The Awesomeness Show with Justin Stratton

Ana Melikian (me-LEEK-yan) is the host of the MINDSET ZONE podcast and the Director of Education for the Book Yourself Solid® School of Coach Training.   Ana's podcast MINDSET ZONE is featured in The Huffington Post “15 Podcasts That Will Leave You Pondering Life’s Big Questions,” and during its launch, reached #1 in iTunes’ New & Noteworthy in Business, Management & Marketing, Health, Self-Help, Education, and Training.   You can find more about Ana Melikian at MINDSET.ZONE   Facebook Twitter LinkedIn

Ryan Hawk is the founder and host of The Learning Leader Show podcast.  The Learning Leader Show was born out of Ryan's desire to speak with the smartest, most creative leaders in the world. He has recorded with some of the most inspiring leaders in the U.S. and Canada including Chris Brogan, Pat Flynn and Dorie Clark.  If you are interested in listening to world class leaders share their personal stories of success, failure, and lessons learned along the way, then you will enjoy the show! Connect with Ryan Hawk online: http://learningleadershow.com Facebook Twitter

Renée Waggener is the founder of Xtraordinary Fertility. Renee helps women with infertility break free from the all-consuming loss of control and overwhelm so that they can live a Fertilicious life, regardless of the outcome. Renée knows from personal experience because she’s been there on her own fertility journey. She wants to pass on her knowledge and skills to help women who are sick of the silent screams and the frustration that nothing is working. Renée is a Certified Professional coach and energetic speaker and writer who supports her clients worldwide so that they are able to build back their confidence, hope and control of the uncontrollable disease, infertility. Connect with Renée Waggener online: www.xtraordinaryfertility.com Facebook Twitter LinkedIn

Stacie Speaker has more than 15 years of experience in a corporate setting with a background in licensing, marketing, sales, brand management and manufacturing for many of the world's most popular entertainment brands and licensed consumer products. Looking back at her first job, serving ice cream and every move in her career since, she found herself wanting to make people happy.  Over the years, she has honed her speaking, teaching and listening skills and has had the opportunity to travel the world and work closely with extraordinary people on improving their working relationships. Now as a Communication Coach, she is taking those skills and partnering with Leaders and their teams to promote and encourage a human centered work setting by: Empower leaders to lead a dedicated and successful team Increase profits, while retaining employees Encourage teamwork & collaboration Increase productivity with less stress Inspire highly engaged employees Open  lines of communication within the company and with client relations Help to implement and streamline processes It’s her personal mission to be of service to people so they can create a working environment they look forward to coming into everyday no matter where their place is on an organizational chart. Stacie graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Communications. Connect with Stacie Speaker online: www.thespeakersolutions.com Facebook Twitter LinkedIn

Brian Patrick Murphy is an IPEC certified coach and Co-Founder of Mark Fisher Fitness is New York City! As a life coach Brian works with artistic Ninjas as they are transitioning forward in their own careers. Also a trainer, physical coach, teacher, speaker, host of the podcast Best Life Radio, motivator, actor and writer, Brian's passion is to help people believe that something else is possible and to take action and do it! Connect with Brian Patrick Murphy online:  Best Life Radio Podcast Twitter

Iman Aghay is the founder of Success Road Academy which is one of the largest Information Marketing Training Centers in the world and the largest in Canada. He harnesses the power of the Internet and combines it with effective in-person marketing to help business owners grow their companies, and professionals position themselves as the go-to experts in their fields. Iman has worked with over 15,000 business owners in the past 4 years in his seminars, events, webinars, group coaching and one on one coaching sessions. Iman has shared the stage with people like John Chow (#1 online marketing blogger in Canada), presenters from the David Suzuki Foundation, Hootsuite, Yelp and many others. Iman has also been recognized by the British Columbia Premier for his contributions to the business community. He has been on the stage over 200 times only in 2013 and early 2014. Iman arrived in Vancouver in 2009 with limited knowledge of English, no network and no job. After studying the most successful businesses in the world, he created a marketing system that combined the most effective marketing strategies used by those businesses. He started his own company, applied his system and in a very short time: Founded Vancouver Business Network, which became the fastest-growing business network in Vancouver in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and has over 4,000 members today Founded the largest information marketing training centre in Canada, “Success Road Academy” with over 10,000 attendees to its events in the past 3 years Taught his system and helped thousands of people to build successful businesses for themselves. Today he has clients from Courtney, Canada to Sidney, Australia. Iman’s passion is helping entrepreneurs to succeed. He won the People's Choice Award for being one of the top 25 immigrants to Canada, and shares this honour with media mogul Peter Legge, Dragon’s Den star Robert Herjavec and John Furlong, CEO of Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Connect with Iman Aghay online: http://www.successroadacademy.com

Molly Rogalla of MRogalla Photography is a leading source of photography and design services, dedicated to authentic, creative, purposeful photography and design for over 3 years.   Located in the Indianola area, MRogalla Photography offers images with a purpose. Molly captures unique, iconic portraits that come to life with emotion. Each image reveals a unique story. Each captures those moments of life fully lived.    Molly is an award-winning photographer whose work is recognized at the local and regional level. In addition to her Lifestyle Portraiture she has collaborated with Make Mine Wine Magazine, WOW Magazine The Des Moines Derby Dames, Mercy Hospital’s Childbirth Education Department, Iowa Food Bank Association, Warren County Economic Development, and the Indianola Chamber of Commerce to name a few. Serving Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota MRogalla Photography works with both individuals and businesses to provide the best services and products they can be proud to display.    Molly is a graduate of Indianola High School, with a BA degree in Geology from University of Nebraska, Molly choose to return to her roots to raise her family and start a career. An “accidental” photographer, Molly never dreamed that photography would be the avenue to provide for her family and fulfill her spirit on the path to effortless creation. Molly simply eats, breathes and sleeps photography. She has a passion for capturing the people and landscape that so many call home.    Molly is a member of the Des Moines Camera Club,  Warren Co. Photographers Network, Professional Photographers of Iowa, Professional Photographers of America, a member of the Indianola Chamber of Commerce, and currently services on the Board of Directors for the National Balloon Classic. Molly is actively involved in her community and gives of both her time and her talents when possible.    Connect with Molly Rogalla online: www.mrogallaphotography.com   Facebook   Twitter

Meryl Hooker is a strategist, consultant, and speaker working across industries with independent small businesses that find themselves at a crossroads. Through sales, operations and financial analysis, she helps business owners explore options to determine the best course of action and implement strategies to achieve the desired results. She has worked with hundreds of small businesses and is the co-author of two books for creative companies. With a nearly 25 years of wholesale, retail, and business operations experience, Meryl brings practical skills, creativity, and tenacity that is refreshing, honest, and inspiring. Connect with Meryl Hooker online at http://www.merylhooker.com

Kyle Davies is a Chartered psychologist, therapist, coach, consultant, speaker & author. He specializes in helping people overcome chronic health challenges, get unstuck and transform their lives. His therapeutic and coaching models The Energy Flow-State and Vibrational Repatterning Process, teach people how to reconnect with their core essence, fully align body, mind and spirit, unleash their latent potentials and experience greater personal freedom and happiness.  Connect with Kyle Davies online: www.kyledavies.net

Jean Ann Reuter is Founder and CEO of TrainPeople.com, Inc., a training and consulting firm specializing in developing online learning programs focused on systems implementation, process improvement, and change management.    Jean teaches corporations how to bring joy, passion and productivity back into the workplace through her Heart Center Workplace Skills workshops.  In addition, Jean is a best-selling author and winner of the Mom’s Choice award for her children’s book titled, ‘Oodles of Love – The Power of Pawsitive Thinking’. Jean brings her message of positive thinking to schools through her DARE to be Positive Program.      Connect with Jean Ann Reuter online at: www.trainpeople.com   Facebook   Twitter   LinkedIn

Key Doby, The Career Architect, empowers professional women who hate their job and are ready for a career change. Key helps them figure out what they are meant to do and finally do it so that they Live By Design, Not By Default.   As a Certified Professional Coach, Key Doby is a master practitioner at her Career Leap Process Assessment to help clients find out how likely they are to stay in a career they hate and how they can find the impetus necessary to launch into a powerful career redesign. Connect with Key Doby online: http://www.keydoby.com/ Twitter LinkedIn

Jan Thompson is a Certified Professional Business and Life Coach, Public Speaker, and graduate of one of the most rigorous coaching schools in the country: Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. Jan spent many years managing Digital Marketing projects for large Ad Agencies such as Ogilvy, BBDO and Deutsch, as well as consulting directly for companies such as The Food Network and Estée Lauder. Now Jan Thompson works with solopreneurs who want to think and market themselves like entrepreneurs.  Her specialty is digital marketing and reminding a client of their forgotten magnificence! Connect with Jan Thompson, Business & Life Coach online: http://www.janthompsoncoaching.com/ Facebook Twitter LinkedIn  

Callum McVickers set up his first online business at the age of 19. He studied Exercise & Nutritional science for 5 years at The Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre in Newcastle, England. In that time, Callum was privileged enough to study under and learn from some of the best nutritional scientists in the world. He has experienced working with a range of professional athletes, bodybuilders, and good old regular folk. Callum McVickers is now one of the co-founders of MyBroadwayBody.com, a new online platform under the Mark Fisher Fitness brand that is geared toward performers and those who want to look like one. Callum regularly practices meditation and reads a minimum of 2 books a week on health, wealth, love, and happiness. Connect with Callum McVickers online: www.mybroadwaybody.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/callum.mcvickers

Raised in the Midwest, Talia Mariani moved to New York City to study musical theater at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.  After graduation, Talia pursued her passion of health and fitness by becoming a certified personal trainer.   Talia Mariani gained valuable experience working at Mark Fisher Fitness and Crunch, culminating in the launch of her own personal training business Trademark Fitness. Connect with Talia Mariani and Trademark Fitness online: www.trademarkfit.net Twitter Facebook

Jim Donovan is a powerful thought leader who’s books and teachings have positively impacted the lives of more than a million people worldwide. His willingness to speak openly about, what he calls his, “decade of destruction,” and share the ideas and techniques that enabled him to radically change his life, have made him a sought after speaker and trainer for business events and meetings. Jim’s sense of humor, coupled with his unique life experiences allow him to connect with diverse groups. With more than half a million books in print and sixteen years as a speaker and coach, Jim Donovan is a recognized authority in the personal development field. Several of his books, including “Handbook to a Happier Life,” “52 Ways to a Happier Life,” and “Don’t Let an Old Person Move Into Your Body,” have been paperback and Kindle best sellers. Jim’s articles have appeared in numerous print and digital magazines and he is a frequent media guest and expert source on personal development. His coaching programs blend Universal spiritual laws with proven business and success principles and are designed to produce extraordinary results. Connect with Jim Donovan online at www.jimdonovan.com Facebook Twitter Get More Awesomeness Show in iTunes

Kenyon Salo embodies the true meaning behind “follow your passion.” Six years ago he left a fast track corporate job in order to follow his dreams. After selling his businesses of 11 years to focus only on items that were 100% in alignment with his true path, he became the Life Change Agent and a Master Trainer he is today. His focus on adventure and fear-based activities has helped thousands of people find their true inner dreams by confronting their fears and tearing them down. With 4000+ skydives, 300+ BASE Jumps and over two decades of self development training under his belt, he has learned to master his mental states when faced with fears on all levels. He believes that only by facing our deepest fears and embracing the realization that death is possible, can we truly live. His deepest desire is to share these proven concepts with others. This drive to connect to others led him to start the Bucket List Life to help people fulfill their dreams and become agents of change in the lives of others. Connect with Kenyon Salo: https://thebucketlistlife.com Facebook Twitter

Jeff Rasley lives on the White River in Indianapolis with Alicia and Bandit. Jeff is the author of eight books. He wrote bad poetry as a teenager and short stories in college. Newsweek, Chicago Magazine, ABA Journal, and other periodicals eventually published his feature articles.  Jeff dropped out of college, saved money from factory work, then hitch-hiked across the USA. Money earned on a road crew financed travels in Europe and motorcycling from Indiana to Mexico City. Marriage and kids limited him to Himalayan mountaineering and sea-kayaking expeditions. Jeff Rasley's commitment to social activism and philanthropy began in high school when he co-founded the Goshen Walk for Hunger. In law school he fought for renters' rights, and organized the first rent strike in Indiana as president of the Indianapolis Tenants Association. He was lead counsel on class action suits for prisoners which resulted in the construction of two new jails in Central Indiana. Jeff was plaintiff in a class action requiring clean-up of the White River after it was polluted by an industrial chemical spill. Jeff is president of the Basa Village Foundation, which funds culturally sensitive development in Nepal. He is a director for five nonprofits. He is U.S. liaison for the Himalayan expedition company Adventure GeoTreks Ltd, and teaches philosophy of philanthropy at Butler University.  Jeff Rasley's BA is from U of Chicago magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-Academic All-State Football, letter winner in swimming and football; JD Indiana University Law School cum laude, Moot Court, Indiana Law Review; M Div Christian Theological Seminary magna cum laude, co-valedictorian and Faculty Award Scholar. He has been admitted to the Indiana, US District Court, and US Supreme Court Bars. Jeff describes reading Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as great an adventure as climbing Himalayan peaks. Connect with Jeff Rasley online: http://www.jeffreyrasley.com

A’nary Bellamy is the voice for business success.  As the CEO of All-n-One Services and the Founder of The Institute of Entrepreneurial Success, she has created as enterprise that is devoted to empowering entrepreneurs all over the world. A’nary’s entrepreneurial plans came while exploring small writing jobs on the internet. Without someone willing to actually mentor her through the process, A’nary dug into books and other resources to try and learn how to become an effective entrepreneur. "I struggled to not only find clients, but clients who were willing to pay.  I wasn’t effective in marketing myself and stayed flat broke.” -A’nary Bellamy Today her perseverance has shown that if you really want success you can find it. A’nary  created coaching programs that carry the “What, Why and How Concept.”  These programs not only help seasoned entrepreneurs but those that has just walked through the doors of business ownership. Connect with A'nary Bellamy online: www.anarybellamy.com LinkedIn

Deborah Dutilh has over 30 years of international experience in teaching and personal development. Deb is a Certified Professional Coach and Master Practitioner of the Energy Leadership Assessment. In addition, she was the director a 24/7 Suicide Crisis Line in London and France where she worked as a vocational trainer for adults with disabilities. Deborah Dutilh is a seasoned Toastmaster, accomplished artist, yoga enthusiast, mother of two grown sons, and lover of wine, all things French and Italian. She now enjoys living it up near the beaches in Los Angeles. Connect with Deborah Dutilh online: http://debdutilh.com Facebook Twitter LinkedIn

Despite suffering from cone and rod dystrophy Peter Elvidge has become a blind pixel artist with a unique vision inspiring people around the world. Peter now holds two Guinness Book of World Records for his works Powers Image and Crystal View.  Peter inspires others with his vision of a world where everyone knows perseverance is your key to the impossible! Connect with Peter Elvidge online: YouTube  Facebook  Twitter