Two Mothers Are Launching A New Life Transforming Event To Combat Drug And Gun Crime

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Two Mothers Are Launching A New Life Transforming Event To Combat Drug And Gun Crime

Two women who have overcome incredible personal difficulties are working together to host a national event to empower and transform people’s lives.

Dr Ava Eagle Brown and Sonia Poleon want to inspire and invigorate the Black Community by inviting top international speakers to the full day Urban Life 2016 event on September 24^th at 197-199 Kilburn High Rd, NW6 7HY.

“The aim is to have a new conversation with the Black community. A conversation of hope, letting them know if you get your mind right you can achieve anything,” said Ava. “We want to help many people make shifts in their lives to understand that regardless of what they are going through, they can push through the barriers and become successful.”

Both mothers, Ava and Sonia have fought against the odds to become award-winning successes in their own right. Ava, who is now an honorary doctor, an Author, an International Speaker and a Transformation mindset coach, came from a poor family in Jamaica where she experienced incest and sexual abuse. At times, she had to skip school to work to provide food. Sonia, an International Best Selling Writer, Mentor, Consultant and Radio Personality, was threatened to have her throat slashed with a knife while working as a housing officer.

Sonia said: “I believe that life and experience are our biggest teachers and that the challenges in our lives strengthen us, and true strength comes from overcoming life’s hardships without surrendering.

Ava and Sonia want to empower others to maximise their truest potential, to combat negative, drug-fuelled, gun crime images portrayed of urban black youth today. A total of 185 teenagers have been fatally shot or stabbed in London alone between 2005 and 2015, (according to http://www.citizensreportuk.org/reports/teenage-murder-london.html .)

The women have booked critically acclaimed author and world-renowned speaker, Eric Thomas as their main speaker for the full day event, Urban Life 2016.

The other speakers are: philanthropist, media mogul, Dr Pauline Long; multi-award winning serial entrepreneur, investor; Award winning International Speaker and mindset coach, Warren Inspire Ryan, Thought Transformation coach Kemi Oyesola, International speaker Darryl Jones author Mac Attram and Ava herself.

Ava said: “All of the speakers have overcome their background, colour and creed and have changed their mindsets to succeed. We want to show the Black community that there is another way, it is possible to change circumstances and mind sets.”

Eric Thomas said: "If you have a nostril, if you’ve got muscles, if you can breathe, if you have blood pumping around your body, if you are a woman, a man, boy of girl, if you are old, young or old, then you must be at Urban Life 2016.”

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Ava Brown is anAward winning International Speaker and Transformation mindset coach, Ava Eagle Brown is in a class by herself.

Out of her own journey, Ava has created “Awakening Your Life’s Purpose, Purpose Walk” and the “Get Your Book Out of Your Gut Programmes” with the view of helping others maximise their truest potential and claim their BEST LIFE.

Ava operates on an ethos of transformation through mindset mastery. She seeks to empower others to understand that the word IMPOSSIBLE means I’M POSSIBLE - thus helping them claim the lives they were meant to live. A life of abundance, joy, peace and success.

Known as “The Eagle and Transformation Do it Now Accelerator”, her own the results are proof of what can happen when you decide to make a difference. Her approach is a simple, yet effective one "once the eyes can see it, nothing is impossible or far away".

The love, desire, and passion Ava has to see others come out of the RUT and claim their best self, stands at the CORE of her WHY. Her style of being truly transparent, authentic, enthusiastic and welcoming are all part of her success, hence, she often referred to as our own Lisa Nichols interchangeable with The UKs answer to Oprah Winfrey.

Ava’s book, “Mango Girl” is soon to be made into a film.

Award-winning Sonia Poleon is a self-motivated person, who is passionate about inspiring others to live their best life realising their fullest potential. She is committed to helping people grow personally and professionally. She believes that life and experience are our biggest teachers and that the challenges in our lives strengthen us, and true strength comes from overcoming life’s hardships without surrendering. With her practical knowledge, personalised strategies, positive attitude and outgoing personality, she enjoys empowering people to pursue their dreams.

Sonia is an International Best Seller, Mentor, Consultant and Radio Personality.

Eric Thomas, PhD is a critically acclaimed author and World Renowned Speaker, Motivator, Educator, Pastor & audible.com Audie Awards Finalist. He is better known as“ET”.

His bold & creative, high intensity, positive life changing messages have caused a storm across the Globe! The lives of tens of millions of people across have been impacted by his talks and videos.

Through a significant social media presence and his recent domestic and international tours, “ET, The Hip Hop Preacher” has become a global phenomenon!

Drawing from his own personal experiences as they relate to homelessness, the absence of his biological father, scholastic struggles, and various other obstacles, ET has allowed his life to be an “open book.”

He harnessed his pain and used it propel him to greatness. It is his sincere hope, that through his transparency, others too, will find the courage to succeed, despite their circumstances.

To find out more details about the Urban Life 2016 event, see: http://ericthomaslondon.uk

You can contact Ava Brown for further information by emailing info@avabrown.org or telephoning her on 07808 866870.

Warren Ryan

Award winning International Speaker and mindset coach, Warren Inspire Ryan is like no other.

As creator of the 21 day mind and body programme, Prove You Exist and the Fearless Speaking Academy, Warren is dedicated to empowering and inspiring others to be their best and most authentic self. Known as “The Mind Mechanic”, the results he achieves come from fundamental shifts in thinking and understanding. The insights and techniques he uses get to the heart of what drives us all: the need to live a fulfilled and authentic life playing to our strengths.

The passion, the energy and the love Warren has for coaching and inspiring others has allowed him to reach over 500,000 in just three years. His warm and engaging style, coupled with his dedicated work ethic and his well attended events have led him to be labelled as the UK’s answer to Tony Robbins.

Kemi Oyesola

Kemi is the CEO/Founder of How2Think Consulting Group, a qualified Thought Transformation Gold Coach and NLP practitioner with more than 10 years’ experience coaching, consulting and training; she holds both a BA and BSc degree.

‘Coach Kemi’ is a bold, friendly, adventurous and fear-less individual with her signature talk – ‘Who Told You, You Can’t? Why Should You Be The One To Fail?’ that inspires you to ‘Get Up and Go’!

Her core expertise is enabling deep thinking that will lead to transformational and immediate change. She helps individuals and organisations identify THOUGHTS that inhibit and limit them, while guiding them to powerful, purposeful and sustained THINKING that result in extra-ordinary outcomes.

She coaches female corporates to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ or ‘double cliff’, cease being ‘Occupational Minorities’ and step into higher executive levels to become CEO or sit on boards.

She has strong experience in learning and development at various management levels; and delivers based on specific business needs and desired outcomes. She also coaches Young People as well as high-performing entrepreneurs. She has created several online programmes some of which are: the PSRA 4-Step Thought Transformation Blueprint; CYT-Catch Yourself Thinking Technique; the CDHS Spring Clean Your Mind

System - to mention a few. Other programs include: How2Think Academy, How2Think University and How2Think Mastermind. These are membership programmes online and offline which are open to

those who are ready and willing to do the work to attain Transformed Thinking.

One of her clients described her as '...an explosive powerhouse and prophetic paradigm shifter...'

She brings energy and life to whatever she touches and is a part of.

She hosts her weekly radio show – How2think2win with CoachKemi on Radio Harold Hill, a community radio station.

Mac Attrim

Mac is a multi-award winning serial entrepreneur, investor, author of 3 books & one of Europe’s leading and most respected Business Mentors. In 2013 he was awarded the ‘Executive Coach of the Year’ in the UK.

Mac came from being broke with over £60,000 (US$100,000) in debt to becoming financially free and a Millionaire in less than 3 years.

He has developed and sold several profitable companies and has been featured as an “expert advisor” in TV, newspapers and magazines.

Mac has made it his life mission & purpose to educate, inspire and empower people all over the world to live a life of joy, courage, passion and purpose.

His dynamic, grounded & heartfelt style has led him to share the stage with some of the world’s premier business speakers & thought-leaders, including Robert Kiyosaki, T.Harv Eker, Blair Singer, Les Brown, Richard Tan, Keith Cunningham, James Caan, Nick Vujicic and Duncan Bannatyne.

Darryl Jones is a US Veteran, Inspirational Speaker, and Relationship Specialist, who appeals to youth, middle aged persons and veterans alike. His approach is fun, upbeat and effective. Darryl Jones has dedicated a huge amount of his time to helping people find their purpose and fulfill their destiny. Darryl has spent almost 20 years in service to his country and its people, protecting their freedoms and civil liberties.

He has spent almost half of that time in combat zones, war-torn lands, areas of conflict and civil unrest, and understands life's struggles first hand. Darryl strives to inspire others to improve their quality of life through self-empowerment techniques and strongly believes that to every problem there is a "solution." All we have to do is desire to solve the problem, adjust our focus in the proper direction, and move with a definiteness of purpose.

His ethos is “We all can live the life we ought to live and want to live, walk with and in P.O.W.E.R., and fulfill our destiny”. Darryl believes in the children of tomorrow as they are our future. The only way to positively affect change in the future is to effectively engage our children and youth of today. He leads and teaches through the belief that positive change in our children interjects positive change in the tomorrows world.

Dr Pauline Long is a multi-award winning entrepreneur, philanthropist, media mogul, TV producer and presenter who has been listed on BLACK WOMEN IN EUROPE POWER LIST.

She is a global ambassador for Universal Peace Federation. She is the Owner and founder of Europe's biggest award ceremony for black and ethnic personalities in showbiz - BEFFTA Global brand and owner of award winning film studio East End studios, Mr and Miss East Africa UK and president of Pauline Long Entrepreneurship Foundation. She is a popular presenter on premiere global TV talk show THE PAULINE LONG SHOW on Sky Channel 182 -BEN TV.

The mother of two is a youth mentor and an advocate for human love. She is the ambassador and patron for over 20 charities and organisations. Dr Pauline Long is ambassador of The Nelson Mandela Book and Vice Chair of African/African Caribbean and Asian Women in Politics.