Empowered Conversations

Melissa Smith spent nearly twenty years inside organizations trying to solve one problem: why capable people stop performing. Most of the time, the issue wasn't attitude or talent – it was the environment and what it had stopped demanding from people over time. Then she started noticing the same thing in families. Kids with supportive parents, good schools, and every opportunity – yet still st...

Patti Comeau-Simonson doesn't speak from a podium. She pulls up a chair, pours you something warm and nourishing, and tells you the truth: grief is hard. Healing is a long road, and there is hope. There is a way back to finding joy. She is a Peer Grief Specialist and author who turned the worst years of her life into a career helping others survive loss, death, and the weight of grief. In this...

Dr. MonaLisa Coburn is a lifelong teacher whose work bridges consciousness, spirituality, and practical personal transformation. After years of teaching in the physical world, her spirit team asked her to begin teaching the principles of One Consciousness – a request that opened an entirely new chapter of her life and work. She is the Amazon-bestselling author of Downloads From One Consciousness a...

Dr. Katie Eastman helps people answer one powerful question: Where's the peace in this? Through her work in grief, change, and leadership, she guides others to find clarity, purpose, and peace, even in life's hardest moments. She has over 35 years of experience helping people move through loss and change. She is the creator of The Percolate Peace Project and the author of The Peace Guidebo...

Jonathan Brandt and his wife Kristie were diagnosed with cancer within a year of each other – she with Cervical Cancer, he with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Together, with the attitude of "GoOutLiving," they fought through treatments and side effects by utilizing modern medicine and a holistic approach. After surviving, Jonathan found himself dealing with weight gain and gut issues. Not findi...

After a 20-plus-year marriage ended, Trena Briscoe Matthews found herself asking the question she now hears from every client: what does my life look like now? With three children, a career that took her through the CIA and Cisco Systems, and a future that looked nothing like she planned, she had to find her own way through. That journey became the Phoenix Protocol – the framework she now uses to...

Beth Brookhart is living proof that it is never too late to achieve a lifelong goal. At age 67, she published her first book – the humorous historical fiction The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum. Drawing on seventeen years serving on her local historical museum board, she highlights the ways volunteers can save an organization – or wreck it. She is a former agricultural journalist, and she an...

Eric Robinson spent 12 years in Christian ministry – pastoring a Baptist church in Western New York – and then served 24 years as an FBI special agent. He worked white-collar crime, counterterrorism, crimes against children, gangs, drugs, and public corruption. He was a SWAT operator for 15 years, a firearms instructor, and a tactics instructor. He will soon release his first book, a collection of...

Silvia Rizzo works in high-performance environments across sport and business, focusing on leadership and decision-making under pressure. Her background is in elite sport, where she has spent years working with performance, error management, and mental resilience in real-world, high-stakes situations. She doesn't deliver rehearsed frameworks or motivational soundbites. She prefers honest conve...

Mistress Malisandre is an author, artist, and former professional dominatrix whose work explores power, consent, intimacy, and identity – how they are formed, misused, reclaimed, and transformed. She draws from lived experience as well as her work with individuals and couples to speak thoughtfully about power dynamics, embodiment, and personal transformation. She is also a mother and creative entr...

After years of watching high-functioning clients stay stuck despite insight, self-awareness, and traditional talk therapy, Liz Chelak began developing a different approach – one focused on the nervous system, body tension, emotional patterns, and self-leadership. She is the founder of Evolve Therapy & Counseling and the creator of the Sovereign Body Method™, a structured nervous-system-based f...

He spent 35 years as a professional drummer. Then he pivoted to neuroscience and movement training. Now he's helping people move better, think sharper, and age stronger—at any age. Karl Sterling is an NASM Master Trainer, neurological wellness specialist, and founder of NeuroMotor Training. His new book, Brain, Body, Bones: The Science of Living Stronger, Longer, brings cutting-edge neuroscien...

She spent more than 20 years inside Western medicine as a healthcare educator. Then her own health began to fail—and she found herself medically abandoned. She took healing into her own hands, discovered parasites were a hidden root cause, and started a global movement. Kim Rogers—virally crowned "The Worm Queen"—is the founder and CEO of RogersHood Apothecary and inventor of the origina...

He lost his first wife to ovarian cancer. His second wife succumbed to Alzheimer's. He survived head and neck cancer himself. Yet David McNally believes in the transcendent nature of the human spirit—and that as long as we're alive, our mission on Earth isn't finished. David McNally is a bestselling author, Hall of Fame speaker, and creator of the groundbreaking book, If You're Ali...

Hema Murty is the author of Professional Woman's Guide to Handling Stress, an advanced yoga instructor, certified online personal trainer, nutrition coach, and expert in East Indian Philosophy. She helps women over 50 get rid of pain and enjoy life through a unique spiritual blend of yoga therapy, weight training, and stress management. This demographic is often overlooked in the fitness indus...

Lynda Leonce is an authenticity coach and author who helps women connect to the part of themselves they've longed for all their lives. Through her own desire to heal and liberate herself from limiting mentality and emotional states, she searched for deeper meaning. She studied teachings from Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and RJ Spina – which brought her back to the trut...

Corwin "CJ Moneyway" Johnson is a globally recognized podcast host, best-selling author, and impact-driven speaker known for bridging faith, legacy, leadership, and personal transformation. He is the host of The CJ Moneyway Show – ranked in the top 2% of podcasts globally – and the creator of Planting Seeds with CJ, a show focused on spiritual growth and inner resilience. He is the autho...

Jonathan McLernon is a survivor of near-fatal trauma, financial ruin, and food addiction. He rebuilt himself – becoming debt-free, losing 100 pounds, and overcoming crippling anxiety without fad diets or sheer willpower. He is a board-certified health coach who helps people break free from addiction, emotional eating, self-sabotage, and burnout – blending neuroscience, psychology, and faith in his...

Paul Granger has spent the last two decades serving with various ministries, cultivating authentic, accessible space to process the difficult questions of life – through content, conversation, and community. He is a podcaster, author of over two dozen self-published books, and a husband and father of three. He hosts the podcast Where Did You See God? – a show built on genuine dialogue where an epi...

Dr. Theodore Henderson is here to shake up everything you think you know about brain disorders. He is the president and founder of Neuro-Luminance Inc., which is bringing revolutionary treatments to bear upon traumatic brain injury, depression, Alzheimer's disease, post-COVID fatigue syndrome, and other brain disorders. He holds three patents and has over 70 publications in top research journa...

Rachelle Conley is a living testament that your past does not define your future. She has gone from felon to felony-free. From inmate to correctional officer. From surviving addiction to becoming an addiction counselor. From multiple suicide attempts to working in mental health and advocacy. She survived sexual abuse within the penal system – from juvenile to adult. She survived domestic violence,...

Sue Paulson has been through two divorces, two bankruptcies, failed businesses, a near-death experience in 2007, and two bouts of cancer. And yet, she speaks with more curiosity and warmth than people who have been through far less. She carries all of it not as battle scars, but as quiet wisdom about being human. She is a best-selling author of Magnificent Misery and The Healing Call of Cancer, an...

Dr. Gloria Vanderhorst has 50 years of experience working with preschoolers through adults in her psychology practice. Her current focus is on the emotional development of men and boys – and how the culture robs males of access to the full range of emotions, leaving them handicapped. She is the author of a New York Times best-selling journal book, Read, Reflect, Respond: The 3 R's of Growth an...

She was raised to believe a woman should submit to whatever a man said. By fourteen, she was surviving on her own. In her twenties, she immigrated to California and became the #3 sales representative at Xerox within two years, then joined Apple Computer International. Her story proves: where you begin does not determine where you can go. Lauretta Zucchetti is a speaker and author helping women unl...

Ellen Lubensky is a Stanford graduate and an attorney who practiced Social Security Disability and medical malpractice law. For nearly 20 years, she was physically disabled by tardive dyskinesia – a condition caused by psychiatric medications that she was not fully warned about. She experienced firsthand how psychiatric medications can be prescribed without meaningful informed consent, and how pat...