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= Jarrad Hewett = Jarrad Hewett is a best-selling author and a unique and extraordinary multi-dimensional energy expert who has taught millions of students worldwide how to access their inner energy and manifest remarkable results. He specializes in visionary teaching and remote healing energy work that allows reconnection and healing at every level of being. On the basis of his work in this transformational area, Jarrad is the founder of the Quantum Technology Frequency Method. On March 21, 2019, his most recent book -- The Answer is Energy: A 30-Day Guide to Creating Your Ideal Life, Embracing True Abundance, and Knowing Your Worth From Within -- debuted on the USA Today Best-Selling Books List. His first three books have also achieved best-seller status.

Career
Born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma, Jarrad moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s with the intention of studying entertainment law. As he told "Oklahoma" magazine nearly 20 years later, his first internship during his college years was for Warner Bros., and he cites Los Angeles not only as the place where his career plans took an unexpected turn, but also where -- by opening himself up to unexpected opportunities, rather than stubbornly clinging to his long-held plan of becoming a lawyer -- he was able to overcome the serious health problems which had caused him great difficulty in childhood. Jarrad says he was immediately captivated by the sense of style and fashion that seemed to infuse the city, a thousand miles away from where he had grown up. Living and working in Los Angeles "changed the way I look at clothing," Jarrad told the magazine. "I realized that what you have on can be just as expressive and indicative of personality as what you say."

While working in Los Angeles, Jarrad came to the attention of a Hollywood casting agent who suggested that he audition for voice-over work for television commercials. Jarrad auditioned to do the voice-over narration for a White Castle television commercial. He says that the advertising agency "was looking for a nice midwestern sound to sell burgers," and he got the job. After he broke the news to his parents that he had abandoned his plan to attend law school, in quick succession Jarrad was hired to provide voice-over narration for numerous big brands including Coca-Cola, Jeep, Walmart, Toys "R" Us, ABC, HGTV, WB Kids, CMT, Fox and the X Games, as well as NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics. In 2014, Jarrad was hired by The Disney Channel as the primary voice-over talent for a variety of promotional spots for the network's television shows and trailers for the studio's films, including one for the 2016 Oscar-nominated movie, "Hidden Figures."

Having established a successful career as a voice-over artist, Jarrad turned his focus to unique abilities that had played an important role in his childhood. As an empath, Jarrad was born with an ability to pick up information through a heightened degree of sensory sensitivity. Jarrad discovered at an early age that he had been blessed with unique gifts of being clairvoyant and clairaudient, i.e., the ability to perceive and hear events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact, as well as the ability to see all forms of energy.

As he told podcast host Darius Barazandah, "I was born being able to see energy. It started out just as colors." Jarrad says that this heightened sensory awareness also manifested itself with respect to what he heard. "I would ask someone, 'How are you?' and they'd say, 'Fine,' but I might hear something on top of that, such as 'Oh, but my parents are really sick, and it's upsetting me.' I learned that these messages are carried around in our energy fields."

In that same interview, Darius Barazandeh noted that Jarrad was raised in a strict conservative home, and he was taught to hide these unique abilities. Jarrad says that he was told, from a religious perspective, that these "odd" powers meant he was flawed, broken and wrong. As he told writer Patricia Gale, "As a kid, I could see and hear things other people couldn't, but I was raised to be afraid of who I was and what I saw, so I shut it down. I got the message very early on that I wasn't okay, so I hid who I was."

As a result of the inner conflict that resulted, Jarrad sought escape through food and by the time he was in grade school, he had become morbidly obese, resulting in broken bones and ulcers. These physical challenges escalated, and by the time he was in his early 20s, Jarrad also repeatedly experienced heart problems requiring frequent visits to hospital emergency rooms. Pushed to his breaking point, by the time he was in college, he was experiencing severe anxiety and depression, as well as guilt and disease. He was diagnosed with PTSD, agoraphobia and depression. Finally reaching the point of utter despair, Jarrad made the deliberate decision to give up fighting and embrace his deep belief that everything is energy.

Jarrad has said that this crucial realization gave him the strength to resist the critics who had instilled so much self-doubt. In turn, this provided the key to finally overcome these serious health challenges. "I was able to understand that everything is energy. And everything they believed and thought, I had taken on as my own." He has said that listening to these critics had caused him, literally, to close down his heart -- resulting in obesity and cardiac issues. "I just closed down my heart, and that manifested as obesity. I took on weight at a very young age, because that was just me trying to process my own energy. I couldn't process my own energy because my energy was wrong, so let me process the energy of food."

Jarrad has said that this decision marked a pivotal point of transformation in his life. "In that moment, when I basically just gave up the fight and the struggle, I felt free. This realization came rushing in -- that I had been living someone else's life, filtering who I am through other people's belief systems, being who I was supposed to be, not who I really am. I had always seen energy, yet I feared it so much that I refused to open this gift. As I began to acknowledge myself and open up to who I am and what my truth really is, I saw how everything in this life is energy. And I realized we all have the power to change ourselves. You could say I found my calling -- helping people find and become their true, authentic, happy selves."

The insights Jarrad shares with others are drawn from his own life experience, and he says his chronic health problems only began to fade when he opened himself up to the possibility of pursuing a life path very different from the one he originally had in mind. As he told podcast host Darius Barazandeh, "So many people and so many times we are holding onto the struggle and the story of us, that we would rather be right, and we don't even realize it. So back then, when I was having the heart problems and ... it felt like the Universe was just kicking me in the face. What I realized was I wanted to be right. The story of me at that time was I wanted to be an attorney. That's what I was going to be. I did not not want to be a healer. 'So stop trying to put me down that road, Universe.' Well it was really me trying to put myself down that road and I just wasn't hearing the message, but I wanted to be right. I wanted my life to look a certain way."

Having found the key to transcending the disease and disharmony that had dominated the first 20 years of his life, Jarrad began to share these life-changing insights through his best-selling books, interviews and articles. He has introduced his readers and those in his community to transformational techniques including guided meditation and vibrational sound therapy. Through these techniques, Jarrad channels transformational energy that supports those who participate in this work to connect with their true Self and experience the Divine love at every level of being, and through this work his intention is to support planetary evolution and spiritual awakening throughout the world.

One example of the kind of reassurance he offers his readers and those in his online community can be found in an article written for Finerminds.com. "At an energetic level," Jarrad wrote, "knowing everything is okay is actually important because it helps us unplug from all of the lower vibrational co-dependent 'stuff' and helps us to see the world in a different light, wherein we begin to see our own sovereignty and the sovereignty of others."

Since 2010, Jarrad has established a reputation as a remarkable healer, writer and coach who has brought quantum growth, abundance, healing and instantaneous change and manifestation to millions of clients throughout the world. His clients include some of the biggest and most well-known names in the Self Help and Spiritual Movements, as well as numerous radio and television show figures. He has also demonstrated an ability to channel wisdom from beyond himself. Through his books, coaching and audio programs, Jarrad provides an awe-inspiring view of God, Consciousness and what it means to be alive. At a time when global and individual divisiveness dominates our culture in an alarming way, Jarrad's lessons and insights regarding how we can unite and heal come just when they are needed the most. As Jarrad teaches his readers and students, by tapping into our authentic self, our eyes open to new, life-altering possibilities that allow us to direct our actions and beliefs in a direction of empowerment, serving the greater good. At the center of his teachings is the message that we must all empower ourselves to live in the now and love ourselves, so that we may in turn love others.

Personal Life
In addition to his work as an author, coach and voice-over artist, Jarrad also enjoys home design, which is a favorite recreational pastime. His home has been featured in numerous publications, and the interior design -- the result of his collaboration with Grant Mathiews -- was described as "a joyful cacophony of color and texture," by one of numerous publications which has featured his home.

Considering what a painful toll obesity took on him during his childhood, in terms of teasing and health challenges, Jarrad told a writer for "Oklahoma" magazine that he felt a victorious sense of vindication when he was included in a posh Los Angeles event focusing on style and fashion. "A few years ago," Jarrad told the writer, "I was invited to the Louis Vuitton/GQ Men of the Year celebration at the Beverly Hills Hotel," an event he described as "fantastic."

Authorship
In November 2010, Jarrad released his first two books. Love, Life, God: The Journey of Creation became an Amazon best seller, and T he Big E -- Everything is Energy: Unleashing the Power of Everyday Wisdom , with co-author Dee Wallace, achieved best seller status in Canada, the UK and the US, and reached a number one position in 12 Amazon categories. On March 21, 2019, his most recent book -- The Answer is Energy: A 30-Day Guide to Creating Your Ideal Life, Embracing True Abundance, and Knowing Your Worth From Within -- debuted on the USA Today Best-Selling Books List.