Secrets Your Mentor Never Told You Laura Burns

Enthusiastic about connecting artists with their audiences and championing athletes’ rights, Laura-Ann’s passions naturally extend from her experience as a professional performer, a former elite gymnast and her ongoing efforts with community involvement.

Laura-Ann worked both under the spotlight as an acrobat and behind-the-scenes in public relations during her seven years with Cirque du Soleil. As chair of the tour's Social Committee, improving tour morale and employee connectivity were both high priorities. During the pandemic, Laura-Ann partnered with former colleagues to co-found the Project Lumiére which focused on keeping the circus and performing arts communities united.

Starting at the age of two, Laura-Ann vaulted into competitive gymnastics with flare. She balanced her physical training and academic pursuits to win an athletic scholarship for her undergraduate studies. Laura-Ann was named a two-time All-American gymnast, an alternate for the 2004 Canadian Olympic team and a NCAA PAC-10 Conference champion. During her stint on Amaluna, Laura-Ann discovered another passion for public relations while working behind the scenes for Cirque.

Based in Vancouver, BC, Laura-Ann has worked in London, England, and toured with Cirque through North America, Europe and South America. She completed her bachelor's degree in Exercise & Sport Science with a minor in Psychology at Oregon State University. This past November, Laura-Ann recently completed a Public Relations Certificate through Simon Fraser University and has just begun working at Citizen Relations in Vancouver.

Have you ever wondered about healing the nutritional needs of your family and not doing it all alone? Shannon Donohoe Simpson is a nutrition expert for your whole family and has experience with children who have special needs.

Shannon is intuitive and creative in her life. Being called "too much" as a child and "You should be seen and not heard," Shannon isn't about to back down from these stories.

Questions have come through personal experiences having breast cancer and children with autism. Today Shannon and I ask, what place does alcohol have in our lives?

Shannon shows how the struggle with alcohol is a signal to listen to her body. By focusing on her whole health she explains how.

She joins me to share her personal experiences to help you move ahead in yours.

Shannon is also on an expedition to explore the outer reaches of Canada, family in tow.

How to be Outstanding and a bit crap sometimes. Season opener for getting back to what matters: Creating in your life!

Finding out at 35 that she had an identical twin sister half a world away was a pivotal moment in Asiza's life.
Since the age of six, Asiza has been drawing the female figure but she never really understood why.
Growing up as an only child, she had always longed for a sister and she now realizes that her drawings and paintings was a way of staying connected to her twin.
Asiza and I talk about how she awakened her subconscious mind through her painting and healing her relationships with her sister and who she thought was her birth mother and father.

What I stand for is doing what it takes to live my life. Knowing what my mind and body needs and in the process, I find the juice of creativity. See you in the spring!

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