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Nina C. Payne lives in Solana Beach, CA. She is a poet, novelist, wife, a mother of two, and a registered yoga instructor.  Prior to her current life, she was managing a fast paced financial services company.  After the birth of her first child in 1998, she left the corporate world to raise her children and discovered her passion for yoga. Her love of yoga goes beyond physical postures, and she finds great pleasure in studying the philosophy, psychology, and physiology of yoga.

Her debut novel, Moments in Time, is strongly inspired by her real-life experiences. Having lost her brother to cancer and then her father four months later to a broken heart, it explores the obstacles many of us face and the courage it takes to overcome them.

He has appeared in over 80 television TV and film roles such as Ray Donovan, Prison Break, Make It or Break It, Nash Bridges, and Jobs with Ashton Kutcher.

Clint Jung is now in the hilarious hit comedy, Promoted starring, Samm Levine, Stephen Cloud, Cody Longo, Aries Spears, and Yasmin Lee.

We all know about the importance of eating a healthy, balanced diet; however, let’s be real here, at times, following a well-rounded diet can be challenging (and boring). This reality is leaving adults deficient in critical nutrients, such as vitamins A, D, and E, and calcium and magnesium.

To fill nutritional gaps, many are increasingly using vitamins and supplements, which can be beneficial, but at the same time, if not taken correctly, can be dangerous to one’s health.

Romy Block, MD, (endocrinologist) and Arielle Levitan, MD, (internist), are helping clear up vitamin confusion for consumers in their new book, “The Vitamin Solution”.

Romy Block, MD, is a board-certified specialist in endocrine and metabolism medicine, member of American Thyroid Association, and the cofounder of Vous Vitamin, LLC.

Arielle Miller Levitan, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and the cofounder of Vous Vitamin, LLC. Both of these doctors are the co-authors of The Vitamin Solution: Two Doctors Clear Confusion About Vitamins and Your Health.

After Michael Brown was a shot and killed by police officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the Economic Policy Institute on October 15, 2014 came out with a 40+ page report authored , Richard Rothstein entitled, THE MAKING OF FERGUSON: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles.

Rothstein written extensively about how poverty affects education and has spent years studying the evolution of residential segregation nationwide. He is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California Berkeley.

Watch the Epigenetics of Poverty, Racism and Slavery:

Ann is the author of other books in early childhood development including Creating A Beautiful Mess.  She is a prolific writer of curriculum materials such as classroom readers, teacher guides, and textbooks. Her two previous publications for Redleaf Press include Story Dictation: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals (2007) and Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms (2013). 

As graduate of Northwestern University and the Erikson Institute, Ann is frequently a presenter at education conferences, such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Association for Gifted Children.  

Currently, Ann serves as the early childhood coordinator for Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development where she manages Leapfrog, a summer enrichment program for young children. She also teaches early childhood courses at Oakton Community College. 

Ann is the author of other books in early childhood development.  She is a prolific writer of curriculum materials such as classroom readers, teacher guides, and textbooks. Her two previous publications for Redleaf Press include Story Dictation: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals (2007) and Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms (2013). 

As graduate of Northwestern University and the Erikson Institute, Ann is frequently a presenter at education conferences, such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Association for Gifted Children.  

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From the author of the 25-million copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most important and talked-about books of the decade. In typical Young fashion, Eve challenges our views on gender roles, taking us back to the beginning of creation, removing patriarchal interpretation that has skewed these views for hundreds of years. Eve will leave readers with a deeper understanding of the true intent of God.

Wm. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the "wastefulness of grace" with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

During Beverly Johnson’s youth, “Fashion was never discussed in the Johnson home.” Yet, when the teenaged Beverly finally heeded the comments urging her to consider a modeling career, it was her mother who, ignoring her father’s disapproval, took Beverly to New York City to meet with a woman who had close relationships to the leading fashion magazines.

The successful four-decade career in modeling that followed is now passionately described by Johnson in The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir.

Johnson describes herself as a tall, painfully shy “nerd” who, while growing up in Buffalo, New York, always had her head in a book and loved swimming. Often bullied by her classmates, as a teen she also experienced attempted molestation from the father of a child she was babysitting. Despite original career aspirations to be a championship swimmer or a lawyer, a few chance encounters led her to New York City and a career in which Johnson eventually made her mark in 1974 as the first black cover model of Vogue.

About Margaret Bendet

What I most enjoy is telling my stories and helping other people tell theirs.

One of my pivotal moments came at fourteen, sitting on a drainage pipe with my friend Terry Shurig beside the I-40 access road that runs through North Tulsa. It was Saturday afternoon, we were bored, and our solution was to ride our bikes to this spot so we could chain smoke. While creating the habit it would later take me years to drop, I glared at the flat, dusty, unrelieved Oklahoma landscape and made myself a promise: I don’t care what else my life is, it’s got to be interesting.

And it has been. Over the years I’ve been a newspaper features editor, a Hindu nun, a suburban housewife, a Congressional press aide; I’ve hiked in the Himalayas and brought earthquake relief to villagers on the Deccan plateau; I’ve interviewed American rock stars, Indian holy men, Hawaiian kapunas, and I once committed myself to a state mental facility so I could write about what it was like to be a patient.

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Laura Nicole Diamond is an author and civil rights lawyer. Her debut novel, Shelter Us, will be published June 2015 by She Writes Press. 

Laura is the Editor of Deliver Me: True Confessions of Motherhood, a collection by 20 writers. Proceeds from sales of Deliver Me went to Beyond Shelter, a non-profit that helps homeless families return to permanent housing.

Be inspired and motivated to do your share of contributing to the community while balancing motherhood from this interview.

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P.Gutter is the CEO of his own independent record label Upstate Records and has been releasing music under that label since 2003. In 2009, P.Gutter released his street single "Big Hammers" which led to a digital distribution deal with Island Def Jam Recordings. This has allowed him to position himself to be a major player in the music industry. He has worked with very familiar names in the music industry like Super Producer/Artist, "Ron Browz", Multi-Platinum Producers, "Midi Mafia" and Multi-Platinum Producers/ Engineers, "The Diaz Brothers". Most recently P.Gutter has released his new radio single "Twitter Crush", currently receiving airplay in Georgia and South Carolina. This and many other factors has attracted the attention of Universal Music Group who is interested in signing Upstate Records to a major distribution deal. P.Gutter is poised to take his balanced approach to life and hip-hop to the world.