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Coaching Teens

by Leah | Oct 15, 2018 | Blog, Parents, Teens, Youth Mentors | 0 Comments

Earlier in the year I had the honour of being a key note speaker at the Beautiful You Coaching Academy Inspiration Day. I was asked to speak about coaching young people. While I have recorded over 60 hours of video trainings about this topic in the Youth Mentor...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Georgie Stone

by Amanda | Oct 10, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

MEET GEORGIE. Georgie Stone grew up as a typical girl. Loved playing dress ups, picking flowers and dancing. She had long brown hair and insisted that she was a girl. Except, she wasn’t. She was born as a boy, George. After battling years of bullying, Georgie didn’t...

Book Launch, Garden Party Fun!

by Amanda | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog, Parents, Teens | 0 Comments

Fairy lights, flower crowns, music, food and sunshine. It was the perfect setting for a garden party. 6 years ago our director Amanda Rootsey ran her first Shine From Within, Personal Development course on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. So with the...

The New Superheroes – Muzoon Almellehan

by Amanda | Sep 23, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

Muzoon Almellehan is one of nearly 5.3 million refugees who have been forced to flee Syria as a result of the civil war there. At just the age of 14 in 2013, Muzoon and her family packed everything into one small bag and left the big city. After fleeing the warzones,...

The New Superheroes – Jade Hameister

by Amanda | Sep 3, 2018 | Blog, Parents, Teens, thenewsuperheroes, Youth Mentors | 0 Comments

Jade is a 16 year old student from Melbourne, Australia who loves being active and outdoors. At age 12, Jade completed the trek to Everest Base Camp andin April 2016, Jade became the youngest person in history to ski to the North Pole from anywhere outside the Last...

July Teens Retreat 2018

by Amanda | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog, Courses, Parents, Teens | 0 Comments

How does spending a week in a beach house on the Sunshine Coast sound? Well that’s exactly what we got to do in the July school holidays with a group of incredible teens from all over Australia and New Zealand. For the second year running we have held our Personal...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Amelia Telford

by Amanda | Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

The 2015 Young Conservationist of the Year, has created an environmental network that has given a voice to Aboriginal youth. Amelia Telford, a young Aboriginal and South Sea Islander woman from Bundjalung country is the National Co-Director of the Seed Indigenous...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Molly Steer

by Amanda | Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Parents, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

Meet Molly Steer, the ten-year-old fighting to save the Great Barrier Reef marine life. Cairns girl Molly Steer has been running her Straw No More campaign for about a year and has already convinced more than 90 schools in Australia and overseas to do away with...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Bassam Maaliki

by Amanda | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

Meet Bassam Maaliki, 15, refugee advocate and an inspired young individual changing the world! At a mere 13 years old, Bassam Maaliki created a campaign called #uBelong. #uBelong was dedicated to ensuring that all refugees and migrants – no matter their background and...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Macinley Butson

by Amanda | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

At just 17 years old, Macinley Butson has been named 2018 NSW Young Australian of the Year, National Youth Ambassador for Green Cross Australia and became the first ever Australian to win the INTEL International Science and Engineering fair in 67 years! Each year more...