Audrey Barnes has spent the last two decades chasing news stories, and now she’s ready to make news.

She is a Multi-media Journalist for WUSA TV in Washington, DC. where she shoots videotape, edits on Avid, researches, writes, reports, Anchors newscasts, blogs, and posts stories and photos to the web. Working there is the realization of a goal she set while interning at the station when she was a student at the University of Maryland in College Park.

Audrey has been a Reporter and Anchor for television stations across the country, including in Detroit, Michigan; Charlotte, North Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida and Salisbury, Maryland. She was the 6pm and 11pm Anchor for WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan before returning to Washington, DC to be near her family.

Returning home put her in position to do what she considers her finest work. She was nominated for an Emmy for her numerous live reports outside the Pentagon with fleeing workers, worried relatives, and dedicated rescue personnel after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Audrey is particularly proud of the Emmy she won for a documentary she made in Flint, Michigan about a dancer who lands a dream contract at the Joffrey School of Ballet. She's now making her own dream come true with Audrey Barnes Media--and fulfilling a promise she made while working on her Master's degree at Northwestern University...to teach aspiring journalists and others how to make an unforgettable statement!

Cheryl Slay Carr is Associate Professor of music business at Belmont University. As a professor she has taught and designed courses including Copyright Law, Music Industry Contract Law, Legal Issues in the Entertainment Industry, and Understanding the Jazz Business.

Cheryl is co-author of  “Music Copyright Law”, and a contributing author to the ABA-BNA published book “Trademark Infringement Remedies”.

Ms Slay Carr has nearly 14 years of experience as an intellectual property and entertainment law attorney in representing independent and emerging filmmakers, novelists, record companies, musicians, technology companies, visual artists, technology, and business professionals.

Cheryl also has 17 years of experience in developing public policy through managing and advising public sector programs. She  received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, a Master of Public Administration from Atlanta University, and received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Cheryl completed the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers in International and Comparative Intellectual Property, ………is a member of the Board of Directors of Jazz Education Network, was selected as a Maryland Bar Foundation Fellow, and is an alumna of Leadership Music. Ms. Slay is also a jazz/gospel/R&B vocalist with 25+ years of performance experience, which augments her entertainment business expertise.

A psychotherapist for over 20 years, I care deeply about empowering people to reach their potential and lead happy, joyful lives--free from emotional pain and confusion.  Utilizing a variety of effective techniques and methods to assist you on your journey of healing, I have helped many people unlock their creativity, think beyond the box of emotional prison walls, and expand their awareness of new possibilities of relating to their inner and outer worlds.  I am committed to helping each individual discover his or her own uniqueness and contributions.

Finding the inner wisdom for effective change often requires guidance, and my unique style of holistic mind-body therapy can provide the inner strength and skills necessary for you to make real changes in your life.

Each person goes into therapy for different reasons, so each needs a personalized therapy plan.  Whether you have a sudden crisis, longstanding problems, childhood wounds, relationship issues, or simply want to feel more at peace, it is my belief that our healing work together will help you design your life's tapestry to:
 

• Maximize your potential to meet your goals
• Find meaning and purpose
• Increase your ability to cope and enjoy daily living
• Release regrets
• Develop a rich inner life
• Understand core beliefs and heal old wounds
• Discover strengths and inner resources

Aside from being founding director of the center, psychotherapist, author, public speaker and radio personality, I am a mother, a grandmother, a gardener, an artist and a playful spirit. I thank you for taking the time to visit my website. You will find a list of my services, experience and qualifications and select articles I have written. Also, please check out my book You're Not Finished Yet... the first chapter of which describes the effects of alcoholism on the family and how to deal with past traumas of living in a dysfunctional family. The last two chapters are about becoming more spiritual which is the final stage of recovery for a dysfunctional person. (Click here to read book reviews from Raymond Moody and Michael Tymn.) If you need more information please contact me at your convenience by either phone or email. Blessings, Karen.

• Masters Degree, Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work, New Brunswick, NJ. Specialization: Alcohol & Drug Studies

• Bachelors Degree, Magna Cum Laude, Art with specialization in Art Therapy, Jersey City State College

• Ordained, New York City, Interfaith Ministry. Interfaith is for people who want something above and beyond what normal religion gave them.

Angelic Whisperer Kathy Crosswell. Connecting To The Angels Kathy Brings Messages Of Inspiration And Enlightenment. She Is Well Known For Keeping It ‘Real’ And For Her Entertaining And Interactive Workshops and Talks. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from your guides and angels!

Known as the “Voice Builder to the World,” – or simply “The Maestro” – Gary Catona has trained many of the worlds greatest singers and entertainers including:  Whitney Houston, Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett, Babyface, Gloria Estefan, Michael Mc Donald, Sade, Steven Tyler, Brian Wilson, Johnny Mathis, Usher, Robin Thicke, Shakira, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, Annie Lennox, Toni Braxton, Seal, Boys II Men, Backstreet Boys, Pharrell Williams, Lenny Kravitz, Gino Vannelli, Draco Rosa, Andy Williams, Liza Minnelli, and Earth, Wind and Fire.  (Please go to garycatona.com for a complete list of students)

Originally, Catona was interested in a career as an opera singer, but he lost his voice as a result of formal study with fourteen different voice teachers.  Undaunted, he moved to Austin, Texas in 1980 to research the mechanics of voice production at the music libraries at the University of Texas.  Ultimately, he formulated his revolutionary “voice-building-system,” which is the systematic process for building the muscles of the voice.  Catona decided to forgo a singing career and instead focus on teaching his groundbreaking voice-building system to the world.  His first gained notoriety when he built back the voice of a popular Texan singer named, Johnny Bush, who had lost his speaking and singing voice fourteen years earlier because of a vocal disorder called spasmotic dysphonia.  When Bush’s voice made a startling recovery after only ten voice-building sessions, Catona’s name spread nationally.

Catona moved to Los Angeles in 1985 and quickly established himself as the world’s premier voice builder.  His many projects included preparing Liza Minnelli, Babyface, and Seal for their respective tours, and also coached them on the road.  Catona taught and toured with the Italian tenor superstar, Andrea Bocelli, and did the same for pop icon, Sade.  In recent years, he has added legends Whitney Houston, Johnny Mathis, Jackson Browne, and rock sensation, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith to his roster of artistic greats.  Over the past decade, Catona has appeared in many newspapers and magazines both nationally and internationally (e.g., New York Times; USA Today; People; Vanity Fair; London Times) and has been featured on the popular television shows Entertainment Tonight and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, in which his revolutionary work with celebrities was highlighted.  Over the past year, Catona has been the focus of intense media attention – internationally – for his role as the late Whitney Houston’s voice teacher.

Catona was born in Philadelphia to a traditional Italian/American family, and attended Penn State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and a master’s degree in philosophy. His two passions – voice and philosophy – sustain his creative life.  Currently, Catona is committed to spreading his voice building system throughout the world, so everyone can benefit from his discoveries.  He has published two books: Thinking As Sport And Dance (philosophy book) and A Revolution In Singing.  He is currently preparing to release his third book called, Wisdom For Singers And Philosophers.  Catona has also released an iPhone/Pad app called: Voice Builder.

William Collinge, PhD, MPH, LCSW , my third guest, is a consultant, author, speaker and researcher in the field of integrative health care. He conducts a private practice of health-related psychotherapy and mind/body medicine in Eugene, Oregon, for individuals, couples and families facing challenges to health and well being. He has extensive experience supporting people with cancer, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, HIV/AIDS, and other conditions, as well as veterans and their loved ones. He has led workshops and retreats across North America, in Hawaii, New Zealand and the UK. William is an Affiliate Faculty member of the Oregon Health & Science University. In addition he directs research projects sponsored by the National Institutes of Health through Collinge and Associates  His latest book is Partners in Healing: Simple Ways to Offer Support, Comfort and Care to a Loved One Facing Illness (Shambhala, 2008). More information on multiple grants, books and book chapters, articles, consulting and other activities

Joel Kahn, M.D.  is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Director of Cardiac Wellness, Michigan Healthcare Professionals PC. He is a graduate Summa Cum Laude of the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He lectures widely on the cardiac benefits of vegan nutrition and mind body practices. He also writes for Readers Digest Magazine as the Holistic Heart Doc and his first book, The Holistic Heart Book

“I know a lot of people. A lot. And I ask a lot of prying questions. But I’ve never run into a more intriguing biography than Howard Bloom’s in all my born days.” Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Howard Bloom has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,” by Britain’s Channel4 TV , “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine, and “The Buckminster Fuller and Arthur C. Clarke of the new millennium” by Buckminster Fuller’s archivist. Bloom is the author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (“mesmerizing”—The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (“reassuring and sobering”—The New Yorker), The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (“Impressive, stimulating, and tremendously enjoyable.” James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic), and The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates (“Bloom’s argument will rock your world.” Barbara Ehrenreich).

Bloom has been published in arxiv.org, the leading pre-print site in advanced theoretical physics and math. He was invited to tell an international conference of quantum physicists in Moscow in 2005 why everything they know about quantum physics is wrong. And his book Global Brain was the subject of an Office of the Secretary of Defense symposium in 2010, with participants from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT.

Bloom has founded three international scientific groups: the Group Selection Squad (1995), which fought to gain acceptance for the concept of group selection in evolutionary biology; The International Paleopsychology Project (1997), which worked to create a new multi-disciplinary synthesis between cosmology, paleontology, evolutionary biology, and history; and The Space Development Steering Committee (2007), an organization that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and members from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.

Bloom explains that his focus is “mass behavior, from the mass behavior of quarks to the mass behavior of human beings.” In 1968 Bloom turned down four fellowships in psychology and neurobiology and set off on a science project in a field he knew nothing about: popular culture. He was determined to tunnel into the forces of history by entering “the belly of the beast where new myths, new mass passions, and new mass movements are made.” Bloom used simple correlational techniques plus what he calls “tuned empathy” and “saturated intuition” to help build or sustain the careers of figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, John Mellencamp, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Run DMC, and roughly 100 others. In the process, he generated $28 billion in revenues (more than the gross domestic product of Oman or Luxembourg) for companies like Sony, Disney, Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers.

Bloom also helped launch Farm Aid and Amnesty International’s American presence. He worked with the United Negro College Fund,the National Black United Fund, and the NAACP, and he put together the first public service radio campaign for solar power (1981).

Bloom’s focus on group behavior extends to geopolitics. He has debated one-one-one with senior officials from Egypt’s Moslem Brotherhood and Gaza’s Hamas on Iran’s Arab-language international Alalam TV News Network. He has dissected headline issues on Saudi Arabia’s KSA1-TV and on Iran’s global English language Press-TV. And he has appeared fifty two times for up to five hours on 500 radio stations in North America.

Bloom is a former visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Psychology at NYU and a former core faculty member at the Graduate Institute in Meriden, Connecticut. In addition to arXiv.org, his scientific articles have appeared in PhysicaPlus, New Ideas in Psychology, and Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology. Bloom has also written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Knight-Ridder Financial News Service, the Village Voice, and Cosmopolitan.  Bloom’s 90-minute per episode YouTube series, Howard the Humongous, pulls in a minimum of 45,000 hits and a maximum of 161,000 per installment.

Topping it all off, Bloom’s computer houses a not-so-secret and not-at-all humble project, his 7,100-chapter-long Grand Unified Theory of Everything in the Universe Including the Human Soul. Pavel Kurakin of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences says that

“Bloom has created a new Scientific Paradigm. He explains in vast and compelling terms why we should forget all we know in complicated modern math and should start from the very beginning. …Bloom’s Grand Unified Theory… opens a window into entire systems we don’t yet know and/or see, new…collectivities that live, love, battle, win and lose each day of our gray lives. I never imagined that a new system of thought could produce so much light.”

Concludes Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.”

Nobel-Prize winner Dudley Herschbach calls Bloom’s insights “truly awesome.” There’s a reason. Bloom’s perspective comes from a once–in-the-history-of-science approach to the study of mass moods and cultural convolutions. Bloom started out normally enough, diving into microbiology, theoretical physics, and cosmology at the age of ten, building his first Boolean algebra machine at the age of twelve, becoming a dedicated microscopist that same year, codesigning a computer that won prizes at local science fairs before he left grade school, and being granted a private brainstorming session with the head of the Graduate Physics Department at the University of Buffalo when he was still twelve. By sixteen he was a lab assistant at the world’s largest cancer research center, the Roswell Park Memorial Research Cancer Institute, where he helped plumb the mysteries of the immune system. And before his freshman year of college he designed and executed research in Skinnerian programmed learning at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education.

Then came an act of academic heresy. After graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from New York University, Bloom turned down four graduate school fellowships and embarked on a 20-year-long urban anthropology expedition to penetrate what he calls “society’s myth-making machinery”–the inner sanctums of politics and the media. During his foray into “the dark underbelly of mass emotion” he edited a magazine that won two National Academy of Poets prizes, founded the leading avant-garde art studio on the East Coast, was featured on the cover of Art Direction Magazine,

Then Bloom gave up listening to Beethoven, Bartok, and Mozart and entered a field he knew nothing about– he become editor of the rock monthly Circus. Using correlational studies, empirical surveys, ethnographic expeditions into suburban teen subcultures, and other scientific techniques, Bloom more than doubled Circus’s sales, and was credited by Rolling Stones’ Chet Flippo with founding a new genre–the heavy metal magazine. Seeking still further ways to infiltrate modernity’s mass mind, Bloom founded the biggest public relations firm in the music industry, The Howard Bloom Organization, Ltd. The payoff in knowledge proved invaluable.

Bloom worked with Michael Jackson, Prince, John Cougar Mellencamp, Kiss, Queen, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Joan Jett, Peter Gabriel, Diana Ross, Simon & Garfunkel, The Talking Heads, AC/DC, Billy Idol, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run D.M.C., Simply Red, and the heads of many a media conglomerate. He was adept at spotting new subcultures, entering them, and helping their members crusade for the right to express their identity…a skill that gave him an inside role in the rise of country crossover, disco, midwestern rock, fusion jazz, New Age music, punk rock, rap, and the form of crossover black music embodied in Prince and Michael Jackson.

The pinnacles of fame provided surprising raw material for scientific analysis. “When you’re at the center of the sort of attention-storm that hits when you’re working with a superstar,” Bloom says, “it’s as if the laws of physics change. Hormones charge you up in ways you never imagined. Time perception alters. You resolve crises in minutes, seeing solutions instantly, solutions that previously would have taken you weeks.

“More important is the impact of a communal ritual like a rock concert. The star onstage is taken over by a self he doesn’t know, one that seems to surge through him as if he were a length of empty pipe. The force of this strange passion welds the audience in an almost transcendent bond.” Bloom’s task was to first experience the exaltation, then to dissect it. “The model for this work,” he says, “cames from William James, who attempted to feel the ecstatic experiences of mystics, then to probe these experieces scientifically, a process that led to his 1902 book The Varieties of the Religious Experience.”

Bloom’s forays into power and its manipulations were also intense. “In the music and film industry everyone knew that money and career advancement were on the line. But few realized how deeply what they did affected the lives of millions, and even fewer felt the responsibility that demands. It was an amazing privilege to work as an equal with the entertainment industry’s elite, many of whom I either had to woo or thwart to help my clients reach their audience with a message of genuine value. Some executives were master strategists but used their intelligence to increase their own stature, often at a brutal cost to others. Others were far more ethical. Yet even the best-intentioned employed boardroom and backroom tactics handed down from the politics of chimpanzees. Without knowing it, they used tricks of leadership we share with social animals from lizards and lobsters to baboons and mountain apes.”

The subculture of Washington politics was, to Bloom, the most disturbing of them all. Bloom co-founded Music in Action, a national anti-censorship organization. This brought him into head-on combat with Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President and eventual presidential candidate Al Gore. Says Bloom, “Tipper and the right wing religionists who used her for their ends were masters of perceptual manipulation. They perpetrated hoaxes of outrageous transparency, yet still managed to convince the press and public that their falsifications were true.”

Twenty pages in The Billboard Guide to Music Publicity are devoted to Bloom and to the antidote he invented, “perceptual engineering,” which he defines as “a way of finding a valid truth that the herd refuses to see, then turning the herd around and making that truth self-evident. It’s what we do in much of science–seeing the ordinary from a new perspective, then revealing what makes it tick, and in the process altering society’s views.”

In 1981, Bloom organized the material he’d unearthed and began the formal research for a new theoretical structure that would first reveal itself in 1995′s The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History. And he continued pursuing scientific truths in unconventional ways. In 1995 Bloom headed an insurgent academic circle called “The Group Selection Squad” whose efforts precipitated radical re-evaluations of neo-Darwinist dogma within the scientific community. In 1997, he founded a new discipline, paleopsychology, whose participants included physicists, psychologists, microbiologists, paleontologists, entomologists, neuroscientists, paleoneurologists, invertebrate zoologists, and systems theorists. Paleopsychology’s mandate was to “map out the evolution of complexity, sociality, perception, and mentation from the first 10(-32) second of the Big Bang to the present.”

Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson has written that with his beyond-the-box insights Bloom has “raced ahead of the timid scientific herd” often “vaulting over their heads” with a “grand vision” that “we do strive as individuals, but we are also part of something larger than ourselves, with a complex physiology and mental life that we carry out but only dimly understand.” In The Lucifer Principle, Global Brain, The Genius of the Beast, and his new book The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, Howard Bloom brings those understandings from dimness into the light.

Denise David Williams
President/Producer 

After earning a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University, Ms.Williams began her career as an actor's agent in New York City. Shortly after, she moved to Los Angeles and attended the Graduate Peter Stark Producing Program at USC.

Ms. Williams then began her production experience in the film industry at LucasFilm as an assistant in pre-production on E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Denise advanced to story analyst for Barry Krost at The Movie Company where she was responsible for developing television material for management clients and held production responsibilities on American Dreamer.

Ms. Williams then worked as Director of Creative Affairs for Arkoff International Pictures where she acquired and developed feature material for both Samuel Z. Arkoff and Louis Arkoff and had extensive production responsibilities on the feature film Up the Creek.

Denise was then hired by Daniel Melnick's IndieProd Co. at 20th Century Fox as story editor where she worked with writers and directors including Robert Zemeckis, Buck Henry and Lawrence Kasdan and on feature films Making Love and Unfaithfully Yours. Among some of the other films produced by The IndieProd Co. were: All That Jazz, That's Entertainment, Altered States, Roxanne, and First Family.

Ms. Williams served as Vice President of Production for Arnold Kopelson Entertainment, where she acquired and developed feature film projects for both foreign and domestic markets. Among the many projects under her auspices were Warlock, Triumph of the Spirit and Platoon, which grossed over $100 million dollars and garnered Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards for director Oliver Stone and producer Arnold Kopelson, respectively.

Ms. Williams formed her own production company, MakeMagic Productions, whose mission is to produce highly entertaining films with global appeal. In 2002, MakeMagic produced the industry hit, My Dinner With Ovitz which Variety called "charming!" and Universal chief Ron Meyer and David Geffen called "brilliant".

MakeMagic is currently in development on the feature film JOHN MACK; staging the play adaptation of A GOOD AMERICAN and packaging the American adaptation of the French ensemble comedy, OSCAR DIVO, among other endeavors.

Ms. Williams is a member of the WGA west and a frequent script consultant. She is married to musician/composer/arranger Larry Williams and has a dog named Buddy

Daniel is a social engineer and evolutionary philosopher and strategist. He is the founder of Critical Path Global, a research and design institute aimed at developing an integrated set of technologies and processes capable of organizing and supporting a distributed and continually updating comprehensive critical path management system for humanity's total evolution.

He is working to repurpose and synthesize relevant state-of-the-art systems for information management, complexity processing, mathematical forecasting, and other data science tools into an integrated set of functions capable of global resource allocation planning and strategy. His aim is the shortest path to a fundamentally redesigned world-system that makes possible and supports the highest quality of life for all life, now and ongoingly.

Specifically, his focus is on the development of new systems of economics and governance that intrinsically incentivize life-enhancing behaviors at all levels of agency, supporting distributed and spontaneous problem solving and conscious participation in our global evolution.

Geoff about himself:

Ive been employed in two Enforcement Jobs, both with the Government in Canada. I have also had UFO encounters, two Near Death Experiences and some ET Contact, I have done numerous Interviews which can be found on Youtube under Geoffrey Faulkner. I live in Northern California and am now writing two books on my life experiences with the Spiritual and ET side of Life. How the Gorvenment is covering up our Truth. not only about our history but for many, their own Identity. I have had my Personnel Records erased by the Government yet, I still have safely put away my training certificates to validate my employment. I will be Speaking this year at various locations so please watch for my posts, I am also on Facebook under Geoff Faulkner. I am availalbe for Speaking Engagements and can be contacted either on fb or email. healer_ca48@hotmail.com.

Oksana's Bio:

Reflecting her versatile and curious nature, Oksana’s formal education consists of degrees in Fine Arts and in Business Economics. Furthermore, she has been studying various aspects of Metaphysics for over a decade. Those areas of study and expertise include: conscious and sub-conscious mind, Universal Laws, creation and manifestation of reality, mind’s effect on health and reasons for dis-eases, dream interpretation, working with energy, concentration, meditation, techniques of visualization, thought projection, and many more. In addition, she is an avid technologist and analyst, having had a successful career in the Information Technology sector prior to becoming a certified Life Coach and Spiritual Guide (CLC) and a Mind Coach.

She has always been driven to help others with attaining their full potential, actualizing dreams, and becoming balanced and happy. Her Dharma is that of Serendipity, which, in a nutshell, means that Oksana often finds herself in such circumstances where she can successfully assist people with attaining personal awakening and leads them toward realizing their potential. Hand in hand with her Dharma exists her ability to recognize talents and gifts in others, which she uses purposefully as part of her service to people.

She draws personal inspiration from working with people and watching them progress and succeed while getting in touch with their inner selves and achieving happiness. She has a joyful, optimistic and constructive mindset. Oksana has a unique and consciously developed ability of clarity of mind as well as keen intuition which allow her to see and perceive connections between people, events and more intangible phenomena on multiple levels and understand how they fit together on a more global scale.

Oksana is the founder, CEO and the President of Joyfulness at Solful Gifts, Inc. Her biggest desire and life’s purpose is to help thousands of people to become whole-functioning, self-realized and happy.

Lucy's Bio:

Lucy’s formal education consists of a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy. Much like Oksana, she is an experienced technologist with a successful career in the corporate world. She is a lover of ideas and concepts spanning a wide range of areas, applying her broad theoretic knowledge in the physical world.

Lucy’s Dharma is that of Beauty and Symmetry. She is able to recognize and reconcile the dual in the Whole, thus resolving conflicts and struggles – be they rooted in ideology or reality, bringing peace and balance into her environment. She sees beauty in all people, objects, and events, and it is recognition of this order that inspires her to create and to communicate it to others, helping them acknowledge and appreciate beauty within themselves and the world around. Lucy’s love for symbolism implicit in everything around has led her to pursue exploration of such fields as Astrology.

Sharing the goal of helping others unleash their full potential and having just the right balance of common and complimentary traits with Oksana, Lucy happily joined in the founding of Solful Gifts, Inc.

RAJASHREE CHOUDHURY was born in Kolkata, India, and started her yoga training at the urging of her parents at age four. She was a five-time winner of the National Indian Yoga Championship from 1979 to 1983.

With over 15 years in the East and 25 years in the West, Rajashree’s special focus has been on the emotional side of yoga and how yoga balances the energy of the human body and impacts not only disease, but also affects the body/mind/soul connection which constitutes vibrant health.

She also helped her husband create the highly successful Teacher Training program after more than ten years of teaching yoga in the United States. She conducts seminars on yoga and personal development worldwide. She also teaches her highly-acclaimed and has a DVD Pregnancy Yoga Classes.

Rajashree has appeared on many national television programs in the United States and abroad doing seminars worldwide promoting the countless benefits of yoga. In conjunction with the International Yoga Asana Championships, now in its tenth year, she has founded the USA Yoga Federation, a non-profit organization formed to facilitate her goal of yoga ultimately being accepted as Sport. Most recently her mission is to help women in crisis of all ages and nationalities. She has been active in many charitable organizations over the years including Karma for Kids, dedicated to helping children with cancer, Uprising yoga, helping child victims of sex trafficking, and Parikrama, educating slum children in India.

Mercedes Schneider is a Louisiana public school teacher and education activist who holds a Ph.D. in applied statistics and research methods. Schneider blogs regularly on both local and national education issues on her own education blog, deutsch29.wordpress.com, and can be reached via email at deutsch29@aol.com.

Her new book "The Chronicle of Echoes: Who's Who in the Implosion of American Public Education" is now available on Amazon.com! Here is a brief description of the book:

“Corporate reform” is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institution of public education. The primary motivation behind this destruction is greed. Public education in America is worth almost a trillion dollars a year. Whereas American public education is a democratic institution, its destruction is being choreographed by a few wealthy, well-positioned individuals and organizations. This book investigates and exposes the handful of people and institutions that are often working together to become the driving force behind destroying the community public school.

Schneider has exposed the corruption, greed and entangling of self-interests that underlie the attempt of the mega-corporations to grab billions of tax-payer dollars that are appropriated for America’s K-12 public schools. She puts the names and faces on the movement that Diane Ravitch documented in “Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools.” There are no “must reads” anymore. There are just a handful of “should reads”: “A Chronicle of Echoes” is at the head of that list.

My second guest, Dr. Albert Mensah is an internationally recognized physician-specialist in metabolic treatment approaches for patients with developmental, learning/behavioral and mental health disorders.  Dr. Mensah is the president and co-founder of Mensah Medical, the world’s largest biomedical practice specializing in biochemical individuality and imbalances.  Mensah Medical’s non-drug, nutrient approach is targeted to correct biochemical imbalances associated with autism, anxiety, depression (including postpartum), behavioral and learning disorders, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s Disease.  Dr. Mensah regularly consults with physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other health care professionals, and leads annual physician training with William J. Walsh, PhD, of the Walsh Research Institute in orthomolecular medicine in the U.S., Australia and Ireland.  Mensah Medical’s main clinic is located near Chicago and patients can be seen at their U.S. Outreach Clinics located in Scottsdale, AZ, Annapolis, MD, and near San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA. 

My first guest, Harvard-trained, Dr. Cynthia Thaik is a heart doctor that practices with her heart. She delivers security and peace of mind to her clients by orchestrating behavioral and mindset shifts to evoke lasting transformational changes in their health, well-being, vitality, energy, and creativity. She has helped thousands of people make changes to transform their lives through the ways they think, feel, and act. Intuitively, she has known that she would serve this calling since the age of five, after accompanying her physician mother to the medical clinic in their home country of Mayamar, formerly known as Burma. There, she witnessed the pure hands-on art of healing, free from the modern-day challenges of drugs, bureaucracy, and the threat of malpractice.

Dr. Cynthia began her professional training at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. From there, she completed her internal medicine and cardiology training at the Harvard’s training programs (Beth Israel, Massachusetts General, and Brigham & Women’s hospitals). She manages two successful cardiology clinics and is the founder of Revitalize-U, a wellness center focused on health, nutrition, weight loss, and detoxification. Beyond her academic and professional achievements, she is most proud of the praises that she receives from her patients: caring, compassionate, service oriented, and excellence are words used to describe her style of practice.’

Dr Cynthia believes the mind-body connection for health is best served through the practice of being centered and present in each moment. A practicing Buddhist, Dr. Cynthia is now on a mission to deliver that message about healing through her new book, Your Vibrant Heart: Restoring Health, Strength & Spirit from the Body’s Core.

Dr. Thaik has received numerous awards and honors including the Cardiovascular Research Award from the American College of Cardiology and the L.A. Business Journal “Women Making a Difference” nomination in 2005. :In addition to her book she has published several peer reviewed articles in professional journals and is involved in her professional organizations.

As a Numerologist, Empath and Matrix Energetics practitioner, Tara combines the modalities for  sessions that are energetically enlivening for people as well as their loved ones and pets.  She volunteers her services for the Central Texas Cancer Support and the Aged of Central Austin.  Tara writes Numerology posts for www.jenningswire.com online magazine, and enjoys using her skills at private sessions, corporate events, birthdays, anniversaries, and wedding events.

Tara’s  life consists of interesting twists, turns and major life changing events that continually change.   Through intense inner growth, and applying unique tools such as studying with Matrix Energetics founder, Richard Bartlett, Tara realized that her true interests lie in the opportunity to empower people to live creative and joyful lives.  Clients have said Tara’s way of teaching and healing is compassionate and angelic.

The Magical Matrix is a company whose vision is “to help humankind overcome the feeling of limited existence, and  to a create a life full of health, joy and unimagined possibilities”.

Hélène Cardona is a writer, actress and producer. She played Françoise ‘Fuffi’ in Lasse Hallström’s Chocolat and Candy in Lawrence Kasdan’s Mumford. Other roles include Law & Order, A Good Year, Enough, The Bold and the Beautiful, Pan Am, Chuck, Nikita, Stealing Roses, & more. Voice credits include X-Men Days of Future Past, Mad Max Fury Road, Muppets Most Wanted, The Blacklist, World War Z, Red 2, Happy Feet 2, The Muppets, Hereafter, Inception, Inglourious Basterds, The Interpreter, The Bourne Supremacy & many more. For Serendipity she co-wrote with director Peter Chelsom and composer Alan Silvestri the song Lucienne, which she also sang.

Hélène is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and also trained with Ellen Burstyn and Sandra Seacat at the Actors’ Studio. She performed the lead in plays at The Actors’ Studio, The Players Club, The Naked Angels and UBU Theatre Rep. in New York.

She co-wrote the screenplay Primate with John FitzGerald, based on his novel. Her most recent book is Dreaming My Animal Selves.

She attended Hamilton College, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, where she earned a Master’s in American Literature. She received fellowships from the Goethe Institut and the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.

She’s fluent in French, Spanish, German, English, Italian and Greek, and has lived in Switzerland, England, France, Wales, Monaco, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

She can be currently seen in the documentary Femme: Women Healing the World, which she co-produced, with Maria Bello, Marianne Williamson and Sharon Stone.