Executive Corner with Ester Nicholson

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Stick with the Winners! –

August 15, 2019 – A gifted vocal artist in her own right, Nicholson’s musical career includes tours with Rod Stewart and Bette Midler—and appearances on such television shows as Oprah, The Tonight Show, The View, Good Morning America and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Soul Recovery. Ester Nicholson survived the ravages of addiction to discover something truly extraordinary: How to transform dependence into power.Her Soul Recovery teaching is one that speaks not only to those who have faced dependence to drugs or alcohol, but is applicable for anyone who has lost connection with their spiritual “center” and finds themselves experiencing outsized fear, compulsive behavior or a deep sense of unworthiness—or in Ester’s words: a “disconnection from the Soul within. ”Soul Recovery lives at the nexus of the 12 Steps of Recovery and oft-considered “spiritual” concepts and practices including: meditation, life transforming inner child and forgiveness work, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or “Tapping.” “The intersection between a spiritual sense of wholeness and the accountability of the 12-Step process is where the rubber meets the road, and where true and permanent healing can take place,” Ester recently said in an interview. Ester’s story of addiction and recovery was recently aired in a 30-minute feature presentation on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her appearance on Super Soul Sunday’s “In Deep Shift” clearly touched a nerve for those who are looking for answers to the challenges of dependence-related behaviors and the scourge of addiction.

Q. If you are in recovery, what was your Drug of Choice and when did you discontinue its use?
A. Cocaine. Crack took me down. I discontinued crack and all mind altering substances on November 1, 1986.

Q. At which of the schools you attended did you learn the most?
A. The school of hard knocks. Thinking the same thoughts, doing the same dumb shit, while expecting different results. The best school on the planet. My personal experience of disconnection.

Q. Do you believe leaders are made or born?
A. Leaders are created as an expression of the great creator. However, if the qualities of leadership are not nourished and refined, it can get buried under the addiction to unworthiness and feelings of not being good enough.