Waking Up In America

Diagnosed with cancer at 62, Ron Zeller decided to live (www.winningthesecondhalf.com). Here he is lifting weights at 72, healthy and fit. After deciding Tae kwon do seemed like a good thing to do in her 40's, Mary Louise is a national and international champion in her 60's. In marriage, their brilliance shows as well. Their son Adam is nothing short of remarkable, Mary Louise will tell you. Living in the beauty and grace of Sundance, Utah, this dynamic attractive family, lets you know what they have is available for you too.

While today's business scholars are talking about the newly discovered benefits of collaboration, Gale Connell, has broken new ground. Serving as President and CEO of Colorado Business Club, Inc., Connell has introduced cooperative technologies to a community of nearly 1,000 entrepreneurs. With the assistance of advanced training by IBI Global, Connell has co-founded the internet's first collaborative business blogging community: TheConnectory.com

Mel Duncan Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce (www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org) has done grass roots organizing for peace, justice and the environment for over 30 years. As a Bush Foundation Community Leadership Fellow, Mel spent 1 1/2 years studying the connections between grassroots organizing and spirituality. For the past 4 years Mel has helped organize the Nonviolent Peaceforce. The Peaceforce is composed of trained citizens from around the world.

With 65 million married American women, who represents them best and what are their values? Now celebrating its 29th year in its modern format, the Mrs. America Pageant is the only nationally televised pageant for married women. It focuses the attention of the nation and the world on the versatility of the contemporary American married woman. Each of the 51 Mrs. America candidates earns the right to participate in the national event by winning her statewide competition. Joining us are Loni Kallay, Executive Director for the Mrs. California-America Pageant and former Mrs. Nevada, Andrea Pruss, Mrs. California 2005 and Anne Truman Ball, Mrs. Nevada.

From the ice museum to the steaming hot springs at Chena, Alaska, Ecologist Bernie Karl shows how hydrogen, thermal heating and partnership with the University of Alaska can create a green model for business everywhere.

Internationally recognized business development strategist, author, and speaker Dean Lindsay is the founder of The Progress Agents LLC – an idea studio dedicated to empowering progress in sales, service, and workplace performance. Tune in as he shares with Valerie the challenges of progress: the ways people create it and the ways they impede it.

At the age of 23, Adora Spencer, Author, speaker, and founder of the Celebrity Dot... Connector was a top producer for Pat Summerall Productions where she was responsible for producing several shows on the Discovery Channel. Through her work there she learned how to reach and inspire just about any leader on the planet and how to identify what makes them tick. Ms. Spencer interviewed thousands of CEO’s, many Fortune 100 companies. Those skills combined with her “Pleasing Personality” have made her unstoppable and even famous for her ability to connect with leaders. Being a proven, expert networker, she has assisted thousands of people including many celebrities in connecting to people or projects they were only dreaming of before. Adora is one of only 17 women featured in the new book by the Napoleon Hill Foundation, “Think and Grow Rich, A Woman’s Choice.”

Guy Finley is today's brightest voice in the field of self-realization, showing men and women how to find a life of freedom, enduring fulfillment, and true purpose. He is the author of over 20 books, booklets, and audiocassette albums, including the internationally successful, The Secret of Letting Go.

Gail Kasper is a high-energy motivational strategist whose mission is to inspire individual achievement. Gail's unique ability to understand and motivate people allows her to personalize her talks, focus on an individual's vision, and establish a simple process to attain that vision. Join Val as she and Gail discuss what we can do as individuals to change the world.

Jonathan Granoff is an author, and international attorney for peace. His life's work is dedicated to the total elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide. To that end, he is the current president of the Global Security Institute, a nonprofit organization committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons. Join us as he tells us about the UN banquet conference for the declaration of a New Beginning for global peace.

Waking Up in America with Dr. Valerie Ann Kirkgaard

Using the principles he teaches, T. Harv Eker went from zero to millionaire in only 2 1/2 years! Eker is the author of the best-selling book, SpeedWealth™ as well as several highly-acclaimed courses. He teaches using ‘breakthrough’ techniques and high involvement, ‘accelerated learning’ technologies so that participants learn faster, remember more and achieve maximum results. Tune in and learn the secrets of the millionaire mind.

Waking Up In America Team Members Loren and Val get the inside scoop on what is happening this week. Father Brian Mullady gives us the innerworkings of the papacy and offers us a most unique tour of Rome.

Gail Kasper is a high-energy motivational strategist whose mission is to inspire individual achievement. Gail’s unique ability to motivate and read people allows her to personalize her talks, focus on an individual’s vision, and establish a simple process to attain that vision.

As you well know, you can't achieve your best without learning the all-important art of connecting. Whether you have a black belt in networking or are completely new to the concept, you will enjoy Dean Lindsay's innovative and humorous, yet highly practical approach to meeting, connecting, and developing long-term relationships with team mates and others.

Marcella Vonn Harting, author of Yes, No, Maybe, Chronobiotic Nutrition, will speak on Chronobiotic Nutrition. Chronobiotic Nutrition is about eating foods at precise times of day for specific health results. When this system of eating is followed, the benefits are optimum digestion, nutritional efficiency, high-level wellness, and robust vitality.

Energetic and optimistic, Eva Gregory specializes in empowering individuals and organizations to produce outstanding results through individual coaching, assessments, teleclasses and workshops. The foundation of her coaching practice is based on the Abraham-Hicks' Universal Laws of Attraction, Deliberate Creation and Allowing which she’s used over the past several years to create a prosperous life for herself and others.