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\n\t\t\tRachel, as CEO and Co-founder of Healing Springs Ranch, brings her personal journey as a family member of a loved one who struggled with unresolved trauma, mental health issues, and addictions. She observed firsthand some of the poor treatment programmings that failed to identify the core issues both with the individual struggling as well as the family unit. As a result, she chose to put her energy and heart into working with a team of talented founding partners and staff to create Healing Springs Ranch.<\/p>\n
Her personal mission is to affect change in addiction treatment by treating all aspects of the person and helping clients find meaning and purpose in their lives.\u00a0 And, create a supportive structure wherein families learn to understand the role they play with their loved ones and how they might best support those individuals in the healing of both the individual suffering and the entire family structure.<\/p>\n
Rachel has a long-standing entrepreneurial and corporate background in various segments of the healthcare industry. Her career encompasses multiple facets of the healthcare arena including addiction treatment, managed care, third party healthcare claims administration, and pharmaceutical benefits.<\/p>\n
In addition to her administrative role at Healing Springs, she is actively involved in the treatment program.\u00a0 She created and teaches the Leaders in Training curriculum, a weekly group, that helps clients identify their purpose at both the individual and community levels.\u00a0 She also facilitates the Executive Forum when needed which ties together personal growth and development to corporate\u00a0leaders\u00a0in treatment to better encourage peer to peer learning as it relates to the daily challenges of running a business both in and out of treatment.<\/p>\n
Rachel’s speaking platform,\u00a0\u00a0Evolve and Transform<\/a>\u00a0has taken her on a successful speaking journey across the globe speaking about addiction, compulsive behaviors, and finding meaning and purpose through life’s adversities.\u00a0 \u00a0She has become a sought-after international speaker with phenomenal feedback, to audiences of multi-continents including North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.<\/p>\n Rachel holds an MBA from LeTourneau University and a BBA from Baylor University. She is an active and contributing member of the\u00a0Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO)<\/a>.\u00a0 She holds Executive Board positions for Life Works Wellness, LLC<\/a>, and Life Works Foundation.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n She has been interviewed and featured in various publications, such as Inc Magazine throughout her career, including but not limited to, Inc. 500<\/a>,\u00a0Plaid for Women<\/a>,\u00a0Stagen Leadership Academy<\/a>\u00a0member story, featured on the Coast to Coast Recovery radio broadcast and\u00a0Coffee with Claire Podcast.<\/a> Rachel delivered her first\u00a0TEDx talk in Andrews, South Carolina<\/a>\u00a0on “Why Addiction is Everyone’s Disease.”<\/p>\n