Between The Before & After (The Stories that Shape Us)

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If you love the show and would like to support it, please share this episode!  You can also Buy Me A Coffee ! ☕❤️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/coachjonm      As an indie podcaster, that would mean the world to me! Meg's beginnings were humble - She grew up with immigrant parents, her dad was an alcoholic, and mom was very verbally abusive towards herself and her brothers Meg grew up believing tha...

Kirby is a leadership coach, and a combat veteran and hosts the TRUE Success podcast. His 26-year leadership and human capital experience have allowed him to provide results-driven, laser-focused, purpose-to-impact coaching to high-potential professionals since 2014. Kirby’s family-oriented (father of 5 children), faith-based, and values-driven approach shows up in his life’s work and mission to r...

Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M. Brown now calls the North Carolina coast home. In 2017, after finally getting out of an emotionally abusive 14-year marriage, Teri began dabbling in fiction, a lifelong dream. In 2020, she and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully healing her heart while raising mon...

Karyn Seitz calls herself The Happiness Mentor. A far cry from the rebellious self-destructive partier that she was through her teens and 20's. The greatest gift she ever gave herself was realizing she is the problem in her life and learning to take responsibility. Now, she teaches others how to be happy by taking responsibility and growing and learning through life's challenges. As a former spiri...

Growing up in a suburb in India, Mitadru did not have the opportunity to study English until graduation from high school. He had his share of struggles, especially speaking up during meetings when he started working for a US Bank. At times he could not understand the western accent and then could not articulate thoughts during conference calls because he was nervous. His career started much before...

Sara Im spent four years in captivity in Cambodia, witnessing the genocide of over 2 million people. After enduring starvation and extreme exhaustion in a work camp under the Communist Khmer Rouge, Sara fled to the United States and now shares her story. Sara's story begins immersed in death and injustice but emerges with hope, freedom, and new life. Sara Im is a graduate of Western Connecticut St...

Tina McDermott spent most of her life struggling with digestive issues. She didn't understand that the embarrassing gas, bloating, constipation, and yo-yo weight gain/loss were all interconnected. Tina endured these issues until her 30s when she discovered she had Lyme disease that had gone undetected for years, wreaking unknown havoc on her body the entire time. Since then, Tina has spent years f...

Dylan Sessler is an empath, survivor, author, mental health advocate, speaker, and US Army Veteran.  He is a survivor of parental suicide, PTSD, child abuse, bullying, war, life-changing injuries along with depression and anxiety. He has since overcome PTSD, depression, and anxiety through intense self-awareness, learning, and focused self-empathy. He has spent his life learning how to understand...

CONNECT WITH JENN:Jenn's story is about a young girl growing up surrounded by and experiencing abuse, poverty, and addiction, and later as a woman, struggling through traumatic losses including infertility, miscarriage, the loss of her adult son as well as some family members as she stepped out to share her testimony. Jenn's journey goes from being an innocent child caught in the middle of a storm...

JM Ryerson has been fortunate enough to build 4 companies in his professional career. But, in this image-driven world, we miss the real behind-the-scenes stories of how someone has become successful. He has made a ton of mistakes, learned a lot, and enjoyed every minute of it. Let's Go Win is his "Legacy" company and truly is his purpose in life. The company exists to inspire people to live their...

Jolene shares her story of learning to cope with anger as a young girl after her parent's divorce and later with anxiety as she pursued higher education in earth sciences. Jolene shares how she has had to come to grips with her father being diagnosed with early-onset dementia and how that experience has changed how she thinks about health and nutrition and the reasons she pursues it. Jolene goes f...

When Olivia was 15, she was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called PANS, a condition that occurs suddenly after a virus gets into the brain and causes the immune system to attack the brain. Couch-bound for years, Olivia had a painful sensitivity to common sounds, lights, and touch, and she would have episodes where she would shake involuntarily, not being able to speak or think coherentl...

Ryan Cote (co-tay) is the Founder of Morning Upgrade, a business dedicated to raising the awareness of personal development and morning routines. In Ryan's Words: "My beautiful wife, Jill, and I raise our three daughters in New Jersey where we have lived most of our lives.  I come from a family of entrepreneurs and help run my family’s direct mail and digital marketing company,  Ballantine , with...

Hollywood Capone suddenly lost his best friend with no warning.  In the midst of his grief, Hollywood takes to writing "The Ashes", a fictional yet autobiographical novella about his best friend's death, in order to make sense of what happened.  Through his writing, Hollywood was able to take something terrible and turn it into something positive.  Hollywood's story goes from loss and frustration...

For more than the first half of his life, Kevin Kepple did everything "his way". Kevin was great at his career, but internally he was struggling with low self esteem, comparison, and imposter syndrome. Kevin was addicted to alcohol and always felt the need to be right, but today he is 14 years sober and working with people who inspire him daily. Kevin's story goes from an over-inflated ego and alc...