My Village Well with Michelle

💜Remember Story Time at the library? 💜Welcome to Story Time with Michelle from Village Well ! 💜Each week I will share a little snippet of writing scratched out in 10 minutes or less. Because life is just material. And each one of us has a story. I am so glad you are here... www.myvillagewell.com

💜Remember Story Time at the library? 💜Welcome to Story Time with Michelle from Village Well! 💜Each week I will share a little snippet of writing scratched out in 10 minutes or less. Because life is just material. And each one of us has a story. I am so glad you are here... www.myvillagewell.com

Welcome to our first podcast featuring Village Well's very own authors from our Writing Workshop, The Den. There is power in hearing the story unfold in the writer's own voice, so we asked women to pick their favorites to share.  Each prompt is unique, collected with inspiration from music (think Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill) , amazing mentors (Joy Reichart, Nancy Slonim Aronie, Natalie Goldbe...

Yvonne Velasco Brock , MATP/CSG, is an Indigenous Spiritual Counselor of Maya, Mixeca and Apache heritage, who supports people to gain insight and balance, and amplify personal power through spiritual and holistic exploration. Yvonne has a MA in Transpersonal Psychology, a Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Guidance, and is a member of Spiritual Directors International. She combines Transpersonal t...

John Roedel is an improv comedic who "stumbled" into writing a few years ago as his life began to fall apart all around him.  During his dark night of the soul, John began to have fake conversations with "God" on Facebook to poke fun at his spiritual and personal crisis. What began as a flippant way of making light of his doubts in the Divine turned into something he wasn’t at all prepared fo...

Mariah Hudler, LCSW, MBA Mariah Hudler is a Financial Therapist, Consultant, and Coach who works with individuals, couples, and entrepreneurs wanting to improve their relationship with their money. She does this by helping them connect with their emotions, become clear with their intentions, and be confident in their decisions.  Her mission is to reduce the financial stress associated with mo...

Anitra Hooper is a transcension coach, healer, and speaker. She is committed to helping individuals heal deeply, love unconditionally, and live authentically as their best selves in every moment. She utilizes her emotional empathy, intuitive connection, training in self development, Reiki, Ho’oponopono, and experiences in emotional mastery, to walk with clients through their healing journey to ach...

Sam Dahlin was an alcoholic until he passed out at wheel at 21, and spent the night in jail.   He also firmly believes that God saved him that night. Sam is licensed Marriage and Family therapist who has been married for 25 years and has 3 daughters.  He is a founder of Crossroads Academy, a residential treatment center for adolescent boys, and he is all about helping these youth fi...

Jessica Davis is a psychic intuitive healer and counselor.  She offers energy healing sessions that are divinely guided and address the exact issues that need to be healed for you in that moment.  These sessions help clear out any doubts or fears you may have and allow you to step into your true power! And Jessica will be coming to share her gifts with Village Well in 2021 for the Self L...

Amy Thompson is an award winning teacher, enthusiastic wife, optimistic mother who believes that strength comes from adversity; humor helps almost everything; and no one gets tired of hearing how great they are. Amy will be teaching at Self Love Project through My Village Well.  You can find out more at:  You can learn more about our community at www.myvillagewell.com

Lisa Duerre spent 25 years leading inside some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley. Now as an Executive Coach, Business Advisor, Speaker and Organizational Change Facilitator she's on a mission to  ignite leaders in tech to get kickass results at work, lead high performing teams, and be present for the moments that matter. She believes head and heart belong at work and you need more t...

Aelita Leto is a classically trained Feng Shui Master. Since 1989, she has studied and worked with internationally recognized masters in architecture, exterior and interior design, the mantic arts and Feng Shui.  Three decades, her practice, based on an ancient art, has grown successfully by word of mouth. Aelita has built a consultancy that attracts private clients, public organizations and...

Gail Weiner, LMFT, has been in clinical practice for over 3 decades  helping women and couples thrive. She’s the creator of Datewise, a unique program for single women that combines the depth and precision of therapy with the targeted behavior changes of coaching. Gail is also a trained writing coach who guides clients to craft unique online profiles that attract the right matches.  She’...

Cecilia Kremer is an Empathy & Leadership coach. She helps emerging leaders and entrepreneurs unlock their inner power and fulfillment through meaningful self-connection. She also helps them further develop their capacity to build positive relationships, to foster prosperous synergy and sustain long lasting virtuous alliances. Village Well is thrilled that Cecilia will be teaching for Self Lov...

Mary Mosham is an award-winning leadership coach, mindfulness teacher, and author. She specializes in leadership, team and personal development, yoga and meditation, and corporate mindfulness. With over 20 years’ experience in corporate change consulting, leadership development, yoga and mindfulness training, she partners with individuals to create meaningful careers, lives, and legacies, and busi...

Karla Obernesser enjoys working with people to nourish their relationships. She has a private counseling practice in Bellevue, WA. She and her husband of 32 years have been partnering to enrich their own relationship and the relationships of others by providing retreats and programs. Together they created WeDO Relationships - WeDO Relationships is a platform fostering life-giving relationships tha...

As a Creative Leadership Coach, Nicole Kleemann empowers curious, and courageous women to transform limiting beliefs and create choices that will bring their lives and careers to new heights. When she went through a burnout, Nicole learned to lean into creativity to find her voice and path again. That's when she decided to leave her international career managing diverse and cross-cultural tea...

My dad, Tom Francois, is the original Love Sprinkler.   The man literally makes friends with any one, any where and at any time.   My brothers and I lovingly refer to him as: The Mayor.   He is a below the knee amputee, who was hell bent on learning how to take his first steps before my twins did twenty years ago.  He was married to my Foxy Mama for over 50 years...

Own your facts, fail fast, and be okay without things being perfect.  These words perfectly describe Martha Nino's outlook on life. Born in Mexico, in a grass shack and a dirt floor, Martha's parents risked everything to come America to have a better quality of life. As a baby, Martha was handed to a stranger to pass as her mother, to bring her safely across the border, while her parents cros...

Sean Garcia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked in a variety of settings including clinical, educational and currently in private practice.  As one of a handful of trans-identified clinicians in Silicon Valley, Sean is extremely passionate about supporting transgender people and their families as well as the co-occurrence of neurodiversity.  This population is the...

Kathleen Joan is committed to the resurrection of the Divine Feminine, especially within her own Catholic Christian tradition.  She holds Master’s degrees in theology and ministry and has over 10 years ministry experience, including directing retreats, teaching classes on religion and spirituality, and leading small group spiritual communities.  She is also a certified Reiki practitioner...

Nicole is a Qoya movement teacher. Qoya is a fusion of yoga, dance and feminine movement designed to help women reconnect to their innate wisdom, wildness and freedom. When she's not dancing, she runs her own business helping children with learning differences find success, and she also facilitates girls' leadership circles.  Nicole will be making a return appearance, teaching Qoya for the Se...

Maria Abelaye is the owner and founder of Heartbox Photography in the Bay Area.  Maria believes that every woman, whether she has loved or despised the camera, deserves to exist in a photograph and works to advocate to further that message through her portrait services.  Maria specializes in everyday real women like you and me, and gives them to opportunity to celebrate every year of her...

Ana Jones has worked with families and older adults for the last 20 years. She is the founder of Phlex65 a technology app that connects families and caregivers using Android and iOS devices/phones. She has made time in her weekly schedule to speak out against racism, and the injustice and inequities for BIPOC, and has aligned herself with various groups to bring about changes to curriculum in educ...

Corrie Samaniego 's vision is to help young girls and their families be tomorrow's leaders and social changers. Her ability to motivate and inspire others to be leaders is her unique gift. Over the past 25 years, she has coached thousands of young female athletes and inspired them to own their own leadership style. If you want to part of this monumental movement, you can find Corrie here: gemgirle...