Justin Brien
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JUSTIN BRIEN BIOGRAPHY
Justin Brien is a mental health awareness expert, transformational life coach and inspirational speaker. His raw and painful journey into and back out of the depths of addiction and suicidal depression have afforded him powerful insights into the mechanics of effective and enduring life strategies to live his best life.
Justin grew up in Salmon Arm, BC where he enjoyed a promising early career as a hockey player, later playing throughout the province for various teams within the BC Junior B hockey leagues. Despite his athletic success, Justin Brien was dogged by seemingly unshakeable insecurities. His low self-esteem and lack of self-confidence found him seeking validation in any available form. Inevitably, drugs and alcohol provided a vicious quick fix to the inner turmoil he was experiencing. Unwilling, unable and afraid to ask for help from a world that told him mental health issues were for the weak, Justin spiraled into a shadowed life. By age 21 his hockey career was over after a series of concussions, despite his attempts to hide his medical condition, his depression and his addictions. His life had become a blur of working nights as a bartender, after-hours parties and depression-laden mornings of guilt, shame and remorse and months-long bouts of suicidality. And it only got worse from there.
Not long after his first child was born, Justin Brien experienced a powerfully motivating and transformational moment as the result of asking himself a series of transformational questions. In a terrifying moment of facing two options – end it all or ask for help – Justin asked for and accepted help.
Justin’s discovery of his WHY is a driving force behind the mightily motivating and guiding work he does to help others realize their own WHY and to translate it into effective strategies, tools and daily practices. A passionate inspirational speaker, best-selling author, transformational life coach and mental health awareness expert, Justin immediately engages his audiences with his highly relatable story told with emotion and humour, passion and energy.
Now five years sober, Justin Brien enjoys an inspired and motivated life with his wife, son and daughter, having returned to his hometown of Salmon Arm, BC. He is now a fulltime life coach, inspirational speaker and works as the mental health liaison for Mr. Mike’s restaurant chain. He is the host of The Stronger You Project podcast, featured on Spotify and is an Amazon best-selling author with his recent book Chasing Shadows: Fighting The Monster Within. His solid understanding of the foundations for a good life helped him and his wife lead their family in successfully navigating the challenges of the birth of their beautiful daughter, born with Down Syndrome, and the resulting barrage of complications and surgeries their little fighter faced.
His direct experience in facing life on life’s terms offers audiences a captivating and motivating message that affirms no matter one’s circumstances, past experiences or even current feelings and emotions, a better and brighter future filled with happiness and belonging is possible. And he invites you to follow his lead by transforming your own life with practical and efficient strategies to realize your own best life. Justin Brien firmly believes there is a magic in each and every one of us and through the power of sharing his story and passing along of his knowledge to others in support and understanding of what they are going through, he helps to defeat negative stigmas that hold us back from getting the help we need and to champion for mental and physical health.
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Justin Brien Topic Presentations
mental health
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Justin knowledgeably and compassionately talks about different avenues we can take to get help and he offers clear strategies and tools for healthy coping mechanisms and how to address traumas. He shows audiences that mental health is vital to a healthier, happier and fulfilled life and explains how our mental health is our operating system – it controls our thoughts, beliefs, and actions and if we ignore our mental health it may lead to things like substance use disorder. Justin Brien expertly guides audiences to the understanding that we must protect our mental health.
substance use
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Sharing from first-hand experience, Justin Brien shows people what can happen when their substance use gets to the problematic stage and shares how it can take things away from us like friends, family, jobs and even your life. He focuses on how to recognize when you or someone close to you may be in that stage.
choices
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Justin Brien emphasises that everything we do in life comes down to personal choices. He helps his audiences to recognise that, throughout our lives, we will be tasked with making many choices and how those choices can hinder and hold us back from creating our futures. He explains how our choices not only affect us but those around us and how, with smarter choices, we can build towards a better future.
adversity / resilience
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In life, we are going to be faced with many different experiences, setbacks and hurdles that are outside of our control. We were born resilient, whether we chose to believe that or not, and it is in those times that we are called upon to face adversity and be resilient that will shape who we become as individuals. Justin Brien expertly guides audiences in recognizing and successfully navigating these crucial moments.
health and wellness
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Mental health is just as important as physical health. That is why it is important to make time for both. How do we do that? By scheduling in time for our mind and body, watching what we consume physically and mentally – whether it’s food, books, news, social media or tv. Justin Brien talks openly to audiences about developing solid practices to align with these principles.
personal development
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To get anywhere in our lives we must be able to set ourselves up for success. It’s been said, “When we stop growing, we die.” Making personal development part of our routine is paramount to living a more successful life in terms of reaching goals. That can be defined by our daily rituals, routines, and habits. Justin Brien leads audiences to develop their own practice of dedicating time to personal growth as a way to help take a step closer to destiny.
acceptance and forgiveness
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Just like with adversity, we are going to face things in our lives that are outside of our control and we can be hurt by them. It may be a loss of a loved one, a job or someone may hurt us. But to be able to move on, we must accept it. That doesn’t mean we have to like it but we must accept that it truly happened so that we move on, stop living in our past and start to create the future that we desire. Sometimes though, the thing that we are going to have to accept is something we did, and the person we are going to have to forgive is ourselves. Justin Brien engages his audience in a motivating discussion on how to do this.
inclusion
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No matter what your abilities are or what your past holds, you deserve to be given an opportunity to thrive. Justin Brien shares with his audience how he was able to get his life back after being hired for a job even when the company knew of his addiction struggles and mental illness diagnosis. As a passionate and vocal advocate for inclusion, he hopes the same for his daughter who has Down Syndrome. He works to bring awareness so that she is accepted for her disabilities and is recognized that she still has abilities and engages his audiences in sharing in this important goal.
finding your why
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We all have a WHY. Justin Brien credits finding his WHY to playing an instrumental role in his first steps to recovery and, ultimately, for saving his life. With a strong enough WHY as your anchor he shows people that we don’t only start there. We must follow it up with basing decisions around that WHY and then we must figure out the HOW. With his raw, vulnerable, sometimes hilarious and ultimately inspiring story, Justin shows you just how that can be done.
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