"The willingness to put it all on the line and take risks is how you  change the world " ~ Cheryl Perera

Cheryl is a Canadian children’s rights advocate and the Founder and President of OneChild, the first organization in the world empowering a youth-led movement against the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) through education, advocacy, survivor care, and survivor empowerment.

At age 16, Cheryl learned about SEC in high school and was filled with anger and passion to eradicate this crime.  At 17,  she embarked on a solo, fact-finding mission to her native Sri Lanka to investigate child exploitation. Wanting to obtain an insider’s look into the child sex trade, she partnered with the National Child Protection Authority and played the main role of the decoy—a 15 -old child sex trade victim-- in a STING operation that resulted in the successful apprehension of a  child sex perpetrator. For her bravery and achievement, Cheryl was offered the position of President of Sri Lanka’s Nominee on Child Protection.

At 19, she founded OneChild, which has positively impacted the lives of 79, 000 child survivors, at-risk children, social workers, law enforcement, judges etc. in 11 countries.   As a pioneer in the movement against SECTT in Canada, her career spans over a decade and 22 countries where she has joined surveillance operations on cases involving the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT); lobbied across private, public, and civil society organizations to increase action against SECTT and child sex trafficking; and provided shelter and long-term comprehensive care to hundreds of victims in Asia.

Cheryl is a sought-after speaker and has shared the stage with Heads of State, UN Secretary-Generals and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Al-Jazeera, CNN, Financial Times of London etc.

Cheryl holds a MAS in Children Rights, University of Geneva and a B.A. (Hons) in Ethics, Society, and Law; Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Toronto.  She is also a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Oxford’s Executive Education programs in Transformational Leadership and Public Policy.

She is the recipient of over 28 awards in Canada and abroad including 2018 Order of of Ontario; 2017 L’Oreal Canada Women of Worth Award; 2016 World Economic Forum Award; 2006 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award; 2006 World of Children Founder’s Award; and 2005 Canada’s Top 20 Under 20, among many others.

Connect with Cheryl: www.onechild.ca

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"Data shows that your network is the single most important factor for any artist to be successful in the art world" ~Dr. Magnus Resch

Professor Magnus Resch  is a respected influencer in the art world, both as an academic and entrepreneur. At the age of 20 he co-ran an art gallery in Switzerland to finance his university career. In 2012 he co-founded Larry’s List, the world’s premier art collector platform. In 2016 he launched the Magnus app, which works like Shazam for Art. Leonardo DiCaprio is an investor and advisor to the company. Magnus’career was the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, which is taught in the MBA class every year since 2018.

Magnus is passionate about the economics of the art market. He is author of several books on the art market, teaches art economics at Yale University, previously at Columbia University, New York, and published in 2018 a paper about success in art in the world’s leading academic journal, Science.

Magnus has a track record as tech entrepreneur. At the age of 27, he became Managing Director of Springstar, a Berlin-based internet incubator (2500 employees and $2bn revenue). Here he started, failed and exited several internet start-ups.

Magnus studied business at Harvard, the London School of Economics, the University of St. Gallen and Hong Kong University. He holds a PhD in Economics, and was awarded scholarships by both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Swiss National Foundation. Magnus was a soldier in the German Army (Hochzug, Mittenwald), and for twelve years stadium speaker at an ATP Tennis Championship. In 2014 he was awarded Germany’s most prestigious social media prize “The Golden Umberto” for his infamous “Idautit” viral video.

Magnus lives and works in New York City.

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"Stay focused on the truth, even if you don't like them" ~ Prof. De Kai

De Kai is an American activist, musician, professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is among only 17 scientists named Founding Fellow by the Association for Computational Linguistics, for his pioneering contributions to machine learning foundations of machine translation that led to the Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/etc translators. De Kai was recruited as founding faculty of the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong directly from UC Berkeley, where his Ph.D. thesis was one of the first to argue for the paradigm shift toward machine learning-based natural language processing. He holds a Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA and a BS in Computer Engineering (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude, Revelle College honors) from UCSD. For his work on AI, machine learning, machine translation, natural language processing, music technology, computational creativity, Debrett's HK 100 recognized De Kai as one of the 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong. For his work on AI ethics and society, De Kai was one of eight inaugural members selected by Google in 2019 for its AI ethics council. Dedicated to intercultural understanding, he created the HK-based world music collective ReOrientate and has spoken and performed for many TEDx, media, and other international venues.

Connect with De Kai: AI ethics & society http://dek.ai Music & culture http://dekai.org

His social media handle: @dekai123

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Chris: What do you value the most in this life? "Peace!" ~Falsal Al Mutar

Faisal is an Iraqi-born award-winning social entrepreneur.  He is an advocate for Universal Human Rights, enlightenment values and the free market of ideas, and is enthusiastic about the intersection of technology and advocacy. He is also the founder of multiple online platforms that together have more than 400,000 subscribers and millions of visitors. He previously worked as a program manager for the Middle East and North Africa to assist dissidents in closed societies worldwide. In 2015, Faisal received the “President’s Volunteer Service Award” from President Barack Obama for his special commitment to education and he is founding executive director of Ideas Beyond Borders.

Connect with Faisal: www.faisalalmutar.com

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"When I see the impossible, I see an opportunity " -Chuck Nice

Chuck Nice is a Philadelphia native and a 20 year veteran of stand up comedy with a rich history in television and radio. For 20 years he has provided comic relief to the Radio Chick show, bringing the funny to New York’s radio airwaves. He is the host of Buy Like A Mega Millionaire on HGTV, The Juice on Veria Living and The Hot Ten on Centric. Chuck is seen regularly on the Today Show, has guest-hosted Joy Behar’s Say Anything and Co-hosted The View. Chuck maintains his radio presence as the co-host of Star Talk Radio with Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson where he provides humorous commentary on one his favorite subjects...science. Despite his busy schedule, Chuck still finds time to hit the clubs, delighting audiences with his storytelling brand of stand up comedy.

His handle is @chucknicecomic on everything social: like Instagram & Twitter and others

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Ashanti Branch, was raised by a single mother on welfare in Oakland, went on to study engineering at California Polytechnic - San Luis Obispo. A Civil Engineer in his first career, Ashanti found his passion for teaching while tutoring struggling students. In 2004, as a first-year teacher, Ashanti started The Ever Forward Club to provide a support group for African American and Latino males, who were not achieving to the level of their potential. The Ever Forward Club has helped 100% of its members graduate high school.  Branch is on a mission to change the way that students interact with their education and the way schools interact with students.   After being featured in The Mask You Live In the documentary, and Fellowships at the Stanford d.school, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, and The Gratitude Network,  Ashanti has launched the #MillionMaskMovement to connect people all over the world in a self-reflective experience that helps people visualize and realize, “I am not alone.”

Connect with Ashanti https://everforwardclub.org/

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Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. She believes we shouldn't fight the fact that digital content is freely shareable — and suggests that artists can and should be directly supported by fans.

The singer-songwriter-blogger-provocateur, known for pushing boundaries in both her art and her lifestyle, made international headlines raised nearly $1.2 million via Kickstarter (she’d asked for $100k) from nearly 25,000 fans who pre-ordered her new album. But the former street performer, then Dresden Dolls frontwoman, now solo artist hit a bump the week her world tour kicked off. She revealed plans to crowdsource additional local backup musicians in each tour stop, offering to pay them in hugs, merchandise and beer per her custom. Bitter and angry criticism ensued (she eventually promised to pay her local collaborators in cash). And it's interesting to consider why. As Laurie Coots suggests: "The idea was heckled because we didn't understand the value exchange -- the whole idea of asking the crowd for what you need when you need it and not asking for more or less."

Amanda views her recorded music as the digital equivalent of street performing, she says: “I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.”

Amanda's non-fiction book, The Art of Asking, digs deeply into the topics. Her TEDTalks have been viewed over 12 million times.

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Mariana Lin is a human and a writer. Her poetry has appeared in several literary publications and magazines and her poems have won finalist for prestigious awards including The Mississippi Review Prize and more. She has a BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College, with coursework at the Sorbonne and Sciences-Po in Paris, an MFA from Pacific University, and a JD from Berkeley Law School.

Mariana was a creative director for Apple, and then was the principal writer behind Siri, penning its lines and overseeing its global voice and character. For years, every day she sat down and responded to the world’s needs and existential questions. On this unique experience, she has given a TED talk, has spoken at United Nations and UNESCO conferences, and will be teaching a course at the Stanford Design School. She’s an advisor to iVow, an AI storytelling initiative gathering women’s lost stories from cultures around the world.

When she’s not traveling, she chills in the verdant hills of the Bay Area with her inimitably incredible son who lives with 18th chromosome disorder. Because of him, her ear bends to the voice of the quiet—present, past, and future. She has just completed her first manuscript of poetry, a reimagination of the Greek Echo as Eko, modern Asian woman, titled to GIRL.

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"Mental health is about diagnosable conditions like depression and anxiety. Emotional health is about common experiences like loneliness, failure, and heartbreak, the non-diagnosable stuff."  - Guy Winch, Ph.D.

Guy is considered to be a leading advocate for integrating the science of emotional health into our daily lives, workplaces and education systems. He is an in-demand keynote speaker who brings the latest research findings in emotional health to organizations, companies, and events worldwide. His expertise in managing the psychological challenges of daily life, building emotional resilience, increasing productivity and functionality, improving the workplace and personal relationships, enhancing communication, and maximizing well-being and life satisfaction, coupled with his sharp humor and personable delivery make his talks, workshops, and presentations as entertaining and memorable as they are substantive and practical.

Guy received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University and has given 3-TEDtalks viewed over 25 million times. He is the author of 3 books: “Emotional First Aid,” “How To Fix A Broken Heart,” “The Squeaky Wheel,” a blog, and an advice column "Dear Guy." He believes that we favor our physical health over our emotional health, and as a psychologist, he finds that unacceptable. He believes that our physical health and our emotional health are the twins of our general wellbeing, and as such, we should treat them equally.

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Follow Guy: www.guywinch.com, 3-TEDTalks: https://www.ted.com/speakers/guy_winch, https://www.facebook.com/guywinchauthor/, https://twitter.com/guywinch, https://www.instagram.com/guywinch/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/guywinch/

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"Every breakdown is a seed to a breakthrough" - Lynne Twist

For more than 50 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. The extraordinary work that she has done and the life she has lived have changed millions of lives. She is the author of the book “The Soul of Money.” This book has transformed the way that many people think about and relate to money. Lynne has won many awards -- too many to mention! She is a sought-after speaker worldwide and has co-presented and shared the stage with some of the most influential thought leaders of this century... People like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Oprah, Desmond TUTU. and Mother Teresa.

When I was thinking about who to invite to open up the conversation about gratitude, (and selfishly, as a treat for my 36th birthday,) I really wanted to have Lynne Twist on the show. What initially started as a mere dream became a reality! She is a delight. In our conversation, we dig into how to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on the planet, and, much more.

Believe me when I say that Lynne's wisdom and delivery is well worth your time!

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