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Karen Richter is a retreat leader, Forest Therapy Guide, women’s mentor, the founder of Confident by Nature, and author of Uncover Your Light: Empowering Stories of Hope and Resilience.

She explores the struggles so many face: exhaustion from constant productivity, living by everyone else’s expectations, and feeling like life is racing past.

Karen will share how break free of those struggles with intentional connection with nature,combined with holistic practices like qigong and Yoga Nidra, offers a powerful reset—helping us release stress, quiet self-doubt, and reconnect with who we truly are. Listeners will walk away with simple “rewilding” tools to ease stress, step off autopilot, and return to a life that feels authentic, joyful, and fully alive.

Taking this journey of self-discovery will allow you to reconnect with the beauty and power that lies within: Get to know, love, and celebrate yourself. Your radiant light is waiting to shine brightly, and to inspire those around you to do the same.

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Karen Richter is a retreat leader, Forest Therapy Guide, women’s mentor, the founder of Confident by Nature, and author of Uncover Your Light: Empowering Stories of Hope and Resilience. She is a retreat leader, and women’s mentor. Karen spent years pouring herself into every role—mother, wife, daughter, friend, business owner—pushing harder and harder to prove her value, until she felt depleted and lost. Mindful time in nature helped her slow down and rediscover who she was beneath all the roles. Now she helps midlife women do the same—releasing stress, reclaiming joy, and reconnecting with both themselves and the Earth.

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Dr. Leigh F. Callahan has over 35 years of experience in arthritis and health outcomes research, and experience in public health as a former arthritis epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). Her specific areas of expertise are in four major areas: outcomes and epidemiological research, establishing collaborations in communities across
North Carolina and the nation, leadership roles in professional and nonprofit arthritis
organizations, and setting arthritis public health agendas.

She educates others on managing Osteoarthritis through behavioral lifestyle interventions, such as weight management, self-management education, physical activity and injury
prevention, which are the four key evidence-based public health interventions for Osteoarthritis (OA). Dr. Callahan also speaks about The Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA), which is supported, in part, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has numerous free resources available for managing OA.

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Dr. Leigh F. Callahan is the tenured Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine in
the School of Medicine and professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of
North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of
Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is Associate Director of the
Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC). She is also Director of the Osteoarthritis Action
Alliance (OAAA), a coalition of more than 160 organizations committed to elevating
osteoarthritis as a national health priority. Dr. Callahan has an undergraduate degree from UNC,
Chapel Hill and a PhD from Vanderbilt University.

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Karen Salmansohn, author of Your To-Die-For Life How to Maximize Joy and Minimize Regret ... Before Your Time Runs Out, and behavioral change expert invites her audience to stop avoiding the one truth about the inevitability of our limited time, and encourages to start using it to live more fully, boldly, and unapologetically.

After going through her own “I’m going to die” journey, Salmansohn discovered how mortality awareness can transform your life, helping people stop wasting time and start aligning with what truly matters. Backed by science and filled with practical tools, this book offers a fresh and cheeky approach to living with purpose. You’ll learn how to write your own eulogy to reverse-engineer your goals, build a “to die for” list to focus on what brings you alive, and do a life audit to release what drains your energy.

With inspiring philosophy, research-based insights, and Salmansohn’s humor, Your To-Die-For Life will help you face your fears and use them as fuel for a life that’s deeply meaningful.

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Karen Salmansohn is a bestselling author with over 2 million books and courses sold, a leading behavioral change expert, and columnist for Oprah and Psychology Today. She is the founder of NotSalmon.com, a popular personal development site with a vibrant community of 1.5 million followers. In 1999, Karen first wrote with How to Be Happy, Dammit. Since then, she’s written numerous bestsellers including The Bounce Back Book and Think Happy. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Karen is passionate about helping people live with courage, clarity, and joy. In Your To-Die-For Life, she pioneers the mortality awareness movement, reminding us that embracing death might just be the secret to truly living.

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Dessy Levinson, author of From Overwhelm to Flow, is a strategist and coach whose work draws from neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience. She has spent over two decades helping leaders, founders, and thoughtful individuals navigate complexity and build genuine resilience.

In From Overwhelm to Flow, Levinson introduces the CRATE framework—Clarity, Regulation, Agency, Trust, and Energy—as a path to move from emotional chaos into grounded clarity. Whether you're a founder facing startup challenges, a leader fostering psychological safety, or someone seeking deeper understanding of your inner world, this book offers practical tools and strategic insights to help you transform how you relate to overwhelm.

With warmth, honesty, and powerful stories of transformation, Levinson shows how our moments of greatest struggle can become the gateway to flow. This is not just another self-help book—it’s a guide to remembering what we already know: that intensity, when met with curiosity and skill, can lead to meaning, creativity, and real change.

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Dessy T. Levinson is an executive strategist and relational integration coach, founder of crate.com, and creator of the CRATE framework for cognitive and emotional resilience. With over twenty years of experience in advertising, venture capital, and high-performance coaching, she helps individuals and teams move from overwhelm to flow through deep psychological insight and business acumen. She lives in the New York area with her husband and teen children.

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Douglas Lynam, author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram, helps identify their financial traps, heal money wounds, and cultivate
abundance with tailored strategies. The Enneagram is a personality system that outlines nine types, each with unique motivations, fears, and desires, to support self-awareness, growth, and better relationships, and Douglas Lynam explains how each Enneagram type has a "money monster" and behaviors that harm financial health.

He will speak about spirituality and wealth, proving that financial success and ethical living go hand in hand; not just coexisting, but enhancing each other. From Marine to Benedictine monk to financial expert, Doug Lynam’s unconventional journey reflects his unique perspective on wealth and purpose.

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After graduating top of his class from Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, Doug Lynam
spent two decades as a monk while leading a prestigious school’s math
department. Transitioning to finance in 2017, he became a partner at LongView
Asset Management, overseeing $250 million in assets. He is the author of Taming Your Money Monsters: Nine Paths to Money Mastery With The Enneagram and From Monk to Money Manager: A Former Monk's Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy—and Why That's Okay, both in which he focuses on financial self-help.