PINA DE ROSA

As a Mindset Effectiveness Expert, a TEDx Speaker, an Award Winning Producer, an Author, and an International & High Performance Results Coach, Pina De Rosa has been designing and delivering engaging keynotes for over 15 years. She has been nominated for the Los Angeles Business Journal Woman Making A Difference 7 years in a row (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016).

In addition to keynote speaking at corporate and schools functions, and leading her own events, Pina has shared the stage with Barbara De Angelis, Loral Langemeier, Michael Beckwith, Chris Howard, Alison Armstrong, Lisa Sasevich, Debbie Allen, Jill Lublin, Dr. Joanna Martin, Kerwin Rae, James Schramko, Deborah Kagan, Shellie Hunt, Scott Martineau, Johnnie Cass, Sean Harris, Clinton Swaine, Benjamin Harvey, Dave Vanhoose, Daven Michaels, Sean Bell, Larry Loik and Kelly O’Neil to name a few.

Audiences and coaching clients worldwide, from Los Angeles to London, from Sydney to Hong Kong and from Auckland to Kilimanjaro, are always inspired in action by Pina’s commitment: empowering each individual to live their fullest potential, delivering fast and lasting release of those internal blocks/fears/self-doubt that get in the way of us taking action, and experiencing quality of life. She speaks 5 languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish and German), and holds 4 passports.

When she speaks on college campuses, sharing from her personal experience of being raped during her first semester in college, her message is not only an inspirational dialogue on date-rape awareness and sexual assault prevention, it is life saving! Her passion project is BroadwaySniffsOutCancer – by producing this yearly Benefit that raises funds and awareness for the cancer-detection-dogs , she wishes to save people from losing their loved ones to a late cancer diagnosis. She is the president of http://www.gratitudeinternational.com/, and is honored to be on the board for https://www.thenewhollywood.org/

Pina will customize and lead workshops, seminars and keynotes for your corporate events, colleges, private groups and organizations — topics will be custom tailored to your audience’s needs. Length of keynotes and format of workshops vary from 20 minutes to 3 hours. 1, 2 and 3 days events can be scheduled. Her corporate clients include: Galpin Motor, BCBG Max-Azria and State Farm Insurance; and her university clients include: University of Southern California, California State University Long Beach, Ohio State University, Findlay University and the Alliance Neuwirth Leadership & College-Ready Academy Charter High School. She resides in Los Angeles, California.

Having been a coach for over 15 years, Pina works with a variety of modalities to best suit your needs. Here are her accreditations and background:

Master Results Coach

Performance Consultant

Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP

Advanced Neurological Repatterning TM

Ericksonian Method

Professional Speaker

High Performance Results Coach

Leadership Master Coach

B.A. Cum Laude (Major: Theatre, Minor: Psychology)

Fluent in Italian, French, Spanish and rusty German

TOBIAS HURWITZ

Tobias Hurwitz lives and breathes electric guitar. He rocks packed stadiums for The Baltimore Ravens Rhythm Section every home game with thrilling guitar solos from iconic tunes like Van Halen’s “Eruption” and Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” Hurwitz is also a Grammy-nominated “Music Educator” who has authored fifteen popular books on rock guitar, with YouTube videos that have received over a million hits.

When he’s not revving up the Ravens crowd, Hurwitz—named “best guitarist in the Mid-Atlantic” by Music Monthly’s readers poll—hits the clubs with rough-and-ready Thin Lizzy tribute band Black Rose. During the day, “Baltimore’s Best Guitar Teacher” (Baltimore City Paper) is busy raising the next generation of guitar shredders as an in-demand teacher and the co-owner of Rock Star Jam music camp.

Hurwitz was on The National Guitar Workshop faculty for many years and is currently a faculty member at the internationally renowned Crown of the Continent Guitar Workshop in Bigfork, Montana, where he’s taught with Dweezil Zappa and John Oates of Hall & Oates. Hurwitz has written instructional articles for Guitar Player and Guitar magazines and is involved with TrueFire, which produces video guitar lessons from top players.

Since graduating from L.A.’s Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT), Hurwitz has released three solo albums, including collaborations with Santana drummer Dennis Chambers, rock-guitar virtuoso Michael Angelo Batio, Swedish prog-metal “freak guitarist” Mattias Eklundh and other master musicians. Hurwitz also collaborated with Zen Guitar author Philip Toshio Sudo, co-authoring Sudo’s final book/CD, The Book of Six Strings: The Zen Way to Play Guitar.

Live, Hurwitz has performed with The Coasters, Stanley Clarke, J. Geils and many other artists. His solo instrumental compositions and technical guitar demonstrations wow audiences at the National Guitar Museum, and guitar-related festivals and events nationwide.

John B. Wells, Saturday host of Coast to Coast AM, is a veteran radio host and voice actor with credits ranging from radio stations and TV shows, to movies and advertisements, on all seven continents. 

Upon graduating from TCU with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and an emphasis in theater, he took a part-time job at the legendary KZEW-FM/Dallas-Ft. Worth, where within less than a year, he moved into the afternoon drive slot and posted record ratings.  Soon after, Wells left to pursue a full-time career doing voiceovers. During that time, he voiced imaging promos for New York’s WCBS Newsradio 88, where he spent nearly 10 years, followed by WNEW-FM; Los Angeles’ KLOS-FM and KROQ-FM; Detroit’s WWJ-AM; Chicago’s WBBM-AM/TV; San Francisco’s KRON-TV; Dallas’ WFAA-TV, KRLD-AM and KZPS-FM; Houston’s KLOL-FM, KHOU-TV and KPRC-AM; Miami’s WBGG-FM; and the Armed Forces Radio Network.  Wells was heard for nearly a decade on BBC Radio 1 in London, along with HIT 95 in Berlin, Radio ADO in Paris, and many others around the world.

In addition to serving as the announcer for CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn and the "World's Leading Dance Event" Sensation in Amsterdam, Wells has lent his voice to Oliver Stone’s JFK and Talk Radio films and appeared in several other movies.  He has also recently voiced promos for Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch and Gold Rush. 

After frequently serving as a guest host on Coast to Coast AM, Wells became the Saturday evening host of the most-listened-to overnight radio program in North America in January 2012. Each week, Wells captivates listeners with discussions on news and current events, conspiracy theories and all things curious and unexplained.

Actor, musician, writer, composer, martial artist, aviator and broadcaster, Wells finds the ancient sage advice of "concentrating on just one thing" to be true. His one thing: the Arts.

John J. Forster is the Activities Coordinator for the group 'Committee for the Capital City'. He is also Co-founder of Initiative DC, which led the successful effort to amend the DC Home Rule Act to provide for the voting rights of initiative, referendum, and recall. John has been a DC resident since 1977.

The 'Committee for the Capital City' was formed in 1995 by civic-minded citizens of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia who are united in their desire to preserve and protect the unique character and beauty of the nation’s capital city while providing full democratic rights to its residents. The membership includes Democrats and Republicans, black and white, young and old, of many different occupations and income levels. They welcome all who would join with in pursuit of political justice and equality for the people of the District of Columbia.

John writes -  in an article written for The Washington Post 'The Other Path To Statehood', 2016:

"Creating a state of the District of Columbia (or whatever name they give it) faces too many obstacles.

Congressional Republicans almost universally oppose the addition of two new senators from the District and would certainly block such a proposal. It is unlikely that legislators from either Maryland or Virginia would ultimately support a new state of the District of Columbia if that state had the power to levy a commuter tax, as it surely would. Politicians from large states might object to the dilution of their Senate power. Likewise, some rural state legislators might object to empowering the District with statehood for what they see as essentially a city. For these reasons, the chance of the District becoming a new state looks remote.

But there is a better way to achieve D.C. statehood.

The other path: join an existing state.

Imagine the District becoming Douglass County, Md. As a new unique jurisdiction in Maryland, the District would honor one of its most famous residents: the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. And it would retain its unique identity while gaining both full voting rights and full home rule.

Could this approach win the needed support in Congress, Maryland and the District?

Reunion with Maryland probably would gain bipartisan support in Congress because Republicans have demonstrated support for giving D.C. residents voting rights through Maryland-based proposals that would not add two senators. Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in Maryland surely would like to gain almost 700,000 new residents who, with their addition, would make Maryland more Democratic, more highly educated and wealthier. (Compared with Maryland, the District has a higher percentage of registered Democrats, a higher percentage of college graduates and a higher per-capita income.)

Once D.C. residents realize that the state of the District of Columbia is a bridge too far, they will support achieving statehood citizenship with Maryland’s help. Voting rights and full home rule are the goals, and both can be achieved by reuniting with Maryland.

There is, of course, a precedent for this. The District was originally created with land ceded from Virginia and Maryland. The Virginia portion was successfully returned to Virginia in 1847 after Virginia voters approved it the prior year.

Douglass County, Md., is the best path to D.C. statehood."

For more information:

Committee for the Capital City

PO Box 77443

Washington, DC 20013-8443

202-265-0200

info@cityhoodfordc.dev

CATERINA is a Women's Empowerment Expert and Coach, whose passion is working with women on their self-esteem and self-worth, in their personal and professional lives. From homemaker to CEO, she teaches and coaches women how to "Know their worth, Own their worth and Live their worth." Her books and online courses provide women with information, resources and support to live the life they desire to create. Caterina works with women to work through the barriers, baggage, and beliefs that may be getting in the way of success or holding them back. 



"It is your birthright to live your passion, and to feel joy, harmony and love, every day of your life." 

Leonard Perlmuttter is one of the Western world’s leading pioneers in the introduction of meditation into the cultural firmament, having founded the American Meditation Institute (AMI) in Averill Park, New York in 1996. AMI’s courses are now approved and accredited by the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association. Leonard also serves as the author and editor of “Transformation,” the Journal of Meditation as Mind/Body Medicine.

However, today he is here to talk about his seminal book The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute’s Empowering Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life, which is an encyclopedic guide to meditation and the Yoga Science that lies behind it. This book has been praised by such popular medical luminaries as Drs. Dean Ornish, Mehmet Oz and Larry Dossey and is highly regarded as the most accessible source of knowledge about adapting the 8 Steps of Yoga Science—including meditation—into a busy and stress-filled life....so you can reach a new level of peace, contentment, wellbeing and achievement.

Over the past thirty-nine years, Leonard has served on the faculties of the New England Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts and the International Himalayan Yoga Teachers Association in Calgary, Canada. He has studied in Rishikesh, India and is a direct disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas––the man who, in laboratory conditions at the Menninger Institute, demonstrated that blood pressure, heart rate and the autonomic nervous system can be voluntarily controlled. These research demonstrations have been one of the major cornerstones of the mind/body movement.

Leonard has presented informative workshops on the benefits of meditation and Yoga Science at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The Albany Medical College, The New York Times forum on Yoga Science, the Commonwealth Club of California, the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, the Washington University Medical School, the University of Colorado Medical School and the West Point Association of Graduates.

Book

• The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute’s Empowering Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life by Leonard Perlmutter, with Jenness Cortez Perlmutter $24.98  Available from the American Meditation Institute on Amazon.com.

Institute/Classes

• American Meditation Institute
• 60 Garner Road Averill Park, NY 12018
• Phone: (518) 674-8714
• ami@americanmeditation.org

Online/Video Courses

• Comprehensive Meditation and Easy-Gentle Yoga, 5 1/2 Hour Online Video Course: In this 40 segment video Leonard Perlmutter leads you through the entire curriculum contained in the revised and expanded paperback edition of The Heart and Science of Yoga.” This the perfect companion for learning and practicing the world’s oldest and most effective holistic mind/body medicine.

• Throughout the year Leonard presents numerous online distance-learning courses that stream different aspects of The Heart and Science of Yoga curriculum in real time. Students around the world regularly attend his popular “Yoga Psychology” online course in which he examines and explains the perennial and practical psychology of the Bhagavad Gita scripture.

Robert Perala is an internationally acclaimed speaker, and author of The Divine Blueprint: Roadmap for the New Millennium, and the newly released book The Divine Architect. Robert presents a remarkable look into our relationship with Extraterrestrials and the Divine Cosmos. He is an inspirational speaker and has been seen and heard on: Showtime, Coast to Coast AM, and is host of his own The Perala Report. Robert is the internationally acclaimed author of The Divine Blueprint and the new revised edition of The Divine Architect. His books and life's work were inspired by an event that occurred in 1977 when he was taken aboard a spacecraft by three extraterrestrial astronauts. He was returned sunburned and covered in a honey/oil-like substance. He is a US Correspondent and host of his own internet TV show The Perala Report, and has been featured on: CNN, The FOX Network, Showtime, and Coast to Coast AM to name a few… 

Since he was a young man, Brad faced fear head on. A natural-born leader and rebel, he always followed his heart.

He believes deeply that each and every one of us has a unique genius, voice and passion, and when we face our fears and tap into that voice, the sky’s the limit.

Knowing from his own life experience, facing your own brilliance head on and being frightened by how powerful we truly are, we can freeze up and not go after our dreams.

He firmly believes there is no worse a life lived than one where we die with our voice still in us.

He works with coaches, consultants and other visionary entrepreneurs to face their fears and become successful doing what they TRULY want to do – sharing their voice to benefit others.

Having created proven models and systems to get his clients results faster and with more certainty, they step powerfully into their voice and deliver the transformation they have deep down been yearning to deliver.