Chief Neil H. Gang has served in law enforcement for over 34 years and has been the Chief of Police for the Pinole Police Department since 2014. He is the Chairperson of the California Police Chiefs Association Organizational Wellness and Resiliency Committee, the Co-chair of the IACP Officer Safety & Wellness Committee, the author of the Asher Model-7 Point Approach to a Culture of Wellness, the host of the 6th Pillar Podcast, is a POST-Wellness Instructor and was named Public Safety Hero of the Year by the House of Representatives in 2020. His innovative work as a law enforcement leader has been featured in several national Police magazines. He is a graduate of the prestigious Northwestern School of Police Staff Command, where he was the president of the class and the recipient of the Franklin M. Kremel Award for excellence in the field of leadership.

Chris has spent the last 20 years helping individuals reach their most important financial goals. In 1999, Chris started his own financial services practice, and since then, has traveled the U.S. working with athletes, key executives and minorities. Chris specifically focuses on the areas of individual and corporate Life Insurance, Disability Income Insurance, Investments*, Unique Tax Reduction Strategies, Retirement Income Optimization and Pension Maximization.

Chris was a communications major at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Outside of the classroom, he played on the Fighting Illini basketball team where he was co-captain and earned 2nd Team All Big-Ten honors. After college, Chris played basketball professionally for the Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, and in L’Hermaine and Vichy, France.

Early in his career, Chris worked as a Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Representative. While there, he received numerous awards and was a top producer.  He became a Million Dollar Round Table Member in 2001 - the premier association of financial professionals. In the spring of 2005, Chris moved his financial services practice to the Molyneaux Financial Group, LLC, a general agency of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, where he received the Impact Award in 2006 and Management Council and Leaders Conference Honors in 2007. This agency eventually became MassMutual Chicago.

In 2010 he started his own Agency, where he leads a team of highly skilled advisors, meanwhile still developing his clientele nationwide. He has been featured in numerous magazine articles; Crain’s Chicago Business, GQ, Black Enterprise and African-American Career World.

In 2012 Chris found a way to give back to sports by becoming a member and sitting on the board of the Chicago Concussion Coalition which goal is to make the games safer for children in amateur sports, Founded by Chris Nowitski of the Emmy Nominated movie “Head Games” he finds passion in helping resolve the issue of CTE in sports.

Chris donates his time and efforts to many organizations.  He is on the Board of Directors for the Urban League, is part of the United Way’s Young Community Leaders, volunteers for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization and joined the board of the SAME Network of  Chicago’s RUSH medical center.

In 2013 Chris was nominated to the NBARPA Chicago chapter and served as a Board member; while again qualifying for the Court of the Table of Million Dollar Round Table. He is now considered a Lifetime member of the highly esteemed MDRT.

Chris is a lifelong advocate of diversity and inclusion. He serves as the current Vice President for the Board of Directors for NAIFA DuPage (National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors) & serves on NAIFA’S prominent national committee for the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force. He travels nationally and speaks to diversity groups such as NMA, SNMA, LMSA, CCPA, GAMA, LAMP, ITKAN, MDRT, and NAIFA.

Chris is dedicated to helping individuals develop personalized financial strategies and goals. Chris lives in the western Chicago suburbs with his son, Jordan. Chris is an independent advisor who works on your behalf to represent you the client with all the major insurance carriers and investment providers in the marketplace, to help find the best plan and product for the client.

Call or email Chris today to find out how he can help you build and execute your life-long financial game plan.

Former mayor, council member, planning commissioner, thought influencer, and insider, for years Debbie saw people’s needs go unmet because of gross misappropriation of funds too common in our current political landscape.

Debbie is thoroughly familiar with the workings of municipal government, its issues, and pressing fiscal challenges. She has worked on both sides of local politics as an advocate for good government.

Debbie earned a B.A. from the University of Idaho and was named Scottish Young Businessperson of the Year among other accolades. Her local bakery in Scotland grew to $6m annual income in three years. In addition, Debbie is a residential real estate broker who has negotiated over 500 win-win transactions.

With intelligence officers and auditors as family role models and her background as an investigative journalist, Debbie learned how to get things done. Debbie shares democracy as a participative art that transforms communities through communication. Her practical, multi-faceted, and creative strategies foster well-governed communities.

HRATCH MISSAKIAN

Hratch Missakian is a healer who utilizes a variety of acupressure and body manipulation techniques combined with spiritual and philosophical teachings influenced by the likes of Jesus Christ, Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, and Buddha.

Born in Lebanon, Hratch studied these philosophies from the young age of thirteen and was deeply moved by their ideas and universal truths. He graduated from Beirut’s prestigious Haigazian University with a degree in business administration and went on to self-teach and master the eastern arts of acupressure, anatomy, and correcting the flow of energy within the human body.

After opening his first clinic, the Pain Relief Center in Pasadena, he transitioned to his current practice in Glendale, California, and has now been healing patients in the United States for nearly 40 years.

His patients often suffer from asthma, back pain, migraines, arthritis, and discogenic diseases, from which Hratch analyzes and creates unique treatment plans that lead to recovery.

He preaches and practices the importance of addressing all aspects of health: from mind and body to emotions and the soul. His latest book, Messages and Quotes from the Universe, contains a compilation of his teachings and philosophies.

SANDRO FRIEDRICH

As musician and composer, Sandro’s strength lies in the originality and passion of his melodic lines, the power of his rhythmic grooves and his ability to competently and flexibly support diverse musical atmospheres. His technical knowledge enables recording jobs via internet in addition to traditional studio work and live performances.

As a studio musician Sandro has recorded for numerous international films, video games and CDs with composers such as Howard Shore, Mychael and Jeff Danna, Atli Oervarsson, Shigeru Umebayashi, Andreas Vollenweider, Tina Turner and many others.

He has performed as an orchestral soloist for presentations of film music, including an international debut performance of Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings Symphony” with the 21st Century Orchestra under the direction of Ludwig Wicki and performances of the music of Shigeru Umebayashi under the direction of Dirk Brossé at various international film festivals.

Sandro began his musical education with Baroque music. For over 40 years he has been working with instruments and music of many cultures. His skills have grown to include an astonishing spectrum of over 300 different wind instruments.

ANGEL DAWN

Angel is a born empath, gifted intuitive and rare individual who is one of the world’s few Psychic Astrologers. As a multi-talented, modern-day Mystic, she is also a Certified Evidential Psychic Medium, Animal Communicator, Energy Healer, Reiki Master, and a Spiritual Teacher. And as an innate healer, she naturally imbues a strong healing component in all of her work.. She brings years of dedicated training and mastery under the tutelage of many of the world’s greatest Evidential Mediums and Spiritual Teachers, many whom have taught at the acclaimed Arthur Findlay College of Spiritualism and Psychic Sciences in Stansted, England. 

In her Psychic Astrology, she successfully bridges the gap between left and right brain, spirit and matter, the mystical and the mundane to provide powerful intuitive guidance merged with a highly technical understanding of Natal, Predictive, and Relationship Astrology, honed over many years.

​Currently, she is working with clients all around the globe  and has done mediumship demonstrations in front of the general public. She has also contributed to leading publications including: The Reader’s Digest, Bustle, eHow, and MSN. She has been a featured guest on internet radio, top spiritual podcasts and as an expert in tv and broadcast projects.

Apart from the everyday world, her life experiences have been extraordinary, having had encounters with spirit, extra-dimensional entities, angels and other beings. 

Angel Dawn works with the highest integrity, compassion and sensitivity to provide spirit-driven guidance to those in need, from all walks of life. She is an emissary for spirit — a clear channel and bridge from spirit to the human world.

JEFF GOLD

Jeff Gold is a singer-songwriter who was part of the New York Folk revival of the 1970s that included artists such as Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, and Jack Hardy. Jeff has shared the stage with Peter, Paul and Mary, The Roches, and Suzanne Vega, and has also performed at Carnegie Hall.

One of the original founders of the Fast Folk Musical Magazine, Jeff has had his songs accepted into the Smithsonian Institute. His albums Streets Cracked, The Journey and Rear View Mirror have been critically acclaimed; his song Adonoi, which he wrote with fellow songwriter and author Paul Zollo about the Jewish immigrant experience, is performed at synagogues at the High Holy Days in Los Angeles, California and has been profiled in many Jewish publications.

Jeff also has many production credits and has also done extensive studio work as a session Guitarist, and woodwind player.

HERBIE J PILATO

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Herbie J Pilato is a Los Angeles-based writer, producer, director, actor, TV personality, and singer/songwriter.

His eclectic list of critically-acclaimed pop-culture/media tie-in books includes the just-published 12 Best Secrets of Christmas: A Treasure House of December Memories Revealed (Archway Publishing, 2022), Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Story (Jacobs Brown Press, 2019), Dashing, Daring and Debonair: TV’s Top Male Icons From The ’50s, ’60s, And ’70s (Taylor Trade, 2016), Glamour, Gidgets and the Girl Next Door: Television’s Iconic Women From The ’50s, ’60s, And ’70s (Taylor Trade, 2014), The Essential Elizabeth Montgomery: A Guide To Her Magical Performances (Taylor Trade, 2013), Twitch Upon A Star: The Bewitched Life And Career of Elizabeth Montgomery (Taylor Trade, 2012), NBC & ME: My Life As A Page In A Book (Bear Manor Media, 2008), The Bionic Book: The Six Million Dollar Man And The Bionic Woman Reconstructed (Bear Manor Media, 2008), The Kung Fu Book Of Wisdom (Tuttle, 1995), The Kung Fu Book Of Caine (Tuttle, 1993), and The Bewitched Book (Dell, 1992).

Pilato recently as a consultant and audio commentator for the Saturn-Award-nominated Blu-ray release of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, and as a consultant and on-screen commentator for CNN’s hit eight-part series, History of the Sitcom. He also worked on various Blu-ray, DVD, broadcast, and cable TV documentaries such as Bravo’s 100 Greatest TV Characters, Bewitched: The True Hollywood Story, David Carradine: The E! True Hollywood Story, A&E’s Biography of Lee Majors, TLC’s Behind the Fame specials about The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show, L.A. Law and Hill Street Blues, the Syfy Channel’s Sciography series, and the TV Guide Channel’s hit five-part series, 100 Moments That Changed TV, among others.

In addition to his books, Pilato has written for the Television Academy at Emmys.com and Emmy Magazine and has contributed to several other media outlets, such as Closer Magazine, and TVWriter.com, for which he has served as Contributing Editor Emeritus for over twenty-five years.

In 2010, Pilato established The Classic TV Preservation Society, a formal 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive influence of classic television shows. In 2019, he served as a host and co-executive producer on Then Again with Herbie J Pilato, the hit classic TV talk show that premiered on Amazon Prime and Shout! Factory TV.

Pilato’s upcoming books include Retro Active Television: An In-Depth Perspective of Classic TV’s Social Circuitry (Headline Books, 2023), and biographies of Sean Connery and Diana Rigg.