S5Ep11 Neuro Linguistic Programming, what is it and why should I care?
Make Mental Health Matter Show
In today's episode of Make Mental Health Matter, Kelli will be talking with Mac McGregor.
Mac McGregor – the “Gender Sensei” – is a speaker and author who works to educate and train various corporations, colleges, and groups on topics concerning diversity, gender, healthy masculinity and being true to themselves. He is a dedicated, heartfelt activist and educator who focuses every part of his existence on creating a world where people can feel free to be their authentic selves.
Find Mac here:
https://www.positivemasculinitynow.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Positivemasc
https://www.instagram.com/positivemas...
https://www.tiktok.com/@positivemascu...
/ @positivemasculin...
S5Ep10 Warrior Wednesdays with Special Guest Beth Carlson
Make Mental Health Matter Show
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter Kelli shares Beth Carlson's life experience with Complex PTSD and how hard it really was until she was able to tap into life with healing, and tools that help her manage symptoms, if they come up. She has found that life is much more joyful and powerful than she could have ever imagined!
Beth Carlson earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Natural Resource Tourism from Colorado State University. She then went on to graduate from The Healing Arts Institute in 2009, where she was hired as their Clinic Supervisor, and taught many classes in their massage therapy program for 6 years. Beth has owned her successful Massage Therapy practice for 14 years, specializing in Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Therapy. She’s been a Transformational Coach for 5 years, earning her Master Practitioner Certification, as well as her Consultant and Trainer Certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Beth facilitates training, women’s circles, and workshops with her clients and students from around the world. She lives in northern Colorado with her amazing husband, Chris, and beautiful cat, Brisby.
Follow Beth here:
https://bodyworkbybeth.massagetherapy...
https://instagram.com/yourNLPcoach
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter, with the theme of Mental Health Mondays, Kelli chats with Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH is a passionate and spirited clinical trainer speaking from her heart on social justice and eating disorders since 1995.
In 1997, Marcella worked with About-Face, a nonprofit organization that addresses media impact on body image serving as the Director of Media Literacy until 2005. Today she is on the About-Face Board of Founders and a consultant.
She was also on the Advisory Board for the Association of Size Health and Diversity (ASDAH), on the Advisory Board of Eating Disorder Recovery Support (EDRS) as Past President and served as Co-Chair of the Academy of Eating Disorders Diversity Equity and Inclusion committee.
Marcella received her B.A. from UC Berkeley, and Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. Marcella’s desire to address eating disorders drove her to pursue her doctorate in clinical psychology, receiving her PhD in 2012. She completed her post- doc internships at an eating disorder outpatient program and an eating disorder residential program for adolescents.
Marcella currently serves as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY # 27037) in Kaiser Permanente’s eating disorder clinic in Oakland and runs a private practice. Marcella herself recovered from anorexia nervosa over 20 years ago. Marcella trains in Kajukenbo at Hand to Hand Kajukenbo Self Defense Center in Oakland. She holds a second degree black belt and enjoys the exploratory path her training gives her. Her eating disorder recovery and her martial arts training inspire her dedication to multicultural body nurturance and community celebration.
Find more info on Marcella here:
www.marcellaedtraining.com
Instagram- @DrMarcellaRaimondo
S5Ep8 Could You Imagine Experiencing Depression for 9 years?
On today’s episode of Make Mental Health Matter show special guest Curtis Jones will tell us his story about his depression that lasted 9 years.
After leaving home for college and running close to 4 minutes in the mile on the track team, an injury sent Curtis spiraling into 3 years of debilitating depression. After dropping out of school with a 1.8 GPA and enlisting in the military in hopes of a new beginning, he awoke on his enlistment date to discover it was the day that the planes hit the towers. After traveling around the world with the Navy and experiencing another 6 years of functional depression, Curtis found the key that freed him from his 9 year depression.
Curtis is a 9-year depression survivor, a veteran, an Emotional Alignment Coach, a motivational speaker, the Author of Guru In The Glass and has been featured by Calm, Yahoo News, Power of Positivity, Cosmo, Cox TV, Authority Magazine, and so many more!
Find and follow Curtis here:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/curtis.t.jones
IG: https://instagram.com/curtistyjones
Website: www.radiatenewrealities.com
For this episode of Make Mental Health Matter and Mental Health Mondays theme, Kelli will teach you 5 simple strategies to use anytime, anywhere. Come learn how these strategies can benefit your mental health.
Have you ever taken on a challenge that you knew would be mentally, physically and emotionally challenging? And for some reason you knew you needed to do it, even though you may have had that voice in your head asking you what the heck are you thinking, how can you do this?
That's what in today's episode Kelli will be talking about. The challenge that she is taking on for the Climb 4 Mind event that she is doing in August, the 29029 Everesting challenge and how this is part of her Warrior journey.
To support Kelli in this journey text ""Climb4Mind"" to 44-321
Or find out more info here: https://www.bccevolution.org/climb4mind
S5Ep6: He Almost Became a School Shooter, Special Guest Aaron Stark
On today's episode of Make Mental Health Matter with Warrior Wednesdays theme, Kelli chats with special guest Aaron Stark. He shared his story about his childhood through abuse, a horrible family life, self-harm which almost lead him to becoming a school shooter. Through one specific friendship he was able to change his trajectory. His story is so valuable and a conversation we should all be having. Listen to his story and learn how we can all be more nonjudgmental of those around us.
Find Aaron:
TEDx:
• I Was Almost A Sc...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-sta...
https://www.facebook.com/aaron.stark1313
https://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/a...
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter, Kelli talks with Kari Petruch.
She is a Master Relationship Coach, Strategic Interventionist, Best Selling Author of Get Out of the Box and Into Play: The Secret to a Lasting Relationship and Owner of Highest Intent Life Coaching, Kari Petruch has been helping people all over the world for a lifetime. She is a mother of three, a grandmother of eight, and married to the man of her dreams. Kari helps couples to find even more joy and excitement in their relationships using her amazing Relationship Reignition Program. She is a contributing author in the Wall Street Best Selling Book WTF to OMG.
You can find more info about Kari here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/findyourpowe...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karipetruch/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kari-petr...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/intent_life
Website: https://highestintentcoach.com
S5Ep4 School Shootings, Trauma and Youth, how we can help
Join host Kelli Melissa Reinhardt in this episode of Make Mental Health Matter, Warrior Wednesdays as she dives into some of the psychology behind school shootings and how these traumas affect our youth. How parents, caregivers, teachers and those around can make an impact in a youth's life after school shootings or any type of trauma that youth experience.
The real conversation that we should be having. How we can all be Warriors in the lives of our youth.
S5Ep5: Mental Health Mondays with special guest Fitz Koehler
Mondays theme is Mental Health Mondays where Kelli talks to guests who are mental health professionals, advocates or those that live with or experience a mental health challenge.
Noisy. Bossy. Compelling. Fitz Koehler of Fitzness.com is the author of multiple books, including My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong and Healthy Cancer Comeback Journal, a busy keynote speaker, a professional race announcer, and a fitness expert. Her small company Fitzness International has a global reach, and she's conquered every avenue of mass media to help people live better and longer.
Fitzness.com
https://www.instagram.com/fitzness/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fitz-koeh...
https://www.facebook.com/Fitzness-218...
/ fitzness
https://www.instagram.com/healthycanc...
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter Show, Kelli chats with Gina Heumann. She describes herself as a Renaissance woman - professor, author, speaker, architect, designer, adoption and mental health advocate, wife, and mother.
Her youngest son was neglected by his foster mom prior to adopting him, resulting in over a decade of chaos and frustration. Through her research, Gina tried and tested many therapies and treatments to help him overcome attachment trauma and finally found a path to healing.
She wrote a book (Love Never Quits), presented her story at TEDx, and is now the founder of Trauma Drama University - a new nonprofit dedicated to helping parents dealing with trauma behaviors.
You can find Gina here:
www.traumadramauniversity.com
facebook.com/traumadramauniversity
instagram.com/traumadramauniversity.com
linkedin.com/company/trauma-drama-university
Twitter: @GinaHeumann
S6Ep5 Resiliency Through Multiple Deaths in the Family
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter, Kelli talks with Warrior Blair Kaplan Venables.
After multiple deaths in her family she learned how to truly be resilient. In her free time, you can find Blair growing “The Global Resilience Project's” community, where users share their stories of overcoming life's most challenging moments. She hosts the Radical Resilience podcast and is an international bestselling author.
She is an expert in social media marketing and the CEO + Founder of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. She brings fifteen years of experience to her clients, including global wellness, entertainment and lifestyle brands. She is the creator of the Social Media Empowerment Pillars, has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards and more.
Recently USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders and Yahoo! listed Blair as a top ten social media expert to watch. She has spoken on national stages, and her expertise has been featured in media outlets, including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. In the summer of 2023, a new show that will be airing on Amazon Prime Video called 'MyStory' will showcase Blair's life story.
You can find more about Blair here:
https://www.blairkaplan.ca/
https://theglobalresilienceproject.com/
blair@blairkaplan.ca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairdkaplan
https://www.instagram.com/blairfrombl...
https://www.facebook.com/blair.kaplan
https://www.facebook.com/BlairKaplanC...
https://twitter.com/BlairKaplanPR
https://www.instagram.com/globalresil...
S5Ep3: Mental Health Mondays with special guest Irad Eichler
Make Mental Health Matter Show
Join host Kelli Melissa Reinhardt for "Make Mental Health Matter" show, with the theme of Mental Health Mondays where she talks to guests who are mental health professionals, advocates or have lived experience. In this episode she chats with special guest Irad Eichler.
Irad Eichler, lives in a Kibbut, Israel, married+4, Serial entrepreneur, was announced by the world economic forum as a social entrepreneur of the year, Winner of the Bar Ilan university social leadership award, and social impact hero by Medium magazine. Founder and chairperson of "Shekulo Tov", leading organization for vocational recovery of people with disabilities, founder & CEO of "Circles", an online platform for coping circles in life challenges, founder of "social business school", senior festival and a podcaster.
https://circlesup.com
Kelli brings back special guest Chris DT Gordon to share his Warrior story about his journey through the life-threatening flesh eating bacteria disease.
Chris DT Gordon is a faithful husband, father of three, online middle school special education teacher, professional speaker, podcast host, co-author, runner, martial artist, and pop culture geek.
He is also a survivor of a life-threatening disease who uses his story and message to inspire and motivate others to adopt The Attitude of Gratitude (TAG), overcome their challenges, and go for greatness!
You can watch his previous episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/eHtUZMke...
And follow him here:
www.chrisdtgordon.com
instagram.com/chrisdtgordon
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter, Kelli has special guest Sabrina Fritts.
She is a certified Block Therapist and a domestic violence/sexual assault advocate. She brings her practical Human Resources experience, holistic approach, and playful healing ability to make the greatest impact with her clients. Releasing trauma is fundamental to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. She is passionate about maintaining an effective daily self-care practice; which is essential in providing crisis response and healing-centered advocacy. She accepted the invitation to participate in the newly formed National Task Force on Advocate Wellness. Sabrina implemented a Wellness Program at PeaceWorks, Inc. which provides an opportunity for survivors, service providers, and community members to heal. Sabrina can be contacted at +1.720.935.6316.
You can find more about Sabrina here:
https://goblockyourself.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabrina.fritts
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/go.block.yo...
S5Ep2.WW. What does it mean to be a Warrior for Mental Health
In tonight’s episode we will be launching the Warrior Wednesdays theme. Meet the host Kelli Melissa Reinhardt, a Warrior for Mental Health. Learn about what it means to be a Warrior for Mental Health and what these Warrior Wednesdays are going to be all about. Take this chance to interact with Kelli and ask any questions, also suggest what guests you want her to interview in the future. Who’s story do you think would be impactful to hear?
S5Ep1: Mental Health Mondays with special guest Terry Tucker
Join host Kelli Melissa Reinhardt for "Make Mental Health Matter" show, with the theme of Mental Health Mondays where she talks to guests who are mental health professionals, advocates or have lived experience. In this episode she chats with special guest Terry Tucker.
A little bit about Terry:
Terry Tucker is a motivational speaker, author, and international podcast guest on the topics of motivation, mindset, and self-development. He has a business administration degree from The Citadel (where he played NCAA Division I college basketball) and a master’s degree from Boston University. In his professional career, Terry has been a marketing executive, a hospital administrator, a SWAT Team Hostage Negotiator, a high school basketball coach, a business owner, a motivational speaker, and for the past ten years, a cancer warrior (which has resulted in the amputation of his foot in 2018 and his leg in 2020). He is the author of the book, Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life. Terry has also been featured in Authority, Thrive Global, and Human Capital Leadership magazines.
Find him here:
Motivational Check: https://www.motivationalcheck.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-tuc...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motivational...
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/terrytucke...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainable...
Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life - Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GLGVTVS
S7Ep7 Bridging Communities with Special Guest Larry Azevedo
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter show, Kelli chats with Larry Azevedo.
He came from a single-parent home. His mom raised him, he had a rough upbringing, however still finished school, and went on to trade school where he received his associate degree in the auto/diesel industry. From there, he started is own businesses and worked in the AG industry and real estate his whole life. He is now campaigning to become the President of the United States.
He is committed to bringing people together and building bridges across communities. He believes that we are stronger when we work together and that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths.
He is driven by a deep sense of purpose and a desire to make a positive impact on the world.
Find out more about Larry here:
http://www.azevedo4president.com/
http://www.facebook.com/AZEVEDO4PRESI.../ @azevedo4president
http://www.instagram.com/azevedo4pres...
http://www.twitter.com/@Azvedo4presdent/
S7Ep6 From Struggles to Masterpieces: Karly Stein's Artful Journey
In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter Kelli chats with Karly about her mental health, physical health challenges, suicidal thoughts and how she almost lost her life several times. She talks about all these things and where she is now.
Karly Stein, a visionary artist, embarks on a creative odyssey where colors come alive and art becomes a soulful journey. Her work, a vivid tapestry of emotions, draws inspiration from the diverse hues of life, people, places, and experiences that have shaped her remarkable voyage.
A master of acrylic paint pouring, Karly's unique technique unravels the magic of healing and intuition on canvas. Trusting her instincts and the dance of colors, she unleashes abstract wonders that leave hearts spellbound.
Having embraced her passion for art since her formative years, Karly's journey briefly led her away from her artistic calling after college. However, in 2019, a powerful yearning brought her back to the canvas, and amidst the pandemic, she immersed herself in creating awe-inspiring art that touched souls across the globe.
In December 2020, another fateful twist guided Karly to the mesmerizing world of paint pouring. Within no time, her abstract creations found homes in the hearts of art enthusiasts and transformed her life's path forever.
Today, Karly's primary focus is on abstract paint pouring, crafting breathtaking jewelry from paint drips, and conducting mesmerizing paint pouring classes in Denver. Her artistry has garnered recognition, earning her the prestigious ""2022 Westword’s Best of Denver Readers Choice: Best Art Class"" award.
Her work isn't just art; it's a source of strength and resilience. Karly's creations became a lifeline during a challenging battle with a deadly infection in her colon, reinforcing the profound impact of art in healing.
Explore the kaleidoscope of Karly Stein's artistic world at www.ksteincreates.com and unravel the enchantment of paint pouring at www.paintpouringdenver.com. Immerse yourself in the vibrant tapestry of colors and emotions, where creativity knows no bounds. Discover the magic of Karly Stein, the artist who dances with color.
Thank you,
Kelli Melissa Reinhardt (she/her/hers)
Founder of BCC Evolution
Host of Make Mental Health Matter TV Show
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In this episode of Make Mental Health Matter TV show, Kelli’s special guest is Leslie Tankersley Arboleda who is the Kizen Koach™.
She is a certified Quantum Human Design™ Specialist and Family Coach, and an international speaker and author. In her koaching business, Kizen Wellness, a name inspired the Japanese business concept of continuous improvement, she focuses on the power of the personal narrative and helps people learn to tell the story they want to live, so they can live the story they want to tell.
Using a combination of movement and stillness, she guides her clients in reconnecting to their own body, brain, and breath because when you transform your relationship with yourself, you also transform your relationships in life. When she writes and speaks, she shares her own story of transforming trauma into triumph and focuses on the practiced skills of integrity and resiliency. Leslie combines her experience, education and expertise in neuropsychology, quantum physics, and marketing to support her clients and audience members in understanding the importance of making aligned choices to create the life that brings them Joy and success. She believes that each and every person is a unique, once-in-a-lifetime, cosmic event and hopes for everyone to become empowered in creating desired change and tangible results in our lives and relationship.
Connect with Leslie here:
https://www.kizenwellness.com
https://www.facebook.com/kizenwellness/
https://www.instagram.com/kizenwellness/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-ar...
