Day 7 - September 11
Speakers
Susan Mead
Rising from Loss to Be a Living Legacy
After Susan Mead lost her youngest son, Kyle, she came to realize that even when things get broken, discarded or replaced, people matter most. It was during this season in life Dance with Jesus was written. Funny, relatable and engaging, Susan has audiences leaning in with anticipation. Her story is riveting, a refreshing tragedy to triumph story, one guaranteed to touch the heart of every listener.
As a frequent guest on radio, television and a contributing author on multiple media outlets, Susan has shared on CNN, Sirius XM, USA Radio Networks, Daystar, CTN and others.
A Charter Blogger on the Bible Gateway Blogger’s Grid and a regular contributor on Crosswalk.com, she has been quoted in The Street, published in the Medical Laboratory Observer (MLO), and has been described as a solid, comforting voice in a messy world.
Susan was awarded an MBA from the University of Dallas, spent 20+ years at a high level with Johnson and Johnson and is certified by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation in Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) in Individual Grief, Group Grief and Grief following Trauma.
Gina Sala
Opening Your Heart and Finding Your Voice
Gina Salá is a vocalist, composer, teacher and kirtan leader with a repertoire spanning 23 languages. She has been chanting since her early childhood ashram years, and has deepened her practices in extended time living in the Himalayas, a Buddhist monastery and in India with her teachers in sanskrit, mantra, sound tantra and classical Indian singing (nada yoga). Gina Salá’s performance credits include the U.N., Cirque du Soleil and more. She lived in Buddhist monastery and is often invited to share her voice in temples, churches, sufi events and more. For over twenty years, she has been facilitating workshops and private sessions to help people experience the pleasure and power in their voices for wholeness, joy,and awakening. She also has been a life-long dream interpreter, taught and honed by her mother and Swami Sivananda Radha. With warmth, humor and devotion, she leads, chants retreats and workshops internationally, including her annual “River of Sound” Tours to India. Her passion is singing us awake to the Love in all. www.ginasala.com
Kelly McNelis
Healing Your Heart, Loving Your Life
Kelly McNelis is the founder of Women For One, an online community of women ready and willing to make life happen. She travels the world as a speaker, teacher, and facilitator of workshops, helping others tap into lives powered by truth. With over 20 years experience as a nonprofit and small business consultant, Kelly is excited to empower generations of women around the world to become Women For One Truthtellers, building relationships, community, and the support structure they need to achieve their wildest dreams. She finds her own daily inspiration in spending time with her husband and children in their home outside of Seattle, and is currently writing her first book, The Messy Truth, Hierophant Publishing, due out in Spring, 2017.
Faith Hill
Caring for Your Self: Body and Soul
Faith Hill is the visionary founder and show host for LifeWiseTV. Faith, author of The LifeWise Menu Planning System, is a passionate woman dedicated to helping people experience life and health like they never have before. For the past 5 years, Faith has been a personal and business coach for health care professionals across the US and Canada. Understanding the importance of education and continual growth, in addition to her license, Faith is also certified in Nutrition Consulting, Cellular Healing and Detoxification, as well as Advanced Discipleship Counseling. She is the creator of two nationally utilized wellness programs, and has co-founded ministries in the Charlotte area. Faith and her husband Jonathan are a dynamic duo, and travel as seminar coordinators and speakers, teaching the training programs they have developed. They have recently launched their digital wellness solution Fortified Health Club.
Michelle Phillips
Creating Unstoppable Confidence by Redefining Beauty
Michelle Phillips is a leading authority in the beauty industry and one of the most influential makeup artists the entertainment industry. With over 25 years experience Michelle works with national television networks, on movie sets, with top photographers, and magazines in the business including Swiss Vogue and Maxim Magazine.
You may have seen Michelle on TV shows and Networks such as; HGTV, HSN, CBS, NBC, FOX, Oxygen and TLC sharing her tips and techniques that have made her one of the most renowned beauty experts in the industry who has worked with celebrities such as Katie Couric, Colbie Caillat, Condoleezza Rice, Sigourney Weaver, Clint Eastwood, and Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney.
Michelle’s best selling book “The Beauty Blueprint” has opened up opportunities for Michelle to share her message on speaking tours with inspirational icons such as Wayne Dyer and Louise Hay giving women around the globe powerful tools of transformation; a transformation to not just look amazing but to BE amazing!
Lisa Garr
Awareness as a path to Infinite Vitality
Lisa Garr has dedicated her life to the awareness of herself and her surroundings. Based on a desire to live in a more conscious world, Lisa created The Aware Show, a talk radio program focusing on self development in all areas of life, for healing and achievement. She is also the host of the most popular Aware Teleseminars, which present the thought leaders of our world. For the past ten years, Lisa has hosted an hour of radio programming featuring best-selling authors and experts in the fields of natural health and personal growth. She is considered an expert in the field of lifestyle and transformational programming.
As Lisa says, "I created this show to bring balance to my own life, between my passion for personal growth and working in the entertainment industry. I am learning, just like many listeners, and I make it a point to have guests give examples of how to apply their philosophies to everyday living. I bring into my conversations real-life situations, even aspects of my own life that will help clarify concepts. And with so many different angles presented by the different guests, I invite the listeners to hear what philosophies resonate with them and become empowered by making conscious choices..
Robin Mastro
Creating Sacred Space in Your Home for Increased Vitality
Robin Mastro, M.A., is an award-winning author, practitioner, speaker, and teacher of Vedic knowledge specializing in Vastu Shastra, the science of environmental harmony. Her unique take on Vastu took her to Egypt, India and Bali to experience and learn how ancient cultures create sacred space. She developed a powerful model of Vastu using the most potent aspects of the science that work much like an energetic homing device to attract the positive forces of Nature to manifest your heart’s desires and to infuse your home and workspace with the energy of attraction.
Along with her husband, Michael, Robin’s work has been featured in print and television worldwide. Together, the Mastros have written three award-winning books about how stress impedes success and fulfillment: “Altars of Power and Grace”, “The Way of Vastu”, “Making Room for Mr. Right”. Their mission is to reduce the stress that impedes fulfillment and to end personal and global suffering.
Robin can be reached for private consultations at [email protected] or visit the Mastros on the web at www.vastucreations.com.
Roger Sramek
Reclaim Your Vitality with a Good Night's Sleep
Roger Sramek is an inventor, businessman, best-selling author and renowned expert in the biomechanics of sleep. In 2015 he co-founded LEVELSleep, where he currently leads product development with the goal of improving the lives of people all over the world through more productive sleep and less pain.
Mr. Sramek began his career in banking and international real estate finance until the "Big Bang" in London in 1997 led him to contemplate changing careers. It was during this critical period that he had a memorable exchange with a mentor who encouraged him to adapt a “stop talking and start doing” mantra, exit the business world, and pursue his passion of inventing products that would help both people and the planet.
His girlfriend, an incessant snorer, inspired Mr. Sramek’s first invention in 1997: a foam pillow designed for quieter sleep. His first prototype was created using an electric carving knife, and the results surpassed his expectations; the pillow reduced her snoring and reduced facial wrinkles due to the positioning of her head and face. He took his invention to The Stanford Center for Human Sleep Research and conducted three clinical, peer-reviewed studies that were published in 1998. The results were dramatic, demonstrating that the pillow reduced snoring by 78 percent and improved sleep apnea. This early success and interest from the scientific community validated Mr. Sramek’s theory that there was a white space in the market for better sleep systems and sent him on a 12-year journey to reinvent the way people think about and value sleep.
Shortly after the success of the pillow creation, Mr. Sramek had lunch with “the father of sleep medicine,” Dr. Dement of Stanford University, who challenged him to invent a mattress. Over the next several years, and with the help of others, Mr. Sramek turned his attention to creating a mattress that could help people sleep better and experience less pain. The result was a mattress that features three different firmness zones corresponding with the shoulders, torso and hips. This patented technology was aptly named TriSupport and has since been clinically tested and proven to improve sleep satisfaction and reduce tossing, turning, stiffness, and pain.
In 2014, Mr. Sramek published a #1 best-selling book, Your Sleep: Wake Up Refreshed, and met JJ Abodeely, a successful portfolio manager who was seeking a better sleep solution for himself and his wife. After a period of talking, dreaming, and later securing financing, LEVELsleep was born. Now Mr. Sramek’s pillow is being used by tens of thousands of satisfied customers and the LEVELsleep mattress is the mattress of choice for professional athletes, top doctors in sleep medicine, and anyone looking to live a healthier life and achieve uninterrupted, deeply restorative and less painful sleep. Mr. Sramek continues to work on his inventions and to refine LEVELsleep products to stay at the forefront of sleep science. He is the holder of eight issued patents and six pending patents across a variety of industries.
Mr. Sramek holds a bachelor’s degree in pre-med from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and earned his MBA from Adelphi University in Long Island. He sits on the Board of Directors of Plus5 Inc., as a founder and patent holder for his proprietary technology to recycle tires and rubber scraps into carbon, steel, gas, oil and energy. He is also active on the board of ThinkOutofTheCup, a not-for-profit organization that teaches agriculture and sustainability to kids, starting with their parents’ normally-thrown-away coffee cup, lid, and napkin.
When he is not inventing, he enjoys rowing and sailing on the beautiful San Francisco Bay. He can frequently be found traveling around the country giving talks and sharing the tremendous amount of knowledge he has about the biomechanics, importance, and attainability of a good night’s sleep. Mr. Sramek lives in Northern California, has three adult children and two grandchildren, all of whom love sleep as much as he does.
Master Mirva
Reconnection with One’s Soul as the Greatest Guide and Deepest Healer
Master Mirva is an exceptional teacher, soul healer and soul communicator. As a Divine Channel and Worldwide Representative of Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha, she has been empowered to offer many divine services to assist others on their spiritual and healing journey.
Master Mirva helps others to understand their life challenges and empowers them to heal every aspect of their lives, including: physical conditions, emotional and mental issues, spiritual matters and relationship challenges. With her professional background in Leadership Development, Master Mirva uses Soul Power techniques to offer life guidance for career choices and challenges at work. Master Mirva dedicates her life to assisting others in awakening the power of their soul.
Master Mirva was born in Finland and lived in England, Canada and Germany. She now resides in Sydney, Australia. Her working history is mainly in the corporate arena, where she has worked for over 15 years in global multinational including Fortune 100 listed organizations. She has always been interested in personal and spiritual growth and has a desire to facilitate this journey and expansion for others. She is also an accredited Executive Coach and an administrator of personality assessment tools, such as Q12 and Myer’s Briggs Type Indicator.
When she was growing up, everything was about dance and to do with dance. She started teaching contemporary dance to 3-4 year old children at the age of 16. She performed and took part in international gymnastic events in Europe. Learning Soul Dance from Master Sha’s teachings took her to be a certified Master and Teacher of Tao Dance by Master Sha. She also passionately and with great love offers Divine Gong sound healing blessings.