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Guest Occupation: ESSO Hospitality Carpet Manufactures Rep, President of Natural Choice Network, Natural Choice Network Radio Host
Guest Biography:

Martha Childress DESSO Hospitality Carpet Manufactures Rep and Natural Choice Network Radio Host, Alternative Talk 1150AM Seattle Bellevue

Natural Choice Network is a show that explores the topics of sustainability, natural health, natural food, a healthy mind, and green resources. Host Martha Childress is committed to enhancing community, sustainability and health living in the region for future generations to come and will interview experts on various related topics.

22 years of experience in media, sales, marketing, account management and production management. My diversified business background has given me exposure to multiple industries and business environments. Focus on building strategic and collaborative relationships to create sustainable environments and to strengthen the community.



• Core relationships in hospitality Interiors, Green Resources, Natural Health, Natural Food/Nutrition and Mind/Spirit connections.



• In depth knowledge and key relationships in the architectural, interior design and commercial building community.



• Strong presentation, integration and negotiation skills.

• Clear concise writing skills.

Guest Category: Arts, Design, Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Founder of Exalted Publishing House, podcast host and leadership consultant
Guest Biography:

Bridget Aileen Sicsko helps successful entrepreneurs standout and be featured as a leader in their industry through sharing powerful stories, writing best-selling books and gaining global recognition.

She is the founder of Exalted Publishing House, a Podcast Host and a Leadership Consultant. Bridget’s hope behind her books is to bring information, knowledge, wisdom and hope to people all over the world. She believes in the power of words, stories and voices to shift the way we view reality, our potential and our purpose on the planet.

 

In addition, she considers herself a master community builder and has gathered hundreds of female leaders in her online community, mastermind program, networking events & women's circles. Bridget also hosts a Podcast called  “The Gathering MVMT” where she has interviewed over 60 entrepreneurs, TedX speakers, authors, thought-leaders, & visionaries to discuss success consciousness, leadership, kundalini yoga, energetics and quantum reality. 

Uncertain times call for empowering voices to be heard. Bridget's overall vision is to disrupt the anxiety-provoking, fear based media stories we are familiar with by broadcasting global messages of empowerment and hope.

Bridget has been featured in Thrive Global, Women's Business Daily,  Authority Magazine, The Medium, on Ticker News & News 12 New York. In addition, she has spoken at the She Can Brand Conference, virtual summits like One Women International and wrote in the best-selling book called Awakening - Meet The Women Birthing A New Earth.

She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Eric, and border-collie beagle, Finn.

https://www.bridgetaileen.com/

https://www.facebook.com/bridgetaileensicsko

https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockthemiconline

https://open.spotify.com/show/6shP2eesZmqq0siezMAEuU

https://youtube.com/channel/UCJRo62svMLnAo-hVauIiNnA

Guest Category: Literature, Business, Alternative Health
Guest Occupation: Swiss-American singer-songwriter
Guest Biography:

Mala Oreen is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter who makes her home in Lucerne. Her music has been described as “healing” “powerful” “magnetic” “passionate” and “as pure as an Alpine stream”. An experience with Mala’s immersive musical palette opens the mind to dreams and fills the heart with warmth. 

Mala grew up in a home where music was vital. Her parents instilled in her a love of vocal and instrumental music. Beginning her classical violin studies as a young girl, she still hones her skills as a vocalist, violinist, guitar player. Her mother’s record collection was an early inspiration. She fell in love with American and later on Irish and Appalachian folk music that influenced so much of it. 

Mala Oreen focused on her fiddle playing and became a member of various folk groups in Switzerland. From 2009 until 2018 she was touring with her own Celtic-Americana band, Mala & FyrMoon. She shared stages with great Bluegrass and Folk artists like Dale Anne Bradley, the Kruger Brothers and many others. 

Always blazing her own trail as a solo artist, she released her first album, “Simply a Lotus” in 2011. In 2014 along with FyrMoon she recorded the album “On the Run” which she followed with tours in the US, Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany. 

She performs solo and with her band, consisting of Marc Scheidegger (guitars, vocals), Rafi Woll (percussion, vocals) and Simon Iten (upright bass).

The songs of her upcoming album (available in November 2021) originated in a longer visit to the US, where she met like-minded artists. They left their stamp subtly on the songs appearing on the album. The themes of the album cover a lot of ground from enjoying the creative impulses life affords us all to its limitations: prison bars that it’s up to each of us to break. It’s about the healing and wild powers of nature and also about sorrow and loss. 

Mala Oreen’s purpose for her musical life’s work? “I would like to inspire people with my music, so they can gather courage to live what makes them happy and share their own talents and passions with the world.” 

It’s a collection of experiences full of hope, new space and open doors.

https://malaoreen.com/

Guest Category: Performing Arts, Music
Guest Occupation: Intuitive healer, clairvoyant, audiovoyant, clairsentient, medium, channel, and author
Guest Biography:

Amanda Hainline has been in the world of energy healing for the past 15 years and works with clients all over the globe. She is an intuitive healer, clairvoyant, audiovoyant, clairsentient, medium, channel, and author. She loves bringing the world of energy healing to others through teaching, hands-on healing, and distance work.



Unlike many others in the field, she did not arrive there because she was seeking a spiritual life. It was actually the furthest thing from her mind. She grew up in a church-going family, but was always more science-minded, with a deep connection to nature. She married and began a family in her 20s, but ten years later, she was struggling with carrying the load of motherhood.



Seeking the aid of an energy healer, she had an initial session that reduced her anxiety, but the second session threw her into the spiritual realm instantly. A spontaneous kundalini awakening blew open all of her chakras at the same time and she spent the next six months grappling with her sanity. To her utter shock, three angels arrived in her living room, proclaiming they would teach her how to heal people. After initially challenging them, she ultimately gave in and allowed them to guide her to start healing herself and others.

Today, Amanda Hainline is an emotional freedom mentor, intuitive healer, and author of the book Feel Better in Five Minutes - An Empowering Guide to Gain Control Over Your Emotions. In Feel Better in Five Minutes she shares 79 emotional freedom methods to help others gain freedom from the anxiety, depression, and stress that are rampant today, to help themselves and others.



Amanda previously worked as a business manager and consultant. A mom of two sons, Amanda says her family fueled her passion for all things healthy, from food and supplements to functional medicine. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Learn more at amandahainline.com

Guest Category: Alternative Health, Energy Healing
Guest Occupation: International speaker, writer and change-maker
Guest Biography:

Mac Macartney is an international speaker, writer and change-maker. Mentored by indigenous people over many years, he has acquired profound and original insights into questions preoccupying many contemporary leaders. Mac seeks to inspire the emergence of the leader in each of us, the leader who will take courageous action for a better world. Championing A New Story of Sustainability lies at the heart of this.

SPEAKER

Mac intertwines themes rarely associated with each other – the quest for meaning and purpose, organisational leadership, nature, identity and the role of ordinary people in shaping a future fit for generations to come.

Mac is an outstanding speaker, unusual in his capacity to address diverse groups with equal impact and resonance. He intertwines themes rarely associated with each other – the quest for meaning and purpose, organisational leadership, nature, identity and the role of ordinary people in shaping a future fit for generations to come.

Mac speaks at major international conferences across the corporate, public and third sectors. Past talks include: TEDx, Unilever, Harvard Business School Club of New York, The Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, Barclays Bank, HR Vision, Grunenthal, A.I.S.E and the Institute of Family Business.

For all corporate speaking requests please contact Mac’s speaker agent Personally Speaking

You can reach them at joanne@personallyspeakingbureau.com or at + 353 (0) 1 4750 360

They are helpful and will get back to you quickly.

WRITER

Mac writes about his search for meaning and purpose in a culture that is captivated by values and beliefs that assault the Earth’s life-systems and collapse society in upon itself. 

The Children’s Fire reveals the profoundly rich narrative of Britain’s tribal past and the animate world we once inhabited. It calls to the ancient sleeping beauty existing in our dormant wild heart and asserts that we can return home, link hands as a people, and redefine the purpose that guides our twenty-first century lives. It is part of a larger story that is surfacing all around the world. It is a choice waiting to be made.

CHANGE-MAKER

Mac’s purpose is to touch hearts, fire imagination and invite courageous action to better serve our world. All his work is aligned to this mission.

Mac has been deeply touched and informed by the wisdom traditions of various indigenous peoples and over many years has been the beneficiary of their mentorship and guidance. This prolonged and challenging training has profoundly influenced his worldview and continues to inform all aspects of his work, from large multinationals to grassroots groups.

Mac is the founder of Embercombe, a social enterprise on the edge of Dartmoor National Park with a mission to catalyse the emergence of leaders and change-makers for a just, peaceful and sustainable world.

Mac is an Associate of Leaders’ Quest a social enterprise that develops wise, compassionate and adept leaders from business, government and civil society. He recently spoke to 60 climate change leaders and influencers from COP21 on the topic of hope.

Mac is a regular guest teacher at Schumacher College and also lectures to various universities in the UK and abroad. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Education for his work in service to the community and youth, and received the Enlightened Society Award from Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 2013.

Alongside his own UK company, Mac co-founded leadership development consultancies in Poland and Russia.

Mac combines this experience of corporate social responsibility, climate change advocacy, leadership development, indigenous wisdom and business transformation and invites people to take courageous action for what they truly love.

https://macmacartney.com/

https://embercombe.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Embercombe

Guest Category: Literature, Business, Earth & Space, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Founder of Arasari Lifestyle
Guest Biography:

Charlotte De Jaegher (also known as Charlotte El Casador) is the founder of Arasari Lifestyle, a certified health & lifestyle specialist, educator, coach and a care coordinator for schools.

She is a contributer to STRONG AND FREE - Stories of women who are living their dream after breaking upo with society's expectations, a multi-author book by Inner Hippie Books.

https://arasari-lifestyle.com/

https://www.facebook.com/charlotte12345567

Guest Category: Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Fitness & Exercise, Yoga
Guest Occupation: CEO and Founder of AMA Publishing
Guest Biography:

Adriana Monique Alvarez is the CEO and Founder of AMA Publishing, where she teaches women how to start highly profitable publishing companies. She's an international bestselling author and has been seen in Forbes, Huffington Post, International Living, Addicted2Success, Elephant Journal, FOX, ABC, and NBC.

She is the author of "HOW TO START A SIX FIGURE PUBLISHING COMPANY," which is available to buy on Amazon. She is a USA Today bestselling author and her most recent book, "THE YOUNGER SELF LETTERS" debuted #1 on bestseller lists internationally. 

She mentors high-level coaches, consultants, and service providers on how to start their own high-earning, global-impact publishing houses. She is on a mission to create 10,000 female-owned publishing companies globally by 2027, so women's voices are heard - without censorship or gatekeepers.

She is currently living in the middle of nowhere Colorado where she is renovating her grandparents' home and learning how to homestead with her husband, Derek, and two sons, Sam and Grant.

https://adrianamoniquealvarez.com/

Guest Category: Literature, Business, Courses & Training
Guest Occupation: Architect in Washington, DC
Guest Biography:

Did the quarantine forced us to rethink our use of space? Spare bedrooms became offices; basements became apartments; garages became classrooms. Spaces that once housed “stuff” now house people, a concept that has fueled the innovative housing solutions created by architect Ileana Schinder.

As a woman and an immigrant, Ileana’s overlap of minority experiences propelled her passion for designing housing that more accurately addresses the needs of our ever-evolving population.

In her book *****Housing for Humans*****,

 Ileana provides an eye-opening exploration into America’s housing crisis and offers a clear path toward a creative, sustainable solution.

The crisis on affordable housing may be solved with a new small housing typology: additional dwelling units, shaped like granny flats to additional dwelling units. Ileana Schinder, in her architecture studio in Washington DC has designed and built new types of home for the new American family. 

Ileana Schinder is an architect in Washington, DC. She graduated with a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Argentina, 2000) and a M.A. in Communications from the American University (Washington DC, 2006)

Inspired to become an architect at the age of four by playing with Lego on the floor, she remains motivated to to design houses of all sizes 40 years later. Since opening her architecture studio in 2014, with creativity and innovation, she has designed additional dwelling units that create new spaces for clients and their families to thrive. As part of her efforts to educate the public on housing issues, Ileana has also written in blogs and held sessions to inspire and promote innovative models of home.

Ileana was born and raised in Argentina. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and her dog, Cecilia.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ileanaschinder

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IleanaSchinder

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ileschinder

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/notavailable

Guest Category: Business, Science, Society and Culture, Technology