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Melissa McGhie Proctor is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Atlanta Hawks & State Farm Arena. In this role, Proctor oversees the day-to-day operations of the club’s marketing, Hawks Studios, live experience and production, brand merchandising, creative services, corporate social responsibility, brand communications and basketball development teams. She has been recognized with Leaders and Aspire Academy’s Leaders Under 40 Award; earned a mention on Atlanta Magazine’s 2018 list of Women Making a Mark, and was recently selected as part of the Sports Business Journal/Daily’s 2020 class of Forty Under 40. A published author, Proctor released her first book this year titled From Ball Girl to CMO.\r\n\r\n 

MARGO HALL is an award-winning actor, director, activist, educator, and newly appointed Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. She has graced Bay Area stages for 30 years as a performer and director. She recently appeared in the hit film Blindspotting with Oakland native Daveed Diggs and All Day and a Night on Netflix. She was last seen onstage in Exit Strategy at The Aurora Theater. She recently directed How I Learned What I Learned at Marin Theatre Company, BARBECUE (which she also starred in) and Red Velvet for SF Playhouse and Brownsville, b-side for tray for Shotgun Players. Other acting credits include: Marin Theater Company- JAZZ, Skeleton Crew, Gem of the Ocean, Fences and Seven Guitars. 

Kelvin H. Chin is the Executive Director and Founder of both the Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation and the nonprofit TurningWithin.org. Working with audiences on death and dying issues since the 1980\'s, Kelvin has taught numerous seminars for the healthcare industry, was a state-certified Long Term Care Ombudsman for the California Department of Aging, and a co-founder of the Center For Medical Ethics and Mediation. Bringing greater clarity to his client\'s thinking in their personal and business life is something Kelvin has applied throughout his 40-year career, including teaching meditation worldwide to more than 5,000 people since the 1970\'s in schools, businesses, the U.S. Army and at West Point. Kelvin also formerly held CMO roles at AmLaw100 law firms, and was a VP for the American Arbitration Association.

Debra Giusti has spent over 40 years on the leading edge of the ever-emerging progressive culture, locally and internationally, creating and supporting “new paradigm” evolution, as the “Creatress of Transformation”. She has founded and grown many businesses that support personal growth and transformation, healthy & sustainable lifestyles, cutting-edge spirituality, and community connection, including the Harmony Festival, 1 of the 1st transformational festivals, taking place from 1978 – 2011 in Santa Rosa California, drawing 30,000 participants. She currently distributes Debra Recommends, Harmony Connects, and Transformation Paradigm eNewsletters which share transformational online programming, live events, resources, serves over 200,000 subscribers nationally and internationally. She is the author of "Activate Your Soul Tribe" book. She also currently produces Saturday Night Alive for the Global Peace Tribe, an inspirational virtual variety show that takes place every Saturday night.

Jill Osur, has helped over ten start-ups launch and is a seasoned sales and marketing executive and holds board seats on a number of regional university career development programs. Jill was the recipient of a 2012 Bronze Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year in Consumer Products for up to 2500 employees, was honored in the East Bay Business Time “40 under 40” (a few years back) and San Jose Business Journal’s “Top Women in Business”. Jill is a co-founder and director of GoldLine Brands, a full-service winery group in El Dorado County, CA. Jill is a serial entrepreneur, activist for social justice, and is considered a connector and a disruptor. Teneral Cellars is a woman owned and run wine business. From its home in Northern California, it is a digital platform to a community of like-minded women who sip, create, and act with purpose. This socially-forward wine business is data-driven and built for the largest consumer base in the wine industry – WOMEN!      

The Universe’s “Perfect” Orchestration of a Path to Generational and Individual Healing This life-changing book illustrates the awe-inspiring and magical way that the Universe orchestrates our lives toward a state of wholeness, completion and love—whether we are aware of it or not! Perfect is a true recounting of the transformational journey that Judi Miller was guided to take that brought the exact right people together, in the exact right order, to right a wrong committed decades ago; before her birth and which left its shadow on her soul. Judi started her career as a Certified Public Accountant and went on to excel in the world of corporate finance. Most of her life has been dedicated to personal development and helping others excel in a constantly changing environment. Judi has trained with renowned spiritual visionaries. As an author, coach and speaker, she will inspire you to live a more passionate life filled with greater clarity, joy and happiness. Judi spends most nights protecting her dog from thunderstorms.

Joffre McClung is an Author, Filmmaker, Self-love Teacher, and Common Sense Advocate. Six years ago she came out of the Spiritual/Personal Growth closet when she arrived at a crossroads after an intense eight-year-period of loss that hit every area of her life. Her decision to share what she had learned over her thirty-year passion for self- discovery produced two books, How Learning To Say Goodbye Taught Me How To Live and her most recent book, The Heart Of The Matter: A Workbook and Guide To Finding Your Way Back To Self-love. Joffre’s website is www.joffremcclung.com

Dane Stevens is an author, speaker, and facilitator. He is the owner and director of An Extraordinary Life a company that promotes healing, spiritual awareness, and Self- empowerment. He is the developer of the Neuro Trauma Healing Process (NTHP) and the Soul Re-Cognition Process (SRC). These new healing modalities are obtaining profoundly positive results for people dealing with unwanted behaviors, chronic conditions, and addictive behaviors. Stevens’s goal is to show people how to create a connection with their inner life, leading to healing from their past and fulfilling their true potential and happiness. For more information https://anextraordinarylife.ca/

Kelvin Chin learned to meditate at age 19 and has been teaching meditation in living rooms, schools, and businesses worldwide — and now via videoconference, phone, Skype, and webinars — for over 40 years. Kelvin was a test subject in the first medical studies on meditation in the U.S.— conducted by Boston cardiologist Herbert Benson, MD, in 1971 (published in Scientific American, 1972). Kelvin has taught people from age 4 to 94 — professional athletes, retirees, teachers, students from elementary school to postdocs, construction workers, clergy, and CEOs. He has taught 1,000’s of people this easy-to-learn, non-religious technique of naturally Turning Within — or “learning how to let go.” He often simply calls it “learning how to turn on the opposite switch to the Fight or Flight response.

Austyn is a multiple award-winning author, spiritual medium, and soul gardener who empowers individuals to create soul-centered lives. A certified grief counselor, she combines intuition and mediumship with shamanism, energy medicine, and sacred ceremony. Austyn presents and educates at many national conferences including the Sun Valley Wellness Festival, as well as The Original Afterlife Conference, for which she has been a board member for seven years. She will be featured in Bill Bennet’s upcoming series on Facing Fear – the docuseries along with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Paul Selig, and Dr. Bruce Lipton. Austyn developed the Divine Spark Cards© and Divine Insight Cards© for people to develop their intuition and for holistic practitioners to add to their spiritual toolbox. Her Amazon best-selling book Soul Conversations teaches you how to connect, heal, and empower yourself so you can live a soul- centered life.

Anna Penenberg is an author and a healer. Her interests focus on life enjoyment, nature, and relationships. She enjoys hiking, gardening, reading, dancing and practicing Kundalini Yoga. She lives in the mountain town of Topanga, California, where she often walk up to the local labyrinth to view the sunset.

GALEN GUENGERICH is senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, a historic congregation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and earned a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Chicago. His sermon at All Soul on the Sunday after 9/11, “The Shaking of Foundations,” was selected as one of seven responses to 9/11, along with speeches by President Bush and Governor Pataki, for Representative American Speeches 2001–2002. Guengerich is the author of God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

“Daring Women Doctors” follows the challenging and illuminating history of 19th-century women doctors. The film was completed through an affiliation with Professor Scoon’s film company, True Visions, Inc., the FSU College of Motion Picture Arts Torchlight Center Studios as well as The Center for the Advancement of Human Rights. The project also received funding support from women physicians in the Tallahassee community and a grant from Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. As an executive at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, Ms. Scoon’s credits include the Golden Globe nominated “The Great Debaters” starring Denzel Washington, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Wedding both starring Halle Berry as well as adaptation of Beloved by the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Toni Morrison. In addition, Ms. Scoon served as a Studio Executive at Warner Bros. and oversaw such film as Malcolm X directed by Spike Lee and the children’s classic The Secret Garden.  

Dr. Linda Backman (Colorado) is a licensed psychologist with more than forty years of experience in private practice. Dr. Backman studied, co-taught, and co-established The Society for Spiritual Regression (now the Newton Institute) with pioneering therapist and best-selling author Dr. Michael Newton. She has conducted thousands of past-life and between-lives hypnotherapy regression sessions.

Dr. Adiel Tel-Oren (“Dr. T”) MD, LN, CCN, DABFM, DACBN educates medical professionals and the public world-wide about Nutritional, Environmental, & Functional Medicine. Dr. T is founder & president of Ecopolitan, sharing new scientific knowledge & technologies to empower people to prevent & reverse disease. With 30 years of holistic skin lesion treatment, he has trained many physicians to use his skin improvement methods. http://www.ecopolitan.com/

Tony Redhouse From the very improbable way that his parents met, through years in the wilderness when either drugs or alcohol could have taken his life, it is no small miracle that Tony Redhouse is alive and with us today. But for all the people he is now helping to stay alive, and for all those that he touches with his music and his healing ceremonies, there are many who are truly grateful that he is. Looking back, it’s obvious that his personal struggles and dark times came along to mold and shape him into who he needed to be – there were no accidents, the steadfast pulse of his true destiny in life “never missed a beat.” https://www.tonyredhouse.net/

Donna Hartley is a true survivor! Her message is one of learning how to conquer change and achieve transformation through triumph over trials. Faced with insurmountable odds, she learned to be persistent during life-threatening times. When her goal of being an Olympic skier racer was cut short, she bounced back by becoming a surfer. Donna has been suicidal, broke, and a single mother, and she’s cheated death three times; she overcame these challenges with her relentless energy and unbreakable spirit. Through an unexpected turn of events, a master teacher entered her life and instilled in her the tools needed to go from ordinary to extraordinary. She passes on this wisdom with strategies to blast through those invisible walls that limit you … so you can become unstoppable. She has been an active organizer of the Special Olympics Winter Games in Northern California, fundraiser for Arts for the Schools, an organization to empower the youth, a supporter and participant in the Relay for Life Cancer Charity Walk Events, and an advocate for the American Heart Association Go Red For Women Campaign. A former Miss Hawaii and television actress, Donna Hartley shared her compelling story on NBC, ABC, PBS, and in The New York Times. Donna is a master speaker and an intuitive mentor. A sought-after expert on surviving challenges and developing heart centered leadership. Donna Hartley is a member of the National Speakers Association, Screen Actors Guild and the owner of Hartley International. She has six stories in the Chocolate for a Women’s Soul series and two stories in the Chicken Soup series. In addition, she is the author of Fire Up Your Life!, Fire Up Your Intuition!, Fire Up Your Healing! and the Healing Meditation CD and Insights Workbook.

Dr. Martina Wagner, co-founder of ArtesHumanis, is a Molecular Biologist with 25 years of experience in the Healthcare Industry holding various executive positions. After getting a PhD in Biochemistry from JW Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, she explored neuroscience, plasticity and psychology to understand the alterations the mind undergoes through introspective techniques. She brings a unique and practical approach to the field of Physical Intelligence (PI), conveyed in her book 'Physical Intelligence, An Introduction'. https://www.arteshumanis.com/post/overcome-self-sabotage-with-physical-intelligence  

David and Karen Gamow are the founders of Clarity Seminars, and provide workplace stress management, leadership, and resilience training to clients including NASA, CBS, GE, Citrix, Marriott, Westin, The U.S. Department of the Treasury, the National Park Service, Nokia, Stanford School of Medicine, and the U.S. Navy.  They have personally trained more than 30,000 people in these methods at corporate on-sites, employee appreciation events, and conferences throughout North America and Europe. Authors of Freedom from Stress, their work has been featured in Gannett News, Industry Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Money Magazine, and The Huffington Post. 

Meir Schneider Ph.D. is the founder of the School and Center for Self-Healing. He has been developing his approach to healing since 1971. The best-selling author of Self-Healing, Meir works with people who experience low vision and other forms of disabilities. Meir’s Self-Healing Method combines breathing, massage, movement, and visualization techniques that can help anyone to become more aware of their own body and be empowered to take charge of their own healing. These teachings are valuable for anyone who works as a therapist, seeks to overcome the limitations of an illness, and for everyone who seeks to cultivate and maintain good health. http://www.self-healing.org