Between the Before and After (The Stories that Shape Us)

Sam is an author who journeyed to India to find his ancestral roots with a faded photograph and little else. In the process, he discovered his own identity.

Sam is a British born Canadian with parents from Fiji and grandfathers from India.

Sam authored a book called 'Lost and Found: Seeking the Past and Finding Myself'. Sam went to India as a foreigner in a land that should not be foreign to him while searching for the needle in a haystack and not quite sure where even the haystack was.

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Nicole Laurent is a mental health counselor that uses ketogenic diets to treat mental illness and neurological disorders. 

But she has her own story in that she used the diet to treat and cure a bad case of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) that was well on it's way (or possibly already at) Stage 1 Alzheimer's disease. 

This is Nicole's Story! 

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Kirby is a leadership coach, and a combat veteran and hosts the TRUE Success podcast. His 26-year leadership and human capital experience have allowed him to provide results-driven, laser-focused, purpose-to-impact coaching to high-potential professionals since 2014.

Kirby’s family-oriented (father of 5 children), faith-based, and values-driven approach shows up in his life’s work and mission to root out fatherlessness in America.

He has a high sense of responsibility and ethics both in himself and others which have led him to advocate for the fatherless and raise awareness by running ultra-marathons (31-50 miles) in memory of those heroes who lost their lives due to PTSD.

Kirby volunteers his time to many other activities that he is called to and gives him purpose, such as mentoring transitioning veterans into the private sector.

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Karyn Seitz calls herself The Happiness Mentor. 

A far cry from the rebellious self-destructive partier that she was through her teens and 20's. 

The greatest gift she ever gave herself was realizing she is the problem in her life and learning to take responsibility. 

Now, she teaches others how to be happy by taking responsibility and growing and learning through life's challenges. 

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Growing up in a suburb in India, Mitadru did not have the opportunity to study English until graduation from high school. 

He had his share of struggles, especially speaking up during meetings when he started working for a US Bank. At times he could not understand the western accent and then could not articulate thoughts during conference calls because he was nervous. 

His career started much before the days when videoconferencing was normal. As long as he was in India, he could hide his uncomfortable body language behind the audio phone and convey his message. 

He was exposed when he moved to New York and had to present every week to his clients. Many immigrants share this experience. Mitadru took it up as a challenge to improve his communication and trained himself to be a confident communicator. 

This is Mitadru's story.

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Sara Im spent four years in captivity in Cambodia, witnessing the genocide of over 2 million people.

After enduring starvation and extreme exhaustion in a work camp under the Communist Khmer Rouge, Sara fled to the United States and now shares her story.

Sara's story begins immersed in death and injustice but emerges with hope, freedom, and new life.

Sara Im is a graduate of Western Connecticut State University and business owner of Smart Healthy Living. She shares her survival story to inspire, motivate, and encourage people at corporate events, conferences, churches, schools, TV, Podcasts, and more.

This is Sara's story.

CONNECT WITH JENN:Jenn's story is about a young girl growing up surrounded by and experiencing abuse, poverty, and addiction, and later as a woman, struggling through traumatic losses including infertility, miscarriage, the loss of her adult son as well as some family members as she stepped out to share her testimony.

Jenn's journey goes from being an innocent child caught in the middle of a storm she could not escape to a strong mother of 18 and hope-filled guiding voice to many parents through her social media presence and passion to help grieving moms as a Bereavement Doula.

This is Jenn's story.

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Jolene shares her story of learning to cope with anger as a young girl after her parent's divorce and later with anxiety as she pursued higher education in earth sciences.

Jolene shares how she has had to come to grips with her father being diagnosed with early-onset dementia and how that experience has changed how she thinks about health and nutrition and the reasons she pursues it.   

Jolene goes from being a young girl with unmanaged emotions to a resilient woman overcoming fear and anxiety while building her business as a nutrition coach.   

Jolene Hermanson is a Precision Nutrition Level 2 Certified coach, non-practicing professional geoscientist, a wife and mom of two. She lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. 

When she's not working with clients, she's working out, watching her kids play sports, or playing with them at the beach.  

This is Jolene's story.  

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For more than the first half of his life, Kevin Kepple did everything "his way". Kevin was great at his career, but internally he was struggling with low self esteem, comparison, and imposter syndrome.

Kevin was addicted to alcohol and always felt the need to be right, but today he is 14 years sober and working with people who inspire him daily.

Kevin's story goes from an over-inflated ego and alcohol addiction to a life of daily inspiration serving a generous purpose.

Kevin spends his days helping successful business owners and executives align with their heart so that they can maximize their creativity and find more access to happiness and aliveness. When he's not working, Kevin is outside in nature, an ironman athlete, and loves to be in the mountains with his dog Frank.

This is Kevin's story.

Despite having a wonderful family, Sarah Peyton still had something eating away at her inside.

Emotionally unstable and laceratingly cruel to herself, Sarah began to believe she must be defective or crazy. But what she didn't know was just how much the trauma of her family's past had affected her.

After finding a newspaper clipping of her grandmother's divorce trial from the 1930s, Sarah began her discovery of relational neuroscience and transgenerational trauma. This knowledge sent her on a journey to uncovering how she had taken on the patterns of her family's past and how to leave them behind.

Sarah's story goes from emotional confusion to redemption, healing, and love.

This is Sarah's story.

"The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept & Embrace It All" is Kimberly's story of finding hope from a painful past. 

Kimberly's journey goes from being abandoned by her biological parents at a tender young age to enduring emotional, physical and sexual abuse, to overcoming these devastating experiences on the path to adulthood. 

Kimmy had to find self-love and acceptance within in order to heal from her trauma. 

This is Kimmy's Story. 

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Relentless positivity.  That's where Joe is today, as the owner of the (very originally named) Joe Martin Fitness LLC, based out of Huntsville, Alabama.

A far cry from overweight, on probation, depressed, and suicidal.

At one point, Joe thought his life was worthless and the world did not need him taking up space and wasting oxygen.

How did he go from that to being voted Huntsville’s Healthiest Trainer and a bestselling author?

This is Joe's story.

Brenden Kumarasamy started out making videos in his Mom's basement, and now he's an internationally recognized speaker and founder of MasterTalk!

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Leann's super power is being genetically optimistic.  

She was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 2009 at the age of 29.  

However, she believes that finding the positive in negative situations is a skill that can be learned, practiced, and perfected.  

Her mission is to teach her time tested tools to as many people as possible, so that they can experience the magic of positivity too!  

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Alan Smyth is the Executive Director of Saving Innocence, and organization dedicated to fighting child victims of sex trafficking.  

He's also the author of Men! Fight For Me!, a book about ending sexual exploitation of children.  

This is a very uncomfortable topic, as most people would rather not know it exists.  But it's a deeply important one.  So, today, we're going there.

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Why should you take cooking tips or health advice from a snarky grandma who doesn’t own a restaurant, isn’t a reality TV star, doesn’t have a medical degree, and doesn’t particularly like to cook?

Here's why: her new book, "Brownies for Breakfast, A Cookbook for Diabetics and the People Who Love Them," is a cool, fun, beautiful, guidebook for anybody who wants to eat healthy: vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, gluten-free and sugar-free.

There is enormous power in resetting your relationship with food, taking control of your health, strength, mindset and mood. Lynne was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes more than thirty years ago, and offer herself as living proof that you can cook, eat, sleep and walk your way out of type 2 diabetes, along with other chronic ailments.

That’s what Lynne wants for you, and the people who love you:“Brownies for Breakfast,” tells you exactly how to do it.

Daniel Junkins was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in April of 2017 with just weeks to live.  

While receiving this diagnosis as well as one of the most powerful chemotherapy protocols in the cancer world, Dan discovered the powerful story of the peacock and its innate ability to ingest poison, created a powerful mantra, and mobilized support from all the communities of people in his life.  

Working in powerful partnership with his wife, family, friends, the medical community and alternative healers, Dan is free of leukemia, thriving with a newfound abundance of health, inspiration, and wellness.  He now shares his story and experience with a new book, delivering talks, workshops, and spreading discovery, hope and inspiration for vibrant health beyond any prognosis.

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Melissa Mayer is a Holistic Physical Therapist and author of the book, "Recovering My True Self". 

In her book she tells the story of the transformational journey she experienced donating her kidney to her husband. 

It also tells of her struggles with adolescence, with food and alcohol issues, finding her way as a parent, and creative recovery. 

Melissa’s authenticity and devotion to self discovery has inspired those looking to find meaning in their lives and empower them to transform everyday obstacles into miraculous opportunities. 

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Some people find rock bottom... Kevin found out that rock bottom has a basement.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

In his mid 20's... he had it all. A beautiful girlfriend, a high paying job, a sports car, his dream body... but still ended up sitting on the edge of a bed debating suicide... several times.⁣⁣⁣⁣

After his rock bottom moment, he went all in on self improvement, he was determined to overcome anxiety, and to overcome depression.⁣⁣⁣⁣

Kevin Palmieri is now a podcaster, speaker, podcast coach and podcast consultant. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

With years of studying self improvement and over 700 episodes discussing it, Kevin has learned a lot about a lot... but the most about himself!⁣⁣⁣⁣

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After losing her Mom at the age of 25, she would spend the next ten years not processing the trauma, losing her self confidence along the way, and feeling alone in her struggles. ⁣⁣

This all came to a head in 2020 when the whole world was hurting, Melissa decided to turn her pain into her purpose and start healing.⁣⁣

Simultaneously while starting therapy, she started thinking about her true purpose in life. She looked out into the world and saw other people hurting as well, and wanted to help. ⁣⁣

Now she puts joy back into people’s hearts through her podcast, The Bright Side of Life, where she talks to people that have successfully navigated their way back to joy and happiness despite their struggles, pain and grief.⁣⁣

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Sherry Diamond is a Health & Wellness Coach in Los Angeles with over 30 years of sales & marketing, luxury retail & medical experience.⁣⁣⁣

Sheri's weight fluctuated up and down (but mostly up) for most of her adult life. ⁣⁣⁣

When she was 64 she went to the doctor and⁣⁣⁣

was informed that she was "knocking on the diabetic door". ⁣⁣⁣

This scared Sheri to death because she is terrified of needles and could not⁣ imagine giving herself shots of insulin.⁣⁣

She lost both of her parents to⁣ cancer and her Mom had diabetes. ⁣⁣⁣

If she did not want this to happen to her, she had to get clear about her life

Sheri realized that for most of her life her brain and her body were involved in a daily boxing match and were never friends. ⁣⁣⁣

She knew a change was imminent.  After much research & personal experience she lost 103 pounds by eating cleaner & has kept it off for three years. Now she is teaching her secret to others.⁣⁣⁣

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When Adam was 18 years old his girlfriend at the time told him she no longer found him attractive.  ⁣⁣⁣⁣

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This led him into a spiral of yo-yo dieting going from excessive binge eating to extreme exercise and restrictive dieting till the point where he competed on a bodybuilding stage, but continued to binge eat off of it.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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From binge eating to the stage Adam’s Journey of working on his mind to change his relationship with food and exercise is so inspiring.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Adam now works as a part of A-Game Consultancy, where he and his business partner (also called Adam…), are helping people and businesses improve their mental, physical and internal health.⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Adam Insta: https://www.instagram.com/adam_hindley/⁣⁣⁣⁣

A-Game Insta: https://www.instagram.com/agameconsultancy/⁣⁣⁣⁣

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A-Game Blogs: https://www.agameconsultancy.com/blog⁣⁣⁣⁣

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A-Game Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqy6D6EDcaRu7yYb2nl3wLg⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringyouragamegroup⁣⁣⁣⁣

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Driven by her motto, "Be inspired to be yourself and be inspired to empower someone else," Patrice Brantley passionately serves as a Teacher and Community Licensed Mental Health therapist who is committed to helping others heal from the pain of their past traumas, and walk into a healthy and WHOLE Future.⁣

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website: https://www.patricebrantley.com⁣

https://www.bshaniradio.com/the-patrice-brantley-show.html ⁣

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