Allison Bondanza, Ph.D., ABPP is a Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist by training and specializes in the mental health and wellness of the Active Duty military and Veteran populations. Dr. Bondanza currently holds a private practice in Washington, D.C. where she provides individual treatment for a range of mental health concerns including anxiety, depression, occupational stress, women's health, and secure attachment in adult relationships.  

Dr. Bondanza was a former staff psychologist at the Washington, D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center where she specialized in neuropsychology, anxiety disorders, military sexual trauma, and sleep disorders. Dr. Bondanza has specific training and expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is certified in Cognitive Processing Therapy to treat PTSD. She received her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from the University of Denver.

Show Notes: 

- PTSD & Grief research

- How the brain makes sense of trauma

- Dr. B’s journey of her father being diagnosed with terminal cancer at age 13 

- Anorexia as a coping mechanism for grief 

- How trauma affects one’s attachment style 

- Dr. B’s journey of healing anorexia & avoidant attachment

- Attachment Theory 

- Secure & Insecure Attachment 

- Can your attachment styles change overtime? 

- We keep attracting what needs to be healed and resolved until we heal that part of ourselves 

- Neuroscience and rumination

- Switch app by dr. Carolyn leaf 

- Codependency & attachment styles  

- The power in knowing your attachment style  

- Cultivating vulnerability in relationship 

- Providing hope to people who are worried they will be alone forever 

- Friendships as practice for securely attached relationship 

- Dr. B’s self care routine & switching it up constantly during the pandemic 

- Dr. B’s journey with Transcendental Meditation

Kylie McBeath is a writer, earth guardian and soul-doula who supports women in breaking out of codependent patterns, remembering who they are and their soul's purpose for being here at this time. She is on a mission to restore the feminine principle and make this world a balanced, just and liberated place to call home.

After being raised by a single mother through the murder of his father and subsequent homelessness, Darius Baxter committed his life to creating pathways for families like his own to make it out of poverty. Since graduating from Georgetown University with his degree in Globalization and Poverty, Baxter began pursuing his passions through several social impact ventures, Darius Baxter has facilitated millions of dollars of investment and resources into low-income communities in the US and abroad, most notably as the CEO of GOODProjects. In 2018, Baxter began developing the GOODZone to provide options and opportunity to 500 families living in public housing in his hometown of Washington, D.C.

His passion is fueled by the belief that this generation has the tools and techniques to eradicate global poverty through collaboration, education, and technology. In 2019, he launched the Baxter Family Kid’s Center to address the need for quality education for the poor in one of Kenya’s largest Slums. 

Darius Baxter was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 List and recognized as one of this generation’s emerging thought leaders and community organizers. He serves on the board of DC Central Kitchen and has collaborated on projects across industries with Wondros and UNITE. Baxter’s work has been highlighted by national publications like the NY Times, 60 minutes, and NPR, but his most proud accomplishment is in 2020 when he received the Bricky Award as voted on by the residents in the public housing community in which he serves.

•Who is Darius Baxter?

•Getting quiet to hear the call of spirit

•What forgoing what other people your age are doing to be of service for the next generation

•Darius’ dark moments that turned his pain into purpose

•The power of recognizing the call to be of service

•GOOD Projects & the work it takes to diminish poverty in SW DC by 2030

•Mental health issues as a call for realignment

•What happens to a dream deferred?

•Sports setting you up for leadership

•Truths of the prison/poverty complex

•The power of staying connected to the families you are looking to serve

•The ultimate business model: Darius’ goal of putting himself out of business

•How can we help GOOD Projects?

•Darius’ self-care routine as an entrepreneur

Cami Wolff helps people get healthy. In 2016, she founded CANIS, a wellness company that supports organizations and individuals in Washington, D.C. Through holistic nutrition, mindfulness and self-care products, Cami leads people to connect to their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well being. She is also the host of the Triggered To Life Podcast. Follow her @canis.with.camille or www.caniswithcamille.com.

- Growing up with a very sick parent determined to find health via foodn  

- Wanting to be “normal” as a kid  

- Being immersed in alternative health before wellness was sexy  

- The effects of being exposed to the threat of death as a kid  

- Breaking free from lifelong brain fog  

- Collecting learnings and certifications along the way that eventually become your business  

- “Healthy” routines only get you so far when paired with negative self talk  

- Going to the doctor for acne and walking out with diagnoses of parasites, viruses, and bacterial infections  

- Creating a business around guiding people towards health and inner peace  

- The importance of a clear mind in Washington DC of all places  

- Feeling loved by a partner providing the confidence to uplevel  

- A blindsiding breakup in the first week of the pandemic  

- A “soulmate” being someone who brings you closer to your soul  

- The cracking open of your heart being the “triggered to life” moment  

- Becoming more yourself after a breakup  

- Growth as a result of sitting in your discomfort and moving through the pain  

- Putting your self care toolbox to work  

- Learning to ask for help in 2020

Shoshanna French’s goal is to cultivate wildly successful leaders through the practical power of intuition.  As the founder of Simple Spirit™, a keynote speaker, and coach to NFL leaders, Broadway and television stars, million and billion-dollar business founders, CEO’s, and business professionals, Shoshanna French generates unpredictable and profound results for leaders who are looking to develop a deeper connection to their purpose.

 - Who is Shoshanna French?

- Religion vs. Spirituality vs. Psychic abilities

- Walking into a bookstore & leaving with your purpose

- The benefits of honing your intuition as a CEO

- Intuition in Fortune 500 companies

- Bridging the corporate and consciousness world

- 3 types on intuition

- Shoshanna’s rock bottom that birthed her business

- Energetic Cord cutting with an ex

- Friends with benefits to walking down the aisle

- Shoshana gives Cami a mini reading

- Shoshanna’s self care routine and what’s next for her business

In this episode we talk about:

•the shadow side of love

•how telling your story is healing

•the prevalence of affairs vs. the shock of infidelity

•the physiological effects of affairs

•observing yourself becoming someone who cheats

•business trips as a breeding ground for affairs

•power dynamics of dating your boss

•the unraveling of the affair

•cheating to leave vs. cheating to stay

•the effects of lying in a marriage

•when your mother-in-law retaliates

•getting a call from your lover’s wife

•the crashing of a startup & entangled affairs

•grieving the loss of an affair

•an affair restoring your faith in love

•meeting your shadow can transcend your pain

Madi Messer is an influencer who brings her followers a daily dose of luxury tailored to the girl next door. She's all about finding ways to stay positive daily, while laughing through the crazy moments that come her way. Madi works with many top fashion brands and has co-collaborated on two lines of jewelry with top designers at Electric Picks.

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Dr. Mike is the Founder of Big League Performance + Rehab, a lifestyle therapy brand. Growing up in New York as young kid, his life was centered around playing sports. Baseball (not lacrosse) was the sport of choice. As a pitcher for his high school team he had aspirations of playing in college and even grander dreams of playing professionally.

Those dreams all seemingly came crashing to a halt his sophomore year of high school when in the middle of throwing a bullpen session a sudden sharp pain in his shoulder prevented him from being able to lift his arm. The result was a torn labrum in his shoulder and a future in question.

Physical Therapy doesn’t have to only be a reactive treatment, its something that can be done proactively. During his time in professional baseball he not only got to work with players who were injured, but also proactively with players that wanted to stay healthy and do what they love for a long time.

From here Mike made it his mission to bring this Big League Treatment to everybody. Professional athletes shouldn’t be the only ones with access to superior care with extra attention to detail. As a result Big League Performance + Rehab was born! No matter whether you’re a professional athlete, weekend warrior, or someone just trying to keep up with their kids. If you have a body, you’re an athlete and deserve to be treated like one!

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Shelly is among the nation's most sought-after transformational speakers in the DC Metro area with features in Forbes, Fast Company, The Washington Business Journal, NewsOne, Entrepreneur Mag, People of Color in Tech and on Politico Live. Her organization, Black Girl Ventures (BGV) is a culturally converging ecosystem igniting economic security, civic engagement, and hyperlocal infrastructure at the intersection of STEM education and entrepreneurship for Black and Brown woman-identifying founders, funders, and veterans. Since 2016, BGV has funded 91 women, increased access to social capital for 180 program participants and launched their efforts in 10 cities. As a one of 8 original Google Coaches across the nation and an Ecosystem Builder, she engages audiences from grassroots to government. Through Shelly’s Resist Average Relationships (R.A.R) Method she is teaching intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and wantrepreneurs how to hold the ladder for others and/or how to find the person they need to hold the ladder toward moving to the next level of success. She has trained over 5,000 entrepreneurs, held over 300 events for empowering leaders, managed multi-million dollar contracts, and helped to scale over 200 businesses.

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Whether she pops up on your TikTok For You Page or on your Instagram stories, one thing's for sure: Sharon is bold, high-octane, and not afraid to express herself. Originally from Northern Virginia, Sharon is a first-generation daughter of Korean immigrants who spent her whole life refusing to fit into stereotypical boxes or expectations of others. She double-majored in Finance and Risk Management at the University of South Carolina Honors College and initially followed the conventional path that most Finance majors keep to: Corporate America. After spending 5 years following the 9-5 wave, she decided to make her own wave, leave her career at her stock brokerage, and pursue her passion for fitness and boxing full-time. Two years later, it is safe to say she has executed everything she set out to do and then some, fully establishing herself as a force to be reckoned with in the DC fitness community. Currently, she's a Rumble DC Founding Trainer, a boxer on the highly respected Headbangers Boxing Team, and running her own private training business.

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