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Tracee Lydia Garner is an international best-selling author of more than 20 books, a motivating speaker, humorist and book coach. She has taught at the academic level as an adjunct professor for 15+ years, teaching several courses including, Small Business PR and Promotion, Self-Publishing Boot Camp, and How to Write the Novel. Offered a book publishing contract at just 24 years of age, back then with one of the “Top 5,” Tracee went on to write more work for publication and has also been published in her alma mater’s literary magazine. Tracee loves public speaking, teaching workshops, and talking about the craft of writing at every opportunity. Tracee holds a BS in Communications, and a nonprofit management certification. While her heart is in romance, she also writes self-help, books on craft and publishing for writers, and teaches two, intensive writing courses for RWA's Pen to Paper programs. Diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at the age of two, Tracee is an advocate and voice for people with disabilities, never letting her physical condition stop her from pursuing her goals and dreams.

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AboutZachary Hagen is a Christian fantasy author living in the beautiful Sunshine State. He's the author of the five book Eternal Chronicles series as well as the upcoming Aisha's Secret set to release in February of 2026. He and his wife just welcomed their first son earlier this year and have two dogs that keep their lives busy and interesting. When Zachary isn't writing, he teaches in a middle school classroom and coaches homeschool parents to help them achieve instructional victory.Followzacharyhagenwrites.comGet the books (affiliate link) https://amzn.to/3MUlrUg

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Liisa Kovala is a Finnish Canadian author, book coach, and podcaster. She is the author of Like Water for Weary Souls (House of Karhu, 2025), Sisu's Winter War (Latitude 46, 2022) and Surviving Stutthof: My Father's Memories Behind the Death Gate (Latitude 46, 2017). She also writes the Hygge House Cozy Mystery series as A. L. Jensen (upcoming 2026). Liisa lives in Sudbury, Ontario. Learn more at liisakovalabookcoach.com and visit liisakovalawomenwriting.substack.com.

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Tony Kessel is a full-time Soldier in the New Mexico Army National Guard. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife and 5 children. To chronicle his journey toward mental health, he wrote a music memoir entitled “It’s All In The Lyrics: How Music Helped Me Heal and Find My Voice.” Throughout this journey, he discovered a purpose of building a strong community where the mental health stigma is minimized. He has received training as a mental health coach, resilience exercises, and suicide intervention.

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Shamayne's midlife quest to reclaim her identity, led to profound insights and lessons that are the foundation of her business, Shoes That Fit Her Soul, LLC. Reflecting on some of her life’s pivotal moments, Shamayne draws from her experiences of generational trauma and loss to offer an authentic approach for women to embrace life's unexpected tragedies and foster a renewed sense of self with passion, purpose, and confidence. Her stories introduce the shoe model, an eight-step method designed to assist women with the first steps of discovering who they are and forming a deeper connection with themselves. By defining their values and core beliefs, establishing boundaries, finding their voice, and embracing change, they will have increased confidence to step into a more authentic life.

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Sheila K. Collins PhD believes that, in facing life’s toughest challenges (grief, loss, illness, disabilities, death of a loved one), we mature into who we truly are. Her writing, teaching, speaking, and improvisational artist performances offer thought-provoking insights, embodied practices, and art-based tools to help people deal with what life presents to them. Her award-winning book, Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and the Rituals that Heal describes her journeys with two of her three adult children and her best friend through their life-threatening illnesses and deaths, and of the rituals that helped her family to heal. Using her background as a dancer, social work professor, therapist, and improvisational performance artist, Dr. Collins demonstrates in her online and in person presentations how art-based tools have helped her and can help others live joyful embodied lives. Her engaging, often humorous 2016 TEDx talk, When Death Threatens Someone We Love demonstrates the challenge of being a caregiver to a loved one dealing with a death-defying illness and the gifts present in such circumstances. Her book for professional and family caregivers revised with co-author Christine Gautreaux in 2018 is Stillpoint: A Self Care Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, Time to Breathe, and Reclaim Joy. It contains art-based tools, skills, poems, stories, and embodied practices–providing encouragement and support for caregivers to take care of themselves while taking care of others. Since the pandemic began the two authors have taught a weekly class online based on Stillpoint, attended by caregivers from around the world. Dr. Collins’ latest book is titled The Art of Grieving: How the Arts and Art-Making Help Us Grieve and Live Our Best Lives. Her latest writings are available on https://sheilakcollins.substack.com/

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Doug Lawrence is the founder of TalentC® and is focused on all things mentoring as a solution provider. Doug Lawrence is an International Certified Mentor and holds two Mentor Certifications; Certificate of Practice – Mentor and the Certificate of Practice – Journey Mentor from the International Mentoring Community. Doug is the only one to hold the Certificate of Practice – Journey Mentor in the world today.

He has over 30 years of mentoring and leadership experience and is recognized as a thought leader in the mentoring space. Doug authored the book entitled, “The Gift of Mentoring” and his second book entitled, “You Are Not Alone” became an Amazon #1 Best Seller in North America and the UK and is a Bronze medal recipient in the Global Book Awards. Doug’s third book, “Grief, The Silent Pandemic) was published April 20th, 2025 and was the recipient of two bronze and one silver Global Book Awards. Doug is an International Best - Selling Author.

Doug’s Practice of Mentoring continues to grow and has resulted in his accumulation of 3,400 hours of mentoring (in person and virtual), 235 hours of speaking opportunities and 672 hours teaching others how to effectively mentor. Doug has been the guest on approximately 200 podcasts in the past year on the topics of mentoring, mental health and grief.

Doug works as a volunteer mentor with the Sir Richard Branson Entrepreneur Program in the Caribbean and with American Corporate Partners (ACP) in the United States helping military personnel transition from service life to civilian life.

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Award-winning novelist John DeDakis (Pronounced: dee-DAY-kiss) is a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of six novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series. In his most recent book, Enemies Domestic, Lark is a White House press secretary forced to make her extremely personal abort-or-not-to-abort decision in a highly toxic and polarized political fishbowl—all while dealing with an attack on the presidency. DeDakis, a former White House correspondent, is a writing coach, manuscript editor, podcaster, and regularly teaches novel writing at literary centers and writers’ conferences nationwide.

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