeaks + https://www.facebook.com/unsilencevoices
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjewsbury + https://twitter.com/unsilencevoices
YouTube - Unsilenced Voices: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtVo8wrcPpPE0ELRQaxLpWQ
Book USA: https://www.amazon.com/But-Love-Him-domestic-violence/dp/179054243X
Book UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/But-Love-Him-domestic-violence/dp/179054243X

I help you live Longer and Better by improving your Habits, Health and Happiness. I will help you when you cannot find help anyplace else.

I’ve been delivering science-based solutions over 3 decades helping tens of thousands of people to stop adapting their lifestyle to pain and health problems that accelerate the aging process. I help people who are aging prematurely even though they are eating quality foods, exercising and thinking good thoughts and/or trying to avoid inherent diseases, yet still feel they are spinning their wheels with little or no results. When you stop adapting your lifestyle to pain and health problems that prematurely age you, you can reclaim their most precious asset, your health. You are not your DNA.

My services are unique and create successful outcomes. I focus on finding and treating the cause of the problem that is unique to you, instead of chasing symptoms or ignoring important signs that may become fatal diseases or definitely one you do not want. I call this “Grim Reaper Syndrome”!

You want a system that is simple and successful with positive results in as short of time as possible, and for some in as little as a few weeks- successful results count !
The main outcome of my system is the aging process that is inevitable, can now be graceful and healthy. One by one health issues become irrelevant and you can have the great life you dreamed, deserve and that you worked so hard for yourself and for your loved ones who need you.

Free Wellness Tests:

This test is for how you are handling toxins in your environment. Your score will reveal wether you are a candidate for doing detoxification. Toxins Test

This tests the four basic areas of the gut and its function, the score reveals a health snapshot of your gut. The lower the score the better. You can't do detoxification if your gut score is high. Gut Test

Website: https://healthteamnetwork.com
Schedule a call: https://meetdrpat.as.me/htnetwork
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drpatboulogne
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drpatboulogne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AskDrPat
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/askdrpat
Amazon Book UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1953806945
Amazon Book US: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Are-You-Sick-Tired/dp/1734185570

Sarah Ross, Founder of “Your Reason to Breathe”, helps stressed executives and entrepreneurs to beat the burnout cycle by finding their own “Reason to Breathe” and building their life around it. After burning out in the corporate world and planning to take her own life, a dying orphan in a Vietnamese orphanage showed Sarah that she had more to give by using her own story to help others. Her mission is to make sure that no-one who is burning out ever feels like ending their life is their only choice. She speaks, coaches and mentors on how to reset, recharge and thrive after burnout using her signature models „The B.R.E.A.T.H.E Model ”and “Priority Happy”

Website: http://www.yourreasontobreathe.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thesarahross
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourreasontobreathe
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YourReasonToBreathe

As a Globally Renowned Courage Speaker and Mentor, Clinton’s work centers around inspiring and enabling the courage and confidence to unlock your God given potential. 

An experience of failure in 2008 shattered his confidence but awakened his soul. It set him on a spiritual path that led him to his purpose of “Re-Igniting the Human Spirit”. 

He’s recently spoken to over 50,000 people across North America and Europe, and was recognised by Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global as a “Top 12 Speaker to Inspire You”. 

In 2020, Clinton discovered Pickleball, the fastest growing sport in America. He was hooked not only for the fun of it, but also because it shattered a limiting belief he held for 20 years that he could ever be competitive again in sports after several knee surgeries earlier in life. With a renewed sense of confidence, Clinton became a PPR certified Pickleball Coach, founded Pickleball 4 Life, and started teaching this great sport because of its ability to inspire life and improve one's self esteem. 

On a mission to uplift humanity, he’s now traveling the US in his RV with his wife, leading Pickleball inspired events for corporations, schools, and charities to inspire mental, emotional, and physical well-being in our communities. 

Clinton believes that Pickleball is more than just a sport. It's a catalyst for positive change!

You can see him on stages and Pickleball courts across the US by visiting www.ClintonYoung.com and www.Pickleball4Life.org, and by following him on Instagram and Facebook at @ClintonSpeaks and @ClubFreedomLive. #Pickleball4Life

Website: https://clintonyoung.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonyoung
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clintonspeaks + https://www.instagram.com/clubfreedomlive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ClintonSpeaks + https://www.facebook.com/groups/clubfreedomlive
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClintonAYoung
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrClintonYoung

Speaking & Coaching Inquiries
www.ClintonYoung.com
@ClintonSpeaks on Instagram and Facebook

Follow RV and Pickleball Journey
www.Pickleball4Life.org
@ClubFreedomLive on Instagram and Facebook

Finally, the breakthrough you have been looking for. In this groundbreaking book Wall Street analyst and author Tim Kellis takes you on a journey through time to not only help you discover yourself but understand how to build and keep a lifelong happy, healthy, harmonious, loving, affectionate, intimate marriage. Not only will you learn how to build a positive relationship, what turns that relationship negative but how to change the course of the negative relationship back to where you were at the beginning, back when your life changed forever.

Most importantly, you will learn the greatest lesson, and that is why, why should two people who fall in love and decide to spend the rest of their lives together learn to build a loving home. Unfortunately, as society has developed we have lost our way in the most important part of each of our lives, our families. Just because we have a 50% divorce rate doesn’t mean that we should sit back while countless families go through one of the most painful experiences imaginable.

Renowned Wall Street analyst Tim Kellis takes on what could be considered society’s biggest problem today, divorce. The journey that led him to tackle such a significant issue was both personal and professional.

After a successful career that eventually landed him on Wall Street as the first semiconductor analyst to focus on the communications market Tim met what he thought was the girl of his dreams, only to see his relationship end with bitterness and anger. The journey included working with a marital therapist, and after he realized the therapist wasn’t really helping decided to tackle the issue himself.

The journey you are about to embark includes a trip through history, where the most significant lessons civilization has learned over the last few thousand years are used to demonstrate not only the way to set up a positive relationship, but the causes of that relationship turning negative.

Additionally, Tim dives into the science of psychology to answer the most basic question anyone asks who goes through the pain of divorce, “why didn’t we work out”?

The basic premise of the book is that we have a 50% divorce rate yet there doesn’t appear to be anything happening to help solve this problem. Just because divorce has become a significant part of our culture doesn’t mean we should simply sit back while countless families suffer through the agony of splitting up.

The toll to society tomorrow because of our culture of divorce today is impossible to determine but future generations will have to deal with this change to the culture that has occurred over the last two generations.

For the first time in history Tim will elaborate on a psychological solution to our psychological problems so that couples can learn how to change the direction of their negative relationships. In essence, the psychological objective is to understand what happens mentally between two people who make one of the most important decisions of their lives, to get married.

The objective of this book is to provide real, logical help to couples so that they can learn how to stay out of the divorce trap. Good luck on your journey as you learn how to set up your relationship so that you can maintain a happy, healthy, harmonious, loving, affectionate, intimate marriage.

Book US: https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Quest-Happy-Marriage-Relationships-ebook/dp/B001NMTCWQ
Book UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Equality-Quest-Happy-Marriage-Relationships-ebook/dp/B001NMTCWQ
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timkellis
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timkellis
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timkellis
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.kellis
The Marriage Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HappyRelationship
Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/@timkellis
Tim Kellis on Lifetime's The Balancing Act: https://youtu.be/RMVBSXcEBqU