Written by: Cheryl Meyer, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. Feed your children "real" organic food and make what you are feeding them your 1 priority. Why is this important? How will it change their life? We have become a society where convenience "trumps" health, and our children’s health is reflecting this change. We are feeding our children food-like substances from processed and fast food on a regular basis. As a result, our children are ill. 53% of the children in the United States have chronic illness. This is important on the world stage because other countries are buying and consuming so much of our American products. Food is medicine and good food can keep our children well, whereas chemical 'fake food" is making them sick as hell. The key is to shop all the colors of the rainbow and buy it organic, and as in season as possible, whether it is at the grocery store or at farmers markets or local street markets. This allows you to buy food with maximum nutrients, right from the farm to the table. Take your children with you. They need to know where real food comes from and they should have some choice in what they get to eat. But as their parent, you get to narrow their choices to only be healthy choices. Teach them to stop eating when they are 80% full. Cook using quality ingredients. By cooking you control what goes into their bodies. The more colors of the rainbow you can feed your child, and the more vegetables you encourage them to eat is a win for your child’s health. Food is fuel for the body. Food is information. I think we forget this when we eat. If it is good fuel, it gives us energy, make us clear-headed, and it makes us happy. If it is high-quality food, it makes our bodies feel good. Good quality organic food will increase your child's brainpower and help them learn. “A healthy diet can have a profound effect on children’s health, helping to maintain a healthy weight, avoid certain health problems, stabilize their moods, and sharpen their minds. A healthy diet can also have a profound effect on a child’s sense of mental and emotional well-being, helping to prevent conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and ADHD.” Eliminate all the toxins you can from your life and your child’s life. By choosing organic, you give them real food that grew in the earth without the toxins from pesticides and herbicides. Avoid GMOs. Sit around the dinner table for the years that your child is living at home. Be the example that they can follow with what you eat. Share your meals which encourages love and community. No matter where you are in the world, stop allowing your children to eat processed, fast food and junk. (The Standard American Diet) These food-like substances lead to obesity, diabetes, and ill health and eventually to dis-ease. Limit sugar and refined carbohydrates in your child’s diet. Sugar is addictive, so limit what they get to eat. Sugar impacts every organ in the body negatively, so stay away as much as possible. Refined carbohydrates turn to sugar, and therefore are not healthy as well. Teach your children why you are feeding them the food they are eating. Encourage them to ask questions about their food. Teach them where food comes from and then how it gets on the table for them to eat. Encourage them to ask questions. Do not dictate as they get out into the world, teach them the advantages of eating real food from an early age, and allow them to follow that example of how you eat and teach them the why. Garden with them. Take them to the farm to buy your produce. Cook with them. These are foundations that will stay with the child as they grow older and go out on their own. As your child grows older, you want them to be able to make their own decisions and you do not want them to feel deprived. The more they understand how you are feeding them, the more likely they will choose to eat that way in the future. Bring up your child to be the leader of the pack that eats healthy food. Bring them up to be Junior Veggie Rangers ™, eating veggies to grow up strong and healthy and to be future superheroes. My book Feeling Good Living Low Toxin has received 4 wards since it was published in May 2020. Two of the awards have been on parenting. Once was gold from the prestigious Mom’s Choice Awards. Grab a free chapter on Children and Food here! You can buy my book Feeling Good Living Low Toxin in Community and Everyday Life on Amazon. For more information, follow Cheryl on Facebook, Instagram and connect with her on LinkedIn! Read more from Cheryl! Cheryl Meyer, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Cheryl Meyer suffered from autoimmune disease. By eliminating hundreds of toxins, she reversed her pain. Cheryl has a BA from UC-Berkeley and is a health coach from IIN. Cheryl is an award-winning author, international bestseller, health coach, speaker, local tv host and guest podcaster. Cheryl has written four books on health and toxins available here. Her podcast is on Voice America. Cheryl specifically works with clients with chronic illness giving them hope and helping them find solutions. It is never too late to start healthy habits. Cheryl is available to speak about the toxins in our world that are making us ill. She is a sought-after expert on toxins, in our food, cleaning, water, minds, including toxic stress and toxic lack of sleep. She also talks about the impact of toxins for our children and our pet’s health. Contact Cheryl for one on one coaching or speaking at cherylmhealthmuse@gmail.com. Eliminating toxins is a crucial step to regain wellness.

Adam Zargar is a Life Coach and the founder of UAE Coaching . Adam has been a coach since 2008 and had clients all over the world- in Dubai, Saudi, German, UK, Australia to mention a few. Read the full interview with Adam below! We know you have a lot of qualifications/certifications, how important is for you to always learn new things? Personal and professional growth is essential. If you are not growing in any aspect of your life, then that aspect and a little part of you is dying. In coaching, I talk about meeting my clients' spiritual needs with my clients, the need for growth and contribution. Since 2008, I have been striving to consistently step out of my comfort zone and develop new skills and knowledge and, most importantly, share that knowledge with friends, family, and clients. I have been on TV, in magazines and papers across the UAE and England, got multiple degrees in Psychology, Teaching and Masters in NLP Life Coaching and TimeLine Therapy, and have read countless development books as well as attended and run a number of wellness and personal development seminars and webinars. It never used to be that way. I look back in the decades before 2008 to the shy, frustrated teenager to the procrastinating indecisive young adult. It is as if I am looking back at another person. I now know that it was not being lazy, that prevented me from stepping up. It was a fear and a lack of a why. The fear that I would not be good enough and simply not knowing my reason for doing and being was. It’s the same things I help my clients through now. You would be surprised how many influential and successful leaders I have worked with who on the surface have everything yet feel ‘not enough’ or unfulfilled underneath. Now my clients and I realize that you have to be consistent in raising your standards by learning. The energy and confidence you get from that consistent journey of growth and development beats any other feeling. Changes I have made to lives Since starting out as a Coach in 2008, I have been blessed to have helped so many people, and love that I am still in contact with them celebrating their next milestone achievements long after the formal coaching has finished. From clients who have got double promotions to helping leaders get organized and more productive, all the way to teens that have been bullied and gone on a journey of forgiveness and self-love, I have worked with a vast array of clients. The big change that clients get from me is the gift to understand themselves better and have the tools to take ownership of their own state, which then leads to better behavior choices and long-term results. When I can get a person to see that it is an inside out job, that the way they think and feel about themselves What do you enjoy helping people with the most? I love helping people who really want to make changes. They have had enough of their current life and know they want more yet are not sure of how. As I used to be very shy and unconfident, I love helping people break through that belief barrier and then watch as every area of their life improves. Other areas I am passionate about are helping people take the next step in their careers or help them find their strengths and confidence in a new role. If you could give 3 tips to someone who wants to improve the quality of their life, what would they be? Laser focus on what you can have influence on, your mindset or actions, and take full 100% responsibility for these areas. Accountability is king! Create a balanced structure to your day, centered around an early morning wake-up and success rituals across important areas, e.g., Health, work/learning, me time, family/relationship, and contribution. Take constant and never-ending improvement planned steps towards this. Work on your thinking and the questions you ask yourself because literally, the quality of your life is based on these. It is an inside out job, so get great at understanding your conditioning and the wording of what you tell yourself. The driving question I used is aligned with my needs. It is ‘How can I grow and contribute even more today?’ The even more states I am already enough yet can do more and opens up to the possibility of options for meeting the spiritual needs. What do you have in front of you, and what is your next big goal or project? My immediate goal is to learn even more to help my current clients and to build a community of support for them. I know I will enroll in the Gallup Strength Finder course in 2021, and that year will also concentrate on building up my personal brand (@coachadamzargar) to go alongside my successful UAE based coaching brand ‘Uae Coaching’ so I can create more opportunities in Europe on zoom or face to face. My long term vision centers on giving back and centers on opening up an orphanage in India to help street children and equip them with everything they need to excel in life. As a former teacher, kids youth worker, and parent, I know there is a great need. Follow Adam on Facebook , Instagram , and visit his website for more info! Read more from Adam !

Written by: Viviana Di Leo, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. How I went from always sick to understand the emotions that were making me sick and stopped that vicious cycle. In this blog, I want to share with you the technique of Biodecoding and how it can change your life forever. What would you say if I told you that my emotions were the cause of my infertility diagnosis back in 2014? Or if I tell you that my stress and anger while eating were the cause of my “chronic” gastritis. Interesting right? Growing up, I was very fragile, my mom’s words, and my dad was too, so sickness was a huge subject for me. I was angry to discover yet another problem, but this time I can tell you the anger helped me explore deeper and change perspective. I was ready to take a different path and understand what was going on with me. I remember like it was yesterday when I got this email " free and heal your family tree, free from emotional pain and conflicts". I am in! I did not want more conflicts or emotional pain in my life. This is how my path with Biodecoding started. Today, I have as a part of my life manifesto this phrase “Express your feelings out not to get sick inside". I will give you an example lets imagine you have the most important event coming up. You have to speak in front of an audience for the first time. The night before, you feel like you are relaxed, but in automatic, your mind starts, “Who am I to do this”, ”I can't express everything in 15 minutes”, “what if I mess up”…. You go to sleep and wake up with no voice. Our brain is like an iceberg. The little tip above water (that 10 percent of mass) signifies our conscious mind. In contrast, the big submerged part, 90 percent of the mass, represents our subconscious — the receptacle of memories, emotions, and automatic behaviour. Most of our daily activities are controlled by the subconscious, which frees up our conscious mind for other things. Our subconscious mind is responsible for your breathing, your heart pumping blood. However, it's also responsible for those habits, beliefs, and emotional thinking that have formed a behavior pattern that holds us back and keeps us from reaching our true potential? This is one of the greatest challenges in healing the incoherence between our conscious and subconscious minds. You might consciously want to stop repeating these patterns in your life and heal to live happily and peacefully. However, subconsciously, we are still holding onto subconscious patterns and limiting beliefs that keep us from healing and living freely. Biodecoding helps you uncover and understand the why of the hidden conflicts and enables you to release them to find solutions and take charge of your health and well-being. From generation to generation, conditions or diseases are transmitted unconsciously. And during the first years of our life, unconscious programs are created by the small child and are also connected to the mom. This is the reason why we see so many people constantly repeating patterns from the families. If you know the biology language, you can access forgotten memories and stories and release them. Making conscious the unconscious is the first step. Biodecoding® is a method that allowed me and many others to heal. Remember, I told you I was diagnosed with infertility; my son is now 3 years old and was naturally conceived. Biodecoding helped me understand and start my journey on what I needed to explore to release my emotions. It helped me change my way of living and went from getting sick and paralyzed by fear to a healthy and very freeing life because now I know what emotions can do to our bodies and how strong it is to hear yourself. When I found what works and access to it, I decided to start sharing it with the world. The more we work to connect with our emotions and subconscious mind, the better our chances for profound healing. For more information, follow me on Facebook , Instagram and visit my website ! Viviana Di Leo, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Viviana Di Leo is a Certified Peacefulness & Fulfilment Coach. She helps women on their self-healing journey to live a more peaceful and fulfilled life. Expert in Biodecoding & Emotions.

Written by: Alina Machita, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. It may seem impossible, but if you apply afformations for the next 28 days, you can change your life! Don’t believe me? You will! Let’s start by explaining why affirmations don’t work. After all, they’re so popular. Everyone can’t be wrong, can they? Actually, they are! Positive affirmations are statements of something that you want to be true – statements like I am happy, I am rich, I am wealthy, I am successful. Fans of affirmations believe by repeating them to yourself over and over. You are programming your brain to make it a reality. Unfortunately, a lot of the time, it doesn’t work. To prove this is true, try saying that statement to yourself: “I am rich.” What does your brain say? Your brain probably says, “Yeah, right!” Or maybe you hear a sarcastic laugh inside your head. Not very encouraging. Why don’t you believe your affirmations? Because your mind is trained to respond automatically to something that’s both simpler and more powerful than statements, it responds to QUESTIONS! Your mind has its own equivalent of Google running all the time. When you ask a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer. If you make a statement that isn’t true, it compares the ‘search results’ it finds to your statement. If you have data in your mind that tells you that you are not rich or happy or successful, it immediately creates a conflict. It argues against your affirmation, and you feel doubt. The point of affirmation is you need to believe them. It’s possible if you repeat them for long enough, you could override this conflict. You may convince yourself they’re true. Happily, there’s an even simpler way to get to where you want to be. How are afformations different? Instead of statements, afformations use empowering questions. Affirmation statements focus your mind on everything you don’t have. This immediately removes your power and your ability to act. Empowering questions have the exact opposite effect. Empowering questions focus your mind on what you have, what you can do, and who you really are. In short, empowering questions unleash your ability to take ACTION. Here’s an example of two questions: Why am I so beautiful? Why am I so ugly? If you ask yourself, “Why am I so beautiful” your brain searches for the answers. You are starting from a place of empowerment. It is a place that already accepts the truth that you’re beautiful, so your brain provides data to back this up. It might be that you have great eyes, a sexy smile, or even a cute ass! By focusing on what you have, you lift yourself. You empower yourself to go out into the world, believing you are beautiful. You make it happen. On the flip side of this, if you ask, “why am I so ugly,” your brain will go away and dredge up all your deepest insecurities. You might feel like your belly is too big, your arms jiggle, you have a crooked nose, or too many spots. I’m sure you realize that after a little bit of this, you’ll be curled up in your bed! You’ll feel like a piece of crap and be unable to do anything but think about how ugly you are. See the difference? If you start from a place of positivity and power, these things will increase. If you start from a place of negativity, you strip away your own power. You take away your ability to act to make things better. What can I do today to empower myself? If there’s one area in life where people are holding onto disempowering questions, it’s in the area of money. We dwell on all the things we wish we had. All the places we wish we could go to. We ask, “Why don’t I make enough money to buy those shoes?” Or “I can never afford the things I want. Why am I so useless?” As you know now, thinking these things is a one-way ticket to negative emotions and helplessness. In short, it leaves you disempowered and trapped right where you are. Instead, use the following Afformations to manifest your desires fast. Focus on whatever you want most: wealth, love, happiness, or success for at least 28 days. You need to understand it’s not the things that happen to us in our lives that make a difference. It’s our opinion of what happens to us that is crucial! Positive questions determine our thoughts, feelings, actions, and responses. Money Money Money! As money is one of the areas most people struggle with, I want to help you start to take your first steps towards a richer, more plentiful life today. You can download a list of money afformations for free by clicking here. Give it a try for the next 28 days, and I promise that the results will leave you amazed and delighted! Expect miracles! Book your free session today! For more info, visit my website & follow me on Instagram! Read more from Alina! Alina MaChita, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Hi, I’m Alina. I’m an empath, a transformational healer and a Subconscious mind Specialist. I have an unshakable passion and gift to help women stop self-sabotage, unlock their subconscious mind, release trapped emotions and subconscious blocks, keeping them from living in love, accomplishments, and balance. Most of my work is done directly within your Subconscious Mind where your Power is; utilizing muscle testing is a way to communicate with the subconscious mind and sophisticated systems like Emotion and Body Code and Raising levels of consciousness, removing physical and emotional blocks and stored trapped imbalances that can keep you from abundance, creativity, emotional balance and lightness of being.

Written by: Charmie Torres, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. To be candid, there is likely no such thing as an “after this.” Medical experts, analysts, and political strategists all agree that everyone will need to navigate a new reality. There won’t be warm handshakes or hugs just yet, nor could there be an utterly safe way to sit elbow-to-elbow at establishments. One thing’s for certain – even when a proven (and safe) vaccine is released, there’s no going back to a pre-pandemic lifestyle. If you’re an entrepreneur or someone in a leadership position, you know that many business models have changed. Organizations have been forced to unlearn and learn a new way of conducting business, and this doesn’t simply refer to technology or shifting to a work-from-home arrangement. Businesses have needed to adopt different protocols for their workflow, problem-solving mechanism, and communication. From the get-go last March, organization leaders and business owners braced themselves to face these types of situations: Businesses being forced to reduce operations or totally shut down, and thus seeing more people in search of jobs; Authorities had to impose strict lockdown measures that have brought 70% of economic activity to a standstill; Service industries, a major source for many economies and include retail, restaurant, tourism, air & sea travel, will be down on its knees. While the travel, automotive, manufacturing, entertainment, education, and banking industries have taken punch after punch since March, the ones that have suffered the least impact, if at all, are the IT and E-commerce industries. The reason is because remote work has always been the norm in the information technology industry. Many employers now hire remote developers or even engage in the service-team business model as it is the most cost-efficient, safe, and beneficial way to continue the business. Hence, the business term “outsourcing” is now at play. What is a virtual team? A virtual team comprises a group of people working remotely. One can either outsource a virtual team or hire an individual virtual assistant to help perform part of the business’ workflow. This would be similar to having an office without the traditional office structure. Employees of a virtual team are often spread across a location or even timezones. They are still unified by one objective: to provide office and backroom operations for small to medium enterprises. These people are highly skilled and competent, and many come armed with licenses, diplomas, and certifications in finance, engineering, taxation, InfoTech, and the like. Technology is a cornerstone that allows a group of people to work together remotely. The use of online collaboration tools is a condition sine qua non for seamless operations 24/7. And as companies are keeping their heads above water, this arrangement allows them not just to survive but also to continue to grow. With access to global talent, where does one even begin to look? What are the things to look out for when hiring? Where do you even find a team that’s in it for the long term? It’s a shameless plug, but I daresay the Philippines. Finding service providers and virtual assistants are easy tasks, but, of course, we need to consider the following red flags: Computer Specs – What are their computer specifications? Make sure their work laptop is fairly new and does not have constant issues are equally important things to consider. Having a backup plan in case their computer breaks (i.e., a nearby repair shop and a computer they can borrow temporarily) should be addressed as well. Internet Speed – Does the team have access to a reliable internet connection? 5-15 MBPS is the typical speed in the Philippines. Refrain from working with VAs that have an MBPS slower than 5. In addition to a backup plan if the connection is lost at any point. Time zone – The Philippines only has a 1-time zone, Philippine Time (PHT). No daylight savings exists, which means they are either 12 or 13 hours ahead of US EST, depending on whether or not DST is in effect. Power Outage – How often are power outages in their area? What type of backup mechanisms do they possess? As this varies depending on the area they work in, some locations experience more frequent power outages compared to others, but don’t let this be a pitfall as back-up generators are found in most buildings. Weather condition – Does their geographical location encounter difficulties caused by the weather? The country only has two seasons: wet and dry. When it’s the wet season, traveling can pose a challenge, but with the work from home situation, the only concern would be how it affects Wifi connection. Rooster Greetings – Can they provide a conducive environment for inbound and outbound calls? Is anyone working near a farm? How is the noise pollution? It would be best to find someone capable of working in a quiet environment, especially for a job that would require being in meetings or making calls frequently. Attitude towards work – Run a check on their motivation. Is their attitude towards being a virtual assistant positive or not? Are they as passionate about their work as you are about your business? Or will they be the type who jumps ship when the going gets tough? Carefully assess these during an interview to weigh the right choice when hiring the right assistant. Rates – When it comes to virtual assistance, the adage, “Pay peanuts, get monkeys,” strongly applies. How much do they charge, and what do their rates cover? Normally a VA rate is $5-$10/hour. A per hour arrangement might require you to watch everyone like a hawk (which defeats the purpose of outsourcing), whereas a per-project basis may not motivate a daily routine. Ultimately, it is up to both the client and the virtual assistant to negotiate the terms of their partnership and find common ground that permits the assistant to provide quality work and gives the client the ease of mind of not constantly and closely monitoring the virtual assistant. To mitigate all of these issues, the key is in the interview process. Ask the right questions, and you will find all the answers you need to help you decide who’s the best fit for your company. You can download a step by step process on how to interview your future VA here . For more information, visit my website and follow me on Facebook , Instagram and LinkedIn ! Charmie Torres, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Charmie Torres is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Löngun, a business process outsourcing company. Löngun was conceived in 2018 in response to clients who needed more than accounting services. Born and raised in the Philippines and studied in one of the top universities in the UK, Charm aims to bridge both worlds to develop a diverse work culture and environment. “It was a knee-jerk reaction to offer administrative, virtual assistance, and graphic design services as well because this is what many of our customers needed to grow their ventures.” With a team of well-rounded and experienced professionals (a motley crew of accountants, customer service professionals, technical experts, graphic artists, and administrative personnel), Löngun’s mission is to help business owners focus on scaling their business by taking care of the company’s non-core activities and streamline their workflow. Also, serve as a catalyst to her Filipino employees to reach their fullest potential.

Written by: Susan Francis, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. One of my clients told me she called me her “woo-woo” coach the other day, and it made me laugh. If you knew me from my old life, this wouldn't make sense at all. I was logical, systematic, and not “woo woo” at all. When I started my coaching business, it was all about effort, learning strategies, convincing others, and putting in the hard yards to make it work. Only it didn't. It didn’t work at all. I struggled, I pushed, and I remained broke. I was stuck in my masculine energy. I kept looking for the answers outside of me, signing up for every program and hoping that some guru’s method would work for me, but it didn’t. Meanwhile, I’d been learning about the Law of Attraction and loved the idea of “manifesting” but couldn’t actually work out how to make it work for me. If you feel like manifestation doesn’t work for you either, I get it. But here’s what you need to know. Our natural state is manifestation. We are manifesting all day, every day, whether you do it consciously or by default, you are attracting to you that which you focus on and give energy to. It is a universal law, the Law of Attraction. You’ve probably noticed when you get out of bed and stub your toe, spill your coffee, and get stuck in traffic, everything seems to go wrong that day. You probably have had other times in your life where everything falls into place and seems to work out perfectly. The better it gets, the better it gets. This is the Law of Attraction. Very simply, like attracts like. What you focus on and give energy and emotion to is drawn to you. If you want business to be easier, If you want to scale rapidly, if you want to make more income, more impact, it's all available to you now—all of it. You simply need to shift your focus and energy. This might seem simplistic, but it is honestly all it takes. When you think about your business goals, how do you feel? Excited, eager, expectant? Or frustrated, stressed, and worried? How you feel is an indication of what you are attracting to you. If you’re stressed and worried, you are operating from lack, and your thoughts are not aligned with your goal. If you’re feeling good about your business and excited for it to unfold, you’re on the right path. Business is a spiritual game. It's 80% energy and only 20% strategy and mechanics. I know some of you won't believe that, but for those who want business and life to be easy, listen up because this is for you. Your success is not about your actions; it's about your energy. There is simply no amount of action that can make up for your misaligned energy. Here’s what you need to do to manifest your absolute dream life and business: 1. Vision - Be crystal clear on what you want. Write it out, know the details, be specific. For example…. I want to have a $20K month; I want to sign 10 new clients this month. Make it specific and measurable. 2. Decide that it's done. Feel it in your soul that you have already achieved it. See it as done. Write about it, visualize it, feel the energy of having already achieved it. We receive who we are being, not what we want. You need to believe it before you see it. 3. Clear Resistance Ignore your current reality, ignore what is, and shift all of the reasons you can't have it. Journal out all of the negative stories that come up about why you can't have what you desire and reframe them. Shift them, release them. This is the real work of manifesting everything you want. Letting go of ALL of the stories about why you can't have it. I promise you they are all stories; there is not a single limitation that is true. Tell a better-feeling story; find another truth that feels better. This is the real work, the inner work. 4. Follow your intuition When you’re feeling excited about your desires coming, trust all of the pulls, even when they don't make sense, even when they feel scary, even when they have nothing to do with your business. This is key. This is your inner guidance leading the way. Stop planning as much and trust. You will be guided. Expect your desires to come! They will be drawn to you. New opportunities will come your way. Things will work out for you. When you ask it is given, your work is to simply allow it to flow and follow your guidance. All of your desires, all of them are available to you right now. Shift your energy, and you will shift your reality. To learn more about this and how I scaled from $500 months to $15K months in 60 days (and how you can too) you can access my free 3 part mini-course Magnetic Money . To follow Susan, you can find her on F acebook , I nstagram, join the F acebook community for regular live training, learn more on the website, or listen to the Soul Aligned Business Babes podcast . Read more from Susan ! Susan Francis, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Susan Francis is a leading Mindset, Manifestation and Business Mentor and Coach empowering female entrepreneurs to create more income and impact their soul-aligned businesses. She helps women unlock the truth of who they are, helps them to fully step into their power, and teaches them the secrets to taking quantum leaps in their success. She believes life was meant to be easy, to feel good, to flow, and you can create anything you damn well want! With a background in senior management in the fashion industry, she escaped the 9 to 5 hustle after her daughter's birth to follow her passion for helping other women create epic time and financial freedom. Trained in NLP and Time Line Therapy, and obsessed with the Law of Attraction, she knows at a very deep level that everything is an inside job, and as she helps clients make shifts in their mindset, and energy they become magnetic to their dream lives and business success.

Collaborated post Hoof Trimming in Agriculture Head trimming is basically conversant with the herd, unlike the pruning carried out on trees. Frequent trimming is relevant for animals, mostly cows, goats, and pigs. If done correctly, it will help prevent foot and leg problems. Therefore, it is a necessary task for maintaining good health for herd around the farmland. Every animal deserves to walk fine within or outside the farmland or any living area they find themselves. Hoof trimming is relative, and it helps to declaw or control the growth of the animal toes, especially on older animals. Through proper trimming, dirt and deteriorated tissues are removed. This process is carried out on both toes of the subject animal. The Importance of Hoof Trimming Trimming is an essential part of every dairy operation as concerned with agriculture. It will make herds become more productive and active and live long as well. When hoof trimming is done regularly, and as expected, then it is easier to avoid sickness and improve the welfare of farm animals. If the head trimming is done appropriately, the chance of getting infection fly around the farmland is highly reduced. The trimming is done when the horn attached to the head region, heels, or foot of any herd is overgrown. Relevant Trimming Procedures in Agriculture Trimming is an agricultural process that will make living easy and comfortable for animals within the farmland. The procedures to achieving this are relatively easy to follow, and they are; Trimming a Little Section: Sometimes, carrying out trimming on the herds may be quite painful. It is ideal to trim little by little, and this will help keep the animal calm while the individual who trims can carefully get an excellent shape. Utilizing Appropriate Trimming Tools: Once you are ready to trim, ensure you can access the right trimming tool. It is not advisable to perform this activity with an unrecognized tool.

Written by: Judith Viado, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. Would you change your cookware if it meant better health for you and your family? For me, it started when we discovered the existence of toxicity in our cookware. I still vividly remember that day. It was during dinner when my son told me that the meat we were eating tasted like metal. I knew it wasn’t blood because I made sure that the meat was cooked well. At this point, I’ve already been cooking for years, and this was the first time this ever happened. I was sure that I did everything the right way and cooked everything correctly. So I went ahead and tasted the dish, and it crushed me that it indeed tasted like metal. That was the exact moment I realized that there was something wrong with my whole approach to food and cooking. If it wasn’t because of the ingredients that I was using or my method of cooking, then the only other reasonable cause would be from the tools that I was using to cook. Somehow, it explained why my family was in such a bad state of health. My husband had high blood pressure, my daughter had digestive problems, I had irritable bowel syndrome, and my son wasn’t just lactose intolerant; he also had skin diseases. It felt like I’ve been poisoning the whole family with my cooking this whole time. My name is Judith Viado. I run Nutricraft Cookware with my husband, Richard. Our personal experience inspired us with toxic cookware, and ever since, we’ve made it our mission to come up with the safest and smartest cookware available. We also aim to create an impact on the lives of families by promoting healthy cooking and healthy living. We believe that good health starts in the kitchen, and we are determined to make a difference in the lives of families worldwide. Richard and I have our own roles within the company. Richard is the brains behind the technical aspects of all Nutricraft products. Having worked as a Telecom engineer, he devoted himself to studying cookware construction and its features. His years of engineering experience is the secret behind the excellent quality of all Nutricraft products. I, on the other hand, focus on all the sales and marketing. Nutricraft cookware is unlike anything else on the market. We’ve combined superior craftsmanship with “one of a kind” multi clad using a unique 316Ti Titanium Stainless Steel on the interior of the cookware and adopted an improved titanium-strengthened exterior layer in our multi-clad material. We’ve created cookware that isn’t just durable, hypoallergenic, non-porous and having a virtually non-reactive cooking surface; it is also twenty times more resistant to corrosion. Our state-of-the-art cooking system even allows you to cook with less to no oil! With each product being meticulously handcrafted by the world's largest and most respected manufacturer, it all comes with a 50-year transferable once warranty making it a one-time investment that lasts a lifetime. Being a nutrition and health coach, I do my best to educate people about our products. During the weekends, Richard and I teach people healthy food preparation methods without using oil, salt, artificial seasoning and how to prevent contamination. We strongly believe that since this style of cooking has dramatically changed our family’s lifestyle, it will likewise have a huge impact on others’ lives as well. This is the reason why we aim to educate more people to learn to eat well, live well and become free from metal toxicity. Nutricraft Cookware is more than just cookware -- we’re committed to lifelong education. We know that cooking good food is more than just the ingredients, the method of cooking, and the cookware that we use. It’s also about acknowledging that metal toxicity exists and knowing how we can rid ourselves of this. We don’t just want to provide the world with top grade and non-toxic cookware; we also want to educate people about the importance of health and wellness. There may be many challenges for small businesses like ours nowadays, but we know we’re on the right track. We’ve recently won a Gold Stevie award for Startup of the Year under the Consumer Products Industries during the International Business Awards. This same year, we’ve also participated in the 2020 Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards and won a Bronze Award for Excellence in Corporate Innovation for the Consumer Product category. Apart from that, we were finalists in the 2020 Altitude Awards both for the Best Online/Digital Business Award and in the Two Peas Partnership category. We also want to create a global impact by uplifting others from poverty through our livelihood program. Nutricraft cares, and we always invite people to become a part of our vision and mission. Despite the pandemic, we are hopeful that there will be better days ahead. We will continue to have big dreams for our small family business. Hopefully, we will get more families to switch to the safest and smartest cookware and live healthier, happier lives! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and visit our website for more information! Judith Viado, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Judith is a highly accomplished Oracle NetSuite specialist and global online business entrepreneur. She has a background in Science, worked in the Public Health and recently been accepted as a Health and Nutrition Educator by a Scientific Community in Australia. She has cross-discipline technical expertise in a variety of areas including Financial Accounting, Taxation, IT project management, E-commerce, Property Wealth Creation, On-site Residential Property Management, NetSuite specialist and Strata Management. While Judith enjoys her full-time job and managing her global online stores, she and her husband Richard started their own cookware brand with a simple goal of changing peoples’ lives. On the weekends, Judith and her family teach people healthy food preparation methods without using oil, salt, artificial seasoning, and how to prevent contamination. She promotes keeping ingredients in their purest form, enhancing their natural flavors and maximum nutritional value. Judith strongly believes that since this style of cooking has dramatically changed her family’s lifestyle, it will likewise have a huge impact on others’ lives. She aims to educate more people to learn to eat well, live well and free from metal toxicity.

Written by: Kika Schunemann, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. This article barely scratches the basics of "Spiritual Response Therapy" as the Universe expands, so does your matrix and the research, as well as healing provided, is limitless and infinite. You can take the blue or red pill now. It is always your choice, and you have "Free Will." Spiritual Response Therapy is not a religion or a ritual of any kind. It is instead a therapy for the free-spirited individuals who have or not a religion. In other words, it works on everyone regardless of their beliefs. Has it occurred to you that for the majority of your existence on this planet, you have been pre-programmed to live the life you are experiencing by repeating the same karmic lessons carried forward from past lives? In this article, I am going to open up your mind and heart to receive information that will definitely leave you empowered to hack your matrix and, if desired, enhance your life with the assistance of your own superintelligence, your High Self. You deliberately chose to come back to this planet, with your own chosen body, your family, your culture, and your own life’s hurdles, so that through your human body and experience, your Soul can grow, evolve and expand in consciousness and awareness. The school of life is a never-ending process of constant learning, but have you stopped for a minute and asked yourself what sort of learning is the one you are having; is it from a place of hardship or a place of abundance? is it fear-based or lead by love? Every thought, every emotion, every idea, and everything else has a frequency. Just imagine our human body is a computer or a tablet constantly receiving and emanating energy. It has endless programs and applications actively running in the background, and some that only activate when a misfortune event in our life occurs, expectedly or unexpectedly. The programs run in the Soul, Subconscious, and Conscious Minds, and we are totally unaware of them and what they are doing. We are only aware of the 2% of our thoughts, and the 98% remaining are just an unorganized party of programs in our Subconscious Mind ruling our lives on their demand. The applications activate when we tap on them, some applications are positive, and some others are negative. And most of the time, we leave those negative apps open and running wild. What a mess! Living our life with a messy computer and expired apps only creates havoc in our matrix. But there’s a way of pressing control+alt+delete and re-booting the whole system. That way is with the most advanced healing modality today, Spiritual Response Therapy, which is a very dynamic and super-fast type of therapy that researches in-depth the Soul records (Akashic Records) and clears all unwanted, unneeded programs from the root cause in our Soul, Subconscious and Conscious Minds. This therapy is conducted by channeling with precision what needs to be cleared. The High Self leads the session and tells the story. Through SRT, we look at life from the infinite point of view and radiant love to pinpoint the perception of life challenges, whether it be physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. An SRT session looks like this: Preparing both of us for work by connecting to each other’s High Self and Spiritual Committees. Opening up the Soul for healing. Removing blockages to receiving and accepting healing light. Making sure you are aligned to your divine plan (life mission and purpose) Making sure we are both grounded, and our triple shields of light are in place. Then we focus on the issues that are being perceived by you, and we retrieve percentages. Then a general clearing starts to go deeper and deeper until all programs creating the issue are clear. (May it be mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, or situation of any kind) In some cases, a particular protocol is used to make even more research and to conduct a deeper healing. During the therapy session, we are always aware and awake. No hypnosis is needed. All the brain waves (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and theta) are active and running simultaneously as we are channeling pure information from the light to the highest level of consciousness of the Soul, which is the New Paradigm and beyond. We are both in an awakened meditative estate for some hours. As we are all divine light just in a denser form (humans), we all have masculine and feminine energy, and both energies should be actively running to one hundred percent in us, otherwise we have blockages to the realization of our human experience on this planet, and we block our abundance of all things automatically. Then in a session, we would look into the following set of questions as well to raise both masculine and feminine energies in us regardless of our gender. In what percentage is the masculine energy? It should always be at one hundred percent positive and zero percent negative. In what percentage is the feminine energy? It should always be at one hundred percent positive and zero percent negative. And a clearing is conducted around those questions to raise both masculine and feminine energies. How often do we find ourselves in situations that seem that there’s no way out, and we start looking for solutions or miracles to happen? To what percentage is our judgment and perception of the situation that we are experiencing and feel blinded from the peaceful and harmonious resolution? To what percentage is our codependency towards the situation at hand? Humans are habitual, and we live life from the comfort zone; whether it is a positive path or not, we simply are used to it, but we are always secretly wishing for something to change, for that issue to disappear, or to have more knowledge and the right tools to overcome those hurdles that are present in our path. Therefore clearing the codependency, we hold with people, an emotion, an illness, a thought, or a situation is paramount to detach ourselves from it so that the experience is lived from a place of love and not from a place of fear. We start to witness that the best outcome starts to unfold with ease and grace immediately. Love is the opposite of fear. The Soul wants to learn from the human experience through love and not from fear, which is Ego based. We as human beings should be able to manage our own positive and negative energies (apps) by doing an energy management clearing a few times per year to keep our own vibrational frequency in alignment with the energy of love, which is abundant in itself and available to all of us. When the judgment or perception that a human being is toxic, and everyone runs in the opposite direction to not get “infected” as if it was a disease, just look at yourself first for a moment and ask if you are capable of lifting, dealing, managing and healing your own Soul. Only then the evolution of the collective consciousness starts to shift, and the whole of humanity begins to heal at the same time that you heal yourself and evolve. When you do your part, you are immediately projecting unconditional love for the greatest and most elevated good of humanity. Likewise, by connecting to the highest frequency that is love, we start to love ourselves and others more, accept ourselves and others more, and become totally compassionate with our own flaws to transmute them into gifts and talents. When we leave the old fashioned way of judging everyone else and ourselves for our misfortunes (lessons), we turn into beautiful expressions of joy. That is a life lead by LOVE. It doesn’t matter how many times we have managed a situation with the same foot, negative situations are merely lessons, and the lessons that we are learning do not make us bad people; we just weren’t taught how to do it better. And that’s when SRT becomes a very powerful tool, very handy. SRT teaches us to live life with freedom, freedom from “mistakes and misfortunes” freedom from illness, freedom from heartbreak, freedom from trauma, freedom from control, freedom from burnout by removing all the negative programs and apps running in our Soul, Subconscious, and Conscious Minds. To what percentage are we assisting from a place of Love the rise of the collective consciousness? To what percentage do we feel and believe that we are all ONE? To what percentage does our Soul believe that we are separated from the Source? The questions above open up infinite possibilities to work on a multitude of themes and the many challenges of life and allow us to explore the negative energies that are blocking our positive potentials and positive energies. When the most important positive potential gets blocked (self-esteem), we find ourselves in very tricky relationships of all kinds. So when we are second-guessing our relationships, we must pay attention to our self-esteem first, and that also includes our relationship with money. To what percentage is my self-esteem positive in me? What is our vibration towards money? To what percentage do we hold antagonist energy with...? To what percentage are we living a love life of codependency? To what percentage are we living from a place of freedom? To what percentage are we giving freedom? Freedom is free when we rid ourselves of all our pre-programming, the collective unconsciousness, the inherited limited paradigms, the negative potentials, the negative motivations of a limited and expired education and system that has lead humanity to live in constant error by making us believe that “life is like that” or that “it is what it is” when in fact thinking that way is merely a program of inherited victimhood and self-sabotage, to say the least. Imagine how would you feel if you could turn your life, health, mental health, finances, and emotional IQ around in a matter of months and start living with more joy, love, laughter, happiness, freedom, success, abundance, prosperity, and zero stress and become the best version of yourself. I hope this article gave you some new information you didn’t know existed, or it expanded your knowledge of the repertoire of holistic therapies available globally today. I have been an SRT therapist for the past five years. When I discovered and attended my first session, I was blown away, and in one session only, my depression vanished. I remember I told my therapist, “my life is not a hot mess; it is a spicy disaster” do something, please! and 3 hours later, the outlook for a better and brighter future started to develop in me...I felt alive and connected again! I always knew there was something else out there for me, and for all of us that didn’t seem daunting and packed with antidepressants and what not... and now I live a life of freedom, pure unconditional love, abundance, and purpose. My deepest desire is to enable the same for you. My healing service to humanity is my mission, but your healing is your responsibility. I am also an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) that also makes me a clairsentient. Therefore I am very empathetic with a huge heart that many times occupy more than half of my mind, but regardless of my generosity, I will always have a very keen ear and heart to listen to you too. I always compliment our SRT sessions with Dr. Bach Flower Essence Remedies and Australian Bush Flower Remedies to keep releasing old stagnant energy and to allow the integration to take place with a lot more support and love. “Dr. Bach flower essences saved my life when I fell in a very cold pond and suffered hypothermia in a very remote place 3 hours away from a hospital in a South American country when I was 12 years old.” All Spiritual Response Therapies can be done at a distance globally in English or Spanish. The effect is the same and instant. All we need to do is to jump on a video call and allow this divine process to take place in you. Heal Your Soul-Heal Your Life! Namaste Kika If you feel inclined and prompted to work with me and to invest in you, to hack your matrix, to re-train your Subconscious and Conscious Minds, and to heal your Soul with this fast-track healing modality, I kindly ask you to send me a direct message through my website. Kika Schunemann, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Kika is a Soul therapist and life coach, she is accredited by the Spiritual Response Association in Washington DC. She is based in London, she is a Soulpreneur and has changed the lifestyle of thousands of people globally.

Written by: Nilima Amit, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. 'Thank you' is a word that is very commonly used by each one of us. We say, 'thank you' when we acknowledge a gift, service, compliment, or accept/refuse an offer. IS THIS ENOUGH? No, it’s not enough! Why? It's because we rarely feel being thankful when we say it. There are times when we say 'thank you' for the sake of saying it. We say it out of habit or just to be polite and to be well mannered. We rarely feel the emotions of gratitude while saying, 'thank you.' When it's coupled with feelings, the magic happens. Doors of wonders open for us – opportunities and abundance flows in our life when we feel grateful (or gratitude). Does this confuse you? Let me explain it with an example. When we are at the billing counter, the attendant makes the bill. The payment is made, and the bill is handed over, and we say 'thank you.' Here, we only say 'thank you.' There is no feeling attached to the words. Most of the time, we don’t even look at the attendant on the counter while saying, 'thank you.' We just say it while walking away. Next time, wait, look at the attendant and say 'thank you.' Do this while looking at the attendant with a smile on your face. Don’t forget to note the smile of the attendant when you say the magical words – 'Thank you.' If possible, try shaking hands. Isn’t it very simple? This can be followed in every aspect of our lives. It takes a little patience and effort to incorporate it into our lives. Simple tips to feel gratitude in your daily life: 1. Close your eyes and say, "Thank you, thank you, thank you" for all the goodness in your life. Saying 'thank you' 3 times creates an impact on our feelings. It also helps to raise our vibrations to happiness. 2. Look at people while saying 'thank you.' 3. When you wake up, say 'thank you' for your life and your wonderful day ahead. 4. At bedtime, say 'thank you' for the beautiful day that went by. 5. Just before closing your eyes, scan the whole day and find the best thing that happened during the day. Say 'thank you' and feel grateful for the best thing. 6. Feel gratitude for the air, birds, water, and all the natural resources. 7. Hold your hand on your heart and feel gratitude for the beautiful sights you encounter during the day. 8. Say 'thank you' to family and friends for their love, care, and warmth towards you. 9. Above all, say 'thank you' with a reason. The feeling of gratitude arises automatically. For example, – I am thankful for my family because they give me a sense of belonging. This Thanksgiving attach feelings of Gratitude to thank you. 2020 has been a roller coaster for each one of us. Despite this, let us end it on a better note by feeling gratitude for each and everything we have in life, even if it’s knee-high to a grasshopper or minuscule. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Heartfelt Gratitude. For more information, follow me on Facebook, Instagram and visit my website! Nilima Amit, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Nilima Amit is a Bestseller Author, Holistic Life Coach and Reiki Healer. Her life is a beautiful and interesting journey from having an opportunity to be born to Osho follower parents to self-discovering her own Calling. This journey transmuted in the formation of her company One Life Many Jouneys™. Coincidentally her bestseller book is also with the same name. The mission of One Life Many Journeys™ is to spread the light and guide souls in their quest in emotional and spiritual quest. Handcrafted workshops, her book and Reiki infused products like affirmation box, wish box, Money and Relationship box are created to help in the same.

Written by: Laura Lee Harrison, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. With an increasing number of people staying at home, losing jobs, or simply realizing just how easy it is to lose all your income security, people are coming around to the idea of going online to create multiple streams of income. It is time to get creative – but where to start? Social Media, though it is a massive black hole of sometimes useless information or great for at home self-diagnosis, a fantastic confidence booster or easy pathway for those keyboard warriors to bully others, it will undoubtedly provide mind-numbing escapes for your brain. For those of us who love to grab our popcorn and enjoy the show, it can be a great form of entertainment. However, Social Media is now a business essential. As I own a Social Media Agency and run a Social Media Membership Program through Media Exclusive, I thought I would bring to you some essentials for getting started with your online marketing. The first thing I want you to know about utilizing any online platform to grow a business is this – It takes TIME. Please don’t wake up tomorrow morning thinking you will start a business or join one and be a Millionaire in a matter of months. You must grow your audience. Show up regularly, get consistent, and always be learning, growing, and investing. The Social Media growth game can be a fantastic well-oiled machine. This includes organic growth and paid growth and is not limited to one platform! There is so much to unravel. For the sake of time, though, I will stick to Organic growth on the Facebook platform and keep it basic for now. Please note, this article is for the person who is set up on Facebook already. You know how to use the site and have been on it for a while. Maybe you are just not getting any clients or sales yet, and you may even feel overwhelmed. You have a basic understanding of how it works. So, let’s dive in. 1. What is your product or service? Your first instinct is to post about what you offer all over your profile, mass invite to your private group or your business page. Don’t do it. Resist that urge! Who is your Product or Service for? Have you ever filled out an Ideal Client worksheet before? If not, now is the time! Don’t be afraid to fill it out multiple times and have a few types of people you cater to. However, it is very important for messaging to understand WHO you are speaking to! I’ve created a FREE worksheet just for Brainz Readers and you can grab that here! 2. Have a clear photo of YOU on your profile. Not your children or your pets or a dream destination. You CAN have a selfie but make sure it is clear and not overly-filtered. You want to appear put together, confident, and genuine. Here are a couple of tips for selfies: Have your face well lit. (If you can’t invest in a ring light, than use a window with natural light shining through). Have a nice background (A nice wall, bookshelf, a doorframe, a photo, even hang a sheet up on the wall if you have walls that throw funny colors due to paint color. Watch for clutter in the background.) Wear a color that compliments your eyes. For women- Have your hair and makeup looking fresh (this doesn’t mean not looking like yourself, be you, be comfortable. However looking put together will go along way with your viewers, and your own confidence will show up in the photos). For men- Have your facial hair groomed, wear a nice outfit, do your hair. Put on something that makes you feel confident. Even if you don’t see it in the photo, your confidence will shine through. An example would be a watch, a shirt, or your favorite shoes. Smile – with both your eyes and your mouth! Make sure your camera is just slightly above your eye level or at eye level. Pick a flattering angle and play with angles. Even models don’t get it perfect on the first try! HAVE FUN. Now of course, if you are in the position to get professional headshots – Go for it! 3. Start having conversations! YUP! Social Media MEANS to be SOCIAL! Remember who your ideal client is from number 1.? Okay, so now you are going to go comment on THEIR posts. “LOVE” their posts and have a genuine conversation with them in messenger! Maybe book a video call or if you dare, a socially distant coffee, just to simply get to know each other! This is not a closing call/meeting. This is a genuine conversation that opens both of you up to chatting about your lives and what you do! If you listen, you will learn almost everything you need to know in regards to whether they need your service or product and if you want to take them on as a client. Without pitching, you can pique their interest in becoming a client of yours. Why are conversations and reactions important? Commenting on your ideal client’s post will make your posts more visible to your ideal client when you post. Having a conversation in messenger will also make your posts show up in their News Feed. Which will keep YOU and what you do at the top of their mind. “Loving” “Laughing” “Care” “Wow” reactions tell Facebook or Instagram that the posts are relevant “Sad” and “Angry” tell Facebook not to show those posts as much. However, the most beneficial piece to the reaction button is Facebook knows you are a human being and not a bot. Bots can “Like” posts, so choose to react to other people’s posts instead of just hitting that “Like” button. 4. Show up consistently! This does not mean post every hour and be posting about what you offer. This means take some time to create posts that make people feel good! Especially in a world that feels so dark right now. Give value to the people on your Media platforms. What to post about? Post photos of you and your family. Go LIVE (this one is scarier, and I could do a whole article just on that! However, it is a fantastic way to get out there and seen FAST) Photos with quotes. Selfie photos with your product or service in the background (product placement) or of you using your product or service. Speak directly to your client’s “problems” and how to overcome that problem ( Not a sales pitch, tell a story) Infographics Motivational & inspirational posts. 5. When people comment on your posts, hit that “Reply button” and comment back. After they have commented on some of your posts or expressed interest in what you do, go have a private conversation and invite them to your free group or offer them a discovery call. Then close the deal. This is only if they have expressed interest in a business-post or a post related to what you do. The main thing to remember with Social Media Organic Growth is to have fun and not get caught up in how many followers you have or likes & comments you get on a post. There are influencers out there who have Millions of followers who don’t sell anything. There are businesses that have a few hundred or thousand targeted followers who buy everything they have! Which would you prefer? Big numbers that seem impressive that don’t turn profit or smaller numbers with bigger profit? Make sure you give value and show up consistently with content that make people think or feel good. They will remember you when they are ready to purchase something like yours! The world is filled with pushy sales and the world can feel so dark and lonely. If you can create a positive impression without pushing your sales pitches, people will appreciate you! There is a time and a place for sales! I am not saying NEVER Sell – that is a different article. I want to quickly add there is never ONE way to Market online! It takes some testing and time to grow. Social Media platforms are ALWAYS changing how their algorithms works and I have one last bonus tip. * If you notice a new feature pop up and Facebook is saying HEY! Here is a new feature use it! DO THAT! Use the feature. It will undoubtedly get you in front of more people – hacking the algorithms. Join my Facebook community , follow me on Instagram and visit my Linktree and website for more information! Read more from Laura ! Laura Lee Harrison, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Laura Lee Harrison is a Confidence & Beauty Strategist who works with professional women to help them deliver their message on stage or on camera effortlessly, by assisting them with their beauty regimens, so they feel beautiful as they are with their unique features. She also guides business owners to their first 6 figures in business with her business partner and their Social Media Agency, Media Exclusive. The agency and scheduling platform help entrepreneurs to show up and scale business with ease and consistency. As a sole parent, multi-business owner and International Best-Selling Co-Author, Laura Lee has had to overcome many obstacles in her life and within her own mindset to get where she is today. Daily she uses her story to inspire and empower entrepreneurs globally, showing them no matter their circumstance in life they can achieve their goals, if they choose to never give up on themselves.

Written by: Aoife Ryan, Executive Contributor Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise. Parenting at the best of times is not always easy. Parenting during a global pandemic can be overwhelming. But there are some things that you can do, for yourself, that will help you navigate this difficult journey. With the arrival of COVID19, parents are trying to juggle many different roles, being pulled from countless directions and with numerous pressures on their already stressed emotional resources. Children are experiencing long days away from family, friends and their ‘normal’ routines and activities. Parenting is not about being right all the time, ruling in an authoritarian manner, where a child fears losing their parents love. Nor is it about giving in all the time, in a permissive manner, where the parent fears losing their children’s love. Parenting, for me, is always about connection, relationship, and loving responsiveness. This type of conscious, connected parenting is based on unconditional love, regard and holding, both for yourself and for your children. It can be challenging to remain connected and lovingly responsive to yourself and to your children, especially in the current circumstances. A helpful way of caring for yourself, and by extension for your children, is with boundaries. A boundary calls for an action for yourself or another. It is never an action against yourself or against another. A loving boundary is a line that you draw around your worth and dignity as a human being. Think of an island, your own space, that you stand solidly and separately on. When you have this boundary line in place around yourself, no one can diminish you or your presence. Setting boundaries is about confidently taking responsibility for yourself and your actions and not placing your happiness in the hands of anyone else. Boundaries arise from unconditional love (for self) and are also an expression of love (for your children). Currently, when we are physically distancing, we may find supports that we have utilized previously are no longer available to us. Boundaries become even more important. Some examples of loving self-boundaries might include: Creatively finding time for yourself (a cup of tea alone, taking the time to brush your hair and put on your lipstick, going to bed on time each night, making a phone call to a friend, cooking and eating for pleasure, not necessity, finding time to read your book etc.) Limiting time on electronic devices (e.g. no devices at dinner time or in the bedrooms) Being genuine, authentic, honest, direct and clear in your expression of your feelings and emotions (when we acknowledge and give expression to our own feelings, all feelings, we are modeling for our children how they can acknowledge and give expression to their feelings.) Participating in activities or exercise that makes you feel good Choosing to contact family/friends Choosing to NOT contact family/friends Saying NO to what is not right for you Communicating your needs directly and clearly and asking for support when you need it Speaking your own truth There are many ways of introducing helpful and appropriate boundaries and you will know best what you need to do for yourself and your family. Intricately connected to boundaries is the idea that separateness is the basis for togetherness. The act of staying separate from what is going on around you, and not personalizing what another says or does, is an act of loving self-care. Standing separately on your own island and knowing that what you say and do is 100% about you, and for you, and that what another says or does is 100% about them and for them, brings a strong sense of inner peace and calm. Standing separately can be challenging in a cramped full house where everyone has different and competing needs. I must admit I struggle with it myself some days. On those days when my own emotional cup is depleted, I recognize the need to reach out for support and ask for help (from family, friends, or a professional). When I attend to my own emotional cup and ensure that it is full (or nearly full) most of the time, I am more likely to respond lovingly to my children rather than react defensively. On the days when I know I am struggling, I tell my children and my husband. By giving myself permission to be real and honest, I am giving my children (and husband) the permission to be real, honest, authentic, creative and above all themselves! As I mentioned earlier, parenting is always about connection and relationship. We may be forced to physically distance currently, but we can remain emotionally connected. Boundaries and standing separately are acts of loving self-care. As parents, when we care for ourselves, we will automatically be in a place to care for our children. If we model a strong boundary setting for ourselves, our children will learn what boundaries are, and they will learn to value their own self-worth and dignity. Creating appropriate boundaries for yourself and your children will deepen relationships within and between you and allow for a more intimate connection. Boundaries and staying separate will give you all the space you need to breathe, the space to be, and will ultimately draw you more closely together, during these difficult times. For more information, connect with me on LinkedIn or visit my website! Aoife Ryan, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine Aoife Ryan is a Parent & Relationship Mentor. Aoife works with clients helping them explore all aspects of self, to look at their relationship with self and the relationships they have with others around them. She works with organizations and companies, guiding and supporting their employees to become the best versions of themselves that they can be. When employees are operating from a strong conscious place, the company will be one that thrives, with diversity, inclusion, creativity, and human connection at its core. Aoife is passionate about supporting parents through the difficult and rocky terrain of parenting, thereby improving the health and well-being of all family members and by extension society. When parents’ needs are looked after the next generation will automatically be looked after. Aoife's approach is non-judgemental, kind and loving. She believes that with the right support, individuals will discover their own unique solutions to any difficulties they may be experiencing.