Haley James is a speaker, advocate, designer, patient, youtuber, content creator, & podcast host. She is the CEO & Founder of interior design business Health & Home and the Health & Home podcast, the awareness apparel company The Chronic Collective, the dys-FUNCTIONAL Podcast, The Someone Needs To Hear Your Story Street Interview Show & Movement, The Purpose-Filled Podcast, & of It's Haley James Media.
Haley's journey as a speaker began as a patient, sharing her personal experience with specific conditions, & helping others navigate the road to diagnosis & treatment. Starting with just a few people here & there, her speaking engagements gradually expanded as she became more involved in disease-specific organizations, hosting statewide support groups, & speaking at online events.
As her health improved, Haley became more involved in chronic & rare disease advocacy, sharing her story & presentations with members of Congress & other patient advocates to try to make a difference for herself & others. As she continued to get stronger & more stable, she realized there was more to her story than just her medical journey.
She started to think about doing things in her life outside of her health & began to try to think of what jobs she would do, what her next steps would be, & what she actually wanted to do with her life. She realized she hadn't worked this hard to stay alive - just to come back to a life she wasn't absolutely in love with! The more she talked to others about this though, the more she realized that the majority of people she talked to were living a life they didn't really even like, let alone love!
Haley felt like there had to be another option, so she began digging into her passions & finding ways to tie them to jobs she could do, people she could love & advocate for, hobbies she enjoyed which led her to feeling like she was living in her purpose. Through this process, she started 3 businesses, 3 podcasts, 2 YouTube channels, made peace with her past, & learned to love herself & define what a purpose-filled life looked like for her. She naturally found her speaking engagements broadening from chronic illness & advocacy to also speaking on overcoming adversity, owning your story, finding your passion, & figuring out how to live in your purpose. Something started stirring in her as people began to contact her about how much they changed their lives from her talks.
Haley knew that speaking on this was something she was also naturally falling into as a space that helped propel her toward her own purpose. She worked to become a professional speaker not only to share her story & advocate, but to also help others create a life they truly loved living!
She has spent years honing her messages so that she is able to effectively share them with others with the hope that it will help them on their journey - whatever that may be. She would love to come alongside you and make a difference in people's lives and the world - together.