David Cumes, MD, was born and raised in South Africa and has been exploring ancient African wisdom for contemporary ideas on healing for some time. He has been initiated as an African shaman (sangoma or inyanga) and can testify personally to the value of their divining techniques, the powerful rituals and plant medicines, the altered states of consciousness induced by drumming and the diagnostic power of the bones.

Ginger Campbell is a physician with a long-standing interest in mind-body medicine, the brain, and consciousness. In July 2014, she  left Emergency Medicine to begin a  Fellowship in Palliative Care at the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UAB).  She practices Palliative Medicine at the VA Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.  She is currently the host of three podcasts including the Brain Science podcast which explores how recent scientific discoveries are unraveling age-old mysteries, such as intelligence, emotions, personality, and memory.  She also recently released a new book titled Are you Sure? The Unconscious Origins for Uncertainty.  

David W. Berner is a memoirist, essayist, fiction writer, and journalist. His memoirs reflect on our collective relationships and how those experiences link us to the world we share. David’s stories are about fathers and sons, the redemptive power of road trips, travel, music, and the sage-like connections we share with pets. 

Today’s episode is with Geoff Thompson; former bouncer, world ranking martial arts guru, and BAFTA-winning screenwriter. His new book, The Divine CEO is a masterclass on how to contract your ego, expand your conscious awareness, and build a powerful internal hierarchy, through mastery of mind, body and senses. For anyone looking to break their negative associations with the world and create a divine covenant with their Greatest Potential (their own internal Chief Executive Officer), this empirical, muscular and direct study of spiritual ascension is the perfect companion. It is the essence of the author’s fifty-year apprenticeship in practical spirituality, and high-end Budo martial arts.

As a Speech-Language Pathologist and Life Coach for more than 25 years, Tsgoyna Tanzman has coached thousands of people in the best brain practices for optimum performance. She draws upon her international life experiences from having worked in Italy and Germany as well as on both the east and west coasts of the United States. She recognizes that world-wide human beings share the same core needs: A purpose to wake up in the morning, to grow and contribute, and to create meaning in their lives. She’s trained with legendary coaching gurus Tony Robbins, Dr. Dawson Church, Brooke Castillo and Mitch Matthews, and is a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming. She is the author of the bestseller book, Hope After Stroke for Caregivers and Survivors: The Holistic Guide to Getting Your Life Back. 

PETA MORTON IS A RESPECTED REIKI AND MINDFULNESS TEACHER, AUTHOR AND SPEAKER WITH A CLIENTELE AROUND THE WORLD. SHE DISCOVERED REIKI RELATIVELY LATE IN LIFE AS A RESULT OF A SERIES OF AWAKENING AND CONSCIOUSNESS-EXPANDING EXPERIENCES THAT FOLLOWED A LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS. TODAY, SHE PROVIDES A SIGNPOST WHICH HELPS OTHERS TO REMEMBER THEIR TRUE NATURE, TO EXPRESS THEIR OWN UNIQUE VOICE WITH AUTHENTICITY AND TO RECONNECT WITH THE POWERFUL HEALER WITHIN.

After formal and informal investigations into so many different ideas, experiences and organizations, Andrew Seaton came to see that in our world we are generally making some deeply flawed assumptions about life, knowledge and human nature. And it is those conditioned assumptions that take away our peace.  Andrew resigned from a two-year stint as an education academic in order to focus on unlearning my education and other conditioning, and on awakening the fuller functioning that he had come to see so clearly is possible and desirable.  Ultimately, this led him to write a recently released book, Spiritual Awakening Made Simple.  

Jonathon Aslay, is  the author of What The Heck Is Self-Love Anyway, founder of Mid-Life Love Mastery, and a successful dating coach that specializes in mid-life and purposeful dating, and the podcast host of What Would Love Do? – but his mission went through a makeover after the loss of his son.

COLM HOLLAND REVEALS HOW YOU CAN DISCOVER THE POWER TO MIRACULOUSLY CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND YOU BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION AND FOR THE BETTER. COLM WILL TELL YOU THE STORY OF HIS ENCOUNTER WITH PAULO COELHO AND HIS BESTSELLING BOOK THE ALCHEMIST AND HOW DISCOVERING THE SECRET IN PAULO’S NOVEL GAVE HIM THE INSIGHTS TO ACHIEVE TRUE EMPOWERMENT IN HIS LIFE.

Dr. Andrew Newberg is the director of research at the  Marcus Institute of Integrative Health and a physician at Jefferson University Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and nuclear medicine.

AMY B. SCHER is the bestselling author of How To Heal Yourself When No One Else Can and two other books about human-ing and healing. As an expert in mind-body healing, she is often lovingly referred to as an “accidental guru.”

Vicky Roncero is a certified Usui Reiki Master Practitioner/ Instructor with a private practice, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. She works with Reiki to empower clients to use this energy in whatever way is helpful to them.  Vicky was a writer/producer and worked in television for over twenty-five years. She has been a storyteller for as long as she can remember and believes Reiki is the ultimate storytelling tool. Everyone is working on the next chapters of their life stories and Reiki can help heighten your intuition and guide you on this journey. 

Jane Thompson had a profound near-death experience in 2008 while in the emergency room. She was taken to the hospital with a sudden illness early one morning, and by that afternoon, the illness had progressed rapidly. Leaving her body, entering the light and being in spirit form changed her life dramatically. The process of integrating the aftereffects of her NDE was very difficult. Having overcome these challenges, she knew it was a very important part of her life’s path to compassionately help others with their own personal transformations.  Jane’s focus is now on helping and healing others. She serves as an intuitive healer, psychic medium and spiritual gifts coach. Jane consults with others from around the world who have felt challenged to cope with the many changes that often accompany spiritual awakenings.

Dr. Siu grew up in California, where he completed college at UC Irvine and medical school at UCLA. Midway through medical school he pursued research interests at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC and ultimately completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford. After finishing medical school he moved to Boston where he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and completed a psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. Dr. Siu remained on faculty at Harvard for two years while working at McLean, the nation’s top free-standing psychiatric facility—a distinction it has held for more than a decade. Dr. Siu subsequently moved to New York City where in addition to having a private practice, he has been trained by MAPS in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and provides ketamine facilitated psychotherapy.