Susan Hyatt is a master certified life coach, weight loss expert, and the author of BARE. She’s the creator of the trademarked BARE Process, the BARE Deck, a podcast called BARE, and an online community called BARE DAILY. With her fiery Facebook rants—including “Whoop Ass Wednesday,” where she reads a fresh batch of hate mail from Internet trolls and gives her sassiest response—Susan has gained an international following of women who love her honesty, humor, and fearlessness.
Susan has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Woman’s World, Seventeen, and O: The Oprah Magazine. When she’s not coaching clients, you can find Susan lifting weights at the gym, lacing up her sneakers for a 5am run, or broadcasting live to talk about transformation, courage, standing up to bullies (including the bullies that live inside your own mind), taking excellent care of your body, and creating the life that you crave.
Shama Hyder is the founder of Zen Media, a full-service online marketing firm that serves clients around the world. Under her leadership, Zen Media has grown to include a team of 30 and serves clients ranging from publicly-held Fortune 500 companies to privately-held small businesses and nonprofit organizations across the globe.
Her websites, ZenMedia.com, Shama.tv, and ShamaHyder.com, have turned into high-traffic destinations for people looking for advice on how to successfully market their businesses online. Companies of all sizes and the media look to Shama to guide them when it comes to the vast world of social media marketing. She has been named one of the 10 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media. An acclaimed international keynote speaker, Shama has shared the speaking stage with the world’s top leaders, including President Obama and the Dalai Lama.
In 2009, Businessweek honored Shama as one of the Top 25 under 25 entrepreneurs in North America. In 2010, Shama won the prestigious Technology Titan Emerging Company CEO award. In 2011 she was named one of the Top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur magazine. Fast Company dubbed her “an online marketing shaman and a millennial master of the universe.” In 2015, she made Forbes’ prestigious 30 under 30 in the marketing and advertising category. In 2016, ShamaTv won a Hermes Gold award for Educational Programming.
Hyder holds a Masters degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Austin.
William J. Ickes, Ph.D., is distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the editor of Empathic Accuracy (1997) and the author of Everyday Mind Reading: Understanding What Other People Think and Feel (2003). His research on empathic accuracy has been recognized by three international research awards.
Dr. Nia Imara is an artist and astrophysicist born in Oakland, California. She is a graduate of Kenyon College, received her PhD in astrophysics from UC Berkeley, did her postdoctoral work at Harvard University, and is currently a professor of astronomy at UC Santa Cruz. Her nonprofit organization, Onaketa, provides free STEM tutoring and other educational resources for black and brown youth in the United States and Ghana.
A psychologist and business consultant for more than 25 years, Dr. Tim Irwin has worked in numerous diverse industries with a number of America’s most well-known and respected global companies. He is a frequent speaker on leadership development and other topics related to organizational effectiveness.
He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Run with the Bulls without Getting Trampled and Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership. Irwin has been a frequent contributor to numerous national media outlets, including Fox Business News, Fox & Friends, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and Businessweek.
Alexander J. Ispa-Cowan is a high school student who enjoys playing guitar and piano, working with lasers, electronics and the physical sciences generally, playing soccer, watching “The Simpsons” and its animated competitors, picking up political information from “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart and, sometimes, reading and creative writing.
Dr. Justin J. Lehmiller is a social psychologist and leading expert on human sexuality. He is a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and host of the Sex and Psychology Podcast, one of the top sexuality podcasts in the world with listenership in over 100 countries. His previous book, Tell Me What You Want, explored the sexual fantasies of more than 4,000 American adults.
Dr. Lehmiller has authored more than 60 scientific publications on sex and relationships, including a textbook The Psychology of Human Sexuality, which has been translated into several languages and is used in college classrooms across the globe. He is an award-winning educator, having been honored three times with the Certificate of Teaching Excellence from Harvard University, where he taught for several years. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Sex Research and an elected full member of the International Academy for Sex Research. Dr. Lehmiller is a much sought-after voice in the media on sexuality research and education. He has been interviewed by The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared on multiple television programs, including The Daily Show and the Netflix series Sex, Explained.
Dr. Lehmiller holds advanced degrees in psychology, including a master of science from Villanova University and a PhD from Purdue University.
Books by Dr. Justin J. Lehmiller
Alex Jack is founder and president of Planetary Health, Inc.; sponsor of Amberwaves, a grassroots network devoted to promoting whole grains and other natural foods; and codirector of the Macrobiotic Summer Conference. He has helped introduce macrobiotics to China and Russia and has written many books with Michio and Aveline Kushi, including The Cancer Prevention Diet, Diet for a Strong Heart, Aveline Kushi’s Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking, The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, and The Book of Macrobiotics. He also edited the Wheaten Garland editions of Hamlet and As You Like It.
Alex taught macrobiotic philosophy, healthcare, diagnosis, and cooking at Kushi Institute, where he served as executive director and chairman of the faculty. He has presented at the Cardiology Institute in St. Petersburg, the Zen Temple in Beijing, Shakespeare’s New Globe Theatre in London, and the Rosas contemporary dance company in Brussels. He lives in the Berkshires.
