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. 

Adam Kimmel is an author, educator, advisor, and leadership expert whose work focuses on future leadership, workplace innovation, creativity, human performance, and executive development.

He is the author of:

• Next Generation Leadership
• Sparking Success
• Executive Eats (co-authored with Jacob Zukowski)

His latest book, Executive Eats, explores the connection between nutrition, wellness, cognitive performance, and sustainable leadership.

Adam Torres is a media executive, bestselling author, and co-founder of Mission Matters, a media company that has launched over 250 podcasts. With a background in finance, he has conducted close to 7,000 interviews over the past decade and is the author of 1 Billion Podcasts: The Future of All Media. 

Adam Zeidman is a creative strategist and co-founder of Metacomet Studio, a community-rooted creative agency working with nonprofits, small businesses, and community organizations. He speaks from personal experience, not as a mental health professional, about turning a difficult upbringing into a real professional asset. 

Albert Butler is a CPA and MBA with over 25 years of experience in public accounting and executive leadership, currently a partner at Banks, Finley, White & Co. in Atlanta. He is the creator of the Legacy Alignment System and the author of LIFE: Truth, Love, Loss, Success & Failure.

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. 

Alexander Osterman is a licensed psychotherapist, writer, husband, father, and the founder of Osterman Psychotherapy. He works extensively with individuals, particularly men, who struggle with avoidance, procrastination, emotional numbness, self-doubt, and feeling stuck in life.

He is also the author of the upcoming book:

Quit Evading: A Therapist’s Field Manual for Men in Drift

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. 

Allison Lorne is a certified nurse midwife with over 25 years of experience in women's healthcare, and the founder of Heal With Allison, a holistic perimenopause and menopause practice. She spent a decade navigating her own unrecognized perimenopause before shifting her work to help women understand, honor, and advocate for their bodies through this transition. 

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. 

Amber Petty is a writer and self-described weird marketing coach based in Los Angeles, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, IFC, and more. She helps creatives and business owners of all genders build audiences and grow their businesses by leaning into what makes them distinct, rather than smoothing themselves into a generic mold. 

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. 

Andrew McLean is a former police constable, detective, journalist, mental health advocate, and author of Beaten Black and Blue. After being diagnosed with PTSD following an 18-year policing career, he dedicated his life to raising awareness about first responder mental health, trauma recovery, and emotional resilience. 

Arky Jones, known as Arky, co-hosts the Papa Lens Podcast, a fatherhood show run by two dads based in Australia. He also founded PersonalityPeak.com, a platform offering personality insight tools and workbooks built around self-awareness and practical philosophy. He has raised his children across several countries over the past two decades. 

Aryeh Green is an author, speaker, business executive, and life coach based in Israel, and a former senior advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister's office. He is Chief Strategy Officer at a renewable energy venture advancing solar power across Africa, and the author of My Israel Trail: Finding Peace in the Promised Land, and a newer book extending its lessons, Finding Peace in the Promised Land. His views are his own. 

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. 

Ashley Williams is the founder of Mind the Movement, which provides mental health support and crisis training for people working on the frontlines of democracy. She is based in New York City and openly describes herself as the target audience for her own organisation. 

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. 

Austin Reed is co-founder and CEO of Horizon Dev, a software and automation agency. A digital nomad who has built his business across more than 26 countries, he speaks openly about the mental cost of entrepreneurship and why he pays his team before himself. 

Barb Nangle is a boundaries coach, speaker and founder of Higher Power Coaching and Consulting, based in Connecticut. She hosts the podcast Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12-Step Recovery and works with professional women on internal safety. 

Ben Barbic is a musician, recording artist, and entrepreneur working in real estate and fitness. He wrote the memoir Rise and Climb: Finding Purpose Through Pain, available as a book, audiobook, and companion music on major streaming platforms. 

 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. 

 Briana Bass is a certified professional coach, author of Christian fiction for women, and founder of the blog Proverbs and Pearls. With fifteen years of youth ministry experience and a background in higher education, she writes and coaches around what it means to stay grounded in faith through seasons of doubt and change. 

Brigid Kennedy is a former violin teacher and mother who answered a calling that came to her in a dream from her grandmother. She wrote Lost: The Lost City of Incan Gold, a novel based on her own family history, along with a novella series that followed. 

Brigitta Dau is a certified life coach, Reiki master, author, and retreat facilitator based in Los Angeles. A former professional actress, she is the author of Crafting a Better Life and co-author of Landing on Your North Star, and her work weaves together creative expression, healing, and personal growth. 

Brittany Tinsley is a mental health advocate, writer, speaker, and author of Stories Our Scars Tell. Drawing from her lived experience with self-injury and recovery, she creates compassionate resources that help people feel less alone in their struggles.

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. 

"Sergei Sputnik" is a comedic persona built around exaggerated stereotypes rather than a verified wellness expert, author, or public figure. No real name, credentials, book, or professional background could be confirmed, and none should be implied in any promotion of this episode. 

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. 

Catherine Lang-Cline is an award-winning CEO, entrepreneur, and author. She co-founded a company from scratch and grew it into an INC 500 business serving Fortune 100 brands. She wrote The Rules of the Game for Women in Business and now helps women lead with more confidence. 

 Chip Scholz is an executive coach, author, and speaker with nearly 30 years of experience helping leaders build resilience and make intentional change. He is the author of "Small Decisions, Big Shifts: Navigating Life on Your Terms," and runs Scholz and Associates, where he coaches executives and family businesses through transitions using his five C's framework: context, clarity, conditioning, choice, and character. 

Christina Lewis built Organic Shimmer from a single closet in San Francisco into a multi-location beauty and wellness business, lost much of it during the pandemic, and used that season to rebuild her health and her business around wellness. She is a certified Pilates instructor and the founder of WellPep, a SaaS platform for peptide and wellness coaches. 

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 Dissin is the founder of Knockout Life and High Performance Coaching. After nearly three decades leading major media production projects, he built a coaching practice rooted in grit, structure, and consistent action. He is the author of Going the Diss-tance: 10 Rounds to a Championship Life and Career.

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. 

Andrew McLean is a former police constable, detective, journalist, mental health advocate, and author of Beaten Black and Blue. After being diagnosed with PTSD following an 18-year policing career, he dedicated his life to raising awareness about first responder mental health, trauma recovery, and emotional resilience. 

Dave Albrechta is a coach and mediator who spent ten years as a litigator before leaving traditional legal practice. He now supports people going through legal processes in a less adversarial way, and hosts the podcast Lawyers as Healers, which explores how the legal profession can evolve beyond conflict toward resolution. 

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.

 Dick Wybrow is a Canadian-born, New Zealand-based author who has written more than 20 books spanning fantasy, science fiction, and humor. A former stand-up comedian, major-market radio host, and television producer, he draws on that background to talk candidly about solitude, self-doubt, and staying resilient through criticism as a working creative. 

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. 

Doug Moore is a former wilderness trail guide, former youth pastor, practicing registered nurse, and trained sexual assault nurse examiner. He is the author of The Vanguard Project, a field manual equipping fathers to help their sons navigate digital addiction and pornography exposure, released in March 2026. 

Dr. Adam Suzman is a homeopathic doctor based in Cape Town, South Africa, and co-founder of Immortal Wellness. His work sits at the intersection of regenerative biology, longevity, and the ways the body finds its way back to balance, drawing inspiration from the biology of the immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii. 

Arnon Krongrad, MD, is a urologist with over 40 years of clinical experience, from rural nutrition clinics in Kenya to pioneering laparoscopic prostate surgery in the United States. He is the founder of Ezz, a knowledge-sharing community focused on reaching high performance with minimal noise. 

 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. 

Scott Hall Jr is a long-time meditator, drummer and student of the spiritual path who traces his foundation to the teachings of Ram Dass. He shares his journey and community work on Instagram. 

Dr. Carlos Sanchez is an interventional cardiologist with more than seventeen years of experience in complex coronary and structural heart procedures. He is a principal investigator in clinical trials and the founder of Calmara, a functional beverage brand. 

Dr. Christy Walter is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and former psychotherapist, and the author of "The Tao of Trauma Healing: 12 Step Guide to Overcoming Anxiety & Depression," along with its companion workbook. Drawing on both her clinical background and her own decades-long journey with depression and PTSD, she developed a structured 12-step method combining elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, neuro-linguistic programming, and cognitive processing techniques to help people move through trauma rather than just talk around it. 

Dr. Erik Schraga is a board-certified emergency physician and concierge physician at CrescendoMD in Portola Valley, California. He trained at Emory, the University of Washington and UCLA, and writes The Longevity Lens. 

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. Jeffrey Boone, MD, is the President, CEO, and Medical Director of the Boone Heart Institute in Denver, an organization dedicated to the early detection and prevention of heart disease and stroke. He has spent over 40 years in preventive cardiology, has served on the NFL Cardiovascular Committee, and is the author of the book "A World Without Heart Attack." 

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. Lindsay Emmerson holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is the creator of the Better Behavior Blueprint and the 5Cs parenting framework. A mother of four, she translates behavioral research into practical strategies parents can use in real, heated moments, and hosts the Parenting With Psychology podcast. 

Dr. Matthew Campbell is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of Our Primal 5. He is co-author, with Joshua Semko, of Our Primal 5: The Simple 5-Week Guide to Self-Care. Drawing on years of clinical work, his mission is to help people feel better by doing less, but doing the right things consistently. 

Dr. Norrine Russell holds a PhD from Bowling Green State University with a focus on psychology and education. She is the founder of Russell Coaching for Students, the creator of Connected Coaching, and the author of Asking the Right Questions Before, During, and After Your Child's ADHD Diagnosis. She is also the mother of two neurologically atypical children. 

 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. 

Drew Dorenfest is a marketing expert who has worked with global brands such as Netflix, Apple, Warner Bros., the NFL, and many more as video editor. Now with Client Magnet CRM he's using his expertise to help fellow small business owners grow THEIR brands through more clients, more 5-star reviews, and more sales.

Elizabeth "Liz" Janowski is a movement guide, ritualist, and embodiment teacher who built a community around free-form dance and sensory reconnection, inspired by the S-Factor movement tradition. A mother of two, she works with women on somatic awareness, emotional safety, and reconnecting with the body as a source of wisdom rather than just a vessel for the mind. 

Ellen Edmondson is a multi-award-winning author, intuition mentor, and spiritual guide. Her book, A Place of Love and Light, has helped thousands reconnect with themselves, and she's also the founder of Highly Intuitive Kids, a community supporting parents raising intuitive children. 

Elliot Sawyer is a keynote speaker, author and consultant based in Denver, Colorado. His career spans sales, business development and pastoral work. His keynote and book are titled The Company People Love. 

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. 

Felicia Brown is a Licensed Professional Counselor and trauma-informed speaker who works with high-achieving women caught in burnout, overthinking, and productivity-based self-worth. Her work goes beyond productivity hacks and aesthetic self-care to the deeper work of nervous system regulation and self-connection. 

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. 

Fred Moskowitz is an entrepreneur, investor, fund manager, and financial educator with over 20 years of experience in alternative investments. He is the best-selling author of The Little Green Book of Note Investing and works to help people understand not just investment mechanics, but their own relationship with money and risk. 

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. 

Gina Economopoulos is an author, speaker and end-of-life doula from New York. She spent twelve years as a Catholic nun. Her memoir is Shake The Dust Off Your Feet and Walk. 

 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. 

Hadley Nightingale is the founder and CEO of New Zealand Property Buyers, a buyer's agency managing over 160 properties with a fully remote team across New Zealand and Australia. He's also a father of two who has built his business around a clear rule that success at work should never cost him his health or his family. 

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. 

 Henryk A. Kowalczyk is a writer and political thinker who was involved in the movements that helped lay the groundwork for Poland's Solidarity movement in the 1970s and 80s, work that contributed to broader political change in the region. He now lives in the Chicago area and is the author of "Can America Ever Be Great Again?", a book exploring his views on freedom, equality, and civic engagement in modern democracies. 

Holly B. Gutwillinger is an author and podcaster from Northern Ontario. Her debut novel, North of Broken & Furever Home, follows the bond between a woman and her rescue dogs. She co-hosts the podcast Ramblings from the Little Shed with her son, and is a mother of two grown sons. 

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. 

Jeff Dalton is the author of "Expressions of the Heart: Poems and Devotionals," a collection of personal poetry exploring his Christian faith, his experience living with bipolar disorder, and the challenges he has faced from others, from life circumstances, and from within himself. He shares his own journey toward redefining his sense of worth after experiencing rejection within his former faith community. 

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. 

Jill Aitken is the founder of forBetterMinds and a certified cognitive stimulation therapy facilitator with over a decade of experience working with people living with dementia. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge in physiology and biochemistry, and previously ran a home healthcare company before moving into cognitive stimulation therapy full time in 2022. 

Jody Zarn is a Canadian author who has spent years buying coffee for strangers. After befriending a homeless man named Leroy, a former world class checkers champion, she wrote a book about their journey and what it taught her about seeing people beyond their labels. 

Joel Bein is the founder of Human Liberation, where he helps people permanently release subconscious limiting beliefs using a method he calls belief clearing. He also hosts his own podcast, The Joel Bein Show, and has personally cleared close to 2,000 limiting beliefs over the past five years. 

Joel Klemmer is a leadership strategist, bestselling author, and U.S. Army Reserve veteran with experience across federal government, business, and education. He is the author of four books, including Strategic Synergy and Infinite Potential Leadership, and currently leads work within a school district community. 

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. 

Judy Gaman is an award-winning author, speaker, and CEO of Executive Medicine of Texas. A respected voice in longevity and healthy living, she has interviewed hundreds of centenarians and authored books including Love, Life, and Lucille and Age to Perfection. Her work focuses on helping people live longer, healthier, and more purposeful lives. 

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. 

Karen Rubinstein is a radical resilience expert, author of The RETURN Way™, and creator of a six-step framework used across recovery communities, universities, and corporate teams. She is six years into recovery from alcoholism and writes weekly on Substack about fear, patterns, and growth. 

Katharine Chestnut works at the intersection of mindfulness, breathwork, and nervous system regulation. She helps high performing professionals understand the difference between actually being okay and simply being functional. 

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. 

Kelly O'Hearn is the author of the Arcanum series, a novel saga channeled through tarot and inspired by her own past life readings. After a health crisis and the end of her marriage, she found tarot as a daily practice and now works as an intuitive with clients around the world. 

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. 

Kim Pierce (K.A. Pierce) spent 14 years as a carpenter and ironworker before moving into construction safety, where she has worked for nearly two decades. She is the author of The Hands That Built This, which addresses the mental health crisis in construction in its seventh chapter. 

LaTonya Renee Flood is a licensed life coach, author, and faith-driven entrepreneur who helps women who are successful on paper but exhausted in private. She is the author of I Find My Light, Now Go Find Yours. 

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. 

Lauren Fine, MD is a physician specializing in Internal Medicine and Allergy & Immunology, a medical educator, writer, and certified life coach. Through her coaching and writing, she helps people navigate burnout, reconnect with purpose, and create healthier relationships with achievement, identity, and self-worth.

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. 

Lavern Dennis is a wellness coach who works with clients navigating chronic symptoms like joint pain, bloating, and fatigue, helping them make sustainable lifestyle changes centered on mindset, whole-food nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress management. She encourages clients to become active advocates for their own health, describing this as being "the CEO of your own body." 

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. 

 Lisa Lacy is a writer and trauma educator, and the author of the upcoming memoir Notes From a Certified Madwoman and its companion Field Guide: The Psychology of Performance™. After more than three decades in corporate education, healthcare consulting, performance, and storytelling, she now speaks and writes about addiction, trauma, identity masking, and the hidden realities of high-functioning survival in women. 

Luisa Hogan is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, and mentor on steady leadership, and the founder of the consulting practice Vermelho. She works with founders and executives on staying calm and clear under pressure, built on the idea that steadiness, not strain, is the real source of resilience. 

Lynda Leonce is a certified conscious life and parenting coach, author, and founder of Live From Your Truth, where she supports growth-driven women in coming home to themselves and living in alignment with who they truly are. She spent 16 years in an IT career before training as a coach in 2022, drawn by a long-standing curiosity about the inner world. 

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. 

Malisandre is a coach, educator, and guide who helps individuals reconnect with their personal power by creating nervous system safety, emotional regulation, and healthier relationships with trust, rest, and receiving. Her work focuses on helping people move beyond fear-based control into sustainable empowerment. 

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. 

Margaret Bryden is a licensed therapist and the author of How I Understand It, A Bad Poet's Guide to Mental Health and Resilience. She uses poetry as a therapeutic tool in her practice and originally began writing it as something to pass on to her daughter. 

Mariam Parineh is the co-founder of Viva Valet, a concierge support service that helps older adults live independently at home with dignity and confidence. Drawing on decades of personal experience caring for her grandparents, her husband, and her aging parents across Iran, Malaysia, and the US, she created the Confidence Aging framework, which centers nine types of confidence rather than safety alone. 

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. 

Meggi Rombach is a leadership and transitions coach with more than twenty years across the private and humanitarian sectors, including Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, and the ICRC. She describes herself as "a people pleaser gone rebel," and now helps purpose-driven professionals get clear on what matters and go after it. She is based in Switzerland and hosts the podcast Play It By Your Rules. 

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. 

Mike Dillon's work focuses on the real‑world conditions people actually live in: humidity, air stagnation, mold exposure, and the unseen contaminants that quietly impact millions of Americans. Known for his ability to translate complex environmental science into practical, accessible solutions, Dillon has become a trusted voice for families seeking to take control of the air they breathe.

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. 

Mylena Sutton is a leadership consultant, growth coach, and founder of both Pink Boxes Club and Voltage Vista Consultancy. Known as the leadership fanatic, her work centers on one idea: all leadership is personal, and the version of you at work and the version of you at home aren't actually two different people. 

Nancy Deyo is a former Silicon Valley CEO and Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow. Her forthcoming memoir, Perilous Ascent, traces the fifteen years following a medical crisis on Mount Kilimanjaro through chronic pain, misdiagnosis, and identity collapse, and into a different way of living. 

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. 

Nechama Phillips is a life and relationship coach for women and the host of The Marriage Magnet Podcast. Her work centers on helping women reconnect with their inner world so their outer life can actually be felt, not just managed. 

 Niki J. Borger is an international actor, transformation coach, and guided meditation creator based in Los Angeles, whose work spans performance, storytelling, coaching, and meditation, centered on emotional honesty. She has personally navigated significant loss, having lost her parents and grandparents over a seven year period while living abroad. 

Olga Ramora is an entrepreneur, product designer, author, and co-founder of Moonly, a global self-discovery and wellness platform that combines mindfulness practices, lunar cycles, symbolic systems, and intentional design to support personal growth and emotional well-being.

Through her work, Olga explores how ancient wisdom traditions and modern technology can coexist, helping people cultivate greater awareness, honesty, and connection with themselves.

 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. 

 Patricia Knight Meyer is the founder of My Adopted Life, where she writes about identity, memory, and reconstructing a sense of self after adoption. She is an adoptee rights activist and author of the forthcoming memoir "Wonderland: A Black Market Baby's Rise from Adoption's Rabbit Hole," releasing November 3rd, which tells her own story of discovering she was adopted illegally and reuniting with her biological parents decades later. 

Patrick O'Donnell is the founder of Ignite 5, where he helps purpose-driven leaders scale their businesses and thrive in life through performance and growth systems now powered by AI. He previously served as Chief Experience Officer at a private real estate firm in Florida, and spent a year travelling the world with his wife and two sons. 

Patti Comeau-Simonson is a peer grief specialist and bereavement professional since 2007, holding a thanatology certificate from the National Center for Death Education. She is the author of Recipes for Healing: Working Through Grief, One Plate at a Time. 

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. 

Peg Guilfoyle is a writer, essayist, and author of An Eye for Joy: Noticing the Good World Everywhere. Through her essays and reflections, she invites readers to slow down, pay attention, and rediscover the beauty, humor, and wonder woven into everyday life.

Her ongoing essay series, Motley Peg, delivers free reflections on curiosity, human connection, and the surprising joys hidden in ordinary moments.

Peter Boolkah is an internationally recognized business coach, speaker, and bestselling author of "Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life." Over more than 20 years and 60,000-plus hours coaching founders across five continents, he has developed what he calls the Hamster Wheel Trap, a framework for understanding why growing businesses so often make their owners less free rather than more. 

Afolabi Aduraja was born in Nigeria, West Africa, and is now based in the United States. For more than twenty years he has sat with people who had tried every treatment and framework and still felt bound by something no one had named. He speaks from a Christian, scripture-rooted perspective and shares his views as his own. 

Dr. Raj Javalgi is a Christian author, speaker, and business consultant who draws on both personal faith and academic leadership. He is the author of Conquering Life's Battles, written after his family endured the loss of their daughter, his wife's long-term health struggles, and his own heart attacks. 

Reese Wilson is the founder of UnstoppableLife.com, a keynote speaker, and the author of the forthcoming memoir The Black Cup, about falling in love, missing the signs, and slowly losing trust in her own instincts over the course of a 24-year marriage. 

Renée Calhoun is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania and New York, specialising in trauma, addiction, and trafficking. She serves with Worthwhile, a nonprofit preventing trafficking and supporting survivors. 

Rhonda Shader is a former two-term Mayor of Placentia, California, and small business owner running a local insurance agency. She has served on multiple community boards, including St. Jude Medical Center's Community Health Committee and the Orange County Human Relations Commission, and leads from lived experience rather than theory. 

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 Altman is a presentation consultant with more than two decades of experience, founder and host of the Presentation Summit, and the author of over a dozen books, including his latest, Crush Your Next Virtual Presentation.

 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 “Zion” Roseboro is a trauma recovery coach, founder of The Shame Free Life, bestselling author, and speaker. Holding a Master's degree in Human Services Counseling with a focus on crisis response and trauma, he helps individuals overcome shame, rebuild confidence, and rediscover their identity through practical coaching and emotional healing. 

 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. 

Sarunas Rodriguez is an entrepreneur, visual designer, and the founder of Ask My Wardrobe, an AI virtual try-on and digital wardrobe platform. He speaks openly about having been an introvert who was uncomfortable in public before working on it deliberately. 

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. 

Seth Panitch is a playwright, director, actor, and filmmaker who spent three decades in theater before writing his debut novel, Antique, published by Grand Central. He is a Professor of Theatre and directs the MFA Acting Program at the University of Alabama. 

Shante Alexander is an organizational psychologist, ICF-credentialed executive coach, speaker, and author of "The Emotional Cost of Clarity: How Burnout, Boundaries, and Breakdowns Lead to Breakthroughs." She holds a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and works with high-achieving leaders and professionals across sectors including government, healthcare, and technology, helping them recognize the hidden patterns behind burnout, people-pleasing, and performance-based identity. 

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. 

Sheri Heller is a licensed clinical social worker, trauma-informed psychotherapist, certified coach, hypnotherapist, and ordained interfaith minister with over three decades of clinical experience in New York City, now based in Montreal. She specializes in complex trauma, CPTSD, and narcissistic abuse syndrome, and is the author of A Clinician's Journey from Complex Trauma to Thriving. Her work has been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, and Reader's Digest. 

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. 

Solange Schwalbe is an Emmy Award-winning motion picture sound editor whose Hollywood career spans more than three decades, including work on Black Hawk Down and HBO's John Adams. In the aftermath of 9/11, she served as a safety monitor at Ground Zero and later wrote the memoir I'm Not Supposed to Know This: An Unlikely Account of Ground Zero After the 9/11 Attacks.

Stephan Alheim is a health and fitness coach with over 20 years of experience and the founder of TA4 Fitness. After losing his father to a sudden heart attack in 2015, he left his career in IT to help adults over 40 build strength, mobility, and what he calls healthspan, not just how long you live, but how well. 

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. 

Sue Paulson is a writer, speaker, and mentor based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Over nine years she has explored what it means to live as a magnificent human being, drawing on a near-death experience in 2007 and two bouts of cancer. 

Suneet Bhatt is a coach, speaker, and author of "Making Sense of Purpose: Gain Clarity, Build Momentum, and Find Your Kiran." He teaches purpose and personal development at Rutgers University, where his framework has become a pillar of the university's strategic plan, and has spent over 25 years and 10,000-plus coaching hours helping executives, students, and organizations find clarity and momentum after his own experience with success that never quite felt like enough. 

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. 

Teresa Rodriguez is a bestselling author and TEDx speaker whose talk has been viewed over 1.5 million times. She is the founder of Liberté Press, a boutique publishing house dedicated to stories that transform and inspire. Her books include Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places for a Girl to Travel Alone (Penguin) and Body, Mind, and Solo. 

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. 

Tim Robinson is the founder of INDALO Yelapa, an eco-hotel and community wellness project built in partnership with an Indigenous community on Mexico's Pacific coast. A former geologist who later worked in capital markets, his path has included a decade of travel, navigating ADHD and dyslexia, and a personal journey with psychedelics that reshaped his relationship with himself and his work. 

Timothy Allen is the author of Before the Fall and the founder of the Romans 10:9 discipleship app. A pastor with more than four decades of experience, he has walked alongside people through both the highest and hardest moments of their lives. He is based in Massachusetts, USA. 

 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. 

 Tommy Rodriguez is a life coach and speaker who works with clients one-on-one and speaks on stages in front of audiences ranging from hundreds to thousands of people. His own turning point came in his last year of college, when a book he read changed how he thought about mindset for good. 

Tony Bradshaw is the author of The Millionaire Choice, host of The Millionaire Choice Show, and founder of the Purpose of Wealth movement. He spent 15 years in business leadership with Dave Ramsey's organization, helping scale the company from $3 million to $125 million, and now helps everyday people build financial literacy and long-term wealth. 

Tony "Saint Tone" is a singer-songwriter based in Florida who has been performing for over forty years and calls himself a motivational musician. He plays 225-plus shows a year and has done over 7,000. He also runs a nonprofit that performs for people who can't afford entertainment, including at halfway houses, jails, and for veterans and elderly communities. 

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 

Victor Dedaj is a Certified Naturopathic Practitioner and Certified Wholistic Health Coach based in the Bronx, New York. He takes a whole-person view of health, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, and is the author of How To Be Happy, Healthy and Whole. He also hosts the podcast Value with Victor. His views are his own and are shared for general education, not as medical advice. 

William Bernhardt is a bestselling author, legal-thriller writer, and literary educator. His book Superman Wars presents the most comprehensive account to date of the legal, personal, and historical battle surrounding Jerry Siegel and the creation of Superman.

Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence and interviews with Siegel’s family, Bernhardt brings new depth to one of the most significant creative-rights stories of the twentieth century.

 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.