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Headlined Guests

Guest Occupation: Operations
Guest Biography:

Dustin oversees operations for all Paradigm Treatment locations, including day-to-day programming, treatment content and quality, growth management and strategy, and team support to all therapeutic and operational staff. Having previously worked at Paradigm in the roles of Therapist and Program Director, Dustin is also a skilled clinician with an emphasis on family systems who continues to provide direct support both to Paradigm families and youth. Prior to joining the Paradigm team, Dustin served as Program Manager at Arizona Child and Family Support Services in Flagstaff, an agency providing community-based wraparound services for youth and family treatment. At CFSS, Dustin also built, facilitated and oversaw an Intensive Outpatient Program. He also served as an individual and group therapist for Northern Arizona Substance Abuse Services working with the Drug Court; as a therapist for youth in juvenile detention; and as a wilderness therapist for a program that worked throughout Northern Arizona.

Dustin holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Psychology from Northern Arizona University and has over 15 years of experience working with adolescents in a variety of settings. He is also trained in EMDR and Parent Effectiveness. Dustin’s motivation as both a therapist and a manager exemplify his deep desire to provide the insightful support and guidance that youth need to make the changes that will profoundly improve their well-being, relationships, and their futures.

 

Guest Category: Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Personal Development, Inspirational, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Author, Entrepreneur and Podcaster
Guest Biography:

Athalia was born and raised in Chicago, IL, and is a mom of two young adults. Last year, during the Pandemic, she self-published her first book “Why the Secrets”, a story about a family secret that caused a lot of hurt, confusion, frustration, and division. There are multiple messages here, which include the importance of open, honest communication, and how having it in this situation, could have alleviated all of this. The book can be purchased online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Google Books.

She also launched her online business, "Pouches By ALAHTA", during the Pandemic, using a stylish hairbrush pouch she uniquely designed for traveling needs, which accommodates different sizes and shapes of hairbrushes and combs. Pouches are available at https://pouchesbyalahta.com/.

"I’m a firm believer of working hard at your passion, living out your dreams, and just never giving up. Being able to help people in whatever way I can has always been a part of my life. With this Podcast, I’m hoping to do just that, help as many people as possible with the conversations and information shared. Hopefully, someone will experience personal or professional growth, maybe both".

Guest Category: Business, Health & Lifestyle, Energy Healing, Sound Healing, Inspirational, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Certified International Hado Instructor, PhD in Molecular Cellular Biology, radionics practitioner, certified Theta Healing Practitioner
Guest Biography:

Dr. Libby Rutledge, certified International Hado Instructor. Libby has PhD in Molecular Cellular Biology and she uses Hado (vibration) devices to help people with Energy balancing.  She makes a remedy called Magic Potion, and she uses Hado water with magic potion. Dr. Rutledge has published research in peer reviewed journals, and holds a patent as a result of her research.  She is also a radionics practitioner, a certified Theta Healing Practitioner, and a Certified Hado Instructor.  She started her own molecular biology laboratory in a motorhome and she carries out her own research.  She can be reached at Mobile DNA Elements at www.mobileDNAelements.com and mobileDNAelements@gmail.com, 406-871-5736.

Libby Rutledge started Mobile DNA Elements because she always wanted to have her own lab.

She also has a passion about plants and the effects GM plants have on health and the environment.

Libby has expertise in genetically engineering plasmids for use in basic research in mammalian tissue culture cells, and engineering viruses for gene therapy.

She earned a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology at The University of Texas at Dallas, completed postdoctoral positions at Oregon Health Sciences University and University of Washington, and managed a core facility at University of Washington Diabetes Center.  She taught at Salish Kootenai College and Flathead Valley Community College in western Montana.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Kids & Family, Science, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Technology, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: NFL and former USC Academic All American and 2 sport athlete
Guest Biography:

Zach Banner is a 2012 Watkins Award Honoree from Washington.  He was a 2 sport high school star who attended the University of Southern Cal aka USC Trojans.  Zach was a 2 year All-American at USC and was drafted in the NFL 4th round by the Indianapolis Colts.  He currently plays offensive tackle for the Pittsburg Steelers.  Zach is very committed to community service where he lives, works, and grew up.

Guest Category: Business, Education, K-12, Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: For Authors: Joint Venture & Affiliate marketing
Guest Biography:

Chris Van Buren is the Founder of LaunchMoxie and VanBurenPublishing, Chris Helps Authors, Entrepreneurs, Coaches, Personal Trainers, and others get a Better ROI on their Marketing investments.

Chris’s background is in Online advertising, Affiliate Network building, and Campaign Management. Prior to Founding Companies, Chris Held Senior Positions in a boutique ad agency, specializing in CPA offers.

Christ has Also Published 15 books and numerous articles in many languages and helped many authors and specialists publish and market their work.

Guest Category: Arts, Business, Education, Games & Hobbies, Health & Lifestyle, News, Psychology, Self Help, Technology
Guest Occupation: Personal empowerment coaching that transforms people from the inside out, allowing to break free, break barriers and get leverage!
Guest Biography:

Looking to power up your life, space, and businesses? My guest is Tandy Pryor who shows entrepreneurs how to increase their income by using a powerful combo of Feng Shui, coaching and intuition. She empowers them to use their home or office space as a vehicle for making radical shifts in their lives and increasing wealth, productivity, and peace of mind. Her intuitive advice and insights on how to set clearer boundaries, rediscover personal power, and heal past experiences and fears that have stopped you have been called "raw, transformative, hilarious, honest, refreshing, innovative, spot-on, and spookily accurate."

Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual, Variety
Guest Occupation: Award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
Guest Biography:

Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Her first book, Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, won the 2004 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians for the Best Book in Southern Women’s History, and was reissued in 2019 with a new preface. She’s also the author of Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, and Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South.

A successful public intellectual, she has written op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, TIME, Publishers Weekly, and the Huffington Post. Her expertise on southern history and culture has led to numerous newspaper, radio, and television interviews with media outlets from around the world. She appeared in Lucy Worsley’s BBC Production of American History’s Biggest Fibs and the PBS documentary Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, produced by Henry Louis Gates.

Her most recent book No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice will be published by UNC Press (a Ferris & Ferris Imprint) in April 12, 2021. It examines the long history of Confederate monuments from those first built after the Civil War to the protests against them in the summer of 2020. Pre-order No Common Ground from IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or Park Roads Books in Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

Guest Category: History, Kids & Family, Politics & Government, Self Help, Society and Culture, Variety
Guest Occupation: Architect
Guest Biography:

Mr. Yumang, is the first and only practicing Regenerative Architect in the Philippines and probably the whole Asia. A licensed Environmental Planner and a property Developer and native tree enthusiast. He was conferred Asean Architect with specialization on Regenerative Architecture systems thinking and gain recognition for it’s timely significance. His creative thinking uncovers new world of possibilities for architects and ecopreneurs alike. Currently developing his own Regenerative communities that best exemplify his methodical systems Thinking, converging with competitive sustainable business model will surely benefit the Earth’s life form. Join me July 20th 2021 at 12 Noon as I interview one of Manila's  greatest architecture experts worldwide :) 

Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Liz Wendling is a nationally recognized speaker, sales consultant, and author of 6 books. Her two most recent are The Heart of Authentic Selling and Sell Without Selling Your Soul.
Guest Biography:

Liz Wendling is a nationally recognized speaker, sales consultant, and author of 6 books. Her two most recent are The Heart of Authentic Selling and Sell Without Selling Your Soul.

Liz is driven by the mantra, It's not WHAT you sell, it's HOW you sell that matters. Liz understands the sales challenges that professionals face when selling in today's competitive environment and shows them how to make a profound difference in their sales approach, language, and process —online and offline.

Whether it's for her one-on-one consulting, group coaching, multiple-day training, or workshops, Liz will customize programs around the specific needs, challenges, and objectives a business is facing.

Liz has coached thousands of professionals to build solid business skills, develop a success mindset, exceed their sales expectations, and prosper in any economy.

Guest Category: Business, Education, Entertainment, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Medical Journalist, Editor of both Lower Extremity Review, (LER, celebrating its 12th anniversary), & MVP Parent Magazine
Guest Biography:

Janice has been developing and packaging medical content for more than 20 years both in print and digitally. A journalist by training, she has written and edited for professional and patient audiences as well as for regulators and policymakers. While her sweet spot is periodicals (newsletters, magazines, journals), she also has extensive experience in books, multi-part projects, oral presentations, and training materials. Past positions include Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geriatrics, Managing Editor of the ADA’s Diabetes Forecast, Senior Publications Manager for Healthy People 2010, and Editorial Director of a medical communications firm. In addition to serving on the local university-affiliated Institutional Review Board for 4 years, Janice served as a patient/caregiver advocate on the Advisory Panel on Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for 4 years.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Sports & Recreation, Variety
Guest Occupation: Multi-decade President of Bruce Merrin Celebrity Speakers
Guest Biography:

Bruce Merrin’s Celebrity Speakers & Entertainment Bureau is celebrating its 46 year anniversary!

We have been a top ten grossing firm in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In 1973, Bruce booked his PR client, actor Michael Landon, on the “Tonight Show” starring Johnny Carson. Bruce credits Carson for inspiring the idea to launch a celebrity speakers bureau. After the show at NBC in Burbank, Johnny Carson invited Michael Landon and Bruce to his Malibu home for dinner. When Carson suggested to Bruce that he create Bruce Merrin’s Celebrity Speakers Bureau, Landon offered to be Bruce’s first client. Carson became his second client. Then, Johnny’s world famous executive producer, Freddie deCordova, became client number three!

Early on, Bruce was told that the IBM meetings and conferences were so boring that their executives were falling asleep! So Bruce responded to the IBM meeting planner, “Are you tired of hearing the sound of one hand clapping at your sales meetings, management meetings, conferences and corporate parties?” The IBM meeting planner replied in one word: “YES!” Bruce began booking speakers and entertainers for IBM, and 34 years later, we still work with IBM.

Bruce has served as vice president on the Board of Governors of IASB (International Association of Speakers Bureaus), the worldwide leading speakers bureau organization. We regularly book clients with Fortune 500 companies, custom tailoring the speakers and entertainers for each event. We recently booked Bodine Balasco, famous business motivational speaker, for FedEx. Bodine presented his award winning speaking presentation in the afternoon. Then he dazzled the FedEx top executives with his close-up magic performance that evening. The FedEx event was so successful, that they re-booked Bodine for the next year. We work with each client based upon their budget, the location of the event, the theme and their wish list. We take great pride in our ongoing work with top companies like Microsoft.

We are based in Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world. Our personal contacts are unparalleled. Bruce can make your special event even more special. As FedEx has said, “You truly represent the best in the business.” Or consider famous comedian Phyllis Diller’s comment: “Bruce could book a leper with a hair lip!”

Bruce Merrin stands ready to assure you that you will NEVER HEAR THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING AT YOUR EVENT when you work with Celebrity Speakers & Entertainment Bureau in Las Vegas. Let us help you find the perfect keynote speaker for your next event.

 
Guest Category: Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Star Seed Alchemist Spirit
Guest Biography:

Want to learn about the Starseed Manifestation Key? My guest is Scarlet Ravin, back for a 3rd time. Scarlet is the Founder of White Fox Medicine and Psilocyin™ love medicine. As a Star Seed Alchemist with an eye for the unseen Scarlet spends her time with her animals, nature and the fully active spirit world that seems to expand her horizons. Scarlet is the International Best-Selling Author of “Follow the Medicine,” as well as the latest book called: “Naked Starseed Ascension Handbook.”  

Guest Category: Business, Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Self Help, Sex, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Premium Mentor, Coach and Consultant
Guest Biography:

Premium Mentor, Coach and Consultant, helping high-achieving individuals to Redefine And Redesign For A Thoroughbred Life. Helping business warriors to find new levels of intrinsic success - those misalinged millionaires seeking personal fulfilment and deeper happiness.

Kristen is an intuitive business mentor who specializes in self-actualization, personal power alchemy and mindset mastery. She also offers private leadership coaching and consulting.

A renowned as a ‘human potential powerhouse’, Kristen acts as a significant success catalyst for business owners and executives by tapping into their undercover business brilliance to increase top-line turnover and profits through a multi-pronged approach.

She creates a peaceful, purposeful and passionate space of clarity, elevation, direction and leverage for her clients by working across 3 key influencers which innately support (or hinder) every human:
→ Mindset Mastery,
→ Integration & Embodiment,
→ Physical/Energetic Expression.

Because all businesses are built by and for people, Kristen is particularly passionate about creating transformational shifts through mental resilience and emotional agility. She reminds her brave business warriors that they, themselves, are their greatest asset. As within, so without.

Her diverse background across three continents was the foundation for her visionary thinking, and she successfully guides others in Sales and Marketing, Human Capital, Creative Solutions and Leadership.

Kristen offers premium mentorship programs uniquely designed around the Thoroughbred horse as a symbol of our innately Perfect Pedigree. We’re all here to play in blissfully awakened 7- and 8-figure arenas!

Born into poverty, Kristen comes from humble beginnings where she often played barefoot in corn fields picturing life as a My Little Pony episode.

An entrepreneurial spirit since eleven, it wasn’t until she was thirty that Kristen finally ignited her business flames and registered her first company. She founded and fast-tracked three international businesses and became a millionaire within 3 years… only to discover that she was ultimately misfiring, misaligned and unhappy.

Kristen made a life-changing decision on Christmas Day 2015 to change her life and follow her heart. She promptly sold or gifted everything she’d ever worked for, including the businesses she’d built from the ground up, and moved to a small fishing village to start anew.

Shortly thereafter, with the closure of her last investment facilitation business under belt, Kristen enjoyed a sabbatical on a tropical island and worked with horses so that she could step away from the corporate environment completely. Thus, she created space for her highest purpose to start expressing itself through her.

Despite the judgement, ridicule and rejection from her immediate family and friends (many thought she’d lost the plot!), Kristen resolutely continued on her path and turned her privately trading equestrian enterprise into a mentoring, coaching and consulting business. She often jokes that if it weren’t for her spiritual awaking in 2016, she doesn’t know if she’d be here today!

A natural leader with spiritual gifts, it was only at thirty-six that Kristen began to honor her multi-faceted talents and skill sets in this world, including healing. Having already amplified her business tack room under the likes of Tony Robbins for the commercial world up to 2010, Kristen immersed herself in study material from Dr Deepak Chopra, Martha Beck, Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden, Dr Sue Morter, Marci Shimoff and Ken Wilbur. To name a few…

Today, Kristen thrives as a premium mentor with a hybrid business model which incorporates coaching and consulting.

She excels at helping other business owners elevate their consciousness, reveal their untapped business brilliance, unlock their greatest potential by rewiring subconscious patterns, untether trauma ties, transmute lingering energetic resonance which limits their expansion, and step into fulfilling lives of wisdom, wealth and legacy-level leadership with confidence, clarity and conviction.

Her ideal clients are seemingly successful people whom the outside world admires or celebrates, but feel lackluster, lost, empty, misfiring, disconnected, over-stressed, lonely, anxious, overwhelmed or frustrated within. They question the purpose of their very being.

She created her 5-Step LUNGE™ Framework which incorporates three key influencing factors for every human: the mindset component, the integration and embodiment component, and the energetics component.

Today, she leads a consciously designed life of purpose, fulfilment, freedom, fun, faith and fortune; and she’s on a mission to help others do the same!

Download her 'R&R your Significant Success' Workbook here:

https://www.flamingsilver.co/envision

Website: https://www.flamingsilver.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flamingkristen/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FlamingKristen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flaming_mentor/

Guest Category: Business, Health & Lifestyle, Pets and Animals, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Author of 'A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues'
Guest Biography:

Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019 where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management.

He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created, titled “Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.”

A 1985 graduate of the school, Professor Rogers holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. Prior to HBS, Professor Rogers taught in the MBA and PhD programs at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received the Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive MBA Program 26 times and daytime program twice. Both are records.

In 2020, he published the 4th edition of his book Entrepreneurial Finance: Finance and Business Strategies for the Serious Entrepreneur. Professor Rogers originally published the book in 2002. He has also authored 30 HBS case studies, and recorded podcasts, many of which were uploaded to Black Enterprise Magazine.

In 2020 Steven became an Advisor to and part owner of AfricanAncestry.com. 

He also joined the Steans Family Foundation as an advisor in 2020 to develop an economic plan for a poverty-stricken Black community in Chicago. The same year, he joined the University of Miami Business School as an Executive-in-Residence, where he teaches Entrepreneurial Finance in the Master of Science Finance Program.

In 2019, he toured 10 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) where he taught a workshop in Entrepreneurial Finance.

In 2017, he received the “Black Brilliance in Service” award from Harvard Law School’s Black Law Students Association, and in that same year, Poets & Quants Magazine selected him as one of “Our Favorite MBA Professors of 2017.”

In 2016, he was a volunteer professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point Army, where he received the West Point cadets’ sword for “Expert Teaching and Professionalism.”

He has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Philippines, and Vienna.

Before becoming a professor, he owned and operated two manufacturing firms and one retail operation. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Professor Rogers worked at Bain + Company consulting firm, Cummins Engine Company and UNC Ventures, a venture capital firm.

He also owned a real estate investment company that invested in residential properties on the South Side of Chicago.

He received the “Bicentennial Medal for Distinguished Achievement” by an alum from Williams College, and the “Bert King Award for Service” from the African American Student Union at HBS. Ebony Magazine named him one of the top 150 influential people in America.

Professor Rogers’ governance experiences span over two decades. He has served as a Trustee for Williams College, and the Visiting Committee for HBS. His corporate Board experiences includes SuperValu (Chairman, Governance Committee), Duquesne Light (Chairman, Finance Committee), Oakmark Mutual Funds (Chairman, Audit Committee and Investment Review Committee), W. S. Darley (Lead Director) and S. C. Johnson Wax.

He has completed five Triathlons and is part owner of the Chicago Sky in the WNBA.

Rogers has two daughters, Akilah and Ariel.

Guest Category: History, Kids & Family, Politics & Government, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: Founder of Primary the Ruling Class PAC
Guest Biography:

Bill Luznicky, founder of Primary the Ruling Class PAC Illustrating that the infighting among Colorado Republicans hasn’t abated, despite a string of election losses, Colorado Republican National Committeeman and talk radio host Randy Corporon is promoting a political action committee (PAC) called “Primary the Ruling Class” (PRC) taking aim at fellow Republicans who aren’t seen as “America First Patriots.”

Bill is a businessman turned author who wrote the #1 bestselling book, It's Not About Donkeys and Elephants: Branding the Real Enemy. The book turned into the Primary the Ruling Class movement which turned into the Political Action Committee, PRC PAC. Bill currently serves as the PAC's Chairman and Treasurer He writes nonfiction under the pen name, StressFreeBill He writes fiction under the pen name, William Lee Gordon

https://www.facebook.com/StressFreeBill

Guest Category: Literature, News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Director of Fiscal Policy
Guest Biography:

Ben Murrey serves as Independence Institute’s Director of Fiscal Policy, working to promote fiscal responsibility in Colorado government and to defend the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in the state’s constitution. Prior to his role with II, Ben spent seven years as a United States Senate staffer in Washington, D.C. and a legislative aide for Senator Ted Cruz. While in Washington, he participated in numerous legislative and policy battles, including those over the 2014 effort to defund Obamacare, passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, and passage the CARES Act in 2020. He also took on other fights to stop federal bureaucratic overreach, limit the size and scope of the federal government, and restore fiscal order in Congress. Before moving to D.C., Ben coordinated grassroots and get-out-the-vote efforts for 45 east Texas counties for the Ted Cruz for Senate campaign during the 2012 runoff election. He served as Deputy Director of Operations during the general election. A graduate of Hillsdale College with honors from both the Politics and German departments, Ben has been steeped in the principles and precepts of limited government, free market economics, and individual liberty. He did two stints as an exchange student in Germany, first on a State Department scholarship where he spent a year living with a German family and attending a German high school (Gymnasium) in Bremen and later for a semester at the University of Saarland. He speaks fluent German. A native Texan, Ben spent his formative years vacationing in and falling in love with Colorful Colorado. Years working the D.C. swamp left him with the strong conviction that most of America’s governing should happen at the state and local level. He finally put his money where his mouth was by moving with his wife and son to Denver and joining the Independence Institute staff.

Prior to his role with II, Ben spent seven years as a United States Senate staffer in Washington, D.C. and a legislative aide for Senator Ted Cruz. While in Washington, he participated in numerous legislative and policy battles, including those over the 2014 effort to defund Obamacare, passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, and passage the CARES Act in 2020. He also took on other fights to stop federal bureaucratic overreach, limit the size and scope of the federal government, and restore fiscal order in Congress. Before moving to D.C., Ben coordinated grassroots and get-out-the-vote efforts for 45 east Texas counties for the Ted Cruz for Senate campaign during the 2012 runoff election. He served as Deputy Director of Operations during the general election.

A graduate of Hillsdale College with honors from both the Politics and German departments, Ben has been steeped in the principles and precepts of limited government, free market economics, and individual liberty. He did two stints as an exchange student in Germany, first on a State Department scholarship where he spent a year living with a German family and attending a German high school (Gymnasium) in Bremen and later for a semester at the University of Saarland. He speaks fluent German.

A native Texan, Ben spent his formative years vacationing in and falling in love with Colorful Colorado. Years working the D.C. swamp left him with the strong conviction that most of America’s governing should happen at the state and local level. He finally put his money where his mouth was by moving with his wife and son to Denver and joining the Independence Institute staff.

https://i2i.org/about/our-people/ben-murrey/
https://i2i.org/author/beni2i/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-murrey-40500426/

Guest Category: Business, Investing and Finance, Management, News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Simone catalyzes human thriving through effective and integrative change management. She uses her 15+ years of corporate experience to crystalize business operations strategy, and bring voice to the importance of creating equitable and sound enterprises.
Guest Biography:
 

Simone D. Ross is a Colorado native who grew up in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood. Simone’s upbringing instilled in her a strong sense of the importance of community, family, and building through investing in the success and dreams of one another. 

 

In an effort to catalyze change, elevate and add visibility to issues of workforce equity, and operationalize inclusivity in business. Simone founded Simone D. Ross, LLC, a consulting firm with the vision of catalyzing human thriving through effective and integrative change management. Simone uses her 15+ years of corporate experience to crystalize business operations strategy, and bring voice to the importance of creating equitable and sound enterprises. Simone also brings a refreshing voice and insight to many events as CEO of SDR Events. She facilitates inspiring experiences, content, and presentations, to "ignite the light" in the participants at the events she hosts. She is also the Founder and CEO of Youth United University, an anti-racist education program for kids grades 6 - 8.

 

Throughout Simone’s extensive corporate career she has led expansion and operations in Denver and Minneapolis for The Riveter; worked in mergers and acquisitions as Director of Strategic Business Initiatives at SCL Health; founded and operated the SpringRock Dental oral health corporation, a subsidiary entity of Delta Dental of Colorado; and pioneered Kaiser Permanente’s business development and market expansion efforts. Simone holds a Master of Arts, and Master of Business Administration degree from Colorado State University. She has been recognized by the Denver Business Journal as a “40 Under 40” business leader; the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women; the Association for Corporate Growth as a David Sloan business scholar; and was recognized by the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce as a community service champion. She is a graduate of Leadership Denver, the Colorado State Chamber of Commerce CACI Executive Leadership Program, and is an Urban Leadership Foundation Chamber Connect alum.

 

Simone is most proud of her two amazing children. She is motivated by watching them grow, thrive, fearlessly create, and explore the world. 

 

Simone D. Ross

Founder & CEO
Ph: 303.910.6580
Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Dallas Cowboys Assistant Coach
Guest Biography:

Matt Daniels is a 2008 Watkins Award Honoree from Fayette County High School in Fayetteville, Georgia.  He attended, played football, and graduated from Duke University as an Academic All-American.  He played several years in the NFL prior to taking an assistant coaching position with the Los Angeles Rams which he played for prior.  Matt Daniels has the distinquished honor to have been the only High School Academic All-American Athlete to be recognized in the U.S. 110th Congress, Second Session of the Congressional Record in Washington, D.C.   

Guest Category: Education, K-12, Politics & Government, National, Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Founder & Executive Director
Guest Biography:

Tobie Spears is the Founder & Executive Director of Guatemalan Humanitarian Tours based in Utah where 90% of their volunteers, sponsors, and constituents are female. They help children, teens, and adults reach their full potential with early nutrition and continued education. Apart from running her nonprofit, Tobie stays busy working as a birth and postpartum doula as well. Tobie is also one of Utah Business 2020's Women of the Year honorees. "I grew up with a single mom, living on welfare. My mom taught us to think of others. We did the 12 days of xmas for families in our neighborhood that were struggling emotionally or financially. We took food to the homeless shelter. I remember putting together a coat drive in our jr. high and realizing that we could make a bigger impact working together.

At Guatemalan Humanitarian Tours, we help Guatemalan children, teens, and their parents reach their full potential with early nutrition and education."

"Our service vacations help companies, families, and individuals give back while having a blast and remembering what really matters. 

Our nutrition program is providing 1000+ meals a month and a volunteer-led bilingual preschool in a remote Guatemalan community. Our community is working together to fight childhood malnutrition, one child, at a time.

While in Guatemala we volunteer in our preschool, prepare meals for local children, volunteer in orphanages and schools, take a horseback ride up a volcano, install wood-burning stoves and water filters for local families, explore Mayan ruins, deliver hundreds of pounds of donations, and shop fabulous markets. We travel on a private bus with a trusted driver, stay in local hotels, and eat delicious traditionally prepared meals. We work hard and have a blast!
Please reach out if you would like to join us or support us through sponsorship/donations."
Thank you!

More information at:
https://guatemalanhumanitariantours.org/
hello@ghtours.org
https://www.facebook.com/guatemalanhumanitariantours

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Self Help, Society and Culture, Travel & Leisure
Guest Occupation: American football wide receiver
Guest Biography:

Drew Davis is an American football wide receiver. He played college football for the University of Oregon. The Falcons signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2011

Guest Category: Games & Hobbies, Sports & Recreation, Professional, Outdoor, High School, College, Amateur