Andrea Mathews Motivational Speaker from Birmingham, AL

Andrea's presentations are captivating, passionate and insightful, while giving feet to the insights received by providing take-away applicable skills. Motivation and inspiration are both inside jobs and intentional. Andrea helps her audiences to tap into that authentic stream of talent and strength within from whence true intention comes. She offers Corporate Training as well as Keynote Address and Motivational and Inspirational presentations. Andrea speaks on a variety of topics, a testament to her broad range and diverse experience, as a Psychotherapist, Upper Manager, Corporate Trainer, Presenter, Author and Radio Host. Andrea understands the core of motivation and inspiration. Whereas others may tell you how you might behave differently, Andrea will teach participants to her events how to find the authenticity within and operate from there. Authenticity is the common denominator in all of her endeavors. But authenticity is not even close to as hard as you'd think. Andrea is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Counseling Supervisor and a National Board of Certified Counselors Approved Provider of Continuing Education, with a PhD in interfaith/interspiritual studies. She is the author of three books, "Restoring My Soul: A Workbook for Finding and Living the Authentic Self," "The Law of Attraction: The Soul's Answer to Why It Isn't Working and How It Can" and "Inhabiting Heaven NOW: The Answer to Every Moral Dilemma Ever Posed." She has been published in several national and international magazines, with poetry in several small and literary presses, and she has served as the Editor of two different literary magazines. She authors two blogs, one on Psychology Today, entitled "Traversing the Inner Terrain" which has over 240,000 readers, and another newer one entitled "Authenticity Central Blog." She is the host of the very popular radio show, "Authentic Living," which has over 200,000 listeners, and on which she has interviewed some of the world's most prolific and profound psychological/spiritual leaders and entertainers, such as Iyanla Vanzant, Marianne Williamson, Gary Zukav, Dr. Joan Borysenko, Dr. Chistiane Northrup, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Dr. Judith Orloff, Caroline Myss, Byron Katie, Tom Shadyac, Rosanne Cash and more.