Josh Friedberg is a writer, essayist, scholar, music historian, tutor, storyteller, teacher, singer, and songwriter who lives in Chicago. He has won multiple awards from the Illinois Woman's Press Association's (IWPA) annual Communications Contests, including first place designations for the personal essays (On Crying and Music) and online feature articles (Racializing Rock: The '60s and the White Sounds of 'Pet Sounds'), categories. He has published over twenty articles, including as a columnist at the Good Men Project website and contributor to PopMatters, the web magazine on popular culture. He holds a master's degree in English from Northeastern Illinois University and has also been a radio DJ. He recently designed and taught an English course on contemporary writing about music that challenges conventional narratives of music and culture. He is proudly Autistic, which informs all of his work, as well as living with Bipolar Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and other disabilities, and he hopes his story inspires others to channel their creativity and know that they are not alone!
Katelyn M. Flores - mover, shaker, and light seeker. Katelyn is currently living in the Northeast United States with her family and beloved fur babies. She loves creativity, all things woo and brings a healthy dose of sass to the table. It wasn't always that way! She is a Health and Life Coach now, AND she has walked the walk. Katelyn suffered from obesity, bullying, domestic violence, self-harm, low self-esteem, depression, and even suicidal thoughts for most of her life. Overcoming a lifetime of adversity and setbacks, Katelyn boldly up leveled her life to new heights through consistent reinvention of herself, her belief systems and the resuscitation of her powerful intuition. With fierce love and undeniable vigor and grit, she turned her broken heart into a healing vessel. In 2018, Katelyn left 13 years of social work to fearlessly follow her dreams and pursue her passion of helping people in a more intentional way, and Free Your Tangled Mind, LLC was born. Through her incredible work as a healer, she has developed a reputation as the helper of the light seekers and assists people in navigating through food obsession and emotional eating to lose weight, gain clarity around the root cause of their cyclical behavior, release their insecurity and begin to live a life free from obsession and pain.Do you want to MAKE. SHIFT. HAPPEN. too? To work with Katelyn directly please visit: www.freeyourtangledmin.com I fb.me/freeYTM I email: freeyourtangledmind@gmail.com
