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Official Biography
About Annie Emprima
Annie Emprima is a metaphysical trauma researcher, U.S. Army veteran, story-based speaker, and founder of One Emprima and EMPRIMA Books. Her work explores the intersection of neuroscience, somatic awareness, trauma, consciousness, and metaphysics, helping people recognize what the body has been communicating long before the mind has words for it.
Her research began after a 2016 military deployment to the Middle East, where she became fascinated by why people could experience the same event yet carry it so differently for years afterward. That question evolved into nearly a decade of studying trauma through the nervous system, body awareness, emotional patterns, lived experience, and expanded states of consciousness.
Annie is the creator of the EMPRIMA Methods™, an educational framework designed to help people recognize trauma adaptations, understand the body's whispers before they become roars, and reconnect the relationship between mind, body, and the deeper parts of self. Her work is educational, experiential, and complementary to medical and mental health care rather than a replacement for it.
She is the author of Trauma Whispers Before It Roars: The Field Manual for Your Nervous System and speaks on trauma, nervous system awareness, moral injury, leadership, belonging, neurodivergence, and the relationship between physiology and human potential from a metaphysical perspective.
Service & Leadership
Public Service & Leadership
Vice Chair, Nevada Governor's Women's Veterans Advisory Committee (WVAC)
Annie serves as Vice Chair of the Nevada Governor's Women's Veterans Advisory Committee, advising the Governor on issues affecting women veterans across Nevada. She has served on the WVAC since 2017.
Member, Women Veterans of Nevada (WVON)
Annie is a member of Women Veterans of Nevada, a 501(c)(3), supporting advocacy, connection, and community for women who have served.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Angel Investing
Just as the whispers came to Annie Emprima on the C-130 in the opening scene of Trauma Whispers Before It Roars, another whisper returned toward the end of her 2016 deployment.
At the time, she had been discussing investing with someone while also talking about how deeply she cared about her community. In the middle of the conversation, an unmistakable internal whisper injected:
If you care about your community,
why are you investing in global stocks
that don't care about your community?
Sell your stocks.
Invest in your community.
She ignored the whisper the first two times, something she now jokes has become her pattern. But the third time, it felt as though an invisible foot kicked the back of her knee.
Sell your stocks!
That moment became the beginning of a completely different understanding of investing. A great lesson within this story is that even when something deep within us guides us to pivot, we are still responsible for grounding that guidance in due diligence, discernment, and practical action.
Her first investments were not successful. Like many new investors, she made the mistake of investing in friends before she understood the discipline of due diligence. Eventually, she discovered StartUpNV, where she qualified as an angel investor and gained access to the education, founder evaluation processes, and due diligence resources necessary to invest with greater confidence and purpose.
As of July 1, 2026, Annie has invested more than $116,000 in Nevada-based companies and programs.
She views angel investing as another form of community service—helping founders turn ideas into businesses, create jobs, strengthen local economies, and build a future where innovation begins close to home.