2021 Speakers
Aurea with her many books and messages of success, hope and faith have been featured on over 500 radio shows worldwide and on over 150 TV shows including; Atlanta & Company, Atlanta Live, PBS, ION, The 700 Club, DAYTIME NBC, Fox News, CBS, Niteline Southeast, and many more with audiences in the millions.
Austin Zelan was born in Renton, WA on September 30, 1996. He is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. His parents set him on the path of education, and after receiving a Master’s degree in Business from Northwest University, Austin is right back on track to educating others.
I’m a survivor of attempted murder and domestic violence, a wife, a mother, entrepreneur, former Mrs. Indiana America, World’ Champion Equestrian and an IU grad. I almost let the first fact, that I am a survivor of attempted murder and domestic violence, keep me from remembering or achieving any of the rest of the descriptions on that list.
George Kramb
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George Kramb is known for being both an entrepreneur and a family man. His passion for helping others started early on as he began his career in healthcare working with medical device companies. As an integral part in thousands of surgeries, George assisted surgeons across the west coast with everything from orthopedic, sports medicine, plastics, and trauma.
Joseph Gandolfo
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Joseph Gandolfo, M.A. is a conveyor of powerful ideas and principles that change lives. For over 28 years, he has engaged firsthand the human experience as a Life Coach, Licensed Counselor, Professional Speaker, Author, Professor and Consultant. He has coached, counseled and spoken to thousands of individuals and groups including youth, college students, parents and educators.
Joshua Ludlam
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I’ve never been an optimist. Growing up a pastor’s kid in a strict home I was taught that people were essentially evil and would always let you down. The best we could do was hope for the best, but expect the worst. I considered myself a realist, and I also believed myself to be deeply flawed, along with everyone else. I never practiced in ministry, but instead went into the business world.
Leah Garcés
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Leah Garcés is the president of Mercy For Animals. She has been fighting for better food and farming systems for nearly 20 years as a leader in the animal protection movement. She oversaw international campaigns in 14 countries at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World Farming in the United States.
Lynn Rose
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Lynn Rose is known as “The WOWMaker” through her extensive background in media, marketing and mindset that has touched millions of lives. She is a highly sought after International Business Motivational Keynoter, Emcee and Entertainer for Fortune 500 events, a celebrated Media & Entertainment Entrepreneur and a High Performance Expert.
Mark Hayes
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Mark Hayes has spent nearly three decades bringing news viewers in major cities across the country their news and information of the day. Some of his stops include Dallas, Denver, Detroit and Baltimore. However, his proudest accomplishments came during his tenure in the great city of Atlanta, GA.
Moshe Gerst
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Moshe Gersht - Bestselling Author and Teacher The following didn’t come without struggle, bouts of depression, and finding the courage to walk away from great opportunities, the direction of family, friends, and mentors, and deeply honing in on what makes life special to be who I am today. I have had my fair share of successes in my short career at living thus far.
Radmila Loly
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Seanlai
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Seanlai is an award winning CEO, author, behaviorist and creator of The Science of Connection. She decoded the biological formula for human connection and created an easy to follow system for interconnected communication. She is also the host of the wildly popular Two Wild Orchids sex podcast. Seanlai understands human behavior from more than an academic view point.
Sonia Jhas
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Yvette Pegues
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Aurea McGarry
Aurea with her many books and messages of success, hope and faith have been featured on over 500 radio shows worldwide and on over 150 TV shows including; Atlanta & Company, Atlanta Live, PBS, ION, The 700 Club, DAYTIME NBC, Fox News, CBS, Niteline Southeast, and many more with audiences in the millions. As a sought after event host and speaker she travels the country teaching her success techniques to entrepreneurs to help them live their BEST LIFE, increase their sales and to believe in their DREAMS! As a master business coach with over 35 years of experience, she teaches how all business owners can and should host their own seminars, workshops, and events for bigger profits and increased celebrity status in their industry.
On a personal note: Aurea’s passion for nonprofits and the heroes that volunteer their lives to them began after her grueling battle over Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Diagnosed on her birthday in 1999 and after invasive surgery and grueling chemotherapy, which almost killed her, the surgeon told her she’d never be able to speak above a faint whisper because they had to remove the left thoracic nerve to her vocal cord. They also removed half of her left lung, part of her right lung, the lining around her heart, her Thymus and disconnected half of her diaphragm. She has been cancer-free since 2000 and can speak again despite the grim diagnosis. Her miracle story was featured on The 700 Club TV show worldwide many times over.
Aurea faced many struggles in her life including the murder of her father when she was a teenager, spouse abuse, divorce, single motherhood, cancer and she wrote her autobiography book about how to overcome them staying positive and successful through it all, titled “I Won’t Survive, I’ll Thrive!”
She is currently a co-author in Kim Coles bestselling book series “Find Your G.I.F.T.S” volume 2. She’s co-authored many books and has been featured in several self-help books such as; Leading Women - 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Insiders Tips 2, Reflections of Style - A Philanthropic Glance at the Arts, The Imagine Project - Over 40 inspirational true-life stories, Multiple Streams of Income 1st edition - Direct Sales Success strategies and Manifest Success.
Born and raised in New York City, Aurea now resides in Cumming, Georgia with her husband and family.
- Emmy Award-Winning TV Show Host, Producer, Director, Serving on the S.E Emmy Award Executive Board of Governors and as an active Emmy Judge.
- Contributing Lead TV Host for Atlanta Live on WATC TV.
- Founder of A.M.P – Aurea McGarry Productions.
- Professional Business Coach & Speaker, Event Emcee, and Charity Auctioneer.
- Founder of the popular Live Your Legacy Summit Event Series Since 2011.
- A Cancer and Domestic Violence Sur-THRIVER
Austin Zelan
Austin Zelan was born in Renton, WA on September 30, 1996. He is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. His parents set him on the path of education, and after receiving a Master’s degree in Business from Northwest University, Austin is right back on track to educating others. He is a financial and investment expert passionate about passing on his knowledge to as many people as possible.
Once he delved into finance, he began studying everything about finance, economics, and investment. He invested some of his own money to be sure that whatever system he developed worked. He focused on investment opportunities that the average person can invest in and attain decent returns. He soon became an expert and a mentor to many people who have become successful traders.
He founded Westgate Fund and Alphanance to help promote his passion for teaching people about finance and investment. As a hobby, Austin Zelan writes music and plays the guitar. He once performed at the Key Arena in Seattle in front of more than 15,000 people.
Brielle Cotterman
Brielle is a survivor of attempted murder and domestic violence, a wife, a mother, entrepreneur, former Mrs. Indiana America, World’ Champion Equestrian and an IU grad. I almost let the first fact, that I am a survivor of attempted murder and domestic violence, keep me from remembering or achieving any of the rest of the descriptions on that list. When you have experienced trauma, drama, or failure, it is easy to play small, cling to shame and guilt and never choose to follow your dreams. I have chosen to follow mine, to claim my story and the power and influence that goes along with it. I am now a Publicity Expert featured around the world, and I help women with a purpose share their story on the World’s stage, so they can make a difference, an impact, and inspire the millions that need to hear their story.
George Kramb
George Kramb is known for being both an entrepreneur and a family man. His passion for helping others started early on as he began his career in healthcare working with medical device companies. As an integral part in thousands of surgeries, George assisted surgeons across the west coast with everything from orthopedic, sports medicine, plastics, and trauma. As he spent countless hours in the OR he routinely saw one consistency when it came to the patient experience, they seemed nervous and scared. George saw this as a massive opportunity to implement technology and consumerism to help patients in one of their most stressful moments in their life. This was the beginning of PatientPartner, cofounded by both George Kramb and Patrick Frank. Outside of his professional life, George became a father at the young age of 22 and has two beautiful children, Maverick and Stevie. If he isn’t tied up with family activities or sporting events you will most likely find him surfing throughout La Jolla or teeing off at Torrey Pines.
Joseph Gandolfo
Joseph Gandolfo, M.A. is a conveyor of powerful ideas and principles that change lives. For over 28 years, he has engaged firsthand the human experience as a Life Coach, Licensed Counselor, Professional Speaker, Author, Professor and Consultant.
He has coached, counseled and spoken to thousands of individuals and groups including youth, college students, collegiate student-athletes, professional athletes, adults, parents, educators, helping professionals, public and private schools, organizations, companies and associations. Clients include University of Clemson, University of West Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Recovery Outfitters, Inc., South Coast Hospitals - Boston, MA, Alabama State Department of Education, Owens Corning, Coca Cola, Heineken USA, Trebol Industries, Vistage International, PGA of America.
Joshua Ludlam
I’ve never been an optimist. Growing up a pastor’s kid in a strict home I was taught that people were essentially evil and would always let you down. The best we could do was hope for the best, but expect the worst. I considered myself a realist, and I also believed myself to be deeply flawed, along with everyone else. I studied to be a youth pastor to help others heal their brokenness.
I never practiced in ministry, but instead went into the business world. I saw people taking advantage of others in business and always out for “mine”. I realized that people saw themselves as broken and used success and relationships to try to heal that brokenness.
I realized that people aren’t broken, they’re just human, and that accepting our flaws as well as accepting the great things we can do makes us realize we are whole. I created a methodology that became my coaching work to help leaders understand they are whole and to lead from wholeness. I believe our purpose is evolution and by living without lack or trying to prove our worth, we better impact our businesses, relationships, communities, and as a whole evolve exponentially.
Now I bring that work through speaking, training and coaching to workplaces, getting back to my youth pastor roots and helping others connect to greatness in themselves and others.
Leah Garcés
Leah Garcés is the president of Mercy For Animals. She has been fighting for better food and farming systems for nearly 20 years as a leader in the animal protection movement. She oversaw international campaigns in 14 countries at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World Farming in the United States. She is the author of Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry from Bloomsbury Publishing. Leah’s work has been featured in many national media outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Vice Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune among others. Leah is also on the advisory councils of Encompass and Rebellyous Foods. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, three kids, and two cats.
Lynn Rose
Lynn Rose is known as “The WOWMaker” through her extensive background in media, marketing and mindset that has touched millions of lives.
She is a highly sought after International Business Motivational Keynoter, Emcee and Entertainer for Fortune 500 events, a celebrated Media & Entertainment Entrepreneur and a High Performance Expert.
As an entertainer and speaker, she’s shared the stage or screen with Stevie Wonder, Meryl Streep, Mariah Carey, Ashton Kutcher, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and countless other luminaries, and been seen on: CBS, ABC, NBC, film and more.
Lynn helps others make their own successful global impact as well.
Behind the scenes, she works with billion dollar CEOs, celebrities and thought leaders, helping to bring out their “WOW” when they speak, pitch or perform in their business, including customized consulting for launching or expanding their brand or career.
Lynn is currently featured in a TV series around ‘Changemakers’ being taken to the networks called, “Awakening Giants” (where she also coached the participating experts) and is starring in a new film being released called “The Evolution of Success”.
She’s most excited about her new platform called, “WOWMaker” that is a collaborative and gamification engine for Bettering Your Life and helping to Better Our World, launching to 100 million through her promotional partners in late 2020.
Lynn currently travels around the world doing humanitarian work, working with her VIP clients and sharing her inspirational music, message and media.
Mark Hayes
Mark Hayes has spent nearly three decades bringing news viewers in major cities across the country their news and information of the day. Some of his stops include Dallas, Denver, Detroit and Baltimore. However, his proudest accomplishments came during his tenure in the great city of Atlanta, GA. For more than a decade, Mark was a staple of early morning television on Good Day Atlanta.
Moshe Gerst
Moshe Gersht - Bestselling Author and Teacher The following didn’t come without struggle, bouts of depression, and finding the courage to walk away from great opportunities, the direction of family, friends, and mentors, and deeply honing in on what makes life special to be who I am today.
I have had my fair share of successes in my short career at living thus far.
In the last decade and half I have been signed to a record label as the singer songwriter of a popular rock band, licensing music to MTV and touring with the top bands in our genre, spent a decade studying spirituality, consciousness, and human psychology, offered numerous global positions in the field, and I recently published the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling book It’s All The Same To Me which received praise and endorsements from Deepak Chopra, Manis Friedman, and Bob Doyle to name a few. I have been blessed to assist countless individuals through classes, coaching, and my writing, to achieve the experience of life they desire and deserve.”
Radmila Loly
Radmila Lolly was born in Moscow, Russia. When Radmila was growing up, she always listened to her mother sing melodies that she composed around the house, which sparked Radmila’s own interest in music. This led her to begin her formal vocal training at a young age. Her first performance was a private recital at the age of sixteen in London where she resided at that time. Her mother was also a painter, and by observing her work, Radmila learned to sketch her own designs. Her grandmother was a seamstress by trade, and this skill was passed down to Lolly through her mother, which enabled Radmila to bring to life the designs she had been sketching.
After moving to San Diego and New York at the age of nineteen, Lolly continued her musical studies with Hiroko Yoshinaga and Karen Numerala; the singer also holds two Advanced Professional Certificates in General Music Studies from The Berklee College of Music, through Berklee Online. Radmila takes weekly lessons in numerous instruments to inform her compositional skills, including violin, guitar, viola, piano, and drum set, among others.
In 2016, Radmila Lolly appeared on the music scene with a triumphant debut album “IV Stories at the Standard Hotel Op. 6” with the avant-garde, electro-acoustic “Scorchio” string quartet during an exclusive gala concert at Carnegie Hall. She followed up the album with an eclectic mix of singles, which showcased her range and captured her voice in all of its decadent glory.
As her musical career grew, the gowns she designed for her own performances received much attention; this turned into requests for personal commissions, which led her to launch her first couture fashion house, “Radmila Lolly”. Her first high couture collection was displayed at Gotham Hall in New York City.
She is now the founder and sole designer of the couture fashion house “Eltara Casata” by Radmila Lolly. Radmila’s second album, “Wonderland”, was co-produced and song-written by herself. She launched this album in April 2018, during a night of Opera & Couture at Carnegie Hall which she fully produced herself. The release included live performance of the album, and a fashion show of the couture collection that corresponded with the storyline of the album. With a classically trained and sultry voice, she combines classical and modern music effortlessly.
In 2019, Radmila made it on the Billboards Dance Chart with Duet “U R Moving Me”, climbing up to Number 21. Lolly also has another song, “Tonight”, rising on the Billboard Dance Chart, but for now they are frozen due to Covid-19. You have also heard her music as the soundtrack for the movie “Honor Up”, directed by Damon Dash, with executive producer Kanye West; she also works with Mar Vista Studios.
Radmila has been the producer and script writer for over 10 music videos. Lolly’s upcoming album is a self-composed 27-movement programmatic work, which corresponds to the novel that she is also writing, both by the name “DIVA”. This project has been in the works since she first started the novel six years ago. Since she began the book, Radmila had always wanted an album to go along with it, but at the time she did not compose at all; she had always assumed someone else would be composing it. Since then, Radmila’s musical journey has brought her to composing, and now she can tell the story of her novel in yet another artistic medium. There will also be a corresponding audiobook, and of course a couture line to accompany the album and the novel. The story will be also be represented in a short film, also named “DIVA”, starring Radmila herself.
Radmila will be releasing the album and the novel with a grandiose dance show based on the aforementioned storyline. She will be performing certain songs from the album, accompanied by a live orchestra, and contemporary musicians. The dancers will be dancing the story of the novel, while wearing Eltara Casata’s new collection, which was also inspired by the book. Her designs have been worn by many celebrities such as Gayle King, Natti Natasha, Bebe Rexha, Mya, Nicole Ari Parker, Carla Morrison and many others, both for performances and the red carpet. They have also been worn by nominees for the Daytime Emmys, Oscars, and Grammys. Her designs have also been featured in numerous magazine editorials, including Vogue, L’Officiel, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar. Her collection has been featured at Barneys New York Trunk Show, alongside designers such as Zac Posen, Naeem Khan and J. Mendel. In the near future, she will release a new highly anticipated high couture fashion collection under her new fashion house, Eltara Casata by Radmila Lolly.
Seanlai
Seanlai is an award winning CEO, author, behaviorist and creator of The Science of Connection. She decoded the biological formula for human connection and created an easy to follow system for interconnected communication. She is also the host of the wildly popular Two Wild Orchids sex podcast.
Seanlai understands human behavior from more than an academic view point. She used her never-before-seen life changing strategies to save her own relationship; scale her company and has helped thousands of other people do the same.
Her mission is to unshame sex and help you loosen the ties that a judgmental society bound you with. She wants you to know that it’s a simple formula to finding understanding, peace and joy in your sex life and your relationships.
Sonia Jhas
Mindset and Wellness expert Sonia Jhas is on a mission to help you live your best life. After walking away from a skyrocketing corporate career, she changed directions and launched her own brand to inspire, educate and motivate her clients and fans around the world.
After building a staggering social media following of over half a million fans globally, it became clear that the public wanted Sonia’s tips, techniques, motivation, and encouragement. After seeing people’s lives change as they found new ways to take control of their health, she embarked on a successful speaker’s series which has included globally-recognized brands, as well as many other community and corporate organizations with a strong focus on mental health.
As an award-winning wellness expert, Sonia has been featured globally in traditional broadcast, print and digital media. She has been recognized as a top wellness influencer and power woman making waves in her industry year after year. With a huge following of over half a million social media fans, Jhas is one of the leading voices in wellness. She is currently working on her highly-anticipated first book. For more information, visit www.soniajhas.com
Yvette Pegues
Yvette Pegues, Ed.D.(c) is a Doctor of Christian Education for Special Populations candidate, Corporate Disability/Diversity Consultant, Inclusion Advocate Founder/CTO (Chief Transformation Officer) of Your Invisible DisAbility Group, award-winning International keynote speaker, published author, happily married wife and mother of 2-incredible boys.
Education is not wasted on Yvette - especially since neither of her parents could read or write. Nevertheless, it’s hard to believe that she wasn’t always standing up for others while in a seated position. Prior to her Traumatic Brain/Spinal Cord Injury, she was 1st Generation high-school, college and newly selected Ph.d candidate for a fully-funded Harvard University scholarship while performing global duties as college hired Network and Systems Engineer turned World Wide Program Delivery Manager for International Business Machines (IBM). While she continues to live in/with indefinite chronic pain, she’s most proud of altering her ancestry legacy of literacy and turning (what appeared to be) the worst thing that happened to her family into the best thing to happen to others.