Living Life Beyond the Mess

Everyone has a life story that is brimming with ups and downs, failures and triumphs. Our stories shape our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and, occasionally, render us hopeless, faithless, and shameful. But what if you embraced your story? What if you embraced the best of you, the worst of you, and loved the moments that defined your purpose?

Everyone has a life story that is brimming with ups and downs, failures and triumphs. Our stories shape our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and, occasionally, render us hopeless, faithless, and shameful. But what if you embraced your story? What if you embraced the best of you, the worst of you, and loved the moments that defined your purpose? "Living Life Beyond the Mess" encourages readers to stop focusing on the conflicts in your life and pay attention to the strength emerged with. Kookie Maddox shares her own story to inspire everyone to realize the beautiful mess that we all are.

Kookie Maddox, a military veteran, is a dynamic and purposeful inspirational speaker and empowerer. Her unique and credible approach has resulted in being lauded as a dynamic 21st Century change maker, a passionate mentor, and an impactful beacon of hope by those she has encountered. Kookie's background in certified master resiliency and empowerment coaching, along with degree concentrated studies in management, leadership, communication, and change management, enhanced her passion and honed her skills to lead, motivate and empower those she engages, who are often hard to motivate, as she has been during challenging points in her life. Kookie Maddox is now seen as a go-to inspirational speaker for empowering trauma survivors and non-survivors to live the life that they desire— despite the negative conditions they've suffered in the past or present.