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January 31st, 2025

A Conversation with Risa August, Tumor Survivor and Award-Winning Author

  1. A Conversation with Risa August, Tumor Survivor and Award-Winning Author Maria Leonard Olsen 22:24

Award-winning author, speaker, Gestalt Practitioner (a form of holistic, non-traditional Coaching/guiding), and Patient Advocate, Risa August has been living with a pituitary tumor and rare disease for more than a decade. Risa shares her insights and perspectives on stage, offering words of inspiration to audiences. Additionally, Risa works one-on-one with clients, guiding them through the many roadblocks of life and toward living more fully inspired.

Risa’s book, The Road Unpaved: Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike, describes her soul-healing journey riding her bike from Canada to Mexico. She currently is working on the screenplay adaptation of the book.

A girl with sparkles in her hair and once an Ironman athlete, Risa still has a passion for her bike and barbells. With her genuine curiosity and love for trying new (and old) things, you may find Risa taking Bollywood or Hip-Hop dance lessons, trying a silks aerialist or boxing class, going indoor skydiving, and guiding inspirational workshops in creativity.

Through her personal transformation, following brain surgery and radiation, Risa has learned and practiced removing limiting beliefs, shifting her perspective, and embracing an expansive life…a life unleashed. Having survived brain surgery, Risa says: “I believe anything is possible. I believe in miracles. I believe we each hold the power to heal.”

Learn more:

www.risaaugust.com

www.instagram.com/risaunleashed/ 

www.facebook.com/risaunleashed

www.facebook.com/featherandsagecoaching/ 

www.facebook.com/risa.august.unleashed/

www.linkedin.com/in/risa-august-9b130524a

https://linktr.ee/risaaugust

https://substack.com/@risaunleashed

Maria Leonard Olsen is a commercial litigation attorney in Washington, DC. She is the creator and host of the Becoming Your Best Version Podcast and author of the popular book, "50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life." Her TEDx Talk presented at CUNY is "Turning Life's Challenges into a Force for Good." Learn more about Maria at www.MariaLeonardOlsen.com and follow her on social media @FiftyAfter50.

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