The Dots Podcast

Ashra Bennett has Over 16 years extensive experience mentoring, facilitating and developing individuals, businesses and communities alike across the globe. She believes everyone has a heart driven mission to live a purposeful and deeply connected. As the founder of the Youth Unity Foundation, Ashra is astutely passionate about youth and the full potential they have to transform their individual and our collective lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lois Stark is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times. Her forty documentaries covered architecture, medical research, globalization, artists, and social issues. With NBC News, she filmed countries in tension and transition, including Liberia, Cuba, Abu Dhabi, Northern Ireland and Israel. Her book has won Grand Prize Best Nonfiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and Gold Awards from Nautilus Book Awards, National...

Danielle Harris-Branch, is a Speaker, Coach, and Author of the forthcoming book, From the Other Side of the Bed: Allow Faith to Transform Your Perspective Through Life’s Hardest Blows. As a double cancer survivor, and widow, Danille’s metamorphosis developed through life’s painful blows. Her humor, transparency, expertise, and experience in coping with painful experiences encourage those who feel lost, hurting, and looking for a purpose to live with confidence and boldness, as she helps them...

Rae du Soleil is an artist with a mission of “creation for connection” and promotes courage, vulnerability, empathy, and empowerment through music and her actions. From empowering women and girls through the arts to advocating for accessible mental health resources, Rae is dedicated to using music and activism to make the world a better and more equitable place for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jill Valdez has been helping people for over 18 years …with better company systems, better communication, and removing obstacles that keep them from being all that they are purposed to be. This passion has led to new horizons from her journey that she’ll share with us today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rich Horwath was inspired to start the Strategic Thinking Institute by a single question a manager asked him during a break at a strategic planning retreat twenty years ago: “I had my performance review and my boss said I’m too tactical. How can I become more strategic?” He realized there simply wasn’t a roadmap to help managers move from tactical to strategic. So, he created one. Rich has helped hundreds of thousands of managers develop their strategic thinking skills through live workshops...

Kim Ades is the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngine Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mom of five, Kim has 15 years of experience coaching many of North America’s most respected leaders. Recognized as an expert in the area of thought mastery, Kim uses her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style to help her clients deal with core issues and shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Raven Sinclair has a lifelong connection to the unseen world and an ability to see beneath the surface of current events or a person's sabotaging cycles. Her passion is to share insights and tools to help others enhance their lives, relationships and careers. Raven transformed her own recurring patterns of financial crisis and deep depression by using the Hermetic Principles as a philosophy to live her life. From years of study came her creative process called the “7 Steps to Mastery,” which...

Shawna Pelton is a host, author and founder of Quantum Shift. Combining nearly 2 decades of service with Holistic Nutrition, Aesthetics, Mindfulness Biophoton Therapy, Bioenergetic Medicine, Biofield Tuning, Spiritual & Emotional Healing, Hypnosis, and Conversational Intelligence Coaching Shawna empowers heart-centered spiritual seekers of fundamental wellbeing, change makers and conscious leaders to move beyond personal and relational conflict by helping them liberate the power of their...

Paul Smith is one of the world’s leading experts on organizational storytelling and one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers of 2018. He’s the bestselling author of several books, and a 20-year former executive at Procter & Gamble. Paul believes every great leader is a great storyteller. And the first and most important part of being a great storyteller is knowing what stories to tell. Paul will share his insights about stories and the leaders who tell them well. Learn more about...

Raegan Payne is an award winning playwright currently working on a new play for The Scripps Ranch Theatre’s New Works Studio. Her plays have been produced and performed around the world– from Lagos, Nigeria to LosAngeles, CA, to London, UK. Raegan is also an activist and an actor who grew up in the hills of Kentucky. Her blog TheGoodMuse.com has been featured in numerous magazines including Readers Digest, Ladies Home Journal and American Way as well as newspapers, podcasts, and other blogs....

Funny, not filthy, Marc Yaffee’s relevant and relatable humor skewers sacred cows, dissects societal stupidities and confronts common frustrations, all with humanity and humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harry Sherwood aspires to help people transform their lives by choosing a conscious lifestyle. Harry’s journey into holistic living took a true leap of faith when he left behind the only world he knew in 2010 and went “off to see the wizard.” In today's world, Harry's advice may provide new insight into a new life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure and make it work to your advantage. An author, entrepreneur and corporate keynote speaker, this “worldwide connector” is recognized worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about customer service, social media, PR, marketing, advertising, and ADHD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rocky and Cheryl Detwiler talk about reinvention, transformation and overcoming financial and emotional devastation. Rocky’s inspirational story will motivate you to never give up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Ann Peterson overhauled her career through bravery. Emily is a singer/songwriter, speaker, author, host of top-rated Apple podcast Bare Naked Bravery, and creative consultant who uses constraints like a machete and fear like a lawn mower. In 2013 she was diagnosed with an Essential Tremor in her right hand which forever altered her livelihood as a cellist/cello teacher. This degenerative neurological disease opened her life’s love of expression beyond the cello and into the world....

With Dr. Kathy Gruver's background in theatre and bad fast food, she overcame her addiction to caffeine, artificial sweetener and meals that were eaten in the car. Now, decades after her mother died of cancer and 15 years since her last drink of soda, Kathy, with her ‘Go for it’ attitude, makes it a point to help others navigate the sometimes-confusing world of nutrition, stress reduction, natural health and mind/body medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barry is the man who was completely paralyzed and became a quadriplegic overnight from a rare neurological disease Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS…aka French polio). His journey to regain partial mobility lasted several years and caused him to, as he eloquently puts it, “GO MAD,” his acronym for Go Make a Difference! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Ackerman is the creator and host of Sleep With Me, the one-of-a-kind bedtime story podcast. Born out of Drew's childhood insomnia, Sleep With Me was inspired by late-night comedy radio, which was the only thing that helped him fall asleep. Drew's stories on the show are inspired by his childhood as the oldest of six children and past jobs as a fuzzy dice and iron-on patch salesperson, fruit fly monitor for the State of California, and librarian for one of the largest jails in the...

Lauren Polly is many things, a Certified Speech Language Pathologist who runs a hospital department; a Coach who empowers college students, individuals and businesspeople; a gifted speaker and author. Chiefly what she is, is an inspiration: someone who stirs people to be more proactive, find their way, and make the proverbial lemonade out of what we’re handed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices