Personal Life Coach Deanna Brown is an acclaimed speaker, author, credentialed teacher, and fierce advocate of living with purpose. Born into poverty and with a junior high education, she was abandoned by her family at 14 and by 23 had seven children. In the throes of abusive relationships, destructive addictions, and intrusive thoughts that kept her emotionally imprisoned, Deanna overcame her circumstances when she found the courage to redirect her life. It was in the moment of decision combined with faith and determination that her life was transformed. She developed a private personal coaching practice designed to help people reach their full potential by identifying and eliminating barriers while developing healthy patterns to work toward their destiny. For over 20 years she has worked with countless people in educational systems, recovery programs, correctional facilities, and law enforcement agencies. After a spiritual breakthrough, her life was redirected to aggressively work with at-risk youth and women who desire to transform their lives from despair to destiny. Deanna founded the Self-Mastery Institute, a non-profit program dedicated to helping at-risk individuals discover their empowering purpose and teach skills to transform their lives and become leaders of their communities. Her work with SMI not only earned her a spot on the board of directors of the Anthony Robbins Foundation but also has received numerous recognitions in education for making a difference including a Telly award. Deanna continues to share her message through her new book GPS - God Positioning Spirit and conducting life-transforming workshops around the world. Her inspiring message is that “in the realm of uncertainty, purpose is found.” Deanna uses her story as an example of how we can move from despair to success. Her intent is not to draw attention to herself, but to show how divine intervention can chisel through a hardened heart and use a painful past to change a life script. In Deanna’s case, God helped her see that dreams really can come true. Deanna Brown is a connoisseur in personal life coaching with a reputation of achieving life-transforming results. Deanna Brown hits a home run with the wisdom and compassion she has learned from a very challenging life. One realizes that her heart is a very safe place to land in as she takes you on her journey from despair to destiny. One thing I have learned over the years is that life can be quite messy at times, however, God uses every single minute of it to help us grow and become all He knows we are capable of being and what we can become when we just defy the odds and step up. It is one thing to be able to forgive others, the real toughie is the ability to totally forgive ourselves for the poor choices we have made that may have had a deep effect on an another human being and this is something Deanna is able to get through to us in her writing. She shows how your GPS, God Positioning Spirit, can point us in the direction of our destin y by helping us evaluate and redirect our lives. A couple of life changing lessons I learned from Tony Robbins was that my past does not equal my future (unless I choose to let it) and the other one was to to never leave someone in an unresourceful state. Deanna does not do that to us. She gives us the resources to get up one more time. I believe Deanna exemplifies in spades this belief that I have adopted, by sacred sharing the messier parts of her life that sometimes we want to skip over and rather not talk about. It takes a whole lot of courage and wanting to reach out to help another human being to be able to share these things with the empathy and compassion she exhibits so that she can give HOPE and empowerment to someone else and help them tie another knot in the rope of life and hang on one more time, realizing that this can be just a temporary situation rather than a permanent one. Enjoy all the life lessons within this gem of a book and thank you so much Deanna for being so real and writing from your heart. God Bless You! This is an i nspirational book about a woman who overcame all odds to achieve her purpose and destiny in life that is touching thousands of people around the world. Born into poverty and with a junior high education, she was abandoned by her family at 14 and by 23 had seven children. In the throes of abusive relationships, destructive addictions and intrusive thoughts that kept her emotionally imprisoned, Deanna overcame her circumstances when she found the courage to redirect her life . It was in the moment of decision combined with faith and determination that her life was transformed with the help of  her internal GPS - a God Positioning Spirit  that led the way.   She developed a life coaching practice designed to help people reach their potential by identifying and eliminating barriers while developing healthy patterns to work towards their destiny. For over 20 years she has