Fighting for Love Series w/ Mari Frank & Leonard Szymczak

Tune in for weekly segments of Mari & Leonard’s Fighting for Love series as they discuss topics and issues from their upcoming book, Fighting for Love: Turning Conflict into Collaboration.

Mari J. Frank, Esq., CIPP has been an attorney/ mediator since 1985.  She’s a Certified MCLE Trainer for the State Bar of California, and teaches Negotiation and  Mediation at the University of California, Irvine and conflict management classes at Brandman University. She was the founding President of the Orange County Chapter of the Society For Professionals in Dispute Resolution and she’s the author of  “ Negotiation Breakthroughs” and  co-author of  Stepping Stones to Success, and co-author of Fighting for Love: Turn Conflict Into Intimacy, A Couples Guide,   and several other books. Mari is the radio host of Prescriptions for Healing Conflict which airs Monday mornings at 8 :30 AM Pacific Time on KUCI, 88.9 FM and she’s been quoted in the New York Times. The LA Times, the Orange County Register, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and interviewed on numerous national US TV and radio shows.  Learn more at www.MariFrank.com and www.conflicthealing.com

Leonard Szymczak is an author, speaker, psychotherapist, and life coach. For the past 40 years he has worked both in Australia and America, as an educator and therapist. He was Director of the Family Therapy Program at the Marriage and Family Centre in Sydney, Australia, and later worked with the Family Institute at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon Bestseller, as well as the novel, Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy. He is the co-author with Mari Frank of the forthcoming book, Fighting for Love: Turn Conflict into Intimacy—A Couple’s Guide.

Leonard conducts seminars on personal and spiritual growth and counsels and coaches clients in Orange County, CA.

June 29th, 2015 – Introduction

CLICK HERE to listen to the first segment of the Fighting for Love series.

July 6th, 2015 – The Gift of Conflict

CLICK HERE TO listen to Mari & Leonard’s discussion on Chapter 1.

July 13th, 2015 – Why Do You Fight?

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 2.

July 20th, 2015 – What Do You Need v. What Do you Want?

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 3.

August 31st, 2015 – Who Are You? Who Am I?

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 4.

September 14th, 2015 – Destructive Pattern

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 5.

September 21st, 2015 – Boundaries

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 6.

September 28th, 2015 – Building Bridges

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 7.

October 5th, 2015 – Forgive Me Not

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 8.

October 19th, 2015 – Change Your Thinking

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 9.

November 2nd, 2015 – Solutions

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 10.

November 30th, 2015 – Transform Hostility

 CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 11.

December 7th, 2015 – Healing from the Inside Out

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 12.

December 14th, 2015 – Epilogue – Harmony

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari & Leonard talk about Chapter 13.

 

Christine Alisa, July 11th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST  

Christine Alisa, M.S. is a traditionally based clinician and an Alternative Therapist. Her innovative work with adults, families, children and therapists moves people through an effective transformational process uncovering and clearing issues of abuse and trauma. As a Marriage Family Therapist and Alternative Therapist in private practice for over 25 years, she facilitates a process that stretches the boundaries of conventional therapy and opens pathways to new methods and solutions for impactful healing results. She has been an international speaker and trainer of therapists in over seven countries for the past thirteen years. Her vision is a world free from abuse and her mission is building a global platform of healers that make change possible.

She is the founder of Alternative Therapist Community, creating successful business models for Alternative Therapists and Healers. By helping them get crystal clear on what patterns are blocking them to achieve their thriving practice. Christine specializes in training therapists and healers to ease the pain and empower children through her uniquely tailored process called PORTALS Healing Course for Children.

She is a member of CAMFT, LB/SB CAMFT, AAMFT, APT, IBRT and Earth

Christine is the author of two new books:

Your Itty Bitty Communicating With Your Teenager Book: 15 Steps to Creating A Better Relationship With Your Teen is a #1 Amazon Best Seller and must have handbook for families who have a teen in their life. When a child reaches the teenage years many parents struggle with adjusting to the new changes in their son or daughter and could use some help.  This small book has Impactful information and powerful tips on how to create more harmony in the home as outlined in this handbook. Wondrous Places of the Heart; Alternative Therapy with Children, also a #1 Amazon Best Seller provides an innovative therapeutic approach and a bridge between parents and children addressing core obstacles such as; trauma, abuse, anger, eating disorders, ADHD, self esteem, and more… Christine Alisa has found a way to gently hear children as they delve into their childhood traumas, birth and past lives, as described through descriptions in her case studies. Children gain a deeper understanding of themselves and a greater capacity for problem solving.  Parents receive practical advice, warning signs, strategies to use as well as communication tips. Christine Alisa’s transformational work brings peace and harmony to families.

To learn more, please visit: www.PeaceThroughMetamorphosis.com

Follow her on the Web:  Twitter: @ChrisAlisa_MS  FB: Christine Alisa

Judith Wright, July 4th, 2016 at 8:30 AM 

A media favorite, sought‐after speaker, respected leader, bestselling author, world‐class, coach, and corporate consultant, Dr. Judith Wright (www.judithwright.com) is Professor of Transformational Coaching at the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential and president of the Wright Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non profit dedicated to helping individuals bring out their best personally and professionally. Dr. Wright wrote There Must Be More Than This, The One Decision, The Soft Addiction Solution, and the award-winning Transformed:The Science of Spectacular Living to share her proven personal transformation methodologies with a broader audience. Her newest book, The Heart of the Fight, was just released in February 2016.

Judith has appeared as a featured lifestyle expert and coach on ABC’s 20/20, Oprah, Good Morning America, the Today show and hundreds of radio and television shows. Called the “world’s ultimate expert,” her work has appeared in over 80 magazines and newspapers around the globe including Marie Claire, Fitness Magazine, Health, Better Homes and Gardens, Shape, The New York Daily News, The Boston Herald, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Judith has the rare ability to touch groups of all types and sizes, communicating her messages with great passion that inspires audiences.

A pioneer in the field of human development, Dr. Wright first rose to national prominence by developing innovative education and early childhood development programs for those with developmental disabilities. These experiences fueled her passion for developing human potential and strengthened her deep‐rooted commitment to help people live great lives. Dr. Wright then applied the profound insights she discovered to the general population, spurring people from all walks of life to significant success in personal transformation, leadership development, and personal goal fulfillment.

After twenty years of developing inspirational personal development programs, she co‐founded Wright — a cutting edge coaching and training organization in Chicago — and the Wright Graduate University for the Realization of Human Potential, offering graduate certificates, masters and doctoral degrees in transformational leadership, transformation coaching, social intelligence, and emotional intelligence.

Dr. Judith Wright is the founder of SOFIA (Society of Femininity in Action), providing revolutionary leadership training for women. She is a sought‐after speaker and expert in areas like leadership, women’s training and development, relationships, wellness and lifestyle, career fulfillment, spirituality, and more. She has been a keynote speaker for many events, conferences, and corporations including AC Nielsen, Chase (formerly Bank One), Kellogg’s, Miss USA Women’s Power Summit, Association of Junior Leagues International, NAWBO, Abbott, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE), Meeting Planners International (MPI), University of Chicago, Rotary Club of Chicago, Society of Women Engineers, and many more.

Dr. Wright is also one of the country’s foremost experts on transformational leadership founding the Transformational Leadership Symposium, convening experts from around the nation to recognize cutting edge transformational leaders including Brad Anderson, former CEO of Best Buy, as well as the 2011 award recipient, Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

Dr. Wright has her BA in psychology, her MA in education and counseling and her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Change.

Todd Creager, June 27th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

Todd Creager is a marriage and sex therapist who helps couples create loving and passionate long term relationships and helps single people find their soulmate.  He has a talent for helping people become motivated to create new patterns in their lives that lead to more satisfying relationships and experiences.  He is the author of “The Long, Hot Marriage,” a highly endorsed and regarded book for couples and his brand new released book, “Love, Sex and Karaoke- 52 Ways To Ignite Your Love Life.” Also just out is his new e-book- The Little Black Book of Infidelity, a book to help couples heal from infidelity. He has a private practice in Huntington Beach, CA and has been helping couples and individuals for over 30 years both in person and via Skype. In addition to his private practice, he helps people via teleseminars and webinars, live events and other informational products.

He has been a guest as a relationship expert on many radio and TV shows including the FOX Morning News, KCAL 9 in LA, Playboy Radio, and was a featured therapist on the show “Unfaithful” on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

He has been a keynote speaker and has done hundreds of talks at conferences, meetings of all sorts and professional trainings.  He also trains seasoned therapists as well as beginners in the field of psychotherapy. Lastly, he is a professor at the USC School of Social Work, helping graduate students learn the theory and practice of becoming professional therapists.

To  learn more, please visit toddcreager.com

Arielle Ford, June 20th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

Arielle Ford is a love and relationship expert, and has spent the past 25 years living and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She is the author of ten books including the international bestseller, THE SOULMATE SECRET: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction. Her new book, Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate, offers groundbreaking shifts in perceptions on how to transform your relationship a deeper, more loving, and more fulfilling lifetime love. Arielle has been called “The Cupid of Consciousness” and “The Fairy Godmother of Love.” She lives in La Jolla, CA with her husband/soulmate, Brian Hilliard and their feline friends.

Her website www.soulmatesecret.com

Mort Fertel, June 13th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

Mort Fertel is a world authority on the psychology of relationships and has an international reputation for saving marriages. In addition to working with couples, he teaches individuals how to single-handedly transform their marital situation.

People from all over the world schedule private tele-sessions with Mort Fertel and seek his counsel by joining the Marriage Fitness Tele-Boot Camp. He is the author of Marriage Fitness Audio Learning System and the creator of Marriage Fitness Home-Flex, the most comprehensive relationship home learning kit in the world. Over 100,000 people a year subscribe to his free e-zine.

Mort Fertel was a featured expert on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and the Fox News Network. He is also a frequent guest on talk radio programs. His breakthrough program, Marriage Fitness, appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Family Circle, Psychology Today, Ladies Home Journal, Glamour Magazine, Parent & Child Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, Library Journal, Women’s Health, Denver Post, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, and Toronto Sun .

Mort’s Marriage Fitness program is endorsed by marriage counselors, therapists, relationship experts, and mental health professionals. Mort Fertel graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, was the CEO of an international non-profit organization, and a former marathon runner. He lives with his wife and 5 children (including triplets!) in Baltimore, Maryland.

William “Bill” Eddy, June 6th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

 

William A. (“Bill”) Eddy is an attorney, therapist, mediator, and the President of the High Conflict Institute based in San Diego, California. Mr. Eddy provides training to professionals worldwide on the subject of managing high-conflict personalities. He has provided seminars to attorneys, mediators, judges, mental health professionals, human resource professionals, employee assistance professionals, ombuds, hospital and college administrators, government agencies, law enforcement, homeowners’ association managers and others. He has presented in over 25 states, several provinces in Canada, France, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Eddy is the author of several books, including:

• High Conflict People in Legal Disputes
• It’s All Your Fault:12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything
• BIFF: Quick Responses to High-Conflict People
• So, What’s Your Proposal: Shifting High-Conflict People from Blaming to Problem-Solving in 30 Seconds
• It’s All Your Fault at Work: Managing Narcissists and Other High-Conflict People

He taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years.  He is currently the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego, California. He is on the part-time faculty at the Pepperdine University School of Law where he has taught Psychology of Conflict for the past several years, and on the part-time faculty of the National Judicial College. For the past six years he has also provided an online CEU course for mental health professionals titled: Working with High Conflict Personalities.

He has provided consultation and training on workplace issues to Intel, San Diego Navy Medical Center, Mt. Royal University, Social Security Administrative Law Judges, U.S. National Merit Protection System Board Administrative Law Judges, the State Services Authority in Melbourne Australia and other organizations.

In 2008, he developed the C.A.R.S. Method of Conflict Resolution, for managing high conflict people in workplace conflict, neighbor disputes and family disputes. He has co-developed the New Ways for Work method in 2014 with L. Georgi DiStefano, which is based on conflict resolution skills training for potentially high conflict employees and managers, and which applies the New Ways for Work Coaching Manual and Workbook.

He obtained his law degree in 1992 from the University of San Diego, a Master of Social Work degree in 1981 from San Diego State University, and a Bachelors degree in Psychology in 1970 from Case Western Reserve University. His website is: www.HighConflictInstitute.com.

Paul White, May 30th, 2016 

Dr. Paul White is a psychologist, author, speaker, and consultant who, for over two decades, has helped countless businesses and organizations make work relationships work.

Co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace (written with #1 NYT bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman), he has given lectures around the world to the likes of Microsoft, Princeton University, the Milken Institute, Napa Valley Community

Foundation, Dartmouth College and the Houston Community Foundation, among others and has been cited in and utilized as a consultant by U.S. News & World Report, CNN/Fortune.com, FoxBusiness.com, the Chicago Tribune and Huffington Post LIVE.

Dr. White graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wheaton College with a major in Christian Education, earned his Masters of Counseling from Arizona State University, and received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University. He has been married for over 30 years and is the father of four adult children.

Please visit to learn more: http://drpaulwhite.com

Jennifer Thomas, May 23rd, 2016 

Jennifer is the co-author of When Sorry Isn’t Enough (previously published as The Five Languages of Apology with Dr. Gary Chapman). Her books have been translated into sixteen foreign languages and sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world.

Her expertise helps readers and leaders know the right things to say to keep growing. Jennifer prevents mishaps from becoming deal-breakers.

Jennifer has a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland. She earned a BA in Psychology and Religion from the University of Virginia.

Let Jennifer show you what to say when the stakes are high. Take a free apology profile, register for her e-newsletter, and learn more about her life-changing books.

Visit her website: www.drjenthomas.com and find her on Google+.

Michaela Haas, May 16th, 2016

Michaela Haas, PhD., has a global, personal history with PTG. Michaela’s grandfather contracted Polio as a child, underwent severe hardship in Nazi Germany and went on to live a life of meaning, spiritual richness, and family fulfillment. Inspired by his example, the journalist, television host, author, scholar and 20-year student of Buddhism, began to understand that many trauma survivors seemed to “Bounce Forward” in their lives to experience tremendous growth. Through gently connecting cutting edge PTG research to ancient Buddhist wisdom, she gives the reader a mind-body-spirit context for growth—grounded in spiritual insight.

WEBSITE: http://www.michaelahaas.com/

 

Derek Rydall, May 9th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Part of the new generation of spiritual visionaries and thought leaders, Derek Rydall is the author of the #1 Amazon/Barnes & Noble best-seller EMERGENCE: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change and the world’s #1 expert on the revolutionary Law of Emergence. He has trained top executives at Fortune 500 companies (from American Express to Disney) in empowered leadership and communications, and has coached celebrities and media professionals, including Oscar and Emmy winners, on creating conscious entertainment. As a regular Huffington Post contributor, and host of the top-rated Emergence podcast on iTunes, he reveals cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies to achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness. With his global platform, Derek has touched hundreds of thousands around the planet with his message on finding your path, living your purpose and making a powerful impact!

To learn more, please visit: www.derekrydall.com

Jennifer McLean, May 2nd, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Jennifer is a Multimillionaire Entrepreneur & Success Signature Coach from Dana Point, CA. She went from working in the corporate world to working her own successful business by rethinking how to make money after her own spontaneous transformation. She is also the author of the new book, Spontaneous Transformation: 7 Steps to Coping and Thriving in Extreme Times

 

Website: www.SpontaneousTransformation.com

 

Amy Banks, April 25th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Amy Banks, M.D., was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is now the director of Advanced Training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, which specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection.

 

Dave Richo, April 18th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST  

David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, writer, and workshop leader. He teaches at a variety of places including Esalen and Spirit Rock Buddhist Center. He shares his time between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California. Dave combines psychological and spiritual perspectives in his work. His two most recent books are:

How to be an Adult in Love (Shambhala, 2013)

You Are Not What You Think: The Egoless Path to Self-Esteem and Generous Love (Shambhala, 2015)

The website for books, CD’s, and events is davericho.com

Gregg Levoy, April 11th, 2016 at 830 AM PST 

Gregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin), and the bestseller Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House)—-rated among the “Top 20 Career Publications” by the Workforce Information Group. He is also the former “behavioral specialist” at USA Today and a regular blogger for Psychology Today.

As a speaker, he has presented at the Smithsonian Institution, Environmental Protection Agency, Microsoft, National Conference on Positive Aging, American Counseling Association, National Career Development Association, and many others, and been a frequent guest of the media, including ABC-TV, CNN, NPR and PBS.

A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, and former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer, he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Reader’s Digest, and many others.

His website is www.gregglevoy.com.

Mitch Horowitz, April 4th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST  

MITCH HOROWITZ is a writer and publisher with a lifelong interest in man’s search for meaning. The PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and One Simple Idea, Mitch has written on everything from the war on witches to the secret life of Ronald Reagan for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, and Time. The Washington Post says Mitch “treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today’s raised-voice discussions.” He is also the voice of popular audio books including Alcoholics Anonymous and The Jefferson Bible, and host of the web series ORIGINS: SUPERSTITIONS. Mitch is vice president and executive editor at Tarcher Perigee, a division of Penguin Random House.

Visit him at www.MitchHorowitz.com.

don Miguel Ruiz Jr., March 28th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

At the age of 14, don Miguel Jr. apprenticed to his father don Miguel Sr. and his grandmother, Madre Sarita. From that early age, he was called upon to translate Madre Sarita’s prayers, lectures and workshops from Spanish into English. In this way, through constant repetition and review, he learned the content of her teachings in both languages.

Through interpreting for Madre Sarita, don Miguel Jr. came to understand the power of faith. He saw first-hand how she manifested her intent to heal people, both physically and spiritually.

don Miguel Jr.’s apprenticeship lasted 10 years. When he reached his mid-20’s, his father intensified his training. At the apex of this power journey don Miguel said to his eldest son, “Find your way out. Go home and master Death by becoming alive.”

For the past six years, don Miguel Jr. has applied the lessons learned from his father and grandmother to define and enjoy his own personal freedom while achieving peace with all of creation.

Today, don Miguel Jr. is married and has two young children. And so, as a Nagual he begins once again to pass along the wisdom and the tools of his family’s traditions in helping others to achieve their own personal freedom and optimal physical and spiritual health.

Miguel Jr. has taken the lessons of his father and grandmother and discovered his own personal freedom. Being able to apply his teachings to the world around him gave Miguel Jr. a new understanding of the lessons his father and grandmother had passed onto him, once again giving him the desire to pass on his beliefs. After decades of training, Miguel Jr. was finally ready to share everything he had learned. As a Nagual, he now helps others discover optimal physical and spiritual health, so that they may achieve their own personal freedom.

To learn more, please visit: www.migurlruizjr.com.

William Ury, March 21st, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

William Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s best-known experts on negotiation and mediation. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project.

He is the author of Getting to Yes with Yourself, (HarperOne, January 2015), The Power of a Positive No, Getting Past No, and The Third Side, and co-author
(with Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton) of Getting to Yes.

Getting to Yes, the world’s bestselling book on negotiation, has almost twelve million copies in print in English and has been translated into thirty-four languages. “No other book in the field comes close to its impact on the way practitioners, teachers, researchers, and the public approach negotiation,” comments the National Institute on Dispute Resolution.

For the past thirty-five years, William has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from Kentucky wildcat coal mine strikes to ethnic wars in the Middle East, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. He has taught negotiation and mediation to tens of thousands of corporate executives, labor leaders, diplomats, and military officers around the world. He has helped hundreds of businesses and organizations reach mutually profitable agreements with customers, suppliers, unions, and joint-venture partners.

With former president Jimmy Carter, William co-founded the International Negotiation Network, a non-governmental body seeking to end civil wars around the world. In an advisory capacity, he helped end a civil war in Indonesia and assisted in preventing one in Venezuela.

During the 1980s, he helped the U.S. and Soviet governments create nuclear crisis centers designed to avert an accidental nuclear war. In that capacity, he served as a consultant to the Crisis Management Center at the White House. William is co-founder of the Climate Parliament, which offers members of
congress and parliament across the world an Internet-based forum to address practical solutions for climate change. Time magazine described the organization as a “Google for global politics.”

He is founder of the Abraham Path Initiative, which seeks to build bridges between cultures and faiths by opening a walking trail and cultural route in the Middle East that retraces the footsteps of Abraham and his family. ABC’s Christiane Amanpour calls the Abraham Path “an unprecedented initiative to break down barriers and foster communication in the most divided region of the
world.”

William is the recipient of the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association and the Distinguished Service Medal from the Russian Parliament. His work has been widely featured in the media from The New York Times to the Financial Times and from CNN to the BBC. He has a popular TED talk, “The Walk from No to Yes.”

Trained as a social anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, William has carried out his research on negotiation not only in the boardroom and at the bargaining table, but also among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the clan warriors of New Guinea.

To learn more, please visit: www.WilliamUry.com.

Betsy Gutting, March 14th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

A past practicing attorney, Betsy Gutting is a Transformational Coach and the founder of Soulful Success Enterprises. Betsy left the practice of law after a life-changing catalytic event steered her in a radical new life direction. As a coach and counselor, spiritual teacher and author, Betsy is dedicated to helping people create soulful success in the vital areas of relationship, career, health, money and business.

Betsy firmly believes in the power of love and soul connection to heal inner and outer conflicts with others. She enthusiastically guides participants to release old habits of struggle, stress and strife and embrace a thriving, soul-inspired life. Her intention is always to connect clients and audiences to their own guiding genius so they can begin to lead more peaceful and joyful lives now.

Betsy is the author of the inspiring and practical guidebook, The Magic of Saying Yes: Answering Your Heart’s True Calling. Her book, as well as her audio MP3, Guided Meditations for Awakening Your Passion, have catalyzed life-changing breakthroughs for many. Betsy continues to take bold risks to live the life of her dreams, including her recent move to her dream town of Laguna Beach, CA.  Her books, courses and audios are available on her website @  www.betsygutting.com.

 

Mark Waldman, March 7th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Mark Waldman has authored 14 books, including the national bestseller How God Changes Your Brain which Oprah selected as one of the nine “Must Read” books for 2012. Considered one of the world’s leading experts on consciousness, communication, spirituality, and the brain, Mark is on the Executive MBA faculty at Loyola Marymount University. He also teaches at Holmes Institute.

His research has been published in journals throughout the world and his work has been featured in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Oprah Magazine.  He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, including PBS and NPR, and his TED Talk has been viewed by more than 100,000 people.  He received the Distinguished Speaker award from the Mind Science Foundation.

His new book, co-authored with Andy Newberg, is called How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain, and his brain-training program, NeuroWisdom 101, will show you how to get there and achieve life-long satisfaction. NeuroWisdom is used in schools, health centers, and businesses throughout the world.

Chaney Weiner, February 29th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Chaney Weiner is a sought after authority on human potential and personal development. He is the founder of the Chaney Institute of Human Potential, an organization dedicated to empowering people worldwide in all seven areas of life (Financial, physical, family, mental, spiritual, vocational, and social) by helping them discover their hidden brilliance and uniqueness based on what is most important to them.

An acknowledged transformational leader and a leading expert on success and raising human potential, Chaney has inspired people around the world, sharing his breakthrough methods for personal and professional success in the seven different areas of life.

Chaney is often approached by the media for his inspiring insights and advice. His work has been featured on Montel Across America with Montel Williams, Hollywood Confidential with Leeza Gibbons, Martha Stewart Living Radio, Hay House Radio and on hundreds of radio shows throughout the world.

Through his programs, and presentations, Chaney’s message has touched the hearts and inspired people worldwide. He is dedicated to fulfilling his life’s purpose of helping people live more empowered lives by realizing their magnificence and brilliance through the tremendous amount of value they contribute to the world.

Chaney is also the author of the book, “Because This Is Your Life.” Find out more at www.BecauseThisIsYourLife.com

 David Feinstein, Ph.D., & Donna Eden, February 22nd, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

DAVID FEINSTEIN, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and a pioneer in developing innovative therapeutic approaches, leading to nine national awards for his books on consciousness and energy healing. David has served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Antioch College, and the California School of Professional Psychology.  In addition to his nine books, he has contributed more than 100 articles to the professional literature.  He and his wife, Donna Eden, have built the world’s largest and most vibrant organization teaching energy medicine. Their latest book, The Energies of Love, achieved best-seller status on the NY Times Relationship List and was the 2015 U.S.A. Book News Best Relationship Book.

David has received the 2015 Outstanding Leadership Award from the Canadian Association for Integrative and Energy Therapies, the Outstanding Contribution Award from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (2002 and again in 2012), the Infinity Foundation’s 2013 Spirit Award (with his wife Donna Eden) for their contribution to “the evolution of consciousness” and its “impact on society,” and he was the recipient of the U.S. Book News Award for the Best Psychology/Mental Health Book of 2007.  He is a member of the American Psychological Association, is a licensed psychologist (Oregon), and is listed in Who’s Who in the West, the Dictionary of International Biography, and the International Authors and Writers Who’s Who.

 

DONNA EDEN, a pioneer in the field of holistic healing, is among the world’s most sought, most joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for Energy Medicine. She has been able to clairvoyantly “see” the body’s energies since childhood, and her abilities as a healer are legendary. Her invigorating presentations are rich with audience participation and stunning demonstrations of simple methods for shifting the body’s energies for health and vitality.

Donna’s classic book, Energy Medicine, is the textbook in hundreds of healing classes. Available in 18 languages, it won golds in both the U.S. Book News and Nautilus competitions, and her most recent book, The Energies of Love, achieved best-seller status on the NY Times Relationship List.  From her clairvoyant-like ability to see the body’s energies, she has developed a system for teaching others, who do not have this gift, to nonetheless work effectively with their own energies.

More than 1,100 practitioners are certified “Eden Energy Medicine” practitioners and are, in any given month, teaching hundreds of classes and providing healing services to thousands of clients around the world. Many of Donna’s students are physicians, nurses, and other mainstream health professionals, and she is widely referenced in the alternative health field. She has been a consultant or guest speaker in numerous universities, hospitals, and corporations.  To learn more about her and her work, visit www.LearnEnergyMedicine.com.

Amy Banks, M.D., February 15th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

 

Amy Banks, M.D., was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is now the director of Advanced Training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, which specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection.

 

 

 

 

Peter Panagore, February 8th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

Peter Baldwin Panagore is the host of a daily two-minute inspirational radio broadcast on two NBC stations throughout Maine. Peter is an avid sailor, expert skier, and woods trail runner who earned his BA in English from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M. Div. from Yale Divinity school, with a focus on systematic theology and Christian myticism. His educational background and his 30 years of yoga and meditative practice and his work as a pastor with the dying and grieving has given Peter a unique insight, language, and perspective on heaven, God, death, life, love, beauty, and hope. The retired pastor, who has written for the Huffington Post, lives in coastal Maine with his wife.

Website: www.pepterpanagore.com & DailyDevotions.org

Jenny Santi, February 1st, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Jenny Santi was born and raised in Manila in the Philippines; has lived in London, the French Loire Valley and Singapore, and is now based in New York. Santi is a philanthropy advisor to some of the world’s most generous philanthropists and celebrity activists, and for five years beginning at only 28, was the Head of Philanthropy Services (Southeast Asia) for the world’s largest wealth manager. She holds an MBA from INSEAD, went to Wharton business school as an exchange student, graduated summa cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University, attended New York University’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy & Fundraising, and is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. She is a frequent commentator on the topic of philanthropy and has been quoted in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, on Channel NewsAsia, and on BBC World News.

Learn more at JennySanti.com.

Joan Gattuso, January 25th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

Joan Gattuso has studied with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and has authored three popular books that have been translated into several languages: A Course in Love, A Course in Life, and The Lotus Still Blooms. Gattuso is a well-known Unity minister, and she lives in Hawaii with her husband, David Alexander.

Mitra Rahbar, January 18th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST 

Mitra Rahbar is the author of Mitra Rahbar is the author of MIRACULOUS SILENCE: A Journey to Illumination and Healing Through Prayer (A TarcherPerigee paperback, on sale January 2016) and has been a spiritual teacher, healer, and guide for over thirty years. Born into the mystical traditions of Iran, and surrounded by her mother’s classical poetry, and grandfather’s Dervish philosophies, Rahbar combines many Eastern and Western spiritual traditions to serve people from all walks of life. Now living in Southern California, Rahbar is also known as a singer and humanitarian. website: www.VoiceOfMitra.com Peter Bedard, January 11th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST With an MA in Consciousness Studies and his extensive training in Hypnotherapy and alternative health, Peter has helped thousands of people overcome pain and the fearful shadow it has cast over their lives. Peter has a thriving one-on-one private practice and he gives talks and workshops around the world. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Website(s): CreateYourHealth.com (CYH Teas) & ConvergenceHealing.com

Michaela Haas, January 4th, 2016 at 8:30 AM PST

Michaela Haas, PhD., has a global, personal history with PTG. Michaela’s grandfather contracted Polio as a child, underwent severe hardship in Nazi Germany and went on to live a life of meaning, spiritual richness, and family fulfillment. Inspired by his example, the journalist, television host, author, scholar and 20-year student of Buddhism, began to understand that many trauma survivors seemed to “Bounce Forward” in their lives to experience tremendous growth. Through gently connecting cutting edge PTG research to ancient Buddhist wisdom, she gives the reader a mind-body-spirit context for growth—grounded in spiritual insight.

WEBSITE: http://www.michaelahaas.com/

Julie Barton, December 28th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Julie Barton is a writer, mother of two and dog lover who lives in the Bay Area of Northern California. Her writing has been published in numerous magazines and journals, including BrainChild, The South Carolina Review, Louisiana Literature, Two Hawks Quarterly, Westview, as well as The Huffington Post. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and an MA in women’s studies from Southern Connecticut State University.

Website: Byjuliebarton.com

Jennifer Iacavelli, December 21st, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Jennifer Iacovelli is a writer, speaker and consultant. As chief engagement officer of the Another Jennifer Writing Lab, Jennifer helps entrepreneurs, bloggers and nonprofits tell their story. She is also the author of the Another Jennifer blog, and creator of the Simple Giving Lab. She writes for Mom Bloggers for Social Good as part of the Global Team of 200 and is a regular contributor to World Moms Blog and HuffPost Divorce. Jennifer is also a contributing author of the book The Mother Of All Meltdowns. Her work has been featured on GOOD, BlogHer, USAID Impact, Feed the Future, and the PSI Impact blog. She is based in Brunswick, Maine.

Website: anotherjennifer.com

 Jenny Santi, November 23rd, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Jenny Santi was born and raised in Manila in the Philippines; has lived in London, the French Loire Valley and Singapore, and is now based in New York. Santi is a philanthropy advisor to some of the world’s most generous philanthropists and celebrity activists, and for five years beginning at only 28, was the Head of Philanthropy Services (Southeast Asia) for the world’s largest wealth manager. She holds an MBA from INSEAD, went to Wharton business school as an exchange student, graduated summa cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University, attended New York University’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy & Fundraising, and is a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy. She is a frequent commentator on the topic of philanthropy and has been quoted in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, on Channel NewsAsia, and on BBC World News.

Learn more at JennySanti.com.

 

Howard Falco, November 16th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST 

HOWARD FALCO is Spiritual teacher, author and expert on human understanding and potential. He is also a “mindfulness” and Peak Performance Coach to college and professional athletes, corporate executives, and individuals looking for a new way of overcoming life’s challenges and achieving new results.

Howard has authored two books about life and the power of personal creation, I AM: THE POWER OF DISCOVERING WHO YOU REALLY ARE (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010), and TIME IN A BOTTLE: MASTERING THE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, (Tarcher/Penguin May 2014).

In late 2002, this married father of two went through a sudden and extraordinary expansion of mind. The dramatic depth and breadth of this shift in consciousness unveiled the answers to many of the largest questions that humanity asks on a regular basis, such as, “What is the purpose of life?”, “How do I achieve my deepest dreams and desires.” and “How do I achieve lasting peace and fulfillment?”

During this spontaneous enlightenment the core creative essence underlying all human action, reaction, joys and suffering was revealed to him. Stunned and inspired by this powerful knowledge, Howard set out to honor what happened by sharing what he learned.  He now dedicates his life’s work to teaching others how to tap into this great power.

Through his books, speeches and private coaching, thousands have been touched as individuals quickly realize the inspiring nature of his insights and the transformative impact this power has on their own lives. Offered are the keys to taking complete control of the creative process of life and time from this precious moment forward. The result is a much greater sense of peace, and fulfillment during the process.

More information about his books, private coaching, retreats and schedule can be found at www.HowardFalco.com

Robert DesJardin, November 9th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Bob has practiced law in southern California for forty years and has been recognized as one of the best lawyers in America and California in a number of independent publications, including Best Lawyers in America. He received the Orange County Trial Lawyers designation as the trial lawyer of the year in 2000. He has had extensive courtroom experience and served as an editorial consultant for Matthew Bender, private judge and as a Judge Pro Tem.
He has contributed to Practice Under The California Family Code, California Family Law Monthly and numerous legal syllabus over the forty years. His first love, however, is fiction.
His first novel, The Mistral, was self published in 2007 and received positive reviews if not commercial success. A Darker Shade of Orange appealed to a broader audience and was well received and reviewed.. He then published Land of the Saints which went where no other novelist had gone since Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet. Despite its decidedly anti Mormon theme, Saints received a thumbs up review from the Mormon Letters.
Passing Through ventures into cryogenics and life after death and asks the penultimate question: Where would the soul dwell during a long cryogenic sleep.

Parvati Markus, October 26th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Parvati has been “midwifing” spiritually oriented nonfiction books and memoirs as a substantive editor/writer since her first efforts with Ram Dass’s classic Be Here Now. Books she has edited have been published by, among others, Hay House, Inner Traditions, Simon & Schuster, Con- temporary / McGraw Hill, and Lotus Press. She collaborated on the three books and two guidebooks in the initiatory journey of The Box: Remembering the Gift. She has also helped with spiritual organizations (as past president of the board of the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Temple in Taos, New Mexico) and events (as a development consultant for the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders, held at the U.N. in Geneva).

Parvati has two sons and three granddaughters, and lives in South Florida with a very particular cat.

Jan Schau, October 12th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST 

Jan Frankel Schau, Esq. settles litigated cases arising out of employment, business and tort disputes. With over twenty years of experience as a litigator, half in Insurance Defense and half representing Plaintiff’s in employment and business-related disputes, Jan has a unique ability to understand and evaluate both sides of every claim.

Since 2003, Jan has mediated over 1,000 litigated cases throughout Southern California.  She has been a Panel Neutral at ADR Services in Los Angeles since 2007 and is widely considered one of L.A.’s preeminent mediators. Jan earned her Bachelors degree at Pomona College in Claremont, California in International Relations in 1978 and her J.D. at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1981.

A Past President of the Southern California Mediation Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, she is also a popular trainer, author and lecturer on topical issues related to Alternative Dispute Resolution, including her book, “View from the Middle of the Road:  A Mediator’s Perspective on Life, Conflict and Human Interaction” (AuthorHouse, 2013).

Named as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Jan is known as a penultimate conflict solver:  effective, tenacious and unflappable.

Scott Hunter, September 7th, 2015

Scott Hunter’s keynotes, coaching, and book, Unshackled Leadership, have been transforming organizations for two decades. Scott has conducted over 250 corporate retreats, consistently producing breakthroughs in the participants’ relationships with each other. This has predictably produced dramatic shifts in the company’s level of accomplishment and has been key to the company producing extraordinary results. As a consultant and coach, he has worked with over 200 corporate clients in working arrangements lasting just a weekend to as long as 10 years. As a speaker, Scott has delivered over 1000 speeches to organizations in every field of endeavor.

www.unshackledleadership.com

Joe Luzzi, August 24th, 2015 

Joseph Luzzi is a writer and professor of Italian at Bard College. The first child in his Calabrian family born in the U.S., he is the author of the memoir, In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (HarperCollins). His other books include My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

He is a frequent contributor of essays and reviews to publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, the London Times Literary Supplement, and many others. His first book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale Univ. Press 2008), received the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and he is the author of the forthcoming A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2014).

His work has been translated into Italian and Portuguese, and he has lectured throughout the world on art, film, and literature. Learn more about the Bard Italian Studies Program here.

Website: www.josephluzzi.com

Twitter: @luzzijoseph

More about the book here: http://josephluzzi.com/in-a-dark-wood/

Emily Anne Rigal, August 17th, 2015 

The founder and director of anti-bullying organization WeStopHate.org, 21-year-old EMILY-ANNE RIGAL is one of Newsweek’s “150 Most Fearless Women in the World” and the recipient of the Peace First Prize and the Nickelodeon H.A.L.O. (Helping and Leading Others) Award presented to her by one of her chief supporters, Lady Gaga. She is an activist, speaker, and YouTube personality who counts everyone from Meryl Streep and Whitney Port to Dove’s Global Self-Esteem Ambassador among her thousands of supporters, mentors, and fans.

Learn more at EmilyAnnRigal.com and flawdbook.com.

 

don Miguel Ruiz, August 10th, 2015 

At the age of 14, don Miguel Jr. apprenticed to his father don Miguel Sr. and his grandmother, Madre Sarita. From that early age, he was called upon to translate Madre Sarita’s prayers, lectures and workshops from Spanish into English. In this way, through constant repetition and review, he learned the content of her teachings in both languages.

Through interpreting for Madre Sarita, don Miguel Jr. came to understand the power of faith. He saw first-hand how she manifested her intent to heal people, both physically and spiritually.

don Miguel Jr.’s apprenticeship lasted 10 years. When he reached his mid-20’s, his father intensified his training. At the apex of this power journey don Miguel said to his eldest son, “Find your way out. Go home and master Death by becoming alive.”

For the past six years, don Miguel Jr. has applied the lessons learned from his father and grandmother to define and enjoy his own personal freedom while achieving peace with all of creation.

Today, don Miguel Jr. is married and has two young children. And so, as a Nagual he begins once again to pass along the wisdom and the tools of his family’s traditions in helping others to achieve their own personal freedom and optimal physical and spiritual health.

Miguel Jr. has taken the lessons of his father and grandmother and discovered his own personal freedom. Being able to apply his teachings to the world around him gave Miguel Jr. a new understanding of the lessons his father and grandmother had passed onto him, once again giving him the desire to pass on his beliefs. After decades of training, Miguel Jr. was finally ready to share everything he had learned. As a Nagual, he now helps others discover optimal physical and spiritual health, so that they may achieve their own personal freedom.

 Sarah Napthali, June 22nd, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

 Sarah Napthali is a mother of two young boys who tries to apply Buddhist teachings in her daily life. Her working life has ranged from teaching English as a Second Language and corporate training, to human rights activism and interpreting. Since becoming a mother she has focussed on writing, initially for companies and later for individuals wanting to record their memoirs. With seven memoirs completed, she is also the author of Buddhism for Mothers (Allen & Unwin, 2003) which has sold 54,000 copies around the world and been translated into eight languages to date. Since the children started school, Sarah is very pleased to report that she manages to meditate daily.

Ylonda Gault Caviness, June 15th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Ylonda Gault (@TheRealYlonda) is an author, veteran journalist and education advocate. Over the course of her 20-year print and digital magazine career, she has been a senior producer at iVillage; lifestyle and parenting editor at Essence magazine; as well as a retail and fashion reporter at Crain’s New York Business.
CHILD, PLEASE: How Mama’s Old-School Lessons Helped Me Check Myself Before I Wrecked Myself is her first book.
Gault’s feature writing and editing has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, Redbook, Health and The Huffington Post. Best known for her coverage of family, parenting, women’s and lifestyle topics, she has appeared on NPR, TODAY, Good Day New York ABC News and other broadcasts. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her three amazing children.

Louis Kriesberg, June 8th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Louis Kriesberg is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, and founding director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), all at Syracuse University. He writes and speaks on issues relating to American foreign policy, the Middle East, and the fields of conflict resolution, peace studies, and constructive conflict.

His most recent book is Realizing Peace: A Constructive Conflict Approach, published by Oxford University Press, in 2015. Other recent books are: the 4^th edition of Constructive Conflicts, co-authored with Bruce W. Dayton, published in 2012, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: Moving from Violence to Sustainable Peace (co-ed. with Bruce Dayton, 2009), International Conflict Resolution (1992), Timing the De-Escalation of International Conflicts (co-ed., 1991. and Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformation (co-ed., 1989). In addition, he has published 150 book chapters and articles and numerous op-eds.

Kriesberg was president of the Society for the Study of social Problems (1983-1984) and has received many professional awards and honors. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1953.

Margot Brown, June 1st, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Margot E. Brown, a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, has counseled and helped thousands of people improve their relationships and save their marriages over the past two decades. Her new book is called Kickstart Your Relationship Now! Move On or Move Out!,

For the past year and a half she has worked as the director of psychological health for Magellan Health Inc. as a civilian contractor for the United States Army Reserve (63^rd RSC).  She is responsible for the mental wellbeing of 43,000 soldiers in nine states, Guam, Siapan, and American Samoa.  She consults with generals, ambassadors and unit commanders.  She is part of the Combat Stress Team and also consults, screens, and educates soldiers regarding PTSD and depression.

She had a private practice for 20 years prior to taking the position at Magellan Health, Inc.  In addition to addressing patient needs regarding relationships, she also counseled on substance abuse, workplace stress, behavioral health, couples conflict, domestic violence, child abuse, and anxiety.

Dr. Brown earned a BA in Speech Pathology from San Francisco State University, her MA in Systemic Psychology from College of Notre Dame, and a Psy D in Counseling Psychology from University of San Francisco.  She also earned a certificate in Military Cultural Competence and Essential Learning, as well as a Certificate of Alcohol and Drug Studies from University of California, in Santa Cruz.

For 13 years, Dr. Brown served as an undergraduate and graduate instructor at University of Notre Dame, developing curriculum and teaching courses on couples therapy, human sexuality, women’s health issues, and stress in the workplace.

She has written for The Family Psychologist and The American Journal of Family Therapy.  She is a member of American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and Employee Assistance Professional Association.  Her workshops and trainings include these: “Conflict Resolution;” “Co-Dependency: Attributes, Feelings, Behaviors and How To Recover;” and “Why Is It Important To Talk? The Stigma of Mental Health in the Military.”

Dr. Brown also served two years as a senior career and leadership development consultant for SPHERION Human Resource Capital.  She had a 15-year stint with Tyco Corporation before Spherion, where she served as a supervisor and team leader in customer service.  She managed 18 direct reports in sales for the Fortune 500 company.

She resides with her husband and family in the San Francisco Bay area.  For more information, please consult: www.72hrrule.com

Michele Huff, May 25th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Michèle Huff has practiced intellectual property and licensing law for over 25 years. She is currently Senior Associate University Counsel at the University of New Mexico where she specializes in Intellectual Property, Research, and Technology. Prior to joining UNM, Ms. Huff was an adjunct professor at the School of Law, and managed the Archer Law Group, a boutique firm specializing in licensing and IP law. She has negotiated on behalf of Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. Ms. Huff mentors new lawyers and entrepreneurs-in-training, and presents on negotiation to administrators, managers, graduate students, creative entrepreneurs, and incubator clients. She was born and raised in New York City, received her BA from Colorado College and her JD, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a member of the California and New Mexico Bars.

 

Follow her at http://www.michelehuff.com.

 

Anneli Rufus, May 18th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

 

Anneli Rufus is also the author of Table for One: A Loner’s Manifesto and Stuck: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move), and her most recent releaseUNWORTHY: How to Stop Hating Yourself now out in paperback May 2015. Rufus has been a contributor to sites such as Salon.com, The Daily Beast, and Alternet, is currently the literary editor of the East Bay Express.  She blogs about low self-esteem for Spirituality & Health, Huffington Post, and Psychology Today.

 

 

 

Danna Beal, May 11th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Danna Beal, M.Ed., lives in Bellevue, WA where she is a business consultant, speaker, author and coach.  She has been on over 70 radio and TV talk shows throughout the country, discussing her book, “The Extraordinary Workplace:  Replacing Fear with Trust and Compassion”.  She has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader for over 300 businesses on her new model for enlightened leadership; creating harmony, teamwork, and extraordinary success.

Danna has worked closely with leaders and employees in a wide variety of businesses, organizations, and industries, including hospitals, physician practices, CPA firms, law firms, auto dealerships, banks, and non-profits, to name a few.

In 2000 Danna was awakened and received guidance for understanding the complex relationships in today’s workplace. She was shown a web of egos who battle and compete for power and validation, managers who disempower employees, and co-workers who hurt and sabotage one another. She was told how the environment is fraught with insecurity and top-down, fear based management. So great is the fear, however, that most people are afraid to even face it—the elephant in the living room—for fear of recrimination.

Enlightened leaders can create harmonious, cooperative environments where people can contribute from their full potential. Leaders who have the courage to face their own wounds and insecurities will then operate from their authentic selves, in alignment with their inner spiritual greatness. And they will release those they lead to do the same.

Leaders who recognize that they must release the powerful energy and intelligence of the people in their organizations will build extraordinary workplaces and achieve high levels of business success. But in reality, most leaders do not maximize performance, and instead unwittingly deplete the energy of those they need to drive their financial goals. Join Danna in healing the workplace culture, as we one by one give up the reactionary drama occurring in today’s workplace and replace fear with trust and compassion.

Speaking engagements include national and international conferences such as:

• AHRA- Los Angeles, CA, St. Louis, MO
• Grand Rounds at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland & Richmond, CA
• Volunteer Hospital Association, St. Louis, MO and Dallas, TX
• Institute of Management Accountants, Chicago and Boston
• Business Retention and Expansion International, Halifax, Nova Scotia

To learn more, visit www.dannabeal.com

Mark Goulston, May 4th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Mark Goulston, M.D. is a business advisor, consultant, speaker, trainer and coach trained as a clinical psychiatrist who honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer who increases people’s ability to get through to anyone. He is or has been a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches and is the best selling author of four prior books including the international best seller, Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior (Perigee, $13.95) Get Out of Your Own Way at Work…and Help Others Do the Same (Perigee, $14.95), is a contributor to Harvard Business,  blogs for the Huffington Post, Business Insider writes the Tribune media syndicated column, Solve Anything with Dr. Mark, column on leadership for FAST COMPANY, Directors Monthly. He is frequently called upon to share his expertise with regard to contemporary business, national and world news by television, radio and print media including: Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah, Today.​

To learn more, please visit: MarkGoulston.com

Todd Creager, April 27th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Todd Creager is a marriage and sex therapist who helps couples create loving and passionate long term relationships and helps single people find their soulmate.  He has a talent for helping people become motivated to create new patterns in their lives that lead to more satisfying relationships and experiences.  He is the author of “The Long, Hot Marriage,” a highly endorsed and regarded book for couples and his brand new released book, “Love, Sex and Karaoke- 52 Ways To Ignite Your Love Life.” He has a private practice in Huntington Beach, CA and has been helping couples and individuals for 30 years both in person and via Skype. In addition to his private practice, he helps people via teleseminars and webinars, live events and other informational products.

He has been a guest as a relationship expert on many radio and TV shows including the FOX Morning News, KCAL 9 in LA, Playboy Radio, and was a featured therapist on the show “Unfaithful” on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

He has been a keynote speaker and has done hundreds of talks at conferences, meetings of all sorts and professional trainings.  He also trains seasoned therapists as well as beginners in the field of psychotherapy. Lastly, he is an instructor at the USC School of Social Work, helping graduate students learn the theory and practice of becoming professional therapists.

D. Helene, April 20th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

D. Helene is a journalist and author. She did an investigative series on the squeezing of the middle class and then started feeling squeezed herself, when during the recession she lost her full-time writing job and had to cobble together several part-time jobs.

As a writer, she started writing down several fictional, humorous anecdotes about what it’s like to live as one of the 99%, (those of us who work for a living)… never imagining that someday they would be woven together in her first novel.

She gathered these fictional anecdotes while she was writing her first book, a non-fiction biography. Once that was published, she was inspired to string these anecdotes together into this novel, Diary of a 99%-er: The Struggle Between Survival and Creative Expression, which details a year in the lives of a fictional couple living in OC, trying to make ends meet during the recession.

D. Helene has lived this yin-and-yang struggle between making money and creative expression, the struggle that is so indicative of Western culture. By choosing to become a journalist professionally, she choose a career that is not all about the money, but about sharing, communicating, informing  (through hard news and analytical articles) and entertaining (through feature stories). She believes in journalism as the fourth estate and as an essential tenet of freedom of speech.

While D. Helene is not an Orange County native, she is so enamored with the natural beauty of OC that she infused the book with a lot of the gorgeous places we are blessed with here, like Laguna Beach and the Dana Point harbor. She also includes mentions of several businesses that she frequents, such as Golden Spoon frozen yogurt and JC Beans coffeehouse.

While she was writing this book, she also became a yoga teacher to deepen her own practice and share her passion for yoga with others. As a result, one of the themes of the book is yoga.

D.  Helene also has a deep spiritual practice, so the book is imbued with spirituality. Inspirational quotes are at the start of each chapter.

Ultimately, D. Helene hopes to inspire and entertain her fellow 99%-ers, and show them, “You are not alone!” She also hopes to encourage people to follow their creative dreams, despite the enormous amount of time Americans are expected to spend at work and the financial pressure of trying to make ends meet, especially living in such affluent locales as OC.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with D. Helene!

Kasey & Brad Wallis, April 13th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

During a near death experience, Brad Wallis was visited by a Higher Light Teaching Group named JULIUS. They provided Brad with incredible information for humans regarding why our existence here came to be, and what our souls are doing on this plane. Brad was able to question his purpose with JULIUS; they were so kind and loving in their willingness to offer information to him. He discovered things about himself that he could not access in his human form.

Brad’s communication with this group moved his believing in himself into knowing of himself. Feeling the need to continue his accessibility to JULIUS, Brad requested that they continue their communications with him upon his return to this realm.

Immediately following Brad’s return, his now wife Kasey began to channel Julius. These conversations were so profound in their expansive progression: Conversations that lead to the connection with their souls and being able to break barriers that had held the human experience in such limitation.

The conversations astounded Kasey & Brad at first, but soon led to their ability to provide live forums in which the audience was provided information about their experiences as well. Transforming lives and expanding the mind in ways that each was seeking in their lives. JULIUS was able to reach out through Kasey’s channeling to exchange energy and wisdom.

Bringing information to the masses is Brad and Kasey’s journey this time around. They believe that communication with JULIUS can and will transform lives in ways like never before. JULIUS’ teachings offer wisdom in consciousness, expansion, ascension, and finally mastering this realm.

It also allows others to know what their journey is about and how to become the highest version of themselves so they are no longer living in lack and need. Join Kasey, Brad and JULIUS in these powerful teachings and discussions where you can ask the question… ‘Why?”

To learn more, please visit: http://expandwithjulius.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Kasey & Brad Wallis!

Rita Eichenstein, April 6th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Rita Eichenstein, PhD, is a noted psychologist and pediatric neuropsychologist, renowned in the field of child development, and author of Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children (Perigee, April 7, 2015). She is also the author of the popular blog Positively Atypical! by Dr. Rita Eichenstein. An expert in the fields of child development and special education, Dr. Eichenstein maintains a private practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Towers in Los Angeles, California, where she specializes in child assessment and counseling parents of “atypical” children.

To learn more, please visit: www.notwhatiexpected.info

 

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Rita Eichenstein!

 

 

Sunny Dawn Johnston, March 30th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Sunny Dawn Johnston is an world renowned psychic medium, dynamic and engaging inspirational speaker and gifted author. Since early childhood, Sunny has always know she was different and destined to do great things. As a teenager she possessed an innate wisdom, awareness and curiosity of the Angelic realm and Spirit world. While she fought those gifts for many years, Spirit ultimately won and today Sunny is dedicated to teaching others about the Spirit world and unconditional love.

Over the last fifteen years, Sunny has performed thousands of readings and workshops where she’s communicated with angels, guides, and loved ones who have crossed over to the other side. The constant theme she receives from all of these divine entities and loved ones is: Love never ends!

Sunny is the author of 6 books and has spoken internationally on the subject of Angels, Mediumship and Healing the Heart. Sunny has been featured on many local and national television and radio shows and has appeared in the award winning documentary Sacred Journey of the Heart. Her most recent endeavor has been starring in “A Séance with…” on Lifetime Movie Network LMN. Sunny’s latest book, The Love Never Ends: Message from the Other Side… was released in October 2014.

www.sunnydawnjohnston.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Sunny Dawn Johnston!

 

Joe Nunziata, March 23rd, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST 

Joe Nunziata is a best selling author, professional speaker, spiritual teacher and life & business coach. His new book Karma Buster was featured in the 2012 Academy Awards and Emmy Awards gift bags.

He has been delivering his life changing message at events and seminars since 1992. His enlightening programs are a unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy and the power of internal energy.

He has appeared on many television and radio programs including Good Day New York and Street Talk on Fox TV, Cablevision’s News 12, Giam TV, Better TV, The Braveheart Network and various radio stations across the country.

Other books include:  Spiritual Selling, Finding Your Purpose and No More 9 to 5

Other programs include: Change Your Energy/Change Your Life, No More Mental Barriers, Connecting to Your Spirit and The 7 Keys to Transformation

Site:     http://JoeNunz.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Joe Nunziata!

Richard Smith, March 16th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Richard H. Smith, Ph. D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky (Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). His research is on social emotions such as awe, envy, and schadenfreude.  He has edited a volume on envy, Envy: Theory and Research, Oxford University Smith_Pain_cover_rev Press, 2008, and has a recent book on schadenfreude, The Joy of Pain: Schadenfreude and the Dark Side of Human Nature, Oxford University Press, 2013

https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/richard-smith-phd

http://www.thejoyofpainbook.com/

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Bryan Toder, March 9th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Bryan Toder is a professional hypnotist, speaker and author and owner of Plymouth Hypnosis Center in Lafayette Hill, PA where he helps people lose weight, quit smoking, manage stress and basically get their life together.

He has discovered that the skills that help people improve their lives is internal communication with themselves. This EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION, when learned can help anyone in:

• Public Speaking
• Sales
• Asking for the Money (Closing the sale)
• Social Anxiety
• Copywriting
• …and just plain getting what you want!

To learn more, please visit: http://www.bryantoder.com/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Bryan Toder!

 

Alice Boyes, March 2nd, 2015

Alice Boyes, Ph.D.’s writing has been featured in Psychology Today, Good Magazine, Women’s Health Australia, Lifehacker and Mashable among others and her research about relationships was published in the world’s premier social psychology journal, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Dr. Boyes’ expertise in social, clinical, positive, and relationships psychology topics has been featured in numerous magazines and radio segments.  Originally from New Zealand, she currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Learn more at www.theanxietytoolkit.com

 

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Alice Boyes!

Bill Eddy, February 23rd, 2015

William A. (“Bill”) Eddy is an attorney, therapist and mediator. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist in San Diego, California, where he has represented clients in family court and provided divorce mediation services for the past 19 years. Prior to that, he provided psychotherapy for 12 years to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Mr. Eddy is the President of the High Conflict Institute, which trains lawyers, judges, mediators, counselors and others in dealing with high conflict disputes in all settings (legal, workplace, homeowners associations and business). He has presented in over 25 states, several provinces in Canada, Australia, France and Sweden. He is the author of several books, including: It’s All Your Fault!:12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything; High Conflict People in Legal Disputes; and BIFF: Quick Responses to High Conflict People. He is the developer of the New Ways for Families method for potentially high-conflict families, which is being implemented in several family court systems in the United States and Canada.

He taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years.  He has served as a Special Master and as a Settlement Judge.  He is currently the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego, California. He is on the part-time faculty at the Pepperdine University School of Law and on the part-time faculty of the National Judicial College.

www.HighConflictInstitute.com.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Bill Eddy!

Elisha Goldstein, February 16th, 2015

Dr. Goldstein is a psychologist, author and speaker who synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. Dr. Goldstein is the co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in Los Angeles and has published extensively and is author of numerous articles, chapters, and blogs. These include Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, the bestselling book The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life, Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious Traveler and co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook and MBSR Everyday: Daily Practices from the Heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

He has also created the Mindfulness at Work program for eMindful.com recognized by the National Business Group on Health for its success in stress management. And co-developed CALM – Connecting Adolescents to Learning Mindfulness with his wife Stefanie Goldstein, PhD.

Dr. Goldstein’s unique ability to make complex concepts simple has led him to be invited to speak nationally and internationally with mental health professionals, educators, business leaders and lay audiences.

To learn more, please visit: http://elishagoldstein.com/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Elisha Goldstein!

Panache Desai, February 9th, 2015

Panache Desai is a contemporary thought leader and author whose message of love and acceptance has drawn thousands of people from around the world to his seminars and workshops. Not aligned with any religious or spiritual tradition, he empowers people to free themselves of pain, suffering, sadness, and self-limiting beliefs. After a profoundly transformative experience more than a decade ago, he has committed his life to being a spiritual teacher empowering humanity in the deepest states of connection and awareness and helping people everywhere to directly experience divine consciousness for themselves.

A highly sought-after speaker featured regularly in print, broadcast media, and online, Panache has appeared with Oprah Winfrey on the Emmy® Award-winning OWN series, Super Soul Sunday and was featured on their 2013 season finale, Soul 2 Soul: Asking Life’s Big Questions. He is a featured speaker OMEGA Institute for Holistic Studies and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health; he has addressed the United Nations Enlightenment Society; and in Spring 2014 he was a featured speaker at The Third Metric Conferences, hosted by Arianna Huffington and Mika Brzezinski.  Panache has also collaborated with internationally recognized spiritual teachers including Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith, Elizabeth Lesser, Brian Weiss, MD, James Van Praagh, Ram Dass, Alan Cohen, James Redfield, Colette Baron-Reid and Neale Donald Walsch.

In May 2014, he published his first book, DISCOVERING YOUR SOUL SIGNATURE: A 33-Day Path to Purpose, Passion, and Joy (Random House/Spiegel & Grau).

To learn more, please visit: https://www.panachedesai.com/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Panache Desai!

 Tammy Gold, February 2nd, 2015

A licensed therapist and certified parenting coach, Tammy Gold (LCSW, MSW, CEC) has worked with families and nannies for more than a decade and is the owner/founder of Gold Parent Coaching.  A frequent guest expert on Fox News, GMA, & CBS News among others, she has her undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania and her graduate degree in social work from Columbia University. Gold is one of the first therapists to bring traditional psychotherapy tools to the process of finding and enhancing the quality of childcare, basing her Gold Standard hiring process on Dr. John Bowlby’s attachment theory, Erik Erikson’s stages of child development, and Mary Ainsworth’s secure base.

 

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Tammy Gold!

Kory Kogon, January 26th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

Kory Kogon is FranklinCovey’s Global Practice Leader for Productivity, focusing her research and content development around time management, project management, and communication skills. She is one of the authors of The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity®, Project Management Essentials for the Unofficial Project Manager™, and Presentation Advantage® work sessions.

Kory brings more than 25 years of business expertise from frontline positions to an executive team member. Prior to FranklinCovey, Kory spent six years as the executive vice president of Worldwide Operations for AlphaGraphics, Inc. She was responsible for the teams and projects that helped franchisees start up their business, develop staff, and reach profitability. She led the implementation of ISO 9000 globally, and managed the installation of the first company-wide global learning system.

Kory is well known for her ability to provide the practical application and logic that consistently motivates people to take action. In 2005, Utah Business Magazine honored Kory as one of the Business Women to Watch in Utah. In 2012, Kory earned a Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership from the NeuroLeadership Institute, of which she is an ongoing member. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Website- http://www.franklincovey.com/books/the5choices/?gclid=CO6Nk5nmhMMCFeGPMgodDioAUQ

Social Media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCovey

Twitter- https://twitter.com/franklincovey

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Kory Kogon!

Shahram Shiva, January 19th, 2015 

Shahram Shiva (Persian: شهرام شیوا‎) is an Iranian-American performance poet, award-winning translator, scholar, author, teacher of advanced spirituality, lecturer, and a recording artist, whose principal subject is Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet. Shahram Shiva is one of the original popularizers of Rumi in the West.

Shahram Shiva was born in Persia to a family of Jewish heritage and migrated to the US in his mid teens. He began translating Rumi’s poetry as a young prodigy in 1988.

Since 2009 Shahram Shiva has expanded his repertoire to include new original lyrics and songs. In addition to performances, he conducts talks and lectures on the future of spirituality, consciousness expansion, vision manifestation and freeing the mind from the bondage of dogma and other methods of control.

Shahram Shiva has also devised a new, breakthrough method in teaching the meditative whirling movement, where he has been conducting group workshops since 1995.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Shahram Shiva!

 

Julia Cameron, January 12th, 2014  

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than three decades. She is the author of more than 37 books, including such bestselling works on the creative process as The Artist’s Way, Walking in This world, and Finding Water. Also a novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television.

Learn more at http://juliacameronlive.com/

 

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Julia Cameron!

 

Cinnie Noble, January 5th, 2015 at 8:30 AM PST

As a former social worker and as a lawyer and mediator, Cinnie Noble has studied and practised in the field of conflict management for over 20 years.  She has undergraduate degrees in law and social work, a Masters in Law in Alternate Dispute Resolution and is a Professional Certified Coach (International Coach Federation).

Cinnie is President of Noble Solutions Inc., a full service firm that provides a wide range of conflict management services.  A pioneer of the process of conflict management coaching (also known as conflict coaching), she and her associates provide this service through CINERGY® Coaching, a division of Noble Solutions Inc., and conduct Conflict Management Coaching Workshops, telecourses and webinars around the world to coaches, mediators, HR professionals, psychologists, social workers, lawyers and others.

Author of six books, Cinnie’s most recent one Conflict Mastery: Questions to Guide You (http://www.cinergycoaching.com/conflict-mastery-questions-guide/) was published just last month and Conflict Management Coaching:  The CINERGY™ Model (http://www.cinergycoaching.com/conflict-management-coaching-cinergy-model/) was published in October, 2011.

Websites: www.cinergycoaching.com & www.conflictmastery.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Cinnie Noble!

Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, December 29th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Certified Imago Relationship Therapist (Advanced Clinician), and an ordained Rabbi. He is the author of The Marriage Restoration Project: The Five Step Plan to Saving Your Marriage, as well as numerous books on relationships.

Together with his wife Rivka, he founded The Marriage Restoration Project to be able to solve the divorce crisis by offering tools for couples to heal even the worst relationships. After experiencing some difficulties earlier on in their marriage and discovering Imago therapy, they have made it their mission to help other struggling couples heal and grow together.

A graduate of Loyola University Maryland (formerly Loyola College), Rabbi Slatkin holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, with additional psychotherapy training at the Imago Relationship Institute. Rabbi Slatkin is a clinical member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, Imago Relationships International, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Imago Therapists. Rabbi Slatkin is available for Skype relationship coaching or in-person counseling with singles, couples, families and organizations, as well as for seminars and speaking engagements in your community. To get your two free chapters of his #1 Amazon Best-seller, visit www.theMarriageRestorationProject.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Rabbi Slatkin!

Roman Krznaric, December 22nd, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and writer on the art of living. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, and advises organisations including Oxfam and the United Nations on using empathy and conversation to create social change. He is also founder of the world’s first Empathy Library. His latest book is Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution (published in the US as Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It). He has been named by The Observer as one of Britain’s leading lifestyle philosophers.

After growing up in Sydney and Hong Kong, he studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, where he gained his PhD. He has taught sociology and politics at Cambridge University and City University, London, and has done human rights work in Central America with refugees and indigenous people. For several years he was Project Director at The Oxford Muse, the avant-garde foundation to stimulate courage and invention in personal, professional and cultural life.

He regularly speaks at public events on topics such as empathy, the history of love, the future of work, and the art of living. Recent appearances include the Edinburgh International Festival, the Latitude Arts Festival and the London Design Festival. He was described as one of the ‘breakthrough stars’ at the 2014 Hay Literary Festival. His media work ranges from articles in the Guardian and Wall Street Journal to interviews on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Channel 4 and PBS television in the United States.

His recent books are The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live (published in the US as How Should We Live?), which explores what we can learn from the past about better living, and How to Find Fulfilling Work, part of The School of Life’s practical philosophy series edited by Alain de Botton. He is the author of a book on what sport can teach us about life, The First Beautiful Game: Stories of Obsession in Real Tennis and, with the historian Theodore Zeldin, edited Guide to an Unknown University. Roman’s books have been translated into over a dozen languages. His blog dedicated to empathy and the art of living, Outrospection, has been featured in the media around the world. Over half a million people have watched his RSA Animate video The Power of Outrospection.

Roman is a fanatical real tennis player, has worked as a gardener, and has a passion for furniture making. His ambition is to found the world’s first Empathy Museum.

To learn more about Roman, please visit: http://www.romankrznaric.com/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Roman Krznaric!

Ruby Wax, December 15th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST  

PERFORMER, WRITER, MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNER

After arriving in Britain from the United States in 1977 and training as an actress, Ruby Wax began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company before developing her own brand of highly amusing ‘attitude TV’. In addition to performing and presenting, she has contributed to, written and edited numerous scripts for TV shows including ‘Absolutely Fabulous’. and created some of  U.K. TV’s most memorable moments.

After three decades working on stage, TV and radio she has recently changed direction, completing both a Psychotherapy Diploma and a Master’s Degree in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from Oxford University.  She now presents workshops for corporate leaders, enabling them to come to a deeper and more direct level of communication with their clients and colleagues.

Having suffered from depression from an early age, Ruby was inspired to establish Black Dog Tribe, a social networking site providing information about and social support for people suffering with mental health issues.  In recent years her one-woman show “Out of Her Mind” has been enjoyed by audiences in London’s West End and has been on tour both internationally and in the UK.  She also presented her TedTalk at TedGlobal 2012  “What’s So Funny about Mental Illness”?

Last year Ruby’s bestselling book “Sane New World” was published, and has enjoyed worldwide success.  Described as a guide to saner living.  Ruby explains how our minds can jeopardize our sanity, and that to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world.  Her newest show, of the same name, helps audiences become the masters, not the slaves of their minds.

More info is available at http://www.rubywax.net/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Ruby Wax!

Josh Gressel, December 8th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Josh Gressel, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and certified Imago couples therapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay area.  He is a student of Jewish mysticism and seeks to integrate spiritual

and psychological truths in his work with clients.  His clinical work focuses on 1)

working with religious adults on their psychological issues so they are freed up to worship God more freely; 2) working with couple’s from a spiritual perspective, and 3) working with men on turning their work into their vocations.

To learn more, please visit: joshgressel.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Josh Gressel!

Dr. Shaelyn Pham, December 1st, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Shaelyn Pham is a licensed psychologist, best selling author, speaker, and consultant. She has a new book entitled The Joy of Me. She is the principal and founder of Psychological Services & Holistic Health, Inc. Her areas of clinical focus include relationship issues, depression, anxiety, anger management, trauma, addiction and borderline personality disorder. Over the past decade, she has had the privilege to share her message of living life to the fullest with tens of thousands of people through inspiring keynote talks, business advice, leadership consulting, as well as training, coaching, and counseling. She also hosts her own talk show on Health and Wellbeing.

To learn more, please visit:  www.thejoyofme.com or http://drshaelynpham.com/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Dr. Shaelyn Pham!

David Pollay, November 24th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

David J. Pollay is on a mission to help people live fulfilling lives every day at home and at work. He is the author and creator of the international blockbuster, The Law of the Garbage Truck®, now translated into twelve languages. People from more than 100 countries have taken his No Garbage Trucks! Pledge not to accept, create, and dump emotional garbage. His latest book, The 3 Promises, will be released by Sterling Publishing on October 21. People worldwide are becoming happier and more fulfilled after they begin including David’s The 3 Promises in their lives.

David is a leader in the field of Positive Psychology, serving as the co-founding associate executive director of the International Positive Psychology Association. He has held leadership positions at Yahoo!, MasterCard, Global Payments, and AIESEC. His inner-city literacy initiative is helping hundreds of children increase their love of reading.

David has been featured on ABC, NPR, Univision, and in BusinessWeek SmallBiz Magazine, theBaltimore Sun, Business Digest, Florida’s Sun Sentinel, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and media worldwide. He has spoken to audiences around the world, and he was a featured speaker at TEDx Delray Beach.

David holds a master’s degree of applied positive psychology (M.A.P.P.) from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University.

When he’s not speaking and writing, you can find David enjoying life with his wife, Dawn, and their two daughters.

Website: www.davidpollay.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelawofthegarbagetruck

Twitter: @DavidJPollay & @garbagetrucklaw

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with David Pollay!

 

Candace Plattor, November 17th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Candace Plattor, author of Loving an Addict, Loving Yourself, knows from personal experience what it means to be an addict. Within a year of being diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in 1973, she found herself in the throes of prescription drug addiction as a result of the Valium, Demerol and Codeine prescribed to her for many years.
She also used marijuana on a daily basis to control her physical and emotional pain, becoming addicted to that as well.

After more than 14 years of abusing substances, she “reached bottom” in 1987. Thus began her journey of recovery and selfdiscovery. Candace graduated from the Adler School of Professional Psychology with a Masters degree (M.A.) in Counseling Psychology, in 2001. For over 25 years in her private practice, she’s been helping clients and their loved ones understand their addictive behaviors and make healthier life choices.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Candace Plattor!

Dr. Karen Wolfe, November 10th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Karen Wolfe is an Australian physician, entrepreneur, Healthy Lifestyle Coach, author and interna­tional speaker. Dr. Karen was born in Sydney Australia and graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. She completed a Master’s Degree in Psychology from National University in California and is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Currently, our culture equates health with “disease screening,” such as physical exams, and though these are important, the main focus is still on avoiding or finding disease, not preventing it. That is why Dr Karen co-founded WellPRO International. WellPRO is a wellness, coaching and business development company for people from all walks of life who want to dramatically improve their health, lifestyles and incomes as well as inspire others to do the same

Dr. Karen is the author of seven books which include Is Your Lifestyle Killing You?, From Stress to Strength, Medicine from the Inside Out and Create the Body Your Soul Desires. She is an international speaker on stress management, wellness and nutrition. She has been a speaker for high profile groups such as Young Presidents’ Organization, Philippine International Physician Symposium, PIMCO, Allianz Global Investors and The National Association of Women Business Owners. Dr. Karen cares that her audience understand and apply the principles she teaches and her presentations often include demonstrations and participation that bring personal meaning to her audience members.

You can find out more about her work at www.DrKarenWolfe.org and www.WellPROInternational.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Dr. Karen Wolfe!

Swami Shadashiva Tirtha D.Sc. , November 3rd, 2014 at 8:30 AM

Swamiji, the Hip Guru, has spoken to the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller, the Ayurveda Encyclopedia (30,000 copies in print), and is a breakthrough expert, helping colleges & companies dissolve stress and achieve goals. Swamiji has been sharing wellness & consciousness success solutions for the past 4 decades. His new book The Stress-Free College Student, is listed on Bryant University’s Pinterest ‘Books Worth Reading’ page alongside their list of ’50 Books that Changed the World’. Swamiji focuses on helping people deal with their inner conflict through awakening to and addressing their conflicting belief systems.

Swamiji’s biggest conflict came while a freshman in college in 1972 when he lost his parents in a car accident. Losing all interest in his studies and socializing, his only focus was relieving the grief and angst of this tragedy. After a year without solutions, he discovered a relatively new phenomenon just coming to the USA, meditation and yoga. For the first time Swamiji found some inner peace and breathing room to begin to cope with his irrevocably altered life.

After college he became a meditation/yoga teacher, studied India’s healing science, Ayurveda, and now blends them with cutting edge brain wave tools and heart wave research technologies. He helps college students and entrepreneurs deal with their physical, emotional, career, and spiritual conflicts and discover and achieve their visions. Swamiji was recognized as a swami (monk) by his guru in the Himalayas in India in 1990. His latest book, The Stress-Free College Student offers natural tools to relieve the epidemic of the 80+% of college students that report anxiety and depression and the 50% college dropout rate.

Website: http://TheHipGurusGuide.com

Media Kit: http://TheHipGurusGuide.com/media-kit/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Swami Tirtha!

Dr. Eben Alexander, October 27th, 2014

Eben Alexander, M.D., has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last twenty-five years, including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is the author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven.

 

Visit him at EbenAlexander.com.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Dr. Eben Alexander!

Barbara Miller, October 20th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Barbara Miller, author, certified master life coach and motivational speaker, is the founder of Barbara and Company International, Inc. Barbara studied Health & Wellness at Ashford University and also studied at Kendall College of Art & Design. She earned her master life coaching certification at the American University of NLP.

Barbara is the author of Dancing in Rhythm with the Universe, 10 Steps to Choreographing Your Best Life, and You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life, How to Create the Life You Want Your Way, inspirational, motivational, and self-help books for women. She also authored, You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life, Positive Thoughts Journal, and her newly released book, How to Write a Book and Tell Your Story, Easy Steps to Write, Publish, and Promote Your Book.  The author has met dozens of divorced women who torture themselves with a life of regrets. Barbara shares her own personal journey through divorce, financial loss and despair, then provides examples to encourage the reader to let go of all inner conflict and replace it with peace and joy. Through her books and coaching Barbara teaches how to release all self-defeating inner dialog that compromises your life and keeps you paralyzed with fear. The author’s gentle and encouraging, yet straight forward approach, teaches that when healing comes to our thoughts, it comes to our life.

Barbara’s main goal is to empower women to lead their best life yet by overcoming negative thoughts and habits carried over from childhood. Barbara believes that we have the power within to live life as a winner and not as a victim. She embraces laughter as one of life’s key ingredients to help us through some of our greatest challenges and struggles. She teaches that we all deserve healthy loving relationship and to live our life in happiness and joy. This, she says, is attainable and can be accomplished by creating balance in our lives mentally, physically, social-emotionally and spiritually.

You may contact Barbara at: barbara@barbaraandcompany.com and visit her website at: www.barbaraandcompany.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Barbara Miller!

Jenny Hare, October 13th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Jenny Hare  is a writer, painter, counsellor. She was agony aunt/advice columnist for top selling magazine Woman’s Weekly for over 17 years and before that a columnist for Southern Newspapers for many years. As a counsellor she specializes in personal development and relationship therapy. Jenny believes that kindness, compassion, understanding and a forgiving way of life generally are the answer to most problems!  Forgiveness, of course, is something many find hugely difficult and as she researched the subject she realised the tremendous complexity of it. However as she learned more and more about it, she began to realise that actually it isn’t about saying “I forgive” but a whole way of being.

Jenny is also a very enthusiastic artist/painter and she paints the countryside and animals she loves with passion and wonderful colours!

Her website (mostly on the painting side now) is www.JennyHare.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Jenny Hare!

Dr. Jamie Turndorf, October 6th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST 

Known to millions as “Dr. Love” through her website AskDrLove.com — the web’s first and immensely popular relationship advice site since 1995 — Dr. Jamie Turndorf has been delighting readers and audiences for three decades with her engaging blend of professional expertise, spicy humor and ability to turn clinical psychobabble into easy-to-understand concepts that transform lives and heal relationships with spouses, partners, friends, family and colleagues.

Her methods have been featured on all the national networks, including CNN (who recently dubbed her their Resident Love Doctor), NBC, CBS, VH1, Fox, on websites like WebMD and iVillage, Discovery.com and MSNBC.com, and in Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Glamour, American Woman, Modern Bride, and Marie Claire, to name only a few. She also writes a column called “We Can Work it Out” for Psychology Today online.

Her “Ask Dr. Love” radio show can be heard in Seattle on KKNW and on WebTalkRadio.Net, which broadcasts in 80 countries worldwide.

She also hosts the Love Never Dies show on Hay House Radio.

Dr. Turndorf is the author of the Hay House book Kiss Your Fights Good-bye: Dr. Love’s 10 Simple Steps to Cooling Conflict and Rekindling Your Relationship, which has been endorsed by New York Times bestselling authors Jack Canfield, Dr. John Gray and John Bradshaw.

Since the recent death of Emile Jean Pin, her beloved husband of 27 years, she has discovered that relationships do not end in death. His miraculous manifestations, often in front of witnesses, have proven to her that there is life after life. Dr. Turndorf’s experiences with him have led her to develop a groundbreaking new Trans-Dimensional grief therapy that diverges from the traditional Western approach (grieve, let go and move on). By contrast, her method enables the bereaved, for the first time in history, to reconnect and, if needed, make peace with the deceased. Her story and her new Trans-Dimensional Grief Therapy method are presented in her latest book Love Never Dies: How to Reconnect and Make Peace with the Deceased Hay House August 2014).

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Dr. Jamie Turndorf!

 

 Greogry Smith, September 29th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Gregory Smith has counseled thousands of individuals through various situations involving infidelity. He has seen the terrible damage that affairs or cheating can do to relationships, so his goal is to help people figure out if they have been cheated on, and then how to successfully deal with it.

Find out more at: been-cheated-on.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Gregory Smith!

 

Piero Ferucci, September 22nd, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Piero Ferrucci is a psychotherapist and philosopher. He has been a student and collaborator of Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis. He is the author of several books, including The Power of Kindness, What We May Be, Inevitable Grace, What Our Children Teach Us, as well as the editor of The Human Situation, a book of Aldous Huxley’s lectures. He lives near Florence with his wife and two sons.

For more information, please visit: http://www.pieroferrucci.it/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Piero Ferrucci!

Rick Wollman, September 15th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST 

Even though he semi-retired at the age of 39, Rick Wollman came to the realization that something was missing in his life. He finally found his true passion and Worthy Ideal with the formation of Empowered Mastery, a team of martial arts experts, all of whom double as business owners and entrepreneurs, who create innovative coaching programs for professionals.

The team, comprised of Rick, Chris Berlow, Nick Palumbo, and Paul Melella Jr., recently authored You Have Infinite Power: Ultimate Success Through Energy, Passion, Purpose & the Prinicples of Taekwondo (Sterling Ethos), an authoritative, inspirational, and accessible guide for improving readers’ professional and personal lives. Through accounts of their individual triumphs and failures, Rick and his co-authors share the motivating discoveries they learned during their relentless quest for their own success and happiness. In addition to being a Principal at Empowered Mastery and a successful businessman, Rick is the creator of POWER TIME, a unique and powerful program that teaches minority teenagers life skills and values. Rick is also a Recipient of the “Every Child Deserves a Hero” Award for his work with underprivileged teenagers.

Rick lives in Rockland County, New York with his wife Sharon; their four children, Spencer, Max, Justin, and Jessica; and the family’s two dogs, Snickers and Shelby. He is an avid runner and sports enthusiast who loves spending time with his family.

More information on Empowered Mastery can be found at www.empoweredmastery.com. You Have Infinite Power can be purchased at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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Lawrence Susskind, September 8th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Vice Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.  He teaches courses on the theory and practice of participatory action research at MIT and directs the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, an action-research laboratory involved in efforts to build collaborative adaptive management capabilities in communities in Malaysia, the Middle East, Chile, and throughout the United States.  His web site is www.lawrencesusskind.com. His blog can be accessed at http://theconsensusbuildingapproach.blogspot.com.

Dr. Susskind is also the founder of the Consensus Building Institute, a not-for-profit organization that provides mediation and dispute system design services to public and private clients worldwide. Currently, he serves as CBI’s Chief Knowledge Officer.

 

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Pamela Bloom, September 1, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Pamela Bloom is an award-winning writer, interfaith minister and spiritual counselor with a passionate interest in healing. She started her writing career as a music critic in New York, later veering into travel writing, where her adventures included dancing samba in Rio’s Carnaval, biking through China, trekking through the Amazon, and dancing reggae with the Hopi Indians. Her books on Brazil–”Amazon Up Close” and “Brazil Up Close,” both won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for Guidebook of the Year. She has also written a number of spiritually oriented books, including “on the Wings of Angels” and an essay packaged with the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A conscious medium for over 25 years, Pamela had the exciting experience recently of channeling her latest work: “Heaven Speaks: Intimate Interviews with Illuminated Souls” with co-author Carla Flack. Her 2000 book, “Buddhist Acts of Compassion” was republished by Hampton Roads in April, 2010 under the new title “The Power of Compassion: Stories that Open the Heart, Heal the Soul and Change the World”–a compilation of true-life stories about transformative moments of kindness. She also produced a CD of healing chants titled “BuddhaHeart.” You can find her work on Amazon.com

Please visit her website–www.SoulinBloom.net for more information

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Heather Harder, August 25th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Heather Harder has a Ph.D. and has worked for over three decades as a university professor and/or administrator and recently selected as the 2014 Illinois Reading Council Outstanding Reading Professor of the year for the state of Illinois. Dr. Harder has been featured on hundreds of radio and TV shows across the country on such networks as CNN, CSPAN, MTV, NBC and CBS.  In the late 1980’s she also went to work for the universe, empowering people to awaken to their unlimited potential for the sake of personal and planetary transformation.  As a professional speaker she educates, and entertains her audience with humor, truth and common sense.  She is an author of four books, including Interdimensional Communication: The Art and Science of Talking to Ghosts, Spirits, Angels and Other Dead People.  In this book she provides a map and techniques to safely explore new worlds and communicate directly with those that lie just beyond our physical reality.  Heather has mastered the art of successfully bridging two very different worlds and she empowers her audiences to do the same.  She challenges people to shed their human limitations and claim their unlimited powers as they move from ordinary to extraordinary.  Much like Clark Kent, she shows people how to metaphorically enter their own phone booth, and easily and confidently claim their superhuman abilities for everyday use.  She is here today to talk about how to break free of your current human cocoon and claim your unlimited potential as a butterfly as you embrace your innate ability to engage in conscious cosmic communication.

To learn more, please visit: www.heatherharder.com

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Tammy Lenski, August 18th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST  

Dr. Tammy Lenski helps people resolve conflict in business and personal relationships. Specializing in simple, everyday conflict resolution practices that create powerful shifts and lasting results, Tammy has worked with thousands of organizations, couples, and individuals worldwide as an executive coach, speaker, master mediator, educator, and author.

Prior to founding her firm, Tammy had more than a decade of experience as a college dean and faculty member. She was also a founding faculty member of the Mediation & Applied Conflict Studies graduate program at Woodbury College. She’s the author of two conflict resolution books: Making Mediation Your Day Job and The Conflict Pivot, which was recently released. A member of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Academy of Advanced Practitioners, in 2012 she received the Association’s prestigious Mary Parker Follett award for innovative and pioneering work in the conflict resolution field.

Learn more about Tammy at Lenski.com

 

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Jonathan Robinson, August 11th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST  

Jonathan Robinson is a bestselling author of nine books and is a licensed psychotherapist. He has reached millions of people throughout the world, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. Jonathan has made numerous appearances on Oprah, CNN, and many other national TV talk shows, and articles about him have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers.
Jonathan is also a professional speaker and seminar leader whose popular workshops on happiness have been taught in six countries. In his workshops and books, Jonathan likes to focus on teaching methods for increasing happiness that take under two minutes a day to do, yet can have a dramatic effect on one’s level of
fulfillment.
Jonathan comes from a family where many of his family members suffered from depression. In fact, he had his own severe depressive episode when he was just 13 years old. Motivated to conquer his suicidal thoughts at the time, Jonathan began reading hundreds of self-help books to find methods and ideas that truly worked
easily and effectively.
Nowadays, Jonathan lectures all over the world teaching what he calls the “cutting edge inner tools” for experiencing a truly deep and meaningful life. In his latest book, Find Happiness Now, Jonathan collected his absolute favorite ideas and methods for helping people experience more love, joy, and balance in their lives. He is here today to talk to us about how to experience more happiness and joy no matter what kind of stress is
happening in your life…

For more information, go to www.FindingHappiness.com

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Jon White, August 4th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Jon White began his career teaching Communications. He moved on to build a small chain of travel agencies, later sold for ten times his initial investment. Jon followed that with 20 years as a successful top-level business leader in the medical device industry.

Mr. White now infuses his work as an Executive Coach and valued Speaker with the practical knowledge he brought from each of those past experiences. His work has impacted leaders throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

With a passionate interest in the behaviors necessary to provide outstanding leadership, Jon’s professional journey has led him to focus on Listening because he believes it to be the skill that is fundamental to almost all other leadership attributes. He is coauthor of WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT LISTENING (COULD FILL A BOOK).

To learn more, please visit: www.whatyoudontknowaboutlistening.com

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Susan Sherbert, July 28th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

“I am super excited about Grown-ups Don’t Skip Have FUN Be Happy Enjoy Life. If you could see me, I’d be jumping for joy. Why? Because fun is a childish emotion and I can’t contain the enthusiasm for this book. My words have the potential to change lives. As an adult I realize that statement is a bit bold and that there are a lot of obstacles that will get in the way, but the child in me can’t help but see the possibility of good things to come.”

Susan Sherbert’s purpose in life is to help people smile. In addition to Grown-ups Don’t Skip, she has written a sliver award winning humor column every month for over twelve years. She sold over 4,000 copies of a book about short sheeting a bed to a national bedding chain as their free gift with purchase. She has written over 50 original corny joke ebooks, five humor ebooks, and has been the humor columnist for several magazines.

For more information about Susan’s book, or to sign up for her fun/humor blog visit www.FunHappyEnjoy.com

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David Feldman & Lee Kravetz, July 21st, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

David  B.  Feldman,  PhD, is considered to be among the top experts on hope  in the field of psychology. An associate professor of counseling psychology at Santa  Clara  University,  he  holds  a  PhD  in  clinical  psychology  from  the University of Kansas and  completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the VA Palo Alto   Health   Care   System,   a   medical  center   associated   with   Stanford University.

www.davidfeldmanphd.com

 

Lee Daniel Kravetz has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and is a graduate of the  University of Missouri School of Journalism.   He has written for print and television, is a  resident at the San Francisco Writers Grotto, and is a cofounder of the LitCamp Writers Conference.  Both authors reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.

www.leedanielkravetz.com

 

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Dennis Merritt Jones, July 14th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Dennis Merritt Jones has been involved in the human potential movement and the field of spirituality for the majority of his life as a teacher, author and keynote speaker. His most recent award winning book is The Art of Uncertainty ~ How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It. Jones is also the award winning author of The Art of Being ~ 101 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life and How to Speak Science of Mind. Dennis writes a free weekly MindfulPurpose E-Message available through his website, www.DennisMerrittJones.com, and is a regular columnist for the Huffington Post.

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Laura Doyle, July 7th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Laura Doyle is The New York Times best-selling author of The Surrendered Wife and The Surrendered Single. Her books have been translated into 16 languages and published in 27 countries. Thousands of women credit her with not only saving their relationships, but also showing them how to become desired, cherished and adored. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and the founder of Laura Doyle Connect, a multi-national relationship coaching center. In 2013 she was named a quarter-finalist for Change The World: Search for the Next Global Thought Leader.She has appeared on CBS Evening News, Dateline NBC, The Today Show and The View. She has been written about in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The London Telegraph and The New Yorker.Laura lives in Newport Beach, California with her hilarious husband John Doyle, who has been dressing himself since before she was born.

To learn more, please visit: lauradoyle.org

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Regina Cates, June 30th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Regina Cates, a spiritual teacher, transformational author and positivity junkie, inspires hundreds of thousands of people every day to live lives of limitless possibility. Through her Los Angeles–based company, Romancing Your Soul, she guides people to lead with their hearts. Now with her first book, Lead with Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion and Purpose Regina is touching the hearts of a wider audience.

Visit her web site, [http://www.romancingyoursoul.com/]

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Donna Shestowsky, June 23rd, 2014

Donna Shestowsky was awarded a J.D. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. While at Stanford, she taught courses in legal psychology and established a research lab devoted to the empirical study of juries and dispute resolution processes. During the 2003-2004 academic year she was jointly appointed to the faculty at Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management.

Nancie Kohlenberger, June 16th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST  

Nancie Kohlenberger is both a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in southern California, and a Marriage Consultant nationally, and in Canada and Mexico.  She has been a presenter for CHADD on the impact of Adult ADHD on relationships. Through her company, Transformational Living, she has presented other talks and workshops. Nancie has also been a faculty member at the University of Santa Monica where she taught Master’s level courses in psychology including the Marriage and Family course.  In her private practice in Newport Beach, she works with a variety of clients including ADHD impacted couples, and with couples and individuals where ADHD is not present.

You can find out more on her website at www.transformurlife.com.

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Grace Avalon, June 9th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

What happens when crazy becomes real?  Grace Avalon could no longer repress the secrets revealed to her.  Telling her story became an obsession, especially for those searching for a way out of victimization, those who have ever experienced abuse, or anyone who has ever thought they were crazy.  Her first book, Thank God I’m Crazy, is a reader’s encounter of miraculous healing revealed through actual occurrences of events shown to her in earlier visions.  As Avalon shares her epiphany of the universal human experience, one finds themselves graphically experiencing the miracles of love.

Grace Avalon, an educator and business woman for nearly thirty years is an honors graduate of a women’s college with a B.A. in education. Avalon also studied Psychosynthesis, a counseling program for the synthesis of body, mind and spirit.  A beloved and respected speaker, Avalon counsels and offers presentations and workshops inspiring others to know their own inner voice, often reflected by one’s personal symbols.  Raised in fundamentalist Christian beliefs, Avalon buried her secrets for decades until stumbling upon the same outrageous message in A Course in Miracles, a contemporary psychological spirituality which she has taught weekly for seven years.

Thank God I’m Crazy has been endorsed by Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author of Return to Love, teacher, and internationally renowned speaker, Lynn Andrews, New York Times and internationally bestselling author whose book Medicine Woman became a virtual aspect of Grace’s journey, and Gary Renard, international bestselling author of Disappearance of the Universe, among others.

For more information, go to Graceavalon.com

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Barbara Miller, June 2nd, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Barbara Miller, author, certified master life coach and motivational speaker, is the founder of Barbara and Company International, Inc. Barbara studied Health & Wellness at Ashford University and also studied at Kendall College of Art & Design. She earned her master life coaching certification at the American University of NLP.

Barbara is the author of Dancing in Rhythm with the Universe, 10 Steps to Choreographing Your Best Life, and You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life, How to Create the Life You Want Your Way, inspirational, motivational, and self-help books for women. She also authored, You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life, Positive Thoughts Journal and Your Best Life Now Journal. The author has met dozens of divorced women who torture themselves with a life of regrets. Barbara shares her own personal journey through divorce, financial loss and despair, then provides examples to encourage the reader to let go of all inner conflict and replace it with peace and joy. Through her books and coaching Barbara teaches how to release all self-defeating inner dialog that compromises your life and keeps you paralyzed with fear. The author’s gentle and encouraging, yet straight forward approach, teaches that when healing comes to our thoughts, it comes to our life.

Barbara’s main goal is to empower women to lead their best life yet by overcoming negative thoughts and habits carried over from childhood. Barbara believes that we have the power within to live life as a winner and not as a victim. She embraces laughter as one of life’s key ingredients to help us through some of our greatest challenges and struggles. She teaches that we all deserve healthy loving relationship and to live our life in happiness and joy. This, she says, is attainable and can be accomplished by creating balance in our lives mentally, physically, social-emotionally and spiritually.

You may contact Barbara at: barbara@barbaraandcompany.com and visit her website at: www.barbaraandcompany.com

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Camilla Gray-Nelson, May 26th, 2014

Camilla Gray-Nelson was born on a dairy farm in Petaluma, CA. While other little girls were playing with friends and having tea parties with their dolls, Camilla was catching cows to ride, figuring out how to gather eggs without being pecked by the hens, and teaching her ponies tricks.  In fact, most of her friends had four legs, not two.

She and her brothers weren’t micro-managed as children but knew without a doubt that their parents were in charge of the family – just like the cows, horses and dogs also knew who set the rules in their own herds or packs. Her parents did not yell; they simply set and enforced the rules – like the lead horse, the queen cow and the alpha dog.  From her earliest days on the farm she learned a great truth:  the secret to getting what you want and influencing others is quiet strength and follow-through, not yelling, intimidation or conflict.  Nature taught her this. Her parents proved it.  She lives it.

In 4-H, Camilla learned to speak in public.  In college, she studied science and in graduate school, business and public administration.  Her first job, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, required all that background as she was the spokesperson for every TV, radio and newspaper interview in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Always interested in helping women succeed,  in a later job with the Nevada Department of Labor she helped women enter the trade union apprenticeship programs for carpenters, electricians, plumbers, ironworkers and others.

When she started training dogs professionally, it was women who sought Camilla’s help. Their homes were in chaos; they were yelling at their dogs — and their kids — and couldn’t control either one.  The life skills of personal power that Camilla had learned as a child turned out to be rare among her clients. It was then she decided to write a book to help women be less frustrated and more effective.  LIPSTICK AND THE LEASH is that goal fulfilled.

 More information about the author can be found at www.lipstickandtheleash.com.

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Joan Williams, May 19th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Joan C. Williams has played a central role in reshaping the debates over women’s advancement for the past quarter-century. Described as having “something approaching rock star status” by The New York Times, her awards include the Families and Work Institute Work Life Legacy Award (2014), Hastings Visionary Award (2013), American Bar Foundation’s Outstanding Scholar Award (2012), the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award (2012), the ABA’s Margaret Brent Award for Women Lawyers of Achievement (2006), the Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology (2003) and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2000). In 2008, Williams gave the Massey Lectures in American Civilization at Harvard University, delivered in prior years by (among others) Eudora Welty, Gore Vidal and Toni Morrison.

Williams, who is Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, has authored or co-authored eight books, most recently What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know (co-written with her daughter, Rachel Dempsey). She is the author of 99 academic articles and book chapters, including “Deconstructing Gender,” listed as one of the most cited law review articles ever written (1996). She lectures widely and has appeared in outlets as diverse as the Harvard Business Review, O Magazine, Human Resource Executive, Jezebel, and the Yale Law Journal.

Williams’s path-breaking work helped create modern workplace flexibility policies and the field of work-family studies. Her approach to implicit gender bias has influenced the way organizations do bias training and design performance evaluations and their compensation systems.

As Founding Director of WorkLife Law (WLL), Williams has played a leading role in documenting “maternal wall” bias against mothers, leading to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s 2007 Guidance on Caregiver Discrimination. Her article “Beyond the Maternal Wall” was prominently cited in the landmark 2004 case, Back v. Hastings on Hudson.

Williams also has played a central role in documenting work-family conflict among hourly workers, through reports such as “One Sick Child Away From Being Fired” (2006), “Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict” (2010) (co-authored by Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress), and “Improving Work-Life Fit in Hourly Jobs” (2011).

You can also follow her work on Twitter @JoanCWilliams and her Huffington Post blog.

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Kenneth Cloke, May 12th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Kenneth Cloke is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, coach, consultant, and trainer, specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party disputes, including marital, divorce, family, community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment, discrimination, and public policy disputes; and designing preventative conflict resolution systems.

He is a nationally recognized speaker and author of Mediation:  Revenge and the Magic of Forgiveness; Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution; The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution; ; Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism; and The Dance of Opposites: Explorations in Mediation, Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Systems Design.  He is co-author with Joan Goldsmith of Thank God It’s Monday! 14 Values We Need to Humanize the Way We Work; Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict; The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy; The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work; and Resolving Conflicts At Work: Ten Strategies For Everyone On The Job (1^st-3^rd Editions).

His facilitation, coaching, consulting, and training practice includes work with leaders of public, private and non-profit organizations on effective communications, dialogue, collaborative negotiation, relationship and team building, conflict resolution, leadership development, strategic planning, designing systems, and organizational change.

His university teaching includes mediation, law, history, political science, conflict studies, urban studies, and other social sciences at a number of colleges and universities including Southwestern University School of Law, Antioch University, Occidental College, USC and UCLA.  He is or has recently been an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law; Southern Methodist University; Global Negotiation Insight Institute at Harvard Law School and Omega Institute; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cape Cod Institute; University of Amsterdam ADR Institute; Saybrook University; Massey University (New Zealand).  He has done conflict resolution work in Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, England, Georgia, Greece, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Slovenia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, USSR, and Zimbabwe.  He is founder and first President of Mediators Beyond Borders.

He served as an Administrative Law Judge for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board, a Factfinder for the Public Employment Relations Board, and a Judge Pro Tem for the Superior Court of Los Angeles.  He has been an Arbitrator and Mediator for over thirty three years in labor management disputes, and is a member of a number of arbitration panels.

He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley; J.D. from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Law School; Ph.D. from U.C.L.A.; LLM from U.C.L.A. Law School; and did post-doctoral work at Yale University School of Law.  He is a graduate of the National Judicial College and has taken graduate level courses in a variety of subjects.

To learn more, please visit: www.kennethcloke.com

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Dr. Jamie Turndorf, May 5th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Known to millions as “Dr. Love,” radio and television personality Dr. Jamie Turndorf has been delighting audiences for three decades with her engaging blend of professional expertise and spicy humor. Her success is largely due to her remarkable ability to turn clinical psychobabble into entertaining and easy-to-understand concepts that transform lives.

She has authored several books on resolving relationship conflicts with partners, friends, family members and children. Hay House is publishing her latest two books, Kiss Your Fights Good-bye: Dr. Love’s 10 Simple Steps to Cooling Conflict and Rekindling Your Connection (January 2014) and Love Never Dies: How to Reconnect and Make Peace with the Deceased (July 2014), which introduces her new grief therapy method that brings her acclaimed conflict resolution method to the world of after death communication.

Dr. Turndorf’s radio show “Ask Dr. Love” is currently broadcast in 80 countries worldwide. She is the “go to” relationship expert on numerous television and online networks, such as CBS, VH1, WebMD, and MSNBC. Most recently, CNN has been featuring her as the resident authority on relationship advice and human behavior.

Dr. Jamie Turndorf holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is an internationally renowned and respected relationship therapist, author, advice columnist and veteran media personality.

For three decades, countless fans have been benefiting from Dr. Turndorf’s life changing advice via radio, TV, the Internet and print. Known worldwide as Dr. Love on the Web, TV, radio, and print, she has been featured on NBC, CNN, CBS, and Fox, as well as on Inside Edition, CH1, and many others.

Her advice columns have been published on WebMD and iVillage, and in Men’s Health, Glamour, New Woman, American Woman, Cosmopolitan, and many other major magazines and periodicals. She also writes a relationship column focusing on conflict resolution for Psychology Today online.

For many she is best known as the creator of the immensely popular AskDrLove.com, the Web’s first free relationship advice site, which she first launched in 1996. The site now boasts thousands of advice and how to articles on every imaginable relationship, dating or sex advice question.

She is also the author of two critically acclaimed books: Till Death Do Us Part (Unless I Kill You First), which was endorsed by Dr. John Gray, NY Times #1 bestselling author of Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus, and Make Up Don’t Break Up: Dr. Love’s Five-Step Plan for Reconciling with Your Ex.

To learn more, please visit: http://askdrlove.com

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Justin Epstein, April 28th, 2014

Senior Unity Minister, national speaker and comedian Justin Epstein integrates insights from both Eastern philosophy and Western religion, including Christianity, yoga, psychology, science, and personal development. He has spoken to thousands of people throughout the country, including Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, where he has shared the stage with such notables as Dr. Maya Angelou, Les Brown, Iyanla Vanzant, and Marianne Williamson.
Epstein produced and hosted the cable television series ‘Practical Spirituality’ that aired in Manhattan and Brooklyn, while serving as the associate to author/speaker Eric Butterworth, the “teacher” to Dr. Maya Angelou and a favorite of Oprah Winfrey. Epstein’s column ‘Practical Spirituality’ appeared in The Bluffton Today and he has authored and produced many audiotapes, including his program ‘The Enlightened Golfer: Merging Mind, Body and Spirit Through the Game’ and has taught the “psychology of golf” at The Professional Golfers Career College in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

A graduate of the Unity Institute in Missouri, Epstein is also a magna cum laude graduate from James Madison University, in Communications and Religion / Philosophy. He is also a graduate of the American Comedy Institute and has performed stand-up comedy in clubs throughout New York City including Caroline’s on Broadway.

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Joe Nunziata, April 21st, 2014

Joe Nunziata is a best selling author, professional speaker, spiritual teacher and life & business coach. His new book Karma Buster was featured in the 2012 Academy Awards and Emmy Awards gift bags.

He has been delivering his life changing message at events and seminars since 1992. His enlightening programs are a unique blend of spirituality, psychology, philosophy and the power of internal energy

He has appeared on many television and radio programs including Good Day New York and Street Talk on Fox TV, Cablevision’s News 12, Better TV, The Braveheart Network and various radio stations across the country.

Other books include:  Spiritual Selling, Finding Your Purpose and No More 9 to 5

Other programs include: Change Your Energy/Change Your Life, No More Mental Barriers, Connecting to Your Spirit and The 7 Keys to Transformation.

To learn more, please visit: http://JoeNunz.com

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Dr. Charles D. Schmitz & Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz, April 14th, 2014

Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz are renowned love and marriage experts and multiple award–winning authors. As the Marriage Experts for YourTango.com, Examiner.com and SelfGrowth.com, the Doctors provide inspiration and guidance to readers around the globe.

Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz know that simple things matter in relationships. They understand what makes relationships work because they have conducted three decades of research on successful marriages, as well as sharing personal experience drawn from their own 47–year marriage.

Dr. Charles D. Schmitz is a highly successful faculty member and administrator in higher education. He is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Counseling and Family Therapy at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, where he has focused on counseling psychology and leadership. During his distinguished career, Charles has received more than 40 local, state, and national awards; published 400 articles, manuscripts, books, and scholarly papers; delivered 600 speeches and professional presentations throughout the world; and has frequently appeared on radio, television, and in print.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri–Columbia..

Dr. Elizabeth A. Schmitz is a full-time author and lecturer. She has served as an award-winning administrator and educator for 36 years. She received her Doctorate from the University of Missouri–Columbia and has lectured at numerous colleges in the areas of counseling and leadership. As the former chief operating officer of a large organization, she also specializes in human relations issues. Elizabeth has received 25 local, state, and national awards; published over 250 articles, manuscripts, and books; delivered over 400 speeches and presentations; made numerous radio and television appearances; and been quoted extensively in the media. She is president of Successful Marriage Reflections, LLC in St. Louis, Missouri, where she and Charles reside.

Together, the Schmitz’s have written the award-winning books Golden Anniversaries: The Seven Secrets of Successful Marriage and Simple Things Matter in Love and Marriage, and are popular speakers and talk show guests. Their latest book, How to Marry the Right Guy, provides provides women with the 33 characteristics essential for a good husband. (Available on Amazon.com and anywhere books are sold).

To learn more, please visit: www.SimpleThingsMatter.com

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Barbara Fields, April 7th, 2014

• Executive Director, The Association for Global New Thought (since 1997)
• Co-founder and Project Director – The Gandhi King Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence.
Launched annually at United Nations (1998-2013).
• Co-founder and Project Director – the Synthesis Dialogues I, II, III with His Holiness, the
Dalai Lama, 1999 (Dharamsala), 2001 (Trent, Italy), 2004 (Castelgandolfo, Rome)
• Program Director – Parliament of the World’s Religions, 1993 centennial celebration in
Chicago, religious leaders and 8000 attendees from 350 faith communities worldwide
• Coordinator of U.S. based omni-local initiatives for the Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East, a program of the
Harvard-based Project on Negotiation founded by William Ury and President Jimmy Carter
• Director of the Gandhi King Peace Train and Living Legends of Nonviolence Conference, a traveling conference held
on private rail cars up the California coast celebrating “a decade of spiritually-motivated activism” in 2007
• Director of Awakened World 2012 Conference: “Engaged Spirituality for the 21st Century,” with world religious and
secular leaders in Rome and Florence; also directs annual Awakened World Conference Series since 1999
• Co-convener of the Evolutionary Leaders Initiative based in New York City, with pioneering authors and speakers
representing the global movement for conscious evolution (2007-present)
• Program Director – Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, Purdue University and the Lilly Foundation (1995-2005)
• Delegate – UNESCO Seminar on Religion and Peace — Granada, Spain
• Board member – Foundation for Conscious Evolution led by Barbara Marx Hubbard (since 1993)
Awards include:
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Holmes Institute for Consciousness Studies
• Ist Annual “Dr. Barbara E. Fields Peace Award” by the Southern California Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence
• Religious Science International’s first Peace Award
• Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Morehouse College
• The Chicago Peace Museum’s Community Peacemaker Award in the area of Diplomacy
Media and Publishing
• Co-founder of The Earth Network, a non-profit alternative television organization for which she received the
Visionary Award from the Center For New Television in Chicago; script writer, camera, segment producer.
• Executive Producer: The Synthesis Dialogues: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and World leaders of Spirit (DVD, 2005)
Contributing author:
• The Community of Religions: Voices ad Images of the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Continuum, 1996)
• 100 Words: Two Hundred Visionaries Share their Hope for the Future (Conari, 2010)
• Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power (Skylight Paths, 2012)
Voted “2012 top ten books on religion and spirituality” by the American Library Association
• Articles and publications include: Kosmos Journal; Interreligious Insight Journal; Science of Mind Magazine

To learn more about Barbara, please visit: www.agnt,org

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Barbara Fields!

Kay Pflatz, March 31st, 2014 

Kay Pfaltz is a writer and bestselling author of Lauren’s Story: An American Dog in Paris, The Beagle, a TFH Publication and Flash’s Song: How One Small Dog Turned Into One Big Miracle.. Kay has been published in English, German and French, including work in The Missing Peace: The Hidden Power of Our Kinship with Animals, Etudes britannique contemporaines, Bark Magazine and Bernie Siegel’s A Book of Miracles. She is a contributing editor for La Joie, and writes a monthly wine column for Blue Ridge Life.

Kay donates partial profits from books to animal welfare organizations. Kay holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from Kings College, University of London. She lives in Roseland, Virginia with Chance, Sasha and Olive, three rescued hounds from the local shelters.

 

To learn more about Kay, please visit: www.kaypfaltz.com or www.beyondordinarytravel.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Kay Pfaltz!

Andrew Christensen & Brian Doss, March 24th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Andrew Christensen is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and did his internship at Rutgers University Medical School.  He studies couple conflict and couple therapy and has published over 150 professional articles, primarily on these topics.  He is co-author of the influential scholarly book, Close Relationships (Freeman, 1983, reprinted in 2002).  For therapists, he authored Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy:  A therapist’s guide for transforming relationships (1998, Norton) with Neil S. Jacobson. He also completed a trade book for couples, Reconcilable Differences (2000, 2014, Guilford) with Jacobson and Doss.  Both books describe their therapeutic approach, Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT).  With support from the National Institute of Mental Health, Christensen and Jacobson conducted the largest clinical trial ever done evaluating the impact of couple therapy, including the couple therapy they developed, IBCT.  In 2010, IBCT was adopted by the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs as one of their evidence-based treatments, and Christensen has been working with the VA since then to train therapists in this approach.  With his former graduate student Dr. Brian Doss, he has developed an on-line, internet based therapy approach for couples based on IBCT.  Currently they are conducting a clinical trial of this treatment.  Christensen’s therapy and research have been cited in the Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, and other magazines and newspapers.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife of 30 years, Louise Macbeth, also a clinical psychologist.  They have two grown children.

 

Brian D. Doss is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Miami.  His research seeks to further our understanding of research-based couple interventions and apply these findings to intervene with couples in more flexible ways – all with the ultimate goal of increasing the reach of effective couple interventions.  Within this broader framework, his research has three specific aims: Elucidate couples’ help-seeking behaviors, identify mechanisms of couple interventions, and develop and evaluate flexible couple interventions.  Dr. Doss received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (studying under the mentorship of Dr. Christensen) and has published over 40 articles and book chapters and is co-author of the second edition of Reconcilable Differences (2014, Guilford), a self-help book for couples experiencing relationship distress.  Dr. Doss has received several research grants from the National Institutes of Health, including an ongoing grant supporting the development and evaluation of www.OurRelationship.com, a web-based program for couples wanting to solve a relationship problem.  Dr. Doss’ research has been cited in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, and USA Today and seen on The Today Show, CNN.com, and MSNBC.com.  He lives in Miami with his wife, Dr. Amanda Jensen Doss (also a faculty member at the University of Miami) and their two children.

To learn more, please visit: http://ibct.psych.ucla.edu/

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Andrew & Brian!

Dr. Hyder Zahed, March 17th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Hyder was born and raised in India, the youngest of four children. Education was the cornerstone in his immediate and extended family. As far back as he can remember, he had a dream of pursuing his higher education and living in America. While Hyder was growing up, his parents were the best role models any child could ask for. They helped him create his Legacy Model, a foundation of living a life full of Love, Generosity Gratitude and Compassion.

Most of Hyder’s education was completed in America, all the way through to earning a doctorate degree in the sciences. His professional career was predominantly in the pharmaceutical industry. He was fortunate enough to  travel throughout Europe, the Middle East and South America. These visits to diverse locales of the globe inculcated in him the feeling that we humans are more alike than different; and that the four basic positive virtues he wrote about are global.

Hyder’s life was great, he enjoyed good health, a happy marriage, a beautiful daughter, a comfortable home and meaningful work. In a short period of time all this changed for Hyder; a divorce, a job loss, and a heart attack. It was at this time that he was determined to redesign his life and creating an ongoing legacy. Hyder came with a very simple formula LGGC an acronym for living a life of Love, Generosity, Gratitude and Compassion. This is within everyone’s reach and it costs nothing. The rewards from living a good life and creating such a legacy are immeasurable.

To learn more, please visit: www.DrZLegacy.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Hyder Zahed!

Naomi Berger, March 10th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Marcia Naomi Berger (née Fisch), MSW, LCSW, leads dynamic marriage and communication workshops and is a popular speaker at conferences. In addition to working as a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice in San Rafael, California, she teaches continuing education classes for psychotherapists and counselors at the University of California Berkeley Extension and Alliant International University in San Francisco.

While employed by the City and County of San Francisco, she held senior-level positions in the fields of child welfare, alcoholism treatment, and psychiatry. She also served as a lecturer on the clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and as executive director of Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay.

Marcia Naomi Berger lives in Marin County, California, with her husband, David Berger. She gives their weekly marriage meetings major credit for their happiness together and for her passion to share this tool with couples everywhere.

She may be contacted through her website, www.marriagemeetings.com.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Naomi Berger!

Mari Frank & Alfonso Clarke, March 3rd, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Mari Frank  is a “dolphin attorney”, not a shark.  She uses gentle but powerful strategies to resolve conflicts.  She’s been an attorney/ mediator since 1985 and is  a Certified MCLE Trainer for the State Bar of California.  She  teaches conflict management at Brandman University, and she’s a member of the Orange County Superior Court Civil Mediation Panel, a mediator for QDR Services, and the Orange County Bar Mediation Panel.  She’s the author of the textbook, “Negotiation Breakthroughs,” and she’s co-authored Stepping Stones to Success and other books.  Mari has written dozens of published articles on Negotiation and Mediation and she’s the radio host of Prescriptions for Healing Conflict on KUCI, 88.9 FM, streaming on KUCI.org every Monday morning at 8:30 AM Pacific Time.

Learn more at www.MariFrank.com and www.conflicthealing.com

As the current Dispute Resolution Program Director, Alfonso oversees all of the operations of the Dispute Resolution Program, which provides no to low-cost mediation services to Orange County residents on community matters as well as to civil litigants in Orange County courts on post-filing matters. He facilitates basic and advanced mediation trainings and has served on many panels and advisory groups in the areas of dispute resolution, mediation, conciliation, human relations, intergroup/interethnic relations and peace building. Alfonso has been with OC Human Relations since 1997 and has been a mediator for over 20 years.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Alfonso Clarke!

Thomas Gagiliano, February 24th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Tom Gagliano has worn many hats throughout his career. As a young man, he soon became a successful entrepreneur with a proven track record in small business ventures in the greater New York area. About ten years ago, Tom started to spend less time in the business world and more time helping those who suffered from negative childhood messages. To pursue a dream of helping others, he returned to school to receive an MSW at age 51. His book, The Problem Was Me: How to End Negative Self-Talk and Take Your Life to a New Level, with Dr. Abraham Twerski,  is one-of-a-kind. It explores how we sabotage the happiness in our lives simply because we are so afraid of intimacy. We become our own worst enemy as we subconsciously push away our loved ones. Tom helps people understand why we push others away so we can enhance the intimacy in our lives.

Chances are you’ve already heard Tom speak. He’s a regular on many radio interviews and has appeared on the TBN television network on numerous occasions.  Tom is a graduate of Seton Hall University and has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing. He then went back to school, at age 51, and graduated from Rutgers with an MSW in August of 2011. He has added a life coach to his resume in January of 2012.

Today Tom is a life coach, published author, and a key note speaker. He was a bully as a kid wanting to hurt others the way he was hurting inside. He realized at an early age he needed to fix what was broken inside of him. He then had two goals. One he wanted to give his children what his father couldn’t give me, A SAFE PLACE TO SHARE their FEELINGS WHATEVER THEY MIGHT BE.  Next he wanted to help others silence that destructive inner voice they grew up with. Today he facilitates men and women’s groups as well as marriage consultations explaining the ways to give parents the tools to give their children the positive and loving messages that may have been denied to them in their childhood.  Of course this also stops the bully mentality from coming to fruition as well.

Thomas’s website is www.theproblemwasme.com. He has You Tube Videos on the media page which includes bullying, parenting, family intimacy and substance abuse.

Many of us are so afraid of intimacy that we sabotage the happiness in our lives. There’s just no denying that no matter how complex and scary the world gets today we can still be our own worst enemy. We subconsciously push loved ones away, yet deep inside there’s a voice screaming for closeness. Intimacy awakens powerful feelings in all of us, both positive and negative. We may feel love, warmth, closeness, but intimacy may also awaken fear, anxiousness. This can serve to sabotage a relationship. We can only give our children what we received in our childhood unless we allow new information into our thinking. Thomas is running a free webinar on Thursday (02/20/2014)  and would love your feedback. If you wish to join. here’s the link https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1283549339627152898

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Thomas Gagliano!

A. Marco Turk, February 17th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Professor Turk is the former Director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding (NCRP) program at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), where he designed its current version. He has been an innovative visionary in curriculum improvement/creation of new programs at CSUDH, in on-campus, online, and blended formats. Prior to his arrival at CSUDH in the fall of 2002, Professor Turk taught in the Global Peace and Conflict Studies Program and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he began his full-time academic career in 1995; and, later co-designed/developed the first University of California system online distance-learning program (including some course design) to offer a UCI Master of Advanced Study (MAS) in Criminology, Law and Society.
Professor Turk is a certified community and trial court-qualified mediator, and serves on a panel of California appellate court mediators, as well as on the attorney neutral panel for Alternative Resolution Centers. A member of the Southern California Mediation Association and the Peace Psychology Division 48 of the American Psychological Association, he has been licensed in California as an attorney since 1961, and is admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts.
Professor Turk is recognized internationally for his work as a peacebuilder, educator and trainer dealing with ethnic conflict. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Conflict Resolution on the Eastern Mediterranean Island of Cyprus (1997-1999), and has made funded return trips in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2008 to continue his peacebuilding work with both Greek and Turkish Cypriots; and, he has taught as an adjunct professor of law for Loyola Law School/Los Angeles in its 2012 summer study abroad program in Cyprus. As part of his continuing work with the Cyprus Fulbright Commission through the U.S. State Department, Professor Turk has conducted three separate two-week education/training programs in southern California; and, participated in a third funded by the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace (San Diego State University). He has published extensively concerning the Cyprus problem, and his peacebuilding efforts have extended to Norway, Israel, Turkey, England and Nigeria (where he was a featured presenter for the 1st African ADR Summit: Power of Change 2006), as well as to both coasts of the United States. In October 2003, he participated as one of only two Americans invited to attend the Oxford University international workshop on “Getting to Yes” regarding efforts to reunify Cyprus.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with A. Marco Turk!

Mari Frank & Leonard Szymczak, February 10th, 2014

Mari Frank  is a “dolphin attorney”, not a shark.  She uses gentle but powerful strategies to resolve conflicts.  She’s been an attorney/ mediator since 1985 and is  a Certified MCLE Trainer for the State Bar of California.  She  teaches conflict management at Brandman University, and she’s a member of the Orange County Superior Court Civil Mediation Panel, a mediator for QDR Services, and the Orange County Bar Mediation Panel.  She’s the author of the textbook, “Negotiation Breakthroughs,” and she’s co-authored Stepping Stones to Success and other books.  Mari has written dozens of published articles on Negotiation and Mediation and she’s the radio host of Prescriptions for Healing Conflict on KUCI, 88.9 FM, streaming on KUCI.org every Monday morning at 8:30 AM Pacific Time.

Learn more at www.MariFrank.com and www.conflicthealing.com

Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW is an author, speaker,

psychotherapist, and life coach. For the past 40 years he has worked both in Australia and America, as a counselor and educator. He is an Amazon bestselling author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace. The sequel to his novel, Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy, will be published in 2014. He writes, counsels clients, and conducts seminars on writing and personal/spiritual growth. He is the proud father of two adult children and lives in Dana Point, California.

To learn more about Leonard, please visit: http://leonardszymczak.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Leonard Szymczak!

Heather Johnson, February 3rd, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Heather Johnson launches her first book, Hidden Voice: A story of discovering strengths, which targets pre-teen and teen readers focusing on discovering strengths within yourself and dealing with life and the people that surround you in school and home. A short easy read, it’s packed with drama, humor and encouragement.

Heather began her writing career after she attended the San Francisco StoryWorld Conference and Expo in 2011, where she met her mentor Alison Norrington, from Story Central, UK. From that point on she attended the Writer’s Digest conference in New York learning how to pitch her work and how to build solid characters.

Heather has yet to realize the magnitude of attention her book generates with issues that her main character faces discovering her own strengths, fighting against low self-esteem despite belittling attempts from bullies and conquering fears of failure. Hidden Voice was inspired by the author’s personal struggles with bullying and abandonment, therefore she encourages others to find their strength’s, and passions, and self-worth, while helping them learn creative expressions through reading and writing.

Currently a High School Student At MATSU Central School in Wasilla, Alaska, she is a nominee for the Alaska Spirit of Youth Award, an member of the National Association of Professional Women since 2012, and a participating author for the Alaskan Young Writer’s Conference. Within the first nine months of her publication release, Heather has appeared on 3 TV shows and over a dozen radio shows across the country.

Heather has already begun her 2014 National Anti-Bullying Campaign, with several publications, guest interviews on radio shows and School Districts purchasing her book for their Anti – Bullying Curriculum.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Heather Johnson!

Yvonne Carson-Cardozo & Leonard Szymczak, January 27th, 2014 at 8:30 A.M.

Yvonne Carson-Cardozo was twelve years old when she and her family escaped the German occupation of Belgium. She lost her brother and fifty relatives to the death camps. As a refugee, she traveled to France, Spain, Jamaica, and West Indies. She joined the Dutch Indonesian Army and served in Australia and Indonesia, where she worked in the Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service, deciphering and encoding secret military telegrams. After the war, she eventually settled in the United States, her home for the past fifty-five years. She has two children and lives in California.

On Veteran’s Day 2013, Yvonne was honored as Veteran of the Year for the city of Mission Viejo, California.

To learn more about Yvonne and this book, please visit: http://silenceandsecrets.com/

Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW is an author, speaker,

psychotherapist, and life coach. For the past 40 years he has worked both in Australia and America, as a counselor and educator. He is an Amazon bestselling author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace. The sequel to his novel, Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy, will be published in 2014. He writes, counsels clients, and conducts seminars on writing and personal/spiritual growth. He is the proud father of two adult children and lives in Dana Point, California.

To learn more about Leonard, please visit: http://leonardszymczak.com

CLICK HERE to Listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Yvonne Carson and Leonard Szymczak!

Lothar Schäfer, January 20th, 2014 at 8:30 AM

Barbara J. Hopkinson, January 13th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Barbara J. Hopkinson has been leading bereaved families through the journey of grief for more than 10 years.  She also is inspired to teach those who work in hospitals and in funeral homes how to best console and support a bereaved family member after the death of a child.

In 2002, following her 21-year-old son’s sudden death in a motorcycle accident (and the loss of two other children before that), Hopkinson founded The Compassionate Friends of Greater Newburyport, Mass, a local chapter of the international organization created as a support group for bereaved families.

Proceeding through her own intense grief journey simultaneously, she began tracking her progress in a journal unexpectedly given to her by her remaining son, Brad.  The more grounded she became in her healing journey, the more she knew she had to share what she learned with others on a broader scale.  Her unique perspective from losing multiple children and intimately witnessing so many other bereaved families in grief form the basis of her first book, A Butterfly’s Journey…Healing Grief After the Loss of a Child.

As a former IBM executive with 30+ years of speaking and writing experience in the corporate world, Hopkinson embarked on fine-tuning her skills as an author by investing in writing workshops, one-on-one mentoring and editing, and attending professional writing conferences, including several that specialized in crafting memoirs.

That investment showed results with the acknowledgement from New York Times’ best-selling author Andrew Dubus, who declared A Butterfly’s Journey to be “an important and timely contribution to the literature of spiritual and life-loving resilience.”

Hopkinson’s passion for helping bereaved families continue to expand beyond the launch of her first book in 2013, with her ongoing commitment to reach national and international audiences through public speaking and the creation of virtual bereavement support groups.

Hopkinson has given hundred of presentations to audiences up to 1,000 people.  She has trained in stage presence through The Actor’s Studio in Newburyport, Mass., having been involved in many local plays.  She also is an active member of the local chapter of Toastmasters International.

She is a model of hope for bereaved families, having found happiness again.  She lives north of Boston with her second husband, Jim, and their cat, Scarface.  She enjoys great relationships with her son, Brad, and three adult stepchildren, Melanie, Matthew and Christopher.  She also has a passion for cooking, photography, and travel, having visited more than forty countries so far.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Barbara Hopkinson!

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, January 6th, 2014 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Deb believes in marriage. In spite of challenges, it is possible to completely transform troubled ones into marriages of true friendship, trust, respect, and passion. She has a doctorate in Marriage & Family Therapy. Only 12% of therapists have this specific training. And she has  30 years in the mental health field.

Furthermore, she concentrate my specialty in healing the wounds of verbal and emotional abuse. Many people with childhood abuse histories marry individuals with remarkably similar backgrounds and it serves as a challenge to the therapist working to heal from both old and new wounds.

The question she helps people solve is “What strengths and resources can we tap to make this work?” While the past is part of who we are and is on the table, the here and now is the main focus of therapy.

Dr Deb’s Ph.D. is in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT), a specialized field that has the capability of psychology and counseling to understand individuals while also being able to understand the relationships between all of the people in a family. Being an MFT is kind of like being a juggler. First you handle one ball, then you add another, then another. Each one counts; you can’t drop any of them, and you have to know how they all go together.

MFT is a non-judgmental, non-blaming approach to solving couple and family problems. When you’ve got so many balls, going, it makes no sense to point a finger at only one of them because the problem is in how they relate to each other. MFTs don’t think in terms of diagnoses. They don’t ask themselves, “What’s wrong with this person?” My thought is, “What’s right with this person? What are his strengths? How has she overcome challenges?” and the answers to those questions become my tools to help you.

Dr. Deb graduated Nova Southeastern University’s doctoral program in MFT in 2001 after spending ten years doing research on emotional, verbal and physical abuse for my dissertation. She got her master’s degree from Drake University in 1978, having written a thesis about prison counseling. She also did honors research abroad on the effect of the mental hospital culture on patient recovery while attending Queens College. She graduated in psychology in 1970 and has been actively practicing in the field for 35 years.

Dr. Deb has had six articles published in peer-reviewed journals* and given presentations to other therapists, published and presented dozens of times to the public, edited the mental health section of a paper run by the Miami Herald, and was an editor for the Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association.

She is a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and an Approved Supervisor in Florida for Master’s level Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists. Dr. Deb belongs to the American Psychotherapy Association and to MarriageFriendlyTherapists.com. She’s completed basic and advanced hypnosis levels;  licensed in both Florida and New York; and  belongs to the International Society for Mental Health Online.

Dr. Deb married once in her life and is still married to the same man 35 years later. She has four amazing children, eight incredible grandchildren, and two daughters-in-law and a son-in-law that she loves and gets along with. Those are the credentials of which she’s proudest.

Dr. Deb loves to write. It’s important to me to inform my readers as much as possible. Those articles appear on GoodTherapy.org and EzineArticles.com.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Dr. Deb Hirschhorn!

Stan Tatkin, December 30th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of PACT® A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy. He has a clinical practice in Calabasas, CA, and developed the PACT Institute for the purpose of training other psychotherapists to use this method in their clinical practice.

In addition, Dr. Tatkin teaches and supervises family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, CA, and is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Tatkin is on the board of directors of Lifespan Learning Institute and serves as a member on Relationships First Counsel, a nonprofit organization founded by Harville Hendrix and Helon LaKelly Hunt.

Books/CDs by Dr. Tatkin includes:

• Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships, 6 CD set published by Sounds True

• Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship, published by New Harbinger.

• Love and War in Intimate Relation-ships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy, with coauthor Marion Solomon, available through W. W. Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology Series.

Dr. Tatkin received his early training in developmental object relations (Masterson Institute), Gestalt, psychodrama, and family systems theory. His private practice specialized for some time in treating adolescents and adults with personality disorders. More recently, his interests turned to psycho-neurobiological theories of human relationship, and applying principles of early mother-infant attachment to adult romantic relationships.

Dr. Tatkin was a primary inpatient group therapist at the John Bradshaw Center, where among other things, he taught mindfulness to patients and staff. He was trained in Vipassana meditation by Shinzen Young, Ph.D., and was an experienced facilitator in Vipassana. He was also trained by David Reynolds, Ph.D. in two Japanese forms of psychotherapy, Morita and Naikan. Dr. Tatkin was clinical director of Charter Hospital’s intensive outpatient drug and alcohol program, and is a former president of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Ventura County chapter. He is a veteran member of Allan N. Schore’s study group. He also trained in the Adult Attachment Interview through Mary Main and Erik Hesse’s program out of UC Berkeley.

Stan Tatkin and his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, developed the PACT Institute to train clinicians in A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT®). A fusion of attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and arousal regulation, PACT is quickly gaining a reputation for effectively treating couples formerly thought of as untreatable. The PACT Institute hosts trainings in seven U.S. cities as well as in Australia, Canada, Spain, and Turkey.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Stan Tatkin!

Dr. LeslieBeth Wish, December 23rd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. LeslieBeth (LB) Wish, founder of www.lovevictory.com, is a nationally honored psychologist and a licensed clinical social worker, recognized for her research, advice and books for women’s issues in love, life, family and career. Her concerns about these issues led her to research more than 1,200 women over the course of five years for her new research-based self-helps books “Smart Relationships,” published by New Horizon Press, and the companion cartoon book, “The Love Adventures of Almost Smart Cookie.”

The National Association of Social Workers has named her as One of the Top Fifty social workers in the country. She is the subject of biographic entries in many of the Marquis Who’s Who publications. For www.qualityhealth.com she serves on the Medical Advisory Board, and for www.femrouge.com she writes the Ask Dr. Wish relationship advice column. Dr. Wish also co-founded the free Family Counseling Network for The Special Operations Warrior Foundation. She has been an expert source for quotes and advice to numerous media venues such as “Women’s Health,” “Self Magazine” and CBS radio. To learn more about her books and advice, please go to her website www.lovevictory.com

Dr. Wish earned her Doctorate in Adult Developmental Psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She also earned a masters degree in Clinical Social Work and Management from Bryn Mawr College, and a masters degree in English Literature from Ohio University. For three years she studied under the tutelage of the esteemed Dr. Murray Bowen at Georgetown University Family Center in Marriage and Family Systems Theory and Therapy. She lived and studied family and childcare practices in Moscow, Russia, during the Soviet Communist years. Her undergraduate degree is from Carnegie-Mellon University in History and English.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s interview with Dr. LeslieBeth Wish!

Jeannette M. Gagan, December 16th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Jeannette Gagan is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She also attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where she obtained both a master’s degree in Mental Health Nursing and a PhD in Counseling Psychology.

She started her career as a nurse employed at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Milwaukee.  She took a long hiatus during her marriage while raising five children. In 1985 she opened her counseling psychology practice.  She also began to study the practice of shamanism which she incorporated into her professional sphere in a number of ways. Specifically, she authored her first book, Journeying: Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet, a daring and pioneering template for healing. This resulted in presentations to various audiences including teaching students about the mix of psychology and shamanism.

In 2003 she focused her attention on the authoring and publishing of Grow Up Your Ego: Ten Scientifically Validated Stages to Emotional and Spiritual Maturity. She now continues her writing and educating through her blog at www.riochamapublications.

 

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari Frank’s Interview with Jeannette M. Gagan!

Ajayan Borys, December 9th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Ajayan Borys (a-Jay-an Boris) (aka Henry James Borys) has been exploring and teaching a variety of meditation practices since 1970. In his younger life, he studied in residence under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation Program® and spent a decade teaching the TM Program®. In the mid-90s, he studied with India’s most widely revered contemporary female saint, known as the “hugging saint” Mata Amritanandamayi or Ammachi, A-ma-chi), serving as the meditation teacher at her ashram in Kerala, India. He also spent time with holy men and yogis in the Himalayas of Uttaranchal—a haven for saints throughout the ages, where he researched the spiritual practices indigenous to that area.

Having made the study of meditation the purpose of his life, and having guided thousands in meditation throughout North America, Australia, Europe and India, Ajayan has gained international renown as a consummate teacher. Upon his return the US, he founded a uniquely effective program of meditation, called Effortless Mind®.

Ajayan is a registered hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, and certified Enneagram teacher. He is the author of Effortless Mind: Meditate with Ease (New World Library, 2013), The Way of Marriage: A Journal of Spiritual Growth through Conflict, Love, and Sex (Purna Press, 1991; HarperCollins, 1993), The Sacred Fire: Love as a Spiritual Path (HarperCollins, 1994), and numerous articles on meditation and relationships as a spiritual path. In 2010, Ajayan launched Mind Matters Radio on the Healthy You Radio Network.

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Thomas Crum, December 2nd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Thomas Crum is an author and presenter in the fields of conflict resolution, peak performance, and stress management.  He is known throughout the world for his best-selling books and his inspiring presentations which help people become more centered under conflict, resourceful when facing challenges, and effective under stress.  For over 35 years, Tom has taught Aikido, a graceful martial art which uses energy rather than force to resolve conflicts, and includes principles and movements from Aikido, Tai Chi Chuan, Qi Gong, and other mind-body arts in his presentations.  This creates an experiential event which adds excitement, color, and value.

Acclaimed as “much more than another talking head,” Tom conducts presentations for organizations worldwide for management and employees at all levels in corporations, government and non-profit organizations.  His major corporate and organizational clients number in the hundreds and include Intel, SONY, Wal-Mart, Amgen, Sandia National Labs, and the Navy SEALs. He is a popular keynote and plenary presenter, with appearances at many international conferences and associations including the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), Franklin Covey, the Ken Blanchard Companies, Systems Thinking in Action, and Global Institute for Leadership Development.

Tom Crum’s work is applicable to every aspect of our lives – our work, relationships, families, and even athletic performances. For those among us who like to ski or play golf, Tom integrates his work with these sports.  The Aspen Ski Company has adapted Tom Crum’s work for use in their ski schools and Tom’s week-long Magic of Skiing program, which has brought skiers to Aspen, Colorado for the past twenty-five years, is the most successful multi-day program in Aspen Ski Company history. Tom also is a personal coach working with executives, athletes, and the general public.

Thomas Crum books, audio and visual materials and other products include his best-selling books, The Magic of Conflict and Journey To Center, and his latest book, Three Deep Breaths:  Finding Power and Purpose In A Stressed Out World.

Website: www.ThomasCrum.com

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Laura Wasser, November 25th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Laura Wasser is a high profile attorney based in Los Angeles, CA who specializes in celebrity divorce cases. She has represented the likes of Kim Kardashian, Maria Shriver, Heidi Klum, Ashton Kutcher, Ryan Reynolds, Christina Aguilera, Shaquille O’Neal, among others.  A partner at her family law firm Wasser, Cooperman, and Carter, Wasser is a member of the State Bar of California, Los Angeles County Bar Association, and Beverly Hills Bar Association (Executive Committee). She is the author of “It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way: How to Divorce Without Destroying Your Family or Bankrupting Yourself,” a modern day how-to guide for a new generation of men and women going through divorce.

Wasser was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Power Lawyers from 2011 to 2013, one of the California Daily Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers in 2012, and one of Southern California’s Top 50 Women Attorneys for 2012 and 2013.  She was also named one of Los Angeles Magazine’s Top 50 Women Lawyers in 2012 and one of the Century City Chamber of Commerce Women of Achievement.

She represents pro bono clients through the Harriet Buahai Center for Family Law, where she served as the center’s Board Vice President and was given the Zephyr M. Ramsey Award in 2008. In June 2013, Wasser received the Brady Center Advocate Award for her support of increased gun regulation and background checks.

Wasser has been profiled in C., California Style Magazine and Interview Magazine, as well as the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Forbes, the Huffington Post, and W Magazine.

She holds a law degree from Loyola Law School and a B.A. from the University of Berkeley.  She lives in Los Angeles with her two sons.

http://www.wccfamilylaw.com/attorney-staff-profiles/laura-wasser/

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Mark Landau, November 18th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Mark Landau has been working on healing and wholeness for himself and others for many decades. He worked closely with the founder of Transcendental Meditation for five years as well as studied numerous other meditations and healing modalities with a variety of teachers in different traditions.

He has worked with thousands of people worldwide facilitating many different healing techniques. He currently offers teleconference healing circles and individual sessions.

His most recent books are ‘The Love and Forgiveness Meditation’ and ‘I Love you and Forgive You: A True Self-Healing Tool and the Life Around It.’

His website is www.iloveyouandforgiveyou.org.

 

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 Rick Hanson, November 11th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Rick Hanson, Ph.D is a neuropsychologist and Affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. He is the author of the bestselling book Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, published in 24 languages, Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time and Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Random House, Oct 2013).

An authority on self-directed neuroplasticity, Dr. Hanson’s work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Consumer Reports Health and U.S. News and World Report. His articles have appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Insight Journal, and Inquiring Mind. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and his weekly e-newsletter Just One Thing has over 26,000 subscribers. Those posts appear in the Huffington Post, Psychology Today and other major websites.

He has several audio programs with ‘Sounds True’ including his first book, Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships (Penguin, 2002).

Dr. Hanson is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom in San Rafael, CA. He has taught at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard Universities, as well as in meditation centers throughout Europe, North America, and Australia. He is a trustee of Saybrook University, formerly served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and was President of the Board for the community agency, FamilyWorks.

Dr. Hanson graduated summa cum laude from UCLA at the age of 16. He is in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and leads a weekly meditation gathering in his community. He enjoys rock climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two adult children.   www.RickHanson.net

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A. Heather Coyne, November 4th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST 

A. Heather Coyne serves as a police advisor for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, working to empower communities and civil society to make police more accountable and responsible to their citizens, with a focus on access to justice for women and children.  She advocated the use of community policing as a framework both for increased accountability and as a culturally acceptable niche for women police to play a professional policing role.  She started working with the UN in Afghanistan in March 2012 immediately after a two-year military tour with the NATO Training Mission.  She worked there to strengthen the role of civil society in shaping the training and reform of the Afghan police and army.

Before her deployment to Afghanistan, she was a senior program officer in the Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution of the US Institute of Peace where she was responsible for development of best practices and conflict management tools for mediation practitioners. She was previously the chief of party for the Institute’s activities in Iraq and also served fifteen months there with the Army, working to promote the growth of Iraqi civil society.

Coyne worked for four years at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the National Security Division, where she was responsible for oversight of federal programs to combat terrorism and defend against weapons of mass destruction. In coordination with the National Security Council, she helped to develop an interagency review process for these programs,

Coyne earned a master’s in Strategic Studies and Conflict Management from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.   She has written articles on nation-building and conflict management for the American Interest and for USIP publications, and speaks frequently on the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction.

 

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David Smock, October 28th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST 

David R. Smock is the senior vice president of the Centers of Innovation <http://www.usip.org/innovation/index.html> and director of the Religion and Peacemaking Center <http://www.usip.org/religionpeace/index.html>. Previously he served as director of the USIP’s Grant Program and coordinator of Africa activities.He has worked on African issues for more than 30 years and lived in Africa for 11 years. As a staff member of the Ford Foundation from 1964 to 1980, he served in Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Nigeria and New York.

From 1980 to 1986, Smock served concurrently as director of the South African Education Program, a scholarship program that brings black South African students to U.S. universities, and as vice president for program development and research for the Institute of International Education. After serving as executive associate to the president of the United Church of Christ from 1986 to 1989, Smock became executive director of International Voluntary Services, supervising development projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

He received master’s of divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary and a doctorate in anthropology from Cornell University.

 

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David Christopher, October 21st, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

David Christopher left behind lucrative corporate and aviation careers to address his lifelong desire for answers to humanity’s eternal question of our place in the Universe. The dialogues he created in The Holy Universe are the result of fifteen years of deep immersion in the works of new thought leaders such as Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Miriam MacGillis, James Lovelock, and many others, including celebrated Big History academicians such as David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown, and Fred Spier. Christopher wrote the book in part for people like him who call themselves “spiritual but not necessarily religious,” who want to not only make sense of the craziness going on in the world, but also find a meaningful path through the global crises we collectively face. He lives in Northern California.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidchristopherTHU
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheHolyUniverse

 

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David Bedrick, October 14th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW*, is a counselor, attorney, teacher, and author. He spent eight years teaching psychology and philosophy on the faculty of the University of Phoenix and taught in the Navy, at 3M, the American Society of Training and Development, the Process Work Institute, psychological associations, and small groups focusing on personal growth. He received notable awards for teaching, employee development, and legal services to the community.

Bedrick is a sought-after expert on the topics of shame, personal and collective trauma, cultural and sexual identity issues, stereotyping, and more. He blogs for Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, and other online publications. He counsels people across the nation via phone and skype.

He lives in Santa Fe with his wife and has a passion for dreams, poetry, and cooking.

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Francis Weller, October 7th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist who has developed a style he calls soul-centered psychotherapy, synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. His book Entering the Healing Ground: Grief, Ritual and the Soul of the World discusses creating pathways to reclaiming our indigenous soul, what psychologist Carl Jung called the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides in the heart of the psyche.

Recognizing the lack of existing dialogue and the profound need for sacred ritual and grief work in his community and beyond, Weller founded WisdomBridge in Northern CA, an organization that offers educational programs that integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western cultures.

Beginning in 1997, Francis helped to create Men of Spirit, an intensive year-long initiation program designed to restore the masculine community as a resource for cultural renewal. Since its inception, Francis has taken nearly two hundred men across this threshold, comprising twelve clans of men from Southern California to the Canadian border. He has also facilitated a number of mixed-gender villages with the intention of creating sustainable communities that can tend the need of the soul for belonging.

A gifted therapist and teacher, he has been described as a jazz artist, improvising and moving fluidly in and out of deep emotional territories with groups and individuals bringing imagination and attention to places often held with judgment and shame. He is currently completing his second book, A Trail on the Ground: Tracking the Ways of the Indigenous Soul. He has also produced CDs to address the healing of shame with “The Heart of Healing” and “Restoring the Soul of the World.”

Francis received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and two Master’s Degrees from John F. Kennedy University. He has taught at Sonoma State University, New College of California and the Sophia Center in Oakland, CA. His writings have appeared in anthologies and journals exploring the confluence between psyche, nature and culture. Francis leads trainings in community building, men’s initiation programs and grief rituals.

Francis lives in a small cabin in the Russian River Watershed with his wife and surrounded by his community. He is available for onsite workshops and private consultations.

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Dr. Karen Sherman, September 30th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Karen Sherman is a licensed psychologist in NY.  She’s had a private practice for 25 years with specialties in relationships, assisting people achieve their greatest potential, and stress management.

Her first book, Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last helps long-term couples revitalize their relationships.  Her second book, Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life, is an award winning book, that focuses on enabling people to let go of their wired-in automatic responses from their past in order to live a life of their choosing.  Her newest offering, www.FromFighttoForeplay.com assists couples manage conflicts and gain greater intimacy.

       Additionally, Karen has been a contributor to a number of books: Complete Marriage Counselor, 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life ( Vol.2 ), Power of Persistence, Recovering the Self ( Vol. 2, #3), and I am Bound and Determined.

As a speaker, she also offers workshops and teleseminars on these topics.  She hosts her own radio show (Your Empowered Relationship on sextalknetwork) and is a frequent guest on inter/national radio; her expert opinion has appeared in numerous print publications. She writes for YourTango.com and podcasts for HitchedMag.com and has been a featured writer on Yahoo Personals. She serves on the faculty of an undergraduate department in psychology at a local university. Karen and her husband of 37 years have 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law and grandkids.

Website: www.DrKarenSherman.com

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Matthew Levinger, September 23rd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Matthew Levinger is visiting professor of international affairs and director of the National Security Studies Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Among his previous positions, he was a senior program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace, founding director of the Academy for Genocide Prevention at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a William C. Foster Fellow at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked to improve U.S. government strategies for preventing mass atrocities. Before moving to Washington, DC, he taught Modern European History for fourteen years at Stanford University and Lewis & Clark College. He is the author of Conflict Analysis: Understanding Causes, Unlocking Solutions (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2013), Enlightened Nationalism: The Transformation of Prussian Political Culture, 1806-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2000), and coauthor (with Charles Breunig) of The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850, 3^rd edition (W.W. Norton, 2002). Both in his academic research and in his policy-oriented work, Levinger has sought to explain the roots of radical political violence, in order to facilitate creative approaches to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago.

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don Miguel Ruiz, September 16th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

don Miguel Ruiz is the international bestselling author of a series of books including The Four Agreements (over 7 years on The New York Times bestseller list), and the 36th bestselling book of the decade. He has dedicated his life to sharing the wisdom of the ancient Toltec through his books, lectures, and journeys to sacred sites around the world. Other books include: The Mastery of Love, The Voice of Knowledge, Prayers, Beyond Fear and The Fifth Agreement, a collaboration with his son don Jose Ruiz. Don Miguel is highly respected throughout the world. He has received numerous recognitions, including a US Air Force challenge coin engraved with The Four Agreements, and he is referenced as a National Heirloom of Mexico. ‘Please help us change the world’! Only you can change the world that you
create, and by changing your world, the world will change ‘and that is the Truth that will set you free’.

don Miguel Ruiz was born into a humble family with ancient traditions in rural Mexico, the youngest of 13 children. He considers himself very lucky, as this was where he learned from an early age that everything is possible, if we really want it. His parents, Don Jose and Doña Sarita, as well as his grandfather, Don Leonardo, all believed that Miguel would continue their legacy in the centuries old Toltec tradition. Instead Don Miguel attended medical school, and became a surgeon. For several years he practiced medicine with his brothers, and he realized that what needed to be healed was not only the physical brain, but the human mind as well. A near fatal car accident changed the direction of Don Miguel’s life. He experienced
himself as pure awareness outside of the constraints of his physical body. He realized that the Toltec wisdom of his family contained all of the tools needed to change the human mind. Don Miguel promptly returned to his mother to finish his training and he became a Shaman. Don Miguel moved to the United States to share his wisdom, and spent the next 15 years exploring ways to heal and change the human mind. He witnessed his students struggling to quiet their minds and sought to create tools to assist them. The result of this quest was The Four Agreements®. This book contains a specific series of practical steps, that when used by anyone, can result in consistent and long-term personal transformation.

In February of 2002, Don Miguel suffered a near-fatal heart attack. The damage from the heart attack and subsequent coma left him with a heart functioning at only 16% of capacity and in constant pain. Don Miguel would not accept his doctor’s prognosis that he would be restricted to an inactive life of resting at home. He personally embodied the message he shares, by continuing to joyfully live his life, sharing his message through books, lectures and journeys. Though he was enjoying life he also knew that he was slowly dying and focused on preparing his sons to carry on his legacy. In 2009 Don Miguel’s body began to deteriorate much more rapidly and he applied for a heart transplant. In August 2010 he was put on the transplant waiting list. On October 9th 2010, Don Miguel successfully received a heart transplant. For Don Miguel this is a new beginning and with deep gratitude and generosity he is eager to share his message with all
of humanity.

In the tradition of the Toltec, a Nagual (shaman) guides an individual to personal freedom. After exploring the human mind from a Toltec as well as scientific perspective, Don Miguel has combined old wisdom with modern insights and created a new message for all mankind, based in truth and common sense. He has dedicated his life to sharing this new
message through practical concepts that promote transformation. His message is simple and when implemented, even incrementally, changes lives. Don Miguel is highly respected throughout the world. He has received numerous recognitions, including a US Air Force challenge coin engraved with The Four Agreements, and he is referenced as a National Heirloom of Mexico. The Four Agreements®, published in 1997; was a New York Times bestseller for more than 7 years and the 36th bestselling book of the decade. Other books have followed; The Mastery of Love, The Voice of Knowledge, Prayers, Beyond Fear and The Fifth Agreement, a collaboration with his son Don Jose. All of his books are international bestsellers.

For more information visit: www.miguelruiz.com

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Janet Rebhan, September 9th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Janet Rebhan was born and raised in a west Texas oil and military town, where she also volunteered one summer at the local Veterans Administration hospital. When she was sixteen, her family moved to Los Angeles, where she studied creative writing at UCLA and Moorpark College. She currently resides in Agoura Hills, California. Finding Tranquility Base is her first novel.

 

Website: www.JanetRebhan.com

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Robert Ricigliano, September 2nd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

 

Mr. Ricigliano is the Co-Director of the Partnership for Sustainability and Peacebuilding at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he teaches courses on systems and complexity approaches to peacebuilding through the Department of Communication. He is also a former Executive Director of the Conflict Management Group and served as an Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School.

Mr. Ricigliano’s recent work has focused on applying systems theory to developing practical tools for sustainable peacebuilding.  He is working with both USAID and the Department of Defense on projects to integrate systems analysis into their assessment and planning processes.  He has worked with US Interagency teams to do assessments of Cambodia (2009) and Mindanao (2010).  In addition, Mr. Ricigliano has worked on negotiations and peace processes around the world, including Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Russia, Georgia, Colombia, South Africa, and elsewhere. He has also written widely on negotiation and peace processes.

Recent publications include the book, Making Peace Last: a toolbox for sustainable peacebuilding (2012) and a chapter entitled, Afghanistan: Planning for Systemic Impact (2011).  He edited a volume of Accord entitled Choosing to Engage: armed groups and peace processes, and wrote an article, entitled A Systemic Approach to Cross-Border Peacebuilding, in another Accord volume. His J.D. is from the Harvard Law School and his B.A. from Hamilton College.  Mr. Ricigliano has serves as the Board Chair for the Alliance for Peacebuilding and has served as an elected member of his local school board since 2006.

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Mark Nepo, August 26th, 2013, at 8:30 AM PST

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for forty years.  A New York Times #1 bestselling author, he has published fourteen books and recorded eight audio projects.  Recent work includes: Reduced to Joy (2013), Seven Thousand Ways to Listen which won the 2012 Books for a Better Life Award, Staying Awake (2012), Holding Nothing Back (2012), As Far As the Heart Can See (2011), Finding Inner Courage (2011), and Surviving Has Made Me Crazy (2007), as well as audio books of The Book of Awakening, Finding Inner Courage, and As Far As the Heart Can See (2011).  As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.

Mark has appeared several times with Oprah Winfrey on her Super Soul Sunday program on OWN TV, and has been interviewed by Oprah as part of her SIRIUS XM Radio show, Soul Series.  He has also been interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America about his New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening.  The Exquisite Risk was cited by Spirituality & Practice as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005, calling it “one of the best books we’ve ever read on what it takes to live an authentic life.” Mark’s collected essays appear in Unlearning Back to God: Essays on Inwardness.  Other books of poetry include Suite for the Living (2004), Inhabiting Wonder (2004), Acre of Light (1994), Fire Without Witness (1988), and God, the Maker of the Bed, and the Painter (1988).

His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.  In leading spiritual retreats, in working with healing and medical communities, and in his teaching as a poet, Mark’s work is widely accessible and used by many.  He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats.

Please visit Mark at: MarkNepo.com, threeintentions.com and simonspeakers.com/MarkNepo.

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Susan L. Podziba, August 19th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Susan L. Podziba has been a Public Policy Mediator for twenty-five years. Her clients have included the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, and Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Institute of Peace.

She is listed on the United Nations Mediation Roster and has provided mediation training for the U.N. Department of Political Affairs. Ms. Podziba served as Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and has taught graduate seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She currently lectures and consults internationally.

Website: www.podziba.com or http://civicfusionbook.com

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Don Huntington, August 12th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Donald Huntington is Co-owner and Editor In Chief of two lifestyle magazines, 110° Magazine – East County Living and 86° Magazine – Central County Living. Dr. Huntington is also an accomplished ghostwriter, writer, and acclaimed motivational speaker. Dr. Huntington spent 20 years as a technical writer in California’s Silicon Valley, where he developed the specialty of creating internal newsletters for high-tech companies, besides running his own home-based book production company, Desktop Production Services. He has a background in theological studies, holding a baccalaureate degree and two masters degrees in the field, plus an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He completed coursework for a PhD in Education and Computers In Education at Michigan State University. Dr. Huntington is author and co-author of several technical books and the motivational, self-help book, How to Put Your Whole Self In “101 Instructions on Being Good For Yourself, Good For Others, and Good For Heaven’s Sake.” as well as an online publication called A Daybook of a Man Awash in Grace.

Dr. Donald Huntington spent three decades in a process of renewal through discovery of principles that have made his life richly rewarding, filled with blessings, and a benefit to others.

Dr. Huntington has three degrees in Theological Studies, but it turned out that religion was unable to make him happy and profitable to others in this world. He found a better way than the mere practice of religion in becoming the man that he always wanted to become.

Dr. Huntington spent eight years as a pastor and a missionary, but learned that mere service for others and for God was not the way for him to find happiness and fulfillment. He learned that there was something else — something far more simple and practical than mere performance — to make him the person that he wished to become.

Dr. Huntington spent two decades as a respected technical writer in Silicon Valley and for the past eight years has been the co-owner and editor-in-chief of two successful lifestyle magazines, but discovered that professional excellence and the admiration of others couldn’t create the constant sense of joy and satisfaction that he sought for, and that he now enjoys.

Dr. Huntington learned that there was something far more effective in making him delighted with life and contented inside his own skin than professional success. The pages of How To Put Your Whole Self In share simple but effective methods of engaging with others and with life that invests each of Dr. Huntington’s own days with a sense of accomplishment and even delight.

Readers of How To Put Your Whole Self In are always surprised and usually delighted by the subjects that the book covers, by the depths at which it covers them, and by the unique way the writing has of holding the readers’ attention. They are inspired by the realistic portrayal of the ability everyone possesses of shaping attitudes, actions, and relationships so they actually do become good for themselves, good for others, and good for Heaven’s sake.

A professional woman wrote, “I found myself laughing, tearing up, getting chills, yelling Amens, and occasionally chasing my husband around the house saying ‘Oh, you just have to read this.’ There is something for everyone in this book!”

A home-school mom wrote, “This book has provided the catalyst to change thought patterns and become more completely the person I was meant to be.”

A homemaker wrote, “The instructions are like a step by step recipe for a fulfilled life.”

A business woman wrote, “How To Put Your Whole Self In views life with a freshness, almost an innocence, that allows us to see that perhaps we have another chance to experience the fullness of our everyday living.

Website: www.howtoputyourwholeselfin.com

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Mai Calev, August 5th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Author, Energy & Light Worker, Motivational Speaker, Founder of Global Youth Delegation for Peace & Tolerance, Wife, Mother, Friend, and Realtor, are but a few words that describe the author, Mai Calev. Mai loves God, life, her energy work, people, animals, freedom, youth, and diversity, and all of humanity and the earth that is our home. Mai also loves and respects the spiritual beings (our Angels) that are a part of us seen and unseen. For the past 8 or 9 years, Mai has been conducting energy balancing sessions on people from every walk of life, from various locations around the globe. Mai has had the pleasure of experiencing many learning lessons in life. In particular, lessons on the lower vibrating energies of fear, guilt, shame, greed and doubt. Some of these lessons were taught by others, and some of these lessons were manifest within her being. Mai began keeping a journal in 2006, which she had hoped to someday write a book about. What transpired however, were many books (at least 4), and this is the first of The Light That Shines, series. Mai conducts a series of seminars/workshops on, The Four Pillars of Fear – Identifying and Releasing the Fears That No Longer Serve You; the healing series titled, The Healer In You, and is excited about a variety of other projects and new book releases coming out soon.  The next book released in The Light That Shines, series is about Guilt. Giving Up Internal Loving Thoughts™© Mai would be ever so honored and humbled if you joined her on this life journey.

For more information, go to: www.maicalev.com.

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Delia Horwitz, July 29th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST  

Delia Horwitz is an entrepreneur, collaboration specialist, leadership coach and professional facilitator.  In addition to founding and owning several businesses, she has extensive experience helping good people do great things….together:  strategic planning with non-profit Boards of Directors, teambuilding with small and large corporations, goal setting with City Councils, corporate culture work with Fortune 500 senior leadership teams, and visioning with community stakeholders.

She even taught collaboration in Moscow, and her Achieving Agreement Workbook is used as curriculum in the Russian schools.

Delia is also co-founder and served for three years as Executive Director of Leadership Santa Barbara County.  In addition to partnering with Paula Vigneault to write COLLABORATION SOUP:A Six-Step Recipe for Co-Creative Meetings and Other Conversations, she is the author of The Achieving Agreement Workbook and Letters From My Future Self.

Website: www.CollaborationSoup.com

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Geoffrey Bain, July 22nd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Geoff Bain was born in Liverpool, England and attended Liverpool Institute High School at the same time as two of the Beatles – Sir Paul McCartney and George Harrison. After some world traveling, he settled in California, and has been a Real Estate Broker for over thirty years. He is President of Azura Dawn, Inc, a company  that sells various retail items. One of its major accounts is QVC. He also is a vital part of his wife’s Publishing company – Enchanted Forest Press. Geoff is the COO and does most of the editing. He prefers to be called “Chief Word Wizard”. He currently resides in Southern California with his wife, Dawn.

His first book “Just One More Day”  has won multiple awards; namely, a winner of the prestigious Ben Franklin award from the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), a Gold Medal from eLIT Digital Awards for his e-book, a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards (the “IPPY”), and an Honorable Mention from the USA Book News “Best Book” awards.

The inspiration to write his book came from an uncertainty as to when it would be the right time to call the vet to say good-bye to Abby. She was an Australian Shepherd who had been diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer). Abby was the first dog in Geoff’s life and she left her paw-prints on his heart.  He had experienced the loss of family and friends and had dealt with the grief. The loss of Abby left him numb and he didn’t understand why.

 This profound experience of a different kind of loss changed his life. Geoff is now certified as a Pet Loss Grief Counselor and volunteers every week at the on-line Pet Loss Chat Room offered by the Association for Bereavement and Pet Loss (APLB). He is getting ready to launch the “Pet Loss Support Institute” to provide lectures, seminars, workshops and literature to bring about healing from pet loss.

Geoff’s hobbies are photography, traveling and backgammon. When he can find the time, he writes a blog for his website Wagdazzle.

Please go to  www.JustOneMoreDayTheBook.com  to view his book trailer.

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Major Dan Rooney, July 15th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Major Dan Rooney, USAF (Ret.)

F-16 Fighter Pilot, PGA Professional, Patriotic Philanthropist and Author, A Patriot’s Calling: Living Life Between Fear and Faith

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Major Dan Rooney is the founder of the Folds of Honor Foundation, a veteran F-16 Fighter Pilot with 3 combat tours in Iraq, the founder of The Patriot Golf Club, a PGA Professional, and author of A Patriot’s Calling- Living Life between Fear and Faith.

He was the only motivational team speaker for the US Ryder Cup team in Wales, an amazing opportunity that has been historically reserved for Presidents.

Folds of Honor, a non-profit organization, provides scholarships to the spouses and children of military service members disabled or killed in action In five short years Folds of Honor has raised over $22 million and awarded nearly 4000 scholarships to the family members KIA or disabled in combat.

A Major in the Air National Guard and a decorated military aviator, he is a two-time recipient of the Top Gun award and was honored with the Spirit of Attack award as a top graduate of F-16 training. He has received many decorations to include the Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Medal, Anti-terrorism Medal, Combat Readiness Medal and Air Expeditionary Medal.

For his service and patriotism – Rooney was presented the White House’s Presidential Volunteer Service Award by President George W. Bush, the Air National Guard’s Distinguished Service Medal, the Air National Guard’s Directors Service Award and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He was honored at The Masters Invitational with the William D. Richardson Award for his outstanding contributions to golf and received the PGA of America’s first-ever Patriot Award. He has been recognized as one of People Magazine’s Heroes of the Year, Money Magazine’s Hero of the Year and ABC World News Tonight’s Persons of the Year. He is a Significant Sigma Chi and was featured on NBC World News Making a Difference report.

Rooney founded The Patriot, a Robert Trent Jones, Jr.-designed course in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is currently ranked 42nd among American golf courses in Golf Week’s Modern Top 100. The Patriot is home to the Folds of Honor Foundation headquarters.

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Book link: http://patriotscalling.com/

Foundation link: http://www.foldsofhonor.org/

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Shawn Kent Hayashi, July 8th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Shawn Kent Hayashi is an executive coach, founder of The Professional Development Group LLC, and best-selling author of Conversations for Creating Star Performers and Conversations for Change™.  A global expert in developing star performers and high-performing teams, Shawn facilitates growth in leadership ability, emotional intelligence, communication skills, stronger relationships and teams, and effective presentations.  She guides leaders to achieve positive, lasting changes in behavior—for themselves, their people and their teams. Building collaboration that enhances productive relationships and facilitates the achievement of business goals is the subject of Shawn’s newest book released in April 2013, Conversations That Get Results and Inspire Collaboration.

My website is: www.YourTalentAtWork.com

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Dr. Linda Salvin, July 1st, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Linda Salvin received her Bachelor of Arts in Health Education from San Francisco State University in 1975 and went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Public Health with a focus in Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Michigan in 1977. She was ordained as a Doctor of Divinity in June, 1999 and awarded her Ph.D. in Metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology in 2008.

Upon graduating from the University of Michigan in 1977, she returned to her native Los Angeles, California where she secured a position as an Industrial Hygienist for General Dynamics.  Linda was responsible for creating and implementing a new occupational health program for 7100 employees at the Pomona aerospace facility.

Nearly three years later, Linda went to work for an Insurance company as an Environmental Health Specialist in late 1980.

Dr. Linda Salvin was not born with psychic gifts. A series of devastating accidents transformed her life. A successful public health official, Linda survived a commercial airliner crash in 1981 while on company business.   As she slid down the emergency ramp, she experienced an out-of-body experience as well as hearing a loud voice speak to her which she had never heard before.  Her life changed forever February 17, 1981.  This was the beginning of her transformation from her scientific background to her psychic and spiritual evolution.

A year later, her car was struck by a fire truck in 1982, causing another out-of-body experience as well as physical injury.   And, a traumatic auto accident brought her to the brink with the white-light experience in 1984.  While not understanding what was happening, Linda continued to advance psychically.  A major surgery in 1991, proved to be another life-altering experience.  It was during her own healing period she discovered she had been given healing abilities to help other people. With each of these experiences, her spiritual connection to the Universe, her psychic and now healing gifts evolved.

Eleven years passed after the plane crash before Linda would determine where she would become most satisfied and needed with the changes.  In 1982, she accepted a position at USC in Cancer Research but did not find fulfillment and left.  There were various non-Public Health related positions until 1988 when she became a Health Educator in charge of establishing the Drug Abuse Program at Cal State Northridge on a temporary assignment.  From there she went on to work with a program where she taught AIDS education to youth on parole with the California Youth Authority.

Still dissatisfied, she sought ways to integrate her education and experiences to assist others on this new holistic and metaphysical path.  Linda reached out to begin helping and healing others.  She turned her own challenges of adversity to inspire and guide people.
In addition to developing, through referral, an international following as a respected psychic, healer and channeler in private practice, she took her skills to a wider audience via radio in 1994.  Linda was selected out of 364 psychics for a night time station. Her radio broadcasting career began as the night-time psychic on Los Angeles’ KBIG 104-FM. Later she produced and hosted her own show on KIEV 870 AM in Southern California, prior to her move to syndication with CRNDigital Talk in over 350 markets. In 2004, she further syndicated her show nationally to a network of radio stations.  Salvin hosted her show every Sunday evening on Los Angeles’ KSLX 97.1 FM Talk for nearly three years before moving across town to KABC 790 AM. On an average night, Linda answered an average of 50 calls in a two-hour broadcast, leaving the audience compelled for more. The Dr Linda Salvin Show is the recipient of two Be Real Broadcasting Awards, 2010 and 2011. Her talk shows can be heard on her internet station at www.famouspsychic.com , www.yfntv.com and Powertalknetwork.com and other internet streams.   Lastly, Dr Linda has been signed to a Hollywood Talent Agency for talent and literary representation and is speaking to TV executives about her TV show ideas.

Linda has been a guest on hundreds of radios shows over the years including Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory.  She has served as resident psychic for different stations, too.

Linda also created a spiritual candle magic line called Wicks of Wisdom® which work like “…a prescription for your soul.”®   to help people enhance their health, finances, love, luck and more.  She has produced and aired a national TV infomercial currently airing, also online at www.wowtvoffer.com  To qualify her experiences, scientific background, training, the science and magic of the candles, she decided to earn her PhD in Metaphysics which is a combination of theology and psychology. In February, 2009 a prominent New York Rabbi after hearing her on the Joey Reynolds show on WOR called Dr. Linda Salvin a prophetess.  Listen to Linda and she will touch your soul.
Known as a “psychic’s psychic”, fellow psychics consult her from cities across the United States. Oftentimes she has guests on her show including other psychics and metaphysical practitioners from related disciplines. Her show is a mix of sophisticated self-help advice, spiritual counsel and the wisdom provided by her special visions. People from all walks of life seek her guidance—CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, celebrities, professionals, office clerks, blue-collar workers—and everything in between.

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Brook D. Olsen, June 24th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Brook Olsen founded the High Conflict Diversion Program in 2006 and continues to direct its evolution. Brook is a Certified Parenting Educator with the International Network For Children and Families, a Certified Divorce Mediator, and Life Coach. Brook’s training includes six years of study with Dr. Michael Mamas in the field of transpersonal counseling, trauma counseling and meditation. Brook completed three years of training in trauma resolution through the Foundation for Human Enrichment with Peter Levine and is a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Brook is a licensed Holistic Health Practitioner and Certified Clinical Nutritionist. He is also trained in Interpersonal Communication and High Conflict Resolution.

These trainings have contributed to Brook’s strong knowledge and understanding of how the nervous system works, and to the role the nervous system plays in the psychological and physiological reaction of the body to trauma, conflict and anxiety. In his private practice in Encinitas, California, Brook draws on all of these tools when guiding his clients to the resolution of trauma and conflict, as well as helping clients navigate through the challenges that life can present, such as divorce, job change, and death, for example. Brook teaches classes in the High Conflict Diversion Program as well as training instructors for to teach the High Conflict Diversion Program throughout the US. Brook teaches classes in Redirecting Children’s Behavior, leads Core process workshops and communication workshops for couples, and is a peer consultant for fellow professionals.

Website: highconflict.net

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Shelby Beckett, June 17th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Shelby Beckett began writing poetry in elementary school and finished her first novel (illustrated by a friend and still unpublished) at the age of 10. Fascinated from an early age by the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin and Greek from the University Akron, followed by a Master of Arts degree in archaeology from the University of Cincinnati. These studies, in addition to teaching Latin for several years, inspired the attraction to mythology that she has woven into her novel, BETWEEN.

Originally skeptical about the paranormal, she has (ironically) spent most of her adult life leading classes in psychic/spiritual development in many locations throughout the United States, as well as channeling information for numerous individuals and groups about life after death, reincarnation, energy healing and many other related subjects.

Shelby and her husband make their home in Gainesville, Florida. When she isn’t writing, speaking or channeling, she enjoys reading and ballroom dancing.

Website: www.shelbybeckett.com

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Jan Frankel Schau, June 10th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Jan Frankel Schau, Esq. settles litigated cases arising out of employment, business and tort disputes. With over twenty years of experience as a litigator, half in Insurance Defense and half representing Plaintiff’s in employment and business-related disputes, Jan has a unique ability to understand and evaluate both sides of every claim.

Since 2003, Jan has mediated over 1,000 litigated cases throughout Southern California.  She has been a Panel Neutral at ADR Services in Los Angeles since 2007 and is widely considered one of L.A.’s preeminent mediators. Jan earned her Bachelors degree at Pomona College in Claremont, California in International Relations in 1978 and her J.D. at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1981.

A Past President of the Southern California Mediation Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, she is also a popular trainer, author and lecturer on topical issues related to Alternative Dispute Resolution, including her book, “View from the Middle of the Road:  A Mediator’s Perspective on Life, Conflict and Human Interaction” (AuthorHouse, 2013).

Named as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Jan is known as a penultimate conflict solver:  effective, tenacious and unflappable.

Website: www.schaumediation.com

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Dr. Deanna Brann, June 3rd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

With more than 25 years of experience in the mental health field, licensed clinical psychotherapist Deanna Brann specializes in communication skills, interpersonal relationships, and conflict resolution. So when her relationship with her own daughter-in-law began a dizzyingly downward spiral after the birth of her first grandchild, no one could have been more shocked than she was.

Committed to exploring the nuances of mother-in-law/daughter-in-law dynamics, Dr. Brann conducted extensive qualitative research and discovered she was hardly alone in having such challenges. As a result of the behavioral patterns she identified, the different kinds of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law she found, and the tools she developed to navigate these specific individuals with skill and grace, Dr. Brann discovered a way for both mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law to peacefully coexist. Not only has she transformed her own relationship with her daughter-in-law, but Dr. Brann has also helped countless other in-laws stop the cycle of frustration, anxiety, and anger they so often find themselves trapped inside.

Dr. Brann holds a Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychobiological Anthropology. She is a polished national speaker on empowering oneself to deal with and heal the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship. She also provides one-on-one coaching and consulting packages, and practical technique/skill downloads to help women feel better about themselves and their relationships.

Dr. Brann is the author of Reluctantly Related: Secrets to Getting Along With Your Mother-in-Law or Daughter-in-Law and a cartoon book, Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law Say the Darndest Things!, and maintains an interactive website, www.DrDeannaBrann.com, that specifically addresses mother-in-law/daughter-in-law issues.

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Lisa Schirch, May 27th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Lisa Schirch is an associate professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University’s Conflict Transformation Program. She received her doctorate in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. A former Fulbright fellow, Schirch has fifteen years of experience consulting with a network of strategic partner organizations around the world. Her peacebuilding experience includes facilitating interethnic dialogues, designing training programs for women in peacebuilding, creating alternative security strategies, and working as a mediator and trainer.

website: http://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org

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Lucinda Bassett, May 20th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Lucinda Bassett has a passion for helping others achieve personal transformation; her greatest satisfaction comes from effectively guiding people through fear, challenge, change, and loss to a life of happiness and fulfillment. Lucinda’s desire to serve originates in her own story of transformation: in her 20’s, she overcame a debilitating anxiety disorder by discovering a powerful solution to her emotional pain and distress. Determined to share her successful process with others, she founded the renowned Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety with Dr. Philip Fisher; together, they developed a program that continues to help millions of people around the world.

In her first book, From Panic to Power, Lucinda provided an intimate account of her struggle and triumph over anxiety and depression; it quickly became a bestseller, and paved the way for two subsequent bestselling books. Life Without Limits contains Lucinda’s effective techniques for unleashing the power within to achieve one’s dreams. And The Solution offers techniques that guide readers in conquering their fears so they may conduct their lives with clarity and confidence.

Her latest book, Truth Be Told, is Lucinda’s long-awaited autobiography, an exceptionally candid description of her turbulent personal life: the painful legacy of her father’s alcoholism, the sexual molestation she suffered as a little girl, her debilitating panic attacks and agoraphobia, her son’s battle with Tourette’s Syndrome, the wrenching deaths of her sister, two brothers, and mother — and the unthinkable circumstances surrounding her beloved husband’s tragic suicide.

Every one of Lucinda’s traumatic life experiences has provided potent motivation, and she has expanded her work to assist those who have suffered various types of tragedy, including the loss of loved ones through suicide. Lucinda’s drive to aid those who are struggling with that unbearable loss is, for her, a logical consequence of her own battle with guilt, blame, anger and shame after the devastating loss of her husband.

Lucinda believes that, if she could find the strength to honor his memory, protect their children, and save their finances and their home — all of which eventually allowed her to find peace — she can help others find their own peaceful resolution.

Lucinda has also offered her emotional wellness solutions to major corporations and associations, including AT&T, McDonald’s, LPGA, and the AIDS Foundation, as well as many educational institutions. She has appeared on “Oprah,” “The View,” “Live with Regis and Kelly,” “Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power,” and hundreds of other national radio and television programs. Lucinda and her work have been featured in a full range of high-profile publications: Health, Family Circle, Cosmopolitan, and The Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Lucinda lives in Southern California, near her daughter, Brittany, and her son, Sammy.

http://www.lucindabassett-truthbetold.com/

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Preston Ni, May 13th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Preston Ni is a professor, coach, trainer, and course designer in the areas of interpersonal effectiveness, professional communication, cross-cultural understanding, and organizational change.

With twenty years of experience, Preston’s dynamic presentations and powerful coaching have benefited thousands worldwide. He has worked with companies
including Fortune 500 stalwarts Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, Intel, Visa, and eBay, as well as coached executives, managers, and private individuals to identify their catalyst for success.

Preston received a Master of Science Degree in Business Administration, and is tenured faculty of the Communication Studies Department at Foothill College in Silicon Valley, California. He holds a certificate in the Management Development Program at Harvard University, and is a 2012 Fellow of the Stanford University Human Rights Education Initiative.

His articles and commentaries appear on websites and in publications including The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, and Asian Week. He is the recipient of the Diversity Leadership Award in Teaching and Learning, and the inaugural recipient of the Silicon Valley Speak-Up Distinguished Speaker of the Year award.
Preston is the author of “Communication Success with Four Personality Types” and “How to Communicate Effectively and Handle Difficult People”. He is also keynote speaker on the DVD program “Cross-Cultural Communication: East and West”, featured on the Business and Technology Network and the National Technological University Network.

For more information on Preston Ni and his presentations, workshops, and private coaching, write to commsuccess@nipreston.com, or visit www.nipreston.com.

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Lanny Davis, May 6th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Lanny J. Davis is a lawyer, crisis manager, consultant, author, and television commentator who counsels individuals, corporations, and others under scrutiny on crisis management and legal issues with developing legal, media and governmental strategies that are designed to best produce successful results for his clients. His former clients have included CEOs, world leaders, and both national and international companies. For corporate clients, Lanny helps them find a negotiated settlement that will benefit all parties involved.

Although a Democrat, Lanny has friends on both sides of the aisle. During the Clinton administration, Lanny served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign finance investigations and other legal issues. In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed Lanny to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act. In that capacity, he received the highest level security clearances so that he could be fully briefed and “read in” to the various anti-terrorist surveillance and financial tracking programs at the highest classified level.

Before his tenure as special counsel to President Clinton, Lanny was a commercial, antitrust, government contracts and False Claims Act litigator (both in defense as well as plaintiff). He has argued numerous appellate cases in the U.S. courts of appeals.

Lanny has participated in national, state and local politics for almost 30 years. He has served three terms (1980 to 1992) on the Democratic National Committee representing the state of Maryland, and during that period he served on the DNC Executive Committee and as chairman of the Eastern Region Caucus. In Montgomery County, Maryland, he served as chairman of the Washington Suburban Transit Commission.

Lanny has authored several books and lectured throughout the United States and Europe on various political issues. Two of these books, [Scandal: How “Gotcha” Politics Is Destroying America], and [Truth To Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education], are featured on this website. Between 1990 and 1996, he was a bimonthly commentator on Maryland politics for WAMU-88.5/FM, a Washington, D.C. local affiliate of National Public Radio. He has been a regular television commentator and has been a political and legal analyst for MSNBC, CNN, CNBC and network TV news programs and has published numerous op-ed/analysis pieces in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and other national publications. He is currently a contributor to Fox News.

Lanny graduated from Yale Law School, where he won the prestigious Thurman Arnold Moot Court prize and served on the Yale Law Journal. A graduate of Yale University for his undergraduate studies as well, he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News. Lanny is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Connecticut and before the Supreme Court of the United States and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

website: http://www.lannyjdavis.com/

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Nathaniel Smith, April 29th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Nathaniel Smith MA, NCC, LPC-S, is a licensed professional counselor specializing in anger management and domestic violence issues. He has helped hundreds of clients manage their anger issues through his private practice as well as through a program certified by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in which he runs group sessions for offenders with anger issues. Smith is also the author of Taming Your Temper: A Workbook for Individuals, Couples, and Groups.

Website:  www.nathanielsmithcounselor.com

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Lacey Lafferty, April 22nd, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Lacey graduated from Cape Henlopen High School 1979 and Sussex Technical School – first woman president of her Agricultural Mechanics Shop and Vice -President of Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter. Lacey began her career in Agricultural as a corn, soybean and vegetable farmer and a poultry grower in 1980. The enterprise expanded into a trucking business throughout the 1980’s transporting several different kinds of Agricultural and manufactured commondities. During the 1980’s, Lacey also pursued Modeling, graduating from Barbizon Modeling School in Wilmington, Delaware and was the first woman to drive Modified Stock Cars at the lower Delaware dirt tracks.

In 1994, she graduated from Delaware Technical College with a Associates Degree in Criminal Justice pursuing a career in 1995 into the Delaware State Police. Through Lacey’s rewarding career, she received the Excellent Performance Award from Delaware’s Govorner Minner in 2007. Lacey retired in 2008 from the Delaware State Police and began writing books. On Oct 29, 2012 Lacey’s first book – Delaware Horse Racing/Arcadia Publishing and second book – Messages from a Mother/Authorhouse Publishing was released. Lacey has owned and trained Standardbred Race Horses for over a decade, campaigning at Delaware race tracks and outside area tracks.  She owns LAFF Apparel which is a endeavor that contributes a share of the proceeds to retired race horses, animal shelters and several charitable foundations.  Lacey also has political ambitions in the State of Delaware in the future – 2016.

Want to know more…go to LaceyLafferty.com

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Dr. John Mayer, April 15th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. John Mayer is a practicing clinical psychologist, author, consultant and international business leader. A native Chicagoan, he received his doctorate from Northwestern University Medical School.

Dr. Mayer is the author of over 60 professional articles, 20 books, a screenplay and a stage play. He received a contract on his first novel, Shadow Warrior to develop it into a major motion picture. Writing in both the scientific and public forum, his newsletter – Mayer’s Memo – is widely acclaimed for its hard-hitting guidance on the most important topics on youth. Mayer’s Memo is in its 25th year and it is distributed to schools, institutions and parents across the United States.

Dr. Mayer is president of The International Sports Professionals Association-ISPA and on the board of directors of The Center for Ethical Youth Coaching-CEYC.

Dr. Mayer has taught at the University of Chicago, Loyola University, Forest Institute, The Mayo Clinic and has given corporate lectures at: The McDonalds Corporation, The NBA Players Association, Elkay International, The Kellogg Foundation, among others.

Dr. Mayer lectures and consults around the country as well as to the federal government and law enforcement agencies. He has been called upon to be an expert witness in over 100 legal cases in the United States. He is often the expert called into the “headline cases” involving youth. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey Mexico.

Dr. Mayer is still an avid athlete and resides in Chicago, Illinois. He has received many honors in his career (Named one of the 2000 outstanding scientists of the 20^th century~honorary diplomas~wrote a book for the United Nations) but maybe his greatest honor is the title ‘grandpa’ that he received in November 2011 with the birth of Elsa Fazliu Mayer.

websites: www.DrJohnMayer.com and www.TroubledTeens-TheFix.com

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Joe Wojcik, April 8th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Joe Wojcik is a bullying expert who uses a unique persona known as Joe the Biker to presents his anti-bullying message.

He has presented to over 100,000 students throughout the United States.  As Joe the Biker he helps children deal with bullying.  Students look at him as the protector of and advocate for those who are being bullied. He sets out on his motorcycle cruiser to put a stop to bullying in schools by delivering educational programs targeting a variety of audiences.

His powerful performances resonate with students as he delivers messages of hope and possibility. He shares profound insights, perspectives and education through presentations and performances.

 

Credentials:

• Appeared weekly on the award winning ABC affiliate WGGB’s segment “Bully Busters” which won the Associated Press Award for Public Affairs.
• Has authored two books on bullying, Yubbie the Fall & Rise of An Everyday Joe and Call Me Yubbie.
• Is the developer of the Say No To Bullying Today Program.
• Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization, The Yubbie Foundation a 501 (3).
• Has appeared on over 70 radio and TV programs throughout the US.
• Has spoken to organizations including the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators, Anti Defamation League, Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, PTO groups and many more.
• Has been a foster parent to over 100 inner-city at risk teens.

website: www.joethebiker.com

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Kenyon Oster, March 25th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Kenyon Aubin Oster had to rebuild his life from scratch when he was just beginning his adult life.  After trying to stop his friend’s life from falling off the balcony of a gay bar in New Orleans, he sustained a massive traumatic brain injury (TBI), transcended this plain and was in a coma for a week.  When he rejoined the land of the living, he was pulled out of the closet and his friend, the one whose life he saved when she landed atop him on Bourbon Street, sued him.  To make matters worse he was a zombie trapped inside himself without his voice.  He didn’t know how to forgive his friend for making every waking moment of his life an impossible struggle and he didn’t know how, or if, he was ever going to recover.

Almost two million Americans suffer TBI’s each year, yet the doctors never expected him to recover or live a normal life.  Everywhere he looked for help was a dead end and he learned eventually why no one expected him to recover.  Without his voice, he couldn’t articulate his struggles and he wasn’t even aware of how ashamed he was of what saving his friend’s life made him, did to him.  He moved forward along his journey falling down and falling apart every day several times a day and to get back up he told himself that something wonderful was going to happen.  In spite of the obstacles, Kenyon kept repeating that phrase to himself.

When his parents suggested he commit himself to an institution, he ran away from home and kept affirming himself until he was homeless and living in NYC.  The depression and PTSD and the anxiety and feeling like he was going to die the second he stepped outside had taken its toll on him.  But when Dr. Deep Chopra told him that he was sparkly it sent a message to Kenyon that resonated deeply.  He was able to sneak back into the office where he was secretly living and embrace forgiveness by learning how to honor his goodness.

 

website: www.fallingout.net

Facebook: www.facebook.com/fallingoutamemoir

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Geoffrey Hepburn, March 18th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

First novels are often partly autobiographical, and Fate Choice and Chance is no exception. Like the main character in the novel, Geoffrey Hepburn grew up in a small prairie town in Canada before coming to the United States to complete his graduate education at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most of his career was spent in the international oil industry and on Wall Street before he retired to become a writer of fiction. This book builds on his experiences accumulated over a lifetime in business and academia and reflects his love of history and travel and his personal journey of faith. He lives with his family in a suburb of New York City. Geoffrey Hepburn is a nom de plume.

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Marcy Ellenbogen, March 11th, 2013 at 8:30 A.M. PST

Marcy was born and raised in Los Angeles, a native Californian.

She has always loved animals.  With her sister, Marcy would bring any furry critter home that wasn’t attached to someone or something.  Her sister Tina became a veterinarian.  Marcy is a registered Animal Assisted Therapy Team with Paws4Healing.info and Pet Partners.org; and is also a certified R.E.A.D. Team.

She devotes her time to visit facilities with kids and adults and their families and staff.  Her two most favorite places to visit are Belmont Village in Hollywood and the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House.

Marcy started volunteering because she wanted to make a difference and love animals and people; a perfect way to tie these two loves together.  She enjoys sharing Oreo’s furry warmth and seeing the happiness and miles of smiles he brings to everyone he meets.

Accomplished in the entertainment field as a Media Buyer, yet she makes sure to find time to give two hands and four paws to share.  She also has a home business designing pet products, the most important being In Case of Emergency stickers for your windows and doors.

Oreo & Marcy has received numerous awards and a portion of all sales of Oreyo’s Magical Adventures will be donated to an animal charity of Oreyo’s choice.

 

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Catherine Barnes, March 4th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Catherine Barnes has extensive experience facilitating dialogue and joint analysis, as well as teaching and training adults in various aspects of working with conflict, strategies for building peace and promoting social justice. With almost twenty years working with various non-governmental organizations, Catherine’s practical experience varies widely and has included:

• Interactive process design and dialogue facilitation, strategic planning and collaborative learning, including large-scale conferences and more intimate deliberative dialogue processes;

• Teaching and training in peace processes, conflict transformation, dialogue, problem solving, leadership development and empowerment for social action;

• Policy research, policy dialogue and advocacy on issues connected to war-to-peace transition processes, political negotiation, statebuilding, and civil society roles in peacebuilding.

• Program and project development and proposal preparation; strategic reviews and evaluation;

She has lived and worked in more than 30 countries particularly in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Caucasus and Eastern Europe and worked throughout 2010 in Burma / Myanmar.

Specialising in learning from peace processes, she edited Owning the process: public participation in peacemaking, Powers of persuasion: incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peace processes and The politics of compromise: the Tajikistan peace process as part of Conciliation Resources’ Accord series. She has also published on civil society roles in peacebuilding, on issues related to statebuilding, conflict prevention, genocide and minority rights, as well as several training manuals on leadership, conflict resolution, negotiation, and advocacy skills.

Catherine is a programme associate with Conciliation Resources, where she previously served as series editor and program manager of Accord: an international review of peace initiatives and later served as Policy Adviser. She also acted as Minority Rights Group’s Program Manager for Europe and the former Soviet Union. She served as special advisor to the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), where she developed concept papers, drafted action agendas, and was involved in the process design, preparation and facilitation of regional preparatory conferences and the global conference at UN headquarters “From Reaction to Prevention: the Roles of Civil Society in Preventing Armed Conflict and Building Peace” involving more than 1,000 participants from civil society, governments, and intergovernmental organization in July 2005

Catherine spent her early professional life as a community organiser and social worker in rural West Virginia, USA and then as a campaigner with the Mental Health Law Project. She worked with the Institute of World Affairs on training programmes for the United Nations diplomatic community and then as programme coordinator for Europe/Former Soviet Union/Americas with Minority Rights Group International.

She holds a doctoral degree from the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, where she wrote her dissertation on genocide in the twentieth century.

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Gloria Prema, February 25th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Gloria began her formal scientific studies while raising her children, going on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree from the UK’s Open University.  The continuous study of science, particularly quantum theory, since 1991, and the continuous study and practice of spiritual experiences, which began occurring around the same time as starting the science degree, eventually led to the unified theory, presented in ‘It’s All Light’, being born.  For the 18 years it took to write the book she had one foot in both camps, as it were.

As an avid reader and student of esoteric philosophy, she believes that the split between science and spirituality is false and ‘It’s All Light’ addresses this by showing how they are complementary pairs, comprised of either seen or unseen light.  Science deals with the material, spirituality deals with the non-material, but she argues it’s all light and whether its seen or unseen depends on the frequency you are tuned to.   She believes that the dimensions that both quantum theory and spirituality speak of, are separated only by multiples of the speed of light and she gives evidence for faster- than-light speed

As an author, educator and therapist, Gloria has also published four children’s books on values education and has been a therapist for over 20 years in natural healing and in recent years in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).   She believes that now with the overwhelming evidence of studies into conscious intention, healing, prayer, near-death experiences, remote viewing, and many others, that mainstream science must now be scientific and honestly investigate and publish on these subjects and she has brought all of these subjects together into one unified theory which also includes a unification of the laws of physics, in her book  It’s All Light;  the Morphic Resonance of Light:  A Unified Theory.

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Lisa Gibson, February 18th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Lisa Gibson lost her brother in one of the world’s most deadly acts of terrorism–the flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Yet despite this devastating loss, and missing her brother everyday, Lisa has forgiven the terrorist mastermind responsible. She made the headlines when she met with and forgave Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Lisa has been featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News and countless others.

Lisa has made it her life’s mission to help others move through the pain of loss to wholeness and forgiveness. She reveals what it takes to forgive anyone for anything, no matter what the crime, betrayal, offense, or injury.

Lisa is a global conflict coach, attorney, mediator, public speaker and author. Her books include the award-winning best seller “Life In Death: A Journey From Terrorism To Triumph” and the new critically praised “Releasing The Chains Timeless Wisdom On How To Forgive Anyone For Anything.”

Website is www.releasingthechains.com and www.conflictcoach.biz

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Tami Newcomb, February 11th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Tami Newcomb is a gifted writer with a thoughtful, playful approach to staying calm, comforted and checked-in (crayon in hand), while the tempest of life circles round. Newcomb grasps both an intuitive and thoroughly-researched understanding that right now, more than ever, the world needs the simple and nostalgic escape of coloring.  She invites us to do that with her new Color Your Way to Calm coloring book for grown-ups, which she hopes will “rebirth the child-like craze of coloring and deliver it to a grown-up world.”

A collection of 25 inspired thoughts and illustrations, and a few extra blank pages to canvas as you’d like, the coloring book is the perfect retreat for any adult looking for a mental getaway.  Local artists Narisa Broomberg and Haki Webb brought Newcomb’s expressions of calm to life with thoughtful, fun and whimsical illustrations with a sassy vibe.  For instance, on the “iCalm” page, a sketch of a water goddess blowing a boat filled with electronics off to sea will confirm that a choice to unplug and mindlessly (or mindfully) color can be rejuvenating.

A self-proclaimed “coloring enthusiast” since childhood, Newcomb created the Color Your Way concept “in order to bring coloring for grown-ups out of the closet and into the cool, mainstream waters.”  Today, as a recently-turned-50 grown-up, coloring still makes her smile and offers a respite from this over-buzzed-booked-and-burdened world.

Taking a sabbatical from her successful corporate marketing career in land development and real estate, Newcomb aligned herself with a like-minded team to launch Color Your Way Books, LLC.  Under the tutelage of Mark Victor Hansen’s book writing and marketing program, and following his and Jack Canfield’s phenomenally successful and impactful Chicken Soup for the Soul formula, the Color Your Way brand was birthed with a myriad of title themes. Upcoming titles include, Color Your Way to Well, Color Your Way to Success, Color Your Way to Sleep, and Color Your Way to “I Do”.

The first edition of the series, Color Your Way to Calm, is now available at www.coloryourway.com and through the Center for Living Peace www.goodhappens.org, an Irvine, CA non-profit created to inspire peace by helping people cultivate their own wisdom and gifts. A portion of the books’ proceeds will go to the CLP.

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Karen Sherman, February 4th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Karen Sherman is a licensed psychologist in NY.  She’s had a private practice for 25 years with specialties in relationships, assisting people achieve their greatest potential, and stress management.

Her first book, Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last helps long-term couples revitalize their relationships.  Her second book, Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life, is an award winning book, that focuses on enabling people to let go of their wired-in automatic responses from their past in order to live a life of their choosing.

Additionally, Karen has been a contributor to a number of books: Complete Marriage Counselor, 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life ( Vol.2 ), Power of Persistence, Recovering the Self ( Vol. 2, #3), and I am Bound and Determined.

As a speaker, she also offers workshops and teleseminars on these topics.  She’s a frequent guest on inter and national radio and her expert opinion has appeared in numerous print publications. She writes for YourTango.com and HitchedMag.com and has been a featured writer on Yahoo Personals. She serves on the faculty of an undergraduate department in psychology at a local university. Karen and her husband of 37 years have 2 daughters, a son-in-law and 2 grandkids.

website:  www.DrKarenSherman.com

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Chikako Sasaki, January 28th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Chikako Kiara Sasaki is a Japanese family therapist, shares a program to help families to break the cycle of passing destructive behavior patterns down to the next generation. By embracing your ability to break old habits that destroy peace and happiness, you can be the change that heals your family and heal your life. By creating healthy, sustainable families, you can create future generations of healthy, sustainable people, and that’s where family peace is born. A happier, healthier individual makes for happier, healthier society – our hope for stainable world peace. Family making is people making and here, you will find the keys to building better relationships with people in your family and in your life.

She teaches with passion sharing her wisdom and experience, how to create an amazing family relationship without further struggle, with no more paying one to one sessions. She had a good reason to launch her program that way, so people who are still searching for solutions especially in family relationships, having had no progress before in paying sessions with traditional approach, based on issue happen then work on at sessions, but rather she designed differently to teach people how they can take control of their life, family life more productively, knowing why it happened, understand how to change circumstance better by themselves. What is good on this approach is not only they will realize why it occurred, how to improve it better,  but they associate their family pattern without revealing issues to others, then building own ‘muscles’ to be able to handle issues in family in the future.

website: http://www.chikakoksasaki.com

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Elidé Beltram, January 21st, 2013, 2012 at 8:30 AM PST

Elidé Beltram, PhD. is a Psychoanalyst, an Anthropologist and a New Age scientist. Prior to her studies on humans, she studied the behavior of the wild orangutan of Borneo and taught language to dolphins in Hawaii. She was a composer who founded the Westchester Music Ensemble for Living Composers (Carnegie Hall, 1995), where she sponsored the International Aaron Copland Competition for young composers from 5-12 years and collaborated with Stan Getz and Aaron Copland. She is a member of the National Music Therapy Association, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and APA (American Psychological Association) and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

website: www.calltheshrink.com

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Miko Peled, January 14th, 2012 at 8:30 AM PST

Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son, was born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well-known Zionist family. His maternal grandfather signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father, Matti Peled, fought in the1948 Israeli War of Independence, and was a general in 1967 during the Six Day War when Israel conquered Gaza, the Golan Heights, the Sinai, and the West Bank. Later, General Peled became a peace activist, a leading proponent of an Israeli dialog with the PLO.

Miko Peled grew up in this highly political insider’s milieu. A young patriot, he volunteered for a Special Forces Commando unit in the Israeli Defense Forces, service he later came to regret.

The death of his niece Smadar, 12, in a suicide attack in Jerusalem in 1997 was the starting point for the remarkable, personal story of a man who sought justice not through revenge, but through understanding-– an understanding that transformed his heart, and ushered him into a singular life of pro-peace activism and, some would say, risk.

Educated in Israel, Japan, and the United States, Peled is an accomplished professional martial arts practitioner. He holds a sixth degree black belt in karate, which he teaches at his dojo in Southern California.

Peled authors a blog that is dedicated to creating peace between Israelis and Palestinians, to tearing down Israel’s separation wall, and advocating equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. He is an accomplished public speaker who has lectured at universities in the United States and elsewhere and has appeared on numerous radio talk shows. He was filmed for a 2002 Israeli documentary and more recently he was featured on a 30-minute video from Alternate Focus that became wildly popular on YouTube.

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Jerry Welch, January 7th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Jerry Welch is a business manager, property owner, pilot, skier, diver, plumber, and philanthropist. In the last eight years, he has also become a writer, and successfully represented himself in court on contractual matters. Mr. Welch is nearing his eightieth decade of a full life, and he has, in recent years, felt the need to describe his vast experiences with pen and paper. He does not claim to be an academic scholar, but he says with a smile that he “has many observations to share.”

Mr. Welch was born in 1933. He developed a flair for business at a young age and has been involved in many ventures from public communications to property management. For example, as a board member of the Madison Exchange Club, Mr. Welch was instrumental in formulating the location and start of the Madison Exchange Club Prevention of Child Abuse Center and its ultimate association with the Madison Family Center. Mr. Welch now lives comfortably managing his properties in Wisconsin and New Mexico, and he enjoys periodic retreats to Mexico, where he does much of his writing in the temperate winter months. The onset of his retirement, combined with an acute awareness of the injustices which riddle our political system, prompted him to put a lifetime of experience and insight into writing. His experiences in various forms of business and property development forced numerous interactions and confrontations with corporations and local authorities, and these events led to his formation of the concept of “Corporacracy” and related ideas on life. You can follow his blog at revelationtoo.wordpress.com.

In keeping with his zest for life and flair for the written word, Mr. Welch has now embarked on another literary endeavor with his latest books, “A Day of Life” to be released on 12 – 12 -12  and “Encyclopedia of Observations: A creed for living life” to be released in 2013. “Obes, as he affectionately refers to it, uses words in a uniquely formulated way to entice the reader to re-direct his/her life in a positive way and in harmony with other living things, while simultaneously coping with present day problems we are all facing. The book is meant to stimulate thought and to instill in the reader the power of self-reflection in order to answer their own questions about living life

www.corporacracy.net

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Radomir Samardzic, December 31st, 2012 at 8:30 AM PST

Radomir, who came from to the U.S. from Yugoslavia in 1981 has been married since 1975 and has known his now wife, Antoinette since 1969 when they both were in their early twenties. They have a wonderful 33 year daughter Diana.

Radomir is a Founder and Director of a successful coaching firm DDC Global where he uses the previous training in communication and team work to incorporate it in his current practice of coaching individuals in their relationships as well as training organizations in forming “championship” teams.

As a business, professional and personal coach, Radomir is highly committed to his clients’ being at their best at all times and in any circumstances. He sees no option for success, but to “manifest your best.”

URL: http://RelationshipSaver.org/

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Nine Meierding, December 24th, 2012 at 8:30 AM PST

Nina Meierding, a national leader in the field of conflict resolution, has been providing training and mediation services for almost thirty years. She was the Director and Senior Mediator at the Mediation Center in Ventura, California from 1985-2007 where she mediated over 4,000 disputes. She is now a full-time trainer (Negotiation and Mediation Training Services) and professor. She has taught at Pepperdine University for over 20 years, Southern Methodist University for over 12 years and Lipscomb University for over 5 years.  She is the mediation consultant and trainer for the Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System (WSEMS).

She is a former president of the Academy of Family Mediators and served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Conflict Resolution, the Council for Distinguished Advisors at Pepperdine University, the Advisory Board at Southern Methodist University, the Board of Directors of the Southern California Mediation Association and many other organizations.  In 2005, she was awarded the John Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award, which is an international award given annually by the Association for Conflict Resolution.

Nina provides customized training to businesses, courts, school districts, city, county, and federal governmental agencies, medical centers, corporations, nonprofit groups and universities throughout the United States and abroad. She has provided training in Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, India and Sweden.

website: www.mediate.com/ninameierding

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Dr. Ravi Rao, December 17th, 2013 at 8:30 AM PST

Dr. Ravi Rao has pursued multiple paths along his professional journey: child development researcher, neurosurgeon-in- training, and corporate management consultant. An expert in social-emotional neuroscience, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant to Fortune 500 companies on matters of collaboration, conflict resolution, and emotional business strategy. He has served clients in fourteen countries over the past decade and supported charitable organizations across the planet with his expertise. He is a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, including the Society of Emotional Intelligence. A graduate of Johns Hopkins, he received his postgraduate surgical training at Harvard. He lives in Chicago. Emotional Business is his first book.

www.EmotionalBusinessSuccess.com

Twitter @EmoBizGuy

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Tim Ward, December 10th, 2012 at 8:30 AM PST

Tim Ward is an author, publisher, teacher, and traveler. He has written five books about his travels through Thailand, India, China, Tibet, Greece and Southern Europe, and most recently East Africa. His stories have appeared in 13 anthologies, including Traveler’s Tales Best Travel Writing 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Tim is also the publisher of Changemakers Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, dedicated to books on personal and global transformation. Together with John Hunt, Tim wrote The Author’s Guide to Publishing and Marketing, a book to help new authors succeed. Tim also co-owns a global training business, Intermedia Communications Training, with his wife and business partner, Teresa Erickson. They teach scientists, economists and development experts how to communicate effectively. They live in Maryland, where Tim spends his spare time kayaking in the Potomac and planning his next mountain trek.

website: www. zombiesonkilimanjaro.com

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Joseph M. Higgins, December 3rd, 2012 at 8:30 AM PDT

Joe Higgins is a Psychic Medium who has had that ability since an early age. He has taught classes in mediumship and spent many years learning meditation techniques that helped fine tune his gift.

Joe has brought relief and comfort to countless people while helping explain common themes he sees in his contact with the other side, such as how important our interactions with each other can be in our spiritual growth.

He has worked on missing person cases, cold cases and murder investigations, as well as connecting clients to their loved ones. Joe has become a leading authority on how signs are given and received from the departed and is the author of two books.

 

• Hello…Anyone Home? A Guide on How our Deceased Loved Ones Try to Contact Us through the Use of Signs
• The Everything Guide to Evidence of the Afterlife: A scientific approach to proving the existence of life after death

www. joehiggins.com

 

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Luke Yoder, November 26, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

Luke Yoder is the Executive Director at the Center for Restorative Programs, a community based organization serving at-risk youth in the San Luis Valley.  Previously, Luke served as the Director of the Center for Nonprofit Empowerment at The Partnership for Families & Children.

Luke holdsMasters’ degrees in Business Administration and Conflict Resolution from the University of Denver, and has been working and studying in the area of conflict resolution and restorative justice for the past decade.  Luke brings experience in many areas of transforming conflict, particularly focused on working with youth and families.  Areas of expertise and interest include: restorative justice, family mediation, bullying prevention and intervention and positive youth development.

www.restorativeprograms.org

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Elizabeth Hanley, November 19th, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

Elizabeth Hanley was born in a small seaside town in Montenegro, Europe. As a child, Hanley was profoundly affected by her visits to the local library; she found unending freedom while exploring new worlds in the books she read. After her father resigned from the Navy, her family settled in Australia. Old European mores that had previously defined Elizabeth’s life no longer applied in Australia; girls had the same opportunity as boys, and the boys were expected to help with the housework. Even so, Hanley’s parents assumed they would “arrange” her marriage after high school.

Elizabeth, however, escaped to the University of Queensland and took her BA degree. She continued her studies at University of Technology, Queensland and completed a post graduate diploma in Library and Information Science. Her subsequent career as a Senior Research Librarian encompasses corporate, educational and public libraries.

During those professional years, Hanley experiences life-changing problems that quickly hit, one after another. First, management at her workplace informed her that due to the economic downturn, 1 of 3 employees would be losing their jobs – and for months no one knew who was going to made redundant. Around the same time the house Elizabeth was renting was up for sale, so she had to move out. And third, she would see the writing was on the wall with her boyfriend; it was time for them to part ways.

During this time, Hanley often felt upset, unhappy, and stressed. Home early from work one day, she turned the TV on and caught the end of a Dr. Phil show. Dr. Phil asked — “if you owned a business and the manager was running it into the ground, would you keep them working for you, or fire them?” Dr. Phil then said – “you are the manager of your life – are you getting the results you want? Do you have happiness, success and good health? Would you keep hiring yourself, or would you fire yourself?”

Hanley states, “That was a pivotal moment for me. I remember thinking – ‘oh, I am so fired!’ I realized that problems were sucking the joy out of my life. I was a terrible life manager.” Instead of letting her problems control her life, Hanley fired her old self and decided to manage her life. Begin a research librarian; Elizabeth decided to embark upon a monumental research effort that resulted in profound personal transformation. Hanley studied over 200 elf-help books: out of this study, she distilled her ‘four simple tips’ that are the basis for her first book, No Problem!

Currently, Elizabeth Hanley lives with her husband and dogs in Sydney. She is a full-time author with a hobby of building her own library. She loves to go to bookshops, book sales, garage sales – anywhere she can to find books. Beyond that, Hanley believes, “It is very important to laugh every day, as a reminder, I included cartoons and jokes in the book. I watch at least one half hour of a US television sitcom. No one does comedy like Americans!” Hanley desires to help as many people as possible. Through her own transformation she has found the secret to living a “No Problem!” life and hopes that be reading her book, others will too.

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Victoria Pynchon, November 12th, 2012, 8:30 A.M. PDT

Victoria Pynchon is an author, attorney, mediator, arbitrator and negotiation trainer and consultant. After a 25-year commercial litigation career, Victoria earned her legal masters degree in dispute resolution from the world-famous Straus Institute at Pepperdine University School of Law. The knowledge, wisdom and skills she gained at Straus can be found in her two books on dispute resolution, The Grownups’ ABCs of Conflict Resolution (Reason Press, 2010) and Success as a Mediator for Dummies, which has recently been nominated for the 2012 International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Book Award (Wiley, 2012). She is currently working on her third book on negotiation strategies and tactics for women, scheduled for publication in 2013.

Victoria is the co-founder of She Negotiates Consulting and Training and of the Forbes She Negotiates blog. She Negotiates offers transformational workshops for women, which nests today’s most effective negotiation strategies and tactics in the context of the gender culture in which women do business. The work of She Negotiates has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”, the New York Times, CNN, the Wall Street Journal, and dozens of smaller news outlets. Victoria’s writing on conflict resolution has also been published in the academic press. Although Victoria’s focus is now on closing the wage and income gap for women, she has been training lawyers and business people of both genders in mutual benefit negotiation strategies since 2005. She has done so at the Anderson School of Management, UCLA, USC and Pepperdine Schools of Law, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Qwest Communications, Intel Corporation, Kraft Foods, and dozens of AmLaw200 law firms in Los Angeles and around the country.

Victoria has most recently keynoted or led workshops for the Ms. J.D. Conference in Washington, D.C, the Annual Pennsylvania and Texas Conferences for Women, the Annual meeting of the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) in Hawaii as well as the Los Angeles ALA Chapter Conference in California, the South Carolina Women Lawyers’ Association (two years running), the Annual Conference of the National Women’s MBA Association in Dallas, Texas, the Association of Women Accountants in San Diego, the American Bar Association Leadership Academy in San Francisco, and the Annual Meeting of the Association of Women’s Bar Associations in Chicago.

http://www.shenegotiates.com/consulting-with-victoria/

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David Brubaker, November 5th, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

David Brubaker is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. He has more than 25 years of experience in workplace mediation and training and in organizational and congregational consulting. David has consulted and trained with organizations throughout the U.S. and in a dozen international settings including Northern Ireland, Mozambique, Angola, Nepal, Myanmar, Egypt and Jordan. He is the author of numerous articles on conflict transformation and of “Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations” (published by The Alban Institute) and co-author of “The Little Book of Healthy Organizations (Good Books). David earned a BS in business administration from Messiah College, an MBA from Eastern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona specializing in religion and organizations.

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Association of Conflict Resolution Conference Exhibitors

October 29, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) is a professional organization enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict resolution. It is the nation’s largest professional association for mediators, arbitrators, educators and other conflict resolution practitioners. ACR works in a wide range of settings throughout the United States and around the world. Their mission statement is to give voice to the choices for quality conflict resolution. ACR conferences gather conflict resolution practitioners, students and interested parties from all corners of the globe to network, learn new skills, discuss cutting-edge issues and keep abreast of what is happening in the expanding field of conflict resolution. ACR’s annual conference attracts more than 1,000 people from around the world and offers more than 150 workshops. These are some of the exhibitors sharing their approach to healing conflict.

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Spirituality in Conflict Resolution

October 22, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

Jeffrey M. Cohen has been an attorney and a mediator in private practice for over 25 years. His practice has a concentration in the mediation disputes often pertaining to divorce, separation, business, commercial, organizational and workplace related issues since 1992. Presently, Mr. Cohen is serving on the Board of Directors of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), the largest mediation organization in the United States. In addition to his present duties with The ACR, he has served on the ACR Certification Task Force which is a committee charged with creating specific standards for the certification of mediators who are members of this organization. Mr. Cohen has taught numerous continuing legal education courses to his peers on subject related to divorce, family law, mediation, and the ethics of mediation. Mr. Cohen is also a founding member of Mediators Beyond Borders, a humanitarian organization that promotes the peaceful resolution of conflict worldwide.

Jodi Hallstrom is a workplace Mediator, Conflict Coach and Work/Life Wellness Manager for the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. While she is primarily involved in workplace conflict within the Federal sector, Jodi seeks to reveal and encourage human interconnectedness on a deeper, spiritual level; even in the workplace. As a working mother called to wear multiple hats in any given day, Jodi is an advocate for the value, necessity and obligation as conflict practitioners to care for oneself as essential instruments of peace in a chaotic world. Jodi has been an ACR member since 2005 and a member of the Spirituality Section since 2008. She lives with her son, Benjamin in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ray Terhorst has been a mediator since 2001 having received his initial training with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and then taking advanced classes at Humboldt State University in California. Prior to 2001, he had a 34 year career in law enforcement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He also has extensive experience in non-profit organizations. Ray joined the Spirituality Section in 2001 and has watched the Section grow from a handful to the size it is today. He is hopeful that during his three years as tri-chair we can find ways to provide spiritual support to all members of ACR as well as to provide a spiritual experience to all members of the Section regardless of their spiritual or religious background. Ray is also an Drug/Alcohol Intervention Specialist and is available to consult with ACR members who are experiencing addiction problems with friends and family members, free of charge. Members can call or e-mail Ray with their concerns. His goal is to bring a little more peace into this world one event or one person at a time.

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University of Massachusettes Boston Graduate Program Professors in Dispute Resolution

October 15, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

Eben Weitzman, Ph.D., is a social and organizational psychologist specializing in the study of conflict. His work focuses on conflict within and between groups, with emphases on organizational conflict, cross-cultural conflict, and intergroup relations. In additional to his teaching and research, Weitzman does conflict resolution, organizational development work, and dispute resolution systems design with a wide variety of individuals and organizations in both the public and private sectors. These have included organizations in human rights, health care, education, organized labor, government, law enforcement, social services, business and the courts. He obtained his PhD from Columbia University and is the Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance; and is the Graduate Program Director in Conflict Resolution. Professor Weitzman has many areas of expertise such as: Organizational Conflict, Intra-group Conflict in Mediation, Cultural Differences in Attitudes toward Conflict, Effects of Cooperation and Competition on Small Group Processes and Computer-aided Data Analysis in Qualitative Research.

David E. Matz, J.D., is the founder and former director of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution. He is also an active dispute intervener. Professor Matz has focused his work on the techniques of mediation and negotiation and on the relationship of these to the workings of organizations and courts. In the United States, he has led in the development and use of assessment tools for court mediators and trained mediators, judges, and engineers. In Israel, he was central in developing policies and practices for the Israeli Ministry of Justice and Supreme Court in integrating mediation into the judicial system. More recently, he has begun work with courts and law schools in China and Nigeria. He graduated from Harvard University and has many areas of expertise such as Strategies for Practitioners to Build Trust in Conflict Situations, the Integration of Mediation into Organizational and Judicial Systems, Arab-Israeli Negotiations and Sharing Jerusalem.

Rezarta Bilali, Ph.D., completed her PhD in social psychology at UMass Amherst with a concentration in peace and violence. As a practitioner of conflict resolution, Rezarta Bilali has played an active role in a media reconciliation project developed by La Benevolencija-Humanitarian Tools and Foundations in the Great Lakes Region in Africa, which produces educational radio programs on the evolution of conflict, intergroup violence, and reconciliation for Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Recently, Prof. Bilali has led research to assess the impact of radio reconciliation programs in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr. Bilali’s research has been supported by Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, International Peace Research Association, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

Darren Kew, Ph.D., studies the relationship between conflict resolution methods and democratic development in Africa. He is the Executive Director of the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development. Associate Professor Kew has worked with the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action to provide analysis and blueprints for preventing conflicts in numerous areas around the world, including Nigeria, Central Africa, and Kosovo. He has also been a consultant on democracy and peace initiatives to the United Nations, USAID, the US State Department, and to a number of NGOs, including the Carter Center in a 1999 effort by former President Carter to mediate the Niger Delta conflicts. Policymakers in Washington and academics here and in Nigeria recognize Professor Kew for his deep, firsthand knowledge of Nigerian politics and society. His work on how conflict resolution methods promote democratization of national political cultures is among the first of its kind linking these important fields.

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Dr. Karen Wyatt, October 8, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

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Shawn Anderson, October 1, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

Randy Hammon, September 24, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

Randy Hammon, founder of My Retirement Coach, Inc., played professional baseball for 11 years and did his undergraduate and MBA work at Loyola University of Los Angeles. He has successfully translated the disciplines and winning attitudes into his financial advisory practice for over 30 years.

He is the author of The Safe Money System, a common sense guide to protecting your Retirement Plan money from the Wall Street Casino and growing it without risk. He is the host of the Safe Money System Radio Show in several markets throughout the West.

His greatest passion in life is helping people to discover, as he did 33 years ago after a rigid religious upbringing, that God is always ready to establish a fruitful, thriving relationship.

 

God’s cost? — Immerasurable   —   Your price of admission?  The ability to accept a free gift.

Religion vs. Relationship is Randy’s story of his accepting an offer he couldn’t refuse, and the spriritual journey of a lifetime for the reader. He resides in Laguna Niguel, California with his wife Crystal and is the father of four grown sons.

Visit Randy Hammon’s website at www.thesafemoneysystem.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari’s interview with Randy Hammon.

Bill Eddy, September 10, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

William A. (“Bill”) Eddy is an attorney, therapist and mediator. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist in San Diego, California, where he has represented clients in family court and provided divorce mediation services for the past 19 years. Prior to that, he provided psychotherapy for 12 years to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Mr. Eddy is the President of the High Conflict Institute, which trains lawyers, judges, mediators, counselors and others in dealing with high conflict disputes in all settings. He has presented in over 25 states, several provinces in Canada, Australia, France and Sweden. He is the author of several books, including: It’s All Your Fault!:12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything; High Conflict People in Legal Disputes; and BIFF: Quick Responses to High Conflict People. He is the developer of the New Ways for Families method for potentially high-conflict families, which is being implemented in several family court systems in the United States and Canada.

He taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years.  He has served as a Special Master and as a Settlement Judge.  He is currently the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego, California. He is on the part-time faculty at the Pepperdine University School of Law and on the part-time faculty of the National Judicial College.

Visit Bill Eddy’s website at www.HighConflictInstitute.com

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari’s interview with Bill Eddy.

John Greer, September 17, 2012, 8:30 AM PDT

John Greer has spent nearly twenty years inquiring deeply into the sacred texts and teachings of the world’s traditions, spurred by his own spiritual search. He is a dedicated practitioner of meditation and has taught insight meditation for over a decade.

John Greer holds a Ph.D. in education from Pennsylvania State University, and in three decades as a professor at the University of Memphis published numerous articles, coauthored several books on education and special education, and was a recipient of the university’s highest award for distinguished teaching. He also served for two years in Nepal with the Peace Corps and has traveled extensively on six continents. He lives with his wife in Memphis.

Visit John Greer’s website at www.seeingknowingbeing.com

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Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain, September 3, 2012 at 8:30 AM PDT

Cultural anthropologist Susan Dewey is currently in the preliminary stages of two research projects that explore aspects of feminized labor in two very different cultural contexts. The first, which commenced with her summer 2011 fieldwork, explores the lives and far-reaching economic and social networks of women market traders in the Pacific Island nation of Fiji. Her second project, based in Denver, Colorado, engages law enforcement officers, sex workers, and social service providers regarding their perceptions of what constitutes force and coercion with respect to sex work.

Susan teaches our Introduction to Women’s Studies course, our methods course, is developing a course on sex work and sex trafficking, and also teaches a class on gender and global change. She is currently developing a Summer Innovative course in order to take students to Fiji.

Susan has published three books that address the complex intersections between feminized labor and public policy. Her most recent book, Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town (University of California Press, 2011),explores how sex workers in upstate New York negotiate their lives as parents, family members, and employees while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity.

In Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia and India (Kumarian Press, 2008), she highlights the nuanced nature of sex trafficking as a social justice issue that has received  dramatically increased amounts of international attention and donor funds in the past decade.  Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India (Syracuse University Press, 2008) examined urban Indian perceptions of feminine beauty in the wake of dramatic socioeconomic changes instigated by the implementation of structural adjustment policies.

Together with anthropologist Karen Brison, she co-edited Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures (Syracuse University Press, 2012), an original collection of ethnographic works from the Pacific Islands, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Western Europe. This volume analyzes children and adolescents as active agents who use the cross-culturally fraught conception of modernity, within particular local conditions, to make sense of their own lives.

Visit Susan Dewey’s website at www.uwyo.edu/wmst/faculty_staff/dewey_susan

Tonia St. Germain is Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Wyoming and the former Director of the Gender Studies Program at Eastern Oregon University. She is co-editor (with Susan Dewey) of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International Law, Local Responses (Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press 2012).  She has edited two special issue journals, “Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: Gender, Society, and the State” for Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies (Spring 2012) and “Assessing the Impact of International Human Rights Rhetoric on African Lives: The Case of Gender-Based Violence” (with Susan Dewey) for African Studies Review (Fall 2012).  Most recently, her research on legal pioneers responsible for making rape a war crime was recognized with an invitation to the Advanced Oral History Summer Institute University of California, Berkeley (Summer 2012).  She has won numerous fellowships at: Five College Women’s Studies Research Center at Mount Holyoke College, Legal Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Washington Research Institute in Seattle.  Other awards include NEH Faculty Scholar in Residence at Georgia State University and two Faculty Scholar Research grants from Eastern Oregon University. Her leadership positions include the Governing Council of the National Women’s Studies Association, Chair of the Northwest Women’s Studies Association, and she ran for State Representative for Oregon House District 57 in 2006. Prior to her academic career, Professor St. Germain was Director of Public Policy for New York’s statewide coalition of rape crisis centers (NYSCASA) and Clinical Advisor at Indiana University Law School’s project for battered women. With a J.D. from the Antioch School of Law, (1986) and bar admissions in Massachusetts (1993), Indiana (1989), and the District of Columbia (1987) she is most interested in applying feminist jurisprudence to the study of war-related sexual violence.

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Divorce Magazine Interviews Mari Frank, August 27, 2012

Dan Couvrette, publisher and founder of Divorce Magazine and DivorceMagazine.com interviews Mari Frank about negotiations in divorce. Dan states a goal of Divorce Magazine is to help people make better, more informed choices; to ensure that they’re not simply surviving their divorce but they’re actually growing and thriving during the process.

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Dr. Donna Hicks: Monday, August 20, 2012

Dr. Donna Hicks is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University where she chairs the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict. Dr. Hicks was Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University for nine years. She worked extensively on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and as a member of the third party in numerous unofficial diplomatic efforts. In addition to her work in the Middle East, Dr. Hicks founded and co-directed a ten-year project in Sri Lanka, which brought the Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim communities together for dialogue. She has been actively involved with the conflict in Colombia, where she was invited to give workshops and lectures in conflict resolution. For several years, she was involved in a project designed to improve relations between the US and Cuba. Dr. Hicks was a consultant to the British Broadcasting Company where she co-facilitated encounters between victims and perpetrators of the Northern Ireland conflict with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The encounters were made into 3 television programs that were aired throughout the United Kingdom and on BBC World.

Dr. Hicks has taught courses in conflict resolution at Harvard, Clark, and Columbia Universities and conducts trainings and educational seminars in the US and abroad on the role dignity plays in healing and reconciling relationships in conflict. She consults to corporations, schools, churches, and non-governmental organization. She was a founding board member of the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is the author of the book, Dignity: The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict, published in 2011 by Yale University Press.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari’s interview with Dr. Donna Hicks

James Keeley: Monday, August 13, 2012

James has been studying spiritual healing since 1995 and spent ten years as a Faculty member at the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism. He currently runs a year-long program where he trains people from all walks of life in the art of spiritual healing. Health care practitioners looking to add a spiritual dimension to their practice, individuals seeking personal healing, couples and parents having problems in their most important relationships and people desiring a more intimate and profound relationship with the Divine have all benefited from his practical approach to healing and spiritual development.

Currently, he is involved in helping to manage the Farm of Peace, a retreat center in Pennsylvania that is a place of refuge and solace for many hearts.

Visit James Keeley’s Website: www.howtowalkwithGod.com

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David Price Francis: Monday, August 6, 2012

David Price Francis MA, is an author, speaker and transformational coach in the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and self-development. He has lectured for over 30 years and is a gifted and charismatic teacher on pathways to spiritual growth and achieving energetically healthy relationships. He specializes in understanding universal energies and the laws that govern them, demonstrating how these powers and forces can vibrantly transform our relationships, lives and possibilities. A graduate of Oxford University, David is the author of Partners in Passion and The Tales of Dr. Woo. He is also the founder of EnergyWorlds Certified Practitioner Training.

Visit David Price Francis’ website: www.energyworlds.com

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Frank J. Kinslow: Monday, July 30, 2012

Dr. Frank J. Kinslow has been researching and teaching healing techniques for more than 35 years. He draws from his clinical experience as a chiropractic physician, in-depth studies into Eastern esoteric philosophies and practices, and an ardent love of relativity and quantum physics. In 2007, the Quantum Entrainment process of instant healing was born out of a personal crisis that left Dr. Kinslow with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Out of this nothing, he was able to create a vibrant and fulfilling life for himself. He began to teach and write with such simplicity and clarity that in just a few years, tens of thousands of people around the world were able to create vibrant and fulfilling lives for themselves just by reading his books.

Dr. Kinslow is a chiropractic physician, a teacher for the deaf, and a Doctor of Clinical Spiritual Counseling. He continues to write and teach extensively.

Visit Frank Kinslow’s website: www.QuantumEntrainment.com

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Jerry Weinstock: Monday, July 23, 2012

J. “Jerry” Weinstock has been an actor, artist, producer and author. His ground-breaking book about women, BREASTS: Women Speak About Their Breasts & Their Lives, was hailed by the Washington Post as “an important contribution” and was featured on the Donahue Show (the Oprah of its time).

Inspired by the incredible experience that is described in his grief memoir, JOYride: How My Late Wife Loved Me Back To Life, he works with the bereaved as a grief guide. He has written several forthcoming books about how to heal from the loss of a loved one.

Visit Jerry Weinstock’s website: www.DreaMasterBooks.com

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Georgianna Donadio: Monday, July 16, 2012

For over 30 years, Dr. Georgianna Donadio has been a pioneer in the field of behavioral health, working with healthcare professionals and patients to change behaviors that lead to improved health. For the first time, her pioneering work is the foundation for the newly published book Changing Behavior: Immediately Transform Your Relationships with Easy-to-Learn, Proven Communication Skills

As a sought-after Integrative Health Practitioner, behavioral health and relationships expert, media personality, and best-selling author, her work has led to dramatic lifestyle changes for millions of people worldwide. A popular blogger for Huffington Post and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s teenDailyStrength, her expertise has been showcased in hundreds of print, online, radio and TV interviews. Until retiring, she hosted a nationally syndicated cable TV show for 20 years, Woman to Woman® which explored all topics of interest to women with a special focus on relationships.

A long-time proponent of the important role nurses play in healthcare, she is one of only six American Florence Nightingale Scholars. Her work in behavioral health motivated her to establish the Boston based National Institute of Whole Health and she developed Behavioral Engagement™, the first known whole person health education and health behavior change model.

Visit Georgianna Donadio’s website: www.changingbehavior.org

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Azim Khamisa: Monday, July 9, 2012

Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among the youth, Azim became a social activist after his 20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member. Out of unspeakable grief and despair, Khamisa was inspired to transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation to break the cycle of youth violence by saving lives, teaching peace and planting seeds of hope in their future.

Azim is an award-winning author of the book: Azim’s Bardo – From Murder To Forgiveness – A Father’s Journey. He followed up this book with From Forgiveness to Fulfillment, showing the continued evolution in an unfolding story that is his path, his passion and his life. The third in the trilogy is From Fulfillment to Peace.

Says Azim, “We humans continuously confront defining moments in our lives. Sometimes these events are joyous; sometimes they are tragedies. At these moments it’s important to make the right choices. When we do, we’re able to manifest miracles and produce transformation in ourselves and others.”

Visit Azim Khamisa’s websites: www.AzimKhamisa.com and www.tkf.org

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Anita Telle, Monday, July 2, 2012

Entrepreneur and author, Anita Telle, is a former COO and co-founder of a very successful beauty product distribution company, and the current founder and president of ASTI Life. She lives in California with her son, who was born with a cleft palate. Her mission is to raise awareness about bullying through her two picture books, “ALWAYS TIME FOR KINDNESS” and “A LITTLE DIFFERENT – ALL PERFECT”. Anita is also the creator of Gnomy’s booboobears, and donates 20 percent of the profit from the sale of the bears to Operation Smile.

Visit Anita Telle’s website:  www.boo-boobear.org

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Dean Smith, Monday, June 25, 2012

Dean Smith founded Live To Forgive Ministries in 2007. His mission is to spread the message of forgiveness based on the Word of God and his own personal testimony around the world. He preaches powerful messages about love, grace, and reconciliation. Thousands of people have been inspired to trust God with their unforgiveness and have been set free from its heavy burden based on his appearances in churches, television and on the radio.

When Dean was twelve his mother was murdered by his stepdad, Bob. He became a Christian but knew that he was not receiving all that God wanted to bless him with because of the anger and resentment he harbored towards his stepdad. He tried to escape with drugs and alcohol for many years until he discovered that there was no way around God for the relief he needed.

In 1999, Dean handed over his unforgiveness and resentment to God and his heart was transformed. Surrendering his bitterness to God began the journey that ultimately lead him across the country to reconcile, bless, love, and help Bob. Dean challenges Christians to stop overlooking the unforgiveness in their lives. His stories bring laughter and tears and encourage people to take the step of faith to release their bitterness and anger to God and trust his healing power. He explains how one step of forgiveness can lead to a lifetime of blessings.

Visit Dean Smith’s website: www.livetoforgive.com

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Shela Dean: Monday, June 18, 2012

Shela Dean is a Relationship Coach, bestselling author and speaker. She has counseled more than 2,000 couples since 1983, and is the author of Frequent Foreplay Miles, Your Ticket to Total Intimacy! – a guide to improving emotional intimacy for couples, Frequent Foreplay Miles for the Remarried, and the creator of her trademarked program ReDate Your Mate. Her latest book ReDate Your Mate, 4 Steps to Falling in Love All Over Again (Boomer Edition) will be out in about two months.

Shela began studying the dynamics of personal relationships during her two-decade career as an estate and family attorney before retiring from law to begin coaching in 2004. Her unique blend of humor, insight, and practical meat-and-potatoes approach, helps couples find a better way to navigate the friendly, and sometimes not-so-friendly, skies of life while having a darned good time doing it.

Visit Shela Dean’s website at http://sheladean.com/

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Judge Kirk Nakamura: Monday, June 11, 2012

Judge Kirk Nakamura graduated from UC Irvine in 1977 with a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences.  He was admitted to the Bar in 1980 and was admitted to practice on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the Federal District Court of California (Central District).

He is the current Chair of the ADR/Mediation Committee in the Orange County Superior Court.  From 2006 to 2009 he served as Chair of the Temporary Judge Committee and is still a member.  He is also a member of the Grand Jury Selection Committee, the Jury Orientation Committee, and the Orange County Superior Court Executive Committee.

He has authored a number of publications, and in 2010 he received the Constitutional Rights Foundation Orange County Judge of the Year award.

He is currently serving as Judge of the Orange County Superior Court.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari’s interview with Judge Kirk Nakamura

Janet Pfeiffer: Monday, June 4, 2012

Janet Pfeiffer, internationally known motivational and inspirational speaker and award-winning author, is one of todays most highly sought after seminar leaders.

As a leader in the field of anger management and conflict resolution, Janet is NJ State Certified in Violence Counseling. She is a board member for the World Addiction Foundation and is employed as an instructor at a battered women’s shelter.

Janet is a former columnist for the Daily Record, hosts her own cable TV show and is a former co-host of a radio talk show.

Janet also runs highly successful “The Antidote to Anger” anger management support group. Her latest book, The Secret Side of Anger, is endorsed by NY Times best selling author, Dr. Bernie Siegel.

Visit Janet Pfeiffer’s website at www.PfeifferPowerSeminars.com and www.FromGodWithLove.net

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Ruth Treeson: Monday, May 28, 2012

Ruth Treeson was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1930. Shortly after the start of the war started in 1939, her family moved to Krakow where they masqueraded as Christians attempting to avoid Nazi persecution. But a couple of years later the Germans found them. First her father was arrested, then her mother. Ruth and her sister remained hidden at a convent a few months longer but the Gestapo found them. They tore her sister from her arms and shoved Ruth into a cattle car bound for Auschwitz. She survived, and in 1945 at the end of the war, she began her long walk hoping to find her family and home.

In 1947, she immigrated to the United States and later married a good and loving man. Together they made a family. While nurturing her three sons, she enrolled in college, received her degrees, and went on to teach and write.

Since writing her book she has realized that she can help at risk youngsters in schools, group homes, and foster homes. As she shares her story of a young girl living under the Nazi regime during World War II, she explores what it means to maintain something of a sense of self, even as one endures hostility, derision, and hate. Through conversations, she and students come to recognize the similarity of the youngsters’ current living condition as she survived it years ago at their age. They discover what made it possible for her to go on, once she was set free to keep on walking, placing one foot in front of the other, until she reached the longed for home and family, here in America.

CLICK HERE to listen to Mari’s Interview with Ruth Treeson

Susan Steinbrecher: Monday, May 21, 2012

Susan Steinbrecher, an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, executive coach, speaker and author, is CEO of Steinbrecher And Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm that provides professional-development services in the areas of executive coaching, group facilitation and leadership training.

Steinbrecher is the co-founder of The Institute for Heart-Centered Leadership, which teaches the core principles and virtues of transformational leadership, characterized by care, concern, honesty and humility. She is co-author of: Heart-Centered Leadership: An Invitation to Lead from the Inside Out; Roadmap to Success; and Straight Talk from America’s Top 10 Speakers.

Susan’s new Amazon bestselling book KENSHO: A Modern Awakening, Instigating Change in an Era of Global Renewal is a business book that delves into the realm of personal development. She has also been a featured expert on MSNBC Your Business, FOX and NBC TV, as well as numerous radio shows, Fortune Small Business magazine, Woman’s Day, CBSMoneyWatch.com and CNN.com.

Visit Susan Steinbrecher’s websit at: www.steinbrecher.com

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Douglas Fry: Monday, May 14, 2012

Dr. Douglas P. Fry is a docent in the Developmental Psychology Programme and administers the programme called Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, a cooperative Master’s Programme between the University of Tampere and Åbo Akademi University (PEACE). Dr. Fry also is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. Fry, an anthropologist, has written extensively on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution from various theoretical perspectives, with his articles having been published in journals such as Aggressive Behavior, American Anthropologist, Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Child Development, Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, Sex Roles, among others.Dr. Fry is author of the books Beyond War (2007, Oxford University Press), The Human Potential for Peace (2006, Oxford University Press) and co-editor with Graham Kemp of Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies Around the World (2004, Routledge) and co-editor with Kaj Björkqvist of Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence (1997, Erlbaum). He is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, 2nd Edition (2008, Elsevier/Academic). During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Fry is editing a book called War, Peace, and Human Nature, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Dr. Fry is conducting an ongoing research project that examines conflict management and reconciliation using a cross-cultural database covering 186 societies. One of his research interests is to understand how to create peace systems by examining real world examples of such nonwarring clusters of societies.

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Kimberly Pryor: Monday, May 7, 2012

Kimberly Pryor is the author of The Indestructible Relationship, a book to help couples stress-proof their love life, argue less and fall even more deeply in love. The book was a finalist in the 2011 Global eBook Awards and is a finalist in the 2012 EPIC eBook Awards. Kimberly also is an award-winning journalist who has had more than 600 articles published in magazines and newspapers. For more information about The Indestructible Relationship.

Visit Kimberly Pryor’s website at: www.indestructiblerelationship.com

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Judge Lon Hurwitz: Monday, April 30, 2012

Judge Hurwitz was elected to the Bench in June 2010. Before his term of office was to begin in Jan. 2011, he was appointed to the Bench by Gov. Schwartzenegger. From 2004 until his appointment, he served as a Family Law Commissioner for Orange County handling Paternity, child support, and Family Law Domestic Violence Cases. Judge Hurwitz is currently assigned to a Family Law Trial Court where he hears all Family Law case types. He is one of four Judges in the County assigned to hear Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse cases.

In 2009, Judge Hurwitz started the first Veterans’ Family Law Domestic Violence Diversion Program in the U.S. In January of this year, he received the Distinguished Jurist Award from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; and also received the “Judge of the Year Award” from the Orange County Bar Association Family Law Division. From 2008 until 2010, he served as a member of the State Judicial Council and was the Judicial Council Liaison to the State Domestic Violence Task Force; both by appointment from the Chief Justice, Ron George. He is currently a contributor and contributing Editor for the Judicial Council publication, “Elder Abuse Pocket Reference”, a guide for Judges handling Elder Abuse cases.

Before becoming a Judicial Officer, Judge Hurwitz was the Special Counsel to the California State Senate Select Committee on the Investigation of Gasoline and Diesel Pricing; and was an arbitrator, mediator and attorney in Orange County since 1979.

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Mari Frank and Leonard Szymczak: Monday, April 23, 2012

Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW is an author, educator and psychotherapist who, for the past 35 years, has worked in Australia and America, helping clients resolve conflict. He is the author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon Bestseller in 2009. He conducts seminars on personal/spiritual growth and maintains a therapy practice.

www.leonardszymczak.com

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Michael Nagler: Monday, April 16, 2012

Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program in which he taught the immensely popular nonviolence course that was webcast in its entirety as well as PACS 90, “Meditation” and a sophomore seminar called “Why Are We Here? Great Writing on the Meaning of Life” for fifteen years.

He is the author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which received a 2002 American Book Award and has been translated into Korean, Arabic, Italian and other languages; Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence (2005); The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran, 1987), and other books as well as many articles on peace and spirituality.

He has spoken for campus, religious, and other groups on peace and nonviolence for many years, especially since September 11, 2001. He has consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations and is the founder and President of the board of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. Michael has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970’s and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the Nonviolent Peaceforce.

Michael is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and has lived at the Center’s ashram in Marin County since 1970. He gives workshops on Easwaran’s system of passage meditation around the world.

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Carl Stauffer: Monday, April 9, 2012

Dr. Carl Stauffer teaches Justice and Development Studies at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University. Stauffer was born and raised amidst the war in Vietnam. In 1975, his family fled Vietnam and moved to the Philippines just as the Marcos regime was beginning to crumble. After completing his university education in 1985, Stauffer worked in the Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse fields. In 1988, he was ordained to the ministry and joined an urban, inter-racial church plant and community development project in the inner-city of Richmond, Virginia. In 1991, Stauffer became the first Executive Director of the Capital Area Victim-Offender Mediation Program in Richmond.

In 1994, Stauffer and his family moved to South Africa under the auspices of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a faith-based international relief and development agency. In South Africa, Stauffer worked with various transitional processes such as the Peace Accords, Community-Police Forums, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Local Community Development structures. From 2000 to 2009, Stauffer was appointed as the MCC Regional Peace Adviser for the Southern Africa region. His work has taken him to twenty African countries and ten other countries in the Caribbean, Middle East, Europe, and the Balkans.

Stauffer’s academic interests focus on narratology, transitional justice, and post-war reconstruction and reconciliation. His research concentrates on the critique of transitional justice from a restorative frame, and the application of hybrid, parallel indigenous justice systems.

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Sandy Moore: Monday, April 2, 2012

Sandy Moore graduated from USC with a degree in teaching and subsequently earned a Masters in Educational Administration, followed by 20 years in public service as a school teacher.

She completed ministerial training and is now the Spiritual Director of the InSpirit Center for Spiritual Living in Mission Viejo, California. The center is actively involved in numerous outreach activities, including ministries devoted to the environment, health, and peace.

www.inspiritoc.com

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Paula Langguth Ryan: Monday, March 26, 2012

Paula Langguth Ryan is a conflict resolution consultant, dedicated to helping business leaders break through to new levels of confidence, peace and abundance in all areas of their lives. She provides individual executive coaching and facilitates management and board meetings and in house negotiations, primarily with closely-held corporations. She conducts tailor-made in-service trainings for Boards of Directors, staff, employees and members in groups of all sizes. Ryan works with employee relations departments to create mediation skills training programs and in-house resolution services. She also provides transition, separation and debt settlement mediation and negotiation services for employees and business owners. Her strategic pre-negotiation services have helped business owners and executives from a variety of industries close high dollar deals, including mergers, acquisitions, company transitions from original owners. She is noted for being able to help all parties reach a cheerful resolution to once-heated negotiations and lawsuits. Her aim: to help corporations and business leaders achieve their goals and dreams in ways that are win-win-win for all. Her “Ryans Rules of Order” hang on the walls of businesses and organizations worldwide.

Ryan is a certified Spiritual Transformation Mediator who believes that – like most bank heists – outer peace is always an inside job. She is a Chair of the Spirituality Section for the Association of Conflict Resolution, a past member of Mediators Beyond Borders and the founder of The Village Gathering, an NGO which helps support Kenyans who are engaged in creating sustainable conflict resolution strategies.

www.PaulaLangguthRyan.com

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Patrick Ryan: Monday, March 19, 2012

Patrick Ryan died from a drug overdose in his late teens only to be revived with a new understanding of the Divine. As a Buddhist monk in Burma (now Myanmar), he practiced the path of awakened living, according to Buddhist philosophy. He has also studied indigenous wisdoms with a variety of teachers.

His #1 bestselling book Awakened Wisdom blends Buddhist, Native, and collected wisdoms into a beautifully crafted healing message for our modern culture. His work focuses on questions of personal effectiveness and leadership. He powerfully integrates his rich life experiences with ancient teachings and modern applications to help deepen his clients’ understandings of their own experiences.

Patrick is married and lives in Mill Valley, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He travels extensively and offers workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Midwest, Vancouver, Frankfurt Germany, Israel, Dubai and Jordan.

www.awakenedwisdom.com

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Rusty Kennedy: Monday March 12, 2012

Rusty Kennedy has served as Executive Director of the Orange County Human Relations Commission since 1981 and as the founding CEO of the non-profit Orange County Human Relations Council, established 1991. The mission at OC Human Relations is to promote understanding among diverse residents and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.

Raised in Fullerton, Rusty’s first taste of civil rights activism was in 1965, when as a 13 year old he marched in Sacramento with Cesar Chavez to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers. One of his first political acts was to go door-to-door to oppose the ballot measure to repeal the California Fair Housing Act, when he was 14 years old. Under the urging of his father, Ralph Kennedy, he knocked on doors and asked voters to vote against the repeal of this landmark civil rights law.

 

Recently Rusty was called on by the Fullerton City Council to lead a Task Force to assess and advise how to better serve the mentally ill homeless. This coming in the wake of the death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man, after a confrontation with police.

www.ochumanrelations.org

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Marci Shimoff: Monday, March 5, 2012

Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a world-renowned transformation teacher. As an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love, Marci has inspired millions of people around the globe, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success.

Her newest book, Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love debuted at #3 on the NY Times bestseller list. In it, Marci introduces a revolutionary program to live in a deep and lasting state of love and shows you how to access that at any time and in any circumstance.

Marci’s other books include the runaway bestseller, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out and six titles in the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series. Her books have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide in 33 languages, have topped all of the major bestseller lists, and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 118 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time.

Marci is the also the host of the national PBS television special called Happy for No Reason. In addition, she’s a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.

Marci is a professional speaker and a leading expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. She is dedicated to helping people live more empowered and joy-filled lives. Please join me in welcoming to our show today, Marci Shimoff.

www.TheLoveBook.com

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Mari Frank and Lloyd Felver: Monday, February 27, 2012

Mari J. Frank, attorney/mediator 26 years, teaches ADR at UCI, National Advisory Board: Divorce Magazine, OC Superior Court Civil Mediation Panel, OC Bar, Fee Arbitration/ Mediation panel, Radio Host KUCI, Prescriptions for Healing Conflict, State Bar Executive Committee Law Practice & Technology, State Bar MCLE Trainer, Member, OC Bar ADR section, Certified Privacy Expert, Author: Negotiations Breakthroughs; Stepping Stones To Success; Safeguard Your Identity; From Victim To Victor, Recovering From Identity Theft.

Lloyd W. Felver has been an attorney since 1980, litigating in the areas of: Personal Injury, Construction Defect, Contracts, Insurance Agent & Broker liability, Homeowner Association liability, Wrongful Termination, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment. He is the 2011 Chair of the ADR section of the OCBA, and does arbitrations and mediations privately, through the courts, and CSP, as well as arbitrations for the Better Business Bureau, and attorney’s fees Arbitrations for the OCBA and State Bar.

Please visit www.ocmediationconference.org

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Mark Anthony: Monday, February 20, 2012

Mark Anthony the “Psychic Lawyer” is a practicing medium who not only communicates with spirits, he is also a successful attorney, licensed to practice law in Florida, Washington D.C., and before the United States Supreme Court.

He is descended from a long line of psychics and mediums that have been helping people connect with deceased loved ones for over 100 years. His new book, “Never Letting Go,” is a best seller. “Never Letting Go” is the definitive guide to healing grief with help from the Other Side.

Although he has inherited the ability to communicate with spirits, Mark has worked conscientiously to expand his psychic gifts to the fullest potential. This includes study at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College for the Advancement of Psychic Science in England.

Mark is also a successful attorney and certified mediator. He earned his law degree from Mercer University in Georgia and studied law at Oxford University, England. As both a defense and prosecuting attorney, Mark has solid experience with a wide range of criminal offenders from shoplifters to carjackers to murderers. His professional life has been enhanced by his exceptional intuition. His psychic gifts have provided him with a unique outlook on criminal behavior as well as uncanny empathy for murder victim’s families.

Visit Mark Anthony’s website at www.MediumMarkAnthony.com

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Lawrence Polsky and Antoine Gerschel: Monday, February 13, 2012

Lawrence Polsky & Antoine Gerschel have traveled the world assisting thousands of leaders on 5 continents to navigate change and conflict. As Managing Partners at PeopleNRG, a global leadership consulting firm in Princeton, New Jersey, they re-energize leaders and teams by helping them address the fundamental barriers to organizational performance: unclear objectives, inadequate communication, misunderstood roles and responsibilities, and poor decision making processes.

Antoine has 15+ years of experience developing award-winning programs improving business communication and leadership within global, multi-cultural settings. He has firsthand experience as an entrepreneur and corporate leader in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Lawrence specializes in coaching leaders to improve their Emotional Intelligence. This expertise was developed through his postgraduate work at the Institute for Human Development, under the direction of Dr. Wilson Tilley, focusing on the impact of emotions on communication, problem solving, and relationships.

For more information visit www.peoplenrg.com

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James Sutton: Monday, February 6, 2012

It was as a school psychologist that Jim Sutton developed exceptional skills in assessing and outlining management and treatment for emotionally and behaviorally troubled youngsters. Demand for these skills grew when he completed his doctorate, earned his psychologist’s licensure, opened a private practice, and began consulting, writing, speaking, and training nationally. His clients have included over four dozen universities, schools and school districts, residential treatment centers, group and foster homes, hospitals, juvenile justice authorities, drug and alcohol treatment facilities, and child-service agencies.

When parents are concerned about their children and their relationships with them, it can affect everything they do. Simple interventions parents can implement at home can improve the family climate dramatically.

Parents want to communicate and relate to their children in a manner that is natural and comfortable. In today’s high-pressure and fast-moving world, however, “natural and comfortable” can be tough to achieve. Children often act out their unhappiness in ways that create difficulty at home and school, adding even more stress and strain on the family. Although it takes effort to settle behaviors and bring relationships back to where they need to be, it’s not as difficult as it might seem. This guest offers real and doable solutions.

Psychologist Dr. James Sutton is a plain-speaking expert who offers a fresh approach to child behavior. He has helped thousands repair and rebuild relationships with their children.

Jim and his wife, Bobbie, have two grown children and four grandchildren. Their Yorkshire Terrier, Lucy, graciously shares her home with them.

Visit Dr. Sutton’s website at www.DocSpeak.com

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Allan Lokos: Monday, January 30, 2012

Allan Lokos is the founder and guiding teacher of The Community Meditation Center in New York City. He is the author of Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living and Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living. His writing has appeared in a number of newspapers nationwide such as The New York Times, and The Huffington Post.  He has also taught at Columbia University Teachers College, Marymount College, and Insight Meditation Community of Washington to name a few.

Allan has practiced meditation since the mid-nineties and studied with renowned teachers such as Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Stephen Batchelor, and Larry Rosenberg. He has also attended a number of weeklong teachings with the Dalai Lama.

Earlier in this life Allan enjoyed a 30 year career as a professional singer on Broadway, in opera, and in concert. He lives on Manhattan’s upper West Side with his wife Susanna, an Interfaith minister. Allan was selected as one of “50 Inspiring Religious Leaders You Should Follow on Twitter.” He is an accomplished Native American flute player and an avid photographer of wildlife which has been the motivation for his numerous African safaris.

www.cmcnewyork.org

Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan: Monday, January 23, 2012

Craig E. Runde, Director of the Center for Conflict Dynamics at Eckerd College, oversees training and development on the Conflict Dynamics Profile assessment instrument and other products and services of the Center. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on workplace conflict issues and is co-author of Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader; Building Conflict Competent Teams; and Developing Your Conflict Competence. Before joining Eckerd he was the director of the International Center for Computer Enhanced Learning at Wake Forest University. Craig has his B.A. from Harvard University, an M.L.L. from the University of Denver, and a J.D. from Duke University. He has practiced law in Colorado and has taught at the University of Minnesota Law School and Wake Forest University.

Tim A. Flanagan, Director of Custom Programs for the Leadership Development Institute at Eckerd College, earned his M.A. at the Ohio State University and worked in higher education for eight years before entering the Human Resource Development field in 1985. Tim’s experience includes leading the senior leadership development programs at the Harris Corporation, managing consulting services for Development Dimensions International, building the training program at AAA Tampa, and guiding the custom development of discovery learning programs at Paradigm Learning. Tim is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and has consulted with scores of leading national and international firms. He is co-author of Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader; Building Conflict Competent Teams; and Developing Your Conflict Competence.

Visit Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan’s website at www.conflictcompetent.com

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Beverly Engel: Monday, January 16, 2012

Beverly Engel, L.M.F.T., has thirty years experience working with victims of emotional, physical and sexual abuse and has written 20 books on these subjects. She has shared her expertise on many national television and radio programs, including Oprah, CNN, and Starting Over. Her work has also been cited in many noted newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, O Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping.

Engel has presented workshops at many national conferences and has also taught staff members at the following facilities, among many others: Los Angeles County Mental Health, Atascadero State Mental Hospital, Atascadero, CA., Raphael House in Portland, Oregon, and the North Harbor Living without Violence, Auckland, New Zealand. Engel has taught students at the following universities: U.S.C. Graduate Students in Psychology, Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA., California State Universities at Los Angeles, Northridge and Dominguez Hills, and the University of Montana-Western, Dillon, Montana.

Visit Beverly Engel’s website at www.beverlyengel.com

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Harry Bury: Monday, January 9, 2012

Harry J. Bury, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions (1979 – present).

Dr. Bury also holds the Chair as Director of the Doctorate Program in Business Administration (DBA) at Burapha University in Bangkok, Thailand. He teaches Advanced International Organizational Behavior. He earned a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Organizational Behavior in 1975. He also completed the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland’s Post-graduate Program in 1975. Since then he has been involved in individual and large-scale systems change in the industrial, public and community sectors. In addition, he has co-developed an organic approach to management and organizational development toward creating open and free-flowing communications, increased productivity, collaborative management of work team culture, enriched job content and improved interpersonal and inter-group relations.

Dr. Bury’s career is highlighted by consultations for corporations and governmental agencies worldwide. He has consulted with such organizations as TRW, Baily Controls, RTA, EMD Pharmaceuticals, and The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank among others.

Visit Dr. Bury’s website at www.harryjbury.com

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John Marks: Monday, January 2, 2012

John Marks is President and founder of Search for Common Ground, a non-profit conflict resolution organization with offices in 25 countries.  He also founded and heads Common Ground Productions.  He wrote and produced The Shape of the Future, a four-part, TV documentary series that was simulcast on Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab satellite TV, and he is executive producer of The Team TV and radio series in 17 countries and numerous other TV and radio programs.  Along with his wife, Susan Collin Marks, he is a Skoll Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship.  He is a former US Foreign Service Officer and Executive Assistant to the late US Senator Clifford Case.  A graduate of Cornell University and recipient of an honorary doctorate from the UN’s University for Peace, he was a Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. He is a best-selling, award-winning author and a Senior Ashoka Fellow.

Visit John Marks’ website at www.sfcg.org

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Beverly Potter: Monday, December 26, 2011

Beverly A. Potter, PhD (“Docpotter”) earned her doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University and her masters in vocational rehabilitation counseling from San Francisco State University. She is a corporate trainer, public speaker and has authored a number of books on workplace issues like overcoming job burnout, managing yourself for excellence, high performance goal setting, mediating conflict, and more. Her website—docpotter.com—is pack with useful information.

Docpotter was a member of the staff development team at Stanford University for nearly twenty years and on the faculty for Berkeley Executive Seminars for City Managers sponsored by University of California School of Public Policy for 8 years.

Additionally, Docpotter worked with a team of psychologists training police officers as trainers in Crisis Intervention, an in-field mediation process for defusing 415s or civil disputes, the most dangerous police call. She also worked as a faculty advisor for police earning masters degrees.

Visit Beverly Potter’s website at www.docpotter.com

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Randall Kiser: Monday, December 19, 2011

Randall Kiser is the principal analyst at DecisionSet®, a decision services and professional development company. His research regarding attorney-client decision making integrates the fields of law, economics, statistics and psychology.

Mr. Kiser is the author of two books, Beyond Right and Wrong: The Power of Effective Decision Making for Attorneys and Clients (Springer, 2010) and How Leading Lawyers Think: Expert Insights Into Judgment and Advocacy (Springer, 2011). He also is the lead author of the widely read article, “Let’s Not Make A Deal: An Empirical Study Of Decision Making In Unsuccessful Settlement Negotiations” (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2008).

Mr. Kiser received his law degree in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and obtained his undergraduate degree in 1975 from the University of California, Davis (Highest Honors). His legal education is complemented by the award in 2002 of a certificate in leadership from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. Before entering the decision sciences field, Mr. Kiser represented clients in complex commercial litigation disputes for 20 years.

Visit Randall Kiser’s website at www.decisionset.com

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Leonard Szymczak: Monday, December 12, 2011

Leonard Szymczak, MSW, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist and educator for over 35 years, both in Australia and America. He was Director of the Family Therapy Program at the Marriage and Family Centre in Sydney, Australia and later served as a senior affiliate therapist with the Family Institute at Northwestern University. He’s the author of The Roadmap Home: Your GPS to Inner Peace, an Amazon bestseller in 2009, and Cuckoo Forevermore, a light-hearted satire on psychotherapy.

Throughout his life, Leonard has been committed to ongoing personal growth and believes firmly in the power of the individual to overcome adversity and transform one’s life. He utilizes the concept of the hero’s journey to help individuals reshape their stories into amazing adventures. He firmly believes that when connected to the Guiding Power of Spirit, individuals can shift problems and pain into opportunities for healing and growth and return Home to love and inner peace.

A licensed clinical social worker, Leonard lives near the beach in Southern California where he writes, conducts seminars on writing and personal/spiritual growth and maintains a private practice. He is the proud father of two adult children.

Visit Leonard Szymczak’s website at www.theroadmaphome.com

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Scott Bollens: Monday, December 5, 2011

Prof. Scott Bollens studies ethnicity and urban policy, development strategies, and regional and intergovernmental approaches to planning. Here are questions that guide his research and teaching: (1) what is the role and influence of urban planning and policy amidst deep inter-group conflict, (2) can bottom-up urbanism contribute to top-down peacemaking and efforts to democratize a multinational society, (3) what is the relationship between how governance is structured in metropolitan areas and the equality/inequality of opportunity across individuals and localities?

Over the past 15 years, Prof. Bollens has interviewed over 220 urban professionals and community advocates in Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia (Cyprus), Sarajevo and Mostar (Bosnia), and Barcelona and Basque cities (Spain) about the role of urban policy and city building amidst nationalistic ethnic conflict and political transitions. His books include Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization (2007), On Narrow Ground (2000) and Urban Peace-Building in Divided Societies (1999).

Prof. Bollens has written more than 35 journal articles and book chapters in leading venues over the past 20 years and has presented at numerous public forums in the U.S. and throughout the world. He has consulted, given invited presentations, and done commissioned work in the field of peace and international cooperation.

Prof. Bollens’ current book is City and Soul in Divided Societies. This book focuses on the historical, theoretical, and practical issues of urban divisions, but also uniquely provides a first-person account of conducting interview-based ethnography in these places of ethnic and nationalist polarization. The book puts forth facts, opinions, photographs, and observations in ways that bring to life the substantial challenges of living in, and governing, polarized and unsettled cities.

As part of the research for this book, Prof. Bollens will be at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon during the Fall 2010 quarter.

Visit Scott Bollens’ website at http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/bollens

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Arezou Kohan: Monday, November 28, 2011

Arezou Kohan was a civil litigator in private practice for over a decade before she found her calling as a mediator and life-coach. She has volunteered in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, served as a judge pro tem in Los Angeles County Superior Court, externed for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Arthur L. Alarcon, built a house in Guatemala with Habitat for Humanity, trekked the Annapurna Mountains in Nepal, backpacked through Yosemite, traveled to over 20 countries, fled her country of origin during a revolution, studied international law at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and was the founding President of the Board of Directors for Outpost for Contemporary Art.

Her vast range of life experiences allow her to appreciate a large variety of perspectives that she brings to the table along with her warmth, humor, and compassion. Her highly developed intuition and out of the box thinking allow her to find creative solutions to problems that might be missed by others. She is the Author of “Healing Conflict,” a “how to” guide for resolving disputes through higher consciousness and leads Workshops on “Conflict as Opportunity for Conscious Growth.” Her rates are on a suggested donation basis and she does house calls.

Arezou earned her JD from Southwestern University School of Law in 1996. She trained as a mediator at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law and obtained her life-coaching certificate from Coaches Training Institute.

Visit Arezou Kohan’s website at www.arezoukohanlaw.com

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Azim Khamisa: Monday, November 21, 2011

Azim Noordin Khamisa – an author, activist and inspirational speaker – was born in Kenya, Africa. Committing his life to halting the continuing cycle of violence among the youth, Azim became a social activist after his 20-year-old son Tariq was senselessly murdered while delivering pizzas in January 1995 by Tony Hicks, a 14-year-old gang member.

Out of unspeakable grief and despair, Khamisa was inspiredto transform his loss through the miraculous power of forgiveness. Believing that there were “victims at both ends of the gun,” Azim forgave Tony and founded the Tariq Khamisa Foundation to break the cycle of youth violence by saving lives, teaching peace and planting seeds of hope in their future. A month after establishing the foundation, Azim invited Ples Felix, Tony’s grandfather and guardian, to join him. Together, since November 1995, the two have brought their story and message through TKF’s Violence Impact Forums. The duo has reached a half a million elementary and middle school children live and over 20 million via video programs, guiding the youth to choose a peacemaker’s life of non-violence and forgiveness.

He is an award-winning author of the book: Azim’s Bardo – “From Murder To Forgiveness – A Father’s Journey”. He followed up this book with “From Forgiveness to Fulfillment”, showing the continued evolution in an unfolding story that is his path, his passion and his life. A third in the trilogy is “From Fulfillment to Peace”. In February 2009 Random House published “The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life’s Hardest Hits”, Azim’s latest book coauthored with Jillian Quinn. And finally “The Truth,” a movie in the vein of “The Secret.” Says Azim, “We humans continuously confront defining moments in our lives. Sometimes these events are joyous; sometimes they are tragedies. At these moments it’s important to make the right choices. When we do, we’re able to manifest miracles and produce transformation in ourselves and others.”

Visit Azim Khamisa’s website at www.AzimKhamisa.com

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Jane Zalben: Monday, November 14, 2011

Jane Breskin Zalben began drawing seriously at the age of five. To encourage her artistic talent, her mother took her for weekly art lessons at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her father called her drawings “love pictures,” and in second grade Jane began to explore her gift for writing by composing poetry for the class newspaper. It is no wonder that today Jane Breskin Zalben is a well-known author and illustrator who has published about fifty books for young readers.

Jane Breskin Zalben was born in New York City, where she attended the High School of Music and Art. She received a B.A. in art from Queens College, then went on to study lithography at the Pratt Graphics Center. She now lives on Long Island, New York with her husband, Steven.

Ms. Zalben began her career as a graphic designer and worked for several New York publishing houses, including Scribner’s, where she was the art director of children’s books. She still prefers to be involved in every stage of a book’s production. A book designer as well as an artist, Jane Breskin Zalben is as concerned with type and layout as she is with illustration. “It is my job,” she says, “to bring words to life and to add another dimension to them.”

Ms. Zalben has been involved in many workshops, including “A Sense of Wonderment: Children’s Book Illustration” at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, and exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Justin Schiller Gallery, Every Picture Tells a Story, Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Bush Gallery, and the American Institute of Graphics Art Show. She was a writer/artist-in-residence at Vassar’s Publishing Institute and was on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City for eighteen years, where she taught courses in the illustration, design, and writing of children’s books.

Jane Breskin Zalben’s acclaimed picture books and novels explore basic issues of friendship, family, self-reliance, and inner strength. It’s obvious that Jane Breskin Zalben is passionate about her work– so much so that she dates the events in her life by what book she was working on at the time. However, she believes that her family is even more important; Beni’s First Chanukah, the first in a series of Jewish Holiday books for children, was inspired by and dedicated to her sons, Alexander and Jonathan. The special times she has shared with her family motivated her to create over forty books.

Jane Breskin Zalben devotes her time to her work and to traveling around the world lecturing on children’s books and encouraging children and aspiring artists and writers. I always identify with children,” she says, “because I do remember.”

Visit Jane Zalben’s website at www.JaneBreskinZalben.com

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Mark Goulston, PhD: Monday, November 7, 2011

Mark Goulston, M.D. is Chairman and co-founder of Xtraordinary Outcomes. If you Discover Your Strengths and come from that, you will certainly succeed; but if you Discover Your Core of Excellence and come from that, you will achieve results and outcomes beyond your imagination. That is what Mark and Xtraordinary Outcomes help high performing individuals, teams and companies do.

Dr. Goulston’s specific focus is as a Fortune 500 High Stakes Executive Coach where he helps high performing executives to better maximize opportunities, deal with impending danger and confront and finally resolve conflcts that have been dogging them for months to years. He first trained as a clinical psychiatrist and then honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer who increases people’s ability to get through to anyone.

His development of those skills started with his education: a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.D. from Boston University, post graduate residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He went on to be a professor at UCLA’s internationally renowned Neuropsychiatric Institute for more than twenty years, become a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (the highest award that organization offers) and was named one of America’s Top Psychiatrists for 2004-2005 and again in 2009 and 2010 by Washington, D.C. based Consumers’ Research Council of America.

He is the author of five books. His most recent book, “Just Listen” Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone, reached #1 in China and Germany and Amazon/kindle. He writes a Tribune syndicated career advice column, blogs for Business Insider, Fast Company, Huffington Post and Psychology Today. A partial list of companies he has worked with include: GE, Goldman Sachs, Xerox, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Cisco, Time Warner, Disney, ESPN, British Airways.

Visit Mark Goulston’s website at www.MarkGoulston.com

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Diane Katz PhD: Monday, October 31, 2011

Dr. Katz has worked with organizations, professionals for over 40 years. With a Masters Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution from Union Institute, she has applied her education to organizations large and small.

Diane has spoken to groups across the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Canada. She has spoken about decision-making, conflict resolution, organization development, and professional development. She thoroughly engages her audiences with intelligence and wit.

After working in the New York City Board of Education, she went on to a business career, working for American Express, Chase, and KPMG. Her last corporate position was Vice President of Human Resources for Alexander & Alexander, where she was responsible for over 7,000 employees nationwide.

Dr. Katz started her consulting company, The Working Circle, in 1995. The Working Circle provides organizational development, human resources, teambuilding, training and coaching to organizations of all sizes. Some of her company’s clients have included Pricewaterhouse Coopers, The University of Arizona, Raytheon Missile Systems, U.S. Border Patrol, The Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona, Westin La Paloma Resort, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, DR Horton Homebuilders, YWCA of Southern Arizona, and The Leavitt Group.

The Working Circle®, the process that Diane developed in her Doctoral work, has gotten praise for its ease and ability to assist groups and individuals in making decisions and resolving conflicts. Clients have made critical professional decisions using the process, with minimal upset and lack of clarity.

Diane’s presentations are greeted with great enthusiasm. She presents challenging material with a clarity, lightness, and energy that is regularly given the highest of evaluations.

Visit Diane Katz’s website at www.TheWorkingCircle.com

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Timothy Ursiny PhD: Monday, October 24, 2011

Dr. Tim Ursiny, founder of Advantage Coaching & Training Inc., is a speaker and certified business coach specializing in helping individuals reach peak performance and life satisfaction. His areas of expertise include communication skills, team building, confidence, coaching skills, the psychology of change and the overall quality and balance in one’s life. He received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and his doctorate in psychology from Northern Illinois University. He is the member of the International Coach Federation and the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches.

He has published several videos and books on the topics of coaching, conflict resolution, confidence in the workplace, and change. His book, “The Coward’s Guide to Conflict” is in its fourth printing and has been translated into four foreign languages. He has been interviewed and appeared in The Bottom Line, The Chicago Tribune, People Magazine, Readers Digest, First for Women and other periodicals. He has also appeared on CNN radio news, VH-1 News, Total Living and ABC Channel 7 News.

Dr. Tim Ursiny is also available for one on one coaching sessions. He can be reached at Advantage Coaching & Training, Inc., 480 East Roosevelt Rd., Suite 105, West Chicago, IL, 60185; phone: (630) 293-0210; email: drtim@advantagecoaching.com.

Visit Timothy Ursiny’s website at www.AdvantageCoaching.com

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Debra Reble PhD: Monday, October 17, 2011

Debra L. Reble, Ph.D., a Cleveland-based licensed psychologist, conducts a private practice and facilitates workshops and seminars on personal transformation and well-being.

She also is the founder of HeartPaths, a producer of materials inspiring full self-expression, and a director of Foundation in

Light, an international nonprofit educational organization furthering spiritual growth and self-realization.

In the provocative new model of relationship set forth in Soul-Hearted Partnership, longtime counselor Debra L. Reble, Ph.D., shows how dreams of amazing relationships come true when individuals cultivate first a soul partnership with themselves. Soul-Hearted Partnership lays the groundwork by presenting a series of spiritual principles for integrating body, heart, spirit, and soul and intertwining the combined energies with those of a loved one, while acknowledging the shared energy source.

Visit Debra Reble’s website at www.SoulHeartedPartnership.com

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Tom Crum: Monday, October 10, 2011

Thomas Crum is an internationally acclaimed author, seminar leader, and martial artist. His books include The Magic of Conflict, Journey to Center, and Three Deep Breaths: Finding Power and Purpose in a Stressed-Out World.

Tom leads trainings for some of the world’s largest and most influential corporations as well as for governmental agencies and educational institutions. His work takes him to many hot spots of the world including Russia, Northern Ireland, and Africa, and he has co-led a session in Indonesia with the Dalai Lama.

Tom Crum is a peak performance coach working with executives as well as professional and amateur athletes. For people who love integrating learning with play, Tom offers “The Magic of Skiing” workshops in the winter, “The Magic of Golf” workshops in the summer, and “Journey to Center” workshops in the fall.

Tom’s work in conflict, stress, and peak performance is applicable to business, as well as to relationships, athletic performance, and family life. As you can see, Tom is not just “another talking head.”

As author Ken Blanchard says, “Tom Crum’s programs stand head and shoulders above all others,” or as Chicken Soup author Mark Victor Hansen, puts it, “I am deeply appreciative of Thomas Crum’s phenomenal talent, work and mastery. I want my entire team to take his training.”

Visit Tom Crum’s website at www.AikiWorks.com

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Jeffrey Gitterman: Monday, October 3, 2011

Jeff Gitterman is an award winning financial advisor and the CEO of Gitterman & Associates Wealth Management, LLC. www.gawmllc.com. He is also the co-founder of Beyond Success, www.BeyondSuccessConsulting.com, a coaching and consulting company that brings more holistic ideas to the world of business and finance. His first book, Beyond Success; Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity, was recently published by the American Management Association (AMACOM).

Over the past several years, Jeff has been featured in Money Magazine, CNN, AM New York, Financial Advisor, Affluent Magazine, The Star Ledger, London Glossy, New Jersey Business Journal and News 12 New Jersey, among others. In 2004, he was honored by Fortune Small Business Magazine as “One of Our Nation’s Best Bosses.” Jeff also serves as chairman of the advisory board to the Autism Center of New Jersey Medical School, an organization that to date has raised over a million dollars for autism research and support services.

Visit Jeffrey Gitterman’s websites at www.BeyondSuccessConsulting.com and www.Gawmllc.com

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David Cortright: Monday, September 26, 2011

David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute and Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. The author or editor of 17 books, most recently Ending Obama’s War (forthcoming May 2011, Paradigm) and Towards Nuclear Zero (Routledge, IISS, 2010) he also is the editor of Peace Policy, Kroc’s online journal. He blogs at davidcortright.net.

Other recent works by Cortright include the 2nd edition of Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for a New Political Age (Paradigm, 2009), Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Uniting Against Terror: Cooperative Nonmilitary Responses to the Global Terrorist Threat (MIT Press, 2007), co-edited with George A. Lopez. Over the past decade, Cortright and Lopez have written or co-edited a series of major works on multilateral sanctions, including Smart Sanctions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Sanctions and the Search for Security (Lynne Rienner, 2002) and The Sanctions Decade (Lynne Rienner, 2000). Cortright also is editor of The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

Cortright has written widely about nonviolent social change, nuclear disarmament, and the use of multilateral sanctions and incentives as tools of international peacemaking. He has provided research services to the foreign ministries of Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland, and has served as consultant or advisor to agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war. As an active duty soldier during the Vietnam War, he spoke against that conflict. In 1978, Cortright was named executive director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, which under his leadership grew from 4,000 to 150,000 members and became the largest disarmament organization in the United States. He also was actively involved in the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. In November 2002, he helped to create Win Without War, a coalition of national organizations opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

After graduating with a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame in 1968, Cortright earned an M.A. degree in history from New York University. He completed doctoral studies in political science at the Union Institute in residence at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.

Visit David Cortright’s website at www.DavidCortright.net.

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Michael Patterson: Monday, September 19, 2011

Michael Patterson, Ed.D. is Vice President of Business Development for Personal Strengths USA and co-author of Have a Nice Conflict: A Story of Finding Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places. Mike began his career as an U.S. Army officer and then spent 20 years in a variety of sales, marketing and training roles in the pharmaceutical industry culminating in his leadership of two comprehensive employee development programs. In addition to his work with organizational clients, Mike is an adjunct professor teaching in the doctoral program at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. He lives with his wife and son in Aliso Viejo, CA.

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Susie Weller: Monday, September 12, 2011

With over 30 years experience in providing educational services, Susie coaches people how to increase satisfying relationships both at home and at work. Susie has a B.A. in Communications through UC Santa Barbara and a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry through Seattle University, WA. As a Certified Thinking Styles Consultant through Herrmann International, Susie uses the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument to help people identify their preferred thinking styles. Also, she assists people in recognizing their dominant style under stress and conflict.

Susie is author of “Why Don’t You Understand? Improve Family Communication with the 4 Thinking Styles” (Parenting Press, 2009). Susie also balances brain research with practical applications for families and businesses. For 10 years, Suzie has experience as an Adjunct Parenting and Family Success Instructor for the Community Colleges of Spokane. As a Certified Life and Spiritual Coach through Cindy Wigglesworth, Suzie learned from someone that pioneered the first internationally validated spiritual assessment. Suzie Weller is an internationally known webinar presenter and speaker with clients from Australia to Sweden.

Visit Susie Weller’s website at www.SusieWeller.com

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Amanda Owen: Monday, September 5, 2011

Amanda Owen is an author, speaker, and consultant. She has been presenting lectures and workshops since the mid-eighties on a variety of topics in the spirituality, empowerment and self-improvement genres. Her research during the last twenty years into the nature of receptivity and its link to manifestation led her to develop a system that helps people manifest the lives they want by developing their capacity to receive.

She reports her findings in her latest book The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2010) N.Y. Times best-selling author Christiane Northrup, M.D. says, “The Power of Receiving is brilliant, elegant, profound and enormously practical.”

Visit Amanda Owen’s website at www.ThePowerofReceiving.com

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Brian Grossman, PhD: Monday, August 29, 2011

Brian Grossman, PhD, aka Dr. Brian, is a professional psychologist with a twist! He spent four years in prison (as a psychologist), and is currently a relationship expert, motivational speaker, and author of “Learning to Listen: Did you Hear What I Think I Said?”

Dr. Brian has worked with for-profits, non-profits and individuals at all levels, and has provided training for organizations from IBM to the IRS, from Goodwill Industries to the San Diego Zoo, and hundreds of others. But he’s most proud of his work with a most-difficult population — prison inmates. His efforts in training corrections officers in basic mental health practices helped reduce conflicts between officers and inmates, completely upended the rules governing the interactions between corrections officers and psychology departments, and increased state audit compliance from 20% to 98%.

In addition to his speaking work, he sits on the Advisory Board of Smooth Transition, Inc., a non-profit serving and empowering underprivileged at-risk populations through life skills development, educational and vocational training and mentorship to prevent re-entry to foster or judicial systems, poverty and homelessness.

Visit Brian Grossman’s website at http://drbriangrossman.com

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Douglas Noll: Monday, August 22, 2011

After a successful 22 year trial career, Doug decided that litigation was a wasteful way to resolve conflicts, and earned his Masters Degree in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. Since then, he has dedicated his life to mediation and peacemaking. Today, Doug is a nationally recognized mediator, trainer, and speaker. He has hosted a weekly radio show dedicated to giving a voice to international peacemakers for over five years. His current pro bono project is training murderers committed to life sentences in the largest women’s prison in the world to become peacemakers and mediators (go to www.prisonofpeace.org for more information this project).

Professionally, Doug is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and on the American Arbitration Association panel of mediators and arbitrators. Doug was one of the first U.S. mediators certified under the international mediator standards established by the International Mediation Institute based in The Hague, Netherlands.

He is an author of the books Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts (Prometheus, in press for release Spring 2011), Sex, Politics & Religion at the Office: The New Competitive Advantage (Auberry Press 2006), with John Boogaert, and Peacemaking: Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Human Conflict (Cascadia Publishing House 2002), and numerous chapters and articles on peacemaking, restorative justice, conflict resolution and mediation. He is a sought after mediator trainer, lecturer, speaker, and continuing education teacher. Doug has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America by U.S. News & World Report and is a Northern California Super Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has mediated over 1,500 conflicts, including business disputes, clergy sexual abuse cases, victim-offender criminal cases, and large litigated cases. His particular interest is in deep, intractable conflicts where emotions are running high.

As he became interested in international mediation efforts he observed that international mediators, for the most part, were inexperienced in the science and art of mediation. Their rookie mistakes were making things worse, often leading to genocide or further war. Unfortunately, political leaders, diplomats, special envoys, and retired generals are often appointed to a job for which they are not trained nor have sufficient aptitude. Elusive Peace shows why we can no longer afford to allow political, diplomatic, and military leaders mediate peace accords. They simply don’t know what they are doing.

Visit Douglas Nolls’ website at www.ElusivePeace.com

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Stephen Frueh, M.Div; PhD: Monday, August 15, 2011

Stephen is a coach and educator who has a passion for teaching people the fundamentals of effective relationships. He created the With These Rings model, working on it for over ten years, and expects to publish it this year.

Raised in the inner cities of New Jersey, Stephen is a high school dropout whose hunger for learning led him to earn a Master’s of Divinity (Theology) and a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Clinical Psychology. He has studied leadership with the BestWork People in San Francisco, CA, and regularly consults with organizations and businesses in leadership development.

Stephen has been a consultant to civic organizations, parent groups and schools and has spoken to groups across the country on relationships, leadership, personal success and self-esteem. He has actively participated in men’s gatherings for the past fifteen years as well as spoken at several events.

He brings passion and compassion to the challenges of relationship, the creation of ‘sustainable enthusiasm’ in marriage and the needs of families.

Visit Stephen Frueh’s website at http://marriageconversation.com

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Barbara Oakley, PhD: Monday, August 8, 2011

Dr. Barbara Oakley’s academic career came after a series of globetrotting adventures that got her dubbed “a female Indiana Jones.” While knocking back tumblers of vodka with the captain of a Soviet fishing boat during the height of the Cold War, she was told, “You know too much, it’s time to kill you”— a rhyme in Russian.

Other exploits include rising from U.S. Army private to captain, during which Oakley was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar, and teaching in Qíqíhā’ěr, Manchuria—“the Red Chinese equivalent of Fargo, North Dakota, but with six million people,” she says. And she literally went to the end of the earth to find her husband, whom she met while working as a radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica.

Dr. Oakley is the author of the previous best-seller, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend. Now, she takes the audience on a spellbinding voyage of personal discovery through the lens of a killing described in her new book, Cold-Blooded Kindness: Neuroquirks of a Codependent Killer, or Just Give Me a Shot at Loving You, Dear. Oakley brings extraordinary insight to our deepest questions. Is kindness always the right answer? Is kindness always what it seems?

A professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Oakley is also is the editor of the forthcoming Pathological Altruism (Oxford University Press). One of the few women to hold a doctorate in systems engineering, Oakley is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – the world’s largest bioengineering organization. Her research highlights how neuroscience is informing our understanding of complex societal issues. Oakley has been at the forefront of efforts to expand the bioengineering profession and has won teaching-related awards from such organizations as the National Science Foundation. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times to the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience.

Harvard’s E.O. Wilson has called Oakley’s research “wonderful!” while National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates has called her writing “riveting and disturbing.”

Visit Barbara Oakley’s website at www.BarbaraOakley.com

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Violet P. Woodhouse, JD: Monday, August 1, 2011

Violet P. Woodhouse, noted author, lecturer, seminar presenter and consultant to the media in the areas of family law and personal finance, is a foremost authority on the financial and tax aspects of divorce. A practicing family law attorney as well as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, she pioneered the development of financial analysis of property settlements for financial planners, and often acts as a consultant to divorcing spouses and their mediator during mediation.

Ms. Woodhouse is in private practice in Newport Beach, California, and has authored articles for the state and local bar associations and legal newspapers. Co-author of Nolo’s Divorce & Money, she has also written articles for or has been quoted in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Working Woman, Lear’s, Money Magazine and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. Worth Magazine has named her one of the top 60 financial advisors in the nation.

Visit Violet Woodhouse’s website at www.VPWLaw.com

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J. Kim Wright, JD: Monday, July 25, 2011

J. Kim Wright wears a lot of hats, among them: lawyer, author, editor, systems thinker, public relations advocate, coach, consultant, teacher, and trainer. A graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, she has been licensed as a lawyer since 1989. She has been licensed in North Carolina since 1994.

Kim is a leader of a movement in law that is focused on collaboration, problem-solving, peace-making and healing conflict. In November of 2009, the ABA named Kim as one of the 50 Legal Rebels who are “finding new ways to practice law, represent their clients, adjudicate cases and train the next generation of lawyers.” The ABA also invited Kim to write a book and in April, 2010, Lawyers as Peacemakers, Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law was published. It was named one of the ABA’s Flagship Series and was on the ABA best-seller list for most of 2010. Kim is the founder, co-owner and the publisher and managing editor of www.cuttingedgelaw.com.

Visit J. Kim Wright’s website at www.CuttingEdgeLaw.com

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Ken Cloke, JD, LLM, Ph.D.: Monday, July 18, 2011

Kenneth Cloke, JD, LLM, PhD, is a mediator, arbitrator, coach, consultant and trainer specializing in resolving complex multi-party conflicts and designing conflict resolution systems.

He is the author of Mediating Dangerously: The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution; The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution; and Conflict Revolution: Mediating Evil, War, Injustice, and Terrorism, and co-author with Joan Goldsmith of Resolving Conflicts at Work: 8 Strategies for Everyone on the Job; Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict: Stories of Transformation and Forgiveness; The End of Management and the Rise of Organizational Democracy, and The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work. Check out other books by Ken Cloke by CLICKING HERE.

He is an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law; University of Amsterdam ADR Institute; Saybrook University, Massey University (New Zealand) and Southern Methodist University. He has done conflict resolution in 20 countries and is founder and past President of Mediators Beyond Borders.

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William L. Ury: Monday, July 11, 2011

William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is the author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes and co-author (with Roger Fisher) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty languages. “No other book in the field comes close to its impact on the way practitioners, teachers, researchers, and the public approach negotiation,” comments the National Institute on Dispute Resolution. Ury is also author of the award-winning Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People and Getting To Peace (released in paperback under the title The Third Side.)

Over the last 30 years, Ury has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from corporate mergers to wildcat strikes in a Kentucky coal mine to ethnic wars in the Middle East, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union. With former president Jimmy Carter, he cofounded the International Negotiation Network, a non-governmental body seeking to end civil wars around the world. During the 1980s, he helped the US and Soviet governments create nuclear crisis centers designed to avert an accidental nuclear war. In that capacity, he served as a consultant to the Crisis Management Center at the White House. More recently, Ury has served as a third party in helping to end a civil war in Aceh, Indonesia, and helping to prevent one in Venezuela.

Ury has taught negotiation to tens of thousands of corporate executives, labor leaders, diplomats and military officers around the world. He helps organizations endeavor to reach mutually profitable agreements with customers, suppliers, unions, and joint-venture partners.

Ury is also co-founder of the e-Parliament (www.e-parl.net), which offers the 25,000 members of congress and parliament around the world an Internet-based forum in which they can learn from one another other about legislative solutions that work and together tackle global problems such as climate change, energy efficiency, and terrorism. His most recent project is the Abraham Path Initiative (www.abrahampath.org), which seeks to connect the human family step by step by creating a permanent route of cross-cultural tourism in the Middle East that retraces the footsteps of Abraham, the unifying figure of many faiths and peoples.

Ury is the recipient of the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association and the Distinguished Service Medal from the Russian Parliament. His work has been widely featured in the media from The New York Times to the Financial Times and from ABC to the BBC.

Trained as a social anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, Ury has carried out his research on negotiation not only in the boardroom and at the bargaining table but also among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the clan warriors of New Guinea.

Visit William Ury’s website at www.WilliamUry.com

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Leonard Scheff: Monday, July 4, 2011

S. Leonard Scheff is an AFT Board Member, a graduate of Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a practicing attorney in Tucson, Arizona. He is a Zen Buddhist and has attended several of the public teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama including the five day workshop in Tucson in 1993, and a more recent 2006 teaching.

He has organized his “Letting Go of Anger” seminar with input by John Tarrant Roshi since 1993. While the seminar is based on Buddhism through the teachings of the Dalai Lama, he believes these same principles are universal in all spiritual traditions. In addition, Mr. Scheff has attended and led numerous Gestalt Workshops.

Visit Leonard Scheff’s website at: www.TransformingAnger.com

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Anthony Campolo, Ph.D.: Monday, June 27, 2011

Tony Campolo is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He previously served for ten years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Eastern College and earned a Ph.D. from Temple University.

Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE), Dr. Campolo has worked to create, nurture and support programs for “at-risk” children in cities across North America, and has helped establish schools and universities in several developing countries.

Dr. Campolo is a media commentator on religious, social and political matters, having guested on television programs like The Colbert Report, Nightline, Crossfire, Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live, CNN Dayside, CNN News and MSNBC News. He co-hosted his own television series, Hashing It Out, on the Odyssey Network, and presently hosts Across The Pond, a weekly program on the Premier Christian Radio Network in England. He is also a highly respected and sought after guest on radio stations across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Campolo speaks about 350 different times each year around the world for a wide variety of groups including churches, colleges, youth groups and the business community. He is the author of 38 books. Dr. Campolo is an ordained minister, has served American Baptist Churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is presently recognized as an associate pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. Dr. Campolo and his wife, Peggy, live in the Philadelphia area and have two grown children and four grandchildren.

Visit Tony Campolo’s website at: www.TonyCampolo.com

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Nancy Dreyfus: Monday, June 20, 2011

Nancy Dreyfus, Psy.D. has been a highly respected psychotherapist, couples therapist and clinical supervisor in the Philadelphia area for over 25 years. She is considered a major thinker and crusader in bringing emotional literacy into the mainstream, and her recent book, Talk To Me Like I’m Someone You Love: Relationship Repair in a Flash (Tarcher/Penguin 2010) was cited as “one of the 24 brainstorms of the planet” in an Utne Reader cover story and has been a top contender in the current Next Brilliant Idea for Humanity contest. Dr. Dreyfus has developed a way of using written messages to get combative, defensive or otherwise disconnected couples back to “friendly”–and often “mature”–in a matter of minutes.

In addition to getting her doctorate in clinical psychology at Hahnemann Medical College, Dr. Dreyfus is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and a former prizewinning investigative reporter. Her life took a dramatic turn when what started out as an exposé of a spiritual group had her turning inward, heading for a life as a meditation teacher, and giving up a job offer at The New York Times.

This personal transformation had Dr. Dreyfus fascinated with the way internal shifts actually impact our outer world more than the crusades she was used to. She has studied, taught and integrated mainstream psychological approaches with the principles of The Secret, and in fact, for many years taught a class called The Suburban Mystic, bringing metaphysics to Main Line soccer moms and businessmen. In Talk To Me Like I’m Someone You Love, Dr. Dreyfus makes practical her belief that staying connected to your own vulnerability will put your relationship on a more loving, intimate–and saner–track.

Nancy Dreyfus’ thinking has been cited in The Utne Reader, Harper-Collins 500 Ways to Change the World, The Global Ideas Bank, Spirituality and Health, The Journal of Couples Therapy and mainstream publications like Redbook and Glamour. John Gottman, Ph.D. the respected marital researcher credits her with stimulating some of his own thinking on the nature of human repair mechanisms. He reports that the happiest couples naturally infuse their arguing with the kind of messages Dreyfus is intelligently teaching the world to use.

Visit Nancy Dreyfus’ website at: www.NancyDreyfus.com

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Chaney Weiner: Monday, June 13, 2011

Chaney Weiner is a sought after authority on human potential and personal development. He is the founder of the Chaney Institute of Human Potential, an organization dedicated to empowering people worldwide in all seven areas of life (Financial, physical, family, mental, spiritual, vocational, and social) by helping them discover their hidden brilliance and uniqueness based on what is most important to them.

An acknowledged transformational leader and a leading expert on success and raising human potential, Chaney has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing his breakthrough methods for personal and professional success in the seven different areas of life. Chaney is often approached by the media for his inspiring insights and advice. His work has been featured on Montel Across America with Montel Williams, Hollywood Confidential with Leeza Gibbons, Hay House Radio and on hundreds of radio shows throughout the world.

Visit Chaney Weiner’s website at: www.ChaneyWeiner.com

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William W. Purkey, EdD: Monday, June 6, 2011

Dr. Purkey is Professor Emeritus of Counselor Education, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Co-Founder of the International Alliance for Invitational Education. His professional career includes service as a public school teacher, as a United States Park Ranger, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist in the United States Air Force, and as a university professor.

During his teaching career, Dr. Purkey has received the University of Florida Award for Instructor Excellence, the Standard Oil Foundation Good Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Teacher Award presented by the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership honor society. In 1997 Dr. Purkey received the highest award for teaching given by the University of North Carolina System: The Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. Purkey is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award, given by the School of Education, University of Virginia, and the Professional Development Award presented by the American Consulting Association. More recently in 2005, Dr. Purkey received the Royal Conservatory of Music Excellence in Education Award for his work in encouraging learning through the arts.

A prolific writer, Dr. Purkey has authored or co-authored over 90 professional articles, and nine books.

Visit the International Alliance for Invitational Education website at: www.invitationaleducation.net

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Dr. Ani Kalayjian: Monday, May 30, 2011

Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a psychology professor, American Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, logotherapeutic psychotherapist, traumatologist, Genocide Scholar, conflict resolution expert, researcher, community organizer, and international consultant. She has over twenty years of experience in disaster management, mass-trauma interventions & conflict resolution; twenty years of university teaching experience and has been a psychotherapist in practice in both NY/NJ for 25 yrs.

Since 1990, Dr. Kalayjian has been actively involved at the United Nations, pursuing the human right of children, trauma survivors, women, and refugees. She is founder and President of the Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress and Genocide; President of the Int. Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, NY Chapter (1993-2003); Chair of the World Federation for Mental Health Human Rights Committee(1995-2004), Co-Founder, Past President & Board member of the Global Society for Nursing and Health (1998-2004), Founder & President of Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention, Treasurer, APA International Division (2004-2009), Program Chair APA 2004 International. Division, Hawaii. She is the Founder of the Mental Health Outreach Program (MHOP) to the Republic of Armenia, providing psychological emergency care, managing the program, as well as conducting research. Dr. Kalayjian implemented MHOP later in Japan, Kuwait, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Sri Lanka post tsunami, Pakistan post earthquake of 10/8/2005, & Lebanon, Armenia, & Sierra Leone post war. She conducts workshops around the world healing the wounds of generationally transmitted trauma of wars, Genocides & Holocaust.

Dr. Kalayjian has presented her research papers, conducted workshops, and chaired panel discussion nationwide. Internationally, her research papers have been presented in over 30 countries.

Visit Dr. Ani Kalayjian’s website at: www.meaningfulworld.com

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Judge Jon Memmott, Arbinger Institute: Monday, May 23, 2011

Jon Memmott is a retired District Court Judge (18 years) and Adjunct Professor teaching Employment Law at BYU Marriott School (31years). He joined Arbinger in 2010 as General Counsel and is a Member/Manager of the Arbinger Institute and Arbinger Conflict Resolution Services LLC which offers services to Legal, Judicial, Mediation, Law Enforcement, Military, and Correctional professionals and organizations. Jon also serves as General Counsel for ThomasArts. He has prior experience in private practice, as Legislative General Counsel for the Utah Legislature and Chief of Staff/Legal Counsel for Governor Bangerter. He was in private practice representing various governmental, business and private organizations. His eighteen years of judicial work includes over 175 jury trials and over 1,000 bench trials and approximately 300 mediations in civil, criminal, tax, and domestic areas of the law. Jon has developed a mediation and arbitration practice in partnership with Arbinger. Judge Memmott graduated from Arizona State University Law School and has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and a Master’s Degree in Management from Brigham Young University.

The Arbinger Institute is a worldwide institute that helps corporate and non-corporate organizations, families, individuals, and communities to solve the problems that have been created by the pervasive but little-known problem of self-deception (the problem of not knowing and resisting the possibility that one has a problem). Arbinger’s first book, Leadership and Self-Deception, quickly became an international bestseller. Launched with no fanfare when Arbinger (and its work) was little known, the book generated tremendous word-of-mouth momentum. Sales of the book continue to grow at an increasing rate even today. Since Leadership and Self-Deception was published, many readers have clamored for a book that explores Arbinger’s work more deeply and that applies that work more explicitly to issues outside the workplace as well as within. The Anatomy of Peace was written for this purpose and out of a desire to help resolve conflicts large and small that burden families, workplaces, and communities. Headquartered in the United States, Arbinger now has operations in many countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Bermuda, and Canada.

Visit the Arbinger Institute’s website at: www.arbinger.com

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David J. Smith, United States Institute of Peace: Monday May 16, 2011

David J. Smith is the national educational outreach officer at the United States Institute of Peace. He coordinates institute-wide educational outreach and public programming efforts. Smith works closely with educational and professional associations, academic institutions, and public groups to promote institute objectives. He speaks frequently to community, faculty and student groups on a variety of issues including civil society and peacebuilding, child soldiers, conflict resolution education and international education.

Before joining the institute in 2005, his work focused on teaching at the college and university level. As a Fulbright scholar, Smith taught peace studies and alternative dispute resolution at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia. He has also taught at the undergraduate level at Harford Community College, Goucher College, Towson University, and Stevenson University, and at the graduate level at George Mason University. Through USIP, he has traveled widely around the U.S. consulting with colleges and universities on approaches to teaching peace. He has also worked in the fields of domestic and community conflict resolution, and as a practicing attorney. He has lectured on American mediator practice at Uppsala University in Sweden and the University of Jammu in India. Smith currently serves on the Rockville, Maryland Human Rights Commission and has published in the International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Smith holds a B.A. in political science and urban affairs from the American University School of Public Affairs, an M.S. from the George Mason University Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress to increase the nation’s capacity to manage international conflict without violence. The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is transforming approaches to international conflict. USIP draws on a variety of resources in fulfilling its congressional mandate: staff, grantees, fellows, research, education, training, innovation, outreach, publications, and national and international partnerships

Visit the United States Institute of Peace website at: www.usip.org

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Paula Garb: Monday, May 9, 2011

Paula Garb is Co-Director and co-founder of UC Irvine’s Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. She is a lecturer in anthropology, director of the minor in conflict resolution, and director of the minor in civic and community engagement at the University of California, Irvine. She is a facilitator and researcher of citizen peacebuilding projects.

Garb spent 17 years living and working in Moscow, where she received her M.A. in anthropology from Moscow State University and later completed her doctorate in anthropology from the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Anthropology. She ultimately secured a job as a field producer for CBS News in Moscow, where she worked until she came to UCI in 1991.

After returning to live and work in the U.S. she has studied the mobilization of activists around environmental problems associated with the nuclear weapons complex in Russia and the role of citizen initiatives in the ethnic conflicts of the Caucasus. Since 1995, with funding from the University of California, the JAMS Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, USAID, and the Winston Foundation for World Peace, she has been promoting citizen peacebuilding activities and research. Her primary project has focused on facilitating and studying peacebuilding efforts between Abkhaz and Georgian academics, journalists, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, and politicians.

In 1999 she initiated a coordination network of peacebuilding projects and organizations working in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, and continues to foster the network. Garb has been using her long-term and in-depth experience and research data from the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict to examine and compare how citizens are helping to resolve disputes in other conflict zones, such as Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Middle East, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. She draws on these experiences for courses in conflict resolution that she teaches for UCI students and Los Angeles gang intervention workers. Her work has also led to a number of publications in academic and other journals.

Visit Paula Garb’s website at: www.ccpb.org

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Bill Wilmot, Ph.D.:  Monday, May 2, 2011

Bill specializes in conflict and mediation, especially in the workplace, is Director of the Collaboration Institute, and an Advanced Practitioner with the Association for Conflict Resolution. He has intervened in over 400 disputes and helped diverse organizations over the past 25 years with a variety of issues. His major conflict publications are the co-authored Interpersonal Conflict, 8th edition and Artful Mediation. the Interpersonal conflict book has made a major impact on understanding how conflict originates and what practical steps one can take.

Bill has an active local and international practice having worked with clients from Italy, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Japan, Belgium, Sweden, Taiwan, England, Singapore, New Zealand, Denmark and the U.S. Bill was one of the key architects of the 5 Disciplines of Innovation workshops, where he specializes in team issues, and he is co-author, with Curt Carlson, CEO of SRI International of Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want.

Visit Bill Wilmot’s website at: www.collaborationinstitute.com

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Gary Harper: Monday, April 18, 2011

Gary Harper is the principal of Harper and Associates. He is a trainer, writer and facilitator who specializes in conflict resolution. Through his unique blend of experience as a personal injury lawyer, general manager, insurance regulator and retail store owner, he learned the value of clear communication and conflict resolution skills. Since 1991 he has trained and mediated in a wide variety of organizations – from health care to the film industry to many levels of government.

He is a member of the instructional team of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the Justice Institute of B. C. and recently authored The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home.

Visit Gary Harper’s website at: www.joyofconflict.com

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Andrew Oser: Monday April 11, 2011

A coach and trainer since 1970, Andrew Oser has helped more than 50,000 children and adults to express their highest potential. Currently, through his business, Summit Coaching Services, he offers life and executive coaching sessions, as well as seminars and retreats.

As the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Joy of Sports Foundation, he developed and ran programs which served more than 50.000 at-risk children across the United States. His work with the Joy of Sports Foundation was recognized as a Point of Light by the White House.

Andrew has spoken and given workshops throughout North America and Asia, and has conducted seminars for major corporations such as General Dynamics and HBO. He is the author of The Joy of Tennis and Star Power for Preschoolers, and the recently published How Alternation Can Change Your Life.  Mr. Oser is a summa cum laude graduate of PrincetonUniversity.

Visit Andrew Oser’s website at: http://www.summitcoachingservices.net

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