Meet your Loving Lioness Leader, Coach Jody!

My 20-year journey of growing myself as a Love-Conscious Leader has led me to you, right here. I have learned the most from those I have given my heart to in service.  Like you, I have struggled with healing addiction and found myself white-knuckling my life, longing to achieve inner peace. 

I have always known that I am here to make a difference in the lives of others. I have been down the hard path in life and have graduated from the school of hard knocks. I believe our human experience is here to inform our life's work. My early childhood trauma led me down the path of addiction to substances, bulimia, domestic violence, and self-harm. I brought two children into this cycle. Even though I knew I wanted more for them, I struggled to change.

My children became my purpose. I was determined to be better, to do better, and to succeed... to make a difference in the world. Child development, psychology, and education studies came into my life during my recovery from bulimia in my mid-20s. My education saved my life and the lives of my children. It gave me choices I never thought were available to me. In 1999, I opened a school for children and families with adverse backgrounds and extraordinary circumstances. I had no clue how to run a business, manage or lead people, or meet the overwhelming needs of the children and families I was serving. What I did know was that I wanted to help others. I wanted to make a difference... to break the cycles of trauma, addiction, and adversity in my own family and in the families of others. My work became my purpose. It was how I white-knuckled my life… staying busy, and staying stuck in high-functioning codependency and self-medicating habits that were socially acceptable - sugar, cannabis for sleep, and yo-yo dieting. 

When I closed my childcare business in 2016, I felt broken. Chance for Change Institute, the on-site training program I created while growing Creative Minds Children’s Center, became a state-wide training program and my work ethic went into high gear.

In 2017, my body shut down. I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and burnout. I was scared, alone, and had nowhere to run. 

My burnout became my breakthrough!

During the worst period of burnout in 2017, I prayed for a miracle. I had led so many, yet I still struggled to love myself. Now came the opportunity to fully embrace miracles. The people, the places, and the things I needed to fully integrate Love-Conscious Leadership with Energy and Soul-Alignment practices emerged. Today, I live my life in TOTAL fulfillment, with abundant love, vital health, prosperity, purpose, and joy. 

I am excited to model full collaboration and co-creating in this partnership I am creating with Taylor and Janis.  I know they will bring so much additional love and support to your journey, should you be selected for this opportunity. I choose to show up 100% for you, as I did for Taylor and Janis. As I do for all of the people who come into the Chance for Change Community. 

Loving Lioness
Coach Jody

Meet Taylor!

Hello, and welcome to your new path. My name is Taylor Diaz and I have been given the honor and opportunity to work side by side with Loving Lioness Coach Jody, as a result of my transformation in the Creating Life through the Lens Program.  Should you be accepted into the program, I will be one of your facilitators as you embark on this new journey!

You may be feeling unsure about whether or not this program can work for you. I assure you, it truly does. Here’s a bit of my background before and after this program. Maybe you can relate. 

My Victim to Victor Story 

I was born in 1973 to a heroin-addicted mother and an alcoholic father. Born into poverty, I experienced emotional, physical, and sexual trauma. That was my start and I spent the first 13 years of life trying to understand why. 

Fast forward to 1986. I finally trusted a neighbor, who made a call to save myself and my siblings from my trauma-stricken father, while my mother was lost in the world. I found myself in foster care, trying to find myself but without success.

Counseling and various therapies helped me to cope, but I was never able to heal the deep trauma. I found myself using a variety of substances including marijuana, cocaine, various pills, uppers and downers, and eventually heroin. 

At 24, I had my first daughter; at 26, my second; and at 28, my only son. Then, at 30, I had twin girls who were medically fragile due to premature birth. I was sober at this time and I thought I was thriving… On the contrary, I was surviving. I had two failed relationships and five children and still hadn't figured out who I was. 

Fast forward through several addictions, years of medication to treat those addictions, as well as various mental health illnesses. I still hadn't found the joy I knew I deserved.

One day, during a time when I was fragile, just coming out of homelessness, trying to sustain full-time work and manage medication-assisted sobriety - white-knuckling my days and wondering if this is as good as it gets - there it was.  The Facebook ad claiming to provide miracles. I ignored it at first, full of doubt that something that seemed so good could be true. After a few weeks, I clicked and met my coach of four years, Loving Lioness Coach Jody.  My life would never be the same and the miracles I have received are unexplainable. 

Before the program, I felt alone and joyless and was living in survival mode. Now, I am happy for no reason, grateful, and living my life with ease. I see myself as the creator of my life and know I can have whatever I want. I can take each day 24 hours at a time and live in the moment while claiming my future with my intentions. This did not come without persistence and willingness. 

Falling in love with yourself is a journey. You will have to want it - even if you don’t believe you are worthy of it. You will have to allow the program and the process to hold you until you can hold yourself.  Jody provides the platform and space for you to do that. 

I am beyond thankful you are here and I look forward to assisting you with your journey forward to sustaining sobriety with the ease and grace you deserve.  

With Love,
Taylor Diaz

Meet Janis!

Hello!!!  I am so happy you found your way here. 

My name is Janis and I will be one of your guides and facilitators on your journey. I’m looking forward to getting to know you. 

I’d like to tell you a little bit about me and my story before and after joining this program.  

Before I joined this program, I was struggling… mentally and physically.

My drugs of choice were opioids, but I was an equal opportunity kind of user, meaning that I gave them all a shot - literally. I try not to talk too much about what I did because I know it can be triggering for some people. It used to be for me, but I have a decent number of years under my belt now and I’ve found lots of ways to cope with triggers.  

When I found this program, I had battled my addiction demon and felt like I won because I had a few years under my belt. However, I realize now that I was barely getting by and it was exhausting and lonely.  

I didn’t expect sobriety to be easy, but I also didn’t expect it to be so freaking difficult or for the battle to last so long either.  

So there I was, white-knuckling it through my days. My mind and body were in pain all the time. 

I couldn’t sit or stand for longer than 20 minutes at a time. 

I had been to doctor after doctor. They were always referring me to another… for more tests… to another specialist and still, I had no answers and was still in pain. And if that wasn’t enough, I was suffering mentally too. In case you're thinking that I just needed some counseling... I was doing that too.  I can’t say it didn’t help, because I was staying sober, but I was still struggling.  

I felt broken and lonely; I had very low self-confidence and felt disconnected; and I was trying to raise three kids on my own. I felt like I was barely getting through my days.

I kept my guard up when it came to making friends, out of fear. 

Even though I was no longer addicted to my substance of choice, I was still stuck in a vortex of pain… just trying to survive.  I had no idea how to make the shift to living a life with ease and grace…a life that wasn't a constant struggle…  a life I could honestly say I loved.  

Until, one day, on my knees, asking for a miracle … begging for a sign… I came across an ad like the one you clicked on to get here. It spoke to my heart and soul. It felt like the answer I had been asking for but, I will admit… I had some doubts. It seemed too good to be true.

I am so glad I followed through because this program was so transformational for me. I am here, speaking to you, and hoping you see what I saw in this program. A golden opportunity!!!  You too can begin to find more ease and grace in your days and begin living a life you love.  

Here's what this program has done for me… 

The self-discovery with love, support, and community connection I found was a priceless part of this journey! And the energy alignment tools were a bonus and were also key to solving the puzzle with my body pain.  

It felt like a lot at first, but once I began to fully engage and attend “Thrive with the Daily Live” each day and to incorporate what I was learning into my daily life, my body began to feel relief from that constant pain. I had lived with it for so many years and it was slowly disappearing. 

I began to see things more clearly. 

I began to see my patterns... the ones I thought I left behind when I got sober.

I finally found what I had been searching for my entire life through all those unsavory behaviors.  LOVE … unconditional love for myself and others.  

I have always been trying to fill a void within myself. I did it with men, alcohol, food, and drugs. If it wasn’t one thing, it was another. I didn’t see the patterns for what they were until I began to utilize the tools I learned in this program and to work with Loving Lioness Coach Jody. 

I had absolutely no clue how to set a boundary and I didn’t think I was really entitled to have any values. Boy, was I wrong! 

I really began to understand myself and the beliefs I held that were keeping me stuck in the patterns I kept reliving over and over again.  

I learned how to lovingly set - and stick to my - boundaries. I learned how to set and hold with compassion.  

I hold myself in the highest light. 

I know I’m lovable, I’m worthy, and I’m enough even on my worst day. 

I have learned that it’s okay to have feelings and how to be present with them and then let them go. I overcame my fear of being seen. I improved my relationships with my family and have made healthy friendships, and I’ve established better connections with my kids. 

Before this program, I was convinced that I was broken, so I spent a considerable amount of time, energy, and money on learning, trying to fix myself, reading book after book, watching YouTube videos, and enrolling in course after course, getting certification after certification. 

I kept investing in these so-called “good habits,” which wasn’t a bad thing. The problem was that when it came time to take action and use the skills I learned, I would get stuck! This is where my low self-confidence, and the I’m not worthy and other negative self-talk would take over.  

I didn’t really need any of those things. 

The fact is, I wasn’t broken, but I did need to heal and reconnect with my true nature and purpose.  I needed to reconnect with myself and universal source love, which you will find in the Leading Life through the Lens of Love program.  

I do hope you will follow through on the necessary steps to complete the screening process and enroll because there is so much to gain by saying yes and nothing to lose.  

So, say yes to yourself and take the leap to courageously create more self-confidence, self-worth, and self-love so you can begin to live the life you truly love. 

If you have any questions… I am always here to help you!

Light and Love to you dear one.  

You are lovable  You are worthy!  You are enough!