Kara Goodwin, host of the Soul Elevation podcast, where she explores ascension, spiritual awakening, energy healing, extraterrestrial connections, and consciousness
I am the CEO and Senior Living Advisor with Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors, Inc., helping seniors, their families, and healthcare professionals navigate safe senior living placements with compassion, urgency, and integrity. We currently specialize in both California and Tennessee. I work directly with case managers, discharge planners, social workers, hospitals, and rehab centers, as well as with seniors and families themselves. Every recommendation is guided by one principle: what is truly best for the senior—their care needs, safety, dignity, and ability to thrive. We assist with: Assisted Living Independent Living Memory Care (Alzheimer’s & dementia) Residential Care / Board & Care Homes Home Care services With nearly 12 years in the senior living industry, including over 8 years with A Place for Mom, and as NPRA members, we are a trusted and ethical resource. Our services are always free to seniors and families. While we are compensated by partner communities, we are senior-centered, not commission-driven. If the best fit is a community we do not partner with, we still make the referral—because it is the right thing to do. **Blue Magnolia Senior Living Advisors — The Help You Need. The Heart You Deserve. **
Guest Occupation: Holistic Family Doctor, Author, Speaker & Podcaster
Guest Biography:
Dr. Craig M. Wax is a holistic Osteopathic family physician that emphasizes prevention and health. He believes in the power of one -> YOU! Dr. Wax recommends positive attitude and daily action toward your goal of best health. He is a vigorous advocate for patient and physician rights. Dr. Wax is the pioneer of the Health Is Number One lifestyle plan. He is the host of Health is Number One radio show on WWDB AM Philadelphia, WPEN 97.5 FM HD2, Spotify and Apple Podcast. Formerly, Dr. Wax was the 20 year host of Your Health Matters radio show/webcast/podcast on Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS FM. He won a Society of Professional Journalists of Greater Philadelphia SPJ Award for his ability to make complicated things simple to understand on his radio show. Dr. Wax is a frequent contributor and is a former member of the editorial board of the award winning Medical Economics Journal of Modern Medicine of Advanstar/Modern Medicine online.
Craig M. Wax, D.O. is a sought-after speaker for fellow physicians and the public at large. He created HealthIsNumberOne.com in 1999.
Kym Durham is a second-generation psychic and evidential medium who possesses the unique ability to connect with those who have crossed over. Her warm, witty, and candid personality have people from all over the physical and spiritual world reaching out to her. Kym also can be found working with law enforcement agencies, describing crime scenes, helping to locate missing persons, and recovering lost or stolen assets.
Kym is blessed to have inherited her extrasensory gifts from her mother, Joan Friel Durham. Joan was a renowned New Jersey psychic medium, who worked with law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad. She helped assist in solving over 240 murder and missing persons cases in her lifetime. Joan began their family business, Psychic Studies & Investigations (PSI), in 1974. Kym is proud to be able to continue the family business.
At age 4, Kym began describing angels in her room. These same energies had come to communicate with her mother at her home office. At age 9, Kym began to display her psychic ability by warning her father about a dog running in front of their car, which happened a half hour later. At age 11, Kym began seeing healing energy on people who had just undergone surgery. Upon realizing her daughter’s gift, Joan began mentoring Kym to develop her psychic and mediumship abilities further.
Kym later became a perioperative nurse and uses her knowledge of anatomy and physiology as a medical intuitive. Kym continues to study with world renowned mediums to take her inherited gift to the highest level. Kym’s extraordinary abilities have been featured internationally in numerous print and media outlets!
Guest Occupation: Vice President and Executive Director of GA at Street Grace
Guest Biography:
Brooke Ruffin serves as Vice President and Executive Director of GA at Street Grace and has been a member of the team since 2018 assisting with the expansion from one to five markets. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse herself she is dedicated to removing the stigma and educating children on how they can protect themselves from exploitation.
In her role as Vice President | Executive Director GA Ruffin is on the leadership team for Transaction Intercept Initiative at Street Grace, a first of its kind investigatory platform that removes the costly, cumbersome, and time consuming process of human trafficking operations for law enforcement. Through managing the national expansion of this platform Ruffin is responsible for demos, onboarding, and the management of a team of software engineers from around the globe through a partnership with Microsoft’s Hack for Good Program.
Throughout her career she has remained a strong advocate and volunteer for sexual abuse survivors and developed a dance class focused on re-establishing survivors’ emotional connection to their physical bodies. Ruffin has been featured on numerous news outlets, youth conferences, and has advocated for legislation to congress at a national Anti-Trafficking In Persons (ATIP) Roundtable in DC.
Brooke Ruffin graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida and has a background in advocacy and performance. She has previously served as Operations Manager and Director of Outreach with the organization contributing to the development of training content, awareness campaigns, and community engagement initiatives.
About Street Grace: Street Grace is a faith-based organization that utilizes evidence-based demand reduction strategies to eradicate the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) through prevention, protection, policy and pursuit. CSEC is sexual activity with a child in exchange for something of value given to the child or a third person.
Guest Occupation: Author, Coach, Futurist, Founder of One Life Circle
Guest Biography:
Samantha Sweetwater carries the seed of a flourishing future. She is an author, meta-relational educator, coach, and ceremonial guide with over three decades of experience supporting thousands through personal and collective transformation.
As founder of Dancing Freedom, PeaceBody Japan, and One Life Circle, she pioneered embodied awakening and trained hundreds of facilitators worldwide. Her work lives at the confluence of ecology, spirituality, and complexity, braiding systems thinking with soul wisdom and lived practice. She invites a reimagining of what it means to be human at this pivotal time of planetary and technological transition.