Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and the just released book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,. He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, and Levels Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.

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Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Nichole Sachs

Nicole Sachs, LCSW is a speaker, writer, podcaster and psychotherapist who has dedicated her work and her practice to the treatment of emotional and physical chronic pain, symptoms, syndromes, and conditions. She is the author of the book The Meaning of Truth, and the online courses FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN and FREEDOM FROM AN ANXIOUS LIFE. Her brand, The Cure for Chronic Pain, includes a Website, Podcast and YouTube Channel. She holds faculty positions at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, 1440 Multiversity, and The Center for Living Retreat Center. Nicole’s personal experience with Dr. John Sarno as well as work with thousands of people around the world have shaped and evolved her theories, which serve to teach those suffering how to heal themselves completely with no medication or surgery. 

Learn more about Nicole’s work at:

www.thecureforchronicpain.com

Podcast: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW

Instagram @nicolesachslcsw

Book: The Meaning of Truth on Amazon.com

YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW




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Peter Russell

Peter Russell

Peter Russell is an author, speaker, and leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. He believes the critical challenge today is freeing human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind many of our problems — personal, social, and global. His mission is to distill the essential wisdom on human consciousness found in the world’s various spiritual traditions and to disseminate it in contemporary and compelling ways. Russell earned a first-class honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology — as well as a master’s degree in computer science — at the University of Cambridge, England. He also studied meditation and Eastern philosophy in India. He coined the term global brain with his 1980s bestseller by the same name in which he predicted the internet and the impact it would have on humanity.

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Dean Sluyter

Dean Sluyter

Dean Sluyter (pronounced “slighter”) has led meditation workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. since 1970, at venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. For thirty-three years he taught English and developed the Literature of Enlightenment program at The Pingry School in New Jersey. Sluyter has trained with sages in several traditions, including Vajrayana Buddhism, Advaita, Bhakti Yoga, and Umbanda. His previous books include Natural Meditation, Cinema Nirvana, and The Zen Commandments. He lives in Santa Monica, California, where he sings with the Threshold Choir, cohosts the Filmosophers podcast, plays ukulele, and happily zips about on his Vespa. www.deansluyter.com

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Mary Cosimano

Mary Cosimano

Mary Cosimano, LMSW, is currently with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the Director of Guide Services for the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research and has served as study guide and research coordinator for the psilocybin studies for over 20 years. During that time, Mary has been a session guide, involved with the psilocybin and club drug studies and has conducted over 475 study sessions. She has trained post-doctorate fellows, research assistants and faculty as guides and taught individual and group meditation to breast cancer patients in a Johns Hopkins research study. She teaches at California Institute to Integral Studies for their Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research program and conducts trainings for therapists in psychedelic psychotherapy. In 2003 she started a meditation group for employees in her department. She also has 15 years of experience with direct patient care as a hospice volunteer. In addition to her interest in altered states of consciousness, Mary enjoys time with family, friends, nature, reading, walking, meditation and playing games.

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Tara Sophia Mohr

Tara Sophia Mohr

Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being, and an author, educator and certified coach. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create and Lead, published by Penguin Random House, and named a Best Book of the Year by Apple’s iBooks. She is the creator of the pioneering Playing Big leadership program for women, and Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, mentors and managers who support women in their personal and professional growth. Her work has been featured on The Today Show and in publications ranging from The New York Times to goop to Harvard Business Review. She lives in San Francisco and loves dance, art and long walks with her family.

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Jeffrey Davis

Jeffrey Davis

Jeffrey Davis is an author, team culture consultant, educator and CEO of Tracking Wonder Consultancy. For over 25 years, he’s inspired thousands of change-makers, leaders and creatives to unlock their best ideas through the pursuit of curiosity, innovation and wonder. He writes for Psychology Today and other outlets on the intersections among creativity, work and human flourishing. He has taught and spoken at numerous conferences, universities and centres. He’s author of the books Tracking Wonder (Coming out with Sounds True in November, 2021), The Journey from the Center to the Page (Penguin; Monkfish Publishing) the poetry collections City Reservoir (BarnBurner Press) and Coat Thief (Saint Julian Press) and other books. Jeffrey believes in the power of wonder to transform lives, spark influence, and help human beings thrive creatively in times of rampant challenge and change. Ultimately, he challenges people not to give up on their ideals and dreams. He lives with his wife and two daughters in a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York.

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Sister Kate

Sister Kate

Sister Kate was a consultant, who helped clients open businesses in newly deregulating industries around the world. But after a divorce, and as a newly single mother with three children, she was forced to give up this career and move to Central Valley, California. While there, Sister Kate created work and leadership opportunities for women like herself. In 2009, she founded a non-profit cannabis collective and opened for business in 2010. Here, she served cannabidiol medicine to local terminal patients, so they could experience its healing effects without needing to smoke it. In 2014, Sister Kate developed a line of products that were safe, non-addictive and non-psychoactive and then founded the Sisters of the Valley. Their small farm is now a worldwide organization and is today cultivating, extracting and distributing CBD products with sales of over $1 million a year.

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Sister Quinn

Sister Quinn

Sister Quinn relocated from Vancouver, Canada, to the coast of California, where she later studied Economics at the University of California, Merced. Today, she works full-time as the User Experience Specialist for the University of California, in Merced and part-time for the Sisters on special projects. She has worked locally and in Silicon Valley in various marketing and technology roles. Currently, Sister Quinn will soon launch the enclave’s global content management platform. She is passionate about obtaining a zero carbon footprint, in order to respect Mother Earth and feminism.

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Sister Sophia

Sister Sophia

Sister Sophia is from South Africa and later moved to the United States. She has an MBA from the University of Michigan and has extensive business experience. She joined the Sisters of the Valley in 2018. Today, she oversees a growing number of boutique stores around the world showcasing the Sisters’ CBD products. Sister Sophia and her team are focused on getting the most amount of medicine to people around the world while creating a blueprint and process to onboard other enclaves interested in following the tenets and customs of the Sisterhood.

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