
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
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There’s a lot of heart, soul, and joy for me in bringing people together and building community. I have limitless energy for it. When I do it, my best self comes out. I could spend a huge amount of time doing it and not get bored.
This has been a recent phenomenon. I didn’t realize how much I liked it until I was in an entrepreneur’s organization and was asked to come up with one event a month, leading entrepreneurs with access to resources to do something they’d never done before or experience something they’d never experienced before. That was quite a challenge, and it spawned a lot of creativity for me.
At that point, I didn’t feel that my creative side was coming out in my own work. I was working on many things in my own business that really felt like work. Coordinating those monthly events was an opportunity for me to create experiences I wanted to have. It turns out that other people did, too. They loved it and kept coming back for more, which also provided me with a lot of value.
What I’m working on now is understanding how to leverage my strengths to inspire, using my creativity ability to design experiences and empower others to execute what I’ve designed. Then I focus a larger percentage of my time on my unique abilities and less time on things I’m either not good at or don’t enjoy.
I have a friend who says that what makes entrepreneurs tick is not that we have a greater tolerance for risk but that we don’t assess risk in the same way others do.
There’s a resiliency in looking at our mistakes not as failures, but as learning experiences which keep us going forward. Two people faced with the same experience producing the same outcome can react in two different ways. One person thinks the outcome is a failure, is scared, and doesn’t want to continue to go forward, while another person will think of all the things they learned and look for the tweaks and changes needed in order to go forward.
– Gabriel Luna-Ostaseki


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The new book by Brian Solis, What's the Future of Business: Changing the way businesses create experiences, explores the landscape of connected consumerism and how business and customer relationships unfold in four distinct moments of truth. [www.wtfbusiness.com]
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