GARY MALKIN

Gary Malkin is a seven time Emmy® award-winning composer, producer, performer, public speaker and Experiential Strategist dedicated to making a difference in the world by creating music-driven media and experiences that inspire the heart and catalyze individual and societal healing.

As a keynote presenter, he is passionate about the vital role music, media, and the arts must play during these extraordinary times of change as an innovative tool to enhance our humanity, deepen our sense of meaning in our lives, and cultivate greater emotional/social intelligence in an increasingly complex world. As a composer for numerous award-winning television and film projects for nearly thirty years – as well as an immersive Experiential Strategist for conferences worldwide, Gary is known for participating in countless globally acclaimed projects that support environmental sustainability, spiritual tolerance, children’s health and welfare, cancer research, and cross-cultural healing.

Deepening the role that the arts and music can serve in addressing key challenges in our society, he is the co-creator (with music pioneer and award-winning filmmaker, Michael Stillwater) of the internationally acclaimed CD/book, Graceful Passages: A Companion For Living and Dying, released by his life-enhancing media company, Wisdom of the World, which offers aesthetic ways to help face life transitions with greater mindfulness, presence, and compassion.

In 2011, he co-authored another groundbreaking CD/Book called Safe in the Arms of Love, utilizing the power of music to raise awareness about a pressing social issue involving the ubiquitous digital distractions that threaten the essential bonding process for parents and newborns. Constantly reinventing new ways in which media can serve as a resource for a more positive purpose, he has just released a new genre called WisdomFilms™ – Media for Human Being, short-format films for stress reduction and heart/mind integration (available now on Hulu.com).

In 2008, Gary was commissioned by the CEO and curator of TED, Chris Anderson, to create the opening and closing music for the global broadcast phenomenon, Pangea Day. He also has served as Artistic Director and Experiential Strategist for the Quest for Global Healing Conferences in Bali, Indonesia, (which featured Archbishop Desmond Tutu, among other Nobel Laureates) and was asked to present on the healing power of music on the stage of the Great Hall of China during the Beijing Olympics.

An in-demand public speaker, he has presented his vision of new ways to use music for life-balance and social intelligence at places such as Google, Harvard’s Conference on Spirituality and Health, Scripps Integrative Clinic, Google, Kaiser Permanente and UCSF Medical School. He was recently featured on the national PBS Series, Healing Quest, the Huffington Post, and countless radio talk shows promoting a greater understanding of the power of music and the arts as an essential resource for inspiration, emotional intelligence, enhanced creativity and life/balance integration.

Nick Maddox is a 1999 Watkins Award Honoree from Kannapolis North Carolina.  He was one of the top running backs in the country who ultimately decided to attend Florida State and play football.  Nick quickly learned he had to focus on his school work while marching towards and ultimately winning a National Championship as a freshman.  He had to remain focus on school and football and eventually left Florida State for the NFL.  After playing in the league for a few years, Nick decided to return to Tallahassee and become a community advocate and now is a County Commissioner.  

The first female Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (1995-2003), Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, will be our featured guest. In 2010, Townsend became the chair of the non-profit American Bridge, an organization whose focus is to raise funds for Democratic candidates and causes.



Townsend was the Director of Retirement Security at the Economic Policy Institute (2018-2019), and currently serves as a research professor at Georgetown University, where she founded the Center for Retirement Initiatives. Townsend has also served as chair of the Governor’s Retirement Security Task Force for the State of Maryland.

She is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, honors graduate of Harvard University and has received 14 honorary degrees.



Townsend is a member of the prominent political Kennedy family. She is the eldest of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy's 11 children, and the eldest grandchild of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. Kathleen and David Lee Townsend are the proud parents of four dynamic daughters and the grandparents of six.

Michael Thau

Investigative Columnist

Tom Tancredo is a former congressman from Colorado who ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In 2010, Tancredo ran for governor of Colorado as a member of the Constitution Party and placed second to Democrat and then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.

Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo (b. December 20, 1945) is a former Republican member of the U.S. House representing the 6th Congressional District of Colorado and ran for Governor of Colorado in the 2014 elections.

Tancredo opted to not seek re-election to U.S. House in 2008 but came out of political retirement to mount a third party campaign for the Governor of Colorado in 2010, ultimately losing current Democratic incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper in the November general election.

In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Tancredo decided to run as a Constitution Party candidate after allegations against both of the Republican candidates weakened the GOP's position in the race. His bid led to rifts and even open feuding with former Republican allies who accused him of potentially splitting the vote. After losing the gubernatorial race, Tancredo returned to his old party, re-registering as a Republican.

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What does leading a core, bliss and wealthy life mean to you? My guest is Moneeka Sawyer is the blissful millionaire. She reached her financial freedom by turning $10,000 to over $5,000,000 working only 5-10 hours per MONTH with very little stress. She is now on a mission to help as many other women as she can to do the same. Moneeka hosts the top-rated podcast and radio show Real Estate Investing for Women and has interviewed prestigious guests such as Leeza Gibbons, Dr. Joe Vitale, and Hal Elrod.  Moneeka has also been featured on stages with Suzanne Sommers, Martha Stewart, and Ice T & Coco at places like the Nasdaq Marketplace, Harvard, and Carnegie Hall, and on TV on NBC, CBS, ABC, and Fox reaching over 150 million people. 

There are certain individuals meant to help us find the truth about the world of pleasure, and Ashley Cobb is one of them. She is the millennial microphone for women of color seeking ultimate pleasure and sexual liberation.  Ashley Cobb, “your favorite friend in filth” is dedicated to bringing the conversation of Black women’s pleasure to the forefront, and across generational lines.

Ashley is a sexpert, leader, and influencer known for her fun, down to earth and practical commentary that’s been featured in top media outlets to include Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, Self Magazine, Women’s Health, Black Love Doc, Shape, and many more.  She’s also the sex advice columnist for Madame Noire. 

With her degrees in biology and health promotion, Ashley is able to combine two of her favorite things, science and sex, into a cohesive platform that makes the pleasure principle more like the pleasure placement.  Ashley spends countless hours experimenting, researching, and trying new tools to empower Black women to get in tune with their bodies and rediscover pleasure.