Lifelong Wellness Podcast

Dr. Cletus R. Bulach is a retired Ohio school superintendent and associate professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of numerous articles in educational journals and is co-author of the two books: School Climate and Culture Vis-à-vis Student Learning: Keys to Collaborative Problem Solving and Responsibility. The second book is Enhancing A High Performing School Culture and Climate: New Insights for Improving Schools. The second book focuses on human relations problems that interfere with creating a positive school culture and climate: Poor interpersonal communications and inability to cope with conflict.

His website is www.westga.edu/~cbulach.

Kristie Kennedy, Lifestyle Empowerment Author, and TEDx Speaker is the owner of Queenfidence Executive Image Consulting, who infuses women with confidence and clarity insights to FIND their voice, FREE their voice and look FAB*YOU*LOUS exercising their voice. She is skilled in four areas of peak performance: mindset mastery, massive momentum, magnetic messaging and potential maximization.

This queen of bodacious belief has a passion for igniting leaders who have reached an internal plateau with limitless possibilities. She is a Certified Emotional Resilience Trainer whose thought-provoking teaching style elevates your self-perception from stuck to unstoppable. Her life is a testament that you can shift from mediocrity to magnificence one audacious action step at a time.

Visit her online at www.queenfidence.com

JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of ten books about rational living, including "When everything fails, try this" (2009), "Rationality is the way to happiness" (2009), "The philosophy of builders" (2010), "The 10 principles of rational living" (2012), "Rational living, rational working" (2013), "Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief" (2014), "On becoming unbreakable" (2015), "Thriving in difficult times" (2016), "Sequentiality: The amazing power of finding the right sequence of steps" (2017), and "Undisrupted: How highly-effective people deal with disruptions" (2019).

Vespasian has lived in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and The Netherlands. His books combine his passion for history, investing, and personal development, reflecting his philosophy of rational living, productiveness, and respect for the individual. "The purpose of my work is to draw practical lessons from history," he explains. "If you want to make good decisions, you have to look at the big picture, and learn from the wisdom accumulated in centuries of human experience."

"Knowledge is the only valid response to stress, the only formula that can make you more effective," Vespasian argues. "My books contain the wisdom I have accumulated in decades of research. It's all about learning from other people's successes and mistakes, and figuring out how to apply those principles to your own life. In every book, I go through biographies and historical events with the goal of extracting from them lessons we can use right now."

Garrett Daun is a Radical Undoing™ Consultant, Personal Evolution Trainer, host of the Art of NGF podcast, and the CEO of Command Z: Academy of Mutant Evolution®️

His clients have included everyone from psychotherapists and yoga teachers to highly successful martial artists, business owners, digital nomads, ex-soldiers, and consciousness adventurers.

Lisa is a Certified Health Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer, Executive Functioning Coach, Certified Yoga Instructor, Healthy Cooking Instructor, and Corporate Wellness Specialist.

After receiving her B.S. from Cornell University where she began her personal journey towards wellness, her newly discovered passion led to receive formal training in New York City as an Accredited Health Counselor at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She also honed her culinary skills at the Natural Gourmet School and Pratt Institute.

She has been in practice for 18 years, specializing in the gut-brain connection, focusing on how the gut impacts the health of the brain and the rest of the body.

Mari L. McCarthy is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of CreateWriteNow, home of Journaling For The Health Of It™. She shows health-conscious people how to use therapeutic journaling to heal the issues in their tissues and experience, empower and express their true self. She is the multi award-winning author of Journaling Power: How To Create The Happy, Healthy Life You Want To Live and Heal Your Self With Journaling Power and creator of 20+ Journaling Power eWorkbooks including Declutter Your Life, Love Your Body and Take Control of Your Health.

Dr. Njideka N. Olatunde, the visionary and creative energy behind Focus On Healing Wellness Institute, is an accomplished Naturopath and Master Reflexologist with expertise in the cultural integration of non-traditional health care approaches for mind, body and emotional wellness. She is a recognized leader, pioneer and motivating authority on the integration of Reflexology with conventional and non-traditional healthcare practices as a medication and addictive-free pain relief alternative in addressing the opioid epidemic that is plaguing our communities

Steven Howard is an award-winning author of 20 leadership, marketing, and management books and the editor of nine professional and personal development books in the Project You series.

He specializes in creating and delivering leadership development programs for frontline leaders, mid-level leaders, supervisors, and high-potential leaders. In the past 25 years, he has trained over 10,000 leaders in Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, and North America.

He is well-known and recognized for his truly international and multicultural perspective, having lived in the USA for nearly 30 years, in Singapore for 21 years, and in Australia for 12 years. He currently resides in Southern California.

Julian Hayes II is an author, speaker, human performance & health optimization coach, and the founder of The Art of Fitness & Life.

His initial journey began in the pursuit of being a doctor. However, after one year, he left to pursue an even bigger dream. Now he helps busy and successful high performers optimize their health, energy, and personal performance with precision by leveraging genomics, technology, and systems-based thinking.

Julian’s work has been featured on numerous publications such as Entrepreneur, BodyBuilding.com, SUCCESS, MindBodyGreen, Business Insider, Chief Executive, The Chicago Tribune, and INC where he’s written over 200 columns on how to think and perform better.

Toye Penny's Story

Six years ago, I was at the height of my career when I sold my luxury day spa. On the outside, I was successful, financially flexible, and created a great lifestyle as a single mom. But on the inside, I felt overworked, exhausted, and a sense of emptiness.

Daily trips to the drive-throughs to fit eating into my busy life made me feel sluggish, and even worse, my poor habits trickled down to my daughter. Poor eating was affecting my performance as an entrepreneur and a mom.

One night I found myself feeding my daughter a chili hot dog and chips for dinner while I scarfed down 4 slices of cold pizza that I was too tired to warm up. It was then I realized there needed to be a shift. Unhealthy leftovers and unbalanced meals could no longer be our story. I immediately searched for a nutrition school and was enrolled one month later.

I studied nutrition for one year and realized that my eating was directly tied to other health areas of my life. I also realized that my lifestyle was a primary source of nutrition and my eating was just a secondary source. Unresolved issues from childhood trauma were manifesting through my food and lifestyle habits. My primary and secondary foods were unbalanced.

I TRULY believe that When you take care of yourself... mind, body, spirit, soul and eating, everything else begins to fall in place.