Steps To Sobriety

394 Mike McNamara - Ultimate Makeover: From Heroin Addict to Nurse & Fitness Coach

In Mike's words:

- 15 years Licensed Nurse

- Past NPC Physique Competitor

- Mindset Nutrition & Fitness Coach

- Was addicted to heroin for 10 yrs after death of my brother

- Was broke and homeless, almost died 2X from OD.

- BBeen arrested for selling drugs and stealing

- Turned my life around and want to help others to do the same. 

 

3 Top Tips 

Importance of a structured daily routine.

Importance of proper nutrition.

Importance of exercise.

 

Social Media 

https://instagram.com/mcnamara_fitness?igshid=MjEwN2IyYWYwYw==

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092593132432&mibextid=LQQJ4d

Mike McNamara @mike.mcnamara1

 

393 Sharni Quinn: From Burnout To Bliss - A Burned-OutYogi in Recovery

Meet Sharni Quinn, your guide to breaking free from feeling stuck, lost, overwhelmed, and burned out. With a passion for inspiring women, Sharni offers a transformative journey to shift from the depths of anxiety, depression, and disillusionment and feel full of purpose and vitality instead.

As a certified Life Transformation Coach, International Wellness Consultant & Yoga Facilitator, Speaker, and Author, Sharni brings a wealth of expertise to help you unplug from the daily hustle and rediscover your life's true direction. She's been in the Wellness and Coaching Industry for 16+ years and has also burnt out. Twice. So, she knows what it feels like to be at rock bottom and, by using a combination of ancient healing tools and modern science-based techniques, has personal experience on how to heal and feel 10000% happy, healthy and whole again! She's transformed hundreds of women's lives through her REDESIGN YOUR LIFE Online Program, personalised 1:1 Coaching, and International Retreats. She can also equip you with the essential tools and unwavering support to reshape your life story.

Are you ready to reinvent your life in profoundly positive ways?

Explore http://www.sharniquinn.com and begin your fun and transformative adventure with Sharni Quinn.

 

5 Steps to Redesign Their Life for the Better... by Doing Less!

1) Let Go

2) Recharge

3) Envision

4) Flourish

5) Manifest

 

Social Media 

Website - https://sharniquinn.com/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sharniquinn_wellness/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SharniQuinnWellness

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharni-quinn/

 

Free eBook - Superwoman Unplugged: 5 Simple Steps to Redesign Your Life... By Doing Less! - https://sharniquinn.com/ebook/

Schedule a FREE 30-minute Coaching Call with Sharni - https://sharniquinn-free-30-min-call.as.me

392 JK Emezi: Pornography addiction and recovery

J.K. Emezi is a Certified Addiction Coach (CAC), a Sex and Pornography Addiction Coach (SPARC), and a recovered porn addict for over 10 years. He believes it is, WITHOUT A DOUBT, possible to overcome your addiction to porn, masturbation, and other sexually compulsive disorders while building a healthy and fulfilling life. J.K. has experienced this journey firsthand, and the men he works with have done so as well. For the past 9 years, J.K. has helped men regain control of their sexual lives, recover fully from porn addiction, overcome sexual and social anxiety, improve their relationships, and lead fulfilling lives.
JK proves that with the right help, recovery from porn addiction is not just possible but likely. 

Social media 
https://elevatedrecovery.org/
https://www.facebook.com/jkemezi1
https://twitter.com/RebootPorn
https://www.instagram.com/elevaterebootrecover/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbqaPKeiNW6R6LECHwQkRug

391 Cheryl Kincaid: How People of Faith Find Empowerment After Rape & Incest

From Victim to Survivor: People of Faith Finding Empowerment after Rape and Incest
Reverend Cheryl Kincaid is a Presbyterian Minister who studied Marriage and Family Therapy at Bethel Seminary and has a Master of Divinity from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Before entering Seminary, she taught preschool for 20 years and was a foster parent. Rev. Kincaid facilitated support groups for women who had suffered abuse for seven years.
Rev. Kincaid seeks to tell the story of God’s comforting redemptive grace amid an imperfect world. Rev. Cheryl Kincaid has twenty years of experience in Christian ministry, and she confesses that many of her stories were inspired from witnessing God’s redemptive grace unfold in wounded Christian’s lives, including her own. Pastor Cheryl is now the Head of Staff at Calvary Presbyterian Church in Enfield, Connecticut.
She is the author of five books: Hearing the Gospel Through Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, The Little Candle That Was Frightened of the Dark, The Little Clay Pot, Karrie’s Thorn and A Forgotten Door Called Home.

3 Top Tips 
1. Learning the Great Difference between denial and forgiveness.
2. Finding God in the healing, not in the abuse.
3. Walking away from trying to heal the abuser.

Social Media 
https://revcherylkincaid.com/
https://dickensandchristianity.com/
amazon author page
https://www.amazon.com/author/dickensandchristianity.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/karriesthorn
https://www.facebook.com/revkinciad
https://www.facebook.com/TheLittleCandleThatWasFrightenedOfTheDark

390 Find The Missing Key To Healing From Burnout

Dr. Julie Hutsell-Starling, is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM), Certified Health Coach, Akashic Records Soul Realignment Practitioner and a Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Dr. Julie has worked as an acupuncturist in private practice since 2005, and in that time she dealt with burnout off and on for 12 years each time was successively worse and more difficult to overcome than the one before. She tried everything she could to heal the burnout, but although those things helped to manage the symptoms, she was still struggling with the actual burnout. It wasn’t until she finally got to the real root cause of what was causing the burnout, that the symptoms disappeared and have stayed away.
And now, she works as a spiritual burnout coach helping other professionals identify the spiritual misalignments that are the root cause of the burnout symptoms that they've been struggling with so that they too can re-find joy, purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in their work and lives.

3 Top Tips
What is self-care + examples/tips for self-care
What is self-love- examples, and compare/contrast with self-care
How do you stay on track, how do you stay in self-love when the mental demons come back?

Social Media 
https://drjuliehutsellstarling.com
https://www.facebook.com/JulieHutsellStarling/
Instagram: @julie_heartsong

Julie offers a Complementary 15-minute Discovery Session
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16665065&appointmentType=21965448

389 Matthew ”Griff” Griffin & Combat Flip-Flops: Never Give Up

Matthew “Griff” Griffin is a former Special Operations Army Ranger, West Point Graduate, award-winning documentary producer, philanthropist, and co-founder and CEO of Combat Flip Flops – a fashion and lifestyle company that sells goods manufactured in conflict and post-conflict zones.

After serving four combat tours as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan and Iraq with the storied 2nd Ranger Battalion, Griffin departed the military in 2006 to create positive, sustainable change in conflict areas. With the skills learned in the military, he co-founded Combat Flip Flops, which uses their profits to aid the areas in which they are made – funding girls’ education, clearing land mines, and supporting veteran charities as a part of Griffin’s mission to encourage peace through trade and “business over bullets.” A powerful and emotional speaker, Griffin is known for a moving TEDx talk on the power of persistence, creativity, and respect, as well as for his successful appearance on the entrepreneurial television show Shark Tank, where he secured a deal with not only one but three “sharks” including Mark Cuban. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Griffin is a firm believer that “anything worth doing is worth overdoing” and shares his inspiring and motivating story of chasing big goals and creating positive change with audiences globally. Griff is truly a man who proves you should never give up on your dreams!

A Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point with a degree in Engineering Management, Griffin served in the 75th Ranger Regiment as a Rifle Company Fire Support Officer, with three tours to Afghanistan and one tour to Iraq. After leaving the Army, Griffin moved to the private sector as the director of military sales for Remote Medical International and the director of special operations for Protect the Force. There, he specialized in developing solutions for companies growing business in "difficult" locations, which led to the development of Combat Flip Flops. The company has operated in Afghanistan, Laos, and Colombia, helping local populations pull themselves out of poverty, and has funded education for more than 800 girls in Northern Afghanistan.

In addition to building a globally respected philanthropic brand, Griffin was a member of the first team to successfully ski off the tallest mountain in Iraq in the award-winning film, Adventure Not War: Ski Iraq. In 2019, he led and executive produced the film, Here Am I, Send Me, a Sundance recognized film that follows the trail of Griffin and fellow Rangers freefalling a Gold Star Mother into the opening ceremonies of the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. 

In 2021, Griffin founded 46&2 Transitions, a non-profit organization focused on helping transitioning veterans overcome PTSD through holistic methodologies. He is currently leading a 2-year clinical study to prove the effectiveness of focused meditation and plant medicine to heal wounds sustained in combat.

388 Dr James W Smith: The Power Of Extreme Ownership

Dr. James W. Smith was born and reared in Louisburg (Franklin County) North Carolina where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the former Perry’s High School and later attended North Carolina Central University and NCCU Law School where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce and a Juris Doctorate Degree. His seminary studies were done at Southeastern Theological Seminary, Shaw Divinity School and he eventually earned Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry Degrees from Andersonville Theological Seminary, Camilla, Georgia.
Dr. Smith served as Vice Moderator at Large and Moderator of the East Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Association, Inc., Moderator of Moderators for the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Inc., President of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham and Vicinity (IMA) and a member of the General Board of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
Presently, Dr. Smith serves on the Executive Committee of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham and Vicinity and the Triangle Steering Committee for HBCU’s. He is the retired pastor of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Bahama, NC. He is the author of three published books, “Deal By Me, A Golden Opportunity Blown,” “Deal By Me 2nd Edition, A Self Evaluation” and “Come, Let Us Reason Together.”
He and his wife, Barbara Wess Smith, a retired teacher with the Durham Public Schools reside in Durham, North Carolina and they have two children, Kendra and Joshua, and two granddaughters, Skyy and Londyn.

3 Top Tips 
1. THE DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE DAWN
2. PLAY WITH FIRE AND YOU WILL GET BURNED
3. PRACTICE HUMILITY

Social Media 
Website: http://www.dealbyme.com
Email: jsmith9450@aol.com
http://www.facebook.com/jsmith9450

387 Marsha Vanwunsberghe: Learn How To Own Your Story

Marsha Vanwynsberghe — Storytelling NLP Trainer, Speaker, Publisher & Author, 2xs Podcaster
Marsha is the 6-time Bestselling Author of “When She Stopped Asking Why”. She shares her lessons as a parent who dealt with teen substance abuse that tore her family unit apart. Marsha has been published 7xs, most recently with her co-platform, Every Body Holds A Story, and she is on a mission to continue to help women and men to speak, share and publish their stories.
Through her tools, OUTSPOKEN NLP certification, programs, coaching, and podcast, Marsha teaches the power of Radical Responsibility and Owning Your Choices in your own life. She empowers people how to heal and own their stories, be conscious leaders and build platform businesses that create massive impact.

3 Top Tips 
1. Learning how to own, share or heal a vulnerable story and not let it become your identity
2. How to handle the criticism, judgement and opinions of others when walking through a difficult story
3. The belief and insight to see that their story could help someone else and that they are more than qualified to help the person they once were.

Social Media 
Website: https://www.marshavanw.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marshavanw/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/marsha.vanwynsberghe
Linkedin: NLP Trainer, Storytelling Trainer, Speaker, Podcaster, Author - Marsha Vanwynsberghe Coaching | LinkedIn
Podcast Link: Own Your Choices Own Your Life https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/own-your-choices-own-your-life/id1445904739
https://apple.co/3h2Jcti
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Dmk75q
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marshavanw
OUTSPOKEN:https://www.marshavanw.com/outspoken2023

radicalresponsibility, sharingyourstory, ownyourstory, writeyourstory, publishedauthor, femalepodcaster, nlptrainer, subconsciousreprogramming

386 A Groundbreaking New Approach to Mental Health & Addiction

Join us for an inspiring talk with Jason Shiers, a Certified Transformative Coach with an impressive 25-year journey in digital creation. Jason has dedicated his career to helping individuals break free from suffering, and he's the visionary behind The Infinite Recovery Project—an innovative approach to addressing Mental Health, Addictions, Trauma, and Eating Disorders.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights from Jason's wealth of experience and expertise. 

Discover more about his incredible work and journey at:
Website: https://www.wideworldcoaching.com/about/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jvswwc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jason4656
Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Jason-Shiers-1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-shiers-79170991/?originalSubdomain=uk

385 Debbie Baisden: Relying on God When Widowed

Debbie Baisden, mom of four boys, was widowed without warning. The depth of pain was only matched by the depth of God’s faithfulness. A former teacher, this remarried widow is a mompreneur passionate about helping women thrive. 

In 2013 she co-created Momsanity, an online community seeking balance in Motherhood, Faith, Fitness and Nutrition. In 2014 she established Fit With Deb, an online health resource for Nutrition and Exercise. Described as profoundly opinionated, invitingly authentic, and downright sarcastic, her passion is uplifting others in a way that reflects Jesus. She promotes balanced living amidst chaos for busy women who love Christ.

Wondering what “free time” is, Debbie lives in North Carolina with her new husband Jason and sons (Paul, Brad, Andrew, and Joshua).

3 Top Tips 
1. Take an accurate assessment of fault lines to address in life (marital woes, financial struggles, passive faith, etc) today, not tomorrow.
2. Love selflessly - show love with actions, even when it's inconvenient and sacrificial.
3. If life is mostly lukewarm indifference due to mundane monotony, it may take pain and trials to reawaken reliance upon God.

Social Media
http://www.debbiewilkinsbaisden.com
http://www.mymomsanity.com
http://www.shop.mymomsanity.com
http://www.fitwithdeb.com