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Meet Michelle King of Positive Presence Global in Douglas County

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Today we’d like to introduce you to Michelle King.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Michelle. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
Michelle Marie King is a Colorado-based philanthropic leader, innovative entrepreneur and public speaker who has been blazing the country as a positivity activist and passionate visionary since the age of 16. Michelle’s first large-scale public speaking engagement as a teenager was in front of 5,000 people on the steps of the capital at the Inaugural Shaken Baby Syndrome Vigil. Her engaging and energetic personality coupled with her ability to motivate distinguished her then as a personal development trailblazer – a recognition she continues to resonate with.

Michelle found her passion for philanthropy as part of a Youth Team in high school. For four years, she and her cohorts toured the Midwest performing assembly-style presentations about acceptance, differences, and disabilities. Around the same time, she was ‘discovered’ as a model and after high school moved to Arizona to get signed with five international runway agencies. Over the next three years, she toured international runways and was featured in New York, Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas and LA Fashion Weeks.

With a dedicated passion for effecting positive change and her expansive modeling background – Michelle decided to return home in her early 20s to start consulting with nonprofits across the Midwest. Over the course of five years, Michelle helped thousands of nonprofits fundraise millions of dollars for positive causes coining the term – Positivity Activist!

Since then she has spoken across the country on topics including women and wealth, finding your inner beauty, becoming a passionate philanthropist and struggling with eating disorders. Michelle continues to be a public speaker at several women empowerment summits, young entrepreneur conferences, and women in business events across the country every year.

As a Former Ms. Colorado, she used her title to promote her platform of helping women of all ages find their inner beauty – a mission she continues through Positive Presence – a company she Founded in 2016. In three years – Positive Presence Global is now the largest confidence coaching company in North America.

Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
Life is never easy and the more you expand, the more you break to make way for the next greater version of yourself! I’ve rebirthed myself more times than I can count… and every time was hard and tumultuous. But…I would never want it any other way, for every break made me stronger than before!

– I’ve struggled with anorexia, bulimia and attempted to commit suicide as an international runway model
– I’ve constantly undervalued myself in this world of social media likes and photoshop realities
– I’ve compared myself over and over again to entrepreneurs who are more successful, more beautiful, more connected and more traveled than I
– I’ve experienced Postpartum Depression after giving birth to my daughter
– I’ve been bullied publicly in middle school, high school, in the modeling industry, in college, in business and as a mom
– I’ve been broke, I’ve been beaten and I have been broken-hearted more times than I can count
– I’ve been told I’m too fat, too thin, too tall, too short and have had my body, personality and presence judged every year of my life since I was 16

I am so grateful for all of these pains for they made me who I am today – a woman that I am proud to be!

Alright – so let’s talk business. Tell us about Positive Presence Global – what should we know?
At Positive Presence Global, it is our mission to enrich our student’s lives, empower every young adult and inspire the next generation to eradicate insignificance. We are an innovative company that is facilitating massive change in our culture for the next generation. We are a company of action takers and problem solvers, educators and motivators. Positive Presence runs deep in our veins not only as a platform for change but as a way of life.

The actual definition of Positive Presence is the ‘the confident state of existing’. And that’s exactly how we live, what we promote and what we strive to have our students around the globe achieve.

Through our six disciplines – the awakening, positive soul, positive mind, positive plan, positive presence and positive body – and our Degree in Me programs, we enrich, empower and inspire our students in every aspect of their life. In three years of coaching these disciplines, we have seen drastic life changes in our students. We’ve seen students anxietal tendencies fade away as they’ve found their purpose. We’ve seen depression replaced with ambition and inadequacies replaced by affirming beliefs. We believe and we have witnessed that when teenagers and young adults find confidence through these teachings, they find passion, purpose and a life worth living and discovering.

Through The Awakening – we awaken our students to the areas of their life where they are relinquishing control due to outside influence. Once you understand where you are losing control, you can take it back and that is personal power second-to-none.

Next is Positive Soul! We enable our students to sit with themselves and discover who they are with everything outside of them stripped away. We believe that the soul is the captain to the body and once your captain is self-sufficient and balanced – only then can you make positive decisions in the body.

In Positive Mind – we partner the brain, emotion and attitude to the soul and teach our students how to operate harmoniously to support positive transformation and effective communication.

Once our students become whole internally, we then give them to the tools to function efficiently externally. Positive Plan is all about the process of learning how to take inspired action using goal setting and habit forming techniques, affirmations and more.

Near the end of our programs, our students transcend to Positive Presence – the discipline that focuses on the ability to confidently and positively impact and empower self and others.

Finally, we focus on the body – the vessel that we are all gifted with. Through our capsule retreats, we incorporate group coaching on everything from health and fitness, hair & makeup, financial education and more allowing our students to cap off the program feeling completely transformed from the inside out.

Our degree in me programs are designed to give our students a formal degree in themselves. We envision a world where a degree in a me is an accolade taken as serious as a four year degree.

We recently announced the Positive Presence Foundation, our nonprofit arm of Positive Presence Global, providing scholarships to students in need. We’ve also launched Positive Presence Store – our online store that sells positive merchandise, affirmation cards, books and more launching worldwide Summer 2019. Over the next year, we plan to launch our online Degree in Me e-learning platform, our global coaching certification program and an ambassador program for our students to mentor and support students younger then them. The Positive Presence generation is on the rise!

Any shoutouts? Who else deserves credit in this story – who has played a meaningful role?
My mom and dad have been my biggest supporters since before I became a model. They’ve rescued me during all of my breaking points when I was younger. Without them, I wouldn’t be anywhere close to where I am today – they were incredible contrast in my life and for that I am so grateful.

My husband (Adam) took over the support role from my parents when I was 24 and has since been my biggest fan, my rock and my confidant. He believed in my vision and my drive, before even I did when I first started my company almost four years ago.

My daughter (Savannah) is the reason why I started Positive Presence. When I had her almost five years ago, she birthed a renewed sense of passion and purpose in myself. I wanted to make the world a better place for her, so I started striving to make the world a better place for the people she’s going to look up to. Without her, Positive Presence might not have ever been born!

Since I started my company, I have had an so many people that have come and gone in my business – coaches, community partners, friends, acquaintances… some ended peacefully and some ended the opposite, but looking back, every relationship has shaped this company into what it is today. Like my own breaking points, Positive Presence experiences pains through its rebirths every time. I’m grateful for all the wrong turns!

To the ones that stuck – Verona Matthews, Michael Sutton, Stephie Davies, Kendrick & Jenni Howard, Nicole Toledo, Jenn Green, Craig Kaley, Inspyre Boutique and Janell Krump – thank you for having such passion for Positive Presence.

This past year, I have been so fortunate to have a group of connected, positive and successful women in Douglas County be a part of my Board of Advisors for my company and Board of Directors for our nonprofit. Cindy, Shaylee, Bear and Jan – I’m so humbled by your faith and unwavering support!

And finally… I am so grateful for the hundreds of clients and students I have been fortunate to coach and work with over the past four years. It has been my greatest honor to not only coach but learn from every person that I’ve worked with.

And to all the future contributors, supporters, fans, partners, investors and clients to come – I’m looking forward to meeting you and thank you in advance for being a part of Positive Presence!

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Michelle Marie King Headshot – Blue Talon Photography

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