Brett Hintz is the Director of Operations for Topgolf in Naperville, IL.  He oversees operations for the 65,000 square-foot golf entertainment venue that blends technology and entertainment, designed for golfers, non-golfers, children and adults - creating an experience that makes socializing a sport for everyone. Before this role, Hintz served as General Manager for Lettuce Entertainments Shaw's Crab House.  Hintz has served on the Meet Chicago Northwest Convention and Visitors Executive Board for 7 years and is a past Chairman and current treasurer.

For over 25 years Melissa, a well-respected, former world champion athlete, hall of fame inductee, exercise physiologist, and single digit handicap golfer has built her practice around helping athletes improve their game, health and sense of well being.  

DAVID NEWMAN

PHILIPPO FRANCHINI

Also known as “The Musical Alchemist”, Franchini began his study of music at eight years old; yoga and meditation soon followed at age fourteen.

CARMEL RIVELLO MAGUIRE

Carmel Rivello Maguire had been influencing the design world for twenty-five years. As founder of Carmelot Interiors, Inc., and then as Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development for two major interior design firms specializing in hotel and resort/hospitality design in California and Florida.

Emerald Peaceful Green Forest is an internationally known Speaker, Creative Age Leader and Transformation Artist.  A successful and award-winning entrepreneur since her mid-20's, she is also active in her community and has served in many volunteer leadership positions and is an avid supporter of children’s organizations & the arts for years.  She is a published author with several books of her own as well as a contributor to 15 anthologies.   Listed as one of America’s Premier Experts, and recipient of a Be the Change “Movement to Watch

My next guest, Dr William S Eidelman, M.D. has been in the natural healing field for over thirty years. He has  traveled all over the world, and has seen and heard almost everything!  He has learned a lot about natural ways of healing the body, the mind, and the spirit, which he wishes to share with you. He believe that these approaches to healing and to prevention and to awakening can be a boon to each of us, and to the country as a whole.

This month in Chicago, we lost a pioneer in the Cultural Heritage Tourism community and the broader Tourism arena, Barbara Kensey.   Barb was the CEO of Kensey & Kensey Communications an arts and culture guru. She loved music, theater, black heritage and tourism, merging all those loves in a career.   Maudlyne Ihejiirka reporter for the Chicago Sun Times newspaper, wrote a tribute article to her that described her perfectly. So much so that I have borrowed and paraphrased from that article that I might share it with you.

Mr. Jerry Kerr is the founder of an organization called “Disability Rights Advocates For Technology,” or “DRAFT,” an all-volunteer organization certified as one of America’s best charities representing people with disabilities.   On July 25, 1998, Jerry Kerr's life was suddenly transformed from a physically active CEO of a national home-building and real estate development corporation, avid outdoorsman and pilot; to that of a spastic quadriplegic. He was involved in a diving accident shattering his C-4 vertebrae.

I am Dr. Jay Wrigley, a Functional Medicine Doctor and Holistic Physician specializing in Keto, LCHF and Paleo diets and hormonal balancing and weight loss for Peri and Menopausal women. I have been in practice in Charlotte, NC for 23 years. After struggling with my own weight issues for 20 plus years, I finally discovered the real problem and how to immediately apply the fix to the problem. I lost 75 pounds in 6 months and I want to help you have your own similar success story.