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NANCY MILLS, the Publisher/Creator of the Spirited Woman 2013 Directory: A Collection of Stories & Resources for an Inspired Life!,
is a leading women's visionary. The founder of TheSpiritedWoman.com, a
global empowerment community for women, she is also the publisher of the
popular Spirited Woman Blogger Team, and the host of the "Spirited
Woman Visionary" conversation series, where she is known for her
inspirational insight and interview style. A frequent radio and TV show
guest, Nancy speaks internationally on women's empowerment issues from
letting your voice be heard to her belief in the Every Woman Visionary. www.TheSpiritedWoman.com.
STACEY EDGAR - Author, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for women, Stacey Edgar founded Global Girlfriend in 2003 as a way to provide economic security for women in need by creating a sustainable market for their handmade products. Stacey has traveled the world providing market and business training to women and works with over sixty women’s cooperatives in 20 countries. She has been featured in O Magazine, Women’s Day, Redbook, Reign, and In Style. Her book Global Girlfriends shares inspiring stories of women globally and reminds us all if we start small and dream big and we can change lives! http://staceyedgar.com, www.globalgirlfriend.com
ALYSON HOWARD-HOAG - CEO and founder of Authentic Beauty - career spans 20 years as an artist and educator for industry giants, including Lancome, Borghese, Revlon, Sebastian and Aveda. Her true talent: inspiring women to have their outer image be a reflection of their authentic self. Howard-Hoag and her talented team offer services in Atlanta, GA from makeup updates and night out applications to bridal application and makeup for head shots. Her signature service, the Image Journey, takes clients on a transformational odyssey, helping them fully express their inner, authentic beauty through makeup. She is a frequent guest on radio and TV. www.myimagejourney.com
KATHLEEN HANAGAN is a transformational business coach, psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, shamanic high priestess, international speaker and co-author of The Art and Science of Success. She guides women of depth and passion into breakthrough terrain so that they can fulfill their missions and be successful in the New Economy without betraying their hearts. Translating spiritual and psychological wisdom into practical tools, Kathleen has helped thousands of women clear away the debris of the past and activate the pure desire within their souls, which resets their inner compass toward their highest destiny and most powerful service. www.TurnOnYourLight.com
KAREN SORBO is the leading female fundraising auctioneer in the country. To see her work is to catch the spirit. Her natural, unbridled energy, a commanding yet elegant stage presence, combined with precision techniques has aided in raising over 450 million dollars for deserving organizations. She has conducted over 2200 auctions since graduating from the World Wide College of Auctioneering in 1993. Karen has been featured in numerous publications & T.V. for her auction specialty. She was selected by the Minnesota Monthly Magazine as the 2011,"Woman of Influence." In 2012, she was chosen as one of the "Women you need to know" by the WSA - Women's Speakers Association. www.karensorbo.com
SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON: a rare blend of engaging psychologist, intuitive, speaker, energy healer and researcher of miracles, consciousness and prayer. She has authored award-winning books, audio books and created healing meditation CDs. Susan joyfully inspires, educates and enables us, especially if we are grieving or ill, to meet life’s challenges by remembering our extraordinary powers. Recognized for her unique expertise, spiritual understanding and wisdom about life, miracles, angels, and the mind- body- spirit connection, Susan lectures nationally, is frequently interviewed by the media and is a guest on television, radio and the internet. Her primary website is: www.TouchedByTheExtraordinary.com
BEV BARNETT is sculptor of words, music and clay. As a singer-songwriter, Bev weaves stories of hope, inspiration and possibility. As a sculptor, she lets the clay speak her truth through figures that express joy and inner beauty. She reconnected with her artistic passions later in life, and hasn't wasted any time compiling a body of work that includes three CD recordings as well as primitive goddess-inspired sculpture. Combining her background in high tech marketing with her creative pursuits, she is passionate about helping artists and musicians to embrace the practice of finding, nurturing and building an audience. www.BevBarnett.com
ANDREA HYLEN is the visionary and founder of Heal My Voice, a global community dedicated to empowering women to heal a story in their lives, reclaim their inner authority and step into greater leadership. The stories are developed and shared through a variety of creative expressions: writing, song, music, art, film, dance, radio and TV. A frequent radio show guest, Andrea speaks on feminine leadership, collaboration and grief transformation and is the author and compiler of four books. Inspired Voices: True Stories by Visionary Women will be released in January 2013. www.healmyvoice.org
DOLORES J. GOZZI is passionate about women and their journey through life. A healer, bodyworker, and holistic facilitator, Dolores' mission is to help and support women reconnect with their inner-strength and to offer her spiritual knowledge of nature's seasonal changes and abundance to enhance their inner gifts and talents. With her own life-changing experience with a shaman who was her client, Dolores had an awakening about Mother Earth and HER deep powers to heal others through nature's cycles, elements and seasons. www.naturescycles.com
LOREE BISCHOFF - author of the award-winning, COMMON SENSE HAPPINESS, 5 Principles For People Who Want To Stop Whining, Bitching And Suffering. With a direct and often humorous approach, Loree gets right to the point, offering uncomplicated strategies to change how you live your life so you can have what we all want – more peace and happiness. Author, life coach, entrepreneur, wife and mother Loree believes “life is both too long and too short to be anything less than what YOU want it to be.” Her motto: “happiness is contagious so we should all strive to catch it and spread it around.” www.loreebischoff.com
KIMBERLY LUKER is a breast cancer survivor and founder of Botanicals for Hope, a skin care company based in Shell Beach, CA. Inspired to begin offering her all-natural formulations to other cancer patients by her oncology team in 2009, Kimberly’s products have been soothing dry, irritated and sensitive skin all over the country. Her company’s mission is to help other cancer patients not only look better but feel better. With every product sold her company donates 10% to organizations and programs offering wellness and support services for cancer patients, their loved ones and survivors. www.botanicalsforhope.com
DORIAN MINTZER, M.S.W., Ph.D., B.C.C., a member of the National Speakers Association and the Life Planning Network, is a sought after speaker, author, coach and consultant. Her expertise in adult development and life planning creates a dynamic learning environment that energizes and inspires her audiences and clients. She is co-author of The Couple’s Retirement Puzzle and a contributor to many additional books. She has a deep belief in the capacity of people to develop a "realistic optimism" about aging and create purpose and meaning in "the second half of life." http://www.RevolutionizeRetirement.com
JEAN CAMPBELL is an educator, published writer and founding director of the American Cancer Society’s New York City Patient Navigator Program. Following her second breast cancer, she began blogging about her experiences. Incorporated as a nonprofit organization, her site, No Boobs About It (www.noboobsaboutit.org) shares information, resources and support for getting through treatment and on with life. The recipient of several awards, she was recently named one of the top 10 online influencers on Breast cancer by Dr. Oz’s sharecare.com. Her posts are carried internationally by paperblog. com. Jean recently participated in a panel discussion on Breast Cancer Answers, a social media show.
MARYLOU FALSTREAU is a poet, artist and creator of the inspirational “Women and the Hourglass” series of fine art prints and cards. These powerful images can be found in gift shops, rehabilitation centers, hospitals and galleries across the country and are speaking to women who are ready for change. Marylou’s own journey of healing and transformation fuels her desire to connect with others in an intimate, honest and sometimes humorous way. She has been the featured guest on radio shows that serve women and is active on Facebook and Twitter, sharing her poetry and art with joyous abandon. www.MFalstreau.com
KAT TANSEY teaches mid-life women how to recoup and retain fitness of body, mind, and spirit. This award-winning author and educator shares her often amusing journey back to fitness in Choosing To Be Fit: The Art of Taking Small Steps to Transform Your Life. Kat relates, “Life sneaks up on you, and at some point you will get a wake up call. I did. Most of the programs I looked at were too ambitious, exhausting to even think about, and offered little prospect of fun.” Not being a quitter, Kat created and now shares her own approach, a fruitfully fit way to embrace life’s journey. www.ChoosingToBeFit.com
JOYCE K. WILLSON, Reiki Master Teacher, Energy Healer and founder of The Art of Reiki shines her inner light brightly as she sets the example for all women. Through Joyce’s passion of energy work she provides a safe environment for women to reclaim their health. It is through the art of Reiki that inner peace and truth is rediscovered thus allowing one to move joyfully forward into the world. Joyce is an inspirational teacher and healer in her energy work of Reiki and Integrated Energy Therapy. http://www.theartofreiki.com
DIANA TIMMERMANS has been an intuitive energy therapist for more then 15 years. Her primary area of expertise and focus is working with women who are in need of assistance when dealing with physical transitions (menopause), emotional challenges (relationships), and ancestral (hereditary) issues. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Diana's teachings have been received all over the globe. Diana travels frequently to speak on women's healing issues. Diana can be contacted at www.dianatimmermans.com
LAURA WAAGE – Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Business Consultant and passionate entrepreneur, helps businesses to find, keep and generate more online profits. One of her current leading methods is through the use of Pinterest, where she’s created a complete online video-tutorial success system, teaching entrepreneurs and marketers how to leverage Pinterest for business and integrate it into their current marketing plans. Laura has taught online marketing strategies through sell-out workshops to entrepreneurs across the globe. She’s a popular in demand speaker – having worked with and spoken on stage with Daymond John, T. Harv Eker, Mari Smith, and many more. www.LauraWaage.com
CLAUDIA TRUE creates art that makes you smile! She’s a painter of birds, food, florals and special places, and shares her love of life through her visual treasures. Claudia’s previous career was a geologist. She traveled and worked in fascinating places - the southwestern U.S., Indonesia, Australia - experiences that greatly influence her artwork. Her other passion is cooking and she creates an inventive “Cooking with Friends” calendar - each month has a recipe from a friend and one of her paintings to interpret it. She loves to teach painting and to encourage others to delight in their own inner creativity. www.claudiatrue.com
THE MARYLAND COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT is the coalition of all of Maryland's rape crisis and recovery centers. It is devoted to ending sexual violence. It includes the Sexual Assault Legal Institute (SALI), one of the country's only legal services programs devoted to sexual assault and child sexual abuse survivors. Women of color are at particular risk of sexual violence. MCASA responds to this through its Women of Color Network, a support system for both survivors and for women of color working in the field of sexual violence. For comments about MCASA, SALI or our Women of Color Network, contact Lisae C. Jordan at 301-565-2277, www.mcasa.org
LINDA JOY MYERS is founder and President of the National Association of Memoir Writers, & Co-President of the Women’s National Book Association, SF. An international memoir speaker and coach, she's the author of The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing Story and the prize-winning memoir Don’t Call Me Mother. Her new workbook The Journey of Memoir: The Three Stages of Memoir Writing will be released January, 2013. She co-teaches Write your Memoir in Six Months with Brooke Warner, and offers workshops online and in person. http://www.namw.org, http://memoriesandmemoirs.com
JACKE L. SCHROEDER, MSW, LCSW-C, Founder of Corporate Shaman U, brings spirit to work and ties personal growth to the bottom line. She cracks open doors of hard-to-reach places and the truth slips in. Clients catch a glimpse of their greatest potential. Her candid kindness, stalwart companionship and unanticipated comedic delivery, reinvents one’s change process. Disciples become their own Masters when they invest in themselves as well as their businesses. How do you put a price tag on that? Baltimore/Washington D.C. based, Jacke’s local and national delivery portals include: personal and executive coaching, business consulting, customized workshops, classes and speaking engagements. www.jackeschroeder.com
ROCHELLE SCHNEIDER is an attorney, licensed to practice
law in California and New York, with over a decade of experience as legal
counsel for a $1+billion operating division of Hughes Electronics, a Fortune
100 company. She also holds an Executive MBA from the Peter F. Drucker and Matsatochi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate
University. Her ethics and value
based philosophy can help you in orderly and informed
growth and transition. She specializes in empowerment law. www.rjslawconsult.com.
SHEILA HATCHER is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, public speaker, and author. She has presented to many professional organizations, including the 2012 annual conference of The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and to chapters of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the California Society for Clinical Social Workers. Sheila believes that the way to the heart is through imagery. She uses story and symbol in her work with clients to help them heal, grow, and move forward into the lives they were meant to live. www.ConnectionsCounselCtr.com
LUCINDA CLARK is the founder and publisher of P.R.A.
Publishing. She is the major
principal of Phoenix Rising Art Enterprises Inc. She is also a blogger, poet,
and public speaker. She has worked
to bring the literary works of foreign authors to American
audiences and has showcased
the poetry of new voices to
audiences of all ages across the globe. Her twelve year project Poetry Matters
is going on its thirteenth year with its call for entries beginning January
2013. Her company has published
several award winning titles and is set to release more in 2013. For more information
visit www.phoenixrisingart.wordpress.com.
RENEE LEBEAU is a visionary musician and acoustic alchemist. Offering cds, dvds, Ahkana Acoustics youtube channel, sound events, playshops and personal sessions. These tools empower participants to accelerate their own unique journey of consciousness. Her contributions are catalytic; activating deep personal transmutation through sound, light, geometry and language. Her cd, Metatron's Heart is a dynamic sound journey: guiding you inwards, releasing cellular trauma, shifting brain waves and generating new neural pathways. The track ‘Uhroe’ is featured on MEDITATIVE MASSAGE MUSIC recently released exclusively on White Swan Records. www.reneelebeau.com, www.ahkana.com
DR. JULIA IBBOTSON is an acclaimed author, academic (education) and speaker, from England, who began writing at age 10. Her recent books include The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen and Talking the Walk (about gender management communication), both available on Amazon. She is now writing a trilogy of novels: Drumbeats, Walking in the Rain and Before I Die. She hopes to inspire women to live their dream, and has been interviewed for many magazines and newspapers in England about publishing, becoming a writer and the renovation of her Victorian rectory house. Discover more at http://www.juliaibbotson.com
LISA MORNINGSTAR believes that your most valuable possession is expression. She works with emerging public speakers so they can embody their personal power and release the beliefs that stop them from getting on stage and sharing their message. Through her individualized coaching practice, Lisa helps her clients transform their anxiety into enjoyment and heal the resistant behaviors that stand in the way of shining in the spotlight. Lisa is the Founder of Lead By Intuition, and is a contributing author in Empowered Voices: True Stories of Awakened Women and has been a featured guest on internet radio shows. www.leadbyintuition.com
TANYA MARINELLI is a Certified Life Coach. Her passion is to assist women in discovering what miraculous beings they are. Using proven techniques, she will guide your transformation from learned limiting beliefs, into new empowering beliefs. Tanya also focuses on holistic nutrition to achieve your ideal lifestyle. Tanya has been recognized internationally in supporting women to authentically "break down big dreams into obtainable goals." She is able to work with women all over the world via Skype. www.livewell-ness.com
BETHANY MUHL, L.Ac. is an acupuncturist, herbalist, spiritual healer, artist. As an expert in the field of women's health, hormone balance and fertility her natural approach to healing has helped hundreds of women overcome health challenges and fufill their goals of motherhood, easier menopause and optimal health throughout their lives. Her goal is to empower women through a partnership in healing, helping them to gain the tools to manage and create healthy lifestyles for themselves and their families. She has been featured on Discovery Channel's Fit Tv, East Meets West. www.bethanymuhl.com
LAURA WARNKE helps you define your life purpose by viewing your Akashic record from a soul level perspective. Her passion and purpose is to assist you in shifting old patterns and energies to realize and embrace your life purpose. Through intuitive readings, energy clearings, and life purpose mentoring, she works with your Guides to define your life’s purpose, embrace your soul level gifts, clear energetic blocks, and bring back the passion and spirit to your life. Laura guides and supports working women in transitioning from their day jobs to living their true life purpose. www.intuitivejournal.com
TAMARA GABRIEL is the founder and creator of Healing Hugs, after the loss of her 9-year-old daughter Janna, in a tragic car accident. She is in the process of forming a non-profit organization. She has created an inspirational page dedicated to those who are grieving, in hopes of making her symbol the universal sign of grief attracting over 146,000 followers. She hope to raise money to assist those who need services during their difficult time of grieving. As a spiritual mentor, she also runs a women's support group she created called W.O.W., Women's Original Wisdom, for spiritual empowerment. http://healinghugs.net
KRISTIN DELIBERO is the founder of Ride As One, riding through your life from your heart. She has facilitated many woman and girls with horses to learn to hear their inner voice. She has appeared as a clinician to host workshops in both Georgia and Florida and is expanding to appear nationally beginning 2013. Along with interviews for local newspapers and online magazines she is a featured contributor to an online equine social site, Judge My Ride. www.rideas1.com or email info@rideas1.com
JOY RESOR, Founder and CEO of Joy on Your Shoulders TM is thrilled she healed into her name, because now she radiates deep peace and joy to inspire others through all she creates. Joy serves clients as a spiritual companion, creates the weekly e-zine, Go In Joy!, and offers handmade radiant creations with positive messages to wear, share, and drape anywhere. She leads classes to expand joy and The Joy Movement, giving radiant creations away with a path for participants to spread joy and heal into Oneness. “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” www.joyonyourshoulders.com
MICHELLE A. McCARTHY is a well-respected teacher in the field of Integrated Energy Therapy and Reiki. Crediting Reiki with saving her life, in 1999 she began teaching it, while continuing to take additional trainings for personal growth. She found Integrated Energy Therapy profoundly healing; and quickly became a top IET instructor worldwide. Today, one of ten people in the world who teaches the Master’s Level in IET, she loves empowering others to self-heal through Integrated Energy Therapy. The former host of a local radio show, “It’s All About Healing”, Michelle has been a guest many radio, internet and television programs. www.heart2hearthealing.com
NUKHET HENDRICKS, Angel Communicator, is a gifted intuitive, intuitive mastery circle leader and spiritual coach. Nukhet has been able to communicate with the Angels and Archangels from a very young age and with their loving aid; she channels their guidance for those who are seeking to gain clarity in their lives. Nukhet lovingly assists individuals on their path to Divine Love, Light, Truth and Wisdom. It is her soul's mission to spread the light and be a bridge to the Angelic realm. To take a walk with her to the divine or for more information about Nukhet go to www.nukhets.com
MARY COSTA aka Mariska of Mariska’s Jewelry Designs, is known as the "Jewelry Matchmaker"®, and creator of her “Clothing Optional” line of jewelry. She has been creating magical jewelry matches for her customers for over 8 years. Mary is known for her 2 career paths as an RN and jewelry designer. Mary was inspired to create jewelry that captured the beauty and spirit of a woman when she learned that her dying patients regretted, they never acknowledged their beauty. At the end of the day, Mary wants her customers to feel so beautiful and sexy wearing their jewelry, that maybe.... ”Clothing is optional”. www.mariskasdesigns.com
STASIA BLISS and TERRA BUNDANCE are alchemists & transformation specialists who create raw, intentional chocolate. This is no ordinary chocolate - Never the Same Chocolate (as they call it) supports people in living their highest purpose and aligning bliss. With in-depth knowledge of herbs and essential oils as well as heightened intuitive and empathetic capabilities they are able to channel consciousness-propelling chocolate that is healthy and delicious. Learn more at www.neverthesamechocolate.com
ALECIA CAINE is the founder of Find Yourself In France, a boutique tour designer for women celebrating their success. As a former CPA, she has inspired hundreds of women to follow their dreams and create success. After her children grew up, she reconnected with her passion for France. Having studied the language since she was 12, lived in Paris, traveled there extensively, immersed herself in fashion, perfume, food and wine, she shares her passions with you …in Paris on a fashion and beauty tour, in the countryside tasting cheese right on a farm or having lunch on a vineyard. www.FindYourselfInFrance.com
