Ed and Deb Shapiro, award-winning authors of sixteen books on meditation and personal development, are featured bloggers for HuffingtonPost.com and Oprah.com. They have taught meditation and personal development for over twenty-five years. Ed and Deb share how gratitude is a consistent mindset and part of their work.

Melody Moore is an American Soprano performing internationally. She is very grateful to have a voice beyond singing but also to have found her voice to speak her truth. Having faced significant stage fright over the course of her career, she has found gratitude in moving beyond this and other unrealistic fears. Her gratitude, generosity and kindness overflows into her professional community by mentoring young students with master classes and other outreach. She affirms students in finding their voice and standing in their opinion.

Chip Conley is an author, speaker and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. He speaks around the world on how to find meaning at the intersection of business and psychology. His latest adventure is as a festival seeker and he is grateful to travel and write about that. He can even find gratitude in the two economic downturns for very strategic reasons and because of what he learned during these times. "The number one fastest way on any continent in the world is to practice gratitude." He expresses gratitude and works to make a difference financially and with time and energy dedicated toward localized transformational organizations.

The Honorable John Kralik, Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles, is the author of the New York Times bestseller "A Simple Act of Gratitude - How Learing to Say Thank You Changed My Life." He is grateful for people who help him in his work every day and he is still in the habit of writing thank you notes to those people. "When you send out your appreciation to others, it is like a wave in a lake. It just ripples and ripples and ultimately comes back to you."