(Book Update Revised July 2016). Get Off The Kidney Disease Conveyor Belt And Learn How To Get Your Best Shot At A Better Life If it feels like you have no say over your future, or you've been told there's nothing you can do...Listen Up You can do something and the time is now. As the CEO of your own body, you have the power to "right the ship" by becoming a contender in the biggest fight of your life - your best life This book was written for those who want to shift their fate, end their wait and live their best life possible by securing a transplant from a living kidney donor. It's Time To Insist on a Destiny "Do Over " Embrace this powerful resource as your "how-to" companion & inspirational guide. If you hope to bypass dialysis before getting a transplant, (or you're already on dialysis, hoping to end your wait) Look no further. This book is for you Risa Simon is a professional speaker, author, consultant, passionate advocate & patient coach. As founder/CEO for The Proactive Path and the TransplantFirst Academy, her educational curriculums and trailblazing strategies continue to inspire individuals with kidney disease to fight for their best shot at a better life. Today, Risa is living her best life ever. This is what she wants for you.More information: The highlight of Risa Simon's life was the day an unexpected, unrelated, living kidney donor offered to give her a kidney - and tests revealed a sister-like match. That day didn't come easy, and it might not have come at all, if she wasn't willing to become a proactive contender, competing for her best life possible. Risa knows all too well what it's like to be a kidney patient trapped in a hopeless sinkhole, worming its way to dialysis. As she watched her numbers decline, her emotions escalated. Like many patients, she felt paralyzed by her loss of control.Then, by a stroke of luck, she attended a kidney patient conference and experienced the most profound awakening of her life. This personal awakening empowered her to jump off the kidney disease conveyer belt and start proactively fighting for her best life possible. As told in this book, her transformative journey turned into a powerful platform of proactive strategies. Her intention was to create a plan that could help all those in need, not just herself.Today, Risa is living her best life ever. Her gratitude and unwavering resolve to help her book fans, clients and mentees compelled her to step away from a successful consulting and speaking career. Her vision was to fully immerse herself into the renal community. That's exactly what she did and she's never looked back.Her ultimate dream was to create a proactive platform to inspire patient empowerment through speaking engagements, coaching and mentoring. She also dreamed of starting a non-profit 501c3 organization that partnered with renal groups and transplant centers who wanted to advance educational curriculums and inspire their patients to seek a transplant before dialysis.Her dreams came to life after establishing the TransplantFirst Academy www.TransplantFirst.org and The Proactive Path www.TheProactivePath.com. On any given day, you'll find Risa advocating to empower kidney patients to seek better outcomes. Her unwavering commitment to help others is enthusiastically portrayed in her passionate obsession for this calling.