Amanda Johnson
Southern California
President, Book Coach, & Editor, True to Intention

After graduating with a BA in Social Science/Secondary Education (Biola University), a certificate from Torrey Honors Institute, and a teaching credential (Chapman University), I set out to empower teens as a history teacher. I started substituting and found myself working with mostly high-risk teens — all dealing with enormous stress at home, at school, and in their hearts.

I was burning out quickly when I found Motivating the Teen Spirit and realized that these were the tools and skills my teens needed in order to see their worth, feel better, and focus on relationships and tasks that would lead to a bright future.

After using these tools to see my worth, heal my marriage, own my purpose, and shift some of my unhealthy behaviors, I consider myself blessed to be part of a team that helps teens who walk in to a Safe Space with pain and confusion walk out of it with clarity, confidence, commitment to a healthier and happier future, and the tools to make it happen.