Every once in a while, something happens that really matters. Something that will define at least the next chapter of your journey – perhaps it’s a conversation with a client, a meeting with a visionary or a major event in your personal life. Below, you’ll find some very insightful folks sharing defining moments from their journeys.

Habiba Zaman

My journey as a writer began in the most unexpected way. I would have never imagined I would be labeled as a published author if anyone had asked, even 5 years ago. Writing the first book, Beautifully Bare, Undeniably you was thrust upon my by a colleague and dear friend Shalon Irving who is the other author of this book. Read more>>

Lia Chiccehitto

I had a defining moment in my career when I became clear on who my ideal client was and started creating products and services just for her. In the beginning, I was so excited to just teach everyone everything I knew about nutrition – how to use food as medicine, how to help your body detox, how to lose weight in healthy way, how to balance hormones… the list goes on. I’m still super passionate about all of these things, but once I found the one thing that made me go, “YES, these are my people,” my whole business changed. Read more>>

David Pitts

I have been a psychic healer for over 15 years and have worked with my clients to help heal past hurts, dissolve pain and follow their life paths to find more joy and fulfillment in their lives. It was always important for me to share what Spirit tells me, so I can offer guidance and a positive direction for those who are seeking it. When I am in a session with someone, the messages from Spirit flow through me and it is clear to me where they are now, what has influenced them from the past that they may be still holding on to, and where they need to go. I am a conduit for the messages they need to receive to improve their lives. Read more>>

Clarita Escalante

Clarita Escalante is the author and creator of The Wellness Journal, an essential part of anyone’s mental, emotional, and physical journey, contributing to a healthy mindset and empowering people to make positive changes. A certified transformational nutrition health coach, Clarita created The Wellness Journey after her personal experience with a cancer diagnosis in 2018. After spending a year angry, confused, and viewing the world from a “victim” mentality, she realized she needed a change. Read more>>

Kaytlin Brown

There have been a couple defining moments in my life/career in the last few years. The first is the birth of my son. I was fortunate to have an incredible birth experience at a birth center in Denver, CO. I had a wonderful team around me (nurses, midwife, husband, photographer, doula). It also happened that one of the birth center owners was there that day and she happens to also be a doula! Being a birth center, there was always a great family feel so it was no surprise when she popped in a couple of times to check in on my progress. Read more>>

Tyler Hurst

My first ceremonial psychedelic experience, with ayahuasca in the Tucson desert, was an absolutely life-changing experience. Prior to that, I had been struggling with my mental health after using cannabis to wean myself off of 16 years of pharmaceuticals (17 different medications, the last being Lexapro through June of 2016), and knew that I need more than weed and yoga to help heal my brain. Everything I thought I knew about the world changed after that experience. I was forced to see the world as it truly was, not as I expected or wanted it to be, and have since that fateful May of 2017 dedicated my life toward using ceremonial psychedelics to improve my own mental health. Read more>>

Stephanie Johnson

In 2019 I had my defining moment in my professional career. After working for a Health Company in the position of a Compliance Manager, I stepped down and started my own business. I was completely burnt out and my mental health was waning. I realized I was not valued in my position and it weighed on me heavily. I began to create various skin products for my family and I just for our personal use. After giving some products to a few friends, one of them liked the product so much they suggested selling them. There, Prim N Proper was born. Read more>>

Jaid Taylor

Man?! Most defining moment in my career was literally around this time last year! So check this out, imagine you’re a entrepreneur & you started your business during covid – and it thrived! So just within a year of starting, I was already set on opening up a 2nd location & also making renovations to my current location – you can say I was investing back into myself! So boom, I took a couple trips to Dallas to visit my God-brother, went to his training session & before I leave I’m sending my resume in! This was not an opportunity I was seeking at all! Here’s the situation – Read more>>

BreAnna Wileu

memorable ones was in 2017. I had been a full time entrepreneur for only a few months. But I was involved in an horrific car accident in which my car flipped multiple times and I thought life was over for me. Thankfully, I survived and did not sustain life threatening injuries. But that incident really made me appreciate life, my health, and understand that I had a purpose. I have always been passionate about health and wellness. And in that moment, it made me want to focus more and to even harder. Read more>>

Victoria Chestnut

I consider myself a “late bloomer” in life. I spent most of my life (until age 28) not really on a specific path. Kind of floating through life, taking the path of least resistance. I met my (now husband) at 28, and he encouraged me to pursue yoga; observing how I naturally helped people with their practice and suggested certain stretches. I earned my 200-hour certificate (in Houston, TX) in 2019, began teaching shortly after, and most recently, earned my 300-hour (in Thailand) in April 2022. Read more>>

CRYSTAL HADNOTT

While excelling in my professional career as a nonprofit executive, I was laid off. As I was searching for my next job, I decided to spend more doing the things that I love–health and wellness. Ten years prior to this moment, I became a Certified Nutritionist, because I was searching for answers to questions I had about my own health that my doctors were not answering. So, I logged onto Facebook and shared a status that I was taking on clients. By the end of the day, I had 5 new clients. Read more>>

Kailee Huntington

When I first became a licensed esthetician one of my top priorities was to further my education beyond what they teach you in school if I wanted to provide the best experience for my clients. I believe always learning is the key to success and I never want to stop. So when I first started out especially, I did a few jobs that I knew weren’t exactly where I wanted to be long term but the skills I learned were invaluable and I am forever grateful! Read more>>

Natalia Hernandez

My life changed completely when I learned about the Enneagram and life coaching. I was living by default, living with large expectations of people, playing victim, wondering why my relationships weren’t thriving. I didn’t know why I’d run from tough conversations, avoid being hurt or spend so much time pretending things were better than they were. Until I found the Enneagram and coaching. Learning I was a Type 7 catapulted me into the kind of self-awareness I was never able to turn my back to. Read more>>

Rashieda Timpson

Earlier in my career I just knew I was going to be a CRNA which is a certified registered nurse anesthetist. This was a very competitive program so I had made sure that I had high grades in all my science courses. When I was in my undergraduate program I had the opportunity to shadow a CRNA. I watch her do her job as she placed and epidural in a patient having a c-section. After she was done (which was really quick) she sat down watching a screen. The other individuals in the room which were apart of the team ( nurse, midwife, tech) was busy working to make sure the patient was safe and delivered the baby with no complications. I left the room perplexed,. Read more>>

Rachel Boehm

There was a moment in my first year in business that ended up so transformational that it closes my memoir. It launched me out of the person I was, and into the person I have become…am becoming. I was at the first conference for the business that my online franchise is partnered with. I was sitting in my dress on the floor of the convention center, the carpet thin and hard, huddled over pages in a blank notebook, pen in hand, ready to write words of wisdom from the consultants who had been in this longer, who had achieved success, who could tell me all the things I needed to do and be to reach my own heights. Read more>>