Heal to Lead Volume 1

Coach Keena LeJune is an experienced and highly skilled life coach, innovative strategies coach, and health and wellness coach.

Keena’s passion for partnering and mentoring is at the heart of her coaching philosophy. She believes that everyone has the potential to achieve great things, but sometimes we need a little help to unlock that potential. And that’s where she comes in.

Through her habit-based coaching approach, Keena guides her clients on a journey of self-discovery, helping them to uncover their unique strengths and talents and to develop the discipline and focus needed to achieve their goals. Whether you’re looking to make a significant career change, improve your relationships, or live a more fulfilling and purposeful life, Keena can help.

With a strong background in government, defense, IT, cybersecurity, and training industries, Keena has a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon in helping her clients succeed. As a United States Air Force veteran with over 19 years of Department of Defense experience, she is well-versed in organizational leadership, making her an expert in personal and professional development coaching, risk management, and innovation management.

Mandy is a passionate Clarity Catalyst Coach, Reiki Master/Trainer, and sound bowl practitioner dedicated to transforming lives through mindfulness, gratitude, and holistic healing. Based in Natick, Massachusetts, she graduated from Boston University as the first in her family to attend college.

Mandy is a strategic managing partner at Vesta: A New Vision for Divorce, which provides education and empowerment to individuals navigating divorce. With guidance from her mentor, Jennifer Grace, she modified the eight-week mindfulness course to help divorcing individuals unlock their potential. Mandy also co-authored the best-selling book The Energy Medicine Solution.

As of 2024, Mandy is writing a comprehensive divorce guide titled Divorcing? Here’s What to Do Next! This guide offers practical guidance on managing finances, discerning legal processes, understanding emotions, and hiring the right professionals. Developed with Deanna Coyle and Jennifer Chaney, it draws on over thirty years of combined experience and includes videos sharing personal and professional stories. Additionally, Mandy and Deanna host the podcast Dishing on Divorce, which provides education, inspiration, and humor.

Mandy’s hippie spirit, trust in the goodness of people, and unwavering loyalty to her loved ones drive her mission to bring light and love into the world and inspire positive change.

Anna grew up in the Pacific Northwest and moved to Utah when she was a teenager. She is the second of four children. Anna graduated from Copper Hills High School in 1999 and learned quickly that she loved serving others. She went on to get a nursing degree from Alexandria Tech in 2013 and a Bachelors in Psychology in 2021 from UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI. After graduation Anna accepted a position with WestCAP in Wisconsin, assisting low income families and the homeless in attaining a place to live, food, gaining employment and lending a helping hand and ear to listen. A move to Minnesota would bring Anna and her family new opportunities and she accepted a position at the elementary school as a paraprofessional and school social worker.

Today that love of serving has led to being a young women’s leader at church and a certified life coach. helping those that are enduring struggles that she once endured herself. Her knowledge and experience of life’s struggles give those that she works with a feeling of being understood. Her empathetic approach and gentle way of resolving conflict helps those that she works with by giving them the steps that they need to feel transformed and triumphant in their own lives. 

Anna and Cory were married in 2018 and share six kids together. In their spare time they enjoy high school sports, movies, camping, vacations to Panama City Beach Florida and Seaside, Oregon. As well as time spent with the family. 

Maria is the founder of Iridescent Knowing, a private practice facilitating transformative 1:1 Shamanic Sound Alchemy™ sessions, group sound journey experiences and retreats as well as The Magnetic Voice™ offering group and 1:1 Somatic Voice Guidance. She is passionate about holding a loving space for others to remember their authentic selves, access their inner wisdom and deeply connect to the healing power of their own unique voice. 

Maria is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Musical Theater Program and a seasoned performer. She’s also a certified Dream Guide, Guided Energy Medicine and Stone Medicine Practitioner.

Danette serves as a coach, leader, teacher, speaker, and solopreneur. 

Her personal journey includes surviving a violent crime that fueled her passion to fight for justice for victims and their families for twenty-five years during her law enforcement career. Now as an Empowerment Coach, Danette is passionate about empowering women to overcome adversity in their lives and take preventative measures for their own personal safety. As a certified trainer in the Clarity Catalyst courses, she guides teens and adults through a course based on a Stanford University master’s degree program that unearths creativity and allows participants to obtain clarity by unlocking their full potential and life purpose. 

Danette holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in criminal justice. In addition to her Clarity Catalyst certification, she is certified as a health, life, and financial coach. 

When not coaching and teaching, she loves vacationing in the mountains or at the beach with her husband, spending time with family and friends, volunteering through church opportunities, sipping tea, and going to the spa.

Catterina is a seasoned Human Resources and Talent Management professional. Following a personal health challenge, she became certified as a coach. As a Transition Mindset Coach, she works with individuals to navigate both personal and career transitions.

Her coaching incorporates innovative techniques, including neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), to help clients overcome mental barriers, gain clarity, and create actionable plans to achieve their goals.

Catterina’s international career spans Puerto Rico, South America, Central America, and Asia, offering her a diverse and rich perspective. Originally from Puerto Rico, she is passionate about self-development, reading, culinary exploration, traveling, and community service. She is fluent in English and Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.

Deanna is an entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. She co-found Vesta: A New Vision for Divorce, which provides informative events and trusted professional resources that educate and empower people to navigate life during and after divorce. Having gone through a challenging and draining divorce herself, Deanna understands the isolation and frustration that can permeate the divorce process. As the leader of Vesta’s Divorce Concierge Service, she has had the privilege of guiding thousands through their divorce journeys.

Deanna is a Certified Trainer for Re[Wired] for Peace and has modified the six-week program to help people affected by divorce move forward and live their best lives. She and her friend and business partner, Mandy Barr, host the podcast Dishing on Divorce, which provides education, inspiration, and humor.

With over 20 years of financial experience, including seven years as a securities analyst on Wall Street, Deanna brings a wealth of knowledge to her work. She graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, received her M.B.A. from the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth, and earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. She also successfully co-parents her two college-age sons with her ex-husband. In her free time, Deanna enjoys kayaking, skiing, Pilates, cooking, and traveling.

Irene is a dedicated mother of four and passionate advocate for personal growth and spiritual awakening. With a background as a Registered Nurse and holding degrees in Psychology and Social Work, Irene transitioned from her professional career to focus on raising her children and discovering her true life’s purpose. Her journey began with a profound spiritual awakening that led her to explore energy therapy, intuition, and self-development.

She is a certified Usui Reiki Master, Integrated Energy Therapy Advanced Practitioner, Transformational Trainer, Mindset Coach, and Intuitive. Additionally, she holds certifications in Emotional Intelligence and has extensively studied Nervous System Regulation and Neuro linguistics. These certifications and practices have equipped her with a holistic approach to self-development and transformation.

Most recently, Irene serves as the founder and owner of Soul Surgery Life Coaching. She offers one-on-one sessions and intuitive guidance readings, workshops, and speaking events. Her group in-person and online sessions are also offered for teens and young adults. Irene has been featured on several podcasts, including Drop the Needle, The Wounded Warrior, and Thriving Out of the Box. 

When she’s not busy with her family or coaching, Irene enjoys traveling and connecting with her community. Her mission is to support others in their journey to live authentically and shine brightly, no matter the circumstances.

In her nearly twenty-year marketing career, Heather Everett has been a storyteller whose compelling narratives connected with consumers and motivated them to purchase the products she created. As a mindset and accountability coach, Heather knows how the stories we tell ourselves have a profound impact on our life experience; unnecessary struggles crafted from victim narratives, or incredible transformations inspired from a heroic point of view. 

With a curious, creative, and kind approach, Heather helps her clients Honor, Embrace, Respect, and Own their stories, cultivating self-confidence, and empowering them to write narratives as the inspired leaders of their lives. 

Heather has earned multiple coaching certifications from the Health Coach Institute, including the Master Transformation Coach certification. She is a licensed Clarity Catalyst workshop facilitator, teaching courses designed to enhance the fulfillment of our daily lives. Heather is also trained in wellness practices including mindfulness, meditation, and breathwork.

Utilizing these practices, Heather walks alongside those who struggle with accountability, providing a road map to rewrite their narratives and create the life they have always wanted to lead, transforming them from blameless victims to powerful heroes. 

When not being inspired by her clients’ transformations, Heather enjoys live music, writing essays and poetry, traveling, and exploring the outdoors with her two children.

Sound Healer, Sound Healer Teacher, and Keynote Speaker, Gwen Alyssa Gaydos, began her journey as a healer as a pharmacist over two decades ago. Naturally drawn to holistic practices, she quickly became a Health and Love Coach, Reiki Master, and Meditation Guide.

In 2011, she attended her first soundbath, and found her calling as a Sound Healer. Gwen is passionate about helping her clients connect deeply with their intuition, their subconscious mind, and the wisdom of their bodies so they can release physical and emotional trauma and energetic blocks, reprogram their subconscious, and connect deeply with their heart’s desires to access boundless health, happiness and joy!

Gwen is based on Los Angeles, and currently leads Soundbaths and Sound Healers’ Trainings online and in person worldwide. Gwen has worked with companies such as Google, Universal Music Group, Carolina Herrera, Rare Beauty, The Olive Tree People, Terranea Resort, The Fairmont, The International Association of Women, The Wonderful Company, Santa Monica College, and Crossroads School. Gwen has worked with numerous celebrity clients, and can also be found on two prestigious mindfulness apps: Unplug Meditation and The Mindry Anywhere.

Her vision is to live in a world filled with peace, harmony, and love, where all beings are treated as equals and the Earth is respected and taken care of and revered as the abundant and beautiful planet that it is.

Celebrity Coach Jennifer Grace, was named Miami’s number No. 1 Life Coach by New Times in both 2015 and 2017. She is a keynote speaker, radio show host, and Hay House author whose book, Directing Your Destiny was published in 2013. She is also the co-founder of Raven and Grace Press.

Based on the famed Stanford University Master’s Degree Course “Creativity in Business” the program, CIJ Clarity Catalyst for coaches and wellness entrepreneurs, helps students get crystal clear in who they want to serve and empowers them with practical mindfulness tools and proven emotional intelligence techniques to discover how to market themselves more creatively.Jennifer currently leads workshops and courses in Nashville as well as online. Over the last fifteen years, she has traveled to fifteen different exotic destinations, including Bali, India, and Africa. She and her retreat participants have raised over $50,000 to help communities in need worldwide with her give-back retreats.

Kim is a visionary entrepreneur, transformational coach, NLP Practitioner, and celebrated author passionate about connecting the dots between creativity, resilience, and empowerment. A native New Yorker who has called the West Coast home for over 20 years, Kim’s deep love for design, entrepreneurship, and community has profoundly shaped her professional journey in hospitality. 

As the founder of Purveyors of Leisure, Kim manages a portfolio of exceptional vacation rentals and boutique hotels, including her latest venture, The Fainting Couch in Northern California. Her expertise extends to coaching women through her practice, Insight Seeker Coaching, where she helps clients break patterns, embrace their potential, and lead empowered lives through Clarity Catalyst and Creative Action Journey methodologies. 

An international bestselling author, Kim’s work in Hospitable Hosts Vol.1 and Transforming Pain into Purpose showcases her authentic storytelling and dedication to helping others transform their challenges into growth opportunities. Through powerful anecdotes and actionable advice, she inspires readers to harness their authenticity and step into their roles as empowered leaders. Kim’s work is a testament to resilience, empowerment, and the belief that we are all spiritual beings on a human journey.

Shauna is a passionate advocate for personal transformation and storytelling and has journeyed through various professional realms to eventually find her calling as a mindset trainer and transformational coach.

With a background in journalism and a penchant for storytelling, Shauna understands the intricate threads that weave through our lives, connecting past experiences to present realities. She firmly believes that understanding our personal narratives is key to unlocking our true potential and living authentically.

​Shauna’s transformative shift occurred when she encountered the Clarity Catalyst, a journey that redefined her outlook on life. This pivotal moment redirected her trajectory, guiding her towards a vocation focused on helping others harness their inner strengths and confidently navigate their own paths. She knows that once we tap into that specific self-wisdom, we unlock the doors to the life of fulfilment we’ve been imagining.

​In addition to teaching mindset and emotional intelligence classes, Shauna presents workshops and retreats designed to guide others towards inspiration and empowerment. Her business, Scribbly Wisdom, also produces limited series podcasts which delve into a variety of personal growth topics, including the intricate and often conflicted dynamics between adult daughters and their mothers.

Jill Anenberg Lawrence is a self-proclaimed certification-aholic. This girl walks her talk! 

Board-Certified Health Coach through Integrative Nutrition and The Nutritious Life Studio, a Holistic Nutritionist from AFPA, an ACE certified personal trainer, a Master Life Coach from Transformation Academy and an expert in reducing toxins and chemicals. Jill also holds a degree in Broadcast Journalism. 

Growing up in a health-conscious family; nutrition, exercise, positivity and laughter naturally course through her blood! She’d donate that blood to you if she could! As a former stand-up comic and TV personality, she’s transitioned that love of entertaining to her true passion; educating others on health and wellness while keeping it fun and authentic! 

As a health & life coach, Jill works one on one with clients, writes humorous wellness blogs, leads seminars at corporate offices and hosts day retreats. 

She’s the biggest animal lover and doesn’t trust people who won’t take kisses from a dog. Those are the magic pill after all. Jill volunteers at the animal shelter, and donates a portion of her wellness business to animal charities. When you make your well-being a priority and cut the crap out of your mind, body and environment, huge positive changes are sustainable.

Aaron is a dedicated leader and coach with extensive experience in guiding individuals through transformative mental and emotional growth. He believes that by working on one’s inner world, significant positive changes manifest in the outer world. Aaron’s expertise lies in uncovering the root causes of self-sabotaging behaviors, empowering his clients to experience life-altering breakthroughs and epiphanies that dramatically shift the course of their lives. Specializing in NLP, hypnotherapy, advanced parts work, and therapeutic coaching, Aaron is also the creator and host of the highly impactful 12-week course, Inner Alchemy.

Megan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with nearly 20 years of experience in accounting, from scrappy startups to Fortune 50 companies. She once won a prestigious award for her ingenuity in managing the accounting process for  a $15 billion lease portfolio.

In 2023, Megan founded Abundantia Advisory to provide shame-free financial consulting and CPA services to female-founded businesses. She offers solutions for virtually any budget through innovative online offerings.

Megan’s mission is to help female founders and minority-led businesses build wealth, make a difference, and create lasting legacies. With a mix of sass, heart, and data-driven strategies, she helps clients decode finance, harness their numbers, and achieve their most ambitious dreams.

Megan leads workshops and courses online, making her expertise widely accessible. She is dedicated to flipping the script on toxic money stories and helping women take back their financial power.

Toni Napolitano is an author and resilience mindset coach, drawing upon over fifteen years of leadership in the luxury retail industry with top global brands. Her journey has been defined by a passion for integrating mindfulness and meditation into the corporate landscape, advocating for a balanced, purpose-driven approach to professional life.

Certified in Culture Catalyst and Clarity Catalyst methodologies, Toni incorporates mindfulness and emotional intelligence tools based on a Stanford University’s transformative Creativity in Business course. As a mentor and coach, Toni specializes in empowering women, particularly those navigating burnout, to reconnect with their intuitive wisdom, creativity, and life purpose. Clients working with her experience profound transformation, discovering renewed clarity and resilience in their personal and professional lives.

Toni holds a Master of Business Administration in International Business and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. Alongside her corporate expertise, she is a second-generation intuitive reader, certified yoga teacher, and Reiki practitioner. Her diverse skill set enables her to lead impactful international retreats, online workshops, and corporate wellness programs.

Laura Lee Paha is a mother wound expert and healer specializing in healing generational trauma. She is passionate about empowering women to break free from the cycles of family trauma. Her mission is to help women create  joy, peace, and amazing relationships in their lives while ending the patterns of intergenerational wounds–without guilt, conflict, or blame.

Her own journey as a healer began with personal experiences that shaped her life. She carried deep wounds of fear and rejection from being given up for adoption as a baby. As these wounds manifested in areas of her life, affecting her relationships, career path, and sense of identity, she embarked on her own healing journey, and it became clear that sharing this healing work was her life’s purpose. 

Laura Lee is a certified as a Family Constellations Facilitator, a DNA ThetaHealing® practitioner, a Reiki practitioner, and Human Design coach. 

Beyond her passion for helping women heal, she enjoys spending time with her wife, Stephanie, and all of their fur babies in their Nashville home. The couple enjoys traveling, hiking, spending time outdoors, rescuing cats and Friday night date nights, where they love to explore Nashville’s vibrant restaurant scene.

Jacquelynn is a well-established lifestyle journalist and content creator. Powers started her career at Ocean Drive magazine, where she covered nightlife, dining, celebrity, and travel. She was also the Senior Writer of Vegas magazine, Senior Editor of Blender and Maxim Fashion magazines, and Executive Editor of Plum Miami. She currently contributes to the New York Post as a freelance writer.

Powers’ writing has appeared in the Miami Herald, Business Traveler, Medium, Paper, Arena, Elle, Everyday With Rachael Ray, Miami New Times, Urban Daddy and New York Observer. Jacquelynn has appeared on TV shows including E!, The Today Show, Access Hollywood and MTV’s Siesta Key. 

Over her career, Jacquelynn has interviewed celebrities such as Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Gloria Estefan, Michael Caine, Oliver Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez, Mike Tyson, Ashton Kutcher, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Guy Fieri, Dwyane Wade, Alonzo Mourning, and Shaquille O’Neal.

Powers is also an expert on digital content, social media, marketing, brand strategy, and photo shoot production. She works with luxury lifestyle brands to elevate their storytelling and marketing. 

Jill Rapperport Reiss, known as The Urban Shaman, holds sacred space to transform lives through shamanic energy medicine, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), and yogic practices. With 30 years of experience, she integrates holistic healing, Menstruality mentorship, and the wisdom of the medicine people of the Americas. 

A former magazine publishing executive, Jill’s journey into spiritual coaching began after a pivotal encounter with mantras and meditation. She founded The Shamanic Wisdom Academy, Yoki Yoga, Soaring Eagle Yoga, and The Rapperport Method, blending Andean Shamanic Traditions, modern neuroscience, trauma resolution, and mindfulness. 

Jill leads retreats, mentors groups, and facilitates Sound Healing Meditations with Crystal Sound Bowls. Her mission is to awaken individuals to their purpose, anchoring the wisdom of the Divine Feminine.

Marie Smith, holistic wellness coach and teacher of the CIJ Clarity Catalyst class from Stanford University, holds a Master’s in Education from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. With a wealth of knowledge and expertise, Marie integrates her educational background and over a decade of personal training and fitness experience into her coaching practice. She offers 1:1, group, corporate wellness, and retreat opportunities. Marie specializes in helping ambitious women live intentionally with the energy needed for career success and a fulfilling life. Marie’s holistic approach and diverse experiences make her a beacon of inspiration for those seeking a path to fulfillment and vitality.

As a devoted wife and mother of five children, Marie’s coaching approach is enriched by a diverse array of personal experiences. Beyond her professional pursuits, Marie is an avid hiker who has conquered the Grand Canyon rim to rim multiple times. When she’s not coaching clients, you might find Marie on the trails with her dog, Song, riding her bike, cooking up a loaf of sourdough, doing word puzzles, or listening to a book or one of her favorite podcasts. Hosting family and friends for backyard parties is also a favorite pastime.

Thea Sommer is a world-class master coach with thirty years of experience as an Olympic-level trainer in the arena of human transformation. She is the creator of Beyond Ten, a proprietary methodology designed to empower individuals, couples, and organizations, including the not-for-profit sector, to create results beyond what they have been able to achieve on their own.

For the past three decades, Thea has guided hundreds of people and organizations around the world in creating extraordinary breakthroughs in their work and lives. Her love of people and commitment to making a difference are a source of energy and value to her clients, who come to her with a myriad of personal and professional goals they’d like to accomplish.

Thea’s own life story is proof that challenging circumstances can be steppingstones to extraordinary fulfillment if they are harnessed in the correct manner. Thea has dedicated her life to helping people from all backgrounds succeed and transform their lives and live powerfully, as she has, in the face of difficult life and work challenges.

She is the mother of two beautiful boys, Benjamin and Jeremy.

Masha Venta was born in Slovenia, where she initially enjoyed a beautiful life. However, the challenges of divorce and constant moving gradually disconnected her from her vitality, leading to a decade-long battle with depression. Through dedicated healing, shadow work, and the courage to face her fears, Masha was able to transform her pain into a powerful source of creativity. Today, she is deeply passionate about helping others connect with their inner power. Masha offers one-on-one coaching, facilitates group programs, and hosts retreats around the world. Her mission is to guide individuals to their divinity and help them unlock their full potential through her coaching, transformative experiences, writing, and YouTube channel.

Dr. Katherine Zhang, PhD, is the founder of Zenyth For Leaders LLC, where she serves as an executive coach specializing in strategic leadership and resilience. Dr. Zhang is devoted to empowering leaders and professionals to overcome challenges and achieve holistic peak performance with elevated well-being and success.

Katherine earned both her medical degree and PhD in biomedical science from Peking University, one of China’s top universities. Her distinguished career as a cancer researcher and academician includes numerous publications in renowned scientific journals, notably a first-author publication in the prestigious “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA” (PNAS USA).

Katherine’s career in cancer research has provided her with a unique blend of strategic insight, team leadership, and performance optimization skills. Her ability to foster innovation and drive results is a testament to her successful tenure in this field.

As a first-generation immigrant, mother of three, burnout survivor, and scientist turned entrepreneur, Katherine’s journey underscores her deep understanding of resilience and transformation. These experiences have significantly molded her coaching philosophy, which emphasizes the power of embracing challenges and finding beauty in adversity.

Katherine’s diverse background and unwavering commitment make her an exceptional guide for those striving for ultimate performance and profound growth.