Born in 1952, a water dragon, I am the child of a homesteader in northern BC. During the harmonic convergence many of us awoke and started networking the New Age philosophies, I am one of many doing that. I organize the Spring Festival of Awareness, for the past 28 years, publish Issues Magazine for 26 years, and married Richard Ortega 10 years ago who owns the Johnsons Landing Retreat.bc.ca where we are doing our best to become a canadian version of Findhorn. More data about me on  my website, click the Musing button. It is a 25 year blog about becoming 'me.' probably one of the oldest running blogs out there. I dont even consider myself a writer but my angels asked to write it and God asked me to publish the magazine and title it Issues for Empowerment.  I feel like I have passed my final angel exam and the wings are my diploma. Living in Angel time has many interesting moments of understanding.

Brad Olsen is  an award-winning travel writer, publisher and producer. He gained notoriety in February, 2010 when his travel guide Sacred Places North America: 108 Destinations (2nd ed.) won the Bay Area Travel Writers top gold prize award.  Several other of his books…

Although the professional task of book publishing occupies most of his year, Brad Olsen is also the founder and event producer of the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco, the city where he currently resides. Between writing online and print publication articles, new book chapters, and posting on social media, he also manages various websites, does marketing work, special sales fulfillment, administrative tasks, manages various projects with outsourced collaborators, and produces one of the largest festivals in The City. Wearing his publisher’s hat, he makes the stated goal of only releasing only the kinds of books he would value owning himself, which incorporates thought-provoking and critical content, and with a wide appeal to readers. His book publishing business CCC Publishing is distributed by Independent Publishers Group.

How Weird Street Faire in downtown San Francisco. The annual springtime event features a dozen stages of costumed performers, electronic music DJs, dancing in the street, and ample art projects commissioned for the 20k-person event. The How Weird Street Faire is centered at Second and Howard Street. How Weird = Howard, get it?

PUBLISHER AT CCC PUBLISHING: Brad Olsen has been a published artist since he was a political cartoonist in high school and college. He took his passion of the printed format from Illinois to California in 1995 when he founded Consortium of Collective Consciousness Publishing in San Francisco, the city where he currently resides. CCC Publishing has released one DVD and 22 book titles by numerous authors.

EVENT PRODUCER OF THE HOW WEIRD STREET FAIRE: In addition to running his book publishing business, Brad Olsen is also the founder and event producer of the wildly popularBrad Olsen’s passion for writing goes far beyond his book publishing business or the online content he produces. His books have reached a wide audience across the country and have won numerous awards. His work has been reviewed in top publications and he continues to lecture nationwide on various subjects. He has appeared on dozens of television and nationally syndicated radio shows over the course of two decades. Yet for all the fanfare, Brad Olsen likes to spend time with his friends and family, while attempting to be outdoors as much as possible.

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF NINE BOOKS: Brad Olsen started his writing career in 1996 with the advent of his book "World Stompers" which was called a "subversive masterpiece of travel writing" by film director Oliver Stone. Each book he wrote in the "Sacred Places: 108 Destinations" was either nominated or won an award for excellence in writing. Brad Olsen's latest "Esoteric Series" of books has already hit the pavement running with a Pinnacle Book Award first prize in the category of "New Age." Brad's stated purpose is valuing the reader's time and purchase, and creating a book he would want to own himself.

Ellie Drake is an expert in teaching Ease of Purpose from a physiological, emotional, and even entrepreneurial perspective... As a doctor, visionary and prosperity creator, she is passionate about applying her expanding insight to living in her potential. 

"Blossoming into my essence is at the core of my purpose... All else overflows from there"...she says.

 Ellie is an active member of the BraveHeart Women Global Community where many visionaries from around the world are in authentic collaboration.

Ken Ferber has more than 30 years of expertise in reputation management, CEO branding and crisis communications. He is one of the few executives to lead reputation and communications functions in all three sectors - corporate, government and not-for-profit. He has represented such entities as a multi-billion dollar healthcare company, the Los Angeles Police Commission, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Ferber is the founder and CEO of Trueify®, which helps professionals develop their unique personal brand and teaches them how to protect their reputation within the social media environment.

TRUEIFY is a family of professional reputation training modules for corporations, executives and recent graduates. TRUEIFY is also a family of “reputation defense” modules, teaching individuals and entities how to protect their reputation in the online and digital world. TRUEIFY trains targeted audiences how to successfully enhance their career path and their company’s reputation by exploiting and manipulating social media.

Since his teen years, he has been an impassioned student of the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. This past June, he made is first trip to Germany and Poland to learn firsthand of the horrors of the Holocaust, and to study how Germany has been remaking its image as it relates to its role of the murder of six million Jews.

Ferber is a graduate of The George Washington University where he witnessed firsthand the demise of the Nixon White House during Watergate.

A reporter once remarked in his article that Feng Shui Master Diana Garber "isn't your typical candle sniffing cloud watcher". In fact, her results have transformed the minds of many skeptics.  She has achieved much success in the Feng Shui world serving as the Feng Shui practitioner for the Ohio State University. Diana is the 1st Feng Shui Master to speak at a national medical convention and has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX and NPR.

Sara Troy, producer/host of 'Self Discovery Radio'

CHAZZ FRICHTEL

As a bassist, singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist, Chazz has recorded and performed with artists as talented and diverse as Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, Chuck Mangione, Wilson/Phillips, Karla Bonoff, Perla Batalla, David Pack, America, Chaka Khan, Gregory Hines, Sheena Easton, Vonda Shepard and many others.

He can also be heard singing the theme to NBC’s syndicated hit sitcom “Saved By The Bell” which has aired continually since 1990.

Chazz has appeared on numerous recordings for television and film soundtracks, commercials, jingles, and many recording projects.

He is a long standing member of AFTRA/SAG and endorses Sadowsky Guitars NYC and Ernie Ball/Music Man.

KRISTA PARKINSON

With 18 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Krista Parkinson guides hundreds of executives, assistants, producers, talent, crew, students and others in the art of gainful employment in the entertainment industry. Those same principles can be applied by any recent graduate to any sector of business.

When Krista moved to Hollywood in 1997 fresh from Brigham Young University, she had no idea how to find her first job in the entertainment world, much less how to help anyone else. With a phone call from her grandfather and a little luck, she was able to get her first job as a temp at the iconic William Morris talent agency (now WME/IMG).

She worked her way up the career ladder from assistant to talent agent in the then burgeoning reality TV department. She represented talent, producers, directors and writers in the alternative television arena. She secured and negotiated deals with most of the major television outlets such as; CBS, ABC, Fox, NBC, HBO, Bravo, E!/Style, MTV, VH-1, TV Guide Channel, GSN, Paramount Syndication, Sony Distribution, Buena Vista Television and Telepictures. With this experience, she left the representation business to work as the VP of Development for Tony Hawk’s production company 900 Films.

From 2007-14, Ms. Parkinson worked as Senior Vice President of business development and marketing for Content Partners, a unique entertainment finance company that buys backend profit participations in Film and Television. Her responsibilities included developing and maintaining strong relationships with lawyers, managers, wealth managers, and others who have entertainment industry clients while assisting in raising capital for the funds, marketing and working in various stages of the deal making process.

In 2012, ABC Family bought a sitcom based on her life’s experiences where she served as Executive Producer.

Krista serves as an adjunct Professor in the Cinema School at USC where she teaches a course she created called “Breaking Into the Entertainment Business” which empowers students to find and land their first internships and jobs in the entertainment field.