About Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke discovered mindfulness, self-care, and wellness when her career as a lawyer and an investment banker stressed her out, caused burnout, and did not produce the level of success she expected. During her healing journey, Ananda studied and practiced meditation, reiki, yoga, art, and creative writing. As a result, she became a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher, reiki master practitioner, and artist-in-residence for the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts.

Today, she travels the world helping high achievers and mission-driven companies, organizations, and communities become resilient and thrive with mindfulness, self-care, wellness, and creativity. She leads the Thriving Mindfully Academy and facilitates her signature online course, Thriving Mindfully as the REAL YOU (launches March 1, 2020). Also, she hosts and produces the Thriving Mindfully Show on Eaton Radio and teaches meditation classes and mindfulness workshops, and facilitates new and full moon circles at Qi Kratom CBD Tea.

Ananda received Acquisition International's Influential Businesswoman Award for the Most Caring Woman in Mindfulness Training and WeUpWomen's Adelaide Smith Award for her work in self-care and wellness in 2018. In 2019, she was selected by lululemon to serve as a lululemon luminary, received Acquisition International's Influential Businesswoman in Professional Development - USA Award, and was named a Well-Being Warrior by the Well-Being and Equity Bridging Network.

Her books, Love's Troubadours, a yoga-inspired novel; That Which Awakens Me, a mindful creativity memoir; and Digital Sisterhood, a mindful technology memoir, are available on Amazon. She is currently writing Thriving Mindfully as the REAL ME, a memoir about her mindfulness and wellness journey. She speaks at trainings, conferences, and events sponsored by AT&T, Automattic, BlogHer, Body Connect Health Wellness, Community Associations Institute, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Eaton DC, Executive Women International, Howard University, Institute for Medicaid Innovation, Latinos in Tech Innovation and Social Media, lululemon, Marisla Foundation, Meetup/WeWork, National Association of Corporate Directors, Nonprofit Technology Network, Sisterhued, Spelman College, The Conference Board, Unity of Washington, DC, Washington National Cathedral, Web of Change, and Wonder Women Tech Summit. In addition, she regularly shares her meditation, mindfulness, and social media expertise as a commentator on WHUR 96.3 FM.

She is a proud alumna of Georgetown University Law Center, Howard University School of Law, Morgan State University, and Elizabeth Seton High School. She is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. She lives in Washington, DC. Learn more at AnandaLeeke.com.

Be inspired to practice mindfulness, meditation and self-care with her Thriving Mindfully Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dFtWGb.

Attend her weekly #ThrivingMindfully Meetup Group's Mindful Monday Meditation class in DC: meetup.com/thriving-mindfully-meetup.

Join her growing community of #ThrivingMindfully podcast listeners: soundcloud.com/ananda-leeke.

Watch her #ThrivingMindfully video series:
youtube.com/user/anandaleeke.

Explore mindfulness with her support as a member of A Mindful Cup of Tea Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/mindfulcupoftea.