Theory and Training by Janika Byington
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MINE
"I'm every woman. It's all in me."
I find a way to do stuff, baby,
With neuroplasticity.
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My ability to be intelligent, creative, socially engaging, and produce physical results is the effect of having multiple neural connections within and across each of my four neural needs networks. How do I know this? I'm such a genius I figured it out myself.
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As I studied a variety of subjects in compulsory schools and college classes, I always had a remarkable memory. Everything I learned stuck. But I was never content with the answers or "facts" I was given. Whatever class I was in, whatever activity I was doing, I always wanted to connect it to other things I was learning and doing.
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But I had so much internal conflict because everywhere I went I found new things I loved, was interested in, and things I was good at, but there was a constant message that I had to "pick one." And my interests were so diverse and unrelated that it has taken me decades to just accept that I DON'T HAVE TO PICK ONE. I can be anything and everything. Benjamin Franklin was a very useful role model for me. Science, arts, politics, philosophy; he saw life in an unlimited way. And he lived long enough to really develop and utilize his capacity to embrace the fullness of the human experience.
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THE SHORT VERSION
I am 5'2" There is only a short version of me.
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I was raised in rural Nevada. I was in third grade when Ronald Reagan was elected. Singing and performing were all that mattered to me. That is about when I learned I could do a British accent (thank you Julie Andrews) and imitate Miss Piggy. I also took ballet classes at this time. Oops. Shorter version.
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I started beauty school 6 days after I graduated from High School and spent 4 years as an active cosmetologist. The income helped me pay for my community college classes in "elective studies." I took music theater, broadcasting, choir, and English.
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Then I got married and had four kids. Then I got divorced and had a mental break down. Then I got remarried and had twins. But he also had two kids of his own. So all together we were a blended family of 10.
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Then I got divorced again. Then I got married again. Then I got divorced again. All that took 21 years. I lived my life inside the walls of my own home for men who ended up leaving me. That pretty much sucked. But I adore my six children and would not undo those choices.
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After my first divorce I decided to prioritize education and started studying social science and education. But then I decided I didn't like the school system and I didn't want to work in it, so I studied business management so I could back up my plans to take over the world.
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After getting out of high school I realized how much I enjoyed science. So I did independent study in chemistry, physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and geology. But as appealing as the hard sciences were, I also loved the social sciences. Sociology, ecology, political science, economics, education, and anthropology.
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Then there was my interest in epistemology, Ethics, aesthetics, logic, and religion. But it was psychology that held my interest the most.
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But all that still wasn't making me money. I also studied marketing, sales, and real estate independently for most of the intervening time.
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But my first love is my forever love. My passion is the arts. I love voice, piano, and theater, as well as ballet, tap, and jazz dance. Then, of course I love exploring my skills in literary arts. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and songwriting.
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So with all my skills and studies, I finally decided that I could be a world influencer and it would not diminish my role as a mom in anyway. Duh, right?
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And I lived happily ever after, continuing the pattern of a lifetime of bipolar peaks and lulls, ever better at managing the torrent within.
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