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I am a US Army veteran, ACE Certified Health Coach, and I hold a BS in Exercise Science and MS in Health Promotion and currently live in Los Angeles, CA.
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Blake D. Bauer has helped thousands of people around the world who could not find lasting solutions from conventional medicine, psychiatry, or religion. His pioneering work centers on learning how to love yourself practically and unconditionally as the key to healing yourself, fulfilling your life's purpose, unlocking your capacity to love others, and realizing your full potential personally and professionally.
Based on both his personal experience overcoming deep suffering, addiction, and adversity, as well as his professional success with thousands of people worldwide, he shares what he's found to be the most effective approaches to mental, emotional, and physical health.
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Blake's formal education includes traditional Chinese medicine, five-element Chinese medicine, nutritional medicine, herbal healing, psychology, past life regression therapy-hypnosis, and various other forms of alternative medicine. After years of training with spiritual teachers, healers, and masters from all over the world, Blake also teaches various forms of mindfulness, meditation, qi gong, qi gong energy medicine, and dao yin (a health and longevity yoga). Today he is considered by many to be a modern meditation and qi gong master.
In this life-changing book, You Were Not Born to Suffer, Blake D. Bauer explains why depression, addiction, physical illness, unfulfilling work, and relationship problems are caused by years of hiding your true emotions, denying your life purpose, and living in fear.
Having already helped thousands of people around the world find lasting solutions that conventional medicine, psychiatry or religion couldn't offer, this book will show you how to free yourself from the destructive thoughts, habits and situations that are stopping you from being happy and well.
In simple practical steps you'll learn how to slow down and create a healthier relationship to yourself that is based on acceptance, kindness, honesty and self-worth. You'll also find out how to transform the stress, anxiety and insecurity that result from constantly trying to please others into lasting confidence, self-respect and inner peace.
Whether it's negative thinking, financial worry, loneliness, guilt or self-doubt that's holding you back, Blake Bauer's words will move you to take better care of yourself, heal old pain, and courageously move forward. If you're ready to enjoy your life, feel passionate about your work, and create fulfilling relationships, this book will support you to live authentically, love wholeheartedly and finally value yourself enough to say your daily health and happiness are important.
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Adri Kyser is a wellness expert, personal development coach, author, and motivational speaker. She is the founder and creator of Enlightened Alchemy™ and Inner Beauty Wellness designed to help men and women like you achieve personal growth, better health, and unstoppable confidence.
Using her Enlightened Alchemy™ method, she has helped thousands worldwide get out of their own way and achieve everything from reduced pain and stress to increased confidence and productivity. Rather than drawing from only one modality, her extensive list of certifications (including NLP, coaching, Yoga, and Ayurveda) allow her to create a customized wellness experience for clients.
Adri was born and raised in Caracas Venezuela, where she went to law school for a few years before moving to the US. Adri's caring, unique and authentic approach to holistic wellness stems from her personal experience in coping with being bullied as a child, feeling not good enough, and encountering racist remarks. All leading to chronic back pain for over a decade.
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Adri is an NLP practitioner and an International Yoga Teacher & Mentor. She's received numerous certifications in diverse holistic modalities and has trained hundreds of yoga teachers worldwide during her trainings, workshops, and special events.
As a brand ambassador, she has worked with companies like Athleta and Larabar. When she's not busy hosting retreats around the globe in exotic locations like Bali, Greece, and Peru, she's being featured on great podcasts such as this one!
Adri is the co-author of the best seller book Overcoming Adversity in Entrepreneurship. In addition, She loves and supports charities like Yoga Gives Back and the Healing Hands Foundation, two non-profit organizations making a positive difference in the world.
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Life transitions can be difficult, stressful, and even overwhelming. In my experience, none were more trying than my transition from civilian to soldier back to civilian again. And I am not the only one. Military transition continues to be one of the biggest hardships service members go through - and many have been in combat!
There is good news though, there are in fact people and services we can utilize to help guide us through these transitions, people who have done it themselves and have your best interest at heart. As a former Staff Sergeant in the United Sates Army, active duty 2003-2009, I hear my fellow soldiers struggling the same way now, years later, that I did over ten years ago. This must stop. We have the responsibility to connect with them and keep moving forward in life and on to the next mission.
True leadership does not start or stop when military service does, true leadership is a lifestyle.
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Special Operations Medic Coalition (SOM+C) has been organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Service Code, or corresponding section of any future tax code, serving as a resource for Special Operations Medics through the following activities:
Mission
To Unapologetically Support Advancing the Military Special Operations Medic from battlefield provider to veteran professional
SOM+C accomplishes this mission by focusing on three C's; Community, Capabilities, and Career.
Core Values
The Sharing of knowledge and experiences in support of our community, to refine the capabilities of SOF medicine, and advance the career of the military special operations medic.
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Community
Develop the SOF medic community through increased connections with other tactical, austere, and emergency medical communities in an effort to further research and professional opportunities for the SOF medic during and after military service.
Promote community understanding of the SOF Medic and specific challenges they are faced with.
Capabilities
Strengthen Special Operations Medics as a whole by providing a support system and place to engage fellow USSOF and International SOF Medics in an effort to enhance learning, educational, and personal and professional advancement opportunities.
Enhance SOF Medic abilities by providing access to our exclusive content, high quality education, and resources through our vast medical professional network which spans across multiple military branches, civilian, and international communities.
Career
Equip SOF Medics with valuable support, such as education grants, medical journal publication guidance, and informed professional opportunities.
Support the warrior transition from battlefield provider to the civilian Veteran professional.
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Strong at the broken places, this is how I would describe my life's journey of personal development and growing as a human being. Through many trials, severe physical physical and emotional traumas I have been challenged in ways I never planned for... but that's it, right? We never ask for these challenges, we never know these tests are coming. Looking for the gift inside of every obstacle is not easy work but it is the most necessary work.
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Brad Borkan is co-author of When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic. The book focuses on the real life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers like Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen and Mawson. When Your Life Depends on It reveals amazing lessons in leadership, team work, and sheer grit and determination that can help all of us make better decisions in our lives today. This can be especially useful when confronting adversity, building effective teams, and trying to succeed against the odds -- all important skills in today's world. He has presented at Antarctic conferences in Norway, Ireland and the UK and appeared on cable TV in the US, and on internet radio talk programs. He also has given keynote presentations at business conferences and recently conducted a webinar to 500 top employees of a Fortune 100 company using the ideas in the book. His talks focus on leadership, teamwork, resilience, and improving one's personal and business decision making, all set in the exciting context of Polar exploration.
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When they met in college, they had a lot on their plates. Kent trained with the Japanese Olympic Judo team, painted as a muralist for the city of Los Angeles, and competed internationally in Muay Thai. Meanwhile, Ryan trained with the U.S. Paralympic team while holding a 2nd degree black belt in Kendo.
With degrees in neuroscience and chemistry and economics, they challenged both their minds as well as their bodies. They set out to live life to the fullest. But in the search for a product that would keep them going, they realized that there wasn't anything that would help them accomplish more in a healthy and effective way.
They didn't want to take mysterious supplements or energy drinks when studying, training, or going out. Instead of something sugary and ineffective, they wanted clean, balanced energy... something that could be taken anywhere, anytime. So they launched a campaign for better energy... and they realized it wasn't just them. In only three days, their first batch was fully crowdfunded and people raved about it - they were even recently endorsed by Joe Rogan and appeared on Shark Tank!
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Sit back and buckle up because this episode is going to blow your mind! Matt Maruca, founder of The Light Diet and Ra Optics, spent years of his early childhood and adulthood chasing wellness only to be stuck spinning his wheels. So he set out to learn how to improve his health at the cellular level in hopes to rebuild his life from the inside out.
Matt learned that all modern chronic diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's, obesity, diabetes, autism, autoimmune diseases, and even depression are mitochondrial diseases, meaning that certain tissues' mitochondria are severely damaged in those diseases, and that his issues were mitochondrial, too.
He learned that mitochondria are "electromagnetic" in nature, meaning that how they process our food and make energy is controlled by light. This explained why diet alone was not enough to actually cure his symptoms. It further clarified to me how so many people struggle with diet and exercise as their only strategies for health, and why focusing on diet, exercise, and supplements alone to improve health is like focusing only on the gas when trying to fix a car with a broken engine. He earned that more energetic light frequencies, especially blue light, exert the strongest effect on our body clock, and the less energetic frequencies such as red light have a comparatively minimal effect. He learned that getting UV light from the sun through our eye is critical to creating melatonin, before it can even be secreted in the hours after the sun sets. So, he began going outside in sunlight during the day to make melatonin, and wearing blue light blocking safety goggles at night to allow his melatonin to be secreted and his not looked back since!Follow Matt @thelightdiet
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Janelle Christa is a celebrity spiritual awakening coach, actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is also a founder of conscious production company Le Murian Dreams. Her personal story is full of low points: she suffered from an addiction, being a regular guest in drug rehab. She has been diagnosed as a bipolar and learned to live with the diagnosis.
Despite all the hardship, not only has she found the center to live a life of her dream, be a loving wife and mother of two and support various clients from film industry celebrities to people from all walks of life in their spiritual awakening and search for meaning.
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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five U.S. adults will experience mental illness in their lifetime, and most end up paying more for treatment than they would for physical health conditions. While this is an alarming truth, family Doctor William Sears and neurologist Vincent F. Fortanasce - have positive news: it's possible to treat and even prevent the onset of mental illness with the right medication or even WITHOUT medication at all, ultimately leading to a better quality of life.
In their groundbreaking new book, The Healthy Brain Book, Sears and Fortanasce team up to bring readers an all-ages guide to having a calmer, happier, sharper brain, whether experiencing "normal" mental and emotional burnout or wrestling with diagnosed illness. The good doctors explain that while the brain is a complex organ, the diverse set of mental and emotional challenges we have stem from one cause: imbalance in the brain. Their work will help those struggling to thrive and get their brain back in balance by teaching readers the following:
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David Krantz takes a uniquely interdisciplinary angle to wellness, flow, and bio-individuality and provides some new perspectives and value to living a life ever forward! Specifically, David explains how using genetics to biohack nutrition, cannabis, and other psychoactives can unlock your highest human potential in your fitness, nutrition, and mindset.
David is a coach specializing in using genetics and epigenetics to dial in personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies for creative professionals; however, his background originally was in music and electronic music production. After experiencing some unusual health challenges in his mid-20s while touring as an artist he was forced to find answers on his own. Now he is focused on helping high performers to improve their overall resilience, focus, and mental functioning to help them avoid the problems he went through and move towards the opposite of burnout.
"The field of nutrigenetics is still in its early days, and a great deal more is to be learned, but experts agree: Though evidence will continue to evolve over the next decade, we have enough good evidence to make it useful now."
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