Personal Growth Episodes

Send us a text Chris Hood is a digital strategist, thought leader, speaker, and author with over 35 years of experience in business development and digital strategy. Today Chris consults with the largest companies in the world on his book, Customer Transformation, that helps organizations align with their customers and increase business value. Chris also covers these topics on his podcast, "The Chris Hood Digital Show." Chris previously worked at Google as the Head of Business Innovation and St...

Send us a text Chris Hood is a digital strategist, thought leader, speaker, and author with over 35 years of experience in business development and digital strategy. Today Chris consults with the largest companies in the world on his book, Customer Transformation, that helps organizations align with their customers and increase business value. Chris also covers these topics on his podcast, "The Chris Hood Digital Show." Chris previously worked at Google as the Head of Business Innovation and St...

Send us a text Samantha Lane is a time management expert and the founder of my origami day. After years of being a workaholic, Samantha had her chest cut open at 29 years old. The experience taught her that life can be short and time is our most valuable resource. Samantha began changing her habits and created time management tools that gave her REAL work-life balance. Seeing the need for a cultural shift, Samantha turned her passion for efficiency into a business where she now helps companies ...

Send us a text Constantin Morun is a passionate advocate of personal growth, self-discovery, and professional development with over 15 years of experience. Through his journey from a fear-ridden man hiding his authentic self to embracing vulnerability and authenticity, Constantin demonstrates that self-discovery can unlock the keys to personal and professional success. As a Holistic Life Empowerment Mentor, he inspires and empowers individuals on their unique journeys towards growth and self-di...

Send us a text David Essel, M. S. O.M., is a #1 best-selling author (13), counselor, executive coach, international speaker, radio/tv/podcast host, sport psychology coach and all faiths minister whose mission is to positively affect 2 million people or more every day, in every area of life, regardless of their current circumstances. Celebrity Jenny McCarthy says “David Essel is the new leader of the positive thinking movement.” David's newest book, endorsed by treatment center owners. doctors a...

Send us a text Professor-turned-motivational speaker for students. Inspire confidence through competence.Jennifer Gershberg is a non-practicing lawyer, have been a professor at University of Maryland for eight years, and have launched a motivational speaking business. Jennifer has taught approximately 400 undergraduate students per year and decided to launch JG Talks, LLC because of her observation that students’ skills have plummeted while their anxiety has spiked. Through JG Talks, she uses h...

Send us a text Laura is a nurse-turned-author who suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2021, which only added to her list of major health scares over the previous five years. This prompted her to dig deeper into her past and led to the realization that she had complex post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from her childhood. She spent the next year and half exploring all the trauma healing modalities she could find. Laura details this experience in her book, "No, I'm Not Fine. Thank You." wh...

Send us a text Connie Ellefsonis an engineer, author and professional organizer working in the Denver metro area, helping people release the incredible amount of creativity and energy tied up in unnecessary clutter. Whether physical, mental, or possessional, clutter takes up space in our psyches and calendars that could be put to more productive, creative, and fun use. Realizing the rush of delicious energy we get from decluttering and organizing a space is the same rush we get from exercising ...

Send us a text Anne Butler Montgomery has worked as a television sportscaster, newspaper and magazine writer, teacher, author, and amateur sports official. Her first TV job came at WRBL-TV in Columbus, Georgia, and led to positions at WROC-TV in Rochester, New York, KTSP-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, and ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, where she anchored the Emmy and ACE award-winning SportsCenter. She finished her on-camera broadcasting career with a two-year stint as the studio host for the NBA’s Pho...

Send us a text shawn tegtmeier is a great example to show people it is not too late to take charge of your life One step at a time. Shawn quit smoking at 36, gained weight, lost weight and started (gasp) running. Went back to school and left her safe “cube” career to become a personal trainer. Shawn has ran numerous marathons and ultra marathons in the past 15 years. Diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma 4 years ago, continuing treatment while getting back into running. Shawn published her memoir las...

Send us a text Adam Hart is an International Speaker & best selling author who’s mission is to help busy parents transform their quality of life and develop deeply connected relationships with their partners and children. Focusing on nervous system regulation, energetic attraction and natural holistic wellness practices, Adam leads a group based coaching program with his 6-step "Unleash Your Energy" process for living aligned to the best versions of ourselves possible.Adam grew up in Toronto, C...

Send us a text I'd like to introduce you to the #1 International Best Selling Author & Award-Winning Speaker, Leadership Keynote Speaker, Executive Mental Health Advocate, Nick Jonsson, Nick Jonsson is the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations, Executives’ Global Network (EGN) Singapore, Indonesia & Malaysia — a confidential peer group network providing more than 800 senior executives and business owners a safe haven to share their challenges, receiv...

Send us a text Dai Manuel is a super dad, dating his wife, with a lead by example way of living and a contagious personality, who is on a mission to positively impact one million role models around the globe to lead a FUN-ctionally fit life through education, encouragement, and community. He is an award-winning digital thought leader and author, Distinguished Toastmaster & keynote speaker, former partner and Chief Operating Officer of a multi-million dollar retail company, and a sought after li...

Send us a text Tony Jacobsen is an author, speaker, motivator, and coachHe has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a rare disorder that makes his bones brittle. Tony has suffered 75 fractures, and have had 12 surgical procedures. Each of the long bones in his legs is equipped with steel rods. Tony used a wheelchair when he was a kid, started using crutches in high school, and took his first unassisted steps when he was 24 years old.At 42, Tony thought he’d had a heart attack and was prompted to make some ...

Send us a text I'd like to introduce you to the #1 International Best Selling Author & Award-Winning Speaker, Leadership Keynote Speaker, Executive Mental Health Advocate, Nick Jonsson, Nick Jonsson is the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia’s premiere networking organizations, Executives’ Global Network (EGN) Singapore — a confidential peer group network providing more than 600 senior executives and business owners a safe haven to share their challenges, receive support, and learn ...

Send us a text Kevin B. Burk is the Headmaster of The Real Astrology Academy and the creator of the Human Game. He has been counseling and coaching as an astrologer since 1998, teaching astrology since 2000, and is the author of more than a dozen books. While conducting an astrology training program in 2021, Burk began to play with the story of the Human Game. Within a few months, Burk discarded the entire curriculum at The Real Astrology Academy. As of 2023, The Real Astrology Academy no longe...

Send us a text Rich Kirkpatrick, a native of San Jose,California, writes, consults, and speaks about the intersection of creativity, faith and leadership. In 2022 he authored, MINDBLOWN: Unlock Your Creative Genius by Bridging Science and Magic. He is also a musician, songwriter and recording artist, with the group A Beautiful Liturgy. Rich is based in the East San Francisco Bay Area, CA..Common wisdom says that creativity is something you are born with. You either have it or you don't. What is...

Send us a text Yvonne Sandomir knows what it's like to face challenges. As a survivor of childhood trauma, she wants to be a catalyst for others to overcome suffering and provide hope and inspiration for trauma victims everywhere, showing that healing is possible with time and effort. Her story will surely resonate with anyone who has ever felt helpless in the face of adversity. Yvonne is a survivor of sexual abuse, incest, parental domestic abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, and dysfunctional ...

Send us a text King Ruler has seen his share of tough times in life being a native of South Central Los Angeles. In 2019, his world was shaken to its core. He lost his house, his business tanked, and his wife left him. After hearing himself explain his life in a few therapy sessions shortly thereafter, he began to realize how traumatic his experiences were versus how normalized it was in the hood environment he came from. He then began the internal quest to discover what had driven his choices ...

Send us a text Karuna RamanathanTransformative Leader and Author: Navigating Organizational Change for Over 30 YearsKaruna has an established track record, gained over more than 3 decades, in supporting Senior Leaders and Organisations through difficult transformations,especially people and culture change.His expertise in change leadership was built from scratch in shipboard appointments (1983-2002) in the navy, leading teams, and eventually, as warshipcaptain (twice). He went on to lead and ar...

Send us a text Naquela Wright-Prevoe is a singer song writer and performerShe was born in Newark, Nj on December 25, 1991. She started singing at the age of five and writing songs at the age of third teen. Naquela’ s love of the arts was cultivated in her formative years by her father and music teachers Ms. Glarday, and Susanne Kane. While in school she participated in the choir, talent shows, and plays, she was also in the Tri-M Music Honors Society. Naquela also went on to win first place in ...

Send us a text C.K. Collins, aka Kelly, was an award-winning publisher and owner of a hyperlocal news publishing company in the Nashville, TN area. She sold her company and retired from the industry in 2021. Believing that travel feeds the soul and grows the heart and mind, Kelly embarked on a two-year travel sabbatical to write her book. Her travels included destinations such as Utah, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Portugal, Spain, Italy and a 30-day sailing rally from Los A...

Send us a text Andrew Thorp King knows what failure feels like. From bankruptcy to divorce to unexpected pink slips to family estrangement, he's experienced some of the worst life has to throw at us--and he's come out of it a self-described "failure prepper", with the ironic mantra that Failure Rules! His new book (FAILURE RULES!:The 5 Rules of Failure for Entrepreneurs, Creatives, and Authentics) is a spiritual journey through entrepreneurial off-road adventuring, philosophical purification, a...

Send us a text For much of her young adult life, Josie struggled with autoimmune disorders, severe food allergies, a debilitating eating disorder anorexia, alcoholism, ADD, and anxiety and depression. She was told by her medical doctors that each of her diagnoses was lifelong and that she just needed to manage them the best she could for the rest of her life. Josie felt crushed, like a lost cause and there was really no hope for her. She was only in her twenties – these were supposed to be the ...