Anne Gagliano is an author, lecturer and spouse of retired Seattle Fire Captain Mike Gagliano for over 35 years. Her Fire Engineering article “What Every Firefighter’s Spouse Should Know” and ongoing contributions to Firelife.com, have inspired couples all over the world to seek a fulfilling, lasting and intimate marriage despite the challenges posed by the fire service.



She and Mike lecture across the country on building and maintaining a strong marriage with principles derived specifically from her three decades- worth of experience as a fire/law enforcement/military wife. They are co-authors of the bestselling Fire Engineering book “Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage”, that highlights the many joys and challenges of love, fun and passion in a first-responder marriage.

Mike Gagliano has over 33 years of fire/crash/rescue experience with the Seattle Fire Department and the United States Air Force. He retired as the Captain of Ladder 5 and remains a proud member of Fire Station 31.

Captain Gagliano has written numerous fire service articles, is co-author of the bestselling books Air Management for the Fire Service, Challenges of the Firefighter Marriage and the SCBA chapter of the Handbook for Firefighter 1 & 2 from Pennwell.

He is a member of the Fire Engineering/FDIC Advisory Board, Firefighter Air Coalition board member, on the advisory board of the UL-Firefighter Safety and Research Institute and teaches across the country on Air Management, Fireground Tactics, Leadership and Company Officer Development.

Mike co-hosts the popular Fire Engineering radio webcast “The Mikey G and Mikey D Show” and partners with his wife Anne (Firelife.com) to teach strategies for developing and maintaining a strong marriage/family.

Jason White proudly lives by the Marine Corps motto honor -courage -commitment. He was born in New Haven Connecticut. Was in foster care and parents passed away when he was 6 and 8. He was adopted by a Marine at the age of 5. At the age of 16, moved to the great state of Florida where he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2004 at the age of 18. Jason served two combat deployments and was injured on his last tour of duty by an improvised explosive device (IED). He was honorably discharged after nearly 10 years of service as a Sergeant. Jason still calls Florida home and enjoy spending time with his two beautiful children. “Once a Marine, always a Marine” stands true as Jason continues to serve the community as the director of the Birdwell Foundation for PTSD, Florida chapter. A nonprofit organization dedicated to decreasing and eliminating suicide in veterans, first responders and their families. As well he serves as the president and CEO of Warrior Wheels foundation which was birthed out of the loss of a fellow veteran. And now the Warrior Wheels foundation donates motorcycles cars and trucks to veterans and first responders while supporting the efforts of the Birdwell Foundation for PTSD in other local community organizations.

Lincoln Gregar, has had the gift of channeling the Higher Self Consciousness his entire life and has been bringing through public messages since 2007. Before ever hearing the term channel or medium, Lincoln was already channeling his school papers with ease during his teenage years. It was after his meeting with Jananda Korsholm in 2004 that Lincoln was guided to more fully explore and strengthen this inborn ability to channel the Higher Self Consciousness. By repeated requests by his ever-growing YouTube audience, Lincoln began offering his channeling services publicly.

BRIAN JORDAN

Brian Jordan has graced the stage and been featured with many legendary musicians, including James Brown, Dave Matthews, Bernie Worrell, The Allman Brothers Band, Ray Manzerik, Buddy Miles, George Porter, Jr., and many more. Brian currently plays guitar with The B-Side Players, as well performs as acoustic duo with Karlos Paez of The B-Side Players.

In addition, Brian works as session guitarist, bassist and producer. As leader of the “Brian Jordan Band”, Brian brings a unique and heavily charged sound to live audiences across the U.S. Former projects include 12 years (1999 – 2011) as guitarist for the high-energy funk/jazz band, “Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe”; A stint as guitarist in the house band for the NBC TV show, “Last Call with Carson Daily (2006 – 2007); Guitarist with “Ms. Lauryn Hill” (2006), guitarist in the rotating lineup of the art-rock band “Banyan” (2006 – present).

SARAH E. LYONS

Sarah has been providing astrology information for a lifetime and began offering her services professionally over 29 years ago.  She serves an international client base from all walks of life and consults for several businesses and organizations. 

A frequently requested reader, teacher, and entertainer in the Tampa Bay area; Sarah has been featured on both radio and television.  She has written for many publications and has been the featured astrologer for Paradise News Magazine of St. Petersburg Beach, FL for the last 16 years.  

Sarah is a Past President and Honorary Lifetime Member of the Astrological Association of St. Petersburg, Florida; which she joined in 1984, and founder of SPICA St. Petersburg International Community of Astrologers 2017.  She is a member of ISAR, the International Society for Astrological Research, and attends conferences by UAC, United Astrology Congress, where she studies and consults with astrologers worldwide. 

CASSANDRA MARY BAUER

Cassandra Mary Bauer is a NDE survivor, Spiritual Thought Leader, Author, Personal Evolution Mentor, Radical Re-programmer, Ascension Coach and Founder of NOWLEVELUP. 

As a survivor of deep child trauma and abuse, Cassandra grew up with a low sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence. She struggled in the early part of her life with feeling alone, invalidated, disconnected, and lost. 

After her profound awakening in 2013 and finding her way back to herself and creating the magical life that she had once dreamed of, led her to wanting to help others do the same.  

Cassandra has worked with thousands of souls all over the world sift through their programming to discover the superhero that lives underneath all the conditioning, beliefs, thoughts, and fears. 

Cassandra focuses on empowering adults and children to expand their awareness, master their emotions, balance their energies, and break free from their pain by feeling it, alchemizing it, and transcending it so they can step into their divine purpose, now. 

“I believe we came here to be the heroes of our own stories and to do that we must be willing to feel the entirety of our story.”

Cassandra isn’t your typical coach. She is an Ascension Coach – living proof that by embodying your deepest desires and being in alignment with your intuition, you can achieve far greater heights of success, happiness, and abundance – and that the journey doesn’t have to be hard. It gets to be fun and playful. 

Those who work with Cass experience massive shifts in mental health, self-expression, financial wealth — and everything in between. 

Cass believes that when you awaken in one area, you awaken in all areas — and this is the pathway to a life of emotional liberation, self-transformation, and inner peace.

Cassandra teaches The NOWLEVELUP Method through workshops, classes, events, and coaches’ personal clients internationally. 

Cassandra has been told by thousands of people that she is the ‘Perfect Mirror,’ Why? 

Because she understands the depth of feeling unseen, unheard, unacknowledged and invalidated for the magic that lives within. 

And, she also knows the power, strength and courage it takes to walk the path of reconnecting back to one’s individual magic and understanding that the only one that can validate that magic is oneself.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS OF SPREADING THE LIGHT : TO BE THE CANDLE OR THE MIRROR THAT REFLECTS IT

Edith Wharton

STEFF REED

Steff Reed is a Musician, Educator, and Activist. By sharing his story, Reed shows others that they are not alone. He is a Black Man that loves and gives greatly, modeling that emotional sensitivity and compassion can make us stronger as a community.

As a singer, songwriter, producer and multi instrumentalist, Steff Reed is known to affect audiences with his spiritual, uplifting energy and song. He is unafraid to be vulnerable and open in his own story, sharing lessons of resilience, healing, self-betterment. Reed blends genres of folk rock, alternative rock, pop rock to culminate in inspirational, humanitarian messages.

Over the years, Reed has gained national acclaim as a producer and song-writer having worked with the likes of Trey Songz, Jhene Aiko, Eric Roberson, Swizz Beatz, Kenny Lattimore and Gordon Chambers on songs that made it to the Billboard Charts.

As an Educator, Reed has taught thousands of youth between the ages 4-24 over the last 15 years. In 2013, he was nominated for the GRAMMY Music Educator Award and taught a “Power of Love” workshop at NYU/Ed Sullivan Fellows.

Reed is currently building a Brooklyn-based non-profit, Power of Love, in partnership with Judson Memorial Church. His latest music project is of the same name. By using his social capital and influence, Reed is scaling his impact to empower wider audiences and impact real political change.

Steff is inspired by socially-conscious artists like John Lennon, Prince, Tracy Chapman, U2, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Jimi Hendrix.