Dr. Kathryn Schmitz overturned years of entrenched dogma that told breast cancer survivors to avoid upper body exercise with the publication of two ground-breaking scientific papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Schmitz’s study proved that, contrary to common clinical advice, upper body exercise was safe and beneficial for survivors of breast cancer. She has made it her personal mission to use exercise for cancer prevention and recovery in the same way it has been used for heart disease—only better. This work has made Dr. Schmitz among the most sought-after international speakers and media commentators on the role of exercise during cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Currently a professor of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Schmitz also holds appointments as a professor of Kinesiology as well as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Penn State. She maintains an adjunct professor position at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is also the founding director of the Exercise Medicine Unit at the Penn State Cancer Institute where she directs a team of therapists and provides exercise counseling and personalized exercise recommendations to cancer patients.

Anchal is a 29 year old British Indian beauty blogger and influencer with 100k followers on Instagram, close to 200k subscribers on YouTube with 19m views of her videos on this platform. Her podcast 'What would the Aunties Say?' is the inspiration for her first book.

Shannah Game is a Certified Financial Planner (non-practicing) and Certified Trauma of Money Specialist with an MBA who waved goodbye to the traditional finance world in 2018 when her podcast, Everyone’s Talkin’ Money (previously Millennial Money) blew up. Everyone’s Talkin’ Money has amassed over 24 million downloads, has been named one of The NY Times' Top 4 Money Podcasts. Shannah also appears ontwo to three other podcasts a month, averaging another 200,000 - 500,000 downloads per month and speaks at colleges and organizations throughout the year.

An amateur boxer, MMA fighter, and student of Muay Thai and Jujitsu, Sheridan has also worked as a wildland firefighter, Merchant Marine, and has written for Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Men’s Journal.

Nick Sinai is a venture capitalist, former Harvard faculty member, and a former senior White House official. Together, coauthor Marina Nintze, he successfully built and led a disruptive team inside the largest bureaucracy in the world—the U.S. government.

Emily Esfahani Smith is a writer, editor, and speaker in Washington DC. She draws on psychology, philosophy, and literature to write about the human experience—why we are the way we are and how we can find grace and meaning in a world that is full of suffering. Her book The Power of Meaning, an international bestseller, has been translated into 16 different languages. The former managing editor of The New Criterion, Smith’s articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and other publications. She has also appeared on NBC’s TODAY Show, CBS This Morning, and NPR. In 2019, she was a Poynter Journalism Fellow at Yale University. As a speaker, she has delivered dozens of keynotes and workshops at major corporations, conferences, and universities across the country and world.

Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo are the founders of Highly Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear, two of the largest websites for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and introverts. Together, they have helped hundreds of thousands of HSPs around the world live happier and more fulfilling lives.

A military veteran and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, Stanley is the founder of the nonprofit The Mind Fitness Training Institute. Her work in mindfulness and mind fitness has received attention from the New York Times, NPR, ABC’s Evening News, TIME, and elsewhere.

Elizabeth Stein is the founder and CEO of the natural foods company Purely Elizabeth and author of the cookbook Eating Purely (Skyhorse).

Dr. Adam Philip Stern is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Psychiatric Applications at the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation. His writing has been published in The New York Times, NPR.org, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and Biological Psychiatry in addition to many other outlets and peer-reviewed journals.

Dr Harald Stossier has an outstanding international reputation both as a practitioner and innovator of Mayr Medicine. After studying under the legendary Dr Rauch, he set up in 2004 as Medical Director of the legendary Viva - Centre for Modern Mayr Medicine on the shores of Lake Wörth near Klagenfurt, which is now regarded as the world's leading health spa. Harald Stossier has been deeply instrumental in the integration of complementary medicine within the medical profession. He has been a consultant for complementary medicine at the Medical Chamber of Carinthia and the Austrian Medical Association since 1988.

In addition to the The Viva Mayr Diet, he has published many articles and books on Mayr Medicine and nutrition and has also lectured widely.

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Shanna H. Swan is one of the leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists in the world. An award-winning scientist, she is a member of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sanai Hospital in New York City.

Rachel Swanson, MS, RD, LDN, is a Registered Dietitian and one of our nation’s mostprominent nutritionists to celebrities and C-suite executives. She is renowned for her expertise inhelping her clients achieve peak performance as the Nutrition Director for LifeSpan Medicine, aconcierge medical practice, and in her own private practice, Diet Doctors, LLC

Charisma Sydnor is a video creator, disability advocate, and one half of the unstoppable duo behind the blockbuster YouTube channel “Roll with Cole and Charisma.” She and her husband, Cole Sydnor, have been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, and many other media outlets and their 2020 TedTalk, “Flipping the Switch on Ability” received over 500,000 views.

Dr. Bill Thomas, voted by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 Americans shaping aging in the 21st century, a TED lecturer who has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS’s "NewsHour," "All Things Considered," and "Talk of the Nation," is the author of Second Wind (Simon & Schuster), a book about how Baby Boomers will change the stage of aging.

Dr. Allie Ticktin is a licensed occupational therapist with a specialty in sensory integration and early childhood development. Allie founded Play 2 Progress after recognizing the power of social play to facilitate individual progress.

Kevin Tracey, MD, is a neurosurgeon, scientist, entrepreneur, and leader in the fields of vagus nerve stimulation and inflammation. He is president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health and a professor of Molecular Medicine and Neurosurgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Tracey has appeared on 60 Minutes and has been interviewed and profiled in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other major media.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a university professor, licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, and internationally recognized workshop leader and public speaker. She is Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, and works at the Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Mindfulness, while also being a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Cassi is co-founder and Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD.

In addition, Cassi is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and she is Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation. Cassi is a blogger at Psychology Today, and is an internationally recognized workshop leader and keynote speaker, most recently at the American Psychological Association, and the Esalen Institute.

The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock serves as the Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta. He also has served at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City, and Baltimore’s Douglas Memorial Community Church. The Rev. Dr. Warnock holds degrees from Morehouse College and Union Theological Seminary, and is the author of The Divided Mind of the Black Church. In January 2021, Dr. Warnock became Georgia's first Black senator.

Lead singer of 5-time Grammy Award-winning girl-group TLC, Watkins is also the national spokesperson for sickle cell disease.

Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson is a veterinary epidemiologist with over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 70 patents. Stephanie discovered the health benefits of C15:0 ( the first essential fatty acid to be found in over 90 years) while working for the U.S. Navy to continually improve the long-term health of Navy bottlenose dolphins.  Stephanie is the world’s leading expert on C15:0, and she and her research have been featured on NPR’s Science Friday, The New York Times, Inverse, BBC, National Geographic and more,  and she has  has received numerous awards, including the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Innovation Award, and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in Wellness Honoree.

Caroline Webb is a management consultant and executive coach who, after many years as a partner at McKinsey, founded Sevenshift in 2012, an advisory firm that shows clients how to use insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to improve their professional lives. A frequent speaker at major conferences and a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post, she and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Economist, and Financial Times. Her book How to Have a Good Day (Crown) shows readers how to use the power of behavioral science to transform the quality of everyday work and life.

A founder of and leader in the field of theory of mind since its inception, Wellman is the the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published several critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and psychology.

John C. “Jay” Wellons is the Cal Turner Chair and Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist and sustainable fashion expert who’s written investigative pieces and deep dives on innovation, materials, and consumer trends for The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, the Cut, Vox, Vogue Business, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Quartz, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Glamour, Popular Science, Newsweek, Refinery29, and more.

Daniel Willingham is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He is the author of Why Don't Students Like School?, When Can You Trust the Experts?, Raising Kids Who Read, and The Reading Mind.

Everett Worthington is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, a leading member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the author of numerous books on forgiveness, most recently Moving Forward: Six Steps to Forgiving Yourself and Breaking Free from the Past (WaterBrook Multnomah).

Emma Young is an award-winning science and health journalist and author. She has worked on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney. Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she is also a freelance journalist and author. A regular contributor to Mosaic and the New Scientist, her work is carried widely by other media outlets, including BBC and the Atlantic.

As E.L. Young, she is also the author of a series of science-based thrillers for children. Her awards include Feature of the Year, awarded by UK Medical Journalist’s Association, 2017, Australian Health Journalist of the Year (2010), Writer of the Year at the Australian magazine industry Bell Awards, and a European Online Journalism award for best news story.

Growing Young author Sergey Young has been an investor and venture capitalist for twenty years, with a multi-billion portfolio under management. Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund, he is an Advisory Board Member at UK's Parliamentary Group on Longevity, a member of the Forbes Technology Council and Development Sponsor of the Age Reversal XPRIZE.

Justin Zorn is a writer, policy maker, and mindfulness teacher. A Harvard and Oxford-trained specialist in economic and environmental policy, he has served as legislative director to three Members of Congress, a Fulbright Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow, a Senior Adviser to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and has written for The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and CNN.

Neeltje van Horen is Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of England and Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores the interplay between the financial sector and the real economy, especially in times of crisis and uncertainty. She previously worked at the World Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank and has been a visiting scholar at the EBRD, IMF, and Chicago Fed. Her research has been widely published.

Her first book Ignite: How To Unlock Your Brain’s True Potential and Change Your Life offers practical, science-based strategies and techniques to boost cognitive performance, conquer self-doubt, refine decision-making skills and, ultimately, lead a more fulfilling life.