Neta Vaught grew up watching her mother suffer from a mental illness. Through her life experiences of learning about mental illness through the eyes of a child, she has developed the motto, “free the minds of the people and the people will heal”. She has launched her own mission to stop the stigma of mental illness, bring a better support system to the underserved and allow those in silence to become authors of their own experiences through storytelling.
Neta is also teaching others how to manage mental illness across generations. Caring for her grandmother, mother and raising five children has taught her a lot about positive way to interact with people that are mentally ill and how to teach those around them how to treat them and react to their illness. Watch and learn!
Host: Anita Washington, That Anita Live
Topic: How To Use Your Story To Stop The Stigma
Guest: Neta Vaught, Reconnecting Our Communities
Guest Website: http://Twitter.com/ReconnectingROC
In the comments, let me know if you have a loved one that has a mental illness and how it has affected your life.
A former school and community agency counselor and creator of the 7-Step Method, Anita’s helped guide people from the ages of eleven to fifty through their own life issues, personal transformations and professional endeavors. With an old soul and a comedic, honest voice. She uses many southern colloquialisms and colorful expressions to unwrap personal stories of surviving a homicidal alcoholic father, a mother in denial and four physically and emotionally abusive brothers and relates them to guiding principles and healing techniques.
Through her powerful and uplifting interviews at ThatAnitaLive.TV and The Emotional Happiness Podcast women get to see and hear real women with resourceful stories living relentless lives after life's most devastating events. Through her charismatic and compelling speaking, Anita helps women use the tools and resources they already have to reveal and release success blockers such as childhood trauma and family dysfunction so they can build self-confidence, boost their self-esteem and feel free to live true to their own personality, spirit and character.
In her newly released ebook, 7 Simple Steps to Beat Emotional Baggage, Anita shares actionable techniques that will walk women through letting go of the past and rising above the glass ceiling to reach higher levels of success and satisfaction in life.
From nine-to-five, Anita is a Senior Acquisition Support Specialist, possessing over nineteen years of performing and administering program management and cradle-to-grave commercial and federal contracting activities for acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to over $2 Billion. She has progressively worked her way up the federal acquisition lifecycle and commercial supply chain through various positions from pre-award and requirements definition to commodities buying to contract close-out. In her career, she has mastered the art of transitioning to level-up.
Anita is a graduate of Limestone College, Virginia State University, and Strayer University with a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.Ed. in Guidance & Counseling, and an M.B.A. in Contracts & Acquisitions. You can find Anita online at ThatAnitaLive.com, Twitter, Periscope, Instagram and Facebook. Her handle is That Anita Live on all four social media platforms.
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