EPISODE 78: Life of Purpose and Meaning with Paul Sheppard

Join me in an enlightening conversation with education advocate and change agent, Tammy Quist. With over three decades of experience in education, Tammy sheds light on the crucial importance of early childhood education and the need for reformation in secondary education. In this episode, Tammy emphasizes the formative years before age six, highlighting how children absorb experiences and develop their identities. She stresses the significance of positive language and allowing children to be self-expressed, urging parents and educators to foster environments that nurture confidence and curiosity. Reflecting on her own journey and the challenges she's overcome, Tammy unveils the power of self-awareness and empathy in education. She shares insights from her innovative approach, including immersive "shuffle" experiences where educators step into students' shoes to gain perspective. As a visionary leader, Tammy is spearheading initiatives to revolutionize education, including nationwide focus groups to gather diverse perspectives on reform. Through collaborative efforts and a commitment to empathy-driven education, Tammy and her team are paving the way for a brighter future in learning. To get involved in the conversation and join upcoming focus groups, email [email protected]. Stay connected with Tammy on Instagram @TammyQuist and Facebook @TammyQuistOfficial. And don't forget to text "TRUE" to 26786 for exclusive insights and a complimentary discovery call with one of our coaches. Tune in to this empowering episode and unlock your potential to make a difference in education and beyond. Remember, the journey to change starts with you. Stay true to the amazing person you are!

Born and raised in Cali, Hilary always dreamed of shaking it up, but never expected it to happen in the male-dominated Silicon Valley. She made her mark only to burn out and run for the hills (literally). Today, she's proud to have championed a movement that evens the odds for women to relaunch into complete abundance by empowering a mindset to thrive and a skillset to scale their lives and businesses. With a psychology degree in my back pocket, her journey took a surprising turn towards sales… A sphere that now feels like second nature, as the sweet spot in sales was understanding and influencing the hearts and minds of buyers. At 30, she made her first million. She navigated the testosterone-filled terrain of Silicon Valley and climbed the corporate ladder until she was named “Top Account Manager Worldwide”, increasing sales quotas by 500%. In the midst of all this, her world got beautifully upended when she became a mom to twins. That’s when success got a total makeover. From the start of her career, success always seemed to be right at her fingertips… Website: ⁠⁠⁠lorenlahav.com⁠⁠⁠ Follow us at 👇 Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/iamlorenlahav⁠

Lauren served as a Senior Promotion Producer at Court TV and she’s worked for various TV networks including WABC, WNBC, CNBC, King World and MTV. She holds her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami and majored in Telecommunications and Drama. LAUREN ALSO SPENT ONE YEAR LEARNING ABOUT THE NONPROFIT WORLD AT THE WEXNER HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Website: ⁠⁠lorenlahav.com⁠⁠ Follow us at 👇 Facebook: ⁠⁠facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/iamlorenlahav⁠

The founder of MOMentum Park, Dr. Renaisa Anthony, was born prematurely to a single mother in one of the lowest-income zip codes in Detroit, Michigan. Her direct experience and those of her neighbors taught her how poverty, race, access to education, food, and shelter, and other social determinants impact people’s health throughout their lives. As a result, Dr. Anthony is personally and professionally dedicated to health equity by improving the health and lives of underserved and low-resourced communities through medicine, public health, policy, and technology. She built MOMentum Park to continue and expand these decades-long efforts. Website: ⁠lorenlahav.com⁠ Follow us at 👇 Facebook: ⁠facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial⁠ Instagram: ⁠instagram.com/iamlorenlahav

Aleta St. James is an internationally renowned energy healer, gifted intuitive and life coach. She has always been a dynamo, a ground breaker, and transformational force ahead of her time. Aleta made International news when she gave birth to twins at 57. Her children, Gian and Francesca, have now turned 19 and are on the road to creating their lives from passion and purpose. A successful author of Life Shift: Let Go and Live Your Dreams; Aleta St James has been featured on major media including The Today Show, NBC’s Dateline with Katie Couric, Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, The Real Housewives of New York, and the cover of New York magazine. Aleta has traveled the globe studying with spiritual masters in the Temples of southern India, central Brazil, and from the jungles of Peru to the heights of Machu Picchu. She’s been called the “Indiana Jones of the Soul.” Aleta has combined her mastery of Eastern and Western practices to create her powerfully transformational Life Shift and healing experience. In private sessions, retreats and online workshops, Aleta has the ability to read what blocks are in her client’s physical, mental, emotional bodies and through channelled 5th and 7th dimension energy she facilitates their ability to let go of those negative imprints and belief systems in the cells of the body. Aleta then activates their ability to embody their 5th and 7th dimensional spiritual energy and be the creator of unlimited possibilities in their lives. In Act 3, Aleta has turned her purpose and passion to activating the ageless factor in her life and transmitting her ability into the world. And just as naysayers told her that she couldn’t have twins at 57 and can’t live until 120 Aleta’s answer is “just watch me”. In being ahead of her time, Aleta now leads “Be Ageless” retreats in Cabo, Mexico and New York, along with on-line courses and private sessions transforming every aspect of life. The success of Aleta’s work is illustrated in many testimonials acclaiming her ability to skyrocket her clients to the top of their professions, as well as creating extraordinary financial freedom, loving relationships, and manifesting successful pregnancies. Aleta has long been an advocate of alternative and regenerative medicine. In the early 90s, Aleta was asked to lecture NYU medical students as part of Harvard’s mind, body and spirit initiative, which was inspired by the author Robert Bly; She is now an Affiliate Partner of the forthcoming Yale Mental Health & Spirituality Center. She also helped launch the Equinox wellness centers and created her ground breaking, sold out, class ‘Energy Transformations’.  In addition, Aleta has presented at prestigious institutions such as Mount Sinai Medical Center, Fordham University, Hunter College, Canyon Ranch, and New York’s 92nd Street Y often being called upon as an intuitive Business Consultant and legal strategist. She also had a column in Men’s Health called “Ask Aleta” where she answered questions about relationships and sexuality for men. She lives in NYC with her miracle twins and is ready to launch into this next exciting level of her life.

Dr Nahas’s private practice in Covington, GA is 45 minutes east of Atlanta, GA. For more than 20 years, Dr Nahas has provided general pediatric care to the children of Newton, Rockdale , Walton and Jasper counties, guiding parents with a holistic touch. In 2016, after observing the growing trend of ADHD and Autism in her patients, she began researching options for the best integrative solutions, in order to recover the health of these patients, as more and more parents were asking Dr Nahas for less medication use, and more natural ways to remedy their kids. Dr Nahas is glad to have found the answers through exploring Functional Medicine, and to be able to now offer a cutting edge approach to managing acute and chronic health conditions , like asthma, eczema, headaches, abdominal pain and an array of autoimmune conditions, as well as neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and adhd. Dr Nahas brings a caring and collaborative, yet no-nonsense approach to regaining health. Her belief is that if we support the natural healing abilities of our bodies, by providing good nutrition, and understanding the immune system triggers so we can remove those harmful agents, then we can restore health without using too many medications which may just cover up the symptoms and don’t really provide a cure. The goal is to get to the root cause of the dysfunction by analyzing what is going on at a cellular and biochemical level in the body, not just at the organ systems level, and put in place a customized program that is as much preventative as it is healing ,to each individual patient. Dr Nahas lives in Oxford , with her husband, 2 teenagers, a dog and 2 cats. In her downtime, she enjoys nature walks, yoga, reading and studying spiritual material, and watching murder mystery or comedy movies.

In this episode I'm with Tamberly Conway, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Conservation Conexions, LLC, serves as a Certified Forest and Nature Therapy Guide, a Certified Forest Therapy Trail Consultant and an International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist.  Dr. Conway served for 12 years with the USDA Forest Service Conservation Education Program in Texas and Washington, D.C., where she focused upon diversity engagement, health and nature connections, forest health/human health relationships, conservation education and community empowerment in conservation.  During her tenure with the USFS, she became trained as a certified forest therapy guide and worked to propel Forest Therapy within the agency and among diverse communities.  She left the US Forest Service in January 2020 to launch Conservation Conexions, a woman-owned business focused upon weaving the forest therapy practice into the forestry, conservation and corporate sectors, as a methodology to support the health and wellbeing of people and the land, while promoting healthy soils, water conservation and tending of newly planted trees to provide nature-based healing opportunities and nature-based solutions for resilient communities.   Tamberly now serves as an international speaker and collaborator, bringing the forest and nature immersion practice into the folds of conservation, community engagement, leadership and women’s empowerment.      Tamberly holds a B.S. in Wildlife Management, a M.S. in Forest Recreation Management, and a Ph.D. in Forestry, focusing on Human Dimensions in Natural Resources.   Follow us at 👇 Website: ⁠lorenlahav.com⁠ Facebook: ⁠facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial⁠ Instagram: ⁠instagram.com/iamlorenlahav⁠ Follow Tamberly Conway at 👇 Website: https://conservationconexions.com/

In this episode I'm with Jessie Lee Ward. Jessie Lee aka BossLee is the number one Network Marketer in the world, multiple 7-figure annual earner, serial entrepreneur, investor, traditional business owner, business coach and podcaster.In less than 4 years, she has built her current network marketing team to over 1.6 Million customers and 21,000 promoters worldwide in 41 different countries. Jessie Lee’s top-rated Entrepreneur Podcast, The People’s Mentor, currently has 6 million downloads and counting!The brand and following she has built on social media amounts to over a million loyal followers with 300K on Instagram, 150K on Facebook, and 173K on TikTok. Follow us at 👇 Website: lorenlahav.com Facebook: facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial Instagram: instagram.com/iamlorenlahav Follow Jessie Lee at 👇 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imbossleeimbosslee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imbosslee/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyCOcUYXtpubw1aY7v6Kdjw Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@imbosslee?lang=en

In this episode I'm with Dr. BJ Miller. He is a longtime hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability.  BJ has worked in all settings of care: hospital, clinic, residential facility, and home. Led by his own experiences as a patient, BJ advocates for the roles of our senses, community and presence in designing a better ending. His interests are in working across disciplines to affect broad-based culture change, cultivating a civic model for aging and dying and furthering the message that suffering, illness, and dying are fundamental and intrinsic aspects of life. His career has been dedicated to moving healthcare towards a human centered approach, on a policy as well as a personal level. BJ has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care and the intersection of healthcare with design. His 2015 TED Talk: “Not Whether But How” (aka “What Matters Most at the End of Life”), has been viewed over 15 million times and his work has also been the subject of multiple interviews and podcasts, including Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, GOOP, Krista Tippett, Tim Ferriss and the TED Radio Hour.  His book, A Beginner’s Guide to the End, was co-authored with Shoshana Berger and published in 2019.  Additional Info Following undergraduate studies in art history at Princeton, BJ received his MD from University of California San Francisco as a Regents' Scholar and completed his internal medicine residency at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, where he served as chief resident. He completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Harvard Medical School, with clinical duties split between Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Miller is a member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and has received their Palliative Medicine Community Leadership Award. He serves as a Medical Advisor for the Partnership for Palliative Care, and is the Honorary Medical Chair to the Dream Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves terminally ill adults and their families.  Follow us at 👇 Website: lorenlahav.com Facebook: facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial Instagram: instagram.com/iamlorenlahav Dr. B.J. Miller Website: https://www.thecenterfordyingandliving.org/about-bj-miller Follow B.J. Miller at 👇 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bj-miller-md

In this episode I'm with Dolce Conde. Dolce Conde is an entrepreneur and consultant with a deep commitment and focus on healthcare. Among other enterprises, she is the CEO and founder of KnowingLabs, a clinical laboratory specializing in performance testing created to empower the community to monitor and improve their health and wellness proactively. As a business strategist, Dolce runs an international consulting firm that educates and supports women in different stages of their business. Website: lorenlahav.com Follow us at 👇 Facebook: facebook.com/LorenLahavOfficial Instagram: instagram.com/iamlorenlahav Dolce Conde Website: knowinglabs.com Follow Dolce Conde at 👇 Facebook: facebook.com/knowinglabs Instagram: instagram.com/knowinglabs