From Military Duty to Healing Hearts: The Remarkable Journey of Jasmine R. Steele
In a world fixated on external success markers, there emerges occasionally a voice that redirects our attention to what truly matters. Jasmine R. Steele—founder of Steele Intentional LLC, certified life coach, belief clearing practitioner, and one of 2025’s most promising keynote speakers—stands as such a voice. Her journey from military service to self-healing advocate offers profound insights into authentic living that resonates with anyone seeking genuine transformation.
The Awakening: When “Having It All” Isn’t Enough
The portrait of success often paints a predictable picture: a long-term marriage, beautiful children, financial stability, and societal approval. For nearly two decades, Jasmine Steele embodied this ideal. Her life checked all the conventional boxes of accomplishment—a spouse of almost twenty years, three wonderful children, and what most would consider the “ideal” life.
Yet beneath this carefully constructed facade lurked a painful truth that many successful individuals eventually confront: the realization that the dream she had painstakingly built wasn’t actually hers.
“I had to come to terms with the fact that the life that I had worked so hard for, and the ‘dream’ that I had built was not what ‘I’ actually wanted,” Jasmine reveals with remarkable candor. “I had to seek deep within to discover that I had not been living authentically for myself. I had spent nearly my entire life living for others’ expectations of me.”
This pivotal recognition marks the beginning of many healing journeys—the moment when the gap between external success and internal fulfillment becomes too wide to ignore. For Jasmine, it prompted a profound questioning of everything she had accepted as truth.
Military Service: The Unexpected Path to Perspective
Most people don’t immediately connect military service with personal growth work, yet Jasmine credits her time as a service member with developing her capacity for objective self-reflection.
“My dedicated time as a service member taught me the value in keeping an open perception,” she explains. The extensive world travels and exposure to diverse cultures that came with her service provided something invaluable: perspective.
“Through a different lens, I was able to see that the values and beliefs that we subconsciously absorb are highly affected by exposures to society, culture, and religious affiliations usually within a very small niche. Many people truly have no concept of what exists outside of their ‘tiny bubble’.”
This expanded worldview became instrumental in her ability to step back and examine her own conditioning critically—a skill she now helps clients develop in their own healing journeys.
The Wounds We Carry: Facing Medical Challenges and Self-Destruction
The path to healing rarely unfolds as a straight line. For Jasmine, medical issues coincided with self-destructive patterns, creating a complex web of challenges that demanded both physical and emotional attention.
Her approach to recovery revealed an important insight that guides her work today: the profound connection between emotional wounds and physical health. “Many people do not realize the effects holding on to subconscious wounds has on your overall physiology,” she observes.
Her healing journey required two critical components. First, the courage to identify her wounds through “immense introspection and the ability to be brutally honest” with herself. Second, creating “a healthy balance for both my brain and body, in which to allow my body to heal itself.”
This integrated approach to wellness—addressing both physical symptoms and their emotional roots—would later become central to her coaching philosophy.
The Inner Child: The Hidden Architect of Adult Lives
At the heart of Jasmine’s transformational work lies a focus on inner child healing—a therapeutic approach that recognizes how childhood experiences shape adult behaviors in ways often invisible to conscious awareness.
“Inner child healing deals with acknowledging and accepting unresolved emotional, physical, or mental wounds,” Jasmine explains. “This process involves reconnecting with the inner self—the part of you that stores subconscious information, whether positive or negative.”
Through practices including “subconscious clearing, visualization, and neuroplasticity,” Jasmine guides clients to validate their experiences, release suppressed emotions, eliminate limiting beliefs, and interrupt self-sabotaging behaviors.
The ultimate goal? “Relearning what a healthy self-image looks like through learning self-love and acceptance.”
Breaking the Patterns: From Self-Sabotage to Self-Realization
The first step in Jasmine’s client work addresses a fundamental challenge: helping people recognize how their subconscious mind may be working against their conscious desires.
“Learning who you are authentically through self-realization is the first step to understanding who you truly are,” Jasmine notes. This requires “introspective questioning and the ability to be vulnerable and deeply honest with yourself.”
A crucial element in this process is education about how the mind works. “I must first teach my clients the power of the subconscious mind,” she explains. “When they are able to see how easily the brain can be misguided, it is easier for them to understand how false information can become stored and guide us unknowingly off course.”
This awakening to the power of subconscious programming often creates breakthrough moments for clients, as illustrated by one particularly striking success story involving a prominent researcher, PhD in women’s medicine.
Despite impressive professional achievements, this researcher struggled with self-love issues stemming from childhood. “This was difficult for her to process because she had no idea that even though her family wanted the best for her and tried to raise her in a Christian household, that the information they had been planting in her mind had kept her stuck in toxic cycles of self-sabotage and toxic/abusive relationships.”
After just three sessions with Jasmine, she gained clarity about her childhood conditioning, acknowledged her pain, and began releasing destructive patterns. The results speak for themselves: “She has now been given a multi-million dollar grant to head a research division in an extremely prominent medical research community. She is happy, confident and a newfound woman who now lives first for herself, then for others.”
From Personal Healing to Professional Mission
Jasmine’s transition from healing recipient to healing facilitator followed naturally from her transformative experience. “After going through my own healing experience and learning how profoundly healing changed my life and the lives of those around me, I knew I could not keep my research to myself,” she shares.
Her approach carries the authenticity of someone who has walked the healing path herself—a quality that resonates deeply with clients seeking guidance from someone who truly understands their struggles.
“When working with my clients I make sure that each of them understand that I am a walking example that my method is highly effective,” says Jasmine. “Having been able to reverse completely or reduce nearly every medical condition in my body speaks for itself.”
Personalized Pathways: The Art of Individual Healing
A cornerstone of Jasmine’s effectiveness as a coach lies in her recognition that healing journeys vary widely between individuals. Some clients require years of support, while others experience breakthroughs in just a few sessions.
“It really depends on how ready a client is to accept and change,” Jasmine observes. “For those that are ready to change, we may only need to use a few techniques to get them to step into vulnerability, while others may need every single modality repeatedly, for an extended period of time.”
This flexible, client-centered approach reflects deep respect for each person’s unique healing timeline—a refreshing contrast to standardized programs that expect uniform progress.
Dismantling the “Broken Beyond Repair” Myth
Through years of research and clinical experience, Jasmine has identified what she considers the most pervasive and harmful misconception about personal growth: the belief that some wounds render us permanently damaged.
“By far the most common misconception that I encounter is the concept of being ‘broken beyond repair,’” she reveals. “Many people come to me in desperation, they believe the world has wronged them and that once they heal they will in some way be tainted and no longer accepted back into society.”
Jasmine firmly refutes this notion: “This is an absolute fallacy! Most of my clients move on to shine their lights and teach others how incredibly life-altering healing inner child wounds can be to one’s existence.”
This message of hope—that no one is too wounded to heal—forms a powerful counterpoint to cultural narratives that sometimes suggest certain traumas create irreparable damage.
Steele Intentional LLC: A Multi-Faceted Healing Platform
Founded in April 2024 and based in Mesa, Arizona, Steele Intentional LLC represents the institutional embodiment of Jasmine’s mission. The company offers multiple pathways to healing, accommodating different preferences and needs.
“We offer one-to-one coaching services, group coaching services, as well as keynote speaking engagements,” Jasmine explains. For those who prefer self-directed work, Steele Intentional is currently developing “self-help workbooks, tutorials, and digital courses for purchase.”
The company maintains an active social media presence across platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and LinkedIn, providing “consistent mini lessons” that extend its reach beyond direct clients.
Future Vision: Expanding Awareness of Inner Child Healing
Looking ahead, Jasmine envisions Steele Intentional engaging with increasingly broader audiences to create greater awareness around inner child healing—a mission she considers urgently needed.
“Most people are completely unaware that their subconscious mind runs approximately 80% of their behaviors,” she notes. This lack of awareness means many people remain unknowingly trapped in destructive patterns until either “an external source” brings it to their attention or they reach “an all-time low.”
Jasmine aims to be that external catalyst for awareness, reaching people before they hit rock bottom.
The Personal Made Public: Upcoming Literary Works
Two forthcoming projects—a workbook and a novel—promise to extend Jasmine’s impact beyond direct client work. Both works draw heavily from her personal experiences, reflecting her commitment to authentic connection through vulnerability.
“I want readers to know that I am a real human, and I have experienced much of their same pain, guilt, shame, self-sabotage and regrets,” she shares. By modeling vulnerability, she creates space for deeper healing in others.
This approach addresses a common barrier to traditional therapy: “Many people have a hard time opening up to traditional therapists out of fear of judgment.” Jasmine’s willingness to share her own struggles helps dismantle this barrier, making healing more accessible to those who might otherwise avoid seeking help.
The Body-Mind Connection: Physical Manifestations of Emotional Pain
Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of Jasmine’s approach is her understanding of how emotional wounds manifest physically—a perspective that bridges conventional medicine and holistic healing traditions.
“Physical healing is part and parcel with emotional healing. In actuality, our physical body manifests our emotional pain,” she explains. This understanding has developed into a remarkable diagnostic skill: “As a practitioner, I can look at an individual and based upon their body alone, begin to understand their emotional blocks.”
According to Jasmine, specific emotional patterns create recognizable physical signatures: “Many people that struggle with guilt and shame will show specific characteristics. As well as individuals that have dealt with emotional or physical abuse, these traits manifest in certain zones within the body.”
While she acknowledges individual variation—”That is not to say each person is exact”—this body-reading approach provides “a pretty solid foundation for where to start” in the healing process.
Intentional Living: Beyond Daily Practices
When asked about recommended daily practices for maintaining inner peace, Jasmine shifts the focus from specific rituals to a more comprehensive vision of intentional living.
“Maintaining inner peace and emotional resilience is not just about daily practices, it is about planning ahead,” she explains. “Knowing what your body needs and intentionally providing the appropriate sources for the body and mind to thrive.”
This holistic approach encompasses everything from sleep patterns to social circles: “This goes all the way into our sleep cycles, as well as the friend groups that we allow into our space.” Jasmine emphasizes the delicate balance required for optimal wellbeing: “Although the human body is a very resilient machine, it is also quite delicate and if we are not providing it with the proper environment to thrive, we are doing the complete opposite and are causing it distress.”
Forgiveness: The Gateway to Self-Love
In Jasmine’s healing framework, forgiveness occupies a central position as the necessary precursor to self-love.
“Forgiveness is the first step to self-love,” she states unequivocally. “When we have not forgiven, we are trapping negative emotion inside of our bodies. The longer one holds on to anger, resentment, hate and malice, the longer the energetic flow of the body will remain blocked.”
She warns that these emotional blockages eventually “begin to fester within the body,” with specific unresolved emotions affecting “specific organs and functions within the body”—a perspective that echoes both ancient healing traditions and emerging research on the physiological effects of chronic stress and emotional trauma.
Looking Ahead: A Vision for 2025 and Beyond
As 2025 approaches, Jasmine stands poised to expand her influence as a keynote speaker with a powerful message of hope and healing.
“My hopes are that I can reach as many lives as possible and teach people how profoundly different their lives can look once they have healed,” she shares. While acknowledging that healing journeys can be “quite painful, and arduous,” she promises that “the other side is more beautiful and peaceful than you can even imagine.”
Her vision extends beyond individual transformation to societal healing: “Evidence shows that a healed person loses the desire to injure others. If each one of us did our part in healing our internal wounds, the world would be a much more beautiful place.”
This connection between personal healing and collective wellbeing forms the core of her speaking message for upcoming events. Drawing on advances in neuroscience and quantum healing, she emphasizes that healing is now “truly just a choice”—a message of empowerment that places transformation within everyone’s reach.
Looking further ahead, Jasmine anticipates focusing “primarily on motivational speaking,” continuing to leverage her personal story as a powerful teaching tool. “I do believe that others tend to learn more from someone who has ‘been there, done that,’” she notes.
Through podcasts across “different realms of the healing field,” she hopes to reach diverse audiences with a consistent message: “We ALL need healing to some degree and many of us are oblivious to the subconscious wounds that we carry.”
First Steps on the Healing Journey
For those feeling stuck or unfulfilled, Jasmine offers a provocative starting point: questioning how well they actually know themselves.
She suggests asking, “What is your favorite thing to do for yourself?” While initial answers often focus on external treats like massages or vacations, the follow-up question—”Why did you choose that topic? What about it makes you truly feel like you are doing something for YOU?”—often reveals deeper insights.
“Often, this is where things start to unravel,” Jasmine observes. “Many people don’t know why they choose certain paths or behaviors. These are the moments where people discover they don’t, in actuality, know themselves.”
To those hesitant about investing in coaching, she offers a compelling perspective: “You are your greatest asset and if you do not intentionally invest time and energy into nurturing your greatest asset, eventually that asset will cease to be of any benefit to you and will become more of a problem than an asset.”
Her advice? “Invest in yourself now, before it becomes an issue. Whether that is through coaching or not, makes no difference. What matters is that you invest in YOU!”
A Legacy of Self-Love and Compassion
As Jasmine considers her ultimate legacy in motivational speaking and life coaching, she returns to the foundational importance of self-love.
“My ultimate goal is to teach people that self-love and self-acceptance is the root of our foundation as a human species,” she reflects. “Majority of our struggles in life come from burying deep-seeded hurts and unprocessed emotions. This ultimately causes a ripple effect in every single decision and action that we take throughout the entirety of our lives.”
The consequence of neglecting self-love extends beyond individual suffering: “If we do not learn to love ourselves, we inevitably hurt others. We may not intend to, but we do it as a subconscious protection of self.”
In contrast, “A person who has truly healed learns to see others’ actions with compassion and love”—creating a virtuous cycle that benefits both the individual and those around them.
This vision of healing as a pathway to greater compassion informs how Jasmine measures her own success: “I measure my success in life as an observer of the effect that I have on those around me. If I have left a person or environment better than I found it, that, is in my mind, a success!”
She encourages others to adopt a similar perspective, thinking “more in terms of the ‘greater good’ rather than self, when it comes to judgment of success”—a beautiful paradox where true self-love ultimately manifests as care for others.
As Jasmine R. Steele steps into the spotlight in 2025, her message offers a timely reminder that our greatest contributions often emerge from our deepest wounds—when we have the courage to face them, heal them, and transform them into wisdom that lights the way for others.