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Robert Atkinson

The world needs a unitive vision that provides hope, optimism, and encouragement to a divided humanity. 

After eleven books exploring life stories, personal myth making, mysticism, the collective story of our time, and how we can live into our own story of wholeness, I realized it was time for something more, something that opens the hearts of all people to the urgency of remembering our innate state of unity, harmony, and wholeness that connects us all and keeps us in peaceful relationship with all beings on our planetary home. This inner knowing seems to have been out of reach for eons. 

I have written The Way of Unity as an invitation to imagine a world where every person feels seen, valued, and connected, a world guided by compassion, cooperation, and partnerships. This book helps us discover something greater than ourselves – a growing, expanding organic renewal process aligned with evolutionary forces. 

This book focuses on the inherently peaceful nature of the entire universe, the unitive principles that reflect and support this wholeness, and the global community that is striving to restore the world to wholeness by applying a model of unity-in-action based on implementing unitive principles in everyday life to build strong, vibrant communities that will become the foundation for a globally scalable culture of peace. 

This is the story I want to share with the world. I want to raise a call to action for the regeneration of individuals, communities, institutions, and social structures. 

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Robert Atkinson, PhD, is an award-winning author, educator, and developmental psychologist whose work bridges storytelling, transformation, and the evolution of consciousness with a unitive vision. His latest book, The Way of Unity: Essential Principles and Preconditions for Peace (2025) offers a framework and study guide for putting into action the unitive wisdom underpinning our collective evolution. He is the author of A New Story of Wholeness (2022), Our Moment of Choice (co-editor, 2020), Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019), The Story of Our Time (2017), The Gift of Stories (1995), and six other books. He is director of StoryCommons, founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. 

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Mark Daniel

The Chickahominy Boys are a dynamic music team, creating music about real things , real love, and life's Journey ! The radio is so full of cliche'  make believe , and fluff,  it is our mission to make friends and good music!

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Mark Daniel , Tom Vermeern, and Gray Oliver are all  from Virginia, sons of tradition and purveyors of stories and rhyme. Oliver a published poet, Vermeern a veteran performer, Mark Daniel a singer songwriter. 

Jennifer Licate

Balancing academics, athletics and friendships can push even the most capable kids to their limits. For parents, the real challenge lies in recognizing when healthy ambition crosses the line into anxiety — when the drive to succeed begins to harm a child’s overall well-being.

Some signs are more subtle than others, says school counselor Jennifer Licate, so it’s important to recognize both the physical and behavioral clues. Frequent headaches, stomachaches, or digestive issues before a big game or test may point to anxiety — but less obvious signals, like withdrawing from activities they once loved, can be just as telling. “You know your child best. You know their history. You know their disposition and the things they like to do. If your child has always loved going to soccer practice and suddenly doesn’t want to go, starts complaining about it — that’s a really big sign,” said Licate, whose chapter book My Anxiety is Messing Things Up centers on a hardworking student athlete named Oscar who feels the relentless pressure to be perfect — in school, in sports and in friendships.

Oscar’s drive to succeed earns him praise in the classroom and on the field — but also leaves him wracked with anxiety. Unable to sleep and increasingly irritable, Oscar lashes out at his friends. When a teacher invites him to a school support group, Oscar must decide if he’s willing to seek help and try new strategies for relief.

Licate expertly combines a fast-paced, relatable story with guided questions and activities at the end of each chapter. These tools help young readers explore their own feelings, while giving parents, teachers and counselors a structured way to start meaningful conversations about anxiety. “I wrote the book to help children understand anxiety,” said Licate. “Not all symptoms look the same, and not all strategies will work for everyone. My hope is that kids learn there are multiple tools they can try to feel more confident and less overwhelmed.”

The release comes at a time when educators are reporting increased stress levels among students. According to recent studies, more than one in three children experience anxiety symptoms, and sleep disruption is one of the most common side effects. Licate, who has worked as a school counselor for more than a decade, believes early intervention and open discussion can help prevent anxiety from becoming debilitating later in life.  “Children do not need to wait until anxiety is debilitating before using strategies to help their symptoms,” Licate added. “Using strategies to deal with anxiety can help children and anyone reduce their symptoms so they can live their best lives, work toward achieving their goals and feel confident.”

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Jennifer Licate's award-winning books focus on growing-up topics children struggle with, from friendship struggles to anxiety to study skills. The books are geared toward children ages 9 through 14. Young readers learn strategies to work through their challenge and give them the comfort of knowing they're not alone in their struggle.

She received her Master's Degree in Elementary and Secondary School Counseling and has worked as a school counselor for over a decade. Through working with children of all ages, she has seen the benefits of social emotional learning books firsthand. Children lose themselves as they're immersed within the stories. They're able to understand complex issues from so many different perspectives by seeing the story through the eyes of the characters.

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Dana Micucci

TAOS, N.M., Dec. 15, 2025 — Award-winning author, journalist and spiritual teacher Dana Micucci traces her extraordinary evolution as a lightworker in her transcendent new memoir, The Years of Living Dangerously: Lessons from the Front Lines of a 21st-Century Lightworker.

Written during an era of profound planetary change, Micucci’s book blends ancient wisdom, modern insight and personal revelation into an inspiring call for all people to remember who they truly are. Through vivid storytelling and practical spiritual tools, including meditations and energy activations at the end of each chapter, she guides readers to awaken their own innate power and grace.

A sequel to her award-winning Sojourns of the Soul, The Years of Living Dangerously takes readers beyond the familiar boundaries of the self and into the Great Mystery. From the sacred temples of Egypt to high-frequency power spots around the world, Micucci reveals the miracles, tests and transformations that shaped her journey — and how each experience became a lesson in mastery, surrender and love.

With warmth and candor, Micucci offers her book as both a personal odyssey and a roadmap for others navigating this time of intenseplanetary transformation, inviting readers to open their hearts to the evolutionary waves of change predicted by the ancients and now
unfolding across the planet.

“You are not alone,” Micucci said. “You are resilient, unstoppable, limitless and powerful beyond measure. You have the capacity to receive and create miracles. A higher guiding force is always conspiring on your behalf, no matter what your circumstances are.”

The Years of Living Dangerously: Lessons from the Front Lines of a
21st-Century Lightworker

Publisher: New Paradigm Multimedia
Release Date: October 21, 2025
ISBN-13: ‎979-8218705220
 Available from: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX8JN5BX

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Dana Micucci is an award-winning author, spiritual teacher, speaker, and healer. Her transcendent, new memoir, The Years of Living Dangerously: Lessons from the Front Lines of a 21st-Century Lightworker, traces her extraordinary evolution as a lightworker. From the sacred temples of Egypt to high-frequency power spots around the world, Dana reveals the miracles, tests, and transformations that shaped her journey. With an inspiring blend of ancient wisdom and personal revelation, and including practical spiritual tools, The Years of Living Dangerously serves as a supportive roadmap during this time of intense planetary transformation.  

Her other books include the novel The Third Muse, a metaphysical, time-travel mystery set in the international art world that celebrates the divine feminine wisdom of the Magdalene Order and the healing power of love. Her spiritual travel memoir Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman’s Journey around the World and into Her Truth—a gold winner in the Nautilus Book Awards—was inspired by her travels to many of the world’s most sacred sites. Dana has also enjoyed a decades-long career as a widely published journalist writing about culture, travel, and spirituality for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Spirituality & Health, and many other well-known publications. A dynamic speaker and teacher/practitioner of ancient mystery school wisdom, she conducts transformational talks, workshops, and sacred journeys worldwide. 

She also has a healing and mentoring practice rooted in her extensive shamanic training. Dana’s work carries a multidimensional healing vibration that ignites deep shifts in consciousness, expanded awareness, and recognition of your soul’s purpose. With grounded clarity and compassion, she assists you in accelerating a fearless journey toward wholeness, joy, and fulfillment. Based in Taos, New Mexico, after many years in New York City, she continues to travel widely in sacred service as an ambassador of the New Earth consciousness. 

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Sharon Niv PhD

As co-founder of Joyous, Sharon has helped build the largest psychedelic medicine company in history, treating over 84,000 patients with a revolutionary approach to mental health that combines cutting-edge neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and a radically reimagined business model that's disrupting the entire psychiatric industry.

While traditional antidepressants struggle to achieve 30% response rates, Joyous delivers 68% response rates for depression with effect sizes exceeding 2.0. They've achieved this while maintaining zero serious adverse events across their massive patient population, creating what may be the best risk-reward profile ever documented in mental healthcare.

Sharon brings a unique cognitive science perspective on why this works, having developed a theory that combines trauma processing, nervous system regulation, consciousness studies, and predictive processing. Her framework explains how daily low-dose ketamine creates a "psycholytic" state - a partial dissociation that allows patients to fully experience the nervous system sensations associated with anxiety, depression, and trauma while maintaining a phenomenological experience of spaciousness. Instead of being overwhelmed by these sensations, patients can finally feel and release them from a place of safety. The brain's predictive processing mechanisms, normally locked in loops of threat detection and negative prediction, get a chance to update their models. It's like being able to feel the storm while standing in the eye of the hurricane - present with the experience but not consumed by it. The neuroplasticity inherent to ketamine and the new synaptic pathways established promote long-lasting benefits.

The AI component amplifies this therapeutic effect. Joyous has collected over 3 million data points from patient experiences, feeding sophisticated algorithms that personalize treatment in real-time. The system doesn't just track symptoms - it predicts optimal dosing adjustments, identifies early warning signs of non-response, and recognizes patterns that human clinicians might miss. Every patient interaction teaches the system, continuously improving its ability to match individuals with their ideal treatment protocol.

From a business perspective, Sharon's journey represents a masterclass in scaling complexity. Healthcare startups usually fail because they underestimate regulatory hurdles, but Joyous navigated FDA regulations, DEA requirements, state medical boards, and insurance complexities while growing from zero to 84,000 patients. They built a vertically integrated system spanning telemedicine, pharmacy operations, patient monitoring, and clinical protocols - all while maintaining startup agility. Instead of building expensive clinics, they went directly to patients' homes, slashing costs by 93% while actually improving outcomes.

The scaling story defies Silicon Valley wisdom. Rather than "move fast and break things," Joyous had to move fast while breaking nothing - people's lives were at stake. They grew 50-fold in two years while maintaining exceptional safety records. Sharon can share how they solved the classic chicken-and-egg problem of needing data to prove efficacy but needing efficacy to get patients, ultimately building the largest real-world evidence base in psychedelic medicine.

The human impact drives everything. Behind those 84,000 patients are stories of parents who can finally engage with their children, professionals who've reclaimed their careers, and individuals who describe it as "getting their life back." The treatment costs just $129 per month - less than many people spend on coffee - democratizing access to breakthrough mental healthcare.

As an engaging conversationalist who's been there from inception, Sharon brings both scientific depth and compelling storytelling to every interview. She can discuss the challenges of convincing investors to back psychedelics, the ethical considerations of scaling consciousness-altering medicine, and the future implications as mental healthcare shifts from symptom management to actual neurological transformation.

This story sits at the intersection of neuroscience breakthroughs, AI innovation, business disruption, and social justice - offering listeners a window into how technology and compassion can combine to solve one of humanity's greatest challenges. Sharon's unique ability to weave together complex science with accessible explanations and real human stories makes her an ideal guest for exploring this paradigm shift in mental health.

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Sharon Niv, Ph.D. is a cognitive psychologist exploring how contemplative and therapeutic methods can reshape mental wellness. Her work spans mindfulness, cognitive science, and the psychology of consciousness, with a special focus on how altered or expanded states of mind can promote emotional growth and resilience.

In 2022, Sharon co-founded Joyous PBC, a public benefit company dedicated to making mental health care more affordable and accessible through low-dose, or psycholytic, approaches to ketamine treatment. At Joyous, she leads clinical research, designs digital therapeutics optimized for the psycholytic state, and developed Joyous for Therapists—a free training and collaboration program helping clinicians integrate these methods safely into their practice.

Sharon is passionate about bringing new insight to the conversation on mental health: how lighter-touch, more personalized approaches to psychoactive medicine can unlock self-understanding, compassion, and long-term healing. She hopes to share with your audience how cognitive mechanisms of psycholytic and psychedelic medicine can inform a new era of personalized, evidence-based mental wellness.

Dr Joan Hangarter AKA Joan of Angels

A guest your audience won’t just listen to — they’ll feel.

Dr. Joan Hangarter—widely known as Joan of Angels—is a no-nonsense, destiny-activating force of nature who helps spiritually awakening women retrieve the gifts they hid to survive… and step into the destiny they’ve been carrying for lifetimes. She is the creator of Soul Blueprint Activation™, a transformational method that guides women into the next incarnation within this lifetime — without the breakdown, confusion, or spiritual chaos that usually comes with awakening.

What makes Joan special isn’t just her message.
It’s the way she delivers it.

A rare fusion of clinician, intuitive, channel, and visionary artist, Joan blends neuroscience, soul-code retrieval, multidimensional psychology, and galactic insight into a grounded, practical, deeply activating conversation that listeners experience as a transmission, not information.

For more than 40 years, Joan has helped thousands reclaim their voice, recover lost confidence, and reconnect with their true purpose… especially women 45+ who suddenly find themselves asking, “Who am I now?”
What others call a breakdown, Joan calls a coded initiation.
What others see as being “lost,” Joan recognizes as the moment destiny finally takes over.

Your audience will feel that.

WHAT MAKES JOAN A MAGNETIC GUEST

On air, Joan brings clarity, warmth, humor, and high-frequency energy that lifts the entire conversation. She speaks to what so many women secretly feel but rarely put into words:

Why midlife feels like a spiritual earthquake Why everything that once worked… suddenly doesn’t Why identity theft, illness, divorce, loss, or collapse often precede spiritual awakening Why women hide their gifts — and what happens the moment they decide to reclaim them

Joan is particularly gifted at translating cosmic messages into grounded steps people can apply immediately.
Listeners walk away feeling seen, empowered, and reconnected to something ancient inside them.

This is why she’s been featured on Coast to Coast AM, global summits, metaphysical podcasts, and transformational platforms worldwide.

THE STORY THAT HOOKS AUDIENCES

Joan doesn’t teach theory.
She embodies what she teaches.

After losing everything — her home, stability, identity, and sense of purpose — Joan experienced a spontaneous awakening that opened her intuitive gifts, her channel, and her now-famous angelic and galactic artwork. Her paintings carry channeled frequencies that support healing, remembrance, and destiny activation.

This story alone makes her unforgettable, deeply relatable, and emotionally compelling.

TOPICS JOAN DELIVERS BRILLIANTLY ON AIR

• Soul Blueprint Activation™: Why your destiny begins exactly where you feel most broken
• Midlife Awakening: Reinvention after 45 as a spiritual initiation
• Multidimensional Healing: Navigating intuitive reactivation, timeline shifts, and identity expansion
• Destiny Mapping: How to decode the signs, synchronicities, and inner whispers guiding your next chapter
• Star Lineages & Cosmic Identity: Understanding your galactic inheritance and why it matters now
• The Psychology of Spiritual Emergence: How to stay grounded while awakening fast

She bridges two worlds — the grounded science of transformation and the cosmic realms of higher consciousness.

That duality = host gold.

 WHY BOOK HER NOW

Your audience will not forget her.
They will screenshot the episode.
They will share it with friends.

Joan doesn’t give “interviews.”
She creates experiences.

As a gift to your listeners, she offers a complimentary Holiday Soul Vision Clarity Session — a 45-minute guided activation that helps women reconnect to their inner truth and step powerfully into the next stage of their destiny.

Joan is also the Executive Producer of the New Living Expo and a featured collaborator with Portal to Ascension, placing her at the center of the global consciousness movement.

If your audience is ready to remember who they are…

Joan is the guide who opens that door.

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Dr. Joan Hangarter—widely known as Joan of Angels—is the woman women turn to when their old life collapses and their real destiny begins. A transformational guide, intuitive channel, and visionary artist with 40+ years as a Doctor of Chiropractic and counselor, Joan brings a rare fusion of clinical precision, multidimensional seeing, and galactic intelligence into one revolutionary method: Soul Blueprint Activation™.

Where most mentors teach mindset, Joan works at the level of soul-coded memory—helping spiritually awakening women 45+ retrieve the gifts they hid to survive, reclaim the power they abandoned to stay safe, and step into the higher timeline they’ve been carrying for lifetimes.

Her own awakening was forged through profound dissolution—losing everything she relied on and emerging with psychic sight, visionary painting abilities, and a direct connection to higher realms. Her angelic and galactic portraits are considered “frequency transmissions,” activating remembrance and realignment in those who view them.

Joan’s work stands apart because she blends:

Neuroscience + spiritual psychology (for grounded transformation)

Intuitive mapping + destiny timelines (for clarity and direction)

Star lineage and multidimensional awareness (for cosmic remembrance)

40 years of clinical and mentoring experience (for real-world embodiment)

This is her secret sauce: she bridges the cosmic and the clinical—making mystical revelation not only accessible but actionable.

Featured on Coast to Coast AM, dozens of metaphysical and empowerment podcasts, and global summits, Joan is also Executive Producer of the New Living Expo, placing her at the leading edge of the consciousness movement.

Her most in-demand speaking topics include:
• Soul Blueprint Activation™
• Midlife awakening & reinvention
• The psychology of spiritual emergence
• Intuitive reactivation & destiny mapping
• Star lineage remembrance
• Multidimensional healing across lifetimes

Joan’s interviews don’t just inspire—they activate. Listeners consistently describe her presence as warm, disarming, deeply intuitive, and life-changing. She carries the unusual ability to speak cosmic truth in grounded language, helping people feel seen, validated, and guided into the next chapter of their lives.

If your audience is ready to remember who they truly are, Joan of Angels is the one who opens that door.

Core interview themes include:

🌟 Why so many women feel “lost” or disconnected in midlife
Joan reveals how identity crises, breakdowns, and “dark nights” are actually initiations coded into the Soul Blueprint. She explains how to tell the difference between being lost and being called.

🌟 Soul Blueprint Activation
How to retrieve one’s original gifts, purpose, confidence, and inner knowing.
How to identify what part of your destiny is “timed” to unfold now.
How the nervous system interacts with spiritual awakening.

🌟 Intuitive Reactivation & Timeline Shifts
Why intuition shuts down (especially after 45).
What it feels like when it reawakens.
How to step out of the “old self” timeline and into your true trajectory.

🌟 Spiritual Emergence vs. Emergency
Joan breaks down the psychology of awakening in a way that empowers—not frightens—those going through profound transformation.

🌟 Galactic Memory & Star Lineages (optional for metaphysical shows)
How galactic consciousness interfaces with personal destiny.
Why more people are remembering their multidimensional origins now.
How star codes can accelerate healing and reinvention.

Joan’s Story
Her own collapse and rebirth is a central part of what makes her relatable and compelling:
She lost everything—her home, identity, and sense of direction—then underwent a profound awakening during which angelic and galactic visions began coming through her artwork. These portraits now carry channeled frequencies that support healing and remembrance.

This lived experience makes Joan uniquely suited to guide listeners through their own transitions, initiations, and rebirths.

Audience Takeaways:
Listeners walk away from her interviews feeling:
• seen and validated
• hopeful and empowered
• awakened to their deeper gifts
• clearer about their purpose
• less afraid of change
• more connected to their intuition

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Adaku Mbagwu

Guest: Adaku Mbagwu — Founder, The Healed Hero Community | Creator of The Strategic Vulnerability Method™ | Global Voice for First-Born Daughter Leadership Psychology

Adaku Mbagwu is redefining leadership for high-achieving women. As the global authority on First-Born Daughter Leadership Psychology and creator of The Strategic Vulnerability Method™, she brings a timely, transformative lens to burnout, identity, and emotional power — especially for women who have spent a lifetime being “the strong one.”

Her story is powerful and deeply relatable. Born in Nigeria as the first daughter in a large family, Adaku became an emotional and practical caretaker long before she had a childhood. After her family lost everything and moved to the UK, that sense of responsibility intensified. She learned to survive by over-functioning — a pattern that later led to severe burnout, emotional collapse, and a failed suicide attempt early in her career.

Her turning point came through intensive spiritual and emotional healing. As she rebuilt herself from the inside out, she discovered the psychological patterns that shape first-born daughters worldwide: over-responsibility, hyper-independence, emotional suppression, and the belief that love must be earned through service. Using the tools she developed in her recovery, she went on to build a multimillion-pound business, proving that healing isn’t separate from success — it fuels it.

Yet even at the height of financial achievement, she felt spiritually misaligned. Choosing purpose over comfort, she walked away from the business she built and stepped fully into her calling: guiding first-born daughters to break generational patterns and embody a new form of leadership rooted in emotional truth, inner safety, and authentic power.

Today, Adaku leads The Healed Hero Community, a global movement supporting eldest daughter executives and entrepreneurs in transforming burnout into ease, clarity, and sustainable success. Her work blends psychology, spirituality, leadership development, and trauma-informed identity work — offering a voice the world urgently needs.

This topic is especially relevant now. Women’s burnout has reached historic levels. Eldest daughters are trending globally as millions begin recognizing shared emotional patterns. Corporations are searching for solutions that go deeper than surface-level wellbeing programs. And high-performing women are craving success that doesn’t cost them their mental and emotional health.

Adaku speaks directly to these women — and to the leaders who support them. She explains why first-born daughters rise quickly yet often feel isolated at the top, how childhood roles shape leadership styles, and why Strategic Vulnerability is becoming the next frontier of effective leadership.

Radio-friendly talking points include:

The First-Born Daughter Identity Trap

Why so many successful women feel alone at the top

The emotional burden of being “the strong one”

How childhood roles shape business and leadership patterns

Why eldest daughters burn out faster — even when thriving professionally

Strategic Vulnerability: the leadership skill women were never taught

How healing became the foundation of a multimillion-pound business

How high-achieving women can break over-functioning without guilt

Listeners will gain empowering, practical insights:

How to identify the emotional patterns behind burnout

How to shift from emotional labor to emotional power

How to create boundaries without guilt

How to receive support without feeling weak

How to build success that feels aligned, not exhausting

Adaku is a rare voice — blending lived experience, spiritual depth, and business credibility. She offers a fresh, necessary conversation for today’s climate: how high-achieving women can succeed without abandoning themselves.

She would be a powerful and resonant guest for your show.

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Born in Nigeria as the first daughter in a family of seven, Adaku grew up carrying adult responsibilities long before she had a childhood. After her family’s sudden financial collapse, she became emotionally and practically responsible for her mother and siblings, learning early to perform, provide, and solve problems. These survival patterns later propelled her into a high-performance career where she built a £2.4 million recruitment company - yet they also led to burnout, emotional disconnection, and a breaking point that left her questioning who she was and what she wanted.

Her journey through meditation, spiritual practice, trauma healing, and intensive coaching became the foundation of her life’s work. Today, Adaku teaches firstborn daughters how to break cycles of overfunctioning, perfectionism, and emotional suppression while stepping into leadership grounded in peace, power, and authentic self-expression.

Through The Healed Hero Community, Adaku guides executives, entrepreneurs, and emerging leaders through her transformative Strategic Vulnerability methodology that integrates subconscious healing, emotional mastery, and conscious leadership. Her mission is to impact 100,000 firstborn daughters worldwide and disrupt the unspoken patterns that hold back some of the world’s most capable women.

Adaku currently works with clients globally through her membership, private coaching, live events, and corporate partnerships.

Shannan Kym

As “New Year, New You” stories take shape, author and TEDx speaker Shannan Kym offers a refreshingly authentic perspective on recovery and reinvention. In Find The Answers Within You: Ten Pathways Toward Self-Discovery, Shannon draws on her six years of sobriety, 80-pound weight loss, escape from an abusive marriage, and journey toward becoming a bodybuilder and motivational speaker to share a framework for lasting change rooted in lived experience.

Please refer to the press release below for additional information, and let me know if you would be interested in speaking with Shannan or seeing a review copy of the book. Watch the book trailer here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M_AEgYAH7QNH2I7qF0z_wiwLSrz_0Csy/view.

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From Addiction and Trauma to Empowerment: New Book Reveals 10 Pathways for Real, Lasting Change

NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2025 — Shannan Kym grew up in a family where addiction, violence, and extreme dysfunction were normalized. Robbed of her childhood, she was forced to grow up at a very young age. For years, she abused her body, gained excessive weight, and let herself be taken advantage of by toxic people, including the narcissist she married. She experienced career highs and lows and suffered the loss of a child. Eventually, Kym hit rock bottom, but on August 17, 2019, everything changed. That day, she made up her mind to stop letting addiction control her life. She also decided to get real, let go of her past hurts, embrace forgiveness, and focus on living each day with gratitude, purpose, light, and love.

In her new book, Find The Answers Within You: Ten Pathways Toward Self-Discovery, Kym reveals her tragedies and triumphs, and shares 10 pathways for readers to be inspired to live by.

In Part I, Kym tells her story of trauma and addiction. Part II follows her healing journey. In Part III, she presents readers with a guide to achieving change and discovering their own life’s purpose: “Ten Pathways to Rise Above Your Past and Live a Harmonious Life.” Filled with spiritual insights and practical lessons, the pathways include:

Awakening. Starting with a lightbulb moment, awakening involves clearly seeing all the trauma in your own life, understanding how it triggered your addiction, and acknowledging that you have the power to break free.

Responsibility. Being responsible requires the courage to face yourself, rather than continue living in denial or blaming others, and take control of the life you want to live and the person you want to be.

Forgiveness. Forgiving others is only part of this pathway. You also need to forgive yourself for tolerating, enabling, and perpetuating abuse.

Wanting. What do you really want for yourself and your life moving forward? Finding the answers begins with daring to ask yourself that question.

Find The Answers Within You: Ten Pathways Toward Self-Discovery

Publisher: Balboa Press

Release Date: January 20, 2026

ISBN: 979-8765262719

Available from https://www.amazon.com/Find-Answers-Within-You-Self-Discovery/dp/B0FRNHCQFY

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Shannan Kym is an internationally award-winning author, TEDx public speaker, certified professional life coach, and transformational mentor. After breaking free from the grip of alcoholism and childhood abuse, she found her purpose to share her life story to help others unravel their past, overcome the genetic blueprint of addiction and abuse, and find their own greatness. She lives in Alberta, Canada, and travels to the States extensively.  

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Marc J Defant PhD

I recently published a peer-reviewed paper in Sexuality & Culture titled “Evolutionary Psychology and the Crisis of Empirical Rigor in Feminist Studies.” Follow this link if you are interested in seeing the paper: https://rdcu.be/eOkj. The paper argues that much of modern feminist scholarship has drifted from empirical science into ideology, rejecting biological and psychological evidence that explains sex differences in behavior, preferences, and outcomes. Drawing on research in evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral biology, I examine topics such as the gender pay gap, patriarchy, and rape theory through an evidence-based lens -- and show how the data tell a very different story from what’s usually taught in feminist studies on campus or in "woke" media.

I believe your audience would be interested in an honest, data-driven discussion of these issues -- one that challenges dogma but stays grounded in peer-reviewed science. I’d be happy to discuss the paper and would welcome the opportunity to appear on your podcast to discuss its findings and implications for academic freedom and public discourse.

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Marc J. Defant is a professor of geology/geochemistry at the University of South Florida. Before he became involved in research related to the misuse or misunderstanding of science by society, he specialized in the study of volcanoes—more specifically, the geochemistry of volcanic rocks, the associated processes within the mantle, and the origin of the continental crust. He has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the American Chemical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, and has published in many internationally renowned scientific journals including Nature. He has written a book entitled Voyage of Discovery: From the Big Bang to the Ice Age and published several articles for general readership magazines such as Skeptic, Free Inquiry, and Popular Science and appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He has been Editor of Geology and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Defant was also invited by the Chinese Government to be a keynote speaker at a symposium on the continental crust and has given invited talks at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Universitè de Bretagne (Brest, France), University of California at Los Angeles, University of Georgia and Tennessee, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as well as many others. Defant was one of the first American scientists allowed to work on volcanoes in the isolated and militarily sensitive area of Kamchatka, Russia, when it was still part of the old Soviet system through a cooperative joint grant between the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation. He has presented a Tedx talk on Why We are Alone in the Galaxy. 

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