Erica M. Freeman is an expert storyteller, award-winning podcaster, and maternal health equity advocate at Sisters in Loss, a maternal child health education company that helps Black women replace silence with storytelling around pregnancy and infant loss and infertility. She guides nonprofit organizations and corporations to execute their vision for removing bias around grief and loss internally or externally, helping them increase their reach and impact by leveraging the power of storytelling in their support programming. Erica has also developed and conducted training programs centered around bereavement support, planning for funerals or memorials, and companioning the grieving both in and out of workplace settings for top companies.
As a savvy, creative engineer, Erica is known for a results-based, no-fluff approach in her work as a podcaster, grief educator, and motivational speaker. As a result of her own journey to motherhood, she started the Sisters in Loss podcast, which has been featured by BBC News and The New York Times. With the rapid growth and popularity of the Sister in Loss podcast, she’s been tapped to keynote conferences and speak on panels at events.
Cyrus Freidheim’s 55-year business career began at Union Carbide Corp. and Price Waterhouse, then Carnegie Tech’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration, followed by Ford Motor, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Chiquita Brands International and Sun Times Media Group. Along the way, he served on seventeen corporate boards and an equal number of not-for-profit boards, serving as chairman on five. He worked in more than twenty-five countries and every continent except Antarctica. The majority of his clients and the companies he ran were undergoing major transformations or turnarounds. He is also the author of The Trillion Dollar Enterprise.
Marion Freijsen has nearly 30 years of extensive entrepreneurial experience in international business, with a primary focus on technology and sales management. She has set up and managed offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands. She is cofounder and executive board member of OHM Inc., a global consulting firm advising international high-tech companies. She is also a cofounder of EFactor.com and Cranevision.
Freijsen holds a degree in international sales and marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, U.K. She is coauthor of The N Factor with Adrie Reinders and gives speeches to audiences around the world.
Karyn M. Frick, Ph.D., is an associate professor of behavioral neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She received her B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the neurobiology of learning and memory, with particular interest in how hormones, aging and the environment affect these processes. She spends way too much time watching reality TV, including “Survivor,” and still feels that Boston Rob should have won “Survivor: All-Stars” (at least he got the girl!).
Budd Friedman is the original owner, founder, and emcee of the legendary comedy club, The Improvisation (better known as The Improv). Opening in 1963, The Improv was the first of its kind to present comedians in a continuous format, and the first one to give unknown performers the opportunity to try out new material in front of a live audience—with the opportunity to be discovered by talent agents and late-night TV bookers.
Friedman lives in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. David Friedman is a leading authority in functional medicine and the USA Today bestselling author of Food Sanity. As a doctor of naturopathy, clinical nutritionist, and chiropractic neurologist, Dr. Friedman also holds a post-doctorate certification from Harvard Medical School and is board-certified in both integrative medicine and alternative medical practice. A former teacher of neuroanatomy, he authored the college textbook Understanding the Nervous System.
Dr. Friedman’s expertise has made him a sought-after keynote speaker and contributor to premier publications, including U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Better Nutrition, AARP Magazine, and Woman’s World. His audiobook, America’s Unbalanced Diet, sold over a million copies and raised crucial awareness about health and nutrition. His client roster includes A-list celebrities who travel across the country to see him because they trust no one else. As the health expert for Lifetime’s syndicated morning show, Dr. Friedman delivered cutting-edge investigative health reports to millions of viewers. He currently hosts the award-winning show To Your Good Health Radio, which combines health talk, cutting-edge entertainment, and practical wellness solutions to help people achieve optimal health in a culture that works against it
Bruce Friedrich is the founder and president of the Good Food Institute (GFI), a global network of six science-focused nonprofits dedicated to transforming the way the world produces meat. Since its inception in 2016, GFI has grown from an idea into an global science think tank with more than 230 full-time team members, the plurality scientists. GFI affiliates operate in India, Israel, Brazil, the Asia–Pacific (Singapore, Japan, and Korea), and Europe (Brussels, London, and Berlin). A recognized leader in food innovation, Bruce is a TED fellow, an EatingWell “American Food Hero” (2021), and a Y Combinator alum. He is a sought-after speaker on food technology, with opinion pieces published in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Nature Food, and more. His TED Talk has been viewed over 2.4 million times and translated into 30 languages. Bruce has appeared on The Ezra Klein Show, TED Radio Hour, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast, among others. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown Law and also holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics, and Grinnell College.
Dr. John Froude is a practicing physician and Infectious Disease Specialist who graduated from Guy’s Hospital London and has worked in UK, Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United States. In the USA he has worked at the Rockefeller University and New York University. Currently he works in upstate New York out of semi-retirement for the COVID 19 pandemic and has written about his current experiences in Air Mail, an online magazine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Jenn Fujikawa is an author and content creator specializing in lifestyle and pop culture. She has created content for Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, and more. Her recipes have been featured on Buzzfeed, LA Times, Food & Wine Magazine, and the cover of Food Network Magazine. Jenn was recently profiled in The New York Times, and is the author of The Princess Bride: The Official Cookbook, The Official Parks and Recreation Cookbook, The Gudetama Cookbook, The I Love Lucy Cookbook: Classic Recipes Inspired by the Iconic TV Show, I Love Lucy: The Joys of Friendship, and the co-author of The Goldbergs Cookbook.
Geoffrey C. Fuller has made a living as a freelance writer-editor for 20 years, working with both fiction and nonfiction. He has edited literary and trade journals, as well as more than 75 books. Two titles he edited, The Devil’s Son: Cap Hatfield and the End of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud and Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History, were nominated by the Independent Book Publisher Association for Benjamin Franklin Awards. Monongah placed third nationally in 2008. His writing has appeared in newspapers and on radio, in literary and commercial magazines, and in anthologies, textbooks, and gift books. Fuller is the only writer to have been awarded prestigious West Virginia literary fellowships in all three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. In 2012, his crime fiction piece, “Figure-Ground,” placed first in Writer’s Digest’s national contest. His novel, Full Bone Moon, was published in 2011 by Woodland Press.
Books by Geoffrey C. Fuller
