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Dr. Erica Miller was born on November 10, 1933 in Tshernovitz, Romania. For seven years, Erica and her family lived a “normal” life. When she was seven, Erica and her family were among thousands of Jews herded into cattle cars and imprisoned in a Nazi holding camp in Mogilev, Ukraine. After four years of indescribable oppression and deprivation, Erica, her parents, and her sister were liberated by the Russians. Today, in addition to public speaking, Dr. Miller oversees her family’s real estate business in Austin, Texas. She’s written three books, “The Dr. Erica Miller Story: From Trauma to Triumph,” “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Do It: Living Audaciously in the Here and Now” and the international best-seller,  “Chronologically Gifted: Aging with Gusto!” Dr. Miller has always considered herself a citizen of the world. She travels extensively and pushes the envelope everywhere she goes. In June 2018, she climbed to the 17,000 ft. base camp at Mt. Everest, and in August 2018, she skydived in New Zealand. Her inter

Heidi Robinson: In her own words I am passionate about creating exceptional products and experiences for customers. Over the years I've been fortunate to innovate and drive growth and change at leading brands: curating inspiring spaces in Sourcebooks/Digital and bringing experiential retail to life within Galleries at RH, forging design partnerships with Jonathan Adler, Martha Stewart, Sir Terence Conran, Bodum at JCPenney, rolling out Plus and Maternity categories at Old Navy. Liwanag Ojala: As CEO, Liwanag leads management and ensures that all CaringBridge operations contribute toward its vision — a world where no one goes through a health journey alone. She joined the team in 2014, passionate about leading a nonprofit organization leveraging her decade of ecommerce experience. Prior to joining CaringBridge, she was vice president of ecommerce at Meijer and received a number of awards recognizing her leadership skills, including Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s Most Admired CEO Award in 2019 and Top

Judy Foreman, the author of “A Nation in Pain” (2014),  “The Global Pain Crisis” (2017), and “Exercise is Medicine” (2020), all published by Oxford University Press, was a staff writer at the Boston Globe for 23 years and a health columnist for many of those years. Her column was syndicated in national and international outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun and others. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1966, spent three years in the Peace Corps in Brazil, then got a Master’s from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was also a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis. She also hosted a weekly, call-in radio show on Healthtalk.com She has won more than 50 journalism awards, including a 1998 George Fost

Kay Hutchison is the author of My Life In Thirty Seven Therapies: From Yoga To Hypnosis and Why Voodoo is Never the Answer (UK Belle Media print version & US audio release, spring 2020) She is a content creator with extensive experience in radio, television and publishing. After gaining her BMus and MA in music at Glasgow University, she joined Decca Records in London and then BBC Radio as a Producer. Kay moved across to television with Channel 4 and went on to lead the launch teams for Disney TV and Channel Five. In the build-up to the 2012 London Olympics, she successfully led the legacy partnership that delivered a long-term future for the multi-million-pound Olympics Broadcast Centre. Kay founded her own company, Belle Media and launched Belle Kids in 2015, producing multi-platform, conservation-focused content for children.

As an Encore Fellow, Greg developed strategic partnerships on behalf of the Salvation Army of Stamford and Norwalk, CT to increase local funding and potential donor pool. His personal experience as a fellow informs his work as the New York Encore Fellowship Program Director, where he will continue to build and strengthen the current Encore Fellowships program. He will also help to build broader corporate and NGO partnerships and advance effective collaboration across the network of Encore Fellow programs. Greg has over 35 years of proven technical and managerial experience as a corporate business professional with IBM. Several of those years were focused on driving the strategic processes to identify and place the right executive talent in the right assignment at the right time. Greg is an active member of his community, serving in elected and appointed capacities on the City Council and Board of Education. His goal is to make each day an opportunity to make a positive difference.

Peter Anderson is a lecturer at the Collins School of Hospitality Management. His background of consulting to the hospitality and spa industry for the last 20 years positions him to support the lodging disciplines taught at the Collins College. Mr. Anderson also sits on the board of advisors for the Medical Spa Management program taught at the University of California - Irvine. He teaches spa operations and spa development/finance in this extension program. Mr. Anderson’s teaching and consulting has included engagements throughout North America, Mexico, Caribbean, and Hawaii. Positions that Peter has held in industry include president and principal of Anderson and Associates, Vice President at PKF Consulting, and manger of Deloitte & Touche’s LLC’s Los Angeles based hospitality consulting practice. Mr. Anderson started his career as a consultant with Laventhol and Horwath.

Dr. Cathy Goldstein is faculty in the Sleep Disorders Center where she evaluates and treats patients with various conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders. Her research interests include the interface of sleep disruption with health conditions such as infertility and gastrointestinal disease. She also does work in the development of methods to assess sleep and circadian rhythms in the ambulatory, day-to-day setting.

Eric Rice, Quanta CEO and Chairman, is a leading American entrepreneur. A former professional baseball player, he started his business career in Chicago in wealth management and high-net-worth financial advising before spending more than a decade building businesses at the nexus of AI machine learning and advertising technology. Along the way, he worked with founders across multiple sectors to create profitable, enduring enterprises, demonstrating a keen eye for the nuances of markets and corresponding growth opportunities.  In 2013, he cofounded 25 Ventures, a venture studio that developed multiple successful companies in the fields of media and technology, and made him a sought-after partner for start-ups and established businesses around the globe. With its world-changing ambitions, Quanta represents the culmination of Eric’s years of insight and experience, merging his market acumen with his longstanding interest in the applied sciences.  He lives in Burbank with his wife and two children, and s

Dr. Erika Schwartz takes the best of conventional and integrative medicine and applies them to preventing disease. For more than 20 years, Dr. Erika has been at the forefront of advanced patient care. She was one of the first doctors in the US to treat patients with bio-identical hormones, conduct biomarker testing, and to administer preventative IVs. She continues to deliver cutting edge care to all of her patients in a warm, friendly office. For Dr. Erika, work is pure joy, her legacy is to improve health care for the individual and remove fear and arrogance from the system.

Sonja M. Haggert is an independent investor who credits her ability to retire early (at 51) with learning about investing from her father-in-law. She is passionate that everyone, especially women, acquire a basic knowledge of the topic. Sonja graduated from Villanova University with a BS in Business Administration. She had a varied career starting in retailing and culminating in becoming Vice-President and General Manager of The Keystone Filter Division of Met-Pro Corporation, a local manufacturing company that has since come under new ownership. Her book, “Invest, Reinvest, Rest: Investment Advice for all Generations” https://amzn.to/2RV8XNl is a primer on how to get started. Her blog, “Invest Reinvest Rest” and her newsletter, “Simplified Investing for Smart People” provide an unintimidating forum for asking questions and initiating discussion.

Dr. Sara Zeff Geber is a recent recipient of the “2018 Influencers in Aging” designation by PBS’ Next Avenue. She is an author, certified retirement coach, and professional speaker on retirement and aging.  She has developed a niche specialty as an expert in “Solo Aging,” guiding people who have no children or who are aging alone to have a safe and fulfilling life in their retirement years. Dr. Geber is the author of the 2018 book, Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults, which was selected as a “best book on aging well” by the Wall Street Journal. With her speaking and writing, Sara has been raising awareness of Solo Agers for the past 10 years. She believes Solo Agers have unique needs in later life that warrant greater foresight and a more robust approach to planning.

Emily Luchetti is a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, and Chief Pastry Officer of San Francisco’s Big Night Restaurant Group. She has helped define what great pastry in America means, partly as a cookbook author, and through her three decades in the business of desserts, both as a chef and as a teacher and mentor to chefs and restauranteurs. Erin McHugh is an award-winning author of more than two dozen books of popular nonfiction, history, inspiration, humor, and children’s books. She is a former publishing industry and advertising executive who start- ed a second career as a bookseller and author in her mid-fifties. Emily and Erin met in a milestone year, when Emily turned 60, and Erin, 65. Together, they are exploring what it’s like getting older today, where people like themselves prefer rock ’n roll to rocking chairs, and get up every day looking forward to reinvention, not retirement. They’re thinking about smart aging, and they want to spread the word.

John L. Webb, Jr. is the founder of Medication Call Reminder and a seasoned professional with a unique combination of work in both the private and public sectors. John’s experiences in Employee Assistance sales and marketing, medical social work in home health care, hospital discharge planning and care management led to a second career as an entrepreneur. As a long distance caregiver, it was a heartfelt response to concerns for John's mother to remember to take her medication as prescribed that led to the creation of Medication Call Reminder, an automated voice phone call and text message service to remind elderly people, in particular, to take the right medication, at the right time. Notification of the persons' intent to take their medication is immediately sent to the caregiver or health care provider by phone, text or email.

Dr Cynthia Stuen is the Main Representative to the United Nations on behalf of the IFA. She is currently the Chair of the NGO Committee on Ageing (New York), having served as vice chair from 2015-2019. She was co-chair of the International Day of Older Persons 2015 event at the UN, and also covers the issues of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. Dr Stuen is a Past Chair of the American Society on Aging (ASA), the largest organization of professionals in the field of ageing in the US. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and also the NY Academy of Medicine. She is a past chair of the State Society on Aging of New York. Her entire professional career has been in the field of ageing. Dr Stuen chaired the NASW Specialty Practice on Aging 2003-2005 and recently served on the NASW Task Force to develop practice guidelines for caregivers of older adults.

Sidney Kess, of Counsel to Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP and a Senior Consultant at Citrin Cooperman & Co., is a nationally renowned tax expert and author/coauthor of hundreds of tax books on financial and estate planning. He has written hundreds of AICPA tax workshops, audio and video programs, and is the recipient of the AICPA Distinguished Lecturer Award. Mr. Kess is often quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other national publications. He was included in Accounting Today’s “100 Most Influential CPAs in the U.S.” as well as CPA Magazine’s “Most Influential CPAs in the U.S.” Mr. Kess is the recipient of the AICPA’s “Special Recognition Award” for his many years of contributions to the AICPA’s Continuing Professional Education program and was elected to the Estate Planning Hall of Fame by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils for his distinguished service in the field of estate planning. He also received the AICPA’s Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service (the hi

As Director of Lifestyle, Mark is focused on enhancing our customer’s lifestyle experience at all Cresswind and Kolter Homes communities. Mark supports our leadership team in providing Amenity-rich Environments, one of Kolter Homes four brand pillars. He plans and delivers Award-winning lifestyle programming at all Cresswind communities. In 2017, Mark earned Silver Honors as “55+ Lifestyle Director of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders.

David M. Cunic is a licensed physical therapist, business consultant, certified leadership coach, and cannabis industry expert. He has been involved in the cannabis testing lab sector for over six years and teaches medical professionals as well as the public U.C.S.: Use Cannabis Safely. David has been involved in the cannabis industry for over six years and he quickly made his mark; he is one of the original pioneers in the toughest testing lab market in the US.  David has consulted with many start up cannabis companies helping them grow into today’s cannabis goliaths.  He has also worked with several SME’s cannabis executives ensuring and enhancing their success within their respected focus, ranging from testing labs, growers, dispensaries, and numerous ancillary services.  A unique aspect of David is his vast knowledge of the rules and regulations regarding cannabis as they vary from state to state, he has worked with companies in over eleven different states. David empowers and educates priv

 Born in Canada, Rich Little got his start just like almost every other comic of his time - night clubs. he was a very popular comic in these clubs, but if there was one thing Rich was best known for, it was impersonations. He studied the voices of many stars his whole life, stars like James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, Truman Capoteand George Burns. In the late 1960s, Rich was dubbed "the best impressionist in the world." During the 1970s, however, a rivalry began between him and fellow impressionist Frank Gorshin, who is five years older. Ultimately, Rich overpowered Gorshin and remained the best impressionist in the world. In 1973 Rich became more associated with Dean Martin and made countless appearances on the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts," honoring most of the people he impersonated. 

Dr. Alexander Fleming is Founder and Executive Chairman of Kinexum. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Tolerion, a biotechnology company developing disease-modifying treatments for type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Dr. Fleming received his M.D. and internal medicine training from Emory. He completed fellowship training in endocrinology at Vanderbilt and metabolism at National Institutes of Health, where he was a senior fellow. Dr. Fleming coined the term "Metabesity," which refers to the constellation of cancer, heart and neurologic diseases, diabetes, and the aging process itself, all of which share common metabolic root causes and potential preventive therapies. He organized the first Congress on Metabesity in London in October 2017, which will be followed by the second Congress in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

For 15 years, Colorado based photographer Heidi Wagner has used her camera to look closely at extraordinary people of all ages. Since 2013, Heidi Wagner has made The Passions Project the central focus of her creative work. Through The Passions Project, Heidi finds a platform to share the beauty and vitality she sees in people who are living their life to the fullest and following their passion: “When you see someone doing what they love to do, you no longer see their age. You see their passion.” Wagner captures images of older adults through striking photographs that portray the beauty of aging while redefining our ideas about what it means to get older. Through photographing her subjects in the midst of actively living out their passions, Wagner shares a new and different perspective on aging. Instead of looking back at life as something that’s passed, she looks at life as an exciting time filled with vitality and wellness where each day has purpose and meaning.