Heroes and Sheroes

Her work helped me see clearly why I kept manifesting exactly what I didn't want instead of what I did, and it taught me how to recognize and work with my own inner "characters" (which I now call my TEAM players) every single day. That understanding became a seed that eventually grew into my own work.

Her insights have been a guiding light in my life, empowering me to take real ownership of my thoughts and emotions and, in doing so, manifest a far more positive and fulfilling life for myself.

I listened to Dr. Bolte Taylor narrate her own audiobook, and I could feel her passion and her humor coming through with every chapter, as if she were sitting right across from me sharing her tools directly. Her voice made the material land even deeper. I've since purchased more than 50 copies of her book, along with countless audiobooks, to give as gifts to people I love and to donate to organizations doing meaningful work, including our local detention center. If her words could change my life this profoundly, I want as many people as possible to have the chance to feel that too.

The TEAM model is my own interpretation of her work, and any errors are mine alone.

My first summit was in April 2019, and that same year I bought The Tapping Solution app. By 2021, I'd become a full-fledged Tapping Insider. One of Nick Ortner's emails also introduced me to Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi's Project Next.

I turn to The Tapping Solution app anytime I want to refresh my own tapping routine. With so many programs and categories to choose from, it's been an incredibly valuable tool for me personally. Tapping has become a family practice, too. Many of my family members tap, and I've taught several of my grandchildren how to tap away their anxiety, fear, frustration, and pain. Watching them use it lights me up every time. Tapping even shows up in The Adventures of Goldie, my upcoming children's series that I am co-creating with my 11-year-old granddaughter. Goldie uses tapping herself, and in Episode 2, "Bri and the Snake," she tells young viewers all about it and teaches them how to tap.

I've purchased and gifted more titles from this family than I can count: Manifesting Your Greatest Self, The Tapping Solution, My Magic Breath: Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living, and The Big Book of Hugs (co-authored by Nick Ortner), along with Jessica Ortner's The Tapping Solution to Create Lasting Change and Alex Ortner's The Tapping Solution Planner and Journal. I've lost count of how many of those planners and journals I've worn out! These siblings absolutely belong on my Heroes and Sheroes list, and I'm grateful for every one of them.

Stephen Covey was truly a hero to me, and I'm deeply grateful I discovered his work. It brought real order to my life when I needed it most. His son, Sean Covey, later carried the torch forward, writing The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, a book I've used in my classes for several decades now.

Either way, his ideas stuck with me immediately: the idea that we could rewire our own brains through intention and practice felt like permission I didn't know I needed.

Since then, I've gone deep into his books Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, You Are the Placebo, and Becoming Supernatural, and his work now shows up directly in my own teaching. His research on mentally rehearsing a desired future, especially when paired with real emotion, is foundational to the Creative Visualization practice I teach in my own Quest curriculum. Dr. Dispenza has given me both the science and the permission to trust that my imagination, used with intention, is one of the most powerful tools I have for building the life I want.

In 1987, she took that influence even further by founding her own publishing company, her namesake Hay House, Inc.

As an avid journaler, writer, and curriculum creator myself, I regularly pull from one of Louise Hay's card decks for inspiration and writing prompts. I'm so grateful she recorded works like Self-Esteem Affirmations, 101 Power Thoughts, and Morning and Evening Meditations before she passed away in 2017. Her voice is peaceful, comforting, and healing, and it puts me in exactly the right headspace to receive her wisdom. I listen to her audiobooks on the Hay House Empower You app, which I recommend to my fellow Seekers wholeheartedly.

I've gone through several of Tony's courses over the years and deeply appreciate his approachable, down-to-earth style. My membership in Tony and Dean's Mastermind Business Hub Program says it all: this is a man who has earned his place as one of my heroes.

Over the years, I read Codependent No More, Beyond Codependency, and The Language of Letting Go, and I've loved her writing style the whole way through: compelling, readable, and refreshingly down-to-earth. Her books arrived in my life at exactly the right moment and were truly transformative. The skills I learned from them still shape my life today, which is why she'll always be one of my long-term sheroes.

I've also carried forward other tools from The Artist's Way, along with lessons from another Cameron book we explored in that same study, The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart. Both books are timeless resources for creatives who feel stuck or lost in their work, and I return to them again and again. In fact, on a flight in late August 2024, I found myself listening to The Vein of Gold once more, and I'm so grateful I did. I'm already dusting off tools I first picked up decades ago.

The book is packed with helpful exercises and activities, and I've put several of her experiments to use from her books E-Squared and E-Cubed, including one I still bring into my own classes. The most profound tool I took from Thank and Grow Rich was learning to decide on the best possible outcome for a situation and then deliberately putting my thoughts and energy there. It works. I mean that. It really, truly works.