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Guest Occupation: Russian-American actress, comedian, and model
Guest Biography:

EUGENIA KUZMINA

Eugenia Kuzmina is a Russian-American actress, comedian, and model. Her father was a renowned nuclear physicist, who was one of the first responders to the Chernobyl disaster. Her mother is a former scientist and a housewife. Eugenia grew up on food lines in Post Soviet time. She was training to be a professional ice skater when at 13 years old she was pulled out from a group of kids in her school to appear in a Russian version of SNL “Eralash.” She was then cast to appear in Chuck Norris film, but couldn’t leave the country due to visa issues. After appearing in commercials for Coca Cola, L’Oréal and Wrigleys in Moscow, for which she was paid more than her scientist’s dad, she was noticed by a scout at Nathalie Models Europe. She signed a contract and moved to Paris at 15 to work with such brands as Cartier, Dior, Armani, Hermes, Loreal, Vogue among many others…



After Ford Models, then IMG resigned her contract and moved her to the US, she was noticed by Rodrigo Prieto (cinematographer “Wolf Of Wall Street,” “Babel”) to appear in his directorial debut opposite Elle Fanning “Likeness.” The movie was screened at Tribeca Film Festival and received excellent reviews. John Turturro cast Eugenia to play opposite him in a film with Woody Allen “Fading Gigolo.” Recently Eugenia worked opposite Bill Murray in “Rock The Kasbah”, Milla Kunis and Christina Applegate in “Bad Moms “, Guy Ritchie’s ” The Gentlemen “. Eugenia’s Tv credits include ” Spy City “, “True Blood,” “New Girl,” “Castle,” “The Comeback,” “Lady Dynamite”,” Tour De Pharmacy “, etc



Eugenia is very passionate about comedy and writes and performs Stand Up regularly at The Comedy Store and The Laugh Factory. Her other hobbies include motorcycles, doing her own stunts, languages (French, Portuguese) , and supporting environmental causes around the world.



Kuzmina resides in Los Angeles with her husband Bill Block (Miramax CEO) and three children.

Guest Category: Beauty, Fashion, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Comedy, Entertainment, Kids & Family, Society and Culture, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Bestselling author, Speaker and personal development expert
Guest Biography:

GARY STUART

Gary Stuart is now a three-time #1 International bestselling author, Speaker and personal development expert for over 45 years. He’s a master Constellation healing facilitator of over 2 decades. He’s also been featured on ABC TV on The Dr. Nandi Show globally also on NBC Palm Springs with Bryan Gallo.

His forthcoming book is Quantum Activation: Transforming Obstacles into Opportunities for Change with Amit Goswami PhD. and Carl Blake.

His latest book is Healing Human History: Constellation Wisdom for the 21st Century.

He’s also the best-selling author of A. I. Ancestral Intelligence: Constellation Insights from Beyond and the A. I. Guided Journal.

His other Constellation healing books include Master YOUR Universe: How to Direct & Star in YOUR Own Life plus Many Hearts, ONE SOUL.

He’s also the creator of the innovative Constellation Healing Oracle Card deck.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Energy Healing, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Young emerging performer
Guest Biography:

LEANDRA DIELLE GRUFT

Leandra Dielle Gruft is a young emerging performer from Chicago, Illinois. Her performance experience includes Musical Theatre, Dance, and Film and Television. She has performed the roles of Cinderella and Rapunzel in Into the Woods and Alice in Alice in Wonderland.

Leandra has also performed numerous recitals throughout Chicago. Her repertoire performed includes excerpts from Matilda, Annie, Oliver, Les Miserables and numerous other shows. As part of her training at the School of Rock, she sang as a soloist in Billy Joel Experience and Jimi Hendrix Experience. 

She recently filmed an independent short film in The Other Foot, as the role of Mary.  Her other on-screen work includes commercials for Party City aired on ABC. Leandra has also trained in Jazz dance for five years, and Two years with Joffrey Ballet in Jazz, Ballet, and Modern, including a year of jazz with alvin ailey Company member Riccardo Battaglia. 

She also spent few years with Academy of Music and Art studying Hip Hop, Tap Dancing, and Musical Theater as well as Ballet and Jazz. She has studied acting at Second City as well as Acting Studio Chicago. In Addition to studying at Second City and Acting Studio Chicago  she studied in the audition only Musical Theater Conservatory program at New Music School with Scott Ramsay and Erin Elizabeth Smith.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Composer, singer, and keyboard player
Guest Biography:

JAMES GRUFT

James Harris Gruft is a composer, singer, and keyboard player (with a little guitar playing thrown in).

​Over the years he has fronted several bands, including Living Folly with Lucas Rico Corrubia, Suffering Clams with John NewK Newcott, Core with Robert Perl and NewK, Gruft and NewK with NewK, Paul Amorese and Mike Chiavaro, Urban Hawks with Ian Walsh, James Wenzel and Jon Wenzel and more recently he has worked with The Giving Tree Band (Todd and E Fink, Charlie Karls, Norm Norman and Z) and with Packy.

His musical training started with C James Hughes at Tappan Zee High School, Robert Printz, jazz pianist, and Will Johnson of Sonoma State University.

He has released 6 CDs, including Perfect Peace, Give me the Strength, From Earth to Milky Way, No One Wants to Forget, The End of One, It Is What It Is, and the forthcoming vinyl LP,  It Is the Journey. His music is rock, with influences by Jack Bruce, Leonard Cohen and Peter Gabriel.

His message is unique; nothing less than a cry, at times a complaint, in any case an attempt to come to terms with a Higher Power personally and spiritually.  

So listen . . .

Oh, and by the way, James is also a physician, a healer of pain. So there. 

Guest Category: Performing Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Peak Performance Consultant, Speaker, Author of Go Prove Something!
Guest Biography:

A Veteran of the United States Coast Guard with over 20 years of Personal Development training, Anthony M. Drago is now a Peak Performance Consultant, Speaker, Author of Go Prove Something!, a Distinguished Toastmaster, and a Certified Speed & Agility Coach, who trains organizations, sports teams, entrepreneurs, and individuals in the areas of Communication, Leadership, Motivation, Personal Development, and Proper Body Mechanics (Speed, Agility & Quickness). Anthony uses his Military, Financial markets, and sports backgrounds as the vehicles to teach vital life lessons. Anthony also uses a unique, entertaining, physical, and interactive seminar, speech, or workshop to build an unbreakable bond between the Mind & Body. Anthony teaches that by applying real world mental and physical applications, you automatically develop anchors that will make information retention second nature.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Sports & Recreation, Variety
Guest Occupation: Lifestyle Prescriptions Health Coach, specialising in chronic pain with diagnosed conditions such as arthritis, slipped disc, tendonitis using mind body healing techniques.
Guest Biography:

"Avnita Suri uses mind body healing techniques that challenge limiting beliefs, repetitive thought patterns, repressed emotions and relieve trauma which is very effective in stopping pain permanently or dramatically reducing it.

She has helped many people with severe and debilitating pain including arthritis, scoliosis, sciatica, herniated disc, migraine, as well as many other various health conditions, with lasting effect, even when no other treatments or therapies worked. She is a certified Lifestyle Prescriptions®️ Health Coach.

Her method is to use the precise physical symptoms presented as signposts to find the underlying root cause/s. As her work is done online, her students and clients are from all over the world, where they can benefit from her online group program and 1:1 sessions.

Her mission is to bring awareness to the general public of the importance of working holistically as one of the biggest factors in getting over illnesses.

 “The most significant being working with the subconscious mind, not against it, as the subconscious mind is a very powerful driver in our lives, including health.”

Join her free Facebook community, Freedom from Chronic Pain [the Community].  (The link is https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreedomFromChronicPainwithAvnitaSuri)."

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Family Nurse Practitioner
Guest Biography:

Pelvic health is an essential and rarely addressed part of overall health and well-being. As a pelvic floor therapist and bilingual family nurse practitioner (FNP),  Kathy Kates works with women, men, transgender, and gender non-conforming patients experiencing chronic pelvic pain and other pelvic floor dysfunction.

On the show, Kathy Kates will discuss how intimacy and, having pelvic floor dysfunction affects your life with you and your partner, as well as tips to enhance your intimacy with your partner.
Guest Category: Alternative Health, Love & Relationships, Relationship Counseling, Sex
Guest Occupation: Speaker, Action Hero
Guest Biography:

 

John Davis has lived the life of an action hero. He has been a professional Fight Director and stuntman for stage and screen; an Artistic Director of three regional theme parks; a sword-fighting comedian, a college professor, and a motivational speaker, author and coach. He has been featured on the Today Show and the Discovery channel. After the events of September 11th, 2001, John brought his inspirational message to sixteen countries around the world including the front lines of both Iraq and Afghanistan on six USO tours. It was there he began studying mindset and achievement.



An expert in the "Action Hero Mindset," John developed the "5f approach to maximum potential." It is a simple process of hacking our "primal subconscious responses and propelling us forward to peak performances.

 

Guest Category: Business, Entertainment, News, Self Help, Society and Culture