Neff Inspiration

329 Julia Barton: Postpartum Depression - From Being Isolated to Helping Women Bloom

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

328 Anissa Hudak: Your Issues are in Your Tissues. Let Your Soul Heal With Movement

As a Yoga Therapist and the founder of the Trauma Healing Yoga Therapy Program, Anissa works with women who have been sexually traumatized to help them heal their PTSD (and other trauma-related issues) with yoga therapy. As a 2x rape survivor, she intimately understands these women's needs and helps them navigate their healing journeys.
         
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Never Give Up
2. Find people or services to help you meet your needs on your healing journey
3. Try yoga - you might like it!

327 Nefertiti San Miguel: How to Live Your Life Authentically on Your Terms

Nefertiti San Miguel is the embodiment of passion, a vivid advocate for the arts, neuroscience and mental health. As an international mixed-media artist, Ikebanist, performer, speaker, entrepreneur, published author and trailblazer, she raises eyebrows across numerous industries. 
With a reputation for rocking her eclectic style, Nefertiti is the founder of Etnia Fusion, a Boston-based boutique enterprise dedicated to promoting and cultivating multiculturalism through educational programs, functional/wearable art, and dance. She’s been featured on radio and television programs, web series, YouTube Channels, newspapers and magazines across the nation, and in recent years, has been garnering attention abroad through podcasts from New Zealand, Canada and Australia. 
Since 2021, Nefertiti has been sharing her talents with AmorUmbrella, a Veterans Organization serving military women. Her current endeavours include: teaching her method of art installations NM3 (Narrative Multi-Sensory Mixed Media ) as therapeutic activity for stress management and 3D Vision Board for life achievers. She welcomes new connections and invites readers to email her.

Learn more about Nefertiti: www.etniafusion.com
Contact Nefertiti: Nefertiti.SanMiguel@gmail.com

326 Nicole Smith : Fighting for the Value of Humanity One Story at a Time

Nicole Smith, the founder of Dignity Defense Institute, is a communications expert who has spent the last decade of her career shining a light on the darkest parts of the human condition around the globe. And yet, it wasn't until 2020 that her mission was given flesh and bone. After giving birth to her daughter in distress, which resulted in the diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy, Nicole has dedicated her life to advocating and shouting about the value of her little one ever since.

Armed with an education background in Law and Public Policy and an extensive career in Communications, Nicole Smith has led the charge in nearly a dozen international campaigns with a direct impact on the release of persecuted religious minorities around the globe - even amassing over one million petition signatures for one of those wrongfully imprisoned people overseas. She's raised millions in donor dollars for domestic and international causes, landed several books on the New York Times Bestseller's List - even up to #1 on that list - and partnered with countless other nonprofits to drive real and lasting results for people on the ground globally.      
        
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Balance between hope and hopelessness is paramount to the mobilization of an audience.
2. Scale your impact. Not everyone can afford to donate or show up personally, so create other paths to impact. 
3. The betterment of the lives of those you serve is your true north. You must always maintain a lazer focus on that true north. 

Social media and contact info. 
Facebook: @NicoleMYSmith
Twitter: @NicoleMYSmith
Instagram: @NicoleMYSmith
TikTok: NicoleMYSmith/
LinkedIn: NicoleMYSmith/

Pro Dignity, No Doubt Podcast
Dignity Defense Institutue Nonprofit

325 Annie White: Lower your stress and maximize your happiness with Dr. Annie White

Dr. Annie White developed a brand new method to help you lower your stress and anxiety. It’s based on the science of the brain and is different from anything you’ve tried before. 
She will show you how your mind got wired to be so stressed and how to fix it with easy, tangible tools based on science. 
Dr. Annie White is the author of The Calm Code: Transform Your Mind, Change Your Life. She developed a revolutionary, new step-by-step method to minimize stress and maximize happiness based on the science of neuroplasticity. Annie has a Doctorate in Eastern Medicine.

3 New tools to lower stress
1. Triple Thanks Tool
2. Five Breathing Method
3. Love Bomb Tool

Social media and contact info. 
https://www.facebook.com/doctoranniewhite/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-annie-white/
https://www.instagram.com/dr.anniewhite/

324 David Greer: You Can Be a Clean and Sober Entrepreneur

In David's words:
For 40 years, I've been an entrepreneur. As an alcoholic who recently celebrated his 5,000th day sober, I know first-hand what it’s like to be a business owner and an alcoholic in the midst of his addiction. If you run your own business and are challenged by alcoholism or addiction, there is a solution. Entrepreneurs are driven individuals; you don’t have to turn to drugs or alcohol when it becomes too much.
David J. Greer is an entrepreneurial coach, author, and facilitator. He is the catalyst that gets you to fully live your dreams now. Spend one hour reading his book Wind In Your Sails, attend a one-hour talk with him, or get one hour of 1-to-1 coaching, and you will have 3 concrete action items that will shift and accelerate your business within 90 days. David specializes in working with entrepreneurs challenged with alcoholism or addiction. He and his wife Karalee are committed to each other and their three children, spending time supporting them in the many varied activities they are involved with. They live in Vancouver, Canada.
3 Tips for my audience
1. Many businesses thrive on an alcoholic culture
2. You can lead a high-growth and thriving business without using alcohol or drugs to cope with the challenges and stress
3. You can have all that you want in business and in life

https://coachdjgreer.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgreer/
https://twitter.com/djgreer
https://instagram.com/coachdjgreer/

323 Jocelyn Bellows: Leap from Limitation to Liberation. Unearth the Roots of Your Story to Heal

Jocelyn Bellows, founder of Strike a New Match, is a Breakthrough Coach, author, podcast host and motivational speaker.
In the wake of the ending of her marriage in 2017, she began a journey of self-discovery, investing in learning and expanding on understanding why she was the way she was and took action the way she did. During this intentional journey, Jocelyn uncovered the truth of who she is and her continually evolving life’s purpose. 
Jocelyn works with men and women, allowing them to discover their deepest and most authentic selves. Together, they uncover the layers of stories and mistruths that each of us has told ourselves, getting to the roots and rewriting the story. By understanding those base layers and removing the weeds, one then gets to create room to plant a new storyline that nourishes the soul and allows us to live.

Learn more about Jocelyn: www.strikeanewmatch.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jocelyn.bellows24
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelyn-bellows
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/whatsyourleap
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourleap

322 Carrie Schell: Worried about alcohol? You maybe like me and others, a gray drinker

A midwife, personal trainer, yoga instructor, doctoral candidate, speaker and author, Carrie Schell has dedicated her life's work to health and wellness.  As an addiction specialist helping others recover, Carrie realized she, like millions of other women, was a grey drinker...not an alcoholic. Still, her relationship with alcohol was unhealthy, in a grey area.  
Carrie Schell has spent her career in health and wellness, helping people through their intimate and life-transforming journeys.  Carrie's latest passion is giving a voice to grey drinking and helping women create s healthy relationships with alcohol.  Her latest book, "The Gray Drinking Reset," is a 30-day journey to help women reclaim control over alcohol.  She is also hosting wellness retreats for women to connect and reset their wellness journey in Costa Rica, where she lives.
  
3 top tips for my audience:
1. If you are beginning to question if you drink too much, listen to your intuition.
2. Take a break, a 10 day reset…
3. Being honest about your relationship with alcohol takes courage; I’m proud of you!

Social media and contact info.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LRvhHD82nI&ab_channel=CarrieSchell
https://www.instagram.com/meetcarrieschell/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006899535691
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYY8oD6kTBTH6sTIC3XPTqQ

#graydrinkingreset
#graydrinking
#sobercurious
#sobermomma
#sobersexy
#mbslife

321 Nghi Dang Mental Health Awareness Through Storytelling: Mental Health is a Normal Part of Health

Mental health is often an afterthought for most people when, in reality, it is vital to your physical health. With so much online information, it is hard to figure out what is fake and what is a fact. Navigating through the world wide web is exponentially more difficult for children, so my goal with the book series is to help clear up misconceptions about mental health and give guidance. Children turn to social media for advice, which is why our world is in its current state. 

I was born in Vietnam but grew up in Southern California. Our family moved to the states when I was 7 years old. As an immigrant, I shared the same struggles as many other immigrants with adjusting to a new norm and dealing with bullying, discrimination, and constantly having to self-validate while fighting off depression.  Having been in practice for over 10 years as a Family Physician, I have realized that my struggles are shared by many of my patients. As the pandemic progressed, I saw more and more visits related to mental health in the clinic for both adults and children. I was motivated to do something to help educate children and help start a dialogue between parents and children about mental health. I figured the best way to help educate is through storytelling.     
    
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Think of mental health as a regular part of your health, not something separate.
2. Don’t be afraid to talk about your feelings to your family and friends; you would be surprised at the commonality that everyone experiences.  
3. Listen with your heart, not your ears.

320 Matthew Dickson: When things seem impossible, there is hope beyond hope…

Have things in your life ever seemed impossible? We are all capable of so much more than we think we are. I was tested for schizophrenia, and when things seemed impossible, I was shown I had a strength I had no idea was inside me. You have this too. We are all ordinary people capable of extraordinary things. I ended up successfully recovering from schizophrenia, and now I help people with mental illness in developing countries so they can get access to primary mental health care at www.MindAid.ca. 

Matthew Dickson bicycled across Canada at the age of 20, but shortly afterwards, he developed schizophrenia and was forced to alter the course of his life for many years to get through the disease.
While working on his recovery in his home country of Canada, his heart went out to people with mental illness in developing countries who had it much worse than he did.
After successfully recovering from schizophrenia, Matthew now helps people with mental illness in developing countries so they can get access to primary mental health care through his Mind Aid platform.
3 top tips for my audience:
1. “Unbeatable Mind” by Mark Divine, mindset secrets of Navy SEALs, SEALs are taught they are capable of 20x more than they think they are
2. “The Survivor Personality” by Al Siebert, how people survived the Holocaust, cancer, natural disasters, alcoholism and thrived afterwards
3. “Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion” by George Thompson, how police officers deal with people with words, not weapons

Social media and contact info
www.MindAid.ca
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2Qj2tKgfh9pt4OoLuuUuw
https://www.facebook.com/mindaid1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjdickson
https://twitter.com/MattMindAid
https://www.instagram.com/matthewjdickson/
https://www.tiktok.com/@mattmindaid