Defining moments aren’t just exciting – they are thought-provoking and fertile ground for learning. These inflection points often are the result of an illuminating moment where some truth of the universe presents itself in an easier to recognize form. Below, you’ll find talented and successful entrepreneurs and artists sharing the stories of defining moments in their lives.

Geetha Beauchamp

I have been an Occupational Therapist for almost 13 years. I have treated along the lifespan from infants to geriatrics. One thing that always stuck out to me was maintaining independence with what many people deemed to be the most embarrassing thing ever – incontinence. No one wanted to talk about it or treat it. It was often the notion of let’s stick a bandaid on it (or in this case diapers or pads). Read more>>

Dr. Jason Racca

From the very beginning of my career, I naturally thought, and practiced more holistically. I had mentors along the way that showed me the potential to help people beyond what I thought was possible. But what has really shaped my career, the way I think, and ultimately the way I practice is our own families Health choices, and struggles. Read more>>

Daniela Miranda

I often talk about my first Cacao experience in 2013 during my ceremonies. I remember I had so many questions and knew intuitively it was exactly what I needed. At that time I was feeling lost and disconnected. Read more>>

Carrie-Joy Neal

I began my business with a very specific and common focus of opening a solo skin studio and being profitable. Somewhere between surviving covid (while watching many of my colleagues close down) and dealing with the unprecedented rate of inflation of current, my focus shifted to community and the idea of shared education. As the daughter of a creative and teacher, I grew up with this idea of “each one teach one”. Read more>>

PaQuita Johnson

While working in the hospital, I quickly realized that I only got to see patients when they were getting sick or at their sickest moments. From that point on,I decided that I wanted to help people out before they started to get sick. This was the defining moment for me that God gave me the idea to birth my business Pamper Your Glam Body. Read more>>

Brooke Seiz

I had a client with ulcerative colitis who started coming to me for functional nutrition services. In the initial assessment it had come up that there were a couple traumatic experiences in their history; one in particular that had changed their life significantly. I had recently become a counselor, and was starting to do Somatic Experiencing which I was newly trained in. Read more>>

Leonis (Aisha) Arias

It happened one day I was in my room feeling so isolated and heartbroken by a guy I was dating at the time. I couldn’t bear the deep sadness and pain in my heart. The little girl inside of me felt lonely again as she had felt when she was in her early years. Read more>>

Dr. Temika Edwards

My defining moment happened early on – just before my career truly got started. As a youth I was an athlete and enjoyed being active, but as I got older, I became less active and put on weight. I was ridiculed with nicknames that people felt described my body, and this made me feel bad about myself and had an impact on just about everything I was involved in at the time. Read more>>

Kelley Chaplin

Finding Serenity Read more>>

Elissa Goodman

Personal health and educating others on their health and wellness have been passions of mine for many years. I have had issues with my health for my entire life from cancer to autoimmune issues and cancer and Hashimoto’s in my 30’s. Beyond my own health, I have also struggled while watching various loved ones suffer from health-related issues, including my husband Marc who lost his battle to cancer in his mid-40’s. Read more>>

Krystel Beall

Understanding I had Complex PTSD really rocked my world. I knew I was always super disciplined and hyper focused on being the best version of myself, and coaching others to do the same. It wasn’t until I understood why, and started to unravel the layers of my survival mode all of those years that it truly felt like a soul purpose. Read more>>

Naomi Riley

I have always had the desire to help others, I think that it is something most of us should aspire to. ‘ To have a servants heart” . It wasn’t until,. after I was in a tragic car accident in 2017 where I suffered several injuries including a traumatic brain injury, that I realized our society needed so much more healing that one person could ever imagine. Read more>>

Kallie Fischer

This is a really long story that I will condense into this field. In December of 2015 I lost my sales job and, in that moment, it felt like life was ending. Countless interviews with competitors and other larger companies turned into no job offers and what felt like wasted time. Read more>>

Jody LaVoie

July 31, 2014, at approximately 9 AM my life changed forever. I had just returned from a run on a beautiful summer day in Chicagoland. My three daughters were waiting for me so we could begin a fun outing to enjoy the outdoors. That day, I was a full-time stay-at-home mom living an idyllic life. Read more>>

Tess Vergara

There was a pivotal moment in my professional journey that drastically altered the course of my career. It was a period marked by personal challenges—depression, procrastination, burnout, and a profound sense of impotence and powerlessness—that ultimately led to unexpected transformation. Read more>>

Lynsey Retzlaff

13 years ago, I experienced my first defining moment as I was going through a divorce, impostor syndrome, anxiety, and stuck living unfulfilled. I was scared to take healthy risks to improve the quality of my life. I coped by drinking alcohol, avoiding my feelings, sitting in the back row of rooms (and life), and was unsure life was going to get better. People in my life at that time were unsupportive and it confirmed my deep belief that I was “no good.” Read more>>

Mitesh Oswal

I was in a project meeting – my first project in my new team (I had just transferred from another team after working there for almost 5 years) and I was supposed to lead this project – and someone told me straight to my face: “You have not done your homework for this meeting.” Read more>>

Robert Pomahac

It was 2019 and I was on vacation with my family in Asia, working late at night and my wife and said “What are you doing, you work 70 hours a week, you barely see your kids and now you’re working on vacation?” Read more>>

Terri Bonin

I can’t help but share with other women those nuggets in health and business that have changed the trajectory of my life. Read more>>

Katelyn Redwood

Before becoming a hypnotherapist, I was a professional musician and had a side hustle doing website design and online marketing. I was passionate about music, but couldn’t survive on music alone. I was never passionate about marketing, but liked the flexibility and freedom working for myself provided. Read more>>

Ryan Savage

Covid shut my office down for 13 weeks. It was during this time that I decided to forcus on social media and to showcase my talent as a veneer dentist. The response was meteoric. Since then I’ve been able to focus solely on smile makeovers and have helped hundreds of people gain confidence by giving them a smile they are proud to show off. It’s been truly amazing to see how their lives have changed for the better Read more>>

Antwanette Weaver

Although I was already working as a mental health therapist, losing my son Kameron to suicide on July 13, 2020, and my subsequent grief journey changed the trajectory of my career. Working as a therapist was something I could not wrap my head around after my son’s death. I didn’t think I was capable of helping others to improve their mental health, when I couldn’t provide enough support to my son to save his life. Read more>>

Beverly Alomepe

Early in my journey as a psychedelic nurse, I was humbled to witness the power of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) for lasting psychological change. Ketamine is a dissociative psychedelic, and part of the emerging psychedelic healing for mental health revolution we are having today in the west. Many ketamine clinics use the IV form of ketamine, which often does not have a therapy integration component. Read more>>

Luke Colson

I currently run parallel lives. By day, I am the Head Of Creative Partnerships at Untold Studios, a Creative Studio in LA, working on high-end Design and VFX projects for great clients, spanning TV, Film and Music. By night, I run a very rewarding, and jolly successful podcast with my friend Kyle Wise. ‘Well That F*cked Me Up – Surviving Life Changing Events’ was started 3 years ago, and is now listened to in 83 countries, and has been in the charts around the globe. Read more>>

Susan Van Note

Stopped in my tracks: restoring myself through awareness Read more>>

Mentoria Green

A pivotal moment that transformed my career path stemmed from my experience as a doula at my first home birth. The family I worked with had a history of birthing at home, and for them, a midwife was the natural choice for pregnancy care. Unlike my community, where talk of traumatic births and self-doubt about our bodies is a common place, this family held a positive outlook on birth and regarded it as a beautiful and peaceful experience. Witnessing their perspective and the serene home birth they had, left me deeply moved. Read more>>