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Listen to Kristin as she speaks with our very own Johnnie Calloway from our Morph Into a New You podcast here on MHNR Network and Ora Nadrich, the founder and president of the IFTT, The Institute for Transformational Thinking.  They speak in-depth about thought coaching and how essentially managing our thoughts properly is what truly makes life easier.  It’s not about denying or having the thoughts that disrupt our vibe, it’s how we manage them.  

Johnnie is a Certified Thought Coach, certification by IFTT (Institute For Transformational Thinking), a thirty-four-year follower of the Twelve Step communities, and a thirty-one-year student and facilitator of ACIM, (A Course in Miracles). Through these formats, he has come to believe in the power of thought and has seen first hand how changing your thoughts, miraculously changes your life.

Ora Nadrich is the founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking and author of “Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity,” named in the 100 Best Mindfulness Books of All Time by BookAuthority. She is a certified life coach and Mindfulness teacher, specializing in transformational thinking, self-discovery, and mentoring new coaches as they develop their careers. Ora’s rare combination of insight, intuition, compassion, and charisma has made her one of the most effective and sought-after coaches in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Women’s Health Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, Fast Company, Success Magazine, Spirituality & Health, Elevated Existence, NBC News, LA Yoga Magazine, Yahoo! Health, and many more

https://johnniecalloway.com/
https://www.oranadrich.com/

Amy and Kristin talk about the newest release in the Chicken Soup for the Soul library: Listen to your Dreams: 101 Tales of Inner Guidance, Divine Intervention and Miraculous Insight. They share stories of how their own dreams have had an impact in their lives. Inspiring stories offering insight and guidance including dreams about Covid-19.

Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published more than 160 new books, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today. She is also the author of Simply Happy, a crash course in Chicken Soup for the Soul advice and wisdom that is filled with easy-to-implement, practical tips for enjoying a better life.

Amy is credited with revitalizing the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand, which has been a publishing industry phenomenon since the first book came out in 1993. By compiling inspirational and aspirational true stories curated from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences, Amy has kept the twenty-seven-year-old Chicken Soup for the Soul brand fresh and relevant.

Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University where she majored in Portuguese and minored in French. She then embarked on a three-decade career as a Wall Street analyst, a hedge fund manager, and a corporate executive in the technology field. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Her return to literary pursuits was inevitable, as her honors thesis in college involved traveling throughout Brazil’s impoverished northeast region, collecting stories from regular people. She is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career—from collecting stories “from the people” in Brazil as a twenty-year-old to, three decades later, collecting stories “from the people” for Chicken Soup for the Soul.

When Amy and her husband Bill, the CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul, are not working, they are visiting their four grown children and their grandchildren.

Follow Amy on Twitter @amynewmark. Listen to her free podcast, The Chicken Soup for the Soul Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, the Podcasts app on iPhone, or by using your favorite podcast app on other devices.

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Join Kristin and Georgia as they speak with Amanda Grieme, our own new podcaster here on the network who has recently joined us with, “H.O.L.D.F.A.S.T. Radio.” Amanda discusses a bit about her life with bipolar disorder, and how she has transitioned her ‘disorder’ into a creative and passionate outlet: writing and podcasting. As the author of ‘H.O.L.D.F.A.S.T. Ride out Parenting with Bipolar Disorder’ and ‘Paging Dr. Freedman,’ she shares her journey through life learning to make her bipolar disorder an asset rather than a hindrance. Amanda also explains exactly what H.O.L.D.F.A.S.T. stands for.

Amanda Grieme, diagnosed at the age of twenty with Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder with schizoaffective episodic delusions, it was not until Grieme’s mental tumble from the living one February, a decade later… that she was not-so-gently shown her path to be a Mental Health Awareness Advocate. Today, she lives to share how she stayed afloat in this ever-cycling existence and to help others understand they can, too.

http://www.amandagriemeauthor.com/

Join Kristin as she speaks with Reed Connell, Executive Director, and Deanna Linville, Director of Clinical Programs, at A Home Within, which helps provide free therapy for current and previous foster youth.  As Reed Connell states, A Home Within’s therapists are all part of a ‘community of hundreds of therapists nationwide who volunteer to provide one on one therapy to current and former foster youth for as long as necessary.’  In this podcast, they explain their organization and discuss how they are personally and professionally navigating the use of their passion for helping foster youth receive stable and undisrupted therapy, therapy that they will not ‘age-out’ of.  They explain how the organization also helps support the community of their therapists nationwide.

Reed Connell, Executive Director of A Home Within, has spent nearly 20 years working in foster care, mental health, housing, and special education settings and has developed a sophisticated knowledge of childrenʼs programs and policy development. Reed has worked with statewide and national coalitions to design, pass, and implement a range of important children’s legislation, and has worked with a range of nonprofit organizations and government agencies on resource, program, and capacity development. In 2014, Reed co-founded Social Change Partners, LLC to support nonprofits and government agencies in meeting the needs of children and families. Reed also works with a range of mental health systems change efforts, including Breaking Barriers and The California Children’s Trust. Reed holds an MSW degree from UC Berkeley with a concentration in Management and Planning.  

Deanna Linville, currently Director of Clinical Programs at A Home Within, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Oregon and an AAMFT approved supervisor. She has two decades of experience providing direct mental health care, clinical supervision, and training as well as conducting clinical research. Linville joined A Home Within in June 2020 to work as the program clinical director offering her clinical and research consultation services to clinical directors, volunteers, and staff. Her professional experiences to date inspire and inform her clinical research and allow her to stay on the cutting edge of best practices for training mental health professionals to provide ethical and culturally responsive care. Linville earned her MS and Ph.D. degrees at Virginia Tech in Marriage and Family Therapy as well as completed a 12-month doctoral fellowship at the Chicago Center for Family Health, where she gained specialized training and experience working in collaborative family healthcare settings. She has published over forty manuscripts as well as developed and tested numerous clinical interventions aimed to reduce health disparities, prevent eating disorders, and promote family wellness. Linville also works at the University of Oregon as an associate professor in the Couples and Family Therapy MS program.

More information and information regarding how to volunteer can be found at their website:
https://www.ahomewithin.org/