Lisa Tamati, a Professional Ultra Endurance athlete with 25 years experience running the toughest endurance events in the world.   She is the author of three best selling books "Running Hot" "Running to Extremes" and her latest book is "Relentless - How a mother and daughter defied the odds".   In this episode we dive into how Lisa and her mom overcame one of the most difficult times of their lives, her mom's brain injury.  In this journey, Lisa tells us about having to follow her gut, fight the medical system, learn about alternative health treatments, her current studies of epigenetics and vitamin C, and much more. 

Being a ghost writer, Ruby gores through an intensive process of 6 months where she commits her life for that time period for a single client.  She throws herself to her clients, mostly memoir clients, where she gets to know her clients sometimes better than they know themselves.  But, when one of her clients bosses her around and bullies her, she then questions if continuing her career is worth it all, she was ready to give it all up.  And she did – for a little bit.  

In the quitting, she worked with her hands to reconstruct her house and in taking time off from her brain powered job, she started a new career in marketing, publishing, and editing books.  She then went off to write a very successful erotica fictional book and has created choice for herself versus having to take any client that might disrespect her.  

The best that could have happened to her career – bumping to a client that bullied her which forced Ruby to start a new business with many different channels that allows her to select her clients versus having to rely on whatever came her way.  This very difficult client forced her to do what she always wanted to do.  

‘Don’t expect people to cheer you on when you make a decision or stand up for yourself, but know making yourself happy it’s your first and biggest priority’  

Her life was happy and pretty normal, then one day, her dad was hit in a car accident and immediately passed.  Not only was he her dad, he was her best friend, confident and advisor.  Gaby was enthralled in a deep episode of sadness and sorrow.  She then decided to create life as part of her healing, and share the joy of life with her widowed mom.  Her baby helped Gaby overcome some of the most difficult moments in her life, until she had to suffer a new death just some weeks ago at the end of 2020.  

Dianne Portwood is a self-made recognized artist.  Her paintings can be found all over South Florida, London, Paris, and Munich.  It didn't start that way though, Dianne is a national USA team gold medal winner and a Rio Olympics aspiring athlete who had to leave her dreams behind after an accident with her horse.  When her life was at the very bottom, she found a passion for arts, creating a thriving business and has become more aware of her self than ever before.