The Honorable Tom McMillen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the LEAD1 Association, which represents the athletic directors and programs of the Football Bowl Subdivision.

Founded in 1986 as the Division 1A Athletic Director’s Association, the LEAD1 Association has 130 members located in 41 states. While the mission of the LEAD1 Association remains the same in its dedication to the success of student-athletes, both in the classroom and on the playing field, for college and afterwards, the appointment of McMillen has ushered in a new era with the rebranding of the association with the name LEAD1 Association and the move of the headquarters to the Washington, D.C., area to be close to our nation’s policymakers. Essential to the direction of the LEAD1 Association under McMillen’s leadership is influencing how the rules of college sports are enacted and implemented, advocating for the future of college athletics, and providing various services to its members such as pooled purchasing arrangements to deliver better arrangements on goods and services.

McMillen, as a high school student, was the most highly recruited athlete of his era and the second high school student ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. While in high school, he was appointed to serve by then-President Richard Nixon on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, the youngest Presidential appointee ever. At the University of Maryland, McMillen was an All-American basketball player and still holds the school record for career scoring average. During his time at Maryland, McMillen was a member of the 1972 Olympic basketball team that refused to accept a silver medal after its controversial and disputed championship game with the Soviet Union. After graduating as valedictorian of his class at the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, McMillen was selected as a Rhodes Scholar (the first from the University of Maryland) and attended Oxford University where he received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He then played eleven years in the NBA with the Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks, and Washington Bullets, finishing his career in 1986 as the first and only active professional athlete to run for Congress.

From 1987 to 1993, McMillen served three consecutive terms from the Fourth District of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. During his first term in Congress, McMillen was honored with an appointment to the Board of Overseers of the United States Naval Academy. In Congress, McMillen served on the Energy & Commerce Committee; the Banking, Finance, and Urban Committee; and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. He was the cosponsor of the Student Right-to-Know Act, which required colleges and universities to disclose the graduation rates of its students and student-athletes. McMillen was also selected unanimously as president of the freshman class of the historic 100th United States Congress.

After leaving Congress, McMillen was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton as Co-Chair of the President’s Council on Fitness and Sports. He also founded several publicly traded companies and has been a successful entrepreneur. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland System, the Founding Chairman of the National Foundation on Physical Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition, and the author of Out of Bounds, a book examining the influence of sports on ethics.

In May 1988, McMillen was inducted into the first Capital One Academic All-American Hall of Fame as a charter member. In 2002, the 50th anniversary of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), McMillen was chosen as one of the ACC’s Top 50 players of all time. In 2010, McMillen was inducted into the University of Maryland Alumni Hall of Fame and in 2013, he was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame.

McMillen was also a founding member of the Knight Foundation’s Commission on Intercollegiate Activities that investigated abuses in college sports.  His op-eds and other articles have been published in periodicals such as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among many others.

About Frank A. Roberson
BLACK RHINO GROUP, LLC

Black Rhino embodies the extensive experience and expertise of seasoned executive protection agents, investigators and counterintelligence threat analysts. In the past, our team has experience protecting elected officials, military leaders, high profile CEO’s and ultra high net worth individuals around the world.

Our elite team of protectors and investigators excels in delivering high-level protection and background services to address a diverse spectrum of threats. Whether you require protection for your family, mitigation of risks such as, specialized threat assessments or advance planning, Black Rhino offers professional services professional services dedicated to safeguarding and protecting people.

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Over his 20 year career as an executive protection agent, Frank has protected elected officials, high profile CEO’s and ultra wealthy individuals and families. He is a sought after expert on protection advance operational strategies and protective intelligence.
Frank serves on the exclusive Board of Executive Protection Professionals, is a Texas licensed Personal Protection Officer, Certified Security Manager & Private investigator.. Frank also serves as a member of the National Security Policy & Analysis Organization and Society for Defense and Strategic Studies. Frank’s presentation on identity theft, reputation management and situational awareness is a fun but powerful in-depth look at what we call the “Black Rhino” that can affect our everyday lives and those around us.

Recently, Frank has been added to the speaker series with the Strategic Warfare and Tactics Club, a counterintelligence organization who hosts the Counterintelligence & Insider Threat Conference.

Frank lives in Arlington, TX with his wife, Christy and their four dogs. When he has down time, Frank plays golf and  draws custom cartoons for his successful online cartoon business.

Dusten Lyvers is a professional psychic medium and energy worker in Kalamazoo, MI. Dusten is the lead psychic medium with Michiana Paranormal Investigations, a scientifically certified medium with the Forever Family Foundation, and he has studied at the Arthur Findlay College for Psychic Science and Mediumship. Dusten is also a Ph.D student in Counselor Education and Supervision, a Spirituality and Comparative Religion Scholar, and ballroom dance performer.
Dusten is a Limited Licensed Professional Counselor (LLPC) being supervised under Dr. Garrett Brookmyer Ed.D, MA, LPC in the state of Michigan and works at “The Focused Mindfulness Center” in Portage, MI.
Dusten is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). Read about what this means below.
Dusten completed coursework to earn a certificate in International Studies through IU. Dusten has clients who call from over 15 different countries, so his education helps with both cultural and language barriers.
Dusten presented research on “Quick Fixes” at the IASS conference with his best friend Charlie (near left) and his good friend Jake! (far left)
Dusten Lyvers, LLC is a proud certified LGBTBE business. It is important to be connected to a greater sense of community as a gay business owner!
Dusten was able to complete a counseling internship working at “Victory Clinical Services,” a methadone clinic in South Bend, IN. Dusten fought against the opioid epidemic firsthand.
Dusten was sponsored to study abroad at the Arthur Findlay College, the world’s foremost institution for Psychic Science and Mediumship. Dusten’s Mediumship Family Tree stems from England. Glyn Edwards was both Dusten’s and John’s (Dusten’s primary mentor) tutor. 

Jonathan Metzl is an acclaimed physician and sociologist who speaks, teaches, and writes on a range of topics including mental illness and gun violence, race and whiteness in America, health and healthcare, and diversity and structural competency in higher education.
Jonathan Metzl is the author of the groundbreaking book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the book is an in-depth look at why many working-class white Americans support politicians whose policies are literally killing them.

Being a gun violence expert, professor, and psychiatrist is a unique combination that allows Dr. Metzl to speak and write about gun violence in America, and in particular to address stereotypes that link guns with race or mental illness, or that blame mental illness for mass shootings and other gun crimes.

The topic is the focus of Dr. Metzl’s most recent book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms, a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. By looking at a racially-charged mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, What We’ve Become reexamines how we as a nation address gun violence.

Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and PhD in American culture from University of Michigan. Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the 2020 APA Benjamin Rush Award for Scholarship, and a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship, Dr. Metzl has written extensively about the relationships between guns, mass shootings, and mental illness. His books include The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, and What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.

Awards
Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Benjamin Rush Award for Scholarship from the American Psychiatric Association
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Missouri Library Association Book Prize
Carlson Award, Weill Cornall Medicine Department of Psychiatry, In Recognition of Contributions to the History of Psychiatry
Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research
100 Must-Read Books About The History of Medicine
Top 10 books about being poor in America

"Unlocking the Secrets of a Clear Mind”. Whether you're seeking relief from the pressures of daily life or striving for peak performance in your personal and professional endeavors, "Unlocking the Secrets of a Clear Mind" offers invaluable tools to help you thrive in a fast-paced world.

Prepare to embark on a transformative journey toward mental clarity, emotional resilience, and lasting inner peace. This book is your roadmap to unlocking the secrets of a clear mind and experiencing the profound joy and freedom that come with it.

Over the years, many people have asked me my secret for creating beautiful results and achieving excellent vision for my patients. The answer is simple.....I listen carefully and attentively. I listen to all your desires and expectations, as well as any fears or anxieties. By doing so, I am able to create an individualized rapport and bond with each patient that is uniquely unsurpassed, and I also make sure and relieve any concerns by answering all of your questions. The best part of my life’s work is seeing the visual rehabilitation thru modern cataract surgery may achieve, or the increased self- confidence and self-esteem resulting from facial or body cosmetic surgery. It’s this type of human contact and positive feedback that keeps me practicing......and smiling!

My guest Tamara Richardson is a multifaceted spiritual practitioner and experiencer. As a 6-time near-death survivor, contactee, and seer from birth, she has developed remarkable abilities as an evidential psychic medium and channeler. Tamara connects with Christ, Ascended Masters, Ultra Dimensionals, and various extraterrestrial collectives, including the Galactic Federation and Sirian-Arcturian Council of Light. With a cosmic heritage as a Seraphim incarnate and past lives on Sirius A and B, Tamara has contributed to seeding Lemuria and served as a High Priestess in Atlantis. Her experiences and insights have been featured in recent books by PMH Atwater and AJ Parr, exploring the intersection of alien contact and near-death experiences. Tamara's channeling abilities have aided scientific research, contributing to Mark Fiorentino's work on portal technology and unified field theory. She has extensive experience with past-life regression and interdimensional existence. As a respected teacher and speaker, Tamara has shared her gifts at venues like the Edgar Cayce Center. Her unique abilities include shapeshifting during mediumship sessions and speaking in various unknown languages.  Tamara runs the Academy of Divine Wisdom.com Ascension school, plus you can find her at her Southern Belle Medium website where you can purchase an evidential life path reading session. 

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After losing her Mom to brain cancer in 2008, Melanie set out on a global quest to find the truth about cancer therapies and cures. What she found changed her life forever. She decided to make a documentary titled “Cure This,” that would lead her to the knowledge that cancer had been cured.

Having gained so much ancient wisdom through global interviews with Doctors, PhD’s, and scientists she decided the film was not enough and a book was necessary to arm the public with the needed information to save their life.

The book is appropriately titled “Save Your Life.”

After many successful years acting in Hollywood, she decided to make her exit and dedicate her life to healing both herself and helping others do the same.

Paul Greene was born in the Great white North with music buzzing his bones. Lots of church and all family members playing some instruments, Travelling the world with a guitar on his back, singing where any one would listen.. writing, recording and busking.

Over the past 5 years, he has played over 900 livestream concerts where he thrives, raising money for charity and connecting with his ultra loyal fans while playing the guitar and piano, singing covers and originals, and creating a positive, inspiring community of incredible music lovers. He has been privileged to perform at Arlene’s Grocery, the Hotel Cafe, Troubadour, Mercury Lounge, and annually at Carnegie Hall with Kate Winslet’s Golden Hat Foundation.

Along the way, he was writing over 50 songs, and recorded a few independent albums. 3 years ago, Paul recorded and released his Americana album “Freedom For Your Soul.” Two of his songs went to Top 10 on the Country Charts.

His  Latest Album from Nashville, “Long Way Home.” The first single from this album, “Waves Of Time,” was featured on the hit show, “When Calls the Heart,” in which Paul played the fan-favorite Dr. Carson Shepherd.

Paul Lives in Los Angeles, with Wife and 2 boys.

Marianne Cintron, EdD

Commissioned with the national vision of bringing literacy to over 300,000 students each year, Dr. Marianne Cintron founded and presides over Step By Step Dyslexia Solutions. Being an inspiring educator and classroom teacher for 26 and 10 years respectively, this exceptional woman enriches the lives of all that come in contact with her.

Dr. Marianne Cintron established Cintron Orton – Gillingham Reading Institute which provides people with the opportunity to participate in two different and completely educative virtual training programs.  She follows the Science of Reading and her testimonials in this industry have made room for her voice to be a force all over the world.

She is an author, a public speaker, and the owner of a 4 YouTube Channels and a Podcast channel with over 1.54K subscribers and 351episodes with nearly 1000 views per video. She is a regular guest speaker on BBC TV/radio Raising Expectations and an annual speaker at the Promise Governance Leadership Conference every September.

She has a Doctorate Degree in Education Leadership and Administration and has never been selfish with her ideas, structure, and planning process such that people also burdened with the responsibility to help children win have benefited from her wealth of knowledge. On a mission to help illiterate incarcerated adults read, she zealously shares relevant information with parents and educators.

She was the Vice-President of Christian Business Partners in Upland and also a member of the Global Society of Female Entrepreneurs until she took on a full-time role to teach students in a home-hospital setting. She was in her fourth term as a board member for the International Dyslexia Association in the Tri-County Branch in California and a contributor to the Frameworks for California Teacher Credentialing related to dyslexia training. She currently is a Board Member of Film Advisory Board (FAB) with Michael Connley.

In 2021, Dr. Marianne was the recipient of several awards: Social Impact Award Finalist – Lady in Blue, Lifetime Legacy Award Nominee – National Women of Influence, 100 Women Global Award – CD Wilson Events. In addition, she earned certificates from different reputable organizations, Certificates of Recognition from the California State Assembly, the California State Senate, and the Country of Riverside. She authored a Proclamation on October Being Dyslexia Awareness Month in Pomona, California, signed by five city council members. She has authored and published seven books in total, amongst which three are focused on the impact of music in helping to teach dyslexic people to read. She is also published in the PGI (Promise Governance Institute) Anthology III Integrity in Leadership (2021). She will speak about Truth in Education for Anthology IV.

Dr. Marianne’s passion for education is also displayed in the unrelenting pursuit of her personal development and education too. She possesses a Masters Degree in both General Education and Special Education.  She currently has two California Teaching Credentials for General Education and Mild to Moderate Special Education. With over 200 hours of Orton – Gillingham practicum training, Dr. Marianne has proven to be an expert in dyslexia. It is worthy to mention that, along with her curriculum and training videos, she is also an app developer (CDSM). Her programs are widely recommended across the globe and are currently used in the United States, Canada, India, Africa, and the Philippines.

On A Personal Note
Apart from her passion for education, Dr. Marianne is also family oriented. She is a native of California and has been married to William for 34 years. She is an amazing mother to three children; Randy, Richard (who is married to Nicolina), Laura, and grandmother to Olivia. Her faith and love for the Lord Jesus and for people is undebatable. She is very involved in her church and community. Dr. Marianne has a number of hobbies which includes bike-riding on the beach, hikes in Yosemite, and vacations in Hawaii.

She deserves all the applause she currently gets. For someone whose career started from subbing in her children’s pre-school to being a substitute teacher in a mental health hospital before fully diving into education, she never imagined the realization of five degrees with a call to reveal that “Dyslexia Is a Trait of Genius”.

CAREER HIGHLIGHT

Dr. Marianne discovered the affinity between music and reading; and how it helps with dyslexia.
She aims to unlock the genius mind of a person that has dyslexia by helping them read, build their self-esteem, and realize their full potential.
Her popular music app; CDSM – Cintron Dyslexia Solutions with Music which was developed to work with her Step by Step reading program was created with dyslexic kids in mind.
Dyslexia – A Trait of Genius: How to Unlock the Genius Mind of Your Dyslexic Child
This book takes you through Dr. Cintron’s journey to become a Dyslexia Specialist and she outlines the Six Keys to Unlocking Your Dyslexic Child’s Genius. G – Discover their Giftedness, E – What Gets your Child Enthusiastic, N- The Neuroscience of the Brain and Reading, I – The Innovation of Dyslexic People like Walt Disney, Leonardo Da Vinci, Stephen Spielberg, Steve Jobs and more, U – The Unique Approach to Teaching Reading, S- the Successes of Present Day Dyslexic Geniuses.

Tríona Sheeran is a clinical therapist specializing in trauma and a spiritual mentor since 2015. She specializes specifically in QHHT® (Level 3) (Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique), Life Between Lives Regression Therapy and self empowerment through conscious and soul exploration.

She is a fully qualified, accredited trainer who provides training and mentoring to students around the world. She has studied coaching, psychotherapy and CBT, DBT, Child Psychology in addition to her holistic modalities including hypnosis, trance, altered states and intuitive modalities working with energy.

Tríona now works all over the world with one-to-one services, group training and retreats. Triona spent years studying and working in past life regressions to transform trauma. She specializes in people’s awakening and consciousness.

“Sometimes the most difficult thing people struggle with is their own self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-empowerment. By removing blocks, they access their higher self-guidance and knowledge, to truly know who they are at a soul level. Through the various modalities I offer, this is what I hope to give to you. Aswell as  regular mastaclasses, worships and courses and events.”

Earlier life and career
When Triona looks back at her earliest experiences, she recalls being aware of being something different. Indeed, she was often described as being ‘sensitive’. Staring at the stars, fascinated with how the mind worked even at the tender age of 4. Willing objects to move.

“I was terrified of the dark from as early as I can remember, sensing the presence of something else in my awareness”, she explains.

On leaving school, Triona initially thought her working life would be in the Pure Sciences. However, she soon found her interests lay in Computer Science in Dublin. She worked as a successful IT manager for Irish Ryanair Hotels and Dell for 13 years.

Life took a dramatic turn when Triona became sick during her second pregnancy and she suffered acute renal failure.

During this time, Triona suffered ‘several’ near-death experiences and long hospital stays. It was not an easy road, but she remained focused and determined to achieve the milestones she had set for the journey ahead.

In those early days of recovery, Triona began to feel she could, at last, plan that healthy future with her husband Barry and her children.  Unfortunately tragedy struck with the sudden death of her husband Barry.

‘This was a completely shocking and shattering experience. It cracked me wide open. I went through a profound Spiritual awakening. It’s what I call my full awakening, with all the physical and emotional changes that went with that. I started seeing, feeling and smelling so much clearer across what some people call ‘the Veil’, (Clairvoyance, Clair-sentience & Clairalience). It was a turning point for me to dedicate my life to the exploration of the afterlife and healing’

Unfathomable knowledge
The senses and abilities she had been aware of as a child, opened up. Through her immense grief, there came an understanding that through that tragedy, there was love. Love continues after death and in spirit realms.

‘I had a thirst for knowledge about the afterlife, spiritual philosophies, consciousness, metaphysics and meditation, mediumship and channeling. I wanted to get a wider understanding of the incarnate and discarnate soul and its consciousness, and life in and between the afterlife. This led me to research and study so many modalities and I soon found I had an aptitude to work in trance states, using hypnosis and channeling and regression to obtain information and clarity on the soul. Naturally, this led me to ponder life’s big questions such as Why are we here?’

Trained to the highest standard in the world, Tríona passes this knowledge onto others and offers various certified training in past life practitioner and healing.

Contact Tríona today to create ripples in your own life. 

The topic is the focus of Dr. Metzl’s most recent, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms, a book that, by looking at a racially-charged mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, reexamines how we as a nation should address gun violence.

Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and PhD in American culture from University of Michigan. Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the 2020 APA Benjamin Rush Award for Scholarship, and a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship, Dr. Metzl has written extensively about the relationships between guns, mass shootings, and mental illness. His books include The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, and What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. 

Michael Jerome Irvin was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is the 15th of 17 siblings. He attended Piper High School and became a football celebrity when he played at St. Aquinas High School.
He was recruited by the University of Miami which offered one of the top collegiate football programs in the country. Under coach Jimmy Johnson, he set several school records for career receptions, receiving yards and touchdown receptions. He made a legendary performance in Miami’s 1987 National Championship Team which propelled them into the National Championship Game. After leaving the university, he remains a supporter of the football program, giving tutorials to receivers and acting as a mentor off the field for younger players. He was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.

Pro-Football

Film, TV and Radio
Michael joined the NFL Network broadcast team in 2009 and he can be seen on NFL Sundays and NFL GameDay Morning. He has also been featured in various commercials for the NFL Network.

He was a co-star in the 2005 remake of the The Longest Yard starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. He also starred in Jack & Jill in 2011. On TV, he played one of the “Pros” in an episode of Pros vs Joes.

Michael also hosted 4th and Long, a football-themed reality series on Spike TV. He appeared in an episode of Burn Notice in 2009 titled “Hot Spot”. He also hosted a radio show on Miami’s WQAM with Kevin Kiley which aired until 2012.

Family and Fatherhood
Michael married Sandy Harrell in June 1990 and he has four children.

When not working, Michael usually spends his days making fun memories with his family. He is enjoying fatherhood and has been gaining new insights about life and living in general, just from interacting with his kids and family.

Being an exuberant personality, he is always eager to share the lessons he has learned from his experiences and the values that helped him succeed in his career and his life in general. The drive to help his team win in his professional footballs days has not left him and he is still as enthusiastic to help out in any way he can.

Giving Back
With so many things that he wants to share about success and life in general, he has chosen to focus on sharing his insights about fatherhood. He is also giving back to the community by creating and participating in activities that give a portion of their proceeds to important charities and help support their cause.

Michael is also educating and inspiring people to change themselves for the better and live their life to the fullest through his training camps and speaking engagements.

For more news about Michael’s initiatives, activities and speaking events, or just stuff about what he’s been up to, you can also check out his blog where he shares what he’s been up to and where he’s been regularly.

She is called the “Georgia Gypsy” back home. Up-and-coming country artist Ashley Brooks, hailing from the North Georgia mountains, has been making waves with her distinctive country sound, powerful lyrics, and high-energy performances filled with attitude. Known as a the wild, barefoot, and fishing songwriter from North Georgia, Ashley Brooks is set to captivate audiences with her authentic charm. 

In the past year, Ashley Brooks has demonstrated her talent in over 60 performances in the South and has had the privilege of opening for acclaimed Nashville artists such as Confederate Rail Road, Billy Droze, Gary Nichols, The Oak Ridge Boys and Aaron Tippin. Ashley frequently travels from the Bible Belt of Georgia back to Nashville to collaborate with fellow songwriters and artists, showcasing her dedication to her craft and passion for music.

Cindy began hearing the Collective in early 2009, when she sat down with her laptop to write a magazine article. Those conversations continue daily, although they did not name themselves ‘Josef’ until 2017.

Beginning in 2014, they revealed themselves as ‘Abraham’, channeled by Esther Hicks.  They explained, together, they would be part of the continuation of the expansion of the Abraham message.

In early 2017, during a session with Paul Selig, Cindy was relaying to Paul what she was experiencing with Abraham. He said, “I don’t think that’s how it works, but let’s go to the Guides.” They quickly responded, “There is a group who is trying to teach through her. She must ask for a name.”

Later that evening, during her daily conversation with them, asking for clarity of the session with Paul, Esther’s face appeared suddenly and clearly, in front of her, and as she was saying, to herself, “why am I seeing Esther?” They replied, “You are seeing the lovely Esther because we don’t have a face yet. We will reveal our name at the right time. We are Abraham.”

Two days later, she saw in front of her, a succession of towing planes like you see at the beach, towing advertising banners behind them. As she focused, she saw the first banner that read, “Seth”; the second banner read, “Abraham” and the third was blank. In that moment, they said,’That’s Us.” She understood then that this group was part of the evolving consciousness of Seth and Abraham and the name would come when they were ready, and it did. Later that year, they sent her to write the first book of the Allow Your Soul to Lead series, and when they signed the Welcome letter, she wrote, “We are Josef.”

Prior to 2009, Cindy spent 35 years in creative advertising and marketing. She was raised Catholic in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York and currently lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

Having never even seen Waikiki, Jim “Kimo” West came right to the tiny village of Hana, Maui in 1985 and spent much of his time there for many years. It was in Hana where he first heard the music of Gabby Pahinui, Sons of Hawaii, Sonny Chillingworth, and Atta Isaacs. Already familiar with alternate tunings, the sound of ki ho’alu became rooted deep in his musical landscape.

Kimo is regarded as one of the world’s foremost “ki ho’alu” or Hawaiian “slack key” guitar artists and his music has garnered over seventy-five million spins on streaming services. He is a 2021 Grammy Winner for his recent CD, “More Guitar Stories” and a 2019 Grammy nominee for “Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island”. He is also a 2008 winner of the Hawaii Music Awards and four-time Na Hoku Hanohano (the Hawaiian ‘Grammy’) nominee. He is also a two-time winner of the LA Treasures Award for his efforts in keeping this important acoustic guitar tradition alive. This warm and engaging fingerpicked guitar style has its roots in 1840’s Hawaii, when Mexican vaqueros first brought guitars to the Big Island of Hawaii. If you saw the Oscar-winning film, “The Decendants” you have experienced this great acoustic guitar tradition.
Kimo is a veteran of Hawaii’s famed slack key festivals as well as the So Cal Slack Key Festival every year from 2008 through 2018. He has shared the stage with almost all the world’s top slack key players at one time or another.

His numerous CDs feature many original compositions as well as inventive arrangements of the genres’ classic repertoire. His seventh CD, “Guitar Stories” goes beyond slack key, exploring other genres like West African guitar, Middle Eastern Music, and Americana. “Slackers In Paradise” features duets with slack and steel guitar legend, Ken Emerson, and his latest CD, “Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island” is a mix of “nahenahe” or very relaxing compositions.

For his work as long-time guitarist with “Weird Al,” he has earned four Grammy’s and a Billboard #1 CD debut for 2015’s “Mandatory Fun.”

Kimo has also worked as a composer for film and TV for many years and maintains a sophisticated private studio in Los Angeles. He has composed music for features films, network TV shows and specials and cable shows. His slack key compositions have been used in many feature films, TV spots, and documentaries.

GREGORY and GAIL HOAG

Gregory Hoag, The Sacred Geometry Divine Toolmaker

Gregory Hoag, scientist, best selling author and artist, has researched Sacred Geometry and consciousness for 47 years. Following a major spiritual awakening (Kundalini) in 1982, he started creating energetic tools through Metaforms, that provide transformative tools to foster spiritual evolution and the expansion of Source. His land in the Colorado Rockies has numerous energy vortexes and strategically placed geometric forms for the purpose of activating the planetary grids and energizing some of the tools produced by Metaforms.

He is recognized as one of the leading experts on Sacred Geometric technologies for improving health, raising consciousness, reducing stress, manifesting intent and clearing emotional and electromagnetic interference.

Gail Hoag, Spiritual Steward

Gail Hoag is a health consultant, accomplished artist, spiritual advisor and businesswoman. Her study of light, color and energy in motion in her paintings, launched a deep understanding for creating transformative fields to expand consciousness. Developing her intuitive gifts as an artist, healer and spiritual counselor, she has assisted many people to embrace life more fully. Gail has also served as a business consultant and team building trainer in corporations.

Gail was an avid student of R. Buckminster Fuller and knew the intrinsic value of sacred geometry when she and Gregory met in 1985 and founded Metaforms, realizing their life’s mission to bring sacred geometric energy tools to the world.

Dan grew up in the Midwest and has coped with SAD every winter since he was a child. However, that has not stopped him from achieving his goals. He received his bachelor of special education from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He received his master's degree in early childhood education from Northern Arizona University. He is a certified reading specialist. He was a former teacher with fifteen years of experience teaching students from preschool through high school. In addition, he even tutored college freshmen.

Teaching is in his blood and it even comes out in his writing.

He has lived in the Arizona sun, but today he lives in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Go Packers!”