SHAYNA MELISSA STOCKMAN, RN-BC, ANP, PNP,
ANN PAPAYOTI
is a nationally board-certified Nurse Practitioner and Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of experience, a # 1 international best-selling author( Overcoming Life Obstacles), a multiple awardwinning healthcare professional, trailblazer, speaker, educator, and holistic wellness advocate known as The Autoimmune Expert™ and The World Wellness Expert™. After facing her own serious health and autoimmune challenges, Shayna combined decades of clinical experience with a holistic, rootcause-focused approach that transformed her life and career. Today, her heart-centered mission is to educate and empower others to become active participants in their wellness, listen to their bodies, and move from simply surviving to truly thriving. Her work encompasses nutrition, lifestyle, mindset, movement, education, and individualized wellness strategies, with a particular passion for helping those struggling with complex symptoms, autoimmune conditions, and medical mysteries. Shayna offers in-person and online classes, courses, and private consultations. Her philosophy is simple: Stop surviving. Start thriving. Find the root. Reclaim your life. ™. I am honored and delighted to have Shayna share her inspiring, empowering story,“ When My Body Whispers: A Journey from Surviving to a New Purpose,” in our Eating Our Way To Living Well section. is the founder of SkyView Coaching and hosts a weekly podcast, Soul CPR Healing Out Loud, on the Bold Brave TV Network. She is also an international life, leadership, and relationship coach, speaker, writer, educator, and co-author of The Gift of Shift, an intimate self-help book. Ann is an Expert Contributor for YourTango Media and has been featured in MSN, Google, Yahoo, and Apple News. She has spoken at conferences, summits, and commemorations, both live and online, throughout North America. Ann captivates, educates, and inspires thousands by sharing her personal experiences of loss, transition, and triumph, and she helps them attain their personal and professional goals. Known among her friends as the go-to girl if you are experiencing problems, Ann could have started her own‘ Dear Annie’ column decades ago. Little did she know then that listening with empathy was an invaluable, innate skill that would become the foundation of her life’ s work. Ann’ s remarkable life journey and passion for family love are hallmark examples. Ann returns with wonderful, insightful, and tender advice to help“ Holding On” on how to reset herself regarding keeping old mementos that hold endearing memories, and to help“ Missing My Girl” on how to transition from losing her dear pet and be confidently open to perhaps getting another one, in her advice column,“ Dear Annie.”
LY SMITH is a Self-Leadership Strategist, an award-winning keynote speaker, and a seventime international best-selling author. Before building her business, Ly spent fifteen years as a stay-at-home mom, homeschooling her daughter until she realized she had lost herself somewhere between the carpools and the laundry. That wakeup call led Ly to create the C. A. N. D. Y. Method™, a framework she now uses to help women quiet their inner critic, rewrite their self-talk, and live and lead with confidence. Ly is a Certified NLP Master Practitioner, a faculty member of the C-Suite Network Thought Leader Council, and the founder of UpCycle Coaching, LLC and the G3 Collective. She has spoken on more than 100 stages and was featured as a Top 100 Iconic Woman to Watch in the Million Dollar Network ' s Iconic Woman Magazine in September 2026. She lives with her husband in Reno, Nevada. As Ly is passionate about helping women, she offers a free download of her 5-Minute
Self-Talk Reset at rewriteyourselftalk. com. I am excited and honored to have Ly share her personal journey,“ Present Again,” a truly inspiring and empowering story, for our Bubble of Quiet Confidence section.
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