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.

Christian Franz

During the fourth month of being a newly minted working registered nurse in the hospital, the news was plagued with stories of a “respiratory disease” causing “a fever of unknown origin” wreaking havoc in different countries. This health menace became the pandemic-causing virus that has left our globe in shambles over the past few years. With my hospital unit initially being a cardiac surgery recovery room before becoming a COVID-19 ICU unit, I was this innocent nurse who merely wanted to help people in their lowest times after such a major operation and hopefully save their lives during critical moments. Read more>>

Tony Babcock

Laying down on a giant hardwood floor in a puddle of my own tears, I wondered where I went wrong. The floor belonged to the actor’s studio that I ran in downtown Toronto, and featured gorgeous bay windows, a post-war aesthetic and a space to call my own. Everyone around me celebrated as I told them things were “great”. But they were not. The reality was, I was sinking under the weight of 200K of debt, trapped in responsibilities of running a business that my poor ADHD brain couldn’t navigate, and telling myself that success was material. As the summer hit, business declined. And because I was renting the studio, and rent was over $6000 per month plus utilities and soon I was paying with credit card checks and empty promises. The pressure was too much. Read more>>

Jennifer Jasmin

It took me 20 years and I explored 2 countries plus 5 cities and earned 6 degrees to get where I am today. Learning to adapt fast and believe in myself are my affirmations to help me achieve my goals. I struggled adapting to the new culture but I didn’t stop there. I learned to adjust to the new culture by learning from others and observing what’s happening around me. My goal for my career is to become my own boss. Having my own private practice has fulfilled my career goal. Read more>>

Keren Marmer

I had always felt that I need to work with women. This image of women sitting in circle would not leave my mind. This calling started manifesting first in the field of motherhood. Me, being a new mom to a 2 year old girl, Reef, I have started posting some tips and insights I had back at the time about her behavior, the connection we have and practical tools of coping, but mainly – listening to our intuition. Read more>>

Vanessa Fitzgerald

Believe it or not, vulnerability doesn’t come naturally to me. I was raised in a household where I was taught to keep things private. I also use to care deeply about what other people thought of me. I wanted to be liked by everyone, which we know is an impossible feat. This kept me paralyzed with fear when it came to engaging in any form of social platform. I was also taking Adderall at the time, a drug that was prescribed to me in high school for an ADD diagnosis when the reality is that I just wasn’t very good in school. Read more>>

Megan Thomas Hebdon

While I was at Purdue University, working on my doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) degree, I had two intersecting and defining experiences. First, I was more fully introduced to research within the context of nursing practice. I had the opportunity to work with two mentors at Purdue that helped me see the broader opportunities and influence available through research. These mentors gave me opportunities to publish, engage with other researchers, present at research conferences, and explore my own ideas about the cancer survivorship team (my area of interest at the time) Read more>>

Mikhael Ricks

As an ex professional athlete when I got I to the personal training field all I wanted to train was athletes. My program manager at that time asked me a simple question. Who will you train once these athletes go back to their teams and there is no one to work with? She told me I should focus on the general population of people that have 9-5 jobs and businesses that you know you’ll see 3-5 days a week. Changing my mentality changed my career path. Read more>>

Adriana Keefe

When I first began life coaching, I approached it in a general, “anyone with a life problem” way. Over time, I began to recognize how attracted I was to the world of spirituality. I didn’t grow up religious or spiritual, so the idea of believing in anything greater than myself was very new to me. I hired a business coach who considered herself to be a “holistic coach”, and when I was feeling really stuck and defeated, she introduced me to this thing called Human Design. Read more>>

Jennifer Rispoli

I would say I can point to 2 defining moments in my professional career. One is a personal moment, and one is a business moment. The first defining moment would be when I became a mom. I remember the morning I was going back to work for the first time, walking into my son’s room to check on him one more time as he slept, and thinking to myself “Work is overrated.” From that moment on, my goal was to work less, not more; work smarter, not harder. 18 years goes by quick and it really is the little, day to day moments that matter. A few years later I was able to transition from full time to PRN, which allowed me to be in control of my schedule. I took this time to further my education in women’s health/pelvic floor. Read more>>

Dawn Kulaski

Many people don’t know that I spent 13 years in the manufacturing industry before entering the world of healthcare, now 14 years ago. I often joke that I have always been in healthcare. Only now I am working with the human body as opposed to working with engineers helping them to create and maintain machines and devices. I went from working on preventative maintenance and the health of manufacturing equipment versus now maintaining and optimizing the human body. Read more>>