S2E49: How I Recovered From Body Dysmorphia
Colleen Conlon is a virtual fitness entrepreneur who specializes in helping women overcome self limiting beliefs by mastering kettlebells. As a girl she struggled with an eating disorder, multiple abdominal surgeries, and lacked confidence. As the women she is today she has built a 6 figure virtual business, set + beat a Guinness Book World Record with kettlebells, and has never felt more confident in herself and her ability to help empower others. Her advice has been featured in publications such as the New York Post, Women's Health, Dragon Door Publications and many more.
S2E48: Overcoming Narcissistic Abuse
As a survivor of trauma in narcissistic abuse, Denise uses her real- life experience as a way to connect with others and teach, love & support them in their healing journey.
S2E47: Who Helps Those in Law Enforcement
Jan Ferguson is a Speaker, Business Consultant, Board-Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Certified Master NLP Practitioner, and NLP Trainer who served in law enforcement for 32 years. Jan has dedicated his life to empowering individuals to achieve even more in life and business. He has earned numerous awards and certifications including the President's Call to Service Award, the Presidential Volunteer Service Award-Gold Level, multiple insurance designations and numerous other law enforcement awards. Jan is a loving father and husband who has been married for over 35 years. Jan's greatest passion is to empower individuals to achieve next-level success.
S2E46: How I Learned to Own My Greatness
Shelita Winfield Duke struggled with getting out of her own way and showing up to share her greatness. She found herself overthinking, comparing herself to others, being inconsistent and indecisiveness; all of which prevented her from showing up as the expert. Basically, it was the feelings of inadequacy that kept me stuck and negatively impacted the growth of my business. She uses this experience to help others find their greatness.
S2E45: The Food Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating Disorder & Making Peace with Food
I am a food addict in recovery. I am also someone who loves people, my family, and helping others work through problems at work. I recently left the teaching profession and opened a business that trains and empowers employees and businesses to create healthy work environments (Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services, LLC)
S2E44: Finding the Courage to Heal Emotional Eating
Cassie Christopher is a Registered Dietitian, Emotional Eating Expert and owner of Cassie Christopher Health Coaching. She graduated with a Master's degree in Nutrition from Bastyr University and specializes in helping women 45 and up find the courage to trust themselves around food and make the supportive eating choices that bring them health and happiness.
S2E43: From Rebel to Queen- Healing Sexual Trauma
Janessa is an energy psychologist using Healing From the Body Level Up and SimplyAligned Method to assist people in releasing the patterns preventing them from reaching their goals and full potential in life. Her multi-modality approach includes integrating functional medicine coaching and mind-body healing to enable client to obtain their optimal functioning--mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Janessa teaches others, through a path of self-discovery, how to love and embrace themselves so they can extend this same love and connection to others.
S2E42: How to Find Love After Betrayal
Alia Jamal is The Love Coach and Pranic Healer. Once she felt broken into so many pieces, she decided to figure out how to put herself back together. She learned coaching and pranic healing to heal herself and her heart. Now, she is living her happiest life and helping others heal.
S2E41: Uncomfortable Peace
Vernon is a loving Husband, Father, Son, Brother and Friend. He and his Wife currently own a baby brand, Prince and Duchess Collection, founded in honor of their son. They also run a publishing company, Davis Family Publishing, and will be releasing their first publication Q1 of 2022. Their first book will feature Vernon’s 15-month journey of healing as He reversed type 2 diabetes at home during the covid-19 pandemic, naturally, using no diabetes medication and lost 50lbs in 5 months.
S2E40: You Gotta Go Far to Go Far - Overcoming PTSD as a Veteran
Tony Lugo is an award winning filmmaker of short form narrative, documentaries, and music videos. His current award winning film, Midnight, is making it's rounds on the festival circuit. He began his artistic career as an award nominated production designer, and honed his skills in cinematography and editing, before fully pursuing his directing career.
In search of adventure and a challenge, Tony joined the United States Marine Corps and traveled abroad to Cuba, Greece, and Ireland.
After his service, Tony pursued his passion in the creative arts and started writing screenplays and making films. He was twice selected as a Latino scholar by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), an organization that supports emerging Latino filmmakers.
Tony was also selected as a Leadership Fellow for the non-profit Veterans in Media & Entertainment (VME) in recognition of his leadership and volunteerism.
S2E39: From Wrecked to Resilient - An Integrative Approach to Burnout Recovery for the Body, Brain and Soul
Elizabeth Collins is the owner and director of The East West Company, an integrative wellness practice specializing in burnout recovery coaching, functional medicine, acupuncture, and more. She uses her combined backgrounds in both Eastern and biomedicines, as well as her training in hypnosis, to approach healing from a perspective that seeks to fully integrate the mind, body, and spirit. After experiencing and recovering from burnout, she made it her mission to help others identify their values, explore their boundaries, and bring a sense of balance to both their body and brain.
S2E38: How to Overcome the Stories that Hold You Back
Denise Wester lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Kevin. They enjoy seven grandchildren from their five kids. Being in the Northwest, she enjoys riding her bike, kayaking, and camping with the family. When Denise found herself a young single mom on welfare, not knowing where they would sleep the next night, she got courageous and Busted Through to make a better life for her family and herself. Denise has been through bankruptcy, divorce, multiple job layoff, and recovered from many wrong turns, as well as a severe car accident that took several years of rehabilitation. Life has been a great instructor, and she has experienced life-changing results herself to create a vibrant, joyful, and authentic life. She has laid out the methods and tools that saw her through these times in this workbook. As a Certified Life Coach, Denise is passionate about helping you overcome the stories holding you back, discovering your passion, clearing up the clutter in your life that is bogging you down, and dig deep to find the courage to take action in your life's vision. This is why she has written Busting Through. Denise started her writing journey with a wine blog. In addition, when she had an idea for a children's story she self-published on Amazon The Adventures of Dust Bunny.
S2E37: How to Have a Little Faith
I'm 62, retired and a Canaussie. Meaning Canadian by birth and Australian by choice. After my working life, which covered everything from a small business owner to executive assistant, office management and event coordination, I've settled into the next chapter, being creative and sharing my love of family history with others. I'm not an extraordinary person, in fact I'd say I'm really just an ordinary person who's lucky to have some extraordinary experiences. My partner and I have travelled the world and Australia.
S2E36: She Heard the Whisper - How She Found Herself
I’m Stephanie DeSantis. I once felt as if I was lost and not found yet. I cried many nights into my Ben and Jerry's because I was still miserable after decades of people-pleasing, feeling unworthy, and seeking love through others. My life looked "perfect" on the outside, yet I was numbing out the emptiness from the life I created and now felt trapped in. I was riddled with confusion, uncertainty, and guilt. Today that life is in the rearview mirror, and I coach women to do the same, so they can create the epic life they're destined to live.
S2E35: How to Live a Nutritious Life
I'm a Certified Holistic Nutritionist and it was through holistic nutrition and personal development that helped me to overcome my struggles. It started as a weight loss journey, but became so much more. Now, I help women create healthy habits so they can lose fat in a healthy way while appreciating their bodies. I'll send pictures later this week!
S2E34: The Fittest Fat Kid You Know
Bruce is a writer, actor, producer and lately podcaster who has produced several award-winning short films. His most recent project is the podcast The Fittest Fat Kid You Know, where he uses his weight and fitness struggles as a lens for others to help them focus on the trials and tribulations of their own weight loss journeys.
S2E33: How I recovered from Addiction
Lisa Jo Barr - I have overcome a lot----childhood violence, numerous addictions, severe mental health, have learned how to have a meaningful and satisfied life doing meaningful work. However, recovery is not linear, and things still pop up. I am the first to admit that I do not know it all. I believe we are all works in progress. I love people.
S2E32: How to Heal from Betrayal
Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the PBT (Post Betrayal Transformation) Institute and is a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset and personal development expert, the author of Trust Again, and is a 2-time #1 International bestselling author of: The Unshakable Woman AND From Hardened to Healed: The Effortless Path to Release Resistance, Get Unstuck and Create a Life You Love. Her podcast: From Betrayal to Breakthrough is also globally ranked within the top 1.5% of podcasts. Her recent PhD study on how we experience betrayal made 3 groundbreaking discoveries that changes how long it takes to heal. In addition to being on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice) and more, she’s an award-winning speaker and coach dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals as well as any other blocks preventing them from the health, work, relationships, confidence, and happiness they want most.
S2E31: How to Find Gratitude in Small Things
Over the past twenty-five years, I have been a freelance writer, a workshop designer and facilitator, and conducted market research. In 2010, I started blogging on mindfulness and gratitude to bring myself out of depression.
I have posted reflections on things in my daily life that sparked grateful feelings almost every week for more than a decade. This gratitude practice helped me elevate my mood and so much more. Hope and confidence became core aspects of my outlook.
NoSmallThing.net is not just a blog. My offerings have expanded, but my purpose has sharpened. Now, through writing (blog and books), courses and coaching, I have a clear purpose.
S2E30: From Panic and Depression to Peace
Carly is the one of the founders of Revival Society. Carly struggled with her own debilitating anxiety and depression for years. She has always had a love for the next generation, it was always her mission to be the best Kindergarten teacher. One week in to getting her dream job, her world crashed. She had 100 panic attacks in the first week of teaching forcing her to resign. It felt like her dream was over. She would have no idea what would happen next. God had other plans. Revival Society was created by her mother and her 2 daughters (Carly and Danielle) to empower the next generation by starting with the mom first. It’s never too early, nor too late to prepare for motherhood. This method not only changed her family's life, it saved their lives. Carly is now on a mission to create lasting change for the next generation through a heart-led method that an individual will have for life.