Mentor Series: Howard Martin
Values Based Life
Howard Martin brings more than thirty years of experience in business and personal development to the position of Executive Vice President, Strategic Development. Howard’s responsibilities include global alliances, marketing, and program and product development. Howard has been instrumental in assisting Doc Childre in the development and teaching of HeartMath’s programs since its inception. He speaks internationally on the HeartMath approach to advancing human performance that is based on compelling scientific research linking heart function with health, emotional well-being and...
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Mentor Series: Faith Best
Values Based Life
Faith Best is a licensed clinical social worker and mental health leader with nearly fifteen years of experience connecting at-risk individuals to life-saving care. As Director of Clinical Operations at NeuroFlow, a leading behavioral health technology company, she oversees teams dedicated to identifying vulnerable populations and bridging critical gaps in mental health services. Faith brings clinical expertise in suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and trauma treatment, with specialized training in measurement-based care approaches. Her career spans direct clinical practice as a...
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Susan Leahy
Values Based Life
Tune in for a chat with Susan Leahy, MA, CSP — a dynamic and values-driven speaker, trainer, and coach who believes the meeting room is one of the most powerful spaces to shape culture and impact lives. As the founder of Robert’s Rules Made Simple, since 2004 she has trained more than 10,000 boards and meeting chairs across North America to run meetings that are not just productive, but healthy. With a master’s degree in behavioral science, Susan teaches that how we meet matters — because the tone and values we bring into the boardroom ripple out to the communities...
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Mentor Series: Clarence Hairston-Bellotti
Values Based Life
Clarence Hairston is the Director of Content Operations at Tempo, leading Fitness Operations and Content Production. A U.S. Air Force veteran with a background in performance and leadership, he’s helped shape Tempo’s on-camera experience and grow its world-class coaching team. His global travels and passion for building community through movement continue to inspire the innovative, human-centered fitness experiences he creates today. This episode is part of a new chapter of the Values Based Life podcast, the “Mentor Series.” The Mentor Series...
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Laurie Seymour
Values Based Life
Host of Wisdom Talk Radio, International Executive Mentor and Certified Master Trainer, Laurie Seymour, M.A., is the founder and CEO of The Baca Institute. She is the author of Unconditional Remembrance: Your Connection to Source. Over twenty-five years ago, Laurie was honored to receive the stewardship of a special energetic technology, Turaya Touch© and Turaya Meditation©, that activates your connection with Source, raising your vibration and amplifying your ability to create from the infinite field of potential. Laurie is the creator of the Quantum Connection Process,...
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Mentor Series: Kirk Monson
Values Based Life
Kirk Monson sets the vision and strategic direction for Beta Bionics' brand, product positioning, messaging, and growth strategy. He brings over 16 years of leadership experience in diabetes medical devices, with deep expertise in product marketing, commercial strategy, and market development. Prior to joining Beta Bionics, he held multiple senior leadership roles at Medtronic Diabetes across marketing, business development, and commercial operations. Kirk is passionate about building high-performing teams and elevating the voice of people living...
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Lisa Van Zuylen
Values Based Life
Lisa’s journey began in 2006, when she was experiencing anxiety, that was preventing her from moving forward in her life. In that moment, she knew she wanted to find holistic ways to manage stress and anxiety — leading her to explore spiritual and energy-based practices that transformed her life. Lisa has been aligning people with their spiritual, emotional, and physical wellness for over 15 years, helping hundreds of clients find clarity, healing, and renewed purpose. A graduate of the True Insight Spiritual Center in El Segundo, CA, Lisa is certified in reading auras, past lives, and...
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Miranda Holder
Values Based Life
Miranda Holder is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals navigate career and leadership transitions. She helps people go from stuck and unsure of what’s next to clear and confident in their next steps so that they can do deeply satisfying and fulfilling work without compromising their time, energy, or resources. As a coach, she had an expansive range of skills, supporting people through the deep, big questions of “What’s next?” to the pragmatic questions of “How do I make that happen?” Miranda developed a proprietary, science-backed approach...
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Kathy Sparrow
Values Based Life
Kathy Sparrow is an award-winning author, ghostwriter, screenwriter, and publishing consultant known as the “Literary Midwife” for her two decades of mentoring aspiring writers in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Many of her clients have become bestselling authors, secured agents, and achieved traditional publication thanks to her expert book coaching. Named one of LA Weekly’s “Top 15 Book Coaches to Watch in 2023,” Kathy specializes in self-development, leadership, memoir, and children’s books. She co-created the children’s series Stanky & Cece Adventures, now in...
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Barry Kleiman
Values Based Life
Barry Kleiman is a social entrepreneur focused on rebuilding the cultural infrastructure of connection. As founder of The Playground Principles™ Movement and author of The Playground Principles: Do Yours Still Matter?, he helps leaders and organizations reclaim the foundational rules — merit, accountability, fairness, trust, and shared success — that made us civil. Drawing on decades as an executive search professional and executive coach, Barry combines systems thinking with street-level wisdom. A self-described "75-year-old kid from a Philly playground," he brings tangibility...
info_outlineGeorge and Tracey are partners in a big purpose: to Elevate Consciousness by Elevating Conversations™. With 60 years combined experience leading transformational work, they Hold the Holders™ - guiding heart-centered entrepreneurs, thought leaders, coaches, program and retreat leaders, and changemakers to Speak, Lead and Hold with Love™.
They are each members of the Association of Transformational Leaders and their work bridges Conscious Communication, Integrated Leadership and Spiritual Embodiment. As Language and Leadership Alchemists, they help you find, own and express your authentic voice - without ego and without apology - so you’re free and fully expressed to make the impact you’re here to make.
Tracey is an award-winning speaker, seasoned coach and host of the upcoming podcast The Deeper Conversation™. Her passion is guiding women to own and embody their true voice and purpose, and hold safe space for alchemy-based transformation.
George, a two-time cancer survivor and author of nine books, former lawyer, public office holder and single dad, serves as a “presence advisor” who guides men to expand their capacity to hold safe space as leaders.
Together, they support impact-driven couples to shift recurring patterns into greater intimacy and connection, helping them hold their relationship as a crucible for next-level leadership, connection and expression as Partners in Purpose™.
Their work has been called the “Harvard MBA of Conscious Communications”. They are co-founded “Voices for Love,” a 501c3 not-for-profit supporting passion projects that create a more safe, kind and caring world for all living beings.