Our celebration of Unpasteurized JOY is so enhanced by these dear guests and partners.
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Andrea J. Lee Andrea is a visionary business and life coach who guides exceptional clients to the success they seek, while championing them to become more and more uniquely themselves. Her coaching is said to be a blend of tenderness and bite unlike any other, and one of her most celebrated abilities is coining you a metaphor that’s so unexpected it slips under the radar of your biggest blocks. Expect to shorten your learning curve by months, and if you’re willing, even years.
CEO of Thought Partners International, Andrea’s consulting firm is one of the most-trusted brands in the coaching and self-help marketplaces and serves as creative partner to thought leaders representing the best in entertainment, politics, academia, therapy, philanthropy, spirituality and more. As Chief Creative Producer, Andrea identifies ‘isolated assets and connects them in a way that creates value, at the same time that she and her team actually produce the product for delivery.
Angela Kim founder of Om Aroma & Co.™ is a New York-based fresh organic skincare line was inspired to create the line when, as a touring professional concert pianist, she experienced a bad reaction to a “natural” lotion she applied pre-concert. Om Aroma is the first company of its kind to truly connect the purest organic ingredients with the highest level of luxury.
The organic spa collection can also be found in five-star luxury resorts, upscale spas, salons, exclusive inns, and at the flagship boutique at 327 West 11th Street in New York City. www.omaroma.com.
Dr. Angela E. Lauria is the President of Journey Grrrl Publishing, publishers of the So Smart holistic how-to series and the author of the forthcoming, If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Write a Book. She is also the author of From Medea to Media: Live Performance as a Vehicle for Social Change(Atropos Press, 2009); the co-editor of The World Almanac of US Politics (Pharos Books , 1997); and an editor and researcher for NIGHTMOVER (Harpercollins, 1995), Hong Kong 1997 and Beyond (Summit Publishing Group, 1996), Aboard Air Force One (Fithian Press, 1997). She has been featured in Elle Canada, Micro Tank, and Research Access. Angela has a PhD in Communications from The European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas Fee, Switzerland. She lives in Washington DC where she helps Life Coaches and other healing professionals write, publish and promote their books.
For Christine Eisner, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.Christine is a lifestyle expert with a passion for quality of life. She does not measure quality by the thickness of a wallet, the square footage of a house, or the designer on a label. She is all about cozy comfort, fromthe inside out.
New York, London, and Atlanta all know Christine’s talent in lifestyle marketing, communications and design– she worked in public relations at Polo/Ralph Lauren Corporation, as PR Director, and at Sotheby’s International Realty. With the sweet success and magic understanding Christine has in her field, it is no wonder that she now has turned success into her own private consulting firm: Lifestyle Design.Multi, multi-lingual she became a constant adventurer when, starting at 15, she went off to explore the world of people, their differences, their lifestyles, and the eclectic wisdoms that only diversity can teach.Christine simply loves to explore how people live, so she has discovered and adopted wonders from Europe,Asia, Africa and America. None is “best”, but each culture offers jewels that she adopts in her own life and gives to others, to best suit their dreams.
For almost 10 years now, Christine has been delighted to share her unique, multi-talented gifts. Thousands of people have been blessed, from numerous corporations to individuals from ages and stages of life.
In short, this one’s special. Christine promotes a genuine, livable, delicious quality of life. Whether at a lively presentation filled with smiles and warmth or in a quiet moments reading her book ,Comfort Living, this woman is a perk in life we all have been looking for.
Anita Jaisinghani of the newly acclaimed Pondicheri restaurant in Houston, was born and raised in India, and has been at the helm of Indika (a highly-lauded and award winning restaurant in Houston) for nearly 10 years. An avid traveler, reader, and a devoted yogi, her true passion is creativity in food. She harnesses her science background to experiment with ideas that blend flavors of her native Sindh culture with local Texas ingredients.with techniques she has learnt through her childhood and her travels.
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Jeannette Maw is a Master Certified Coach and founder of Good Vibe Coaching. She publishes Good Vibe Blog, hosts an online site at Good Vibe University, is the co-founder of Good Vibe Coach Academy, and writes monthly for Catalyst Magazine. She is the author of several law of attraction ebooks and is a contributor to Jack Canfield’s Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction.
Jeannette lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with three rescued dogs and cats, is a volunteer foster mom for local animal rescue groups, and enjoys hiking and yoga when she’s not eating chocolate or watching The Good Wife.
Jessica Steward - a certified Martha Beck Life Coach – loves helping her fellow coaches and solopreneurs get out of their heads and into their gigs. As a corporate escapee, she combines fifteen years of practical, business experience with a passion for helping people begin happening to their own lives and businesses. Using a direct and intuitive approach, Jessica helps blast through blocking thoughts and beliefs, sift through and prioritize dreams and desires, and turn a seed of an idea into an actionable plan for life or business. She also helps solopreneurs and small business owners use video to help connect more authentically with their tribes. She lives in Boston with her husband, her dog, two cats, and two ukuleles. The cats cannot play the ukuleles. Yet. stewardcoaching.com
Kay Walten is an entrepreneur, an adventurer and yogini. She has been an expat in Mexico for 19 years and CEO of LocoGringo.com an internet reservation service & travel guide. Over the last few years she has returned to the US and had found balance commuting between the US and Mexico. In the US she had created the Kay Walten Group. KWG empowers their clients through assessment, development and implementation of social media strategies. Their goal is for businesses to be come independent of their services, provide on-going support, and enable business owners to understand their markets so their business will grow.
Kay’s passion however is Tanzania. She recently traveled to Tanzania with the Humane Society International. The trip sparked her vision for making impact on a local level. Currently she is involved with Huheso Foundation serves the neediest communities of people that is infects and affected but HIV/AIDS who have been marginalized, human rights abuses and reproductive health. Kay has been involved with Adventist Development and Relief Agency in a latrine program, by presenting dry toilets plans used in Mexico to be implemented in a rural area of Tanzania.
Currently she is exploring viability of a program for Tanzania which has been successful in Kenya. Panties with a Purpose, this program is to raise funds, panties and sanitary products for young women who are missing school due to their menstrual cycle. Too many times girls turn to unsanitary methods of feminine protection with high health risks, early marriage or teen pregnancy.
Keisha Gallegos is a certified Martha Beck Life Coach. Her areas of expertise include coaching on life purpose, transitions, career direction, parenting, “Inside-Out Makeovers”, and overcoming the effects of sexual abuse. She feels passionately about helping people who’ve been abused free themselves of the stigma and shame associated with abuse. Keisha feels strongly from both personal and professional experience that it is possible to thrive and live joyfully after trauma.
Before becoming a professional coach, her worked as an elementary school teacher, an intuitive consultant, and a proud stay at home mom of two boys, who are now 19 and 15. Keisha earned a BA in Political Science from California State University at Northridge.
She has extensively studied psychology, spirituality and relationships. On any given day, you can find Keisha coaching clients, laughing with friends, spending time with her husband and sons, and cuddling with her Yorkshire Terriers, Teddy and Penny.
Lissa Boles - Known as the Soul Mapper™, Lissa Boles is a professional optimist and CEO of SoulFullFilled Living, a group of companies dedicated to helping thought leaders answer their deepest creative impulses—in business, in church (or temple), or on the yoga mat. Lissa goes light years beyond inspiration and motivation to reveal each client’s intended spiritual path, breathing life into the sacred desire to create a world-changing legacy.
Lissa is also a wildly in-love wife, step-mom, and honorary grandma who loves both travel and the simple life. She’s been called a book nut, a coffee snob and a chocolate freak, accusations she couldn’t deny if she wanted to. She also answers to Silver Fox (but only when it’s her husband Randy calling).
In another life Lissa hosted the Sunday morning Small Business Big Ideas Show in Toronto, Canada.
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Dr. Martha Beck Martha Beck is a writer and “life coach” who specializes in helping people design satisfying and mean in gful life experiences. She holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, all from Harvard University.
She worked as a research associate at Harvard Business School, studying career paths and life-course changes in today’s economic and social environment. Before becoming a life coach, Dr. Beck taught sociology, social psychology, organizational behav
iour, and business management at Harvard and the American Graduate School of International Management. She has published academic books and articles on a variety of social science and business topics.
Her non-academic books include the New York Times bestsellers Expecting Adam and Leaving the Saints, as well as Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live and her newest book, Steering by Starlight. Dr. Beck has also been a contributing editor for many popular magazines, includingReal Simple and Redbook, and is currently a columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine.
MeiMei Fox is the published author, ghostwriter and freelance editor of numerous non-fiction health, wellness, spirituality and psychology books, articles and blogs. She contributes a weekly column, “The Life Out Loud,” to the Huffington Post. She has edited books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Columbia University Buddhism professor Robert Thurman, was Expedition Writer for Alexandra Cousteau in 2009, and most recently wrote the New York Times bestseller “Fortytude” with Sarah Brokaw.
In addition, MeiMei is a depth psychotherapy-trained life coach and Ana Forrest-certified yoga instructor whose loftiest goal is to be a Joy-Giver. In 2010, she volunteered with Sean Penn’s non-profit J/P HRO in Haiti. She recently led a group of volunteers to practice yoga, surf and build a high school in Costa Rica on her first (but certainly not last) Karma Yoga Adventure. Her mantra is: Fear Less, Love More!
MeiMei graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction from Stanford University. She can be found teaching yoga in San Francisco, helping people attain their loftiest goals by embracing life’s messiness, working on her memoir, and tweeting obsessively from @meimeifox.
Nona Jordan is the Business Yogini — helping women get through the “yuck” they feel about their business so they can embrace entrepreneurship and turn their great inspiration into visionary action. Nona inspires and motivates with her get-it-done attitude, holistic perspective, warm presence, and down-to-earth style.
Nona jumped the corporate ship after ten years working for publicly traded companies in financial management and went with her long-time dream of becoming a certified yoga teacher. Funny enough, she found that she enjoyed strategizing and designing the systems and structure of her yoga teaching business as much as she loved teaching yoga.
So right there, at the intersection of her passion for yoga and her background in business as a CPA, Nona found her calling to work with women entrepreneurs who want to change themselves and the world through their work. She loves to get things done and help her clients do the same, yogini-style.
Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. A former corporate manager and entrepreneur herself for more than a decade, she deeply understands the questions and concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs. Her expertise in personal and business change was developed through many years consulting inside corporations such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Charles Schwab, where she coached thousands of executives, managers and employees.
“Entrepreneurship at its heart is aligning your purpose for being on earth with a business idea so compelling that you simply must do it, despite the fears that hold you back,” says Pam. Her experience teaching martial arts for 10 years to thousands of students including former gang members has helped her clients deal with fear head-on. A world traveler, Pam speaks four languages and has lived and worked in Europe and South America.
Pam’s book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur was released in Spring, 2009 and won Best Small Business/Entrepreneur Book of 2009. Pam is frequently quoted as an expert on entrepreneurship in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek,Forbes, Entrepreneur, Money Magazine and Psychology Today. Pam is married with three kids and lives in Mesa, Arizona.
Dr. Patch Adams & Gesundheit Institute For many, PATCH ADAMS is the name of a movie that came out ten years ago about a funny, loving doctor, starring robin Williams. But who is the ‘real’ Patch Adams? And what has he been doing for the ten years since the movie came out?
Let us tell you a story, a love story, about the ‘real’ Patch Adams—and the generation of Americans he represents. Patch was born Hunter Doherty Adams in 1945, the second son of a school teacher mom and a US army major dad—and was of the generation who later would be called the Baby Boomers, the Alternative Generation, the Hippies and Yippies and Love Children. Pros and cons about that generation are still being argued, but no one denies the generation has made a mark.
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Sarah Bamford Seidelmann is the co-creator of Joy Junket, a site created to inspire people to discover more JOY through exploring Personal Style, Interior Design and spiritual growth. Sarah works full time as a Speaker, Teacher and Coach and has a special interest in helping others forge a deep and satisfying connection to the Earth. Sarah believes that its one of the most wonderful ways to manifest a life you LOVE. Connecting with the Beasties via her own special brand of Shamanism is one of her favorite ways to do that! The Beasties can really help us know what we have been told is wrong with us is so right with us. In fact – we are perfect. She also digs Interior design, has a mad decoupage crush on John Derian , loves techno music. Her latest passion is creating unusual videos on youtube such as “Alice The Life Obstacle Assasin”
Prior to Coaching, Sarah graduated from University of Minnesota Medical School and practiced as a board certified Physician specializing in Surgical Pathology at a tertiary care Multispecialty group known for Excellence in the Midwest, Essentia. While Sarah thoroughly enjoyed her amazing practice and partners, she felt a strong pull to do transformative work with people and followed this yearning to do Earth based Coaching (and named her company aptly, Metamorphosis).
After receiving formal coach training from Martha Beck, Sarah began to share her love of Animal Totems on a podcast with fellow coach Tami McCall. Squirrel! Radio- on Itunes , named for the beloved Golden Retriever Doug from the Pixar movie “Up”, was created to bring some of the sweetness, light and FUN into personal transformation. Sarah has also had the distinct pleasure and thrill to be a featured Coach and Teacher at Good Vibe University. Sarah regularly blogs on creating a fabulous life at Joy Junket. She is currently working on a book on Animal Totems called “What The Walrus Knows”.
Sarah is married to the fantastic Mark Seidelmann, also a Physician, whom with she has 4 children (all are master Zen teachers) via adoption and biologically. Sarah loves to watch her kids connecting with Animals, traveling to amazing places such as South Africa to explore the Natural world, watching movies (Slumdog Millionaire, Up and Avatar) and pouring over her favorite Design Magazines when they arrive (Elle Décor and House Beautiful). Sarah also loves to dance at the drop of a hat- she even has her favorite “Uplift Jams” playlist on her beloved phone for impromptu boogie-ing, when you see her - just ask!
You can find Sarah at Joyjunket.com under “Metamorphosis”, youtube and she is also on Facebook, linked in and Twitter.
Simla Somturk Wickless is a holistic health coach, nutritionist, healthy lifestyle expert, writer, and speaker whose specialty is transforming Busy Bodies into healthy Balanced Beings™ so that they can enjoy deliciously fulfilling lives.
She works with busy female entrepreneurs and professionals and autoimmune clients internationally, combining the latest scientific research with proven traditional approaches. She LOVES inspiring her clients to take action and make lasting changes to maximize their energy, minimize their stress, find their natural weight equilibrium, and promote self-healing… for good.
Simla lived the crazy-busy lifestyle of a management consultant for almost a decade and was a Busy Body herself until a health crisis turned all of that upside down. Her refusal to give in or give up and resulting recovery led her to discover and want to share the healing, joyful powers of food and self-care. You can find out more about Simla and her company Delicious Health
Stacy Harris has been in the fashion industry for more than a decade. She has been a buyer for several large retail stores on the East Coast and in Texas and has extensive experience in sales, Personal Shopping, Retail Consulting, Image Coaching, and Event Planning.
Stacy Harris Images and Events offers a variety of services such as Corporate Seminars for both men and women on how to project a polished, professional look in the work place to Fashion Shows and fundraisers.
Stacy has had the honor of working with many different businesses and groups such as The American Cancer Society, The Woodlands Cattle Baron’s Association, Women Of Distinction, The American Business Women’s Association, Business Women’s Forum and the Montgomery County Community Foundation.
Stephanie Rozema – Full time mother of 2, full time wife, full time small business owner of a manicure and pedicure business, full time Arbonne sales associate. Paid off $30,000.00 debt in 14 months, well on her way to living DEBT FREE!
Stephanie has pulled herself out of the doldrums of stifling debtand now she can breathe a little easier as she sprints to the finish line of a debt laden life. Come and learn from Stephanie Rozema as she tells how you too can get out of debt and into a better life.
Sue Brooks Artist and Yoga Instructor – The Woodlands, TX. Throughout life, Sue has followed her passions. First focusing her efforts in the visual arts and dance, and then in recent years, as a yoga practitioner. At the very early age of 4, her Mother enrolled her in ballet classes and later in art classes at the Dayton Art Institute. Throughout her childhood, she received strong encouragement within the realms of art and dance.
She went onto college earning a BFA in Painting Drawing and Graphics and BAE in Art Education from The Ohio State University. She taught art in the public school system for several years and also opened her own dance studio.
As she grew older, her migration to yoga was a natural one where she immediately connected to its heart felt philosophies. She earned her associate yoga instructor’s credentials in 2009 and currently teaches regular yoga classes at The Woodlands Anusara Yoga Studio as well as workshop and specialty classes on Therapeutics and Restorative Yoga.
She did teach drawing at the local college for awhile, but moved on as she developed a following of adult students and now teaches art classes privately throughout the fall and spring.
“I love helping people find their own internal beauty whether it be by expressing it through art or yoga. As we age, we need to stay active and keep learning and my students are my greatest teachers.”
Sue continues to study yoga working toward full certification and is a full time professional artist. Her work has been shown in juried exhibitions throughout the United States where she has won numerous awards and has been published in national books and magazines.
Theresa Conroy Theresa is a lifelong Philadelphia resident who spent 27 years working as a Philadelphia journalist. In January 2007, she left her job covering criminal courts for the Philadelphia Daily News to teach yoga full-time.
Theresa became a yoga instructor because she was driven to share the benefits yoga has brought to her life. With the support of her yoga practice, Theresa quit smoking, shed 50 pounds and overcame an anxiety disorder.
In 2008, she deepened her knowledge of yoga by becoming a certified Yoga Therapist. In 2010, she became certified as a Core Strength Vinyasa teacher. Her teaching style fuses the power of Core Strength Vinyasa, and the spirit of Inner Fire Yoga with the awareness of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. The fusion of styles, combined with Theresa’s knowledge of anatomy and movement, create a skillful, joyful, safe practice for everyone from the first-time student to the seasoned practitioner.
Theresa is registered with the Yoga Alliance. She also is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and a certified Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner. In 2010, she was named one of the Top 10 Yoga Instructors in the area by Philadelphia Magazine online.
She teaches group and private yoga classes in her studio, in corporate offices, in retirement centers, in schools and universities and in private homes.
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