Tony Whatley is an entrepreneur, business mentor, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. He is best known as Co-Founder of LS1Tech, an online automotive community that grew into the largest of its kind. This website grew to over 300,000 registered members and was later sold for millions, in only 5 years. Amazingly…THIS was just his part-time business!

Forward-thinking Pastor Rod Echols is an advocate of being true to your inner calling. He believes in following all of your visions, and shares how by being open to others, of service to your community, and by doing the footwork in life, you’ll find fulfillment. Discover the way to connect more profoundly to yourself and others in order to strengthen your communities and your inner self right now.

Acupuncturist Teresa Wlasiuk joins Lauren today with her amazing aura ready to help you heal from the inside out. We all know people who can do everything, and that’s Teresa Wlasiuk. She’s amazing! She helps women with fertility issues. She’s been a doula. She has a doctorate in Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. She’s helped Veterans with phantom limb pain.

Join "The Queen of Candor," Laura Rittenhouse, for a candid love-filled conversation about surviving and thriving IN life through positive thinking and hope. Laura has built a powerhouse company, Rittenhouse Rankings, advising top executives at major CORPORATIONS how the power of words can establish trust. Her motto, “Our words create our future”, is something we can all live by, and actually, USE TO manifest! Discover why Warren Buffet says Laura “is still on the side of angels."

Visionary Branding Strategist Tiffany Neuman was thriving in her corporate 9-5 world when she discovered she had a life-threatening illness. What kind of legacy did Tiffany want to leave? Re-examining what she really wanted to do, she decided to start her own company. After 15 years in the corporate world, she left to establish a revolutionary branding business that stays one step ahead of trends. Today Tiffany gets to help highly motivated entrepreneurs and influencers up-level their businesses. She specializes in legacy branding.

JOIN US FOR THIS WEEK'S EPISODE AS WE HELP YOU FIND HOPE...IN LOVE! Lauren speaks with Evan Marc Katz, the well-known dating coach billed as a “personal trainer for smart, strong, successful women,”. Evan has been helping singles since 2003, having authored four books and been featured in hundreds of media outlets including Today, the New York Times, and CNN. Since 2015, Evan’s blog has over 30 million readers, his podcast has over 1 million downloads, and 12,000 women have graduated from his Love U course helping women understand men and find love.

Want to learn a few tools to navigate those tough times in life when you've felt ignored, left out, or different? Lauren welcomes Bay-city based LGBTQ+ attorney and advocate for humanity, Krishna Desai. Krishna works tirelessly helping in conflict resolution, discrimination, and many other spheres through empathic practices. In this episode Krishna shares with us an arsenal of tools to get through conflicts that we sometimes don’t even realize we’re in. Krishna is so real, raw, and likable, that you can’t help but smile while listening to this episode.

Listen to celebrated reiki master, teacher and author April Pfender as she shares how to be true to your highest self in this empowering episode. April believes in following your visions and goals, and that through reiki and meditation we can listen to our inner knowing. Discover how to connect more profoundly to yourself and to one another so that you can direct the path of your life.

Enjoy this week's episode with Rabbi Chasen, an outspoken advocate for social justice whose writings appear in publications across the world. Rabbi Chasen shares a plethora of tools to deal with sadness or hard times and to help you create community in your life. He has a way with words that's comforting - you'll feel better about yourself right away.

We all like inspirational friendly voices, and Lauren Ravitz is certainly one of them in this uplifting podcast. Lauren shares how her routine 2nd mammogram visit resulted in a surprise cancer diagnosis and she kept all of this private until treatments completed. She continued working her real estate business and doing the mom thing all the while treating cancer.

Join actress Amanda Payton as she discusses how she overcame negative self-talk and shut down the noise in order to become her most authentic self and show up everyday doing what she loves. Amanda has overcome depression, anxiety and addiction issues, and has such great suggestions for when you are feeling down. Listen for her practical tools that you can use right now to feel better instantly (or at least get on the right track!)

Arielle Ford is a trusted love and relationship expert and the co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love learning series. Her mission is to help women find love, keep love and be love. In this episode, she shares with our audience her secrets on how to shift your attitude to attract your soulmate, and why right now, during the Covid-19 pandemic, is the best time for dating.

Are you ready to learn simple tools to get sh*t done? Eric Zimmer is on an endless quest for a greater understanding of how our minds work and how we can learn to create the lives we want to live. At the age of 24, Eric was homeless, struggling with addiction, and even facing jail time. In the years since, he not only found a way to overcome obstacles, he teaches you how to do the same as a behavior coach and podcast host.

Listen as Lauren and Eric (host of ‘The One You Feed Podcast’) discuss creating a life beyond your dreams and tools for everything from exercising and meditation, to getting that book written and more.

At 26 years old, Ryan is one of the youngest trans activists, and has been an inspirational transgender leader since the age of 13. He’s been speaking at high schools and universities on the subject of gender dysphoria, being transgender, bullying and his personal transition from female to male, including surgery when he was only 18 years old. Discover how Ryan found his voice at such a young age.

Join this extraordinary episode with Rabbi Jill Zimmerman, a visionary who went from teacher, mom, and gardener to the founder of Hineni: the Mindful Heart Community.

Have you ever felt judged? In this week's episode of 52 Weeks of Hope, IMAM Jihad Turk, born in Arizona to a Christian mom and a Muslim dad, discusses how he overcame obstacles in his life as an American kid with the name “Jihad” growing up where only 1% of our population is Muslim (when 25% of the world is actually Muslim!) Hear how Jihad ultimately embraced his religion to cure that indescribable feeling that “something’s missing.”

Join Reiki Master and Meditation teacher Rachel Lyle in this comforting conversation as she simplifies mindfulness practices that you can implement immediately as a way to feel centered and balanced.

Successful Executive Coach Stacy Gorin joins 52 Weeks of Hope to talk about how to deal with what's happening in the world today. She shares specific tools to help us overcome our limiting behaviors so that we can reach our full potential faster.

Do you want to communicate better, with more confidence, and in your authentic voice? Discover how Karen went from a teenage mother to celebrity confidence coach and body language expert. Learn how she overcame stereotypes and learned to use her genuine voice.

Who is Lauren Abrams? Discover Lauren’s surprising journey through tough times which ultimately led to a shift where she knew everything would work out, and how you can keep going (even if you don't know how!)