author. speaker. motivator.
Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack Canfield is the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem, achievement motivation, and peak performance. [www.jackcanfield.com]
political powerhouse. media mogul. author.
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post and the author of twelve books. [www.huffingtonpost.com]
author. speaker. linchpin.
Seth Godin is a prominent author, blogger and speaker. [www.squidoo.com/linchpin]
yogi. philanthropist. dynamic teacher.
Krishna Kaur is the founder of YOGA for Youth, a program that takes yoga, meditation, and stimulating discussions on the philosophy of yoga to urban youth. [www.yogaforyouth.org]
producer. philanthropist. tv legend.
Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]
race car driver. activist. carbon free girl.
Leilani Münter is a professional race car driver and an environmental activist who uses her voice in the number one spectator sport in America as a catalyst for change. [www.leilanimunter.com]
Freedom Fighter. Philanthropist. Game Changer.
By going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed modern slavery's penetration into the global economy. He co-founded Free the Slaves, which has helped to liberate thousands of slaves. [www.freetheslaves.net]
mom. big dreamer. lady in red.
Sophie Chiche, lifebyme.com founder and curator, enjoys asking deep questions and living a life of meaning. Today she's launching Shape House, an urban sweat lodge, a place to melt away fears and fat. [www.shapehousela.com]
Writer. Entrepreneur. Daily Lover.
Entrepreneur and writer Mastin Kipp founded TheDailyLove.com, which merges pop culture with inspiration, and co-founded The Love Yourself Company, an apparel company that has started a global self-esteem movement. [www.TheDailyLove.com]
singer. musician. crier.
Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. [www.lizphair.com]
archbishop. author. peaceful leader.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who address some of the world's most pressing problems. He works energetically for human-rights and in his ministry. [www.tutu.org]
author. ceo. humanitarian.
Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a group dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. [www.womenforwomen.org]
speaker. psychotherapist. life embracer.
Despite his physical challenges, Sean Stephenson has taken a stand for a quality of life that has inspired millions of people around the world. He's a professional speaker, psychotherapist, and author. [www.timetostand.com]
yogi. meditator. teacher.
Kia Miller teaches Yoga at Yoga Works in Los Angeles, leads teacher trainings, and runs retreats and workshops on meditation, chakras, pranayam, and mantras, and other practices. [www.kiamiller.com]
creator. writer. idea geek.
Simon Mainwaring is an ex-Nike/Wieden creative, former Worldwide Creative Director at Motorola/Ogilvy, branding/advertising writer, author/speaker/blogger, Australian, idea geek. [www.simonmainwaring.com]
Strategist. Writer. Life Coach.
Shannon Bindler is a style editor, life coach, and the co-founder of Get Up Girl, an empowerment company that inspires women to shine. [www.getupgirl.com]
Designer. Art Director. Passionate Creator.
Grammy-nominated art director/designer/photographer Mathieu Bitton has designed over 450 CDs and movie posters. He's a renowned collector of and authority on black films and their soundtracks. [www.candytangerine.com]
Agent. Producer. Photography Enthusiast.
Opus Reps founder and agent-producer Jorge Perez travels the world producing photo shoots with great photographers and celebrities. He's also very involved with Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles. www.opusreps.com
girl power
Katherine Woodward Thomas
bestselling author. transformative educator. creator.
Katherine Woodward Thomas is the bestselling author of Calling in "The One." She's a licensed psychotherapist, speaker, transformative educator, and co-creator of the Feminine Power Global Community. [www.femininepower.com]
I’m really inspired by feminine power and so excited to be living at this particular time as a woman. What’s happening for women throughout our world is unprecedented in the course of recorded human history. Never before have women en masse started to wake up and take on the realization of our greater potentials so that we might make our greatest contributions.
If we really look at what feminine power is, the closest word we find is magic, which is about harnessing the creative energies of life. In our consciousness, we still have one foot in the old and yet new possibilities for what it is to be feminine are calling us as we are being pulled towards consciously creating the future. We’re pioneering the feminine of the future, which is all about integrating the power of relatedness into the gains we’ve made inside a masculine paradigm of power.
In my work with Claire Zammit, we’ve been developing what we call the three power bases of the feminine.
The first power base gives us the power to transform our own lives. In order to cause the full flourishing of life for our world, we need to cause the flourishing of life for ourselves. We do this by getting related to the parts of ourselves that hold old, false beliefs. The emotional center of beliefs are held in the body and are pervasive world views. We can actually feel where a belief is in the body by breathing into the emotional center of that perspective. If we ask that part of ourselves, “How old are you and how big is the energy you’re holding there?” we can begin to gain some distance from the beliefs in order to wake ourselves up from their trance. It helps us to connect with the grown woman we’ve become who now has access to resources, strengths, and objectivity, who can see things clearly, and who’s been developing herself for years.
The second power base of the feminine gives us the power to realize our destiny. For most of us, there’s no model for us as women organizing our lives around the realization of our greatest potentials. We’re a pivotal generation, called to midwife the future of our lives and of our world by deciphering the possibilities present and making ourselves available to midwifing the unmanifest potentials seeking to emerge. We do so by learning how to navigate life inside of a partnership with the creative energies of life by following our own intuitive knowing to discover what our next steps are.
The third power base offers us the power to change the world. Many of us feel called to become agents of change and begin participating in the upleveling of consciousness and culture. And in our masculine paradigm of power, we’ve assumed that we must do this alone. Yet, we’ve discovered that when we come together and join in collaborative, co-creative, evolutionary partnerships, we are empowered to create so much more than we ever could alone. When we open ourselves to the power of relatedness we understand that we were never meant to do this alone, but in relationship with each other. Together, we can actually do this.
So we learn and develop the capacities and skills to partner with each other, to co-create, collaborate, and work interdependently to bring about the change we so yearn for in the world.
This is the evolution of what it is to hold power.
– Katherine Woodward Thomas
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blogger. mother. possibility creator.
Claudia Pornaro is a mother, blogger, writer, and creator of amazing possibilities now that she knows what she want to be when she grows up. [www.facebook.com/claudiapornaro]
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producer. philanthropist. tv legend.
Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]
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scribe. divine communicator. grateful being.
Spiritual teacher and intuitive Sara Wiseman is an author, radio show host, and online contributor. [www.sarawiseman.com]
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jazz jockey. choice maker. wannabe mermaid.
Shawn Ryan is an actor, comedian, singer, and teacher. He's released two albums and made numerous TV appearances. Shawn and his husband co-founded The Young Actors' Theatre Camp. [www.Shawn-Ryan.com]
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mom. TED-talker. no-bullsh**er.
Sophie Chiche, founder of lifebyme.com, is the single mom of an amazing 16-year-old, Leah, and wicked step-mom of 22-year-old, Sarah. They all live in LA. You can find them boxing, cooking, collaging, hosting brunches, laughing their head off or bickering over who's washing and who's drying the dishes.
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balance guru. teacher. fortune cookie writer.
Jason Womack provides practical methods for maximizing tools, systems, and processes to achieve quality work/life balance. He's worked with leaders and executives for over 16 years in the business and education sectors. [www.womackcompany.com]
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jewelry artist. yogini. goddess.
Author, teacher, jewelry artist, and Yogini Laura Amazzone teaches goddess classes and workshops and is adjunct faculty at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. [www.lauraamazzone.com]
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cartoonist. creator. funny guy.
Cartoonist Dave Kellett previously worked as a writer and toy designer at Mattel Toys. He founded Sheldon Comics and is the creator of Sheldon cartoons. [www.sheldoncomics.com]
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