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Comings of Age

Get Your Epiphany Project Lesson Plan Now Or Create Your Own!

Get Your Epiphany Project Lesson Plan Now Or Create Your Own!

  I’ve learned not to fear but instead smile through the darkness. About a year ago, I was tagged in an Instagram post by Jordan Moxley, a young teacher in Columbus, Ohio. I didn't know Jordan or anyone in Columbus so I was perplexed at first until I saw that an...

One Way to Have an Epiphany: Observe & Contemplate Everyday Life

One Way to Have an Epiphany: Observe & Contemplate Everyday Life

Many important discoveries are made merely by observing and contemplating what is experienced in everyday life. ~Roly Gosling, M.D. Today apparently is World Malaria Day. I didn't even know there was such a thing but I'm happy to know there is and that all the news...

Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright

"Take your place. The future is now, so take your place, make your mark - be the person you want to be in your family, in your community, in the world." Lawrence Wright is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of numerous books, including The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and...

Roy Williams

Roy Williams

"Sometimes what others might judge as your greatest weaknesses are really your greatest strengths. You are only disadvantaged if you think you are." Roy Williams is a renowned author and marketing consultant best known for his Wizard of Ads book trilogy, each of which...

Judith Orloff, M.D.

Judith Orloff, M.D.

"Nobody is really alone. We’re never alone. Each of us is always connected to Spirit and through Spirit to each other." Judith Orloff is a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles, a medical intuitive, an internationally known speaker, and the author...

Stacey Lannert

Stacey Lannert

"True freedom is found within, everything else is just geography." Stacey Lannert is a speaker, an author, and the founder of the nonprofit organization Healing Sisters, for people who have suffered sexual abuse. She also trains service dogs for the handicapped and...

Bart Knaggs

Bart Knaggs

"Letting go of a dream is hard yet liberating. Sometimes it’s just time to start living a different dream." Bart Knaggs is a principal in Capital Sports & Entertainment, an event production company, creative services firm, and sports and music management company,...

Tracy Hafen

Tracy Hafen

"Life isn’t necessarily supposed to be a cakewalk." Tracy Hafen serves as the director of physical exercise programs for BrainSavers, a company whose mission is to maintain healthy minds throughout aging. She is certified as a personal trainer by the American Council...

Roly Gosling, M.D.

Roly Gosling, M.D.

"Many important discoveries are made merely by observing and contemplating what is experienced in everyday life." Roly Gosling a microbiologist and malaria epidemiologist from the UK, was the project leader for the Kilimanjaro Intermittent Preventive Therapy for...

Sam Danniels

Sam Danniels

"Your ability to succeed is a direct reflection of your ability to try." Sam Danniels is a rare breed of athlete. Growing up in Toronto, Sam enjoyed nothing more than learning new sports and mastering old ones. In August 2005, at the age of nineteen, Sam broke his...

Eion Bailey

Eion Bailey

"When we support each other, we support ourselves; when we harm each other, we harm ourselves; and when we change ourselves, a little piece of the world is changed." Eion Bailey is an award-winning actor and the creator and executive producer of Imagine This!, a...

Alison Armstrong

Alison Armstrong

"We access our own power by empowering others." Alison Armstrong a nationally known educator and expert on understanding men, is the CEO and co-founder of PAX Programs. She is the designer of the widely acclaimed Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop, as well as...