Bright Side with Tekneshia

Anna Gatmon, PhD, is a visionary educator and spiritual innovator. She comes from an eclectic background that spans the USA, Israel, Sweden and France. Her rich life experience includes careers as a fashion model, founder of an alternative elementary school, counselor, speaker and author. She is the creator of the Expansive Community, a membership for changemakers who are committed to creating spiritual-material abundance in all areas of their life and in the lives of the people they live, work, and play with. Anna holds a doctorate degree in Transformative Learning from the California Institute of Integral Studies and lives with her family in Sonoma County, California.

I swore after my first divorce, that my next marriage would be different. So when my second marriage crumbled almost a decade later for nearly the same reasons I was devastated. I felt like an utter, complete failure. All I could see was hopelessness on the horizon.

But I was determined to find another way. I was not going to be that guy who bounced from marriage to marriage never really learning anything. So I found someone to mentor me and explored my past. I read books — lots and lots of them.

In fact, I dedicated myself to doing the deep research about all things love. I had deep conversations with people I loved. Most of all, I did the deep transformations that unlocked my heart and released my soul to love as I had always imagined.

Then something wonderful happened. Love — and how to make it lasting – became my life’s highest calling.

Athena Demetrios is a spiritual intuitive, a medium and a channel. She maintained a successful career in the film industry as a make-up artist while exploring the world of the unseen. Her sensitivity as a psychic began to accelerate when a powerful spiritual experience opened doors into other dimensions.

Awakened in her darkest hour by the Ascended Master Saint Germain and guided by his teachings, she began her journey towards healing and transformation. Through hypnotic regression that enabled her to explore repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, she regained her power.

Athena became a channel for the grand spirit of Dr. James Martin Peebles, a 19th century spiritual philosopher she affectionately calls her Mystical Muse. Today, she facilitates seminars in higher consciousness where she shares the tools and insights of her own odyssey, assisting and empowering others in the discovery of their own Divine Presence.

Connect with Athena at www.IAMwithin.com

Danny Kofke recently got back into the classroom after stepping out in 2014 to help teachers win with their money.  He worked for a company that oversees the supplemental retirement plan for school districts across the southeast.  He presented to thousands of educators to help them manage their money better.

Danny’s love of teaching and personal finance has led him to write four books.  His everyday approach to handling money has led to appearances on numerous television shows including Fox & Friends, The CBS Early Show, CNN’s Newsroom, The 700 Club and The Clark Howard Show.  He has also been interviewed on over 600 radio shows and featured in a number of publications including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo.com, Money Magazine, Consumer Reports, Reader's Digest and The Huffington Post.

Danny's wife, Tracy, was a first grade teacher before becoming a stay-at-home to their two daughters - Ava and Ella.  She recently returned to the classroom.  Despite living on Danny's $42,000 yearly teaching salary for eight years, the Kofke's are on track to pay off their final debt - the mortgage - this year, have a one year emergency fund in place, will retire with a sizable nest and, most importantly, live wealthy lives on less.

Danny wants to show others if this school teacher can do well financially, they can too!?

Ora Nadrich is the Founder and President of The Institute For Transformational Thinking. She is a Thought Coach and Mindfulness Meditation teacher, as well as the author of the groundbreaking book, Says Who? How One Simple Question Can Change the Way You Think Forever and Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity. 

Ora's rare combination of insight, intuition, compassion and charisma has made her one of the most effective and sought-after coaches in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Women's Health Magazine, Reader's Digest, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, Fast Company, Success Magazine, Spirituality & Health, Elevated Existence, NBC News, LA Yoga Magazine, Yahoo! Health, and many more.

Learn more about Ora HERE

Tito Abao has over 50 years of experience in spiritual work and is the author of The Monograph of the Parallel Life of Tito Abao and Nero. In the early '60s, Tito became an initiate in a Christian Yoga Church under one of the first American realized beings, Sri Subramuniya. After several years in the Order, he went on to become an architectural draftsman until resuming his quest for spiritual liberation after a near-death experience in 2007. 

Tito completed the majority of his metaphysical training at the Monroe Institute, a school dedicated to heightened-conscious learning, located in Faber, Virginia. The author's lifelong interactions with the paranormal, as well as his out-of-body and recurring past life dreams/memories have fueled his desire to produce a book that recounts his spiritual journey. Through his work he is looking to encourage others to explore their own intuitions and metaphysical experiences.

Ayn Cates Sullivan, MA, MFA, Ph.D. is an award-winning and bestselling author focusing on mythology and folklore for the modern age. Sullivan’s series, “Legends of the Grail” includes two highly acclaimed books, Heroines of Avalon and Other Tales and Legends of the Grail: Stories of Celtic Goddesses.

 

Dr. Sullivan obtained her BA with honors at Hollins University, her Masters and Doctorate in Literature from Columbia University and King’s College London. She continues to study with British experts on Celtic myth and legend, including John and Caitlin Matthews. Dr Sullivan is a member of OBOD, the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids. She is also involved in the Ridhwan School, and practices the Diamond Approach to awakening.

 

After obtaining her Masters in Spiritual Psychology (2006), she began working with individuals and small groups. She loves to assist creative women and men who are beginning to awaken to their True Nature. Because she loves writing, she tutors a few emerging authors each year. Dr. Ayn Cates Sullivan is also the author of an award-winning series of inspirational children’s books and has won more than thirty literary awards for her works.

Raised by a single mother and the older brother of three younger sisters, naturally prepared Estanislao (T.J.) Hurtado III to communicate and understand a female’s perspective. Over the past twenty-two years as a single Christian man, he has met many single Christian ladies who have shared their personal life events with him. Known as the kind, single brother in the Lord, he remained in the friend zone with the women, which made it comfortable for them to confide in him. Having experienced similar situations, many of the conversations discussed sexual purity, emotional boundaries in romantic relationships, forgiveness, and turning one’s painful negative experiences into an opportunity to empathize and minister to others. T.J.’s personal school of hard knocks and the Holy Spirit has given the author spiritual insight on these complicated and rarely discussed subjects. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies from Arizona State University. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, listening to different genres of music and watching sports.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy is an intuitive consultant specializing in supporting spiritual people to achieve freedom from limiting beliefs, to change work and life conditions to a happier state and to embrace an expanding sense of self and possibility.

She uses ThetaHealing®, Access Bars®, Divine guidance and counseling to support clients in all their personal goals. With decades of experience teaching and counseling, she uses her broad skill set to guide people in their quest.

Lynne received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada, Master’s Degree from the University of Oregon and her doctorate from Arizona State University. She is a certified ThetaHealer® and Instructor, a certified Access Consciousness Bars® healer, a meditation instructor, a licensed substance abuse counselor since 2003, a retired adjunct university professor, and an Amazon best-selling author.

Her previous books, Living Hope: Steps to Leaving Suffering Behind and Unfolding the Mystery of Self – We are Never Alone, were both Amazon #1 Best sellers. Living Hope describes how she moved beyond traumas in her childhood, loss, and family dysfunction. The book is a model of hope, action and success for those who also suffered trauma and seek a life of spirituality and inner peace.

Unfolding the Mystery of Self goes well beyond her story of tragedy and trauma in Living Hope and explores the spiritual journey of study and mystical experiences. She describes the development of psychic and healing gifts. Moving beyond one’s personality to the awareness that enlightenment isn’t just for Buddhists.

A Journey with Matityahu, her first fictional work, is a story of an ordinary young man, Daniyyel who observes miraculous moments in his friend Matityahu’s life and wants that same awareness in his own.

John Nelson is the author of the novels Starborn, Transformations, and Matrix of the Gods, originally published by Hampton Roads Publishing, and I, Human published by Cosmic Egg. He authored the nonfiction book The Magic Mirror, which won the 2008 COVR Award as best book of the year and best divination system, and more recently A Guide of Energetic Healing.

Nelson was the editorial director of Bear & Company in the mid-1990s and Inner Ocean Publishing in the early 2000s. He is the owner of Bookworks Ltd., where he edits fiction and nonfiction books for a variety of authors and publishers. This includes The Sacred Promise by Gary Schwartz, The White House Doctor by Dr. Connie Mariano, The 12-Step Buddhist, Yoga and the Twelve-Step Path, The Buddha Speaks, Bright Light by Dee Wallace, and the YA novel Avatar Magic.

Nelson has been a yogi and a meditator for fifty years and brings an expanded consciousness perspective to all that he writes. His fiction is usually a blend of hard science, science fiction, and psycho-spiritual insights, but The Miracle of Anna is strictly spiritual or visionary fiction. Nelson’s two nonfiction works are based on his own personal spiritual explorations. Visit his website at www.johnnelsonbookworks.com.