Wild and Wise Women Around the World: 10 Inspiring Women Unleash Their Wild
by Beverly Adamo
About the Book
As you begin to read this book and travel along with these ten extraordinary women, you will see how each woman has accessed and unleashed her “wild” to successfully navigate her life’s unique challenges. Although their paths may look very different, all these magical women have traits and values in common. They are beautiful, divine, courageous, inspiring, creative, innovative, hopeful, fearless, activated, holy, passionate, trusting, brilliant, resilient, Bad-Ass, and faithful. And above all, they each carry the torch of self-love to light their way.
Every one of these women answered the call to tell their story from a place deep in her heart. These authors, these Wild and Wise® Women, knew that it could be risky sharing their deepest thoughts, their darkest moments, and their brightest victories. And yet, all these women also knew that the willingness to be vulnerable and tell their stories also creates the possibility to inspire other women in ways we can only imagine.
Each story is a pebble cast into the water of the world that will create ripples.
As you walk beside these women in their stories, please know that you too have a story to tell, and when you’re ready, Wild and Wise® Women will be here to support you in sharing your story and inspiring others. Until then, enjoy these inspiring, extraordinary, awesome, fabulous, fantastic, and profound words that have been written with you, Divine Reader, in mind. I invite you to enjoy, laugh, cry, and feel what it is to go beyond your comfort zone, to go beyond anything that you thought was possible before.
About the Author
Bev Adamo, owner and CEO of Wild & Wise® Enterprises, is a catalyst, master coach, healer, and evolutionary guide. Her purpose on this planet is to lead powerful, awesome, amazing Wild and Wise® Women into the Truth of who they are. Everything Bev does is divinely inspired from her personal experiences, innate intuition, and from working with people from all walks of life. Her calling is to awaken souls to the truth of their unique brilliance so that every woman can access her power, release all notions of who she was conditioned to be, and live the life she was born to live.
Video Interview with Beverly Adamo
Meet the Collaborative Authors
Beth Brown
As a certified and licensed Erotic Blueprint™ coach trained directly by world-renowned somatic sexologist Jaiya Ma, Beth is clear on her mission to anchor the frequency of love and to help shift consciousness on the planet around sexuality from shame to full self-expression.
Her passion is helping middle-aged women reawaken to their divine, creative life force (erotic power) so that they may experience profound self-love and live fully self-expressed and vibrant lives. She also helps committed couples expand and deepen their intimacy to extraordinary levels of sexual expression, freedom, and aliveness.
Beth is also an internationally known therapeutic harpist and sound healer, incorporating her healing talents to deepen her clients’ embodiment experience. She is a graduate of the International Harp Therapy Program in San Diego as a Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner (C.H.T.P.) and studied sound healing at the Globe Institute of Sound & Consciousness in San Francisco. She is also an Accelerated Evolution certified practitioner under the tutelage of Satyen Raja at the Accelerated Evolution Academy.
Beth’s most consistent healing companion has been the arts. Her background of dance, voice, music, writing, and performance art have prepared her for sharing the expressive arts through her transformational coaching as a healing for the soul.
Doreen Mac Meekin Hauff
In her seventy-four years of living life on an angle, Dorene has loved every minute of her wild and adventurous ride, seeking understanding and adapting to the crazy but colorful way she observes people surrounded in light and energy. Join Dorene as she takes you aboard her sailboat, on a voyage of crossing oceans in search of answers while navigating challenges, from childhood gifts to career choices, marriage to motherhood, and from trauma to healing.
Dorene has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Michigan State University and studied social work at Denver University. She began her career working with at-risk youth then progressed into her present Heal-thy Being business which is the culmination of her more than forty-five years of energy work. Her certifications include Soul Realignment, DNA clearing, Psych-K, reiki, chakra balancing, and neurolinguistics programming.
Dorene’s current work includes the development of a self-care inspirational deck of cards called Behind the Mask–Lessons Learned from the Pandemic. She has developed an on-line healing course called “Lumination” and is developing a website.
As a certified healing practitioner, Dorene demonstrates an unconditional love for mankind and has a limitless drive to share her gifts with the world.
Dorene lives in Oakdale, California, with her husband and loves spending time with her six children and twelve grandchildren.
Email: dorenemacmeekinhauff@gmail.com
Marissa Schmidt
From a small farm town in a province of Philippines to the heart of Silicon Valley, Marissa has exercised resiliency through many aspects of her life. Even when told that she is too small, too dark, or she “doesn’t belong” here or there, she continued to persevere. From adapting to US culture at a young age, she made her way through a mostly black community growing up, to a mostly white male engineering college program, finally arriving in Silicon Valley as an engineer and becoming a senior director of product management, her current role.
She has traveled to thirty-five countries and delivered public speaking addresses in twenty-five of these. Previously in engineering and engineering management roles, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a master’s in Engineering Management. She is also on the advisory board for Cal Poly Computer Engineering.
She considers it part of her calling to challenge stereotypes about what engineers look like and where women “belong.” She co-founded a Women’s Inspirational Network (WIN) group in her current organization, which started in Silicon Valley and has expanded nationally in the US and to seven other countries.
Marissa hopes her story will inspire other women to be resilient, positive agents of change.
Purity Karimi Kariuki
Purity Karimi was raised by a single mother in Siakago, Kenya. Her early life was not easy, but she chose to chase her dreams through education.
She went to school at Siakago Primary, a mixed boarding school, and later attended St. Marks Kambaru Secondary School and Kenya Medical Training College. All this was made possible by kind souls who came to her rescue and supported school fees and costs of living. She considers these kind souls to be angels, sent by God. They kept her face turned toward the light when the darkness seemed overwhelming.
Today Purity is proud to have received her diploma in Community Nutrition and Dietetics and looks forward to putting her knowledge to work in her community when she obtains her license. She’s particularly passionate about maternal and child healthcare and how good nutrition can impact and improve a child’s entire life. She has worked in community outreach projects organized by The President’s Award, NGOs such as Elizabeth Glazer Pediatrics AIDS Foundation, as well those organized by churches.
She hopes that her story opens opportunities to mentor young girls and help them stay in school, stand tall, and achieve their dreams with the power of education.
Email: puritykaylene@gmail.com
Stacie Luann
Stacie is a mom, a daughter, and a friend as well as a successful realtor and public school administrator. She enjoys DIY home projects and using her expertise to help others reimagine their space to love their home even more. Here she shares her personal journey of seeking her worth in others. This damaging practice almost brought here to the point of no return as she contemplated what the world would be like without her. But in the mists of the deep, dark depression, she came face to face with Divinity and chose to embrace it, and the power inside herself, and move forward.
The divine Source called to her and she listened. She began to learn and grow and, most importantly, trust her own intuition. She found a wonderful sense of calm and strength in knowing that she could manifest the life she wanted. She set her positive intentions and worked to reimagine her life. Her new path is exciting and filled with joy as she works with other women to help them see that they are truly amazing and are worthy beyond measure.
She is currently focused on providing a meditative experience of healing energy through sound baths and providing positive anointing and guidance. Her goal for the near future is to build a custom sound therapy studio and focus on her healing practice full time.
Email: Stacie@staciesays.com
DeeAnn Lensen
DeeAnn Lensen is passionate about empowering women to glow from the inside out and achieve their goals.
She is a trusted and sought-after skincare expert, international esthetics educator, certified life coach, and keynote speaker. DeeAnn has dedicated over thirty years to the art of beautiful skin arising from within. An award-winning and six-time best-selling author and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, DeeAnn is the president and CEO of Touché Esthetiqué, manufacturer of the Touché Beauty Serums, and owns Advanced Spa Technologies, a five-star spa consulting education and distribution company.
A pioneer in pairing empowerment with spa treatments, her multifaceted strengths have empowered thousands from the inside out. Frustrated by the onslaught of fear-based marketing targeted at women, DeeAnn dissected the cosmetic industry with a fine-tooth comb and created the Emotional Freedom Technique tapping exercises for women to use while applying skin care to increase self-compassion. She also offers many public programs, including Thrive/Alive Mastermind, Emotional Intelligence/Life Coaching, Emotional Freedom Technique Downloads, and Women’s Empowered Inside Out Live and Zoom Events.
A deeply respected spa consultant, DeeAnn is known for her ability to support spa businesses through dynamic education, creative marketing, empowering staff, coaching management, as well as speaking at Empowered Inside Out Seminars for select spa clients. Connect with DeeAnn through any of her contact information below.
www.DeeAnnLensen.com
Email: Dee@LensenInc.com
Jen Yang
Jen is a mentor for personal transformation, a certified self-love guide, and a Soul Alignment Blueprint™ practitioner. She’s dedicated to empowering entrepreneurial and professional women to hone their innate gifts and to step into their feminine leadership with authentic presence. Thus empowered, they can bring harmony and beauty into the world, not the least of which is the generational impact on their children.
Jen’s intuitive psychic ability has allowed her to guide many beloved women on their inner journey to cultivate strong trust within themselves. She believes that loving ourselves is an act of self-leadership and a foundation for activating our soul’s gifts.
Her multinational background (born and raised in Taiwan, studied in the US and Japan, Corp business travels in Europe) and her personal healing journey offer unique perspectives (Compassion Radiance modality) to women who desire to embrace their inner authority and soulful relationships in their lives.
Jen is a student of life, an animal and nature lover, and a passionate free dancer. “Be True, Connect Within, Radiate Out” is a lifestyle she practices, encouraging everyone to see themselves as their own miracle creator.
Metamorphosis doesn’t stop; we are always becoming. Jen’s excited to meet brilliant women who’re ready to dive into the unknown with their childlike innocence and curiosity.
www.jenyangmetamorphosis.com
Email: jen@jenyangmetamorphosis.com
Anna Vickroy
Anna Vickroy has a huge heart rooted in love. She is also a warrior for the liberation of women and, really, all human beings. She shows up strong yet with compassion as she navigates the healing of our relationship with our bodies and stands up to the systems of oppression that create global dysfunction. She is real and imperfect, and being in her energy gives permission to be your authentic self and to celebrate the miracles that life offers.
She has a background in engineering with degrees from Cal Poly and San Jose State University. She had a ten-year career in government and was also a lecturer at San Jose State University. She is a self-taught international award-winning photographer and in 2004 founded her company: ultra-spective. She has shifted the focus of her company as she has personally transformed her life through healing her relationship with her body. Now, ultra-spective focuses on helping women journey to self-empowerment through portrait sessions, workshops, and retreats. She also hosts an online community, The Self Love Club, where she has created a sacred space for women to inspire and support each other in the practice of radical self-love and body liberation.
www.ultra-spective.com/mentorship (The Self Love Club)
www.ultra-spective.com
Terri Clifton
Terri Clifton is an author, photographer, and motivational speaker. Her fiction stories and poetry appear in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Her non-fiction memoir A Random Soldier: The Words He Left Behind was written in collaboration with her son Chad and was released in 2007. Her first novel earned her a fellowship for Emerging Artist in Fiction Literature in 2013. Since then she has completed two novels and is at work on a story set during Prohibition as well as a chapbook of poetry.
She is an active advocate for literacy and the importance of the arts in society. In her free time, she volunteers as house photographer for the local theatre and continues to study dance. She loves travel, nature, live music, and swimming. She is a part-time mermaid who relentlessly pursues magic in the world.
Terri is a Delaware native and lives on a historic farm along the Delaware Bay where she raised two boys. This is one of the many places you can find her with earbuds in, listening to music, and dancing hand in hand with joy.
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/4530632.Terri_Clifton
Amazon: amazon.com/~/e/B0843RZCWB
Wild and Wise Women Around the World: Ten Inspiring Women Share Their Feminine Fire
by Beverly Adamo
About the Book
Prepare to have your heart opened, restored, and set on fire to take the inspired actions your life is presenting to you.
Imagine a book that contains the heartache, tragedies, and triumphs of ten lifetimes—the inspiring journeys that ten Wild and Wise® Women have taken to capture the Feminine Fire that catapulted them into their current extraordinary lives. This IS that book. Through these soul-full stories, you will discover and remember who YOU are and find the courage, as these women have, to live your unique and purposeful life. If you have felt hopeless, lost, overwhelmed, victimized, or any number of heart-wrenching emotions, you are invited to open this book and read the incredible stories within. It’s time to live your life in the Spirit shared by these amazing women. You deserve it!
About the Author
As owner and CEO of Wild and Wise® Enterprises, Inc, Bev’s purpose on this planet is to lead herself and other powerful, awesome, and amazing women into the truth of who we are. She is a huge believer in self-love, witnessing her own healing as well as the healing of those around her. She has experienced the miracle of life, death, and rebirth through the unique and inspiring experience of her husband Ric dying in her arms and then fighting his way back to life for Three Reasons. As she walked through the internal and external hardships of life, she was able to gain a bird’s eye view on why we suffer and how to transform our suffering into healing and joy.
Bev is a Certified Dream Coach®, One Page Business Plan® consultant, Simple Spiritual Energy practitioner, program facilitator, inspirational speaker, and licensed True Purpose™ coach. She is also the author of Catch Your Star, The Three Reasons, and soon to be released, The Fourth Reason. Everything that she does is inspired by her personal experiences and by working with people from all walks of life. Her aim as a Doctor of Divinity and an ordained minister is to awaken the souls to the truth of their unique brilliance.
Video Interview with Beverly Adamo
Meet the Collaborative Authors
Karen McGinty
Karen is a happily married mum of four who worked as a nurse in a busy emergency department in England. Her personal journey through a life-threatening illness in 2001 brought about a spiritual awakening and gave her the opportunity to face long-hidden painful emotions, which led to finding her own healing potential and bringing about a deeper connection to Love.
Healing gave her the power to listen to and trust her own intuition, and so in-between having babies and wanting more family time to homeschool, she left the NHS and studied Bowen therapy and harmonic healing and trained as a grief therapist.
Karen has a deep love of the natural world and now wants to combine the restorative benefits of nature with clients who are struggling to work through painful emotions. She has a passion for helping empower other people to face long-buried emotions and free themselves so they can have a brighter, healthier, and more playful future. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, drinking scrumptious coffee, playing with her children, and barefoot dancing in the forest.
Video Interview with Karen McGinty
Lia Venet
Lia Venet is known for living life to the fullest. Over the course of ten years she has made 1,400 skydives, 100 of which were with her son in utero. Today, she supports women in jumping out of their comfort zone and leaping into a life of authentic adventure.
Besides her PhD in life experience, Lia is a Certified Holistic Health and Transformational Coach. Whether it’s teaching workshops, holding circles, or mentoring other women as the need arises, she welcomes the opportunity to help other women to “be FULL-filled” and happy from the inside out. She holds space for women to speak their truths and explore their ideas, thoughts, and messages in a safe space in her WomanSpeak Circles and leads a four-day beach retreat called Rise Together Sisters for women leaders to go deeper in courageously becoming more of their authentic self. She also created and facilitates a virtual HeartMind (a feminine mastermind for women to rise together), is a co-author of a 365 Days of Gratitude book, and is an authentic speaker who shares from the heart.
Married to her soulmate Philippe for twenty-five years with two amazing grown children that are making huge differences in the world, Lia resides in Northern California with Philippe and their golden retriever Max.
Video Interviews
Holly Chadwick
Holly was raised by her grand-parents on Whidbey Island, who believed in rigorous music studies. Though she didn’t become a concert pianist, she has directed short movies, documentaries, and now a web series called the Sounds of Freedom. She earned a B.A. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has studied fine art and digital media as far away as Italy and The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.
At the age of sixteen, Holly was a key member in a successful Internet start-up and went on to work for fine art and newspaper publishing companies in design and advertising, as well as in a darkroom developing crime scene photos.
Holly’s father, who suffered with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, was the inspiration for Sounds of Freedom. She is also working on a documentary featuring her mother, mental illness, and herself called Music in My Head.
Holly resides on Whidbey Island in the same house she grew up in with her husband and two Golden Retrievers. She enjoys kayaking, boating, playing piano, extreme sledding and off-roading adventures. You can follow her projects at the following links:
eideticfilm.com
soundsoffreedomtheseries.com
musicinmyheadmovie.com
wellnesscreativemarketing.com
Video Interviews
Terry Jackson
Terry Jackson is a traditional Native grandmother who has fostered her spirituality and creativity throughout her life. She celebrates the sacredness of the feminine and shares her story to encourage women on their journey through life. As a global wanderer who has traveled to Machu Picchu, Egypt, Dubai, Europe, and other places near and far, Terry is an experiential learner whose life lessons have come from a variety of experiences, including being adopted and finding her birth family.
Terry is also a certified massage therapist, aromatherapist, and hypnotherapist. She enjoys creating jewelry, writing, beading items for her pow wow regalia, and making lotions and potions utilizing her knowledge of essential oils.
She and her husband opened the only Native-owned trading post in Tucson, Arizona in 2005. Their first inventory included many pieces from their own collection, and they now have a well-stocked trading post with something for everyone. It is an anchor in the Tucson community and enjoys solid relationships with the University of Arizona, the American Indian Law School Students Association, the Tucson Indian Center, the VA Hospital, and more.
Video Interviews
Jane Beausire
Jane Beausire is a learning and development professional, an executive coach, and a speaker with a special focus on meaningful and mindful leadership for women, young leaders, and those interested in exploring how we can return to what matters in the way we live, lead, and care for ourselves and the communities around us.
She has been on her own spiritual and growth journey from a very young age and is inspired by the wisdom of the different elders and cultures that are calling us to transform and change the way we lead in the world. She has lived in six different countries as well having had the honor of accompanying clients from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and Europe. Through this experience, she has observed the power of what we can achieve if we collaborate across borders—heart to heart, hand in hand, and heads together.
She is very excited to share and to see how she can be of service to the Wild and Wise Women community.
Video Interviews
Sue Bonzell
Sue Bonzell is a radio personality, professional speaker, author of The Respect Experiment, and founder of The Life Balance Academy. She has worked for many years in media, marketing, and real estate, but her true passion is making profound personal connections and helping people discover greater happiness and harmony in their lives.
Having experienced struggles that left her life in a bit of a mess, Sue realized it was time for a drastic change. She embarked on an eye-opening journey of personal growth and, after many years of self-discovery, has found the secret to true happiness, contentment, and abundance: living a life built on the foundation of respect.
An engaging and charismatic speaker, Sue enthusiastically brings across this very important concept to her audiences. She has a natural ability to inspire, encourage, and motivate by sharing successful tactics for overcoming hurdles and creating a more fulfilling life and healthier relationships. Her insights are spot on, offering straightforward techniques that are easy to manage yet have a great impact on the lives of her readers and audiences everywhere.
Sue offers the comprehensive Life Balance Mastery Program, tailored to her clients’ needs, which helps them complete a blueprint of self-discovery to embrace a life filled with deep self-respect.
Video Interviews
Juanita Figueroa
Juanita Cruz-Figueroa is a Mexican-American Latina born and raised in San Jose, California. Born to teen parents, she is the oldest of four siblings and became a second-generation teen mother at the age of sixteen. She is currently married to her husband of twenty-three years and is the mother of five children—four boys and one daughter—two of which were adopted.
Outside of her family life, Juanita is a Spiritual and Intuitive Guidance Coach. Her accomplishments include being a Certified Life Coach, a Master Angelic Card reader, a Certified Reiki Healer and an Ordained Minister. She studied psychology in college and carries a passion for guiding people and helping them reconnect to their love of life.
www.guidancebyjuanita.com
Email: balancinglifesflow@gmail.com
Video Interviews
Wanda King
Wanda King is a Certified Mindset Transformation Coach who lives her life not as a survivor but instead from a thriving mindset. However, it wasn’t always like this. Wanda has had her share of tragedy throughout her life, including abusive relationships, surviving cancer twice, and having near-death experiences. She was at rock bottom with no hope of ever having a life of contentment until she had a divine encounter during a near-death experience that changed her life forever! She discovered how to achieve a life of joy, success, and love by living in the now.
Wanda partners with women and uses proven strategies and transformational workshops to empower them to discover their voice, their value, and their purpose by smashing though their internal glass ceiling—that negative voice from within that devalues, demotivates, and destroys any hope of communicating their value and having the success they want in their life.
If you are ready to own your power and make a difference for yourself and the world, contact Wanda through any of the methods provided below.
Video Interviews
Nina Luchka
Nina is passionate about helping moms create a life and body they love and reconnect to their inner Feminine Fire. Through her own struggles and challenges that came from being a mom of four and an entrepreneur, she gained a wealth of knowledge in fitness, nutrition, energy healing, wellness, and self-care.
Nina has stepped on the best stages in the world as an IFBB pro, including the Arnold Schwarzenegger Class, competing against the best in the world. She is a fitness expert, Professional IFBB Figure Athlete, Holy Fire II Karuna Usui Reiki Master, EFT Level 2 Practitioner, Conditioning Coach, Feminine Fire Coach, Yoga Teacher, Holistic Health Coach, and nature lover. She also homeschools her kids, Aspen (nine), Cruz (six), Knox (four), and Steihl (two).
Nina guides women to find their passion and sparking their inner Feminine Fire through exercise, feminine movement, life coaching, nutrition, holistic wellness, and energy work. To find out more, please contact her at one of the links below.
Video Interviews
Stephanie Roman
Stephanie was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, where she still lives today. She accredits her personal and spiritual growth over the last five years to her tremendously supportive family, especially her father and mother Scott and Ida Noack, her amazing friends, and her life coach Emily Rose. Without these people she wouldn’t be stretched past her comfort zone over and over again. Her mentor, Bev Adamo, continuously brings magic and wonder into Stephanie’s life, including the opportunity to write her story in this book.
Stephanie is a Tedx motivational speaker and advocate for girls’ and women’s unique beauty with her passion project, The Bald Barbie Army. She loves to inspire and empower women to live life to the fullest and be proud in their own skin.
Stephanie is also a proud psychic. Her company, Divine Intervention Readings, teaches people that everyone is psychic in their own ways. She educates people on how to access their inner psychic through programs that allow people to explore and remember their own “psychic fingerprint” of their abilities. Divine Intervention Readings can be found on its Facebook business page.