Keya Meggett

In 2014, I founded Earth Child Inc. with the purpose of connecting young people to nature, especially those from my community who looked like me. Our efforts were largely successful, but after becoming a mom and moving to South Carolina, I felt lost and unsure of how to proceed in a new environment. To regain my footing, I began volunteering in my son’s school garden and working with some of the students there. This experience reenergized me and reminded me that I could adapt and thrive in this new place. Read more>>

Edan Harari

As a manual therapist and bodyworker for many years, I found myself in sessions with clients from time to time and my client would have some sort of emotional release. I always found it fascinating when this occurred. Eventually, I started learning the Barnes method of Myofascial Release and noticed that engaging my clients fascia in this way and with this precise technique, they would very often have an emotional release occur as the trauma was leaving their body. Read more>>

Cathy Hernandez

It all began at the age of 30. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I got the phone call that my mom had suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. I was working at an elementary school in Round Rock, Texas at the time and the only thing I could think of was getting to El Paso as soon as possible. Read more>>

Tricia Pingel

This story has so many twists and turns over the years – all of which lead to me realizing the true importance of taking time for my body to heal and recover, rather than power through everything. After years of building my practice from the ground up, birthing two children, managing a marriage, watching my parents & grandparents pass away from possibly preventable conditions (if only they addressed the stress!) Read more>>

Sofiya Stasiv

What is the meaning of life? Read more>>

Sean Rose

While there have been many points in my career so far that have been “defining moments,” I think by far, the most defining has taken place in the last few months. Read more>>

Meg LaPorte

For nine years I worked as managing editor of a trade magazine that catered to professionals who work in long-term and post-acute care. This work helped me to learn a great deal about the field and to tell the stories of the dedicated, passionate, and caring people who care for older adults. After I left that job, I decided to begin telling the stories of older adults Read more>>

Marina Romashko

In most of my business endeavors, the defining moment is a strong feeling when I see the missing link, a pain, a sense of people being lost in a sleep of everyday life. Read more>>

Jamie Graber

It’s funny, I’ve been asked many times about what the defining moment was that changed my career and I don’t know that there really is one. I think all of our little choices each day are what become those larger defining moments. So I wouldn’t say it was my defining moment, but there were defining choices that lead to where I am now. Read more>>

Erica Sandoval

More than a decade into my career as a professional healer – a social worker – I discovered a new avenue for healing: ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). KAP is shown to lessen the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and trauma for many people more effectively than talk therapy alone. I saw that for myself when on my first KAP journey I discovered the self-love I had been searching for my entire life, a radical self-love that reshaped how I live. Read more>>

Sarah Almodovar

Right before I found out I was pregnant with my first child, I was in a conversation with friends (all moms) sharing their birth stories. Sadly all the stories being shared had some amount of trauma in each one, to the point where I started thinking, “I’m not sure I ever want to have kids…!” Read more>>

Suellen Stringer-Hye

It was 2016. My long, creative and fruitful career in academia didn’t seem inspiring any more. Even though I helped build the first web pages for the Vanderbilt library., wrote and published multiple articles in several fields, contributed to a book on the history of American Yoga., pioneered new technologies to enhance humanities research and established a Sanskrit Study group I now felt my creative interests turning elsewhere. Read more>>

Ebony Grover

My partner and I were very clear that we wanted to own a fitness studio but were still toggling with the idea of owning a franchise vs an independent studio, should we build something completely new or purchase an existing business. Should we open a studio in S. Tampa, New Tampa, Wesley Chapel? So many options and we were open to them all. Read more>>

Anthony Martinez Beven

I created — or manifested — my own reality, and I had the “power” to change it at any time I wished. I decided to try what the power was teaching me. “Show me how to save my own life, and I’ll live my life for you,” I said out loud to God, the universe, or whatever created me. Read more>>

Avriele Williams.

My defining moment was during Covid. The world shut down and I was forced to work from home. I started as a school based therapist in a different county. I was looking forward to this journey however due to Covid I was met with many different challenges. Read more>>

Angelica Alen

When I went back to my recruitment career after going through cancer treatment for Stage 3 Bowel Cancer Diagnosis, I realised most people were living an unconscious life, abusing their health, stressed out to the bone and staying in unhappy jobs for a pay check. I left my corporate job to start my business as I had changed everything in my life during chemo, all my habits – physical, mental and emotional. Read more>>

Chiquita Barnett

During my professional career in the finance industry, in my early thirties, I found myself unhealthy, overworked, and under paid. My main goal in my life at that time was getting back healthy. When I got sick a few years prior, I had to learn a lot about how the body works, from the Brain and the Central Nervous system (Which controls the entire body). Read more>>

Kyle Volstad

I vividly remember standing outside of my old apartment feeling stuck and deflated, calling a family member with the intent of potentially changing my career. Some of my family members own a craft brewery in West Palm Beach & Jupiter called Civil Society Brewing Company, and I was calling to see if they would be open to hiring me as a new brewer and join their team. Read more>>

Laura Saltman

The defining moment in my career as a healer was when I began using telepathic communication to hear the words of a dying woman in hospice. I knew before that moment I had the ability to channel and be a medium but never had I experienced an ability to translate words back and forth in conversation. Read more>>

Jeremy Dalton

The most recent defining moment in my sound healing journey was being able to be apart of a important IVF Journey. There is a wonderful couple ( Brat & Judy from Brat Loves Judy) There T.V show is on WETV and it captured the moment that opened the way for them to have a child. Brat is 48 yrs old and was having trouble allowing her eggs to hold. There therapist suggested sound healing and reiki to clear any trauma or blockages. I was there sound therapist for there journey she is now blessed to have a son which was born on July 6th. Read more>>

Hope Gilchrist

Yes, there was a defining moment in my career. I originally went to college as a Business Management major with a plan to open a daycare center after college however after 4 classes I started to get bored with the courses and not feel the connection to that major. I originally felt lost because I thought business was the direction I wanted to take with my career. Read more>>

Dave Weber

My defining moment has got to be when I first discovered that I really cared about other people’s health and well-being. I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis when I was 15. I was able to keep inflammation down part of the time with drugs, but I got to the point of needing hospitalization to stabilize my condition. When I was ready to be released, my health suddenly turned for the very worse and I was hemorrhaging. I had to undergo an emergency surgery for the removal of most of my large intestine. Read more>>

Jasmin Forts

My start into horticulture came from being fully immersed in Corporate HR for the last 18 years. I never really had a dream of climbing the corporate ladder but made a lot of successful leaps up chain through my career. Even while raising a family and being married, my career seemed fulfilling but my love for wellness and calm pulled at me. While entering the leadership ranks about 8 years ago I started learning about rest deficits and how to invest back into my true, innate talents and desires. Read more>>

Dr. Patrice Dunn

My defining moment is a little outside of the box. Actually, there are multiple defining moments that all have led me to become who I am today. One that I recalled recently happened while I was a 4th-grade teacher. Boy was that a challenge. I was scared to death to be responsible for 22 eager 4th graders. Looking back I did what I do most of the time when I get scared, JUST BE ME. Read more>>

Gianna Merlino

As a young girl, I always knew that my purpose in life was to help people in some capacity. Physical activity was always a main priority of mine; my parents enrolled me in dancing school at the age of three and I had a short-lived soccer career in middle school; it is safe to say I moved better in ballet shoes. However, in 2006, when my dad experience a life-threatening heart attack, I realized the weight of importance that a healthy lifestyle carries. Read more>>

Bree Cook

2020 was one of the craziest years I’ve lived through. Covid was happening and I noticed a decrease in my mental health and in those around me. It was a few months into 2020 and I started my coaching career. I told my husband I wanted to help more individuals. I wanted to make a bigger impact on the world. I loved my Life Coach and the tools he gave me. Read more>>

Kate Hanley

Breakfast Memories A Dementia Love Story is a story of the journey of caring for my Mom during her last 3 years of life. Read more>>

Dr. Bryan Sackey

I believe our life’s journey is comprised of various critical moments that serve as compasses guiding us towards places we are meant to be. Nonetheless, there are moments that are so profound that it propels us strongly in the direction that aligns with our purpose in life. For me however, it was a build up of micro-moments that eventually led me to the proverbial “a ha!” defining moment. The build up can be described more so as a “slow speed chase” of the mental health field pursuing me. Read more>>

Cosmin Mahadev Singh

When I first started sharing the profound science of Kundalini yoga and meditation through public classes in Las Vegas, there was very little information available within the community. It was an exciting yet challenging time, as a lot of effort went into educating everyone about this ancient practice before even holding regular classes. Read more>>

Esther Nichols

Yes, my defining moment came in May of 2023. After one of my fitness classes, I asked participants to provide feedback as to how the class has helped them. One of the participants told me that prior to her attendance in my 12 week weight loss challenge, she wanted to loose weight and get in shape. She was going to her therapist for joint pain and increased mobility. Read more>>

David Waldas

Growing up I was a weird kid. My teachers weren’t quite sure what to do with me. It was like I had the answers but didn’t understand the questions. I couldn’t write but I could read. I couldn’t count but I could do simple addition. Read more>>

Erica Leone

Hi! I’m Erica Cox Leone, fondly known as “Dr. Erica,” the founder of Beyond the Veil. Read more>>

Chanel Cooper

In high school, the art room was my safe haven. I’d always expressed wanting an art gallery within my home to sell my work exclusively. After high school, I’d applied to colleges in hopes of pursuing my career as a fashion designer. That was over a decade ago. 2016 til now, I’d been in the hair industry, which was and still is a passion of mine. Along the way, I’d had discouraging moments trying to navigate how I could bring all my talents to life while maintaining what pays the bills currently. Read more>>

Christian John Lillis

The most defining moment of my career was the untimely death of my mother, Peggy, from a C. difficile infection when she was just 56 years old. Before my mother’s death, I worked primarily as a fundraiser for various organizations, including the National LGBTQ Task Force, NYU Langone Medical Center, and Teach For America. Read more>>