Jacqueline Kelm “The Joy Engineer”

Helping people design and build the life of their dreams, transforming the way the world understands happiness.

Appreciative Living, LLC 

Jackie Kelm founded Appreciative Living, LLC to help people transform their work and life using the principles of Appreciative Inquiry. Through books, training programs, coaching, and other offerings, she has helped thousands of people become more engaged on the job and happier in personal life. In 2006 she conducted a national joy study, which was the topic of her second book, The Joy of Appreciative Living: Your 28 Day Plan to Greater Happiness Using the Principles of Appreciative Inquiry. Her work has been embraced by organizations such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, The Duke Integrative Medical Center, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.  Her work is global, with certified facilitators running Appreciative Living Learning Circles around the world in nine countries.

Jackie’s undergraduate degree is in mechanical engineering, and her MBA is from Case Western Reserve University where she studied Appreciative inquiry with David Cooperrider. She worked with AI as a consulting manager in a large firm in the Leadership & Organization Change Group before starting her own business. Her first book was published in 2005 titled Appreciative Living: The Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Personal Life. Jackie has been published in several magazines and books and been a guest on a variety of radio shows. She is often described as bright, engaging, and “down-to-earth.” She enjoys cooking, painting, and going to the beach with her husband and two children in Charleston, South Carolina. 

LIL’ DAWNEE FRINTA

Little Dawnee Frinta is a respected multi-instrumental musician and songwriter, residing in her native land of Los Angeles, California. Her songs, poetic, philosophical and deeply intimate, explore the existential crisis of life, death and the point of it all. An L.A. staple and passionate performer, she could easily share a stage with artists from Iron and Wine, to Tom Petty. Her live performances include a mixture of traditional Americana Lap Steel and Accordion but don’t be surprised if a Trumpet or Clarinet also makes an appearance. As a writer, she loves to write for other artists~ in constant reach for the perfect song.

Music became a priority early in her life, as Frinta learned the piano at age five, picked up the guitar at ten and immediately began writing songs. “I did not speak my mind as a child and I felt that this way of expression was all mine, like a secret language. I could say in a song all of the things I wasn’t allowed to talk about and found that using a form of poetry and melody to say these things felt so powerful.”

Dawn has enjoyed world-wide placements for many of her compositions and has had her songs covered by several L.A. bands. She has enjoyed co-writing with Rachel and Petra Haden of that dog, film composer, Marco Beltrami and others.

RECENT NEWS:

Just released 2016 “Devil’s In Me” by Rachel Haden is enjoying airplay on KCRW and other college radio. Dawn co-produced this moody gem of a song with L.A. Producer Brad Gordon under their partnership – Big Plastic Lab. 

SOME HISTORY:

Frinta formed the band Lava Diva during the L.A. Riots in 1992 while trapped in a house under curfew. With their unique mix of punk, metal, pop and jazz, not to mention Frinta’s aggressive guitar playing and razor-sharp voice, Lava Diva quickly rose to the top of L.A.’s alt-rock food chain. They ruled the local club scene for a decade selling out shows and opening for the likes of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Tool, and Rage Against the Machine. Metal Hammer Magazine called Frinta “One of the most emotional and powerful voices in Rock music today.”

For the past decade she has continued working and refining her musical vision. Her signature razor’s edge voice and aggressive playing has evolved into a more mature arrangement/playing style without losing any of the passion or edginess that her sound has been known for.

Although Frinta has contributed to such respected bands as Petra Haden and the Sellouts choir, Gina Villalobos Band and the Resonant Heads as a multi-instrumentalist, she prefers to hone her craft as a songwriter. You have heard her songs and voice in feature films like Terminator 3, Flight of the Phoenix, The Faculty and has had hundreds of television placements in shows like the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, E! True Hollywood Story and many other broadcasts around the world.

Dawn founded Candy From a Baby Records with artist and curator Super Cooper Berella in 2012. Their mission is to give back to the community by sharing a portion of the proceeds with humanitarian-based charitable causes, while at the same time raising awareness about the impact of bootlegging and copyright infringement on independent artists and the charities they support with the proceeds from sales.

For Little Dawnee, music is a matter of sanity. “I can’t imagine what my life would have been without the gift of music. It has kept me grounded while lifting me to transcend and certainly driven me sane in this crazy world.” Her 2012 released is appropriately named, Stark Raving Calm.

BARBRO KARLEN/ANNE FRANK

A Shared History

Anne Frank died in 1945, and less than 9 years later, she was reborn as Barbro Karlén.

An accomplished writer and considered a child prodigy in her home country of Sweden, Barbro Karlén had 11 books published by the time she was 16 years old. As a young child, Barbro began having memories of a past life, which lead her to believe that her name was Anne Frank. Her Christian parents thought the details she shared were simply fantasies, and did not take her seriously.

Barbro’s parents had never heard of The Diary, OR Anne Frank at that time.

Despite this fact, Barbro, through her memory alone, led her parents to the preserved hiding place of Anne and her family. She pointed out landmarks and features of the house, which the curator confirmed, including a blank wall on which photographs were missing.

To date, Barbro is considered to the be the only, and true reincarnate of Anne Frank.

To learn more about Barbro’s experience, please watch the videos below, as documented by Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition and Spirit (IISIS). You can also purchase her book, And The Wolves Howled.

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden 1954.

“I have had memories from my past life for as long as I know.

Told my mother my name was Anne Frank when I was 2 years old.”

First book published in 1966, “Man on Earth”, poetry book.

All poems was written by the age of 7-11.

It became, at that time, the most sold poetry book of all times in Sweden.

Another 9 books published before the age of 16.

Worked as a Mounted Police Officer in Sweden for 15 years.

Moved to California in 1999. Became a US citizen in 2005.

Lives in Mission Viejo, Orange County, CA.

I have one son and 3 grandchildren in Sweden.

Have a screenplay “ABOVE AND BEYOND”, at a Hollywood Production company,

based on the book “And the wolves howled, Fragments of two lifetimes”.

Daily working training horses and riders, on real horses and on the Equine Simulator,

a state of the art computerized horse.

Yol Swan is a spiritual counselor and coach with degrees in English literature, music and homeopathy who has taken the understanding of the soul and the wounded Feminine to new cosmic depths in her new book, The Indigo Journals: Spiritual Healing For Indigo Adults & Other Feminine Souls. Born in Mexico to intellectual parents and surrounded by a blend of Shamanic cultures, she is a modern seer who perceives life as energy and is highly sensitive to other dimensions. She began channeling spiritual messages in her teens and later spent many years in psychoanalysis, which launched her into a deep exploration of Divine Consciousness during a 3-year retreat in almost complete isolation.

First initiated as a Buddhist nun by a liberated master from Thailand and then into a path of meditation and mantra by enlightened Hindu teachers, her life is filled with mystical experiences, unusual encounters, and profound insights into the power and workings of the mind.

A painful divorce brought up memories of Atlantis and revelations of the distorted Feminine, as well as the recognition of being an Indigo adult. This led her to a deeper exploration of the soul and a soul typology based on the cosmic interplay of the Feminine and Masculine, raising a new paradigm to explain essential differences between humans and the polarized world resulting from them. With a practical system of spiritual healing and energy management developed over more than 30 years, she helps clients around the world to create an empowering life or business they love, in alignment with their soul. She currently lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Courtney began her path as a seeker at a young age, progressing to the point that these teachings began to flow through her, effortlessly and with complete love and joy, starting at age 16. In the beginning, the wisdom was received for her own evolution and understanding, but after a short time she was guided to share it with as many people as possible through a book. Since then she has worked single-mindedly on getting these teachings out to the public, through the work of the book and expanding into sharing her insights through publishing articles and speaking.



In addition to her dedication to the advancement of the teachings, Courtney is actively progressing toward qigong healing certification as well as craniosacral therapy certification.  She has completed Spring Forest Qigong Levels I-IV, and CranioSacral Therapy Level I at the Upledger Institute. And as a classically trained violinist, she is engaging her passion for music in a new, more free flowing expression.



Teachings From God has given Courtney the inspiration and tools to create the life that excites her, and more than anything she wants to inspire you to do the same!

CORY PESATURO

Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is a graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, where he was the first in decades to major and graduate in the accordion.  Pesaturo tied the record for the youngest National Champion at 15, and later became the only person to win World Championships in Digital Accordion, Acoustic Accordion, and additionally Jazz Accordion.  The most famous accordion Legend in US history, Dick Contino, said when Cory was only 15, “Of all the accordionists I’ve seen over the years, Cory is the one to pass the torch to, the only one who has all the tools to bring the accordion back to its former glory.”  Pesaturo’s main contribution, is his work to revolutionize how the accordion should be used, played, and presented in modern music.  In 2014, Pesaturo gave a TED Talk on this quest for the instrument, the first Talk of its kind.  He has developed his own electric accordion, and has made the first ever skinned accordion that includes a symmetric midi lighting system attached to the keys.  In 2016 Facebook granted Cory “Verified” status, given to people who are well known and influential in their field.

Fittingly, Cory’s first major performance was sitting in for an ill Myron Floren at age 11 when the Lawrence Welk tour came to his home state of Rhode island, as the famed TV show is considered one of the instruments main reasons for its image collapse.  Pesaturo’s extensive résumé now includes performances with Wynton Marsalis, Johnny Depp, Pink Floyd’s Scott Page, Lady Gaga, and appearances at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton on 4 different occasions, starting at age 12.  On one of those occasions, he became the youngest person to ever perform at a State Dinner, playing with the Marine Strolling Strings for the President of Hungary.  He has since performed at 7 other events for the Clintons and continues to keep in touch as proved by his 14 letters from the first family.  He has judged accordion competitions in the US, Canada, and Europe, in addition to music competitions in general.  Cory also gives masterclasses on both Music Theory, Improvisation, and the Accordion at various universities throughout the US.

On his Classical side which is less known, a win at 16 years old in a concerto competition at the New England Conservatory of Music, gave Pesaturo the rare opportunity to perform with a Symphony Orchestra as a featured soloist, where he became the youngest accordionists to ever solo with a symphony orchestra in the US back in 2003.  Concerning his Jazz side, Cory recorded two CD’s with saxophone legend George Garzone and his famous band “The Fringe” at age 19.  Since that time, Jazz has become the genre Cory is most noted for, though he feels comfortable improvising in almost any style.  It is worth noting that all of Pesaturo’s performances at the 3 World Championships were played on accordions which were not his, and were mostly improvised; Both of these are completely unprecedented in the world of accordion competition.

Cory is also heavily involved and respected with the weather and motor sports worlds as well.  From 2005 to 2006, he composed the Official list of records set by the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.  He has also written the lists for the 2007 and 2008 Seasons as well.  Moreover, he has put out reports on Winter Seasons for the Northeast of the United States, which have been featured on Accuweather.com and Wunderground.com amongst others.  He is known for being a pioneer in the FreeSledding world with his own sledding mountain called “CN Mountain”, and has various other hobbies which he dedicates himself to, including writing sports blogs for such as Bleacher Report.  Furthermore, he collaborated with members of the Red Sox and bands such as the Drop Kick Murphy’s on the “Fenway 100” album which released in 2012.  His music is regularly played with Formula 1 broadcasts on NBC, FOX, and Velocity, and has an ongoing musical relationship with 98.5 The Sports Hub in Boston.  Cory is also currently working on a Formula 1 book that looks to change the way people analyze sports history and its champions in a similar fashion to Bill James’ Sabermetrics book on Baseball.

JONATHAN QUINTIN

Cosmologist & Multimedia Artist –

My interest in sacred geometry stems from my childhood fascination and adoration at the intrinsic order and exquisite beauty of natural forms, particularly things like pine cones, seashells, flower patterns etc.

I was born and raised in New Zealand and was fortunate to enjoy the extraordinary natural beauty in such abundance. A misfit at school, I would take every opportunity to escape the classroom and wander the wilderness (the school was next to a mountain range). The great outdoors was my classroom and the wisdom of nature my teacher.

At an early age I began traveling extensively and lived in different countries around the world. I was especially fascinated by ancient civilizations and their incredible structures such as pyramids, temples, monuments and such that were designed to mirror aspects of universal order.

I figured that if the architects of these amazing structures placed so much importance in geometric cosmology it was worth investigating. The rest is history. I have spent over 30 years in the full-time study and artistic expression of sacred geometry, or specifically geometric cosmology.

The purpose of my work is to provide modalities to experience the profound order that exists throughout creation. The shapes, forms and patterns that emerge from the circle and sphere are tools that can help attune our consciousness to the harmony of universal order.

Sacred geometry has been used extensively through the ages as a means for connecting with the greater whole. By including the harmonic geometries in our lives helps open us to the intrinsic order of creation because we are encoded with the same geometries.

Nassim Haramein was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1962.



As early as 9 years old, Nassim was already developing the basis for a unified hyperdimensional theory of matter and energy, which he eventually called the “Holofractographic Universe.”



Haramein has spent most of his life researching the fundamental geometry of hyperspace, studying a variety of fields from theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology and chemistry to anthropology and ancient civilizations. Combining this knowledge with a keen observation of the behavior of nature, he discovered a specific geometric array that he found to be fundamental to creation and from which the foundation for his Unified Field Theory emerged.



This unification theory, known as the Haramein-Rauscher metric (a new solution to Einstein’s Field Equations that incorporates torque and Coriolis effects) and his last published paper The Schwarzschild Proton, lays down the foundation of what could be a fundamental change in our current understandings of physics and consciousness. This groundbreaking theory has now been delivered to the scientific community through peer-reviewed papers and presentations at international physics conferences. Further, The Schwarzschild Proton paper recently received the prestigious “Best Paper Award” in the field of physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, field theory, and gravitation at the University of Liège, Belgium during the 9th International Conference CASYS’09.



Fluent in both French and English, Haramein has been giving lectures and seminars on his unification theory for over 20 years. His lectures are engaging multimedia presentations that lead his audiences through the validity of his theories with extensive observational and theoretical data.



In addition to his scientific papers, Mr. Haramein imparts this theory in a layman’s paper, a 4 DVD set entitled “Crossing the Event Horizon: Rise to the Equation,” a 90-minute DVD entitled “Black Whole,” and his international speaking tours.



In the past 10 years, Haramein has directed research teams of physicists, electrical engineers, mathematicians and other scientists in exploring the various aspects of unification principles and their implications in our world today . He has founded a non-profit organization, the Resonance Project Foundation, where, as the Director of Research, he continues in developing a research park in Hawai’i where science, sustainability, and advanced technology come together to generate viable solutions for our planet’s current energy crisis.



Nassim Haramein’s most recent DVD, “Black Whole,” provides insight into the structure of space-time and a new coherent model of the universe. Haramein uses the parallels between his theory, ancient documents, sacred geometry and codes found in monuments to provide a new look at the reality in which we live.