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JONATHAN B FISHBECK
Back in the “olden days,” planning a family vacation was a complicated undertaking, involving numerous phone calls to airlines and hotels to compare availability and cost. Booking extra excursions and reservations at local restaurants beforehand were all but impossible. Everyone had “their” travel agent who took care of everything and was often the difference between a fantasy voyage and a bad Chevy Chase movie.
 
The internet made these middlemen virtually obsolete (pun intended), as most travelers were able to book their flights and resorts online in a matter of minutes; eateries, and their customer reviews, were also a click away. Even online travel giants such as Expedia were not safe; in fact, this 2019 Forbes article served as a warning that Google, with its “Flights” tool, was nipping at their heels. 
 
Enter Covid, the ultimate disrupter. The pandemic that has crushed so many industries has proven to be a savior to concierge travel. Travel advisors, as they are now called, have once again become highly sought after for their ability to help travelers stay safe while indulging their wanderlust.
 
Nowhere is the uncertainty of Covid more evident than with regard to travel, both within the US and internationally. Most states currently have no official restrictions on interstate travel; however, several have nuanced rules travelers must be aware of. Illinois, for example, has no restrictions…unless you are going to Chicago. And if you’re headed to Vermont and have not been fully vaccinated you must be tested for Covid within three days of arrival. Things get infinitely more complex (and scarier) when venturing outside the country. There are new advisories issued almost daily from the US State Department – not to mention the dangers of getting sick thousands of miles from home. The ideal travel advisor will keep abreast of this fluid situation and steer clients toward states and/or countries that are lower risk, or at least more compliant with preventative measures.
 
Vetting resorts is just as critical. The last thing anyone wants is to arrive at their location and see people partying like it’s 2019.  Of course, every resort’s website will list all the things they are allegedly doing to prevent the spread of Covid, but only an industry insider will be able to get the real story.  In fact, some travel advisors are only recommending resorts they visited during the pandemic to make masks and social distancing rules were strictly adhered to by guests and staff.
 
Let’s not forget the rules imposed by other nations. Currently, one hundred and twenty-two countries – including all of Europe, Australia and most of Asia – are “partially open,” meaning entrance depends on where travelers are coming from and other individual criteria. Travel advisors keep their clients informed of last-minute changes and, if necessary, change or cancel the trip. Travelers must also show negative test results, which is where concierge testing services come in. Concierge medicine has exploded during the pandemic, with providers coming to clients’ homes to administer the test. Results are available within hours.  
 
Modes of transportation have also shifted, most notably with respect to air travel. Planes are flying petri dishes even in the best of times, as reported in this 2019 The Wall Street Journal, so it’s no surprise that during Covid the private jet business is booming. Pre-pandemic, many people who could afford to charter a jet thought it an unnecessary luxury; now, many travel advisors are incorporating it into their list of offerings.  It’s safe to say that travel won’t be completely, well, safe for some time to come.  There are just too many variables, from the differences in the ways local, state and international governments are handling the pandemic to individuals within those areas who choose not to take precautions. Travelers still won’t be able to completely let their guard down, but with these professionals guiding them they will at least be able to experience a bit of normalcy for a while.

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EstateSpace has developed the world’s first asset management solution that provides a single point of record for a family’s physical assets. This intelligent financial management solution enables and simplifies how families manage valuable physical assets to increase and protect generational wealth. 

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Jonathan B Fishbeck is the Founder and CEO of EstateSpace, providing individuals and family offices a platform to manage all of their assets. Simplifying complex operations helps reduce risk and protect our client’s interests.

Before devoting his work fulltime to EstateSpace, Jonathan served as the Founder and CEO at a design-build firm whose focus was advising, developing and operationalize sizable estate properties for U/HNW families and family offices. It’s this experience and expertise combined with Jonathan’s technology background that was the genesis for EstateSpace.

The firm is family owned and operates platform business consisting of easy to buy subscription and a marketplace for luxury service providers to support our clients.

In addition, Jonathan serves a number of philanthropic organizations where his passion for helping veterans, supporting children in need and supporting blood cancer research shines through. These positions and organizations include Co-Chairman, Fisher House Foundation, Board Member, Children’s Voice International and Board Member, There Goes My Hero, respectively

UnDaoDu

Every crisis facing our planet can be linked to our business model. fix it we can fix everything. The why of the blockchain is to do that with something called smartDAOs. https://youtu.be/6-DDJLeL7dU here is the outcome https://youtu.be/NPnBzqhj7HA

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Live in the heartland of Zen. inventor of the smartDAO, Inspired the blockchain worked with the founders of Ethereum in 2011. ushering social beneficial capitalism built on foundups. 

Michael Goddart

A NEW NOW:

Your Guide to Mastering Wisdom Daily, Achieving Equilibrium, and Empowering Your Nobler Self

By Michael Goddart

A Powerful Guide to Becoming Your Most Aware Self

Knowing How to Get to and Stay at Equilibrium is a Major Gift of This Book

Your Gateway to Access Higher Consciousness,

As well as a Meaningful, Peaceful & Joyful Life of Purposeful Service to Yourself and Others 

Dear

If you are riven by the thoughts, emotions, self-judgments, addictions, worries or the actions of others that create turmoil and strife in your life, then hope is at hand.

There is a new book that will show you how to get to equilibrium and maintain that state. Equilibrium opens you up to an expanded state of higher consciousness—an untapped reservoir of awareness that provides greater wisdom, clarity, peace of mind, enhanced intuition, positive and purposeful living, and meaningful engagement in the world without struggle. Equilibrium is your real home—from which all good and happiness flows!

Michael Goddart’s A NEW NOW: Your Guide to Mastering Wisdom Daily, Achieving Equilibrium, and Empowering Your Nobler Self is a life-changing manual on how to live in your expanded awareness of your innate higher consciousness on a daily basis. By mastering the wisdom in this book, you’ll achieve equilibrium and not be tossed by the tides of everyday life. From equilibrium and your increasingly aware consciousness, you’ll make choices that honor yourself, your fellow beings, the planet and the underlying unified consciousness

In practical, inspiring ways, A NEW NOW answers the essential question: How can I live as my aware self? When readers embark on this journey, here is what they will learn as they experience their New Now step by step:

The treasure of 33 wisdoms, including the 11 Loving Wisdoms, the 11 Guiding Wisdoms, and the 11 Evolutionary Wisdoms The 10 Keys to Achieving Equilibrium The 5 Sources of Wisdom The 5 Prerogatives of Equilibrium How to empower and be their nobler self

In this transformative book, multiple award-winning author Michael Goddart gives readers an invaluable guide to awakening and empowering their higher consciousness so that they can readily navigate their life successfully, happily, easily. Readers will feel Michael’s warm and encouraging guiding presence while working with this book so that situations, people, thoughts, and desires are more easily negotiated moment to moment. The discussion is informed by the author’s many decades-long study and practice of the teachings of fully realized Saints and Masters. Key essential mystical and spiritual truths elucidate and further the reader’s realization of their New Now.

“The more wisdom you possess, the closer you are to omniscience. Being omniscient is having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight; knowing all things; spontaneously accessing perfect wisdom. This is your divine birthright,” says Michael. 

Michael Goddart has been a seeker of wisdom from the age of 10. Meditating since his teens and for more than two hours a day, starting at 21, Goddart has also been heightening his sense of knowing and accessing his soul consciousness for over three decades. Unexpectedly in March 2013, he began to recover exact, amazing details about 88 of his past lives. This discovery he chronicled in his internationally recognized book, In Search of Lost Lives: Desire, Sanskaras, and the Evolution of a Mind&Soul. The winner of four book awards, In Search of Lost Lives illuminates Michael’s spiritual evolution across thousands of past lives which prepared him to be initiated in his current lifetime in his main spiritual practice.

And now, A NEW NOW brings forth a pathway to infinite awareness and sustainable equilibrium that is accessible and practical for anyone.

If you would like to interview Michael Goddart on how to experience A NEW NOW, please send an email with the name of the show, your contact information, a proposed date and time, and the calling details

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Michael Goddart, MFA, is the author of In Search of Lost Lives: Desire, Sanskaras, and the Evolution of a Mind&Soul, a winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award, the Living Now Book Award, the Body Mind Spirit Book Award, and the National Indie Excellence Award.

Soon after his family moved from Illinois to California when he was 10 years old, Michael started actively searching for the truth about death and how to attain true immortality with everlasting bliss. He began daily meditation at age 19, and at 21 began to meditate for over two hours daily. For more than three decades, he has also been been actively developing his sense of knowing and accessing his higher consciousness. In March 2013, he began to recover his past lives, eventually recovering 88 past lives and depicting them in vivid detail in his longtime spiritual journal, the entries of which are the main part of In Search of Lost Lives.

His work as an international tax consultant and his spiritual quest have taken him to over fifty countries. Since 1974 he has journeyed thirteen times to India and also numerous times to England, Greece, Canada, Spain, and within the United States to be with those rare teachers whom he considers to be fully realized humans. 

Michael Goddart took his MFA in Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He is the author of BLISS: 33 Simple Ways to Awaken Further, which sold more than 38,000 copies and was a semi-finalist in the HSF&EF, and Spiritual Revolution: A Seeker's Guide, which the Hollywood Spiritual Film and Entertainment Festival named Best Spirituality/Self-Help Book. Australia’s leading spiritual bookshop named Spiritual Revolution one of the ten greatest metaphysical books ever written.

Michael lives in Palm Springs, where he loves the warmth and the brilliance of the light, reading fine novels, and playing with his White Swiss Shepherd.

Paul Auchterlonie

Top 5 signs that your teen/young adult is struggling and may need help - May is Mental Health Awareness Month -

As we are currently in a global pandemic, concerns over COVID-19 continue. But as data suggests, the pandemic is taking a heavy toll on young adults’ mental health.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that children’s emergency department visits related to mental health went up by as much as 31% from April to October of 2020. Suicide rates, which were already rising among young people age 10-24, have spiked during months of heightened COVID-19 stress. In addition, preliminary evidence suggests adolescents are using alcohol and drugs to help cope with loneliness, separation, and other pandemic-related stressors in addition to mental health issues.

Paul Auchterlonie, M.Ed., is  CEO of Paradigm which serves teens and young adults between the ages of 12-26 who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health issues. Auchterlonie has nearly three decades of experience consulting for leading healthcare, education, and behavioral healthcare entities nationwide. He says there are signs to look for that a young person is struggling and may need outside and professional support that include:

Change in sleep patterns or appetite – this could be a first sign that something is not right Loss of interest in life– watch your young adult for unusual behavior especially specific behavior out of their ordinary routine Changes in communication not only with parents but friends – Be aware of how your young adults communicates and if there is an abrupt change that could signal a problem Mood swings – For a young adult to have a sudden change in their behavior is a red flag Activities – watch for examples of excessive video gaming if that is their interest or isolating themselves or too much time on social media

Please let me know if you would like an interview.

Regards,

Annmarie

On behalf of Paradigm Treatment

617-448-7416

Paradigm Treatment with 7 locations in San Rafael and in Malibu has been helping teens and young adults ages 12-26 with mental health issues for over 10 years. Paradigm’s medical and clinical teams delve deep to address the root causes of many mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, bipolar, grief, trauma, mood and personality disorders and co-occurring substance use. Help is a phone call away 877-883-1223  https://paradigmtreatment.com/

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Paul Auchterlonie, M.Ed., CEO of Paradigm - Paul has nearly three decades of experience consulting for leading healthcare, education, and behavioral healthcare entities nationwide. As an executive advisor, CEO, and expert in education & behavioral health, Paul enjoys building teams and companies and is passionate about creating socially impactful entities. He is an expert on industry trends and behavioral healthcare for teens and young adults and is a thought leader and frequent keynote speaker in the field.

Paolina Milana

MAY is Mental Health Awareness month:  Paolina Milana's New Book Launches about Staying Sane (& Then Thriving) When Mental Illness Is Rooted In Your Family Tree 

The new book COMMITTED: A MEMOIR OF MADNESS IN THE FAMILY (She Writes Press -- May 4, 2021) shares one woman’s struggle to not lose herself to the darkness while becoming a reluctant caregiver to mentally ill family members. In what’s been called “a modern-day ‘Girl, Interrupted’” and “the best book on mental illness” by Net Galley reviewers, author Paolina Milana’s epistolary memoir is a raw and compelling account told through the use of handwritten letters about caregiving for a mother and sister, both diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and the toll it took on her mental health. Launching May 4 for Mental Health Awareness Month, Milana’s  story of surviving then thriving as caretaker of a schizophrenic mother AND little sister, recently featured on Doctor Radio (SiriusXM), is one of resiliency and inspiration. 

“Too many people suffer in silence when it comes to serving as caregivers for family members with a mental illness or when taking care of their own mental health,” said Milana. “Keeping secrets about the mental illness in our family and pretending to be okay to the outside world when clearly I wasn’t may sound unique, but, unfortunately, it’s not. Too many of us think we’re strong enough to handle it on our own or we’re just embarrassed because we think we should be able to handle it on our own. Silence is what suffocates. Mental Health Awareness Month is meant to shine a light on the importance of mental- and emotional well-being and to help end the stigma associated with mental illness. I hope my stories of being raised by a mother with a mental illness and then becoming primary caregiver to not only her but to my sister, also diagnosed with the same schizophrenic disorder, helps let others know that they are not alone and to reach out for help is a sign of strength and a path to empowerment.”

Order a copy of COMMITTED: A MEMOIR OF MADNESS IN THE FAMILY. Learn more about Paolina Milana, available for media interviews, book discussions, and mental health advocacy consulting here. 

About the Author

Paolina Milana, author of several books and founder of Madness to Magic is a marketing, PR, and media professional with journalistic roots. Her latest book COMMITTED: A Memoir of Madness in the Family is the sequel to her award-winning memoir THE S WORD (2015). Paolina uses storytelling techniques in her coaching to help people become the heroes of their own stori

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Paolina Milana, author of several books and founder of Madness to Magic is a marketing, PR, and media professional with journalistic roots. Her latest book COMMITTED: A Memoir of Madness in the Family is the sequel to her award-winning memoir THE S WORD (2015). Paolina uses storytelling techniques in her coaching to help people become the heroes of their own stories -- reimagining their circumstances, rewriting their next chapters, and stepping into their power.

Author of Committed, A Memoir of Madness in the Family
vaBrian Reese

A Vet Who Helps Vets Get the Benefits They Deserve Launches Practical New Book: Brian Reese Says, You SERVED. You DESERVE

Austin, TX – April/May 2021 Brian Reese was good at masking his PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. He even told himself he did not “deserve” benefits, which he later discovered was untrue. As an air force officer deployed to Afghanistan, he embodied the motto of “service before self.” Unfortunately, like many veterans, his service came at his own expense, and abusing alcohol and drugs to cope with mental health issues nearly ended his life. But by the grace of God and the power of pure vulnerability, Brian began a transformational journey of overcoming social stigmas and persevering through adversity. This journey has become a global movement of Veterans Helping Veterans Worldwide™.

In You Deserve It: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Veteran Benefits You’ve Earned (Scribe Media – May 11, 2021) Reese provides veterans with a step-by-step blueprint to help them obtain virtually unknown federal and state benefits. With years of personal experience and more than ten thousand hours devoted to helping veterans get the benefits in which they are entitled, Brian provides readers with the unparalleled insight and expertise that forms the foundation of his SEM Method (Strategy, Education, Medical Evidence). Whether having served thirty days or thirty years, this book is designed to educate and inspire veterans to reap the rewards for their honorable service to our country. Areas covered in the book include:

VA Disability VA Pension VA Healthcare VA Mental Health VA Housing Employment & Job Training Military/Veteran Discounts

With eight out of 10 veterans are not receiving the benefits they deserve by law and less than 25 percent (or 4.9 million) of veterans alive today receiving disability benefits by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Brian Reese wrote You Deserve It to change those statistics.

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Brian Reese is one of the world’s leading experts in veteran benefits, having helped millions of veterans secure their financial future since 2013. A former active-duty air force officer, Brian deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He is a distinguished graduate of management of the United States Air Force Academy and earned his MBA as a National Honor Scholar from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. His business is called VA Claims Insider.

Francis Parnell

A successful ENT and a board-certified dermatologist took their talents to develop manufacture, and market prescription and OTC drug products that maintain and restore mucosal and skin integrity. These nasal sprays and mouth sprays are the must have products for consumers to arm themselves and combat viruses, bacteria and provide another layer of protection against COVID-19.

Dr. Francis Parnell, a practicing Otolaryngology-Head and Neck ( ENT) Surgeon for over 30 years is Chairman and C.E.O. of Parnell Pharmaceuticals, the pharmaceutical company he co-founded with his wife Dr. Diana Parnell. Diana Parnell is a board-certified dermatologist with extensive experience and expertise in cosmetic and laser surgery as well as general dermatology and head of Cosmetic and Laser Surgery Institute Kentfield, CA. They worked together to develop Cosmetic and Laser Surgery Institute and together the couple bring years of consumer health experience, treating patients and developing oral, nasal and personal care products so that consumers could have options to….

Parnell Pharmaceuticals announced the development of the topical nasal spray caked Nomovid. Nomovid is based upon a substance licensed by Parnell from New Mexico Tech University to treat drug-resistant bacteria and fungi such as MRSA and Candida auris.

“Since it breaks down lipids in the viral envelope, we tested it against the novel coronavirus” says Dr. Francis Parnell, Chairman and C.E.O. of Parnell Pharmaceuticals. “An independent, outside laboratory has confirmed our findings and found it to be greater than 99.9% effective in vitro against the SARS-CoV-2 virus,”

Parnell’s  newest product Mouth Kote-MD Mouth Spray is with patented MycoDelens and Natural Yerba Santa and has been shown with in vitro laboratory testing to be an effective antiseptic against Antimicrobial Resistant (AMR) pathogens including bacteria, fungi, and coronaviruses such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Mouth Kote-MD is an excellent pre-rinse before dental exams to help prevent COVID-19 and in addition it helps restore enamel.

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Bio of Francis Parnell, M.D., CEO of Parnell Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Francis Parnell is CEO of Parnell Pharmaceuticals a California based private pharmaceutical company founded in 1986.  The company develops, manufactures, and markets prescription and OTC drug products that maintain and restore mucosal and skin integrity. The products are natural-based and patented for oral and nasal care and personal care.

Parnell co-founded Parnell Pharmaceuticals and Y.S. Laboratories over thirty years ago to research and create pharmaceuticals to sustain wellness and to improve quality of life. A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine Parnell completed residency training at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Parnell was a practicing Otolarygology-Head and Neck ( ENT) Surgeon for over 30 years. He is a Fellow, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the American College of Surgeons. He is a co-founder of the Cosmetic & Laser Surgery Institute with wife Dr. Diana Parnell and previously was Corporate Medical Director at Becton, Dickinson Co. {B-D).

Parnell is the first company dedicated to the research and development of new and innovative products to restore and maintain mucosal integrity. Employing a proprietary and patented technology, Parnell Pharmaceuticals’ products contain Yerba Santa, which contains natural anti-oxidants, mucopolysaccharides, and glycoproteins.

Parnell Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a closely held, private pharmaceutical company founded in 1986 and headquartered in San Rafael, California with an office in Dublin, Ireland. The company develops, manufactures, and markets prescription and OTC drug products that maintain and restore mucosal and skin integrity. The products are natural-based and patented for oral and nasal care, personal care, and anti-infective use. Parnell products are marketed and distributed in North America and Europe. https://www.parnellpharm.com/about

Dennis Barker

Letting go is the key to having the life you deserve. I can give examples of techniques and the results I obtained using those techniques.

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Dennis was trained in Teramai Reiki-Seichem Crystal Light energy Healing and several other complimentary health modalities and more recently has been running philosophy discussion groups for the local philosophy society.

Dr Randall Bell

Inspiring Stories of Real People Who Turned Pain into Purpose

Los Angeles, CA -- In the aftermath of hardship or trauma, it’s perfectly natural to enter what Dr. Randall Bell terms the “Dive Stage.” After all, the rug has just been pulled out from under you. But with the right strategies, it’s possible to not only get back up and find your footing, but to also use the experience to grow in entirely new directions.

“How do you take that energy from the trauma and tap into it to do something really remarkable that you wouldn’t have done otherwise?” asks Dr. Bell.

Stories of real people (many of them familiar) who have done exactly that unfold in his latest book, Post-Traumatic Thriving: The Art, Science, & Stories of Resilience.

Among the inspirational journeys Dr. Bell shares are:

• A deaf man with a glass eye invented the electric guitar and became a household name, remarkably wealthy and most importantly, happy.

• A convicted murderer took responsibility for the damage he caused, graduated with honors from college, became a minister and turned around the hearts of the most hardened criminals.

• A girl born with cerebral palsy landed the world’s first starring role on national television and spoke at the White House three times.

• A woman hid in a basement for years and lost her entire family in the Holocaust. She eventually found true love and paints stunning artwork.

• The sister of a murder victim helped millions of women in toxic domestic relationships.

• A woman’s car crash resulted in an addiction to prescription drugs, a divorce, a loss of her children and a cot in a homeless shelter. She has rebuilt it all back and more.

• A man set to go to the Olympics had his hopes dashed by Jimmy Carter and went on to build a worldwide business empire.

Dr. Bell juxtaposes outcomes of scientific studies with these stories to reveal common denominators among “thrivers.” He divides his insights into three sections: The Dive Stage, The Survive Stage and The Thrive Stage, and outlines a step-by-step process toward authentic healing.

Post-Traumatic Thriving documents the science of happiness, as well as the individual styles and common thread that all post-traumatic thrivers have to emerge with a fulfilling life. When trauma hits, your most significant decision will be to dive, survive or thrive. If you choose to thrive, this book is for you.

As a socio-economist, Dr. Randall Bell has consulted on more disasters on earth than anyone in history and is widely considered the world’s top authority in the field of post-traumatic thriving. His clients include the Federal Government, State Governments, International Tribunals, major corporations and homeowners. Dr. Bell believes that “the problem is not the problem — the problem is how we react to the problem.”

Often called the “Master of Disaster,” Dr. Bell is squarely focused on authentic recovery and resilience. His research has been profiled on major television shows and featured in numerous magazines and the international media. More information can be found at www.posttraumaticthriving.com.

Post-Traumatic Thriving: The Art, Science, & Stories of Resilience

Publisher: Core IQ Press

ISBN 978-0-9967931-7-9

Available from Amazon.com and all bookstores

Reviews, photos, links to previous interviews and Q&As are available upon request.

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As an economist, Dr. Randall Bell has consulted on more disasters on earth than anyone in history.

Dr. Bell is widely considered the world’s top authority in the field of post-traumatic thriving. His clients include the Federal Government, State Governments, International Tribunals, major corporations and homeowners. Dr. Bell believes that “the problem is not the problem – the problem is how we react to the problem.”

Often called the “Master of Disaster,” he is squarely focused on authentic recovery and resilience. Dr. Bell’s research has been profiled on the Today Show, Good Morning America, every major television station, Success Magazine, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and the international media.