Awesomeness Fest is more than just a seminar. It is a gathering and community of people who share values and a bigger vision of the impact they want to have on the world. The ‘tribe’ does not fit into a particular group. They are not all entrepreneurs, or authors or artist and celebrities.

The beauty of the tribe is that we hand-pick a variety of people from different industries, genres, ages and countries. You’re as likely to meet the owner of a $50 million dollar business, as you are

to meet a young upcoming musician, actress or marketing director of a Fortune 500 company.

This variety creates an amazing vibe that keeps the event extraordinary and something that you simply do not experience at ‘networking events’.

Here are some of the Awesomeness Fest tribe from the last two years.

Meet some of the featured guests from 2011 and 2010. In no particular order…

Keynoters

Lynne Twist

A global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author — has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work. Lynne has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives including: ending world hunger, protecting the world’s rainforests, empowering indigenous peoples, improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children, advancing the scientific understanding of human consciousness, creating a sustainable future.

Lisa Nichols

The hit film The Secret, made her famous. Lisa has appeared on Oprah, Extra, Larry King and on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning show, Starting Over. Author of the best-seller No Matter What!, her work has touched the lives of 210,000 teens and over 1 million adults. To celebrate her work, the Mayor of Houston, Texas proclaimed May 9th as Lisa Nichols day.

Gay Hendricks

Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has served for more than 35 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the co-author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving and Five Wishes. He is the author of 33 books, including The Corporate Mystic, Conscious Living and The Big Leap. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor of Counseling Psychology at University Colorado, he and Kathlyn founded The Hendricks Institute, which is based in Ojai, California and offers seminars worldwide.

Kathlyn Hendricks

Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT has been a pioneer in the field of body-mind integration for nearly forty years. Her explorations about the catalytic transformational power of the creative arts have been featured in many magazines, journals and books. She received her doctorate in transpersonal psychology in 1982 and has been a Board Certified-Dance/Movement Therapist of the American Dance Therapy Association since 1975. She has consulted and taught in the graduate programs of many universities, including the University of Colorado, Union Graduate School, Antioch University and Naropa Institute. She has an international reputation as a seminar leader for health and business professionals. Her seminars specialize in training professionals from many fields in the core skills of conscious living using a unique system of whole-body learning and Quantum Coaching™.

Vishen Lakhiani

The guy behind the award-winning company Mindvalley and FinerMinds.com. Vishen is considered one of the young visionaries behind the personal growth movement.

Tiffany Persons

Known for bringing her magnetic personality and sheer joy for living to every experience and individual that she encounters, Tiffany Persons is the founder and director of the non-profit organization Shine on Sierra Leone and the hi-profile commercial casting company Tiffany Company Casting. Currently celebrating Shine on Sierra Leone’s fifth anniversary, Tiffany’s passion and commitment for empowering the communities of Sierra Leone through innovative initiatives and strong cultural partnerships is stronger than ever.

Entrepreneurs

Yanik Silver

Yanik Silver is a serial entrepreneur who has built multiple successful online businesses even though he still considers himself a “techno dunce.” His story and businesses have been featured in dozens of media outlets. He is a highly sought after speaker, addressing groups ranging from the prestigious Wharton Business School to international audiences of over 3,000. Yanik is the creator of Maverick Business Adventures®, which creates unique, once-in-a-lifetime experiences exclusively for entrepreneurs and CEOs. It’s only for the small group of top-gun achievers who want to live life to the fullest, produce business breakthroughs and give back to young & aspiring entrepreneurs through charity and education.

Amish Shah

Best described as a savvy new-age internet entrepreneur, Amish is a visionary and a futurist with many of his ideas and concepts being larger than life. Amish is best known for developing automated tools and software as well as his impressive traffic strategies. He is also very popular from his popular “Magic Bullet” courses and seminars as well as his record-setting 6-figure daily affiliate marketing earnings that changed the face of affiliate marketing forever and created a buzz no one will soon forget. Amish sold his company Digispace to Bitzio so that he could move on to bigger things.

Taylor Conroy

“Destroy Normal” is the saying Taylor lives by. Here is a brief timeline of Taylor’s life: Age 20 – hired as North America’s youngest professional firefighter. Age 24 – picks up real estate on the side and becomes the highest grossing new agent in the country and joins the top one percentile in North America. Age 27 – removes himself from his business, travels the world, and following a trip to Africa, decides to devote his life to philanthropy and social enterprise. Age 29 – uses his business background to create a system that enables anyone to raise $10,000 for charity in under 3 hours. Age NOW – looking forward to speaking at Awesomeness Fest where (for the first time) he will “tell all” about how to raise $1,000,000 to build over 100 schools in Africa to empower hundreds of thousands of people… in less than a day.

Greg Habstritt

As the Founder of SimpleWealth, Greg Habstritt has more than 20 years successful entrepreneurial experience in a number of industries ranging from telecommunications, information technology, event marketing, education and broadcasting. He started his first business at 8 years old, and is a self-confessed “serial entrepreneur”. Throughout his business career, Greg has founded, built and sold more than 20 companies and received number of citations and awards for his entrepreneurial spirit and success, including Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada in 2000.

Blair Gorman

Blair Gorman is an information marketer in the personal development / new age space. He is a marketing junkie, a Mindvalley super affiliate, and founder of Numerologist.com, a site that has given away over 5 million free numerology reports, and built a list of over 1.5 million avid subscribers, making it the most widely read educational resource for numerology in existence today.

Michael R. Drew

Michael R. Drew is a maverick who gets results, and since the age of 19 he’s taken the book industry by storm. Michael has propelled 70 authors onto the national best seller lists, among them Ivan Misner, T. Harv Eker, Lisa Nichols and Vince Poscente. Little wonder that his Promote A Book services are in such high demand. Aside from that impressive track record, Michael is striving to make a difference in the greater world. His experience working with Roy H Williams (aka The Wizard of Ads) helped Michael to uncover the link between personal and business development.

Joe Sugarman

Joseph Sugarman is one of the nation’s top copywriters, having built several business all from the power of his pen. He is Chairman of JS&A Group, Inc., BluBlocker Corporation, DelStar Publishing and President of a bio-tech company, Stem Cell Products, LLC. In his storied career, he has launched dozens of innovative products such as pocket calculators, cordless telephones, and many more, all through the power of his advertising copy. He has sold over 20 million pairs of BluBlocker® sunglasses over the past 25 years, and has won several prestigious awards such as Direct Marketing Man of the Year and the Maxwell Sacheim award for creative career contributions to direct marketing.

Jonathan Budd

Jonathan Budd’s mission in life is to contribute in any way possible to the global shift that must happen on this planet, in order for humanity to create a sustainable, just, & fulfilling future for all. Combining powerful spiritual and transformation principles with the game of making money… he teaches his students how to go BEYOND the surface when it comes to their goals in life… and tap into a much deeper & meaningful fulfillment that comes when making money is about something much more than just making money. Having earned his first $10,000,000 by age 26, & being recognized as one of the most influential leaders in the world of home business… Jonathan is just getting started bringing this message to the world.

Robert Hirsh

Robert Hirsch opened his first physical store at the ripe age of sixteen, and by the time he graduated from high school, he owned six bead shops. After that experience, he was never really fit for a straight job and has been a serial entrepreneur ever since. Robert is currently the Managing Director for South Fork Ventures. The fund currently has a portfolio of seven companies primarily centered on direct response marketing and technology. Robert also does high level consulting through South Fork Ventures to companies when they’re ready to grow from that $5 million level to that $50 million dollar level and prepare them for liquidity events. Growing companies from $5-50 million is Robert’s “sweet spot”, and he has done this six times.

Cory Boatright

Cory Boatright is a serial entrepreneur who has succeeded in both Real Estate and Internet Marketing businesses.. The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company Magazine are among a few organizations that view him as leader for successful business aptitude. A millionaire at age 25, he’s simplified a powerful, strategic formula for success called ‘The 3 M’s for Success”.

Nick Broadhurst

At the age of 20, Nick was living the life of a rockstar traveling the world in one of Australia’s most popular bands, Sneaky Sound System. At 26 when his super cute son Leo was born, Nick made the switch to real estate (he did what!) and in 4 short years was awarded the top sales person in Australia with an average sale price of $7M. Nick is a dreamer who thinks anything is possible and has now teamed up with Tom Cronin to create One Great Find, an online publishing company set up with the sole intention of changing as many lives as possible while contributing to the global shift towards enlightened business. Keep an ear out for the guy preaching about raw foods, igniting movements and Stillness Sessions… that’ll be him!

Kourosh Assef

As a partner in SimpleWealth, Kourosh is intimately involved in creating the vision and direction of the company with Greg Habstritt, Founder of SimpleWealth. Kourosh is also the big brother in the relationship and has what it takes to stand up to Greg’s “BIG” personality while covering his back with unconditionally. Kourosh’s business acumen and success are long and worthy, but it is the size of his heart and ability to connect with people that make him shine. As the key operating manager, few decisions get made without his involvement and input.

Aydika James

Writer, dancer, dot-connector, yogi and travel junkie, Aydika is part glam, part geek, and all fire. Growing up as a set-monkey in her father’s video production company, she eventually combined her skills into a snowball of sales, marketing, event and project management, creative and technical writing, international wine export, modeling, dance, “Authentic PR,” illustration and men’s style consulting. Today, she’s honored to build, play and give with some the world’s top masterminds, as Communications Samurai for Yanik Silver’s Maverick Business Adventures®. Ice cream and adventure aside, her true joy is helping people laugh, connect and shine to their ultimate potential — to live A Life Alive.

Aaron Ross

After years in venture capital and the corporate world, Aaron created Pebblestorm, which is helping 100 million people “make money through enjoyment” – He shows people how to discover their “Unique Genius” and turn it into a successful business. Aaron is the author of “CEOFlow: Turn Your Employees Into Mini-CEOs“, which is designed to help leaders free up their time and energy. Of course, it’s hard to enjoy work if your revenue isn’t predictable, and Aaron’s book “Predictable Revenue” and sales consulting practice helps companies do just that.

Cecilia Sardeo

If you want to understand how a small atom can create a weapon of mass destruction, Cecilia is one small packet that will show you how. Bursting with energy and secret Aikido powers, she is a health freak and has the flexibility of a rubber string. Cecilia is an SEO specialist and the co-founder of Mindvalley Italy. At a young age, she built up one of the top SEO consultancies in Italy with a loyal fan following. When she is not turning around businesses, she is getting dirty with life changing products and raising consciousness of the country of pizza and pasta.

Ankush Gera

Ankush is an entrepreneur, creative director and advisor to several technology startups in the Silicon Valley. Ankush is the Founder and CEO of Junglee Games and serves on the advisory board of Dollarchimp. He co-founded Monsoon, a boutique consulting firm that has strategic global partnerships with fortune 100 clients.

Ajit Nawalkha

Serial Entrepreneur and Reiki Master, Ajit Nawalkha is Founder of Mindvalley India & Mindvalley Printing. Ajit’s background is in business process optimization and marketing. In his spare time he reads, learns, implements, learns more, shares and then gets back to learning. In past he has driven businesses to ground, has grown verticals by multi-fold and has lead multi-million dollar businesses and doubled their revenue too. A passionate lover and seeker of higher consciousness, you have to meet him if you wanna know how to get your business to cut expenses by 20-50%.

Cyrus Massoumi

Cyrus Massoumi is the CEO & Co-Founder of ZocDoc. Before starting ZocDoc, Cyrus worked at McKinsey & Company where he focused on healthcare and technology. Prior to that he founded a software company called OneSizeTooSmall and worked at Trilogy Software. Cyrus holds an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School, where he was the recipient of the Heffernan Award for Outstanding Service, and a BS with honors from Wharton.

Noah St. John

Noah St. John is the inventor of Afformations® and author of the bestselling book The Secret Code of Success. He’s world’s most-quoted expert on how to dump your head trash. He’s been featured in over 3,000 media outlets including CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, National Public Radio, PARADE, Woman’s Day, Los Angeles Business Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Selling Power, Woman’s World, and Bottom Line/Personal. With no formal education in business and a vision to empower people worldwide, Noah launched SuccessClinic.com in 1997 with a mission to teach people how to have MORE LIFE with LESS WORK. Noah’s books have been translated into ten languages, including Japanese, French, German, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. Noah teaches real-world strategies to manifest your desires while simplifying your life.

Ewa Wysocka

Ewa Wysocka is Mindvalley’s top secret, clandestine, underground marketing super weapon. Co-founder of Mindvalley Poland, Eva and her team will singlehandedly revive the Eurozone with their infusion of entrepreneurial resources and education. She is also a leading contender for the next James Bond movie villian…the one where James Bond switches sides due to Eva’s superior marketing and influence skills and the audience roots for her instead. Known affectionately as Mindvalley’s very own Honey Badger due to her incredible persistence in the face of challenges, deadlines and ability to laugh in the face of adversity. All joking aside…Ewa is the brains behind some of the biggest personal growth product launches on the Internet.

Brian Scrone

Co-founder of Titus Group, a real estate investment company who has completed $50 Million in transactions; and his true passion, Board Meetings International, a unique retreat giving parent/child couples the opportunity to spend quality time and learn the 5 life lessons of wealth and happiness that are never taught in the classroom. Also an in demand international author and speaker, Brian’s vision is to revolutionize both family dynamics and formal education thru Board Meetings.

Craig Handley

Founder of informercial company Listen Up Espanol which is listed as #27 overall to Inc. 500′s list of fast growing companies in America and #1 in America in the Business Products and Services category. Also a part of the Hip Hop band, CRGruve.

Brad Constanza

An information marketing and software entrepreneur, Brad shed his corporate shackles in 2008 and channeled his creative energy into direct marketing by entertaining and educating his customers. He is a cofounder of the comedic GPS voice-replacement company, P.I.G. Tones, and publishes dating advice programs to men, including how to excel in social situations using magic tricks (a.k.a. making women go “ooh, ahh”). Brad’s passions are personal development and marketing. He has been known to tame honey badgers with a stern gaze and is responsible for ending the Macarena dance craze single handedly.

Jason Moffatt

Jason Moffatt is a internet marketing mentor and lifestyle strategist who strives to maximize each waking moment through his Todayism philosophy. Todayism is about intentionally scheduling activities, projects and connection with others to ensure a life of joy, growth, fulfillment and purpose. He’s one of the happiest guys you’ll ever meet and loves to share that vibe and his out of the box business wisdom with anyone whose intention is to help others grow in a positive manner.

William Lee

William was born and raised in New York. He grew up downtown in a run down, rat-infested five story walkup apartment that his proud immigrant Chinese parents secured after coming to the USA with only $200 US dollars. In the fall of 2007 William entered a competitive niche in Health and Wellness selling physical products through fulfillment centers in the US. Nearly declaring bankruptcy after only a few short months, he secured a loan, suited up and headed into battle again more determined than ever to succeed. Each month thereafter, he doubled sales for 12 months straight. Today, William is recognized as the top 3 retailer in a market serving over 10,000 distributors with sales revenue in the multiple 7 figures and growing.

Alexis Neely

Alexis Neely is a truth-telling lawyer, evolutionary strategist, community builder & tribal leader ushering in the new paradigm. Before the age of 35, Alexis quickly scaled the ranks of entrepreneurship, built multiple million dollar entrepreneurial endeavors, wrote a best-selling book and appeared on many of the top television shows all while raising her children as a single mother. After Alexis experienced what she calls a “third-level awakening” in late 2009, she began to realize that much of what she had been taught on her quest for achievement, accomplishment and success was neither sustainable nor real and she began to unplug from the old system while creating her own sustainable economy.

Jason Henderson

“Big Jason” stands out for many reasons and not just because he’s nearly 7 feet tall, loves bunny rabbits (the cute, furry kind) and according to his dance instructor is the only straight male to ever take her belly dance class. He’s a world-renowned email marketing expert and strategist certified multiple times in both email marketing and landing page optimization by one of the largest and most respected marketing optimization and research companies in the world, Marketing Experiments. John Carlton calls Jason his go to guy for anything email marketing. Other than his passion for belly dancing and bunny rabbits, Big Jason is crazy about muay thai kick boxing, functional fitness and helping people improve their physical posture.

Cindy Gallop

Cindy Gallop’s background is brand building, marketing and advertising – she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a web meets world platform designed to turn good intentions into action one microaction at a time, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010, and of www.makelovenotporn.com, launched at TED 2009.

Landon Ray

At the tender age of 25, Landon became one of the nation’s top “Day Traders” and his success was recounted in dozens of books, magazines, and newspapers across the country including the New York Times and Newsweek. After waving goodbye to Wall Street, Landon moved to Santa Barbara, California and discovered explosive entrepreneurial yearnings which he satisfied by founding several companies over the next decade. His latest venture, OfficeAutopilot is a full out marketing and business automation platform that empowers entrepreneurs to bring their biggest gifts to the world with greater ease and speed and awesomeness in general.

Justyna Jastrzebska

The second half of Mindvalley Poland, one of Mindvalley’s most senior business managers and an avid deep sea diver and jewelry maker. Justyna builds hugely profitable online businesses like how ants build hills: quickly, efficiently and flawlessly. Over the past 3.5 years she’s generated over $5 million in revenue launching sites in a variety of unorthodox niches, from astral projection to remote viewing to hypnosis. Now that she’s dominated the US market, her next project is conquering the online marketing industry in her home country, followed by the rest of Europe, and then where else but the rest of the world.

Mike Cline

Mike started and failed his fair share of companies and projects before building the successful tech muscle called Tech Guys Who Get Marketing. Tech Guys, as it’s usually called, specializes in helping companies increase their efficiency with technology, with a keen eye for marketing. The majority of their clients run businesses that gross over $1MM a year, but they help small one-man companies just the same. From defining business logic and building complex CRM systems to full sales funnels, including customer acquisition through marketing, conversion online, delivery of high-quality content, and accountable reporting of the effectiveness of each endeavour, the clients have been heard giving glowing reviews.

Personal Growth

Philip McKernan

Philip McKernan has carved out a reputation for having a gift in helping people achieve life changing personal breakthroughs. He dedicates himself to working with people who wish to improve their personal and professional lives. Philip inspires positive change through his unique, intimate mentoring programs, personal and couples Retreats across North America and his homeland of Ireland. As put by a client returning from a recent retreat to Ireland, “There is no app for this”. Philip’s mission statement is “To Inspires Millions of People to Believe in Themselves”.

Alex Ortner

Alex Ortner is one of the most respected internet marketers in the personal development space. He is the Chief Operating Officer of The Tapping Solution, a breakthrough personal development company that he built with his brother Nick and sister Jessica that teaches how to use EFT Tapping, otherwise known as Emotional Freedom Techniques. The Tapping Solution is best known for it’s annual Tapping World Summits, the last of which had over 300,000 people in attendance. As a passionate health advocate Alex also runs Raw for Thirty, an internet based company that teaches of the benefit of eating a diet high in raw and living foods. His biggest passion is his family which consists of his wife Karen and his two young children Malakai and Lucas.

Glen Ledwell

Glen Ledwell is the Director of Mind Movies and the mastermind behind the company’s breakthrough success. He and his wife Natalie met Ryan Higgins in Australia and used Mind Movies software for their own success before joining with him to expand Internationally. Prior to Mind Movies Glen’s serial entrepreneurship took him from owning a successful advertising entity to owning a string of coffee houses to nightclubs to property development. Today, Glen is one of the most respected Internet Marketers in the Personal Development space, largely due to his forward thinking and innovative attitude. He is a non-stop world adventurer and enjoys connecting with all types of entrepreneurs for mutual growth.

Natalie Ledwell

Natalie represents what all entrepreneurs strive to be: a determined, success. As a founder of Mind Movies, she built the company with her husband Glen and business partner Ryan Higgins. Recently, Natalie recorded her journey of achieving what seemed to be an insurmountable goal – going from a size 14 to a size 10 in just 7 weeks. Recognizing these were the same specific principles attributed to the runaway success of the Mind Movies movement, she created an educational, easy to follow and effective success program called “7 Secrets to Happiness.” Currently Natalie is writing her first book and the host of an online TV blog called The Inspiration Show.

Ryan Higgins

Ryan Higgins is the original creator of Mind Movies and is proud to be a meaningful contributor to the field of personal growth. While living in Sydney, Australia as a struggling factory worker, Ryan had the idea of taking his vision board and turning it into a movie on his computer. After seeing this simple concept bring him his goals in record time, he made it his mission to help the rest of the world define their dreams and reach self-actualization. Since then, he’s traveled to countless countries to meet the best and brightest of the industry as he and his team continue to advance the field of visualization through technology and innovation.

Dawn Nicole Hoang

Dawn is a channel and intuitive coach to several CEOs. She is also the head of the Modern Mystery School for the Southern California Region. Dawn teaches classes on channeling and mysticism.

Arielle Ford

A nationally recognized publicist and marketing expert, producer, author and consultant she has catapulted many authors and celebrities to stardom and enormously facilitated the rapid growth of the self- help and human potential movement in the US. As the former president and founder of The Ford Group, a successful public relations and marketing firm, she helped launch the careers of Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen creators of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and Neale Donald Walsch author of Conversations With God.

Mykola Latansky

President of Academy of True Success is the World’s First Russian-speaking Motivational Speaker and the #1 Russian-speaking Trainer and Success Coach. Based in Ukraine Mykola was able to built a worldwide training, coaching and speaking business like no one before. In less than four years Mykola Latansky achieved the level of success where his training rooms are filled with hundreds and thousands of people at a time and has clients in over 40 countries on four continents.

Carol Tuttle

Carol is an acclaimed alternative psychotherapist, best-selling author and 20-year pioneer in the self-help arena. Dressing Your Truth: Discover Your Personal Beauty Profile is her fourth book, and the first to apply her proven therapeutic techniques towards women’s fashion and beauty.

Steve G. Jones

One of the most sought after Hypnotherapists in America. Steve caters to a celebrity clientele and has been seen on Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, CBS News, CNN, FOX News, and TruTV. Steve has been practicing hypnotherapy for over 25 years and has personally recorded the world’s largest hypnosis library with over 5,000 products on the market.

Paul Hoffman

Paul Hoffman is an internationally known Speaker, Author, Coach and Transformational Songwriter. He is the CEO, Visionary and Chief Inspirational Officer of The Success Creation Institute, Success Songs LLC and Paul Hoffman Music Inc. As a speaker Paul has shared the stage with T. Harv Eker, Jack Canfield, The Dalai Lama, Sir Richard Branson, Mark Victor Hansen, Brendon Burchard, Marci Shimoff and many other well-known luminaries.

Music and Culture

Malek Houlihan

Malek is a veteran musician and storyteller who has performed over 1,200 times in 9 countries. He began lecturing on stage at seven years old and was one of the first musical acts officially sponsored by Myspace. ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper the memoirs that weave through his unique live show. He has been featured on Warped Tour, MTV, NPR, Brain World, independent films, and major magazines.

Christine Chang

A world-wide wedding photographer based in Los Angeles, Christine’s work has been published in numerous magazines and websites including People, Metro, Serendipity, Style Me Pretty, and Rock N’ Roll Bride. Inspired by the people she shoots, Christine’s goal is to capture the life and essence of her subjects. She believes in following your heart and enjoying what you are doing every step of the way! Her style has attracted celebrity clients such as Clint Eastwood, Nick Lachey & Vanessa Minnillo, Ali Landry, Joe Montana, Arnold Palmer, and Kevin Alejandro.

Kyle Cease

Kyle Cease is currently one of the most in-demand young comics, selling out over 200 shows last year from coast to coast. Since his memorable appearances as the ’slow clapper’ in “Not Another Teen Movie” and as Bogey Lowenstein in “10 Things I Hate About You”, Kyle Cease has had numerous TV, film and radio appearances.Last year he won the 2009 Comedy Central Stand-Up Showdown, competing against the 100 best comics in the business.His original take on life, fresh perspective, and absolute freedom on stage will get you saying, “Man, that boy had an original take on life, fresh perspective and absolute freedom on stage. I am so much happier and thanks to Kyle’s comedy, I now have a million dollars.”

Moriah Diamond

Moriah Diamond is a top empowerment event photographer who blends her artistic nature with her extensive experience in the tech world. She helps her clients uniquely promote themselves through social media and uses her photography skills and her artistic eye to capture her clients true essence in their photos. She is connected with hundreds of entrepreneurs including Life, Business and Marketing Coaches, Top Leaders in the field of Personal Development, Financial Empowerment, Health and Wellness Professionals, etc.

Health and Fitness

Drew Canole

Drew has already helped thousands of people become lighter and healthier through proper thoughts, eating and exercise. He’s shared his motivating advice on FitLife.TV, news outlets and in worldwide publications. Now he’s helping others improve their health—and change their lives—both mentally and physically. When you meet Drew, you’ll immediately feel his contagious enthusiasm and form an instant connection.

Tera Warner

Tera Warner is the frisky founder of the world’s largest online resource of raw food cleansing and detoxification programs for women (The Raw Divas Inc.). Through her programs and annual WISH Summit: (Women’s International Summit for Health) she invites a community of over 100,000 women around the world to pick up their parsley sprigs, turn up the volume on their ipods and march, dance, sing, jump or fly along path to vibrant living.

Thought Leaders and Experts

Christie Marie Sheldon

Christie Marie Sheldon, Author of “Living Love or Above, The Toolkit,” & “Unlimited Abundance Journey” is an Intuitive Life Coach & Facilitator for Life, Love and Celebration. Her Gift is in aligning people with their Ideal Version of Life. For the last decade, from love and relationships, to family and self-esteem, to work, money, and careers, Christie Marie has guided more than 14,000 people to consciously choose their Ideal Life. From reaching out to Top 10 radio shows around the country, to working with world and business leaders, Christie Marie has been featured live as a regular guest on Top 10 radio shows and television.

Tom Cronin

Tom lives a life that to many seems a juxtaposition. Being a bond broker in finance, property developer and businessman whilst also a meditation teacher is a paradox for some minds.He started meditating twice daily 16yrs ago as a tool for stress management to cope with the fast pace load of the trading markets. This opened up a whole new world of enquiry which took him to Rishikesh India, Bali and across Australia to further his spiritual understanding of life. Fast forward to today, and he is now the Co-Founder of Science of Stillness, a complete and holistic online program for personal transformation that has Stillness Sessions as its Foundation. Tom’s goal, by utilizing technology, is to have the world practicing Stillness Sessions daily!

Blair Dunkley

Blair Dunkley is a co-author Art and Science of Success volume 3, the founder of Life Skills College and ResultsNOW, He has a 35-year reputation of owning successful training companies complimented by his life-long, investigative research to analyze and optimize behaviors for personal and corporate performance. He is a keynote speaker, trainer, corporate and executive coach and consults to business and organization leaders worldwide.

Ariel White

Since 2005 Ariel has been offering tools of transformation and inspiring people to move past fear to find deeper experiences of self love. Studying traditional healing arts since age 8 starting with Usui Reiki, Ariel has a rich background in energy work and shamanic practices. Now focusing her work on sex education and sexual empowerment for women, Ariel launched www.SoulofSex.com in 2010. Ariel is also deeply involved in non-profit work, currently serving as co-chair on the Stewardship Council of the Pachamama Alliance. Also a volunteer Awakening the Dreamer Symposium facilitator, Ariel has been invited to present at events such as Awesomeness Fest.

Burt Goldman

One of the world’s leading meditation and mind power experts, Burt Goldman has spent the last 5 decades teaching millions of students how to unlock the hidden power of their mind through his sold-out seminars and workshops. After being the top Silva Method instructor for 20 years, Burt decided it was time to spread his message in a different way. In 2007, he partnered with MindValley to create a multi-million dollar online business focused on creating ground-breaking products to change the lives of millions world-wide. Burt is now MindValley’s highest grossing author. From Qi Gong, to Past Life Regression, to his latest phenomenon, Quantum Jumping, Burt has spent years studying and mastering the most effective self-improvement techniques… and at the age of 84, he shows no signs of slowing down.

Renee Airya

Renee Airya is a transformational coach, healer, and intuitive channel. She has healed through three near death experiences including massive brain surgery, a tumor and facial paralysis with the use of a healing system that she created. She now helps others with “The Airya Method” of personal healing, which leads her clients easily into greater states of health, abundance and empowered relationships. She is a guide to many well known on-line entrepreneurs, has co-created six figure launches and internet programs, and loves serving leaders by connecting them to their heart, truth and power so they may impact more lives. Her website is www.awakenyoursource.com.

Chris Attwood

Chris Attwood is co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose. He is an expert in the field of human consciousness and is also deeply grounded in the practical world of business.Over the past 30 years, Chris has been CEO or senior executive of fifteen companies including a secondary dealer in government securities, a software developer, several magazines, and one of the leading consulting and training companies in the world. He has sold millions of dollars in consulting and training services to companies like Ford Motor Company, Dell Computer, Sprint, Royal Bank of Canada, Mellon Bank and others.

Janet Bray Attwood

Janet Bray Attwood is a visionary, a transformational leader, and a world humanitarian. Janet is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Passion Test – The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life’s Purpose. Janet has spoken on how to discover passion and purpose throughout the world and has shared the stage with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Dr. Stephen Covey, Richard Branson, Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk, Jack Canfield, Tony Hsieh, Rev. Michael Beckwitih and many others. She is also co-founder of online magazine, The Passion Test Daily, and a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council.

Shulé Houlihan

Shulé is a stage performer, author, and teacher who as a youth spent seven years backpacking the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Africa where she muscled an Enfield motorcycle through the Himalayas, learned to meditate under the same Bodhi tree as the Buddha, was kidnapped in Pakistan, faced an angry mob in India, survived a massive flood in Cambodia, and was gang raped in Spain. These mesmerizing stories are the basis for her upcoming book and live presentation “For The Strength of Men: a One Woman Show”.

Andrew Hewitt

It outraged Andrew that so many of his talented university friends were lured into careers at lifeless corporations. To help his generation launch meaningful careers, Andrew wrote “The Power of Focus for College Students”, teamed up with Donald Trump, and toured the college speaking circuit. He recently launched the GameChangers 500 that, unlike the Fortune 500, ranks the top purpose-driven organizations. Andrew is on a mission to connect people with “GameChanger DNA” with job opportunities at the top GameChanger organizations.

Amir Ahmad

MindValley’s former business manager turned co-founder of MindValley Arabia, Amir Ahmad Nasr is a digital media and marketing consultant, leading Arab activist blogger, and international speaker. Besides sharing the stage with former Presidents and Nobel Peace Laureates, he’s been featured on USA Today, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera’s English TV channel, German magazines and many more media outlets. He’s the author of the upcoming book Islam: A Love Story – How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind, Broke My Heart, and Blogging Freed My Mystic Soul. A self-identified life-long learner, Amir is an entrepreneurial change-maker out on a mission to make a difference.

Rebekah Kuby

Known on Maui as the ‘Potential Seer’- Rebekah can see the greatest-potential in a project, landscape, or in an individual. She is a powerful healer and on her down time she helps people to unlock their deepest purpose for their own lives. She is a Permaculture Teacher, Landscape Architect, and Sustainability Expert currently living completely off the grid in the rainforest of Maui. She is also the founder of “Be The Change” in South Africa, which brings sustainability and healing to 6 different orphanages in South Africa and Swaziland.

Jim Shiels

Author, Speaker & International Real Estate Investor. Jim’s passion for surfing and fascination with mastermind groups lead him to co-create “Board Meetings”, an experiential education company that specializes in parent/child retreats for successful entrepreneurs and business owners. Him and his business partner have been best friends since the age of 3.

Media and Internet

Susan Bratton

Susan Bratton is the co-founder and CEO of Personal Life Media, Inc., a multimedia lifestyle brand providing entertaining and authentic personal content to socially conscious adults. The company provides automated platforms for podcast and information product publishing to serve experts who deliver motivational programs, talk shows, virtual workshops, downloadable training systems and support programs via blogs, web audio, video and ebooks.

James Sol Radina

James Sol Radina has grown up following the greatest and latest trends in technology when it comes to marketing online. Helping hundreds of business owners through his online consulting services, specializing in online product launches, and he has found a niche in working with some of the top motivational speakers in the world, including Brian Tracy, John C. Maxwell, Les Brown, Paul Martinelli, and more. This year James is responsible to managing two launches that have now totaled over $5.1 Million in sales.

Katie Freiling

Katie has an impressive following online in personal growth and marketing through her blog KatieFreiling.com. Her expertise with free video marketing, social media, and blogging, makes her a sought after speaker, trainer, and educator.

Kristina Mand-Lakhiani

Founder of MindValley Russia. This Estonian native takes personal growth content catering to the American audience and repackages them for the European and primarily Russian language markets. She’s also actively involved in philanthropic work from building schools in Africa to working with indigenous tribes in the Amazon Rainforest.

Tim Bratton

Tim Bratton: COO, Co-founder Personal Life Media Tim started his first company at age 26 and has launched a number of tech companies before joining PLM. Best known as the inventor of Rhapsody, Real Network’s PC music service, Tim has 20 years experience in the tech industry and has spent the last 17 years in computers and digital audio and has three US patents. He also manages a real estate portfolio that includes a 20 acre sub-tropical retirement community.

Alexandra Cattoni

A personal development junkie and marketing genius, Alexandra is a sought-after online business consultant, copywriter and entrepreneur. Over the last 3 years, Alexandra has been responsible for designing killer marketing campaigns and launching multiple online businesses that now generate millions in annual sales. Passionate about Lifestyle Design and adventure, it’s not unusual to catch Alex toting her MacBook to some of the most exotic locations around the globe. From beautiful beaches to mountain tops, Alex has seriously redefined what it means to work from anywhere and is determined to show others how to do the same.

Crew

Leanne Kallal

Brimming with infectious energy and bursting with groundbreaking ideas, Leanne spreads cheer wherever she goes. At Mindvalley, she oversees the Talent Management Division and is involved in planning legendary events like AwesomenessFest. In her free time, Leanne is a budding Entrepreneur and spends her time traveling the world, getting in touch with her spiritual side and experiencing life to the max.

Shawn Royster | MC and Audio/Video Team

Los Angeles based Film & TV producer, Shawn is a founder of Royster Productions. In his role as an MC, he has fired up crowds of over 70 thousand people. Shawn, while enjoying TV hosting, is also a national racquetball champion.

Veena Sidhu

High speed. Nope. That’s not an extreme sport Veena is into, but that’s how fast she talks. And if you can keep up with this fun loving biotech graduate, business magic can happen. As the Director of Affiliate Partnerships at Mindvalley, Veena leads a team of passionate and dedicated rockstar affiliate and joint venture managers. The team’s main focus: Building strong business partnerships while having a lot of fun promoting some of the highest converting offers in the industry. When she’s not busy tinkering on her bedazzled calculator and organizing external sales projects, Veena can be found listening to her favourite music, which includes anything from ACDC to Dusty Springfield. Did we mention; she also has the unique and special ability to write backwards and also majored in genetics (this is one girl you HAVE TO meet)!

Kaileen Sherk

One of the most electrifying talents in the field of personal development, Kaileen Sherk will shock you. This self-described hippie is also the vibrant powerhouse of talent that fuels the creation of Mindvalley’s world class authors and programs. Able to negotiate multimillion dollar deals one moment and crack an entire room up with her jokes and laughter the next. She’s traveled the globe coaching others in NLP, hypnotherapy, and wielding the healing power of Reiki…but her most potent weapon against Un-awesomeness (a word she invented after she invented e-mail) is her empathetic and engaging smile and infectious goofball attitude. She claims to have the power to talk to animals, yet she says they have yet to talk BACK (which means she JUST “talks to animals”). The letters in her last name cannot be unscrambled…under any circumstance.

William Oliver

William Oliver’s mission in life is to help the world evolve by serving as many people around the world as possible through spreading the teachings of the worlds greatest educators and thoughts leaders. This mission is what brought him to Mindvalley and why he’s so passionate about helping the Mindvalley team spread enlightened ideas to the world. His passion for personal development and human psychology have not only lead him to work with professional athletes and CEO’s of fast growing companies, but also to develop and publish his own performance training programs.

Leanne Beesley

Editor of Mindvalley’s FinerMinds Network, Leanne (a.k.a. Bee) has a penchant for graffiti-print Converse, poetry slams and hard hitting drum & base. She’s also a secret agent on a mission to seek out the hottest personal growth talent of our generation to feature on FinerMinds. If that’s you, make sure to connect with her Winner of The Engine Group’s Battle of Big ‘Social’ Thinking 2011, this bubbly Brit has worked on digital + interactive campaigns for Vodafone as well as social media campaigns for some of biggest brands in the UK.

Kelsey Grant

Kelsey Grant is an intuitive healer, relationship coach and group facilitator. Her life’s calling is to work with those who are ready to venture onto their path of awakening and lovingly support them in their journey. Some of her favourite healing and coaching tools she draws her healing work from are subconscious re-programming, meditation, crystal healings, oracle readings, healing touch and conscious creation scripting. The three principals Kelsey operates from each day are Love, Intimacy and Inspiration. You can count on her for a kind word, a burst of positive energy, a good heart mist and a deep soul sista connection.

Loshini Selvarajah

Loshini’s the best friend you’ve yet to meet – she connects with anyone in a heartbeat! Which explains why she enjoys traveling so much and meeting new people all over the world. She’s traversed the Middle East, Australia, the US and South East Asia, and she’s far from done. Equipped with a degree in Political Science, this travel bug is set on a mission to build and strengthen Mindvalley partnerships. (Caution: her enthusiasm is infectious!)

Cristina Urioste

Los Angeles-based organic chef who specialized in Aryurvedic cooking. Cristina teaches classes and workshops on the process of learning how to prepare delectable, salubrious meals.

Lara Berg

Her love for life is contagious. Her high vibes, and positive energy are infectious. She’s a budding entrepreneur working with inspired and inspirational businesses, entrepreneurs, and musicians with a focus on creative online marketing strategies combined with powerful offline promotions. Her aim is to help others spread their inner wealth & talents, be awesome, and feel happy! She’s also a vocalist with a massive passion for music.

Entrepreneurs

Vishen Lakhiani

The guy behind the award-winning company Mindvalley and FinerMinds.com. Vishen is considered one of the young visionaries behind the personal growth movement.

Chip Conley

The founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, California’s largest boutique hotel company and America’s #2. The company now consists of over 40 award-winning hotels, restaurants and spas across the state. Also the author of PEAK: How Organizations Get Their Mojo from Maslow, Chip is one of the most sought after experts on creating engaged company cultures.

Craig Handley

Barry Dunlop

Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Domainer, and World Traveler–Has done everything from trading cattle and farm machinery in Ireland to direct selling home improvements to building the UK’s largest Online Lead Generation business for home improvement contractors. Today Barry runs midascode.co.uk, a company that brokers the sale of Internet Businesses

Music and Culture

Malek Houlihan

Professional musician who has logged over 1,100 lifetime performances in 9 countries. His music is heard in film, on TV and radio, and he has a vast loyal following. Malek is also deemed one of the “Greatest Storytellers” on stage and his story his mysteriously overcoming brain injury will move you to tears.

Ariana Hall

Artist, Lover, Philosopher and Coach. Has appeared on the Wayne Brady and Craig Kilborn shows, performing with singing legend, Engelbert Humperdinck. Through her company, SelfExpressedVoice.com, she helps teach people to create powerful presence and connection from stage.

Personal Growth

Lisa Nichols

Sean Stephenson

The “3 Foot Giant” has been seen in his own reality TV show, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Discovery Channel, CNN, CBS and more. He’s shared the stage with the Dalai Lama and addressed the US Senate. Author of “Get Off Your But”, his life story has inspired millions.

Laura Silva

President of Silva International and daughter of Jose Silva, founder of the original Silva Method of Mind Control, the original program that helps spark the new thought movement in the United States. For 30 years Laura has presented Silva Method programs around the world.

Ken Coscia

One of Silva International’s most experienced instructors, Ken is an International Training Director for Silva International. In his spare time, he serves a growing corporate, union and physician group client list with emotional intelligence and dynamic meditation workshops.

David Morelli

Host of the #3 most popular radio show on iTune, Everything is Energy. David is one of America’s most popular intuitives and possesses the ability to see, read and heal energy. He’s a Reiki master, intuition coach and runs a number of thriving online businesses dedicated to personal growth.

Christie Marie Sheldon

Steve G Jones

One of the most sought after Hypnotherapist in America. Steve caters to a celebrity clientele and has been seen on CBS, CNN, FOX and TruTV. Steve has been practicing hypnotherapy for over 3 decades and has some 80 products on the market.

Karla Ortiz

After building several brands such as Victoria’s Secret, Pottery Barn and Kohler to household names, Karla has taken her passion for customer experience and achieving results to Lifebook. As the president of a luxury personal development program, Karla leads her best life by example and empowers others to achieve theirs.

Devon Ash

Co-founder of Social Fluency, having practiced meditation his entire life, Devon realized that connecting with others is another way of looking within. After a bout with skin cancer left his confidence flagging, he dedicated himself to learning how to influence, attract, inspire, and connect with anyone. He’s helped thousands of people achieve this same goal.

Dawn Nicole Hoang

Dawn is a channel and intuitive coach to several CEOs. She is also the head of the Modern Mystery School for the Southern California Region. Dawn teaches classes on channeling and mysticism.

Carol Tuttle

Renee Airya

A former model, who after having brain surgery in 2004, had her life forever altered when she awoke with partial facial paralysis as the result of surgery. She went on to heal herself through meditation & visualization. Now runs a life supporting program for women called “The Sassy Lassy Revolution”

Mindie Kniss

Founder of Kniss Integrative Coaching. She is Editor for Awaken Consciousness Magazine and Associate Nonfiction Editor at Silk Road Literary Journal and co-author of the best-selling compilation, Wake Up Women: Be Happy, Healthy and Wealthy.

Shule

Spent 7 years traveling across Asia and Africa on an Enfield motorcycle visiting some of the most dangerous spots on the planet and nearly met her death several times including by escaping from kidnappers in Pakistan. Now CEO of Intentions Integrated Health Center and certified Chopra Center teacher.

Cristina Urioste

Los Angeles-based organic chef who specialized in Aryurvedic cooking. Cristina teaches classes and workshops on the process of learning how to prepare delectable, salubrious meals.

Health and Fitness

Kim Lyons

American athlete, personal trainer, nutritionist, and fitness model. Her role as trainer in NBC’s hit show, *The Biggest Loser* brought Kim’s no-excuse approach to America. Her book Kim Lyon’s Your Body Your Life is rapidly climbing the best-sellers list. Kim has appeared on Access Hollywood, ET, Larry King Live and The Today Show.

Susan Hill

Online entrepreneur. After founding FitnessforGolf.com, Susan went on to write over 10 books in golf and then expanded her online publishing interests to include weight loss and sports fitness. Susan has developed and maintains over 20 websites in various niches. She currently consults with other online enterprises helping them increase visibility, branding, traffic and increased sales.

Mike Geary

Mike Geary, the creator of The Truth About Six Pack Abs, is also a contributing author to many popular weight loss and fitness magazines, and is also a frequent radio show guest. Mike’s Truth About Six-Pack Abs, weight loss and abdominal exercise program has 263,237 subscribers, worldwide at the last known count.

Isabella Konold

Founder of MadHotStudios and SexyRevolution, a ballroom dance instructor and sexual expression coach, Isabella has been teaching since she was a teenager. She teaches people how to ignite and embody the powerfully sensual connection of the masculine/feminine through sexy dips, sassy spins and red hot hips. She also coaches women in sexual expression and communication as well as erotic dance.

Thought Leaders and Experts

Srikumar Rao

Srikumar created a life changing business school course so powerful that it has its own alumni association. He is the author of Happiness at Work and has helped thousands of executives find greater fulfillment in both life and work. His talk on TED.com has been rated among the most inspiring on the site. He is leading the charge to transform the business world so that it is both nourishing to the human spirit and dedicated to a larger social good.

Kristina Mand-Lakhiani

Joe Polish

Joe Polish knows everybody! He’s one of the most well connected and influential business and marketing experts in the world. Joe is the founder of the prestigious Centurion MasterMind Group and the author behind the single best selling business program from Nightingale-Conan, Piranha Marketing.

Cory Boatright

Cory Boatright is a serial entrepreneur that has succeeded in both Real Estate and Internet Marketing businesses.. The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company Magazine are among a few organizations that view him as leader for successful business aptitude. A millionaire at age 25, he’s simplified a powerful, strategic formula for success called ‘The 3 M’s for Success”.

Justyna Jastrzebska

Justyna is a senior business manager at MindValley with a rare talent for building up businesses from scratch and making them profitable within a year. While she’s not dominating internet niches with Vishen, she’s off diving in sunken ships, dancing to 80′s music, or making to-die-for jewelry.

Andrew Hewitt

Author of the Power of Focus for College Students. In 2005 his book caught the attention of Donald Trump who then enlisted Andrew to create educational products for Trump University. According to Trump, “Andrew Hewitt is becoming the most sought-after educator on college life and career development”.

Ewa Wysocka

Hailing from Poland, Ewa is an online marketing specialist responsible for several online businesses in the fields of parenting, spiritual growth and online business building (for Poland). In her spare time, she’s an avid explorer of Bali and the islands of South East Asia.

Media and Internet

Mike Reining

Stanford MBA and former Head of New Venture Strategy at eBay. Mike was responsible for eBay’s acquisition of Skype and dreamt up Kajiji.com. For these he was awarded eBay’s most valuable employee in 2005. Now he’s co-founder of MindValley.

Katie Freiling

Tellman Knudson

Simultaneously described as crazy, hilarious and genius, Tellman made his name as one of the top Email Marketing experts in the industry and is famous for his impressive customer response rates and quirky *Dear Tellman* series of videos. He’s also a world class runner who is attempting to be the first man in American to run across the entire continent–barefoot!

Alexandra Cattoni

A personal development junkie and marketing wiz, Alexandra is one of the senior business managers at MindValley and CEO of multiple online businesses that generate millions in annual sales. Passionate about Lifestyle Design and adventure, Alexandra is an avid snowboarder, diver, world-traveler and photographer.

Michael Dunlop

Young Entrepreneur, Internet Marketer, Adventurer and Blogger. Despite being dyslexic and a High School dropout Michael has had huge success online having founded a number of high traffic websites including the leading Young Entrepreneur website Retireat21.com and the blog, IncomeDiary.com.

Xin-Ci Chin

This Malaysian native is a social media and internet marketing geek-girl-genius at MindValley. She’s the editor of FinerMinds.com, the popular personal growth blog with a list of 300,000 people. When she’s not working, she off enjoying the islands of South East Asia with her old-school Lomography camera.

Crew

Miriam Gubovic | Event Coordinator

Miriam spent the last few years of her life wondering across the world. She speaks 6 languages and has studied in 6 different countries. She has worked as event organizer in places as diverse as the Philippines and now Costa Rica.

Shawn Royster | MC and Audio/Video Team

Rola Diab

Rola Diab has been studying personal development for the past 8 years. Raised in various countries and cultures that include Saudi Arabia, England, Scotland, and the US, Rola is looking forward to beginning her career as a full time coach and NLP practitioner.

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