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Liz Murray

An American inspirational speaker who is best known as having been homeless in her youth, and as having overcome her hardship to achieve success.

Murray was born in the Bronx, New York, to poor, and drug-addicted parents who would later each contract HIV. She became homeless just after she turned 15, when her mother died of AIDS, and her father moved to a homeless shelter. Murray's life turned around when she began attending the Humanities Preparatory Academy in Chelsea, Manhattan.Though she started high school later than most students, and remained without a stable home while supporting herself and her sister, Murray graduated in only two years. She was awarded a New York Times scholarship for needy students and was accepted into Harvard University, matriculating in the fall semester of 2000. She left Harvard in 2001 to care for her sick father and to start motivational speaking; she resumed her education at Columbia University to be closer to him. According to her book Breaking Night, her older sister, Lisa, graduated from Purchase College in New York State and is a school teacher for autistic children. In late 2006, her father died of AIDS. She eventually returned to Harvard in 2006 and graduated in June 2009. As of August 2009, she had begun taking graduate courses at Harvard Summer School and would like to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology to counsel people from all walks of life. She is the founder and director of Manifest Living, a company that provides a series of workshops that empower adults to create the extraordinary things in their lives.

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If you're wondering what this training is about, it's about your life. It's about that little voice inside that nags and pushes and dreams and says "what if?" What if I took a risk and actually stepped into the life I envision, now? What if, from this moment forward, it could be different? What if it actually is possible to lead the life I know is authentic and rewarding to me?

Manifest Living's "Breakthrough Workshop" is an invitation into what is possible for you, and for the lives of those you touch. It is an honest, unblinking look at what holds you back, and a powerful training in tools to get beyond those roadblocks—FINALLY.

Who takes the workshops at Manifest Living? Successful people committed to being more successful. We have Doctors, Teachers, CEOs of fortune 500 companies, Students, Homemakers, Leaders of Non-Profits and people from all walks of life come through our doors. What we all have in common in the training is a commitment to have our lives be fulfilling—to experience a renewed vitality and sense of purpose.

In Manifest Living's "Breakthrough Workshop" you will:

Experience newfound purpose in your personal and professional goals
Identify ways to overcome the obstacles limiting you
Gain tools to support you in leading a life of clarity, joy and achievement
Awaken your vitality and reconnect with your most heartfelt desires

Whether you want to improve your business, the intimacy in your relationships, your wellbeing or your finances, the tools you will learn with Manifest Living will support you in all areas of your life, because the training holds YOU as the source of what you have. These time-tested tools will show you: when you shift your approach, you shift your world.

In my own case, nothing could have been truer. After years of truancy, sleeping on NYC streets and shoplifting food to survive, I was emotionally and spiritually bankrupt. It wasn't until my mother's AIDS- related death that I woke up to how precious life is, which opened my heart and mind, inspiring me to transform my life. Without a clue where I'd sleep or what I'd eat, I worked my way through high school while I was simultaneously homeless, won a full scholarship from the New York Times and graduated from Harvard.

Now I have traveled the world for the last 10 years sharing tools for empowerment with others who are looking to change in their own lives. There is nothing I am more passionate about than seeing you win in your commitments. And if there is one thing I know for sure, from experience, it's that we cannot wait for our circumstances to change before acting, WE must change our circumstances. WE are the source of what sustains in our lives, and the time to have it be different is now.

My invitation to you is to step into the training with the same commitment you would want for your life goals, with your whole heart. The tools you take with you can impact your everyday choices from the moment you walk out the door Sunday evening, and they can last a lifetime.