Moments with Marianne

Randy Kritkausky is an enrolled tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He is a founder of ECOLOGIA, an international environmental organization that works on the planet’s more extreme challenges, and formerly professor at Keystone College, research scholar at Middlebury College, and Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Central European University in Budapest and Lund University in Sweden. He lives in Vermont. https://www.ecologia.org 

Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA left a successful career as a trial lawyer to become a peacemaker. He is an award-winning author, teacher, trainer, and a highly experienced mediator. Doug’s professional work has led him to helping others resolve deep interpersonal and ideological conflicts. As a co-founder of Prison of Peace in 2010—a nonprofit dedicated to reducing violence and promoting peaceful conflict resolution among prison inmates—Doug has worked with thousands of individuals and groups on the importance of listening and successfully communicating. http://dougnoll.com 

Richard L. Haight is best known for his book, The Unbound Soul, listed as “One of the best books on consciousness of all time” by BookAuthority. Haight is an instructor of martial, meditation and healing arts, and he is the author of several bestselling titles including Inspirience: Meditation Unbound as well as The Psychedelic Path.  https://richardlhaight.com  

Have you always wanted to learn how to connect with your spirit guides?  Diana Cole is a spirit translator, thought leader, and author. Passionate about spirit guidance, she is committed to teaching people how to access it for themselves so they may find freedom from pain and limitation and live a life of abundance, fun, and inspiration. Diana offers her empowering tools for spirit guidance in group settings, speaking engagements, live workshops, and through her vibrant Instagram and Facebook communities. www.DianaCole.com 

Nita Patel is a speaker, author, and artist who believes in modern etiquette as a path to becoming our best selves. Schooled in London and a veteran of corporate America, she has 20+ years in technology and healthcare leadership and nurturing teams toward confidence and impact. She is currently pursuing studies in psychology at Harvard while exploring the intersection of mindfulness and manners, empowering people to discover self-confidence and success through the lost art of etiquette. https://www.nita-patel.com

Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist and many other bestselling thrillers, as well as the “Ordinary People Change the World” series. He is also the host of the History Channel TV shows Brad Meltzer’s Decoded and Brad Meltzer’s Lost History, which he used to help find the missing 9/11 flag that the firefighters raised at Ground Zero.  http://bradmeltzer.com 

Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, intuitive energy healer, professor of energy medicine, and author of 27 books about energy medicine, intuition, and spirituality. She has worked with over 70,000 clients and presented hundreds of seminars and workshops across the Americas and in Russia, England, Wales, Amsterdam, Iceland, Costa Rica, Belize, Morocco, Peru, Scotland, and more. She is also a favored teacher and healer for China, leading in-person and on-line classes, and has been published in over 18 languages. https://cyndidale.com 

Sherianna Boyle is an international, Emotional Detox Coach®, author of eight books, including her most recent Emotional Detox and Emotional Detox for Anxiety. Sherianna has been featured in over eighty-five articles, and a featured presenter for renowned organizations such as: PESI® Behavioral and Mental Health Education, Kripalu Health & Yoga Center, 1440 Multiversity University and more. She is an adjunct Psychology Professor and a featured expert on Simple Habit App, and host of Emotional Detox Radio show on Healthylife.net. https://sheriannaboyle.com

Frank Martela, PhD, is a philosopher and researcher of psychology specializing in the question of meaning in life. His articles have appeared in Scientific American Mind and Salon and his work has been featured on Quartz and on the BBC. His research has been published extensively in numerous academic journals such as Journal of Personality, Journal of Positive Psychology, Journal of Happiness Studies, Metaphilosophy, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Review of General Psychology, and Organization Studies. He has been invited to lectures in universities on four continents, including Stanford University and Harvard University. He’s been interviewed by the New York Times, Fitness, Vice News, and Monocle Observer among others. He is based at Aalto University in Helsinki.  https://frankmartela.com 

Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, author, and the founder of the New York Voice Dialogue Institute. She is a former performer who earned a master’s degree from Columbia University and teaches at numerous professional settings including Omega Institute.  https://www.final8th.com/

Nisha Manek, MD, is a physician, author, educator, and health coach. Formerly an esteemed member of the Mayo Clinic’s Division of Rheumatology in Rochester, Minnesota, Nisha is an internationally recognized leader in the field of integrative medicine. Nisha is also a protégé of Professor William A. Tiller and is a student of the theoretical and practical applications of Tiller’s physics in medicine. In her commitment and dedication to innovative approaches to health and wellness, she seeks to synthesize and unify her work as a physician and scientist with spiritual inquiry and practice. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. https://nishamanekmd.com

Paul Selig is considered to be one of the foremost spiritual channels working today. Paul received his master’s degree from Yale University, he is a noted educator, served on the faculty of New York University for over 25 years, and is the former director of the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. A spiritual experience in 1987 left him clairvoyant, and his work has been featured on ABC News Nightline, Fox News, and the Biography Channel series The UneXplained. https://paulselig.com

Bina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House, was the director of global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT. An alumna of Brown University and the Harvard Kennedy School, Bina grew up in a small town in Ohio and now lives in Boston.  http://writerbina.com 

Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing, and is the Senior Editor at ZORA. A visiting professor at Columbia University, Jerkins’s short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire, and The Guardian, among many others. http://www.morgan-jerkins.com 

Paria Hassouri, MD, is a mother of three and a pediatrician practicing in Los Angeles. She is also a marathoner, transgender rights activist, storyteller, and avid reader.  She is a proud Iranian-American and spent most of her formative years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her personal essays have been published in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Women’s Running Magazine, Kevin MD, and Grown and Flown. https://www.pariahassouri.com

Tara Lal is an author, firefighter and mental health first aid instructor. She was born in London but now lives in Sydney, Australia. Tara is a PhD candidate and works with various leading mental health charities to conduct research and raise awareness of suicide and mental illness.  In October 2020, Tara is cycling 5000km unsupported across Australia, the equivalent of cycling from England to America for Lifeline, Australia’s leading service provider in suicide prevention. www.tarajlal.com

Jennie Lee is the award-winning author of True Yoga: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment and Breathing Love: Meditation in Action. She is a recognized expert in the fields of yoga therapy and spiritual living. As a certified yoga therapist, she has taught classical yoga and meditation for more than 20 years, and coached private clients in the practices that integrate life spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Her writing is featured regularly in national magazines such as Light of Consciousness and Yoga Therapy Today, Yogapedia, Yoga Digest, mindbodygreen, and many more. jennieleeyogatherapy.com

Tammy Billups is a transformational soul healer and pioneer on the animal-human sacred soul partnership. She’s a sought after holistic healer, the creator of animal-human Tandem Healings, and a Certified Interface Therapist. She has appeared on CNN’s The Daily Share, Primetime Live ABC, and Oprah. https://www.tammybillups.com 

A widely traveled New Zealander, Jacquelyn E. Lane is an artist and educator who has been involved in a broad range of metaphysical studies for nearly 50 years. She is the author and illustrator of The Children of Gaia and scribe of This World of Echoes. https://www.jacquelynelane.com

Sherianna Boyle is an international, Emotional Detox Coach®, author of eight books, including her most recent Emotional Detox and Emotional Detox for Anxiety. Sherianna has been featured in over eighty-five articles, and a featured presenter for renowned organizations such as: PESI® Behavioral and Mental Health Education, Kripalu Health & Yoga Center, 1440 Multiversity University and more. She is an adjunct Psychology Professor and a featured expert on Simple Habit App, and host of Emotional Detox Radio show on Healthylife.net. https://sheriannaboyle.com

Elaine Clayton is an artist and author/illustrator of several books for children and books for adults on intuitive intelligence: Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing and Illuminara Intuitive Journal with cards and others, A Little Bit of Angels, A Little Bit of Fairies, and A Pug’s Guide to Happiness. She is an intuitive reader, Reiki Master and teacher on intuitive empathic development.  https://www.elaineclayton.com  

Brian D. Ridgway is a #1 International Bestselling author and the founder of Level 5 Mentoring. He is known by tens of thousands of readers and clients in 84 countries as “The Spellbreaker”.  Although many use these words to describe him, he says he is not a healer, a guru or a spiritual teacher but a REMINDER – a reminder of who and what you always were and always will be.  https://briandridgway.com 

Hersch Wilson is a thirty-year veteran volunteer firefighter-EMT with the Hondo Fire Department in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. He also writes a monthly column on dogs for the Santa Fe New Mexican.  http://www.herschwilson.com 

Gay Hendricks, PhD, has served for more than forty years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. He is a New York Times bestselling author and his books include Conscious Loving and The Big Leap. https://www.consciousluck.com/