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Samuel Garza Bernstein’s life and writing reflect the wild intersections of modern life. He was born to an undocumented Mexican mother who everyone assumed was a white Texan, and a Jewish father who passionately supported the Palestinian cause in Egypt, where the family lived for a year when he was a kid. “I was six-years old in Cairo,” Garza Bernstein says, “Surrounded by hot Egyptians, spinning fantasies and inventing myself.” The family traveled all over the world—occasionally on the lam—and lived in Cairo, Honolulu, Austin, Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles, and Ft. Collins, Colorado.

His newest book Roddy McDowall: An Actor’s Life has drawn raves from Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews, and Emma Thompson, among many others, and is in bookstores now. He is gearing up for the fourth season of 6-time Emmy Award-winning After Forever, after serving as co-showrunner and co-executive producer of the third season, now streaming on Amazon. His 2025 book, Cesar Romero: The Joker Is Wild, is a Foreword Magazine award-winner for Biography, and his non-fiction anthology Uncommon Heroes won a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association. His pilot for The Secret World of Danny Lopez was named a Writers Guild of America television comedy access project honoree but was also a drama winner at the New York Film Awards and a Content London International Drama Summit nominee for Best Pilot Script. He is also a well-regarded story consultant, working with clients in the United States, the U.K., and Europe.

He won Best Screenplay at the London Independent Film Awards for Elephant & Castle and a G.L.A.A.D. nomination for the Showtime film Bobbie’s Girl, which also garnered its star Bernadette Peters an Emmy nomination. Episodic credits range from the CBS drama Judging Amy to Nickelodeon's Shimmer and Shine. With composer David Snyder he first adapted his non-fiction book Mr. Confidential as a stage musical, developing it at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and then directing its world premiere at Actors Theatre of Indiana.

Garza Bernstein started his career as an actor and singer, most notably performing in several productions of Evita as Eva’s first conquest, the tango singer “Magaldi.” He also served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for trans foster children in Los Angeles County for five years, created and co-chaired a writing mentorship program for public high school students for twelve years, and served as a youth facilitator for the Los Angeles LGBT Center for eight years. He and husband Ronald Shore have been together for over thirty years and split their time between LA and Porto, Portugal. They are currently the hostages of a pair of incorrigible dachshunds.

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Phil Calandra has been in financial services since 2003. He won every production award the industry handed out — and in March 2009, at two in the morning, he sat looking at eight cents in his business checking account with payroll due when the sun came up. A credentialed money expert with no personal wealth system of his own. He rebuilt over the next three years, went on to build and exit two businesses alongside his wife and business partner Trish, and today serves as Chief Wealth Officer for business owners doing $1M–$10M in revenue. 
He is a partner at a $10 billion registered investment advisory firm and the Amazon #1 Bestselling Author of The Wealth Creation Method and The Work-Optional Entrepreneur. He is also an ultra-endurance athlete: 3x full Ironman finisher, 12x Ironman 70.3, 9x marathon.

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Lane Kawaoka guides high net worth professionals in wealth-building via real estate rentals, advanced tax strategies, and infinite banking. Lane Kawaoka, an ex-engineer, owns 10,000+ rental units worth $2.1 billion. He focuses on passive real estate, avoiding house flipping due because those strategies take too much effort. Lane writes for Forbes, hosts a Top-50 investing podcast, and is an Amazon Best-Seller. Topics he covers: building passive rental portfolios, rent-to-value ratios, market types, asset classes, "Emergency Fund 2.0", and strategic 401K management. Lane's mission: shift from Wall Street to safer Main Street investments.

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My guest today has a contrarian take that might make you rethink your relationship with alcohol entirely. He says high performers who drink don't have a drinking problem — they have an architecture problem. And he'd know: he's been alcohol-free for 44 years, he made that decision at 22 before he'd built anything, and everything came after — including a decade in U.S. Army counterintelligence, where his job was reading what people actually do versus what they say. Today he's the founder of the Clear Edge Institute, where he helps executives, founders, physicians, and attorneys remove alcohol as a performance variable — no willpower, no 12-step room. Please welcome Fred Auzenne.

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Tony Dina is a Professional Coach at Crucial Canvas LLC after three decades in high tech leadership, including work as a Field CTO at Dell Technologies. He works with high performing leaders when the old patterns stop working and the real issue is not execution, but identity, meaning, and judgment. In other words, the stuff no dashboard solves.

Tony brings lived perspective, but with an added lens of Jungian psychology, art, and decision making under pressure.

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Cynthia Hauk, MFA, is the founder of **Mindful Creative Muse**, an online school offering Mindful Art workshops, retreats, and internationally accredited teacher training programs.

Since 2007, Cynthia has helped people around the world use simple Mindfulness and Art practices to de-stress, reconnect with themselves, and express their creativity. Her courses, retreats, coaching programs, teacher trainings, and online events have reached students in more than **100 countries**.

Through four internationally accredited **Mindful Art and Meditation Teacher Training Certification programs**, Cynthia also trains artists, educators, therapists, wellness professionals, and creative entrepreneurs to confidently facilitate Mindful Art experiences and create meaningful offerings that support both **impact and sustainable income**

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Ted Kopecko is the author of the #1 International Best Seller Finding JOY… Journey Of You and a commercial real estate broker with more than 30 years of experience in business, architecture, and entrepreneurship. Ted helps people shift from reactive, “Life-Led” living to intentional, “JOY-Led” living by aligning mindset, identity, and time to create greater purpose, value, and freedom. His message resonates with professionals, entrepreneurs, and individuals seeking more fulfillment, clarity, and alignment in both life and business.

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Vincent Van den Broeck survived a scooter accident with a 10% chance of living, woke from a three-week coma, and had to learn to walk and talk again. He speaks to the psychological reality of recovery after brain trauma, and what loved ones go through during prolonged critical illness, without turning it into inspiration theater.

Facing death didn’t reinvent his values; it stress-tested them. He’s blunt about rejecting the “different person” narrative and more interested in why people postpone happiness until “later.” His “Until It’s Done” work turns that into five pillars for action, structure, and clarity.

His book, Everything Feels Impossible Until It’s Done, publishes on 11 October 2026.

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Doug Red Hail Pineda is the founder of The Church of Psychedelics, a provocative thinker exploring the intersection of consciousness, spirituality, psychedelics, and the future of human evolution. Through bold questions and unconventional insights, he challenges cultural assumptions about religion, personal transformation, and the untapped potential of the human mind. Whether discussing mystical experiences, psychedelic philosophy, the nature of reality, or society's next great awakening, Doug Red Hail brings a perspective that is both thought-provoking and impossible to ignore — leaving audiences questioning what they thought they knew and eager to explore what comes next.

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Rob Heller is a successful entrepreneur, youth development innovator, and founder of the Boost Program, a comprehensive personal development curriculum designed to equip teens and young adults with the essential life, social, and mental health skills that traditional education overlooks. After selling his insurance firm for eight figures to a publicly held company, Rob witnessed firsthand the critical skill gaps plaguing today's youth in the corporate workplace. This observation, combined with his desire to give his own children the tools they needed to thrive, inspired him to create a solution that didn't exist.
Drawing from a century of personal development wisdom—distilling the teachings of Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and other thought leaders into accessible, actionable lessons—Rob developed Boost as the "missing course" for today's youth. Through his work, Rob has become a leading voice in the conversation about how phone-based culture has stunted the development of essential interpersonal and character skills, and what parents, educators, and community leaders can do to bridge this critical gap.

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