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Miriam Groom Miriam Groom, Behavioural Profiler & Career Therapist Miriam Groom is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Career, a psychologist-led career strategy firm helping individuals align their careers with who they are, psychologically and professionally. With a Master's in Psychology and over 20 years of experience in recruitment and human capital, including leadership roles at KPMG, Miriam comb...

Matt Thomas Matt Thomas Poetry Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer, engineer, and poet. His poetry has appeared in Triggerfish Critical Review, Ponder Review, Hampden-Sydney Review, Hiram Review, Dunes Review, Avalon Literary Review, Galway Review, Milk House Review, Cleaver Magazine, Elm Leaves Review, River Heron Review, The Thieving Magpie, Common House Magazine, The Broken Plate, Hawk & Whippo...

Christopher Thompson Instructor Thompson of Dragonfly academy of integrated defensive arts and My self defense studio.. Salutatuons!  I'm instructor Thompson, a firearms instructor, range safety officer, certified firearms specialists ( allows me to testify in court on firearms and ammunition) and a martial arts instructor. I have twenty seven years in as a teacher, and a practitioner of 31 in Ed...

Todd Sarner Todd Sarner is a licensed psychotherapist, parent coach, and founder of Transformative Parenting. Since 2004, he has helped thousands of parents create calmer homes, stronger relationships, and more cooperation with their children without relying on punishments, scripts, or constant power struggles. Todd's work is grounded in attachment science, developmental psychology, and neuroscien...

Kasey Jackson The BattleAxe, Son Of God, Husband, Father, Warrior: Body, Mind & Soul, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Martial Artist, BJJ Blackbelt, Builder, Autodidact, Bushido, Kaizen, & Ikigai. I'm Kasey F. Jackson, a husband, father and the inventor of the Hunkerin Stool. I have been an athlete my whole life, football, MMA, Ju-Jitsu and strongman competitor. After years of destroying my body, I was le...

Sarah Turner Brain Red Light Expert Sarah is the founder and CEO of CeraThrive, with a science background and a focused interest in how light influences biology, particularly circadian rhythms, mitochondrial function, and brain health. Her perspective is shaped not only by research, but by hands-on experience, including involvement in clinical trials in neurodegeneration, where she saw first-hand...

Ingeborg Mooiweer  Successful in business. But Love hurts? Ingeborg Mooiweer is an executive coach with 35 years of experience helping high-achieving executives break the patterns that make them brilliant at work and struggling at home.  She helps executives who have built everything they wanted, except a love life that works. I grew up with a narcissistic mother. I didn't have language for it the...

Thomas Addison Not Just Talk! I have been there. Business Consulting Services for Growth Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), and Duke MBA Thomas Addison is an exit planning advisor, AI strategist, and serial business owner who has been on every side of the transaction table. He lost $1.55M on a business re-entry that looked right on paper — then used what he learned to acquire a garage door co...

Jobert E. Abueva Author, The Janus Plan (Sept 2026) | TEDx Speaker | Driving Global Impact: Philanthropy, Marketing, Nonprofit Board Service Jobert E. Abueva grew up between worlds. Born in the Philippines and raised across Nepal, Thailand, and Japan through his father's academic work, he has spent his career learning that the hardest threshold to cross is the one inside yourself. The Janus Plan i...

Anne P. Mitchell is an attorney, and law professor and dean emeritus. A graduate of Stanford Law School, she has had a a storied career first as one of the first two attorneys in the United States advocating for children to have an ongoing relationship with their fathers after the disuniting of the family, and then as the first anti-spam lawyer in the U.S., and going on to write part of our Federa...

Jeaneen Tang Jeaneen Tang, MS, CCC-SLP Jeaneen Tang is a speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of experience working with early intervention (0-3 years old) to the elderly. She specializes in early language development and has a passion for training parents, caregivers, and other educators on how to best to address the needs of young children with learning to understand and express themse...

James Perdue Professor of Perseverance James became a quadriplegic, dislocating three vertebra in his neck, from playing a football game. The doctor said, "James, I'm sorry. You'll never walk again and you might be paralyzed from your neck down." Later, the doctor advised his family to place him in a nursing home; he would be too much of a burden for them to take care.​Dr. James Perdue, Professor...

Jennifer Ballow Social Worker Writes Book About Tooth Fairy to Help Kids Connect with Caregivers My name is Jennifer Ballow and I'm a social worker and children's book author in Austin. I wrote a children's picture book about the Tooth Fairy, called Under My Pillow. The story is about five-year-old Sam, who loses her first tooth. At her mom's direction, Sam puts the tooth under her pillow for the...

Adrienne Wilkerson is the co-founder and CEO of Beacon Media + Marketing, a national digital marketing agency specializing in mental and behavioral health organizations. She started her first business in 2001, is an Inc. 5000 winner for three consecutive years, a published author, and the host of The Beacon Way podcast. Adrienne helps founders and leaders stop second-guessing their marketing and s...

Joe Hehn Mindset Expert + Spiritual Teacher | Helping Leaders and Teams Show Up as Souls, Not Roles | Mastering Consciousness to Transform Work + Life Joe Hehn (pronounced Hayne) is a mindset expert and spiritual teacher helping leaders and teams show up as souls, not roles by mastering their consciousness. He works with entrepreneurs as well as companies like eBay, Salesforce, and Novartis, bridg...

Who Is Sergei? Born beneath the Kremlin and  rumoured to be Vladimir Putin’s nephew , Sergei Putinski is a man who has seen things you would not believe — mostly because they happened in 1987 and are no longer relevant. With an unwavering devotion to 80s American sitcoms and a firm conviction that the mobile phone peaked with the brick, Sergei navigates the bewildering modern world from behind the...

Zachary Draves Sports and Culture Journalist, Academic, Aspiring Historian, and Aspiring Documentary Producer Zachary Draves. Sports and Culture journalist for outlets such as SB Nation, Swish Appeal, ClutchPoints, AETV, MTV News, and The Source. Co-Founder of the Augustana College Sport in Society Initiative in Rock Island, Illinois. Co-Host of the She's Always Had Game Podcast about women's bask...

Elliot Sawyer Loyalty Strategist: Helping High Capacity Organizations Experiencing Low Buy-In, Become Businesses People Love to Work For and Buy From I help businesses grow by building loyalty across leadership, teams, and customers. While this applies across industries, I’ve seen some of the strongest results in low-trust environments where skepticism is high and growth is hardest to unlock. That...

Jamie Coleman Social Media Strategist & Founder of By JamieSocial Jamie Coleman is a digital marketing leader and the founder of ByJamieSocial, a strategy company focused on helping creators and brands grow through intentional content, strong positioning, and data-driven decision making. With over a decade of experience across media, marketing, and tech, she brings a unique perspective on how...

Ryan Beckett From the Bachelorette, to real estate CEO, startup founder, adjunct professor & a Doctorate in Business. Ryan Beckett is an entrepreneur, educator, endurance athlete, and media personality passionate about helping others think bigger, perform at a higher level, and adapt to the future of business. He is the Founder and CEO of BitRealty, a modern real estate brokerage known for ble...

Elliot Sawyer Loyalty Strategist: Helping High Capacity Organizations Experiencing Low Buy-In, Become Businesses People Love to Work For and Buy From Elliot Sawyer speaks around the world to a wide range of audiences. He has delivered over 1,500 talks, spent more than 10,000 hours guiding professionals across many industries, two decades of leadership development and has influenced nine figures of...

Al Krockey In 1968, Al Krockey was eighteen years old coming of age in the most culturally explosive era in American history. In 1968, Al Krockey was eighteen years old coming of age in the most culturally explosive era in American history. But the road to that moment began years earlier in Skokie, Illinois, where a block of co-op apartments and split-level houses felt like an entire universe. Fro...

Dr. Shenetta Malkia Global Real Estate Strategist | CEO & Broker | Author of The Resilient Asset | Leadership, Resilience & Mental Wellness Advocate Hi, I’m Dr. Shenetta Malkia-Sapp, a global real estate strategist, author, speaker, and entrepreneur dedicated to helping leaders, investors, and organizations build resilient assets and sustainable legacies. With extensive experience in real...

George Little I design, build, and tinker. Always for fun, sometimes for money. I'm George, a designer, tech entrepreneur, and outdoor enthusiast! I have an equal love for tinkering with AI as I do hiking with my dogs. Here's a little backstory on who I am and what makes me tick... Originally from the Philly area, I studied architecture at Syracuse and thinking I was going to be a black turtleneck...

Kelly Gagalis Online Dating Safety Expert and Dating Coach I have been a dating coach for over 15 years. A few years ago I realised that my clients don't have the same horror stories as other people I talk to do because I bake safety into their dating training. A year ago in the same 24 hour period I heard from two friends that their children had just experienced horrific sexual assault... gang ra...