”Music has Unspeakable Power! Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. Music is the mystical resonance that makes people cry, laugh and feel their hair stand up. For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech. Music expresses that... which cannot be said when it is impossible to be silent.” – John DeBoer 

John De Boer

(Spirit of Thunder) 

Music is not just something that he does… music is everything that he is.

John has been performing on stage and national television since he was four years old. As a professional musician, he played keyboards with a polyphony of Rock and Roll bands and was the Keyboardist for the Dick Clark Rock and Roll Revival Tour.  

John’s original flute songs are composed and inspired while playing in natural surroundings. The listener is taken on a magical journey into the natural world with the ancient sound of the Native American Flute. Performing Native American flute, John’s 3 CD's with Oyate Music are distributed nationally and internationally. He is featured on PBS specials. His flute songs are available on the internet through CD baby, itunes, Pandora and a host of other internet providers. His music has been used as sound tracks for other artists.  He has performed at the Gathering of Nations, the world’s largest POW WOW. 

John holds a degree in fine arts and is a certified music teacher. He currently teaches Native American Flute at the University of Cincinnati, and presents historical musical programs to public schools and park systems. John is a wonderful storyteller and teaches thousands of children every year about nature with his “Storyteller’s Flutes”, a collection of the world’s finest Native American flutes mostly gifts to him from the makers. 

John’s current project with Mystic Flute and Tribal Drums continues that theme and is an effort to showcase talented local musicians using musical instrument from Around the World; Hand pans, Sitars, Didgeridoos, Synthesizers, Tablas, Guitars, Harmonicas, Jam-bays, Buffalo Drums, Singing bowls, Temple bells and Kalimbas to name a few.   The result is a unique mesmerizing sound appealing to a wide audience and appropriate for a family venue.

JADORÉ MONAY (aka JADE SWEENEY)

Los Angeles based Jade Sweeney, known by her stage name Jadoré Monay is an singer- songwriter and dancer from Roseville, California. A suburban town found close to the state capitol, Sacramento.Through her lyrics, captivating harmonies and complementing top line melodies she is able to reveal to her listeners a young woman who is still learning to recognize self worth, love and discernment through her own life experiences. Jadoré commonly shares through her music the message of power behind the ability to create and strive towards the best version of ourselves. This specific topic is where the creativity of her stage name came from. Jadoré, pronounced as JUH-DOOR-RAY comes from the French word J’adore, meaning to adore or to love something or someone. She has embodied the concept of what she wants her audience to embody and manifest for themselves, doing this through the titling of herself as an artist.

Her musical sound consists of Contemporary R&B with a flattering taste of Hip Hop Grime. Her inspirations include Todrick Hall, Rihanna, Beyoncé and her God Father James Brown who imprinted her to become a performer herself. Since living in Los Angeles Jadoré has been involved in many showcases, winning and placing in both the Musicians Institute and Coast 2 Coast Live showcase competitions. She has also danced in music videos for artists Moosh & Twist, Todrick Hall, and Brandy Norwood. You can find her own original material on many music streaming platforms such as Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Soundcloud, etc.

Jadoré’s Grandmother, Vonny Hilton Sweeney and God Father, James Brown were both widely involved in the music and entertainment business. She shortly became influenced by interest towards this particular industry at a very young age. Seeing Mr. Brown perform while growing up seeded the visions of her future self and what she could possibly and eventually grow into while chasing this dream. Something about watching him perform live from the sides of the off- stage wings gave her the opportunity to feel as close as she could to the energy coming off from the audience. This energy is the same feeling she gets from going to concerts. Its almost like inner recognition, an assured feeling that she was born for this and destined to become this future performer that felt oh so familiar to her.

The show biz is habitual and very well- known to Jadoré, she is no stranger to having her presence on stage. Growing up she was involved in all different types of performing, ranging from musical theatre, dance, and acting all the way to horseback drill team performances in rodeos all around California. After high school she started attending the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, majoring in Musical Theater. She then transferred to the Musicians Institute on Hollywood Blvd where she studied the Independent Artist and Artist Entrepreneur Producer programs.

Currently Jadoré is working on her next project, a single that she will be releasing towards at the end of November this year. Behind the scenes throughout the year she has been competing and making it through several rounds of the Coast 2 Coast Live Showcase Competition. She is currently one of the top 30 finalists out of thousands of independents artists from all over America.

TINA NICOLE

A very special memoir, DREAM DESIGN DISRUPT by TINA NICOLE, is a must read for anyone with a yearning to “do” things their own way and a desire to live their best life. 

It may seem counter-intuitive for a celebrated luxury-furniture designer to create a book designed to encourage us to exit our comfort zones, but in DREAM DESIGN DISRUPT, author, creative entrepreneur, and award-winning Los Angeles-based furniture designer TINA NICOLE challenges readers to do just that. In this beautifully produced and boldly original memoir of a life in design, Nicole explores the personal joys, professional rewards, occasional frustrations, loss and fierce growth that come from disrupting low expectations, embracing big bold change, and pursuing a meaningful and memorable life-at home, at work, and at play.

As an award-winning furniture designer, licensed attorney, and co-founder of the fashion-forward, LA-based home design brand Nathan Anthony, this native Californian moves through life with the kind of confidence and competence that makes her impressive list of achievements look easy. But the behind-the-scenes stories, strategies, and inspiration Nicole shares in this boundary-breaking memoir/art book/style statement make it clear that this multifaceted woman’s greatest teacher is hard-won, hands-on experiences, inner grace, and pure grit.

Enriched with multiple personal photographic images, evocative original illustrations, and essential, straightforward life lessons applicable to students, entry-level professionals, or mid-life career switchers who dream of customizing their own lives, DREAM DESIGN DISRUPT inspires us all to summon the courage to embrace change, reach for our dreams, exceed our highest expectations, and make everyday life a beautiful, meaningful, memorable adventure.

About Nathan Anthony:

Founded in 2005, Nathan Anthony https://www.nafurniture.com/ produces award-winning contemporary furnishings at its own factory in Los Angeles. Lead designer Tina Nicole made the World’s Leading Design Names list 2018, and has been recognized for design excellence with five consecutive International Product Design awards in 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 by design et al’s International Architecture and Design competition in the U.K. She has also been recognized as a Best of Year 2017 Honoree by Interior Design, and by the American Society of Furniture Designers (ASFD) with 2016 and 2012 Pinnacle Award nominations.

I am a London based qualified transformational Lifecoach and NLP Practitioner (Neuro Linguistic Programming) who is trained in Holistic behaviour and success change.

I am also certified in mindfulness, existential, group & facilitation, positive psychology, relationship and couples coaching.

I have a natural ability to connect with people and alongside the training I have acquired skills, techniques and tools believing that everyone can empower themselves to achieve anything they set their mind to.

I assist all kinds of people to use their own potential, achieve and change to gain outcomes and I aim to help others to make, meet and exceed personal and professional goals – including, excelling in the workplace, becoming happy and fulfilled in life, exploring the self and the world, and achieving ambitions.

For companies, I help businesses with their challenges to develop staff establish the right behaviours and mind frame to achieve success and maintain consistent peak performance.

By harnessing specialist techniques based on core psychological principals and natural intuition, I provide my clients with the tools and strategies to confidently face difficult situations, push past emotional barriers and eventually view life with fresh, positive, and enlightened eyes.

Carmela Tunzi CH

• Owner of Mind Flow Hypnosis
• in Atwater Village ( Los Angeles)Ca.
• Member and Trainer with The Master Hypnotist Society.
• She Also Holds Trainings one coming up in Febuary 2020
• Perceeptioneering...
• She is able through affiliation to MHS Teach and Certify People for Hypnosis Training
• and if a Personal and Business Mentor...
• Carmela is a member of the NGH, CV BNI and a contributing publisher in LA Community News. She also can be heard as a frequent guest on LA Talk Radio and appeared on Best Buys with Alan Mendelson Channel 13. She holds certificates in Master Hypnosis, NLP, MER, Reiki and Jin Shin Jytusu.

Carmela contributes to her community by attending Los Angeles health-based and spiritual fundraisers, LA Cancer Community, and teaches self-help for hypnosis at Glendale Community College and the Cancer Support Community in Pasadena.
She Does Public Speaking at Corporations and Conventions . Last spoke in Hyponothoughts Live Vegas...

Carmela's solutions direct her clients to their highest wellness and needs.

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Walter has been the executive director of DC Appleseed since 2001. Previously, he served as the Special Deputy Corporation Counsel at the D.C. Office of the Corporation Counsel, now the Office of the Attorney General, where he focused on addressing the many receiverships in the District, supervising litigation affecting the school system, setting up pro bono assistance for the District from private law firms, and bringing a suit before a three-judge federal court seeking voting representation for the District in Congress.  

Walter practiced for 16 years at the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he specialized in appellate litigation. For several years, he served as a partner and full-time director of the firm’s pro bono practice. He also served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps. Walter has argued numerous cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the D.C. Court of Appeals. Walter has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma and a law degree from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles Clark on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  In 2011, Walter received the President’s Award from the Washington Council of Lawyers. 

In 2007, the Legal Times named him one of the “90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the last 30 years.” In addition to his many accomplishments, Walter reigned as the Hula Hoop Champion of Oklahoma in junior high.

wsmith@dcappleseed.org

At age twenty, Suzy Hansen’s life changed.  On a lonely country road in broad daylight, her car was engulfed by a massive ball of white light, resulting in ninety minutes of missing time and the unfathomable experience of “waking” after dark.  The experience resulted in her discovery of an alternative reality – time spent with extraterrestrials onboard their craft since childhood, and in fact, since her inception as a soul.

The Dual Soul Connection uniquely combines absorbing details of the life-long alien encounters of UFO researcher and experiencer Suzy Hansen (NZ), with scientific examination by Dr. Rudy Schild, Emeritus Astrophysicist, Harvard/Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (USA).

The Dual Soul Connection highlights our interconnectedness with a wider universal family, revealing a process of disclosure by the aliens themselves – a journey of unfolding contact the whole of mankind is undertaking together.

Brenda E. Cortez

Brenda is a living kidney donor and children’s book author, who has a passion for helping others. She was inspired to write her first book, My Mom is Having Surgery, after her daughter centered her college entrance essay around Brenda’s donation and the inspiration she felt from it. Brenda is now a strong advocate for living donation awareness. Because of this advocacy and her passion for helping others, Brenda came up with the slogan, HOWL: Help Others with Love. Learn more about HOWL, and Brenda’s organ donation focused children’s books below.