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James Johnson is a modern day consultant, author and motivational speaker whose words inspire and humour the world. He is characterized by friends, colleges and clients as one of the most energetic, determined individuals and makes a lasting impression on the way people view their personal potential. James Johnson is the author of various books such as his double sided book "How to cook without having a cow" and "What the health are you eating?" This book opens the door for readers to understand that taking responsibility for your life can unleash the ultimate power over their own lives. His other project includes the self mastery daily journal system which provides people the means to record their daily habits which leads to unstoppable daily progress and success with balance. James Johnson travels all across Canada inspiring and educating people to live life to the fullest. As an influential speaker, James has influenced people from all walks of life. James speaks to corporate and public audiences on how they can recognize their human potential and personal effectiveness. Specifically living rich doing what they love. When he speaks to an audience, James' entertaining style fascinates listeners and delivers a lasting message which inspires people to take action and face their fears in all areas of life. He is very enthusiastic and vibrates a positive can do attitude. When asked what he does for a living, James replies that he is a student of life who lives for life experiences and explores the journey as much as the destination. In his life he has been a captain in the Canadian Armed Forces, care aid with mentally challenged clients, various jobs in the community service sector and till this day, an enthusiastic entrepreneur. He still feels that the best contribution he can make to the world is to share his humorous light hearted approach to life by making people laugh. Johnson has lived everything he writes about. He speaks from experience when he discovered that he was wandering through life off track with no desire towards a purposeful direction. The biggest wake up call in his life was when James realized life is too short not to be yourself! He loved to make people laugh and his first entertainment business came into existence where he was a real old fashioned clown. His interests started to change from clowning around to help developing talent and being a service to others. James was living a regular life with lack of purpose until he met the women of his dreams who helped take his blinders off to other ways of thinking. His wife's inspiration leads him on a quest for inner peace and happiness. He was sick, tired and felt he was not living his life on purpose until the turning point came when changing his diet opened up a whole new world for him to explore. Not only did he lose weight, become active and live free from common sicknesses; he became addicted to learning about what the human mind can achieve and believe to get amazing results. His research comes from his direct experiences of how anybody can live a satisfying life. Other expert mentors James' research comes from are Brian Tracy, Wayne Dyer, Bob Procter, Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Earl Nightingale and many others. Till this day he continues to be aware and be in touch with mind, body and soul and shares his passion with others. He practices what he preaches and is eager to deliver his message in a fun, warm and entertaining style. It's never too late to realize your full potential. James' first step is to stop thinking about what you don't have, be extremely grateful for what you do have and concentrate on taking action. Being an avid runner and completing marathons regularly is one of many hobbies that James has. His real love is paragliding - soaring thousands of feet in the sky - and other adrenaline adventure sports. He lives on a hobby farm in the Okanagan with his wife Jenna and three step kids. My name is Jenna Johnson. I am 40 years old and have grown up Vegetarian. I was raised in North Vancouver BC Canada. When I was a kid there were not many vegetarians around where I lived. In fact I was the only one at our school that I know of. When I was a kid everyone thought that our family was strange and that you couldn't possibly be healthy if you did not eat meat. I even thought that. It didn't make me want to eat meat but I thought how could we be right and everyone else be wrong. I hated arguing with anyone about our choice of foods. It felt right in my heart. My older brother and sister had peer pressure and for a time went to eating meat. Not in our home because my Mom wouldn't have it. My brother used to be called rabbit and he hated that. I think being a girl vegetarian at my school was easier because I didn't have to prove I was Macho. We also were never vaccinated. They thought my mom was crazy. However I never had any childhood diseases despite being exposed to most of them. People then told me that I must be a carrier. Teachers would ask me "what do you eat"? Amazed that I was breathing and could actually come to school. I would say "everything you eat except the meat." My mom was a single parent with strong ideals and morals. She is the one that showed true compassion to all and when I was faced with challenging situations she would ask me what my heart told me and I would go with that. I didn't meet James until I was 35. I was at a baseball tournament in Vernon BC. I had been split up with my boyfriend of 17 years for about 3 years. I did definitely not want any relationship. Then I saw James. We had just finished our game and were gathered in the beer gardens where the entertainment was. He looked quite young and I thought he is way to young for me - our eyes locked and my heart jumped. It was very strange. I was briefly introduced and then thought that I had better get home. I was bothered by my thoughts and thought I had better just forget him. So I did and it wasn't until a year later that I saw James again. We were at the same tournament and after our game we headed to the beer gardens. That is where all the teams headed. My team were a bunch of drunks but they were a good group. I have always been a bit of a homebody so for me to get out was unusual. I wasn't expecting to find anyone that would interest me at the drunken fest because my idea of a good time was hiking the mountains or riding my horse. Anyways, there he was again. This very handsome young guy. I thought what the heck I am going to get to know him. So we spent the whole evening talking. It was 5 in the morning and the sun was coming up before we actually said goodnight. I found out that he was 26. Yikes I was 36. He couldn't believe that I was 36. He said that I looked so young. I told him it was due to my diet and that I had been a vegetarian all my life. He told me he could never give up eating meat and asked me if I had ever had a hamburger and it was amazing to him that I said, "No, never" I then went on to tell him I had three children that all were vegetarians and very healthy ones. I thought our relationship might be over when he heard I had three children. I think being ten years older was one hurdle but three kids surely would send him running. We definitely had some stronger connection because our friendship grew and we ended up falling in love and getting married, despite strong objections from our parents. Since meeting me James his meat intake started to decrease. I questioned him on his food choices and being an intelligent man he started to read. He would read everything on health. He would take masses of books and videos out at the library. Every good health book all lead to the health hazards of animal products and concentrated on the whole grains, fruits and vegetables for maintaining a healthy body. James was raised on refined foods, white bread, sugar drinks, milk, meat and potatoes. He had tubes in his ears as a kid. He was overweight got strep throat every fall and found that he had to be on antibiotics to get rid of it. Both him and his brother would suffer massive headaches if they didn't eat on time or too long between meals. His brother had severe stomach problems and was rushed to the hospital on numerous occasions as a child. His older sister battled weight issues her whole life. Now that he was reading about health, things started to make sense. He could understand why he was so sick as a kid. Everything he ate was like poison. The change had begun. His headaches disappeared and he lost 20 lbs. His blood pressure was at 135 / 90. Which the doctors say is high normal. Now that he has changed his diet and is a complete vegan amazingly enough his blood pressure is 110 / 70. He feels fantastic. He has convinced his two sisters to stop eating meat, however his brother who is an ironman athlete, thinks that animal protein is good. He is still working on him. It is not only for health reasons that he discovered a person should change what they are eating. After watching a program on the conditions the animals have to endure to get food to our table, he was convinced without a doubt that he did not want to take part in the needless killing of so many humble creatures not to mention the huge impact that it has on our environment. Being a vegan helps the whole planet. James is writing his own book and hopes his story will helps towards making this planet one of compassion and hope- not of death and destruction. We live in Armstrong BC Canada on a 20-acre farm where we are starting to run a retreat center.

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