Whispers & Bricks

The mind of 1000 Points of Light with the gold, Chris Jones, told his barriers and blockage, how he surpass and survive his grief with the passing of his child. He even created a Facebook page entitled Mitchell’s journey, which has since gained international attention as both a place for healing and insights on the often misunderstood world of grief and healing.

A story about the great Dr. Martin Luther King, the letter he wrote to eight white clergymen and the issues King opened, and the lessons we can learn from Dr. Martin Luther King.

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is an attending cardiologist and the Director of Women and Heart Disease of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She has done fellowship training in both Preventive Cardiology and Cardiology. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, with a subspecialty in Prevention and Women and Heart disease. She was the Director of the Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Health, for cardiac rehabilitation and lifestyle management at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York prior to joining Lenox Hill.

Dr. Martin S. Roth became President of the University of Charleston in July 2018. As a higher education leader, Roth has spent the past 30 years helping universities excel by focusing on the talent acquisition and development needs of students and organizations

Peter DaPuzzo, former head of the institutional equities division at Cantor Fitzgerald, holds a photo Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, from an April 1996 company party at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City. Of the 11 colleagues in the photo who worked at the World Trade Center, only DaPuzzo, a Riverside resident, did not die in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Benji Bruce started his first business as an illusionist/mentalist. He started learning magic when he was 10, and by 13 he was performing for tips in restaurants.  Eventually he worked his way into the corporate market where he would get hired by companies like Remax, Aflac, AAA, Best Buy, IBM, and more, as the keynote presenter and entertainer for their events. While performing, other entertainers and speakers began to ask Benji how he was getting hired by all these companies. So he started building an online training company.

Sarri Singer has an inspiring story that in many ways parallels Ari’s experience. This is largely because they are both survivors of deadly terrorist attacks, Ari on September 11, 2001, and Sarri on a bus in Jerusalem in 2003.

Sarri once worked near the World Trade Center. The events of 9/11 impacted her life deeply. So, in December of 2001, she left her job and moved to Israel to help victims of terrorism.

Ari’s friend David Newman is a man who seems, on the surface, to have it all. He is a very successful entrepreneur. He's a member of the National Speakers Association Million-Dollar Speakers Group. He’s the author of the bestselling business books Do It! Marketing and Do It! Speaking. He is also the creator of the Expert Profit Formula mentoring program.

Rick Barry and his wife Lynn are a truly remarkable couple with an amazing list of accomplishments.