
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]

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post and the author of twelve books. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Seth Godin is a prominent author, blogger and speaker. [www.squidoo.com/linchpin]

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]

Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. [www.lizphair.com]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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
self-love

Throughout my life, I was told, “If you love yourself, everything will fall into place.” For years and years, my brain understood this to be true. Then my heart followed suit. Yet it still didn’t completely click.
I yearned for this concept of self-love to move through me, to my core, the way other awareness had. Finally, while working with a deeply connected soul healer, Kirstin, I understood.
Deep down in my soul, it clicked and began to form. Speaking from my truth, from my heart – I’m ok. I’m showing up for me. I love me. It’s a realization that gets more powerful each day. If I don’t have self-love, I have nothing.
In the past, I always felt a need to give, give, give, but I didn’t know how to receive. I thought I could help others while brushing my own needs aside. Now I realize that I’m part of the equation.
Balance is the key, and to balance the see-saw of life, I have to take care of me first. I have to give to myself, to my heart, to my confidence, and spirit.
Kirstin taught me that I’m the only version of me that will ever exist on this planet, and I am perfect as I am. I need to live, breathe, and exist from my heart. When I cherish and love that heart more than anything else in this world, everything else follows.
Just a few weeks ago, one of my teacher’s said, “Take that radiant light you project outward and put it back on yourself.” And I got it! To stay out of the darkness and give unconditionally, I have to light from within, and be my truth. For the better of everyone else, I must love myself in such a way that I come first.
When you feel off your path, sit with yourself and meditate, or take a walk and look at the beauty in nature. Breathe in deeply and come back to you.
Put your hands on your heart and feel your love, your truth, your radiant light. The light starts from you. The light is yours and only yours, a gift from the universe to you. Appreciate it. Inspire from it. Let it be your guide.
Love from the inside, out. To love yourself, just as you are, flaws included, is to be at peace.
– Aly Scott


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grounded flyer. northrup team member. self-truster.
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Dedicated to empowering high-achieving women to find greater meaning and fulfillment, Carrie Cunnington's coaching has helped hundreds of individuals and teams redefine success, reconnect to their passions, and rejuvenate their personal and professional lives. [www.cunningtonshift.com]
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