Psychologist, Dr Kenneth Herman is the author of Secrets from the Sofa: A Psychologist’s Guide to Achieving Personal Peace. He has been a practicing clinical psychologist for over 45 years, is board certified, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Clinical Psychologists. He was the founder and director of the Psychological Service Center in Teaneck, NJ for many years. Readers are empowered to learn effective new coping skills to handle guilt, depression, anger, fear, and anxiety. You will gain knowledge about how to enhance the quality of your life and relationships and eventually to attain personal peace from the tools in his book.

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Nicky VanValkenburgh is the author of a new book called Train Your Brain, Transform Your Life: Conquer Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in 60 Days, Without Ritalin. She is the Director of www. Train Your Brain Transform Your Life.com. Nicky is a motivational writer with 20 years experience writing for newspapers and magazines. She has a Master's in Journalism and a Bachelor's in Psychology. Nicky is also a writer for three parenting magazines—Upstate Parent, Low Country Parent, and Palmetto Parent—all published in South Carolina (circ. 250,0000).

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Dr. Cheryl Price is a passionate teacher and compassionate healer who specializes in healing chronic health issues and lifestyle challenges.  She uses spiritual and holistic practices to bring the body, mind, spirit, and heart into a place of homeostasis (total body balance) and allostasis (achieving stability through change).   She is an ordained minister, stress management coach, holistic life coach, and spiritual mentor. She is also trained in energy healing and bodywork.

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Since May of 2003 Dr. Susan Diamond has pastored First Christian Church of Montgomery.  Her Master of Divinity degree is from Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University. Her Doctor of Ministry degree is from United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.  Her project, Community Evangelism in an Ecumenical Context Through the Weekday Preschool, explored how churches can reach significant numbers of families with young children by connecting more fully with the preschool. She has a passionate commitment to sharing the Good News of God’s love with the Montgomery community. She writes a monthly column in the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper. She wrote a book called: The Daily Grind: God with your coffee. She was just voted in to be the first Vice Moderator of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Susan will serve as a part of a three member moderator team which will help lead the General Board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from July 2011-July 2013.

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For almost twenty years Derrick Lamar Smith has passionately and purposefully made it his mission to lead men, women and children in restoring relationships with God and each other. Derrick is a native of Ocala, FL graduating from Vanguard High School. He has attended Community College of the Air Force, Nova Southeastern University, and Southern Christian University and in January he will begin the completion of a BA degree in Christian Counseling at Baptist College of Florida. Derrick serves as the organizing and Senior Pastor of the Bright Hope Christian Church in Tallahassee, FL. 

He is married to the former Kyra L. Moody of Houston TX and is the very proud father of a thirteen-year-old son, Ryan Andrew Smith.

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Lee Stewart grew up in Tallahassee, Florida where he attended Tallahassee Community College then Auburn University, graduating with a degree in Pharmacy. Returning to Tallahassee, he began running the family drugstore known as University Pharmacy. He has worked retail in Eckerd’s pharmacy department, and was then introduced to compounding through PCCA (Professional Compounding Centers of America). Since October of 1999, he has owned and worked for himself at Stewart’s Pharmacy where he is involved in mostly compounding medications for people and animals.

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Carol Kresge, former massage therapist and acupuncturist from Tallahassee went to Laos on a short vacation more than a decade ago. She was shocked by the lack of libraries and books for students. She left determined to go home and raise money to start libraries and buy books. Now eleven years later she lives there most of the time and is devoted full-time to this venture called www.thelanguageproject.org.

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Roman Fontenont is the owner of Child Growth and Development in Tallahassee, Florida. He started it over 26 years ago with his parents. Headed to law school he planned to only help out, but he fell in love with caring for children. In fact, he and his wife have six. They home school them at the daycare facility. He is very protective of every child that is in his establishment. He will share with us how to know if your child is adjusting to and in the right daycare.

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Valeria Barton, new mom for the first time at 37 is an information technology supervisor with an MBA. She was out on leave for twelve weeks after the c-section. Dealing with complications of high blood pressure and gestational diabetes added to her exhaustion caring for a newborn. When she returned to work – a heart wrenching, but necessary financial decision, there was a flood of emotions. Hear how she has coped with all of that.

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James D. Greene has over 28 years of management, marketing, and strategic business development experience at companies including Microsoft, Texas Instruments and NCR. He co-founded the WWW Internet Fund with Lawrence York in 1996, the first public mutual fund to invest in the Internet industry, which was awarded a Five Star rating by Morningstar. In 2008, Mr. Greene founded Greene Systems, Inc. to assist technology companies with business strategy, business development and acquisition/spin-off projects with clients such as Cisco Systems, Quest Software and Bain Capital. In late 2010, Mr. Greene founded Next Wave Advisors, LLC to launch a new hedge fund product that will utilize a qualitative security selection based on stages of industry lifecycles and innovative technology adoption. Mr. Greene lives in West Palm Beach, Florida with his wife Diane.

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