Living our Beauty = Living our Power, and Living our Power Inspires the World!

Paul Miedema

Paul Miedema is co founder of Calabash Tours, and a NGO, called Calabash Trust. Both are models for social entrepreneurship. In the context of post Apartheid South Africa, it became clear to Paul that ordinary people needed to make a contribution to bring about change. He chose Tourism as the vehicle to inspire change.
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I believe we have everything inside of us to create a beautiful life. Living our Beauty means we are living an intentional life — a life of our dreaming. To live an intentional life means taking the time to listen to our heart’s deepest desire and follow its instructions. This is not always easy to do. And yet learning to trust our own internal knowing is a necessary part of the evolution process.

I am honored to introduce you to 25 inspirational men and women who will share their personal stories with you over the next twelve months. Each of these men and women choose to Live their Beauty. Each individual made a choice to live a life of their intent by listening honestly to them selves and taking action that sometimes has appeared to be at great risk to their personal life.

I firmly believe each one of us are magnificent and powerful beyond what can be measured. Sometimes we just need to be reminded that our power lies in the essence of who we are. Enjoy the fruit of their labor!

Alison Nancye

Author Alison Nancye has enjoyed an extensive career in communications and writing for the corporate, creative and entertainment industries. Upon becoming a mum and realizing her childhood dream of finding her dad after a lifetime of never knowing him, Alison decided she wanted to help others create their dreams too. Alison is a lifestyle, self-help and motivational writer, mentor and speaker.
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Mel

Mel is a 21 year-old, born and raised in Queensland, Australia and has spent the majority of my life living on the beautiful Sunshine Coast. Mel developed anorexia nervosa in late adolescence and writes about her battle with this illness and learning to “dance in the rain.”
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Caroline Pemberton

Caroline Pemberton, 23, is a television presenter, speaker, model and a former Miss Australia who is so passionate about natural, real and inner beauty that she started her own company, Real Body Image — an educational program which promotes the importance of having a positive self body image and a healthy lifestyle.
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Arlene Goldbard

Arlene Goldbard is a writer, speaker and consultant whose focus is the intersection of culture, politics and spirituality. She has addressed many academic and community audiences in the U.S. and Europe, on topics ranging from the ethics of community arts practice to the development of integral organizations.
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Chandra Sun Eagle

Chandra “Sun Eagle” Porter is a native to the ancient healing, shamanic and ceremonial practices of Americas. Awakened through dreams and vision quest, she was guided to Peru, where she was initiated and became a mesa carrier, and continues to study the mystery teachings of the Andes.
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Mike Jaffe

Mike Jaffe, is a renowned motivational speaker and inspiring coach who empowers professionals to redefine what's possible in their personal and professional lives. A 9/11 survivor who has transformed his own life, Mike serves as a Human WakeUp Call by using his own brush with tragedy as a message of self-discovery and empowerment.
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Charles Paul

Charles Paul is the co-founder and CEO of Worldwise Education, a socially-conscious company that promotes youth empowerment through the arts while providing resources to struggling teachers and schools.
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Ananda Shreemati

Ananda Shreemati AKA Julie Piatt has played many roles in this lifetime; that of Mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, healer, yogi, nterior designer, fashion designer, screenwriter, painter, sculptor, and musician. But irrespective of what name she is using or role she is playing, she feels herself to be simply a channel of the One that is breathing through all of us.
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Kathy Eldon

Kathy Eldon, a Wellesley graduate and former journalist, is the Creative Chair and Co-founder of the Creative Visions Foundation which supports “creative activists”, who use media and the arts to ignite positive change in the world.
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Margaret Trost

Margaret Trost is the founder and executive director of the What If? Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing hope and opportunity to impoverished children in Haiti. Inspired and transformed by her experience with a Haitian community, Margaret is devoted to sharing her belief in the power of taking small steps to create change.
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Rich Gee

Rich Gee is from Oxford, Connecticut. He's a coach who helps people live their dream. After 20 years in corporate management, he's been coaching satisfied clients for over 10 years. Whether it's at work or home, he partner with his clients to help them step outside of their comfort zones and take their life to the next level.
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Steaphin Pirie

Steaphen is the author of a range of books that reveal how underlying quantum physics principles operate in everyday life, and how those principles can be engaged and beneficially applied. He's also The Belief Doctor® who specializes in analyzing, healing and improving “bodies of belief” in areas including business management and development, innovation, science, religion, politics, psychology, relationships, philosophy, health, spirituality and creativity.
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Susan Corso

Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and teacher. She calls herself an omnifaith minister and is the author of God's Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet. An intuitive since childhood, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 27 years.
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Terry Robson

Terry is a journalist, author, broadcaster and screenwriter. He is the co-editor of WellBeing magazine, presents on-air segments each week for SKY News Australia (television) and many ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio stations. He also co-presents the ABC podcast Talking Health.
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Patricia Howard

Patricia Howard has been a serious and devoted student of yoga and the healing arts for many years and has had the opportunity to study with many great and inspiring teachers. Patricia's unique vinyasa-style yoga is dynamic and challenging, while at the same time nurturing and heart-centered. This graceful, flowing practice incorporates principles of both internal and external alignment, spiritual intention and humor.
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Toni Childs

Twenty years after exploding into our pop-rock consciousness with her critically acclaimed, platinum selling debut Union, two Grammy nominations (including one for Best New Artist) and an east coast tour with childhood idol Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter Toni Childs emerges from a much too long musical exile to deliver a crucial, heartfelt message for these trying times: Keep The Faith.
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Roxanna Minnona

Byron Bay based Roxanna Minnona created Dancing the Divine in 2002 and has been weaving the Global sister web ever since - facilitating in the UK, USA, Europe, South Africa and Australia and mentored by Tantra Master Shantam Nityama. Dancing the Divine is a journey where women come to know themselves deeply as the source of love they really are and experience their full and radiant power, sexuality, divine beauty and orgasmic bliss.
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Michele McKeag Larsen

Michele McKeag Larsen derives great pleasure in spreading joy. Her blog, www.ISpyJoy.com, focuses on seeing and sharing the multitude of joys available to us in every moment. Her great hope is that it will inspire others to constantly be on the look-out for joy, because we often find what we're looking for.
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Saul David Raye

Saul David Raye is an internationally acclaimed teacher, healer and sacred activist known for his empowering and transformational approach to yoga, healing and spirituality.
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Jo Gillies

Jo Gillies is a Sydney based architect who is passionate about achieving 'smart design' principles that change the way we look at the traditional home and commercial layout.
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Stacey Louiso

Artist, writer and creator are words which one would use to describe, Stacey Louiso. Perpetually the optimist, she seeks the truth and beauty in everything around her. Thus inspiring her to lay the foundation for attribute magazine.
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William Whitecloud

In 1996 William founded a program called Living From Greatness, a personalized course dedicated to empowering participants in discovering and living their authentic nature and potential. While continuing to be involved in the LFG program, he has also worked one-on-one with thousands of people, coaching them in bringing their dreams into reality. His near twenty-year search to discern the essence of what it takes for people to connect with and live from their creative spirit forms the basis of his first book, The Magician's Way.
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