SAM X RENICK

Sam X Renick is the creator and driving force behind Sammy Rabbit and the Dream Big Club. Sam and Sammy are dedicated to empowering kids’ dreams and improving their financial literacy through the development of great habits and strategic life skills. Sam has read and sung off key with over a quarter million children around the world, encouraging them to get in the habits of saving money and reading! He has won numerous honors throughout his career including the New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award!

Careers and Life Turning Points

• Subcontract Manager for Fortune 100 Aerospace and Defense Company
• Financial Advisor
• Author, Entrepreneur and Financial Educator

Vision

Grow Sammy Rabbit into a global source and force for big dreams and great habits, especially money habits. Sammy’s vision and objective are to develop generations of children who possess and practice great habits, are self sufficient, and capable of making their big dreams come true! 

Mission and Goal

Sammy has specific mission and goals for each of his five Dream Big Initiatives. His current focus is on his Dream Big Read and Resource Initiative. The mission and goal are to have 1 million children between the ages of 5 and 8 receive and read his storybook Sammy’s Big Dream by the end of 2020.

The storybook invites children to:

• take the Dream Big Pledge and promise to get in the habit of saving money and reading
• set a savings goal
• write about one of their big dreams
• join the Dream Big Club where they can continue to learn and grow.

About Sammy Rabbit

Sammy is a friend everyone loves. He is warm, smart and trustworthy. He believes the right habits make a difference, including money habits. He makes it easy for anyone to talk to and teach kids about money and habits with his head and heart approach to education. That is HIS MAGIC and one of his SUPERPOWERS. It’s what makes him an effective solution to a difficult challenge.

He embodies the ‘you can do it’ spirit. Sammy strongly believes it is important to dream and do big, one step at a time! Dreams give us purpose and drive behavior.

Mantra

Dream big. Do big. One step at a Time!

Jennie Lee (Hawaii) is a certified yoga therapist who has spent two decades coaching people in the healing tradition of classical yoga meditation. Using the practices she writes about in Breathing Love & her debut, award winning book True Yoga, Jennie helps people overcome grief, depression, anxiety, and stress as well as create lives filled with greater joy. Jennie’s writing has also been featured on dozens of wellness blogs and in magazines including the Huffington Post, Mind Body Green, Yoga Digest, and Yogi Times. She counsels via phone or Skype internationally and from her home studio on the island of O’ahu.

Key Points about Jennie Lee:

• 20 years practicing and teaching Yoga
• Coaches a wide demographic of clients, ages 6–94, including Celebrities, CEOs, Doctors, Writers, Psychologists, Lawyers, Financial Analysts, Educators, Actors, Military Officers & Veterans and more
• Specializes in counseling for anxiety, depression, grief, stress and relationship issues
• Therapy model is a combination of: Classical Yoga philosophy and practice, Somatic and Process Therapy, Spiritual Psychology, Traditional Psychology, and Core Energetics
• Leads workshops, educational lectures, corporate presentations, and retreats worldwide
• Certified Yoga Therapist  – C-IAYT International Association of Yoga Therapists
• Registered Yoga Teacher – RYT 500 Yoga Alliance (Note: The yoga therapy components of my teaching are based on my C-IAYT credential  not derived from my status as an RYT with Yoga Alliance Registry.)
• 20 years as a professional film, television and stage actor & member of Screen Actor’s Guild

Dr. Michael Wayne Regier received his PhD from the California School of Professional psychology. Early in his career he was on the faculty in the department of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of medicine. He did a post doctoral internship in couples group psychotherapy with Dr. Judy Coche in Philadelphia.



He is currently the founder and Director of The Center for Relational Excellence in Visalia where he works full time as an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist.



He and his wife Paula have written a book for couples called Emotional Connection: The Story and Science of Preventing Conflict and Creating Lifetime Love.



Dr. Regier works with couples in crisis and toxic relationships. Many couples have traumatic injuries due to relationship betrayals. Often couples come in on the verge of divorce looking for some way to escape their destructive cycle and rediscover the love that brought them together.

Susan Bradley-Boartfield is a spiritually-guided Transformational Leader, Business Strategist and Healer. As a former corporate leader in the insurance industry, Susan was well respected for her unique approach to business, understanding that business success was created through relationships not sales. Sales are the result of the relationships created. This approach to the know, like and trust philosophy (now recognized as the key to business) created not only rapid growth but retention, year after year.

Everything changed when Susan's younger sister passed in 2011 leaving behind three children. Not only did Susan lose her mojo for the insurance business, but her physical health deteriorated to the point she became bedridden. Told she would never work again was something she refused to accept. Susan spent this time studying the mind-body connection; energy healing using frequencies; meditation; and became a certified coach.

Today, everything Susan does is spiritually guided. Through her connection she was given a vision and founded Partners at Play, a community for Coaches, Healers and Light Workers to Collaborate, Co-create and Cooperate. Susan assists these heart-centered professionals build a strong foundation and bring their messages to the world. Through teaching, coaching and mentoring it is her mission to help humanity remember the truth of who they are and prepare them as they shift into a new way of being on the planet.

KEN CARTER’s previous careers were a paramedic and middle school science teacher. While researching the subject of bioenergy and pursuing certification as a Qigong practitioner, Carter found books on the theory of orgone energy. Along with his business partner, Bob Quintas, a 35-year veteran of physical therapy, they invented the RF BioShield, a unique invention that gives individuals protection from harmful devices that emit electromagnetic radiation in their home and business. The RF BioShield has been on the market for several years, and stops chaotic vibratory frequencies—from cell phones, computers, Wi-Fi routers, microwave ovens, televisions, cordless phones, and smart meters—and redirects the frequencies away from the body by a third generation orgonite. After sustaining a career ending injury, Ken began a life changing healing path. He healed his body, became a Level 3 practitioner of Emei Qigong, is a Level 1 BioCybernaut, sells a device for protection from electromagnetic radiation, and became an apprentice to an Apache-Sioux medicine woman.

Dr. Sherry Towers has a diverse background in mathematical and computational modeling, applied statistics, informatics, advanced quantitative methods, high performance computing, and data mining. She has over 360 publications on a wide variety of topics that include applied statistics, and mathematical and computational epidemiology and sociology. Her unique trans-disciplinary skill set enables her to examine a wide range of research questions that are at the forefront of her field, and are often of broad interest and importance to policy makers and the general public. 

Her diverse research interests include modeling the spread of disease in populations, including influenza, MRSA, ebola, and dengue, and also application of contagion models to examine the spread of ideas and social behaviors within a population.

Several of her publications in epidemiology have received widespread media attention, including forecasts for the progression of the 2009 influenza pandemic, and the 2014 ebola epidemic in West Africa.  Both analyses correctly forecast the progression of the epidemics, and her forecast for the 2009 pandemic was discussed in a special US Senate meeting on October 23, 2009 H1N1 Flu: Monitoring the Nation’s response.

Her work in computational sociology has also received international media attention, including an analysis of how media can incite panic in a population, and how contagion may play a role in the temporal patterns observed in mass killings in the US.  The latter work has received extensive ongoing media coverage, including on BBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, NPR, Reuters, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Telegraph, Vox, and many other local, national, and international news agencies. The study was also profiled in Season 8, Episode 4 of Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole documentary series on the Discovery Channel in 2017, "Is Gun Crime a Virus?". 

Since 2013, she has been a Research Professor with the Simon A. Levin Mathematical and Computational Modeling Sciences Center at Arizona State University. 

James Duignam is a Health Coach, Reiki and BKP Kinesiology practitioner, who helps people take a holistic approach to their health, by supporting their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs. James is the author the books, Soular Return, Soulutions for Body, Mind and Soul, and, Why Meditation Works: A Glimpse Inside Your Mind and Brain, and writes a monthly newsletter on health and wellness, to inspire and empower people to take responsibility for their health and well-being.

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URIAH HEEP & OZZY OSBOURNE

LEGENDARY DRUMMER ANNOUNCES NEW PROJECTS

Lee Kerslake is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Uriah Heep, in addition to his work in the Ozzy Osbourne band

Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in November 1971, left the band in October 1979, and rejoined them in April 1982. In early 2007 it was announced on the Heep website that Kerslake left the band ‘due to ongoing health problems’.

With Heep, Kerslake also performed backing vocals both on album and on stage. On the Firefly album he was credited with the nickname “The Bear”, a reference to his beard growth and overall solid physical build.

During his time out of Uriah Heep, he worked with Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he recorded Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, and played with bass guitarist Bob Daisley, who later joined Uriah Heep. On the Diary of a Madman notes, Kerslake and Daisley weren’t credited. The two musicians were fired in late March 1981, just after the recording session, and replaced for the tour by Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo. Aldridge’s and Sarzo’s photos were put on the album and they were credited as studio musicians, but they didn’t play on the album.

In 1998, Kerslake and Daisley filed suit against Ozzy Osbourne and his manager (and wife) Sharon Osbourne, seeking royalties and songwriting credits for their contributions to the Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman albums. Osbourne subsequently erased Kerslake and Daisley’s playing on both albums, replacing their performances with tracks by bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Mike Bordin.

In 2003, Kerslake and Daisley’s lawsuit was dismissed by the United States District Court in Los Angeles. This dismissal was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lee now performs with his own band “The Lee Kerslake Band”, guests with various bands and regularly joins ex-Heep members Ken Hensley and Paul Newton in “Uriah Heep Legends”