Chris Baty is the “accidental” founder of NaNoWriMo and the author of “No Plot? No Problem!: A Low Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days” and co-author of “Ready, Set, Novel.” And if you’ve ever wondered if you have a novel in you, thought about what drives the creative process and what halts it in its tracks, he’s got the answers.

Website: chrisbaty.com

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Artist Phil Hansen is a multi media creative daredevil of Ted Talk fame. He challenges himself, and his audience, to spark creativity by thinking inside the proverbial box. His theory is that by embracing limitations we can soar further than ever imagined. Early in his career, Hansen was challenged to embrace his limitations or walk away from the production of art entirely. As a pointillist artist experiencing neurological damage in his hands, he determined to embrace the shake. By embracing limitations and then going even further to self impose a few of his own, just for the fun of it, he has embarked on a prolific creative joy ride to see where being in the box can take us.

Website: philinthecircle.com

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Andrew Fig Figueroa is an artist and performer. He is an up and coming Hip Hop artist, theatre maker and arts educator. He is the son of a Mexican father and British mother. Andrew, a graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, created for his thesis project a work he wrote, produced and performed, a Hip-Hop theatre piece entitled, “Mixed-Race Mixtape.” The show explores the formation of Latin identity in the United States. The perspective is autobiographical and showcases Fig’s own ongoing struggle with developing a cohesive identity in the midst of a lifetime of funny, confusing and sometimes frightening interactions growing up “ambiguously brown” in America.

Website: mixedracemixtape.com

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Dr. Patel is a traveling Emergency Room Physician. She has traveled to India and Uganda to provide relief for underserved children and medical support to the underserved with Project Helping Hands. As a college student, Dr. Patel joined medical volunteer trips to Mexico, traveling to Acuna and Saltillo, Mexico. Upon competing her medical residency, she set off for New Zealand in the hopes that, “this is a start to a giving and rewarding life!”

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Tally Abecassis shares her experience of transitioning from a focused, successful documentary filmmaker to an unanticipated, full time role  as a stay at home mom. With sensitivity and honesty, she exposes the constant struggle between balancing self, identity and devoted motherhood. Tally lets us tag along on her personal journey through her top rated podcast, First Day Back. Through her raw self reflection and her illuminating conversations with others, she conveys the intense social and internal pressure put upon working and stay at home moms, and the reality that each individual must find their own balance and peace.

Website: firstdaybackpodcast.com

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Cate Cox is an advocate for women’s empowerment. She is a Reiki practitioner, holds a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology and has been working as a professional Jazz singer for half a decade. She shares her thoughts and unique perspective on the modern era of empowered women and how they, and she, move through the world.

Website: catecox.com

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Alex Laws is a world class athlete, business consultant, cancer survivor, and founder of Rythmatic Meditation, a unique cycling class offering a full body work out with an added component of meditation creating a body and mind connection. With proven success as an intuitive consultant, Alex has the ability, experience and knowledge to relate to many of life’s experience. Laws mission is to tap into everyone’s inner voice, or business core, to achieve a healthier existence and more fulfilling life.

Website: alexlaws.com

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Dr. Levine has been an active psychologist for the past 30 years, an educator and co-founder of Challenge Success -a project at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and A New York Times bestselling author. She is a frequent speaker to parents under pressure discussing the perfect storm that undermines the wellbeing of their children: a culture of materialism, competition, unrelenting pressure to succeed at any cost, lack of emotional connection and the loss of the authentic self.

Website: madelinelevine.com

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Gerry Moffat first arrived in Nepal on a British kayaking expedition in 1983 at the age of 18. Over the next 20 years he became the first man to descend all the major rivers in the Nepalese Himalayas. In 1990 he established the first river company in northern Pakistan. Currently he serves as the whitewater consultant to the Kingdom of Bhutan. National Geographic regards him as the most experienced river guide in the Himalayas.

Website: thunderdragonmedia.com

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Sonia is a sought after Practitioner of Structural Integration, Sonia works with individuals from all walks of life with a focus on those seeking true transformation and personal evolution. After working with her, clients experience relief from pain in their bodies, and souls, while learning tools to take back control of their personal wellbeing and realign their lives.

Website: soniasommer.com

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