A credentialed executive and personal coach. Author of three books: Raw Beauty, The Gift of Asking and bestseller POWER - A Woman's Guide to Living and Leading without Apology (Penguin Random House), she's recently released the Audible Original podcast, POWER Talks with Kemi Nekvapil. Kemi is currently writing her fourth book Grounded Success (Penguin Random House) due in 2025.

Trained with Dr Brenè Brown in Texas in 2019, Kemi is a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, working with teams and organizations to create daring leaders and courageous cultures. She's also a regular interviewer of industry icons, including Elizabeth Gilbert, Martha Beck and Marie Forleo. Kemi writes ‘The Harvest’ newsletter on Substack, where she writes about how we nurture ourselves in different seasons of our lives through the lens of nature and shares tales of being an early-stage flower farmer in Australia.

With a rich tapestry of experiences, including studying leadership and purpose at The Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan, training as a yoga teacher in India, and maintaining a 30-year yoga and meditation practice, Kemi brings a unique and broad perspective to her work and writing. 

The bestselling author of We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life and Push Off From Here: 9 Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else). She is the Founder of The Luckiest Club, an international sobriety support community, and has been published in The New York Times, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the TODAY show, and more. She lives outside Boston with her daughter.

Mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena Brower graduated Cornell University in 1992, designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before shifting her focus to yoga, meditation, writing and art. Teaching asana since 1999, studying and practicing Zen meditation since 2020, she received the Buddhist Precepts from Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in 2023. Now a candidate for Buddhist Chaplaincy, Elena offers her time in hospice and penitentiary settings as well as facilitating grief counseling for children.

Her books, Art of Attention, Practice You, Being You and Softening Time walk us through stages of practice, life and listening. Elena's Perceptive Parenting audio course is a key resource for parents; her signature course Simplify serves hundreds in reimagining priorities in order to experience more fulfillment and meaning every day. 

Her weekly live yoga practices and meditations are featured on Glo; her spoken word poetry can be heard on Above & Beyond's Flow State albums, for which she's received an RIAA-certified Gold Record for her writing on "Don't Leave." Elena works to elevate bright futures for girls, women and children through her support for Girls on Fire Leaders, On The Inside and Free Food Kitchen.