Contributing Authors

Karissa Adkins is a former Marketing and HR professional turned two-time Entrepreneur, Certified Badass Coach, and Champion for women’s mental and physical health. Karissa is the voice behind the Award-winning BossUp Babes Podcast, TV Personality, Award-winning International Speaker, and 2X International Best-Selling Author. Karissa has been featured in networks such as ABC, CBC, USA Today, and NBC for her expertise in empowering and motivating women to get fit and stay healthy. She has been featured on the cover of 2Inspire Health and Your Success Magazine. Referred to as America’s BossUp Babe and the Queen of Habit Change, Karissa is known for her fierce personality, insane levels of passion, high-level strategies, and a no-BS approach to living healthy, happy, and wealthy. as she transforms women’s mindsets, bodies, and lifestyles. Learn more at http://365dailyhustle.com

Esther Jones-Alley is an Intuitive Spiritual Life Coach, author, and speaker. After thirty years in the public and corporate sector, Esther returned to school to become a certified Life Coach at InviteChange Coaching School and is certified by the International Coaching Federation, (ICF). Esther also had three years of training at InnerVision Institute for Spiritual Development. As a result of her intuitive spiritual life coaching program her clients experience lasting transformation that opens up new possibilities in their lives. They shift from confusion to clarity; From restraint to freedom; from fear to courage, and from doubt to a deep knowing. She has been coaching and helping people since 2007. Here website: http://estherjones-alley.com

Jana Alonso is an English-Spanish speaker, integrative healing expert, best-selling author, and the founder of The School of Integrative Healing. Integrative Healing (IH) is a unified, all-encompassing system of multi-modality-and-dimensional healing ten years in the making that offers a long-term approach to true, holistic transformation. IH was born from the concept of synergy, and that unity makes us stronger than separation. The combination of many healing modalities (from physical hormonal healing all the way to energetic shamanic healing) makes this system of healing so unique, effective, and life-changing. Jana lives and works in the forest in Ibiza, with her partner, pitbull, and bossy Siamese cat. Find out more at http://theschoolofintegrativehealing.com

Adam Baraz is a Somatic Life-Coach, bodyworker, and meditation teacher, who teaches people how to heal their trauma and ‘transform their life from the inside out’. He received his degree in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University, is a licensed professional bodyworker, with multi-year training in Counseling Psychology, Somatic Experiencing (SE), and Cranial-Sacral Therapy. Son of meditation teacher, James Baraz, Adam discovered meditation at age seven, and has spent over a decade studying Buddhist philosophy under meditation masters in the Tibetan tradition. Adam has dedicated over a year of life to intensive meditation retreats, including sixty-three days alone in total darkness. Adam enjoys surfing big waves in Maui, and playing chess with friends. Learn more at http://samadhibodywork.com

Toni Bergins is on a mission to get people into their bodies, to feel, heal, expand their bandwidth, end perfectionism, stop the “not good enough” crisis, and inspire people to express their authentic uniqueness in a world that needs all our healing now. Toni, MEd, founder and director of JourneyDance®, is an artistic alchemist and passionate catalyst for people to transform their angst into art and their vulnerability into strength. Over the past twenty-five years, she has helped thousands of people find a new sense of self-esteem, inner wisdom, emotional health, spiritual practice, and total well-being. She leads an international team of over 1000 JourneyDance Leaders, has a popular instructional JourneyDance DVD, a series of online courses, and a private practice in her Embodied Transformations Method. She is a recording artist and one-person show creator with her stories and original music. Her sense of humor and authenticity makes JourneyDance® programs accessible to all. Visit http://journeydance.com to learn more.

Daniella Cotreau has transformed the lives of thousands of entrepreneurs to become visionary leaders who create businesses they love and that impact the world. She is a heart based leadership coach, spiritual mentor, consultant, embodiment expert and business mentor with 20+ years of experience. She is the founder Heart Wisdom Leadership Academy® and creator of Body Temple Yoga® Method. Daniella teaches leaders heart led techniques to embody in their life and leadership for the greatest success and fulfillment. She leads group programs and private mastermind retreats in personal transformation and heart based business evolution in locations across the globe. Learn more at http://daniellac.com

Derek Cozzens is a transformational leader who is focused on bringing people together to solve some of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. He specializes in helping powerful individuals, teams, companies, and world leaders to transform the way we do business to restore, regenerate, and sustain the water, air, and soil on the planet and bring diversity and inclusion into Private Equity. Derek is a successful business and team leader who has been CEO, CFO, and COO of numerous Private Equity portfolio companies as well as an investor in dozens of real estate ventures personally. He helps companies maximize efficiency, profit, and cashflow while implementing best in class practices to scale and take organizations to the next level and beyond.Find him on LinkedIn @derek-cozzens-65273820.

Daniel Diaz is a performance and mindset specialist. His many layers of transformation are told throughout stories of his life. From drug dealing to America’s top rated food truck by Forbes Magazine. From stressed out, burnt out, overwhelmed entrepreneur, to personal development master now listed as top 10 performance coach by Yahoo Finance. From being immobilized through grueling back injuries to becoming an Ultra Athlete. Danny is the living example of anything is possible. His mission is to help others discover, and live into, their limitless potential and possibilities in life. Learn more at http://iamdanieldiaz.com

Dominey Drew is a spiritual advisor, author, speaker and intuitive healer. High performers in every industry hire her to break down the current paradigms in their inner world which keep them from real fulfillment and maximum impact. Dominey is the premier in rapid results coaching; her direct, intuitive approach is unlike anything else in the industry. Through a process of profound self-discovery, she solves in mere minutes issues that have carried on for decades. She’s been featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine for her work, and now travels the world teaching those who seek massive transformation. Dominey has dived to the depths of her own soul countless times, through seemingly endless layers of trauma, to rise like a phoenix into a default state of effortless joy. Now, she exists every day in flow and ease, and her passion is teaching others to do the same. Visit http://domineydrew.com

Kathleen Friend, MD is a Child Psychiatrist on a mission to change the paradigm in her field and put one million children in the Greatness Chair. She is the author of two children’s books: The Greatness Chair and Sarah in the Greatness Chair, and a book for parents and teachers called The Greatness Chair Solution which teaches a simple, accessible method to bring out the best in children. The Greatness Chair has been translated into Hebrew and Spanish and will be available in 2023. Dr. Friend is an international speaker, musician and Heart Rhythm Meditation teacher for IAM Heart, a global meditation school dedicated to fostering the culture of the heart. She is a strong advocate for following the passions in one’s heart and seeing the strengths in all. Learn more about her work at http://greatnesschair.com

Leslie Grace, RN, is a highly trained and experienced psychedelic integration guide who works with leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to unlock their highest calling. Building on her foundation as a Registered Nurse, and her Bachelor’s in Biopsychology, Leslie now integrates psychedelic healing, somatic therapy, and sacred sexuality teachings in her practice. Over the past decade, she’s worked with thousands of souls through her private and group programs to expand their consciousness, self-love, and joy in life. Leslie currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Explore your potential at http://lesliegrace.co

Mike Iskandar is wondering: What if you could travel back in time to every age of your life? What would you say to those younger versions of yourself? What would you learn about who you were, who you want to become, and who you truly are today? That whimsical what-if inspired TEDx Speaker Mike Iskandar to create Time Travel Journeys—a powerful new approach to personal development and team-building that guides schools, organizations, and companies to explore how the past and future can transform the present epidemic of anxiety, depression, and burnout into deeper joy, compassion, confidence, and connection. Learn more at http://timetraveljourneys.com

Tom Ladegaard is a Southern California business attorney specializing in trademarks and litigation, in his 19th year of practice. When Tom isn’t working or plotting world domination he can be found experimenting in the kitchen, hiking the trails around San Diego, tending to his garden, mastering his guitar and vocals, or playing board games with his teenagers. Learn more at http://ladegaardlaw.com

Sarah B. Lange, MSW is among the nonprofit sector’s top revenue generators, having raised over $90M! Using innovative approaches, she has worked with over 200 nonprofits to raise money, build stronger boards, chart an exciting course for the future and brag about the good work they’re doing. Sarah has served as an Adjunct Professor at Clark University, Boston University, Worcester State University, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her book, The Field Guide to Nonprofit Fundraising (Praeger), was published in December 2017. Her BA is from Colgate University; her Masters from BU School of Social Work .To learn more, please visit http://sarahblange.com

Launa Martin, mentor and speaker, brings 20 years of experience in the art of relationship to leaders who desire life that makes meaning, not just business that makes money. If Betty White and Buddha had a baby, Launa is their love child. Her proven methods, and superpowers of wit, wisdom, levity, and love guide daring humans to a path of purpose. Often called the ‘Power Behind the Throne’, she’s the founder of Morpha Multidimensional Leadership Firm, trusted as the safe space where decision-makers lay down their armor to transform into the ultimate people, partners, and parents. Visit http://morpha.vip to learn more.

Julia Mikk is an internationally renowned healer, teacher and bestselling author, and the founder of the SOLignment Institute with certified Facilitators in many countries. Unlike any other healing work, SOLignment Process is very powerful, incredibly efficient and quick in its ability to break through stagnant patterns. Julia’s clients come from all over the world to receive deep emotional healing, and embody courage to live their soul purpose. She masterfully weaves concepts of non-duality, breathwork, shamanic studies, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and pre- and perinatal psychology to create liberation from old patterns that manifest as lack, worry, fear or chronic health issues in one’s life. Learn more at http://solignment.com

Liat Nadler is a nutritionist, dietitian, health and food relationship expert, influencer, and coach. She is the founder of Fabulous Healing Nutrition & Wellness, a retired engineer, a wife and a mother. Liat founded Fabulous Healing Nutrition & Wellness to help result-driven females get their glow, increase their confidence & energy, and step into their unstoppable sexy badass selves! Liat is dedicated to helping committed busy women end the endless yo-yo dieting cycles, clear their skin from persistent conditions, and heal their gut. The end result? They step into a better and more energetic and confident version of themselves. Learn more at http://fabuloushealing.com

Caitlin Naramore is a business coach and consultant for spiritually and holistically based entrepreneurs. She is the founder and CEO of Modern Queen LLC. Caitlin helps her clients achieve greater wellbeing and success in both their professional and personal lives, bridging heaven and earth through pleasurable and sustainable profit. Previously Caitlin was a chef for billionaires, scientists, authors & rockstars, and still adores making magical cakes on the regular. Caitlin is also a healer, poet, singer and artist, and partner of Alok Appadurai. Discover more at http://caitlinnaramore.com

Jerry Naranjo is a passionate, engaging, innovative, and heart-centered business leader with over 30 years of experience. He has been a pioneer in the civil construction industry in Colorado, leading his firm to build some of the state’s most iconic and innovative river restoration projects. Jerry is a trusted advisor to employees, and clients alike, guiding them with insights on business matters, scaling, operations, organizational management, visionary leadership, and relentless execution. His unique roadmap to success is based in positivity, authentic relationships, and replacing goals with actions. Learn more at http://naranjocg.com

Debra Rubin, MA, CMT, RYT, is a Master Coach, Movement Alchemist, and internationally-renowned facilitator and performer. She has her M.A.in Holistic Health from JFK University, B.A in Psychology & Pre-Med from Princeton University and 25 years study and client care in mind-body medicine, somatics, Yoga, fascia & trauma release from both Eastern & Western disciplines. Deb is CEO of Shakti Embodied Feminine Leadership Academy, guiding women to move beyond limits, unlock full body freedom & optimal movement, ignite their feminine power, and create their limitless, prosperous life. The Creator of Dance Therapeutics Movement Mastery System, she is published in Yoga Journal and lives in Los Angeles. Visit http://debrubindancetherapeutics.com

Gigi Abdel-Samed, MD, MBA, FACEP is a Board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician, who has treated thousands of patients in her almost twenty-eight years in practice. She is a recognized speaker, and transformational coach with an MBA. Dr. Gigi is the creator of Medical School for the Soul, an innovative curriculum for medical students and healthcare practitioners that brings satisfaction throughout their careers, prevents burn out while increasing revenue and patient satisfaction. Her legacy is to return the heart to healthcare, one medical school class at a time, one physician at a time. Learn more at http://drgigisamed.com

Kari Schwear is an Executive Lifestyle Coach, Speaker, and Corporate Trainer. She’s also a Certified GiANT Worldwide guide, specializing in leader transformation and development. Kari coauthored the book, The Successful Mind, Tools for Living a Purposeful, Productive, and Happy Life, published in 2020. As a former “gray area drinker,” Kari founded GrayTonic in 2018 after her own experience of “living in the gray” led her to the service of others. Her zone of genius is habit change, communication, leadership development and intentional living. Kari holds certifications in Motivational Interviewing, Life Coaching, NLP, and several trauma courses through the NICABM. Discover Kari’s work at http://graytonic.com

Paige Stapleton is an internationally renowned author, speaker, mentor and founder of Paige Stapleton Coaching. She empowers service-based women entrepreneurs to have more success with greater ease and fun – while remaining true to themselves. Paige is passionate about helping others learn to sell with integrity and heart. For over 15 years, she has guided thousands of heart-centered, mission-driven entrepreneurs to monetize their passion and purpose. During the “Great Recession”, she built a six-figure business in eight months and scaled it to multiple six-figures just ten months later! Paige has supported multiple seven-figure business owners and coaches by closing over $8 million in coaching services for them. Paige currently lives in North Carolina with the love of her life, Brian Stark, and their Australian Shepherd, Bodhi. Learn more at http://paigestapleton.com

Emily Esther (Sussell) is a direct response copywriter serving clients in the coaching & consulting industries. Previously, she founded a business education company in the wellness space which she scaled to $500K annual revenue. She holds a master’s degree in Therapeutic Recreation. She was born, raised and lived for 30 years in New York City, and today resides amongst the redwoods, in Northern California. Visit http://emily-esther.com

Diane Van Buren is a coach, transformational speaker and author of Enlightened Rome: Discover the Magic of Piazzas and Public Spaces in Rome, Italy. earliest explorations began visiting indigenous sacred sites and natural spectacles. At age ten, living in Tripoli, Libya opened a world of travels spanning millennia. She has visited over forty countries and loves languages. Despite awards and successes practicing architecture in New York City and Dallas, Texas, her passion didn’t fit in. Conforming cost dearly. Reclaiming joy, she focused on experiencing energy in sacred spaces, Diane shares world treasures to transform lives. Diane is an author, speaker and Evolution Mentor™ for successful women leaders. Along deep travels, they thrive on their own terms, all their lives. Learn more at http://dianevanburen.com

Dr. Peter Wishnie has practiced podiatry in central New Jersey for over thirty three years. He completed his undergraduate studies at Stony Brook University in Long Island, New York, then studied podiatric medicine at the California College of Podiatric Medicine (now called The California School of Podiatric Medicine at Samuel Merritt University). Dr. Wishnie had lectured on many different topics of practice management both nationally and internationally. He recently sold his podiatry practice in order to focus on coaching practice owners to scale their practices in order to create the life they desire. He has three sons, Samuel, Alec, and Benjamin, and an amazing fiancé, Jaimie. He enjoys all sports, especially baseball and football. He’s an avid concert goer and enjoys going to the gym. He lives in Somerville, New Jersey. Learn more at http://stopfootpainfast.com

Karen Wright is a master Executive Coach, a thought leader in the global coaching profession, a keynote speaker and the founder of Parachute Executive Coaching. Author of The Complete Executive: The 10-Step System for Great Leadership Performance and The Accidental Alpha Woman: The Guide to Thriving When Life Feels Overwhelming, Karen and her team work with leaders who truly want to create workplaces where humans can thrive. Karen is a Canadian who can just as easily be found in Paris or anywhere in the world where there is great art, music and food. Find out more at http://parachuteexecutivecoaching.com and http://accidentalalpha.com