Impact & Praises
The proof is in the people.
Organized by the kind of proof it offers — organizations, readers, individuals, and the young adults this platform was built alongside.
Featured Testimonial — On Video
Hear it firsthand.
Randy Peyser, CEO of Author One Stop, Inc., on working with Gail — recorded in her own words, unscripted.
Randy Peyser
CEO, Author One Stop, Inc.
Watch on YouTubeFor Organizations
Teams and communities, steadier afterward.
"Gail implanted an important seed in our community."
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Gail implanted an important seed in our community. She reminded us how to step outside our comfort zone, and to acknowledge our worth. Worthiness is more important than I ever realized. She was able to engage well with, and articulate that message, to our leadership team and to a diverse group of our teens, as we prepare them for the workplace.
Faina Buker
Training Academy Coordinator, Austin17 House
"I have walked away from every conversation with Gail feeling authentically witnessed, held in compassion and deeply validated."
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Over the past 15 months, I have had the honor of getting to know Gail Kauranen Jones both personally and professionally. In that time, I have experienced her amazing intuition, insight and capacity for truly seeing the person she is speaking with. I have walked away from every conversation with Gail feeling authentically witnessed, held in compassion and deeply validated — including all my humanness and imperfections. As the former Project Coordinator for the Narragansett Prevention Partnership in Rhode Island, I created programs and clubs to address stress management, mental health awareness and destigmatization of open conversation for the middle school and high school students in my community. Through many face-to-face discussions, and as a mother, I witnessed first-hand the destructive powers of negative self-comparison that our youth experience every day via social media and almost constant on-line exposure. Let's be honest, no one airs the messy parts of their lives online. So, in the privacy of their own minds, our youth are comparing their real, human selves to a curated, perfected, pseudo life that others felt safe to present to the world. Gail's Worthiness Platform and new book, Born Worthy, speaks to the heart of the unique needs of this world's current young generations. She offers a glimpse into the real lives of peers to break the walls of feeling alone and purposeful practices to help rewire neural pathways to enhance confidence, self-worth and holistic health. I can't wait to watch this unfold!
Renae S Martin, RN, BSN, BS, HWNC-BC, HNB-BC
Cardiac Nurse; Holistic Health & Longevity Coach; Founder, The Wellness Flame, LLC
"The entire group commented on how empowered and energized they felt."
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Profound, heart-felt and credible wisdom was shared by Gail that is invaluable. We all loved the practical tips she shared for sustaining a higher vibration and I began to apply these tactics immediately. The entire group commented on how empowered and energized they felt by the session. Pure love.
Amy Warren
Collaborative Visionary workshops, Raleigh, NC
"Gail brings authenticity and fun as she weaves together ancient and cutting-edge teachings."
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Gail Jones lives her personal calling. She loves, breathes and generously shares her passion for personal transformation and spiritual uplift from her heart and with a deep reservoir of knowledge. Gail brings authenticity and fun as she weaves together ancient and cutting-edge teachings with spiritual, mind/body, and emotional growth practices.
Sharon Spector, MS
Transformational Life Coach · CIVANA Wellness Resort, Carefree, AZ
For Readers
Professional endorsements of the work.
Clinicians, educators, and bestselling authors on Born Worthy and the books that came before it.
"It illuminates a path forward for meeting the mental health needs of our young people — one relationship at a time."
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Gail Kauranen Jones has done a remarkable job bringing forward the brave voices of teens and young adults seeking meaning and connection in a distracted and materialistic world in her book, Born Worthy. Citing the false promise of social media as a means of 'connection,' these wise souls have learned that there are no substitutes for human relationships. Their honest stories serve as canaries in the coal mine, telling us through their struggles what threatens their well-being and what they need from the adults in their lives to thrive. Neurobiology tells us that we are all hard-wired to scan the environment for safety or threat. The presence of one loving relationship to send cues of safety to our nervous systems has the power to release 'feel good' hormones (serotonin, oxytocin, dopamine) associated with trust, bonding, and well-being. Gail's careful listening and attuned presence offers these youth exactly that, reminding them of their innate value, their worthiness and dignity. It is an example we can all follow to support the young people in our lives. Her unique blend of heart-centered interviewing combined with her developmental and worthiness lens, reminds them that they are not fixed beings determined by their past, but ever-growing and evolving people with a purpose and uniqueness the world needs. This is a book about resilience, acceptance, and the need for human relationships. It illuminates a path forward for meeting the mental health needs of our young people — one relationship at a time.
Beth Dowd, M.Ed., Harvard University
Early Relational Health and Developmental Movement Therapist
"If you or anyone in your life is feeling lost, this book is a beacon of light in the darkness."
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When we are lost, we desperately need a map. As a society, we have a generation of young people who are struggling — for so many reasons — to find their way. Gail Kauranen Jones' latest book, Born Worthy, is our desperately needed roadmap to wellness. Using the poignant voices and stories of teens and young adults, Jones listens and then guides them (and us) to a better understanding of the challenges we face. Rather than just acknowledging the problems of youth, Jones' coaching voice then gives us both direction and hope, leading us back to our best selves where we experience the transformative power of worthiness. The reach of this book is wide and deep — you don't need to be a young person to benefit from the power of the stories or the timeless wisdom of her coaching. If you or anyone in your life is feeling lost, this book is a beacon of light in the darkness.
Doug Bolton, PhD
Clinical psychologist and educational leader; author of Untethered: Creating Connected Families, Schools and Communities to Raise a Resilient Generation
"Gail gets this next essential generation dreaming again."
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Help is here! Gail's book provides insights and leading-edge tools based on neuroscience and energy psychology, offering advanced approaches and skill sets for thriving in this new world. Gail gets this next essential generation dreaming again and helps them develop the courage and capacity to co-create a better, more connected world.
Marci Shimoff
#1 NY Times bestselling author, Happy for No Reason & Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul
"Born Worthy doesn't lecture or diagnose — it listens."
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Born Worthy doesn't lecture or diagnose — it listens. Readers are invited into the inner world of young people navigating identity, healing, and pressure in today's world. This book offers meaningful insights. It highlights the power of being heard, the need for self-trust, and the quiet strength in choosing a different path.
Giovanna Navarro, RN, BSN, NC-BC, HMCT
Author of Burn Bright, Not Out
On Cancer as a Love Story
"A 'must read' for anyone with cancer, their family, and healthcare providers."
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A very compassionate and educational book. A 'must read' for anyone with cancer, anyone who has a family member with cancer, and for healthcare providers. It will change their lives.
Dr. Ann Webster
Health psychologist; former director, Mind Body Program for Cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital
For Individuals
Coaching transformations, in their own words.
"One three-hour session with Gail was equal to a year's worth of work."
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Intuitive. Remarkable. Amazing. Profound. Validating. Transformational. These are just a few words to describe working with Gail. One three-hour session with Gail was equal to a year's worth of work.
Kathy Dempsey
One of the top healthcare speakers in the country, change expert and award-winning author, Scottsdale, AZ
"She has an intuitive gift of creating fast breakthroughs."
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I learned more in one session with Gail than years of other types of counseling. She caught blocks no one else had captured before — she has an intuitive gift of creating fast breakthroughs. I am so excited to be well on my way now to a new version of my own 'Happily Ever After.' This inner work, the time I took away to pause inwardly (even while running a business), has been such an investment in myself, with such great dividends.
Cindy Kemp
Entrepreneur, Scottsdale and Sedona, AZ
"Always empowering, with a focus on filling me up so I can go out and take on the world."
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What can I say about Gail. She is an amazing, intuitive coach, mentor, counselor, and a prolific writer. I have been working with Gail for almost one year and have thoroughly enjoyed learning from her. As a woman CEO and business co-founder, I find myself wearing so many different hats being pulled in different directions. Sometimes I question my worthiness and deal with imposter syndrome. Gail has given me many positive tools to rise above this kind of 'noise' and misdirection. She has also helped me rethink how I handle external speaking requests and other requests for my expertise which was so much fun to develop with her. I enjoy how our coaching sessions are part coaching, part counseling, part you-go-girl moments, spiritual if needed, and always empowering with a focus on filling me up so I can go out and take on the world!! — and be the amazing leader that I was born to be. She's a true gem, and I am grateful to have her on my 'personal' executive board. I highly recommend her.
Dr. EV Shelley
E-Mobility consultant, CEO and business co-founder — coaching client since 2023
"Claiming my worthiness to live is my number one goal as I travel life with cancer."
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Working with Gail has brought a new level of growth to my concept of worthiness. Just when I thought I understood the self-worth element of life, Gail has opened my eyes to even more ways to accept myself and achieve what I want and deserve. Using tools and exercises through neuroscience, EFT tapping, meditation, and vision boarding, we have unearthed new ways for me to guide myself and set boundaries. Claiming my worthiness to live is my number one goal as I travel life with cancer.
Ellen Williamson
Worthiness to live
"We were able to rebuild my sense of worthiness to live my best life."
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Through her 'clearing' techniques, and expertise in neuroscience, we were able to break down the self-imposed walls that I had built up over the years. Gail's intuitive style, compassionate and loving presence, calming voice, and gentle determination took me to my core. From there, we were able to rebuild my sense of worthiness to live my best life.
Doug Campbell
Boston, MA — worthiness in retirement
"I trusted and believed in myself for the first time in 57 years."
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Her unique style of coaching, in combination with an array of tools utilizing neuroscience, EFT, and other energy healing techniques, helped me trust and believe in myself for the first time in 57 years! As a frontline anesthetic nurse during COVID-19, no words or techniques have embraced me as much as Gail's calm, heart-centered sessions where I learned self-acceptance, and gained greater clarity and belief in my dreams.
Brenda Fernandes
United Kingdom — frontline nurse
"I'm quite simply blown away with my progress."
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Gail has the most remarkable talent for honing in on the beliefs that keep us stuck in the past and then helping create new empowering ones. I've studied NLP and neurofeedback and I actively work at self-improvement. I'm quite simply blown away with my progress since we've been working together.
Dr. Brett Hightower
Midtown Chiropractic and Acupuncture
"Even after 40 years of marriage, we deepened our connection."
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Even after 40 years of marriage, we deepened our connection thanks to Gail's knowledge and diversity of techniques. She brought us to a clearer understanding of each other's personality, prosperity beliefs and misperceptions of our worthiness. Gail is a gold mine of resources, well trained in the latest in neuroscience and energy psychology work.
Denise Souza
Denise Souza Wellness — worthiness to love
Teens & Young Adults (as coached by Gail)
Young people don't need convincing. They need to be heard.
Sarah's Story
From college uncertainty to a values-aligned life.
"When I first worked with Gail, I was an 18-year-old college student navigating the uncertainty and isolation of the pandemic. She helped me strengthen my sense of worthiness during a time when so much felt out of my control."
"Four years later, I feel grounded, optimistic, connected, and clear about the direction I want my life to take. I learned to make value-based decisions — getting clear about what truly matters to me and allowing those values to guide my choices."
"I now understand that my worth is not defined by achievements or external expectations. It comes from knowing who I am and creating a life aligned with what matters most."
— Sarah, young professional (coached by Gail as an 18-year-old college student)
Honoring her intuition and values
She honored her intuition to switch colleges halfway through, after spending time getting clear about her values — something she encourages younger teens to do as early as they can. She also advised teens to step back from social media: "It is too superficial and hateful. Learn how to connect with others naturally in person, not just through the phone. It will lead to better relationships and better self-esteem."
As Sarah grew her sense of self-worth, her relationships changed. Instead of feeling insecure and fearing "there was something bad lurking around the corner," she now feels greatly loved and supported by friends, family, and her boyfriend. "The biggest actions they take to make me feel seen, heard, validated and acknowledged in my worthiness are they always make time to ask me how life is going — even if it is just a simple text — talk to me about hard decisions and emotions, never making me feel ashamed or embarrassed for the emotions I have. All these love-based actions make me feel secure in these relationships, like I don't have to question if they care about me."
She loves her first clinical job post-college in the medical field of neurophysiology, having tweaked her original dream of becoming a doctor in favor of a more balanced life.
"Make value-based decisions. If you take the time to identify your values and make choices aligned with them, you will feel more content and prouder of yourself."
Teaching worthiness to college students whose world "was rocked" by the pandemic
"Gail Kauranen Jones found me in a very lost and sad place. Within 30 minutes of our first session I felt so connected and safe talking to her. She helped me identify patterns in my life that were negatively affecting me and taught me how to break them and replace them with healthier ones. I am beyond grateful for her help and am so happy with the new positive journey I am on! Thanks again, Gail."
— Summer Hightower
18-year-old college student
Parents & High School Seniors
Transition to College — for the whole family.
From the workshop series "Transitioning Your Child and Family to Life Beyond High School" at Masconomet Regional High School, serving Boxford, Topsfield and Middleton, MA — helping families navigate separation, identity, and expectation together rather than separately. That curriculum is the root of today's parenting and young-adult work.
"We were able to 'let go' more skillfully and with less angst."
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So much of a child's senior year is focused on all the tasks and deadlines of getting into college. Gail's seminars helped my husband and me pause and understand this major milestone as an emotional journey, where the childhood ends and new responsibilities of becoming more independent commence. Using her lifetime of transition expertise, Gail guided us into our new role as our child's mentor, and also taught us how our family dynamics will change. Her group processes helped us share our experiences and connect with other parents. As a result, when our daughter left for college in September, we were able to 'let go' more skillfully and with less angst.
Mary Jelinek
Topsfield, MA
"The topics and group discussions were right on target with what was to come."
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I am so glad that I took the transitions course with Gail Jones. The topics and group discussions were right on target with what was to come as I prepared to send my first child off to college. Having the information and having some idea what to expect helped to make the transition much smoother than it might have been otherwise. Gail's warmth and caring set a very positive, supportive tone for our group and helped me to feel at ease with her as our facilitator and also with the other parents in the group. The course helped me to be able to see beyond the immediate phase of transition to the opportunities that lie ahead for the next season of my life.
Denise Aldridge
Boxford, MA
"It was a gift, not just for us as parents, but also for our son."
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Preparing for a son or daughter to leave home for school for the first time can be an emotional roller coaster. By taking Gail Jones' workshop before our family's upcoming transition, I was able to focus on the 'big picture' and see real benefits of preparing ourselves with practical advice for the change of dynamics. We were able to anticipate issues and have productive conversations, as well as set expectations for all. It was a gift, not just for us as parents, but also for our son who now attends a private high school as a boarding student.
Christine Dwyer
Boxford, MA