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Campus Calm is a leadership development and empowerment company that teaches resilience to rising women leaders. We speak from the power of personal experience to empower college women to overcome their personal and private barriers to leadership: Perfectionism – those feelings of not being 'good enough' no matter how much we try to accomplish, or how 'perfect' we appear on paper – which all-too-often can lead to... • Anxiety • Depression • Feeling Overwhelmed • Sleep Difficulties • Self-Doubt Goal: A healthier life with positive strategies to rise above stress and lead with resilience. Maria is a former frazzled college perfectionist turned certified professional life coach, transformational nutrition educator, award-winning author, speaker, leader and change-maker all before her 35th birthday. She is fast becoming the "calm" voice for a new generation of high achieving college women leaders from around the world. Her book Campus Calm University won a gold medal in the 13th Annual International Independent Publisher Book Awards, and has been called, "groundbreaking, refreshing and as calming as a cup of peppermint tea, or an extension on that term paper due tomorrow morning." Recognized as a leading spokesperson on perfectionism as a barrier to women's leadership and college student leadership, Maria speaks from the power of personal experience to college audiences on universities across the nation. She had the honor of keynoting Purdue University's 12th Annual Women in Leadership Conference, South Dakota State University's Women's Leadership Summit and the University of California, Merced's 2nd Annual Women's Empowerment Conference. She is also a three-time speaker at the annual National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Her new TEDx talk has been called an "honest look at the dangers of perfectionism and the pursuit of it."