And Here’s My Return Story with Aransas Savas
A return story in which Aransas Savas talks about how she finally came to love and respect her thighs. Don’t miss her inspiring story that includes a harrowing car accident, a marathon-running 90-year-old grandmother, and qualifying for the Boston Marathon after running 19 marathons herself.
Don’t miss the segment that starts at 26:09.
Aransas Savas is a Wellness Coach and Senior Director of Service Design and Studio Experience at WW (formerly Weight Watchers International), where she has been responsible for bringing paradigm-shifting, change-activating experiences to life for over 15 years. Aransas has a deep background in designing and coaching for change. She studied Behavior Change under leaders in the field, Dr. Gary Foster, and BJ Fogg of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab. Her coaching and design practice also integrates Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which she has practiced for almost 20 years. She is a founding member of the Stone Mantel Meaningful Experiences Collaborative, and a student at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. Prior to WW, Aransas was a NYC theater producer, actor and spokesperson for wellness brands, and show host of InTouch Networks radio news program. Based in Brooklyn, she is mother to a 200-year old sourdough culture and two imaginative and creative girls; the daughter of a long line of resourceful change-makers; wife to a patient and supportive husband; and a 19-time marathoner.
Listen in and then let Aransas and I know in the comments what resonated with you the most!
xoxo!
Jacque
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A return story in which author Sheila O’Connor describes uncovering the story of her maternal grandmother who was incarcerated in the 1930s for being pregnant. This harrowing tale is told in O’Connor’s powerful new novel Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts and Fictions. 
A multi-genre writer, her work has been anthologized in Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers, The Next Parish Over, Mothers and Daughters, and Under Purple Skies. Her short stories, poems, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies including Bellingham Review, Minnesota Monthly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, Great River Review, Blue Earth Review, and others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Sheila O’Connor has been awarded Bush Fellowships (2003, 2009), Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants (2004, 2015, 2019), and a McKnight Fellowship. She has also been the recipient of artist residencies from The Studios of Key West, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Tyrone Guthrie Center, and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Hamline University where she serves as Fiction Editor for Water~Stone Review. She is also a member of the core faculty at the Converse low-residency MFA Program.
A return story in which Dondeena Bradley talks about how she’d lost little bits of herself over time while working a high-paced corporate life. Hear her inspiring insights as she shares how when she wrote her new book, Living Full Circle: Simple Ancient Rituals for Modern Life, she returned to her vision of what wellness and being a well person means. 
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I am jumping up and down. I’ve got jazz hands going. I’m SO excited to introduce you to a new segment on the Heartwood Treehouse podcast called, “And Here’s My Return Story…”