Moments With Marianne

Sandy C. Newbigging is a coaching and meditation expert, author, and creator of Calmology. His books include Mind Calm, Body Calm, Calm Cure, and Thunk!. Shaped by thousands of hours of clinical practice, his remarkable work has been featured on television stations around the world. The founder of the Calm Academy, Sandy facilitates retreats and trainings. He lives between the UK and Spain and travels widely. https://www.sandynewbigging.com/Tina Seelig is the author and the faculty director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She earned a PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford’s Medical School and then decided to follow her passion for business, creativity and innovation to work as a management consultant and entrepreneur before returning to teach. Watch her TED talk on Luck and listen to her podcast LEAP about the often overlooked and under taught skills critical to the success of every entrepreneur. http://www.tinaseelig.com

Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and nine other bestselling thrillers including The Tenth Justice, The First Counsel, The Millionaires, and The President’s Shadow.  He is also the host of the History Channel television shows Brad Meltzer’s Decoded and Brad Meltzer’s Lost History (in which he helped find the missing 9/11 flag). http://bradmeltzer.com

Catherine A. Sanderson is the James E. Ostendarp Professor of Psychology at Amherst College. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology, with a specialization in Health and Development, from Stanford University, and received both masters and doctoral degrees in psychology from Princeton University. Professor Sanderson's research examines how personality and social variables influence health-related behaviors such as safer sex and disordered eating, the development of persuasive messages and interventions to prevent unhealthy behavior, and the predictors of relationship satisfaction. https://sandersonspeaking.com/books

Suicide is a topic we all hope to never experience, but many do. Following the untimely death of her son, LeAnn Hull is choosing love, encouragement and suicide prevention. “Through the Andy Hull’s Sunshine Foundation, we are hoping to impact as many children, teens and adults as we possibly can” says LeAnn Hull, Andy’s Mom, “and spare even just one person the pain and anguish of suicide!” https://andyssunshine.com

Melissa Kwasny is the author of six collections of poems that won the Poetry Society of America's 2008 Cecil Hemly Award. Kwasny's work has appeared in Ploughshares, the Boston Review, and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral. Heather Picken is a Human Behavior Expert and High-Performance Business Strategist for female visionary coaches. She also is a workshop leader and trainer for executives in Fortune 500 companies using Neuroscience. Her global mission is to empower millions of women worldwide living fearlessly as they own their value and worth in mastering all areas of life. https://www.heatherpicken.com

Is it possible to heal after the loss of a child? Joe McQuillen has been married for 27 years and is a father of three children, one on the other side. Joe was the youngest of 10 children from an Irish-Catholic family. Although Joe has had two successful careers, he is at heart a blue-collar kid from Buffalo, NY. Starting as a salesman, he spent 25 years in the automobile business and worked his way up to executive manager and partner in a number of successful Chicagoland dealerships. https://mysearchforchristopher.home.blog

Rachael O’Meara is a transformational leadership coach and speaker, assisting others to fulfill their potential. She as a senior account executive at Google and also hosts authors who have meaningful messages about mindfulness and emotional intelligence for the Talks at Google YouTube channel. Her book Pause was named one of 2017's top business books for your career, and was featured in the New York Times and on WSJ.com. She leads workshops and speaks regularly on the practice of pause. She has a Certificate in Transformational Coaching from Wright Graduate University, and an MBA from Fordham University. https://www.rachaelomeara.com

Mary Shutan is a spiritual healer and teacher with an extensive background in Chinese Medicine, CranioSacral therapy, Zero Balancing, and energy work. She is the author of The Spiritual Awakening Guide, Managing Psychic Abilities, The Body Deva, and Working with Kundalini. http://maryshutan.com

Modern-day “Hidden Figure,” award-winning rocket scientist and author Olympia LePoint overcame poverty, gang violence, and failing marks to eventually launch 28 rocket missions to space. Olympia is now applying the same math and science that she used at NASA to show audiences and readers how anyone can remap their own thoughts to remove fear, unleash their brain power, and change the course of their life. http://answersunleashed.com

Nick Craig is the president and founder of the Authentic Leadership Institute, where he has guided over 5000 executives in the last ten years on the journey to discover and lead with purpose and has worked with organizations including GE, Unilever, Goldman Sachs, and West Point Military Academy. https://coreleader.com

Maralee has written several articles for the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-New and other publications on the problems of family courts not protecting abused children. Maralee is with Women’s Media Center (WMC), SheSourceExpert, NPEIV (National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence), APB speaker bureau and RAINN speaker bureau. She speaks at conferences, hospitals, law schools, legal conventions and is a spokesperson for protective mothers. Her passion for advocacy developed through living a mother’s worst nightmare. She organized a National Rally of Mothers at the Colorado State Capitol and has been involved in legislative work that spans over two decades. She testified before Congress to promote judicial accountability to better protect sexually abused children’s rights in our courts. Maralee’s story has been covered by many media outlets, and internationally on CNN. www.maraleemclean.com

Laurie Nadel is a psychologist, journalist, and best-selling author who specializes in helping people recover from trauma. In Long Beach, NY, she runs a support group at City Hall for people who are traumatized by losing their homes to Hurricane Sandy. At Metropolitan Communication Associates in Manhattan, she works with patients who have traumatic brain injuries due to assault/rape, M.S. and stroke. During 2003-2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed on 9/11/01. http://www.laurienadel.com

Keith Leon S. has been writing books, speaking, publishing other people’s books, and making a difference in the lives of others for over 15 years. A multiple bestselling author, well-known speaker and talented musician, Leon S. has spoken at events that included Jack Canfield, Neale Donald Walsh, Barbara DeAngelis, John Gray, Michael Beckwith, and Marianne Williamson. He’s made music with Stevie Wonder, Ben Vereen, Nancy Wilson, Keb Mo, and Carl Anderson. https://www.walkingwithmyangelsbook.com

Deirdre Hade’s seminal work on the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life will be recorded with Jack Canfield, the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and released to the public for the first time this fall, 2018. The Radiance Tree of Life Journey Meditation is a guided journey into the ancient healing pathway of mystical Kabbalah's Tree of Life that cleanses the body, mind and spirit of toxic thoughts and emotions. By clearing away old patterns and obstacles with the power of its miraculously rejuvenating frequency, the Tree of Life reveals the potential of the soul, inner harmony and peace, and connectivity to great love. www.DeirdreHade.com

Peter Smith is the president of The Newton Institute and trains Life Between Lives practitioners around the world. He is also the founder of the Institute for Quantum Consciousness and the creator of the Hypnoenergetics® modality. He has published several articles on Spiritual Regression and Hypnotherapy and is a co-author of Memories of the Afterlife, the final book in the bestselling Life Between Lives quadrilogy. www.QuantumConsciousness.com.au

The doctors who have successfully guided participants in ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss & The Biggest Loser series share their insights on Moments with Marianne.Dr. Holly Wyatt earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and completed her internal medicine and endocrinology training at the University of Colorado. She has been involved in the field of obesity, weight management and metabolism her entire career and personally struggled with her weight and maintaining a reduced healthy body weight earlier in her life.Dr. James Hill is an internationally recognized leader in weight management. He has a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in physiological psychology. Dr. Hill has spent the past 35 years conducting research to understand why obesity develops and how it can be prevented and treated. He was a co-founder of America On the Move and a co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry. https://www.stateofslim.com

Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, a national nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology while teaching girls confidence and bravery through coding. She has been interviewed on NPR's Marketplace and The Brian Lehrer Show and featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Real Simple, Glamour, Family Circle, The Daily Show, and more. She's been named one of Fortune's 40 under 40, a WSJ magazine innovator of the year, one of the 50 most powerful women in New York by the New York Daily News, Forbes' Most Powerful Women Changing the World, Business Insider's 50 Women Who Are Changing the World, and an AOL/PBS MAKER. Reshma is also author of Girls Who Code, a New York Times bestselling book for young readers. https://reshmasaujani.com

Scott Stabile is the author of Big Love. His inspirational posts and videos have attracted a huge and devoted social media following, including over 350K Facebook fans and counting. A regular contributor to the Huffington Post, he lives in Michigan and conducts personal empowerment workshops around the world. http://www.scottstabile.com

Jennie Lee is a certified yoga therapist who has spent two decades coaching people in the healing tradition of classical yoga #meditation. Using the practices she writes about in #BreathingLove, Jennie helps people overcome #grief, #depression, #anxiety, and #stress as well as create lives filled with greater joy. Author of the award winning book True Yoga, Jennie's writing has also been featured on dozens of wellness blogs and in magazines including the Huffington Post, Mind Body Green, Yoga Digest, and Yogi Times. www.JennieLeeYogaTherapy.com

Judy Goodman CPC, CSRC, CRC, author of the award winning, International bestselling audiobook, Journey… The Quest of the Soul, as we discuss the workings of both the spirit and physical worlds. Walking in both worlds at all times, Judy answers the profound questions we ask ourselves.Judy brings a broad range of knowledge presented with a gentle quality that captivates, and lifts each person individually. Her sense of compassion and understanding, coupled with a great sense of humor keeps the topics interesting and very informative at the same time. You can learn more about Judy Goodman at her website here: www.JudyGoodman.com