Episode Details

Our guest for this week is Benjamin J Harvey, a speaker, educator, coach and founder of Authentic Education.

Benjamin has been studying psychology for the past 20 years. On his journey to explore the intricacies of the human psyche, he has learned from and collaborated with different people of diverse vocation. From psychologists to scientists, to seers, to shamans, Benjamin has used their insights to develop a special approach for bringing change into people’s lives and helping them discover their Shadow Values. He is helping people across the globe discover their authentic message and achieve financial abundance all the while inspiring them to live their love.

On Benjamin’s impressive list of clients, you can find names of companies such as Adecco, Universal Events, Christopher Howard Training, Centrelink, IBM, Apple, St George, Qantas, and AGL. His specialties include personal and professional coaching, sales coaching, training and management, business development strategies, neurolinguistic programming, and human potential.

He founded Authentic Education, an organization that offers business and development courses with a mission to create the largest group of world-class coaches, speakers, and online educators earning over 6 figures, by helping people live their love. Check out their website for a tone of free educational content from eBooks to motivational audio downloads!

Connect with Benjamin:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authenticeducation
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminjharvey/?originalSubdomain=au
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/authenticben
• Website: https://www.authentic.com.au/
• Personal Website: http://www.benjaminharvey.com/

Benjamin’s Story of Inspired Evolution

“Everybody’s got a story, a hard-luck journey. Mine is no better than anybody else’s… When I was a young kid I went through some pretty intensive sexual abuse and that really, sort of… screwed my mind up quite a bit.” - Benjamin J Harvey

Benjamin is very open about his childhood traumas of being a victim of sexual abuse. These incidents have made a devastating mark on his psyche, one he has fought throughout his youth. By the age of 20, he was regularly visiting psychiatrists and psychologists, seeking help to try and recollect his fragmented mind. His struggles culminated with him being admitted into a psychiatric ward. The experience itself was traumatic but the stigma of mental illness is so strong that he cites feeling an enormous amount of shame and guilt at that time, related to being held in a mental institution and diagnosed as bipolar with a borderline personality disorder.

“Everyone’s wanting to live their love and to do what they love, but they don’t realize that what they truly love in life… has been given value by the traumas and the experiences they’ve been through.” - Benjamin J Harvey

For the next 5 and a half years of his life, Benjamin was severely medicated and struggling all-round. The real push and a defining moment that inspired the change came through a tragic event. One of his best friends from school had committed suicide and the news shook Benjamin to his very core. In the aftermath, he decided that he needed to take control of his own life and to take matters into his own hands. He gradually got off his medication all the while educating himse