Founder

Burge Smith-Lyons

Founder

Burge Smith-Lyons is founder and CEO of Essence of Being, Inc. and the Healing Forest Foundation. For more than 37 years, she has helped thousands of men, women, children and companies globally with emotional and spiritual healing, self-development, communication techniques, relationships, abundance, team building, and leadership development. She specializes in helping people identify their "Bubble Talk" — subconscious negative self-talk that blocks them from achieving what they want in life.

Burge is an international bestselling author, motivational and keynote speaker, DISC Certified Instructor, relationship and communications expert, intuitive healer, certified rebirther, channel, ordained minister, spiritual counselor, certified life coach, and hypnotherapist. She has launched the Conscious Leadership Academy in North America, Africa, and Europe and taught live transformational workshops on 6 continents.

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Trainers/Facilitators

EOB certified Trainers and Facilitators. Facilitation is a great way to expand on your journey by bringing the Essence of Being principles to a larger group so that everyone can benefit and support each other in putting the principles into action.

Rainy Lynn

Facilitator

Rainy Lynn is a Certified Essence of Being trainer and has been involved with EOB since 2011. She completed the teacher training and is the only person to have taught the EOB workshop by herself other than Burge. She has been workshop manager for Atlanta and California and is a Growth Catalyst, Experience Strategist, BrandMaster, and motivational Speaker. She loves to support people in developing their gifts in their business and personal life.

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Brad Lyons

Facilitator

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Janie Lasik

Facilitator

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Coaches

Check out the EOB certified coaches and select the one you resonate with the most. Email them or click their calendar link to set up sessions you have bought through the various packages. Coaching is a way to continue your journey with guidance and accountability for everyday living. They support you with your new decisions and get more clarity about vision, action steps, and understanding of the Essence of Being principles.

Evie Rose

Coach and Co-Facilitator

Evie Rose found her authentic voice through working with several amazing teachers and is now a Certified Equine Gestalt Practitioner, Brainspotting Practitioner, Essence of Being Facilitator and Coach, an international speaker and an Awakening Giant. For 18 years she has been the Logistics Coordinator for Essence of Being and has worked with people ready to move past their traumatic experiences and find their true authentic selves. She is passionate about creating a safe place where people can be seen and heard while demonstrating that it is possible to live a good life after abuse. Her mission is to transform her own life while inspiriting others along the way. She is setting an example for others by freeing herself from the emotional chains that have held her back. She is currently seeing private clients and hosts 4 retreats each year to support you in a guided personal journey of transformation.

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    Denise Haney

    Coach and Faculty Member

    Artisan Denise Haney is the mastermind behind Your Heartfelt Message. Her genuine care for people and quality craftsmanship are essential parts as the steward of Your Heartfelt Message. The items she most lovingly creates, stand apart in an ocean of plastic tchotchkes and mass produced baubles. With years of hands-on studio experience in mediums of wood, glass and porcelain (to name a few), Denise has truly earned the title of Master Maker. After a fortuitous masterminding session with a colleague, Denise realized her gifts must be offered to the world in the form of creating solid representations of the words that have the utmost power to remind, shift and manifest. Whether for personal or business motives, the messages conveyed in her artistic creations are the things her clients like to see in an impactful form. Along with being a creative artist and master maker of 'Messages You Can Touch', Denise has a partnership with Burge Smith-Lyons to create heartfelt messages for Essence of Being. Always striving to serve others Denise is also a Certified EOB Life Coach.

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    Chasity Clark

    Coach and Faculty Member

    Chasity is a certified Essence of Being & Conscious Leadership Coach who specializes in helping her clients Become the up-leveled version of themselves by PLAYING in this game called LIFE.

    Through your journey of playing together, she will guide you to Unleash your Superpowers, Up-Level your Beliefs to Synergize with your New Dreams; Embrace your Fears and Explore your CHOICES to Activate that Inner Freedom that is available to us ALL.

    You can reach Chasity via phone or text at 404-725-7109 or email below.

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    Malcolm Scattergood

    Coach and Faculty Member

    Malcolm Scattergood is a certified Essence of Being coach and a centered, intuitive listener. He offers guidance by tuning in to your soul’s purpose and guiding you through insight and inspiration.

    “One of the results I have had out of my participation in EOB is that I have uncovered my voice, and I feel seen and heard. I am open to hearing what your truly need. It may to be recognized – perhaps for the first time – as the amazing person you are. From there we can create a plan to unlock your potential.”

    Malcom’s personal mission is to see that all women are recognized, valued and cherished. He expresses this in his marriage and in his ongoing support of womankind. Malcolm is a long way from his native England. Early in his career he served as a missionary and worked with a non-profit to provide food to food banks and support humanitarian causes. In the past 25 years he has been active in New Thought and metaphysical ministries while maintaining a career. Malcolm and his wife, Patrice, have been actively participating in the EOB curriculum for several years. In addition to being a certified EOB coach, Malcolm is a graduate of the Conscious Leadership Academy and was the Conscious Leader of the Year in 2019.

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    Freda Cornelius

    Coach and Faculty Member

    Freda Cornelius, entrepreneur, business executive, author, energy healer, trainer, and coach with more than 38 years in business administration, sales, coaching, teaching and personal development, and the founder of Reframing Memories and An Empowered Path.
    Freda is focused on supporting people to move through their emotional stress, overwhelm and uncertainty into joy and happiness.

    Freda’s transformational change work started with a desire for financial freedom. This desire ignited a passion for learning from Michael Gerber, Zig Ziglar, Dr. Sue Morter and Dr. John Maxwell to name just a few thought-leaders. Making the investment into her own professional and personal growth transformed shyness and insecurities into confidence which accelerated her success in every area of her life.

    Devoted to sharing her own life experiences and teaching people how to create a lifelong lifestyle of transformation, Freda leverages her broad wealth of knowledge from her time with Dr. Carol McCall at the Institute of Global Listening, Burge Smith-Lyons at Essence of Being and with Howard Partridge from the Ziglar Cooperation. Freda has a facilitator certification for Lifebook personal development program, a facilitator certification and certified coach for Dr. Sue Morter’s Energy Codes, Certified Life Coach with Life Purpose Institute and Evercoach (MindValley) and she is a certified coach, speaker and trainer of John Maxwell Leadership programs. Freda is also a Reiki Master, an ordained interfaith minister and coauthor.

    Residing in Powder Springs, Georgia, Freda sits as President & CEO of Professional Framing Company, and Reframing Memories. Freda has a private coaching practice, workshops, book clubs, teaching and speaking programs across the United States. Website: reframingmemories.com

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    Alexandra I. Levin

    PCC, MBA, SPHR, Coach

    Alexandra is an Executive Coach, Training and Development Expert, and Management Consultant who works with entrepreneurs, leaders, business owners, and professionals.  Her clients produce extraordinary results in their performance, directly impacting the bottom line, personal and professional results and financial success. Her expertise is in the areas of personal and professional success, satisfaction, performance, effectiveness, leadership development, management training, communication, customer service, sales, teamwork, business consulting, and human potential development.

    Alexandra is a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a 30-year professional Human Resources executive (SPHR), an organizational and leadership facilitator and business coach, and an EOB Mastery Graduate and first ever Graduate of EOB™ Conscious Leadership Academy. She holds an MBA and is the founder of ConsciousOrg.com.

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    Darrell W. Gurney

    PCC, RScP, Coach

    Darrell is a Life Changer, Executive Coach, Licensed Spiritual Counselor, Consultant, and Career Advisor who has been supporting people in all walks of life for over 28 years. His clients play bigger, perform at peak levels, create thriving lives and businesses, and make empowered career and life transitions. The founder of The Back Forty and CareerGuy.com, he has written several books and edited professional journals on the topics of finding one’s passion, midlife pursuit of purpose, effective relationship building, and career transition. His work has been endorsed by best-selling authors and inspiring luminaries such as Harvey Mackay, Keith Ferrazzi, Dr. Ivan Misner, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Cynthia Kersey, to name a few.

    Darrell is a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a 30-year career and business coach, seminar leader, author, speaker, licensed spiritual counselor and EOB Mastery Graduate. He is the Founder of CareerGuy.com and TheBackForty.com.

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    Malka Shivdasani

    Reiki practitioner, Meditation teacher, Essence of Being Coach

    Malka Shivdasani is a certified Reiki practitioner, Meditation teacher, and Essence of Being certified Coach. She is trained under Dr. Carol McCall from the Institute of Global listening. She is a Certified Facilitators of the Energy Codes with Dr. Sue Morter. She is also one of the founding mothers of the Infinite Love nonprofit organization. Infinite Love is an organization that is focused on fostering inner growth through meditation gatherings, community service, and speaking events in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Malka has a passion for supporting others to discover their power strength and wisdom within them. From that perspective her tag line is "IGNITE YOUR LOVE WITHIN" She experienced an awakening in her Spiritual Journey after her son had an accident that left him a paraplegic 16 years ago. This was the catalysts for her growth and has learned a lot in her journey and has a lot to share. She's a mother of 2 in their 30s, and a grandmother of one baby girl. She has been married for 39 years.

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    Brigitte Keane

    Coach

    Brigitte Keane, the Laughter Liberator, will make you smile. She is an internationally experienced healer, speaker, educator and consultant as well as a certified EOB coach and longtime member of the EOB community. As the founder of the Laughter Sanctuary, a sacred space for members to be, to pray and play, she encourages participants to discover wellness wisdom from within. She believes that we are at our best when we are having fun. As joy partner, she strives to reconnect clients with creative and supportive solutions with themselves for a happier and more full-filled life. Brigitte believes that laughter is the connection to our soul and laughter is love made visible.

    With more than 20 years’ experience traveling the world as a laughter and wellness professional, Brigitte is passionate about sharing the healing power of laughter. Inspired by her own life-changing, transformative experiences in her own life, Brigitte invites others who are imprisoned by the grind of daily life to join her to play and experience the liberation of the Laughter Lifestyle, from self-criticism to self-acceptance, from victimization to empowerment from stress to relaxation and creativity.

    Brigitte’s mission is to improve the self-esteem, self-confidence, happiness and the mental, spiritual and physical health of people around the world. She believes that by supporting each other and laughing together, the world can become a win-win place filled with resilient people who can live a fun and liberated life.

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    Alisa LaPolt

    Coach

    Alisa LaPolt uses her intuition, divine messages, and wisdom from life experience to help guide people towards their desired path – whether it’s a new career, a fulfilling relationship, or discovering their life purpose and spiritual path during these chaotic times.

    Alisa draws upon her experience as a former journalist and lobbyist who had a spiritual awakening after the passing of her father. This led her studies of metaphysics, spirituality, Human Design, and New Thought. She is a Reiki II practitioner, intuitive, spirit communicator and energy worker. She has studied under mentors at the world renown Arthur Findley School of Spiritualism in England.

    Her experience with trauma led her to become a mental health advocate and a greater understanding of her life purpose. She’s also a graduate of EOB Mastery, an EOB life coach and a spiritual consultant. She tailors her services for clients based on their needs and goals.

    Her clients over the past 12 years have ranged from politicians and corporate leaders to students and housewives. They all share one goal: moving past fear and worries toward hope and happiness.

    Alisa also serves to “help the helpers” by providing business consulting and spiritual guidance to other energy workers, Reiki practitioners, intuitives, and other healers who need redirection, replenishing, or their own healing so that they can reach more people who need their help.

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    Sue Tabaka-Kritzeck

    Coach

    Sue Tabaka-Kritzeck, aka Sue TK, is a certified EOB coach as well as the owner and head consultant of Your Fascination Factor. Her passion is to lead others to discover their unique advantages and to use those advantages to be at the highest and best version of themselves in all walks of live. Sue is a confidence trainer, teaching others that confidence is a muscle needing daily exercise. She helps design individualized programs filled with easy-to-use strategies that become habits for success.

    Sue is on a mission to take her talents to another level. After 34 years of teaching, Sue knew she had more to give to the world. She has embraced an Essence of Being mantra when she shouts: “I am living my best life!” And now she wants to take what she has learned to educators—a group she feels are the unsung heroes of democracy. After learning the elements of conscious leadership through EOB, she is set to reignite a passion to teach in those who do this important work in our society.

    Sue is married to her best friend Tom. They hail from Florida after retiring from the Midwest. Together they are the grateful parents of Katie and Mandy—two strong, intelligent, independent, talented, and beautiful daughters who have brought them the best sons-in-law as well as four grandchildren.

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    Pamela Black

    Ever since Pamela's first Essence of Being class in 1994,  I have been not surprised by her candor or courage, or her commitment to becoming the best, the highest, the most deliberate person, friend, creator that she can be.  She leverages the EOB tools to become more. And that’s why I wanted her – and personally asked her – to lead our Essence of Being Coach Program.

    I’ve watched Pamela use the Essence of Being tools to further her own amazing life and to add value to her clients and colleagues – and friends like me. And though Pamela spent almost 20 years in various corporate roles, including executive coaching, her greatest inspiration still comes from assisting people in their day-to-day lives.  She still consults in business, with clients like Novartis and Pfizer, Procter and Gamble and Duke University, but we’ve snagged her away to lead our coaching team for the Essence of Being and Healing Forest community.

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    Faculty Members

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    Susan Blanton

    Faculty Member

    Susan Blanton is a Happiness and Life Coach with certifications in Therapeutic Art Coaching. She is the podcast creator and host of the CREATE Happy Now Podcast that has had top rankings in the US and all over the world in Education, Self-Improvement, Religion and Spirituality and total Podcast reach.

    Susan has gone from working several jobs to make ends meet, divorced and a single mom, being on food stamps, bankruptcy, health issues and taking medication for severe anxiety to living a life of abundance, ease and grace! She now owns a gorgeous home, drives her dream car, lives with the love of her life, is healthy with no medication, no more panic attacks and drama for her is a thing of the past. She now has a mission to help others master happiness and CREATE a life of abundance, ease and grace like she has!

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    Teree Harrison

    Faculty Member

    Teree Harrison has been a seeker of truth for over 20 years. She has explored body work, energy work, hypnosis, anything and everything that would change who she thought herself to be. In 2014 she discovered Higher Brain Living and was compelled to become a Trained Facilitator in the technique. She has since become Mastery Level, joined the New Human University and Praxis Alethia, the Metamodern Mystery School.

    Teree understands that ‘outside’ modalities rarely work and the true transformation happens by doing the ‘inner’ work. She is walking the path of becoming a Leader in our world and with the weaving of her 2 passions I have no doubt, lives will be changed and enhanced resulting in a better future for us all.

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