BECOMING: Your Story Is Only Part of the Journey.
12 Women. Nine Months. One Transformational Journey That Ends With You Becoming a Published Author.
This Is More Than a Book Collaboration.
What if becoming a published author wasn't just about writing your story, but about becoming the woman who is ready to tell it?
Dr. Nina M. Addison and The You Can Method™ are selecting 12 women for BECOMING: The Journey Between Who She Was and Who She’s Becoming: an exclusive nine-month personal-development, authorship, and publishing experience.
Before we write, we work on the woman.
For six months, we will journey through personal development, identity, belief, growth, purpose, accountability, and aligned action using The You Can Method™: See It, Break It, Believe It, Build It, Become It.
You won't simply be asked to tell a story about who you used to be. You'll be challenged to examine where you are now, what needs to change, what you've outgrown, what you believe, what you're building, and who you're becoming.
Then we'll turn toward the story.
You'll learn how to identify the part of your journey that can impact another woman, develop your message, write your chapter, receive editorial guidance, and understand the ins and outs of the book-publishing process.
This is an application-based experience. Completing an application does not guarantee acceptance. Selected applicants will move forward in the BECOMING selection process.
About Dr. Nina Addison
You Can. And Your Difference Makes a Difference.
Dr. Nina M. Addison is an award-winning speaker, author, certified coach, educator, radio host, and nonprofit leader on a mission to help people break through self-doubt and step boldly into the life they were created to live.
Known as The You Can Specialist™, Dr. Nina empowers women, youth, and families to see beyond limitations, believe in themselves, and walk in purpose through coaching, books, speaking, and faith-based encouragement.
Born with radial club hands, Dr. Nina knows what it feels like to be seen as different. From a young age, she faced questions, assumptions, and moments that could have caused her to doubt her value. Instead, she chose to believe that her difference did not disqualify her, it gave her purpose.
Today, she uses her story to inspire others to overcome fear, silence self-doubt, and discover that they can do more, become more, and live more fully than they ever imagined.
The Story Behind the Mission
Dr. Nina was born with a visible disability, but she refused to allow anyone else to define what her life would become. Rather than allowing her challenges to hold her back, she turned them into fuel.
She went on to earn a Doctorate in Philosophy with a specialization in Christian Leadership and Business. She has become a speaker, ordained evangelist, certified Christian Life Breakthrough Coach, publisher, and founder. She has written and contributed to dozens of books and has helped more than 100 people become published authors.
Throughout her journey, one truth became clear: many people are not held back by a lack of ability, they are held back by doubt.
That realization led Dr. Nina to create her signature framework:
The YOU CAN Method™
The YOU CAN Method™ is Dr. Nina’s transformational 5-step process designed to help people move from insecurity and limitation to confidence, clarity, action, and purpose.
It is more than motivation. It is a method for changing the way you think, what you believe, and how you show up in the world.
See It
Gain clarity about who you are, what is possible, and what God wants for your life.
Break It
Break the lies, fear, limiting beliefs, and self-doubt that have been holding you back.
Believe It
Replace doubt with truth, faith, confidence, and a new vision for your future.
Build It
Build new habits, systems, confidence, and action that support the life you want.
Become It
Step fully into the person God created you to be and begin living on purpose.
Through The YOU CAN Method™, Dr. Nina helps women who doubt themselves, struggle with confidence, or feel stuck begin to see themselves differently and finally take action.
Whether through coaching, books, speaking, workshops, or The You Can Show, her message is the same:
You do not have to stay where you are. You Can.
My Difference Makes a Difference
Dr. Nina’s work does not stop with women and adults.
Because of her own experiences growing up with a visible difference, she is deeply passionate about helping children and youth know that they are valuable, capable, and enough.
That passion led her to create My Difference Makes a Difference, a movement, message, and growing collection of books, coloring books, speaking programs, and resources designed especially for children.
My Difference Makes a Difference teaches children that:
Their difference is not something to hide
They were created with purpose
They can be confident in who they are
They are more than what other people see
What makes them different can become what makes them powerful
Through stories, encouragement, creativity, and representation, Dr. Nina helps children, especially children with disabilities or visible differences, see themselves in a positive way and believe that they can.
She also equips parents, teachers, schools, and organizations with tools to help children build confidence, embrace inclusion, and celebrate what makes them unique.
More Than a Speaker: A Voice of Hope
Dr. Nina has spoken to audiences in schools, churches, conferences, nonprofits, women’s events, and youth programs. She combines real-life experience, faith, humor, encouragement, and practical action steps to create messages that are inspiring, relatable, and life-changing.
She is also the host of The You Can Show, where she shares encouragement, interviews guests, and helps listeners move from doubt to purpose.
Whether she is speaking to women, encouraging youth, teaching aspiring authors, or standing in front of a room full of people who need hope, Dr. Nina’s mission remains the same:
To help people believe that they can.
Dr. Nina’s Credentials & Highlights
Doctorate in Philosophy with a specialization in Christian Leadership and Business
Award-winning speaker, author, and coach
2024 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award
2024 Paige Award from The you Belong Foundation
2025 Disruptor of Doubt from The Network of Outstanding Women
Known as The You Can Specialist™ and Disruptor of Doubt
Author and contributor to more than two dozen books
Helped over 100 people become published authors
Certified Christian Life Breakthrough Coach
Certified Youth Coach
Co-founder of Homeschool Helps
Board member for BeWhole Christian Center, The You Belong Foundation, GLCU Alumni Coordinator, Stay L.I.T.T. Ministries, and Thrive Girls Inc.
Advocate for youth, women, and people with disabilities
Host of The You Can Show
Ready to Work Together?
Whether you are looking for a speaker, coach, author, workshop leader, youth advocate, or encouragement for your next step, Dr. Nina would love to help you discover that you can.
