Leonie Dawson is an internationally bestselling author and artist, founder of the Shining Biz and Life Academy, and one of the highest-ranked sales consultants for doTERRA in the world. A popular blogger since 2004, Leonie is a well-regarded life and business mentor. She has been recognized as an Australian Business Woman of the Year and Ausmumpreneur of the Year finalist. Leonie is the former editor of the United Nations award-winning Australian Government website for small businesses. Leonie can be currently found on the Sunshine Coast, Australia with her husband and two daughters, setting wildly ridiculous goals for herself and consuming vast quantities of tea and Victorian romance novels in equal measure.
Sylvia Day is a former Russian linguist with the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. She sold her first novel 13 months after she began writing and followed that with the sale of 10 more within the next year to multiple publishers, including HarperCollins and Kensington. Her award-winning books have been called “wonderful and passionate” by WNBC.com, “wickedly entertaining” by Booklist and frequently garner Readers’ Choice and Reviewers’ Choice accolades. She is a devout Morelli fan (while secretly carrying a torch for Ranger). Visit her at www.SylviaDay.com.
Vox Day is a game design expert and libertarian opinion columnist. He left the frozen tundra of Minnesota for the sunny shores of the Mediterranean more than a decade ago, speaks three languages and is a member of the SFWA, IGDA and Mensa. He is the author of numerous games, books and graphic novels in the fantasy and science fiction genres and is the inventor of the WarMouse™. For more information about Vox Day, join the spirited discussion that takes place daily at his blog, Vox Popoli, at voxday.blogspot.com.
John D. Day, MD, graduated from medical school at Johns Hopkins University. He did his residency and cardiac electrophysiology fellowship training at Stanford University. Dr. Day is an electrophysiologist at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. He previously served as president of the Heart Rhythm Society and currently serves as the Utah Governor of the American College of Cardiology. He is recognized as an international thought leader on atrial fibrillation management. Dr. Day is board certified in cardiology, and cardiac electrophysiology. He has published more than 100 manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters and regularly lectures both nationally and internationally on heart rhythm disorders. Dr. Day is the former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management. In 2017, Dr. Day published The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China, with HarperCollins as publisher. The Longevity Plan was an Amazon number one bestseller and was named best books of 2017 by the Huffington Post and won the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for the best book of 2017.
Jill de Jong was born in Holland, and her successful modeling career brought her to the US. She was based in New York for many years, explored Miami for a few years, and then fell in love with Los Angeles, where she currently resides; a great place to pursue her passion for health and wellness. She made the career shift from full-time modeling to health coach, personal trainer, and chef, and has never looked back.
When Jill is not working, you can find her in the kitchen cooking or outside in Malibu running, biking, surfing, or stretching in a yoga class. She recharges by spending time with her boyfriend and friends. Meaningful conversations and delicious food make her heart sing. To stay motivated to exercise, she signs up for triathlons and Spartan races.
Don DeBrandt has been accused of authoring The Quicksilver Screen, Steeldriver, Timberjak, V.I. and the “Angel” novel Shakedown, as well as writing two books under the pseudonym Donn Cortez: The Closer, a thriller, and The Man Burns Tonight, a mystery set at Burning Man (to be published in August 2005). He does not deny these charges. His two current novels are CSI: Miami—Cult Following and CSI: Miami—Riptide.
Keith R. A. DeCandido has been a fan of Spider-Man since seeing his live-action adventures on “The Electric Company” as a kid. His first short story sale and first novel sale were both collaborative Spider-Man tales (“An Evening in the Bronx with Venom” with John Gregory Betancourt in 1994’s The Ultimate Spider-Man and Venom’s Wrath with José R. Nieto in 1998), and solo he’s also written a Spidey short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997’s Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a Spidey novel (Down These Mean Streets in 2005). He’s become a regular Smart Pop contributor, having also written essays in Finding Serenity, The Man from Krypton, Star Wars on Trial, The Unauthorized X-Men and King Kong Is Back!, with more to come. Find out less at his official Web site at DeCandido.net.
Dave Dee is not your typical sales guru. He’s a former professional mentalist with years of experience in the psychology of decision-making, body language, and subconscious influence. Dave honed his skills in a high-stakes live performance environment and has crafted these underground persuasion strategies into a tested system for closing more sales with less resistance. For the first time, he reveals all of his closely-held secrets of ethical influence, cold reading, and sales psychology, giving professionals the unfair advantage they’ve been seeking.
Jared DeFife, PhD, is a clinical psychology research scientist at Emory University and Associate Director of the Laboratory of Personality and Psychopathology (www.psychsystems.net). A former clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School, he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Adelphi University.
Dr. DeFife specializes in the study of personality, mood disorders, and psychotherapy. He also frequently publishes and teaches on psychodynamic therapy, research methods, media, politics, film, and literature. He serves on the editorial board of the American Psychological Association journal Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training and contributes a regular blog to Psychology Today. He is currently working on a National Institute of Mental Health—funded investigation of alternative approaches to personality disorder diagnosis for ICD-11 and DSM-V.
David DeGraff has been a space cadet since he was 6 years old, watching Neil Armstrong bounce across the lunar surface. No longer a cadet, Dr. DeGraff is now chair of the physics and astronomy department at Alfred University. In addition to the standard physics and astronomy classes, Dr. DeGraff also teaches Life in the Universe, Science in Science Fiction, Living in Space and The Theory and Practice of Time Travel.
