From Dirt Road to Mental Health Priest: Turning Pain Into Purpose and Adversity Into Success

Dr. Patrice Shavone Brown is a dynamic motivational speaker, mental health leader, accomplished entrepreneur, author, and founder and CEO of Restoring Bodies and Minds LLC, a nationally accredited mental health services organization based in North Carolina.

Her extraordinary journey from poverty, single motherhood, and humble beginnings on a dirt road to becoming a successful business owner, author, and real estate investor is a powerful example of resilience, faith, determination, and personal transformation.

With more than 14 years of leadership in the mental health industry, Dr. Brown has dedicated her career to helping individuals overcome emotional challenges, identify barriers to success, establish meaningful goals, and restore their lives. Under her leadership, Restoring Bodies and Minds LLC has maintained national accreditation since 2013, providing services that promote mental wellness, recovery, personal independence, and community integration.

Beyond the mental health industry, Dr. Brown has built an impressive entrepreneurial portfolio that includes ownership of more than 15 real estate properties. She is also the author of seven books, including Secrets of a Crazy Mental Health Counselor and Restoring Bodies and Minds: By Identifying the Issues and Setting Goals. Through her writing, she explores mental health, family relationships, personal struggles, spiritual healing, and the importance of setting goals to achieve lasting success.

As a speaker, Dr. Brown combines personal storytelling, professional mental health experience, humor, authenticity, and practical strategies to inspire audiences to transform their lives. Her signature presentation, "From Dirt Road to Mental Health Priest," reveals how she overcame financial hardship, societal expectations, family challenges, and personal adversity to build a meaningful career and lasting legacy.

She is especially passionate about empowering women, single mothers, entrepreneurs, mental health professionals, and individuals who have experienced rejection, setbacks, or difficult beginnings.

Her presentations challenge audiences to move beyond survival, recognize their worth, strengthen emotional resilience, develop confidence, and take intentional steps toward personal and professional achievement.

Dr. Brown is available for keynote presentations, mental health conferences, women's leadership summits, corporate wellness events, entrepreneurship conferences, educational institutions, and community empowerment programs.

Her message is powerful and universal:

"Your past may explain where you started, but it does not have the authority to determine where you finish. Identify the issue, set the goal, and restore your life."

Dr. Patrice Shavone Brown — Credentials, Honors & Speaking Experience

Academic and Professional Credentials

Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology

Bachelor's Degree in Psychology

Associate of Applied Science (AAS)

Qualified Professional (QP) — Mental Health

Mental Health Leader and Life Transformation Coach

Founder and CEO, Restoring Bodies and Minds LLC

Leadership of a CARF International-accredited behavioral health organization

Awards, Honors and Recognition

2019 Women Worth Watching Award Winner — Healthcare Leadership

2026 P.O.W.E.R. (Professional Organization of Women of Excellence Recognized) — Mental Health Care recognition and membership

2026 VoyageRaleigh Magazine — Featured Entrepreneur and Mental Health Leader

Recognized in a published mental health coaching industry feature

Selected Speaking Engagements

Girls Who Brunch — Guest Speaker

Everything Girls — Guest Speaker

She Rises for Women — Women's Empowerment Speaker

Fat Girls Conference — Confidence and Empowerment Speaker

The BookFest, Spring 2021 — Mental Health and Physical Wellness Panelist

Professional Accomplishments

Founder of Restoring Bodies and Minds LLC, established in 2011

Mental health service experience dating to 2003

Author of seven books

Founder of the Confident Fat Girls Movement

Entrepreneur and real estate investor with a portfolio of more than 15 properties

Areas of Speaking Expertise

Mental Health and Wellness | Women's Empowerment | Leadership | Entrepreneurship | Body Confidence | Resilience | Personal Transformation | Healing and Goal Setting

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DeAnna Pellecchia is a professional dancer, choreographer, educator, and Founder and Artistic Director of Boston-based KAIROS Dance Theater. For more than 25 years, she has built a career in professional dance—an industry defined by rejection, financial uncertainty, physical risk, public exposure, criticism, and constant change. Along the way, she founded KAIROS Dance Theater from the ground up, building an organization, an ensemble, an audience, and a body of work without a roadmap or any guarantee that the next risk would pay off.

A faculty member at Boston University and New England Conservatory, Pellecchia has performed and taught internationally, developing an interdisciplinary practice rooted in collaboration, somatic awareness, and human connection.

For more than two decades, she has also danced with horses, exploring the extraordinary relationship between fear, trust, communication, and the limits of control. Working with a thousand-pound animal demands presence, clarity, adaptability, and the willingness to respond to what is actually happening rather than what we expect or intend.

Today, Pellecchia brings these experiences to audiences through three presentations: Dancing With Fear: The Courage to Move Before You're Ready, Collaboration in Motion, and Deep Listening & Leadership. Drawing on a lifetime of creative risk-taking, organizational leadership, and embodied practice, she offers a distinctive perspective on navigating uncertainty, strengthening communication, building trust, and finding the courage to act before the outcome is known.

DeAnna Pellecchia is a professional dancer, choreographer, educator, and Founder and Artistic Director of Boston-based KAIROS Dance Theater. For more than 25 years, she has built a career in professional dance—an industry defined by rejection, financ... Show more

Mark Gatere is Founder and CEO of C-elo Labs, building AI for low-resource African languages starting with Kikuyu. He works across PyTorch-based fine-tuning, speech models, vLLM inference, and developer education in Kenya. Mark has released public models and datasets on Hugging Face and contributed Google's FunctionGemma tool parser support to vLLM.

Mark Gatere is Founder and CEO of C-elo Labs, building AI for low-resource African languages starting with Kikuyu. He works across PyTorch-based fine-tuning, speech models, vLLM inference, and developer education in Kenya. Mark has released public mo... Show more

Emel Khan is a public speaker, content creator and fractional account manager with years of payments account management experience. She consults on POSH brand events and speaks weekly at Richardson Evening Toastmasters, where she won Best Ice Breaker. She was a panelist at Capital Factory Dallas and was runner-up for Miss Pakistan USA. She speaks English and Urdu and presents in person or virtually.

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Thomas Scola, founder and CEO of The Bluefly Collective (Bluefly.io), brings over 20 years of industry expertise to digital solutions in Drupal and AI technologies. A former Acquia leader and pioneer of the Collaborative Impact Model, Thomas merges technical excellence with organizational innovation inspired by open-source principles. Since co-founding the Maine Drupal User Group in 2007, he has championed human-centric approaches that transform both technological implementations and organizational structures.

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Paul is an agile, executive, and leadership coach and educator with nearly 20 years of experience working across a wide range of industries. He has a passionate focus on the Agile Values of Individuals and Interactions over the Processes and Tools.

His passion is people and he is a frequent conference speaker, having spoken on topics of transformational leadership, relationship building, and psychological safety.

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Joël ALIMASI Kitambala is a dedicated fact-checking journalist based Democratic Republic of the Congo, specializing in political and health reporting, security issues, data, digital and AI contents verification. He holds a master's degree in Economics from the University of Goma and has over four years of experience in digital communication and fact-checking, notably through UNICEF’s Veilleurs du Web program and Eleza Fact. His work focuses on identifying AI-generated misinformation, data manipulation, and visual disinformation, and is distinguished by rigorous investigative methods and a strong commitment to accuracy in complex media environments.

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When Pastor Joshua Robinson founded the Back 2 School Giveaway in 2009, he wanted families to arrive as guests, not as recipients of charity. He structured the event as a community fair, offering clothing, food, school supplies, and on-site services to families getting ready for the school year. The giveaway grew to serve more than 5,000 people and depended on extensive fundraising, volunteer recruitment, large-scale logistics, and partnerships among churches, schools, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. The City of Pocatello, the local Chamber of Commerce, and the NAACP each recognized his leadership of the event. In 2021, as he prepared to step into the lead role at his church, Grace Lutheran Church agreed to partner with him and continue the work.

That event is one part of a longer record of service. Joshua Robinson has been on staff at Gate City Christian Church in Pocatello, Idaho, since 1998, first as youth pastor, then as associate pastor from 2008 to 2024, and now as Lead Teaching Pastor and Director of Discipleship. In youth ministry he grew a group of four students into more than 75 meeting midweek, and that group became active in service projects and outreach to teenagers across Pocatello.

His sense of service began abroad. He spent his senior year of high school on a mission assignment in Mexico, teaching English and math at a native school, and the need he witnessed there led him away from a planned career in law and toward ministry. He returned to Mexico for a two-month assignment in 2000.

Uganda became a long-term commitment. He led mission teams there in 2008, 2010, and 2012, and medical mission teams in 2009, 2011, and 2013. As director of Hands 4 Uganda, a nongovernmental organization serving Ugandan families, he recruited U.S. sponsors for individual children, worked with the team in Uganda to fund projects and expand the school facility, and traveled there each year to evaluate progress and build relationships with other ministries. That work helped the organization expand medical care for students, establish a farm for families to work, and develop an education system running from primary school through high school. The connection is personal as well: one of his three daughters was adopted from Uganda. In 2026 he took part in a mission trip to Spain.

For those who know Joshua Robinson, Pocatello is where that commitment has taken root. He and his wife, Jen, give together as a team, supporting their church and other charities, and they have volunteered extensively with local churches, food pantries, and the Salvation Army.

Service also shapes his counseling work. He counsels church members and people from the wider community facing addiction, trauma, grief, and family difficulty, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and trauma-informed care. He holds a Master of Arts in Counseling, Human Services, with an emphasis in Executive Leadership from Hope International University, a Bachelor of Arts in Educational Psychology from Pacific Christian College, and an Associate of Science in Biblical Studies from Boise Bible College, where he graduated as valedictorian.

Pastor Joshua Robinson grew up in southeast Idaho with a love of the outdoors, which later led to work as a National Outdoor Leadership School instructor and Wilderness EMT. He is a certified fitness trainer. Jen is a physician assistant who treats cancer patients, and together they are raising their three daughters in Pocatello.

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Solveiga Jaskunas is a seasoned HR professional and career coach with over fifteen years of experience in nonprofit and for-profit organizations, including several public schools in Washington DC and in Lithuania. She holds dual master’s degrees in Industrial Psychology and Human Resources Management and PHR and SHRM-CP certifications. As an immigrant to the United States, she overcame language barriers and numerous rejections before climbing the HR ladder to senior leadership roles. Her journey motivated her to mentor fellow immigrants and to start her own consultancy, which focuses on HR consulting, career coaching, training, speaking, and network referral services for organizations and individuals. Solveiga's passion lies in coaching immigrant professionals and helping employers make their workplaces more inclusive. She has also dedicated her time to aiding refugees, homeless children, and at-risk youth. Her story has reached a broader audience through speaking engagements domestically and internationally, in which she has shared her journey, offering hope and encouragement to other immigrant professionals. Her recent speaking events reached participants from more than 90 countries. She has spoken at national and international events such as The Expat Women Summit in March and October 2024, HR Global Summit 2024 and 2026, HR Week in Lithuania 2024, Women in Tech Global Conference 2025, SHRM Talent 2025,HR Southwest Conference 2025, GSX 2025 and 2026, DisruptHR, ASIS International, Motivated at Work 2026, WI SHRM State Conference, and more). Solveiga was recently featured in Security Magazine as one of three leaders with distinct LinkedIn communication styles. For more information about Solveiga, visit her profile at (https://www.linkedin.com/in/solveigajaskunas/)

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Aviyah Baht Sinai is an author, technology professional, and creator of Mirrored Intelligence™, a human-first framework for working alongside artificial intelligence without surrendering human judgment, voice, or accountability.

Her perspective was shaped by a career spent inside major technology environments—and by a life interruption that forced her to rethink the relationship between technology, information, and human decision-making. After a serious injury abruptly changed the trajectory of her career and life, Aviyah began using AI not simply to generate answers, but as a thinking partner: a place to challenge assumptions, expose gaps, organize complex ideas, and turn thought into action. That experience became the foundation for Mirrored Intelligence™.

She is the author of multiple books, including Mirrored Intelligence and Broke My Body Saved My Life, which explore technology, resilience, identity, and what happens when people are forced to rebuild.

Today, Aviyah speaks and teaches at the intersection of people, perspective, purpose, and progress, challenging the increasingly common assumption that better AI means less human thinking. Her work makes the opposite case: the greatest value of artificial intelligence emerges when the human using it becomes more intentional, more discerning, and more capable—not less.

Her message is simple: AI isn't the answer. You are. But that doesn't make AI the opposition—the future isn't human or artificial intelligence; it's what becomes possible when the two learn to work together.

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Sheryl Grant won Ms. Olympia at 55, after three decades as a Silicon Valley leader. Today she helps leaders and organizations build the mental fitness that makes lasting change possible.

Sheryl is the founder and chief architect of the award-winning Kinectdots System™ and creator of Human-Centered Intelligence™. Her FIT Method (Faith, Intuition, Tenacity) builds the inner strength people need to lead through uncertainty, and her C4 Matrix (Communication, Connection, Collaboration, Community) turns that strength into cultures where change sticks.

An award-winning entrepreneur, she has built a global community of women transforming their careers, businesses and lives at every age. She has designed and scaled HR and employee development programs for organizations including Natera, Square, Niantic, TaskRabbit and Dell. As Vice-Chair of the Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce, she helped raise more than $1 million for Black businesses during the pandemic, and through How Women Lead she oversaw programs reaching women entrepreneurs in more than 20 countries.

Sheryl is the author of FIT for Life and holds a Master's in Leadership Development from Saint Mary's College. Audiences leave her keynotes and workshops with practical tools to beat burnout, lead with clarity and build the communities that carry them forward.

Sheryl Grant won Ms. Olympia at 55, after three decades as a Silicon Valley leader. Today she helps leaders and organizations build the mental fitness that makes lasting change possible. Sheryl is the founder and chief architect of the award-winni... Show more

I’m a Dubai-based speaker, executive coach, mentor and strategic advisor with over 18 years of international corporate experience spanning the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Having held leadership roles at PwC and Novo Nordisk, I’ve spent much of my career navigating organisational transformation, sustainability, stakeholder engagement and the complexities of working across diverse cultures and business environments.

I’m also a trained Level 3 coach with additional training in NLP, and I’m endlessly curious about human behaviour: why we think the way we do, make the decisions we make, and occasionally get spectacularly in our own way.

Through my platform, Space to Think, I explore leadership, self-awareness, personal growth, relationships and the psychology behind our everyday choices.

As a speaker and facilitator, I bring together corporate insights, behavioural perspectives, relatable stories and a healthy dose of humour to create conversations that make people think, question assumptions and perhaps see things a little differently.

In 2025, I was recognised among Gulf Intelligence’s Top 100 Middle East Energy Addition Sustainability Voices.

I believe meaningful growth begins with curiosity, a willingness to challenge what we think we know, and the space to explore new perspectives.

Think. Challenge. Grow.

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I'm a Program Manager and Technical Evangelist with experience implementing strategies and trainings globally to provide competitive edge to organizations in diverse, evolving customer environments. Championing a personal brand of empathy, trust and reliability, I've managed cross-functional teams in India and the US to deliver operational excellence on mission-critical programs and drive innovation using adaptive communications. Currently I'm working on my passion to demystify Cloud technologies using web comics, animated videos; harnessing the power of storytelling and analogies. A storyteller and technical enthusiast by heart, I want to use my experience to grow, give back to the profession and make technology accessible, fast, scalable and reliable.

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Currently serving as the Careers Lead at the Korean International School (KIS) in Hong Kong, she spearheads a holistic, strategic approach to student readiness that led KIS to become the very first international school in Hong Kong to achieve the prestigious UK 'Quality in Careers Standard'. Driven by the philosophy that a student’s identity should stretch far beyond a traditional report card, Ashleigh also serves voluntarily as the Head of Education at the Self-Worth Academy, where they champion self-worth-oriented career guidance. A Skills Builder Leader since 2025, she specialises in pairing rigorous global benchmarks with explicit skills development, ensuring students discover their intrinsic strengths and understand the unique value they bring to a rapidly changing world.

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Dr. Shaomian brings an interdisciplinary background spanning higher education, leadership, performing arts, and organizational development. His work focuses on creating meaningful learning experiences that extend beyond the classroom through intentional residential programming, faculty engagement, and collaborative partnerships between academic and student affairs.

In addition to his academic work, he maintains an active career as a collaborative pianist and concert artist specializing in contemporary classical music, premiering works by leading contemporary composers. His artistic scholarship includes a book on Swedish National-Romantic music, and his recordings of composer Hugo Alfvén appear on Vax Records' Vaxholm: Ett Dubbelnöje.

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With a background spanning data warehousing, BI architecture, and international analytics projects, Christian brings extensive hands‑on experience from manufacturing and financial services environments. He focuses on building scalable, governed data products that balance fast reporting needs with long‑term architectural sustainability.

Christian’s current work centers on a program, where Microsoft Fabric is used as the strategic analytics platform while governance, security, and domain ownership are treated as first‑class architectural concerns.
In his sessions, he shares practical lessons learned from running governed, multi‑domain analytics platforms in production.

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Social Engineering Trainer & Consultant - Cyber Risk GmbH

Christina Lekati is a psychologist and a social engineer.
Christina has participated in penetration tests, law enforcement & corporate training, high-value target & corporate vulnerability assessments, and more.
She is working with Cyber Risk GmbH as a lead intelligence analyst & social engineer. In addition to her social engineering work, she is conducting Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) assessments to help organizations and high-value individuals identify and manage risks.

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Passionate about career development and hiring excellence, Andreea shares her insights through her website, social media, and at various conferences, podcasts, and articles. Some of her notable achievements include establishing Wayfair’s Tech Development Centre in India, redesigning Zalando’s Product Management Interviewing Framework, and creating company-wide Internal Mobility programs.

Outside of work, Andreea loves the automotive world (Audi is truly a weak spot 😍), architecture, music, and the arts, with a special passion for acrylic painting. And if you love to dance, you know who to call on!

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The scientific approach has greatly benefited my partnering with tech leads, allowing me to collaborate with them in understanding their team's behavior from the roots of our humanity, avoiding clichés and abstract theories.

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Nalin Theodore is a recent graduate of Christopher Newport University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with a minor in Leadership Studies. During his time at CNU, Nalin was actively involved in the Presidential Leadership Program, Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society, Residence Life, and the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Team. Nalin’s interest in sustainability grew through his involvement in student-led environmental initiatives and his work as a Reuzzi Student Ambassador. In this role, he used his strengths in communication, storytelling, and video production to create engaging promotional content that raised awareness of Reuzzi’s sustainable solutions and encouraged more environmentally conscious choices among college students. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Management at George Mason University while working as a Sales Consultant at Safford Subaru Manassas. Nalin is passionate about using communication, leadership, and creative media to strengthen communities and make sustainability more accessible and engaging. Outside of his professional and academic work, he enjoys volunteering in his community, creating videos, staying active, exploring the outdoors, and playing ultimate frisbee.

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J’ai commencé à travailler en mode Agile, utilisant les principes et valeurs associés en 2009 année où je suis devenue maman Pour moi, faire le parallèle entre ma vie professionnelle et mon rôle de parent est devenu une évidence et une nécessité au f... Show more

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After a decade in the video games industry, she changed career paths following a late ADHD diagnosis. Her mission is to share kind conversations, knowledge, and tools with individuals and organisations to foster growth. Susi loves to collaborate to find better answers to old questions and create spaces where everyone's needs are recognised and met.

As a coach, she helps people embrace their authentic, curious selves. She's qualified in Knowledge-Based Coaching & ADHD Coaching and often works with adults with ADHD, entry- to mid-level managers, career changers, and leaders of volunteer organisations.
She also offers training, facilitation, and consulting to organisations and teams.

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James Lesly didn't find yoga in a studio. He found it stretching on a cell floor, copying poses out of library books before he knew what they were called.

Four years inside, 46 days in solitary, and a body that never got the memo when the danger was over. When he got out, he put a 200-hour yoga teacher training on an old credit card. Then came a 200-hour trauma-informed training through the Prison Yoga Project, where he's now an Ambassador.

Since then he's taught corporate teams (Innergy Corporate Yoga), YMCA Montreal members, Club Med guests, older adults with Parkinson's and post-stroke clients, and yoga teachers in Bella Prāna Collective's 300-hour Advanced Studies training.

He founded Not Your Average Yogi, a Black-led Montreal nonprofit bringing trauma-informed yoga and breathwork to Black men, men coming home from prison and at-risk youth, and built Black Man. Breathe., a 10-week peer-led breathwork program. His memoir, Not Your Average Yogi: From Violence to Service, came out in 2026.

Every session is part story, part live practice. People leave with breathing tools they can use in their next meeting, shift or hard conversation.

In person across Canada (based in Montreal) · Virtual worldwide.

James Lesly didn't find yoga in a studio. He found it stretching on a cell floor, copying poses out of library books before he knew what they were called. Four years inside, 46 days in solitary, and a body that never got the memo when the danger w... Show more

Gena Dellett, CEO of Skvare, is a client advocate who believes in the fundamental importance of relationships. Gena cultivates a supportive environment, encouraging her team to experiment, adapt, and consider unique perspectives. Her joy lies in witnessing these practices foster impactful client relationships through a strong commitment to teamwork.

Through her work at the intersection of business operations, development, and technology; Gena recognizes that relationship-building is not just a strategy—it's a way of operating. Known for her adeptness in asking the right questions, she guides Skvare as a technology company that recommends a pencil when it's the best tool for the job. Gena understands that Skvare's ongoing success hinges on effective recommendations balancing clients' needs with their budgets and views her work as building and supporting meaning-making spaces – online hubs where people access resources, connect with peers, and take action on issues they care about.

Gena Dellett, CEO of Skvare, is a client advocate who believes in the fundamental importance of relationships. Gena cultivates a supportive environment, encouraging her team to experiment, adapt, and consider unique perspectives. Her joy lies in witn... Show more