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Carol Poole, M.A., is a psychotherapist practicing in Seattle. A graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, Calif., she is fascinated by the way pop culture retells ancient myths and occasionally even comes up with new ones such as “Buffy.”
Pamela A. Popper, PhD, ND, is a naturopath, an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine, and health, and the executive director of The Wellness Forum. Dr. Popper serves on the Physician’s Steering Committee and the President’s Board for the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C. Dr. Popper is one of the health care professionals involved in the famed Sacramento Food Bank Project, in which economically disadvantaged people were shown how to reverse their diseases and eliminate medications with diet.
Dr. Popper is part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s teaching team at eCornell, teaching part of a certification course on plant-based nutrition. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People,Making a Killing, and Forks Over Knives. She is one of the coauthors of the Forks Over Knives companion book which was on the New York Times bestseller list for several months.</>
Alan J. Porter is a writer on various aspects of popular culture with a few books and a variety of articles published in magazine titles in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. He knows way too much about the Batman and is the author of The Unauthorized Batman Collector’s Guide. He also founded Gotham Gazette—The Batman Magazine on the Web and the long-running Gotham Weekly News e-mail newsletter, which were published between 1997 and 2006. He is currently researching a full-length biography of Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Read more online at alanjporter.com.
Vince Poscente is one of the most in-demand presenters today. He is an expert on resiliency—the ability to overcome challenges and bounce back stronger than ever before. During this current crisis, he is a guest on multiple programs, podcasts and virtual meetings giving audiences the tools to thrive. His client list includes Fortune 500 companies with one commonality: they understand that success is not just about managing challenges, but proactively pivoting from setbacks and overcoming obstacles to become smarter, stronger and more focused than ever before. Vince knows firsthand the power that attitude, determination and innovation play in your future success, especially when life doesn’t go as planned.
Dr. Malcolm Potts is the Fred H. Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He grew up in England during World War II and went to Cambridge University. Trained as an obstetrician and a research scientist, he has worked internationally for four decades. Professor Potts led a medical team into Bangladesh immediately after the War of Liberation in 1972, and his work has taken him to many other war-torn places including Vietnam and Cambodia, Afghanistan, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Liberia and Angola. He has had a lifelong interest in history and archaeology, and he has written widely on the evolution of human sexuality in primate behavior. Having been moved by the courage and saddened by the pain of warfare he has asked many times, why do human beings behave like this? And, is there a way wars and terrorism can be made less common? His most recent books are Queen Victoria’s Gene and Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality.
Michael Prell has written for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and hundreds of politicians on three continents. His specialty is starting, shifting and amplifying national debates. Prell has also worked with the Dalai Lama, Dr. Phil, the global Chinese dissident community, “America’s Rabbi” Shmuley Boteach and the Jewish Values Network. Additionally, he was a crisis manager during the Northeastern Blackout of 2003. He has written for The American Thinker, Vice Magazine and The Epoch Times. His writings have been discussed by radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage. Previously, Prell launched and ran several multimillion-dollar nightclubs and high-end restaurants and once produced a record that charted above Puff Daddy in Belgium. Prell runs a successful marketing and publicity firm and is a Pollie Award winner (the Academy Award of political advertising).
Michael Prendergast is an attorney and lives in Jacksonville, Fla., with his wife and two children. He attended Catholic school in south Florida for eight years where he drove the sisters nuts with his constant fidgeting. Thankfully, he’s replaced that habit with text messaging from his cell phone.
Brian Preston is the founder and host of The Money Guy Show and Managing Partner and co-founder of Abound Wealth Management. He started podcasting as a passion project in 2006 out of a desire to educate and share the good news of financial strategy with the masses. Fast forward to today, and The Money Guy Show is its own enterprise, helping millions of individuals build wealth and own their time. When he’s not busy making the wonderful world of finance accessible to the public, you can find him spending time with his wife and two daughters, watching the latest movies, traveling with family and friends, and cheering for the University of Georgia Bulldogs.
Raymond Prior, PhD, is a performance consultant known for building personable, knowledgeable, and confidential relationships with his clients. His clients include major champions, world champions, Olympic gold medalists, individual and team national champions, National Coach of the Year Award winners, individual and team Conference Champions, and countless NCAA All-Americans in a variety of sports. Raymond also works with non-sport performers, including Grammy winners, Oscar winners, and Emmy winners performing on stage and screen. As an author and researcher, Raymond has contributed chapters to a variety of performance psychology texts and his research has been published in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
Danielle Provenzano is a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is interested in couple communication and processes. All who know her comment on the striking similarity between Danielle and Hermione, except for the bushy hair and prominent teeth.
