Dierdre Barnes is the proud owner of F.L.Y. Girl Candles, based in Louisville, Kentucky.F.L.Y. stands for “First Love Yourself.” This mantra is deeply woven into the fabric of the brand. It reflects Dierdre’s own journey and the ethos o...

Suzanne L'Heureux, Diving Deep Coaching, is a certified Master Jungian Life Coach with specialized training in Mindfulness Coaching and Positive Intelligence. For the last two decades, Suzanne h...

Mackenzie Wilmoth is a songwriter, singer, and musician. Her musical journey began at just 12 years old when she received a guitar for Christmas, sparking a passion that led to her self-taught prowess in both playing and songwriting. <...

Abby Laub serves as director of strategic communications for Asbury University. She holds a B.A. in journalism from Palm Beach Atlantic University. Prior to working at Asbury, she owned a photography and me...

Buffy Lawson was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and began entertaining from an early age. After graduating from high school, she moved toNashville, Tennessee. She began by singing demos for aspiring songwriters and soon started writing her own so...

Jenny Leigh Hodgins is the founder and CEO of YourCreativeChord, where creativity and inspiration meet transformation. With over 30 years as a performing pianist, vocalist, composer, and educator...

George Jreije is the Lebanese-American author of the Shad Hadid fantasy series, the upcoming Bashir Boutros series, and the upcoming graphic novels Tarik’s Bazaar Adventure and Lilo and the League of Librarians,

Jess Janz is a writer, community facilitator, and creator of Dinner With Strangers, which brings 20 people from different walks of life to share their stories over a meal. Her work examines identity, connection, and what binds us all t...

Juliana Piesco is a versatile multiartist whose work spans visual arts, performing arts, and literature. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Juliana studied both Law and Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo. Over the past year, she has embraced a nomad...

Megan Tusing is an actor, award-winning audiobook narrator, producer and coach raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, now based in Brooklyn. She developed a love of storytelling and a passion for language at a young age wh...

Renee Puvvada is a nonfiction book marketing consultant, author, and adventurer from Atlanta, Georgia. She has always loved writing, and she started her entrepreneurship journey selling self-published books online. Her most successful b...

Christina Noll is a marketing manager with over 25 years of experience in content creation, strategy, and management. Currently, she is a project manager with WG Content, a healthcare marketing agency based in Cincinnati. Previously, she was th...

Liza Holland is owner of Holland Management Services and host of the “Education Perspectives” podcast. She specializes in communicati...

Neil Kesterson has been a sound designer for film, video, television, radio, audiobooks, theatre, games, web, and multimedia since 1985. His very first sound design job was to recreate the Bell X-1 rocket plane breaking the sound barrier, of wh...

Vince Edwards has worked for Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, banking, and financial institutions. In 2006 he started his own consulting firm, Empire Builders.As a business consultant, Vince has worked with companies from every industr...

Sofia Hussein is  the founder and editor-in-chief of DINYA magazine. She is a creative powerhouse driven by her love for music, photography, and design. Raised in a multicultural family, Sofia's upbrin...

Henry Chien is a writer bringing investing insights to empower individual investors. A former equity research analyst, Henry has a decade of Wall Street knowledge. His work has been used by the world's largest trading desks and inv...

Hanna Wheeler is a Belgian Canadian living in Toronto, where she works as a copywriter and translator from Dutch into English. You can find her at her desk by the big window or in one of a dozen of her favorite coffee shops in the city (her

Donna Ison is a playwright, award-winning performance poet, and the author of two novels, with a third on the way. She also produces activist theatre, including the upcoming "The Art of Audacious Aging." She currently serves as the managing edi...

Natalie Ferris is a marketing strategist, direct response copywriter and the founder of Story Strategies. She's been obsessed with storytelling since second grade, when she used to skip recess to hide ...

Carla King is an adventure travel author, journalist, blogger, speaker, and writing and publishing coach.In 1995, Carla pioneered the art of the internet travelogue (now called blogs) with stories about breakdowns in small towns all arou...

Lisa Van Hoever is a writer and the designer behind Local Color Branding. Through Local Color, Lisa accidentally fell into small-business marketing as well, which is where you’ll find her delvin...

Amanda “Mandy” Ralston is a founder and CEO, award-winning entrepreneur, international thought-leader, and 25-year veteran practitioner and subject matter expert in behavior analysis and autism. She has been certified as a behavior analyst sinc...

Jin Maley (they/them) is a classically trained actor who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 2012.Jin portrays the Communications Officer Ensign Kova Rin Esmar in Star Trek: Picard. Their other television credits i...

Ted Emrich is a play-by-play announcer for college football and basketball on ESPN and Westwood One. He has also covered eight Masters Tournaments, three Olympics, three College World Series, and the McDonald’s All-American Boys and Girls Games...