Milan Kordestani
Milan Kordestani is a social entrepreneur and author who advocates for common-ground solutions to systemic socioeconomic problems. Kordestani’s environmental studies background allowed him to understand humanity’s impact on earth systems and to see why societal attempts to mitigate the environmental crisis have failed. As a result, he shifted his focus to founding numerous businesses – Nota, Audo, and Guin – each of which offers a sustainable solution for a core systemic issue across civil discourse, education, and culture. Through his businesses and writing, Kordestani encourages the next generation to find solutions that drive positive societal change. He has published his perspectives on topics like civil discourse, the future of work, c
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She is the author of The Upside of Stress (Penguin Random House/Avery 2015), The Willpower Instinct(Penguin/Avery 2012), Yoga for Pain Relief (New Harbinger 2009), and The Neuroscience of Change: A Compassion-Based Guide to Personal Transformation (Sounds True Audio, 2012).
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Gary Vaynerchuk
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Thirty-three years ago, Gary got his start in business by ripping flowers out of people's yards and selling them back. Years later, he would use that savvy to grow his family's wine store from $3 to $45 million in just a few short years by launching WineLibrary.com, one of America's first wine websites. Fast forward to now, and he's continued to use that same business savvy, along with his brother, to build VaynerMedia, a new -
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A.R. Merrydew
Anthony Richard Merrydew was born in Dorking Surrey, England. His was educated at Andrew Cairns Secondary Modern school in Littlehampton, and several colleges in West Sussex.
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He wrote his first manuscript ‘Malakoff’, during the early seventies, when he lived and worked in Besancon, France. For reasons best known to him, this remains to this day a work in progress.
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M.R. Noble
M. R. Noble has played a tug of war between science and art her whole life, but the rope broke when she wrote the first line of The Dark Eyes Series. Immersed up to her keyboard in paranormal romance and urban fantasy, she enjoys blending the real with the surreal. The only drawback is she misplaces her mug while dreaming up her next scene, and soon finds herself six cups overpoured.
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Keeping to her Lake Simcoe roots, she is a member of the Writers Community of York Region (WCYR), where her muse is made not found.
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Gina Buonaguro
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I am the coauthor with Janice Kirk of The Sidewalk Artist, Ciao Bella, and The Wolves of St. Peter's.
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John Payton Foden
John Foden is a Toronto-based writer. For the past 30-years he's been paying the bills and keeping the lights on by wearing a suit and tie as a corporate advocate and government lobbyist. He has an extensive track record of success providing strategic communications advice related to public policy, business planning, and project implementation to the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Since 2002 Mr. Foden has been President & CEO of PresterJohn Inc., a Toronto-based public affairs and communications company. In this role he has worked with a prominent array of international clients in a broad range of sectors, including arts and culture, athletics (Olympics), development, energy, engineering, environment, financial services, food and
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Aimee Cabo Nikolov
Aimee Cabo Nikolov is a Cuban American who has lived most of her life in Miami. She is a speaker, trained nurse and the president and owner of IMIC, Inc, a medical research company in Palmetto Bay.
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Aimee is also the host of "The Cure with Aimee Cabo", a nationally syndicated live radio show, and later a podcast. https://godisthecure.com
She lives with her husband, Dr. Boris Nikolov, and two of her children, Sean and Michelle. This is her first book. The book won several awards - Pinnacle, NYC Big book award, Feathered Quill Gold/1st place.
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Ken Robinson
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Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally recognized leader in the development of innovation and human resources. He has worked with national governments in Europe and Asia, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, national and state education systems, non-profit corporations and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. They include the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, the Royal Ballet, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the European Commission, UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the J Paul Getty Trust and the Education Commission of the States. From 1989 - 2001, he was Professor -
Guy Winch
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Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.
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He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.
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Laurie A. Helgoe
Laurie Anne Helgoe is an American psychologist and author specializing in personality development and the psychology of desire. Helgoe has a private practice in clinical psychology and serves as an assistant clinical professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston Division, supervising and lecturing psychiatric residents.
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Raised as the ninth of ten children, she was surrounded by gregarious siblings and sought out solitude, reflection and writing to replenish her energy. This early discovery of the power of solitude had a profound influence on her later work.
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Robert Maurer
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Robert Maurer, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist on the faculty of the UCLA and the University of Washington Schools of Medicine. He is the founder of the Science of Excellence, a consulting firm, and travels extensively presenting seminars and consulting on kaizen to diverse organizations, including corporations, hospital staffs, universities— even the U.S. Navy. Dr. Maurer lives in Spokane, Washington. -
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
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Eli Wilde
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David Rock
Dr. David Rock coined the term neuroleadership, and is the Co-founder and CEO of the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI). The Institute is a 23-year-old cognitive science consultancy that has advised over 50% of the Fortune 100. With operations in 24 countries, the institute brings neuroscientists and leadership experts together to make organizations better for humans through science.
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Dr. Rock has authored four successful books including Your Brain at Work, a business best-seller, and has written for and been quoted in hundreds of articles about leadership, organizational effectiveness, and the brain which can be found in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., USA Toda -
David D. Burns
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Burns popularized Albert Ellis's and Aaron T. Beck's cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) when his books became bestsellers during the 1980s. In a January 2021 interview, Burns attributed his rise in popularity and much of his success to an appearance in 1988 on The Phil Donahue Show, to which he was invited by the producer after helping her teenage son with depression. -
Ronald Morrison
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David Gittlin
Only one thing stood between me and my dream of becoming a creative writer: I couldn’t do two things at once.
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Upon retiring from my career in marketing communications, I decided to devote my full attention to writing fiction, thereby solving my multi-tasking challenge.
I began my creative writing journey by enrolling in the online Writers’ Program offered by UCLA. In a series of courses taught by professional writers, I learned how to craft memorable characters, create colorful worlds, and outline suspenseful plots enriched with drama and conflict.
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Aaron Ryan
Award-winning and bestselling author, speaker, panelist, workshop presenter and voice actor Aaron Ryan lives in Washington with his wife and two sons, along with Macy the dog, Winston the cat, and the finches Inky, Pinky, Blinky & Clyde.
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Steven L. Ririe
I'm a passionate storyteller and historian who likes to bring forgotten tales to light. I enjoy writing both non-fiction and historical fantasy fiction.
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I'm the founder of the Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial Committee, where I teach facts I uncovered about a classified 1955 plane crash near Mount Charleston, Nevada, leading to long-overdue recognition for the fallen.
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Aleron II
Aleron II is a mystic, magician, and spiritual witness of the deeper structures of existence. After lifetimes of seeking and initiation, he returned in this incarnation not merely to remember—but to complete what he once refused: full spiritual evolution.
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When faced with metastatic cancer, he turned to sacred Master Plants and Toads—Ayahuasca, Iboga, Peyote, San Pedro, Tepezcohuite, Bufo Alvarius, and Magic Mushrooms. With them, he walked a deep path of healing, self-realization, and remembrance.
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A lifelong student of dreams and symbols, Thomas writes with a quiet urgency, drawing on years of journaling lucid dreams and studying the deep waters of the anima. When not writing, he lives with his family—and a contemplative turtle named Jemil—while charting the hidden maps of the soul. -
Irina Semikop
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Peter Walsh
Born and raised in Australia, Peter moved to Los Angeles in 1994 to launch a corporation to help organizations improve employee’s job satisfaction and effectiveness. He considers himself to be part-contractor, part-therapist in his approach to helping individuals attain their goals.
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Greg Behrendt
Gregory Behrendt is an American stand-up comedian and author. His work as a script consultant to the HBO sitcom Sex and the City, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, paved the way for co-authoring of the New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That into You (2004), later adapted into a film by the same name. Apart from that he also hosted two short-lived talk shows, The Greg Behrendt Show (2006) and Greg Behrendt's Wake Up Call (2009).
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Beverly Magid
Beverly Magid, before writing her novel, was a journalist and an entertainment and celebrity PR executive, who interviewed many luminaries, including John Lennon, Jim Croce and the Monty Python gang, and as a publicist represented clients in music, tv and film, ranging from Whoopi Goldberg, John Denver and Dolly Parton to Tom Skerritt, Martin Landau, Kathy Ireland and Jacqueline Bisset.
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Beverly is a longtime west coast resident but still considers herself a New Yorker. . She is an active member of Jewish World Watch, a California-based organization, which works to end genocide and is on-the-ground in Africa helping to aid and educate the victims of war atrocities.
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Anthony DiPaolo
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Writing in the sphere of what some have termed "Archaeo-Horror" - Anthony melds together the real life locations and legends of the ancient world and his own brand of supernatural plot twists and turns - to bring us fast paced, cliffhanger chapters and a cast of enigmatic characters.
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J. Mark G. Williams
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Dale A. Jenkins
Dale Jenkins has had a lifelong interest in the Navy and international affairs. He is a former US Navy officer who served on a destroyer in the Pacific and for a time was home-ported in Yokosuka, Japan. Pacific Fleet commitments took him to the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. While on active duty, he was awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. His business career was primarily in international banking, and he was also a staff director at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Dale currently serves on the Samuel Eliot Morison Committee of the Naval Order of the United Sates, New York, and as a Regional Director of the Naval War College Foundation. As a result of his active-duty experience and new
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Phil Hall
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Phil was born in Great Dunmow, Essex, a town famous for the Dunmow Flitch. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford before taking an economics degree at the University of East Anglia.
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Felicia Day
Actress, New Media Geek, Gamer, Misanthrope. Voracious reader.
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Felicia Day is a prolific multi-hyphenate. She's the New York Times Bestselling author of "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)" and the creativity book "Embrace Your Weird", and she recently wrote the Audible series "Third Eye" that won "Best Audio Drama" at the Audie Awards in 2024. She has appeared as an actor in numerous television shows such as “Supernatural”, “Eureka” and “The Magicians” and she can be heard as a voice actor in such shows as "Adventure Time" and "Monster High."
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Aziz Gazipura
Dr. Aziz is a clinical psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on social confidence. After being stuck in shyness and social anxiety himself for almost 10 years, he became determined to find a way to social freedom. Through thousands of hours of his own training, counseling, reading, group work, and coaching, he has truly mastered what it takes to break free from shyness and social anxiety into a life of confidence.
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In 2011, Dr. Aziz started The Center For Social Confidence, which is dedicated to helping everyone break through their shyness and social anxiety. Through his unique blend of compassion, humor, and personal courage, Dr. Aziz has helped thousands of people all over the world increase their confidence. Through confidenc -
Rory Freedman
Rory Freedman is the co-author of "Skinny Bitch". She attended the University of Maryland, and used to not like writing, but has developed a passion for writing due to her passion for the subjects that she writes about. She wrote "Skinny Bitch" because she is passionate about not being skinny or being a bitch, but to educate everyone about becoming vegetarian and vegan. Rory Freedman was not always a vegan, or vegetarian. Growing up she ate meat every day. Her passion for becoming vegetarian and vegan developed about 15 years ago. Her passion developed due to reading an article about animals being slaughtered for food. She always saw herself as an animal lover and she was disgusted by what she saw in the article. One image was of baby chick
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Danielle LaPorte
Danielle LaPorte is a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.”
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The former director of a future studies think tank in Washington, DC, where she managed a team creating global scenarios. She now speaks about the intelligence of the heart.
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David J. Lieberman
David J. Lieberman, PhD, is a renowned psychotherapist and the author of eleven books, including the New York Times bestsellers Get Anyone to Do Anything and Never Be Lied to Again. He has trained personnel in the U.S. military, the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA, and his instructional video is mandatory for psychological operations graduates.
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Leonard Scheff
Leonard Scheff is a practicing attorney in Tucson, Arizona -- and a practicing Zen Buddhist.
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Leonard has attended several of the public teachings by H.H. the Dalai Lama including the four day workshop in Tucson in 1993, and a more recent 2003 teaching. He has participated in and led numerous Gestalt workshops.
Leonard has created a "Letting Go of Anger" seminar, with input by John Tarrant Roshi, and has taught it since 1993. While Leonard's anger transformation seminar is based on Buddhism through the teachings of the Dalai Lama, he believes these same principles are universal in all spiritual traditions.
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Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.
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WHEN has spent 4 months on the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and iBooks.
Dan's other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 39 languages.
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Joe Hart
Joe Hart began his career as a practicing attorney. After taking a Dale Carnegie Course, Joe reassessed his career path and future, ultimately leaving the practice of law, going to work for a top real estate company, and then founding an innovative e-learning company called InfoAlly. After selling that business five years later, Joe became the president of Asset Health, a US-based health and wellness company—all before becoming the President and CEO of Dale Carnegie in 2015. In 2019, the CEO Forum Group named Joe as one of twelve transformative leaders, giving him the Transformative CEO Leadership Award in the category of the People. He is the host of a top global podcast, “Take Command: A Dale Carnegie Podcast”, and he speaks around the wo
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Michael I. Bennett
Dr. Michael I. Bennett, educated at both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, is a board-certified psychiatrist, Canadian, and Red Sox fan. While he’s worked in every aspect of his field, from hospital administration to managed care, his major interest is his private practice that he’s been running for almost thirty years. The author of F*ck Feelings, with his daughter Sarah Bennett, he lives with his wife in Boston and New Hampshire.
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Jim Loehr
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and author of 16 books including his most recent, The Only Way to Win. He also co-authored the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement.
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Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Richard Wiseman
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Professor Richard Wiseman started his working life as a professional magician, and was one of the youngest members of The Magic Circle. He then obtained a degree in psychology from University College London and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
Richard currently holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he has gained an international reputation for research into psychology of luck, self-help, persuasion, and illusion. He has published over 50 papers in leading peer reviewed academic journals (including Nature and Psychological Bulletin), and his work has been cited in -
Richard Nelson Bolles
Dick Bolles, more formally known as Richard Nelson Bolles, was a former Episcopal clergyman, a member of high-IQ society Mensa, and the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute? The book remained on The New York Times best-seller list for more than a decade and has sold over 10 million copies.
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Sharon Salzberg
One of America’s leading spiritual teachers and authors, Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She has played a crucial role in bringing Asian meditation practices to the West. The ancient Buddhist practices of vipassana (mindfulness) and metta (lovingkindness) are the foundations of her work.
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Marti Olsen Laney
Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D., is a researcher, educator, author, and psychotherapist. One of America’s foremost authorities on introversion, she speaks and leads workshops on the topic in the United States and Canada.
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Karl Braungart
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Karl grew up in the Catonsville area with four siblings.
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While in the US Army and living in Germany, Karl gained hands-on experience in military intelligence during the Cold War. He worked in the administration of a security intelligence department, assisting soldiers completing security clearances and fingerprinting before submitting to the FBI for verification.
The military work also entailed seminar training to familiarize MI soldiers about Soviet/Russian espionage. Because the MI work also included driving the CO to intelligence meetings in Stuttgart, he was able to attend some meetings related to espionage matters as a bystander. While stationed overseas, Karl's travels throughout Europe helped develop his -
Daniel Coyle
Daniel Coyle is the author of the upcoming book The Culture Code (January 2018). He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent, The Secret Race (with Tyler Hamilton), and other books. Winner (with Hamilton) of the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize, he is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and also works a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Coyle lives in Cleveland, Ohio during the school year and in Homer, Alaska, during the summer with his wife Jen, and their four children.
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James Altucher
James Altucher is a writer, successful entrepreneur, chess master, and investor.
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He has founded over 20 companies and sold some of them for large exits. He has also run venture capital funds, hedge funds, angel funds, and currently sits on the boards of many companies.
He has written and been profiled in most major national media publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, and Business Week.
His blog, which began by detailing Altucher's precipitous fall from wealth and success to absolute rock bottom and then back to wealth, has attracted more than 10 million readers since its launch in 2010, and in 2011 inspired a comic book. -
Ronald Morrison
Ronald (Ron) Morrison is a lifelong science enthusiast and unapologetic science fiction geek. Born on the South Side of Chicago, he earned a B.S. in aeronautical & astronautical engineering from Purdue University before serving as a U.S. Navy pilot. After leaving active duty, he joined the defense industry and built flight simulators for military pilots. Upon completion of a Ph.D. with a specialty in artificial intelligence, Ron transitioned to a career as a consulting scientist and engineer for defense and intelligence organizations. He currently lives in northern Virginia.
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Phoenix Rokni
Phoenix Rokni has been captivated by stories all his life. As a child, he often explored the woods with his brothers, wielding a cardboard shield in one hand and a wooden sword in the other. Later, he served in the U.S. Army and, following an honorable discharge, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology. After years of dedicating himself to helping others, he chose to close his private practice to pursue his true passion—storytelling. For over twenty years, he had been crafting a vast world filled with heroes, villains, magic, and wonder. Realizing the time had come to share these stories, he embarked on his journey as an author.
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Steven L. Ririe
I'm a passionate storyteller and historian who likes to bring forgotten tales to light. I enjoy writing both non-fiction and historical fantasy fiction.
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I'm the founder of the Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial Committee, where I teach facts I uncovered about a classified 1955 plane crash near Mount Charleston, Nevada, leading to long-overdue recognition for the fallen.
My written works blend history, imagination, and deep moral questions, and I hope to draw readers into stories of courage and resilience. When I'm not writing, I volunteer in a prison ministry and advocate for historical preservation. -
Geoffrey R. Jonas
Geoffrey is a first-time author. He lives peacefully by a lake, spending his time writing, painting, gardening, and woodworking. His recovery is ongoing, and he enjoys his privacy and seclusion.
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Aleron II
Aleron II is a mystic, magician, and spiritual witness of the deeper structures of existence. After lifetimes of seeking and initiation, he returned in this incarnation not merely to remember—but to complete what he once refused: full spiritual evolution.
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When faced with metastatic cancer, he turned to sacred Master Plants and Toads—Ayahuasca, Iboga, Peyote, San Pedro, Tepezcohuite, Bufo Alvarius, and Magic Mushrooms. With them, he walked a deep path of healing, self-realization, and remembrance.
His book We Are Not Humans is not a memoir, but a guide to inner transformation. It merges practical teachings, magic, and sacred plant wisdom with clarity and depth. Now bearing the archetype of the Black Panther, Aleron II teaches through silent pr -
Thomas Chung
Thomas Chung is a Seoul-born novelist whose stories search for the unseen doorways between faith and fear, silence and revelation. His debut thriller, The Celestial Gate Murders, explores the mysteries that linger at the edges of ritual, memory, and the unconscious.
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A lifelong student of dreams and symbols, Thomas writes with a quiet urgency, drawing on years of journaling lucid dreams and studying the deep waters of the anima. When not writing, he lives with his family—and a contemplative turtle named Jemil—while charting the hidden maps of the soul. -
Irina Semikop
Irina Semikop writes psychological thrillers that go beyond crime and mystery, diving into the complexities of human behavior. Her debut novel, Voluntary Pain, explores not just danger and secrets, but the choices, contradictions, and hidden sides of the people who make them.
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She finds inspiration in travel, in watching people, in overheard conversations that reveal more than they intend. For Irina, thrillers aren’t about shock value – they’re about capturing life in all its layers and turning it into stories that feel unsettlingly real. -
Dan Harris
Dan Harris is the coanchor of Nightline and the weekend editions of Good Morning America. He regularly reports for 20/20, World News with Diane Sawyer, and the weekday editions of Good Morning America. Before joining ABC News fourteen years ago, he worked for local news outlets in Boston and Maine. He lives with his wife, Bianca, in New York City. 10% Happier is his first book.
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Anne Bogel
Anne Bogel is an author, the creator of the blog Modern Mrs Darcy, and host of Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club and What Should I Read Next? podcast.
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She is the author of My Reading Life: A Book Journal, My Reading Adventures: A Book Journal for Kids, Don’t Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life, I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, and Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything.
Anne lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, four children, and a yellow lab named Daisy. -
Brigid Schulte
Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and two children. She grew up in Oregon and spent summers in Wyoming, where she did not feel overwhelmed.
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George Leonard
George Burr Leonard (b. 1923) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential. He was President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, President of ITP International, and a former editor of Look Magazine. He was also a former United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth degree black belt in aikido.
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Leonard was a co-founder of the Aikido of Tamalpais dojo in Corte Madera, California. He also developed the Leonard Energy Training (LET) practice for centering the mind, body, and spirit. Leonard died at his home in Mill Valley, California on January 6, 2010 after a long illness. He was 86 years old. -
Susan David
Susan David, Ph.D., is a Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School; co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital; and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, a boutique business consultancy. An in-demand speaker and advisor, David has worked with the senior leadership of hundreds of major organizations, including the United Nations, Ernst & Young, and the World Economic Forum. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Harvard Business Review, Time, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. David is on the core faculty of the extraordinary global program Homeward Bound which culminates in an all-women expedition to Antarctica and is being filmed as a documentary. The program aims at i
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Chade-Meng Tan
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is Google's Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny). Meng was one of Google's earliest engineers. Among many other things, he helped build Google's first mobile search service, and headed the team that kept a vigilant eye on Google's search quality. His current job description is, "Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace".
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Outside of Google, Meng is the Founder and (Jolly Good) President of the Tan Teo Charitable Foundation, a small foundation dedicated to promoting Peace, Liberty and Enlightenment in the world. He is a Founding Patron of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE). He is also a Founding Patron of the World Peace Festival, and adviser to a number of -
Daniel G. Amen
The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare.com named him the web's most influential expert and advocate on mental health.
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Daniel Amen is a life-long Christian and graduate of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine. He is a double board-certified psychiatrist and multiple NY Times bestselling author, with such blockbuster books as Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Healing ADD, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and The Daniel Plan, co-authored by Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman. In November 2016, he and his wife Tana published The Brain Warrior's Way.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 6 locations across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world's large -
Aishah Hight
Aishah was born in Queens, New York but spent her teen and adult years in Atlanta, Georgia. Growing up in diverse communities influences her writing and fuels her passion for uplifting and empowering children. Aishah’s children’s books include themes of kindness, hope, and overcoming challenges. When she isn’t writing, Aishah works as a project manager, watches suspense movies, and and enjoys singing and dancing to Sesame Street songs with her family.
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S.D. Hagen
SD Hagen is the independent author of An Alternative to Believing in Nothing. He is a native of Southern California, where he resides with his 14-year-old son. He holds a bachelor's degree in management and has worked in the aviation public sector for over 30 years. His credibility as a "regular guy" lies in the fact that many scholars have written about the topics found in his publication; however, they are not direct believers of the material.
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SD Hagen's message as a one-time author is addressed to a specific group of adults who number in the millions. Today, approximately 30% of U.S. adults, comprising over 70 million people, are unaffiliated with an organized religion for varied reasons. Interestingly, over 70% of this group believes or -
Katie Hall-May
Hello, I'm Katie. Thank you for visiting my page. I’m excited to meet you, and would be thrilled if you read my books, and even more if you enjoyed them.
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My newest book (hot off the press as I write this and to be found at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F1NGCSN2) ‘Unforgotten Monsters’ explores the murkiness of memory. A woman finds herself in a mysterious village. But she’s not sure how she got there or what she was running from. If she can discover that, or what the village is, she might not be so keen to leave. And can she?
‘Puck’s Legacy’ (https://amzn.eu/d/frvJUDU) is about what happens when you escape from reality into fiction, and whether it's possible to return. It's also about drama, love and extremism, but mostly it's about obsessio -
Katherine Davis-Gibbon
Katherine Davis-Gibbon is an award-winning children's book author, yoga teacher, and mother of two. Her debut book, My Old Friend, Then, was a Finalist in the 2022 American Book Fest's Best Book Awards in two categories: Children's Mind/Body/Spirit and Children's Gift/Novelty; a Distinguished Favorite in the 2022 New York City Best Book Awards in the Children's Motivational Category; and a Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 Independent Press Awards in the Children's Motivational Category. Her forthcoming book, Words, is receiving praise from multiple editorial outlets, including being selected as a Reviewer's Choice by the Midwest Book Review and a Distinguished Favorite in the 2025 Independent Press Awards Picture Book Ages 4-8 Category.
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Hans Ness
Hans Ness is currently stationed on Earth in the San Franciscio Bay Area to observe and report on the adorable earthling species. He studied earthling psychology to exploit their quirky idiosyncrasies. His first mission was to infiltrate a middle and high school to mind-control juveniles in the subjects of writing and literature. He was later embedded as a edtech founder (JupiterEd.com), critical thinking researcher (CriticalThinkingProject.org), and author of imaginary stories. He also experiments in earthling amusements of art, music, theater, and social media. All hail Zorxablorg!
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Yair Aizenman
Driven by curiosity and a deep love of understanding science, nature, and people, Yair pursued a PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA and a master's in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from the University of San Diego. Yair hopes this book will inspire people to focus on what truly matters, empowering them to lead happier and more meaningful lives. Yair loves exploring the world with his family, and they even got involved in establishing a lodge in the Amazon rainforest together.
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Daniel Aizenman, the co-author, has been a pioneer of medical, sustainability, and educational projects for villages in the Amazon rainforest for a decade. He has a master's in biology from Miami University and a Bachelor’s in neurobiology, physiology, and behavior f -
David R. Clark
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David Gittlin
Only one thing stood between me and my dream of becoming a creative writer: I couldn’t do two things at once.
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Upon retiring from my career in marketing communications, I decided to devote my full attention to writing fiction, thereby solving my multi-tasking challenge.
I began my creative writing journey by enrolling in the online Writers’ Program offered by UCLA. In a series of courses taught by professional writers, I learned how to craft memorable characters, create colorful worlds, and outline suspenseful plots enriched with drama and conflict.
Taking one baby step at a time, I managed to bridge the gulf between writing promotional copy in short bursts to rendering full scale novels. As an interim step, I wrote three screenplays.
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C.K. Prahalad
was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan, USA.
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Kay Freeman
Kay has an undergraduate degree from Moore College of Art and Design and an MFA from Vermont College.
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Author Skye Warren's book, The Pawn, was the first romance book that she fell in love with.
She believes romance takes you on a journey. In the process, it transforms the heroine, the hero, and the reader.
Kay started writing romance after her author Calia Wilde chose her manuscript for RWA's RAMP program in 2021. She's written five books, Truth Moon, published by The Wild Rose Press, and four others, Hitman's Honey, an award-winning romance suspense novel (Mid-Atlantic Authors Society), and gothic romance novella, The Devil You Know. Kay writes for substack, What Do Romance Writers Think About? to give back to other writers. -
S.M. McVicar
S.M. McVicar is an adventurer who has always tried to understand the mind and how it relates to the universe. In a career spanning two decades in the financial sector, he’s witnessed the greed of corporate America firsthand. That background and a natural rebellious streak became the spark for Burn the Freeze.
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McVicar lives with his wife in the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada. They have three amazing children who they enjoy debating with about literature, music, and anything else important happening in the world.
Burn the Freeze is his first published novel and is already on the Amazon new release bestseller list. Try the sample pages to see if the story resonates for you the way it has for so many others. -
George Robstad
George Robstad is a prairie-based author on Treaty 6 territory with a love of compelling tales that balance mystery, self-discovery and a touch of intrigue. When not immersed in their writing, George enjoys exploring true crime podcasts, unraveling the twists of reality TV, and savoring the flavors of global cuisines and wine through their travels.
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Living with their partner in Saskatoon, George draws inspiration from his time spent on the West Coast and the complexities of human connection and queer relationships. His debut cozy mystery, Sandbakkels and Sin, invites readers to step into a world of relatable characters and captivating mysteries, perfect for those who enjoy getting lost in a story about a protagonist looking for their place i -
Malcolm McCoard
The author has published several books in the very different genres of YA fantasy and Cosmology and theoretical physics.
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The serious stuff first - the author has published 2 works on the nature of time and creation. The first book "How to fix the universe" introduced a radical new explanation for what time is and proposed alternatives to dark matter and dark energy. A second publication titled "Everything" builds on the success of the model and proposes a new big bang theory. One which starts from nothing and doesn't break Einstein's laws of general relativity, unlike the current model.
The accidental author - Malcolm started writing in response to his 8 year old daughter's request when he was making up bedtime stories about dragons and othe -
Daniel Cuervonegro
Daniel Cuervonegro is a historian, illustrator, teacher & writer born in Bogotá, Colombia, with over 15 years of writing experience. He first published a Tabletop Roleplaying Game by the name Eoris Essence, nominated to the 2010 Ennies awards for its art and design. Daniel lives in Bogotá where he teaches world history, geography and creative writing.
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