Peeling Back The Layers Of Your Life®

ALL THE WAY FROM SCOTLAND!!! 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES Check out our previous conversation titled, More Than Enough (episode 75). Emma Dhesi writes women’s fiction. She began writing seriously while a stay at home mum with 3 pre-school children. By changing her mindset, being consistent and developing confidence, Emma has gone from having a collection of handwritten notes to fully written, edited and published novels. Having experienced first-hand how writing changes lives, Emma now helps beginner writers find the time and confidence to write their first novel. www.emmadhesi.com   Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer: Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondainspiresgreatness.com   Copyright ©2024 by Loronda C. Giddens All rights reserved

ALL THE WAY FROM UNITED KINGDOM!!! 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES Check out our previous conversation titled, Challenge Yourself To Think Differently (episode 108). Olson Aguirre is a travel content creator and cultural storyteller based in London. Originally from New York City, Olson moved to the United Kingdom where he is a Product Management and Marketing Sciences professional traveling the world. Olson started Olsonoverseas, to inspire others to challenge their thinking and upgrade their surroundings. Through his content Olson shares his experiences challenging cultural ideas and bringing a different consciousness about traveling.   www.instagram.com/olsonoverseas   Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer: Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondainspiresgreatness.com   Copyright ©2024 by Loronda C. Giddens All rights reserved  

ALL THE WAY FROM SOUTH AFRICA!!! 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES Check out our previous conversation titled,  Think About What You Think About (episode 89). Ntokozo Ncogwane is a dynamic force with a global perspective. As the Global Communications Manager in a major international organization, she wields her sharp mind to craft innovative strategies, managing media relations, and amplify brand impact in the Automotive space. Beyond the boardroom, Ntokozo thrives as a mother, seamlessly blending the challenges of parenthood with expanding company reach and driving business success. She's not just a professional powerhouse but a strategic maestro balancing the global stage and the joys of motherhood.    Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer: Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondainspiresgreatness.com   Copyright ©2024 by Loronda C. Giddens All rights reserved

ALL THE WAY FROM NORWAY!!! 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES Check out our previous conversation titled, My Purpose Unfolding (episode 88). Rometris is a renowned Motivational Speaker, Relationship Expert, Author, Leadership & Wellness Coach and Host of “Living Your Best Life, Now!” Podcast.  She has achieved over 20 years of experience and extensive study in personal self-development and healing with a strong background in leadership.  As a dynamic speaker, her passion includes engagements that encourage living an inspired life of authenticity, empowerment, and confidence.  As an author, writing has provided a healing outlet in which Rometris openly shares her personal journeys with her readers.  Her passion also includes public speaking engagements that address living an inspired life of authenticity, empowerment and confidence.  As a Leadership and Wellness Coach, she assists her clients with finding solutions to life challenges and to live their best lives now.  Rometris is also a relationship expert

ALL THE WAY FROM GHANA!!! 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES Check out our previous conversation titled, Follow Your Heart (episode 102). Kenric Brooks is always asked, when did you start traveling? Well, I can say that I always remember traveling. We would always travel to the family farm on the weekends or the beach every summer. I joined the boy scouts; we also traveled to different campsites and states. Some of my fondest memories as a child were at places I have traveled. There were terrific memories from outdoor activities to beaches. My love for travel continued throughout my military career. I lived in Germany for over three years. While there, I took a trip to Pairs, Netherlands, and more. Driving along the countryside, beautiful green fields and vineyards in the distance France and many places in Europe is where my love for travel and food flourished. In 2018, after retiring from the military and working in the private sector for two years. I suffered a mental break. I was in search of myself. With

5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES   Ashley Shaw was the very first guest on the show 5 years ago and has returned to the podcast to drop some new gems for the audience.  Check out our previous conversation titled, The Ultimate Mindset (episode 1).   Ashley is an author, public speaker, certified master life coach, certified personal trainer, and health/wellness coach.  Founder and owner of AshFit Solutions, she focuses on holistic total body lifestyle transformation to ensure her clients are their best selves.   A tragic traffic accident ended her career in law enforcement as an LA County Deputy Sheriff, so Ashley had to reinvent her life.   After neck and back surgery and re-teaching herself to walk, Ashley ultimately rehabilitated herself from using a walker to becoming a body competitor.    From that experience, AshFit Solutions was formed and Ashley created a groundbreaking program, the “Ultimate Mindset Experience”, to share her story of going from depression to triumph for the purpose of inspiring and mo

ALL THE WAY FROM THAILAND!!! 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SERIES Zachariah is a passionate Personal Development and Dating Coach who has been helping thousands of people live their ideal life for seven years. His goal is to create more love and happiness in the world, and he does this by empowering his clients to become a match to their ideal partner. Zachariah's approach to personal development and dating is unique, focusing on change from the inside out. He believes that through self-improvement and inner growth, people can attract their perfect match. He helps his clients create unique emotional states that attract love powerfully, and also teaches them how to create their own happiness, regardless of external circumstances. Zachariah has been featured in Huffington Post, Success Magazine, and Addicted2Success.com, and is the author of the upcoming book "Love By Design."  https://www.zachariahbourne.com https://www.youtube.com/zachariahbourne   Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host,

SEASON 4 DEBUTS JANUARY 8, 2024!!!   I can't believe its been 5 years since I launched the first podcast episode.  I'm so excited to be celebrating the 5 year anniversary of my Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® podcast this month. It's been an amazing experience speaking with 61 international guests representing 47 countries.  Together we curated 111 episodes with listenership in 73 countries and 6 continents.  I'm so grateful for such a spectacular accomplishment and thankful for all of my guests and listeners. I'm delighted to announce the 5 year anniversary series featuring a few return guests.  We will catch up on how their lives have progressed and do a deep dive to dig up some gems for the audience.  And of course we'll talk about some recent layers they had to peel. You can catch this new series starting January 8th on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Audible, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Audible and other platforms where you listen to podcasts.   Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podca

ALL THE WAY FROM JAPAN!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Originally from London, Jordan Green made the international leap to Tokyo Japan to seek a life different from what he once knew.  He works for a PR firm that deals with influencers and local governments.  Jordan seeks to help others who wish to make the same international leap.  As well as, inspire those who want to experience a life of travel and explore through his Instagram and YouTube page under the name,  "AfroInJapan".  www.instagram.com/afroinjapan       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondacgiddens.com

ALL THE WAY FROM KUWAIT!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Attorney Wesley J. Harris was determined to experience life abroad and searched tirelessly for the ideal opportunity.  He currently lives and works in Kuwait. Harris plans to retire in New Zealand and is already exploring and researching the lifestyle.  Wesley isn't the first generation to travel.  He had an Uncle that was in the Army who spent his entire career in Germany until his death.  Wesley plans to explore the things his Uncle didn't get a chance to do.        Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondacgiddens.com

ALL THE WAY FROM MEXICO!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Dr. Gerald C. Hassell is a clinical/spiritual psychologist, life coach, and author. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Talladega College and received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Wright State University in 1999. Concerned that traditional mental health providers fail to meet the needs of people of color, particularly men, Dr. Hassell started his private practice twenty years ago and has worked with hundreds of African American men, boys, and families. www.instagram.com/drghassell       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondacgiddens.com

ALL THE WAY FROM UNITED KINGDOM!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Olson Aguirre is a travel content creator and cultural storyteller based in London. Originally from New York City, Olson moved to the United Kingdom where he is a Product Management and Marketing Sciences professional traveling the world. Olson started Olsonoverseas, to inspire others to challenge their thinking and upgrade their surroundings. Through his content Olson shares his experiences challenging cultural ideas and bringing a different consciousness about traveling.   www.instagram.com/olsonoverseas       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondacgiddens.com

ALL THE WAY FROM VIETNAM!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad JK Hobson hails from New York City, where he dove headlong into the music scene in the 80’s and 90’s. He first caught the traveling bug upon joining Crisis, a prominent metalcore band in the NYC underground scene. After moving to Los Angeles, releasing an album with the band, and years of touring, JK began more academic pursuits and in 2016 was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching English. The Fulbright ETA program brought him to the Mekong Delta city of My Tho where he spent an academic year before moving to Saigon. After completing the Fulbright ETA program, he moved to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam.  Since moving to Saigon, JK co-founded comedy collective Saigon Funny People, founded Asia Out Loud and has performed in Los Angeles, New York City, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam and was a finalist in the 2018 Vietnam Comedy Competition. With his confrontational standup comedy, JK has opened for International standup

ALL THE WAY FROM SAUDI ARABIA!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad My name is Meres J. Weche, and I came of age as an '80s kid in Montreal, Canada. My parents moved to Canada with my younger sister and I from my native Haiti, in the Caribbean, during the 1970s, when I was four years old. Back then, I could only speak Creole and French, but I started learning English when I was 12 by listening to Micheal Jackson's Thriller album. After spending my summers throughout my teenage years in New York City with relatives (the Bronx ... where I 'may' have come across J-Lo at some point in the 6 train on my frequent trips to Manhattan), I became completely fluent by 16. I later called Ottawa and Toronto home. After shocking my family at 17 with a 2-year stint in the Canadian army reserves between school semesters as a Grenadier Guard (yeah, with the red suit and black bearskin hat), I first got the travel bug when I jetted off to London, England at 19 for a 4-month working holiday, followed by a back

ALL THE WAY FROM BELGUIM!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Harry Kennedy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but he grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.S. in Information Technology. His interest in IT began at age 11 when he disassembled his first PC. His career in IT and his interest in life abroad officially started in 2014 as an intern at a global company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. There, he gained experience in Computer Networking, Systems, Security, and interacting with employees abroad. This eventually paved a pathway into being offered a full-time position.  Harry working both with his local and foreign colleagues sparked curiosity in all sorts of ways regarding life abroad. In 2016, he finally went abroad for the first time to Denmark, Poland, and France on business travel shortly after starting full time. This experience made an immediate impact which grew into a passion for life abroad and learning about different cultures. In 2018,

ALL THE WAY FROM NEW ZEALAND!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Greg Thomas a former Marine and a professional security consultant with 11 years of experience in his field. He recently moved to New Zealand in April 2022. His goal is to show life in New Zealand from a black perspective and settle down in his new chosen home.  His YouTube channel can be found here: https://bit.ly/3MymgwH www.instagram.com/blacktonystarks       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondacgiddens.com

ALL THE WAY FROM COSTA RICA!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Michael Ruth is a world traveler, teacher and mentor. He is co-founder of Sun People Yoga. He teaches Ancient African and Egyptian methods of yoga that benefit physical health as well as holistic, mental, and spiritual health. He is a Navy veteran coming from a career first in IT and then as a surgical first assist in orthopedic surgery. Michael's yoga practice blends accessible, meditative movement with internal martial arts for liberation of mind, body and spirit. www.instagram.com/ramses_amun_ptah/       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens  www.lorondacgiddens.com

ALL THE WAY FROM HONDURAS!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Kenric Brooks is always asked, when did you start traveling? Well, I can say that I always remember traveling. We would always travel to the family farm on the weekends or the beach every summer.  I joined the boy scouts; we also traveled to different campsites and states. Some of my fondest memories as a child were at places I have traveled. There were terrific memories from outdoor activities to beaches.  My love for travel continued throughout my military career. I lived in Germany for over three years. While there, I took a trip to Pairs, Netherlands, and more. Driving along the countryside, beautiful green fields and vineyards in the distance France and many places in Europe is where my love for travel and food flourished.  In 2018, after retiring from the military and working in the private sector for two years. I suffered a mental break. I was in search of myself. Within the last seven years, I experienced several signifi

ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRIA!!! Black Men Living Abroad Series #blackmenlivingabroad Christopher Squires grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and was a pitcher/closer for the baseball team. He was drafted by the Miami Marlins and spent his time as a journeyman, traveling the country from Rookie Ball to Double A, as well as a few Independent ball stints in leagues stretching from Canada to Mexico. His baseball career eventually led him to Austria where his dream of starting a fashion label and creative studio would come to fruition. Off‐seasons were spent further developing his passion for fashion and style, a bloodline trend cultivated by the small boutique and personal shopping service started by his Grandmother and Great Aunt in New York City. He took on roles as a personal stylist for men’s clothier J. Hilburn, he has explored the modeling world from coast to coast as well as abroad, and worked for the independent luxury label, Weber + Weber that is

SEASON 3 DEBUTS AUGUST 1, 2022!!! Thank you so much for listening to Season 1 and 2. I greatly appreciate your support!         Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens www.lorondacgiddens.com