About

Don Reed Simmons holds a triple major in Film, Journalism and Public Relations and has published over 300 national, regional or local articles on various topics including meditation, consciousness, shaman studies, film, music and sound therapy.  

 

Don moved from Mississippi to New York City to begin his career in film production in 1979 and when not on a movie set, he began volunteering as a crisis intervention/suicide prevention counselor. Through this, Don felt a deeper calling yet kept pushing it away. It was 3 years earlier, in 1976, when in a moment of crisis of his own, did he feel the presence of something Bigger than himself that would eventually lead him down the Shamans Path. 

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He spent over 25 years in the film industry as a producer, production manager, assistant director, director and writer in the world of long form stories (movies), documentaries, industrial films and commercials. This was a deep study of business, structure, budgets, schedules, personalities of all kinds and intense pressure. His productions have aired on NBC, CBS, Discover Channel, Turner Broadcasting and many more. In addition to having written 12 screenplays, he was awarded the Pele Award for a series of PSA's on suicide prevention he wrote and directed in Hawaii in year 2000.

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It was at this time he began the transition from film production to consciousness raising through meditation, hypnosis and sound therapy. Since then he has facilitated hundreds of workshops, lectures and private sessions reaching thousands of people. His "One Minute Meditation" on Insight Timer has reached over 2.5 million people and is the #1 meditation under 5 minutes on the worlds most popular meditation app.

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As the president of the International Sound Therapy Association, a non-profit organization whose purpose is to create a Gold Standard of Sound Therapy education, he has spoken on countless occasions on the power of Sound Therapy.

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Today as a Human Potential Strategist, he leads retreats and continues to guide people, from CEO's to the everyday mom/pop and students, to discover their true talents and skill to live a more aligned life.

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Never far from his internal roots of nature, nurture and kindness, Don was raised on a small farm with a loving family, horses, cows, chickens, dogs and cats, vegetable garden, ponds,  bailing hay, bush hogging and sling blading the bayous and gullies of the land. There was always work to do and he was taught to keep smiling and keep going. He achieved his pilots license at age of 16 and the rank of Eagle Scout by the age of 17. His first "corporate job" was to manage the Trading Post one summer for the State of Mississippi Boy Scout camp.

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Farm Raised. Curious by nature. Skeptical by experience. Grounded in what works.

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