166. Bruce Brackett

05/18/24 • 19 min

Bruce W. Brackett (BWB) is a social media personality, author, entrepreneur, self-taught visual artist, and international motivational speaker. BWB’s upcoming memoir, “How To Breathe While Suffocating: A Story of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering From Trauma, and Healing my Soul” is being published by WILEY and will be released April 9th, 2024. Originally from southwest Montana, BWB moved to NYC at the age of 18 to pursue his dreams of being on Broadway. After many distractions, making it to Off-Broadway, and developing several addictions, meth being a big one, BWB found his true calling and his way back to sobriety through art and by advocating for recovery to his online audience of over 1.4 million people.This online community of recovery fuels BWB’s love, passion, creativity, and mission to share positivity and the possibilities of recovery.
For more information:
www.howtobreathewhilesuffocating.com
www.instagram.com/bwb.positivity
www.tiktok.com/@bwb.positivity
www.youtube.com/@bwb.positivity

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Guests share stories of adversity and perseverance which inspire, encourage and challenge us. Host Hara Allison embraces these tough conversations, intimately exploring our loves, fears and hopes with a delicious combination of depth and lightness.
Beneath Your Beautiful won first place in Self Help and Health & Wellness in the 2022 International Positive Change Podcast Awards and was a nominee in the 2023 and 2024 Publisher Podcast Awards in Health & Wellbeing and in the 18th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
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165. Shaelyn Simpson

On this week’s episode of "Beneath Your Beautiful," we're joined by Shaelyn, a courageous 22-year-old who opens up about the challenges of living with schizoaffective disorder, depressive type. Diagnosed at 16 during the tumultuous high school years, Shaelyn shares the raw and honest journey of navigating mental health struggles, hospitalizations, and the search for stability.

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167. Bill Kalivas

Bill Kalivas is a Spokane native with a 30+ year career spanning military service, healthcare, technology, public sector leadership, angel investment and entrepreneurship. He is the co-founder of LaunchPad Inland Northwest, a non-profit organization dedicated to growing the Spokane and Inland Northwest regional innovation economy. Bill is passionate about the Spokane regional community and has served on various local boards. He is currently a Google Cloud Sales Executive and has held similar positions with leading tech companies. Bill attended the Community Colleges of Spokane and University of Maryland Global Campus while serving the Air Force. BIll has been married for 23 years and has 4 children; 2 from a previous marriage, ages 40 and 39 and 2 with his wife April ages 20 and 17. Bill also has 5 grandchildren.