Moises "Moe" V. Vela, Jr. served in the Obama administration as the Director of Administration and Senior Advisor in the Office of Vice President Biden, where he worked with Ron Klain - the newly appointed Chief of Staff to President-Elect Joe Biden. 



The stint was the second White House appointment for Moe, who served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Advisor on Hispanic Affairs for Vice President Al Gore. Vela holds the distinction of being the first Hispanic American and gay American to serve twice in a senior executive role in the White House. 



Vela was previously Of Counsel at the law firm of Stein Mitchell Beato and Missner and a partner at Holland & Knight. He was formerly an adjunct professor at the American University Washington College of Law. Moe is the Founding Partner and CEO of The Vela Group, LLC and MoeVela, LLC - global business development consulting firms. He is also on the Board of Directors of TransparentBusiness, the market's leading transparency and people-management software. 

ELIJAH RAY

Elijah Ray is an international recording artist, vocalist, composer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist with a professional music career spanning more than 18 years. His shining presence, gritty soul, and message of love invite the listener into an experience of what it is to be “in the BAND OF LIGHT’. Elijah, alone, generates a full band sound on most of his tracks, playing almost every instrument and arranging many of his pieces himself.

Both mystical and raw, Elijah’s charisma and musical prowess draws his audience into life’s nectar–spiritual, sexy, sweaty, gritty, and ecstatic.

STACEY GRIFFITH

Stacey Griffith is among the most acclaimed fitness instructors working today and has been hailed as a “miracle worker” by her cult-like band of indoor cyclists, as well as the press. The Founding Senior Master Instructor at SoulCycle and bestselling author of “Two Turns From Zero,” Stacey is passionate about the totality self-care inside and out. She co-hosts a weekly podcast, TheWayNYC, alongside renowned holistic nutritionist and wellness expert, Sarah Wragge where they are joined by some of the best health and wellness professionals in the industry to reveal their methods and life hacks on how to live well-balanced, meaningful, healthy, inspired lives. 

She recently widened her footprint in the self-care market debuting her line of clean, cruelty-free body and face products, under the brand Stacey Griffith Skin. The line includes four introductory products: a hydrating facial serum with hyaluronic acid and Vitamin E, which has already proven to be a standout among the skincare obsessed who have hailed it the “best facial serum [they] have ever used; a body wash/bubble bath; a hand wash; and an invigorating facial cleanser–-all scented in hydrating rose and coconut. Additional body, face, and hair products will be added to the line later in 2020. 

Stacey has been featured in top tier national media outlets including; The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, People Magazine, Town and Country, Vanity Fair, Self, Shape, Women’s Health, New York Magazine, and the New York Post among many others. She has amassed and energized a loyal and dedicated following over the years as well, including many celebrity riders like Madonna, Deepak Chopra, Brooke Shields, Kelly Ripa, Matt Dillon, Kim Raver, Molly Sims, Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Chelsea Clinton, Conor Dwyer and many more. 

Coach

While Stacey is certified on over five bikes and even acted as a Schwinn Presenter for the company’s original “Evolution” launch, it is her life experiences that set her apart from other trainers. Teaching fitness classes A fitness instructor since the 80’s, she also studied Ashtanga Yoga with the late Sri Pattabi Joyce in India and even walked across 12-feet of hot coals as a guest of Anthony Robbins for his “Awaken the Giant Within” retreat. She is also an IDEA/ISSA certified personal trainer as well, and has an impressive personal training background earning success with extreme weight loss and overall health for her myriad of clients.

Motivator

Stacey has become known as an inspirational fitness guru because of her extraordinary teaching and coaching skills. It is this expertise that earned her the position of lead SoulCycle instructor and motivator on Oprah Winfrey’s 2014 Life You Want tour motivating 17,000 people in 84 U.S. cities. Motivational speaking tours have included Columbia University Business School, Tulane University, American Express Women’s Global Conferences, Verizon Corporate and Learnvest.

Health and Wellness Expert

Anyone who’s taken a Stacey Griffith SoulCycle class, or listened to her podcast knows that among her pillars of wisdom is that “you can work out as much as you like, but it only starts to show up on your body when you watch what you put in your mouth.” To that end, Stacey partnered with Sarah Wragge to extend The Way brand to a 6-week one-on-one fitness and nutrition program with customized exercise and clean nutrition plans to meet their individual needs. The Way Six program launched in August 2019 and already has high retention among clients.

Brand Ambassador

In addition to Stacey’s wellness brand affiliation with Zing Bars and Akeso Functional Fitness water, Stacey is a brand ambassador for LYMBR, the wellness company that restores your body through personalized stretching, She extols the far-reaching benefits of stretching – before, after and in-between workouts and emphatically recommends that her riders and clients avail themselves of one-on-one multiple sessions weekly to relax, perform, and recover better, leading to an overall improved daily life. 

Author

She is the author of Two Turns From Zero,published by William Morrow, available wherever books are sold, and is currently working on her second book with bestselling author Dr. Michael Breuss.

BROOKE LIZOTTE

Brooke Lizotte is a Pianist, Hammond B-3ist/multi-keyboardist, Clavinetist, Wah-Wah-ist, Song writer/singer/producer/recordist

Some highlights from current and past studio projects, film, and television music:

Film/TV Music:


Infinite (film & soundtrack, Paramount Pictures 2021)

Shots Fired (TV & soundtrack) (20th Century Fox)
Sex and the City 2 (film & soundtrack)

Burlesque (film & soundtrack)

Happily N’Ever After (film)

Last Night (film)

Artists (studio & live):

Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Brian Johnson ~ AC/DC, Randy Meisner ~ The Eagles, Leona Lewis-UK, Lee Oskar (War), Danny O’Keefe…

Producers:

Paul Broucek (President of Music, Warner Brothers Pictures)

Salaam Remi (producer/writer- Amy Winehouse, Nelly Furtado, Fugees)

David Cole (Bob Seger, Nync, Richard Marx, Steve Miller)

New album (1st of two discs ~ phase one & two) recorded live in “Morning Rendezvous” during 2020 Quarantine titled: Brooke Lizotte 2020 Isolation Morning Rendezvous Phase One.

Available now on CD through his studio, and download/streaming soon everywhere.

SPERRY ANDREWS

Sperry Andrews had an NDE at age four. Without a body, heart, mind, or ‘self,’ there was, and still is, an indivisible, unbounded, imageless, timeless intelligence. This ‘self/Self-aware’ consciousness has shown to be ‘re-creative’ over forty years of experiential exploration with thousands of people internationally. Sperry has learned to teach anyone interested how to effectively recreate these experiences in-person or online. As his interests and insights were largely without academic precedent, his post-doc professors advised him to be self-taught.

Exploring humanity’s innate ability to share a commonly-sensed consciousness, he collaborated for five years with an award-winning experimental psychologist, Dr. William Braud, senior research associate at the Mind Science Foundation (MSF) by utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to the scientific study of human, animal, and machine communication anomalies.

With Dr. Braud, he helped pioneer the field of Distant Mental Interactions with Living Systems (DMILS). For forty-five years, he researched and published essays on a non-material (yet physical) origin for this ever-present consciousness, with complementary challenges that (can) serve life: instantaneous communications, Sentient AI, teleportation, limitless potential, and collective enlightenment.

He founded the Human Connection Institute (HCI) in 1990 to initiate and direct a multinational, scientifically based, social action media research project to demonstrate our indivisibility on instrument under double-blind conditions involving multiple neuroscientific laboratories located in widely separated geographic locations – to be presented in films in the form of scientifically derived images of our interconnectedness, via news reports, print media, talk show formats, feature documentaries, and dramatic films.

To (re)awaken access to our combined intelligence and spiritual unity as a species, he is soon to launch a 24/7 online service in multiple languages – as a free membership – wherein individuals (can) explore their ‘indivisibility’ together. 

He has given invited presentations on human interconnectedness and the Human Connection Project at the University of Connecticut (1988/89), the Association for Research and Enlightenment (1990), the United Nations (1992), World Business Academy (1993/94), Duke University (1995), the Foundations of Mind conferences (I & II) at U.C. Berkeley (2014/15), and the ASCSI conference in Raleigh, NC (2018).

His background is in physics, neuroscience, philosophy, (para)psychology, art and art history, healing, mysticism, and filmmaking. He is the founder/co-director of the Human Connection Institute (in depth bio), a research partner with the Consciousness Quotient Institute, and advisory board member of the Lifeboat Foundation.