The founder and director of You Rise Above (YRA).

Toni Morales is the Founder/Director of You Rise Above. She is a  Certified Holistic Life Coach, trainer, author, mentor, speaker, and radio talk show host. The former co-host of Being Single radio on Divorce Source Radio; Toni has had the pleasure of interviewing celebrity guests, Hay House book authors and relationship experts. She has given Key Notes at divorce expos, led Women's Empowerment Seminars at Universities and Leadership conferences across the US. She is a member of the Woman's Speaker Association, The E-Speakers Bureau, and the NIU Alumni Association. In 2014 Toni was featured in the Spirited Women's Top 12 pick list for spirited women to watch. Her marriage and divorce story has been featured on The OWN network television show "Unfaithful" and her lifelong battle with an eating disorder was recently a part of the 2014 Documentary "The Healing Song". She has developed workshops; trainings and seminars on how YOU RISE ABOVE, Taking Risks, Learning to Love Yourself, Being Single, Owning your LIFE! Personal Transformation and more. Toni has written about women in the workplace for Working Mothers Magazine, where her former employer was featured as one of the top ten places to work for women. She is in the process of completing her first book a compilation of stories from life lessons learned. A former leader within the telecom industry with a Fortune 500 company, she has used her corporate "past life" to create her much happier "present life". In short, she has parlayed all of her personal and professional experiences, learning and mistakes into a recipe for success... living her passion for helping others. Toni graduated from Northern Illinois University with Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre.