Moments with Marianne

Dr. Marika Lindholm founded ESME.com to ignite a social movement of solo moms. A trained sociologist, Lindholm taught courses on inequality, diversity, and gender at Northwestern University for over a decade. In addition to publishing numerous scholarly articles, she has been a regular contributor to Psychology Today, Working Mother, Mind Body Green, and Talk Space. She has published essays and fi...

Andrew Hackett has more than 20 years of experience helping people think outside their limitations and move beyond their fears so they can accomplish amazing things in their life, business, and relationships. https://andrewhackett.com.au

Myra Mossman is a federal criminal appeals attorney who has handled complex cases before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and appeared before the US Supreme Court. She is also an archival hand bookbinder and paper restorer, a martial artist, and a reader and teacher of the tarot and Kabbalah. https://www.myrandomdeath.com Michelle DesPres is a certified clairvoyant medium trained und...

Karen earned an MA in poetry from the University of Colorado and a Ph. D in fiction from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and presently teaches writing workshops at Lighthouse North and film, pop culture, and storytelling to freshman at the CU – Boulder. https://www.karenauvinen.com Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels, including The Beautiful American. She taught creati...

Ananda Devi is the author of the boldly honest spiritual autobiography Intimacy with the Infinite: The Truth about Life after Awakening. A powerful heart-centered Zen style spiritual teacher, she has transformed the lives of hundreds of students around the world. Born in South Africa, she is a single mother with triplet teenagers. Her spontaneous spiritual awakening in 2014 shattered her conventio...

Author John Snyder pens a story of love, hardship, and reconciliation that will leave readers filled with Christmas joy. In his second bookJacob’s Bell, Snyder returns to a historic Americana setting in the 1920s and 40s. Set in Chicago and Baltimore in 1944 with flashbacks to the 1920s, Jacob’s Bell follows Jacob McCallum on his arduous journey to redemption. Sometimes the road to forgiveness and...

Danielle Ledezma grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and later moved to Austin where she attended and graduated from The University of Texas with a BS in Public Relations and a concentration in Spanish.  After graduation, she moved to Houston for a job in the hospitality industry. When an opportunity arose for an exciting new career move to tropical Mexico, she jumped on it.   https://www.danielleledez...

Ruta Sepetys (Rūta Šepetys) is an internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction published in over sixty countries and forty languages. Sepetys is considered a “crossover” novelist as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Ruta is renowned for giving voice to underrepresented history and those who experienced i...

Mark & Kirsten Palm are founders of Samaritan Aviation, a 501-3C organization that provides life flights, medicine delivery, hospital ministry and medical outreach to people living in remote villages in Papua New Guinea. The organization operates the only floatplanes in the region and often partners with international health organizations to fly supplies and personnel into the area to respond to o...

Keith Gregory is an author, energy artist, Soul Coach, Advanced Energy Healer and originator of The Initiatory Journey To Awaken Your Sacred Masculine. He has learned to do this work through his own arduous self-healing journey and by addressing and transforming the considerable woundology of his past. As a clairvoyant and medical intuitive, Keith was born highly empathic. Having studied and pract...

Annette Hines has been practicing in the areas of Special Needs, Elder Law and Estate Planning for over twenty years. She received her JD from Howard University School of Law, her MBA from Suffolk University and her BA from the University of Vermont. Her clients include individuals and families of children with special needs, the elderly and others in the community. https://specialneedscompanies.c...

In March 2014, Jim Beach’s small business radio show won the SBA Media Award. School for Startups Radio is on 16 AmFm stations and many internet platforms. He has interviewed Shark Tank judges and winners, billionaires, bestselling authors, and countless entrepreneurs. His book School for Starups (McGraw-Hill, June 2011) has reached as high as #9 on all of Amazon and #1 on the business section. It...

Gary Goldberg has been doing radio on WRPI since June 1999, first with "In The Spirit" and later with "Gary's Music Show." ITS and GMS is broadcast on WRPI-91.5 FM, Troy, NY. Streamed 'live' on www.wrpi.org . Hear every Tuesday "Gary's Music Show" from 11 am to 4 pm. "In The Spirit" is on Thursday, the same time frame. https://garygoldberg.weebly.com

Mindful leadership expert Laurie J. Cameron is founder and CEO of PurposeBlue, an organization that brings evidence-based mindful leadership programs to companies, change makers, culture-shifters, universities and federal agencies. www. PurposeBlue.com

Alex Lickerman, MD, is a primary care physician, former assistant professor of medicine, former director of primary care, and former assistant vice president for Student Health and Counseling Services at the University of Chicago. Dr. Lickerman currently leads a direct primary care practice in Chicago called ImagineMD. Ash ElDifrawi, Psy. D., has built a reputation as a thought leader in clinical,...

Dominic Pace has been a working Character Actor for almost 20 years in Hollywood.  Some notable TV Guest Stars have included NYPD Blue, Navy: NCIS, The District, Cold Case, and 9-1-1 airing in November. A life long Star Wars fan and collector, https://youtu.be /2R8mZmkEpbc  Pace received a dream of a lifetime when he was selected to be a one of a kind Bounty Hunter in The Mandalorian for Disney Pl...

Brandon Webb is a former US Navy SEAL sniper, New York Times bestselling author, Experimental aircraft pilot, and entrepreneur. He’s the founder of the Hurricane Group, a U.S. based media and ecommerce company focusing on outdoor, military entertainment, news, and clubs. Brandon is a New York Times bestselling author, and is regularly featured in international media as a military and Special Opera...

Dr. Greg Brannon graduated from the University of Southern California in 1982 and then, The University of Health and Science Chicago Medical School in 1988. Dr. Brannon completed his residency in OB-GYN at the University of Southern California Women’s Hospital in 1992. He was a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and has been in private practice in t...

Melinda J. Kelly is the author of Finding your Coach: Diving Deep Within. As vice president of a privately held publishing and business counseling firm, she thought the road of life was wide open and she would easily coast into her later years. With a professional life secured, personal time was happily spent serving on non-profit boards, serving on committees, mentoring college women, traveling t...

Janeane Bernstein is a writer, on-air personality, voice actress, and researcher. She earned a doctorate from Boston University and received degrees from Syracuse University. In 2011, she started "Get the Funk Out!" on KUCI 88.9 FM: UC Irvine after losing her childhood friend. She has always loved writing, learning electric guitar, and other creative pursuits that feed her soul. www.janeanebernste...

Lydia Dean’s memoir, Jumping the Picket Fence takes us through shelters for children across India, into the jungles of Costa Rica, Southeast Asia and Venezuela, and to China where Lydia and her husband adopt their third child. Believing that our collective small personal actions can make a difference towards a greater whole, she and a devoted team launch GoPhilanthropic Foundation, www.gophilanthr...

Paul O’Brien left an executive position in high-tech to invent a new category of multimedia software in 1989, which evolved to eventually become the world’s largest astrology and divination website in 2003.  He is the author of three books. Paul is a sought after speaker, visionary, entrepreneur, author and founder of the Divination Foundation. https://divination.com

Laurada Byers won a game show then travelled the world alone at the age of 20. In 1999, while stopping for ice cream at a convenience store, her husband Russell, a noted newspaper columnist, was murdered right in front of her. She suffered intense PTSD but pushed through it to create with her children the Russell Byers Charter School, which she opened in 2001. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2013 sh...

Jeffrey Keene’s amazing journey, is an adventure through the eyes of two people, one a Georgian, the other a Connecticut Yankee. Similarities between the two go far beyond coincidence. They think alike, look alike and even share facial scars. Their lives are so intertwined that they appear to be one. Half of this equation, Jeffrey J. Keene, is a present day Assistant Fire Chief in affluent Westpor...

Shannon Kaiser is the bestselling author of five books on the psychology of happiness and fulfillment and an international life coach, speaker and retreat leader, helping people trust and believe in themselves so they can live their highest potential. She’s been named a top 100 Women to Watch in wellness by mindbodygreen and “your-go-to happiness booster” by Health magazine. She has also been reco...