Neff Inspiration

266 Juan Ayala: The Art of Resilience - Persevering in a Doubt- and Rejection-Filled Industry

Juan Ayala is an actor, journalist and podcaster from Connecticut, now living in New York City, actively pursuing his acting career for the last five years. Throughout his life, he has overcome several major obstacles, including dealing with depression and anxiety, a very difficult coming out journey as a queer man in his twenties, weighing over 225 lbs when he was in college, and having ideation of suicide when he was just thirteen years old. He has thankfully persevered and successfully navigated these obstacles and hopes to share his journey and story with as many people as he can.
As an actor, he has worked in multiple network television series, including NBC’s Blindspot and ABC’s For Life, as well as dozens of theatrical productions across his home state of Connecticut. When not on set or on stage, he works as a journalist and podcast producer for a number of outlets, including MediaVillage and Latin Media Group. His longest-running podcast “Actors With Issues” is soon to hit 100 episodes and features mini career deep-dives and enlightening discussions with his guests who work across film, television and Broadway. He resides in Brooklyn, NY with his partner Erick. 
                
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Find your village. Every actor needs a support system, not just to get you through the tough times, but to also celebrate the wins, tiny or huge, that come your way.
2. Find a passion beyond your career. It’s not healthy for anyone to only ever focus on their job and career and not have any other prospects. 
3. No one is better at being you than you. Sometimes we can’t help but compare ourselves to the people around us who may be doing better than we are, 

Social media and contact info. How can viewers contact you after the interview? Please list your social media handles and websites. This is how they will appear in the show notes! 

Juan can be found on Instagram @JuanAyalaOfficial , on Twitter @iJuanAyala and you can watch full episodes of his podcast online at youtube.com/actorswithissuespodcast

#Actor #NYActor #NYCActor #HispanicActor #LatinActor #LatinxActor #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTActor #Journalist #Podcaster

265 Andrew Mondia: Surviving wanting to die

Multi-talented Andrew Mondia is an international actor, writer and speaker who has inspired 100's of people from different walks of life around the world to live a passionate life sharing his story of overcoming challenges from childhood trauma of bullying and abuse to attempting suicide. He has worked with award-winning actors/directors and been featured in The Washington Post, Uk’s The Guardian, National Post and on BBC Radio 1. Andrew Mondia is also a featured author expert in two #1 International Best-Selling Books “My Journey My Journal” and “How Big Can You Dream.”                        
                    
In Andrew's words:
"Who am I?  The question Andrew Mondia asked himself growing up and into adulthood.   And still to this day.   Looking at trauma in a different light to understand and grow.   Inspiring others with stories and bringing a light into the world on a journey into an unknown future." 

3 top tips for my audience:
1. Hope
2. Laughter
3. Moving forward

Social media 
@andrewmondia on most channels  ie Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

264 Nicole Shir: Knowing how your personality communicates can be vital to successful outcomes

Nicole saw through her education and life experiences that things were not connected. She saw that people were taught their personality but not taught other people’s personality and how to communicate in personality. She also saw that people were hurt and wounded in their personality. This affects belonging, something we all need.  In this she developed the Needs Languages, a system to identify and categorize personality types. It is fast and intuitive, helping you feel connected and providing a sense of belonging to all your relationships. So sit back and get ready to learn how to discover belonging. 
Nicole did her bachelor's degree with business and conflict resolution. She did her masters in industrial organizational psychology. Nicole is the author of The Needs Language series. She has written 3 booklets one for people dating, parents & romantic partnerships. She has The Needs Languages workplace booklet coming out this April. She is a big component of DEI, especially for people with disabilities. Nicole is doing a TEDx talk this April. If you want to learn how your personality communicates, check out one of her booklets.    
    
3 top tips for my audience:
1. You are a puzzle piece in this world, unique but you fit to make a beautiful picture. It is vital to learn to be both. 
2. Learn the difference between silence & silent. Don’t silence yourself or others. Give yourself a voice & others. Learn when it is wise to be quiet or silent. 
3. Focus on what you like about yourself. That is where growth can come in. Look in the mirror and say I like this about me. 

Social media 
https://linktr.ee/Nicole.Shir

263 Brenda Miller: From Chaos to Calmness - Instant Evolution Out of Stress

Brenda Miller’s expertise is in dissolving stress before it detonates. She loves to make the bold statement that stress is optional, and then help people prove it to themselves with her simple strategies for getting ‘right now relief’ in an upset—in 30 seconds! She says that joy is natural—and then helps people rediscover theirs by meeting each upset with one of the strategies that take us out of distress and deliver us back to our playful, compassionate nature. Brenda is devoted to helping us hear the long-forgotten whisper of wellbeing.  
Brenda taught conscious conflict resolution in six countries and is the author and founder of The Kid Code, 30 Second Parenting Strategies, endorsed by Jack Canfield who says, “Everyone needs this book,” and lauded by Readers Views as “…the latest and greatest parenting book!” She’s written four other self-help books, speaks internationally and loves gardening, photography, playing with her kids and grandkids, and watching the wildlife that frequents her and her husband’s little plot of land within view of the great Canadian Rockies.
                
3 top tips for my audience:
1. To take the stress out of making mistakes, when someone makes one, say and feel the truth of the statement, “You matter more than the mistake.” When you make a mistake, say and feel the truth of the statement, “I matter more than the mistake,” and then make the mistake right by making amends however you can. 
2. To tame a tantrum (yes, we all still have them), put a note in your pocket that says, I don’t need my raging story anymore and pull it out and read it every time anger tries to take you over. 
3. Become a ‘Gratitude Practitioner’ and see if you can be grateful for everything your eyes land on, every day. This diverts the mind away from negativity and into coherence. 

Social media and contact info. 
www.thekidcode.ca 
https://www.facebook.com/thekidcode
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-miller-0a684765/
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKidCode1
https://www.instagram.com/thekidcode/

262 Lori Adams-Brown : How Inclusion is the Key to Solving Our World’s Most Complex Challenges

Lori Adams-Brown is a Business Leader, Podcast Host & Executive Producer of the A World of Difference podcast. Lori is a woman on a mission to bring systemic changes on a global scale by creating belonging and increasing inclusion where she pulls up a chair for new voices at the table.
She worked in Indonesian tsunami relief in 2004, and learned that making a difference means listening, empathizing and rolling up our sleeves to make a significant impact together. She believes our stories are powerful to help us heal from trauma, and that our challenges are what motivate us to bring a much-needed change in our societies around the globe.
Lori Adams-Brown works in Client Relations in a Silicon Valley startup. She grew up in Valencia, Venezuela where she learned to love city life, island life and merengue and salsa music. She worked for 20 years in international relief and development in Singapore and Indonesia. She has been a pastor at a large multi-site church in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Development Director of a nonprofit in the Silicon Valley. Lori speaks 6 languages. She holds an M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and has B.A.s in Sociology and Spanish from Samford University. Her happy place is sipping a flat white coffee while having a deep conversation and enjoying either a beach or mountain vacation with the love of her life, Jason, their urbanite Third Culture Kids, and their Singaporean rescue dog.

In Lori's words:
Our world is polarized, sorted, and siloed in evho chambers that pit us against each other. The war in Eastern Europe is the culmination of what happens when we fail to listen, to see, and to include each other in solving our world’s problems together. Learning to listen, crossing the street, crossing the aisle, and linking arms together in celebration of our differences will help us change the broken systems in our world. We need each other.

3 Top Tips
1. Listen to understand, and listen some more
2. Pro-actively seek out diverse voices to teach you
3. Link arms with people different from you to solve issues in your community, nation and world

Social Media 
loriadamsbrown.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loriadamsbrown
http://twitter.com/loriadbr
https://www.instagram.com/aworldof.difference/
https://www.facebook.com/A-World-of-Difference-613933132591673/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7bPQfzq7kOZOk09QZWX7WA

261 Kristy Kilcup: How to move past your distorted narrative. It’s all bullshit anyway!

261 Kristy Kilcup: How to move past your distorted narrative.  It’s all bullshit anyway!

Kristy Kilcup, Founder and CEO of Version of YOU - 2.0 INC.,™ is known for her rapid transformational results and ‘disruptor attitude’ within the weight loss industry, bestowed upon her by the New York City Journal.  

As an Rapid Transformational Therapy® Certified Hypnotherapist, Personal Trainer, Health, Life and Mastery Level Transformation Coach, Advanced Nutrition and Personalized Health Coach, she leverages her personal story, 28 years of professional experience and education to help her clients move past fear and anxiety.  She also specializes in Weight Loss for Women, helping them understand their unique hormone blueprint while clearing underlying emotional issues.    

In Kristy's words: 
We spend most of our life avoiding our truth.  
We numb it with food, alcohol, sex, drugs and pain.  
We avoid it with work, volunteering, or isolation.  
And while we rely on these coping mechanisms to get by, we have this little voice fighting to be heard, saying, "we deserve more." Or this chronic feeling of unhappiness, often not really knowing why we are so unhappy.
And what if you could uncover the origin of your distorted truths? Tap into your body in time to recognize when you have been triggered, so you can take back control? Would you dive in?                    
                
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Pay very close attention to your physiology. How you feel will help you realize if you have been emotionally triggered so you can take control of your responses
2. Step back and assess where these feelings originated along your timeline. Understand that your feelings (aka emotional triggers) are not the result of that particular moment. You have an attachment to an event that occurred in your past, and it's that past event that you need to link to your current emotional state. In doing so, you can recognize that the reason why you are so sad, frustrated, or angry is not because of the present moment but because of how you felt in the past. That awareness gives you the power to diffuse the intensity of your feelings felt in the present moment.
3. Identify that you get to control your emotions' "intensity volume," thereby controlling your emotional response. Now that you recognize you have been triggered and why your feelings are so intense, you can focus on breathing, calming down and taking rational action rather than an irrational reaction to the situation at hand.

Social Media 
https://www.versionofyou2.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Versionofyou2.0

Articles that may be of interest:
https://nyweekly.com/education/kristy-kilcup-to-help-you-master-the-intuitive-connection-with-your-body/
https://www.netnewsledger.com/2022/02/22/how-kristy-kilcup-is-bringing-the-new-wave-of-transformation-in-holistic-coaching/
https://thenycjournal.com/top-30-women-disruptors-to-look-out-for-in-2021/

#versionofyou2  #weightlossforwomen #transformation #lifecoaching #transformationalcoaching #globaltransformation #thenewyou #changingyourstory #coachinglife #letmecoachyou #bestversionofyou #youmattermost #apeoplesjourney #transformyourlife #bodyimage #rapidtransformationaltherapy #hypnotherapy #RTT

10in10 Angela Talent - Relatively damaged or a hostage of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome?

Quite frankly, Angela is no one important. If you were to ask what she does or how she identifies, she would most likely say mom. In the last few years, she has noticed divisiveness amongst groups and wants to show the world how similar we all are in our suffering and our joy. She does that with her podcast Relatively Damaged. In addition to the podcast she hopes to effect real policy changes for those who are disabled in the United States where, when one becomes so disabled they need in-home-care, they become a hostage to their home.
Angela Talent is the mother of two. At the age of 35 she was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) which would rob her of the use of her hands and limit her ability to walk. At the beginning of 2021 she realized she could use her ability to listen and have meaningful conversations to show the world how uniquely beautiful the human experience is.

Facebook: @damagedparents
Instagram: @damagedparents
TikTok: @damagedparents
Twitter: @damagedparents
Website: www.damagedparents.com

Key points: 
1. What you look for you will find
2. And it is much more fun to live there than it is to live
3. If you think you're not valuable, then you will believe you're not valuable
4. My experience of you happens inside of me
5. Listen to and follow your heart
6. See things in 3D 
7. Perspective and perception are the two deciding factors which lead to choice

10in10 Nate Dukes: From Coke Dealer to Hope Dealer

In his early twenties, Nate was a business owner chasing success while dealing with a secret drug addiction. After constantly hitting rock bottom, hurting everyone close, stealing a car and going to jail, Nate went on a journey of changing his mindset and his decisions which helped him create his own comeback story. He quickly found that there were other people, just like him, who were stuck believing the lie that they’d never change. Through his book, onstage speaking, and personal coaching, Nate shares what he’s learned to help other people make their own comeback.                

10in10:
1. If you're ready to make changes in your life, progress looks different for everyone
2. nothing can be changed until it is faced too many times
3. there are people from your past who know a version of you that no longer exists anymore
4. not everything that feels good at the moment is good for your future
5. who you were is not who you are
6. selfish people ruin the world - selfless people can change the world
7. the right voices in your life equal the right choices in your life
8. you're responsible for doing the right thing, not how people respond to it
9. gratitude reminds us that what we have right now is enough, but more importantly, that we are enough
10. success is not a reward. It's actually a responsibility

Social media and contact info.
Instagram - @WhoIsNateDukes 
Website - https://www.youllneverchange.com

10in10 Adele Mason - Creating a life where alcohol doesn’t belong

1. Addiction is definitely a disease
2. You must find a way of recovery that works for you
3. You're not going to get there overnight
4. Feel 
5. Being sick is never your fault, but getting better is your responsibility
6. We have to apologize
7. We are wired for connection

10in10 Monk Coleman: 10 principles for transformation principle

From the Basement to the Light to leading a movement, Monk Coleman has made it his life's work to change the face of what it means to live a life of love, compassion, and spiritual awakening.
Healing from alcoholism, poverty, and dysfunctional relationships, Monk Coleman turned his life around with one simple decision. He was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Releasing the grip drugs and alcohol had on his mind, body, and soul, Monk has been clean and sober for over 13 years. 
Channelling his energy into a spiritual awakening including discovering the power of love, compassion, and transformation, through deep meditative practice. 
Monk is the author of Love Over Fear- A Guide to Peace and Purpose.
Monk's message is clear… It’s Never Too Late to Rewrite Your Life Story. 

IG monk_eternal, fb @monketernal, em monk@monketernal.com,  www.monketernal.com 

1. love is who we are 
2. gratitude
3. mindfulness and meditation
4. do some introspective work 
5. everything is created in the mind
6. be present
7. be of service
8. you never fail unless you quit
9. be proactive
10. step out of your fear