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About Julie Murphy

Julie Murphy is all heart, giving hope to millions to create a new life.

Julie’s professional designations are CLU, ChFC, CFP®, is an independent CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER®, author, and media expert who wants you to heal your emotions so you can prosper financially, and in life. Her new book, Awaken Your Wealth, a #1 Amazon best seller in several categories, will transform how you feel about money now into a new mindset that feeds your heart and soul and enriches your financial well-being. Living a life of Real Wealth!

People call Julie a financial healer and money therapist. After transforming her own upbringing of scarcity into a life of abundance, she’s on a mission to financially heal the world. Her approach, first expressed in The Emotion Behind Money: Building Wealth from the Inside Out, bridges the emotional right brain and the financial left brain to help people release old beliefs that limit them from achieving greater financial security.

Now, you can balance your life and experience money in a new way with the PACT system in Awaken Your Wealth: Creating a PACT to Optimize Your Money and Your Life. Build a better plan from the inside out with this four-step approach that takes you from healing to action. Learn to love yourself, and money will love you!

Julie has led a financial services and wealth management firm in Chicago, Illinois, for more than 25 years. Like many others, she had been affected by family beliefs about financial struggle. Once she realized she didn’t have to live under the shadow of those old childhood beliefs about money, Julie created a life plan of her own choosing—one based on sound investment strategies and proven emotional and mental tools and techniques.

Lisa is a serial mompreneur whose career much like a cat has had many lives.

Lisa Marie Todd is the creator of the lifestyle blog “An Appetizing Life” and a Media Visibility Coach. She helps entrepreneurs confidentially express their message so that they can build a stronger online presence.

Lisa is a Certified High Performance and Life Coach, Certified Meditation Coach, and Roger Love Method Certified Voice Coach for Speakers.

She believes it’s never too late to design and create the life you desire.

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In today's conversation, as part of our season of Intentional living, we dive into 2nd acts with founders of Kindhearted Badass Jenine Kenna and Heather Compton.

Jenine and Heather were instantly drawn to each other and developed an amazing relationship that can be felt throughout their collaborations. They absolutely adore each other and complement each other beautifully in this chapter of their lives.

In fact, here’s What Heather has to say about Jenine...

Jenine is A true Kindhearted Badass. She is a champion of women, especially mothers. A consummate cheerleader, she’s driven to show the rest of us our potential, and encourage us to fight for our own personal “more”. She’s a rebel with a cause, and I feel so lucky to get to do life alongside her. Jenine is the best friend you’ve always wanted, and now (through the Kindhearted Badass Crew) get to have.

And here’s what Jenine has to say about Heather... Ever meet someone who will always call you out on your sh!t, but do it in a way that empowers you instead of making you feel bad about yourself?  That's Heather.  She’s the original Kindhearted Badass and her passion for lifting people up and encouraging others to believe in themselves is unmatched.  Heather is the woman you've always wanted to be on a team with, and now (through the Kindhearted Badass Crew) you get to be.

To find out more about the Kindhearted Badass, check out the links below:

Part 2 of 2:

"Mindfulness in a growing multicultural world" within the theme of Intentional Living.

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"Mindfulness in a growing multicultural world" within the theme of Intentional Living.

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Pam is a natural problem solver.

She can get lost studying decluttering, organizing, habits, happiness, mindfulness, and how the brain works. Her Quirk is that she ENJOYs tidying her home!

She is the founder of the business, Mindful Decluttering & Organizing. By practice, she is a professional home organizer and decluttering guide. Since 2005, she has had the honor to help people that are overwhelmed by clutter create a calm and clutter-free space in their homes through mindful decluttering and organizing.

She passionately believes that decluttering and creating order is sacred work. She believes that “TIES” to your “things” can keep you from reaching your full potential. By releasing things that no longer serve you, you create space for new opportunities to flow effortlessly into your life.

She believes you have within you the wisdom and the power to release things that no longer serve you. Through her services, she offers compassionate guidance to support you as you discover how to tap into that knowledge.

Pam is a lover of walks in nature, married for 30 years with one grown son. She and her husband Scott are grandparents to a rescue kitty cat named Tabby.

She loves to lift people up, inspire them and encourage them to be compassionate with themselves and others.

Shoshana and Adam Chaim offer an inspirational story of how they went plant-based after Adam received devastating health news. Both had always been fitness coaches and seemingly followed a very healthy diet. However, their lives changed overnight when Adam is diagnosed with a rare tumor on his kidney. Not long after, their son developed eczema, while Shoshana struggled with PTSD. Almost overnight they decided to adopt a plant-based living lifestyle.

Gail Nott is a business coach and co-founder of LIFT, a coaching accelerator for solopreneurs. She strategizes with purpose-driven business owners to create a personalized client generation process that saves them time, shares their message, and allows them to create their legacy, without sacrificing their family life.

She is an expert at building a business around your life, instead of the other way around with over 20 years of experience in marketing, sales, and personal development.

In her free time, Gail enjoys playing and taking care of her young daughter, Caidynn, reading business and personal development books, homesteading, and camping in their RV.

Dr. Laura Jaget is a chiropractor who retired in 2020 after 28 years in practice.

She has created a brand called HOW TO LIFE®. which is geared toward teaching the younger, newer adult how to maneuver through adulthood more easily. In short, she helps to take the fear out of “adulting”!

She has a podcast called HOW TO LIFE for audio guidance and inspiration, and a YouTube channel of the same name that features short video tutorials called Mominars® that show how to perform basic life skills.

She likes to think of this content as life skills for students of all ages.

In her “adult” life so far, Dr. Jaget has been a nationally ranked NCAA Division I tennis player, a chiropractor, a business owner, a wife, a mother of four amazing, accomplished children, a healer, a teacher, dabbled in boxing, marksmanship, ballroom dancing, and is most recently, playing senior pro pickleball, which she loves!

HOW TO LIFE is her “second act” and she is having a great time producing these adulting classes and content to help motivate and inspire others!

See the links below for more information on Dr. Laura Jaget:

Jillian early on recognized the nagging feeling in her heart when she realized she wanted to serve humanity in a bigger way by using skills to build and support communities. She became a mom at a young age, which influenced many of her life choices, particularly around work-life balance. Through deep soul searching, she became aware of what gave her life purpose. Personally and professionally she intentionally paused to learn stories of others, and she realized those stories connect us. She also mindfully learned to pause and notice precious moments that connected her to nature. It’s no surprise that her professional life is about helping the community of like-minded people make meaningful connections.

Gyöngyi (pronounced “John-gee”) Ridenour was Born in

Transylvania, Romania. She grew up as a competitive athlete in

cross-country skiing and Biathlon, competed for over 10 years on

the National Biathlon level, winning national champion titles for

many consecutive years. After graduating from high school, her

life path changed when she decided to learn to downhill ski and

snowboard, completing certifications to become a ski/snowboard

instructor. She taught in Romania, Austria, and California for

many winter seasons. She is a certified PSIA II level Ski and X-

country instructor. In the 2021-2022 season, she will be teaching X-

country skiing at Tahoe Donner Cross Country Center.

While living in Austria, she was introduced to the sacred sound of

Tibetan Singing Bowls. She felt an instant change in her life after

a few sessions – her confidence surged, and she was feeling

much happier, grounded, and balanced. Gyöngyi was very

inspired by the energy work she experienced and wanted to serve

others via this healing method, so she studied and was certified in

sound healing. She continued her education, attending and

organizing level 1,2 Sound Healing Workshops in Lake Tahoe &

LA Quinta with school in India. www.iash.in

GyöHarmony Sound and Healing Arts offer a personalized and

holistic approach to helping you reach your goals through

improving your emotional and spiritual well-being. GyöHarmony

offers Sound Healing, Yoga, Reiki, Spiritual Life Coaching, Ionic

foot bath detox, Essential oil education, AromaTouch massage

with essential oils. Whether in their beautiful studio or at a private

event, they offer customized sound healings for every age and

group size. Founder/Owner Gyöngyi Ridenour is also certified to

offer Level 1-2 Sound Healing training at the GyöHarmony studio

in Truckee. Healing with Sound goes beyond the physical body,

allows the body, mind, and spirit to align, release and heal any part

of ourselves, to create the life you dreamed of in your reality.

To learn more about Gyöngyi see her social media links below:

Rebecca is a Certified Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurvedic Lifestyle Practitioner RYT-200 I started my yoga practice at age 18 as a way to improve her endurance and keep her body healthy while skiing.

At the time, she didn't realize the profound positive effect this mindfulness practice would have on my mental health. As a survivor of childhood trauma that seemed to keep repeating, she suffered from severe depression and anxiety that nearly ended her life.

Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness were a big part of her healing journey and continue to be resources in her everyday life.

Rebecca is committed to helping others as a mindfulness educator. She started her career in mindfulness working for the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California. There she learned from some of the most influential thought leaders of our time. After receiving the highest level of education from the Chopra Center, she worked as a wellness Event Manager and was able to be a part of hundreds of workshops, seminars, training, and retreats focusing on using mindfulness tools to help people feel better.

Her dad is a Marine veteran who served in the Vietnam war. She has specialized training and nearly 10 years of experience teaching trauma-conscious yoga and meditation to military veterans and their families.

She believes by giving yourself nutritious food, sleep, mindfulness practices, and surrounding yourself with the support you are cultivating resilience. Resilience to ride the ups and downs of life and enjoy the ride.

Her mantra is, “I do this for me. I do this for you. I do this for love.”

To connect with Rebecca, view the links below:

Nadia is an Energy Healer, Empowerment Coach, and Ceremonial Cacao Facilitator, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and currently living in London, UK.

She is an advanced transformational certified Coach and Energy Healer, who helps female leaders who feel they’ve ticked off most of society's success boxes but still feel stressed, unfulfilled, stuck, and yearn for more purpose, joy, and inner alignment.

She helps them get out of their overthinking minds and unlock more inner peace and awaken to their power, so that they can trust themselves and fulfill a meaningful life of freedom and happiness, on their terms.

In her work, she uses various modalities such as subconscious reprogramming, mindset, meditation, kundalini yoga, breathwork, and the plant medicine of ceremonial cacao, to help go deeper, clear emotional blocks, and shift limitations, so that women can transform their life from the inside out.

For more on Nadia, visit her social media links listed below:

Josh ‘Yehoshua’ Brill is a master musician, instructor of Nada Yoga, and sound healer devoted to using music as a medium to facilitate inner peace, awareness, and consciousness through musical mindfulness practices that he has learned and developed.

Annie is an Integrative Health Coach and works in collaboration with Wisdom 2.0 as their Director of Community Engagement, a production company that brings awareness and mindfulness to living in today's technology-driven world. In partnership, she runs healthy, collaborative digital communities, and she designs, produces, and hosts digital courses and events. 

She has recently become a Zoom-master thanks to the Pandemic and specializes in creating Digital Intimacy and meaningful conversation online. 

She has been an influencer, writer, photographer in the Outdoor and Nature industry for years as a full-time mom.  She's now taking the entrepreneur spirit to the next level and in the new year will launch a unique, community-driven Nature-based wellness platform around the Joy and healing wisdom of Nature. She is a mom to three teenagers and a puggle-chihuahua named Aspen. 

She is often found on a mountain-top engaging in athletic pursuits and considers herself a Compassionate, Joyful Warrior. Goes without saying, Annie complements our holistic wellness series with grace and joy.

Learn more about Annie through her social media links:

Julie Wright is an entrepreneur, speaker, sleep ambassador, and author of The Natural Sleeper [Tiller Press / Simon & Schuster] - an introduction to an extensive range of natural, complementary, and alternative solutions, therapies, techniques, practices, and tips to help improve our sleep.

Lara is a Holistic Health Educator with certifications as an Ayurveda Lifestyle and Pranic Healing from the Chopra Center and as a Clinical Herbalist.

Her vision is to share with joy, the wisdom of medicinal plants, to bring healing and well-being

She guides her clients utilizing the many tools she has acquired on her journeys, such as meditation, Ayurveda, energy healing, crystals, oracle cards, and plant allies, and the fungi world

When she thinks of wellbeing she believes it is not a mere start to finish goal. The work is never finished. She describes well being as a dance of interacting within ourselves and others; and it is an act of balance, requiring that we learn to listen to ourselves,

Lara believes that Sometimes we need more fire, more water, more earth, or more wind. Lara believes that We are the magicians of our reality and keeping our body mind and spirit healthy is our art.

Learn more about Lara through her social media links:

Kirsten Johnson has been in the Fitness and Wellness industry for over 25 years both in Europe and the United States. She has been instrumental in developing new and innovative group fitness programs, educating instructors around the world, and managing high-end fitness companies in Hamburg, Germany as well as San Diego and The Bay Area in California, US. She continues to follow her passion and training in psychology and started teaching Wellness Retreats in California and Mexico, offering Mind Body classes like Yoga, Pilates, and NIA dance as well as NSM® Neurodynamic Self -Management course. Her background in psychology coaching teaching Neurodynamic Self-Management seminars allows her to help clients with a deeper understanding of their intentions and learn how to create new habits to live a more fulfilled life. 

[Correction: In our intro, we mistakenly mention Chernobyl as Lena's native town from Russia, when in fact she is from Zhitomir, Russia]

From fleeing Zhitomir Russia, as a young girl to Corporate Executive, Lena’s journey is a story of grit and resilience.

At the tender age of 2, during the heat of communism in Russia, Lena and her family lived behind a closet in a one-bedroom apartment issued by the government.

At the age of 3, Lena and her family are forced to escape her hometown of Zhitomir because of the poisonous gases.

By the time she is 7, Lena flees Russia with her parents and two sets of elderly grandparents without a dollar to their name and no worldly possessions. Escaping to the US as refugees in pursuit of a better life.

This young girl goes on pushing through all obstacles, translating for her family, growing, learning, prevailing against all odds. Never giving up and pulling her family and loved ones along with her with a heart of light and gratitude.

Lena is now a technology leader, a corporate executive director of the technology enablement vertical at TEKsystems, a mother of two increíble children, a wife to an amazing man, someone who uses her voice to help those around her, even when she’s tired.

Lena encourages others to know that YOU are enough and nothing is impossible with a light heart, persistence, and humor. This life is meant to be lived and we are all here for a reason so let’s.

Live. Do. Be.

Denise Bonaimo Sarram was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and on the New Jersey shore.  She relocated to Southern California in 2001 where she lives with her husband and son.

A graduate from Rowan University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and specializing in metalsmithing and jewelry making, Denise also studied foundation art at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and spent an adventurous semester abroad traveling around Great Britain and taking college courses at Northumbria University in England.

Denise’s art assemblages and jewelry designs are thoughtfully executed with an artful eye, skillful hand, and heartfelt intentions. She is immensely grateful to have been immersed in a career creating, exhibiting, and teaching art and has also been instrumental in the local community to foster an environment of creative enrichment for various organizations for the last 25 years.

Focusing on jewelry design for many years, she has always approached it as “small scale sculpture” so making the shift towards larger-scale sculptural assemblage art was a natural progression. She bolts, drills, glues, collages, paints, sands, saws, molds, bends, sews, wire wraps, and forges the various parts of her designs to achieve a work of art that is both masterfully crafted and aesthetically intriguing.

Denise works on multiple works of art simultaneously, using elements from her extensive collection of found objects which she forages from thrift stores, antique stores, and resale shops. Throughout her entire career, there has been a theme of upcycling (which is the process of converting waste materials or cast-away objects into something of intrinsic, aesthetic, or practical value).

The theme of her current body of artwork orbits around her Sicilian family’s immigrant experiences in America and their journeys across the sea. Her pieces show the resilience of her people and that’s why she is a perfect fit for our theme of the month: Resilience.

Keelin is a professional graphic designer, illustrator, and artist.

She’s worked at Amazon for the last 10 years.

While working at Amazon, she created an artistic event called the Amazon ArtWalk.

In 2010 Keelin was diagnosed with MS.

She chose to face this adversity by taking action, so in 2014 she created a bike race team for a cure.

While still searching for the right cure, she gave birth to her son. Shortly afterward she became a single mom, still searching for a cure.

The following year she underwent three years of a newly-FDA-approved treatment, which has kept her in semi-permanent remission.

Fast forward to 2021, and Keelin is now writing a book about her journey with MS.

She hopes to share her story of resilience by offering insights on how she managed her MS through a holistic lifestyle that includes meditation, acupuncture, and yoga, cycling, rock climbing, and walking everywhere.

Keelin believes resilience is a hard-earned personality trait. It is a badge of survival. Resilience to Keelin means always looking for the silver lining, finding gratitude especially within difficult lessons, and never giving up.

Nathalie teaches resilience and well-being through science-based positive psychology tools.

Her corporate experience acquired at several Fortune 500 companies coupled with her academic studies, her curiosity, and her love of learning have made her passionate about human psychology.

She is enthusiastic about sharing her passion for evidence-based well-being practices that everyone can implement to build a more resilient self, increase their well-being and flourish!

We are all faced with stressors, whether at work, within our family, or in our social lives. The key is to develop practical and simple tools to acquire relevant resources to mitigate their impact.

Nathalie translates the latest academic research into engaging workshops, where participants can expect to learn key concepts and most importantly the best way to apply them to everyday life situations.

Learn more about Nathalie through her social media links:

Since a little girl, Ashley has been enamored by the power of documenting moments in time. Photography was embedded in her soul.

For years, photography was a “side hustle”, something she did at nights and weekends after working her, as she says, “responsible 9-5.”  It’s only after the profound question “Am I really living or am I simply existing?” came to her, that everything changed.

She immediately brought to life a lifelong dream of teaching and living in Africa. She taught English on Mafia Island, Tanzania with World Teach, and there, she fell in love with herself, life, and with a sensationally sincere South African man, who is now her husband. She also got certified to teach around the world - which brought her to living and teaching in South Africa and Costa Rica. All the while letting her camera guide her heart and encapsulating all of the beauty she was witnessing.

Upon returning to the United States With $700 and an old car to her name, she made the bold commitment to launch her photography business, Ashley Strong Photography, full time.

Little by little, her client base started to expand, her commitment to creating an intentional business started to grow and before she knew it, she was documenting weddings around the world, inspirational entrepreneurs in her hometown, families expanding and every expression of love in-between. In 2018, she incorporated as Strong Smith, Inc and since then, she’s been humbled to expand every year. Ashley also launched Wings of a Flower Print shop - an exclusive collection of prints from Costa Rica, South Africa, and Tanzania and her mentoring and education program all while being a mama to her inspirational, unique, adventurous, and loving little girl.

Today, you can find her with her humble little family nestled in the mountains of Southern California where she spends time documenting sincere love in all forms from engagements to weddings, pregnancies to birth, new businesses to celebrating monumental growth, and everything in between.

For more on Ashely, visit her social media links listed below:

Angel Is a woman of many hats with one mission - empowerment and transformation of the individual and the things they impact. All of her work is geared at her clients being able to see where they have choices, options, autonomy, and responsibility in their life. She truly believes that Knowing these things is the path to a fulfilled life, and achieving success in any endeavor.

As an attorney, she focuses on small business, estate planning, and landlord/tenant-related matters. She works with small and micro businesses to set them up with strategic systems, implementing a firm foundation to grow from proactively (instead of just calling a lawyer when there's trouble). She works with people and families to ensure they are set up in a way that allows for their loved ones to have what they need when they are no longer here.

She is an Instructor of Project Management for the University of Washington and a career focus coach.  She is a poet, writer, traveler, and participant in a joyful life. She is also living proof that a multi-dimensional existence is possible, and that time and resources are abundantly available to a person in rhythm with their purpose and mission. And in her words… The revolution of humanity starts with a single individual waking up to their highest potential and living it.

Lisa Virtue is a super mom, career coach, author, and mompreneur who during a 20-year career in leadership roles, had the privilege of conducting hundreds of interviews, hiring, mentoring, and promoting countless staff. She knew what it took for candidates to stand out. This experience, along with her love of the job search process, naturally drew people to seek advice from her on their careers.

In helping others through their career journeys, she found her passion - it never got old and gave her joy and passion. She mindfully became aware THAT is what she was meant to do every day.

On this very 1st MMM podcast episode, we share our stories and what helped us emerge out of doubt and into what we love.