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Headlined Guests

Guest Occupation: Relationship Coach
Guest Biography:

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, The Relationship Help Doctor, offers urgent and ongoing care for relationships in crisis through consulting, speaking, video, and writing.  She particularly focuses her expertise on the partners, ex’s, adult children, and co-workers of relentlessly difficult, disturbing people.  She calls them Hijackals™.

Working with people struggling with life, death, and relationship for over thirty years in Canada and the United States, Dr. Shaler has brought hope, comfort, strength, and success to countless people who honestly believed it was impossible. Even the United States Marines have used her services!

Relationships in conflict foster fear, frenzy and friction. Dr. Shaler calms the turbulence of troubled relationships, offering the insights, strategies, and pattern-breaking skills that lead to blame-free, game-free, non-manipulative relationships. She consults with people worldwide through Skype and Zoom, helping to restore their connection, improve their communication, and deepen their emotional intimacy. She creates the insights, skills and space for new beginnings and positive re-connections.

Dr. Shaler is the author of sixteen personal growth and relationship books. Her most recent ones are to help those struggling with relationships with chronically difficult people:

  • Her Hijackal series of ebooks: Escaping the Hijackal Trap: The Truth About Hijackals & Why They're Crazy-Making,  April, 2016.
  • The Hijackal Trap: The Hidden Anger of Passive-Aggression , October 2015.
  • Stop! That's Crazy-Making! How to Quit Playing the Passive-Aggressive Game
  • Kaizen For Couples: Smart Steps to Save, Sustain & Strengthen Your Relationship is the summary of a lifetime of insights she developed from working with real people confronting the real life challenges of living and loving together. It offers workable solutions to twenty-first century relationship issues and a new proven model for living the loving relationship you most want.
  • And many others available through Amazon.com 

Dr. Shaler’s work has been featured on FoxNews, PsychCentral, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Good Men Project, eHarmony, Care2, Greatist, Pulse, and The Needs, among many others. Her YouTube channel, ForRelationshipHelp.com, is an evergreen source of practical insights and tips for relationships. Her newsletter and podcast, Vital Tips for Relationships, provides frequent valuable strategies.

If you want further information regarding The Relationship Help Doctor and media interviews or professional speaking, see her press kit, visit ForRelationshipHelp.com/work-with-Rhoberta

Guest Category: Kids & Family, Love & Relationships, Relationship Counseling, Philosophy, Psychology, Mental Health, Personal Development, Motivational, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Author and Relationship Help Docdtor
Guest Biography:

DR. RHOBERTA SHALER

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, The Relationship Help Doctor, offers urgent and ongoing care for relationships in crisis at home and at work globally through her consulting, speaking, video, and writing.

Dr. Shaler calms the turbulence of troubled relationships. She creates the insights, skills and space for new beginnings and positive re-connections. She offers the insights and pattern-breaking skills that lead to blame-free, game-free, non-manipulative relationships.

Her sixteenth book, Escaping the Hijackal™Trap, helps the partners, exes, and adult children of relentlessly difficult, disturbing people save their sanity and stop the crazy-making. Kaizen For Couples™: Smart Steps to Save, Sustain & Strengthen Your Relationship, is the summary of a lifetime of insights developed from working with real people confronting the real life challenges of living and loving together. It offers workable solutions to twenty-first century relationship issues and a new proven model for living the loving relationship you most want.

Dr. Shaler’s work has been featured on FoxNews, PsychCentral, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Good Men Project, eHarmony, Care2, Greatist, Pulse, and The Needs, among many others. Her YouTube channel, ForRelationshipHelp  is an evergreen source of practical insights and tips for relationships.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Love & Relationships, Relationship Counseling, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Journalist, an award-winning Interviewer and Commentator
Guest Biography:

Derek McGinty is a journalist, an award-winning interviewer and a commentator. He got his first job on the air back in 1984 at WHUR radio in Washington DC. From there he went to WAMU-FM where he launched a nationally syndicated daytime talk show on NPR. By the end of the century he’d been a correspondent on the CBS broadcast Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel and HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.

After two years in New York as anchor of ABC’s World News Now and World News This Morning, It was back to his hometown of Washington DC to anchor WUSA’s fledgling 7pm local newscast.

At WAMU 88.5 FM, Derek launched a nationally syndicated daytime talk show on National Public Radio. By the end of the century he’d been a correspondent on the CBS broadcast Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel and HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. 

After two years in New York as anchor of ABC’s World News Now and World News This Morning, it was back to his hometown of Washington, DC to anchor WUSA*9’s fledgling 7:00 pm local newscast. 

In all those incarnations Derek has believed that ideas matter more than ideology, so after leaving WUSA in 2015, he launched a website in hopes of keeping the conversation going. 

 

Guest Category: Entertainment, History, Kids & Family, Politics & Government, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: The Relationship Help Doctor
Guest Biography:

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, The Relationship Help Doctor, provides urgent and ongoing care for relationships in crisis. Her mission is to provide the insights, information, and inspiration for clients and audiences to know why and how to transform relationship with themselves and with other humans to be honest, respectful, and safe in all ways. Even the United States Marines have sought her help!

An active member of the Evolutionary Business Council (as am I) which has a combined Member reach of 400 Million+, Dr. Rhoberta Shaler is well known and respected for her transformational work globally.

She is also the Author of sixteen books including "Escaping the Hijackal Trap" and "Stop! That’s Crazy-Making", she hosts two popular podcasts: Transforming Relationship with Emotional Savvy: The Relationship Help Show and Save Your Sanity: Help for Toxic Relationships. Her YouTube channel, ForRelationshipHelp, has reached over 275,000 views.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Psychology
Guest Occupation: Healing Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress
Guest Biography:

Janine Regan-Sinclair, known as ‘The Consciousness Architect’ is a Certified Therapist, Healer & International Speaker. She is an author of 4 books and 35 Self-help Audios. She will be sharing her pioneering insight into healing trauma on the level of mind, body and particularly Spirit; the aspect that she believes to be, the missing piece of the healing puzzle.

She will also be sharing information about the Cube of Consciousness and how it manifests our health and our reality. Janine has also successfully been removing disease programs from the DNA and will explain how this is possible during her interview. Janine is a pioneer in her field and her testimonials speak for themselves.

Janine's Books:

Janine has published 4 books to date. The first one is an educational book for people interested in the meaning of life and personal / spiritual development. The other 3 books are adaptations of her personal diaries, filled with stories of her out of body experiences and Astral Travelling adventures.

All images and links are available on my web page here>> https://www.crystalki.com/books

My Self-Help Audio Programs:

Crystal Ki Mind Detox & Development Programs

Formulated by Janine Regan-Sinclair - The Consciousness Architect

These unique programs combine skills used by some of the most famous visionaries of our time including Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Diamond Energy Healing, Hypnosis and Quantum Healing. The Post Traumatic Growth and General Self-Help audios also contain binaural beats to help maintain the correct brainwave frequency. Suitable for 18+, (10+ Minors supervised by and adult.).

There are 5 specific program sets to help with many other areas in your life and must be used in the correct order, beginning with Program 1 (Silver), 2 (Gold), 3 (Platinum), 4 Diamond and ending with program 5 (Pearl) in each category. These categories include Weight Loss, Perfect Partner, Abundance, Spiritual Growth and Money.

LINK: https://www.crystalki.com/audios

Audios for Post-Traumatic Stress and Addiction:

There are different groups of audios for various mind management processes. The first being to help with Post Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injury, Addiction and cleansing the body of stressful energies. The General Audios deal with Anger, Rage, Sleep Issues, Limiting Beliefs, Victim Consciousness, Poverty Consciousness and Manifesting Desires.

LINK: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ptsd

Twitter:  jregansinclair
Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/janine-regan-sinclair-3a254a21/

Janine Regan-Sinclair
10 Harley Street, London, UK
https://www.crystalki.com/

Guest Category: Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual, Medium & Channeling, Meditation, Mystic & Seer, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Ordained Interfaith Reverend, Leader, Visionary, Spiritual Counselor, Intuitive, and Teacher
Guest Biography:

Rev. Janice Hope Gorman was born and raised in Mankato, Minnesota. She is happily married to her best friend of 33 years, Dr. Paul Gorman. They are blessed with five children and six grandchildren.

Rev. Gorman has a Bachelor of Science degree from MSU and she is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor. She was ordained by the National Interfaith Seminary and she is a Certified Oneness Blesser of Deeksha’ from the Oneness University of India. She is the Founder and the Director of the Hope Interfaith Center, which is 501(c)(3) Spiritual Wellness Center located in Mankato, Minnesota. The mission of the Hope Interfaith Center is to inspire all in Oneness to create a better world by empowering people to recognize and honor the Divine in self and all.

“Hope”, as many people call her, was given that name by one of her early teachers – Hope means “Help Open Planetary Eyes”, which is the foundation of her work. Her vocation is mainly focused on spiritual teaching and mentoring to help people realize their own magnificence and personal power. She is passionate about the profound spiritual awakening, which is the hallmark of these times; that we are all ONE. Her teachings are universal in nature and do not represent the beliefs of any one religion or spiritual practice or movement.

READ the rest of her fascinating bio at: http://www.hopeinterfaithcenter.com/rev-janice-hope-gorman/

Guest Category: Education, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Philosophy, Religion, Self Help, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: General Practice & Sports Medicine Specialist
Guest Biography:

I have been in Family and Sports Medicine for 20 years serving patients and athletes of all ages.  I have taken care of athletes ranging from High School, College, Semi-Pro and U.S. Olympic levels (soccer and Rugby).  I have a special interest in concussion management and non-operative joint pain care as well as all sports related injuries and illnesses.I am currently in practice in Geneva where I have been for the last 2 years.

 
Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine, Self Help, Sports & Recreation, Variety
Guest Occupation: Energy Medicine and Quantum Self-Healing
Guest Biography:

Dr. Sue Morter’s globally taught Energy Codes® coursework teaches individuals how to clear subconscious memory blockages. She is the co-creator of the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique and founder of the Morter Institute for Bioenergetics, which teaches individuals self-healing techniques and uses Quantum Science for a new approach to life. Dr. Sue is author of the book, The Energy Codes: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life. She is a renowned international speaker and the host of the GAIA TV show "Healing Matrix." Dr. Sue has been featured in several documentary films, including "The Opus," "The Cure Is…," "Discover the Gift," and "Femme" and is the author of the free (limited time) eBook called “The Top 3 Mistakes That Keep You From Fulfillment & Flow!”

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Science, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Drummer/Singer/Songwriter
Guest Biography:

T  O  N  Y

B  R  O  C  K

DRUMMER AND FOUNDING MEMBER 

of

T   H   E   

B   A   B   Y   S

LEGENDARY BRITISH ROCK BAND

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

 

Tony Brock is one of the world’s most explosive and technically brilliant drummers. As a pro drummer since the age of 15, Tony’s playing credits feature a who’s who of world-class musicians. 

In addition to being a founding member of THE BABYS, Tony has toured and/or recorded with Rod Stewart during Rod’s heyday, Elton John, Jimmy Barnes, Jeff Beck, Bernie Taupin’s Farm Dogs and Roy Orbison to name but a few.

He has worked with such luminary producers such as Don Gehman, Ron Nevison, Keith Olson, Greg Lake and Jimmy Iovine. Tony’s production credits include Jimmy Barnes, Keith Urban and soundtracks from TV shows (Baywatch/Flipper) to movies (Just One of the Guys.) Remixing credits include 311, Korn and Ryan Down in partnership with Paula Jones.

Tony produced the latest BABYS album I’ll Have Some of That in his studio- Silver Dreams Studios, which is also where the band's first video was shot. 

He also makes a killer cup of tea! 

On August 29, 2016, Tony (along with Wally, John and Joey) were interviewed by Paul Nicholls on Platinum Rock Radio. Tony discussed reforming THE BABYS after a 3-decade hiatus. He said: 

“Both of us (Wally & I) wanted another shot at it. So, I said to Wally, 'I'm not gonna do it without ya', cause a lot of people alluded to the fact that Wally and myself were the sound of THE BABYS."

 

Purchase ‘The Babys Anthology’ album at amazon.com

For more information about Tony Brock and The Babys

 visit

https://www.thebabysofficial.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TheBabysOfficial

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Strategist, Speaker, Author
Guest Biography:

Living an amazing life is not about finding the right answer, but instead happens when we ask the right questions, and Laura Steward intuitively knows the right questions to ask. From the wisdom she learned at her mother’s side to the insight she gained baking pies with her Grandmother, Laura has developed an innate ability to ask the questions that propel business leaders and entrepreneurs to incredible achievements.

Laura operates from a simple philosophy – “Treat people better than they expect to be treated”, and it is from this belief that she was able to carve her niche and stand out in the highly competitive IT field, building Guardian Angel Computer Services from a sole employee business into a leading provider of Managed Technical Services.

An avid reader, Laura’s understanding that questions control the outcome began at the age of six, when Laura watched her Mother question school policy, creating change and allowing Laura to immediately begin learning to read. Throughout her life, Laura questioned the decisions she made along with the decisions made by others. Based on the answers she received Laura was able to build, and fifteen years later sell, her highly successful IT business before starting Wisdom Learned, LLC, a company dedicated to educating leaders based on experience and wisdom learned in the trenches.

Laura is a sought after speaker, Nautilus Award winning and international bestselling author, business advisor, confidant and friend. She is the author of the Bestselling Book “What Would a Wise Woman Do? Questions to Ask Along the Way” which has remained on the Amazon Woman In Business bestseller list for over 90 weeks. Through her weekly Radio Show, Entrepreneur Master Class, keynote speeches, books, seminars, training and one-one sessions, Laura’s mission is clear – help people get off autopilot and create amazing, successful lives.

Today, along with inspiring entrepreneurs and leaders, Laura finds joy spending time with friends and family, cruising around in her convertible, walking along the beach or simply looking at clouds and figuring out what they look like. But no matter what she does, Laura always makes sure to ask questions along the way.

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Careers, Investing and Finance, Marketing, Management
Guest Occupation: Naturopathic Physician, Psychotherapist, International Speaker and Author
Guest Biography:

Dr. Ameet Aggarwal ND has helped thousands of people around the world with his online course, bestselling book and free webinars.

Be prepared to learn how to connect your mind and body to treat anxiety, depression, stress and chronic diseases with this Kenyan born naturopathic doctor, psychotherapist and international teacher and speaker.

Dr. Ameet has been voted Top 43 practitioners in the world because he combines naturopathic medicine, gestalt psychotherapy, EMDR, family constellations and intuitive healing for many health conditions. His online program helps people with emotional issues, weight loss, hormonal balance, leaky gut and adrenal fatigue. It’s the only online program to be approved by both the Commission of Dietetic Registrants (CDR) and by Naturopathic Professional Associations for naturopaths, nutritionists and dietitians.

Dr. Ameet started mobile clinics for poor communities in Kenya through his charity FIMAFRICA and loves to support communities with your help when you buy his online course and book.

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology, Science, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Singer,Songwriter,Musician,Entrepreneur
Guest Biography:

R O B E R T

"K O O L"

B E L L 

LEGENDARY SINGER-SONGWRITER-MUSICIAN 

With R&B/SOUL/FUNK/JAZZ/DISCO GROUP

K  O  O  L  

A  N  D

T  H  E

G  A  N  G

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Kool & the Gang, officially launched in 1969, after performing for five years under various band titles, has influenced the music of three generations and, at the age of 49, the band has become true recording industry legends.

Thanks to iconic songs like CelebrationCherishJungle BoogieSummer Madness and Open Sesame, they’ve earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits and 31 gold and platinum albums.

In 1979, Kool & the Gang unveiled a smooth new sound with Ladies Nigh and became their first platinum album. The #1 R&B title track reached #8 at Pop. It was followed by Too Hot (#3 R&B, #5 Pop). The 80’s would see them dominate the mainstream, starting with the double platinum-selling album Celebrate (driven by the international monster hit Celebration, which spent six weeks atop the R&B chart and became a #1 Pop single).

Celebration, which played as the American hostages returned from Iran, remains de rigueur at joyous occasions worldwide. The smashes Get Down On ItTake My HeartLet’s Go DancingJoannaTonightMisled, the #1 R&B, #2 Pop giant Cherish and the #1 R&B anthem Fresh (these last three from the multi- platinum LP Emergency) solidified the group’s international stardom.

In 2014, they were honored with a BET Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award and in October 2015, in the town they sing about in one of their earliest hits, “Hollywood Swinging,” Kool & the Gang was honored to take their place as American musical icons with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2016, they released a single, "Sexy (Where’d You Get Yours),” which rose to #15 on the Billboard Adult R& B chart. The song signifies a modernization of Kool & the Gang’s unmistakable sound, down to the dance floor-tailored bass grooves and the perfectly timed horns. It was their first airplay chart hit in a decade.

Kool & the Gang’s 50th Anniversary is just around the corner. Here is how they have begun to celebrate the milestone:

Induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

In a touching tribute, a street they grew up on in Jersey City has been renamed in their honor: “Kool & the Gang Way.”

“Celebration” was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame

Kool’s bass is displayed at the new Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.

Artifacts from the band’s archive have recently gone on display, next to Count Basie, at the newly- opened Grammy Museum Experience in Newark, NJ.

Induction into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

Kool & the Gang continues to delight fans around the globe with their timeless hits and amazing live performances.

For more information about Robert “Kool” Bell

and Kool & the Gang

visit…

https://www.koolandthegang.com/

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music, News, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: LA-based singer songwriter
Guest Biography:

Rommel Sacan

Rommel is an LA-based singer songwriter from the Philippines. He has taken his music in venues like the Pasadena Cable Channel, UC Irvine, Fullerton College as well as Hollywood venues like Viper Room, Pig ‘n Whistle, etc.

Rommel’s songs are bluesy love songs elevating eco-social consciousness musically documenting how our hearts are shattered by the kind of world we create and time and time again resurrected by the love in the music we share.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Certified Holistic Nutritional Practitioner
Guest Biography:

MELISSA METCALF LE ROY

“I dropped from a size 16 to a size 0!” – Melissa Metcalf Le Roy

Melissa is a Certified Holistic Nutritional Practitioner (CHNP) who after years of weight gain and chronic pain sought the help of doctors and has ended up with nine prescriptions, but with no long term solution.

After meeting with Dr. Joseph V. Picone she was diagnosed with a rare disease. On Dr. Picone`s recommendation, she added digestive enzymes and altered her diet. She overcomes her inflammation and an overgrowth of bad gut bugs and has lost close to ninety pounds she had put on while battling this illness.

Melissa currently works at Foothills Wellness Center where she helps people heal themselves. She is a nutrition coach who shares her menus on her blog On Fire Healing. She has been awarded her CHNP license and a certificate in Native American Health Studies through Western Carolina University. Once overweight and unhealthy she now actively participates in road races, half marathons and Spartan Races.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Nutrition, Kids & Family, Medicine, News, Science, Self Help, Technology
Guest Occupation: Flutist
Guest Biography:

BRIAN LUCE

Brian Luce, “an authoritative soloist” praised for his “technical agility” and “lyric power,” teaches at The University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music and is a member of the Arizona Wind Quintet. He has performed as a principal flutist for orchestras in Illinois, Texas, and Pennsylvania. He also performed with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Bach Society, Dallas Wind Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic, and Keystone Wind Ensemble. Brian performs chamber music and concertos in addition to presenting master classes worldwide.

He is a prizewinner in the National Flute Association, Myrna Brown, Mid-South, and Kingsville International young artist competitions. His compositions, arrangements, and realizations are published by Editions BIM and IntegrityInk, and he has written for the Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk Magazine. He has recorded for the Naxos, Albany, Toccata Classics, and Citadel labels. A Yamaha Artist, Brian has played Yamaha flutes exclusively since 1996.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Composer, guitarist and publisher
Guest Biography:

CHRISTOPHER CALIENDO

Hailed “a wunderkind!” by LA Weekly, composer, guitarist and publisher, Christoper Caliendo’s world music has been embraced world-wide finding equal resonance with film studios, philharmonics, chamber societies, the Vatican, the U. S. Military, virtuosi, political figures and celebrities.

His music is performed and recorded  by students and virtuosi alike and has been the subject of  doctoral dissertations. His sheet music catalog of world music for flute alone has more than 350 original compositions and arrangements made available as digital downloads.

Keith Hannaleck of Gramophone Magazine has described Christopher as, “… one fantastic guitar player … simply masterful and as fluid as humanly possible. A great composer … one of the best musicians in the world.”

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Author and spiritual movement contemporary
Guest Biography:

ARIELLE FORD

Arielle Ford is a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 30 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She is a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, speaker, and is the co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series. Her mission is to help women Find Love, Keep Love and Be Love.

As the president of The Ford Group, Arielle was widely recognized as America’s foremost book publicist and was instrumental in launching the careers of many NY Times bestselling self-help authors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Neale Donald Walsch, don Miguel Ruiz, and Debbie Ford.  Arielle was the publicist for dozens of other top selling authors such as Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, Louise Hay, Gary Zukav, Dean Ornish, Joan Borysenko,  Jorge Cruise, and don Miguel Ruiz. She is retired for the PR & marketing.

Arielle is a gifted writer and the author of eleven books including the international bestseller, THE SOULMATE SECRET: Manifest The Love of Your Life With The Law of Attraction (published in 21 languages and 40 countries).

She has also written many groundbreaking books including Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate: A Practical Guide To Happily Ever After and Wabi Sabi Love: The Ancient Art of Finding Perfect Love in Imperfect Relationships, and  Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate.   Her latest book is Inkspirations, Love By Design: Coloring the Divine Path to Manifest Your Soulmate, the world’s first transformational coloring book.

A long-time “Student of Love,” Arielle regularly presents workshops around the world including England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Kuwait, Canada, Romania, Ireland, Austria and Bali as well as personal growth centers such as Omega Institute, Kripalu, The Chopra Center, Esalen, Alternatives in London, AwesomenessFest, Celebrate Your Life, and many other prestigious venues..

Arielle has been called “The Cupid of Consciousness” and “The Fairy Godmother of Love.” She lives in La Jolla, CA with her husband/soulmate, Brian Hilliard and their feline friends. 

Guest Category: Literature, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Biography:

DOLLY RAMIREZ and JJ SCHOCH as COOLHOUSE

CoolHouse is an L.A. based indie folk duo, Dolly Ramirez and JJ Schoch.

Dolly Ramirez is a vocalist/songwriter and Owner/operator of Divine Rebel Music, a music promotion company.  Jean-Jacques (JJ) Schoch is a composer/multi-instrumentalist.  Together, they are the Americana duo, CoolHouse.

Though born in Mexico, Dolly grew up in Los Angeles, raised on the passionate sounds of Ranchera ballads and other Spanish music. From the time she was a little girl, she loved to sing and knew that was all she wanted to do. 

She eventually found her way to Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Patsy Cline. Determined to hit every note, she had no idea she was working out and developing those muscles. In time, she got over her debilitating stage-fright when her partner JJ encouraged her to attend and perform Open Mics and local music jams.  

Dolly’s voice has been described as having the power of Linda Ronstadt, the soul of Aretha Franklin, and the vulnerability of Brandi Carlile.  She now performs all over Los Angeles with CoolHouse, and as a vocalist in multiple music projects. Dolly loves supporting the music community through Divine Rebel Music, creating intimate and fun opportunities and venues for local musical artists.  

An accomplished composer producer, arranger, and songwriter, Jean-Jacques (JJ) Schoch has been involved with music, in one way or another, since he was very young. Raised by musical parents from Switzerland, Jean-Jacques grew up in Bethesda, Maryland outside of Washington D.C., where he studied cello, piano, bass and music composition. While living in the Washington area, he played in traditional orchestras and string quartets, as well as bands playing eclectic blends of jazz, funk, rock and bluegrass.

A modern-day Renaissance man… musician, writer and inventor, Jean-Jacques is at his core a passionate, gifted composer. Blessed with European charm and a wonderful sense of melody, he is fluent on piano, electric & upright bass and guitar. As a singer/songwriter, Jean-Jacques paints offbeat stories delivered in his distinctive vocal style.

JJ has recorded with the Gap Band (on Bass) co-written music with Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire, and performed live opening up for Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jackson Browne, Stevie Wonder, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Taj Mahal, and Gil Scott Heron.

“I have been drawn to the beauty of music since I was a young boy learning to play piano and cello, and started composing and songwriting since I was 12.

CoolHouse plays all over Los Angeles, and performs in a monthly residency called Roadhouse Series Presents at the infamous Coffee Gallery Backstage in Alta Dena, CA.

Guest Category: Arts, Entertainment, Music
Guest Occupation: Attorney
Guest Biography:

JULIE POTIKER

Author and mindfulness expert Julie Potiker is an attorney who began her serious study and investigation of mindfulness after graduating from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of California, San Diego.

She was trained by Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer and UCSD as a Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher. She went on to study with Rick Hanson, becoming a graduate of his Positive Neuroplasticity Training Professional Course.

Potiker also completed Brené Brown’s Living Brave Semester. Now, she shares these and other mindfulness techniques with the world through her Mindful Methods for Life trainings and her new book: “Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm In the Midst of Chaos.”

She holds a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Violinist
Guest Biography:

VOLKAN CAN CANBOLAT, Ph.D., aka “VOLKAN THE VIOLINIST”

Volkan Can Canbolat hails from Izmir, Turkey, where he began his violin studies at the age of ten at the Dokuz Eylul State Music Conservatory, continuing his studies at the Conservatory until his graduation in 2011. 

Can’s concert performances have taken him around the world, from his original Turkey to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Pakistan, Israel, Italy, Portugal and the United States. His worldwide performances have included solo recitals, chamber music and appearances as a soloist with orchestras. Can Canbolat holds Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Minnesota School of Music.

He currently serves on the violin faculty at the renowned music conservatory in Los Angeles, the Colburn School. 

Guest Category: Performing Arts, Entertainment, Music