Essie Jain is an English singer and songwriter, who has been performing and recording music for over two decades. Her songs have traveled far and wide out into the world and gently weaved themselves into the fabric of people’s lives, daily healing practices and stories.

Essie often works alongside her husband, guitarist and long term collaborator Patrick Glynn, for both recordings and live performances. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter Opal.

Rick Shugarman is a yoga instructor, growth coach, and entrepreneur whose work bridges the physical, mental, and creative aspects of human potential. As the founder of Beat Up The Sun, he explores the transformative power of morning rituals, yoga, and mindfulness to cultivate clarity, resilience, and purpose. The phrase “beating up the sun” refers to a morning routine of being up and moving with the sun as it’s rising. Like most transformations, it was born out of necessity.

Before stepping into the personal growth space, Rick’s career spanned multiple industries, from real estate investing and construction to teaching high school mathematics in underprivileged settings, and two years as a professional musician. As a real estate investor and business owner, he honed the discipline, vision, and adaptability needed to navigate uncertainty. As a math teacher, he developed a deep appreciation for structure, problem-solving, and guiding others toward breakthrough moments. And as a lifelong musician, he embraces creativity as an essential tool for personal evolution.

For most of his life, Rick thought yoga was weird, and spirituality even weirder. He knows firsthand what it’s like to be spiritually disconnected—and has experienced, in real time, the profound impact that a deeper connection with nature, presence, and the universe can have. By integrating these elements, he has seen how they can supercharge not only inner peace and happiness, but also professional success, financial freedom, and personal relationships.

Leveraging his background in education, Rick has created a step-by-step introduction to yoga on his website, BeatUpTheSun.com, which he gives away for free. His aim is to make yoga accessible to beginners of all abilities, guiding them from their very first pose with confidence and an immediate sense of “I can.

Debbie Solaris is an ET contactee, interdimensional traveler, and galactic historian. After a fateful extraterrestrial contact experience onboard an Arcturian starship several years ago, Debbie awakened to her true star lineage and higher calling. Through her ancestral connection with the Akashic Records, she has been receiving downloads of galactic historical information and universal spiritual knowledge ever since. She feels it’s a big part of her mission while here on Earth to help awaken others to their own true Divine selves and cosmic origins. 

Pia Leichter is a creative partner, published author, certified coach, and entrepreneur. Her path has been anything but ordinary: a recovering nomad, she’s reported as a journalist in Sri Lanka, graduated summa cum laude from NYU, and worked as an award-winning creative director for some of the biggest brands in the world. Now, as the founder of Kollektiv Studio, she’s uniquely positioned to co-create wild visions and ventures. 

She recently published Welcome to the Creative Club, a book that challenges everything people thought they knew about creativity. Praised by Google's Global Head of Creative & Innovation as "life-changing" and by iconic fashion designer Betsey Johnson as "a wild ride," this part-memoir, part-guide invites readers to make life their biggest art project and reclaim their creative power.

Experienced Athlete with a demonstrated history of working in the sports industry. It has taught me the foundations of hard work, discipline, time management, and how to overcome adversity. Also, skilled in Business Management, Public Speaking, Strategic Thinking, Sports, and Social Media Marketing. Graduating in both PhB-Philosophy and Business Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Strong media and communication professional.

Accomplished composer, arranger and pianist Paul McDonald’s music reflects the experience and influences gained in a career that has taken him all over the world. This thirty five-year international professional career began in his homeland of England. After studying jazz piano and arranging, composition, music education in Billingham, UK, Paul worked in London for over ten years as a session pianist and arranger. During that time Paul’s arrangements and compositions were featured regularly on BBC Radio where he worked with the BBC Radio Big band and Orchestra for six years.

In 1989 Paul became musical director for some of the world’s premier cruise lines including Star Cruises in Singapore and Holland America Line. Paul moved to Los Angeles in 2000 and has worked successfully there as a composer, arranger and pianist. His arrangements and compositions can be heard on TV and radio having written and arranged music for Warner Bros, Fox TV and a host of Independent movies. He continues to write music for the cruise ship industry and his music is featured regularly on Holland America line, Celebrity Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line and Crystal Cruise Line.

Over the last 20 years Paul has worked as a composer and pianist in Southern California with his own big band, sextet, quartet, and as a studio musician and accompanist. The Paul McDonald 17-piece big band performs regularly around Southern California and Las Vegas to mostly sold-out audiences. Showcasing the virtuosity and versatility of some the finest musicians in Los Angeles, Paul’s explosive arrangements and compositions aim to bring the classic sound of big band jazz into the 21st century while simultaneously honoring the great tradition of this uniquely American sound.

The Paul McDonald jazz quartet album “West View” was released in the spring of 2010. Paul is also a guest conductor and arranger for the Palm Desert Symphony Orchestra. Paul continues to be in demand as arranger and composer for numerous singers, performers, tv shows, radio and movies.

As a Political Scientist with a lifelong passion for government service, I took my degrees in Political Science with an advanced degree in International Relations at the University of Southern California. Since that time, with fidelity to purpose, my central focus has remained on issues of National Security.
As a Political Scientist with a lifelong passion for government service, I took my degrees in Political Science with an advanced degree in International Relations at the University of Southern California. Since that time, with fidelity to purpose, my central focus has remained on issues of National Security.

During graduate school, I worked with Top Secret clearances for Analytical Assessments Corporation. I conducted research, analyzed, and wrote on matters of critical concern to the United States. After completing graduate school, I was hired to write on classified projects at Eaton, Information Management Systems Division, a multinational corporation once located in Southern California. Conducting research and working with a team to complete White Papers on intelligence systems, I continued to write on subjects related to the national security interests of the United States.

Following my time at Eaton, IMSD, I instructed courses on California Government, U.S. Government, U.S. International Relations, and other Political Science courses. I have taught at the University of California, Irvine; the Whizin Center of Continuing Education at the American Jewish University; and numerous community colleges, as well as Summit Bible College. I also had the opportunity to serve as Commissioner and Committee Chair of Community and Media Outreach for the County of Kern’s Human Relations Commission; worked on fundraising for a Cambodian Relief Effort to provide clean water to villages inside Cambodia; and, traveled to Domnesti, Romania to part of a Romanian Orphaned and Abandoned Children Relief Effort.

By electing me to be your principled public servant, I will work to always put the people of California and this nation first in order to achieve the America First Doctrine by deregulating the economy and lowering taxes for economic growth and prosperity, securing our borders, restoring the nation’s security, empowering law enforcement and strengthening the Rule of Law, ending California’s water crisis, delivering on school choice for every child, supporting energy independence and protecting the fossil fuel industry, bringing back America’s manufacturing industry, as well as voter integrity.

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