Celebrating Our Speakers’ Life Changing Books and More
Saturday, February 8, 2025
1:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
Inner Healing | Outer Health for Women Leaders Three Keys to Claim Healthy Longevity & Your Purpose, Aligned with Science, the Stars & Your Soul
With Karin Collinsworth, Founder, Author, Speaker, Holistic Health Strategist & Astrologer w/ 40 Years of Success with Diabetes
Do you or someone you love struggle with prediabetes, metabolic syndrome symptoms, weight challenges, or motivation to improve your health? Are you ready to commit to your health and jumpstart a holistic transformation?
Inner Healing | Outer Health Workshop is for anyone looking to:
- Overcome resistance to caring for their health and pursuing their dreams
- Find an easy path to boost vitality and energy
- Discover a shortcut to purpose and well-being by connecting with their unique inner wisdom
Workshop Highlights | What You’ll Learn
- The Hidden Health Risks Behind Diabetes and Heart Disease
Understand the dangers behind diabetes and heart disease—and why addressing them is critical for women and healthy longevity. - A Framework for Transformation and Alignment
Discover evidence-based strategies to reduce health risks by jumpstarting your holistic alignment with science, the stars, your soul, and your spirit. - Essential Keys to Jumpstart a Holistic Health Transformation:
Specific steps to jumpstart lasting changes, strategies to align your health with your purpose, and successfully create a life you love beyond diabetes
Listening to the recording:
Speaker: Karin Collinsworth, Founder of Ideas and Insights Consulting and Blood Sugar Dogs
Karin specializes in promoting healthy longevity for individuals with diabetes through holistic approaches. As the founder of Ideas and Insights Consulting and Blood Sugar Dogs Coaching, she blends her expertise as an author of Let’s Discuss Diabetes with Dogs with over three decades of personal experience with success with diabetes and as one of the 1,441 participants in the landmark DCCT and EDIC Diabetes Study. Her work integrates modern diabetes management with holistic wellness practices, offering strategies that address physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Through her programs, Karin empowers individuals to reverse the impact of metabolic and lifestyle-related conditions, tackle the risks of diabetes and heart disease, and embrace revitalized health and self-confidence. Her holistic strategies incorporate science, soul guidance, and celestial mapping to help clients connect with their authentic selves, embrace their purpose, foster lasting transformation, and live a life they love.
A WriteSpeak graduate, Karin is also the author of the Ideas and Insights Health and Success Blog, sharing insights on nutrition, wellness, cultivating vitality, and purposeful living. Her mission is to inspire healthier, happier lives by embedding holistic wellness into everyday life.
Connect with Karin:
Email: karin@ideasandinsights.us
Website: bloodsugardogs.com | Ideasandinsights.us/healthandsuccessblog
Events and Strategy Sessions: Linktr.ee/Karin_C
Social Media: Find her on events on Eventbrite, on Meta as Karin Collinsworth, and in the Holistic Pathways Facebook group and IG as KarinC_Om.
1:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
A Scanner’s Tale: Thriving as a Multipotentialite
One day in April 2009, Jana stumbled upon Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose and experienced an instant awakening: having too many interests was a thing?! At last, everything started to make sense, and a new chapter of exploration and joy began.
Over the following years, Jana delighted in writing her ideas down in a Scanner Daybook, joined Barbara Sher’s Hanging Out program for two enriching years, completed all the exercises during a Refuse to Choose book club led by the wonderful Patty Newbold, and later embarked on the year-long WriteSpeak writing course. Along the way, she thrived in the company of inspiring, like-minded individuals, while embracing her many talents and interests.
Fast forward 15 years: over 50 Scanner Daybooks filled, countless songs and articles written, paintings created, art classes attended, and courses of all kinds explored. Jana now shares highlights of her journey and reflects on what it means to flourish as a multipotentialite.
Driven by curiosity and a love for creating, she shares her thoughts through prose and poetry — reflections that will resonate deeply with fellow multipotentialites who embrace their own versatile passions.
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Speaker: Jana Lindberg M.A., Scanner, writer, artist, trainer and counsellor, adventurer of the mind
Her blog Quest Blog – Logbook of a Creative Journey (German / English) is a vibrant exploration of creativity, personal growth, and the art of living a balanced, fulfilling life. It dives into themes like mindfulness, self-discovery, and embracing the unique challenges of being a Scanner or multipotentialite. From practical tips on overcoming stress and enhancing focus to heartfelt reflections on dreams, creativity, and life’s twists and turns, every article invites readers to reconnect with their passions and navigate their own hero’s journey.
Website: www.jana-lindberg.de
2:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
The Overachiever’s Emergency Kit: A Simple System to Beat Overwhelm
Feeling overwhelmed? Take heart! I’ll show you a practical three-step “GPS” system that was powerful enough to help plan D-Day, yet simple enough to implement during your most overwhelming moments. Learn a fresh perspective on managing competing demands without sacrificing your standards or sanity. Perfect for high achievers who need a lifeline, not another complex productivity system. Leave with immediately applicable strategies to transform your overwhelming to-do list into manageable action steps.
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Speaker: Megan J. Hall, Ph.D., Medievalist. Speaker. Writer. Coach. Productivity Expert. Storyteller.
Megan Hall has a Ph.D. in English Literature, with a focus on Medieval English Literature, from the University of Notre Dame. In her academic work, she researches and writes about a range of historical and literary topics, primarily women’s history, the medieval world and literature, and the relationship of environment to human experience.
She also coaches high achievers, especially writers and academics. As an experienced academic and writer herself, Megan knows from the inside out the often gut-wrenching processes of succeeding in high-achieving environments (especially academic programs) and working to overcome the challenges every student, teacher, scholar, and writer faces: procrastination, imposter syndrome, overwhelm, and overwork are often the chief among those challenges. Fortunately she discovered early on an innate appreciation for organization and time management and has developed those skills ever since, using them to help those who need it.
Website: www.meganjhall.com
Check out Megan’s latest book, to be published later this year, The Overwhelmed Overachiever: Reclaim Your Sanity and Thrive Again.
2:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
The Magic of Learning 6 Afrikaans Words
People are often put off by the daunting goal of getting fluent in a language. It’s a wonderful feeling when you get to a point where you start to feel comfortable speaking another language. And Doret loves helping people get fluent in all sorts of fun ways. But in this little workshop, you’ll discover the many benefits of just learning a few words in her favourite language — even if you stop right there!
Feeling stuck? Need a laugh? Learning a few Afrikaans words might be just what the coach ordered.
Listening to the recording:
Speaker: Doret Jordaan, PhD in Comparative Literature and Barbara Sher Coach
Doret is a teacher, writer and coach with a PhD in Comparative Literature. She has a passion for language learning, literature and landscapes – and for helping students get more magic out of learning words and reading stories. In her spare time she curates language and literary experiences at a little initiative called The Dusty Shelf Academy. As a language and literary experience coach, she loves using languages and books to help people who feel stuck in some way in life to see new possibilities and get moving. You can find her at dustyshelfacademy.com
3:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
Be the Author of Your Life – Exploring Inspired Action and Conscious Co-creation
We are creating our life in different ways. Sometimes we are only re-acting to the circumstances, sometimes we are acting intentionally. And sometimes we are fully engaged and aware of what we are creating and why.
In this Workshop we will explore these was and find your personal key aspects to be an empowered Author of Your Life and
intentional with your actions and collaborations. You can use these insights for your Personal Life and as a Business Owner and Changemaker who wants to bring positive change to this world.
Antonia will guide you through exercises and give practical examples so that everybody can apply this wisdom to their life and creative work.
Free Resource for all participants of the MiniWorkshop: Collaborate for Impact – Checklist (PDF) at
www.free.antoniadaniek.com
Listening to the recording:
Speaker: Antonia Daniek, Source Leadership Mentor, Transformational Coach, Conscious Business Developer, Artist; Creator of the SourceDynamics Method
Source Leadership Mentor, Transformational Coach, Conscious Business Developer, Artist; Creator of the SourceDynamics Method. Author of the upcoming book SourceDynamics in CoCreation, publisher of the New Earth Quest Codes book and contributing author in vol. 3 of the Pay it forward series by Kezia Luckett.
Antonia believes in co-creating a world of meaning and reconnection where resources and wisdom are shared to improve the life and environment for all of us. A world where every person is appreciated.
As a transformational coach Antonia supports Changemakers to re-connect to their purpose and inner wisdom so that they can create great and make an impact in the world that they are truly passionate about.
Her programs focus on Entrepreneurs, Coaches and Business Owners who want to be part of the global change by sharing their unique gifts and innovative tools and utilize the power of connection and collaboration to grow their business.
Antonia uses her big picture vision process with the founder as the source of the project to make new opportunities for business growth, partnerships and co-creation visible. This brings clarity and courage and enables to act.
Website: antoniadaniek.com
Facebook: the.antonia.daniek
Check out Antonia’s books, Notes to My Younger Self (The Pay It Forward Series Book 3)
The New Earth Quest Codes: Insights from a Sacred Journey – Leadership lessons, Personal Growth, Authentic Self Expression and Co-creation
SourceDynamics in CoCreation (Summer 2025)
3:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
How to Cultivate Hope
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Speaker: Antonieta Edwards Kashimbiri, a career educator, a proud scanner, and a lover of many things, a Mindfulness Meditation advocate and author
Antonieta Edwards Kashimbiri is a career educator, a proud scanner, and a lover of many things, a Mindfulness Meditation advocate and author. She is the creator of Mindful Reflections: Patterns, a series of mindfulness guided journals. In these, reflection, self-appreciation, gratitude, and creativity through therapeutic coloring come together to shape your mindfulness journey.
Antonieta is an avid reader and quote collector, who enjoys vintage shopping and people watching. She gives back to her community by volunteering and sharing resources. She lives in Los Angeles, California, and is looking forward to all the adventures that this new phase of her life will bring.
Email: Kajirusgifts@gmail.com
Check out Antonietta’s most recent book, Mindful Reflections: Patterns of Hope, a Journal for Reflection, Growth, Relaxation
4:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
How to Be a Life-Changing Author and Speaker by September 2026
We’ll be repeating this telesummit on September 12, 2026 with a new group of people who have written books that change lives and can earn good money by speaking about things that matter. Want to be one of them? If you’ve got ten hours a week available, beginning next month, you could be.
Let us teach you all of Barbara’s shortcuts to getting started in writing and speaking about a topic dear to your heart. It’s a great career!
WriteSpeak Online was developed by Barbara Sher, best-selling author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, Wishcraft, Live the Life You Love, It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now and Refuse to Choose, to teach you the methods she learned and invented to make it possible to make a good living as an author and speaker.
During this session, WriteSpeak coaches Kandy Sartori and Patrice Jenkins will answer all your questions about her year-long WriteSpeak program, which begins again on October 4th. Registration opens on September 13, 2025.
Listening to the recording:
Speakers: Kandy Sartori, WriteSpeak coach since 2024 and author of 3 books
Kandy M. Sartori is a Certified Professional Organizer, serial entrepreneur, author, coach, and Creative Guide. She has completed the WriteSpeak program twice and will be taking over as President of Barbara’s Club later this year. Kandy has over 20+ years working in Fortune 500 companies in positions ranging from Administrative Assistant, Fire/Theft Team Leader, Tax Branch Manager, Financial Advisor to Bookkeeper. She started her first business in 2009 as an organizing and cleaning business. Over the years, she has developed systems that really help her clients stay organized and streamlined. She works with her clients to feel into their well being. She takes a holistic approach and understands the flow of energy in our lives. Everything and everyone is connected, on every level.
She holds a BA in Business Administration and several certificates in a variety of areas, as a true scanner would. She is currently working on her master’s degree in Organizational Development. Kandy also worked as part of an organizing crew on A&E’s popular TV series, HOARDERS. She has also trekked to Mt. Everest’s Base Camp, ran the Athens Marathon, took up strength training, and is competing in her first USA Powerlifting Master’s World Cup in May.
Website: Barbara Sher’s WriteSpeak program
Check out Kandy’s 3-book set, A Journey to an Organized You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Organized Home
Patrice Jenkins, Ph.D., organizational psychologist and retirement expert
Patrice Jenkins Ph.D. is an organizational psychologist, consultant, and frequent speaker on topics related to psychological and social preparation for retirement. Her online course, A Guide to Take the Weirdness Out of Retirement is available at Udemy.com. Dr. Jenkins is also the author of What Will I Do All Day? Wisdom to get you Over Retirement and on with Living! She joined WriteSpeak in 2007 and joined Patty and Barbara in teaching the WriteSpeak Teleworkshops in 2020. You can find Patrice at patricejenkins.com/
Website: Barbara Sher’s WriteSpeak program
Check out Patrice’s books, it’s still good: Dreams Don’t Have Expiration Dates
and What Will I Do All Day?: Wisdom to Get You Over Retirement and On With Living!
4:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
Dream Detours: The Top 5 Drastic Mistakes Keeping You Stuck (and How to Dodge Them Like a Pro!)
You’ve got big dreams, big ideas, and big plans…but something always seems to get in the way. Sound familiar? Here’s the good news: these detours don’t have to be permanent.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to break free from what’s keeping you stuck and step confidently into a future where:
- You’re excited to work on your dreams
- You have the support you need to thrive
- Things fall into place with a sense of magical ease
- The journey is as fun and fulfilling as the destination
Let’s practice taking action and shifting our mindset!
Listening to the recording:
Speaker: Nikki Lewis, Mindset Shifter, Strategist, and Coach to help you overcome any challenge and achieve any goal
Dr. Nikki Lewis is a transformational health and lifestyle coach, program evaluator, and semi-retired university professor dedicated to empowering others to prioritize their well-being and unlock their full potential. Her journey is one of resilience and renewal, marked by her miraculous survival of a motor vehicle accident outside the U.S. Though the accident left her with numerous injuries, including a brain injury, it also became a turning point in her life.
During her recovery, Dr. Nikki leaned into personal and spiritual development practices she had long explored, fully embracing self-healing, self-love, and metaphysical tools to overcome the profound challenges she faced. This transformative experience reshaped her life and ignited her commitment for helping others do the same. Today, she continues to live by the principles of holistic well-being and inspires her clients to lead lives of purpose, power, and fulfillment.
Dr. Nikki earned her PhD in Educational Psychology, Measurement, and Evaluation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), an MEd in Education Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA in Psychology from UNC-CH. As a former professor with over a decade of experience, she mentored PhD students, taught courses in psychology, program evaluation, statistics, and research methods, and conducted groundbreaking research on student and instructor excellence in K-20 STEM.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Dr. Nikki is a lifelong learner and adventurer. She cherishes time with family and friends, practices meditation, and travels to inspiring destinations like Costa Rica, Ghana, and Japan, embodying the joy and vitality she helps others achieve.
Connect with her to see how she can assist you in being and feeling your best self with ease and fun!
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dr.nikki808
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dr.nikki808
Work with Dr.Nikki to design a custom plan to facilitate achieving your dream your next BIG dream. All appointments booked and completed by February 18 are complimentary. (Similar to the universe, she rewards quick action!) Calls scheduled for and completed February 19 and beyond are $350. Register by sending an email message to nicoleresources@gmail.com with the subject: Momentum.
5:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
Betwixt and Between: Thriving in the Liminal Spaces of Life Through Belonging Practices
Belonging has been said to be a core human need. As humans we want and need to belong especially in the spaces and places that mean the most to us. In our desire to belong, we sometimes find ourselves on the threshold of wanting to belong and yet not finding true belonging that matches our authentic self. When we truly belong, we are able to be well, do well and thrive. How do we learn to belong to ourselves so that we can go out in community and practice belonging for others. Come on a brief journey with me as I take you through key belonging practices we can learn to foster belonging for ourselves and others in community with us.
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Speaker: Otito Iwuchukwu, PhD, CPTD, CQ-CF, crosscultural, multipassionate educator, organizational psychologist, career strategist, consultant and fierce advocate for women in leadership
Otito F. Iwuchukwu, PhD, is a pharmacist-scientist educator, organizational psychologist and consultant. A career strategist, international speaker and author, Otito helps clients learn how to live and thrive in the spaces in-between. A current WriteSpeak participant, Otito has been studying and researching on the impact of belonging in cross-cultural experiences since immigrating to the United States twenty years ago for graduate school. A certified facilitator in cultural intelligence, Otito has been training and teaching using a cultural and trauma-informed framework for many years. As a native of Nigeria, currently living and working in New Jersey, USA, Otito considers herself an amalgam of two cultures who has learned to live and thrive in the many spaces betwixt and between.
Website: www.otitoiwuchukwu.com
Check out Otito’s book, The Belonging Paradox: How to Fully Belong. No Matter Who You Are, What You Are or Where You Are.
5:30 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
Heart Space Habits: A Self-Care Workshop to Unlock Your Inner Peace
Join us for an enlightening presentation on the transformative power of self-care and how it can lead to lasting inner peace. Learn practical tips, mindfulness techniques, and simple strategies to reduce stress, nurture your well-being, foster joy, and cultivate a balanced, peaceful life.
Take the first step towards a calmer, more centered you. Don’t miss this opportunity to do something good for yourself.
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Speaker: Suzi Larkin, M.A. Award-winning speaker, Self-Expression Coach, author, singer, director, playwright, homeschool educator, theatre nerd, self-care encourager
Suzi Larkin, M.A., is passionate about helping people to express themselves. She also cares deeply about helping people find the peace and confidence that a practice of self-care helps to create. A firm believer in stretching yourself and nurturing your strengths, Suzi coached the Penn State Speech Team students to achieve their goals while also teaching Public Speaking and Oral Interpretation of Literature.
An award-winning speaker, Suzi speaks and conducts workshops on Self-Expression, Self-Care, Readers Theatre, and Presentation Skills. She writes and directs plays and acts in shows with the local community theatre which she helped to start in 2008. An inclusive view of education led Suzi to homeschool her two daughters and she encouraged their participation in theatre, singing, and speaking as they grew. Suzi studied Psychology and Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota and earned her Master’s degree in Speech Communication from Penn State. Between her workshops and her work in community theatre, she continues to provide opportunities for anyone wishing to explore self-discovery and self-expression onstage or off.
Website: suzilarkin.com
Email: suzilarkin@icloud.com
Check out Suzi’s books, I Like This Heart Space: Quotations & Reflections to Inspire Your Best Self and Gentle & Kind: A Nurture & Stretch Self-Care Journal
6:05 pm Eastern Saturday, February 8, 2025
An Introduction to Backstory: The Backbone of Writing
Personal Narrative
In today’s workshop, E.M. Roach will introduce you to the initial key components of researching, documenting and writing your biographical backstory (and the backstory of your characters both in your life and on the page). This backstory will later become a literary resource from which you can access personal data facts when writing your personal narratives.
Participants are asked to come with pen and paper as there will be 1-2 memoir writing sprints (as time permits).
Listening to the recording:
Speaker: E.M. Roach, MA – Teacher, Speaker, Writer, & Radio Host (The Arts Edge, CJSF 90.1 FM) > A copy of her soon-to-be-published journal, Backstory: The Field Notes of My Life from the author, for capturing your life story
E.M. Roach, MA, is a writer whose personal story has been informed by, and woven through, the worlds of performance and education—having been an Arts Education, Creative Writing and Primary school teacher as well as an English Language Learning specialist, a sign language interpreter and a stand-up comedian. For the past twelve years, Roach has
brought her bent for storytelling to the airwaves as the radio host of The Arts Edge, earning her recognition for being shortlisted for the Chambers Thesis Award for her academic research in radio broadcasting, life writing and The Radio Tales.
Roach is currently writing The Back Pages: A Memoir
Website (might not yet be online, but it’s coming): differentkindofcrazy.com
Check out E.M.’s book, Backstory: The Field Notes of My Life