What happens when a lifetime of service becomes a path to profound healing?

Marie Demres has spent decades guiding others through trauma — but what happens when friendship becomes the healing itself?

Some friendships are forged in the most unexpected moments. Marie Demres and I found ourselves together in the weeks just before the world shut down — sharing her home, her table, and her heart as Covid-19 changed everything. She is my daughter's former mother-in-law, a dear friend, and even finds her way into the pages of my book, Broken to Enlightened. Marie has spent her life in service — 30 years as a special education teacher, then yoga teacher, and now a certified trauma-informed whole life healing coach. Through Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, somatic awareness and more, she walks alongside people carrying trauma, anxiety, and depression. This conversation is personal, rich, and full of love.

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How does the body break before the spirit awakens? Kelly Calkins shares her journey from chronic illness to divine channeling.

Kelly Calkins was battling six autoimmune diseases that nearly took her life in her 30s — dismissed by conventional medicine, depleted by grief, and searching for answers no lab could give her. What she discovered on the other side transformed not just her health but her entire being. Today she's a Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist, medical intuitive, and Divine channel guiding women back to wholeness by healing what most practitioners miss.

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Sometimes the smallest meltdown can become the gateway to your greatest awakening — Tina’s story proves it.

One moment. One reaction. One wrong coffee cup. That's all it took for Tina BE to realize she'd been living a lie. What followed was three years of intense soul-searching that transformed not just her, but her entire community. Discover how listening to your higher self can shatter everything you thought you knew—and rebuild you into who you're meant to be. Buckle up for this Eat, Pray, Love journey on steroids.

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A whisper became a warning — Celeste O’Delle’s story of survival proves the human spirit is unstoppable.

What happens when survival is no longer enough?

After receiving a divine warning to escape an abusive relationship — while still healing from a freak accident that left her bedridden — Celeste O’Delle made a life-altering choice to leave everything behind.

In this conversation, Celeste opens up about childhood trauma, PTSD, intuition, and the long road from merely surviving to truly living. She shares how healing, self-trust, and inner guidance helped her reclaim her life.

Celeste is the author of Rerouted: Memoir of a Wild Child and now supports others in reconnecting with their intuition and creating lives rooted in peace, clarity, and joy.

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A whisper became a warning — Celeste O’Delle’s story of survival proves the human spirit is unstoppable.

What happens when survival is no longer enough?

After receiving a divine warning to escape an abusive relationship — while still healing from a freak accident that left her bedridden — Celeste O’Delle made a life-altering choice to leave everything behind.

In this conversation, Celeste opens up about childhood trauma, PTSD, intuition, and the long road from merely surviving to truly living. She shares how healing, self-trust, and inner guidance helped her reclaim her life.

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What if every painful experience carried a hidden gift? Kay Sanders reveals how trauma became a map to her highest purpose.

Kay Sanders is a Soul Alchemist, transformational guide, and author of The Journey of Becoming the Soul Alchemist. Through her work in soul alchemy, shadow integration, Light Language, and embodied transformation, Kay helps people move beyond old patterns and step into their most authentic, empowered selves—all rooted in lived experience and real-world transformation.

In this powerful conversation, Kay shares her deeply personal healing journey that began in 2016 after her husband moved her and their children from Germany to the US, only to abandon them three months later. What started as a devastating experience became a profound path of integration, embodiment, and conscious creation rather than remaining rooted in trauma.

We explore what healing looks like beyond "fixing" or reliving the past, how awareness creates real choice, and how to move from survival mode into living as the version of yourself, you're called to become. Kay opens up about a transformative 4-month period in 2025—what she calls her "unpaid internship"—when life's lessons came faster and harsher than ever before yet resulted in clarity she'd never experienced.

From this clarity emerged Kay's true purpose: to become a "scribe" for others by creating a publishing house that helps people write, publish, and promote their transformational stories. We discuss the transition from healing work into purpose-led living and what it means to embody what you've healed in service to others.

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In this incredibly enlightening and inspiring episode, we sit down with Gilbert Martina from Curaçao - a shaman who trained with indigenous shamans in Peru, author of Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation, and a man whose journey from leading the island's largest hospital network to creating a sanctuary for healing embodies the transformative power of mastering the mind.

Gilbert opens with extraordinary news: as head of Curaçao's football federation, the team has qualified for the 2026 World Cup! When no one believed it was possible, Gilbert's unwavering determination proved that "those who can see the invisible can do the impossible."

But Gilbert's most powerful message centers on the mind itself. "Our mind can free us or kills us," he explains. While working in corporate healthcare leadership, Gilbert lived with a cluttered, overstimulated mind - unable to sleep, barely functioning, trapped in the same cycle so many of us know too well. Through meditation and shamanic practices, he gained the ability to quiet and direct his mind, transforming his entire life.

Gilbert shares four powerful practice tips for quieting and healing the mind - practical steps for anyone seeking full transformation from the chaos of modern life to inner peace and clarity.

This episode is a testament to mental discipline, intention, and the courage to heal yourself before helping others heal.

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Welcome back to the Shari Leigh Roberts Podcast. We're thrilled to kick off Season 2 with a very special returning guest—Susan Winchester, keynote speaker, coach, and co-author, who was our very first guest when this podcast launched.

Susan's story is one of profound transformation. For years, she climbed the corporate ladder to senior-level management positions, achieving success that looked impressive from the outside. But internally, every achievement was fueled by a belief that she wasn't good enough—a deep-seated lack of confidence and self-love rooted in childhood trauma. Growing up walking on eggshells around her father, who was dealing with generational trauma that manifested in abuse toward Susan and her sister, she carried those wounds into her adult life.

In this deeply moving conversation, Susan opens up about the catalysts for her healing journey, including the transformative impact of reading "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari." We dive into what soul-level healing really means and why it's essential for discovering genuine self-love. Susan shares a perspective-shifting truth: on average, each of us lives about 4,000 weeks in our lifetime by Oliver Burkeman. The question becomes—how do we make the remaining weeks joyful and peaceful? Susan doesn't just pose the question—she provides practical, actionable tools for anyone seeking self-acceptance, peace, and joy in their own lives.

After retiring from corporate life in 2024, Susan now coaches executives on finding joy and peace both in business and personally. She's also the co-author of "Healing at Work," a groundbreaking book that explores how the two-thirds of the population who have endured trauma often follow similar healing paths and exhibit common behaviors, actions, and thought patterns. The book offers real, practical tools for breaking free from these patterns and stepping into the life you're meant to live.

This episode is for anyone ready to do the soul work necessary for true transformation.

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In this powerful conversation, bestselling author Amy Koford, "The Happy Hypnotist," shares her remarkable journey from darkness to purpose. After years of struggling with what appeared to be depression, Amy discovered her condition was actually hormonal—a diagnosis that took a naturalistic MD to finally recognize. Her story takes a dramatic turn as she reveals how she nearly died from an implanted medical device, an experience that deepened her understanding of how fear literally damages our bodies and limits our lives.

Amy opens up about finding her true calling in hypnosis and the transformative effects it has on her clients, particularly when traditional therapy moves too slowly or simply isn't enough. We explore the deep wounds left by religious trauma, including the self-doubt and self-deprecation that many carry for years. Throughout our conversation, Amy illuminates a path forward—one that honors our innate capacity to heal and thrive.

Author of "Hardwired to Rise: Live Fearless, Prosperously, and Optimally," Amy offers practical wisdom for anyone ready to release fear's grip and step into their fullest potential. This is a conversation about resilience, truth-telling, and the courage to rise.

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What happens when a man who has everything loses it all and spends a year wishing he wouldn't wake up?

For leading dating and relationship coach and author of "What the Heck is Self-Love Anyway?", that darkness became his doorway to purpose.

Jonathon grew up as the son of immigrant parents, bullied relentlessly until he shot up nine inches one summer. In the 1980s, he became a greed-driven corporate executive living the Wolf of Wall Street lifestyle—money, status, success. But when divorce and the loss of his corporate identity left him broken, everything fell apart.

Online dating, surprisingly, pulled him back. As he helped women craft profiles and shared insights about connection, he discovered an intuitive gift—and the one truth that changed everything: you cannot truly love others or accept love until you love yourself first.

In this raw conversation, Jonathon shares the intense inner work required to transform from ego-driven to heart-centered, and why Walt Disney's words—"Just keep moving forward"—became his guiding principle.

Whether you're navigating heartbreak, questioning your worth, or rebuilding after loss, Jonathon's story proves that rock bottom can be the foundation for your greatest transformation.

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