52 Weeks of Me

Brian Dorheim is a leader and coach who believes first of all that his way from the dark and into the light has been through his personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Growing up, he worked with various non-profits to make an impact in the local community. Even prior to his coaching years, he always desired to make connections and influence change within individuals and organizations. From physi...

Kimberly Cabot is a mom of two young adults who has been into coaching since 2012. With her previous work as an organic farmer who had done it all up to the administration level, she had built skills that also helped her land a job with Handel as a Director for Operations.  It was her five years of intensive training with the Handel Method that changed her own life, and for five years now, she has...

In a world where there had always seemed to be a dichotomy between the extremes of becoming a success in your career or having lots of time and energy for family, Jessica DeGroot, over 20 years ago had already discovered a "third Path" -- the road to becoming successful in both. This is exactly what her national nonprofit, ThirdPath Institute, is about -- helping people become more integ...

Jim Young had thrived through 25 years of what most would consider a colossal corporate success and yet he would later realize that was not the most valuable job or position for him. Being a great Dad to his three children is what he personally valued the most. And when the company showed no willingness to make the adjustments he desired, he decided it was time to go. Hence, a day before July 4th...

Susan Salter started her 30-year corporate career working with big banks. It was when she became a senior director handling a lot of people that she realized her passion for helping people perform and show up better in their careers. She had always been the manager who was the voice of reason for her subordinates. No matter her colossal success, she reached the point where her job no longer excite...

Julie Hyde is from Melbourne, Australia; an entrepreneur, a huge animal lover, and a wife to an amazing husband. She is driven to making difference and has been empowering people for 14 years now after becoming a corporate dropout from à company she worked with for 21 long years. Working in the banking industry for over two decades, she succeeded in climbing up the ladder every couple of years. Th...

Danielle Pickens is a mom of three, an avid Pelotoner, and a coach and consultant for individuals and organizations who want to use their time and talents more effectively. She is the Founder and CEO of The Working Parent's Guide, through which she helps working parents navigate and balance life and work. Before becoming a mom, she followed a conventional career path, asking few questions. Bu...

Starting a career in magazine journalism, Elizabeth Grace Saunders later switched to freelancing and enjoyed huge entrepreneurial success while working for great clients. However, amidst her success, she admittedly failed at balancing her life and work. Learning from her own work-life balance struggle paved the way for her advancement of advocacy among highly successful but extremely stressed fell...

Ekta Capoor had untimely lost her father. But while that could have been a devastatingly traumatic childhood experience to cripple her early in life, it did not. That first-hand experience of pain only made her a resilient, strong, and decisive person. Even as young as five, she was able to go to the school of her own choice by incessantly throwing tantrums when forced to attend a different school...

Jody is a woman passionate about learning and development. Looking back, she was a perfectionist who was always active and unstoppable and she did not take time even to celebrate success. While her cancer diagnosis brought many unfortunate turns and twists that Jody never expected, it flashed before her eyes how she was busy doing life but was not actually living it. Thanks to cancer, she has sinc...

Daryl Woodhouse is a self-made well-being and work productivity expert who has done everything the age-old belief has taught him how to succeed -- work hard. Due to the bullying, he experienced as a child, he always wanted to escape from the children's world and dreamed of entering the world of working adults to prove himself long before he was 18. True enough, he succeeded at an extraordinar...

Jessika Portney is a Washington DC-based executive and leadership coach for women and non-binary mission-driven leaders. She followed an intuitive career path pursuing her intertwined love of language, intercultural awareness, and human beings. She is passionate about understanding human behavior and emotions for the purpose of personal, professional, and spiritual growth. Throughout her childhood...

Rob Stephenson is the CEO of FormScore, a keynote speaker, and founder of InsideOut LeaderBoard who has embarked on the mission of smashing the stigma of mental health and inspiring the creation of mentally healthy workplaces and society. Being bipolar he has found a road to managing his own mental health through the encouragement of a friend and another mental health campaigner, it has become his...

A qualified accountant, Jacqui spent her early career in Finance before she moved to HSBC in London and managed business change Programmes on a global scale. With her focus and determination, she climbed many rungs of the corporate ladder and by societal standards, enjoyed enormous success and perks others could only dream of. However, the challenges became more and more unbearable especially when...

A coach, a facilitator, and a mediator, Amy Rebecca has been self-employed for the last twelve years. Since her former corporate job required a lot of traveling, she decided to take a time off so she could be more present for her children. She later used her knowledge and experiences and looked for other ways to make a contribution to the world without having to be away from home and kids. Three y...

Beth Blecker was the first one from her entire family to have ever gone to college in an era where females (usually) went to school to become a teacher. But since there was no teaching job after graduation, she took accounting courses and along with her now ex-husband a CPA, ran and worked in his accounting firm where she stayed for 20 years. While providing accounting services, she realized that...

Hayley Lewis is an organizational psychologist from the UK with 22 years of experience specializing in leadership and management behavior and how it affects the culture and performance of teams and organizations. She started as a pure psychologist for children before she moved to the local government where she worked for eleven years. As a work psychologist, she had taken on different roles and ha...

Will Schneider is a mindfulness, meditation, and yoga practitioner and instructor. While he strongly cherishes family affinities, he had always been consciously uncomfortable living according to the "script". Questioning the apparent injustice in the corporate world and having his heart broken early were the things that finally made him get rid of the "script" and live accordin...

While she used to work in the corporate world, Alison as a child was already very entrepreneurial that she was always excited at the sight of different stores and the idea of running her own business. So the day she got laid off, she thought that her circumstances finally made the decision for her. At about the same time, she also started paying attention to her own feelings and stopped putting he...

The World Health Organization recognizes job burnout, but there is also caregiver burnout, emotional burnout, and parental burnout, all of which lead to #nervousexhaustion. While self-care can help you manage your stress, it does not address the structural inequalities that contribute to burnout. To avoid burnout, we must employ behavior change science to effect individual, organizational, and cul...

Tracing her roots from sales, Diane has had sold just about all sorts of things - from computers to mortgages to real estate - you name it, she has sold almost everything. Banking on that background and combining it with her passion for continuing education, she had experience and expertise that gave her a lot of things to talk about in almost all areas she worked in. After teaching, she decided t...

John Spence was born in Miami, Florida, where his Dad was a famous attorney, who made it to the covers of reputable magazines and had one wing of the law school at the University of Miami named after him. John went to a top grade school, got great grades, and was accepted to many different colleges. But for some reason, he messed up in college and got kicked out of the university of his choice, th...

Being in the corporate world for most of her career, Amy Bracht had successfully worked her way up and kept hitting all the milestones every professional woman hopes to achieve. She had a great team and a great portfolio. But she reached the point where she woke up every morning asking herself if it was everything there is in life. Amidst that introspection, she realized that the part she enjoyed...

When his youngest was diagnosed with autism, his heart sank, he felt extremely sorry for himself and for his child. But when he got home, after what seemed like the longest fifteen minute drive of his life, he resolved this limiting mindset.  Moving forward, he will carry the mindset of a winner and begin shaping the best version of both his child and himself.  This mental switch made him the most...

Leslie prepared herself and worked hard for motherhood. Although it was later than she had planned,  a career was always part of the plan.  Having done so, she thought that everything would just fall into place when she finally gets pregnant. However, when she finally had her second pregnancy it dawned on her that putting motherhood and career together was not going to be the smooth experience tha...