Vickie was born in Hickory, North Carolina. Vickie and her family have been a part of the Colorado Springs community since 1996. Her family has a tradition of military service connecting Vickie to our military bases in Colorado Springs.    

After graduating from high school, Vickie attended Montreat College. She was the first in her immediate family to attend college. She was active in her church, as a worship leader, church secretary, traveling soloist, and she was the singles ministry leader. Vickie worked in the Business Development office for the City of Hickory in North Carolina. From 1990 to 2002, Vickie raised her family, putting her career on pause for the most important job there is, being a parent. In 1997, the Tonkins family started a non-profit organization, The Destiny Project, Inc.    

Vickie attended Colorado Christian University (CCU) in 2002 to complete her degree in Organizational Management. She helped start James Erwin Charter Middle School, hiring staff, and overseeing student discipline, while attending college. She graduated from CCU with honors in 2004. Vickie earned her Master of Arts Degree in Education Administration and Supervision from the University of Phoenix in 2006 while working full time. She earned a license in School Administration in 2008 and her license is still current.  Vickie was a professor at the University of Phoenix from 2009 to 2017.  

Vickie works for ComPsych Corporation as a Facilitator/Trainer in Staff Development for corporations. Vickie believes in the 2nd amendment and is a contract Representative for US Law Shield, sharing with others the right they have to legally defend themselves. She is active politically in Colorado Springs and in December 2015, was elected President of the Colorado Springs Republican Women's Club.  Vickie was re-elected President, in November 2017, for another 2-year term. In March of 2017, Vickie was elected Bonus Member to the El Paso County Republican Party and serves on the Bylaws Committee for the Party.   On May 15, 2018, Vickie joined the MLO Oversight Committee for D-11 School District.

John was born and raised in Chicago and earned a degree and certification as an X-ray technologist. While serving his internship in X-ray, someone in the skating industry familiar with John’s background and medical training encouraged him to consider entering the industry.

As an X-ray technologist John learned easier, more effective ways to achieve optimum results while having little to work with. Applying his medical and scientific training to his business practices, John discovered an easier, more accurate way to fit boots,mount and sharpen blades.Applying knowledge from his skeletal anatomy courses, John quickly realized the importance of properly preparing boots for mounting, and as a result noticed a decline in the need for remounting blades.John also noted a reduction in recurring injuries, apparently the result of bad fittings,mountings and sharpening.

His newly developed techniques resulted in reduced skating injuries and an overall improvement in skating technique for skaters.In the fall of 2000, a member of U.S. Figure Skating heard about John’s work and asked if he would be interested in contributing an article to Skating magazine.John’s “Ask Mr. Edge” column was featured in U.S. Figure Skating magazine for more than a decade.

In 2013 John released the industry’s first ever book,“Anatomy of a Figure Skating Injury”. The book details the many injuries ice skaters are prone to and how to prevent the same injury from recurring. Since that time John has gone on to become recognized around the world as the leading authority on equipment related injuries to figure skaters.

In 2014 John released his second book, “What Teenage Driver Don’t Know, The Unwritten Riles of the Road” which went on to be used in the Naperville, IL High Schools. In writing this book, John relied upon his million plus miles of driving experience and the fact that his children were of age and learning to drive.

Since then John has written and published an Ice Skaters Equipment Guide which he gives to each customer purchasing a pair of skates. The ROI from both figure skating books was well worth the time and effort.

Eric P. Williams, B.A., D.C.

Education:

• 1988 Doctor of Chiropractic, Palmer College, Davenport, Iowa
• 1985 Bachelor of Arts in Biology with minor in Chemistry - Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
• 1989 Advanced Proficiency rating in activator methods
• 2020 CPR & AED certified by American Heart Association

Practice Experience:

• 1990 to Present Williams Chiropractic Center, Lisle, Illinois - Founder/Owner
  

  Friendly family-oriented chiropractic center purposed to treat infant aged patients to seasoned individuals. Spinal health and preventative application are the primary focus and approach for the WCC team.

• 1989 to 1990 Shepherd Chiropractic Center, Lisle, Illinois - Associate

Professional Organizations and Committees:

•  Board Member & Vice President (as of 2021)  of Education Foundation of Lisle Community School District 202, 2000 to current
• Adjunct Professor at National University of Health Science, Lombard, IL
• Appointed to the Knox College Alumni Council as a board member, 2019
• Twice a year speaker for Lisle Senior Park District
•  Nominated Citizen of the year for Naperville, 2003
•  "Official" doctor on the sidelines for the Lisle Senior High School football games, 1996-2020

Additional: Avid sports enthusiast; circuit training, basket ball and 5k running. Naperville resident for 25 years. Two lovely grown daughters.

Tonia Shimin From Hollywood to Beloved Children's Book Illustrator to*> *Muralist and Painter of Justice, Symeon Shimin Left His Mark and a *> *Legacy that Resonates Today*It was created by a man who was also equally one-of-a-kind. Whose life> could rival the drama in that storied film. And who stood for those> less-favored by an America of the mid-20th century -- poor children, people> of color and the beaten -- in his fine art.

As a dancer, Tonia Shimin performed in the companies of Martha Graham, Jose Limón, Pearl Lang, The Ypsilanti Greek Theater, and as a soloist with Anna Sokolow's Player's Project, Mary Anthony Dance Theater, and Repertory West Dance Company. She has had an extensive teaching career in the United States and abroad. Her choreographic works have appeared in the United States, the Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, and Mexico. Join me Tuesday, October 26, 2021, at 12 Noon as I have an inspiring interview with greatness. 

PETER OPPERMANN

A German engineer turned Transformational Engineer, Peter is the founder of the Future Self Institute. Based in Los Angeles, fluent in German and English Peter teaches workshops, classes and coaches personal clients internationally. Peter has also been an entrepreneur for 20 years.

After leaving a promising engineering career in Germany, he started a Japanese furniture company in Berlin and New York with the intention to bring mindfulness to the workplace. Later he founded ‘Karmabuilders’, a social enterprise in the Bronx, NY training ex-prisoners in mindfulness and job skills.

Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, Ph.D., LLM, is a visionary scientist, published author, futurist, system architect, and leadership catalyst for the transition to a thrivable civilization.

She is the Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre. She holds a Master’s degree in Law and Judicial Political Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and received a degree of Doctor from the Maastricht Sustainability Institute, MaastrichtUniversity, the Netherlands. Her ground-breaking Ph.D. dissertation, Into the Heart of Systems Change, addresses how to diagnose and transform key systemic barriers of our world crisis through its proposed transition plan for a thrivable civilization.

Anneloes is the co-author of the #1 Amazon international bestseller The Quest of Rose, the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy with Dr. Jean Houston, and is the author of the Amazon international bestseller Love Letters from Mother Earth: The Promise of a New Beginning, as well as many scientific articles and chapters in international peer-reviewed journals and books.

Her unique transformation programs, courses, and practices have empowered thousands of people and organizations from around the world. Anneloes is the lead architect of the EARTHwise Tipping Point System, the lead author of the r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint, an architect of the SEEDS Constitution where she implemented her Cosmic Compass design, an architect and researcher of Hypha for co-developing the Regenerative Renaissance tools, currencies, systems, and cultures. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle of the Source of Synergy Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Jean Houston, Ph.D. is a world-renowned scholar, futurist, and researcher in human capacities, social change, and systemic transformation.

She is one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement and one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is also a founder of the field of Social Artistry, “Human development in the light of social change,” which has taken her work all over the world. She has been a key player in the empowerment of women around the world and was awarded the Synergy Superstar Award 2020 by the Source of Synergy Foundation for her exemplary work inspiring us to source our highest human capacities.

Dr. Houston holds conferences, seminars, and mentoring programs with leaders and change agents worldwide. She has worked intensively in over forty cultures, lectured in over one hundred countries, and worked with major organizations such as UNICEF, UNDP, and NASA, as well as helping global state leaders, leading educational institutions, business organizations, and millions of people to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness. She is the co-author of the #1 Amazon international bestseller The Quest of Rose, the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy with Dr. Anneloes Smitsman, and has authored over thirty-five published books, and a great many unpublished books, plays, articles, and manuscripts.

Dr. Houston is Chancellor of Meridian University and has served on the faculties of Hunter College, Marymount College, The New School for Social Research, and the University of California. Dr. Houston was also President of the American Association of Humanistic Psychology and is presently the Chair of the United Palace of Spiritual Arts in New York City.

The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming is the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy series. Written as an allegory, The Quest of Rose guides you through an experiential transformation journey that weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what’s happening in our world right now, with cutting-edge insights from the new sciences, indigenous wisdom, and consciousness teachings for discovering the greater possibilities of our future becoming. Already referred to by many world-renowned luminaries as: “a masterpiece“, “epic and unlike any other“, “one of the most important books of our catalytic time“, and “a true gift to humanity.”

The Quest of Rose offers the promise of a possible future through nine Cosmic Keys and twelve transformation practices for developing your future potential of a new era. In the words of Lynne McTaggart’s foreword: “The Quest of Rose is ultimately a work of profound hope by offering a powerful new definition of ourselves and a vision of unlimited future possibility. But this trilogy also means to be an incitement to radical transformation. And there may be no turning back. Once you are caught up in Rose’s revelations and begin to understand the deep truths within them, a new way of your own being must be born. Allow this brilliant new story to unleash the imaginal cells of your own extraordinary potential and become the future human you were always meant to be.”

The Quest of Rose is so much more than a book, through it you embark on an experiential journey that will shift your consciousness to the new and ancient possibilities of our future becoming. You’ll join the quest of the future humans of a new era, which is really our own quest into the heart of reality to discover the fundamental unity of life

MARCO MISSINATO

“Like all of you, I am too a soul who came here on this fascinating earthly journey to gain more awareness of myself through a new perspective based on polarity. My heart and my imagination are the navigation tools. As I progress into the physical experience directed by the voice of my heart and by the synchronicities of life, I increase my ability to discern what is resonating from what is not and I become more and more aware of what I already am “

Marco Missinato

I have always silently loved all the people I have met so far in my life, whatever role they were playing,  the good, the bad, or the ugly.

This is because I see wonderful souls in everyone, only temporarily wrapped in sleep that gives them the opportunity to have experiences that in an awakened state would not be possible.

When we eliminate judgment, we find wonderful beauty in all of this.

It is this love that I have felt for humanity since I was a child that inspired me to embrace the creative process of life.

I am therefore a soul and an artist.

Through music, photography and words I crystallize and share my feeling and the awareness that is constantly expanding out of it as I progress in this wonderful journey within the human operating system.

The intent is simply to evolve (remember) and, in this evolution, to be supportive in the awakening process that is unfolding during the intense transition that humanity is experiencing in this delicate moment of its journey.

It is through creativity that I constantly stimulate new awareness in myself.

Then, through the sharing of my creation, I offer, to those who wish it, a way of feeling life from a different point of view and, through it, I extend an invitation to consider the possibility that there is much more in us of what our current human experience has led us to believe.

Each of us plays a fundamental role within the universal creative process and brings with it a unique and indispensable frequency for existence and for everything that is part of the Source itself.

Therefore, I sincerely hope to inspire those who feel a resonance with my offering to embrace their uniqueness and their most intrinsic truth in order to trigger and ignite the recognition of that divinity that resides in each of us, opening the soul to a higher level of conscience and personal freedom.

“I know that you are magical, that you are an extraordinary being. I know inside you there is a great strength and that you have come here on Earth to use this force to become even more extraordinary and, as a reflection of this,transform the world around you, support nature, help humanity and dance free with life. Man and my travel companion, I believe in you … and I love humanity.”

Marco Missinato

This episode features how time works so you can control time for yourself. My guest is Lisa Broderick who earned a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke. She is a Transcendental Meditation (TM) Sidha, attended the Monroe Institute for the exploration of expanded states of consciousness, and studied imagery and dream reading at the American Institute for Mental Imagery with noted author and teacher of Western spirituality Dr. Gerald Epstein for fifteen years. She currently runs a business consultancy based in New York City that helps socially conscious entrepreneurs manifest their creativity and energy.