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Ryan Dusick is an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist with an MA in Clinical Psychology and the founding drummer of the world’s most popular band, Maroon 5.
As a boy, he dreamt of pitching for the Dodgers and writing adventure novels. Arm injuries sidelined his burgeoning baseball career, just as rock music became his new passion and purpose. Founding the band Kara’s Flowers in 1994 with fellow Brentwood High School students Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, and Adam Levine, Ryan worked tirelessly through his college years at UCLA before the band changed its name to Maroon 5 and finally had its first hit record, Songs About Jane. Multiple hit songs, two Grammy Awards, and 20 million albums sold later, Ryan found himself suffering and without direction as his career as a performer came to an end, just as it was taking off.
Struggling with physical and mental health challenges, Ryan finally overcame his struggles in 2016, when he began his journey of recovery, culminating in a new life path full of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Now working as a mental health professional at The Missing Peace Center for Anxiety in Agoura Hills, CA, Ryan is spreading the message that recovery is possible, and some astounding things can come with it.
Craig Duswalt is a speaker, author, radio host and the creator of the “RockStar System For Success—How to Achieve RockStar Status in Your Industry.”
Duswalt’s background includes touring with Guns N’ Roses, as Axl Rose’s personal manager, and Air Supply, as the band’s personal assistant. Craig is also an award-winning copywriter and worked as a creative director for a Los Angeles-based ad agency until he opened his own ad agency, Green Room Design & Advertising.
Duswalt combined his backgrounds in both music and marketing, and is now a professional speaker and author, promoting his “RockStar System for Success” all over the country, teaching entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, coaches and info-marketers how to promote themselves and their businesses.
Amanda Dykema-Engblade, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She earned her doctorate in social psychology from Loyola University, Chicago. Her primary research interests include small group performance and decision-making. She teaches courses in statistics, research methods, social psychology and industrial-organizational psychology.
Tom Easton is professor of science at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine. He holds a doctorate in theoretical biology from the University of Chicago. His work on scientific and futuristic issues has appeared in many magazines, from Astronomy to Consumer Reports and Robotics Age. His latest nonfiction books are Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology, and Society (McGraw-Hill Dushkin, 6th ed., 2004) and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues (11th ed., 2005). His latest novels are Firefight (Betancourt, 2003) and The Great Flying Saucer Conspiracy (Wildside, 2002).
Nicholas R. Eaton is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; he received his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis (’03). He once won first prize in a trivia contest at a regional Star Trek convention—a fact he neglected to mention when applying to work with Dr. Krueger. A friend suggested he watch a series described as “Star Trek meets the Wild West,” which sounded horrible. His interest in disseminating psychological research to the public, as well as his subsequent love of that show, led to this chapter—a chapter that he sincerely hopes you have found to be informative and enjoyable.
Mark Ebner is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of titles including Hollywood, Interrupted, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, and We Have Your Husband.
Mark Ebner is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who is known for his work exposing the cult of Scientology. His books include Hollywood, Interrupted (Wiley & Sons), Off The Deep End (Harper Collins), and Poison Candy (BenBella).
S. Chris Edmonds is an executive consultant and culture coach with The Purposeful Culture Group and The Ken Blanchard Companies who has helped senior leaders create purposeful work cultures. Chris has worked with companies such as V Starr Interiors, World Kitchen, Consolidated Electrical Company, and Time Investment Company. Chris is the author of the Amazon bestsellers The Culture Engine, Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard, and five other books. Included in Inc. Magazine’s 100 Top Leadership Speakers, Chris is an in-demand presenter and was a featured speaker at South by Southwest.
Johanna Edwards is an award-winning journalist and radio/TV producer. Her first novel, The Next Big Thing, debuted on the national bestseller list where it remained for nearly three months. Johanna’s second novel, Your Big Break, was also a bestseller. Johanna lives in Memphis, Tenn., where she is currently at work on her next book.
Leigh H. Edwards is assistant professor of English at Florida State University. Her research on U.S. literature and popular culture has appeared in journals such as Narrative, The Journal of Popular Culture, Feminist Media Studies and Film and History. She is currently completing a book on Cash titled Johnny Cash and American Ambivalence. Other research in media studies includes a book manuscript, Reality TV’s Family Values: Narrative, Ideology, and New Domestic Forms. Recent publications include: “Dangerous Minds: The Woman Professor on Television,” in Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture (2007), edited by Sherrie A. Inness; “Chasing the Real: Reality Television and Documentary Forms,” in Docufictions: Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking (2006), edited by Gary D. Rhodes and John Parris Springer; and “‘What a Girl Wants’: Gender Norming on Reality Game Shows” (2004) in Feminist Media Studies. She has forthcoming articles on PBS’s “Frontier House” and frontier mythology, and on interracial romance narratives. A staff writer for PopMatters, an international magazine of cultural criticism published online at popmatters.com, she reviews television and film. She has also published a poem on Cash, “Johnny Cash Ode,” in Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age, Volume VII (Xconnect, print annual, 2005) and in the online journal issue, CrossConnect 23 (September 2005). An eighth-generation Floridian, she earned her B.A. from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania as a National Mellon Fellow.
