We LOVE a good story, especially when it’s a heartwarming one. Below, you’ll hear some amazing stories from incredible business owners, practitioners, and creatives and artists.

Darci Pernoud

I reunited with a client that I had been his occupational therapist in his early days of spinal cord injury after 15 years. He was injured in a car accident as a teenager. I was his inpatient therapist and had the great fortune to teach him how to be independent and prepare to return to his life in a different way after paralysis and as a new wheelchair user. Read more>>

Shawnnell Batiste

The first thing that people notice when they see me is my hair. It’s a huge afro with butterflies all over. It garners a lot of attention. Many people cannot resist telling me how much they love the butterflies and my hair. I never realized how much people LOVE butterflies. No matter the age, gender, race, location, socioeconomic status, or any other defining characteristic of humans. Read more>>

Rise Riyo

Back in the 1990s, I was initially introduced to essential oils when riding my 1969 Raleigh bicycle along the streets of San Fran’s Mission District where wafts of patchouli lingered in the air from passersby. I loved the aroma so much that I bought a small bottle and began buying different oils sprinkling them here and there on my clothes and throughout the flat I shared with roommates. Read more>>

Simon Davies

I used to lead an annual conference/experiential weekend for teens and young adults with cancer. We had professional presentations about cancer and the journey that young people were going through. Every year there was a popular presentation about fertility preservation which is important for young people with cancer whose treatment can render them infertile. One year a young person came up to me and said ‘I don’t want to attend this session. Read more>>

Crystal Perez

I had the privilege of connecting with a beautiful young client that I later found out was a foster child. After cutting and educating her on how to maintain healthy hair, her foster Mom text me later that day thanking me. She mentioned that she had not seen her foster daughter that happy in a long time. Read more>>

Leslie Brooks CLC

One of the most heartwarming stories I can remember in recent years with life coaching, was when I was working with a woman who was trying to break a pattern of people pleasing and self abandonment in her life. We had worked to the point where we both felt the pressure of the work. So we decided mutually, to shift gears into recapturing her lightness in life. Read more>>