Moments with Marianne

Have you ever wondered, “If I could go back in time and talk to my twenty-year-old self, what would I say?” In The Vagrant, a brash young executive finds himself asking that exact question when his world is turned upside down.

Dan Rockwell gave his first presentation at the age of sixteen and has been delivering presentations and workshops ever since. Dan’s fascination with leadership led him to launch his Leadership Freak blog in January 2010. Today Leadership Freak is read in virtually every country on the globe, with nearly 500,000 subscribers to its various social media channels. https://leadershipfreak.blog

John David Mann is an award-winning author whose writings have earned the Nautilus Award, the Axiom Business Book Award (Gold Medal), Taiwan’s Golden Book Award for Innovation, and the 2017 Living Now Book Awards “Evergreen Medal” for “contribution to positive global change.” He is coauthor of the worldwide classic THE GO-GIVER with Bob Burg and 4 New York Times bestsellers. His books are published in 38 languages and have sold more than 3 million copies. https://johndavidmann.com 

Looking for your next best fiction adventure to read?

Mary K. Savarese is a best-selling, award-winning, traditionally published 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.  Savarese is a finalist in the CIBA 1st place and grand prize category, and recently was awarded The NYC Big Book Award for Fantasy as well as the International Royal DragonFly for Fantasy and YA. https://www.maryksavarese.com/

Do we have a clear understanding of how homelessness affects those in rural areas?

Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, PhD, is currently Research Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her work has been published in journals ranging from Ethos to Psychiatric Services to Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546188/families-on-the-edge/

Are you an empath, wishing to develop a self-care practice of healing energetically, self protection, and creating a life filled with self-empowerment?

Suzanne Worthley is an energy healing practitioner and intuitive who has focused on death and dying for 20 years. She has played a vital role in partnership with families and hospice teams, helping the dying have a peaceful transition and helping families and caregivers understand what is happening energetically during the death process. https://sworthley.com

Are you ready to reach out to others, be in conversation, and find new ways to connect with compassion and openness? 

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 

Are 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 

By 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 

Is Love a transformative aspect of the spiritual path?

A. H. Almaas is the pen name of Hameed Ali, the Kuwaiti-born originator of the Diamond Approach, who has been guiding individuals and groups in the United States since 1976. Over time the teaching has found a home in Europe, Canada, Australia, and beyond. Almaas is the author of many books, including Love Unveiled, The Unfolding Now, and Runaway Realization. https://www.diamondapproach.org

Are 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

Are 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.

Can 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 

Have 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

Can 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

Can 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 

Are 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 

Is 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 

Are 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 

Do 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 

Are 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

Have 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 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 

Ready 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/

Do 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  

In 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 

Replay 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

Have 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 

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

Are 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