Monty Buckley played College Basketball for the California Golden Bears.  Buckley went onto play professionally all over the world.  Buckley has used his life lessons on and off the court to teach aspiring student-athletes the proper way to play the game of basketball, as well as how to be a great person in life.

Betsy is an award-winning filmmaker (What The Bleep Do We Know?!, Song of The New Earth, Pregnant In America) and a Best-Selling Author (Tipping Sacred Cows, Dancing In The Unknown (new), It Came out of My Vagina, Now What?! (A book on Conscious Parenting). She recently launched a new web series Radical Dating which follows 5 singles over 40 as they embark on a journey to finally find lasting love.

Betsy Chasse is an internationally known film Maker and author, most notable as the Co-Writer, Director and Producer of What The Bleep Do We Know?! In 2014 she produced the acclaimed Song of the New Earth which premiered at The Seattle International Film Festival. She has authored 4 books including What The Bleep Do We Know; Discovering the Endless Possibilities to Altering Your Everyday Reality and in 2014 Tipping Sacred Cows. She writes often for Huffington Post, Modern Mom and other blogs and is currently in production on a new feature documentary about the Coaching industry featuring Jack Canfiel, John Gray and Marci Shimmoff

Eric Pearl, DC, founder of The Reconnection, has been featured in top media including The Dr. Oz Show, The New York Times and CNN. He has presented at leading venues including the United Nations and Madison Square Garden. His internationally bestselling book, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, now in 39 languages, has been endorsed by such notables as Deepak Chopra, MD and Wayne Dyer, PhD.

At the World Congress of Quantum Medicine Conference in Hawaii in 2013, Dr. Pearl’s keynote presentation was the highlight of the event. As the foremost visionary, leader and pioneer in the field of “Energy Medicine” or “Quantum Healthcare,” he is increasingly sought out as a speaker, expert authority and media spokesperson. As science, medicine, media and the public come to embrace Energy Healthcare, Pearl stands at the forefront.

Dr. Pearl was running a successful chiropractic practice in Los Angeles when a series of unusual occurrences led him to realize that his purpose was far beyond anything he had previously known. Patient after patient reported healings from cancers, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and other severe health conditions, simply when Dr. Pearl held his hands near them.

Seeking to understand what was happening, Eric consulted with leaders in science, medicine, and spirituality – discovering they did not have the answers either. Supported by researchers affiliated with multiple prestigious institutions including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, Dr. Pearl went on to pioneer studies on the Reconnective Healing frequencies and their effects on people – a comprehensive healing approach, which completely transcends “energy healing” and its complex rituals and techniques – known around the world today as Reconnective Healing.

Dr. Pearl has gone on to introduce hundreds of thousands of individuals and practitioners to Reconnective Healing and living a reconnected life. The Reconnection hosts seminars around the world where Pearl and his lead instructors teach others to access the Reconnective Healing frequencies so they may effectively facilitate healings for themselves and others. To date, approximately 90,000 people around the world have been trained in Reconnective Healing.

Sunny Dawn Johnston is an acclaimed psychic medium, transformational thought leader, and spiritual biz mentor. She is the author of twenty-one  books, including bestsellers, Invoking the Archangels and The Love Never Ends. Sunny is also the creator of the ELEV8 Your Life membership site a virtual community focused on designing a high-vibrational life of abundance, self-love, and joy. SDJ Productions is Sunny’s writing, speaking engagements, publishing books, CD’s, and her latest project is The Multi-Dimensional Oracle Card Deck. In her spare time, Sunny helps as a psychic investigator for the international organization FIND ME, collaborating to support law enforcement and families of missing persons and homicide victims.

JAMES PETRAS is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York.

He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, TempsModerne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet.

His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association’s Marxist Sociology Section, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968. His most recent titles include Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000), System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author)Multinationals on Trial (2006).

He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, La Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

ABOUT The Politics of Empire: The US, Israel and the Middle East by James Petras...
      
This book provides a unique conception of US empire building, linking overseas expansion with:

- the growth of a police state and declining living standards;

- advanced technologically driven global spying on adversaries and allies with declining economic competitiveness and military defeats;

- large scale, long term commitments of economic and military resources to wars in the Middle East to the detriment of major corporate interests, but for the benefit of a pariah state, Israel; and

- the power of a foreign state (Israel) over US policy via its domestic pro-Zionist power configuration The interplay of these four specific features of US empire building has no past or present precedent among imperial states.

Because of Israeli-Zionist influence on US imperial policy, the main targets and objectives of imperial wars are located in the Middle East. The objectives of Israeli and Zionist- influenced US policy in the Middle East is to enhance Israeli regional power and the dispossession of the Palestinian people. The trillion dollar cost of US wars for Israel, however, has alienated the vast majority of US society and driven a wedge between the political elite backing new wars for Israel, and the public prioritizing of domestic economic welfare. This study highlights how the domestic foundations of empire building have deteriorated and forced the imperial presidency to modify its approach, seeking diplomatic negotiations over new military interventions, specifically in the cases of Syria and Iran.

Imperial politics is viewed as a multi-sided power struggle between military and economic elites, Israel and the Zionist power configuration, overseas resistance movements and nationalist regimes, and the US public. The resolution of this power struggle is more than an academic question; it will determine whether the US will become a full blown police state, ruled by the pawns of a racist-colonial state engaged in endless wars or return to its roots as an independent democratic republic “free of foreign entanglements”.

Doug Briney embodies all things country: His personality is warm and inviting, some would say down-to-earth, recalling the disposition of many a Southern Gentleman from yesteryear. With a 2013 Independent Country Music Association (ICoMA) Award, a 2014 Nashville Universe Award nomination, and a 2014 ICoMA Nomination for Best Single (“Super Country Cowboy”) this God-fearing road warrior, with the warm baritone voice and love for all things southern, has toured throughout the midwest, performing at honkytonks and churches from Nashville to Kansas City to Texas and back. 

Now, Doug is ready to release the 2^nd single from his Top 10 Roots Music Report album, Super Country Cowboy (TMG.) A touching and poignant tribute to our current troops, as well as to armed forces members throughout time, “Unknown Soldier” is being released, appropriately, on Memorial Day.  Written by Tedd French and Bob Dellaposta, the song is a natural fit for Doug, who has a son currently serving.  All summer long, Doug will be donating proceeds from the sales of the track, through his website, to Veterans Charities. 

Steve Meadors has been coined as the proverbial "technical wizard" all his life. Anything he has touched, he has been able to implicitly understand, reassemble, or reproduce if need be.  A graduate of Michigan Institute of Technology, Steve served five years in the U.S. Navy, gaining extensive experience in pneumatics and hydraulics.  He then dabbled in the fields of construction, telecommunications, and computer programming.  Later in his career, he specialized in high-end security system integration, perfecting an exhaustive list of technologies such as photo imaging, access control, surveillance, fire, alarm, time and attendance, and intercom.  Managing  a vast number of multi-million dollar projects, Steve installed, programmed, integrated, and repaired these systems for Fortune 500′s, hospitals, universities,and military installations.

He also specializes in electronics, electrical systems, blueprint review, and electronic circuitry design.

In the past few years, Steven has invented some cutting-edge radionics machines, orgon, zero point, scalar wave, electromagnetic pulse, and healing devices. He has exclusively designed his own circuit boards for all of these devices.

Besides his superb all-encompassing technical acumen, Steve's most resounding qualities are his patience,meticulousness, and willingness to teach others. He is a master team player and phenomenal visionary.

His ultimate goal is to provide technologies that eliminate humanity's pain and therefore, assist in planetary evolution.

Jake Kloberdanz CEO, ONEHOPE

Jake Kloberdanz is CEO and Co-Founder of ONEHOPE, a social enterprise that donates half of profits to partner nonprofits benefitting a variety of causes. Jake Kloberdanz has been recognized by Businessweek as one of the “Top 25 under 25”, OC Metro’s “Top 40 Under 40”, and was the youngest nominee for Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2009. Jake was also recently featured as a TEDx speaker and is an active member of the Young Entrepreneur Council.

Jake has successfully raised over $10M in financing since starting ONEHOPE Wine in 2007 and helped grow sales by over 100% over the last 6 years.  ONEHOPE has successfully worked with hundreds of nonprofit partners and has donated over $1.2M to various nonprofits. With the success of the cornerstone product, ONEHOPE Wine, Jake has led the company to become one of the fastest growing wine brands in the U.S. In addition, Jake’s company was ranked in Inc. Magazine’s 500|5000 in 2012 and 2013 – an annual exclusive list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

Jake has been profiled in numerous outlets including, Leaders Magazine, Entrepreneurs and SUCCESS Magazine as an expert in integrating cause into our culture, brand or business model. His business model theory, known as Cause-Centric Commerce, defines turning impact into a long term and sustainable one by helping build cause into companies’ and individual’s everyday business model, culture and lifestyle.

He was a three-year Scholar Athlete at UC Berkeley graduating from the Haas School of Business and took home two national championships in college rugby. He has served over 5,000 volunteer hours since 2001 and was also an active member in the alpha beta chapter of Sigma Chi.