Dawna Stone is an author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and health, fitness and wellness expert. Through her new book, Healthy You! 14 Days to Quick and Permanent Weight Loss and a Healthier, Happier You, as well as frequent local and national television, radio and speaking appearances, Dawna serves as a role model and inspiration to men and women everywhere.

As founder of Women’s Running magazine and the Women’s Half Marathon series, Dawna has helped thousands lead healthier lives. She has also served as a celebrity spokesperson for the American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women” campaign and contributed health and wellness articles to numerous newspapers and magazines.

In 2005, Dawna appeared on and won NBC’s “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart”. She spent the following year working closely with Martha Stewart developing a variety of projects for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia including Body+Soul magazine (now Whole Living).

Dawna has appeared regularly on television series like “The Today Show” and “MARTHA”, channels like MSNBC and morning news programs on all four of the big networks— NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. She also hosted her own show on Sirius Satellite Radio called “Health and Fitness Talk with Dawna Stone” as well as a regular television segment on Fox called “Healthy Living with Dawna Stone.”

Dawna launched the award-winning national magazine, Women’s Running, in 2004 and the Women’s Half Marathon series in 2009. She sold both companies to the industry leader in 2012. Previous to launching the magazine, Dawna’s professional experience included:

• Chief Marketing Officer for a $700-million publicly traded company, directing the marketing activities for more than 68 locations nationwide.
• Senior Vice President of the Active Sports Network, initially a 200-person dot-com company that is thriving today with more than 2,500 employees
• President and General Manager of PR*Nutrition, a $20-million sports nutrition company
• Strategy Consultant for Deloitte Consulting where she advised senior level executives at Fortune 500 companies
• Financial Analyst for Wall Street investment bank, Morgan Stanley

Dawna earned her B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an avid runner and Ironman triathlete. She lives in St. Petersburg, FL with her husband, five-year-old daughter, four-year-old son and dog.

Barbara Abercrombie has published novels, children’s picture books, including the award winning Charlie Anderson, and books of non-fiction. Her personal essays have appeared in national publications as well as in many anthologies. Her most recent books are Courage & Craft: Writing Your Life Into Story and Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They’ve Loved & Lost. Her latest writing book, A Year of Writing Dangerously, was just published by New World Library, and chosen by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the best books for writers. In 2013 NWL will published her fifteenth book, Kicking In The Wall. She’s received the Outstanding Instructor award and the Distinguished Instructor Award at UCLA Extension where she teaches creative writing.

She lives with her husband, Robert V. Adams, and their rescue dog, Nelson, in Santa Monica and Lake Arrowhead, California.

Linda Wojcik is a Bach Flower Practitioner with 30 years experience in alternative healing modalities. She is trained as a nutritional Kinesiologist and spiritual intuitive.

When her son Joshua developed serious health challenges she embarked on a journey that would change her life dramatically and that of her family.

Since 1982 I have been teaching my clients how to heal themslves.  This is what we have learned together:

Healing is a personal journey. The only one who can heal me is me; and the only one who can heal you is you. We will meet many teachers along the way to help guide us toward our healing journey;  however, individually, we must be ready to take the steps necessary for hearling to begin.

If you are ready to learn what those steps are, I am happy to share the information I have gathered along the way.

Steve is an award-winning author whose books have impacted thousands of lives around the globe.

Denise Michaels is CEO and founder of the International Book Writing Guild. She helps people like speakers, coaches, therapists and consultants write how-to and personal growth books that position them as experts so they become sought after and in demand. Her clients span the globe and her own ground-breaking book, “Testosterone-Free Marketing” became a business bestseller, selling in 15 countries. She’s passionate about helping people become successful book authors and leaders.

PERSONAL — Born Daniel LaVance Barkley on Aug. 10, 1988 in Ballard, Wash. Parents: Sean and Denise Boyd. Family: Two brothers. High School (Coach): Clover Park (John Randall) 2006. Major: Sports Marketing.

2007 — Appeared in reserve three times, including a season-high nine plays vs. Washington State where he ran a reverse for eight yards. Saw first collegiate action vs. Fresno State, playing four snaps, and was on the field for three plays during the Sun Bowl.

2006 — Redshirt season saw him earn special teams scout player of the week honors leading up to the game at USC.

HIGH SCHOOL — Played for John Randall at Clover Park in Lakewood, Wash., and considered Cal, Stanford and Washington before walking on at Oregon. An all-Cascade League selection as a senior, he was rated a two-star recruit by Scout.com.

Daniel currently lives in Seattle and works at the University of Washington.

Former Husky Greg Lewis is the Senior Director of Advancement for Minority Affairs & Diversity at the University of Washington.

Lewis made a name for himself as a star tailback at Washington from 1987 to 1990. As a senior, he rushed for 1,279 yards, a school record at the time, and earned Pac-10 Conference Offensive Player of the Year honors. Lewis was also lauded with the inaugural Doak Walker Award, given to the nation's top junior or senior running back, and finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy voting, the highest finish ever for a Husky offensive player.

After he finished his college career, Lewis spent two seasons with the Denver Broncos before returning to complete his degree in political science from UW in 1993.

He has two daughters, Briana and Janee.

Benjamin Bressington is the CEO of the Nevada-based Tigga Studios. The author of HowToMakeMillionsWithApps he believes patiently that this technology has radically altered the way we communicate and that by making it our friend we can continue to “progress.”

As a marketing consultant Benjamin has created marketing campaigns that have resulted in six figure sales online in 30 days, built membership websites to over 20,000 members and created apps that have been listed in the Top 25 of Apple App Store!

He studied a bachelor of law and a psychology degree at Bond University in Australia and has built on that foundation by creating his own companies in Australia, USA and Canada.

Olga Paz, MSc, GPCC, BCC, is a Gestalt Certified Professional Coach, Tarot Master and a Certified Reiki I and II Practitioner. She is a licensed Conflict Resolution Facilitator and a licensed Facilitator of Women’s Empowerment groups.

Olga encourages clients to utilize the Tarot as a practical tool not as something esoteric which exists in another realm far removed from their every day life. Through her guidance they come to realize the Tarot can help them gain a greater awareness of life’s complexities and of their own core self. And as that happens they begin to view their options more clearly and objectively; they are “empowered.”

He is the author of 'The Future of Value' and writes a regular column for both. 'The Guardian' and HBR.org. Eric is the founder of Nexus Global Advisors, a leading strategy, collaboration, and sustainability advisory firm.

Eric is committed to sustainability. His hope is that one day every company will take action to restore the environment and support social equity and development.

In the meantime, Eric is doing all he can — through his writing, coaching, and speaking engagements — to bring awareness to these critical issues. He’s a sought-after speaker and he consults with companies to achieve sustainability and competitive strategy goals.

What makes Eric unique in his field:

• Author of The Future of Value, published by Jossey Bass. It’s the story of how sustainable market leaders are embracing sustainability to create value for their stakeholders — for today and tomorrow. Eric is currently working on his second book.
• The Future of Value was named a 2011 Business Book of the Year nominee. 
• Named as a Top 100 Thought Leader on Trustworthy Business Behavior for 2012, Eric’s work is regularly featured in the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Wall Street Journal.
• Significant business experience as a consultant and strategist makes Eric pragmatic and ‘results oriented.’
• Author of more than 25 articles relating to sustainability and competitive strategy.
• While working at Accenture’s Institute for High Performance, Eric headed the development of the company’s first sustainability research program. He interviewed executives from a variety of industries to understand their sustainability commitments and efforts.
• While most consultants focus on “going green,” Eric’s focus has expanded sustainability to competitive strategy, social equity, and business growth.

Eric is fluent in Japanese and is an avid baseball fan. He lives outside of Boston, MA, with his wife and two young children

Mary M. Markovich received her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, North Carolina, her law degree at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, and her Financial Planning training and Decision Sciences training while earning a Masters of Business Administration at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Ms. Markovich has been a guest lecturer at Duke University and is a frequent speaker at educational, fraternal, and social organizations. She teaches Estate Planning and Elder Law classes to her fellow attorneys and other professionals in Continuing Education classes.

Ms. Markovich believes clients are best served with a comprehensive range of multi-disciplinary services, either in-house or by outsourcing to a select group of providers chosen by the firm.  This one-stop, one relationship model is efficient and cost-effective for clients. The firm delivers high quality services at a lower total cost to the client by reducing overhead and transitions of information between independent providers.

Ms. Markovich was admitted to practice law in North Carolina and admitted to practice before the United States Federal Court, Eastern District of North Carolina in 1994. Mary Markovich is accredited by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. She regularly represents veterans with Nonservice-connected Pensions and Service-connected Compensation claims.She has been in solo practice in North Carolina since 1994. Ms. Markovich is committed to providing the most innovative and up-to-date legal services, and by networking with other attorneys and various professionals nationwide.

Ms. Markovich is a renowned expert on Medicaid planning and eligibility issues and guidelines forboth VA Pension, commonly called VA Aid and Attendance and VA Compensation benefits. She is a sought-after speaker on these issues and often speaks to groups offellow attorneys, financial planners, CPAs, and other professionals about the qualification of clients for both Medicaid and VA benefits.

Thomas J. Carey is retired and has been a Mutal UFO Network (MUFON) State Section Director for Southeastern Pennsylvania, a Special Investigator for the J.Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, and a member of its board of directors.

Biography From: http://roswellinvestigator.com/index.php/the-team/

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Tom attended Philadelphia public schools where he was competitive in three sports. He attended Temple University on an athletic scholarship and graduated with a BS degree in Business Administration.

After a stint in the Air Force where he possessed a TOP SECRET/CRYPTO clearance, Tom became interested in anthropology and human evolution and received a Masters Degree in Anthropology from California State University, Sacramento. Tom then received a fellowship to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Tom became interested in UFO’s while in high school and rekindled that interest when he became the MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) State Section Director for Southeastern Pennsylvania (1986-2002). In that capacity, Tom investigated local UFO sightings in the Delaware Valley which encompasses the five-county area surrounding Philadelphia. Since 1991, Tom’s research has focused solely on the so-called “Roswell Incident” and the alleged retrieval/cover-up by the U.S. Government of an alien spaceship and crew that crashed near the town of Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947. In this research, Tom has worked closely with Roswell investigators, Kevin Randle [until 1996] and Don Schmitt (since 1998). Tom was a Special Investigator for CUFOS (the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies) from 1992-1997 and served on its Board of Directors from 1997-2001.

Tom’s research has contributed to a number of books and articles on the Roswell Incident such as The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994) by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt and will ultimately yield additional books and articles on the subject. Additionally, Tom has appeared as a guest on many radio and television shows concerning the Roswell Incident as well as appearing in Roswell documentaries. He has lectured all over the country regarding the subject as well. His portrait appears in the Hall of Fame at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, NM for his continuing contributions to our understanding of the Roswell events of 1947. With Don Schmitt, Tom was the investigative consultant for the highly acclaimed and top-rated 2002 Sci Fi Channel documentary, The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence. Most recently, Tom has appeard on Larry King Live (2003), CN8 Weekend Live (2004), The FOX NEWS CHANNEL (2004), Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory (2004) and theJeff Rense Show (2004).

Tom’s other interests include playing ice hockey in the winter time, writing incisive letters-to-the-editor about sports, politics and society in general, listening to and collecting “oldies” records (he has the best collection around) and making home improvements. He has been married to Doreen since 1968 and has two grown children, Don and Erin. Tom is an Air Force Vietnam Era veteran. He works in Philadelphia, PA and resides in Huntingdon Valley, PA.

About Manuel (Manny) L. English PhD - Author/Lecturer

Dr. Manuel (Manny) L. English, is a retired executive and former professor. He was born in East Texas, one of ten children of sharecropper parents. When he was five years old, he began working in the cotton and corn fields along with his brothers and sisters attending school only when there was no work. Poverty prevailed in all directions. From the age of ten there were many moves to Arkansas and several parts of Texas in search of farm work.

At sixteen, to escape the poverty of his childhood, Manny enlisted in the U.S. Marines Corps serving in Korea with the 1st Marine Division. Two weeks after returning to Camp Pendleton, he came down with Korean malaria spending 45 days in a military hospital. This near-death experience gave him the opportunity to realize that he wanted to make something out of his life. He left the marines in the fall of 1955.

Not quite ready to settle down, he joined the U.S. Army in 1957 spending six years serving in Berlin and at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Manny met Jeanette in Honolulu in February 1962 and they married six months later. Perhaps as a sign of his innateness, in the fall of 1963 while at Schofield, Manny spent 30 minutes using five magic markers and a 9X14 sheet of paper creating a piece of abstract art for submission to the fourth All Army Art Contest. His piece won second place all army Hawaii, second place all army Far East, and fourth place all U.S. Army.

In 1964, he elected to leave the army and attend university. Two months later, a U.S. Air Force recruiter came and asked him to join. With one child and one on the way, and with the promise of support in getting his university degree, he enlisted as a staff sergeant in the Air Force. Ten months later Manny was selected for the ‘Boot Strap’ program spending a full calendar year at the University of Omaha  earning his bachelor’s degree. He was then immediately promoted to second lieutenant. The Air Force continued its educational support enabling Manny to earn masters (U of Oklahoma) and doctorate (U of Manchester, England) degrees. Manny retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1976. He is proud to hold the title: Marine, Soldier, and Airman.

Manny went on to teach at several universities and serve as chief executive officer of a number of medical organizations including two teaching hospitals, one in Saudi Arabia. He has traveled to over 35 countries. He has published numerous articles on a variety of subjects. He now resides in the Seattle area and his interests include fictional and non-fictional writing.

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and several Silicon Valley think-tanks, including Interval Research Corporation and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.

He is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular articles, a dozen book chapters, and several books including the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997) and Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006). These books have remained in print since they were first published and they've been translated into ten foreign languages. His latest book, Supernormal (Random House, 2013), will be published in July 2013. His technical articles have appeared in journals ranging from Foundations of Physics and Physics Essays to Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Consciousness Studies; he was featured in a New York Times Magazine article; and he has appeared on dozens of television shows ranging from the BBC's Horizon and PBS's Closer to Truth to Oprah and Larry King Live. He has given over 250 interviews and talks, including invited presentations at Harvard (medical), Stanford (medical and statistics), Cambridge (physics), and Princeton (psychology), for industries including Google and Johnson & Johnson, and for government organizations including the US Navy and DARPA. In 2010, he spent a month lecturing in India as the National Visiting Professor of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, a program in the Indian government's Ministry of Human Resource Development.
 

Spooks and Legends Haunted Tours, LLC, was created by Bonnie Florek. Her creativity has certainly been a true asset to her very unique tours. Practically an overnight success, Spooks and Legends has attracted guests from as far away as Holland, the UK and Canada.

Wearing 18th century costume and strolling through town, Bonnie "becomes" Catherine Rathell, the ghost of a woman returning from Revolutionary Williamsburg. First person, costumed tours were designed and developed when realized what was missing from other area tours. Having been a tour guide for other companies, Bonnie knew, first hand, that the majority of the evening was spent on history and lifeless stories. Consequently, she has created her own tours to be what guests truly want and expect. Spooks and Legends Haunted Tours make the reality of spirits come to life through its originality. As new ghostly tales are revealed by 21st century town residents and employees, Bonnie integrates them into her already ghostly and believable evening tour. All information given has been fully researched. Nothing is ever made up and no false props or artificial elements are added to our family friendly tour. If you take photographs and later see ghosts in them, you can be sure they are real.
 

Don Hoes began practicing meditation on inner light at 14. Within two years he had a series of out of body experiences that raised more questions about the inner light, as well as life itself.

Don graduated from Allegany High School in Cumberland, Maryland, and then went on to attend Frostburg University. Don played football at both institutions. After his first year of college, Don traveled to New Delhi, India where he met his spiritual guide, Sant Darshan Singh, who gave him a deeper connection and experience of the mysteries of inner light. He was so transformed at the level of his heart and soul, he made the conscious decision to become a strict vegetarian. Four years later, he graduated from Rets Electronics School in Baltimore, Maryland.

Don was so inspired by his trip to India, not long after his return home he began to share on metaphysics, near-death experiences, meditation, personal development, and our new era or age of higher consciousness. He became a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Science of Spirituality in 1995, and since has given general Free talks and workshops for SOS in Baltimore, Washington,D.C., Western Maryland, West Virgina, Virginia, Atlanta, Florida, Chicago, Houston, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York, Vancouver, Canada, Germany, and India. For years has Don taught and shared classes, workshops, and courses mostly locally and regional. This work has culminated in His book published in 2011, and inspired the latest revision and title of his work called the Higher Consciousness Empowerment Series.

With this Empowerment Series, book events and workshops Don wishes to inspire you to tap within through personal transformation, self- introspection, living life in the now, along with the 'Art of Stillness' to relieve stress, improve your immune systems, and to help obtain more self-love and inner peace. So that one by one, we obtain individual and global peace and love in preparation for entering our New Golden Age of Love.
 

Rozy is a Jewish believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and as she herself says she "works for the Lord"; and what a work she does, as all who know her will attest.

For 21 years she was married to an American military fighter pilot and has lived all over the world. She was a hostage in Iran in 1978, and because of her much protesting, had helped 40,000 Americans to be able to leave Iran on 12-7-1978.

She had been a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where she had started many bible clubs; and where she had to stop teaching when she had been injured by a student. She has been horribly treated by a judge in the Workers' Compensation system in Los Angeles, where she had filed a claim for her injuries; and for quite a few years now, had been a very active protester about that system, where she had found corruption.

In spite of her physical injuries and illness, Rozy has and is continuing very active in numerous community and political events in the Los Angeles, California area.

I know that her story will encourage and uplift you and is a real demonstration of HOW WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
 

Arnie Gundersen has 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he earned his Bachelor Degree cum laude while also becoming the recipient of a prestigious Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship for his Master Degree in nuclear engineering. Arnie holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie also managed and coordinated projects at 70-nuclear power plants in the US.

In 1990, Gundersen discovered radioactive material in an accounting safe at Nuclear Energy Services, the Danbury consulting firm where he was employed. Three weeks after notifying the company president of what he believed to be radiation safety violations, Gundersen was fired. According to the New York Times, for three years, Gundersen was "awakened by harassing phone calls in the middle of the night" and "became concerned about his family's safety". Gundersen believes he was blacklisted, harassed and fired for doing what he thought was right.

Gundersen questioned the safety of the Westinghouse AP1000, a proposed third-generation nuclear reactor and has expressed concerns about the operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. He served as an expert witness in the investigation of the Three Mile Island accident and has provided commentary on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

AP1000
In April 2010, Gundersen released a report (commissioned by several anti-nuclear groups) which explored a hazard associated with the possible rusting through of the AP1000 containment structure steel liner. In the AP1000 design, the liner and the concrete are separated, and if the steel rusts through, "there is no backup containment behind it" says Gundersen. If the dome rusted through the design would expel radioactive contaminants and the plant "could deliver a dose of radiation to the public that is 10 times higher than the N.R.C. limit" according to Gundersen. Westinghouse has disputed Gundersen's assessment. Gundersen has testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards saying that "if a hole appeared, the chimney effect would disperse radioactive material far and wide".

VERMONT YANKEE
Gundersen has also expressed concerns about the operation of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, saying a leak of radioactive tritium there could be "followed by releases of other, more dangerous materials if the plant keeps operating".
v Gundersen has said that the U.S. nuclear industry and regulators need to reexamine disaster planning and worst-case scenarios, especially in reactors such as Vermont Yankee, which have the same design as the crippled nuclear plant at the center of the 2011 Japanese Fukushima nuclear emergency. He says that Vermont Yankee and similar plants are vulnerable to a similar cascade of events as in Japan.

FUKUSHIMA
As part of Fairewinds Energy Education, Gundersen has hosted numerous videos and provided updates about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. He was also a regular guest on Democracy Now discussing the issue. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Gundersen referred to Fukushima as "the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind".

David Christopher Lewis is an author, spiritual speaker and teacher. In September, David will conduct a book tour and lecture series in 26 cities across the western U.S.

His new book, Advanced Studies of the Human Aura: How to Charge Your Energy Field with Light and Spiritual Radiance provides a deeper understanding of the aura. David's highly original and influential work gives keys to increasing your auric light to accelerate your consciousness, and move from a sense of limitation to unbounded cosmic awareness and abundance.

In 2004 David had a profound spiritual awakening. He began to receive telepathic communications from divine beings known as ascended masters. In January 2005 David co-founded The Hearts Center, a movement for those seeking spiritual quickening and enlightenment. He also co-created Meru University, a modern day on-line mystery school. Meru U supports advanced spiritual development with teachings of the ascended masters revealed for today in live webinars, courses and workshops.

Pastor Whiddon teaches at Seattle Bible College from where he himself had graduated in 1981. In the 1970's he was the assistant director of TEEN CHALLENGE in Guam, where he had also served as an assistant pastor. He had been senior pastor in Michigan for 5 1/2 years; and has been a lay leader in the church which has been attending for the last 21 years.

Pastor Whiddon is also a businessman in Everett , Washington; has been married for 39 years to his wife Claudia and they have 5 children and 6 grandchildren.

Pastor Whiddon also writes regular TID BITS about the Holy land and you will be blessed to hear him and to go on the next tour to Israel, in November 2013.