Amber Gil was born and raised in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. At the age of 3 she began figure skating and shortly after she began competing. At age 16 Amber had to retire due to an unresolved lower back injury. Her passion for her sport led her to begin her professional coaching career, at age 17. Amber is a USFS & PSA Professional Figure Skating Coach for 21+ years, also she is a National level Coach. She coaches out of Glenview Community Ice Center in Glenview Illinois in conjunction with World & Olympic Coach/Choreographer Rohene Ward. In addition, Amber has her Associates Degree from Harper College in Palatine Illinois. She resides with her husband and children in Elgin, Illinois. 

DR. JACK SCHAEFER DACM, LAC

If you ask Dr. Schaefer DACM how he ended up in the Chinese medicine world he will say it was destiny and tell you stories about having acupuncture since he was young.  He will also usually tell you that he was pushed toward medicine by his early martial arts teachers. Jack is the founder of Mountain West Wellness Advanced Acupuncture and Colorado native, who is a NCCAOM board certified acupuncturist and herbalist. He received his master's degree 18 years ago and went on to do post-graduate study at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Nanjing, China, where he specialized in advanced acupuncture techniques and treatments, Oncology (cancer) and tuina bodywork. Jack performed a residency at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing in China.    On his educational journey went on to get his doctorate degree as well as travel to China over a dozen times to continue working with senior doctors and get consults on his cases.  Before returning to his beloved home state of Colorado he spent time practicing and mentoring new practitioners in Lisbon Portugal as well.

Jack Schaefer acupuncture

Aside from running one of the busiest clinics in the Boulder area Jack is currently a Professor at Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder and has been responsible for being the primary mentor for a dozen great acupuncture apprentices who now practice around the country.

A featured speaker at the Lotus Institute of Integrative Medicine, a continuing education provider for acupuncturists, Jack has published in the Lantern and The Journal of Chinese Medicine, professional journals for Chinese medicine. Additionally, Dr. Jack continues to translate Chinese works into English including co-translating The Daoist Morning and Evening Altar Recitations.  

In his private practice, Jack has worked extensively with pain syndromes, athletes, the elderly, women's issues, and general health and wellness maintenance. Jack's specialties include herbal therapy, tuina bodywork, and classical acupuncture. Jack, a professional member of the National Qigong Association, also practices a Chinese body/energy work system from Yin Style Ba Gua. As a system it dates back to the Qing Dynasty and is taught in a lineage format not in large institutional classes. This system involves healing with massage and qi gong.

Jack's patients often comment that he is as thorough as he is stubborn.  He does not like to let illness win and goes above and beyond to help people achieve the health that they want.

To schedule an appointment with Jack or speak with him please feel free to call 303-499-1633.

Terry Tucker is a motivational speaker, author, and international podcast guest on the topics of motivation, mindset, and self-development. He has a business administration degree from The Citadel (where he played NCAA Division I college basketball) and a master’s degree from Boston University. In his professional career, Terry has been a marketing executive, a hospital administrator, a SWAT Team Hostage Negotiator, a high school basketball coach, a business owner, a motivational speaker, and for the past ten years, a cancer warrior (which has resulted in the amputation of his foot in 2018 and his leg in 2020). He is the author of the book, Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles To Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life.

Today we are speaking with a man who asks: Is your money smiling? My guest is Ken Honda, author of “Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money.” Money and happiness expert Ken Honda is a best-selling self-development author in Japan, with book sales surpassing 8 million copies. Ken studied law in Tokyo and worked as a business consultant and investor. Ken’s financial expertise comes from owning and managing several businesses, including an accounting company, a management consulting firm, and a venture capital corporation. His writings bridge the topics of finance and self-help, focusing on creating and generating personal wealth and happiness through deeper self-honesty. Ken provides ongoing support through mentoring programs, business seminars, therapeutic workshops, and correspondence courses. Ken is the first person from Japan to be voted into the Transformational Leadership Council, a group of personal and professional development leaders. He is fluent in Japanese and English; lived in Boston, Massachusetts for two years; and currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.

Kathi Sohn is a distinguished Naval War College graduate who retired from a 36-year federal career to continue the powerful healing work created by her late husband, David William Sohn, called the Body Memory Process.  This approach teaches childhood vow formation and facilitates vow discovery and release. For over 30 years, hundreds of clients have experienced profound life changes because of this work, including release from health issues like diabetes and migraines, improved relationships, and financial gain. Ms. Sohn now promotes her multi-media course, Discover YourChildhood Vows, Change Your Life, and is currently writing a book on the Body Memory Process.

Relevance of work to sports parents and young athletes

All children between time in the womb and about seven years of age form their core belief system about how "I am," how others are and how life is. These beliefs can make a very deep level of impact on self-identity, determining how one will behave, and what risks they will or will not take in life - articulated as a "vow." Example is "I will never lose." This sounds life-affirming until you consider the consequences of losing with this vow in place. Childhood vows can negatively impact health, relationships, finances and overall wellness in the adult. Parents of athletes who are unaware of the vow dynamic could have particularly high expectations and inadvertently cause the creation of new and reinforcement of existing vows in their children.

Find Your Voice; Share Your Story!

Tina Bakehouse is protecting audiences from boring speakers and speeches!



Tina B. provides public speaking coaching and communication consulting to help individuals and organizations like Practical Farmers of Iowa, Union Pacific, First National Bank, and Children’s Hospital, to communicate more effectively.



With more than 20 years of teaching communication and theatre (10 years at Creighton University), a TEDx speaker and coach, Tina B. is passionate about educating others to become more self-aware and enhance their speaker style. She also holds two Bas (communication studies and psychology, and the second in theatre and English teaching), plus a master’s degree in communication studies, as well as studying two levels of improvisation training.

Her past positions have included Malvern Bank’s Chief Creative Officer, assisting with community development and coordinating financial literacy and educational opportunities for Mills County and Golden Hills RC & D as Outreach & Communication Coordinator, promoting the arts and local foods in southwest Iowa.

Tina has performed and coordinated multiple storytelling shows in southwest Iowa, including two teen shows. A Leadership Iowa alum, Tina B. continues to use her creativity, leadership, and passion for the arts to help people communicate effectively and solve problems through her 3-month signature group coaching program: The Magnetic Speaker Blueprint. Tina lives at Maple Edge Farm, a 152-year-old family farm in southwest Iowa, with her husband Jon and son Anderson.



More about Tina and her work here:

https://www.tinabakehouse.com/

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-bakehouse-ma-36581232/



Facebookpersonal:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002417080446



Facebook biz pg:https://www.facebook.com/TinaB.LLC



Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/927962384724316



Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQ0B7eAqeSBHXB5W9d1hjQ

Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, Director and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He was also the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University from June to August of 2015. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995. He is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to The Washington Post. McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). He has authored several books, most recently the New York Times bestseller,  “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia.”  Earlier books include Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should, How We Can; Transitions To Democracy: A Comparative Perspective  (eds. with Kathryn Stoner); Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (with James Goldgeier); and Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin. His current research interests include American foreign policy, great power relations between China, Russia, and the United States, and the relationship between democracy and development. 

Prof. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed his D. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University in 1991.