Heal To Lead Volume 3
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Meet the Authors
Nancy G. Allen
Nancy G. Allen is an international speaker, coach, consultant, and expert on women’s business issues. Nancy has more than 30 years of experience helping small business owners at all stages of growth. As president and CEO of the Women’s Business Development Council of Florida, she leads a team of staff members, sponsors, partners, and women business leaders who are dedicated to certifying, connecting, and championing women in business.
Nancy’s personal motto is “Connections, creativity and courage in all endeavors.” She holds a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and has been certified as an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner. Born in Haiti and raised in South Florida, Nancy is bilingual in English and French and fluent in Spanish and Creole. She has been recognized for her work on behalf of women through numerous awards worldwide.
Fabi Cordaro
With a passion for guiding women on transformative journeys of self-discovery and empowerment, Fabi Cordaro serves those seeking to align with their truest selves. As a spiritual guide, intuitive energy healer, and business strategist, she merges spirituality and practicality to support her clients in unlocking their full potential. Her multifaceted background in energy healing and entrepreneurship uniquely positions her to offer strategic guidance on building a soul-led business.
Specializing in serving women navigating life transitions and spiritual awakenings, Fabi provides a nurturing space for clients to reconnect with their inner wisdom, trust their intuition, and heal past traumas. Her approach empowers high-performing individuals to transition from living in their wounded masculine to embracing their divine feminine essence, fostering a deeper connection to self and purpose. As a mother and wife, Fabi understands the complexities of balancing personal fulfillment with societal expectations.
Through spirit guides and higher self connections, she guides clients on self-discovery journeys via one-on-one coaching, group workshops, and transformative retreats. Her mission is to empower women to trust their innate wisdom, embrace their authentic selves, and create lives of abundance, purpose, and fulfillment.
Andrea Cramer
Andrea Cramer has spent over 25 years committed to the support and encouragement of women. Her education reflects her belief that women must learn the magnificence of themselves and nurture a healthy mind, body, and spirit.
In 1999, she attained her personal training certification with a focus on the female body. Since then, she has given birth to three daughters, was awarded the honor of summa cum laude in her bachelor’s program for psychology, earned her massage therapy license through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork board, and received her mastery-level certification in life and health coaching through Health Coach Institute.
Her passion is the overall health and happiness of women. Her company, Your Regard, LLC focuses on supporting women in getting to know their true self and unlocking the power inside to grow to their full potential and live a life of confidence. She utilizes her extensive experience in tissue manipulation to release deep-rooted stress related to trauma, and her expertise in perception resetting teaches women how to transform life events that may inhibit growth into an existence of fulfillment, peace, and joy.
Alicia Gitlitz
Alicia Gitlitz is a board-certified Holistic Health Practitioner with credentials from renowned institutions, including Dr. T. Colin Campbell at eCornell, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and Nutritious Life trained under celebrity dietitian Keri Glassman. Through these certifications, Alicia has studied with top health and wellness experts, mastering over 100 dietary theories.
Alicia’s holistic approach emphasizes the mind-body-spirit connection as she empowers her clients with holistic solutions that promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. She excels in developing personalized nutrition, health, and fitness plans for private clients, guiding them to achieve their unique wellness goals. Alicia specializes in sugar detoxification and weight management, cultivating healthy habits, and addressing emotional eating.
Alicia reaches a larger audience through writing for a variety of media outlets in the health and wellness sector.
Alicia’s dynamic and inspiring personality make her a natural at leading workshops. Topics covered in workshops include beating sugar cravings, plant-based eating, meal prep strategies, and behavioral changes.
Aimee Goodwin
Aimee Goodwin is a published freelance writer who fell in love with the power of words on a page as a young teenager. With her personal experience of often being transported or moved by a story, she soon developed the dream of becoming a powerful storyteller herself. This combined with her work as a life coach focused on emotional resilience, has inspired her to use her personal and vulnerable writing style to share real-life stories of triumph, with the desire to spread hope and courage to others on a similar path.
Aimee has taken her personal life experiences of chronic sickness, life challenges, and loss and made them the stepping stones for building a wellness center and coaching practice that focuses on treating chronic lyme disease and supporting mental wellness. Her education through the Health Coaching Institute and the Stanford University Clarity Catalyst program has empowered her passion for being a life guide, teacher, and emotional resilience trainer.
When Aimee isn’t coaching, writing, or building her business, you will find her spending time with the true loves of her life, her husband, four sons, and granddaughter. She also enjoys spending down time at the lake or at her hobby farm sitting on the back porch enjoying the solitude of nature and sipping a hot cup of tea.
Connect with Aimee on her website to discover publications, classes, and public speaking events. Follow her social media pages for a glimpse of her coaching skills and information about retreats and classes.
The philosophy Aimee tries to live by is: If we all strive to leave our part of the world a little bit better than we found it, that is how we rise.
Jennifer Grace
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.
Tracey Hagen
A native of South Beach, Tracey Hagen’s family has been full-time Miami Beach residents for more than ninety years. She is an international award-winning photographer with The Portraits Masters Awards, and she self-published Women, a magazine about celebrating the strength, beauty, and wisdom of women over the age of forty by sharing their stories from life experiences.
Hagen’s favorite endeavor is empowering women by photographing them. For each subject, she works to create comfort and warmth to draw out rare and intimate moments at her studio with laughter and sometimes tears. She gives careful thought to the details of wardrobe, props, and style of portraits to depict the true essence of her subjects to empower them with the beauty she sees through her lens.
Being over forty doesn’t have to mean it’s the end of your story, “Whatever that looks like for you.” Tracey’s mission is to help you embrace your age and everything that comes with it, to create confidence in your own self.
Tracey is an animal activist with three rescue dogs and two rescue cats. She is involved in philanthropy, participating in charitable art events and frequently donating her artwork to support select causes.
Dena Riggs Hein
Dena Riggs Hein is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, certified yoga teacher, meditation mentor, and health coach with a private practice in Carmel, Indiana.
Dena started her professional career as a social worker but quickly transitioned into academics where she spent over a decade at Valparaiso University as a lecturer in the Freshman Core Seminar. At the age of 50, motivated by changing life circumstances and a lifelong love of learning, Dena returned to school and earned a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.
Dena combines her teaching experience, both from the college classroom and from over a decade as a yoga instructor and meditation mentor, with her life experience to help her therapy clients find their own path to feeling more confident and resilient. Dena specializes in high conflict couples, infidelity repair, and divorce recovery.
Her latest project, @Your_Therapy_RX on Instagram, provides individual wellness plans and one-on-one mentoring for people suffering from heartbreak, loss, and hard times.
Dena loves taking early morning walks with her rescue dog, Kora, and traveling to Los Angeles where her two adult children live and work.
Remini J. Hendrickson
Remini J. Hendrickson is a health and life coach based out of northern Virginia, where she resides with her husband and five children. Her passion for supporting others has always been at the forefront of her life. It wasn’t until she faced a personal health scare that catapulted her into pursuing a career supporting others in overall wellness.
Remini has coached clients all over the country, offering both one-on-one and group coaching sessions. Her passion for learning about her client’s specific needs intensifies her research and direct partnerships with nutritionists, fitness trainers, therapists, and physicians.Remini is also the founder of a women’s group community Wives Uplifted, Women Gifted, Wise Unscripted, where she unites women from different stages of life to encourage, uplift, and equip one another. She also hosts one-half of the podcast Dear Mom and Dad with her daughter, uncovering how traumas play a role in your physical and mental health and what to do about it.
Laura Brett Hoffman
Laura Brett Hoffman is a coach, educator, and author dedicated to helping women redefine their relationship with food. She is the bestselling author of Savor: Quit Dieting, Relax About Food, and Eat Healthy Happily, which brings together her extensive knowledge of food and human behavior into a practical fun guide for living well.
Laura holds master’s degrees in both Psychology and Food Studies and is certified in nutrition, health coaching, yoga, and culinary arts. She taught as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Nutrition and Food Studies program and was a nutrition and cooking teacher in the New York City public school system.
By blending these disciplines, she empowers her clients to uncover and address the social, cultural, and psychological factors sabotaging their diets and their joy. Her programs teach how to release old beliefs, break bad habits, eliminate guilt, and eat healthily while ending restrictive dieting for good.
Based in New York City, she coaches clients, leads workshops, and speaks on shifting how you nurture yourself can transform every aspect of your life. Her motto is eat healthy happily and enjoy every bite!
Verena Kansog
Verena Kansog is a certified health and life coach with a bachelor’s of science in Health and Wellness from Purdue University and training from the Health Coach Institute (HCI). Specializing in aiding individuals affected by bullying, Verena’s empathetic approach helps them rebuild self-worth and confidence. Her coaching has transformed many lives, enabling clients to overcome past traumas and embrace a positive future.
Verena is also a passionate hemp advocate and educator, promoting its health benefits through education, workshops, and writing. She works to dispel myths and encourage the acceptance of hemp as a natural remedy.
In addition to coaching and advocacy, Verena is an experienced paramedic and adjunct professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), specializing in electrocardiogram (EKG) and Phlebotomy. Drawing from 35 years of emergency medical service experience, she empowers students with practical knowledge and skills.
Currently, Verena serves as the Advanced Life Support Coordinator for Lower Manhattan with the New York Fire Department. Her previous roles include positions at New York Downtown Hospital and NY Presbyterian Hospital. As a veteran who served 10 years as a Sergeant with the U.S. Army, Verena’s diverse experiences and unwavering dedication to service continue to inspire those around her.
Connie King
Connie King is a wife, mother of two beautiful strong young women, and a dedicated Registered Nurse with 30 years of experience in complex areas of nursing including education. Connie believes that true health extends beyond the physical body and addressing mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being is crucial to uncover the root causes of health issues. She combines her medical expertise and her passion for holistic health to empower individuals on their journey to wellness.
As an experienced nursing educator, Connie uses her expertise in adult education to assist clients to elevate their health through the development of emotional intelligence, personal intuition, and transformative habit change. She fosters a supportive environment for personal growth, whether in group settings or individual sessions, to help clients shift their perspectives on health and life.
In recent years, Connie has faced some challenges that have led to becoming a health and life coach. As a lifelong learner with a commitment to personal growth, her journey has been transformative as she shares it with others.
Lakesha Kuye
Coach Lakesha Kuye is a certified health and life coach who launched her business in 2018, driven by the fear of not fulfilling her purpose. After losing four women close to her, only one of whom lived a truly happy life, Lakesha realized the importance of self-care and started her journey. What began as a blog quickly grew into a thriving coaching practice.
Since 2015, Lakesha has been empowering women to embrace self-care and authenticity. She teaches that if you don’t pour into yourself, you can’t pour into others. Her coaching not only transforms the lives of her clients but has also been a healing process for her own growth.
Lakesha’s passion for helping others has led her to address critical topics like overcoming overwhelm and imposter syndrome, making her coaching invaluable both personally and professionally. Her unique blend of empathy, life experience, and proven strategies makes her the ideal coach for women ready to live authentically, prioritize their well-being, and find fulfillment.
If you’re ready to take control of your life and thrive, Coach Lakesha Kuye is here to guide you every step of the way.
Tina Lopez
Tina Lopez is a sociologist with over two decades of experience in health and wellness. Passionate about understanding societal structures and their impact on well-being, she has blended her academic expertise with practical application, making significant strides in improving individual and community health.
Tina is also a certified CIJ Clarity and Culture Catalyst coach, where she guides individuals and organizations towards clarity, purpose, and cultural transformation. Her blend of sociological insights and coaching prowess enables her to foster profound personal and professional growth through strategic frameworks that address both individual behaviors and systemic influences. By helping her clients understand how societal structures affect their health, mindset, and opportunities, Tina facilitates the creation of sustainable changes in daily habits, relationships boundaries, and workplace balance.
In addition, Tina is a certified health and life coach, further solidifying her commitment to holistic wellness. Through her coaching practice at Healthy Life Phases, she empowers clients to navigate life’s challenges, optimize their health, and cultivate a balanced and fulfilling lifestyle.
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy is a wife, mother of four wonderful children, animal lover, educator, yoga and exercise instructor in sunny Ventura, California.
She has suffered depression, overcoming addictions, injuries and fatigue. Today she believes that taking care of our physical well-being is key to healing both body and mind. Otherwise, it takes a backseat to our negative conditions. To overcome these issues, she became a student of yoga and energy healing. Melissa encourages others to start where they are in their fitness journey, suggesting quick energy medicine activities blended with easy stretching before clients even get out of bed.
Melissa also developed a quick 5-minute morning system combining energy healing and yoga, no matter what one’s ability level. She does this daily and encourages her clients to do this practice as well, so the body and mind can begin to heal itself.
Gaylea McDougal, CPM-TN
Gaylea is a Certified Professional Midwife, licensed in Tennessee and Kentucky. She has attended over 1,000 births, including home-births, water births, VBACs, breech, and twins. For almost two decades, she has provided birth services to a diverse patient population in various Middle Tennessee hospitals, birth centers, and private homes.
After a focus in psychology and human development at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Gaylea studied nursing on a master’s level at Vanderbilt University, while enrolled in the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program. In 2007, she began working as a labor doula and birth assistant, the same year she created Alpha Childbirth, which evolved into the very popular Roots Childbirth curriculum.
In 2016, Gaylea opened Roots Collaborative Care, a brick-and-mortar practice, offering trauma-informed, integrative healthcare, where she practices midwifery and women’s health across the lifespan, alongside her amazing interdisciplinary team. She also continues to teach childbirth classes, is a NARM preceptor, and sits on the Tennessee Midwifery Association board as the Central Tennessee representative. Gaylea also hosts the podcast Preg Your Pardon.
She has been married to her high school love, Scott, for 30 years, and they have three sons: Austin, Bailey, and Casey. Their eldest, Austin, passed away in January 2021, deepening their commitment to holistic community healing. Gaylea enjoys running, hiking, kayaking, gardening, and meditation. She is also President of The Art Rest Move (ARM) Foundation, a nonprofit (501c3) supporting those who are in relationship with grief. Gaylea is available for writing collaborations and speaking engagements.
Nicole Montoya
Nicole is a dynamic and inspiring individual whose journey is as captivating as the stories she shares. Growing up in the picturesque surroundings of Lake Tahoe, Nicole developed a deep appreciation for beauty and creativity, which led her to a successful career as a hairdresser. Over the years, she has owned and operated several thriving salons, becoming a respected figure in the beauty industry.
At age 50, Nicole experienced a profound awakening that transformed her life. Having survived the harrowing experience of narcissistic abuse, she emerged stronger and more resilient, turning her pain into purpose. Now, as a health and life coach, she empowers other women to heal and thrive, drawing on her expertise in narcissistic behavior to guide those who have endured similar struggles.
Nicole’s book, Letters to a Narcissist, How I Woke the F*ck Up, is a raw and poignant collection of letters she wrote throughout her healing journey. These letters capture the emotional turmoil, confusion, and eventual clarity she experienced as she navigated the complexities of narcissistic abuse. Each letter is accompanied by an explanation, providing readers with insight into her state of mind at the time and the progress she made in her recovery.
The book serves not only as a personal memoir but also as a guide for others who may be going through similar experiences. Nicole’s candid and heartfelt writing offers validation and encouragement to those struggling with the aftermath of narcissistic relationships. Through her story, she sheds light on the often misunderstood dynamics of narcissistic abuse and provides a roadmap for healing and empowerment.
Esmé Nemec
Esmé Nemec is a career military veteran, artist, musician, author, and blogger. As a modern-day vagabond and abuse “overcomer,” she comes with life experience worthy of a PhD in the Art of Human Potential. She views each life as a crazy, sometimes inexplicable canvas,constantly evolving and growing,where we are artisans of our own masterpieces.
Through humor and storytelling, she lays out her own abundance of failures and missteps for public examination. In championing others to explore and embrace their own missteps, Esmé helps in gaining a better understanding of the power of self-forgiveness and how to seize those moments of triumph.
As a speaker and personal growth and clarity catalyst coach, Esmé’s focus is on resiliency and keeping it real in the landmine of early-stages coupledom.
Kerstin Pelletier
Kerstin Pelletier is a certified life and health coach, specializing as a Transformational Self-Love Coach. A teacher of the CIJ Clarity Catalyst program, Level One practitioner of Transformational Self-Love Therapy (TSLT), certified teacher of Presence through Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening, and a Reiki practitioner, she has fully healed from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS, and other ailments through mindfulness, self-love, and holistic healing.
With a deep understanding of self-love and presence, Kerstin helps others reconnect with their true selves, cultivating heart-centered connections. Her own healing journey empowers her to guide individuals in embracing mindfulness, nurturing self-love, and fostering spiritual growth through group classes, individual coaching, holistic healing, and TSLT sessions.
Inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s teachings, Kerstin integrates emotional intelligence and mindfulness into her work, guiding clients back to their essence and intuition. A nomad at heart, she travels across Canada with her little travel trailer and winters in Mexico, sharing her passion for transformation, personal development, and spiritual growth. Kerstin is currently writing her first book, Soul-o Journey, exploring the insights gained through self-love and the path to inner peace. Through her business, Metamorphic Wellness, she is dedicated to bringing healing, love, and consciousness into the world, guiding others to live authentically, joyfully, and with spiritual awareness.
Lynn Rester
After completing her bachelor’s degree, Lynn Watson Rester spent five years co-managing multi-million-dollar retirement communities and lived all over the country. Combining her business and marketing expertise and curiosity of natural health alternatives, she now holds multiple certifications including becoming a National Board Certified health and wellness coach. She became interested in health because of her own challenges with autoimmune conditions.
She now combines her wisdom, education, and experience to help others with similar challenges. Her passion and purpose are to help and guide women and occasionally men in their twenties, thirties, and forties overcome their autoimmune challenges using diet and lifestyle, thus enabling them to get back their energy and stamina and find true happiness and fulfillment as they pursue their dreams.
She enjoys learning and staying current with advancements on the topic of autoimmunity.
A recognized speaker, Lynn often gives nutrition talks in her community. She resides in Watkinsville, Georgia, with her husband, Hue. Their cat, Rocky, likes to make an appearance on video calls where she works with clients one-on-one in her business called Healthy Eating and Life Plans (H.E.L.P.).
Karen Swingle
Karen Swingle is a highly sensitive empath, a lifelong griever, and a self-healer. Karen, a native of Queens, New York, graduated from St. John’s University. She has worked in the insurance industry, the retail industry, as a companion for the elderly, and as a compassionate grief coach. Her favorite vocation and title is “Mom”. She currently lives in Virginia with her family.
Her interests include baking, reading, listening to music, and going to concerts, walking on the beach and looking for purple seashells, chasing sunsets, spending quality time with family and friends, and receiving signs from her loved ones in Heaven.
Karen is a proponent of intentional grieving and fostering continuing bonds. She was the founder and leader of The Remembrance Circle at St. Agnes Catholic Church and provided grief support at Haven of Northern Virginia. Karen is also a hospice volunteer. She actively remembers her loved ones by wearing pink fairy hair, handing out inspirational soapstone hearts, organizing fundraisers, and performing random acts of kindness in their names. She is always looking for new ways to honor her loved ones.
Karen believes that everyone deserves some tender loving care in their healing and growth journeys. She provides compassionate emotional support and guidance to those grieving the loss of a loved one. She creates a safe space where clients can freely express their emotions, explore their grief, and find coping skills that suit them. She understands that each loss and relationship is unique and works with her clients to remember and honor their loved ones in ways that highlight that unique relationship.
Dawn Tesoro
Dawn Tesoro is a breakthrough coach whose mission is to help clients break through their limiting beliefs, discover their passion, and live their best lives. Her personal journey with multiple autoimmune disorders and chronic illness has given her the hands-on experience of walking from disease to wellness.
Dawn is a certified international health coach, certified art therapist, licensed master social worker, Certified Public Accountant and photographer. Using all these tools, Dawn works with clients to create a personalized work plan, addressing multiple domains, including personal life, career, healthy habits, spirituality, creativity and finances.
Dawn currently works with clients on shifting mindset, healing money pain and improving eating habits for optimum wellness. Using various tools, such as mindfulness, coaching, photography and art therapy, Dawn creates a safe space for self-discovery.
Cynthia Zeito
Cynthia, a passionate writer, dedicated transformational mindset coach, and founder of Awake Coaching, excels in guiding individuals through profound life transitions. With a focus on spirituality, mindset, sexuality, and personal transformation, she empowers clients to navigate change with clarity and confidence.
Backed by a degree in psychology and over two decades of mentoring, Cynthia brings deep empathy and expertise to her one-on-one coaching, workshops, and meditation practices. As a successful business owner and practiced meditator, she seamlessly integrates science-based techniques and holistic practices into her work. Her own transformative journey has given her the insight and tools to support others in embracing change and living an authentic, fulfilling life. Whether through writing, coaching, or meditation, Cynthia’s mission is to inspire individuals to live their truth and unlock their highest potential.