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Headlined Guests

Guest Occupation: Founder of Samira's Network, award-winning international variety talk show, President of Samira Gem Creations
Guest Biography:

Samira Kazemeni is a prominent figure in the entertainment industry, known for producing over 300 events through her company, Samiras Network. She has an outstanding track record of success and is celebrated for her visionary leadership, particularly in the creation of the Luxury Viewing Gala, one of the biggest events in Los Angeles during the night of the Oscars.

In addition to being a successful business network, Samiras Network is a total solution provider for all marketing, sales, and public relation projects. The network started as an award-winning international variety talk show hosted and produced by Samira herself in 2017. The show features an impressive assortment of guests and entertainment personalities, including celebrity and royalty interviews, health and beauty products, technology advancements, fashion shows, live demonstrations, and coverage of Hollywood Red Carpets, Charity Events, and recently live cooking shows.

Samiras Network TV shows are recorded and broadcasted in Los Angeles, the center of the entertainment and film industry. The company's mission is to guide and encourage viewers to reach their best and higher level of lifestyle by bettering themselves and helping others.

Samira is also the President of Samira Gem Creations, a custom jewelry design business that specializes in creating unique pieces for high-end gatherings, fashion shows, TV, and red-carpet events. Samira comes from a family of jewelers, with three generations of experience in the business.

As an advocate for alternative medicine, Samira recently launched Ultra CBD USA, a line of edible CBD oil products. Her motivation to create this line came from being diagnosed with a rare type of cancer (Angio Sarcoma) in 2018 and losing her mother to cervical cancer. Samira believes that CBD oil can be a great alternative medicine for cancer patients and has dedicated herself to creating products that can help others.

Samira is also the founder of the New Millionaires Club, which aims to empower young entrepreneurs to achieve success in the business world. Through the club, Samira provides mentorship and guidance to young professionals to help them grow and develop in their careers.

To find out more about Samira Kazemeni and her work, visit her social media profiles, websites, LinkedIn page, or IMDB page.

Guest Category: Arts, Business, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Psychology, Society and Culture, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: A Peruvian Spiritual Leader and Shaman
Guest Biography:

Puma Fredy Quispe Singona was trained by his grandfather, Don Maximo, in the mastery of Andean ceremonies and rituals. As a spiritual leader both in his own community of Chinchero, Peru, and in international gatherings and spiritual journeys, he has a passion for the teachings of his people and a profound respect for the global awakening of human consciousness. He has attended and facilitated numerous international gatherings of spiritual leaders and young leaders, is recognized globally as a holder of ancient lineage and wisdom with the power to inspire people in his special heartfelt way to connect with. Puma works with youth groups and has a natural ability to connect with ancestral Spirits, Cosmic forces, and natural elementals that assist him in his global healing path. As tour guide to the natural wonders and sacred sites of Peru and the Quechua world, he has deep reverence for the traditions and values of the ancient Andean cultures.

 

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, History, Paranormal, Pets and Animals, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual, Travel & Leisure
Guest Occupation: Former Police Officer and Licensed Psychologist and Licensed Social Worker
Guest Biography:

Dr. Conn is a former police officer, as well as the daughter and wife of police officers, and currently works as a Licensed Psychologist, specializing in first responder stress, trauma, and resilience. She supports first responder agencies with peer support, and mental health training. She contributes her expertise to national policy development relating to peer support and clinician cultural competency. She has presented widely to first responders, sharing wisdom gained from her police experience, her research, and her therapy practice. She is the author of Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel. 
Craig is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in OR and WA. His clinical training is crisis and trauma focused. Craig did 7 seasons in wildland on handcrews, rappel and short-haul crews throughout the PNW with an additional 5 years as a volunteer with 3 years as a resident for a rural district outside of Kennewick, WA. Craig merged firefighting and mental health as he rode along with Spokane Fire Department as a ‘co-deployed’ first responder. In that role, he got a strong sense of the increasing level of difficulty some of the calls entail as he responded alongside a Spokane Fire paramedic to try to resolve emergency behavioral health calls.

Guest Category: Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Personal Development, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Financial Coach, Mentor, Author, Independent Broker and Talk Show Host, Vocalist and Ballroom Dancer
Guest Biography:

Rahaim, host of the radio show “Financial Fitness with The Money Doctor” author of “Debt or Alive”, and "Retire Debt & Retire Well; Retire Sooner--Live Better, Debt-Free--Including Mortgage" , has devoted more than 35 years to educating clients, and helping them improve their relationship with money.

You might say Dr. Rahaim, aka “The Money Doctor”, sees things through a wider lens than many other financial professionals, unusually addressing debt as a primary (yet virtually ignored) threat to a comfortable retirement. Accordingly, HUG Your Money helps Members become debt-free, improve credit, budget wisely, build savings, and turn their retirement dreams into reality.

Utilizing her patented software and coaching system, Dr. Rahaim and her HUG Team help motivate and support Members, improve vital money- management skills and achieve their short and long-term financial goals.

As a Registered Investment Advisor/Independent Broker since age 23, Dr. Rahaim founded PowerDownDebt, Inc.™ during the housing crisis in January of 2008, later adding HUG Your Student Debt,™ in 2017 and finally in 2020, rebranding with the broader HUG Your Money™ name to better demonstrate the comprehensive debt, budget, retirement financial planning model.

A problem-solver at heart, Frances focuses on lifestyle, and is determined to dispel the stigma surrounding monetary issues, and to alleviate stress associated with the same.

Her talent for understanding the human condition as it relates to money, deciphering complex situations, and finding creative resolutions has earned her the moniker of “Solutionizer.” Nowhere is this more evident than HUG Your Money—her most comprehensive, affordable, credit-savvy money-management software and financial coaching program.

She believes translating complex financial topics to accessible language is paramount, and strongly encourages experiential learning. Rahaim particularly enjoys empowering people to gain control of their finances and think things through to make informed decisions from a place of knowledge rather than impulse or fear.

To date ‘The Money Doctor’s’ coaching and software has helped thousands of loyal followers pay for college, retire comfortably, create workable budgets, save billions of dollars in debt payments, and enjoy financial peace of mind, now and in the future.

 
Guest Category: Business, Education, Kids & Family, Self Help, Variety
Guest Occupation: award-winning author
Guest Biography:

Ronna Wineberg is the award-winning author of a new book, Artifacts and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. These fourteen stories explore the joys and limitations of love, the coming together and breaking apart of relationships.  Desire, love, marriage, betrayal, divorce, illness, aging, loss, and fresh starts dominate the characters’ lives.

 

These vibrant, deeply human characters wrestle with profound changes in their closest relationships and in their own emotional inner worlds. Publisher’s Weekly praised Artifacts and Other Stories: “In these skillfully crafted short stories all accented with crisp wry dialogue,…Wineberg does not shy away from life’s messes…hums with energy and originality…” The US Review of Books also praised the book: “Wineberg is a wonderful storyteller…” More information is on Ronna Wineberg’s website: www.ronnawineberg.com

Guest Category: Arts, Literature, Entertainment
Guest Occupation: Haumea Hanakahi is helping Visionary Thought Leaders that are Changing the World - to do just that - by quickly connecting them into Higher Wisdom.
Guest Biography:

We talk about Magical Soul-led Sensitives & Trauma

Haumea Hanakahi, known as the “Sacred Dragon Oracle,” is a highly gifted psychic, mystic, intuitive wisdom guide, zapper of energy blocks, and storyteller. She is the secret healer of healers and movement leaders for extraordinary removal of energy blocks. If you are a highly sensitive person, empath, or mystic Haumea offers understanding, insights, tools, and clearings to assist in boldly expressing and living your unique Divine Design. A cauldron of neurosciences, biomechanics, metaphysics, herbals, and understanding that everything is Energy allows Haumea to facilitate alchemical transformations. She lends her wisdom into the topics of fear, trauma, and healing. She's been on her own healing journey for the past 30 years.  Haumea’s message is to Be MORE of Your Magical, Unique, and Divine Self!   Most people who work with Haumea "just have a sense or feeling" to do so. With a mission to "Serve Conscious Evolution on Earth," Haumea is lighting a torch for a legion of soul-led sensitives and mystics who are liberating themselves and others from artificial limits placed upon Humanity.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Chiefs and Company Officers from Fire, Law Enforcement, EMS, and Military
Guest Biography:

Chief Neil Gang  has served in law enforcement for over 34 years and has been the Chief of Police for the Pinole CA Police Department since 2014.

Chief Bobby Halton passed away in 2022. Bobby was a 40 year fire service veteran, author of over 400 Articles, and he delivered more than 1,000 speeches. At the time of his passing, Bobby was editor-in-chief of Fire Engineering magazine and Vice President of Education and Training for Clarion Fire & Rescue.

Cristian Hinojosa is a Battalion Chief with the Dallas Fire Department, and has led the DFD’s Peer Support Program, providing outreach and support to firefighters. 

Tom Rizzo  is currently serving as the Investigations Division Commander at the rank of Captain. A national instructor and trainer, Tom published a bestselling book called Copikaze, based upon a series of lessons to help navigate a career in law enforcement.

Jonni Redick is a retired Assistant Chief and a 29-year veteran with the California Highway Patrol (CHP), one of the largest police agencies in the country with over 12,000 employees. Her job was overseeing large-scale civil disturbance and officer-involved incidents; natural disaster response coordination and oversight; and managing hundreds of personnel within daily operations.

Rommie Duckworth is a career fire captain and paramedic EMS Coordinator for Ridgefield (CT) Fire Department. Rom is the author of chapters in EMS, fire, rescue, and medical textbooks and has over 100 published articles in fire and EMS magazines,

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch, is a nationally recognized keynote speaker and the author of Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be. Oak’s leadership presentation and his book are based on his 40+ years of leadership experience (including 23 years as a combat arms officer in the United States Army).

Chief David Ogden has been a successful law enforcement executive for over 37 years. He’s led positive transformation by changing the culture in his agency.  Chief Ogden is a keynote speaker on leadership, organizational health, team building, and mental health.

Albe Bassett is the Fire Chief of the New Canaan (CT) Fire Department. He has 29 years of fire service experience, with many of those years training and developing firefighters and officers to become better for themselves and the communities in which they serve. Among his many certifications and degrees, Albe holds a Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Nick Paproski is an award-winning paramedic and educator, with experience working in municipal, fire based, commercial and volunteer EMS systems. At the time of this interview, Nick served as the Director of Education, Safety and Wellness for Vintech Management Services, a 300 employee EMS staffing company based in CT.  

At the time of this interview, John Lynch was Chief of Police in Wilton CT, where John’s department had a 97% community approval rating. Currently, he is Chief of Police in the Town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island.

Guest Category: Courses & Training, Military, Local, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Mental Health, Personal Development
Guest Occupation: Activist, Former Director at the Department of Defense
Guest Biography:

Colonel (Ret.) John Mills is a national security professional with service in five eras: Cold War, Peace Dividend, War on Terror, World in Chaos – and now, Great Power Showdown and the fight to save our Republic.

He is the former Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs at the Department of Defense. John is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy

Guest Category: History, News, Politics & Government, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Master storyteller, Writer, Playwright, Director, Producer
Guest Biography:

Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. 15 Emmys. Worked with seven US presidents. Founding Director of the American Film Institute. Co-founded, wrote and produced the Kennedy Center Honors, 1978-2014. Author and playwright. Iconic journalist Edward R. Murrow was a mentor in JFK’s New Frontier.

 

George Stevens, Jr. has spent an illustrious career behind and around the camera. Finally, a master storyteller shares his own unique and extraordinary story, with touching insight and historical perspective in My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington that was published last summer to great fanfare. Now, in his own voice, the AUDIO BOOK is available on Spotify and 28 platforms.

 

Stevens, Jr. tells an intimate and moving tale of his relationship with his Oscar-winning father and how he emerged from his father’s shadow to claim his own place as a major force in American culture through his own exciting career in Hollywood and Washington. Fascinating people, priceless stories and a behind-the-scenes view of some of America's major cultural and political events grace this riveting memoir.

 

Stevens, Jr. grew up in Hollywood working on film classics with his father and writes vividly of his experience on the sets of A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1958). He explores how the magnitude of his father's talent and achievements left him with questions about his own abilities and future.

 

He began to forge his unique bi-coastal career when the legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow recruited him to work at the United States Information Agency in John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. He moved from Hollywood to Washington in 1962 and initiated what has been called the Golden Age of USIA filmmaking. In 1967 he became the founding director of the American Film Institute, shepherding the rescue of 10,000 endangered motion pictures (the AFI Collection now contains over 40,000 films), and creating the AFI Conservatory to train a new generation of filmmakers. He created the Kennedy Center Honors and made distinguished films and TV programs that explored social justice.

 

Stevens, Jr. provides a fascinating look at his pioneering American family that spans five generations in the performing arts. He shows us the private side of the dazzling array of people who cross his path, including Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Alfred Hitchcock, Maya Angelou, Fred Astaire, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, Yo-Yo Ma, Cary Grant, James Dean, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, and many more.

Guest Category: Arts, Business, Entertainment, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Chiropractor, Enzyme Expert, Microbiome Health Expert, and Author
Guest Biography:

Dr. Ellen Cutler, D.C., is a bestselling author and an internationally recognized teacher, public speaker, and media spokesperson. She has a chiropractic degree and specializes in the use of desensitization of food and other sensitivities, gentle detoxification, and enzyme and nutritional therapies for chronic conditions that have perplexed the conventional medical establishment. This is all addressed in her revolutionary healing technique ECM (Ellen Cutler Method). Many patients have come to Dr. Cutler as a last resort, only to find that their conditions could be traced to sensitivities to food, their inability to digest what they are eating, and other reactivities. Dr. Ellen at this point has almost a year waiting list practice as she treats patients from all over the world in her clinic and online. During the past 40 plus years in clinical practice, before which she successfully addressed her own health condition, Dr. Cutler has found that food sensitivities and improper digestion and sensitivities or reactivities contribute to a surprisingly extensive number of ailments. ECM works successfully with many conditions, such as obesity, skin problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, auto- immune disorders, asthma, Lyme, headaches, mold and mycotoxins, candida, female and male issues, children’s issues and of course digestive disorders such as colitis irritable bowel syndrome and GERD as well as endocrine disorders such as thyroid and adrenals. She also supports and focuses on longevity, vitality, and balancing and regenerating the microbiome as well as help clear emotional and psychological traumas.

Dr. Cutler focuses on optimizing the body’s ability to self-heal by combining several natural healing methods, thus addressing sensitivity-related chronic conditions. Over the years, thousands of her patients from around the world have been helped by her approach and have found relief without, or with decreased reliance on, medications, which can sometimes cause dangerous side effects along with their benefit. Dr. Cutler’s approach incorporates her profound knowledge of both conventional therapies and natural wellness. Her years of clinical practice are a testimony to her in-depth experience and dedication.

Dr. Cutler is dedicated to the further development of clinical research on desensitization and enzyme and nutritional therapies, as well as teaching and writing. She continues to consult with clients from around the world. In addition, Dr. Cutler has provided training to other health care practitioners through her seminar appearances, books and videos and is now providing up to date webinars, and curriculum on beginning, intermediate and advanced course in ECM, including enzyme therapy, desensitization and nutrition. Dr. Cutler is also expanding her consulting to the world with one on one sessions, which can allow Dr. Cutler to bring her work to the globe.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Self Help, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Sound Healer, Meditation Guide, and Creator
Guest Biography:

Torkom is a sound healer, meditation guide, and creator of Quantum Harmonix; a unique frequency healing modality. This listening experience is designed to deeply drop one into a relaxed and therapeutic state by incorporating a variety of techniques and tones that have been shown to effectively calm the body and mind. The total experience typically lasts 1 hour and requires no prior experience with meditation.

QUANTUM HARMONIX is a unique sound-based meditative and healing technology. The powerful tones produced incorporate natural fluidity & movement, and have been shown to have profound effects on the mind, body, consciousness of an individual. Q.H. sounds are designed to lead one through an effortless and powerfully restorative meditation experience invoking relaxation, and expanded creativity, while improving sleep quality and productivity, while decreasing stress.

The music is layered live and explores acoustical phenomena, white/pink noise, low-mid-high range frequencies; all folded into a tapestry of real time musical compositions.

Guest Category: Arts, Music, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Executive Director
Guest Biography:

With a passion for creating at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and social justice, Téana David is the Executive Director of the ILLUMINATE Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California. Prior to that, she was Co-Director of the Shift Your World Film Festival and also served as Director of Deepak HomeBase in New York City, where she designed and curated a year-round event series with authors including Brené Brown, Byron Katie, Zainab Salbi, Robert Thurman, Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, Deepak Chopra, and Thich Nhat Hanh monastics.

Growing up on Vancouver Island, Téana was drawn to protect the natural world from an early age. As a young actor and activist, she co-starred in an environmentally-focused children’s television series and was active in community efforts to preserve local old growth forests.

Today, Téana is a founding member of Artists for Amazonia, an entertainment industry initiative that addresses critical issues impacting the Amazon Rainforest. Through her production company, Wise Planet Media, she has produced many short films to support this important cause including Weave of Life, narrated by Morgan Freeman and The Time Is Now with Txai Surui, Ziggy Marley, and Barbra Streisand. Other media projects include serving as Impact Producer for the Amazon Prime docuseries Changing of the Gods and as an advisor on the Sundance award-winning documentary, The Territory.

Téana is also a teacher of Somatics and Pilates and has led retreats in both Costa Rica and British Columbia incorporating these modalities with sitting and walking meditation practice in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Téana holds a B.F.A from The Boston Conservatory and an M.F.A from Naropa University where she was introduced to the practice of Dharma Art – “art that springs from an awakened state of mind” – which continues to inform her personally and professionally.

Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Society and Culture, Travel & Leisure, Tourism
Guest Occupation: Singer, Songwriter, Performer, Musician
Guest Biography:

Multi-talented recording artist and songwriter, Nic Jackson, is based in Los Angeles, California. After studying at the prestigious Musicians Institute, he soon began performing at some of the most iconic venues in LA. Musically, his vision is focused - to create a distinctive sound blending elements of soul, funk, R&B, and pop. Warm and organic, his music channels the perks of the old-school scene, while going forward with creativity and innovation.

Jackson recorded the theme music for "Is That Black Enough For You" (Netflix) in 2022 just before performing at the White House. He was featured on "Motown Magic," a Netflix animated series, voicing the characters Uncle Rod and Brand. Nic has also performed live, opening for Mint Condition and Blackstreet at the prestigious Nova Theatre in Los Angeles.

In 2020, Jackson released a studio album titled "Waiting for the Day," with eight standout tracks. This album captures the intensity of his live performance, but with more emphasis on the lyrics.

Jackson's music has been favorably compared to Al Green, Marvin Gaye and Leon Bridges. Nic Jackson has a sound you already know and love...from the first time you hear it.

Guest Category: Arts, Kids & Family, Music, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Musician
Guest Biography:

Earth to Eve is an LA-based musician originally from NYC. She writes raw, uncensored alternative pop music you can cry, laugh, or scream along to.

Guest Category: Arts, Health & Lifestyle, Music, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: International Spokeswoman, Professional Actor, Group Leader, Author
Guest Biography:

Wowza is a legend with a tremendous legacy. Her long and multifaceted career started at sixteen when she won the title of Miss Dixie Queen of the South. This led to becoming the Florida Citrus Queen and an international spokeswoman and featured guest on TV shows nationwide – including the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Steve Allen Show. Wowza became Miss Florida of 1957 and a runner-up in the Miss America Pageant.

A professional actor, Wowza appeared in numerous film, prime-time TV, and stage productions and trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Her passion for coaching actors was first expressed in the 70s as an Acting Teacher at Antioch College in LA. She continued coaching in the 80s with On Camera, using video feedback to prepare guests for The Johnny Carson show. In the 90s, she was the creator and director of her own performing arts company, Theatre of the Earth. Today, her expertise is unparalleled in coaching actors, dancers, singers and motivational speakers on how to move through inhibitory barriers to express the authenticity of their essential nature.

Wowza has spent six decades as a group leader in the human potential movement. A short list of her presentations includes teaching Expressive Arts Therapy at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, London and Switzerland. Embody the Brilliance-The Physiology of Leadership was taught at the Social Research Corporation in Japan and Skyros Institute in

Greece. For the last fifteen years, Wowza has taught Expressive Arts Therapy in Mainland China.
A group leader at the world-famous Esalen Institute, Wowza, has taught a variety of programs; Natural Genius, Sound Healing, Shamanic Mask Experience, Emotional Fitness, and Ageless Vitality. Wowza studied with bodywork pioneers Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, Judith Aston, and Milton Tragar. Fit to Lead and Computer Fitness was offered at Sun

MicroSystems and Oracle Corporation, Her unique Emotional Fitness program demonstrates how to lead the body: breath, voice, movement, and emotional energy on the same path as the mind. A corporate consultant, Wowza has been a regular at Lawrence Livermore teaching atomic scientists, A Physiology of Leadership. She is the author of: The Humming Book, Primal Energetics, and Wowzacise – Growing Young on the Ball.

Guest Category: Business, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Master in Psychology, educator and public speaker.
Guest Biography:

Vicki Mizel, a Master in Psychology, was trained as an educator and public speaker.

She began teaching the Brain Sprout’s Memory Method in 1980 to school children in public high schools. Within a short time she trained executives in Fortune 500 corporations such as IBM, Rolm, Prudential, Hewlett Packard; taught through community college, both seniors and Alzheimer’s patients; and gave public seminars nationally and internationally. She also produced a highly successful audio-tape/CD program on memory training.

After 20 years of teaching and training, Mizel returned to graduate school to receive her Master’s degree in psychology. She now off ers her programs to therapists, heath care practitioners, medical facilities, spouses and caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients and their loved ones.

Vicki Mizel was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was trained as an educator, psychologist, actor and public speaker. Her undergraduate degree was from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and her master’s in psychology was completed in 2000, at Antioch University in Marina Del Rey, CA.

She has been teaching her Brain Sprouts Memory System since 1983. The memory method is known, with time and practice, to increase neuro connectivity and neural regeneration in the brain and enhances brain activity and healing.

Throughout her career, she has worked with school children, university students, CEOs of companies, and actors, as well as brain injured, dementia, and Alzheimer’s patients. She has been an educator, artist, actress, speaker, and now a writer, over the span of forty years. Her natural love of learning and helping others improve their lives is inspiring, and she has a passion for improving the lives of people of all ages and cultures.

Vicki treasures and values friendships, and still has friends from her childhood. She has always enjoyed yoga, travel and hiking, and her black cat named Charlie. She practices a balance of Eastern and Western healing modalities, and is an avid mediator.

More About Vicki Mizel and her work at:

www.loveremembers.net

brainsproutsmemory.com

www.savingbrotherfromcovid.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickimizel/

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Psychology, Emotional Health and Freedom, Personal Development, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Martial Arts Master, MMA Competition Athlete, Author, and Founder of Radical Expansion
Guest Biography:

Chris Tai Melodista was born in Paris in 1974 to his Vietnamese mother and French-Jewish adoptive father. He began his training in diverse styles of martial arts at the age of 6 and obtained his black belt in Japanese jiu-jitsu at 17. Chris competed in the first MMA competition in France and has since invested over 40 years in martial arts practice and more than 30 years in the discipline of personal development.

In his 20s, Chris traveled to Lhasa, Tibet, to deepen his practice in Buddhism at its source. During his stay, he had the opportunity to teach Kung Fu and Qi Gong to some of the monks. After almost a decade of working as a photographer in advertising and fashion for numerous high-end companies in Madrid, Chris moved to the U.S. in 2009, seeking to make more of an impact in the world.

Chris has achieved an impressive series of certifications, including life and love consciousness coaching with Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, NLP licensed master practitioner, clinical hypnosis, Pranayama and Qi Gong, Russian martial art Systema instructor, combatives instructor, and MovNat trainer level 1&2, as well as stick massage bodywork therapy. In 2014, Chris traveled to Poland to meet and study with Wim Hof and became the first person certified by Wim Hof, aka “The Iceman,” in the U.S. and France. He also mentored with Dan Brulé to further his style of breathwork.

Chris Tai is the founder of Radical Expansion, a company dedicated to performance coaching through breathwork, movement, and mindfulness. He created this company to teach the knowledge he had compiled throughout his lifetime. The simple and easy method he founded is now taught by coaches in Europe and the U.S. Over thousands of people and hundreds of seminars worldwide have benefited from this practice.

Chris considers himself an eternal student and continues to teach and encourage people to become the person they were searching for through practice and quality of choice.

Guest Category: Education, Courses & Training, Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Fitness & Exercise, Self Help, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Singer, Songwriter & Sound Alchemist
Guest Biography:

I am more than an artist, I am an experience...

In a world that is ever-changing, I choose to be myself  - a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, ethereal earth goddess with an insatiable curiosity; an artist & entrepreneur who is no stranger to taking risks and fearlessly walking into the unknown, to discover the beauty and wonder of the world in so many different ways, with sound as the sweet spot.

My world is made of sound, and my voice is my vehicle. It is the bridge between my heart & head that lets me share my most true authentic expression to ignite, inspire & activate others into remembering who they are. I am here to reflect your beauty, humanity, power, and divinity to you - thru sound, ritual, and community.
 

With my intuition as my guide, I channel divine inspiration to serve the world thru sound & ritual, creating magical moments for you to breathe a little easier. I let my open heart lead the way and it is my wish that you receive my transmission; that it sparks something in you to remind you that you never needed permission to be YOU; all you have to do is allow yourself the space & opportunity to BE whom you came here to be. I am merely a conduit for inspiration and transformation. A reflection, thru sound.

 

I am here to remind you of your uniqueness, fierceness, and power by standing in mine.  I am here to remind you that YOU are a 1-of-1. A gift to the world, sent here to radiate your love thru your desires. I am a reflection of the goodness that we each possess. I am a reflection of the divinity & humanity that we each embody. When you listen to my music, I hope you SEE yourself. Discover yourself. Remember yourself. LOVE yourself.

I am honored to be chosen to lead this charge and take this journey with you. And I am beyond grateful that you have chosen to join me on this journey, too.

Guest Category: Arts, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Music, Society and Culture, Sports & Recreation, Professional
Guest Occupation: CEO of PHASE and Educator
Guest Biography:

Rick Binder is the CEO of PHASE and has held 13 certifications from NAEMT, FEMA, and NFPA. He began his career as an EMT-I and a few years later joined his father in bringing the Binder Lift to market. After spending 10 years helping thousands of emergency care departments avoid personnel injury while improving patient care, Rick authored an accredited Safe Patient Handling Course that helps emergency care providers have longer, healthier careers.

Guest Category: Business, Courses & Training, Health & Lifestyle, Fitness & Exercise, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Sarah Elkhaldy offers Higher dimensional guidance through spiritual awakenings. Sarah is here to assist humanity’s evolution.
Guest Biography:

My guest Sarah Elkhaldy is a mystic and spiritual teacher. Sarah is highly claircognizant. Her intuitive abilities, and deep insights into the nature of reality create energetic transmissions that activate the audience on a soul level. She is widely known as a leader in the field of Spirituality and the Esoteric Arts. She uses her intuitive abilities as well as her extensive background in esoteric knowledge to help humanity gracefully tap into our evolutionary potential. With an online community consisting of hundreds of thousands of awakening souls, it is her highest honor to assist humanity’s evolution.

Guest Category: Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Society and Culture, Spiritual