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Tom Molloy is an expert in fitness, breath and recovery. Over the last decade he has coached high performing professional teams and individuals in sport and business with one goal in mind: Making an impact. Through this journey he learned how to successfully manage his own health challenges with chronic knee and hip osteoarthritis so he can lead a healthy and active life.

Now Tom has the privilege of sharing his knowledge and experience with others looking to help improve their own performance & health.

Tom has a great passion for helping others live a happy, healthy life, and runs movement and breathwork classes in the Online Academy. 

QLD, AUSTRALIA

Madhu is an 18 year old aspiring Journalist. She loves to read, write, sing, dance, ask a lot of questions about a lot of things and learning new things and facts about the world, the people, the various different cultures and more! 

She is a certified youth mentor and has run classes including bollywood dance, learning American Sign Language, how to solve a rubiks cube and more! 

INDIA

Eddie is a primary school teacher, holistic life coach and a trained youth mentor. She’s also one of the most colourful people we know!

She is passionate about helping others get the most out of their life by integrating positive and motivating habits.

Eddie has a core focus on neuroscience and how we can use our brain architecture to our advantage to achieve the results we want!

Self-worth, wellness, motivation, quality presentation and professionalism are the core values behind her facilitation style and her business, Looking for Ladybird.

QLD, AUSTRALIA

Paige is a meditation and mindfulness coach and youth mentor, with 8 years of high school teaching experience. She is passionate about all things wellbeing, and is on a mission to empower and inspire young girls to live a more mindful and purposeful life, and to live in The Eudaimonia Way.

Through her work as a high school teacher, what has brought her the most joy was seeing her students flourish and thrive when they learned the importance of listening to and respecting themselves. Paige offers 1-1 mentoring support for teens and tweens, as well as meditation and mindfulness coaching programs to teach young girls all about the benefits of slowing down and being in the present moment.

VIC, AUSTRALIA

Tanya Messmmann is the founder of Girl Shaped Flames, CEO of not-for-profit Uniq You, a youth mentor and speaker.

Tanya has worked with over 3000 teenage girls, their parents and educators to develop their confidence, resilience and self-belief. Through this work she’s been recognised as a thought-leader in the confidence space and is often found working with full school cohorts and speaking at corporate events on the life-changing effect confidence has on girls.

Tanya has taught lots of classes in the OA, including networking, stretching your line of perceived ability, 15 steps to confidence and more.

QLD, AUSTRALIA

Ishara Sahama is a passionate social and gender justice advocate, community organizer and education facilitator. She currently works in the NFP/social enterprise space, providing strategic thinking, community organising, project management and advisory support.

Ishara is also a Climate Reality Leader and community organizer for UNAA Young Professionals Queensland and The One Women Project. She has presented and organized several presentations, panel discussions, forums on topics such as the climate crisis, sustainable development goals (SDGs), youth engagement, anti-racism, gender equity in urban planning and environmental concerns and, intersectional justice.

She graduated at the end of 2019 with a BA Honours Geography and BSc Geographical Sciences, from The University of Queensland.

Ishara is a Womxn of Colour, with mixed Sri Lankan cultural heritage.
Pronouns: She/her

Mazoon Al Zadjali is a certified youth mentor, a youth advocate & a Peer Educator. She took her first Peer Education training certification at age of 15 to officially become one of the first young Omanis to have obtained a certification in this field by Youth Peer Education Network (Y-peer).

She has spoken at and participated in conferences and youth forums in Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Russia, USA, Lebanon, UK, Tunisia, Azerbaijan and Kenya and is the founder of many initiatives in Oman.

Mazoon thrives to change every young person to become empowered and works for a better future as she believes youth are the vision and mission of now and the future.

OMAN

Jessica Holsman is an Australian YouTube creator and social influencer, entrepreneur, and best selling author.

After graduating with a postgraduate diploma of psychology, Jess began helping young teens and adults by harnessing the power of social media. Her passion for empowering students to succeed in school, celebrate their unique qualities and pursue a meaningful and purposeful life has led her to become the voice of many teens and young adults online.

With over 25 million views on her YouTube channel ‘Study With Jess’, Jess continues to shed light on the important issues effecting many students and young adults today and offers her ongoing support in helping them increase their motivation and productivity, boost their mental health and step into their power to celebrate their unique qualities.

She is the founder of the educational stationery line for students; Educationery, as well as Self Love Club Gift Boxes; a brand promoting self love and wellness.

VIC, AUSTRALIA

Jana Amin is an Egyptian-American first-year at Harvard College. An advocate and community mobilizer for girls’ education and women in Islam, Jana has given two TedTalks to date, both inspired by her personal experiences. She has spoken at the United Nations on policies to further youth inclusion and gender parity. She works closely with The Collateral Repair Project, a Jordanian NGO to support refugee women & girls.

At Harvard, Jana is a member of the Kennedy School’s Women’s Initiative in Leadership and Coalition for Global Affairs. She is a mentor at the Radcliffe Institute and a first-year representative for the Society of Arab Students.

Jana has hosted a number of classes in the OA and we look forward to more with her! 

USA

Sam Thomas is a certified youth mentor and Life Coach. She has also studied Positive Psychology online through the University of North Carolina, has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a Shine From Within Youth Mentor.

Sam graduated as a life coach in 2014 and she’s spent the last 4.5years as the in-house life coach for Asia’s number one wellness retreat, Phuket Cleanse. During her time in Phuket, Sam facilitated more than 400 workshops on a wide range of topics related to holistic wellbeing and travelled internationally to deliver these workshops in Paris, London, Portland, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Sam’s favourite topic to teach people about is self-love, as she believes the relationship you have with yourself impacts all of your choices and behaviours and if you can make this the kindest relationship of your life, then your whole world can positively transform.

Currently in INDIA

Sarah Found is a youth mentor, marketing and communications director in the high-tech industry, storyteller and Positive Psychology Practitioner. Inspired by challenges faced in her own youth, Sarah felt pulled to positive psychology and helping girls not just overcome challenges, but in time thrive and flourish because of them.

Through All Girls Can Fly for younger girls and the teen inspired program, Girl inPowered, Sarah focuses on fun and creative ways to connect girls to themselves and each other through positive psychology tools and the power of storytelling. It’s Sarah’s mission to help girls see themselves in a new light and that everything they need to get through challenge and change is already inside of them.

Located in St John’s, Canada.

Isaias Hernandez is an Environmental Educator and creator of @QueerBrownVegan where he creates introductory forms of environmentalism through colorful graphics, illustrations, and videos.

He seeks to provide a safe space for like-minded environmentalists to advance the discourse around the climate crisis.

Isaias hosted a class on an intersectional approach to veganism in the OA. 

USA

Adefolashade Fadeyi is a personal development expert for teens and the founder of Brighter Girls, Lagos Nigeria. She is a Certified Girl Empowerment Coach, Trained Youth Mentor and a Curriculum Developer with over 15 years of experience working with teen girls.

Fola brings her enthusiasm and wisdom to some of our coaching calls in the Youth Mentor Training as a support trainer and facilitates a number of classes in our Online Academy. 

NIGERIA