Ashley Ondrick is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, private chef, and cooking instructor based in St. Petersburg, Florida, known online as "a (mostly) Healthy Chef." After decades navigating chronic pain and multiple spine surgeries, she found her way back through faith, food, and small daily acts of perseverance. She is the author of the upcoming memoir Speranza: How Pain Became the Path to Hope, which weaves her personal story together with a collection of family recipes passed down through the women in her family. 

Nicolette Halladay is a five-time best-selling author, founder of Inspired Hearts Publishing, and host of the Radiant Reach podcast. She has guided over 100 authors to share their stories. 

Stephen McConnell is the founder of the Growth Myndset Initiative and a personal mastery coach who helps leaders and business owners build authentic self-leadership. He speaks openly about his own recovery from burnout and the framework he now teaches. 

Alexander Dunlop and Viki Scudiery are the husband and wife team behind The Source Cards, a system that maps the fifty two card deck to personality archetypes and recurring life patterns based on birth date. Alexander's path moved through Harvard and Wall Street consulting before turning toward spiritual study and ancient wisdom traditions. Viki's path moved through modeling, music, and global travel before health challenges led her into energy healing. Alexander is the author of a book on the deeper meaning of playing cards, which reached number one on Amazon's Hot New Releases list in its category. 

Alicia Baca Rush is a speaker, author, and cancer survivor. She wrote The Good Kind of Cancer: Turning Pain Into Purpose, and in 2026 was selected as a featured author at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. Her work centers on helping others rebuild after illness and hardship. 

Amanda J Scott is a kinesiologist, author, and survivor who runs a clinic supporting women and children who have experienced abusive relationships. She's the author of Finding My Way Back to Me, drawn from her own 17 years in an emotionally and financially abusive relationship, and now helps other women move from surviving to truly living. 

Amy Koford is a bestselling author, top-rated clinical and stage hypnotist, motivational speaker, and mom of five based in Farmington, Utah. She is the author of Hardwired to Rise: Eye-Opening Truths about How Fear Holds You Back and the founder of Results Hypnotherapy. Amy has completed thousands of hypnotherapy sessions helping people overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and limiting beliefs, and she has personally navigated severe depression, chronic illness, and a long-term health crisis before rebuilding her life from the inside out. 

 André Crabb is a former Silicon Valley software engineer turned somatic coach and energy worker. He's the founder of Top Hūman and creator of the Mindworx method, helping high achievers move from nervous system dysregulation back into genuine internal alignment. 

Ash Fox is the owner of one of the world's first marriage proposal planning businesses. Over fifteen years and more than 3,000 proposals, she has helped people turn one of life's most vulnerable moments into a memory worth holding on to. She also hosts The Proposal Podcast. 

Ashton Stevens is a rap lyricist and songwriter from Marianna, Florida, now based in Atlanta. His music draws from lived experience, faith, and the quiet battles many people carry in private, and he's known for turning vulnerability into some of his most resonant work. 

 Ben Oofana is a healer who began his apprenticeship at 17 under Horace Daukei, one of the last surviving traditional doctors of the Kiowa Indian Tribe. He has trained for years in Chinese internal martial arts and has completed 66 vision quests. He helps people heal anxiety, trauma, heartbreak, and stuck relationship patterns. 

Beth Wilson is an international best-selling author, speaker, and transformational life coach, and a former U.S. Congress staffer. Her memoir Escaping Crazytown traces her own spiritual adventure through hardship toward healing. 

Billie Jo Aasen is the CEO of The Festival Company and executive producer of Extreme Mudfest, Canada's largest mud and music festival, which she recently took international. She also co-leads the Lifted Foundation for youth mental health. 

Brheanna "Breezy" Myers is a coach, author, and energy healing practitioner, founder of Light and Breezy Coaching in Minnesota. Her work centers on the nervous system, subconscious patterns, and energetic healing. 

Brooke DeBoer is a certified life coach, author, advocate, and producer based in Southern Oregon. She is the author of Living the FreeLife: A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Bullying and Abuse and Living the Life of Your Dreams, a book featured in Tony and Sage Robbins' She's Unstoppable summit. Through her coaching practice FreeLife Coaching, she helps women heal from trauma, rebuild their identity, and step into purposeful living. She is also the creator of the docuseries Fastlife, available on Amazon Prime and YouTube. 

Carine Van Hee is a Belgian author, artist, and speaker based in Norway. She is a voice for the Family Justice Center Alliance in Europe and the author of Is It Me? The Hidden System Behind Toxic Relationships. Her work draws on her own lived experience to help survivors recognize emotional manipulation before they have the words for it. 

Catherine Crestani is an Australian author, intuitive mentor, and the founder of Willow Healing. She writes dark romance, romantic thrillers, psychological fiction, and spiritual non-fiction, with work that explores obsession, power, intimacy, consciousness, and the psychological impact of technology on modern relationships. She is the creator of Pillars for Life, a body of spiritual and personal development work focused on self-sovereignty, nervous system regulation, energetic boundaries, and embodied awareness, and the host of the Willow Healing Matters podcast. Her novel My Virtual Obsession is out now. 

Christopher Swing is President and CEO of Vantage Surgical Solutions, a healthcare company bringing specialty surgical care to rural communities across 23 U.S. states. He has held nearly every leadership seat in the company, from CFO to COO to CEO, and speaks openly about purpose driven leadership and the emotional side of building something that lasts. 

Clive Moore is a 25-year entrepreneur and founder of Agency in a Box, which builds software for solopreneurs and small agencies. He has started, lost, and rebuilt several companies over his career.

Constance Lewis is a women's health nurse practitioner who, with her husband Andre, a pediatric dentist, created the Colorful Feelings Collection of children's books. Inspired by their son's journey, they help families build emotional resilience through storytelling, color, and play. 

Corey Jefferson is the founder of Esther Media Group and the creator of the COPE method, a clarity and work-life balance framework. He draws on a demanding military background and his own lived experience of grief and recovery. 

Danielle Bernock is an international award winning author, speaker, and trauma informed self love coach. As a multiple childhood trauma survivor, she turned her own healing journey into the foundation of her work, helping people reclaim their sense of value through her S.E.L.F. framework: See, Expose, Love, Free. She is the author of several books including Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE That Heals and Because You Matter: How to Take Ownership of Your Life so You Can Really Live, and is the founder of 4F Media. 

David Nassief is the author of the One Page Wealth Compass. After being let go from an 18-year corporate career at 63 with almost no retirement savings, he rebuilt his finances into a seven-figure portfolio within six years.

David Small is a former Canadian Army officer who spent nearly a decade as a missionary with the Free Burma Rangers on the front lines of Myanmar's civil war. He now directs the Jungle Discipleship School and is the author of Nameless Faceless People: Ten Years With The Free Burma Rangers.

Doug Earl Johnston is a former corporate executive and world champion sailor with a longstanding interest in language, motivation, and emotional definition. He is the author of Choosing Emotions: Thinking with Your Head and Acting with Your Heart, a nine year research project exploring 272 emotional states through more than 4,000 quotes from over 1,800 voices across philosophy, psychology, science, and lived experience. The book has been nicknamed an emotionary. 

 Dr. Blake Myers, ND, is a licensed naturopathic physician, author, and assistant professor in integrative and functional nutrition at Saybrook University. They created The Bridge System, a naturopathic framework for navigating perimenopause and menopause through nutrition, lifestyle, and herbal medicine. 

Dr. Esther Zeledón (Dr. EZ) is a best-selling author, international life coach, former diplomat, and scientist. She is the founder of Be Act Change, a movement helping high achievers move from misalignment into purpose, balance, and sustainable success.

Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh is a board certified geriatrician and lifestyle medicine physician, and the founder of Geri Academy. She created the HEALTH Framework, a whole person model for healthspan built around health systems, energy, activity, longevity, transformation, and habits. She is the author of Life, Love, and the In Between, and is currently writing a second book, The Art of HEALTHspan. 

Dr. Jason Piefer is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and serves as Chief of Staff and Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center in Texas. Beyond the operating room, he has built a widely respected philosophy of high-stakes leadership, translating the discipline and precision of surgery into practical lessons on teamwork, decision-making, and human connection under pressure. 

Dr. Ken Kaufman is a sports medicine physician and motivational speaker from Sarasota, Florida, with over 30 years of helping people heal. He's the author of Spiritual Endurance: Faith Forged in the Fire, drawn from his own journey through loss and rebuilding. 

Dr. Khashayar Farzam is a Canadian and American board certified physician specializing in men's health, obesity medicine, and testosterone related care. He works as a full time emergency physician in Kitchener, Ontario, serves as adjunct faculty at McMaster University, and founded True North Metabolic, a physician led clinic focused on evidence based men's health and metabolic care. Outside of medicine, he competes internationally in powerlifting for Team Canada. 

Dr. Larry Smith is a retired chiropractor who practiced for 36 years on Vancouver Island, Canada, a recovery advocate sober since September 22, 1999, and the author of "Embracing the Journey of Recovery: From Tragedy to Triumph" and "Johnnie and Me: Facing the Voice of Alcohol Within." His upcoming debut novel "2084: The Neuroxone Conspiracy" is a dystopian medical thriller exploring the tension between pharmaceutical-led addiction treatment and the irreplaceable role of human connection in recovery. 

 Dr. Shanta N. Kanukollu, known to many as "Dr. K," is a licensed clinical psychologist, TEDx speaker, author, and founder of SNK Therapy, a private practice in downtown Chicago. She holds a dual doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan and has over a decade of clinical experience working across forensic and medical settings, with a particular focus on the South Asian community, veterans, and individuals navigating gendered violence and intergenerational trauma. She also teaches and lectures on diversity, gender, and mental health across the country. 

Dr. Will Tuttle holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, is a former Zen Buddhist monk, a concert pianist, and a recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award. He's the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller The World Peace Diet, published in 18 languages, and the 2024 book Food for Freedom. 

Erik Fredrickson is a life and recovery coach with over 12 years of experience, a bestselling author, and the host of The Recovering Reality Podcast. After walking his own long road out of addiction, he co-founded Recovering Reality, a coaching practice built around helping people break free from what holds them back and rebuild their thinking from the ground up. 

Florian Kemmerich has spent years helping people turn burnout into breakthrough by aligning purpose with passion. He is the creator of the seven-step vocating framework and founder of an AI-powered platform built to help people understand themselves before they look outward for answers. 

Gilsa Fort-Martinez is the author of The Loud Whispers: A Journey to Living and Loving Loudly and the creator of the 4 Rs of Emotional Restoration framework: Rest, Reflect, Reset, and Re-engage. She has spent more than thirty years working with women and their families through major life transitions, trauma, and emotional healing. 

 Greg Pai is an entrepreneur, systems architect, and author of Voice of the Heart: The Battle for Your Purpose, Peace, and Passion, a book mapping 12 interlocking societal systems that quietly shape our identity and well-being. He spent over 30 years building success in finance, media, and technology before a complete internal collapse led him to develop the framework explored in this episode. 

Hanna Kurman is an international speaker, leadership coach certified in brain-based coaching, and founder of BrainShift. She's the author of a book on the connection between leadership and mental health. 

Helen Ye Plehn is the founder of Helen Creates Beauty and the award-winning author of The Aura Color Wheel, published by Hay House. An intuitive painter, Feng Shui teacher, and spiritual mentor, she helps people explore life purpose through what she calls their Soul Aura Color. 

Jack Nolan is one of the UK's youngest mental health and empowerment speakers, and a published author. After surviving two serious mental health breakdowns, including a psychosis episode at 19 and a later diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Jack rebuilt his life and now speaks to audiences including the NHS, Barclays, and Hewlett Packard through his brand, You Can Become. 

Jan Trautwein is a life and business coach based in Lisbon, with a background in physics and as a startup co-founder. He helps people, often founders and entrepreneurs, realign with who they truly are and build sustainable, purposeful lives. 

Jane Rogers has lived with epilepsy for over thirty years. She has survived multiple brain surgeries and countless seizures, and wrote about it all in her memoir, Laughing Through the Storm. 

Jasper Calcara is a personal development advocate, speaker, and author currently developing a structured framework to help people approach acceptance, self-worth, and healing. His work draws on his own experience of rebuilding his inner life after years of external achievement masking unresolved personal pain. He shares his philosophy through his website, social media, and YouTube, and is working on a forthcoming book. 

Jay Jacobson is a funeral director turned disaster responder turned entrepreneur. He was called to testify before the United States Senate on funeral ethics, and he's the author of Lead by Legendary Example, a book about leadership built from the inside out. 

Jay Setchell is a Marine Corps veteran, serial entrepreneur, and author based in Central Texas. He has survived three near-death experiences and more than 70 surgeries, and lives with serious spinal conditions. He is the author of "The Strength Within You: It's Always Too Soon to Quit!" and speaks and writes about resilience, mindset, faith, and the inner strength that carries people through their most impossible moments. 

Jenny White is a Canadian author and retired Registered Nurse of more than thirty years. After surgery for a brain tumor, she turned to writing as a path forward and now creates medical thrillers drawn from her experience as both nurse and patient. 

Jennifer Hendershott is a four-time fitness champion, speaker, entrepreneur, and humanitarian, and author of the memoir Life in One Shott. She founded Phat Camp, an international fitness and empowerment program for women, and does humanitarian work supporting families affected by hurricanes. 

Jordan Miller is the founder of Satori Network, a decentralised AI and blockchain project designed to make distributed, community-powered predictions about temporal data. With a background in philosophy and information systems from the University of Utah, Jordan has spent his career sitting at the intersection of technology and human awareness. He is also Lead Developer at Moontree, a distributed finance company. His work on Satori is rooted in the same question that drives this episode: what does it mean to pay attention, and who ultimately controls where that attention goes. 

Julie Barth is a writer, mother of six, and a trauma survivor. She founded the Colin James Barth Outreach, a non-profit for women-led households in crisis, and wrote the memoir Notes from a BlackBerry. 

Katie Jean Hadiaris is an ICF-certified somatic and trauma-informed coach with over 20 years of experience in HR and corporate leadership. She's the founder of Work Is Not Family, a movement that challenges some of the most deeply held myths about what we owe our workplaces, and what they owe us back. 

Katie Rizzo is an author, writer, and educator whose son Nicholas died of opioid addiction at age 25. A scientist by training, she responded to loss by doing what she has always done: documenting, looking for patterns, and writing. Her forthcoming hybrid memoir, The Trimesters of Grief, published by Koehler Books with audio licensing by Blackstone Publishing, reframes the experience of losing a child through the lens of pregnancy. Her poetry collection, None of Them Are You, gathers poems from the first nine months after Nicholas' death and releases on November 1st, the Day of the Dead. 

Kelsey Aida is a bestselling author, energetic alignment coach, and co-host of High Vibin' It, a top 0.1% podcast with over 500,000 downloads. Her books include The Manifesting Fix, My Pocket Guide to Manifestation, and ActuallyICan. She helps people identify and release hidden resistance so they can stop self-sabotaging and start building the life they actually want, through books, retreats, courses, and one-on-one work. 

Kenneth Webb is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel with 33 years of military service, including deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. He also retired from American Airlines after 22 years and served as a defense intelligence contractor. He now lives in Miraflores, Lima, Peru, where he wrote his debut novel "Trapped in Deception," a psychological thriller and crime drama exploring betrayal, manipulation, and the consequences of deception. 

Laura Sharp Waits is a licensed minister and pastoral counselor known as the Baking Pastor. She hosts a podcast, has published a book and journal with another book on the way, and walks alongside people through grief, burnout, and quiet seasons of life. 

Lauretta Zucchetti is an Italian-born writer, speaker, and coach with a Master's in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University. A former international marketing leader at Apple, she now coaches women through midlife identity work and is the author of the memoir Painted Red, about her childhood in Italy. 

Lindsay Smith is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) and Regional Director at the Cenikor Foundation, a behavioural health organisation serving Austin and Waco, Texas. With over a decade of professional experience in substance use disorder treatment and mental health services, and 20 years of personal recovery, Lindsay brings both lived and clinical wisdom to the work of rebuilding a healthy mind from the ground up. 

Lynette Sorrentino is a keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Chaos to Boss in Nebraska, USA. With three decades of self-employment, she helps ambitious professionals and women trade overwhelm and grind for balance, energy, and aligned success. 

Madison Witcher is a social media manager and agency founder who has worked across multiple client brands. She leads a team and understands the professional demands of managing social media at scale, including the personal mental health cost of being constantly connected to platforms designed to keep users online. 

Mandy Cai is the founder of The New School of Motherhood, a movement helping high-performing women transform birth and postpartum into a journey of personal power and emotional mastery. A Chinese-Australian Certified Birth Educator, she draws on her own healing journey through childhood, birth, and motherhood to guide women into a deeper, more grounded experience. 

Mary Beth Fox is a Licensed Professional Counselor, motivational speaker, and the voice behind The Inner Child Therapist. Her work helps emotionally aware adults understand the childhood roots behind self doubt, people pleasing, and the quiet belief that love has to be earned. She offers a free inner child workbook through her website. 

Matt Witten is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and award-winning novelist whose work spans House, Pretty Little Liars, Law & Order, and CSI: Miami. His novels include The Necklace and Killer Story, and his latest, 51%, released in April, 2026. 

Matthew Jacques is the CEO of Neptune NT, a veteran-owned and operated security company based in Darwin, Australia's Northern Territory. A former Royal Australian Navy officer with over 20 years of service, Matty brings a people-first leadership philosophy shaped in high-stakes military environments. He is also the founder of Frontline Horizon and the author of the upcoming book, Dictator, a framework for using daily systems to strengthen leadership. 

Michael Ashford is a speaking and executive communication coach based in Denver, Colorado, and the author of Can I Ask A Question? Following your curiosity to shift the paradigm of communication, conflict, and change. He hosts the Rethinking Communication podcast, is a TEDx speaker and Head Speaker Coach at TEDxManitouSprings, and is the Director of Marketing at The Receptionist. A former award-winning newspaper journalist with a Master of Science in Mass Communication from Kansas State University, Michael's work centres on his ASK and SEE approach to conflict communication, helping people communicate in ways school never taught them. 

Mikael Petersson is the CEO and co-founder of eClouds and eClouds Health, a healthcare technology company building Salesforce-native solutions that streamline operations for providers. His work sits at the intersection of technology, healthcare, and the human experience. 

Molly Orchard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in EMDR, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, and solution-focused therapy. She is the host of The Fabric of Being, the first podcast to follow real, anonymized EMDR therapy sessions over a multi-week period, produced through the LA Therapy Alliance. 

Nancy Jasin Ensley is a registered nurse, hospice specialist, legal nurse, teacher, and prolific author across memoir, fiction, mystery, science fiction, and children's books, including her memoir The Tire Swing. She has spent over five decades in healthcare. 

 Pat Pearson, MSSW, is a clinical psychotherapist, speaker, and author with around 30 years of practice. She wrote Stop Self-Sabotage, now in its second edition, and has long helped people understand the beliefs driving how they hold themselves back. 

Paul Hutchinson is the founder of the Child Liberation Foundation and Liberating Humanity, and an executive producer of the 2023 film Sound of Freedom. He has taken part in more than 70 undercover child rescue missions across 15 countries. Today, his work has expanded to focus on healing the deeper roots of trauma and addiction that he believes fuel cycles of harm. 

Paul Voss is a father of eight and an autism advocate. His youngest daughter was diagnosed with level three autism in 2022. He is the author of "Autism Sucks: Finding Hope in the Chaos," a raw and practical account written not from clinical distance but from the daily lived reality of a dad navigating diagnosis, meltdowns, sleepless nights, holistic health changes, and the ongoing work of showing up for his whole family. 

Paula Panariello is a retired nurse turned historical romance author based in the United States. A former Penn State nursing graduate, she began writing fiction in retirement with no prior writing experience and has since published multiple novels set in the Jane Austen era of early 1800s England, featuring empowered women characters. Her books are available on Amazon, iBooks, BookBaby, Nook, and other major platforms. 

Pearly Montagu is a health and wellness advocate whose personal journey through grief and healing has led her to support others in transforming their pain into meaning and purpose. She works with the body's stored trauma and offers sessions supporting people through pain, anxiety, and physical tension. 

Richard J. Perry is a writer, lifelong seeker, and lover of sound, silence, and meaning. His upcoming book, In Search of the Perfect Guitar, traces how a search for the perfect instrument became a path to awareness and calm. 

Richard Wilmore is an award-winning talk show host, podcast producer, and the creative engine behind Make Your Day Richer LLC. He’s spent years mastering the art of the interview, bringing infectious energy, community focus, and a classic daytime-talk vibe to modern digital media. Whether he’s behind the scenes editing top-tier content or in front of the camera pushing the boundaries of live video production, he knows exactly how to capture an audience's attention and keep them smiling. 

 Rick Glaze is an adventure novelist and award-winning songwriter, a Stanford Creative Writing alum and Vanderbilt graduate. His books, including The Purple River and Eight Pieces of Eight, grow from rivers, oceans, and wild places he has explored himself. 

Robert DelFave is a grief coach, certified grief educator, and host of the Unparented podcast. Having lost both parents young, he helps people, including grieving teenagers, face loss in a human, non-clinical way. 

 Ronald Platt is a South Florida-based entrepreneur with over 35 years of business experience across the insurance and real estate industries. He is the owner and CEO of The PLATTinum Team, a top-producing Keller Williams Realty team with over $300 million in sales across South Florida and the Tampa Bay area. He is also co-founder of NASDF, the National Association for Single, Divorced, and Separated Families, a nonprofit providing members with legal, financial, mental health, career, and real estate resources to support life transitions after divorce. Ronald has been coached by Buffini and Company throughout his real estate career and has served as a Productivity Coach and Team Leader within Keller Williams. 

Ronni Robinson is a certified eating disorder recovery coach, author of the memoir Out of the Pantry: A Disordered Eating Journey, and a three time Ironman finisher who is many years into her own recovery from binge eating. 

Ryan Castleberry is an Air Force veteran, traumatic brain injury survivor, father, and author. After a motorcycle accident left him relearning how to walk and rebuild his sense of self, he developed what he now calls the 30 Day Mercy Climb, a framework built on movement, reflection, connection, and mercy. He shares his story to help other survivors and families feel less alone in recovery. 

Sean Archer is a speaker and author who went from a 9th-grade dropout, surviving homelessness and incarceration, to earning a bachelor's and master's degree. His forthcoming memoir, The Invisible Leash, traces his journey of survival and reinvention. 

Shelli Galvan is a Master Transformation Coach and hypnotherapist who helps women living with autoimmune conditions calm their bodies, restore energy, and feel safe and confident again. Her work draws on nervous system regulation, guided meditation, and compassionate, long-term healing. 

Silvia Rizzo is an international Grand Prix dressage rider and certified life coach working at the intersection of elite sport and high-performance leadership, where decisions are made under constant pressure. 

Steve Barton is a Gestalt Certified Mindset Coach, entrepreneur, author, and the creator of The Game of Ten®, a registered coaching process he developed across more than forty years of business ownership and personal awareness work. Mentored by Marianne Williamson, Steve coaches individuals, executives, and teams, and his framework was presented to the case study team at Harvard University in 2025. He is the co-author of The Father, the Son, and the Aha Moment, written alongside his son Spencer, with a follow-up book titled The Game of Ten due in the next six months. 

Tammy Corwin is a speaker, author, and advocate who rebuilt her life during years of incarceration for a crime she has said she did not commit, earning college degrees. She wrote Dragonfly: Where Change Takes Flight. 

Terry Weaver is a former Navy Corpsman, the author of five books, and an actor, writer, producer, and director. His debut feature film, The Beast of Trinity Texas, is now on Amazon Video, and he writes weekly on Substack about philosophy, creativity, and living well. 

 Timothy Stobbe is a pastor, speaker, and the host of Meet Me in the Word, a daily devotional podcast with a weekly rhythm. Based in the Pacific Northwest, he has spent years walking alongside people through some of the most significant turning points of their lives. He brings to this conversation a blend of pastoral experience and his own lived season of transition. 

Tony Tenaglier is a quality manager in the aerospace industry, a PhD candidate in industrial-organizational psychology, a magazine columnist, yoga teacher, author, and host of the podcast Work Sucks But I Like It. 

Ulrike Seminati has spent nearly three decades in corporate communications, leadership development, and executive coaching. She now works specifically with introverted professionals who want to rise without losing themselves 

 Zac Baldwin is a novelist and screenwriter known for The Legend of Johnnie Swann and the action series Milk Run. A co-founder of Artemis Motion Pictures and the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, his work often centers strong female leads navigating impossible circumstances, a theme that carries directly into how he thinks about resilience and doing the right thing in real life.