Meet the Co-Authors!
Shoshana Allice
Shoshana Allice is a learning specialist with over 10 years experience educating adults in leadership, personal and career development. Shoshana is a compelling public speaker, a compassionate coach and a dynamic facilitator / trainer. Shoshana holds a Masters Degree in Human Systems Intervention, and certifications in Myers-Briggs, Emotional Intelligence and Coaching.
Terri Amos-Britt
Terri is the author of The Enlightened Mom and Message Sent. As a spiritual coach and motivational speaker, Terri shares her experiences as a wife, mom, stepmom, former Miss USA and television host, inspiring others to release the emotional chaos in their lives, creating lives of passion, purpose and love. Terri is the co-founder of The Enlightened Family Institute with her husband, Charlie Britt. Their mission is to bring hope and healing to individuals and families all over the world
Amy Applebaum
Amy is the prominent Life Coach behind the butt-kicking “Boot Camp for your Mind®”, coaching program. “Life coaching is the new psychology of today,” says Amy.” Amy’s groundbreaking process allows her clients to move past barriers, allowing them to accomplish goals they never imagined possible. Amy’s credentials include a BA in Speech and Organizational Communications, Certifications as a Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Timeline Therapist, and Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Anne Berry
Anne is a certified Nia teacher. Nia is a body-mind-spirit dance, fitness and lifestyle practice. As a personal growth and Nia teacher, Anne especially enjoys teaching women over 60 how to empower themselves to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. Having struggled herself with how to remain vital and passionate in later life, she has found true joy through dance and spiritual personal growth. She discovered that through practicing Nia she fell in love with being and moving in her body – experiencing the power of Self-Healing.
Nicole Brandon
Nicole is the leading fitness and transformational health practitioner in the world today. Acclaimed author, coach, speaker, fitness guru, and transformational leader; Nicole shares her breakthrough knowledge on the body and it’s mysteries and magic. Nicole coins her work “Artistry in Motion”, which is the way she lives.
Marlene Coleman, M.D.
Dr. Marlene Coleman is an award-winning physician, speaker, author of Safe and Sound—Healthy Travel with Children, and co-author of Start Your Own Medical Practice. She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at USC Keck School of Medicine, and an attending physician at the California Institute of Technology.
Alice Comer
Alice is a Registered Nurse Practitioner, teacher, facilitator, personal health coach and coach for the Peace of Mind Principles. She believes she was called to the healing profession and uses this perspective as the basis for the company she founded. Within the concept of healing, there are components of Body, Mind and Spirit. Personal health coaching is an absolute necessity for many. Alice’s works to discover, nurture and live her “authentic” self, while her purpose is to help others to do the same.
Johanna Courtleigh
Johanna is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Writer, Teacher, Speaker and Coach in Portland, Oregon. She has helped thousands of people release old, outmoded habits of thought, feeling and behavior, acquire new skills, and move into deeper self-love, awareness, ease and integrity–internally, and in their relationships with others–in turn creating a more authentic, fulfilling, spiritually reverent, joyful life. She is passionate about helping create a more peaceful world, and helping her clients become more peaceful and ‘in love’, as a state of being.
Melinda Day-Harper
Melinda is a speaker, author and money coach with over 25 years experience in senior and executive corporate management as both a CFO and CEO. A CPA by profession (but not by personality!), Melinda founded T-Zone Consulting, Inc. in 2006 to help others Break Boundaries and achieve the success and prosperity they deserve.
Tara Diamond
Tara Diamond is a Spiritual Healer, Human Design Analyst, and professional artist in Del Mar, CA. Her deeply intuitive healing technique comes from 25 years of transpersonal healing experience. She was a minister with The Teaching of the Inner Christ for 10 years and currently is in private practice. She coaches psycho-spiritual processes and clears energy fields of astral influences that affect her clients’ well-being.
Lorraine Edey
Lorraine has over twenty-five years experience as a therapist in the mental health field and has provided training for large corporations such as AT&T, Sprint, Bank of America, FEMA, NASA and FAA. Three years ago Lorraine transitioned into coaching full time and specializes as an on-line money and relationship expert, coach and trainer. She is passionate about helping others dissolve debt and supporting financial freedom. Lorraine encourages people to learn how to manage their money and how to break-free of limiting thoughts and patterns that keeps them in bondage caused by debt and under-earning.
Dorothy Fest
After 25 years as an award winning elementary educator and teacher trainer, Dorothy resigned from teaching to live the life of her dreams. Implementing the distinctions she gained through more than a decade of transformational work, as a participant, coach, and a seminar leader, she gave up the security of a “JOB” and risked it all to venture into entrepreneurship. Currently, she is using her visionary and creative talents to launch her new business – called To Live Your Dreams, products, resources, and services allowing access for all ages to live and fulfill their dreams.
Arielle Ford
Arielle believes that finding true love is possible for anyone, at any age. Married for the first time at age 44, she expanded on the set of skills that she used to launch her highly successful Public Relations firm, The Ford Group, and applied them to her love life. She is best known for helping to launch the careers of many bestselling self-help and spiritual authors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Neale Donald Walsch and many others. She is the author of seven books including the Hot Chocolate For The Mystical Soul series.
Beth Frazier
Beth is a graduate of Hunter College with a B.S. degree in Accounting. She worked in her original field for many years before setting her sights on real estate investing and entrepreneurship. Beth was inspired by a unique opportunity to work with renowned investor, businessman, motivational speaker and self-help author Robert Kiyosaki, best known for his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Beth acted on this life-changing experience to subsequently found the New York City Women’s Investment Group in 2006, where she used her lessons to teach other women how to invest.
Lisa Fredette
Lisa Fredette is a CTA Certified Life Coach, RCI Certified Relationship Coach, Author, Speaker, Radio Host and owner of Passionate About Life Coaching. As a successful, professional business owner and divorced mom Lisa understands the special challenges professional women face when dealing with divorce. Lisa is passionate about supporting her clients in their divorce recovery and she does so by offering her clients one on one coaching, group coaching programs, e-courses, e-books, tele-seminars and membership to her coaching club.
Margaret Good
Margaret has transformed lives by showing people that success, wealth and living abundantly is not difficult when you learn simple life altering principles. Margaret is a unique and stand alone speaker and coach. Her candor and ability to point out what your true gifts, talents and inspiration are can quickly help you live the life you have always dreamed of. Helping others reach their fullest potential is Margaret’s mission in life.
Alice Greene
Alice is America’s Healthy Lifestyle Coach and author of Inspired to Feel Good (January ‘08). She guides people in discovering how to eat healthier, be more fit and choose self care that feels so good they stick with their new behaviors as a way of living. She teaches people how to change their mental and emotional mindset and gives them the tools to be in control, stay motivated and feel confident to reach their health, fitness and weight loss goals for the long-term.
Elaine Hendrix
Elaine is a world-renown actress best known for such projects as What the Bleep Do We Know?!, Joan of Arcadia, and The Parent Trap. She also happens to be a veteran film and stage producer, established singer/songwriter, classically trained dancer, published author, public speaker, and avid animal activist. She manages to “have it all” by living a life of unwavering commitment to balance and authentic self-expression.
Deb Holder
Deb is a professional copywriter/marketing strategist and the president and CEO of Debt-Free-Mom.com, a site devoted to helping women break free from debt. She is also featured in David Bach’s bestselling book Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams and hopes her story will empower single mothers to live with peace and prosperity. Deb’s passion for creating red-hot, moneymaking marketing campaigns for businesses fuels her creative spirit.
Billie Jenkin
Billie retired from teaching (kindergarten – high school; incarcerated adult males) to follow her dreams: traveling, writing, empowering others both to accept themselves “warts and all” and to make the changes they desire. She serves as CEO (Chief Empowerment Officer) of Empowering For Change, a multi-dimensional venture for personal and interpersonal empowerment. Billie Willmon Jenkin is author-illustrator of the soon-to-be published The Knock-Kneed Cowboy: A Celebration of Individuality.
Tereasa Jones
Tereasa is a RCI Certified Relationship Coach, an IIAC Senior Certified ADHD Coach, author, speaker, trained marriage educator, and owner of Coached Living. Tereasa holds her Master Degree in Counseling Psychology and writes a weekly column for her local newspaper. As a wife, mother, sister, daughter, neighbor and friend, Tereasa understands the importance of relationships. She uses both her professional and personal experience to coach individuals in a variety of ways including individual coaching, couples coaching, group coaching and workshops.
Amy Kelly
Amy Kelly is a life designer, specializing in supporting women who are ready to live passionately and get more out of life. Her own passion is to help her clients learn to listen to their inner voice, align with their heart and from there, to design the life they want.
Mindie Kniss
Mindie is a holistic life coach, writer and international speaker. Her diverse experience includes working in the wilderness as an adventure guide and in corporate America, where she worked for a Fortune 100 company. She was granted a six-month fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya to work on HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives. Mindie holds a master’s degree in Metaphysics and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and a PhD in Metaphysics.
Melina Kunifas
Melina is a Life Coach and Speaker who loves to empower people, especially women dealing with low self-esteem, low confidence and self-image issues. She has done her training at CoachU and is currently working towards her certification with the International Coach Federation. Melina’s coaching style is nurturing, fun and direct. It is important to her that clients not settle for less than what they hope for, even if they are initially skeptical of their capacity to reach their goals.
Christine La, M.D.
Dr. Christine La was born in Saigon, Vietnam, emigrated to the United States, and was raised in Orange County, CA. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. She has received residency training at USC Medical Center in the field of psychiatry. Dr. La has worked with a variety of patients and believes in the power of the human mind and cognitive analysis to overcome mental obstacles. As a book consultant for the Wake Up book series, Dr La’s interest is in evaluating how women can empower themselves in relationships.
Amy Lundberg
Amy specializes in empowering women entrepreneurs to build an inner foundation and harmony in all parts of their lives therefore allowing their weight loss/fitness goals to become a healthy lifestyle. As an award winning Lifestyle Fitness Coach, a mother of four small children, and a wife, Amy has faced her own challenges and experiences as a working mother. She combines the knowledge she’s gained from those experiences with her extensive education to inspire women to balance family, business and their personal health successfully.
Carolyn L. Mein, D.C.
Dr. Carolyn Mein is the author of Different Bodies, Different Diets and Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils She is a Doctor of Chiropractic, acupuncture, bio-nutrition, a Fellow of American Council of Applied Clinical Nutrition (F.A.C.A.C.N.) and diplomate of the International College of Applied Kinesiology (DICAK). Dr. Mein has developed a system of energy medicine for diagnosis and treatment known as Transpersonal Physiology and maintains an active practice in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
NJ Mitchell
NJ grew up in a small Florida town the eldest of six children. She traveled the United States playing semi-Professional softball for 17 years, which includes many individual and team trophy awards. She has her MBA complimented with a degree in communication. Currently with the Human Communication Institute, NJ is Company Principal, VP of Operations & Marketing and brings a special brand of organization, motivation, personal coaching and team confidence building skills to the company. She manages the HCI, LLC practitioner PASS IT ON Film project and can be seen in a few movies and HBO shows if you look hard enough.
Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer is a certified Professional Life Coach trained by Coaches Training Institute, and has trained as an Organization and Relationship Systems Coach with the Center for Right Relationship. Under the umbrella of her company, Trilogy Communications, Jennifer focuses on communications in personal and business relationships, and she is passionate about guiding people’s learning to create powerful and effective results in their relationships. She also co-founded, Pathways to Change, which delivers leading-edge coaching skills training and relationship workshops in the corporate arena.
Sylvia Moss, OM
Sylvia is a gifted sound healer and spiritual teacher with a passion for helping people grow and heal. She is a Brennan Healing Science practitioner, Transformational Energetics therapist, Life Works Guidess, ordained interfaith minister, and photographer. An accomplished manifester, she leads the Life Works Money Support Group and guides private clients on relationships, life issues, and manifestation. She maintains an active international healing practice and is well known for her extraordinary use of Crystal Singing Bowls in private and group healings.
MaryKay Mullally
MaryKay Mullally, MS, MBA, is a wellness and weight management coach. She is an expert in transforming body image and limiting beliefs that get in the way, helping hundreds of men and women to achieve their goals. MaryKay knows how to help others to overcome the barriers that get in the way of having the health, habits, lifestyle and body they want. She will empower you to be the best you can be wherever you are.
Lisa Nack
Lisa is a coach, facilitator, catalyst and investor. She has partnered with organizations and individuals since 1993 to build leaders, to create team environments, to improve results and to manage change. Lisa has the unique ability to create experientially-based training events that are safe spaces for hosting critical conversations, that ensures learning is relevant and immediately applicable to the work place, and that catalyze individuals and organizations to take action.
Rita Oldham
Rita lives in Kentucky with her loving husband, Jim and her three wonderful children. After years of struggling to complete her education, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Business from Murray State University. God has not only blessed her with a wonderful family but a fulfilling and rewarding career. She is an executive for a magazine and book publisher working with clients from around the world. She is truly living the life she loves.
Sheila Pearl
Sheila is a passionate motivational speaker, spiritual teacher and Life Coach leading empowermentworkshops for over 30 years. A seasoned clinical social worker and pastoral counselor, Sheila established her Life Coaching practice “Mind-Body-Spirit Connections” over ten years ago, after redesigning her psychotherapy practice. Sheila transformed her role as an opera singer into being a “sweet singer of Israel” in the synagogue, serving as a Cantor for over 20 years. Her specialty is empowerment for women, couples dialogue coaching, teaching parents how to be life coaches to their teenagers.
Pamela S. Perkins, M.A.
Pamela is Founder & CEO of the Human Communication Institute, is a graduate of the well-renowned University’s of North Carolina Chapel Hill and New York University. Pamela has over 20 years of experience as a Human Communication Management Specialist, Professor of Communication, Corporate Training Consultant, Lecturer, and academia and corporate curriculum developer. Pamela is a featured practitioner in the Film; Pass It On along with Visionary Dr. Michael Beckwith, Motivation Speaker Les Brown and Productivity Consultant Denis Waitley. Pamela is the author of : The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace
Arlene Rannelli
Arlene is gifted speaker, facilitator, coach and author. For the past 20 years, Arlene has designed, marketed and led adult educational programs helping people transcend their pain and negative beliefs to ultimately connect with Source Energy/God and to experience more of whatever it is they want in life. With an open heart, an understanding of human emotions and having been there herself, she is able to connect at a deep level and set people free to create long lasting results.
Raquel Reyna
Raquel has a BA in Political Science & Modern Dance with a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology. Her eclectic combination of studies have established Raquel as a business entrepreneur developing and living advanced principles of spiritual consciousness in the world of franchising. Her intention is to bring higher more conscious approaches into the world of business, marketing and the exchange of money. Raquel coaches in franchising your business into successful expansion while expanding your soul’s own fruitful riches!
Pam Robertson
Pam loves exploring the beaches in Nova Scotia, Canada and she is an avid bird watcher and musician. She writes and speaks professionally about careers, training and facilitation, backed by a Ph.D. in career development, experience in a range of industries, the most invigorating of which was six years in the military until she started coaching. Pam loves to help people do what they do to the absolute best of their ability.
Erica Rueschhoff
For 13 years, Erica has been motivating and inspiring moms to embrace their role of motherhood, while continuing to pursue their purpose as individuals. She will help you find balance, recapture your dreams, and put them into action. Whether you are a stay at home mom or working mom, she can help you find peace and balance in your life.
Michelle Sanchez
Michelle’s experience includes running a multi-million dollar company and owning her own business as a Professional Organizer. After a long-term illness, Michelle’s journey to health led her to discover natural health alternatives, which in turn led her to discover new career alternatives in Network Marketing as a successful Leader, Trainer, and Success Coach where she passionately inspires and empowers women networkers to achieve their dreams.
Dorri Scott
Dorri is the Founder and President of a financial advisory/ business consultant boutique – High Heels and High Worth. Currently she is also employed by as a Commercial Banker. Weekly Dorri hosts an XM Radio show and regularly appears on radio shows as the finance expert specializing on money smart tips for women and families. Her sassy and common sense for cents style is “girl friend” friendly and entertaining. She holds a BA from the College of New Jersey, a Masters in Clinical Social Work and in 2002 she graduated from the Harvard Business School realizing a goal she set for herself at age 17.
Edith Sieg, MBA
Edith is a talented and gifted life and success coach, speaker and author. Are you feeling stuck or dissatisfied? As a coach Edith tunes into her intuitive and naturally psychic abilities to guide her as clients embark on the journey of personal awareness and discovery, moving towards clarity. She facilitates breaking through barriers and fears where willpower alone hasn’t been enough.
Kathleen Sims
Kathleen is the founder of the “Center for Conscious Relationship” and “Lifetime Love Connection.com,” offering revolutionary Healing, Counseling and Coaching Programs and Weekend Spiritual Intensives, teleseminars, audios and books. Her work is mystical, yet practical, and promotes permanent change. Kathleen’s background of Living her own Vision and Purpose for the last 25 years, and married to her Soulmate for 40 years, along with over 20 Transformational Certifications and 13,000 women clients, embracing their personal power, speak for themselves.
Christina South
Christina is a Wife, Mother and Conscious life coach whose greatest joy is assisting others in finding their life purpose, and making it a reality. Christina offers individual, and group coaching programs, Intuitive Coaching, as well as classes on intuitive development, and learning how to be your authentic self. Christina’s Life tip: If there is a dream in your heart rest assured that God planted it there. Your job is to sow it, water it, and watch it grow with spirited action.
Suzanne Strisower
Suzanne is an Intuitive Life Coach, Author and Screenwriter who has been empowering people for the past 30 years. Her goal is to help people express their creativity, Realize Your Life Big Picture Dreams™, and self actualize. She specializes in working with professionals who want to reinvent themselves and Cultural Creatives who want to actualize their passions and path of service. Currently, Suzanne is working on a spiritual feature film trilogy. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach.
Kara Swensen
Believing in herself has led Kara to be one of the most successful and respected aircraft brokers in the world. Kara built her aircraft sales business, Alaris Aviation LLC, from only a credit card and pure commitment. Crediting her drive and accomplishments to relational leadership, Kara is an accomplished speaker who encourages all to find their passion and achieve great things, both personally and professionally.
Shann Vander Leek
Shann is the founder of True Balance Life Coaching and the Co-Founder of Seize True Success Coaching. She is an inspirational personal coach, author and small business trainer committed to the mastery of personal and professional development. Shann inspires women in transition to set big goals, achieve extraordinary results and create balance in their lives. Shann’s personal style and direct approach have guided and inspired many in accomplishing personal and professional challenges. Her background in television advertising sales, marketing and client development along with leading a talented sales force for 11 years prepared her for the business of professional coaching.
