Tami Simon is the founder, publisher and CEO of Sounds True, a multimedia publishing company she founded in 1985, at age 22. Tami started Sounds True with the goal of disseminating spiritual wisdom. Sounds True has published more than 800 audio, video, music, and book titles along with online courses and events with the most important modern spiritual teachers around the world. A two-time winner of the Inc 500 award as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America, Sounds True is widely recognized as a pioneer in providing life-changing, practical tools that accelerate spiritual awakening and personal transformation. Her free weekly podcast series called Insights at the Edge boasts millions of downloads, in which she interviews Sounds True teachers and authors about the essence of their life and work. Tami is a senior meditation instructor who teaches in the practicing lineage of the great siddha and Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

 Stanley Siegel, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, author, lecturer, and former Director of Education and Senior Faculty member of New York’s renowned Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. With nearly 40 years of experience in the field of psychology, Siegel has developed a bold and unconventional approach to psychotherapy that has led to his most recent book, Your Brain on Sex: How Smarter Sex Can Change Your Life.Siegel has taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Adelphi University, and the University of California, Berkeley. The creator and writer of the “Families” column for Newsday, Siegel also co-authored two popular books: The Patient Who Cured His Therapist and Other Unconventional Stories Of Therapy and Uncharted Lives: Understanding The Life Passages Of Gay Men, both of which have been translated into 6 languages. His books serve as the basis for workshops around the country. Siegel has served as the review editor for two professional marital therapy journals, and his work with couples and families is the subject of two educational videos. Siegel created the popular sex columnIntelligent Lust for Psychology Today Magazine, which is now featured in www.psychologytomorrowmagazine.com.

Philip Shepherd has been called a Renaissance Man Best known as the author of New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the 21st Century, he has worked as a writer, actor, workshop leader, director, editor, personal coach, house builder, dance dramaturge, teacher and lecturer. Since the publication of his book, he has earned an international reputation as a workshop leader, lecturer and coach. Philip is currently a faculty member of The Institute for Sacred Activism, which is based in Chicago.

Among his many international adventures, Philip cycled alone through Europe, the Middle East and Iran to arrive in India, where he studied Kathakali ­– an ancient form of dance drama that tells stories from the Mahabharata and Ramayana. He then went on to Japan to study classical Noh theatre. He has co-founded and written for an arts magazine, Onion; co-founded and directed an interdisciplinary theatre company; written two internationally-produced plays and a documentary for CBC television; acted in several feature films opposite such talents as Mandy Patinkin and Delroy Lindo (Strange Justice) and Jon Voight (Jasper Texas); studied for five years with energy healer Denis Chagnon; earned a reputation as a corporate coach. He has also designed and built several houses including the one he lives in currently with his wife and two daughters in Canada.