This podcast is part of a 2 part series with Janae, so stay tuned! Also note that episode starts at minute 3:34 due to a slight computer glitch.
In the previous episode, Janae and I discussed the professional costs and personal benefits of authenticity in her journey from former 'ultimate alpha male' into her current authentic gender fluid self. We discussed public persona, masking and the freedom living with authenticity!
In this episode, Part 2, we discuss the challenges of being a trans athlete, bodily and hormonal impacts of professional athleticism and gender affirming surgeries, and the challenges of shifting both bodily and identity presentations in personal and professional life.
Janae Marie Kroczaleski holds a World Record for Powerlifting, is a former Marine who served as Presidential Security for President Bill Clinton and is the subject of the 2017 documentary film Transformer.
Once described as ‘the ultimate Alpha male’...Janae began transitioning in 2005 and legally changed their name from Matt to Janae Marie in 2015.
Today, she is an active National and World Jiu Jitsu competitor, Author, Activist, Entrepreneur, Podcaster and proud parent.
You can reach out to Janae on Insta and https://www.krocsgym.com/
This podcast is part of a 2 part series with Janae, so stay tuned! Also note that episode starts at minute 3:34 due to a slight computer glitch.
In this episode, Janae discusses the professional costs and personal benefits of authenticity as she shares her journey as a lifetime competetive athlete, world champion in powerlifting and the 'ultimate alpha male' into her authentic gender fluid self. We discuss public persona, masking and the freedom living with authenticity!
Stay tuned for Part 2 where we discuss the challenges of being a trans athlete, bodily and hormonal impacts of professional athleticism and gender affirming surgeries and the challenges of shifting both bodily and identity presentations in personal and professional life.
Janae Marie Kroczaleski holds a World Record for Powerlifting, is a former Marine who served as Presidential Security for President Bill Clinton and is the subject of the 2017 documentary film Transformer.
Once described as ‘the ultimate Alpha male’...Janae began transitioning in 2005 and legally changed their name from Matt to Janae Marie in 2015.
Today, she is an active National and World Jiu Jitsu competitor, Author, Activist, Entrepreneur, Podcaster and proud parent.
You can reach out to Janae on Insta and https://www.krocsgym.com/
Kevin Can! is the story of Kevin, he is a normal 10-year-old boy who uses a wheelchair to get around. In this story follow along with Kevin and his best friend Katie as they have tons of fun discovering many of the things that Kevin can do. Kevin can do everything you can do, but with his chair, he just does them a little differently. Kevin teaches us it is okay to do things differently. Sometimes different is fun!
Ian Flanagan and Jesse Lindlebauer, friends since high school. Both became disabled at a young age and have written a book called Kevin Can!, based on their 30 combined years of wheelchair life. Kevin Can! is based on their everyday realities. Through Ian's words and Jesse's artistry, Kevin Can! seeks to raise awareness and educate kids K-12 about overcoming disabilities, and embracing inclusion and diversity.Kevin Can! is available on Amazon for 10.99 during the holiday season
https://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Can-Ian-Michael-Flanagan/dp/B0D8HS396B
and Jesse and Ian are available for speaking and/or educational engagements within schools and communities so feel free to reach out to them at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1702425286760118
and/or contact them at kevincanbook@gmail.com
I share my reflections on Netflix's The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping
I share insights on the impact of carceral care programs, including boarding schools and juvenile detention centers from the Individual to World.
Then I discuss root causes and sustainable solutions.
We can do better and we must!
Send me a message and let me know what you think!
https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
In this episode I share reflections on living within ADHD.
As a Neurodivergent female, this piece in the Rainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity Anthology spoke to my heart and I wanted to share it with others.
If this episode speaks to you, I've created tools that you would dig, available here.
Life is full of hidden internal landmines - do you know yours?
Gain Clarity within the Chaos and improve your quality of life exponentially by understanding how YOUR unique brain and body are wired!
https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
Dr Simmons and I had a great conversation about our wellness as mental health providers, the mental health climate in Florida, preventing burnout and compassion fatigue and spirituality as an added buffer against oppressive forces.
Dr. Simmons has been practicing for 15+ years, identifies as Neurodivergent and is the co-owner of the Collective Wellness Institute in Tampa Bay, Florida. She is the author of Fight With Faith, which discusses her journey with breast cancer and is committed to being a "change agent" in her work.
Her tools can be found in the following links: https://linktr.ee/drshnai
https://thecollectivewellnessinstitute.com/shnai/
In this episode I explore my journey with CPTSD and at-home Ketamine use. Insights are shared as they relate to what my 'sessions' have been like as well as the longer term outcomes I'm seeing in my daily life.
Have a listen if you'd like to learn more about the use of psychadelics in healing mental health!
My additional healing tools can be found here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
Welcome back!
This episode talks about what I was up to in 2023:
*Bariatric Revision Surgery
*Mental Health
*MH Recovery
*Aligning business, authenticity and mental health
I've also created additional tools for transformation including a new book, several new webinars, etc. https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
Let me know what you think!
Lindsay Drouillard is a Nurse Practitioner. She is the Director and Founder of Therapy Ranch, which connects Horses and Humans in Healing. She is a graduate of Michigan State College of Nursing and Wayne State with a Master's of Science in Nursing. She is a proud mother of 3, wife, and has been EAGALA Certified as an Equine Specialist since 2017.
Therapy Ranch provides Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) as a mental health intervention and teaching method to decrease symptoms of several mental health issues. The benefits of EAP are too numerous to mention, so you can start learning more here! https://www.therapyranch.org/
To volunteer for Therapy Ranch and/or to learn more about supporting this organization and utilizing their services, all upcoming information is available here linktr.ee/therapyranch.
To learn more about Horses for Mental Health and their campaign for mental health awareness Seen Through Horses. (May 1-31), click here https://horsesformentalhealth.org/Seen Through Horseshttps://horsesformentalhealth.org/campaign/
Our guest this week is a Local Powerhouse and Treasure!
She is fighting with 'boots on the ground' against Stigma as it relates to Mental Health and Substance Use locally, with Youth, Community Groups and in our Surrounding Churches. Her latest project is a new Movie entitled A Sick Church Can't Heal a Dying World (out soon so stay tuned!) in which she explores the Churches role, treatment and shifting perspective on its participants that are struggling with mental health and/or substance use. She is also Host of the Podcast/Talkshow The Real Black Coffee-No Sugar, No Cream, Straight Talk with Valerie https://www.therealblackcoffee.com/
You are going to want to listen up to hear how Community Action and Change is made! She is a Veteran Change Agent in Belleville, Inkster and the Greater Detroit Area!
Please welcome Valerie Kelley-Bonner, who is the founder of Strategies to Overcome Obstacles and Avoid Recidivism (SOOAR) https://www.sooar-nonprofit.org/, a 501C3 nonprofit organization licensed by the Michigan Department of Community Health Substance Abuse Prevention Section and prevention services provider for the Detroit Wayne Mental health Authority. She is also the CEO and Lead Consultant of Strategic Transitions Consulting. For over 20 years she has been helping people reach their full potential through business development, mentoring, empowerment coaching, career development, behavior modification, and various life skills coaching programs. Her goal is to provide a level of service that will encourage, enlighten, and empower individuals to adopt the leadership behaviors required to divert life’s black hole and make informed choices for their lives.
Valerie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration-Marketing and Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Non-Profit Administration from Cleary University. She has worked in the fields of business, science, education, engineering, and information technology. She is a Certified Prevention Consultant (CPC-R) under the auspice of the Michigan Certification Board of Addiction Professionals, a Certified Trainer of several evidence-based prevention programs, and has several other certifications and different areas of expertise. She enjoyed volunteering her time for Kiwanis Club and on the Boards of the Metro Detroit Charter Center, Romulus Mayors Drug Task Force, and the Executive Board of the Belleville Downtown Development Authority.
Let us know what you think about this episode, the topics and/or our guests! Find more information about the host here: https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
If we are not careful, we will have ourselves believing that this messy world is the only reality. It will have us believing there is no way out from the distress and pain that we experience on a daily basis...
Want to work with me? Check out my Linktree for my resources! https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
It's Women's History Month... let's talk about women and their role in our lives. Who are your sheros? Why? And who are mine and why? Why is this important? Listen up for the power of this resource in our lives!
Rachel Kapp-Brown is a Registered Dietician and a long-term colleague. She is currently a Nutrition Coach and, since it's National Nutrition Month, we sat down to have a chat about what it truly takes to change our relationship with food. Behavior Change is only part of the equation so you are going to want to listen up as we 'talk shop' about how to get YOU to your Goals with food or any other substance!
You can find Rachel at Moving Fully Nourished https://movefullynourished.com/about-me/ and her IG is rachelbrown_movefullynourished.
Would you like to work with me? Want my free workbook on Tools for Transformation? Head over to my Linktree and follow me on Social Media for updates! During the month of December, my Signature Course is 50% off!!!! For $199 you can kick of a year of Me and 2023! https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
It's Black History Month and I'm sharing 4 Authors who wrote 4 books who have impacted my personal and professional life.
This week we are exploring Mariam Kaba's book We Do This Til It Free's Us. It offers an excellent overview of Abolition, why it's important, why defunding the police is practical and necessary and why and how we can use transformative justice in our own lives to create the world we want to live in. It's a great book with several facts and figures.
New York Times Bestseller
“Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.”
What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.
With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”
You can find out more about Ms. Kaba here https://bcrw.barnard.edu/fellows/mariame-kaba/ and her book here https://amzn.to/3l65UTB
Let me know what you think on social media and take a peak at my other offerings here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
This is a MUST listen for anyone struggling with custody, family courts and/or sticky legal situations!
Maryann Petri is my guest today. She was first on my podcast last year (4/8/22) and she is back to share more of her own story and that of Countless guests she's had on her own podcast Slam The Gavel.
We are pulling the curtains back on what REALLY happens in the court room and why it's CRITICAL that you understand your Rights and Resources available to you.
You are going to want to share this episode with somone you know. It's chocked FULL of information needed for those who find themselves in these anything but Just situations!
You can find more about Maryann here:
Author of Dismantling Family Court Corruption and Cry Out For Justice, Poems of Truth and the Creator, Host and Organizer of Slam the Gavel Podcast: Slam the Gavel is a podcast to discuss Family Court Issues, Support Court, Support-contempt conferences and hearings and Child Services issues. Advice on how parents can cope with these issues along with Parental Alienation. Based off the book, Dismantling Family Court Corruption, Why Taking The Kids Was Not Enough. This book can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Apple and Smashwords.dismantlingfamilycourtcorruption.com
Keep in touch with my offerings on Social Media and Linktree. Available here: https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
It's Black History Month and we are covering 4 Authors and Trailblazers who have impacted my life and my work.
This episode we cover Patrice Cullor's Book The Abolitionist's Handbook.
Think you know what Abolition is? Think again. I am an active Abolitionist and it has changed my relationships and is part of being a Harm Reductionists. She offers practical tips that are relevant to us all to liberate our minds and bodies from the limiting conditions we've been living in.
Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision.
In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK readers will learn how to:
- have courageous conversations
- move away from reaction and towards response
- take care of oneself while fighting for others
- turn inter-community conflict into a transformative action
- expand one’s imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment
- make justice joyful
- practice active forgiveness
- make space for difficult feelings and honor mental health
- practice non-harm and cultivate compassion
- organize local and national governments to work towards abolition
- move away from cancel culture
You can find more about her here https://patrissecullors.com/ and her book is available here https://amzn.to/3wR35s1
Let me know what you think on social media and learn what other offerings I have available here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass
We live in a violent society. Want solutions? Listen up.
Welcome guest Mary Beth O'Connor! Author of Junkie to Judge: One Women's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction, available here https://amzn.to/3DTWtND
For Mary Beth, childhood abuse and other traumas led to substance use disorder (addiction).
Beginning with alcohol at age 12, she spent several years abusing various drugs. She found methamphetamine at 16 and started shooting up at 17. Mary Beth struggled with meth until she was 32 years old.
By incorporating ideas from multiple sources to build a secular (not 12-step or faith based) recovery plan that works for her, Mary Beth has been sober since 1994. She used similar techniques to address the trauma and related anxiety as well.
Mary Beth is a board member for LifeRing Secular Recovery and She Recovers Foundation. She speaks on behalf of these organizations, about multiple paths to recovery, and about all topics related to substance use disorder and recovery. She also speaks about sexual abuse and rape, child abuse, domestic violence, ptsd, anxiety, and recovering from these as well.
Mary Beth's book-length memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bamm, Indie Bound, and other sites, and at your local bookstore. She also has placed essays in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Recovery Today.
Professionally, 6 years into recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014, Mary Beth was appointed a federal Administrative Law Judge, a position from which she retired in 2020.
https://junkietojudge.com/
If you like the Podcast, you may also like my other offerings! Check out my Coaching Courses, my Webinars, my Tiktoks, my Book, 1:1 sessions, etc. available here https://linktr.ee/cloudedcompass