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339 Author Spotlight Depression Lied To Me : Danielle Dittberner

Danielle Dittberner is a holistic transformation coach specialising in strengthening personal foundations to enrich life through connection and authenticity. An artist and creator at heart, Danielle alchemises suffering into joy by acting as a mirror for others to see their own greatness. She encourages people to stretch beyond comfort zones to reclaim confidence and respect for their life force energy. 
Danielle founded Reach 4 More to help cultivate conscious awareness to break the addictive habit of chasing external validation of success, adoration and fulfilment, to live a life fueled by passion, tenacity, and enthusiasm. She inspires others to boldly stand in their power, courageously conquer fears, and take aligned action to gain personal sovereignty and magnetically attract the abundance and love they deserve.
Danielle’s professional background started with leadership mentoring, program management in Executive Education, personal and business banking, social work, hospitality and gymnastics coaching. She received her Bachelors of Arts & Humanities, and Business Minor, from Indiana University. She is a certified life and business coach, Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile® Practitioner, member of the International Positive Psychology Association, co-host of the podcast Creating Sacred Space and co-producer of an entrepreneurial film series.

Learn more about Danielle: www.reach4more.com

338 Dom Brightmon: Advancing Others to Advance Yourself - Mentorship is a Book on Steroids

"We all have absorbed messages about our group and other groups from cultures throughout our lifetimes. One major way those messages are absorbed is through mentors. Mentors are those who will assist you in many ways. Whether it’s a mentor who shares their experiences with you, their network, or a mentor who stretches your way of thinking. Mentors are a gift of advancement. "

Dominique “Dom” Brightmon, DTM is a certified leadership trainer with the John Maxwell Team, bestselling author, and host of the Going North Podcast, a podcast committed to featuring authors from around the world to promote the power of the written word and inspire listeners to publish books of their own. His mantra is Advance others to advance yourself.      
    
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Add the magic word “No” to your vocabulary.
2. Create a victory log to boost your confidence 
3. Compliment or encourage at least 5 people a day

Social media and contact info
Dom’s Site: https://www.dombrightmon.com/
Podcast: https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/dominique.brightmon
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dombrightmon/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dombrightmon/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DomBrightmon
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DomBrightmon

337 Author Spotlight Depression Lied To Me : Anne Katona Linn

Dr Anne Katona Linn is a passionate Educational Coach, Speaker, Author, Leader across the United States. She has dedicated her career to helping schools and communities develop safe, supportive and positive environments for all. Learning from her own personal experiences with childhood adversity and trauma, she is an outspoken advocate for holistic wellness and has developed a unique set of skills in systems change, special education, school mental health, trauma-informed/healing-centred practices that reflects her experiences with over 26 years in the field.
Her unique endeavours include a Think Tank with men serving life in prison and reform thought partners, and mentoring youth at a juvenile detention facility. 
Anne travelled the country and settled back in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband. She spends her time with family and at their camper near the Lehigh River where she and her husband enjoy whitewater stand up paddling.

Learn more about Anne: www.katonalinnconsulting.com

336 Nita Sweeney: Depression Hates a Moving Target - How Running Brought Me Back From the Brink

Nita Sweeney knows a thing or two about healing.

After all, she's the author of Make Every Move a Meditation, Depression Hates a Moving Target, and You Should Be Writing—all books that help readers learn how to manage depression and start living their best lives.

Nita's story is an inspiration to us all: after years of struggling with depression and anxiety, she finally found her way through writing, meditation, and exercise. Now she's sharing her story with the world so that others can find hope in their own journeys!

335 Author Spotlight Depression Lied To Me : Julia Barton

The seeds of Julia’s life mission were planted when she earned her Reiki I certification at the age of 8. A born intuitive and empath, young Julia used reiki to feel safe and protected. Despite growing up in a holistic household, adulthood found Julia unsure of how to best use her gifts. Her isolating experience with post-partum depression cultivated a desire to support and nurture others. Julia became a post-partum doula and Reiki Master Teacher to guide new mothers to trust their intuition and find joy in their post-partum journey, and created Olive & Bloom Holistic Care and Healing to help women bloom into their fullest selves.

Learn more about Julia: www.oliveandbloom.net

Facebook and Instagram: @oandbloom

334 Ken Madimsky Middleton: Why the Alcohol Industry LOVES the Concept of Alcoholism

The alcohol industry currently makes 1.8 trillion dollars annually and is projected to hit around 2.3 trillion by 2025. What most people think is that much of this alcohol is purchased by individuals who would be labeled as an alcoholic or someone with a problem. 
What most don’t realize, however, is that this group is only a very small percentage (less than 2%) of the world population. Also, it’s this very thinking that protects the alcohol industry’s profit and prevents people from looking at the one thing that could put it at risk - their casual “normal” drinking.

Ken Makimsy Middleton is the founder of AINYF (Alcohol is NOT Your Friend), a Medium publication, dedicated to sharing science-based information to help individuals quit alcohol and begin building the very best version of themselves. He is also the author of the upcoming book, Bamboozled - How Alcohol Makes Fool of Us All: The Guide to Getting EVERYTHING You Want in Life By Giving Up Alcohol, which exposes the ways alcohol holds us back from achieving our goals and gives a playbook on how to not only give it up, but also how to create a thriving life of holistic wellness.  
    
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Educate yourself on what alcohol does to you physiologically and mentally.
2. Create a goal for your future self to accomplish that is SO BIG, you couldn’t allow alcohol to be in your life to achieve it. 
3. Never…ever…give up - every mistake is a lesson that will get you closer to the correct formula for you and ultimate success. 

Social media and contact info.
Bamboozled Book sign-up = kenmmiddleton.com/book
LinkedIn = https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenmmiddleton/ 
Medium = @kenmiddleton
Instagram = @kenmmiddleton   
Twitter = @kenmmiddleton

333 Steve Feldman, CEO Feinberg Consulting: An Inspiring Story of Recovery

Steve's journey to recovery from addiction began in 1992 and has become the foundation of his life and work. He is Chief Executive Officer at Feinberg Consulting, a company that helps families manage addiction, mental health issues and family healthcare crises. Feinberg's reason for being is to help those in crisis get the right kind of help fast. Sadly, too many people go through the healthcare system over and over with little results. Feinberg’s goal is to give families and those in trouble the resources to get the right help fast and make it stick. 
In Steve's words:
I have over 40 years of experience as a business owner and entrepreneur. I’m a trained interventionist, and I work with hundreds of families, helping to create positive outcomes in addiction, mental health, family crisis interventions and healing.

I have made my passion my career, and I am proud to be part of Feinberg Consulting, a great group of people involved in personal growth, interventions, mental health, addiction recovery and self-care. I love what I do and am grateful for every part of my journey that has led me here. My philosophy is that balance, continual effort towards optimal self-care, and ongoing personal development are everything when it comes to being your best.      
    
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Don’t lose hope. Healing really is really possible even if you feel like you’ve tried everything.
2. If a loved one has an addiction or mental health challenge, you have the power to adjust your approach and attitude to dealing with it, and that can make all the difference.
3. An Intervention can combat the denial inherent in addiction and mental health challenges. If the person of concern seems blind or unresponsive to the ways their behavior is affecting their friends and loved ones, this process can do wonders in reframing the way they think about their behavior.

📣 Social media and contact info

steve@feinbergcare.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-feldman-1a501825/
https://www.instagram.com/feinbergcare/
https://www.facebook.com/FeinbergCare

332Anne Katona Linn: It is easier to raise strong children than to repair broken adults

Dr Anne Katona Linn is a passionate Educational Coach, Speaker, Author, Leader across the United States. She has dedicated her career to helping schools and communities develop safe, supportive and positive environments for all. Learning from her own personal experiences with childhood adversity and trauma, she is an outspoken advocate for holistic wellness and has developed a unique set of skills in systems change, special education, school mental health, trauma-informed/healing-centred practices that reflects her experiences with over 26 years in the field.
Her unique endeavours include a Think Tank with men serving life in prison and reform thought partners, and mentoring youth at a juvenile detention facility. 
Anne travelled the country and settled back in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband. She spends her time with family and at their camper near the Lehigh River where she and her husband enjoy whitewater stand up paddling.

Learn more about Anne: www.katonalinnconsulting.com

331 Darryl Rodgers: Give Your Child Their Best Opportunity at Recovery from Addiction!

You’ve recently discovered that your child has a drug problem?  What do you do?  You’ve tried to talk to them about it, but they don’t listen, and the more you talk, the more defensive they get.  Their grades are slipping, they’re angry and rebellious.  You found out they’ve lied to you and stolen from you to support their habit.  Who can you turn to for help?  Your child’s life is hanging in the balance.
Darryl Rodgers coaches the parents of children struggling with a substance use disorder.  Darryl’s oldest of two boys, Chase, died in a drug-impaired wreck in 2014 at the age of 20 after struggling with addiction for a year and a half.  Darryl wrote a book about Chase’s life that was published in 2015 and began speaking on drug prevention.  In 2018, Darryl began facilitating a peer support group for the parents of addicted children known as PAL (Parents of Addicted Loved Ones).  Darryl also serves on the state advisory board for NC Mothers Against Drunk Driving.  
3 top tips for my audience:
1. If you’re experiencing emotional pain, learn to see it as an opportunity for growth. 
2. Parents, be willing to change the one person in this equation you can – yourself. 
3. Learn to let go of control over your child’s life.  

Social media and contact info
Website:  TheFamilyRecoveryCoach.com 
Online Course: DarrylRodgers.com
TikTok: @thefamilyrecoverycoach
YouTube:  Darryl Rodgers
Facebook: DarrylRodgers.Author

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330 Taimi Allen : Fake News - How Personifying her Inner Critics helped Taimi deal with Depression

Taimi Allan is CEO of Changing Minds, a Charitable NGO governed and operated by people with lived experience of mental distress and addiction. As someone who identifies as having thrived because of, not despite, her own Lived Experience, Taimi champions Lived Experience Leadership and is known for leading with humility and compassion. Amongst other innovative programmes, Taimi envisioned Whakatau Mai, the world’s first peer-supported holistic, online and fully accessible wellbeing sessions, Rākau Roroa, New Zealand’s lived experience leadership initiative, and recoVRy, a Virtual Reality platform that allows the viewer to walk in the shoes of someone experiencing distress. 
Taimi works on mental health system transformation via various strategic governance positions including the Permanent Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission and the Suicide Mortality Review Committee. Featured in M2 Woman Magazine as a global thought-leader, she was awarded a New Zealander of the year Local Hero Medal in 2021.
Taimi’s history in film, theatre and television, means she often uses the arts as a safe vehicle to help audiences understand and see value in challenging experiences. Her creative work includes the world’s first International Mental Health Arts Festival ‘The Big reTHiNK’ as featured in MiNDFOOD Magazine and collaborating on and the annual Atawhai festival.

Learn more about Taimi: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/taimi-allan