Impact Award Winners 2014

2014 Empowered Women Impact Award Winners

Barbara Schreiner-Trudel	Barbara Schreiner-Trudel has overcome poverty, domestic violence and even her own rage and returned her life to joy. For 17 years she has been speaking and coaching thousands of people to live in joy. As an ordained minister she has inspired people to create new careers, fulfilling relationships, experience greater fulfillment, freedom and peace of mind.Barbara has earned several prestigious awards including the President's Award for Southam Inc. and the MLS Million Dollar Club for real estate excellence in Calgary, Canada. As an ordained minister she founded the Centre for Spiritual Living in Toronto Canada & served as spiritual director until July 2011. She is now the founder and CEO of Joy Here and Now and the author of "30 Days to Joy" which was released in 2012. She currently oversees youth ministry and pastoral care at Verity Centre for Better Living in Toronto Canada. Barbara found a way to change her life from one of trauma & hardship to one filled with love & joy. Today she shares the tools necessary to help you shift your life into a place of real and lasting joy.
Dr. Shelly Persad	Dr. Shelly Persad is the founder of Orgasmical Medicine. She has an extensive background in chiropractic, exercise science, quantum physics, ayurvedic medicine, tantra, and human sexuality.Orgasmical Medicine teaches people how to channel sexual energy in their body to transform their life, their body image, sexuality, finances, relationships, and of course, their orgasms. Yes, that’s right you just heard the O word.Dr. Shelly blends ancient wisdom and techniques with modern day science and research. Orgasmical Medicine is much more complex than advocating an orgasm as a cure; it is advocating YOU as a cure.
Farhana Dhalla	Farhana Dhalla is a former master trainer with Dale Carnegie. She has trained and developed thousands of people in the aspects of relationship, leadership and public speaking.As a management consultant to Top Fortune 100 companies & an engaging, speaker and mom of 3 children, she thought she was well equipped to deal with any unexpected changes. But all that confidence came to a crashing halt when one particularly fated Valentine's Day her marriage came to an abrupt end.With a remarkable ability to find the blessing in every situation, Farhana worked through her pain & today she guides people to have a paradigm shift with their circumstance. This allows them to unlock the gifts of their situation and open to the magnificent life awaiting them.Farhana is the author of the #1 International Best Selling Book: Thank You for Leaving Me & the visionary and leader of the enlightened divorce movement.
Janeen Sonsie	Janeen Sonsie is a charismatic, talented and entertaining international speaker and facilitator who hails from Australia. She’s the author of Get The BALLS To Get REAL – How to Communicate Effectively to Build Healthy Relationships. She knows what she’s talking about.Some years ago she had almost all she was looking for in life – a 20 year relationship that was pretty good, a great career, a lovely house that she’d renovated into her dream home and a nice car. What more could a girl want?Then her life literally fell apart. She lost the “fabulous” job, her husband left her for another woman and then she had a skiing accident which resulted in 3 operations and over a year of very painful rehabilitation. Basically she lost everything she measured herself by – her career, her relationship and her body. That was the beginning of her journey to finding herself, reconnecting with her passions and carving out a business where she supports other women in taking their own journey to their authentic lives. For fun, Janeen is a professionally trained actor, acting mostly in independent theatre. She is also a dedicated exercise activist and she’s passionate about dancing.
Lai Ping Lee	Lai Ping Lee is an adventurous Chinese woman who believed in herself, took a leap of faith, and traveled from her home in Canada to exotic India for three months. In a surprising turn of events through her “ordinary” encounters with the extraordinary Indian people she discovered her life's purpose. After her spiritual evolution in India, Lai Ping was determined to share her journey of transformation in her book, Travelling Inward.She was later inspired to create an event called Celebrating Life Event in Toronto Canada where she lives. This event brings together like-minded souls who support each other in the quest to co-create something wonderful with the Universe. Lai Ping believes strongly that we are on earth to make life easier for one another. She now encourages people to join together in service to humanity as she believes we are in the golden age of humanity... As Lai Ping says: “Let us dare to be a drop of water in the ocean and allow our power to cause a ripple effect.”
Leia Lewis Henderson	Leia Lewis Henderson, M.A., is a sought after Speaker, Success Mentor and best selling author. She shares life-affirming messages that draw from her experiences as an entrepreneur, community builder, community garden leader and global traveler to ten countries (and counting).Leia is the Visionary Leader of Solutions to Grow. It’s an education and consulting company where visionary leaders, conscious creatives and women entrepreneurs grow naturally into their next level of Soul purpose, authentic power and prosperity. She’s also founder of the award-winning Sankofa Gardens. This is a Creative Community & Fresh Food Oasis in Shreveport, Louisiana. Leia is a best-selling co-author of the book 365 Days of Gratitude. Her amazing life's work has been celebrated by YES! Magazine, TEDx and the Office of the First Lady of the United States.
Tanya Paluso	Tanya Paluso is an internationally renowned leader in the women's empowerment movement. She is the co-founder of Tribal Truth, an organization that brings women together to connect and support each other's dreams through sisterhood gatherings. Tribal Truth has impacted thousands of people's lives and businesses around the world through live and virtual events since 2010.In her own lifelong search for truth and freedom from China to New York City, Tanya has learned how to walk her talk and teaches the power of vulnerability and authenticity. She is known for being a community builder and empowering leadership in others. She gives people permission to be real and rise up to their full potential. Tanya has been facilitating, coaching and leading groups of people since 2006. Her signature program, Leading In Truth, takes women through the Co-Creative Leadership process. She also brings women on pilgrimages to sacred places around the world such as Peru and Sedona, Arizona. You can connect with Tanya at Tribal-Truth.com and TanyaPaluso.com
Subhadra Bowman	Subhadra Bowman is a yoga teacher trainer, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and youth activist. She is the founder of Yoga Angels INT’L & Yoga Angels Jamaica. www.yogaangels.comA passionate educator, loving mother of four beautiful children aged 8-22, Subhadra spent two decades studying and teaching yoga finding fun ways to inspire and empower throughout the United States, Russia and Jamaica. She currently shares Yoga Angels teachers training and certification worldwide.
Valerie Love	Valerie Love is an Ordained Minister of Spiritual Consciousness. She is on a soul mission to support the birth of a new “unconditional love energy” on this planet.She is an inspirational speaker, a Destiny Coach and the author of 9 books on practical spirituality.Valerie's spiritual journey led her from 26 years as a Jehovah’s Witness to the study of Kabbalah, Magick and Metaphysics. She has a focus on the Tarot as a tool for transformation, contemplation, meditation, inspiration, personal and spiritual development.Valerie was a successful financial planner with American Express who left a very lucrative financial planning business after seven years to pursue her dream & passion of writing and speaking.
Since then, she's influenced thousands to step out fearlessly on the path of destiny.She is the founding minister of “Boost Worldwide Love”, a global community of Lightworkers and she’s a founding member of Destiny Divas. This is a global organization of women helping women live extraordinary lives of greatness and magnificence!Rev. Val loves to belly dance, travel, spend hours reading books on Tarot and spiritual development. She practices hot yoga, loves to walk in the park and makes frequent trips to the beach to hear from the heart and soul of the ocean.
Kim Boudreau-Smith	Kim Boudreau-Smith is the Proprietor of Bold Radio Station, Turn-Key Radio Show Services, #1 International Best Selling Author, International Speaker, Business Consultant & Strategist.She created Kim Boudreau Smith Inc. to support women to enhance their Bold selves. She does this through the Bold Radio Station, Anthologies, speaking and consulting! Kim teaches people how to have it all without losing anything. She also teaches women how to sell like a woman and achieve the success they are after. Being BOLD!Prior to developing Kim Boudreau Smith, Inc., Kim was on the sales-and-marketing fast track in corporate America.
Her biggest achievements were motivating employees, implementing training procedures, and expanding local and regional territories. She received multiple awards for those accomplishments, such as increasing sales by more than 300 percent.Despite those accomplishments, Kim knew something was missing. Realizing looking accomplished was much different than feeling accomplished, she received her life coaching certification from The International Coaching Academy and now focuses her passions on her business. Her goal is to support women business owners by providing a tool so they can become a global success.
Catherine Anne Clark	She is a visionary with the strength of a lion and the heart of a lamb. She believes in Equality of Women Amongst Women, human justice and that children come first.Her vision led her to the creation of a global women's advocacy organization designed to Celebrate the Lives of Women Leaders called A Celebration of Women. Their centers of influence are titled WOMEN of ACTION.This creation led her to being graced with the blessing of achieving Foundation Status which was APPROVED FOR CHARITY in March 2011.
Therefore, A Celebration of Women Foundation Inc. was been born. This foundation now assists the centers of influence, WOMEN of ACTION, to achieve their philanthropic goals; as well as, open their flagship home for young women named Celebration House.

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