We profile amazing ambitious individuals who have amazing ideas for a TEDx Talk. Enjoy!
Zeina Zaroub
In a never-ending unstable country, I was born and raced through life with a war that made me jump from school uniform to intermittent studies and lose the way of childhood without losing hope and moved onto a boat that fiercely rocked to the waves of a crisis named adolescence, where I swayed to its ebb and flow.
At the ripe age of 18, the loss of my university education searching for a livelihood rerouted my life course and propelled my career.
Since I never give up on what I desired, my delayed university degree found a home among additional dreams, like family and motherhood.
Tragically, my life partner succumbed to the dread of a malicious ailment, after which I was faced with the inevitability of his premature passing, amidst a tragedy of a family and two children no older than ten years and a crown of a widow, helpless and powerless.
A journey of liberation from emotional loss, a spiritual resurrection from the ashes, and practically through self-development and training, supplementing my path by tapping into our inner resources for limitless possibilities.
Yet, the country’s instability led to the loss of all our financials! The Cherry on top!
But I cheerfully reminded myself: Death has taught me how to lose everything and remain a winner.
This awakening led me to Ted Talk, whereby I lettered my messages:
To everyone who is suffering and in agony, to every woman who faces life with a smile and a tear, and to any child who is yearning for protection after losing the one he loves.
We can blossom from every autumn, with spiritual rebirth, and win the self gracefully.
https://www.inout-academy.com
Francesca Levine
Francesca Levine has been a high school teacher, owned a successful import-export agency, and has been a psychologist in private practice for 40 years
As the CEO of The Relationship Rescue Institute and the Australian Institute of Change in Melbourne, Australia, she works with individuals, couples, and groups, and also runs professional trainings, workshops and webinars.
She also sees couples together with her husband, Stan.
She has been featured in magazines internationally such as Disrupt, Star Tribune, Digital Journal, Tribune Byte and Forbes Brunei, is an Executive writer for Fox magazine, is nominated for the International Empowerment award, and highlighted as “an international speaker to look out for” and is featured in podcasts and relationship videos.
As one of Australia’s most experienced and qualified therapists and coaches, Francesca has an unconventional, engaging and successful style, and she is in great demand.
HOW TO LOVE: IT’S NOT THAT HARD.
We’ve been told that life and love are meant to be hard.
What if this doesn’t always have to be so!
Yes, life has its tragedies and challenges to help us survive and grow. If we believe that our natural loving state is hard, we will live our lives defended, and this is then reflected in the outer world.
Love is natural.
Hate is learned.
War begins at home and charity begins at home.
If you’ve been hurt, then it makes sense to be protected for a while, and then learn to love again, perhaps in a more mature way.
There are many benefits to love.
You get what you focus on.
Do you focus on love or fear?
Use the language and behave in ways that others recognise as love, and more love will show up.
It’s our birth right and responsibility to love and be loved.
Isn’t it easier to be in our natural loving state?
Love helps us to live with purpose and meaning to overcome fear, improve our health and aid positive connection to ourselves and others – that can then be reflected onto the outer world to help heal the planet.
https://relationshiprescueinstitute.com.au/about-us/
Dan T. Rogers
The way I see it, life is a game; a multi-dimensional game, bound by universal constraints and influenced by our choices.
The core challenge? To navigate “toomuchness”. As in, there’s too much of everything, everywhere.
There’s a way to cut through the noise and “too muchness” and transform the game into a strategic journey; you just have to know the rules and embrace intentionality.
Throughout my 30-year career, I learned these rules (I call them The 9 Restraints) by focusing on being awesome and getting closer to “right.” I helped to grow a quick-serve restaurant chain, tripled gross sales for an existing business and then bought it, pivoted my own company to navigate tremendous growth, thrived throughout the 2008 recession, and was included for seven consecutive years on the Inc. 5000 list (all without any formal marketing/sales efforts).
Minimizing, simplifying, and living with true intention has changed my life. In a world where everyone wants to be a superhero, I’ve found incredible success by being a Sidekick. And as a person who lives to help others, for fun and for free, with no strings attached, I want to help you find that same success.
I’m an Intentional Sidekick. Can I Sidekick you?
https://dantrogers.com/
Michele Sullivan
WHO DO YOU LISTEN TO?
Hello, my name is Michele Sullivan. We are born, listen to whomever brings us up (hopefully). Then we go to school and (sometimes) listen to our teachers. We go to work, listen to our bosses. I have figured out we need to listen to ourselves. Married at 23, two kids by 29, being left broke and cheated on at 38, found him trying to kill himself and I had my kids with me. At that point, I listened to myself and took him back, trying to make it work. I wanted to show my kids that you just don’t quit someone when they’re at their lowest. At 42, I was told to lose weight or die FAT. I lost 130 lbs naturally, had excess skin removed 22lb, then on January 1, 2014, asked for separation. Since then, I have strengthened my inner voice, trusted myself more and moved in my own direction. I learned to listen to myself and live life happily. We all have our own inside voices and are scared or doubt our own instincts and need to learn to trust ourselves. Listen to yourself more, it’s empowering and you may be surprised.
https://www.facebook.com/TheMicheleSullivan
R K. Vickery
Hi, I am Renaissance… but you can call me Naz.
I am a Metaphysic Therapist, a Herbalist, a Conscious Mother, a Starseed, a Visionary and a Farmer.
My work utilises Hypnotherapy (including past life regression) as well as Plant Medicine, Mindfulness, Health Intuition, Frequency, Art/Colour Therapy and Reiki.
I specialise in the removal of trauma from the spiritual, emotional and physical bodies.
In my work, I have found that almost all illness begins with spiritual imbalance.
If this imbalance is not addressed, the blockage ripples down through your emotional body, and eventually manifests as a physical ailment.
In Ancient times – Alchemy, Science, Medicine, Spirituality, Meditation and Religion were all one. The human ‘being’ is an extremely multifaceted and complex system, we are products of Our Environment.
We must begin to foster a fresh perspective towards the Art of Healing, and accept the fact that the tri-mechanical Being that makes up the individual Human, must be in Equilibrium with itself to be able to receive substantial health results.
I deeply feel as if the beginning of this, is sharing the knowledge.
Once a person’s mind is expanded, it can never go back.
We rise together.
www.thehilltopcollective.com.au
Holly Holland
ADDRESSING GUILT IN GRIEF.
I am Holly Holland from Edmonton, Canada. Since my husband died in 2009, I have realized people are stuck in grief once a death close to them has occurred. Life as they see it is over. 10-20% of people experience prolonged grief. I wrote a book to encourage people to keep moving, grieve, honour their loved ones, and continue to live life with some peace. How often after someone dies do you say to yourself, I wish I had blank. I wish I had said something, done something and more. It seems we are quick to assume guilt. Forty to sixty per cent of the population experiences guilt after a death.
I felt guilt in the early months after my husband died. One thing I felt guilty about was not being in the room when he died. I was nearby. Did he choose that time to spare me of something? I told a friend about that pain. Her words included in my book, “It’s life. You are not supposed to get right.”
Address the guilt to take a step toward finding peace in grief and continue to live a new life one can learn to love.
https://gopaperless.eu/hollyh