Emily Thiroux Threatt is a textbook author and lecturer with extensive personal experience in the grieving process due to the deaths of her two husbands, as well as her father, mother, aunts, uncles and many friends. She has learned to face life with love, optimism, and joy. In turn, she has created a unique program called, "Writing Your Way Through Grief" to help others through the grieving process.

She holds a Master's Degree in English with a concentration in Writing. She has been teaching writing and composition on the college and university level over 30 years. During that time, she published the following three writing textbooks, published by Prentice Hall and Pearson Education.

Emily conducts workshops, speaking engagements, and retreats on transforming from loss on the mainland of the United States and in her home in Hawaii.

To learn more, please visit her website at 52practicesforpositivity.com
and connect with her on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/1003396810042262/

Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a transdenominational community headquartered in Los Angeles comprised of thousands of local members and global live streamers. Highly regarded for its cultural, racial, and spiritual diversity, the late Coretta Scott King wrote to Beckwith, "I greatly admire what you are doing to bring about the Beloved Community, which is certainly what my dear husband worked for and ultimately gave his life." Widely recognized for his teachings on the science of inner transformation, Dr. Beckwith embraces a practical approach to spirituality utilizing meditation, affirmative prayer, and Life Visioning, a spiritual technology he developed for conscious evolution, authentic living, and living your life purpose. These practices teach us to take the experience of inner peace and awakened awareness into our everyday lives.

Dr. Beckwith is a sought after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and TM​ seminar leader on the Life Visioning Process. He's addressed audiences at the UN General Assembly during its annual World Interfaith Harmony Week, TEDx Maui, and Oprah Winfrey Network's (OWN) Supe rSoul Sessions, among numerous others. As co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought, he hosts conferences featuring harbingers of world peace including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and had the distinguished honor of presenting to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award.

Three of his books--Life Visioning, Spiritual Liberation, and TranscenDance Expanded--are recipients of the prestigious Nautilus Award. His new app, Beckwith Inspires, features essential spiritual tools, technologies, and practices to help shift perceptions and transform lives. He has appeared on OWN's Super Soul Sunday and Help Desk; Dr. Oz; CNN, The Oprah Show; Larry King Live; Tavis Smiley; and in his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You. He is a member of Oprah's esteemed inaugural Super Soul 100. His weekly Instagram Live series, Lifting the Veil, airs Tuesdays at 1pm.

For more information visit: agapelive.com and michaelbernardbeckwith.com.