There are few people on the planet who have been graced with the direct experience of the most well loved spiritual teachers in modern times. Don’t miss the deep insights of Tami Simon, the entrepreneurial founder of Sounds True, which has been discovering and sharing spiritual insights for close to thirty years. Authentic, articulate and full of equal measure of inquiry and wisdom, Tami shares stories about both growing up and waking up that will inspire your own journey.

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.

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Don’t miss the start of our new Second Saturday Sexual Health Series with Stanley Siegel,  author of  Your Brain on Sex- How Smarter Sex Can Change your life.   Looking into our fantasy life with the intent to gain a deeper understanding of what we find erotic provides a window to our most authentic self.  Don’t miss Stanley describe the ways that our sexuality can heal us and transform our past emotional traumas into freeing, pleasurable reconnection to ourselves and our partners.  Although a bit unconventional, Stanley Siegel’s articulate and studied version of the profoundly healing aspects of being a sexual human being will liberate you to be more of yourself.

 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.

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Get out of your head and experience your world through the enteric brain in your belly which will give you a grounded sense of reality and an ability to be present to what is actually happening around you. Philip Shepherd, author of New Self, New World – 9 years in the writing is a primer on the freedom, creativity and true presence that is available to us when we reunite to our core intelligence. Redefine your own humanity and your relationship to your life with easy to learn exercises that will help you feel your way back into the intelligence and wisdom of living in a body. Don’t miss this conversation- truly a renaissance experience of rediscovering the life you have been longing for.

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.

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One of life’s great secrets is that those who succeed the most, are usually those who give the most. Author of Give and Take, professor Adam Grant, debunks the current mythology that equates giving with weakness and taking with strength with brilliant research studies that demonstrate that nice guys do actually finish first. Success it turns out is less about hard work and talent than it is in our ability to empathize, interact and help others. Don’t miss this refreshing view of how your generosity actually will generate a more elevated kind of equity in the world and listen to a master giver offer simple effective tips to add the five minute favor to your days. Don’t miss this show, it will open you up to new levels of happiness and greater success. Guaranteed.

Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor at Wharton. He has been recognized as Wharton’s single-highest-rated teacher, one of BusinessWeek’s favorite professors, and one of the world’s 40 best business professors under 40. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success. He has been honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award for every class that he has taught and has presented for leaders at organizations such as Google, the NFL, Merck, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, IBM, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. He has appeared on CNN and CBC, and designed several experiential learning activities based on The Apprentice in which students have raised over $175,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation while developing leadership, influence, networking and collaboration skills.

Adam’s research has been featured in multiple bestselling books and hundreds of media outlets, including theToday Show and in the New York Times magazine cover story, “Is giving the secret to getting ahead?” In 2011, he won the triple crown of prestigious scholarly achievement awards from the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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Tori Hudson literally wrote the book on natural women’s health, an encyclopedia in fact and has developed a natiionally recognized women’s health supplement company to meet the needs of her patients over the last thirty years. Her understanding of the multiple connection and the mysterious ways of healing combine to make this talk one that you don’t want to miss. Whether you are living in a changing female body or loving one, Tori Hudson provides the expert and compassionate advice to live through all our major life transitions with increased health and vitality.

Dr. Tori Hudson, Naturopathic Physician, graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) in 1984 and has served the college in several capacities, including: Medical Director, Associate Academic Dean, and Academic Dean. She is currently a clinical professor at The National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM), Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Bastyr University, has been in practice for 28 years, is the medical director of her clinic, “A Woman’s Time” in Portland, Oregon, and Director of Product Research and Education for VITANICA.

Dr. Hudson was awarded the 1990 President’s award from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians for her research in women’s health, the 1999 prestigious Naturopathic Physician of the Year award, the 2003 NCNM Alumni Pioneer Award., and the 2009 Natural Products Association Pioneer Award. She is a nationally recognized author (book: Women’s Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine second edition, McGraw Hill 2008), speaker, educator, researcher, and clinician. Dr. Hudson serves on several editorial boards, advisory panels and as a consultant to the natural products industry.

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