Learn About Our Upcoming Guests
Wise Little One with Jana Wilson
Friday, September 22nd at 10:00am ET, 1:00pm ETAre you ready for deep and lasting healing?
Jana Wilson is an emotional healing educator, meditation teacher, retreat leader, hypnotherapist, HeartMath Facilitator, and founder of the Emotional Healing System. For the past two decades she has taught thousands internationally in group and private retreats. Jana trained with best selling author and physician, Deepak Chopra MD and NY Times best-selling author, Debbie Ford. https://www.janawilson.com
Attuned with Thomas Hübl, PhD
Friday, September 22nd at 10:30am ET, 1:30pm ETBy embracing our interdependence, are we able to evolve through the challenges of our time?
Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the insights of the great wisdom traditions with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma, with a special focus on the shared history of Israelis and Germans, and facilitated healing and dialogue around racism, oppression, colonialism, and genocide. He is the author of Healing Collective Trauma and Attuned. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, and is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School’s Wyss Institute. https://www.thomashuebl.net
Hiring Veterans with Lt. Col. (ret) Matthew J. Louis
Monday, September 18th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETAre you an employer interested in hiring military veterans or a military member transitioning planning to transition into civilian work life?
Matt Louis is one of the nation’s leading experts in career transition for members of the military community. He advises veterans on their transition efforts and employers on hiring programs designed to successfully assimilate these valuable talent pools. He is the author of the award-winning HarperCollins book Mission Transition, a practical guide for veterans in career transition, and the Career Press book Hiring Veterans, a practical guide for organizations on how to build programs to successfully assimilate this valuable talent pool. https://matthewjlouis.com
The Fullness of the Ground with Judith Blackstone, PhD
Thursday, September 14th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETAre you looking to cultivate happiness, authenticity, and presence in your life?
Judith Blackstone, PhD, is a psychotherapist and innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality. She developed the Realization Process®, an embodied approach to personal and relational healing and nondual realization. She is the author of Trauma and the Unbound Body, Belonging Here, The Intimate Life, The Enlightenment Process, and The Empathic Ground. For more, see realizationprocess.org.
The Eloquence of Silence with Thomas Moore
Monday, September 11th at 3:30pm PT, 6:30pm ETCan diving into a practice of silence improve your life?
Thomas Moore is the author of 24 books about bringing soul to our personal lives and culture, including his #1 New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has been a Catholic monk and university professor and is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. His work brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology, and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. http://www.ThomasMooreSoul.com
Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path with Connie Zweig, PhD
Monday, September 11th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETHave you experienced the shadow on your path for spiritual awakening?
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., a retired psychotherapist and former executive editor at Jeremy P. Tarcher Publishing, is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of the bestseller The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of the Sufi Poet Rumi. She has been practicing and teaching meditation for more than 50 years. https://conniezweig.com
Selfish is a Superpower with Jessica Dennehy
Friday, September 15th, at 10am PT, 1pm ETCan being selfish transform your life for the better? Tune in for a discussion with Jessica Dennehy on her new book Selfish is a Superpower.
Jessica Dennehy is a best-selling author, journalist, speaker, and entrepreneur known for her inspiring work in helping individuals find success and happiness by putting themselves first. A former Wall Street regulator, Dennehy started her entrepreneurial journey eleven years ago when she opened a brand of luxury barbershops called MadMen. Dennehy is author of the #1 bestselling Pivot & Slay: The Ultimate Guide to Mindset. Through her company Pivot & Slay Consulting, Dennehy offers career concierge services that empower entrepreneurs to get selfish and step into their power. Through one-on-one mentoring, she helps clients create an aligned life that includes massive business growth and personal success. https://www.jessicadennehy.com
Scalar Light™ with Tom Paladino
Friday, September 8th at 10am PT, 1pm ET & Tuesday, September 12th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETCan the energy of the universe heal your life? Tune in for a discussion with Tom Paladino on his work and the healing power of Scalar Light™.
Tom Paladino is a Holistic Medical Expert, Scalar Energy Researcher & Humanitarian. Tom theorized that all energy in the universe initiates as scalar energy; and that the sun of our solar system and the stars of the universe are the points of origin, “the storehouses,” for scalar energy. He further theorized that scalar energy is instructive energy, as the entire universe is instructed by this Divine Essence. Subsequently, all spiritual, cognitive, emotional and physical action in the universe is initiated and maintained by scalar energy instructions. Scalar energy provides order in the universe. www.scalarlight.com
World Wellness Weekend with Jean-Guy de Gabriac
Friday, September 8th at 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ET & Tuesday, September 12th at 3:30pm PT, 6:30pm ETAre there wellness practices that you’ve always wanted to try but never had the opportunity to? Tune in for a discussion with Jean-Guy de Gabriac on the upcoming FREE event, The World Wellness Weekend.
Jean-Guy de Gabriac is the founder of World Wellness Weekend celebrated by 8,000 venues in 147 countries (15-17 Sept 2023) with 60 supporting organizations. He also manages Tip Touch International, a training company dedicated to raising the bar in Guest Experience. Since 2001 Jean-Guy has been consulting hotels, spas, salons, and hot springs around the world. He also serves as Conference producer of World Spa & Wellness Convention London; Board Member of the International Massage Association; judge of the World Championship in Massage, and Canadian Massage Championship, and World Spa & Wellness Awards. http://wellmap.org
Meditating Three Minutes a Day with Richard Dixey, PhD
Monday, September 4th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETIs there a simple practice for mediating that can improve your life?
Richard Dixey, PhD, is a scientist and lifelong student of Asian philosophy. He runs the Light of Buddhadharma Foundation in India with his wife Wangmo, the eldest daughter of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku. He is a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley and divides his time between California and India. https://www.richarddixey.com
Finding Refuge with Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Saturday, September 2nd at 4pm PT, 7pm ETAre there simple practices for developing greater connection?
Michelle Cassandra Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, Johnson has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has led Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small nonprofits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, and many others. She teaches workshops nationwide. https://www.michellecjohnson.com
The Power In Your Hands with Brent Bruning
Friday, September 1st at 10am PT, 1pm ETDo your hands hold information that can empower your life?
Brent Bruning is a IIHA Certified Master Hand Analyst, Author and Tranformational Coach, with over 20k hands read including celebrities, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, Beyonce, Tony Robbins, Ben Stiller, Eminem, Vishen Lakhiani, and many more. Bruning deciphers the greatness you carry within yourself, and the life passions you are looking to discover. In his new book, The Power In Your Hands, Bruning decoded the secrets your hands hold, creates a map to your true life calling, and teaches the neural map of your nervous systems so you can live a life of greatness. https://www.thepowerinyourhands.com
The Zen Way of Recovery with Laura Burges
Monday, August 28th at 3:30pm PT, 6:30pm ETAre you looking for a path out of addiction?
Laura Burges (Ryuko Eitai) is a lay entrusted Buddhist teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She lectures, offers classes, and leads retreats at the San Francisco Zen Center and at other practice places in Northern California. She is the abiding teacher at Lenox House Meditation Group in Oakland. Laura taught children for 35 years and now mentors other teachers. https://www.sfzc.org/teachers/ryuko-laura-burges
Painting from the Palette of Love with Thomas Rain Crowe
Monday, August 28th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETHave you heard of the mystical poetry of renowned Sufi saint Kabir?
Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally published author, editor, and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award-winning nature memoir Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (1997); The Laugharne Poems, written at the Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales (1997); two volumes of translations of the poetry of the Sufi poet Hafiz—In Wineseller’s Street (Iran Books) and Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved (Shambhala Publications); and The Perfect Work: Poems of Hafiz, a work of poetry and music (Fern Hill Records, 1999). He has been an editor of major literary and cultural journals and anthologies and is the founder and publisher of New Native Press. He lived in San Francisco during the 1970s, working alongside the people cited in his book Starting from San Francisco: The Baby Beat Generation and the Second San Francisco Renaissance (Third Mind Books, 2018), and was an original member of the group responsible for the resurrection of Beatitude magazine during those years. https://www.shambhala.com/authors/a-f/thomas-rain-crowe.html
The Perfumist of Paris with Alka Joshi
Friday, August 25th at 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETThe final book in the New York Times bestselling Japuir trilogy: The Perfumist of Paris.
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Pick. It has been translated into 29 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as a tv series. Joshi was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. https://alkajoshi.com
Tigers Love Bubble Baths & The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper with Mary K. Savarese
Friday, August 25th at 10am PT, 1pm ETReady to embark on a fantastic adventure with a page-turner of a novel?
Mary K. Savarese is a best-selling, award-winning author and speaker, who is known for her quirky titles. Her debut novel, Tigers Love Bubble Baths & Obsession Perfume (who knew!) a mystery romance with a supernatural twist garnered eight awards. Her recent novel, The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper, is the first in the StarWriters trilogy. A finalist in the CIBA 1st place and grand prize category, The Girl In The Toile Wallpaper, recently won The NYC Big Book Award for Fantasy as well as the International Royal DragonFly for Fantasy and YA. US Review of Books compared it to A Wrinkle in Time and Dr. Who. https://www.maryksavarese.com/
Chakras and the Vagus Nerve C.J. Llewelyn, MEd
Thursday, August 24th at 3:30pm PT, 6:30pm ETDo we have an intricate series of systems that help us navigate our world as both human and spiritual beings?
C.J. Llewelyn, M.Ed., is a licensed professional counselor in her own private practice. She works with clients struggling with trauma and addiction. C.J. is a trained Internal Family Systems therapist and certified in EMDR. She uses polyvagal theory as a foundation for her work. She is a Reiki Master and curious observer of the human condition. https://cjllewelyn.com
Casting Indra’s Net with Pamela Ayo Yetunde, ThD
Thursday, August 24th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETIn today’s world, is it possible to get to a place of social harmony?
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD, is a Community Dharma Leader in the Insight Meditation tradition. She teaches pastoral care and counseling and has taught at University of the West, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and Upaya Institute and Zen Center. Ayo has written for Buddhadharma, Lion’s Roar, Religions, and Buddhist-Christian Studies. She is the author of Object Relations, Buddhism and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology. https://www.pamelaayoyetunde.com
The Well-Lived Life with Gladys McGarey, MD
Tuesday, August 22nd at 3pm PT, 6pm ETReplay by popular demand! Is it possible to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age? Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian, and cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical practice at a time when women couldn’t even have their own bank accounts. Over the past sixty years, she has pioneered a new way of thinking about disease and health that has transformed the way we imagine health care and self-care around the world.
Gladys McGarey, MD, is 102 years old still-consulting doctor. Recognized as a pioneer of the allopathic and holistic medical movements, she is also a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. She is the cofounder and past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, as well as the cofounder of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine and the founder of The International Academy of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Gladys lives and works in Scottsdale, Arizona, where for many years she shared a medical practice with her daughter. She currently has a medical consulting practice, maintains a healthy diet, and enjoys a good piece of cake every now and then. She has spoken at TEDx. https://gladysmcgarey.com
Say It Out Loud with Vasavi Kumar
Monday, August 21st at 3pm PT, 6pm ETHave you been afraid to use your voice and chase your dreams?
Vasavi Kumar is a life coach and licensed therapist with a myriad of in-person, print, televised, and social media experience. A first-generation Indian American growing up on Long Island and diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 19, she learned to become extremely self-aware and take action to create the life she wanted for herself. www.VasaviKumar.com
The Well-Lived Life with Gladys McGarey, MD
Friday, August 18th at 10am PT, 1pm ETIs it possible to live with joy, vitality, and purpose at any age? Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian, and cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical practice at a time when women couldn’t even have their own bank accounts. Over the past sixty years, she has pioneered a new way of thinking about disease and health that has transformed the way we imagine health care and self-care around the world.
Gladys McGarey, MD, is 102 years old still-consulting doctor. Recognized as a pioneer of the allopathic and holistic medical movements, she is also a founding diplomat of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. She is the cofounder and past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, as well as the cofounder of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine and the founder of The International Academy of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Gladys lives and works in Scottsdale, Arizona, where for many years she shared a medical practice with her daughter. She currently has a medical consulting practice, maintains a healthy diet, and enjoys a good piece of cake every now and then. She has spoken at TEDx. https://gladysmcgarey.com
This Is What You're Really Hungry For with Kim Shapira, MS, RD
Thursday, August 17th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETAre you tired of your on-again, off-again relationship with dieting? Kim Shapira, MS, RD, breaks down the science to get your brain and your body on board; replaces fad diets that do not last with a sustainable method that encourages you to eat what you love; and empowers you to be the authority in your own body.
Kim Shapira, MS, RD, is a celebrity dietitian with a BS in exercise kinesiology from Tulane and an MS in human metabolism and clinical nutrition from Boston University. Kim has spent the last 25 years helping people lose weight and keep it off in her private Los Angeles practice. In addition, she has worked in hospitals, sports clinics, and addiction centers. Kim’s work has become the Kim Shapira Method; a focus on 6 rules that helps her clients develop and sustain a normal relationship with food. https://www.kimshapiramethod.com
BreathHub App with Nevşah Karamehmet & The House on Prytania with Karen White
Tuesday, August 15th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETReplay by Popular Demand! Can a breathwork practice really change your life? Join us for this discussion with breathworker Nevşah Karamehmet and how the BreathHub app make impactful changes in our lives, followed by a discussion with New York Times Bestseller Karen White on her new novel The House on Prytania.
Nevşah Karamehmet is an educator, author and entrepreneur who has touched the lives of thousands of people through her seminars, workshops, speeches and books, for over 20 years. Karamehmet, who has conducted research with more than 40,000 people and published 12 books, is the first person to set the standards for breath coaching by founding the Breath Coaching Federation and making the field a profession. She is also Vice President of the Institute of Behavioural Health Sciences and a member of the Faculty of Breath Sciences. In line with her mission to improve people’s lives by enabling them to breathe better, she and her team of expert breath scientists founded Breath Hub, the world’s first and only personalized breathing app, and then the Breath Hub Academy platform, in line with the demands of Breath Hub users. https://breathhub.app
Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, A Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of All the Ways We Said Goodbye, The Glass Ocean, and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. https://www.karen-white.com
In a Moment, in a Breath with Roshi Joan Halifax
Monday, August 14th at 3:30pm PT, 6:30pm ETDo you need a break from today’s hectic, turbulent world?
Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, is a Buddhist teacher, Founder and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a social activist, author, and in her early years was an anthropologist at Columbia University and University of Miami School of Medicine. She is a pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress, received the Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care by HealthCare Chaplaincy, the Sandy MacKinnon Award from Covenant Health in Canada, Pioneer Medal for Outstanding Leadership in Health Care, received an Honorary DSc from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She has received many other awards and honors from institutions around the world for her work as a social and environmental activist and in the end-of-life care field. https://www.joanhalifax.org.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga with Lara Land
Monday, August 14th at 3pm PT, 6pm ETCan a yoga practice help or trigger trauma?
Lara Land is a Level 2 authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher with two decades yoga experience. She has worked in Rwanda and India, among other places, teaching yoga and mindful living and developing programs to heal and empower. She is the founder of Land Yoga, a Yoga, Arts & Wellness Center in the heart of Harlem, and her nonprofit community organization, Three and a Half Acres Yoga. https://laraland.us
BreathHub with Nevşah Karamehmet
Friday, August 11th at 10am PT, 1pm ETCan a breathwork practice really change your life? Join us for this discussion with breathworker Nevşah Karamehmet and how the BreathHub app make impactful changes in our lives.
Nevşah Karamehmet is an educator, author and entrepreneur who has touched the lives of thousands of people through her seminars, workshops, speeches and books, for over 20 years. Karamehmet, who has conducted research with more than 40,000 people and published 12 books, is the first person to set the standards for breath coaching by founding the Breath Coaching Federation and making the field a profession. She is also Vice President of the Institute of Behavioural Health Sciences and a member of the Faculty of Breath Sciences. In line with her mission to improve people’s lives by enabling them to breathe better, she and her team of expert breath scientists founded Breath Hub, the world’s first and only personalized breathing app, and then the Breath Hub Academy platform, in line with the demands of Breath Hub users. https://breathhub.app https://www.nevsah.co.uk
The House on Prytania with Karen White
Friday, August 11th at 10:40am PT, 1:40pm ETHave you ever lived in a house you thought was haunted? The novel The House on Prytania by Karen White dives into story of a woman that is haunted, both literally and figuratively, by ghosts of the past.
Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, A Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of All the Ways We Said Goodbye, The Glass Ocean, and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. https://www.karen-white.com
The Yoga of Parenting with Sarah Ezrin
Thursday, August 10th at 3pm PT/6pm ETAre there practices to help you stay grounded and connect with your kids?
Sarah Ezrin is an author, world-renowned yoga educator, content creator, and mama based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sarah loves guiding people along their wellness and parenthood journeys. Her words, classes, and social media are supportive, healing spaces where people can feel seen and heard. https://sarahezrinyoga.com
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