Dave, The Caregiver's Caregiver

Marion Zola has always been a writer and animal lover. Her first writing was poetry, until she began writing screenplays and sitcoms. Eventually, she wrote her first book, “All The Good Ones Are Married,” which became a Lifetime movie. Along the way she began producing with a vampire movie and, for the last few years, a show on shelter dogs entitled “Shelter Me. Her second book is “Romancing The Dog, The Struggle to Make a Pound Dog Happy in Beverly Hills.”  

Dr. David Chotka is the founder and director of Spirit-Equip Ministries—a organisation designed to help you grow your spiritual disciplines one small step at a tim His latest book, Healing Prayer is God’s Idea, (co-written with Rev. Dr. Maxie Dunnam) became a #1 best-selling Amazon title

Michelle Tennant Nicholson has been called a “five-star publicist” by Good Morning America producer Mable Chan. As co-owner and Chief Creative Officer of Wasabi Publicity Inc., she represents global nonprofits, causes, and people who make a difference. “We believe conversations change everything,” says Michelle. “The stories we consume consume us. Right now, our entire marketing industry is based on fear and stimulating the need to fix ourselves. It fuels our consumerism. We believe we can elevate this conversation and tell stories for the good of humankind. Imagine a world where people share positive stories they’ve heard on the news cycle this morning. What if our stories stimulated our sense of security and safety? According to the latest brain science research, that contributes to optimal life experience. That’s why I get out of bed each morning. How about you?”

Melane is A cancer survivor, former Registered Nurse, a successful entrepreneur, Business Management Consultant and now author. While working as an RN, she suffered an extreme case of burnout. After navigating the experience and coming to an understanding of her purpose, she started what grew to be a sustainably successful, impactful, purpose-driven business, then sold it after 13 years of operation.  Melane is now sharing her unconventional strategies to success in her book: 'Lemonade! Squeeze Your Challenging Life Experiences Into a Successful Business', and through her consulting practice, Aere Management Consulting. Her book and consultancy grant her the opportunity to help struggling entrepreneurs and business owners build a solid foundation for their ventures, and achieve purpose-driven, impactful, sustainable success, and the truly abundant life.  

Carlen Maddux is an experienced journalist. He wrote for the nationally recognized St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) before founding (in 1984), editing, and publishing for 26 years a business magazine for the Tampa Bay, FL region. He’s also written A Path Revealed: How, Hope, Love, and Joy Found Us Deep in a Maze Called Alzheimer’s. Today Carlen is a sought-after author, speaker, and blogger sharing the hard-won experience arising from his family’s experience.

ROSIE MANKES, is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of Find Your Joy and Run With It, a heartwarming memoir about overcoming her second battle with cancer, the transitioning of her mother into an assisted living facility, and the unexpected loss of her brother, all within one year. Rosie’s recovery from these major challenges inspired her to become a life coach, in order to help people pull through significant adversity and life challenges. Rosie is a resident of New Jersey, where she lives with her husband. She is the mother of two grown sons.

Daphné Vanessa and Shamil Rodriguez are Co-Founders of StartNoo.com, an online platform dedicated to reducing $1Trillion Dollars in student loan debt by providing a unique way for people to pay off student loans. Daphné Vanessa began handling her father’s medical care in her early 20s. By the time she had a child, she found herself living the Sandwich Generation life caring for both the Silent Generation and Generation Alpha, while still maintaining a career and social enterprise.    

Americans are retiring – in greater numbers and at a faster pace. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who retired in 2020 was twice that of 2019. Compared to previous generations, they are more likely to bring to their Next Chapters more passion, more talent, and more energy than generations that came before them.    It is for this group of people and their younger cohorts, that Gail McDonald and Marilyn Bushey have written Retirement Your Way: The No-Stress Roadmap for Designing Your Next Chapter and Loving Your Future. McDonald and Bushey have dubbed them Retirement Rebels—people who are searching for a more fulfilling path to their future in which they reinvent retirement. You can thrive – not just survive – in your Next Chapter. "In a nutshell, our book is about questioning the assumptions that many of us hold about retirement and expanding the possibilities that we envision," McDonald says.

For 5 decades, Ron Kaiser, Ph.D. has helped individuals of all ages to be their best versions of themselves. While continuing to serve as Director of Psychology at the world famous Jefferson Headache Center as well as Clinical Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Dr. Ron has become the “Go To” person for advice on enhancing longevity through the adaptation of a mindset and lifestyle that he lives as well as teaches. He has created the concepts of Goal-Achieving Psychology (GAP). The Type P Personality, and REJUVENAGING®. His latest book, “REJUVENAGING®: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm,” has been an Amazon Best Seller as well as winning three book awards. His TEDx Talk, “Aging Enthusiastically to Make the World a Better Place” has been viewed over 175,000 times, and his weekly podcast has posted over 115 episodes. Dr Ron has been interviewed on numerous radio shows and podcasts. His website Is www.TheMentalHealthGym.com He is proudest of the s

For 5 decades, Ron Kaiser, Ph.D. has helped individuals of all ages to be their best versions of themselves. While continuing to serve as Director of Psychology at the world famous Jefferson Headache Center as well as Clinical Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Dr. Ron has become the “Go To” person for advice on enhancing longevity through the adaptation of a mindset and lifestyle that he lives as well as teaches. He has created the concepts of Goal-Achieving Psychology (GAP). The Type P Personality, and REJUVENAGING®. His latest book, “REJUVENAGING®: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm,” has been an Amazon Best Seller as well as winning three book awards. His TEDx Talk, “Aging Enthusiastically to Make the World a Better Place” has been viewed over 175,000 times, and his weekly podcast has posted over 115 episodes. Dr Ron has been interviewed on numerous radio shows and podcasts. His website Is www.TheMentalHealthGym.com He is proudest of the s

Deb Brown Maher is a sales coach, author and speaker with a passion to eliminate the negative stereotype of sales by teaching people how to sell from a position of integrity. Deb shares her methods in her book and video training course called “Sell Like Jesus: 7 Characteristics of Christ for Ethical Sales”. But what Deb teaches isn’t just for sales. She also works with pastors, coaches, hospice workers, parents, family and friends who must get “buy-in” to accomplish specific outcomes. She is the POA for her 95-year-old mother and has to constantly negotiate with workers at the 24-hour nursing care facility where her mom lives now. Today Deb is going to share her caregiver insights as well as some selling skills that have helped her get the best possible outcomes for her mom under difficult circumstances.

Dr. Veronica Joseph is a licensed Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico, licensed Acupuncturist in California, Holistic Wellness Expert, and a certified diplomate in Oriental Medicine from NCCAOM (National Certification Commision for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine).  She is also a certified NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination) Practitioner, Reiki Master, Certified Universay Rays Healer, Wholistic Kinesiology Practitioner, an accredited Tai Chi Chih (pronounced as “chah”) Teacher, and a Best-Selling author of “Unlocking Your Superlife.” She has treated thousands of patients over a decade. She specializes in allergies, immune system dysfunction, digestive disorder, women’s issues and pain management. It is her goal to educate and empower her patients to achieve optimum health and live their best life.

Combining twenty-five years of successful wealth management and financial planning in parallel with conducting ‘Conscious Living’ and ‘Wealth Consciousness’ seminars, Armineh with multiple financial and psychology designations has created a holistic approach to Wealth and Wellness to share her wisdom and knowledge on how to create a fulfilling and abundant life. Armineh is a multi-faceted and a brilliant entrepreneur whose aim is to bring expanded awareness to the world by encouraging and inspiring everyone to be aligned with their Divine self, based on her four-corners stone philosophy of Physical, Emotional, Mental/Intellectual and Spiritual elements in order to live their desired life.

Cathay Reta has a B.A. in music, a 37-year career in adult literacy spanning local, statewide and national levels, and a lifetime of co-ministry with her late husband David. She was his caregiver in the last four years of his life. Her greatest strength and passion is writing life’s experiences and observations into relatable lessons for her readers. Those observations currently come from the Pacific Northwest where she now lives. This year she published Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up, the story of her pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago in Spain after her husband passed away.

Justin Duncombe is the author of College Bound Strategies. He has been consulting on college planning since 2011 and in the financial industry since 2012. His consulting work focuses on helping families tackle challenges they thought were unmanageable. Justin graduated with a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 2011, where he double majored in Business and Economics, as well as completing a minor in Political Theory. Upon graduation, he received the first Award for Academic Excellence in Business in the first graduating class of the undergraduate Business major and qualified for the Economics Honor Society. Justin participated in multiple music and athletic programs in high school and continued baseball into college. He still leads an active lifestyle playing music and exploring new athletic and intellectual challenges.

Dr. V.K. Raju was born in Rajahmundry, AP, India. He is the founding patron member of AAPI. He is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at West Virginia University, Adjunct professor of Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University and director of the International Ocular Surface Society. He is also founder and president of The Eye Foundation of America, a non-profit organization dedicated to realizing a world without childhood blindness. The Eye Foundation of America has established two eye institutes in India. Since 1979, EFA has expanded its reach to over 25 countries, screened millions of patients, and provided hundreds of thousands of surgeries.

Dave Combs is a songwriter, entrepreneur, and successful business executive. Over the past four decades he has written over 120 songs and created fifteen albums of soothing, relaxing instrumental piano music, including the popular standard, "Rachel’s Song." His music has been played millions of times on radio, satellite, and all internet streaming media. He is the author of the bestselling book, Touched by the Music. The book is about an inspired (some say anointed) song, the man who wrote it, the successful music business that grew from it, and the millions of people whose lives continue to be touched by Dave’s peaceful music and his uplifting stories.

ELAINE KENNELLY is a mom who lost her 18 year old son, Matthew, to suicide. But she also defines herself as a teacher, businesswomen, and grandmother to three lovely grandchildren…the latest being a granddaughter—just two weeks old. Elaine is described on the cover of her latest book as a “friendly and accessible voice of experience who found how even the wounds of suicide can heal into hope and restoration.”

Darius Ross shares his story of how he wenrt from inner city struggles including poverty, violence, eviction and foreclosure to the corporate suites. He talks about how caring for his mom and dad df=eraled his business and what he did to get back on track and overcome burnout.

Bob has learned to live well with Bipolar (Type I) Disorder and has been teaching caregivers how to support their mentally ill loved one for several years now. His secret? Education is the secret weapon against this illness. He’s found that the more he knew about his illness, the better he got. So, he poured himself into dozens of books and hundreds of research papers to learn everything he could about it. For all that this illness ripped from his grasp – a 24-year marriage, an intact family, a successful career, financial security, and many friends – it has given him a potent way to help others. For this, he is deeply grateful. It is his hope that the pain he’s experienced will become someone else’s gain, and that his hard-fought discoveries can become others through the work that he does together. Bob holds a national certification from the Copeland Center to teach their Wellness Recovery Action Plan Course in the United States. He is a popular speaker through the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s (NA