The Only Way Is Up

Leanne Kaye is a mother of 3 high energy boys. Poet/performer by night, marketing consultant and women’s health care coordinator by day. Leanne is also a published author of I’m a Previvor- My Secret Legacy with a second book on the way. 

Leanne made Aliyah from the UK to Raanana in 2008. She is a serial entrepreneur and professional motivational speaker within the women’s health field.

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Link to her book- My Secret Legacy-https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0836GLQG6/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Lyrics from Lockdown https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088DLXYM8
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Rina Barbut, immigrated to Israel from Turkey in 2008. Back home, she studied Computer Engineering and was employed as an IT Manager at the company where she worked. In Israel she advanced in her career and worked in Global Technology Companies (in Business and Technology Related Positions) such as; Eset, Nice Systems, Microsoft and currently she is working in Check Point Software Technologies. She completed her second degree in Israel, International MBA

She was a Jewish Activist for years and led educational and social activities in Turkey and Europe. She loves volunteering (medical clown at hospital) and enjoys her life with her friends and many different activities

In parallel, she is running her own initiative, JConnect Forum, which offers a network for young Jewish professionals from Israel and Europe to encourage innovation, nurture business cooperation, share knowledge and skills, attract investors and offer access to new markets. Instead of trying to add a Jewish component to the already overwhelming schedule of these young business professionals, the Forum brings a Jewish component to their business reality

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website: https://www.jconnectforum.com/

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Devorah made aliyah in December 2011 with came with my husband and 3 out of her 4 daughters aged 10, 13 and 15. Her 17 year old stayed in South Africa to complete her final year of high school. She made aliyah a year later. It was an incredibly difficult aliyah as her family moved for her 'Zionistic dream'. Teenagers making aliyah was not simple from so many different aspects - social, cultural and of course the language. The first 6 months I was torn between my disbelief that she actually made aliyah and the privilege she felt to be living here, and the pain that her family was feeling. After 6 months of drying tears and trying to settle her family, it hit her one day that she had lost my Wellness practice, that nobody knew her professionally and she would have to start from scratch building up a Reflexology practice again.

Before Devorah made aliyah she ran a busy Reflexology practice from home. The year before she left she started studying Logotherapy which is the teachings of Dr Victor Frankl from his bestseller, 'Man's search for meaning.' She had started incorporating these teachings into my clinic because she felt that people were looking for meaning behind their illnesses and struggles and until then she was not able to help them. LY helps people ask "What now?" instead of "Why me?".

When Devorah knew they were coming to Israel, she told the lecturer, on old Africaner women who was Dr Frankls student, that she was unable to continue with the course because she was going to live in Israel. She said "Marvelous Devorah, I live in Modiin! I converted because of Dr Frankl and now live in Israel and teach a private group Logotherapy from my home. You are welcome to join!" So, soon after she made aliyah she joined the group and continued with the course. This was a lifesaver to Devorah as she made the aliyah transition. It was a huge turning point in her work as she started counseling people with life struggles and challenges. Of course the skills she learnt helped her with her own transition and helped her to help her family as well.

Devorah then went on to do a bereavement counseling course and studied mental imagery for healing and am currently studying Somatic Experience - emotional first aid for trauma.

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Marta is the quintessential Aliyah story. Originally from Philadelphia, she fell in love with Israel at an early age, when she lived with her family for a year in the small desert town of Arad, at the age of 10. Really, even back then, she knew then she would one day be back in Israel for good.

After studying abroad here in both high school and college Israel became her second home and eventually, after graduating university in the States, Marta made aliyah 10 years ago.

Over the years Marta has had many jobs from a PR agency, to Masa Israel to
being one of the first employees at the music education startup, JoyTunes, where she was the community manager.

All these positions lead her to her current one, marketing manager at Google.

If you had told Marta, when she graduated from University, that one day she would be working at Google, she would have laughed in your face. She absolutely owes this to living in Israel, as her Israeli network opened doors one by one, taught her the skills, and led her to this incredible opportunity.

Marta is a true zionist, she believes Israel is an ongoing miracle she feels blessed to witness everyday. Even with the many things that still needs to improve in this country, she is excited to be part of the day to day evolution which is this country. Her work at Google, helping startups, she believes is an important part of the mission of Israel - to be a light upon the nation and bring innovation and growth to this country, and beyond. 

When not working, she is traveling the world, for work. When not doing either of those, she is practicing her yoga, taking the long walk home, listening to a podcast or at home playing cards with her boyfriend.Marta is a big believer in positive thinking, manifestation and boutique Israeli wine.  

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Aliya is a Berkeley native, raised and influenced greatly by the rich Bay Area food scene. She brought this foundation for fabulous food with her and sought out the international offerings here in Israel. Realizing that much of what she was looking for was either not authentic, expensive, or inaccessible so she began making my favorite foods in my own kitchen. Everything from homemade tortillas, udon noodles and curries. Simultaneously, she started sharpening her skills in Israeli food - everything from shakshouka, to couscous to stuffed grape leaves with the goal of making these recipes accessible to non-Hebrew speakers. 

At this time Aliya was pursuing an MA at Tel Aviv University and realizing she couldn't sustain waitressing forever, she decided to do what she loves and started to teach cooking. Drawing on the knowledge from her childhood, travels and what she had taught myself, she opened the school out of my own kitchen in 2016.

Since then, the school has flourished. she currently runs about 5 classes a week both in her home and in off-site locations, with both Israeli and international menus. she also partners with organizations and high tech companies to offer bigger classes for local professionals

About Citrus and Salt

Get a look into Tel Aviv life with this personalized cooking lesson. All classes are hosted by a local chef in their home where you can see, taste and smell the local food and spices. Israeli food is all about passion and we will channel that into the flavors we produce in the kitchen, making things that both taste delicious and can be made again and again in your own home. Classes generally span 3 hours depending on the menu one chooses- anything from classic Israeli dishes to Moroccan favorites to Jewish holiday pastries.

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Efrat Lev was born in Israel and immigrated to Australia at the age of 5. Her parents were Chabad shlichim in Sydney and my father was the Rabbi of the Israeli community there.  When she was 18.5 we moved back to Israel and settled in Efrat. She went to Midreshet Harova followed by Hebrew University where she got my degrees in International Relations and English Literature.  She also married my husband, who she had met in Australia and they have 3 children. 

Efrat had bad scoliosis and asthma growing up and wore a back brace throughout high school. She was very academic and sports was never her thing. She was always picked last for teams in school and always preferred to sit on the side and read a book during Physical Ed classes. 

Efrat's pregnancies were extremely difficult because she suffers from a condition called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), unrelenting vomiting throughout pregnancy.  Her last pregnancy six years ago was the most difficult. She was bed ridden, on IV medication and steroids and lost a lot of weight.  While many women focus on losing their baby weight after giving birth, she only wanted to get stronger. What started as just walking gave way to strength training with 2kg dumbbells and it was literally love at first sight. She was fortunate to have a home gym as her husband is an ironman,  as well as a doctor who has little time to get to a gym. 

In that home gym she taught myself to powerlift with a small gym bar,  a hell of a lot of YouTube tutorials and a real determination in my heart to never be weak again.  When Crossfit opened in Efrat, a good friend told her she must try it out and even though she was still generally clumsy and hadn't trained in a group setting,  she went. Crossfit truly skyrocketed my potential and within months she was lifting weight she never thought possible. 

The owner and head coach casually suggested she go to Wingate to get certified as a health and fitness coach and after 11 years of being a stay at home mum, Efrat embarked on a year of study. Upon receiving my certification,  she went on to get certified as a Crossfit Level 1 trainer and started working at Crossfit Gush. Along the way she also met her powerlifting coach who introduced me to the world of competitive lifting.

Although she trains men, women and children, her passion is to strength train women in all stages of life. There are so many myths and misconceptions regarding this field and it is her absolute passion to break the stereotypes and introduce women to the numerous benefits of strength training.

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Jamie Faye is a high-vibe business and relationship coach for feminine leaders. She coached more than 500 heart-centered Women to live spiritually aligned, love-full and financially abundant lives by living, serving and leading consciously, fearlessly and authentically. 

She’s built a thriving international coaching practice, founded the Feminine Leadership Academy where she incorporates her background as an artist manager and producer, biz dev professional, and training as a Strategic Intervention life & relationship coach, yoga teacher, and rebirthing breathworker. Jamie’s passion is to teach her clients how to create a bigger impact, more love, clients, money and financial abundance from their soul’s purpose

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Born and raised in Manchester until the age of 18, I did a year in Israel with Bnei Akiva and came back to the UK to go to university in Leeds. I studied Sociology and moved to London for 2 years after I had finished my degree. After working for a Jewish NGO in London I decided I wanted to make aliya, so 13 years ago I took the second flight from the UK with NBN to Israel. I studied at Ulpan and then quickly moved to Tel Aviv. After many jobs, i worked in tourism, as a PA, online gaming and back to tourism I decided I really wanted to study to become a personal trainer. 

The course was 7 months at Tel Aviv University and all in hebrew- which I was not fluent in. I was determined to pass so I worked double hard and translated all the courses in to English so I always knew what was happening in class, I passed and started working at Holmes Place Dizengoff Centre soon after. After a year and half working for minimum pay, I decided to take my profession outside and started working for myself at Toolbox gym. It’s been nearly 4 years of a lot of ups and downs and learning how to work for yourself and becoming a better trainer. I don't know if it was the best decision I made living in Israel alone with no family to support me here, but I care a lot about health and fitness and I really want to make a difference to women and show how they can become strong and look after their bodies. 

Then this time last year I decided, after listening to hours and hours of podcasts that I would like to start my own podcast -  focusing on women who had made aliyah and started businesses or just had a great aliyah story to share. It’s been a major learning curve, I am learning something new everyday and really seeing it grow. I hope I get to interview even more amazing women this year and that I can reach even more people in 2020. 

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Since Tamar was 5 years old, she always dreamt of making aliyah. she knew that it was the home of the Jewish people and she always kept her eye on the ball. Then in 2015, right after she graduated from Stern college,she moved to Israel. While she has a few siblings in Israel, she was single and had no real plan. Luckily, she met her husband just two months after. He had also just made aliyah and together they joined forces and built the life they have today.

They now live in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Her husband works for a cybersecurity company and she is a home organizer. It wasn't easy finding these career paths but now they are as happy as can be. Helping others build their best life by teaching them organizational skills is a dream that she had for quite some time and to see the reality of it, there is truly nothing like it.

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Ilana is the owner of Kshamming and Ilana Stemmer PR. After 15 years of working in marketing & PR in the UK and Israel, she decided it was time to follow her passion and study Ayurveda. She has since launched as a PR consultant while also working as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, helping people combine lifestyle and dietary changes, together with herbs and skincare products, to better understand their mind and body and lead a healthy and balanced life.

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