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.

Glenda Lezeau

My defining moment happened in 2011 when I had a psychotic breakdown and had to be hospitalized in the psychiatric unit. While I was hospitalized, I was diagnosed with bipolar. The symptoms included visual hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, paranoia, intense anxiety, and more. I lost all perception of reality. Read more>>

Aicha Soumaoro

I remember it like it was yesterday, working in a dealership and having your boss saying that you have “potential” but not allowing you to grow as an individual in your career field. I was the only female in my department and my boss sees all the hard work I put in and more and still had the nerve to let me that I needed to do more while my coworkers were doing the bare minimum. From that day I was like I can’t live like this and changed my field to a certified nurse assistant. Read more>>

Stacy Welker

I was called to the emergency department in the middle of the night to consult on patient that needed to be taken emergently to the operating room. The patient was critically ill, septic and needed a laparotomy for a bowel perforation. I had seen this many times in my years as a Nurse Practitioner & general surgery first assistant, but this time it was different for me. I walked out of the patient’s room and started questioning what was happening in the outpatient world that such drastic measures needed to take place to save this life. Read more>>

Jordan Wentz

Despite having endured abuse, loss, and abandonment, and living with the mental, physical, and emotional trauma that clung to me no matter how hard I tried to rid myself of it, my will was strong. Read more>>

Secora Lambert

In 2021, a highschool track athlete presented to my office with a high hamstring tear. He first sustained his injury five years prior, and never competitively continue running. Each time he stepped on the track to compete he reinjure his hamstring. His previous treatment consisted upon physical therapy, chiropractic and orthopedic care for the last 5 years. His mom was recommended to our office by a summer track and field coach. Read more>>

Gabrielle Hill

I would say that I’m someone who initially was living life just to check off boxes. I was doing great things, but I wasn’t necessarily fulfilled. So in 2020, when the pandemic hit, it was one of the first times that I evaluated my life from the career perspective. I was “successfully” setting goals and reaching them, getting the credentials, getting the education, moving in the spaces that I thought I wanted, but in that moment I realized I had no control over my professional circumstances. Read more>>

Christian Lloyd

I was overweight on the border of being obese. I had joint pain, stiffness, poor range of motion and poor eating habits (courtesy of the Standard American Diet). Read more>>

Kashish Khanna

So, today what I’m going to share with you is not a very major moment as in earning big name or bank balance for me rather a moment which changed my whole outlook at my spiritual biz. Read more>>

Andrea Mckeehan

The defining moment in my career happened for me after the pandemic. I was working part time at “The Happiest Place on Earth” as a face character, and part time as an Esthetician at my friends wellness spa. After the pandemic I thought that I would continue to split my time and work both jobs.Not only did I have a passion for performing, but I also had a passion for skincare. I was always happy doing both, but I knew that I wouldn’t be able to be princess forever. Read more>>

Elizabeth Berrocal

There were several defining moments along the course of my life that helped shape and define where I needed to be, and what exactly was my calling. At 19 years old I moved to London, England to begin my education. It was in London, and the subsequent years there that helped shift my perspective of a more global world, that all though one can point out all the differences between the other, we are very much linked together with so very much in common. Read more>>

Chinara Garraway

I graduated from the UF College of Dentistry in 2011. After graduating I worked for a few corporate dental offices but never felt quite fulfilled. As a result of this I decided to work at a Public Health Clinic. I loved my patients, however, the administration was extremely difficult to deal with. I started having panic attacks before going to work. I also started breaking out and my hair was falling out. I believe the God speaks to us all the time but we just need to know how to listen. Read more>>

Yarimar Valle Andújar

As soon my spiritual journey began, everything that defined me as an individual and was a part of me was transformed and continues to evolve. As a mental health therapist and the responsibility that my position requires, it’s for me a priority to cultivate a balance between body mind and spirit in my daily life. I have been involved in traditional therapeutic practices for over seven years and have gradually delved into spiritually based healing modalities. Read more>>

Cynthia Omekam

I would say one of the most defining moments in my professional career outside my divine rerouting from my plan to walk the path of a psychologist to creating my own path as a life coach & healer would be my experience with aligning my pricing & my worth/value. When I 1st launched my business I started off in peer coaching circles as well as with my own personal business coach & one of the main focuses was “charging your worth.” Read more>>

Johana Hernandez

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. I realize what I went through before, justified to prepare me for these defining moments, when I come to the defining moments and I can look at the other moments, and I realize if I had not gone through that I would not have been ready for this. Read more>>