((photo featured Xandy Barry)) Xandy Barry is an award-winning multiplatinum songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles. He has produced, mixed, and written songs with a wide range of artists including Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne, Baby E, Norah Jones, Rihanna, Zella Day, Family of The Year, Bon Iver, Creeper, Slash, and many others.  His songs and compositions have appeared on screen and in soundtracks for many feature films including the Academy Award-winning Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse, Marvel’s The Avengers, Insurgent, Bloodline, and many others. Additionally, his compositions have been used in hundreds of television shows in the United States and abroad.   He is the co-owner of WAX LTD, an independent record label with over a billion streams on Spotify. He is also co-owner of AUDIO WAX a joint venture with Universal Music, providing curated music for film and television across the globe. An ardent meditator, he volunteers for the Isha Foundation, which focuses on environmental and humanitarian projects around the world including Cauvery Calling, an agroforestry initiative that aims to plant 2.4 billion trees in the Cauvery river basin in India. A 12-year member of the Recording Academy he also supports Musicares. Trent Navran is a musician, meditator and product manager based in Austin, Texas. He started learning classical guitar at age 7 and flute at age 10. While attending Rice University to study neuroscience, Trent started his meditation journey by taking Inner Engineering, a holistic wellbeing program. Deeply touched by the wisdom and practice imparted by Sadhguru, Trent began volunteering with Isha Foundation, offering his musical abilities whenever possible. After college, Trent joined AI startup CognitiveScale, where he led multiple projects that embedded AI into retail, financial, healthcare, and technology companies. He then joined Wellsmith, a healthcare technology startup dedicated to modernizing the management of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. In 2019, Trent spent an extended period at the Isha Yoga Center in southern India. At present, he is a long-term volunteer at the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences in Tennessee. Websites: https://www.umusicpub.com/us/Artists/X/Xandy-Barry.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_Ltd

((Photo featured: Trent Navran)) Trent Navran is a musician, meditator and product manager based in Austin, Texas. He started learning classical guitar at age 7 and flute at age 10. While attending Rice University to study neuroscience, Trent started his meditation journey by taking Inner Engineering, a holistic wellbeing program. Deeply touched by the wisdom and practice imparted by Sadhguru, Trent began volunteering with Isha Foundation, offering his musical abilities whenever possible. After college, Trent joined AI startup CognitiveScale, where he led multiple projects that embedded AI into retail, financial, healthcare, and technology companies. He then joined Wellsmith, a healthcare technology startup dedicated to modernizing the management of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. In 2019, Trent spent an extended period at the Isha Yoga Center in southern India. At present, he is a long-term volunteer at the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences in Tennessee. Xandy Barry is an award-winning multiplatinum songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles. He has produced, mixed, and written songs with a wide range of artists including Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne, Baby E, Norah Jones, Rihanna, Zella Day, Family of The Year, Bon Iver, Creeper, Slash, and many others.  His songs and compositions have appeared on screen and in soundtracks for many feature films including the Academy Award-winning Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse, Marvel’s The Avengers, Insurgent, Bloodline, and many others. Additionally, his compositions have been used in hundreds of television shows in the United States and abroad.   He is the co-owner of WAX LTD, an independent record label with over a billion streams on Spotify. He is also co-owner of AUDIO WAX a joint venture with Universal Music, providing curated music for film and television across the globe. An ardent meditator, he volunteers for the Isha Foundation, which focuses on environmental and humanitarian projects around the world including Cauvery Calling, an agroforestry initiative that aims to plant 2.4 billion trees in the Cauvery river basin in India. A 12-year member of the Recording Academy he also supports Musicares. Websites: https://www.umusicpub.com/us/Artists/X/Xandy-Barry.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_Ltd

Chris is cofounder of Chop Wood Carry Balloons, an LA-based development and production company. He's also counsel at Scale LLP where he advises early-stage companies.  Over his career, he’s collaborated on story with the New York Times, ESPN, Vice, RVCA, as well as the Haitian, Ghanian, and South African governments. Chris began his career as a news anchor and senior political reporter, covering the 2008 Iowa caucuses and general election. He earned two Associated Press awards and two Emmy nominations for his reporting. He was a member of a reporting team that won an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. After the 2008 election, Chris attended law school at Duke University, and he’s used this education to tell stories at the intersection of politics and development. In 2011, he directed and produced FORCED OUT, a short documentary about internally displaced persons in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.  Websites: www.chopwoodcarryballoons.com, www.swedishjones.com

Patsy Cisneros has presented, trained, and coached individuals and groups from Coca Cola – North America; Federal Express headquarters; ADP University; The Ritz Carlton & JW Marriott hotels; Toyota USA; Hyundai Financial; Dole Foods; Loma Linda University Health System, and many more recognized brands nationwide. Patsy proudly has coached at two of the foremost think tanks in the USA: the Rand Corporation’s PhD candidates in public policy and preparing speakers for the Milken Institute’s Global Conference. Patsy has confidentially coached political candidates in Interview Image and On-Camera Media preparation for debates. Her clients are senators and governors across the United States. You may recognize Patsy Cisneros from her many television interviews about the image of candidates and politicians on Fox Business “Your World with Neil Cavuto” and “Fox News Reports with Brett Baier”; the CNN International program “The CNN Newsroom”, and a Reuters News interview with global distribution to over a million viewers.  Email:  [email protected]; LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/patsycisneros Website: www.CorporateIcon.com

Tina is a management consultant who’s passionate about building fantastic organizations.   She is owner and partner at Kinship, a Strategic Partnerships firm. Kinship works with clients to skyrocket growth, harmonize operations, and strengthen reputation & brand. Tina currently volunteers with Isha Foundation, a global NGO offering tools for wellbeing, founded by yogi & visionary, Sadhguru.    Tina is a former technology entrepreneur and founder who’s scaled businesses and products from the ground up to millions in revenue. These businesses helped immigrants find homes in the US, storytellers pitch movies to Hollywood, and regular customers get more easily recognized by restaurants.   Prior to tech startups, Tina advised Fortune 500 Boards as a Board Governance consultant for Willis Towers Watson and led Brand, Partnerships, and Media for McKinsey & Company. She also produced live TV for PBS News, which set her up for a life-long love affair with the art of communication and masterful storytelling. Tina graduated from Northwestern University.    Tina has lived every continent except Antarctica. You can find her on twitter @hellotinatina. 

Dr. Bala Subramaniam is director of BIDMC’s Center for Anesthesia Research Excellence and the Ellison “Jeep” Pierce Associate Professor of Anesthesia at BIDMC. Dr. Subramaniam has built an extensive research program alongside his clinical career and has developed a deep understanding of the basic and clinical science that informs all areas of the Center’s mission. His current research focuses on perioperative outcomes, with particular interest in postoperative neurocognitive function and the effect of meditation in the perioperative setting and on wellness resilience. Dr. Subramaniam is conducting pioneering research at the intersection of cardiac anesthesiology and neuroscience to determine how clinicians can reduce postoperative delirium, an acute state of confusion and inattention. He is also collaborating with BIDMC investigators to explore the role of meditation in reducing postoperative delirium. Dr. Subramaniam’s track record and excellence in research and clinical care combined with his commitment to understand how meditation can transform our approach to consciousness and cognition forms a strong foundation on which the Center will be built and will thrive. https://www.bidmc.org/research/research-by-department/anesthesia-critical-care-and-pain-medicine/research-centers/sadhguru-center Perceived Stress and Meditation  Endocannabinoids and Meditation  Compliance and Mindfulness practices  Inner Engineering Online for professionals  Center for Consciousness, Cognition and Compassion at BIDMC/Harvard

Lisa Diane Kastner was born and raised in Camden, NJ which was one of the most dangerous cities in America. In high school, she was a dancer and co-host on Dance Party USA, a syndicated television show on the USA Network. At the age of 20 she came home to find her house had burned down and she was suddenly homeless. She spent the next several years rebuilding by working and going to school full time to obtain her Bachelors, MBA, and MFA. While fulfilling an amazing corporate career in which she transformed organizations through technology and process, she began Running Wild, LLC which consists of Running Wild Press where they publish great stories with great writing that don't fit neatly in a box and RIZE where they publish great genre stories written by people of color and other underrepresented groups. Running Wild has been honored with two best of 2019 and two best of 2020 books according to Kirkus Reviews as well as several starred reviews and additional acclaim. Lisa was named to Yahoo Finance's Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2021 and Nominated for FORBES NEXT 1000, a list of American self funded entrepreneurs who continue to strive during the challenging times of COVID.

Dr. Mark Goulston is an international speaker, executive coach, consultant, advisor and confidant to founders, entrepreneurs and leaders. He has been a UCLA professor of psychiatry for twenty plus years and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.  He is a former FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer and the inventor and developer of Surgical Empathy, a process he used for twenty-five years to prevent all his suicidal patients from dying by suicide and that he now uses to unlock and unblock his clients from counterproductive habits and behaviors from their inside out and frees them to replace them with productive alternatives so they can fulfill their potential.  He is a best-selling author or co-author of nine books with his book, “Just Listen,” translated into twenty-seven languages to become the top book on listening in the world.  His HBR Ideacast episode, “Become a Better Listener,” has been their #1 Ranked episode for three years.  He was the co-creator and moderator of the multi-honored documentary, Stay Alive: An Intimate Conversation about Suicide Prevention. He hosts the “My Wakeup Call” podcast and the LinkedIn Live program, “No Strings Attached.” He is a Founding Member of the Newsweek Executive Forum and frequently sought-after subject area expert on human psychology and behavior on all media platforms. His latest books written during Covid are, Why Cope When You Can Heal? How Healthcare Heroes of Covid-19 can Recover from PTSD and Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption and Thriving on the Other Side. Relevant websites and links are below: * Website: http://markgoulston.com *LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markgoulston/ *Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkGoulston *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markgoulston/ *Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-wakeup-call-with-dr-mark-goulston/id1439752757 * LinkedIn Live:  LinkedIn Live: No Strings Attached *Mark's latest books (emphasize both) first helps individuals and second is for leadershiip:    Why Cope When You Can Heal? (12/1/20)    Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption and Thriving on the Other Side (3/23/21) * Founding Member Newsweek Expert Forum

Maya Rizkallah received her Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut, with training and professional experience with Beirut Graphics, Millennium Development, Fabrica (Italy) and Tarek Atrissi Design (Netherlands), in addition to an extensive freelance work experience. Over thirteen years ago, she became a full-time volunteer with the Isha Foundation as a yoga instructor, and grew to teach programs across India, Europe, UK, the US, Middle East, Mauritius, Singapore and Malaysia. She has over 12 years experience teaching Inner Engineering courses and advanced programs with Isha Foundation. Websites: [email protected]       https://sadhguru.org/karma

Maya Rizkallah received her Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut, with training and professional experience with Beirut Graphics, Millennium Development, Fabrica (Italy) and Tarek Atrissi Design (Netherlands), in addition to an extensive freelance work experience. Over thirteen years ago, she became a full-time volunteer with the Isha Foundation as a yoga instructor, and grew to teach programs across India, Europe, UK, the US, Middle East, Mauritius, Singapore and Malaysia. She has over 12 years experience teaching Inner Engineering courses and advanced programs with Isha Foundation. Websites: [email protected]       https://sadhguru.org/karma