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Edward Slingerland

I'm Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. I work in a lot of academic areas, including early Chinese thought, comparative religion, cognitive science of religion, virtue ethics, cognitive linguistics and science-humanities integration.

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David Flanagan is a computer programmer who has spent much of the last 20 years writing books about programming languages. He now works at Mozilla. David lives with his wife and children in the Pacific Northwest, between the cities of Seattle and Vancouver.

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Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a practicing clinician, best-selling author, public speaker and media commentator who specializes in the relationship dynamics that result from the neurobiology of male and female brains.

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Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.

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Colum McCann is the author of three collections of short stories and six novels, including "Apeirogon," published in Spring 2020. His other books include "TransAtlantic," "Let the Great World Spin," "This Side of Brightness,""Dancer" and “Zoli,” all of which were international best-sellers.

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Kirsty Gallagher

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Gretchen Rubin

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For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter.

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Brené Brown

Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds
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also holds the position of visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at
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Kim Ho-yeon (1974) is a writer and screenwriter.
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I'm the author of several Japanese culture books: The Magic of Japan, Ikigai the Japanese Secret for a Long and Happy Life, The Book of Ichigo Ichie, Shinrinyoku, The Ikigai Journey and A Geek in Japan.

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Diego Perez is a meditator, writer, and speaker who is widely known on Instagram and various social media networks through his pen name Yung Pueblo. The name yung pueblo means “young people.” it serves to remind him of his Ecuadorian roots, his experiences in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. his favorite word, liberation, took on a deeper meaning once he started meditating vipassana. through writing and speaking, he aims to support the healing of the individual, realizing that when we release our personal burdens, we contribute to a global peace.

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Kelly Weekers

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Kelly Weekers is a bestselling author & expert on authenticity. She loves to write and talk about knowing, being and choosing yourself. Her mission is to help others to stay true to yourself and live your best, most authentic life.

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Paul Millerd

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Erin Niimi Longhurst is a half-Japanese, half-British writer and blogger. She currently works as a social media and digital consultant, helping charities, nonprofits, and foundations to improve their interactions with those who are important to them, by telling their stories more effectively online. Her blog, Island Bell, focuses on food, travel, and lifestyle. She is a graduate of the University of Manchester with a degree in social anthropology.

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Jessica Hagy

Jessica Hagy is best known for her Webby Award–winning blog Indexed. Her cartoons regularly appear in the New York Times, and she writes an online column for Forbes. Ms. Hagy lives with her family in Seattle.

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Lisa J. Shultz

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Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner are co-founders of Star Apple Edible + Fine Gardening, a San Francisco Bay Area landscape design firm focusing on aesthetic edible gardening. At Star Apple, they bring together ecologically sound landscape principles and small-scale urban agriculture, working with both ornamental and edible plants to create integrated landscapes. Visit www.StarAppleEdibleGardens.com.

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Bec Evans is a writer, coach and consultant who helps writers keep writing.

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Arielle Ford is a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 30 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She is a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, speaker, and is the co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series. Her mission is to help people Find Love, Keep Love and Be Love.
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Peter Orner

Peter Orner was born in Chicago and is the author of three novels: Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo (Little, Brown, 2006), and his most recent, Love and Shame and Love (Little, Brown, 2011) which was recently called epic by Daniel Handler, "...epic like Gilgamesh, epic like a guitar solo." (Orner has since bought Gilgamesh and is enjoying it.) Love and Shame and Love is illustrated throughout by his brother Eric Orner, a comic artist and illustrator whose long time independent/alt weekly strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green was made into a feature film in 2008. Eric Orner's work is featured this year in Best American Cartoons edited by Alison Bechdel.

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Valerie Bothell

I have taught crazy quilting for the last 17 years and I always look forward to every opportunity to share my love of crazy quilting with others. My children have grown up watching mommy "play" with her ribbons and are always patient with me when I get caught up in a project! For that I will always be grateful.

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Renee Day

Renee Day is the creator of The DIY DAY, a creative blog dedicated to sharing do-it-yourself crafts with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Her unique video style on Instagram has garnered millions of views and she's been fortunate to work with many successful businesses.

Whether it's calligraphy, paper-crafts, stamping, mixed-media, crocheting, or journaling, Renee loves to craft. When she's not crafting she can be found spending time with her husband Jim and their dog Cinco.

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Masaaki Imai

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Masaaki Imai is the Founder of Kaizen Institute which was established in Switzerland in 1985 to help companies implement the practice of kaizen and the various systems and tools known today as Lean Management. Today Kaizen Institute Consulting Group (KICG) is the leading global operational excellence consultancy with over 400 professionals located in offices across 30 countries serving clients in 25 languages.

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Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, the co-host of the Write-minded podcast, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author.

He has published three books on writing: The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo; and Brave the Page, a teen writing guide.

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His “flash novel,” something out there in the distance, a collaboration with the photographer Gail Butensky, is coming out in September 2025 with the University of New Mexico Press.

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Nancy Hillis

Nancy Hillis, MD lives in Santa Cruz, California. She's an abstract artist, author, existential psychiatrist and founder of The Artist's Journey courses, workshops and presentations. Do you want a free training on the #1 Secret To Creating Paintings You Love and 4 Traps That Get In The Way? Go here: https://artistsjourney.com

Nancy blogs about the inner landscape of artists at https://nancyhillis.com.

Trained in psychiatry at Stanford and fascinated with all things creative, Nancy enjoys interviewing artists about their creative process.

When not painting or teaching, Nancy loves to play her cello, hike with her partner Dr. Bruce Sawhill, or listen to her daughter Kimberly sing Puccini's O Mio Babbino Caro and other operatic arias.

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