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John Boyle was born into a multi-generational family of coal miners and was raised in the small Appalachian town of Kingwood, West Virginia. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA. From the ages of 13 to 40, John worked in almost every capacity of his family’s business including 10 years as the company’s President. As a civil engineer he has constructed thousands of publi...

Danny Gregory is the internationally best-selling author of a dozen books on art and creativity. He is the founder of Sketchbook Skool with tens of thousands of students worldwide and has shown zillions of people how to ignite their inner artists, embrace their creativity and tell the stories of their lives. From Boston to Beijing, people who haven’t drawn since grade school have picked up the cre...

Paul Colaianni (KO-LEE-AH-NEE) is a behavior and relationship coach, and the host of The Overwhelmed Brain and Love and Abuse podcasts. He failed at all of his romantic relationships until he figured out that he was the common denominator for all his problems. At the start of his divorce, he went on a journey of reflection, self-discovery, healing, and study to become the coach and teacher he is n...

Katherine Woodward Thomas, M.A., MFT is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After , which was nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award, and the national bestseller, Calling in “The One:” 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist and teacher to thousands from all corners of the wor...

Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, is a Texas-based psychotherapist in private practice and the founder/director of The Solution-Focused University , an online learning community that trains and provides resources for professionals who want to master the Solution Focused approach in their work. Over the course of his 15-year clinical career, Elliott has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, cou...

Jacob is the author of Blessed are the Weird , The Creative Cure , and other books and he teaches from his personal experiences of trauma healing, transformation, and creative recovery. Jacob is an avid student of psychology, spirituality, trauma research, and human potential, and he’s passionate about sharing the power of reclaiming our creative birthright and living into the truth of who we real...

Hadley Vlahos, RN, is a hospice registered nurse, mother and wife. Vlahos started her career as a registered nurse at twenty-two. As a hospice nurse, she now visits people at their home while also educating and sharing stories about hospice care on social media, where she has more than a million followers. In This Episode Hadley’s website The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Fina...

For Dr. Greg Wells, health and peak performance are personal and professional obsessions. Dr. Wells has a Ph. D. in Physiology and serves as a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. As a scientist and physiologist, he is focused on making the science of human limits understandable and actionable. To that end he has authored four best-selling books – Superbodies, The Ripple...

Dr. Judith Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath, and NY Times bestselling author of the new book The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People . This book is an invaluable resource to help sensitive people of all kinds develop healthy coping mechanisms in our high-stimulus world without experiencing compassion fatigue or burnout. Then empaths can fully embody their gifts of intu...

Brian was born in 1961, the same year that his legendary father, Bob Proctor, was given the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which began his father’s 60-year journey into personal development. For close to 30 years, Brian had the privilege of working alongside his father as he taught from some of the world’s largest stages, and for 60 years they were best friends. While working with his...

Bill O'Hanlon is a dynamic, inspirational professional speaker and prolific author (about 40 books so far) who has worked to motivate people and organizations to determine what they are meant to be doing and to remove the barriers to succeeding at those goals. ​He is mostly invested in his career as a songwriter in this season of life, but he feels he still has more to teach on mental health and p...

Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of California and Colorado (CA Lic. #MFC7707 & CO Lic. #253), and a Creativity and Communication Consultant, International Clinical Trainer, Executive, and Leadership Coach. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind Training® Program , a leading edge organization...

Robin Landa is a distinguished professor at Kean University and a globally recognized creativity and ideation expert. She is a best-selling author of books on idea generation, creativity, branding, advertising, and design. She has won numerous awards and The Carnegie Foundation counts her among the “Great Teachers of Our Time.” She is the author of twenty-five books, including Graphic Design Solut...