Speaking Engagements:
I have experience at conferences, conventions, as well as sitting as a representative on leadership, event innovation and addiction recovery panels. Throughout the years, I have created and executed various experiential breakout sessions ranging from various business, mental health
and self care topics.
There is no event big or small that I won’t do in order to share my pasts and passions with others.
Book & Blogs:
Caffeine, Nicotine, and a Dream:
An Audacious Memoir
Being the life of the party and the party planner was the slippery slope that would lead Aleah to the lowest depths of her addiction. Life needed to change after ten years of hardcore drinking, masking what was bubbling deep within, enduring toxic relationships, living paycheck to paycheck, and four arrests.
Aleah shares her ascent from the shadows and darkness to the light that can shine through the cracks of a jail cell window. On this wild ride through time connecting past conditioning from her childhood to adulthood, there is no topic left unturned: child innocence, family dynamics, addiction, mental health, corporate burnout, relationship drama, and sexual assault…all proving that coming home is not to a place, but within oneself, using our missteps as an asset to heal and provide hope for others and live life to the fullest regardless of our troubled past.
We as humans are wired for connection. My past does not define me yet rather has emerged a passion for using my past as an asset to help others. We are never alone on this journey, and I hope you read something you relate to.
Blogs:
Upcoming Events 2026:
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Main Street Festival
04.26.2026
9:30am-11:00am CST
Main Street Festival
Landmark Booksellers
Franklin, TNThe Main Street Festival attracts 120,000+ visitors annually to enjoy eclectic arts and crafts vendors, superb entertainment, great food and drink, fun for the entire family right in the heart of historic downtown Franklin!
Join Aleah and other local authors for a book signing located outside of Landmark Booksellers on Main Street.
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Mental Health Awareness Event
05.27.2026
6:00pm-8:00pm
Landmark Booksellers
Franklin, TNJoin us at Landmark Booksellers on Wednesday, May 27th at 6pm for an evening with Aleah Johnson for a discussion on mental health and her memoir, Caffeine, Nicotine, and a Dream. Aleah is an Event Designer turned Recovering Alcoholic, into Corporate Vice President, Thought Leader and Certified Recovery Coach. She has spent the last 17 years climbing the corporate ladder in both the Event Design space as well as the Behavioral Health Industry with her focus on breaking stigmas in both community and professional settings. Through vulnerability, authenticity and facing adversity head on, she has committed her life to using her past as an asset to help others by providing community, fellowship and fun through expression in order to empower self and others to step out of the past and into the passion.
Dive into an experiential on A New Pair of Glasses: What lens do you typically look at life through? Attendees will learn how to uncover, discard and discover. Discussing key points on how we can change our perspective, surrendering our timeline and how we show up for the next season of life that we truly want.
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Association of Recovery in Higher Education Conference
06.26-30.2026
ARHE Annual Conference
Denver, COA Collegiate Recovery Program (CRP) is a college or university-provided program that includes a supportive environment within the campus culture. CRPs reinforce the decision to engage in a lifestyle of recovery from addiction/substance use disorder. It is designed to provide an educational opportunity alongside recovery supports to ensure that students do not have to sacrifice one for the other.
Aleah will be leading attendees through and experiential called “Working Your And” which allows those in attendance to understand that we can look back on life lived and still have capacity for what the future holds. Understanding that we can live as human beings not human doings.