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From out of the realities of abandonment by her biological mother, being bi-racial, and growing up in a Black home, Katara McCarty realized early in life that the color of her skin mattered. After becoming a single mother at 19 and finding the courage to leave an abusive relationship, Katara became an entrepreneur holding leadership positions in both non and for-profit organizations. 

Katara sat down with me to discuss her new app, EXHALE, the first emotional well-being app for Black Women. The app, which launched August 25, offers content tailored to women of color to promote self-care, mindfulness, and rest. The app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play channel. Basic features are immediately available, but the user has the option to unlock additional features for a subscription fee of $4.99 a month.

www.kataramccarty.com

Case Kenny is the host of the New Mindset, Who Dis podcast – an iTunes top-ranked podcast. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of PRSUIT.com. He writes every day, records the podcast twice a week, and is regularly featured in publications like Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, Made Magazine, and others. Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Case Kenny to talk about what drives him and keep him motivated to be the best. Case Kenny will make you think, laugh, and contemplate change all at once.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-mindset-who-dis/id1383599078

Most diets, detoxes, or pills promise overnight and effortless weight loss, but it never lasts, and 'yo-yo dieting' leads to greater and more demoralizing weight gain.  We typically follow the diet until something drives us to the refrigerator for comfort or stress relief.  Renée Jones shows you how to get free from the emotional eating that sabotages every diet.
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After 40 years on a diet, yo-yoing up and down the scale, Renée Jones had learned every diet – and every cheat – before finally stopping the comfort eating and self-sabotage to lose “those last 30 pounds” AGAIN in 2012 – but this time she maintained her goal weight.  Who knew that was truly possible?
 
With a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Clinical Residency in Pastoral Care, she has an international counseling and coaching practice utilizing traditional and contemporary models as well as relaxation and horse-assisted methods to help others win at losing extra weight and other baggage they’ve dragged with them for decades.  

Her first book was "What’s Really Eating You: Overcome the Triggers of Comfort Eating." This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

What is a trusted healer? What is patient centered medical home? Does everyone need both? AND, What type of leadership is needed to propel a healthcare revolution? Join Dr. LaMarrr D. Shields as he explores these questions and more with Dan Pelino, author of Trusted Healers: 

Dan Pelino is an innovator, thought leader and author. Pelino is a regular contributor to the discussion on healthcare, citizen-based services and Smarter Cities, having appeared on CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC and other media outlets. He serves as a moderator and host to the current healthcare debate and is an adjunct professor lecturing on leadership at his alma mater Western Kentucky University. He serves on numerous private and public boards, and worked for IBM for thirty-six years leading its global healthcare and life sciences business for ten years. Pelino concluded his career with IBM as the general manager of the global government, healthcare, education, and life sciences business.

www.everyonemattersonline.com

Aura Elena Martinez is a Self-Discovery and Empowerment Coach, helping the outer and inner travelers who seek greater well-being and personal fulfillment to discover themselves powerfully so that they can live life to the max. As a person who has traveled the world as a Flight Attendant, the opportunity has helped her learn and see so much and she discovered the most fabulous place for us all to see that is truly the key to greater well-being and she shares that with others worldwide.

Micha Goebig is a life coach, blogger, and published author. She specializes in life story coaching and intercultural awareness. Originally from Germany, Micha received her master’s degree from the University of Munich and trained as a coach with one of Germany’s leading executive coaches, Monika Scheddin.  In this episode, Micha Goebig talks about strategies to overcome limiting beliefs in your growth journey and life. She also shares strategies to help women unlearn harmful behaviors, such as perfectionism.

www.michagoebig.com

Brendan D. Murphy is a preeminent “Change Agent” and a chronic “truth addict”. He has a compassionate heart, keen intellect, is deeply “spiritual,” and a no-bullshit humanitarian with a genuine disdain for political correctness and “acceptable lies.” Running on a fairly respectable “bandwidth,” he advocates something he calls “broad spectrum awareness,” meaning a big-picture, well rounded, multi-faceted worldview – the result of years of study (as opposed to ten minutes on Wikipedia). Throw away your blinkers and preconceptions about what it means to be spiritual (or anything else for that matter!), because Brendan will go where angels fear to tread, and he’s not afraid to drag you along for the ride kicking and screaming. In The Grand Illusion books, he has attempted what few other authors dare to, making his writing valuable to anyone consciously seeking deeper awareness of themselves, the nature of reality, and the challenges of life on earth.

Today's guest, Tony Chatman, cuts through the chaos and clutter to focus on what really matters to your life, livelihood, community, and role as a leader. Tony shares with LaMarrr his passion for teaching leaders and teams how to build emotional and business bridges, tackle tough diversity conversations, and develop communication avenues that allow for greater growth, healthier teams, and elevated productivity. 

Tony has worked with hundreds of corporations and government agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, Chase Bank, Estee Lauder, N.O.A.A. and N.A.S.A. to help people reach new heights of effectiveness by understanding themselves and others better. As a leadership keynote speaker, his passion is contagious and his messages provide practical, usable knowledge that people implement immediately for business and personal success. Recognized for his stage presence and intensity, Tony delivers the kind of results that consistently garner outstanding and enthusiastic reviews. His profound ability to connect with every audience member ensures they come away feeling that he spoke directly to them and impacted by his message. As an author, Tony recently completed his first book: The Force Multiplier — How to Lead Teams Where Everyone Wins.

www. tonychatman.com

In this interview, David Ciccarelli the Founder and CEO at Voices.com reveals how he went from 2 founding owner-operators, writing an idea on a napking, to generating over $15 million in annual revenue and employing over 100 employees. 

David is an entrepreneur at heart. For the last decade, David, with the help of his team, has grown Voices.com from the ground up to become the leader in the voice-over industry. As Chief Executive Officer, David is responsible for setting the vision, executing the growth strategy, creating a vibrant culture, and managing the company on a day-to-day basis. David is wholeheartedly dedicated to growing the company to become a world-class organization and leading the industry in the digital age.

www.voices.com

My guest Eric G Reid the creator of Success Life Coaching System sat down with me this week and shared some valuable info on a sensitive subject for all... Self Worth!   What you'll find inside this session: There is often a disconnect between KNOWING you are worthy and FEELING you are worthy. Worth is something you are born with, you don't need to work hard for it or impress others. Eric Reid will help you to understand how you can help yourself in designing and executing a specific vision for your life, and surpass your mindset to create actions and practices that will transform your life from stagnant to stellar. Eric's mission to impact people and help them to take their life and their business to the next level. To see individuals get more of what they want out of life. 

www.ericgreid.com

Harry Sherwood's dedication to following his heart led him to travel the world. Over the last decade, he lived with and learned from monks, yogis, martial arts masters, professors, and psychologists.

In this episode, Harry discusses why so many people can’t seem to make lasting change in their personal development and self-help worlds, plant-based diets, and why most people are left feeling unfulfilled no matter how much external success they achieve, as well as his journey through change. He also talks about life lessons that have shaped him, from his hard-knock early years to founding Consciously.org.

In this episode we talk with Kristine Ovsepian of Journeys to Heal, where she explains hypnotherapy and how she started her path to being a hypnotherapist, how it helped her, and why she wants to help others by doing this work. She also explains what past life regression work is - what happens during this, how it can help you in your current life and/or situation and what results people have seen. Past life regression is so fascinating, and how she explains it will make you want to know more about what your past life was like!

Kristine Ovsepian is the author of the book Living through Choice: Transform Fear to Love. She is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Life Coach and Intuitive Healer. She holds an M.A. in Psychology as well as certification in Past Life Regression, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Emotional Freedom Technique. She is a Certified Dream Builder Coach, Reiki Healer and Angel Practitioner.

www. journeystoheal.com

In this episode, I sat down with Matthew Ferry, who has been coaching thousands of top performers to achieve Enlightened Prosperity. His books, audios, and seminars utilize his street tested methodology called The Rapid Enlightenment Process, a guaranteed system to achieve profound states of happiness and success in life.

Matthew and I discussed how being tuned-in to life gets you to a more expansive and creative state, how we often attach the idea of risk onto the fear of losing out on an imaginary benefit, and he shared how pride, illogical rules and not being of service get in the way of the creative mind.

Tommy Breedlove is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author and Atlanta-based business, relationship, and mindset coach who is a regular featured keynote speaker at global events. He serves clients and audiences by empowering them to build and live Legendary Lives. We’re talking about his personal transformation, finding your purpose and the principles in his book Legendary. Tommy also explains why he left a career at a leading financial consulting firm to become a “mindset coach” who empowers people to “build and live Legendary lives.

www. tommybreedlove.com

Speaking with Bob Wheeler on today's episode was quite a delight! He has a vast base of experience and knowledge in all things finance as well as the emotional factors that contribute to attitudes and decisions in that arena. As CFO of the world-famous Comedy Store in Hollywood, he also has a treasure trove of stories and insights on the storied history of a venue that made tons of comedians into household names! He truly cares about the people he serves and offers some great bi-weekly online classes as well as other excellent material, not the least of which is his popular book, The Money Nerve: Navigating the Emotions of Money. Find out more at TheMoneyNerve.com

On this episode, comedian and CFO of the world-famous Comedy Store in Hollywood, Bob Wheeler, share simple strategies to help you conquer your money shame and avoid making poor financial decisions by teaching how emotions can dictate our choices. As a man of true integrity with infectious energy, Bob’s crusade for personal growth has cross-pollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances. His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship with money in his recent book, The Money Nerve. While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously pursued his love of satire and ventured into the realm of standup comedy. From his thirty years of helping clients, Bob has distilled a concoction of warmth, humor, information, motivation and budgeting directives that he offers to anyone with financial concerns. He is also currently the CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store. Bob's world travels have led him to high altitudes. He has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ascended to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and hiked several smaller mountains in between.

Maureen Pelton is a Coach, Consultant, Certified Advanced QNRT Practitioner, and Bridge Builders Collaborative Partner, who uses a variety of integrative modalities in her practice. Using her intuitive gifts, Maureen offers support and guidance to those seeking their truth, wisdom and personal power on their path of self-discovery. Through her unique method of HeartSight, she invites clients to open their hearts, blend their bodies and souls and raise their consciousness to include Divine wisdom.Born as a medium with mystic abilities, Maureen has received mentoring from mystics, psychics and mediums from the United States and abroad. She sat down with me to discuss, healing energies, racial healing, trauma, and spiritual health.

www.shiftit.com

Lisa Erickson is a chakra-based energy healer, author, and teacher specializing in women’s energetics and sexual trauma healing. She has trained in many energy healing modalities and is certified in both mindfulness meditation instruction and trauma sensitivity. She is also the creator of a popular DailyOM course Awakening Your Feminine Chakras. Lisa is the author of Chakra Empowerment for Women: Self-Guided Techniques for Healing Trauma, Owning Your Power & Finding Overall Wellness. She joined me in the BalmShelter to about how working with your chakra energy can support you through life-cycles, as well as traumas that may cause disassociation with the body. This talk will help you claim your full personal power, move past any trauma holding you back, and thrive with twelve chakra tools that are based on the feminine energy body and life phases.

What impact does the classroom environment have on overall class behavior and learning? A whole lot! Kay-Twelve founder, Kevin Stoller, chats with us about the power of your classroom environment, and how changing the classroom environment can increase academic engagement and decrease disruptive behavior. Kevin's company helps academic organizations better structure learning environments to get better outcomes from their students. 

Have you experienced some kind of abuse or trauma in your life? Maybe it was handed down to you generationally, or perhaps you just found yourself on the wrong end of a relationship. Have you endured the loss of a loved one or a friendship? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are going to enjoy my interview with Tina Incarnation. 
Tina illustrates the many types of traumas she's experienced and the actions she took to survive, grieve and move on. Tina let go of the shame, guilt, anger, and fear associated with trauma and reclaimed a full life. Any listener who has experienced trauma or knows someone who has will find comfort and hope in this interview.

www.tinaencarnacion.com

Building your social capital extends the value and power behind your network of social contacts. All of which can help you further hone your reputation and get ahead in your career.

But what exactly does it look like to build social capital?  Dr. Froswa Booker Drew stopped by the BalmShelter to share some practical was to build your social capital from practicing the law of reciprocity to staying in touch with friends and family. Listen to what the most well-connected professionals have already mastered.

Dr. Froswa' Booker-Drew is an author, speaker, trainer and consultant. For more than twenty years, she has offered consulting services to a number of small businesses and organizations. With a vast, diverse network within and beyond the US, Froswa' is called a Master Networker and a Partnership Broker.

www.froswasrules.com