Small Changes Big Shifts

"Changing your words, changes your thoughts, and changes your feelings." A simple yet powerful concept. Zaheen Nanji, author, motivator and thought leader, says this often as she believes it is the key to resilience. Zaheen has faced difficult times in her life from dealing with a stutter into her 20's, moving from Kenya to Canada at the age of 15 without her parents to battling breast cancer. It...

How do we tune in to our authentic self? The self that is us in the truest form and can tell us 100% whether something is right or wrong? Laura Coe, former healthcare entrepreneur guru turned author and podcast host, found she was asking herself this question quite often before she truly knew what it meant. Laura has a knack for taking philosophy and ancient wisdom and teaching others how to apply...

Imagine you are running a successful company for decades and then you lose it all. What would you do? This happened to Dr. Phil Carson and he is now the epitome of starting over and picking yourself back up. Dr. Phil ran a pharmacy practice and then lost it all and what was the one thing that turned his life around after this happened? A book on natural medicine. In school, he had learned about th...

If you were told you only had a couple months to live due to a terminal illness, what would you do? Dr. Nasha Winters, N.D. and CEO of Optimal Terrain, was told this at the young age of 19 as she was diagnosed with cervical cancer after dealing with multiple health issues. Dr. Nasha took her diagnosis and decided she wanted to go out on her own terms so she went to the library and the book, Quantu...

Dr. Mao Shing Ni is a licensed acupuncturist, Diplomate of Chinese Herbology and a Diplomate in Anti-Aging. His family has had roots in acupuncture going back 37 generations and Dr. Mao fell into the practice at a young age. When he was six, he fell from a three story roof and was in a coma for one month. He suffered from brain damage and a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed and was told h...

Randy Floyd is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker and Founder of Midwest Anxiety. Randy has been practicing since 2009 and is known for providing "real life" help to children, teens, and adults who struggle with anxiety, depression and negative thoughts or feelings. This "real life" help comes from the fact that Randy does not practice out of a traditional office but instead goes to peop...

Jodie Benveniste, a Registered Psychologist and creator of the Intuitive Parenting App, is helping parents get out of our heads and use other parts of ourselves to raise our children. She focuses on using our hearts, souls and intuition to better our relationships with our kids and ourselves.

Patti Phillips, CEO of Women Leaders in College Sports, is committed to the advancement and development of women in all aspects of life. She has been involved in athletics her whole life from coaching college basketball to being a color analyst for ESPN to now empowering women in college sports and beyond.

Ed Harrold is a Certified Yoga Instructor as well as being certified in Advanced Pranayama and as an Advanced Meditation Teach. He also created the Mind Body Athlete performance training program. Ed has been involved in competitive athletics his whole life but it wasn't until he was competing in the Around the Island Swim (22 ½ mile swim) in 1994 that he faced his ultimate turning point. In this r...

Dr. Nandi is the creator and host of the nationally and internationally syndicated television show Ask Dr. Nandi, which can be seen in over 95 million home daily. He also is a practicing physician and international speaker.

Holly Rilinger is not only a coach, trainer and speaker but also the star of Bravo's elite fitness show, Work Out New York. Holly began playing basketball at a young age and found that it brought her peace and happiness and knew that her passion had been sparked. She was able to take basketball to the next level by going professional and then looked elsewhere to fulfill her passion and landed on p...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Ananta Ripa Ajmera. Ananta is author of the bestselling book The Ayurveda Way (Storey Publishing, 2017). She is a Certified Ayurveda Health Practitioner and Yoga Instructor who continues to study closely with Acharya Shunya, a renowned master teacher whose lineage extends back to ancient India.

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Sandy Joy Weston. Sandy's mission is to spread Joy. She uses fitness and her gift of motivation as her tools to help individuals achieve their goals with ease and flow.

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Dr. Gabrielle Pelicci. In 2006, Gabrielle, a former international fashion model, became "Dr. Gabby" when she completed her Ph. D. and started changing lives with her transformational courses and coaching. 

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Sandra Yancey. The quest to find a solution to a common problem standing in the way of business success is how Sandra entrepreneurial path took root to grow. Networking for business was her nemesis. In 2000, from a room above the garage of her Dallas, Texas suburban home -- with limited entrepreneurial experience -- Sandra boot-strapped her way to create o...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Sarah King. Whenever someone asks Sarah why she founded Invigorate, they assume someone in her family had Parkinson's and motivated her to commit her career to the disease. Sorry to disappoint, folks. Sarah has always been fiercely passionate about helping others achieve the best version of themselves and she believes strongly in the ability of the human b...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have David Norcott. David is an entrepreneur, an athlete, a tri athlete, ironman, Para Olympian in training and also a life coach certified by surviving life itself and all its traumas. He is a Wellness Coach and Personal Trainer for the Benbrook YMCA, the YMCA of metropolitan Fort Worth, Texas. Davis is a retired Paramedic and Fire fighter after horrific and t...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Dr. Richard Day. Dr. Day and his wife, Dr. Haley Day, returned to the Kansas City area from Colorado in 2014, bringing fifteen years of combined clinical experience with them. While in Colorado, they established a chiropractic practice built on the principles of providing high-quality, evidence-based, informed chiropractic care and related services to the...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Tammy Fadler. Tammy is a Speaker, Investor, Entrepreneur, Developer, and author of the best selling memoir Finding the Pearl. Tammy Fadler's origins guide her philosophy to this day. Born in Vietnam and the oldest of 12 children, she worked in food service for the U.S. Army for the six years before the American military pullout in 1973. Without the U.S. pr...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Matthew Thie. Matthew is the President of Touch for Health Education. Matthew collaborated directly with his father, John Thie, from 1996 until John's death in August of 2005, just before the new book was released. Mat worked with John developing healing protocol, writing articles, teaching seminars around the world and working with students. Matthew has t...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Dr. Melissa Cady. Change happens when we accept the Challenge to strive toward a goal. Never Give Up! The ChallengeDoctor.com website is here to encourage you to do a little bit more to improve yourself. It is an efficient and useful source of information for anyone trying to make better choices despite the unlimited temptations and conveniences found in o...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Dr. Leslie Tidwell. Dr. Tidwell is the creative mind behind SavvyLadyPatient.com. This business has been a long time coming. Deep in Dr. Tidwell's subconscious mind she has always known that she was a teacher and a healer. But she ran in circles for years, always feeling that she was getting close to her calling, yet never hitting the target.

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Liz Koch. Liz is an international teacher & author with 30 years experience working with and specializing in the psoas muscle. Educating both laypersons and professionals around the world, she is recognized by colleagues in the movement, wellness, and fitness professions as an authority on the core muscle of t he human body.

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Byron Morrison. Byron is the author of the book 'Become a Better You', as well as a Lifestyle and Weight Loss Coach. Byron know firsthand exactly how daunting and overwhelming it can be. Just like most people, he used to struggle with the entire concept of what a healthier lifestyle is all about and why it is so important. Byron paid no attention to what h...

Today on Small Changes Big Shifts we have Master Charles Cannon. Master Charles is known world-wide as a modern spiritual teacher. He was given the title Master by his teacher to denote that he is a Master Spiritual Teacher or one who can teach without words.  Master Spiritual Teachers are recognized by their palpable presence, their holistic state of being, which effortlessly empowers everyone in...