Brain Health Speaking
Musician, mental health advocate, and founder of Epicworld.
I speak to students and communities about brain health - the practical frameworks that anyone can adopt to build a mind you can live in.
My Story
For years I was chasing something.
The music, the momentum, the version of success everyone told me to want. What nobody told me was how much of that chase happens inside your own head.
In my 20's I was driven by success and fulfillment. I wanted freedom of time, and lots of money. But I didn't know how I was going to achieve that. I heard someone say that Readers are Leaders, so I began looking up successful books. One of those books I read is "Unlimited Power" by Tony Robbins.
Tony teaches techniques for Neuro Linguistic Programming in his book.
The term breaks down into three parts:
Neuro: Refers to the nervous system and how information is processed through our senses.
Linguistic: Refers to how language is used and how it shapes our perception and experience.
Programming: Describes how behavioral and mental procedures are created and modified consciously or unconsciously.
I'm grateful that this book came across my path early on, because it's techniques became the saving grace I needed years later.
At 29 years old, I was hospitalized under the BC Mental Health Act as an involuntary patient.
I had lost control with alcohol, I was addicted to nicotine, and I was $26,000 in credit debt, and I had delusional belief systems.
During my hospitalization, I remembered Tony's book, and I decided, "I'm going to try the techniques to see if I can regain control of my health and my life."
Those techniques worked. I was able to change the trajectory of my life, quit my addictions to alcohol, nicotine, and my poor-me mindset that I had.
I was able to change because I was aware of the right information that the mind needs to create change!
And now, I'm driven to teach 100,000 people about the same lifechanging principles.
Once I committed to changing my life, what I found on the other side wasn't a cure.
It was a set of tools.
Ways of noticing what my mind is doing, thinking and choosing.
I still use these tools every day.
I make music involving them.
And now I teach these tools to people that are driven by positive potential, and that have a growth mindset to change.
The version of me at seventeen would have given anything to hear someone teach these tools.
The same techniques that the leaders of the top Fortune 500 companies use, I'm teaching you.
Mission
I believe:
brain health is a skill, not a diagnosis. Brain health is something you practice, the way you'd practice an instrument.
Most young people are handed enormous pressure and almost no instruction.
I'm here to close that gap, in language that doesn't sound like a pamphlet.
What I teach
4 takeaways:
How to recognize your own patterns, and how to stop them from running you.
How to build a daily practice that survives bad seasons, dark winters, and rebuilds personal power.
How to ask for help without feeling like a burden, or feeling like you've failed.
How to turn what you're going through into something you're growing through.
