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Sharing stories about birth, birthwork, and everything it entails – infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy, labor and delivery, bottle feeding, breastfeeding & relactation, self-care after birth, sex to get pregnant and after kids, birth options, to medicate or not to medicate, adoption, midwife vs hospital, and running a successful birthwork business.
In 2004 I moved to the mid-west to be the person I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. The relationship quickly soured, he was jealous, possessive moody, a chronic liar, emotionally abusive, and eventually physically abusive. I lost any confidence I had in myself. I had been an actress and performer, and an artist, and after several years with him, I was a broken person, too scared to even leave the house. Depression and fear we retaking over my life. I wanted more than anything to learn to ballroom dance, there was a studio close to my home and it took years to build up courage enough to walk in those doors.
Dancing was the beginning of me finding my way back to myself. I became a professional ballroom dance instructor 8 months after my first lesson. I have been a professional ballroom dancer since 2010 (covid has changed that). I have also been a burlesque dancer and was the creative director and choreographer of a burlesque troupe for 5 years.
I published my first novel last year, Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent. (currently a finalist for the Kindle Awards for the Horror Category). The novel deals with grief, surviving trauma, and domestic violence. A lot of my own experiences have found their way into my work. I have also published the Victorian Gothic Novel "From Daylight to Madness" and its sequel will be released on November 19th.
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website - http://www.JenniferAnneGordon.com
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Jennifer_GordonSlasher - @JenniferAnneGordon
I grew up in a suburb of Chicago with an older brother and a younger sister and I always seemed to be the peacemaker, the one always trying to make other people happy. Because if other people were happy, I would be happy.
I served in the military from 1998 to 2002 on active duty and 2 additional years in WA National Guard. The military made me grow up fast and enjoy the suck. If it ain't raining, we ain't training.
From August 2002 to Sept 2017 I worked with the same company that started selling Yellowpages which moved to internet marketing. While working there I met an amazing man who believed in me enough to bring me into his and his wife's marketing company. 2 years ago I became a vested partner and absolutely love what I do, which is helping people.
In October 2019 I launched a co-hosted podcast called Ask Valor Masterminds, which is all about business and sharing tips about all topics related to business.
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I was born and raised in Baltimore, MD in a family that struggled with poverty for generations. My dad left when I was 8 years old and it forced my mom to take care of me and my brother on a $13k/year disability income. Growing up in my neighborhood, its an unspoken belief that the only way "out" is to 1 of 3 options: Become a successful athlete Become an entertainer (rapper, singer, dancer, actor, etc) Or sell Drugs.
I chose option 1 but fell short of making it to the NFL. However, along the way I was able to become the first student in my high school's history (Chesapeake High School - BC) to ever earn a D1 scholarship. That scholarship allowed me to become the first male in my family to graduate from college. These two milestones were crucial for changing my family legacy forever!
Today, I'm an inspirational speaker in the youth and college/university markets with a mission to help others shed self-limiting beliefs and pursue a life their passionate about living.
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Website: https://eddiethomason.com
LinkedIn: Eddie Thomason
Instagram @eddiethomason_
Facebook: @thomasoneddie
YouTube: Eddie Thomason
As an investor, Dom has provided seed funding to over 20 technology startups. As an entrepreneur, he has managed client campaigns with budgets exceeding $3 billion. Dom constantly scours the world for the next breakout startups in his fields of predilection: fintech, digital media, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, clean tech, ed tech, health tech and food tech.
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SOUL READING - A 2 HOUR PRIVATE INTENSIVE TO JUMPSTART YOUR HEALING with Deneen Joyner
This is a one-time experience where I use my Native American ancestors' century-old indigenous inspired soul healing practices and my unique divine gifts to partner with you as a soul medium and spiritual life coach. This offering is best for individuals who want to experience my work and are not sure yet if they are ready to embark on a deep soul healing journey.
Structure:
I channel and read the energy of your soul and its wounds. I identify your family’s karma. I find out exactly what is needed to heal your soul. I share with you a personal healing message from one of your ancestors. I create a personalized self-healing blueprint for you to use towards restoring your self-guided journey to heal your soul. You can use your soul reading towards work with me as your spiritual coach, or on your own as designed to arrive at your own pace.
Benefits:
You will specifically know your soul wounds. It will offer you an empowered perspective on your life themes, emotional pain, emotional framework, and lessons to master. You will arrive at why you feel stuck or unfulfilled and what’s needed in order to change that. You will know how you’ve attracted the past and current events in your life, and know what to do to protect yourself in the future. You will more than likely receive a message from a departed loved one surrounding how to move forward. You will become aware of your spiritual gifts. You will receive validation and confirmation for your most dire questions.
FIND DENEEN HERE: https://www.deneenjoyner.com/
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/becoming-parents/messageI was born with cerebral palsy and it was so bad, that the doctors told my mom I was not going to be able to walk. Thank goodness for a strong mom and a great mindset that wasn't my story. For the first ten years of my life, I was in physical therapy. It was not easy I was bullied and teased throughout my childhood. I made a goal for myself to make the varsity high school baseball team. I would practice every single day I was able to make it a reality. As an adult, I got into mortgage loan sales and I was very successful. But I had a different calling, I wanted to help people reach their goals, so I became a life coach. I share my struggles, peaks, and valleys to help my clients overcome their current issues or wants.
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In my early years, I dealt with my birth parents mental health
- at 5 they joined what I grew up thinking was a normal church, but as an adult learned was a cult
-experienced emotional and physical abuse -was kicked out at 18 - met my husband (he is an autist but was diagnosed at 40 years old)
- struggled to integrate into the real world culminating in multiple suicide attempts and poor mental health in my early 20s.
-started dieting at 18 when I was told I was too fat (in reality I weighed 140lbs)
- married husband.
-experienced infertility
- had an accident in 2009 in which face, neck, and airways were burned with steam
- got poorly after, ended up in a wheelchair facing not walking
-am stubborn - not only walked again but ran.
- fostered - was set to adopt 2 foster children but the British system deemed me too overweight and so was denied at the last court date.
- transformed my health and fitness for me.
Losing over 125lbs. Now qualified as a weightlifting and strength and conditioning coach and support others to do the same without the shame spiral of diets.
FIND BON HERE:
www.bemore-bon.com
Instagram: @bemorebon
Facebook: @bemorebon
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv24tN27JBwY-OQgdtQRosw
I struggled as an adoptive parent to a child with trauma, feeling burnt out, giving up my full-time job and career because of the constant stress, and the time demands. Then reaching for additional resources for self-care and discovering neurofeedback. I also wrote an article about using neurofeedback to heal some of my own trauma:
FIND OLGA HERE:
https://www.beavertonneurofeedback.com/blog/trauma-treatments
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https://www.facebook.com/BeavertonNeurofeedback/
https://www.instagram.com/beavertonneuro/
My parents used 2 different contraceptives to avoid having a 7th child, I came anyway, lol! I am what is called a divine birth. From the final push from my mother's womb into this world, I never felt like I belonged. I am the black sheep in my family and the outcast in the world, I never fit in despite attempting to give up my identity to try to. I became aware that I was "different" when I was 5 years old because I began to tap into having the access to other's people's feelings and thoughts that surrounded emotional pain and trauma.
I was a very wise soul and knew that I should not share these abilities for fear of not being believed and also possibly being sent somewhere far from my family. I learned how to disconnect from not only my feelings but those around me. At the age of 7, my father abandoned me and my 6 sisters and never looked back. We suffered severely emotionally and financially and because of this, I developed a father wound that followed me into my relationships with men, myself, and money. My life later would magnetize events, soul lessons, that had I been consciously aware of their purpose, I would have known they were there to help heal me and clear my soul. However, I did not have that awareness and continued to experience great depths of pain and trauma for nearly 40 years until I hit rock bottom and awakened.
At the age of 47, I was left with, doing what I had helped and guided others to do in my 18-year career in social work, examine their lives, look for patterns and face the pain. My journey towards healing led me to examine family karma and the DNA of emotional pain along with my being a Black Indian woman and my ancestry surrounding having the blood of 2 distinct cultures, Native American and Nigerian and also finally understanding the spiritual gifts that I once ran from. Not only did I arrive at my healing with God's grace and guidance but I discovered that my healing activated fulfilling an ancient soul contract linked to my great-great grandmother Lucinda Starflower 1872-1892 who was a Shaman but had died at the age of 20 years old.
Through my mother Rose the matriarch and storyteller of our family, I leaned in and listened again to the stories that I grew up on but this time with eagerness and attention. It has been 6 years since my healing using the channeled messages from my ancestors that were sent to me, today I proudly step forth to use all my personal and professional experiences along with my education and gifts to guide and empower women towards using all of who they are to bring their light in serving the world in a unique way!
FIND DENEEN HERE:
website: www.deneenjoyner.com
Instagram: Deneen Joyner
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Lisa Coaching - Lisa takes me through a Loving Myself Awake session, we go over tantric sacred loving, movement, sound, breathing, and embracing sensuality. Lisa is an Elite Certified Tantra Educator and Resident Dakini with Source School of Tantra Yoga, Certified Spiritual Sexual Educator, International Best-Selling Author, Reiki Master Teacher, Shaman, Certified HoopDance Instructor, Certified AFAA Fitness Instructor, and founder of Tantra Sacred Loving and Embark Upon A Sacred Journey.
Lisa leads monthly Puja ceremonies in Reno, facilitates workshops, leads International Tantra Adventure Tours, and offers private sessions for men, women, and couples who wish to further explore this modality of spiritual sexuality.
Other credentials: International Best-Selling Author, BS Elementary Education, completed coursework for MA Anthropology, Polarity Therapy, Energy Medicine, Reiki Master, Shaman, HoopDance Instructor, and Certified AFAA group fitness instructor.
FIND HER HERE: http://tantrasacredloving.com/
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