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Guest Occupation: Financial Controller, Business Consultant
Guest Biography:

Dan Cunningham has more than 25 years of experience as a financial controller and CFO having worked for a variety of companies both large and small. Dan started his career in finance and accounting with Marriott, Inc. He has worked in the gaming, mortgage and restaurant industries. He served as the Controller for Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus Restaurants which at the time had over 100 restaurants across the country. Prior to starting his own accounting and tax practice, Dan was the Chief Financial Officer for Team San Jose, the company that operated the San Jose Convention Center and the surrounding theaters. Dan’s business specializes in helping the small business owner manage their financial health and focus on realizing the business owner’s goals. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Masters in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach.

Guest Category: Business, Management
Guest Occupation: Plastic Surgeon
Guest Biography:

Dr. Jeffrey LaGrasso is a plastic surgeon in the complete sense. His desire to make things more beautiful, his ability to listen, his artistic sense and his superior technical skills set him above the rest. Dr. Jeffrey LaGrasso is a world renown plastic surgeon who is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. His surgical skills were perfected through his extensive training and experience. Dr. LaGrasso completed his General Surgical training at the New York Hospital of Queens and then continued onto his Plastic Surgical training at Albany Medical Center. He was then selected to complete a prestigious Craniofacial and Pediatric Plastic Surgery Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, an honor only a select few plastic surgeons receive. "Beauty is a lifestyle; it cannot be taken for granted. It requires dedication and maintenance. Beauty is like an orchid, it requires the necessary watering, sun and care, but the happiness of a beautiful flower is enduring"

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Guest Occupation: Wellness Coach, personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, Author, Speaker
Guest Biography:

Suzanne Ross has been a wellness professional for over 20 years specializing primarily in fitness and nutrition programming. She opened her first fitness center in Southern California in 1996 and continued expanding her facility until 2008 when she moved to Northern California. She now provides wellness services for Clubsport in Pleasanton – a premier Bay Area lifestyle center. As an Elite Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach, Suzanne offers both one-on-one services as well as workshops focused on integrative wellness for the body, mind and soul. Her workshops have been so well-received at Clubsport Pleasanton that she has expanded into other Clubsport facilities. She also conducts workshops at smaller venues that embrace an integrative approach to wellness and to larger corporate groups seeking progressive wellness programming. Due to the powerful transformations that her students were experiencing as the result of the workshops, she felt compelled to reach a wider audience with her evolutionary approach to wellness. Suzanne has since become an inspirational author and motivational speaker impacting the lives of many. She does motivational speaking engagements focused on human potential and is writing a book based on her own personal concept of “Evolutionary Wellness” called, “Lighten Up! 10-days to a More Enlightened Way of Being”.

Guest Category: Education, Courses & Training, Health & Lifestyle, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Motivational
Guest Biography:

Louie Bernstein is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in Couples and Relationship Counseling. Using an integrative and holistic approach, he draws from the best of the relationship and psychological philosophies, including: Object-Relations theory, Harville Hendrix’ Imago Therapy and Dr. John Gottman’s Couples research in assisting individuals and couples in creating healthy, supportive and fulfilling relationships. Personally inspired by the miracle and perfection of nature’s hand in guiding the growth of a living system such as an abundant fruit tree, Louie has developed a unique approach to show couples how to “grow their own great relationship” by aligning with and embracing those same growing principles that Nature uses in growing that great fruit tree from tiny seed to full fruition. By learning how to keep our intimate relationship well nourished with “sunshine, water, nutrients and care”, we can grow that great relationship in which we feel completely Alive, Loved, and Fulfilled.

Guest Category: Relationship Counseling
Guest Occupation: Business Consultant, Entrepreneur
Guest Biography:

Bobby Anderson has had a long and successful career in working with Government and the Private Sector. He has primarily been a business consultant and business owner where he managed projects that supported rights of workers in California. His emphasis has always been working with health and human services organizations. His sensitivities run contrary to most business owners that put profit before serving the community. His philosophy of life is very counter intuitive in that he believes serving others will ultimately provide him with the happiness we all so aspire to.

Guest Category: Business, Management, Philosophy
Guest Occupation: Retirement Consultant
Guest Biography:

Mika Douglas is retired and is living in Renaca, Chile, a small beach community along the central Chilean coast, 180 kilometers from Santiago. Mika left the USA 7 years ago and has lived abroad with her husband, on the beaches in Southern Thailand and Bangkok. “Our objective was to live more simply and leave behind the everyday complexities inherent with living in North America. Mission accomplished.” Now she is involved in ChileRetirement.com, a startup business that helps people retire to Chile by providing them assistance with immigration, healthcare, housing, language, and getting settled into a new culture. As we have experienced, having someone who can help with the myriad of questions and issues that arise with relocation, makes a huge difference in achieving a new “quality of life”. Formerly, Mika spent over thirty years working for “Corporate America” in Strategic Planning, Marketing and the Sales of products and services throughout Scandinavia, Europe and the Pacific Rim.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Travel & Leisure, Shopping
Guest Occupation: Author, Business Owner
Guest Biography:

ALAN FOX is the president of ACF Property Management, Inc, and author of PEOPLE TOOLS FOR BUSINESS: 50 Strategies for Building Success, Creating Wealth, and Finding Happiness (September 30, 2014; SelectBooks Inc.). He is also the author ofThe New York Times bestseller PEOPLE TOOLS. He has university degrees in accounting, law, education, and professional writing. He was employed as a Tax Supervisor for a national CPA firm, established his own law firm, then founded a commercial real estate company in 1968 that now owns over one billion dollars in real estate. Fox is the founder, editor, and publisher of Rattle, one of the most respected literary magazines in the United States, and he sits on the board of directors of several non-profit foundations.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Psychology, Self Help, Motivational
Guest Occupation: CEO, Consultant
Guest Biography:

Custom Solutions Inc., led by its CEO Michael Levin, provides high impact consulting services in the areas of Sales, Presentation Skills and Leadership Development. He works with a wide variety of clients from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. He has helped companies dramatically improve their results through his proven, personally developed sales techniques and leadership methodologies. Michael has launched both product and service businesses and developed them into multi-million dollar entities. He has developed and patented products that have been sold in over 300,000 retail outlets, including every major drug and mass chain, along with Home Shopping Network and QVC. Michael has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows around the country and been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine. He lives in Danville, CA.

Guest Category: Business, Marketing, Management, TV & Film