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"Beautifully spoken, deeply inspiring! This is one of those rare shows where you feel immediately seen and understood. Colleen is just so good at speaking what you're feeling, acknowledging it and helping to show you how to move forward. Cannot recommend enough!"
--Chardet Ryel
Colleen Akiko (host)
www.akikosongs.com
As a Keynote Concert presenter and Essential Connection Coach, Colleen provides immersive experiences through sacred stories, songs and somatic tools. She's also Founder of Bowl of Light Café and Restorative Leadership/Living. A Ho’oponopono practitioner and Reiki master therapist, she facilitates wholistic empowerment for full potential awakening towards vibrant inner-to-outer change.
Angelika Schafer
www.AngelikaHealingMusic.com
Originally from Germany, Angelika offers sacred music, Cogno-Movement stress release coaching, inspirational speaking, healing retreats and workshops worldwide. A prolific recording artist, Angelika often accompanies her singing on a 25 string OmBoura she built herself, as she nurtures hearts with her songs in Sanskrit and other languages. She also offers counseling, spirit art, and interfaith ministerial services.
Donna Apidone
www.DonnaApidone.com
An award winning journalist, producer, author, and interviewer of many notable icons, Donna drew an audience of over 100,000 listeners as the beloved host of NPR’s Morning Edition for over 25 years. She maintains a significant presence in the world of broadcast journalism while teaching classes on finding purpose, speaking to community groups, and enjoying the busy pace of her "retirement."
Matthew Hara
MatthewHara.com
Matthew Hara is a dynamic yogi, recording artist, teacher/mentor, conscious builder, global group leader, retreat facilitator, mentor and student of life. He’s been passionately dedicated to raising consciousness for the past 25 years.
Bernice Strawn
Salida, CO
An award winning artist and sculptor, this video episode shows Bernice's energetically rich expression and the impetus of her art--even as a 95 years young great-grandmother.. She passed on Easter Day in 2025.
Jim Eaglesmith
LinkedIn
As a 30+ years shamanic initiate, sacred storyteller, Heartmath Certified Trainer, medical intuitive, author and artistic edutainer, Jimi shares with children and all ages from a deep caring for people, our planet, and all life.
Tessa Lynne Alburn
withtessa.com
Tessa is a seasoned spiritual guide, Energy Mentor, author, and for 25+ years has supported women consultants and entrepreneurs to live an ideal life through a system of reigniting soul, embodying their feminine power, and raising their energy into the highest vibration. She now offers to heart-centered coaches her comprehensive Confident Sales Framework.
Brenda Heldoorn
tahoecsl.org
Brenda is Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Living Tahoe Truckee. A licensed spiritual counselor and practitioner with Centers for Spiritual Living, she has facilitated A Course in Miracles and other transformational groups for many years, along with leading meditation and spiritual growth offerings.
Daniel Strawn
@daniel.strawn.2025
Daniel is a sacred artist and artisan, teacher, mentor and a lifelong spiritual explorer.. Residing in Boulder, Colorado, Daniel describes his purpose as being an "Artistic Wellbeing Generator." A gallery owner wrote, “If you look at Daniel Strawn’s art work and it makes you smile, then Daniel has accomplished what he set out to do."
Rev Timothy Boeve
OlympicValleyChapel.org
An ecumenical pastor at Olympic Valley Chapel in Tahoe, Tim has also been an executive director in the nonprofit sector, and chaplain at the Sonoma Raceway in northern California. He offers an open, personable style and non-dogmatic approach, being keenly interested in evolving his own spiritual growth and nurturing that impulse in others. He lives most of the year in Mexico with his wife, Noris.
Karen Linsley
KarenLinsley.com
Karen is a zesty New Thought interim minister and seasoned wedding officiant. She writes a lot, takes great pictures, and has a podcast called Fearlessly Feral Living -- which is also the title of her latest book.. Karen describes herself as a happy, joyous and free recovering alcoholic and drug addict since 1986, saying, "Yes, I do a lot of stuff. But that’s because I BE first."
Kari Hagel
LinkedIn
Kari is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, an educator, Master Certified Gardener and Zen Buddhist Chaplain. A champion of Growth Mindset, Kari has decades of experience working cross-culturally with high-risk students. She addresses as a first-hand researcher how Nature Deficit Disorder impacts learning, and the tangible benefits of being in nature.
“Being old is sometimes worth the wait," says my 87-years-young Uncle Dan. He began posting on the WBTC blog in April of 2025. When I was growing up, Dan could silence a whole pack of wild cousins with his stories and legendary campfire tacos. After a successful business career, Dan became an award-winning author who writes with heart, humor, and hard-won wisdom.
Leisa Peterson
www.WealthClinic.com
Leisa is a best-selling author, Wealth Coach and founder of the WealthClinic. She conducts workshops and retreats, and writes unapologetically about the intersection of personal finance, politics, spirituality and systemic economic inequality. Check out her blog Equal Stake on Substack.
Brian "BB" Melendez
TribalMinds.org
A Northern/Southern Paiute - Western Shoshone citizen of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Brian "BB" Melendez is is a nationally recognized Indigenous governance expert, systems strategist, community and spiritual leader, and subject matter authority on Tribal operations, policy, and leadership development.
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Jhana Bowen
JhanaBowen.com
Jhana hails from Australia as an author, artist, musician and multi-modality practitioner. His practice includes Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Kahuna and Remedial Massage, Art Therapy, and Yoga and Meditation instruction, using an intuitive and integrative approach to health and wellbeing for clients.
James Kapicka
YogaJames.com
Coming soon! James Kapicka's background as a somatic-based movement facilitator, Yin Yoga teacher-trainer, and Thai Massage practitioner has expanded into the realm of guiding people into deeper relationship with their bodies, breath, being--and each other.
Danielle Winkler
your-optimal-living.com
Danielle is a Clinical Herbalist and an explorer at heart. She thrives on learning, growing and evolving on the leading edge of life. Her greatest passion is sharing her knowledge of experiences through story telling and heart-centered conversations. She's in the Bowl of Light Café now and coming to WeBeTheChange soon!