Center for AUTHENTIC LIVING
AUTHENTIC LIVING
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About JUDE SMITH
JUDE SMITH is an Interfaith Minister, and she expresses herself in the world in many different ways. As an Interfaith Minister, she sees the commonality of the world's spiritual and wisdom traditions. A teacher at heart, her passion is to lead others along their own spiritual paths.
Jude is the Executive Director of the CENTER FOR AUTHENTIC LIVING, an organization committed to reminding people who they are, and to providing the tools to live from that higher place. In addition to facilitating group programs geared towards spiritual awakening, Jude is an authorized guide of the Casa de Dom Inacio in Abadiania, Brazil, the spiritual home of trance healer John of God, and she regularly leads group travel to Brazil. She is also an active interfaith and non-denominational wedding and ceremonies officiant, crafting customized ceremonies that capture life's transitions in ceremonies that are sacred, elegant, meaningful, and transformative.
Jude has been a radio personality, with her radio show, LIFE TALK airing to a weekly audience of over 300,000 listeners. She has degrees in Psychology and Business Administration, and an advanced degree in Education. She is a respected educator, and has created core curriculum for the New York State Education Department that is still being taught to millions of school children. She is a fluent writer, has been a newspaper columnist, and is currently writing her book, Common Courage – A Journey of Awakening. She has been active in the field of personal and professional development throughout the US and Canada, producing seminars for self-made billionaire entrepreneur Bill Bartmann on topics of personal and business success. A skilled presenter herself, Jude partnered with Dave Austin, former world-ranked tennis professional and major record label executive, in the creation of Mindworks2, touching the hearts of thousands at events throughout the country.
But the word that truly embodies the spirit of JUDE SMITH is teacher. For Jude brings her innate ability to teach, and her warm and personal style to all that she does. Formerly a classroom teacher, Jude remains beholden to her youngest students, for they taught her to find joy in everyday things like fairy tales coming true, worms, peanut butter, and snow.
Jude is the Executive Director of the CENTER FOR AUTHENTIC LIVING, an organization committed to reminding people who they are, and to providing the tools to live from that higher place. In addition to facilitating group programs geared towards spiritual awakening, Jude is an authorized guide of the Casa de Dom Inacio in Abadiania, Brazil, the spiritual home of trance healer John of God, and she regularly leads group travel to Brazil. She is also an active interfaith and non-denominational wedding and ceremonies officiant, crafting customized ceremonies that capture life's transitions in ceremonies that are sacred, elegant, meaningful, and transformative.
Jude has been a radio personality, with her radio show, LIFE TALK airing to a weekly audience of over 300,000 listeners. She has degrees in Psychology and Business Administration, and an advanced degree in Education. She is a respected educator, and has created core curriculum for the New York State Education Department that is still being taught to millions of school children. She is a fluent writer, has been a newspaper columnist, and is currently writing her book, Common Courage – A Journey of Awakening. She has been active in the field of personal and professional development throughout the US and Canada, producing seminars for self-made billionaire entrepreneur Bill Bartmann on topics of personal and business success. A skilled presenter herself, Jude partnered with Dave Austin, former world-ranked tennis professional and major record label executive, in the creation of Mindworks2, touching the hearts of thousands at events throughout the country.
But the word that truly embodies the spirit of JUDE SMITH is teacher. For Jude brings her innate ability to teach, and her warm and personal style to all that she does. Formerly a classroom teacher, Jude remains beholden to her youngest students, for they taught her to find joy in everyday things like fairy tales coming true, worms, peanut butter, and snow.
Jude’s motivation has always been her yearning to know more and her thirst for living life fully, followed by her desire to then share what she has learned with others, in ways that are experienced, not just understood. Jude is deeply moved by the strength and beauty of those with whom she works, and her desire is for others to see themselves through her eyes.