Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, narrator, and teacher. Recognized for his narration work, he narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, as well as eleven Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts. In 2011, he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher. He is the author of several books including Zen in the Vernacular. Here Peter and Dawson discuss: Understanding ourselves as a being and...

Vickie Dodd has been a body worker and sound healing therapist for more than 50 years. She collaborated with pioneer Don Campbell at the Institute of Music and Health Education in Boulder, Colorado, and now offers residential retreats at NaturBridge Campus in Olympic National Park and the Globe Institute in San Francisco. She is the author of Healing through Sound: Awakening Your Audible Body. Here Vickie and Dawson discuss: Vickie’s background Listening to what the body wants to say Trauma...

Jonathan H. Ellerby has worked as a spiritual teacher, ceremonial leader, integrative wellness expert, and leadership consultant for more than 25 years. With a doctoral degree in comparative religion, training as a counselor and chaplain, ordination as an Interfaith Minister, and certification in a variety of intuitive and energy-based healing practices, Jonathan has dedicated his life to understanding transformative spiritual and the nature of consciousness. He’s the author of several books...

Nadia Davis is an author and attorney with a lifetime record of passionate work and dedication to improving the lives of others. She was the youngest of seven children born to ethnically mixed parents of Native American, Mexican, and German descent. Nadia has personally faced many challenges, including childhood sexual trauma and racial bullying, and as an adult, a near fatal car accident. Her book Home Is Within You recounts her experience of trauma and addiction amid a highly publicized...

Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, is a public speaker and master trainer in the field of conflict transformation, leadership and mindfulness. Valerie is also the author of ten books including I Am Still Your Negro, Eight Step Recovery: Using The Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction, and First Aid Kit for the Mind. She is the Co-Founder of Eight Step Recovery, an alternative to the 12-step program for addiction. Here Valerie and Dawson dialog about: Valerie’s story Remembering that we are...

Kim Chestney is the founder of IntuitionLab and the author of several books. She has led initiatives with thought leaders, technology companies, and universities in several countries. Her latest book, The Illumination Code: 7 Keys to Unlock Your Quantum Intelligence, presents seven keys to unlock your inner dimension so you can access expanded states of awareness that exist beyond the limits of the rational mind. Kim reveals the deeply personal nature of the universe while offering a new way...

Meredith Heller is the author of Writing by Heart and several poetry collections. A poet, singer-songwriter, avid nature lover, and educator with degrees in writing and education, she leads writing workshops online and in-person at schools, juvenile detention centers, women’s prisons, and wellness retreats. Here she and Dawson dialog about: The core is listening to my being; listening to the secrets of the body Don’t write for anyone outside of yourself, but for you First you have the...

Chloe Panta is the author of Untapped Magic: Manifestation Methods for Living a Limitless Life. She is a highly sought-after mindset expert and transformational coach who helps people achieve their ultimate life goals. She uses an evidence-based, proven system with scientific data to support its effectiveness to help her clients overcome obstacles that are keeping them stuck in life. Chloe has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and Medium. She...

Scott Stabile is the author of Enough as You Are and Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart. He is a passionate love advocate who believes there is no force more powerful than love to create real connection and healing in our world. Scott guides transformational breathwork journeys and leads personal empowerment workshops internationally. His inspirational posts have attracted a huge and devoted social media following, including more than 350,000 Facebook fans. For more info...

Dr. Michael Lennox is a psychologist, astrologer, and expert in dreams and dream interpretation. He teaches classes in self-investigation to a worldwide audience and is the host of the weekly podcast, Conscious Embodiment: Astrology and Dreams. He is also the author of Llewellyn's Complete Dictionary of Dreams, Llewellyn's Little Book of Dreams, Dream Sight, and Psychic Dreamer.  A highly sought-after media expert, Dr. Lennox has been seen internationally on many television shows, beginning...

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...