Our Authors

Sheri Glucoft Wong, LCSW is a San Francisco Bay Area family therapist and parenting expert who counsels and speaks to hundreds of parents every year, both in her own practice and at public and private schools, medical and mental health centers, law firms, businesses, nonprofits, and religious organizations across California. She served as the resident parenting coach for Apple, Gymboree, and Genentech, and has trained health care professionals at the Stanford Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Sheri lectures at universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco, consulted with faculty at Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence, and was a featured speaker at the “Pediatrics in the Pandemic Age” national conference for pediatricians. Her parenting advice has been showcased in the media, including on KTVU television in San Francisco, and in The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and HuffPost.

Ilene Godofsky Moreno is a health coach, recipe developer and food photographer. She shares plant-based recipes that are “colorful, not complicated” on her blog The Colorful Kitchen. Ilene can be found cooking in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and daughter.

Mitch Golant, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and the coauthor of six books, including What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed. He lives in Los Angeles.

Lynne Goldberg is a meditation teacher, author, speaker and cofounder of the Breethe meditation app. Breathe is one of the most widely-used mindfulness platforms in the world, supporting more than 20 million people across 90 countries. Named one of the top meditation teachers in North America by Forbes, her work has been featured by TIME, the Associated Press, NPR, People, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, ABC, NBC, and more. InStyle magazine described Breethe as “so simple even my ten-year-old can do it,” reflecting Lynne’s warm, relatable style—the kind of teaching that feels less like instruction and more like getting a hug when you need it most.

Lynne’s approach is shaped by both spiritual practice and real life. She has experienced the death of her two-day-old twin daughters, the loss of her 54-year-old mother to cancer, divorce after decades, her own cancer diagnosis, empty nesting, and financial upheaval. These pivotal turning points brought her to meditation when the identity she held onto so tightly dissolved. With humor, honesty, and a grounded, wry voice, Lynne helps others learn to practice choicefulness, cultivate compassion, and make soul-aligned decisions in the face of change.

Joanne Goldblum is CEO and founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, encompassing more than 200 member organizations that provide diapers and other basic needs to families across America. In 2018, she founded the Alliance for Period Supplies, which provides free hygiene products to the one in four people for whom menstruation means difficulty attending school and work. Joanne has spent her career working with and advocating for families in poverty. She has written op-eds for The Washington Post, US News & World Report, and HuffPost. She has been an ABC Person of the Week and the subject of profiles by CNN, People, and many other outlets. Joanne is an inspiring and in-demand speaker. In 2007 she was chosen as one of 10 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leaders on the basis of her work to found the New Haven Diaper Bank.

Alex L. Goldfayn advises some of the biggest brands in the world, helping clients like TiVo, T-Mobile, and Logitech develop passionate and loyal consumers. CEOs, CMOs, and vice presidents from companies like Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Netflix, and Costco attend his Evangelist Marketing Think Tanks to develop groundbreaking marketing and branding techniques.

Alex is a former syndicated technology columnist for the Chicago Tribune and currently broadcasts the daily, nationally distributed “Technology Tailor Minute,” which has an audience of over 50 million listeners annually. His work also appears online at the Harvard Business Review, at HBR.org.

Known nationwide as a victims’ rights advocate after her brother’s murder in the infamous O. J. Simpson murder trial, Kim Goldman is the founding Co-Chair of The Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice. She is also the Executive Director of The Youth Project; a non-profit organization that provides free counseling, support groups, crisis intervention, and education and outreach to thousands of teenagers, since opening in 2000. In her spare time, Goldman travels the country as an impassioned public speaker on victims’ rights, the role of the media, judicial reform, and other related topics. She is currently a resident of Greater Los Angeles, where she has lived for ten years as a single parent. (www.KimberlyGoldman.com)