Cherilyn Bridget Avalon is happily married, Loves her four amazing children and their spouses, and seven beautiful grandchildren. She is an entrepreneur always creating and designing something. She became a graphic artist over 30 years ago and loves to write as she resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. She then started a company called Ascension Oils and a series of workshops which helps people raise their consciousness. the Divine Mind, She shares her story of children, life, love and loss and how she emerged with an ultra-expanded consciousness available to us all.

Alice Ruth Bolton, better known as Ruthie Bolton and also by her former married name of Ruthie Bolton-Holifield, is an American former professional women's basketball player. She played at the collegiate, Olympic and professional levels of women's basketball. Bolton played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 through 2004 with the Sacramento Monarchs. She played collegiately at Auburn University, teaming with her older sister, Mae Ola Bolton. Bolton has also served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserves as a transportation officer.

Eric Williams has covered the Seattle Seahawks Beat for the Tacoma News Tribune since 2006. 

Never having met a metaphor he could not twist beyond recognition, Art has been illuminating, agitating, amusing and annoying Puget Sound sports readers for a long time.

Along with Steve Rudman, he co-founded Sports Press Northwest because it didn’t seem right that the Google monster should aggregate daily journalism into oblivion without at least a flesh wound from somebody.

Thiel and Rudman labored under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer globe until the print edition died an undeserved death in March, 2009. Art continued on at its online successor seattlepi.com while working on SPNW’s creation. His radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9.

In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, “Out of Left Field,” which became a regional bestseller. In 2009, along with Rudman and KJR 950 afternoon host Mike Gastineau, Thiel authored “The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists,” a cross between historylink.org and Mad Magazine that has become mandatory reading for any sports fan who has an indoor bathroom.

A graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one, the News Tribune of Tacoma, he has become a fan of entrepreneurial online journalism because it allows him to continue a lifelong passion to take the English language to places it rarely visits willingly, and does not involve the cleaning of kennels or stables.

JEANNIE PECK:

Jeannie Peck has worked and studied in the natural health field for over 20 years. She studied at Clayton College of Natural Health and Pan American University’s School of Natural Medicine earning her degree as Doctor of Natural Medicine (DNM).  She has attended many specialty certification courses including Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®, Mastering the Thyroid, Gluten Intolerance and Leaky Gut, Laboratory Assessments, Herbal and Mineral Medicines, and Jin Shin Jyutsu®.  She is a Sanctified Healer and vested in the sanctuary of Knighthood with the Sacred Medical Order of the Church of Hope, SMOCH, an international medical missionary organization that provides medical needs around the world.   She has committed herself to serving the needs of the community and living a life of the Beatitudes.

Jeannie teaches the clients of Health by Design Natural Clinic at two locations in Lancaster County, how to improve, maintain and prevent health conditions using nutrition and natural modalities. Her additional certifications include Jin Shin Jyutsu® Student Practitioner, often referred to as needle-less acupuncture, and Self Help Instructor. She is a certified Tai Chi for Arthritis Instructor, a certified Self Help Instructor with the Arthritis Foundation, and holds a lifetime certification through the Health Preservation Association teaching Tai Chi and Qi Gong for Wellness programs.

Jeannie and her staff at Health by Design Natural Clinic provide functional assessments of hormone, digestion, intestinal barrier, immune, and detoxification systems.  They address the underlying cause of symptoms associated with these systems with simple healthy lifestyle changes and professional supplementation.  Their services include functional nutritional counseling for adults and children, healthy eating plans and healthy weight loss plans, non-invasive health screenings, and various fitness classes including Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, and Interval Fitness.

EMILY GIVLER:

Emily has been training and working in the natural health field for over a decade. She came to Health by Design Natural Clinic in 2010 with an extensive background as a chiropractic technician, board certified chiropractic Radiologic Technologist, and Usui Reiki Master. She earned her certification as a Dietary Supplements Counselor through the Holt Institute of Medicine in 2011. She is a Certified Jade Therapeutician, having completed extensive training with Professor Dr. Charles McWilliams, who developed Jade Therapy.

Emily is trained as a PSYCH-K® Facilitator to provide clients a simple and direct way to change self-limiting beliefs into beliefs and behaviors that support goals and aspirations, particularly in areas of health and body issues. She finds this to be a wonderful adjunct to the Healthy Weight Loss plans she offers for individuals and families.

Emily focuses on healthy weight loss, healthy eating plans, food sensitivities counseling, and heads up our children’s nutrition department offering nutritional support for children.  Helping children is an area dear to her heart, both as a mother and because of the years she spent volunteering at the S. June Smith Center, working with children with special developmental needs. She is excited to be able to share the message about good nutrition with our youngest clients and their families!

Lochlann Jain is an Associate Professor in Stanford's Anthropology department, where she teaches medical and  legal anthropology.

Jain's first book, Injury (Princeton University Press, 2006), analyzed injury as a civil rights issue and product liability law as a place to better understand how Americans value physical health. The book was praised as: “a first-rate work of critique” (American Bar Foundation), “a provocative, sophisticated, and ambitious analysis” (Law & Politics Book Review), and “an impressive feat of interdisciplinary scholarship” (American Anthropologist).

Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar, Jain has used literature in oncology, law, history, and literature, as well as anthropology and memoir to analyze and explain how cancer has become definitive of life in the United States.

Jain is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Center for the Humanities, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Author and educator, Mary Rockwood Lane, along with Michael Samuels MD, has put together this wonderful pulication 'Healing with the Arts'.  Wonderful practical tips in a 12 week program that is transforming lives.

Leon Cooper has had a varied work experience in civilian life:inventor, with patented products used throughout the world; CEO of his own computer company; CFO of two major corporations; now a writer. During WWII he was Boat Group Commander for his ship, leading Higgins Boats carrying assault troops in a number of invasions of Japanese-held islands. His experiences during WWII led to questions he had, even at the time. Were there compelling reasons for each of the major battles? Could some battles have been avoided, saving American lives, while still allowing us to gain the ultimate victory?

Echo Bodine first discovered she was born with psychic abilities and the gift of healing at the age of 17. Her abilities include clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), and clairgustance (smell). She took psychic classes for two years and practiced on friends and family for twelve years before beginning her full time practice as a psychic, healer and ghostbuster in 1979.

In 1981, Echo began teaching classes on psychic development and spiritual healing. She has appeared on numerous national television shows including Sally Jesse Raphael, Sightings, Beyond with James Van Praagh, NBC's The Other Side, Un-explained Mysteries, NBC's Today Show, A&E, and Encounters. Paranormal Borderline did a feature story on her family, calling them the "world's most psychic family".

Echo hosted her own cable TV show called New Age Perspectives for two years, and co-hosted the The Edge TV. She also had her own radio show on FM107 in Minneapolis for 3 years called Intuitive Living, and Paramount Pictures solicited her services for the promotion of the movie Ghost.

From 2003 to the present Echo has been the director of The Center for Spiritual Development where she teaches numerous classes on spiritual development, living by intuition, ghost busting, psychic development and laying on hands healing classes. In 2010 she began doing on-line psychic development classes with instructor Leigh Hopkins of the Viva Institute in Brazil.

Echo has written several books, produced numerous meditation CD's and instructional DVD's. Check out her store for details.

Echo's Books

Hands that Heal (1983 and second edition 2004)
Echoes of the Soul (1998)
Relax, It's Only a Ghost (1999)
A Still Small Voice (2000)
Dear Echo (2002)
The Gift (2003)
The Key (2006)
Look for the Good and You'll Find God (2008)
My Big Book of Healing (2009)
The Little Book of True Ghost Stories (August, 2011)
What Happens When We Die (October, 2013)

Leo Pearlstein has been featured on my show for 12 years now.  We chat about the holidays, food preparation and more.  It is a delightful way to get ready, set, and go....towards the holiday season with lots of suggestions for a successful and less stressful season.

Scott Driscoll is an instructor at the University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education programs where he has taught writing for 20 years. He has also won numberous awards for his writing skills.

Joseph Tafoya is a former American football player in the NFL. He played seven seasons as a defensive end/linebacker before injuring his foot in training camp of 2008, upon which he retired. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 2001 NFL Draft by Tony Dungy and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Injured in the first pre-season game of his professional career with an ankle fracture, he was released on injury waivers and picked up by the Chicago Bears. He spent three seasons with the Chicago Bears and appeared in the 2001 NFC Divisional playoffs game against the Philadelphia Eagles where he recorded three tackles.

Tafoya was picked up as a free agent by the Seattle Seahawks. He appeared in the 2005 Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was then picked up as a free agent by the Arizona Cardinals in 2007 and released after he suffered a career-ending injury during the 2008 training camp.

Joe is the CEO at Jump It Media.

Danny O'Neil, the new co-host of "Brock and Danny", is the son of a logger, a graduate of the University of Washington and has been a working journalist in Seattle since 1999, first at newspapers and since 2012 at 710 ESPN Seattle. He is married to Sharon Pian Chan, associate opinions editor at The Seattle Times. They live on Capitol Hill with their wrinkled, smelly dog.

Tim Doyle, is an Ordained Metaphysical Minister, a Reiki Master, a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, works with the Great White Brotherhood and  The Golden Ones, has facilitated meditation classes for over 25 years, experience an out-of-body,  also astral traveled and many entities from other dimensions have visited him during his meditations  or dream state. 

Cathi Hunt is a devout Wiccan who educates others in its teachings, dispelling the myths and stigma that often follows it. A long-time reader of the tarot, Cathi also offers readings privately and for groups in the south central PA area. She also offers tarot workshops for beginners.

David Massey is our University of Oregon Football Insider.  Massey was a Linebacker for the Ducks from 1989-1993.  With the Ducks, Massey went to three college bowl games. 

Massey owned the Tacoma Thunder of the International Basketball League in 2005 & 2006.

Sue Fries, the Termite Lady of Ecola Services Inc. She has been the director and chair of the Pest Control Operators of California.

Thirty years ago, Susan Fries married into the glamorous business of pest management. And after 20 years in the business, she made a decision to change the direction of pest management to offer more environmentally responsible methods of extermination.

Having a child who suffers from chronic allergies to dust mites as well as attention deficit disorder, Ecola Termite Services’ Susan Fries has always been particularly conscious of not only the global environment, but her family’s immediate surroundings. Her family’s health combined with her love for animals were the real driving forces behind her decision to operate an eco-sensitive pest management company. And with growing sensitivity to factors such as global warming, pollution and a generally increasing “green” movement, Fries knew that the best thing to do would be to buy her own alternative termite treatment company. This ultimately led to ECOLA Termite & Pest Service’s “Best Green Exterminator” Award in August of 2007-2010.

Joanne DiMaggio is a teacher, a member of the International Association of Regression Research and Therapies.  She has been working in that modality for over 25 years incorporating techniques to empower peoples lives.

My kindergarten teacher put a notation on my first report card that I showed a special interest in story telling and that is pretty much when my writing career began. By the third grade I was penning courtroom dramas enacted by my classmates and by my senior year in high school, I was editor of our monthly student newspaper.

After college, I became an advertising copywriter and public relations specialist. In that career I sharpened my writing skills by producing everything from speeches and scripts, to ads, brochures, catalogs, journals, press releases, direct mail, radio and television commercials. I also have written, edited and produced corporate and non-profit organizational newsletters as well as a quarterly magazine featuring articles on transpersonal psychology.

I began my freelance writing career in 1982. Since then my feature articles have been published in national and regional magazines and newspapers. In addition, I have put my writing and public relations abilities to use in the service of non-profit organizations. While living in Chicago, I co-founded Women on the Move, an organization to empower women in transition and also served on the board of PACES, Parent and Childbirth Education Society.

After moving to Charlottesville in 1995, I started a communications consulting business and was the editor and co-publisher of It's A Good Life magazine. I continued working with non-profit organizations and served on the Board of Trustees of the Communication Disorders Foundation of Virginia for two years. I was a marketing consultant for SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, for many years and continue to write their quarterly newsletter and press releases.

I have a degree in history from the University of Illinois. My other passion is my interest in esoteric studies. To that end I am pursuing my Masters Degree in Transpersonal Studies from Atlantic University. My culminating project—and hopefully the topic of my next book—is on Inspirational Writing.

My writing has earned several honors, including an award for an inspirational greeting card I wrote and published under the name, Spirit Song. Cited for its creative excellence in the category of sympathy; my verse was chosen as one of six finalists in the world for the "Louie Awards,” the Third Annual Greeting Card Association Awards Competition.

My first book, Charlottesville: A Contemporary Portrait, was published in March 2002. Most recently I was senior editor and writer for Let'sGo! a guidebook of daytrips in central Virginia.

After practicing law for 20 years Darryl Nyznyk became a full-time writer and teacher.  He has written a holiday novel prior to publishing 'The Condor Song'.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Darryl Nyznyk (pronounced NIZ-nik) practiced law for two decades. As an attorney, he dealt with developers and environmental groups like the California Coastal Commission and the Sierra Club. After working on a case involving the Sierra Club, Nyznyk purchased a book called Wild at Law to read more about the group and became enthralled with their work.
 
He was especially drawn to the story of the Sierra Club’s efforts to stop Walt Disney from building the ultimate ski resort in the Mineral King Valley of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Southern California.
 
And that’s when the idea for his latest novel, an environmental legal thriller, The Condor Song (June 2013) hit him.
 
“I became interested in the entire concept of the various sides of the debate of good and evil,” says Nyznyk. “Here you have Walt Disney, an honorary member of the Sierra Club, trying to build an environmentally friendly development in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and he is opposed by the Sierra Club on the basis that no matter what Disney did to make the project environmentally friendly, it simply couldn't be done.”
 
Nyznyk was raised in a middle-class Catholic family in a Los Angeles suburb. His upbringing didn’t prepare him for campus life at UC—Santa Barbara during the anti-war demonstrations of the early 1970s. It was a wild time in a wild place, and it ultimately ingrained in him a sense of individualism, tempered by the social consciousness that helped shape his core and now forms the foundation of his writing.
 
After graduation, Nyznyk continued on to receive his magna cum laude JD degree at the University of San Diego. Family and a wide-ranging law practice consumed most of the next 20 years of his life. For nine years after private practice, he was general counsel and then president of a Southern California real estate development company. Since then, he has gone into full-time writing and teaching. His first novel was a political thriller titled The Third Term and he released a holiday book, Mary’s Son; A Tale of Christmas in 2010.
 
An Amazon best-seller, Mary’s Son, is also a three-time Gold recipient of the Mom’s Choice Awards: Inspirational/Motivational book for Juvenile and Young Adult readers and Adult Fiction/Literature.
 
Father to four grown daughters, Nyznyk lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif. with his wife, Loretta.

Tali Raphaely is an author, and the focus of his writing is primarily on self-help topics, business advice and on providing others with motivation and inspiration to live greater, more fulfilling lives. His new book, The Complete Guide on How to Negotiate, is available for sale on Amazon and in select book stores. He is currently involved in the process of finishing his next book, which addresses the important issues of achieving greater happiness and fulfillment in people’s lives.

Through his studies and personal experience, he has accumulated great insight he is now meticulously passing on to others in his writings. He has a great passion for writing about subjects that help individuals improve their personal and professional lives. His writing topics are derived from over a decade of experience in sales, marketing, management, recruiting, the ownership of his business, buying and selling real estate, buying and selling businesses, negotiating with clients, vendors and employees, and his intense research and involvement in countless self-help, self-improvement, and self-awareness seminars, books and hands-on programs and events.