Van is the Founder & CEO of worksmART where she develops teams and leaders through the use of creative integration, which means all her work is done through creativity, play and shared experiences. Her work helps companies tap into creativity at all levels of an organization, to level the playing field and create environments where all ideas are heard. She is a mom to a 10 year old boy, 3 dogs and a hamster!

https://www.worksmartadvantage.com/

https://www.instagram.com/worksmartadvantage/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/company/worksmartadvantage

Abigail lives to design impactful solutions to unlock human potential. As a linguist and ethnographic researcher, Abigail served as the Community Wellness Research Lead at UCSD's Lab of Comparative Human Cognition for five years. She started and built a 100-member yoga community at a brick-in-mortar studio before moving into corporate training. With a team from the Center for Creative Leadership, she designed and facilitated a program to fuse professional and personal development using mindfulness and improv comedy. Past clients include Atlantic Records, the US Navy, UPS, and UCSD Rady School of Management. In 2019, Abigail partnered with the founder of Cairn Leadership Strategies to facilitate leader and team development through gritty outdoor adventures and executive coaching.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailjonesadventure/

Molly is a classical vocalist, sound healing artist, and experience designer based in Brooklyn, NY and her personal core values are community, collaboration, and creativity. In 2019 she completed her Sound Healing Certificate from Sage Academy of Sound, which led to the founding of Bloom Sound Collective in 2022. Bloom is a community of healers and musicians devoted to creating meaningful healing experiences with sound. She also works with Daybreaker, as the Sr. Partnership Manager. Daybreaker is the global dance and wellness phenomenon. She builds community through brand partnerships and meaningful storytelling.

IG: @mollyrabuffo @bloomsoundcollective

Kevin Hekmat is a corporate performance and wellness coach who’s here to shift how we respond to stress – and bring more happiness, productivity, and communication to teams around the world. He uses over 30 years of research from the HeartMath Institute to share a new understanding of how we can manage the stress response through simple, evidence-based techniques, and create a happier and healthier work and life.

www.Kevinhekmat.com

Gillian Halter is a Genetic Counselor in the Oncology department at a local hospital in San Diego. She's originally from the Philadelphia area and moved to San Diego, CA 15 years ago. She loves doing yoga, hiking, and being outside as much as possible! She graduated from PSU in 2007, earned her Master's of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology from SDSU in 2012 and graduated from Augustana University with a Master's of Science in Genetic Counseling in 2020. She is a CA state licensed and American Board of GC certified GC. 

Mikey Mioduski is a presentation specialist who spends his days exploring the intersection of business, design and storytelling. After receiving an MFA in Advertising Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Mikey stumbled into the tech space, where he soon found a love for one of the most ubiquitous yet overlooked communication mediums in our modern history: corporate PowerPoint slides. Today, Mikey and his team at GhostRanch Communications are on a mission to bring new levels of creativity and care into the world of b2b presentations. If you care to hear some of their findings along the way, be sure to tune into their podcast — Presentation Thinking™, or visit GhostRanch.com to see what their team of specialists can do to help you level up your next big pitch.

https://www.ghostranch.com/

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Podcast: PresentationThinking.com 

Tune in to the latest episode of the Project Happy Place podcast to hear from Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray. 

Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray have been blessed with a unique friendship that spans over 46 years. Despite the many challenges of a progressive neuromuscular disease robbing Justin of the use of his arms and legs, the two seek to live life without reservation.

Their friendship has taken them on many adventures together; most notably their 500-mile wheelchair journey across the vast terrain of northern Spain on the Camino de Santiago.

What began as an impossible journey between two best friends, evolved into one of the most powerful representations of what humanity is capable of accomplishing when we come together. Through the help of friends and strangers alike, Justin and Patrick accomplished what many said couldn’t be done.

As best-selling authors and highly sought-after keynote speakers, Justin and Patrick use their life/work experiences and their adventures as backdrops to which they explore concepts such as leadership, teamwork, relationship, and the power of the human collective.

They have been featured on many news media outlets spanning across the globe reaching over 600 million homes including The Today Show, The Meredith Vieira Show, “Harry” with Harry Connick Jr., New York Times, and TEDx.

To learn more about Justin and Patrick or to book them for your next event, please visit illpushyou.com and pushinc.us.

Erica Anderson is a Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach with a specialty certification in Autoimmune Health. She was diagnosed at 17 with Still's Disease, a rare autoimmune disease that affects the joints and muscles. After 10 years of taking immuno-supressing drugs, she was able to achieve complete remission using the power of food and managing stress and other triggers. This experience and the years of research into nutrition and the causes of autoimmune diseases, led her to her mission to empower other autoimmune warriors to take their health back by managing their disease through diet and lifestyle changes.

Erica currently works with entrepreneurs with autoimmune disease to help them regain control of their health and business and eliminate fear and uncertainty so they can live a life that is no longer limited by their diagnosis.

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Erica Anderson

@theautoimmuneentrepreneur

Hello, Happy New Year, here we go 2022. Thank you for joining me for season 2 of the PHP podcast.  PHP is an initiative to spark conversation and inspire people to do more of what makes them happy. My guests inspire me and hopefully you to live a purpose filled life in their happy place. Doing what truly makes their heart happy. I was introduced to my next guest through a friend. I’m going to go off on a short tangent but in full disclosure, Bonnie and I recorded this episode in November of 2021. I reached out to Bonnie a few weeks ago and asked if she’d be willing to re-record. I’m not alone in saying 2022 has been off to an interesting start and I wanted to connect with Bonnie in real-time to get up to speed on what’s going on in the universe and how we can make it through.

Bonnie Casamassima is the Principal and Founder of Interweave People Place  and an Adjunct Professor of Interior Design at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Bonnie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design focusing on Biophilic Design and Environmental Psychology from SCAD.

Connect with Bonnie:

https://www.interweavepeopleplace.com/

https://www.intuitivebynature.com/

Instagram: @intuitive_by_nature

Sierra City (elevation of 4,200 feet) was founded in 1850 and lies at the base of the south slope of the Sierra Buttes, a group of spectacular rocky peaks that rise to an elevation of 8,600 feet.  Atop the Sierra Buttes, a breathtaking view awaits you from the highest fire lookout in either Tahoe or Plumas National Forest.  Once a booming mining town, Sierra City has become a popular tourist area with more than fifty glacial lakes providing one of the finest and most beautiful recreation areas of the entire state. Jean Herrington was a member of the pioneer Busch family.  Her mother and grandmother were also born in Sierra City.  Her father, Ernest Innes, owned and operated the Sierra Buttes Inn (1925-1945) and the Old Boterro Ranch which supplied produce and dairy products to the local miners.  The ranch is the present site of Sierra Pines Resort (formerly Herrington’s). Sierra Pines remains a family owned and operated business, which began in 1967 by Hugh Herrington (Jean’s husband).  The resort is comprised of 40 acres of beautiful Sierra timberland through which State Highway 49 and the North Fork of the Yuba River meander for a third of a mile.  Glen & Cindy Haubl purchased the resort from the Herringtons in 2019 and look forward to carrying on the traditions.  Originally from the SF Bay Area, Glen was a CFO in the tech industry and Cindy was a corporate event planner.