Amy Gillespie Dougherty

Amy is a results-driven innovator, speaker, and bestselling author with more than twenty years’ experience creating impactful self-discovery, awareness, and life coaching programs. As a 38-year old woman who had never traveled abroad or even learned a foreign language, she beat the odds. Working on the ground in Mozambique, Africa, she started a nonprofit with $150 and the idea that all children deserve the right to keep themselves and their siblings alive. Her programs with children and her work for greater HIV awareness and prevention were successful; she was nominated as a finalist for CNN Heroes and received accolades from embassies and aid organizations.

Now, more than ten years after her return from Mozambique, Amy tells the full story of her experience answering a divine call in "Six Years in Mozambique: Things I Haven't Told Mom". She reveals the secret that much of her mission and her success were guided by mysterious messages, chance encounters, and nebulous symbols.

She describes how an old-school farm approach to a problem often improved the lives of the most people. She speaks of her own lack of preparedness and failures, and how ultimately, her lack of experience and education became her greatest gift.

Her pre-African corporate experience in systems performance and disaster relief, proved invaluable in creating survival skills programs for children and disadvantaged families in third world countries. She received accolades from USAID and the U.S. Embassy for her survival skills training programs in Mozambique, through her non-profit, TIOS, which is now, CLARA (Children’s Lives Are the Responsibility of All).

Thriving as a trailblazer, Amy returned to the U.S. to create Irigenics™ Ancestral Eye Reading as a survival skills program for teens and young adults, in an effort to reduce self-destructive behaviors and suicide patterns. Amy believes in the power of the ancestral pulse within each of us, and our ability to reach the best of our best. She emphasizes this connection to our gifts and our origin in her new series, "The Ancestors Within." The first book (Reveal and Heal the Ancient Memories You Carry) places emphasis on the repeat patterns that show up in your life and how they have ancestral ties, which can be resolved. Her second book in the series (Discover and Claim the Gifts of Your Origin) will publish the first week in October of 2021.

She has helped thousands of people understand the rest of their story by interpreting their ancestral and epigenetic patterns. She’s given motivational speeches and interactive self-discovery workshops at Boys and Girls Club and the Department of Corrections. With one goal in mind, to create new programs and systems that guide young adults to an earlier sense of life purpose, and to step into what they were born to become.

Working with social workers and holistic practitioners, she teaches them this new and innovative self-discovery approach to uncover the true gifts and talents of their clients.

She’s inspired to teach practitioners this new method of recognizing and accessing ancestral information for their client’s best results. Moving the practitioner from being one of the many to being the one who uses this dynamic method of interpreting ancestral patterns that show up in their client’s life, is her advocacy and mission. Amy is currently working on a project involving epigenetics and iris imprints with teens and young adults to reveal their greatest talents, gifts, and genetic belief systems. She has an affinity for those who are adopted or in situations where they feel they can't ever know their ancestors and origin. She helps teenagers and young adults choose an early life purpose and vision for their future.

You can learn more by joining her Facebook Group (The Ancestors Within Community) https://www.facebook.com/groups/ancestorswithin

and at her website https://amygillespie.com