Ernesto Londoño is a journalist for The New York Times. He joined the newspaper in 2014 as a member of the editorial board and served as Brazil bureau chief from 2017 to 2022. He previously worked at The Washington Post, where his assignments included covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and the Pentagon. He was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia.

Don Macpherson is a British mind coach who combines mind management techniques and hypnosis with an in-depth knowledge of modern neuroscience. His most high-profile work has been coaching dozens of world-class sports professionals, including F1 racing drivers, Premiership footballers, international rugby players and Wimbledon tennis champions. Over thirty years Don has also helped countless other people with a diverse range of issues such as anxiety, stress, lack of confidence and relationship problems. Don takes challenging mind-management concepts, and makes them easy to understand and to put into practice.

Dario Maestripieri is Professor of Comparative Human Development and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and the author of Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships (Basic Books).

Antonia Malchik is the managing editor of STIR. She has worked as a journalist in Austria and Australia, and her writing has appeared in Aeon, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed Ideas, and Orion, among other places, and she is a regular contributor to Full Grown People. Her debut book project is A Walking Life, a nonfiction book about walking: how it relates to our health and creativity, how we have lost it through a century of car-centric design, and how we can regain it.

Rue Mapp is the Founder and CEO of Outdoor Afro, a national not-for-profit organization with offices in Oakland, CA, and Washington, D.C. She oversees a national volunteer leadership team of nearly 90 men and women who represent 30 states around the US, and shares opportunities to build a broader community and leadership in nature. Mapp’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Backpacker Magazine, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times, Ebony Magazine, Outside Magazine, Sunset Magazine, NPR, among many others.

A much sought after yoga instructor in LA and around the globe, with a list of devoted celebrity clients, Andrea Marcum’s classes also appear on My Yoga Gaia. She has been featured in Shape, Self, Yoga Magazine, Jessica Alba’s Honesty Company Blog and Mind Body Green. She contributes regularly to the lululemon blog, Elephant Journal, and Origin.

Brian F. Martin is the founder and CEO of the international nonprofit Children of Domestic Violence, producer of the award-winning documentary The Children Next Door, and author of the New York Times bestseller Invincible: The 10 Lies You Learn Growing Up with Domestic Violence, and the Truths to Set You Free (Perigee Trade).

Leigh Marz is a leadership coach and collaboration consultant specializing in work with scientists, engineers, and mission driven organizations. She has led and delivered multi-day training programs for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to promote collaboration among climate change teams; she has partnered with the Green Science Policy Institute as a facilitator of cross-sector initiatives to reduce toxic chemicals in products. She is a faculty member with the international training company CRR Global and her work has been published in Time and Harvard Business Review among other venues.

Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience. She has written for the Boston Globe and Boston Globe Magazine, Harvard Law Bulletin, Northeastern Law Magazine, and many others.

Sophie McBain is a multi-award-winning longform features writer, and was formerly Associate Editor of the New Statesman. She writes on psychology and society, and has reported for the New Statesman from the US and Middle East. She has received two British Society of Magazine Editors awards, and in 2016 was awarded the Amnesty International Award for best feature. She also writes for The Times (London), and the Guardian.

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Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and an internationally renowned authority on dogs; a longtime co-host of Calling All Pets, which was syndicated on NPR; and the author of The Other End of the Leash and, most recently, For the Love of a Dog (Ballantine). Dr. McConnell is also an Adjunct Professor in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Sara C. Mednick is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine,where she directs the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) lab. Her book Take a Nap! Change Your Life (Workman 2006) put forth the scientific basis for napping to improve productivity, cognition, mood, and health.

Director of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College, Dr. Miller is a leader in the field of spiritual psychology, which uses spirituality in psychotherapy. She is the author of the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestseller The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving (St. Martin’s Press).

Tracy Moore is a Jezebel writer living in Los Angeles, and the author of the humorous guide to unexpected pregnancy, Oops! How to Rock the Mother of All Surprises (Adams Media).

Mandy Morris is a highly sought-out manifesting and self-love expert and is the creator of Authentic Living, which reaches over 17 million people a month on social media and has an email list of over one million subscribers. Mandy has been featured in such media outlets as Shape, Mind Body Green, The Chalkboard, BuzzFeed, Well + Good, and Thrive Global, as well as on notable podcasts including The Jenny McCarthy Show, Your Own Magic, and Hungry for Happiness.

Luma Mufleh, immigrant, Muslim, gay, entrepreneur, mother, introvert, leader, and speaker, is best known as "Coach" by the students and families for whom she founded the first network of middle and high schools for refugee kids in the United States. She writes from her own experiences of both struggle and privilege, with a combination of humor, humility, and inspiration.

Meagan B Murphy is a writer, editor, on-air personality, lifestyle expert and influencer, and the executive editor of the massively successful Good Housekeeping magazine. Known for her high-energy, upbeat personality, Meaghan regularly partners with such brands as Orange Theory, Equinox, Lululemon and more.

Dr. Napper launched his career as a Wall Street analyst, first with J.P. Morgan Investment Management in New York and, following that, with Crowell, Weedon and Company in Los Angeles. He currently leads Performance Psychology, a management psychology consultancy and his client list includes Fortune 500 companies, financial firms, non-profit organizations, universities, as well as start-ups.Dr. Napper earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations and pursued his master’s degree in the same field at the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate in psychology from William James College in Boston, one of the country’s preeminent colleges of applied professional psychology. As part of his doctoral training he was selected for an advanced fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

Einat Nathan is the author of the 1 (across all categories) Bestselling Parenting book in Israel in 2018; she is a parenting counselor and has been certified by the Adler Institue and the Ministry of Education for Parental Instruction and Group Instruction. She has a hit podcast in Israel and a popular column on Mako Website.

The President and CEO of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, Dr. Newman is an expert in clinical resource management and has served as a consultant to several children’s hospitals in conjunction with the Child Health Corporation of America.

Catherine Newman is a beloved and widely read parenting blogger and author of Waiting for Birdy (Penguin) and Field Guide to Catastrophic Happiness (Little, Brown). Her work has been published in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Real Simple, O Magazine, and Whole Living.

Gavin Newsham is a journalist who has written for the New York Post, the Guardian, the Sunday Times (London), and Yahoo Life UK. His work focuses on sport, health, and wellness. His first book, Letting the Big Dog Eat, won the National Sporting Club Best New Writer award. He has published eleven books on sport, including Once In A Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos, Hype & Glory: The Decline and Fall of the England Football Team, Sportonomic$, and The Official Treasures of Muhammad Ali.

Marina Nitze has held some of the most senior roles in federal government without a college degree. She was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education and also the youngest-ever C-suite executive in the federal government, taking on the role of the first female federal agency CTO at 28. She is currently a partner in the crisis management firm Layer Aleph where, multiple times per year, her team is called into high stakes environments to rapidly de-escalate technology-related crises.

Oliver Niño is the founder of Geo Love Healing, an online company designed to help individuals master their energy, unblock themselves from mental, emotional, and energetic blocks, and become certified healers and coaches. He is also co-founder of Authentic Living, a multi-million dollar company that offers digital programs, live events, certifications, and a retreat center for those who wish to learn how to manifest their best lives.

Dr. Jeremy Nobel is on the faculty at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.S. Chan School of Public Health, and is the founder and president of the Foundation for Art & Healing. Its signature program is The UnLonely Project, which seeks to broaden public awareness of the negative physical and mental health consequences of loneliness while also exploring and promoting creative arts-based approaches to reduce the burden.

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Yale University, as well as an expert in the psychology of women, and noted author of, among other titles, Women Who Think Too Much (Henry Holt).

Stephen Nowicki is Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Emory University and a leading expert in the study of internal and external personality traits (Locus of Control). He has consulted for major companies, lectured around the world, and appeared on countless media programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is the author of over 350 publications and the author or co-author of seven books, including Choice or Chance: Understanding Your Locus of Control and Why It Matters (Prometheus).

Howard Nusbaum, PhD is the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago and the Director of the Center for Practical Wisdom, a member of the Committee on Computational Neuroscience and a member of the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior. His research focuses broadly on cognitive neuroscience, communication, learning, and wise reasoning and investigates how experiences help us make wiser decisions, how we use spoken language, how we understand the meaning of sound, and how sleep helps stabilize our memories.

Alice Miranda Ollstein is a health care reporter for POLITICO. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2010 and has been reporting in Washington, D.C. ever since, covering the Supreme Court, Congress and national elections for TV, radio, print, and online outlets, including NPR and Talking Points Memo. 

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Liesl Olson is the Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, a national historic landmark on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and before that was for many years the Director of Chicago Studies at the distinguished Newberry Library. She is also the author of Modernism and the Ordinary and Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis.

A writer who began his career while in Arizona State Prison, Parker received a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

Marilyn Paul, Ph.D., is a coach, speaker, and workshop leader who helps people manage time, unclutter their homes and workplaces, and reevaluate what is most important to them in life. She is the author of It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys (Viking/Penguin) and An Oasis in Time (Rodale), which addresses the problem of chronic overwhelm and how we can recalibrate our lives to secure regular periods of rest and renewal—and thus create deep positive change.

Pamela is a tech emotionographer, professor of design at Pratt Institute, and founder of the creative studio Subjective. An expert on our emotional relationship with technology, she’s spoken at conferences around the world including SXSW, TNW, Web Summit, and TEDx, and her insights have appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times, NPR, Slate, CBC, and Quartz. She is the author of Emotionally Intelligent Design (O’Reilly), a book for designers and developers, and is currently writing #FEELS: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better, for everyone using technology.

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Patricia Pearson is an award-winning author and the recipient of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian nonfiction crime writing, and a North American Travel Journalism Association award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, More, TheGlobe and Mail, TheDaily Telegraph, Business Week, NPR, CBC Television, The History Channel, and TV Ontario, among many others. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Canada’s version of the Mark Twain prize.

Brittany Piper is a survivor turned Trauma Informed Coach & Somatic Practitioner. With over 18 years of personal healing, training, education and hands-on work all over the globe, she is a sought-out coach, international speaker and advocate on sexual violence prevention & recovery. Brittany has a devoted following on Instagram and TikTok under “HealwithBritt”.

Mary Poffenroth is an award-winning researcher and member of the biology faculty at San Jose State University, and a leader in the field of fear science. Her insights on the biology of fear and its impact have been featured in publications like Forbes, Science, Entrepreneur, National Geographic, TedEd, HuffPost, TIME, and Refinery 29. She began her career in the astrobiology unit at NASA Ames Moffett Field, and is a Salzburg Global Fellow.

William Pollack is a Harvard professor, co-director of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital and author of the major New York Times bestseller Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood (Random House).

Daily Beast columnist and contributor to Forbes, The Atlantic, The Economist, and elsewhere, Poulos has appeared as a commentator on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. He earned his PhD from Georgetown University, where he conducted research as a fellow of the Tocqueville Forum and the Bradley Foundation.

Lindsay Powers is the former editor in chief of Yahoo Parenting (where she spearheaded the super viral NoShameParenting movement) and lifestyle director of the Yahoo homepage. Her work has appeared everywhere from The New York Post to Cosmo, and she's appeared as a spokesperson on Good Morning America,Today, and many other nation-wide shows. She's currently the VP of lifestyle and entertainment at SiriusXM, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

Elizabeth A. Poynor, M.D., Ph.D., is an expert in midlife women’s health and the founder of Poynor Health in New York City. She is an acclaimed integrative women’s health expert, gynecologic oncologist, and advanced pelvic surgeon.

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day and their teams operate in 250 locations worldwide.

Greg Presto has been covering health, fitness and sports for the past 14 years for Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Shape, Livestrong.com, USA Today, Prevention and many other fitness publications.

Carolyn Prusa has been published in the Charlotte Observer, Greensboro News and Record, Savannah Magazine, and South Magazine, and her taste in literature is as varied as the small objects you might find beneath the seats of her minivan. Surrounded by dudes, she lives in Savannah with her husband, two sons, and giant rescue wookie dog, Dale.

Dr. Anthony Rao holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. For more than 20 years, he worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital and served as Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rao has been a featured expert on documentaries for MTV and the A&E Network, and has been interviewed for articles in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Parents Magazine, among several others. His editorial letters and opinions have appeared in a wide range of publications including Newsweek, Scientific American, The New York Times, and New York Magazine.Dr. Rao has lectured extensively at universities, including Tufts University, Emerson College, and Boston University. He regularly presents at conferences, parenting groups, and conducts workshops for professionals around the country who work with children and young adults.

A bioethicist on the faculty of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, Travis Rieder's essays and opinion pieces have been published in The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, The New Republic, and The Guardian among others. He is a leading voice on the prescription opioid crisis and how to solve it while also caring for those who need relief from acute and chronic pain.

Amanda Ripley is a contributing writer at the Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Emerson Collective and the author of The Smartest Kids in the World—and How They Got That Way, a New York Times bestseller. Her first book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why, was published in 15 countries and turned into a PBS documentary.

Alice Robb is the author of Why We Dream (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) and has written for The New Republic, New York, The New Statesman, The Atlantic, Elle, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Vice, The BBC and British Vogue. Her work has been republished by Slate, CNN, The Week, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. She graduated from Oxford with a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology.

Judith Rodin, Ph.D., is president of The Rockefeller Foundation and former president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University. She is the author of more than 200 academic articles and has written or co-written 15 books, including the widely praised The Resilience Dividend (Public Affairs). She has been named one of Crain’s 50 Most Powerful Women in New York and one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women for 3 consecutive years.

Andrea developed her lifelong love of movement and career as a professional dancer and choreographer (traveling the world with celebrity performers, dance companies). Rogers soon created her own innovative fusion of dance and Pilates fundamentals. The response from her clients was fast and fierce--they loved it, and they wanted more. The movement was born and spread contagiously across the globe. Xtend Barre programming is now available in franchised and licensed live studio classes in 12 countries and is lead by over 1,000 certified instructors.

In early 2019, the movement expanded its reach and went digital through a partnership with BODi. This online platform provided a channel for Andrea to motivate and challenge members from all areas of the world and she discovered just how much she loved connecting women to the power of movement & wellness. She also discovered a deep joy in helping women find their motivation and confidence through her goal strategies, personal experiences, fashion finds, simple beauty tricks, and all the little “things” that empower women to be their best self.  

John J. Ross, M.D., is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as the author of Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough: Medical Lives of Great Writers (St. Martin’s Press).

Tracy Ross, former Senior Editor of Backpacker Magazine and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award and the 2008 Folio Magazine Award, is the author of the memoir The Source of All Things (Free Press). Her work has appeared in two prestigious collected volumes, The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Magazine Writing.

One of the world’s most sought-after teachers of transcendental meditation, Roth is Cofounder and Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, a nonprofit charity whose mission is to bring meditation to those in need.

Julia J. Rucklidge, PhD is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has her training from McGill University, University of Calgary and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In her current position she teaches child clinical psychology as well as a course devoted to Mental Health and Nutrition, the only one of its kind in NZ. She is regularly featured in the media and her 2014 TEDx talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times.

An award-winning journalist, Rufus is the author of several books including STUCK: Why We Can’t (or Won’t) Move On and PARTY OF ONE: A Loner’s Manifesto.

Francine Russo is a recognized expert and speaker on relationship dynamics in the over-55 generation. She has been reporting on and writing about family, relationships, and social trends for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, Self, and Glamour and was Time magazine’s Boomer expert and wrote regularly for its “Generations” section. Her book They’re Your Parents, Too!: How Adult Siblings Can Survive Their Parents Aging without Driving Each Other Crazy was hailed as “groundbreaking” by Jane Brody of the New York Times.

SELF was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2008. The Drop 10 Diet was a New York Times Bestseller.

A former Benjamin Rush Scholar in the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Dr. Sacks works as an instructor at the Women’s Program at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the co-author, with Dr. Catherine Birndorf, of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, from Simon & Schuster.

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychedelic-assisted therapist, writer, meditation teacher and researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is also a transformational coach for musicians, athletes, former special operations veterans, scientists, CEOs, authors, and playwrights.  He presents internationally for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, has given numerous keynote addresses at large conferences and he leads psychedelic retreats for the special operations community in Mexico through various organizations.