Introducing Best Ever You Academy: Personal Growth, Coaching, and Courses for Life
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman Proudly Introduce Best Ever You Academy! "This is an exciting new destination for personal growth, coaching, courses, certification, and learning that makes a difference."
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman are proud to introduce Best Ever You Academy, a new online destination for people who want to learn something meaningful, make positive changes, develop new skills, and discover what becoming their best selves can look like in everyday life.
For Elizabeth and Katie, the Academy represents an exciting new chapter in a collaboration that has spanned more than a decade. The two bestselling authors, educators, and longtime friends have spent years exploring what it means to navigate change, redefine success, practice peace, and live with greater gratitude, compassion, and purpose. They've written books together, developed programs, shared countless conversations, and worked with people facing everything from everyday challenges to extraordinary life circumstances. Now they're bringing that experience, knowledge, and passion for helping others together in one place.
Welcome to Best Ever You Academy!
The Academy offers a growing collection of online courses, coaching opportunities, masterclasses, professional certification programs, and educational resources designed to help people put what they learn into practice. Whether someone is interested in becoming a certified life coach, strengthening leadership skills, navigating a major life transition, exploring personal growth, or simply discovering something new, the Academy provides opportunities to learn at their own pace and pursue what matters most to them. Some offerings are completely free, while others provide more structured educational experiences and professional development.
A Natural Next Chapter for Best Ever You
Best Ever You was founded by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino in 2008 with gratitude at its foundation and a mission to help people become their best selves. Since then, the network has grown into a global platform through books, articles, coaching, conferences, educational programs, and The Best Ever You Show, which launched in 2010 and has reached millions of listeners. Dr. Katie Eastman became a frequent co-host of the podcast beginning in 2012, and together they have welcomed inspiring guests and explored the challenges, choices, and experiences that shape our lives.
Through those conversations and years of working with individuals and organizations, Elizabeth and Katie recognized something important: People appreciate inspiration, but they also want practical tools they can use. They want to understand how to navigate difficult situations, strengthen their relationships, develop confidence, explore new opportunities, and make meaningful changes in their lives. Best Ever You Academy grew from that understanding and a shared desire to make learning more accessible, personal, and useful.
The Academy builds upon the Best Ever You mission while creating a dedicated home for courses, coaching, certification, and professional development. Best Ever You® continues to offer its free articles, podcast episodes, interviews, and inspirational resources, while the Academy provides additional opportunities for people who want to explore particular subjects more deeply or develop new personal and professional skills.
From Percolate to Best Ever You Academy
There's something especially fitting about Elizabeth and Katie creating an Academy together. In 2014, they coauthored Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through, published by Hay House. The book explored how our thoughts, habits, choices, and perspectives influence the lives we create, using the familiar experience of making coffee as a way to understand personal growth and transformation.
The philosophy behind Percolate has always been that becoming our best selves is an ongoing process. Just as a great cup of coffee depends on what goes into it, the quality of our lives is influenced by what we choose to nurture, practice, and prioritize. Sometimes that means changing an old habit, approaching a challenge differently, developing a new skill, or recognizing that we're capable of something we haven't yet attempted. More than a decade later, that philosophy continues to guide their work, and Best Ever You Academy provides a new way to share it through practical education, coaching, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
What You'll Find at Best Ever You Academy
Best Ever You Academy draws from decades of professional experience, established coaching practices, clinical expertise, bestselling books, and the lessons Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman have learned from working directly with individuals, families, leaders, and organizations throughout their careers.
Elizabeth brings her experience as a Certified Master Coach, corporate executive, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder and CEO of Best Ever You, combining her background in business leadership, coaching, and personal development to help people navigate change, redefine success, develop resilience, and achieve meaningful personal and professional growth.
Dr. Katie brings more than forty years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, Master Grief & Transition Coach, educator, author, and organizational change consultant, with extensive expertise in grief, loss, trauma, caregiving, relationships, and significant life transitions. Together, they have created an educational platform that reflects their complementary professional backgrounds and shared commitment to providing practical knowledge, meaningful learning experiences, and tools people can use in their everyday lives.
The Academy also draws upon the books and educational frameworks they have developed individually and together. Elizabeth's The Change Guidebook and The Success Guidebook offer practical approaches to navigating transitions, setting meaningful goals, developing resilience, and defining success on your own terms. Katie's UPLIFTING reflects her decades of experience helping people understand loss, find meaning, and navigate life's most difficult circumstances. Their collaborative books, Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through and The Peace Guidebook, bring together their perspectives on personal transformation, compassion, emotional well-being, and the everyday practice of peace. These works reflect years of professional practice, research, personal experience, and conversations with people whose stories have helped shape their understanding of how individuals grow, adapt, heal, and move forward.
Through the Academy, those ideas and experiences become the foundation for personal growth courses, practical exercises, masterclasses, coaching programs, leadership development, and professional certification opportunities. Participants can explore subjects ranging from managing stress, strengthening relationships, and navigating grief to building confidence, making meaningful changes, redefining success, and becoming more effective leaders. For individuals interested in coaching professionally, the Academy also provides opportunities to pursue coaching education and certification grounded in the Best Ever You® approach. Elizabeth and Katie want participants to come away from their learning experiences with useful knowledge, greater understanding, and practical strategies they can apply to their own circumstances.
As the Academy grows, additional courses, masterclasses, professional development opportunities, and collaborations will be introduced, bringing new perspectives and areas of expertise to the learning community.
Introducing Practicing Peace: A Free 12-Lesson Audio Course
One of the first courses available through Best Ever You Academy is Practicing Peace, a completely free 12-lesson audio course featuring Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman. Inspired by their work together on The Peace Guidebook: How to Cultivate Hope, Healing, and Harmony for the Good of Humankind, the course offers practical insights and everyday approaches to navigating stress, difficult emotions, relationships, grief, caregiving, health challenges, life transitions, self-worth, and personal peace.
The lessons reflect Elizabeth and Katie's shared belief that peace is something we can practice, even when life is complicated. Rather than presenting peace as an ideal reserved for quiet moments or perfect circumstances, the course explores how thoughtful choices, greater self-awareness, compassion, and understanding can influence the way we experience challenges and respond to others. All twelve lessons are available now, completely free, and listeners can enjoy them at their own pace.
The course also connects naturally with the mission of the Percolate Peace Project, co-founded by Elizabeth and Katie with the goal of inspiring one million people to practice peace through everyday kindness, compassion, and meaningful action.
Their message, Pause. Breathe. Choose., encourages people to recognize the difference that even small, intentional choices can make in their relationships, communities, and the world.
Welcome to Best Ever You Academy
For Elizabeth and Katie, launching Best Ever You Academy is an opportunity to bring their shared work into a new setting while continuing to develop courses and programs that reflect the subjects they care about most. They're looking forward to welcoming people who have followed Best Ever You over the years, introducing their work to new audiences, and collaborating with other professionals who share their commitment to education and personal development.
They invite you to explore the Academy, discover the courses and resources available, and join them as this new chapter unfolds.
Welcome to Best Ever You Academy. Let Your Best Self Filter Through.
About the Cofounders
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is a bestselling, award-winning author, speaker, Certified Master Coach, entrepreneur, and business leader with decades of experience in leadership, personal development, coaching, and organizational growth. She is the founder and CEO of Best Ever You®, a global personal development network established in 2008, and the longtime host of The Best Ever You Show, which has reached millions of listeners worldwide. Elizabeth is the author of the award-winning The Change Guidebook and The Success Guidebook, and coauthor with Dr. Katie Eastman of The Peace Guidebook and the Hay House book Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through. Drawing upon her experience as a corporate executive, coach, author, and educator, Elizabeth helps individuals, leaders, and organizations navigate change, redefine success, develop resilience, cultivate peace, and achieve meaningful personal and professional growth. She is also cofounder of the Percolate Peace Project and Best Ever You Academy, where she continues her commitment to helping people recognize their potential, develop practical life skills, and become their best selves.
Dr. Katie Eastman, Psy.D., LICSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, Master Grief & Transition Coach, organizational change consultant, bestselling author, educator, and speaker with more than 40 years of experience helping individuals, families, and organizations navigate grief, loss, illness, trauma, caregiving, and life transitions. She is the author of UPLIFTING: Inspiring Stories of Loss, Change, and Growth and coauthor with Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino of The Peace Guidebook and Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through. Through her counseling, coaching, teaching, speaking, and consulting, Katie helps people recognize the often-unacknowledged losses beneath life's challenges, rediscover meaning, and approach change with greater understanding, resilience, and compassion. She is also cofounder of the Percolate Peace Project and Best Ever You Academy.
Together, Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman are cofounders of Best Ever You Academy and the Percolate Peace Project, united by a commitment to helping people learn, grow, and create positive change in their lives and communities.
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