Thrive Loud With Lou Diamond

Dr. Lauren Cook is a therapist, speaker, and author. She travels around the country sharing how we can cultivate a life in accordance with our values. Lauren is passionate about bringing mental health to people of all ages, as she recognizes that wellness continues throughout our lives. Lauren integrates positive psychology, gratitude, and neuroscience into her work to inform her evidence-based teachings. She specifically practices third wave tenets (CBT, ACT, and DBT) to help her clients apply mindfulness and cognitive flexibility for intentional living. Dr. Lauren Cook began her training at UCLA, where she majored in Psychology and Communication Studies. She then earned her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California. It was during this time that Lauren became trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and learned how to help families and couples integrate healthy communication strategies while building greater emotional closeness. She believes that any person, no m

Dr. Candice Williams is a Pain Management Anesthesiologist turned Music Producer and Health Coach. She has successfully navigated the journey past her fear of change and uncertainty to pursue her life-long passion for music. Dr. Williams creates music for healing /relaxation and is a curator of uplifting messages, embodied her recent album release, Serenity Sounds: Music for Healing, Relaxation and Sleep. Her goals include having her music played in hospitals and used for therapy in various settings and writing music that uplifts the African American Community. Her album, Black Beauty by J.N.C., a collaborative project is in progress. Their single, Black Beauty, is currently available on all outlets. She is passionate about giving back to her community through educating students about STEAM careers and works to increase diversity in medicine through coaching, mentorship and speaking. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVELOUD  

Gayle Edwards is an International, award-winning Global Impact & Brand Strategist, Author and Speaker who empowers and educates Conscious and Purpose Driven Entrepreneurs and Organizations to build impactful businesses through leveraging their brands and build their identity and authority within their marketplace!   Gayle is also an Advocate for the UN Global Goals, in particular Goal No. 5 which is Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women & Girls and centers much of her around this goal. As the Founder of Brand You Consultancy Ltd, Gayle blends her spiritual gifts with over 30 plus years’ experience in Marketing, Branding, Communications, Training & Coaching to help Entrepreneurs and Corporate Professionals to boost their identity, create more impact, extend their influence to sharpen up their digital image and offline presence.   Gayle is the creator of the trailblazing “Standing up in Your own Hallelujah” Personal Branding process.  It is this same innovative proces

Kristina Paider – “KP” – is a world-class marketer and storyteller. Her company, The Hollywood Approach, helps people accelerate results in their business and life. She’s a marketing executive helping billion dollar brands and moonlights as a screenwriter. She’s got an action-thriller script which sold this summer. And her new book, The Hollywood Approach, just came out. She travels by motorcycle, jumps into waterfalls and is a guest chocolate chef and has a blast here with Lou Diamond on Thrive LOUD. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD

Nutrition-Focused Entrepreneur Sean Folkson founded Nightfood after battling for decades (mostly unsuccessfully) with nighttime cravings.  In search of healthier snacks and better sleep, Nightfood was born. With over 80% of adults snacking regularly at night, and almost everybody wanting better sleep these days, Nightfood sleep-friendly ice cream is quickly rolling into supermarkets across the country. Listen in as Sean shares his journey in providing delicious, nutritious snacks we all crave. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD  

After serving the St. Louis Cardinals as their Medical and Rehabilitation Coordinator, Dr. David Meyer PT, DPT wrote “Injured to Elite: A Guide to Empowering Yourself to Transform Your Life After Injury”, to empower the world with a newfound mental approach to physical rehab. During his time working for the Cardinals, he discovered a new appreciation for the psychological implications of sports rehabilitation after seeing the profound impact it had on players and began developing a comprehensive approach to integrating mental skills and strategies into the physical rehabilitation process. While now serving as an advocate for athletes going through adversity and working towards advanced credentials with the Association of Applied Sports Psychology, as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, his mission has become to “Empower those facing physical challenges to transform their lives through an optimal state of body, mind, and spirit.” David has now created a community of developing sports professionals and a

Ming Shelby is an educator, speaker and podcaster with a focus of building a community of courage. Ming is an interactive and engaging speaker who meets your audience where they are by sharing real life experience, motivation, and strategies.  She has been a career-long educator with a focus of always creating the best learning experience for students.  She is the host of the "Courage Up" podcast and is on Thrive LOUD as part of our continuing series of elevating the brilliant minds of women. Ming loves connecting with others, inspiring them to be courageous in their lives.  Listen in as she shares her passion with Lou. *** CONNECT WITH LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD

Hayley Luckadoo started her entrepreneurial journey as a wedding planner, before opening a second business as well. She’s now a serial entrepreneur in the digital marketing space, and hosts her passion project, the Females On Fire podcast. Since she started out in business when she was still in college, she’s had a different business journey than most, and loves sharing her best advice for fellow entrepreneurs. More than that, she loves inspiring other women to not only succeed in business, but go after their biggest, wildest dreams and enjoys creating motivational content through various personal development platforms. Hayley isn’t your typical speaker, and takes a more comfortable approach to connecting with her audience, always focusing on keeping the energy high and even getting them on their feet. Though she identifies more as an introvert in a one-on-one setting, Hayley speaks to her audience like she’s their best girlfriend, and loves any opportunity to have fun and connect with people. Enjoy

r Viola Pierce. is the CEO and the founder of VP Nursing Leadership, Training and Coaching.  She has been a nurse for more than 25 years of experience and has worked across various specialities in nursing including urgent care, OB/GYN, home health and nursing homes with the majority of her tenure spent in emergency medicine. She is a John Maxwell certified speaker, coach and trainer and has a passion for leadership.  She has served as the President of the local Emergency Nurses Association, serves on the Advisory Committees for North Carolina Wesleyan and ECPI’s Nursing Programs. She is an active member of  the Women’s Professional Networking group. The morning show that streams live on Facebook and YouTube called, “Morning Infusion with Dr. V.” brings a great deal of enjoyment to many listeners. She is an international speaker but mostly loves helping nurses find their brilliance in family, fitness, finance, spirituality and leadership. Continuing the series of elevating the brilliant min

Emilio Palafox is a renaissance man - relationship renegade! He is the Co-Founder & Connection at @relationship.renegades along with former Thrive LOUD Rockstar Rachele Brooke Smith. He is a leader of the NEXT GENERATION OF E-LEARNING, a sales leader for PEMF WELLNESS TECHNOLOGY and an actor to boot! Listen in as Emilio shares his incredible journey with Lou Diamond on Thrive LOUD. ***Connect with Lou Diamond and Thrive LOUD***

“Sales Success Expert”, speaker and best-selling author Ron Karr is back on Thrive LOUD. Ron just released his new book - "Velocity Mindset" - and shares some of the behind the scenes of pulling together the book, pushing through open-heart surgery, and providing the ultimate resource that every leader needs in today's world. Listen into this conversation pulled from a Thrive LOUD LIVE episode in April 2021 and also check out the special promotion he is giving away. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVELOUD  

Joseph Jaffe is an author, entrepreneur and content creator.  As a consultant and thought leader in the marketing and innovation space, he has worked with countless fortune 500 companies, as well as startups. As a speaker, Joseph delivers a brilliant, high impact message with innovative and practical advice for movement towards growth. Jaffe has written 5 books including: Life After The 30-Second Spot, Join the Conversation, Flip the Funnel and Z.E.R.O. His latest book is “Built to Suck: The Inevitable Demise of the Corporation…and How to Save It?” Visit builttosuck.com to find out how you can suck less. Most recently, Joseph has created CoronaTV, a show born in a global pandemic but not defined by it.  He has squeezed the juice of brilliance out of hundreds of incredible thought leaders...which is why "Double J" thrives LOUD. **CONNECT WITH LOU DIAMOND**  

Lorraine Dallmeier is the award-winning CEO of Formula Botanica, the online organic cosmetic formulation and business school, which has trained over 11,000 organic formulators and indie beauty entrepreneurs in 170+ countries. A Biologist and Chartered Environmentalist by training, Lorraine loves sharing her mantra of hard work, perseverance and systemization to get the message out to more female entrepreneurs that sustainable online business success is within their reach. Listen in to one of the more impressive entrepreneurs you'll ever come across. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD  

Claudia Sasse is a heart-centered visionary intuitive and catalyst for light-filled transformation. One of her greatest joys is supporting her multi-talented clients to channel the wholeness of who they are into meaningful, joy-filled work that not only changes the world but also nourishes their soul. She uses her multiple claire-sensory gifts and her down-to-earth practicality to help them build the energetic foundation, create the framework, and discover the golden thread that allow them to move forward with their life/soul mission with clarity, ease, and confidence — often thriving outside of the confinement of any previous “boxes.” She is not only hopeful but actually excited about the new world she sees emerging. More recently she became the channel and author of the upcoming book LoveBytes -- a transformational journey home to yourself. She has been guided to live on the beautiful Big Island of Hawaii and invites you to join her on these powerful lands of raw creative power and sweet mamma love for you

Dana Bowling is a business and motivational coach with a passion for inspiring women in the beginning stages of starting a business. She has helped hundreds of women who have big dreams, huge ideas, and tons of passion get over their fears to launch and grow their companies onward and upward. She is the host of the AMP it UP podcast - a show for Ambitious, Motivated, and Positive women. In addition, she coaches people on exploding their brand on Instagram & Clubhouse. Dana connects with Lou as they talk about all the HOT socials - Instagram, TikTok, Clubhouse and even Peloton. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD

Dr. Angela Alexander is an Audiologist that has evaluated and provided therapy to hundreds of clients to help them hear and understand more quickly and accurately over more than a decade. ​She owns and operates Auditory Processing Institute (APD Support), where she trains her peers in the skills needed to provide effective APD diagnostic and therapeutic options.  In addition, APD Support is a series of self-paced, online learning modules to improve auditory skills from the comfort of home. While in-clinic treatment is individualized, 95% of the activities completed in each lesson to improve skills are similar across clients.  The lessons provided in this program guide the client through a series of exercises each week to increase auditory skills and decrease listening effort. ​ Listen in as Angela shares with Lou on Thrive LOUD what APD is and her passion for those living with it. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD

Dom Faussette is an award winning speaker, best selling author and founder of ThinkReactlead LLC, He is a master at building strong teams by using effective communication, diversity and rapport. He is a strong believer in vulnerable leadership and enjoys sharing real-world insights that will help both leaders and team members achieve bigger goals today and also build new leaders for tomorrow. He also hosts The Think-React-Lead Show on 960 The Patriot KKNT-AM in Phoenix, Arizona. Listen in and enjoy one of the smoothest sounding speakers with a 'spot-on' message. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD

Amberly Lago is a leading expert in the field of resilience, transformation, and health and wellness. She shares her passion for turning tragedies into triumphs at exclusive workshops, public events, and corporate summits, and schools. She offers a carefully curated set of practical tools to teach others how to tap into their superpower of resilience and persevere through any of life's challenges. She offers hope and solutions for anyone living in chronic pain and has been featured on NBC's Today Show and featured in magazines such as Shape, Fit Pregnancy, Health, and Disability Magazine. The is a Texan living in California with her husband and two daughters and is out to change the world. Learn how the term "True Grit & Grace" equates to every aspect of Amberly's life - (podcast, book, story and message). And hear about an incredibly SMALL WORLD STORY with Amberly and Lou being in the same place at the same time. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD

As a resiliency expert, 5X author, executive coach and speaker, Allison Graham works with accomplished professionals and business owners so they can do all they do without the guilt, destructive stress and risk of burnout. Her problem-solving framework, tackles topics such as efficiencies, productivity, imposter syndrome, chronic worrying and revenue generation. Her latest book, Take Back Your Weekends, is the ultimate guide to taking back your power, your life and, of course, your Saturdays and Sundays. Pulled from their LIVE session on LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube enjoy this fun Thrive LOUD CatchUp episode between Allison and Lou. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND AND THRIVE LOUD

Proving the impossible is possible!  For the last 10 years Marisela Abasta has been helping people who are stressed out, overwhelmed feeling stuck in life by teaching them a powerful process to getting unstuck so they can live life with more Confidence, Clarity and Courage! But she’s on a mission to stop suicides by sharing with the world what depression really is. She’s passionate about changing the way the world sees and understands depression. No longer seeing it as an incurable disease but seeing as a symptom of unprocessed emotions from our past.   She lived it! She healed it! She teaches it!  She is the founder of The Life Empowerment Academy and creator of the Life Empowerment Process.  Marisela is a mother of 5 and grandmother of 1. She’s a retired Navy wife living in San Diego, CA with her husband of 29 years and her last 2 kids left at home Melodi age 15 and Elijah age 12.  *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND & THRIVE LOUD