Neff Inspiration

270 Michael Harris: Walking through the Pain: From Near Death to a Rocking Life

Michael’s journey through life and sobriety has been nothing short of spectacular. 
At 12 years old he survived having 60% of his liver removed - then dived into alcohol and drugs.  By 27 he nearly lost his legs from vascular disease. 
Sober since 30 (he’s now 63) Michael’s spirit has thrived.  He’s dived into photography, yoga, real estate, option trading, and business coaching.  As an entrepreneur, he’s generated well over $40 million. In addition, Michael has literally trained 1,000’s to get their message to the world. 
Today you will hear how he got sober, threw away his cane – and now explores the mountains near his home in central Oregon.  

Michael is a #1 bestselling author, coach, teacher, trainer, entrepreneur and co-founder of Endless Stages - an organization dedicated to helping anyone get their voice, message and story out to the world. 
Author of the #1 bestselling book, “Falling Down Getting UP”, foreword by the father of Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson.  Jay called Michael’s ability to survive through thick and thin a true example of an entrepreneur using guerrilla type tactics to overcome virtually anything. 
For years he struggled with chronic health issues, addictions and low self-esteem.  Then one day he had had enough and became willing to make a change. It wasn’t easy. Michael had to stop dreaming about what he wanted - and begin to take massive action by applying the Law of GOYA. 
                      
3 top tips for my audience:
1. Sobriety Rocks
2. Tell your story, it could save someone's life
3. Choose Happiness

Social media 
www.endlessstages.com
www.michaelbharris.com 
https://www.facebook.com/

#author #speaker #coach #yoga #inspiration #entrepreneur #endlessstages #sobriety #michaelharris

269 Spencer Zimmermann: Forgotten Cause of Alcoholism, Past Concussions Change Your Life

Do you find yourself trying to escape from the way you feel and turn to alcohol? Nearly 50% of individuals who suffer a concussion will have symptoms that persist for over a year. Mental health diagnoses are widespread following a concussion. What if there was a way to identify an old concussion even in your youth? We are going to help you identify an approach to get out of the trap you are in. You no longer feel the need to turn to alcohol because you love the way you feel.

How to get your brain and mind back on track? Dr. Spencer Zimmerman NP-C, DC, DABCN helps individuals who struggle with depression, anxiety, ptsd, concentration, and brain fog through a “whole body” approach. He’s refined his unique method over the past 9 years and has worked with over 1,000 patients. He’s a contributing author and featured on podcasts talking about the role of the brain in our health.Our brain defines who we are and what we can become in life; unfortunately it is one of the least evaluated parts of our health despite playing a role in everything.     

3 top tips for my audience:

1. Any head injury no matter how long ago, is a big deal
2. Don’t push past through your symptoms
3. Obtain the life you want, so you don’t feel the need to hide. 

IdahoBrainandBody.com

https://www.facebook.com/DrSZimmerman

https://www.instagram.com/drszimmerman/

https://www.tiktok.com/@drszimmerman

268 Aimee Duff: Functional Medicine - From Sick and Tired to Optimal Health and Wellness

I love telling stories about how people go from sick and tired to optimal health and wellness under my guidance and care.  As a speaker and storyteller, I have been mentored by Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Clint Arthur. 
Topics that I am exceptionally passionate about include hormone health and hormone replacement for menopause, testosterone for men, integrative medicine, functional medicine, weight loss, auto-immune disorders, gastrointestinal issues, chronic fatigue, insomnia or sleep disorders, depression and anxiety.  In addition, I love talking about empowering women through the challenges of motherhood.  
https://is.gd/aimeebook
https://www.aimeeduffymd.com/

267 Zoe Thompson: Like a Phoenix from the Flames: Survive to Thrive

Can adversity create a stronger and more powerful version of you?  
Zoe is not just proof that it can, she now uses her personal and professional experiences and training to coach and guide those who are ready to rise, and thrive.
Zoe has come through an unhealthy relationship to overcome mental, physical and emotional health challenges and used everything that she learned during the toughest times to her advantage.  
You cannot go back to who you were before, you can rise to be a stronger and more powerful version of you. 

Brief Bio.
Zoe started her career with the Police Service. After 20years, several departments and working her way up the ladder to a senior leadership role she faced redundancy.  Taking all the ‘best bits’ from her work and life experiences, ‘Phoenix’ was created and Zoe has been coaching to support individuals and businesses with lifestyle, wellbeing and leadership ever since. 
In life, Zoe has been on a continuous journey of self development and growth, a mum, a basketball fan and at one stage competed at an international level in the sport of ‘Strongwoman’
Zoe uses NLP, CBT, Positive Psychology and many other ’tools in the toolbox’ to help people get from where they are to where they want to be, whatever that is for them. 
                
3 top tips for my audience:
1.  NOTHING WILL HAPPEN UNTIL YOU TAKE THE FIRST STEP 
2. GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE
3. FIND A POSITIVE IN EVERY SITUATION 

www.phoenixlifecoach.co.uk
#PhoenixCoaching
#Thrive
#TogetherWeRise
#RiseFromTheAshes

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/

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