Angela A. Wix was formerly an acquiring editor at Llewellyn Worldwide for nearly 12 years and is currently an editor for books on personal transformation, wellness, and spirituality at Sounds True. She is the author of The Secret Psychic and Llewellyn's Little Book of Unicorns and has contributed her art and writing to additional Llewellyn titles, including Finding Your Calm, Llewellyn's 2025 Magical Almanac, and Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living. For more information, visit her on...

Animal communicator, TEDx speaker, Hay House and Sounds True author, educator and animal parent, Joan Ranquet leads an inspired life. It’s no surprise MSN deemed her as one of the “Top 25 People Who Do What They Love.” Joan Ranquet has connected with animals professionally for over twenty-five years, and personally for as long as she can remember. Her calling has led her to work with hundreds of thousands of animal guardians, trainers, barn managers, and vets – teaching animal communication...

Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. In the past year, BNI generated 13.3 million referrals resulting in more than $20.4 billion dollars worth of business for its members. Ivan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He is a New York Times Bestselling author who has written 29 books including The 3rd Paradigm, A Radical Shift to Greater Success. He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall...

Brandon Beachum is an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and host of The Positive Head Podcast, as well as the late-night style talk show, Optimystic. Brandon has been a serial entrepreneur since childhood, and in 2011 while living on a friend’s couch he co-founded what is present-day ResortShare. In 2015, ResortShare was named the 569th fastest-growing private company in America in the annual Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list. Later that same year was when Brandon began The...

Sally Fryer Dietz is an expert in child development with a doctorate in Physical Therapy. She is the author of Sensory Processing Solutions: Drug-Free Therapies to Realize Your Child’s Potential. She also has two boys each with distinct learning styles and is an advocate for the potential within every child to succeed naturally. Here she and Dawson talk about: Her background and children All human beings have to take information from their environment Barriers to processing information from...

Michelle Madrid is the author of Let Us Be Greater: A Gentle, Guided Path to Healing for Adoptees and host of the Electricity of You Podcast. She is an international adoptee, former foster child in the UK, and an adoptee empowerment life coach who has been recognized as an Angels in Adoption® Honoree by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) and inducted into the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame for her work in adoption. Here she and Dawson talk about: Michelle’s...

Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest has an impressive career spanning over 12 years as a medical intuitive, during which she has assisted numerous clients in unraveling their medical enigmas and guiding them to discover and harmonize with their life purposes. Gifted with innate abilities including clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and mediumship, Dr. Vest diligently cultivated these talents through rigorous training under the guidance of various mentors, both in traditional and formal...

Stephen Aizenstat, PhD, is the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute. For more than 35 years, he has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology. He has collaborated with Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson, James Hillman, and Native elders worldwide. He conducts dreamwork and imagination seminars throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. His most recent book is The Imagination Matrix: How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose. Here he...

Philip Car-Gomm is the author of twenty books, including The Druid Way and The Gift of the Night: A Six Step Program for Better Sleep. He began studying Druidry in his teenage years, and eventually became head of the order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He has also trained as a teacher of Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness Meditation. He's fascinated by the intersection of the worlds of psychology and spirituality. He finds that psychology reveals the many facets of our human consciousness. When you add...

Jonathan DeYoe is a Lutheran seminarian turned Buddhist academic turned financial adviser. He is the author of Mindful Investing: Right Focus, Better Outcome, Greater Well-Being. Jonathan has been investing for over four decades and meditating for 25 years. DeYoe started managing investments for clients at Wall Street firms before launching his own financial planning firm in 2001. After 20 years, Jonathan merged his firm into the national financial planning firm EP Wealth. Today, Jonathan is...

Jerry Kantor is a faculty member of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine and owner of Vital Force Health Care LLC, a Boston-area homeopathy and acupuncture practice. The first acupuncturist to receive an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Anesthesiology, Kantor is the author of The Emotional Roots of Chronic Illness, and The Toxic Relationship Cure. Here Jerry shares his insights with Dawson on: Homeopathy: uses the law of similars, using like to treat...

Dr. Lisa Miller is the author of The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality. She is founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles on spirituality and mental health in youth and family. She is also the former President of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Society of Psychology & Spirituality, and editor of The Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology & Spirituality and Editor-in-Chief...

Richard Dixey, PhD is the author of Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life and a senior faculty member at Dharma College in Berkeley, California. A research scientist and a lifelong student of Buddhism who holds advanced degrees in biophysics and the history and philosophy of science, Dixey directed a bioelectronic research unit at a London hospital before becoming CEO of his own biotech company. He moved to the US in 2007 to devote himself to...

Thomas Hübl, PhD, is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change by integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since 2004, he has taught and facilitated programs with more than 100,000 people worldwide, including online courses which he began offering in 2013. He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World...

Bob Gardner is author of the book ‘Built for Freedom’ and host of the podcast ‘Alive and Free’. He uses a body-based approach to happiness, health, and well-being incorporating tools like martial arts, breathwork, functional psychology, and deep tissue release. He specializes in helping people through patterns of pain, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Here Bob and Dawson discuss: When the brain has an opinion about what’s going on in the body, how do we change it How tension in body can...

Rhoda Shapiro has worked for a decade as a mindfulness and meditation teacher. She is also a tantric educator, training women to step into their power by way of meditation, movement, dance, expression, and yoga. She has facilitated women’s circles and taught workshops throughout Los Angeles and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rhoda’s YouTube channel, which has amassed thousands of subscribers, features yogic practices to empower viewers. Rhoda is also the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of The...

C.J. Llewelyn, M.Ed., is a licensed professional counselor in her own private practice. She works with clients struggling with trauma and addiction. C.J. is a trained Internal Family Systems therapist and certified in EMDR. She uses polyvagal theory as a foundation for her work. She is a Reiki Master and curious observer of the human condition. Her latest book, Chakras and the Vagus Nerve: Tap Into the Healing Combination of Subtle Energy & Your Nervous System, reveals the psychological...

Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of six books of nonfiction, including The Mind and the Moon, Sing for Your Life and God of the Rodeo. Daniel’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Talk, and more. Here Daniel and Dawson discuss: Daniels’s journey Daniel’s brother who was diagnosed with psychoses How fear locks into managing risk using medication Danie’s brother today: 40 years and he’s living a fruitful non...

Vasavi Kumar is often described as the “Queen of Saying It Out Loud.” A first-generation Indian immigrant raised on Long Island NY, Vasavi has relentlessly searched to find her own voice, access the freedom of her creative spirit, and help others along the way …out loud. When she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 19, she made it her mission to understand how her mind works, starting with making room to hear herself think. Her mission is to share everything — the good, bad, and...

Katie Michaelson is a Clinical EFT Practitioner, has a MA in Special Education, 15 years teaching experience, and is an in-home support to personal friends and their children with deployed Military Service Members. Katie’s journey with EFT began as a tool she used personally to help reduce the stress and anxiety of daily life. As she continued to benefit from EFT and learn more, she knew she wanted to be a part of the larger EFT community and share this tool to help and support others on...

Dr. Tracy Peng is an integrative psychiatrist and depth healer in the San Francisco Bay Area, combining conventional and complementary therapies. Her special interests include mindfulness approaches to psychotherapy, treating anxiety and depression, and providing spiritually focused psychotherapy to people with cancer. She is also focused on supporting healers in reimagining the current medical systems. Here she and Dawson talk about: Tracy’s fifth grade fair drawing as herself as a...

Dravon James holds a doctorate in pharmacology and is also an inspirational speaker, radio host, life coach, and author of Freedom is Your Birthright. She is the founder of the Next Step Leadership Academy and Every Day Peace, a platform for her to help and inspire others to build the life of their dreams. She also hosts a weekly radio show “Every Day Peace” on MindyBodySpirit.fm. You’ll be delighted by the fun and laughter Dawson and Dravon share as they talk about:  Whatever you’re going...

Peg Donahue is a feng shui consultant, personal empowerment coach, teacher, speaker, and author. She has an MBA from Boston University, along with three professional feng shui, and several coaching certifications. After a successful database marketing career, she founded Feng Shui Connections in 2001 out of a strong desire to help people succeed and easily achieve their life desires and dreams. She co-authored Money is an Energy Game with Madeline C. Gerwick. Madeline is an internationally...

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, workplace consultant, and empathy expert. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics Inc. and the developer of the Empathy Academy online learning site. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration®...

Amit Goswami, PhD, is a retired professor and Quantum Science Pioneer from the University of Oregon. He founded Quantum Activism, a movement gaining ground globally. He established the Center for Quantum Activism and developed an international Master and PhD program in Quantum Science. Goswami has written groundbreaking books on quantum science and consciousness, including The Quantum Brain and Quantum Spirituality. Featured in documentaries and movies, he is a spiritual practitioner and...