Tenille Bentley is the founder of The Emotional Literacy & Mindfulness Academy for Kids, Children's Author and Award Winning Community Leader with a passion for supporting our next generation with the tools she wishes she could have had access to as a child.As a child she suffered severe anxiety and emotional traumas as well as bullying which left her feeling isolated, and unable to understand why she was feeling the way she did.However, emotional literacy wasn't in the narrative in her generation.Today, we have evolved, science has caught up and we now understand the important role emotional intelligence plays in our every day lives.She didn't know how to express her emotions, or why she felt these big emotions as a kid.She couldn't socialise properly and found herself carrying a lot of self hatred, blaming herself for trauma's that occurred around me that were out of my control.This resulted in her going from a straight A student to partying and drinking as a way to numb the feelings she didn't know how to process. In her early adult years, it resulted in poor decisions in life that weren't healthy for her.So, she searched high and low, studied, spent thousands on courses until she arrived at a place where she knew how to potentially change the trajectory of a child's growing years for the positive.After using these tools to turn her own life around she went on to build a multi million dollar company in under 2 years, a global charity that touched the lives of more than 30K children in 5 different countries. She was recognised by the Australian Prime Minister with 'The Australian Leadership Award' which is only presented to 20 people in Australia, she was awarded the 'Australian Financial Review Top 100 Australia's Women of Influence', State Finalist in the 'Telstra Business Woman of the Year', inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame by The Governor and awarded the Top 3 Australian Institute of Management Excellence Awards.