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
"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,...
Rupert Isaacson
"Epiphanies are about transformation. You do it through a leap of the heart. And the next thing you know - physically, emotionally, or mentally - you’re living a different story." Rupert Isaacson is an author and activist born in London to a South African...
David Hudgins
"If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it." David Hudgins is a television writer, executive producer, husband, and father. His credits include co-producer on the WB’s hit television series Everwood...
Julie Horton
"No one, no relationship, no role, no thing, nothing outside of you defines you. You have to define yourself, and then everyone around you reaps the benefits of that." Julie Horton serves as the executive vice president of Realsongs, the music publishing company of...
Florence Horne
"Many times, tremendous value lies in what we push aside as worthless." Florence Horne is a retired teacher and was a researcher on a project with the State Department of Education of New Jersey studying the effects of music and art on learning and development. She is...
Joel Harper
"Take the time to stop and reflect on the choices you make and the speed at which you are traveling in life." Joel Harper is a New York–based personal trainer whose clients include everyone from celebrities and Olympic athletes to ten-year-old children. He is also a...
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.
"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...
Barbara Fredrickson
"Tapping into one’s own unique wellsprings of positivity is a wise and healthy investment in the future." Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D., is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of...