The Philippe Matthews Show

They say that the world of motorcycle competitions is a man's world; however Nadine Lajoie is the perfect testament to how that kind of thinking can be proven false. She has earned more than 50 podium placements as a racer in a male-dominated world of motorcycle racing. Other than being a racer, she's also an international speaker, business leader, musician, vocalist, and author. However, not everything started as a success for her.

So how did Nadine Lajoie start to be the success that she is today?

She was born in St-Irénée, Quebec, Canada. As a young woman, she suffered from a lot of discontent and even thought about suicide. However, she asked for help and slowly turned her life around “one corner at a time.” Now, she uses her championships mixed with determination and focus to inspire both teen and adult audiences to reach for their dreams with passion. She uses her life experience, her business, and her success in the motorcycle world as ways to inspire those she speaks with.

Nadine earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Actuarial Sciences in 1992. By 1995, she was able to launch a highly successful financial planning enterprise called Lajoie des Finances. At the age of 36, she was already semi-retired.

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Success stories don't always start on the right page. And none more so than the story of how Mark Bowness picked himself up and transformed into what he is today.

At the age of 26, Mark's married life came to a shocking close, and it was a life event that was such a burden for him to bear. How his nine year relationship (six years in a relationship, married for three) ended caused him to think that his life was over.

Suicide attempts

The experience of having his marriage end was too painful that he even took to Google and began searches for “How to take my own life?”, “How to overdose?”, and “How to commit suicide?” He searched for countless hours searching for the answers he needed for these questions. What's worse, he actually attempted suicide, but it failed.

As he was sitting in that hospital bed, it got him to thinking about the way he lived his life. He thought that at 26 years old, he really has never truly lived. This got him contemplating deeply about “we live life once.”

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Everyone has high hopes of becoming someone important, famous, celebrated and admired. Realizing those hopes and dreams, however, isn’t as simple and quick as it seems. With a lot of challenges and risks along the way, there’s a huge possibility that a person would simply give up. To escape the heartaches and disappointment, anyone would choose to let go of their dreams of running for governor in California or flying to space.

Perhaps, all that’s missing is motivation. Why not take inspiration from the words of John Leslie Brown?

John Leslie Brown is the son of Les Brown, another motivational speaker known the world over and has an Emmy award attached to his name. Although John Leslie took the proverbial torch that he’s supposed to carry, he introduced another way to inspire others. As an artist, he used rap music to introduce his teachings of personal growth and wisdom.

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Dr. Meuth was born and raised in Germany and has a Master’s Degree in Music and a Doctorate in Education. She is trained as an ontological coach and employs the principles of the “Philosophy of Language”. She has been practicing in Europe and in the United States over the past 30 years and has worked as a leadership and executive coach with Fortune 1000 companies in the U.S. and in other countries. Some of her previous clients include Citi Bank, Bank of Ireland, Discovery Channel and Warner Brothers. Dr. Meuth has also had professorships in different academic institutions including the Berkeley School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and Musikhochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany.

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What is unresolved grief? It is a term used to describe a kind of grief that lasts longer than usual for a person's social circle or cultural background. It is also known as prolonged or chronic grief. So is healing unresolved grief possible?

This is where Mark Anthony's book “Never Letting Go: Heal Grief with Help from the Other Side” comes into the rescue. The first powerful lesson that this book gives readers is for them to realize that life transcends death. It's a book solely dedicated to healing unresolved grief through moving accounts from the dearly departed.

Yes, in other words, conversations from the Other Side. Mark presents stories about comfort, gratitude, hope, and forgiveness expressed by those who have already passed to bring evidence to the immortality of the soul. The author shows that communication with the spirits of loved ones who have gone on to the Other Side has the power needed for healing unresolved grief.

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Who is Rivvy Neshama?

At twenty-two years old, Rivvy Neshama's mother gave her a book of handwritten recipes that taught her how to make a good roast and not much else. Not advice on how to establish a good marriage or even a good life. Instead, Rivvy had to go on a path with many twists and turns in order to find a connection with the sacred and add purpose in life.

Rivvy has held on to lots of jobs in the past. She has been a teacher and social worker in Harlem, a campaign manager in Boulder, a college instructor in Queens, and even a Tarot card reader at Macy's on Halloween. Given such a storied life, it's no wonder why she has an innate ability for storytelling, which is clearly shown in this book.

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Higher Brain Living

The concept of higher brain living is actually nothing new. In fact, you’re using it. However, unlike the lower brain, we make use of only 5 percent of it—which means we’re not reaching our maximum potential. The higher brain, although seldom untapped and harness, is the source of more insight, joy, and happiness. It doesn’t mean you’re making biased or foolish decisions. It’s just that you recognize that you have the power to control or even eliminate fear. When that happens, you become less stressed and more focused on life’s purpose.

The higher brain living by Dr. Michael Cotton, meanwhile, is a special process that helps everyone open, tap, and unleash the power of the higher brain. It is composed of 22 sessions performed by recognized facilitators. In every session, certain body points are tapped gently on a correct sequence and at the right time, allowing a powerful positive energy to flow and go into the higher brain.

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Humans love to define things in number. For example, those who have a body mass index of around 30 and above are considered obese. People who are six inches are considered tall, and Bill Gates with billions worth of assets, is deemed one of the richest persons in the world. When it comes to intelligence, numbers also play a huge role. Albert Einstein had an IQ from 160 to 180, making him a genius. In other words, numbers tend to determine who we are, whether we are large, intelligent, smart, tall, or voluptuous. Figures also make it so much easier for us to classify ourselves.

However, this can also cause a potential issue. What happens when you don’t fit into any of these numbers? What if your IQ is below 160? Does that mean you’re not genius and therefore not smart and intelligent? Wouldn’t that initial realization dampen your spirit and decrease your motivation?

Fortunately there’s one man that attempts to redefine the word “genius”: Dr. Will Moreland.

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Teen pregnancy, Mom’s passing, college dropouts—it’s so convenient that anyone who goes through all these doesn’t have much to expect from life anymore. But Tamika Newhouse is a completely different breed. While other women succumb to pain, depression, and loss, she uses the same negative emotions to succeed. 

Tamika Newhouse was born and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, along with her prayerful and compassionate mother. She was the youngest among the brood. Growing up, Tamika struggled finding her own place in school or even at home. She preferred spending her time alone. Nevertheless, she found her perfect companion: writing. It didn’t come as a surprise therefore that by 12 years old, she already wrote her first novel entitled Nothing to Lose. For her, writing was a form of escape and a means of controlling things, an attribute she didn’t really have in real life. 

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Contrary to what other people would like to think, grief is a very natural process—emotion. Everyone is bound to feel the loss, pain, confusion, hurt, and disappointment at least once in his or her lifetime. Yet many are struggling on how to properly deal with it.

Grief is difficult for a lot of reasons. Perhaps it’s because we’re trained to seek for happiness but never how to cope with sadness and depression. We always tend to believe that we will never lose the things and people that matter to us the most. We feel that the loss of someone through divorce or death is a kind of rejection or abandonment. Most of all, we certainly don’t know what happens next. The thought of never experiencing our loved ones once again, for example, can be too much to bear. It doesn’t help that based on studies, it takes around 5 to 8 years before we can finally deal with the “new normal”—a part of our lives where we continue living even if a large piece of us is already missing.

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