Joy Weekend Speakers

Julie McGrath

Julie McGrath

Julie is the founder of The Joy Source, motivational speaker and author of Joy-Worthy: A Mother’s Guide to More Joy, Less Stress and No Guilt and The Right Time Is Right Now: 6 Questions to Help You Let Go of the Excuses and Change Your Life Today. 

Julie is an industry thought leader who speaks to audiences as big as six hundred people and she has been known for her innovative and energetic keynote speeches and workshops.  Her focus is on promoting a positive workplace and her dynamic energetic style mixed with humor makes her a captivating speaker. 

Angel Brunelle

Angel Brunelle

Angel Brunelle is a dynamic speaker who brings humor and her lived experience to each workshop she presents. Angel’s background in non-profit leadership, team development and human services as well as her ambitious, risk-taking nature offer new perspectives grounded in best practices. She spent more than 25 years in leadership positions in youth serving agencies, and now divides her time as Communications Strategist at the Boys & Girls Club in Lowell, MA, teaching at UNH, providing consulting and team development services around the region, and playing music in a cover band. Angel lives in Lowell, MA with her husband Mike and rescue pup Rupert, and loves traveling, cooking, hiking and gardening with both of them.

Peggy Nangle

Peggy Nangle 

Peggy is a creative and spiritual person with a rich Irish Celtic lineage. She has been honing her crafting skills in various mediums for many years. Her interests are diverse, ranging from creating artisan soaps and body products, to exploring the healing properties of essential oils, aromatherapy, minerals, herbs, and energy work. She is also drawn to the magical realms of fairies, mermaids, angels, and dragons.  Now, through her own product line Fairy Mountain, she offers her creations to a wider audience. Peggy pursued her interest in aromatherapy by studying at The Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy & Herbal Studies through the Boston School of Herbal Studies. She has also achieved the level of Holy Fire Reiki Master, further enhancing her understanding of energy healing.

Monét Jones

Monét Jones

Monét has spent many years doing crisis work helping adults and youth get through some of the toughest times of their lives, most times with nobody by their side. Passionate for wanting to do more for their community, they decided to enroll at the nationally recognized Institute of Integrative Nutrition receiving a certification in Holistic Health & Wellness Coaching to learn more about holistic ways of living in the modern world. Monét also underwent training as a yoga instructor and as a master level reiki practitioner in the traditional practices of Dr. Mikao Usui.

As a therapist, reiki master, and wellness coach, Monét guides others back to themselves holistically; focusing on the mind, body, and soul.

Samantha Shea

Samantha Shea

Samantha Shea awakened to her souls’ true purpose by working as an oncology nurse where she realized the deepest key to healing on any level is the integration of body, mind, and spirit. She is a certified shamanic practitioner, intuitive spirit medium, Akashic Records & Past life
reader/teacher, animal communicator, regression hypnotherapist, medical intuitive, & a Soul Alchemy Life Coach.
Her mission is to empower and illuminate the souls of others through a variety of modalities,
with the strongest modality of love. Through her compassionate nature, intuitive, trance, and empathic skills as well as her divinely strong multidimensional connection with spirit, she supports people in connecting back to who they are on a soul level, to uncover their superpowers, purpose, and deep connection to source & the elements. She is Co-owner of Branches of Vibrational Healing LLC.