The GlowPonent Podcast

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Amanda Blackwood is a survivor of human trafficking.

“At the age of 19, Amanda's life took a drastic turn down a very dark path. Her second brush with human trafficking is outlined in the book "Detailed Pieces of a Shattered Dream" and is not for the faint of heart. When Amanda escaped her captors, she didn't go back for the other girls whose screams haunt her dreams even now. For many years she wondered where they were and even if they survived their captivity. The second time, she was trafficked by someone she had known for seven years before the abuse began. Through her words, Amanda is determined to keep fighting human trafficking.”

Amanda’s newest book Custom Justice is available starting June 19th. A portion of every book sale goes to help fight human trafficking and to help rescue the kids still trapped in the life worse than death.

In this episode, Amanda shares her story, her experience, her glimmers of hope, and how she is living with human trafficking now.

If you or someone you know needs resources regarding human trafficking, please reach out to the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1 (888) 373-7888

(Amanda's Website)

https://authoramanda.wixsite.com/survivor

Purchase Custom Justice

https://www.amazon.com/Custom-Justice-Amanda-Blackwood/dp/B092L6YZYP/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1NAHF8MD4HZJO&dchild=1&keywords=custom+justice+amanda+blackwood&qid=1619648691&sprefix=custom+justice+%2Caps%2C407&sr=8-2

Connect with Amanda

Instagram/Clubhouse: @detailedpieces

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

Morgan Anderson a powerhouse. She is one of my favorite humans. She is the creator of The Good-Hearted podcast, a must-listen podcast to elevate your life. Morgan offers encouragement and inspiration with weekly podcast episodes to help deconstruct your old ways of thinking and blossom into the truest version of yourself. Morgan is there to guide you on your self-love journey and remind you that you are doing great every step of the way. Morgan is a mom, writer, and podcaster living in a farm town just outside of Dayton, Ohio.

In this episode, we are chatting about pivoting in life in business, shame around failing and being open to change and learning new things.

Connect with Morgan at @morgananderson.co and @goodheartedpodcast

https://www.goodheartedpodcast.com/

Brian Paonessa has more than a decade of experience in the fitness world. With a bachelor’s degree in health and wellness, Brian worked in gyms and wellness centers in some of New York’s most notable neighborhoods and had clientele throughout the city but felt like he was destined for something greater: He knew that he needed to take the next step in the health field and he chose to go down the path of becoming a nurse. After navigating through nursing school and becoming a nurse, Brian created his dream business - Fit Functional Nurses.

At its core, Fit Functional Nurses (FFN) is dedicated to giving back to front-line workers; those who dedicate their lives to others before themselves. FFN works by utilizing incentive programs designed to enrich a nurse’s lifestyle and overall well-being for the care, dedication, and compassion they provide to others. FFN hopes a little recognition, appreciation, and experiences outside the workplace will help balance the ever-growing number of burnt-out nurses physically, spiritually, and mentally.

In this episode, Brian shares his story of chasing a health and wellness career and how it launched him into becoming a nurse. Brian shares his experience of nursing school even when school “wasn’t his thing”.

Brian also unpacks and teaches incredible life lessons around taking risks, chasing a dream, overcoming difficult obstacles, mental health, overcoming stress, and doing big things.

Connect with Brian on Instagram at @ffnworld

Website: www.ffnworld.com

Tanya Plummer started her coaching journey as a weight loss and fitness coach 9 years ago but had a light bulb moment about dieting. She had lost her passion for weight loss and continuous dieting. After deep self-discovery, in January 2021 Tanya shifted her coaching and it has inspired women all over the world. Tanya is a certified Holistic Nutrition and specializes in Intuitive Eating - a methodology that allows her clients to make peace with food. She teaches her clients how to Undiet, make peace with food plus love and honor her body.

In this episode, Tanya shares her journey with food including the gym, macro tracking, food obsessions, and everything in between. We dive deep into building a life that allows you to make peace with food and remove food guilt. Tanya also discusses learning to love ourselves, our body and breaking through diet culture.

Tanya leaves you with these three steps in creating a life free of dieting.

Understand that you are in a diet culture and realize you don’t want to be in it.

Honor your Hunger - only eat when you are hungry and know your hunger cues.

Do not restrict any foods.

Connect with Tanya on Instagram @TanyaPlummerHealth

Your mindset can change your entire life. It dictates how you respond to situations and events in your life, your career, your relationships, and influences your overall outlook.

There are two different mindsets we will address - limiting mindset and growth mindset. Developing a growth mindset takes concentrated effort and requires small mental shifts over time. Having a limiting mindset keeps you from seeing growth or change. You may fear change. A limiting mindset means you are too focused on the results and are constantly seeking approval. With a growth mindset, you are open to growth and development, you value the process and learning, you embrace failure, and you know that the best is always on the horizon. You are willing to take risks, even if it means falling on your face in order to learn something really awesome.

Take these 6 steps to work towards developing your growth mindset!

1. Visualize your best life.

2. Be bold about what’s important to you and base all decisions on your values.

3. Create your own motivation.

4. Don’t quit when things get hard.

5. Address your limiting beliefs.

6. Know that not everyone will understand.

As many of you know, Affirmations are my jam!! My entire life has been transformed through the practice of daily affirmations.

I get asked every single day how to create powerful affirmations. In this episode, I will walk you through exactly how to create affirmations to impact your life and improve your mindset. We also dive into how to implement what you’ve learned to start practicing your affirmations every single day.

Sam Palmer is a High School English as a Second Language Teacher. She is the Owner of ELLevate Company, a jewelry & accessory shop to empower women and serve as a physical daily reminder to go after your goals. A portion of every sale goes towards funding scholarships for graduating English Language Learners.

Sam lives in Long Island, NY with her fiance Matt and their 2 cats Bella and Tugger. She enjoys camping, listening to country music, DIY projects, and traveling.

Sam’s superpower is her capacity to listen to others and she truly believes every student who walks through her door is capable of reaching their goals. She believes in others when they don’t believe in themselves and she shows them that they matter. Her purpose and passion in life is not just teaching science; but also teaching others to believe in themselves and their ability to figure it out and never give up!

Sam believes your story is always evolving and constantly being written. ELLevate Company will be launching their official website in the fall and it will be filled with physical reminders to keep you going. If you have ideas for physical reminders (home decor, jewelry, fashionable wear, etc) that you would love to see in the shop, Sam would love to hear it and connect with you!

In this episode, we chat about everything that inspired Sam to launch her business, how she strives daily to support her ELL students and how she inspires women to keep going to chase their goals.

This is a moving and inspirational episode that you do not want to miss!!! Sam’s heart will make your soul inspired, and full of complete joy!!

Connect with Sam over on Instagram @ellevate.co

Shop her store at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ELLevateCo

Oftentimes, you’ll hear people say “it just has to be that way” when it doesn’t. You can design and build a life that you are totally obsessed with. You can have the best life you deserve. In this episode, we will dive deep into 6 things you can do RIGHT NOW to create a life you are worthy of.

We will chat about relationships, career, wellness, gratitude, knowing your worth, and how to stop settling!

Geneva Ellis is a Mental Wellness Coach. Her mission is to help individuals get unstuck and re-energized to take intentional action for their lives! Her goal behind it is to help people live a more fulfilling, meaningful, and joyful life. Geneva began the process of untangling the expectations and pressures of hustle culture and social conditioning with her authentic self and realized she needed to make some life changes. She took action and followed through with those life-changing decisions, and while some days are tough, she doesn't regret it for a second because now she feels truly aligned with her values and the path she’s meant to be on.

Geneva is passionate about human rights, normalizing mental health by making it more accessible and practical for people to utilize on a daily basis, as well as learning and experiencing all that this beautiful and diverse world we live in has to offer!

In this episode, we dive into mental wellness, joy, and happiness. Geneva defines wellness as unique for everyone. It is a combination of mind, body, and soul. Paying attention on purpose. She will teach you how to take intentional action; how to understand your values, and how to live a life with joy.

Takecarewellnesscoaching.com

Instagram @takecarewellnessoaching.com

When most people think wellness, they think nutrition and movement, but what they aren’t thinking about is the million other things that create wellness in your world.

Chelsea Glaser is the owner of Focused by Fredi and Launch It Girl. She is a freaking powerhouse, a creator, an enneagram seven, and the queen of going with the flow.

In this episode, Chelsea breaks down all the things you didn’t realize you needed in your wellness routine, including your environment, your mantras, checking in with yourself, your morning routine and so much more.

Need a mantra that will stick? Try two of these Chelsea-approved mantras that can level up your life!

* “Everything outside of your control is not your responsibility”

* “My inner world creates my outer world”.

Connect with Chelsea here:

@WeareFredi

wearefredi.com

@Launchitgirl

Launchitgirls.com