Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews
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Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews discusses her challenging upbringing, her resilience, and her journey to becoming an ordained chaplain in Nevada. She also shares her experiences with institutional abuse in healthcare, religious organizations, and academia, and the impact of her faith as a source of strength. Kelsey emphasizes the importance of servant leadership in addressing unethical behavior and the need for accountability.
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Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews
Description:
Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews discusses her challenging upbringing, her resilience, and her journey to becoming an ordained chaplain in Nevada. She also shares her experiences with institutional abuse in healthcare, religious organizations, and academia, and the impact of her faith as a source of strength. Kelsey emphasizes the importance of servant leadership in addressing unethical behavior and the need for accountability.
The two dive into Kelsey’s recent TEDx talk titled “Servant’s First,” where Kelsey challenges institutions, making people come face to face with tough truths!
She also discusses her new consulting firm, Phoenix Rising Coaching and Consulting, which aims to support women who have experienced abuse and trauma. Kelsey passionately describes her decision to enroll in the Maxwell Leadership Program, highlighting the wealth of knowledge and benefits it offers.
Kelsey candidly shares her experiences with institutional abuse and the challenges of speaking out against it. She emphasizes the need for individuals to fearlessly address corruption within institutions and encourages others to adopt a similar bold stance.
Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews discusses her role as an ordained chaplain in Nevada and her experiences working with the Chaplaincy Nevada. She highlights the impact of her work as a spiritual first responder and her contribution to a bestselling book titled "Grace Is." Matthews also shares her deeply personal experiences, including the loss of her mother and the challenges she faced with institutional abuse.
Bio:
Kelsey Elizabeth Matthews is a 25-year-old first-generation college graduate, Truman Scholar, mental health professional, best-selling author, advocate, public speaker, ordained chaplain, and four-time pageant titleholder across Connecticut and Nevada.
Born just three pounds and addicted to cocaine, Kelsey was raised in East Haven, Connecticut. She moved to Las Vegas by herself at 18 years old to establish Nevada residency and put herself through college. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Social Work degree from her dream school, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Class of 2023.
Professionally, she worked as a rehabilitative mental health provider before going on to spend many years in the non-profit sector, specializing in community engagement and program management. Her areas of focus have included mental health, suicide prevention, and substance abuse, advocating passionately to bring awareness to the drug and opioid crisis that took her mother's life in 2016.
Kelsey has a heart for survivors of emotional and verbal abuse, especially at institutional levels. After being raised in a psychological war zone due to familial narcissistic abuse, she went on to experience similar cycles of abuse at the hands of professionals and institutions three separate times in her adulthood. This has since prompted her newfound passion for leadership and her desire to be an advocate for others who have been harmed at the hands of institutions that they trusted.
Kelsey is the Founder and CEO of Phoenix Rising Coaching and Consulting, LLC. In addition to launching a podcast, publishing books, and motivational speaking, she aspires to coach women who are recovering from trauma, abuse, and or neglect by helping them master their mindsets and find beauty amidst the ashes of their pain as they transform from victim to victor and unleash the phoenix within them that is waiting to rise. In the future, Kelsey also plans to begin providing coaching, consulting, and training to leaders in all spheres of influence. She hopes to one day create her own training program based on her TEDx talk, Servants First, which will focus specifically on professionals and institutional leaders.
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