Dr. Jean Farish is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Life Care Wellness PEP for Angels, Inc., As a Life Care Coach, educator, and self-help author, she is co-author in the #1 International Bestsellers, My Creative Thoughts and My Big Idea Book and inducted into the Bestselling Authors International Organization. In the book, Life Sparks, Life Stories that Illuminate, Inspire and Ignite, she is an authentic messenger co-author for the chapter, Coloring Life with a Spirit of Gratitude. She is also a Guest Author for the Blog and Sparks of Inspiration Positive Media Magazine. The February Issue of Sparks of Inspiration features her article , Sparks of Wholeness. Featured in this issue is her recently published book, Journey To Wholeness: Reflections for Transforming Your Life. She is featured on the cover of PUBLISHED! and BookMad Magazines for The Long Journey Home, an award winner of the global 4th Transformational Author Experience (TAE) Writing Contest. Journey to Wholeness Reflections for Transforming Your Life provides insights relevant to daily living with a personal life care plan A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to PEP for Angels. She has been featured on Midday Mississippi and Fox 40 Morning Show.

Dr. Farish served a six month tenure as Honorary Consultant in the Division of Industry and Community Network at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in Penang, the Pearl of the Orient; and volunteered at Lions REACh (Resource and Education Association for Children with Autism) a model program of service and community engagement. She is honored to continue he professional relationship with USM serving as Editor in the International e-Journal of Community and Industry Engagement. She is a contributing author in the book, Volunteerism in Malaysia: Fostering Civic Responsibility. Her educational contributions, community service, and civic engagement activities inspired her to make a difference through transformational writing and service. She teaches personal development and community enrichment classes. Her philosophy is centered on knowing thyself and consciously practicing the noble truths-right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Through self-knowledge, self-realization, self-love and managing perpetual negative thoughts and self-defeating behaviors we can become more spiritually aligned -thus coming home to our true self.

She is the recipient of the Expert Insight Publishing Award for Best Selling Award Winning Books and the founder of PEP for Angels for children hospitalized with cancer. The setting for her book is centered in Penang, Malaysia.

Dr. Farish earned the Doctor of Philosophy in Rehabilitation from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Jackson State University and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Tougaloo College. She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) and served 28 years in Higher Education as Professor and Chair in the Department of School, Community and Rehabilitation Counseling at Jackson State University. Dr. Farish expresses sincere gratitude to Prof Dato' See Ching Mey and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for the unique professional experience and personal growth during her journeys to Penang, Malaysia. She also express gratitude to Prof Dato Anwar Fazal, founder of the Right Livelihood College at USM. She served as Honorary Consultant in the Division of Industry and Community Network at (Bahagian Jarigan Industri & Masyarakat) Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang; and the Asia Pacific University Community Engagement Network (APUCEN), a regional network of Institutions of Higher Learning. She traveled with faculty and staff to Kula Lumpur, the remote village school-SK Gula Gula School in Perak Malaysia USM; Health Campus in Kelantin and Engineering Campus in Nibong Tebal; grand opening ceremony for the water supply project held at the Kampung Lengkar in Perak for the indigenous community; and visits to Viet Nam including Ho Chi Minh, city formerly named Saigon, and villages along the Mekong Delta. She worked as a team with the faulty and staff on community engagement with presentations on volunteerism. She conducted a seminar with hospital staff at Loh Guan Lye Specialist Center in Penang and attended community service centers in Penang. She volunteered at REACh ( Resource and Educational Association for Children with Autism) in Penang. Previous visits to Malaysia, she co-taught classes on multiculturalism on the main campus at USM in Penang and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (Kota Kinabalu). Her interests include humanitarian projects, cultural diversity, community engagement, and volunteerism. Inspired by her stay in Malaysia, she founded Life Care Wellness -PEP For Angels, Inc., Foundation for children hospitalized with cancer and to provide community enrichment activities. She offers classes at Millsaps College on Transformational Writing: How To Find Your Voice and Jump Start Your Career With Volunteerism. .She has served as a guest lecturer in the United States and abroad. Further journeys include trips to Oxford, England as a Round Table presenter and travel to Istanbul, Ephesus, Izmir, Bursa, Cappadocia, and Kayseri. Visiting the home of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus was a memorial experience. Dr. Farish serves on the Healing Arts Program Advisory Council and Patient and Family Advisory Council at University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), Advisory Council for LIFE of MS, volunteers at New Stage Theater, and offers community enrichment classes at Millsaps College. She has recently been invited to serve on the International E-Journal of Community and Industry Engagement (IEjCIE) project for the Division of Industry and Community Network at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia.