Bright Side With Tekneshia

Ajayan Borys has instructed and guided thousands of meditation students in North America, Australia, Europe, and India over the past 45 years. He is founder of Effortless Mind® Meditation and author of several books, including Whispers of the Himalaya (Purna Press, 2017) and Effortless Mind: Meditate with Ease (New World Library, 2013). Host of Mind Matters Radio on Alternative Talk Radio 1150 KKNW, he teaches meditation workshops and retreats in the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas. He lives in the Seattle area. Find out more at www.ajayan.com.

Jennifer K. Jordan is a California-based author with a passion for celebrating the spiritual in our daily lives and educating others. She has worked as a writer and teacher and holds dual Master’s Degrees in Education and School Counseling. Jennifer is committed to inspiring others to live to their highest potential, and her books empower readers to live their most fulfilling, healthy, and joyful lives.

Myron Heavin Graduated from Purdue University in 1962 with a BSAE degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He left Indiana and came to California to work on the Saturn IV rocket engine for Rocketdyne.       He later worked designing commercial and military airplanes for Douglas/McDonnell Douglas/Boeing as companies gobbled up other companies.   He retired from Boeing Airplane Company after  50 years.      Myron is married to his wife Sharyl, and they have 3 children and 4 grand-children.      Myron received his MA degree in Biblical and Theological Studies from Talbot Seminary in 2008 and is currently enrolled in a MA degree program in Christian Apologetics (lifelong learning).  While taking a full-time course load at Talbot, he also worked full-time at Boeing, while leading 7 simultaneous Bible Studies.      Myron has been interested in both Theology and Science, and regularly takes Bible Students on field trips to try to to Palomar observatory, JPL, Griffith Observatory etc. 

Ginny Nadler is the founder and CEO of Core Body Wisdom®. The core of Ginny’s approach is Structural ReAlignment Integration® (SRI) which draws on her years as a wellness educator and body alignment specialist to support individuals with stressed and in pain structures to be pain-free and rediscover freedom in movement. Ginny studied yoga in the B.K.S. Iyengar Tradition for years before deciding to seek more creative ways to discover where imbalance and distortion arise in human structure and psyche with a focus on releasing trauma in the pelvic floor. She co-founded the first comprehensive wellness center on the East Coast and also created The Urban Global Healing Center where she participated in and helped develop a wellness program for young women incarcerated and offered a wide range of wellness education services. Ginny works with the worldwide Pocket Project Training with 150 others from 39 countries, exploring cultural agreements and global collective trauma (that live within us all). She also consults

Rosalinda Randall is a modern-day social skill, civility and communication expert based in Northern California. She focuses on helping businesses and individuals communicate and interact more effectively so they can find greater success with a lot less drama. By lending personality and humor, Rosalinda’s tactful, yet straightforward manner breaks down the perception that social skills are outdated in today’s business world. What makes her an expert? Along with training, trend-watching, and industry connections, it was her modest upbringing that prepared her best. It did not include finger bowls or fine china. Her parents provided something much more important: a strong foundation of timeless character traits like consideration, tact, and humor, on which she bases her life and her presentations. Rosalinda believes that it’s how you make people feel when they are around you that makes a difference. This difference is what helps propel a person’s career as well as personal relationships. Her book, Don’t Bur

Lynette M. Smith, the award-winning author of How to Write Heartfelt Letters to Treasure, will show how easy it is to write a meaningful letter of appreciation. Whereas spoken words, texts, and emails are fleeting, a gratitude letter is tangible and long-lasting. It is world-changing to its recipient, it’s saved and savored every time it’s read, and it can even become part of family legacy. Write on!

Are you ready for a radical shift in perception-one that may challenge and profoundly alter your idea of who you are and what your purpose is on this planet? A compelling new book presents information, stories, and simple, yet life-changing practices designed to assist you in doing the work you came to earth to do:  Waking up into the Awareness that you are the Presence of Love, and living your unique life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment from within that Awakened state. Remembering the Light Within (Hay House, February 21, 2017)  comes forth from Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick, Founding Faculty and Co-Directors of the University of Santa Monica, the Worldwide Center for the Study and Practice of Spiritual Psychology.

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The nonfiction book by author Dewey B. Reynolds takes the reading audience into the dramatically dark world of his interracial parents who challenged law enforcement, the Ku Klux Klan, rival gangsters, and street hustlers.   KANSAS CITY, Mo, - Two Shades of Vice: Based on the true story of an interracial couple’s life together in crime, is the tell-all true story by author Dewey B. Reynolds. Dewey was inspired to write Two Shades of Vice after doing in-depth research into his parent’s criminal lifestyle. Based upon police reports, criminal rap sheets, and eyewitness accounts from those who knew his Irish father and African American mother best, he became inspired to write the story which tells how this interracial couple played a high stakes game of living dangerously on the edge. They would eventually suffer from the vestiges of social isolation after expressing their undying love for one another. Click here to learn more: http://www.deweyreynoldsbooks.com.   “Having ended up in foster care at the infant

Dawn-Marie Mutell, Founder, and CEO of Life’s Necessities and Luxuries - Home, Body, Soul and Life-Styling business. She is a versatile wardrobe stylist, makeup artist, event planner, life coach and travel consultant who has over 25 years of experience in the fashion, beauty, & music entertainment industries. Dawn-Marie’s goal is to empower men and women and assist them in living their most fulfilling lives. Her intent is to enable them to feel confident, have more energy and vibrancy by helping them improve their appearance. There’s no budget too small for her. Her one-on-one and group styling sessions teach them to look their best, by showing them how to choose the right fabric texture, color and silhouettes in their clothing choices according to their body types, age, lifestyle, skin tones, makeup and hair colors they currently wear or help them to create a brand new look. Dawn-Marie will come to home or office and teach you how to quickly, efficiently and effectively organize your time, life and s

Chef Charles Carroll is an award-winning chef who travels the world speaking on championship thinking and personal greatness. Past president of the World Association of Chefs Societies, he’s been lauded by five U.S. presidents for his work with U.S. troops abroad. A luminary of the Culinary Olympics, held every four years in Germany, he is currently executive chef of Houston’s prestigious River Oaks Country Club. John David Mann rose to international prominence with The Go-Giver, co-authored with Bob Burg, which has sold more than a half a million copies in two dozen languages and been hailed as “one of the most important parables about business—and life—of our time” by Adam Grant (Give and Take) and praised by the likes of Arianna Huffington, Brian Tracy, Seth Godin and Glenn Beck. The Recipe is his 24th book.

David Barnett is a 1998 graduate of the Williams School of Business and Economics at Bishop’s University, and a graduate of UNBSJ’s Electronic Commerce Management Program.  Since the late ‘90s, Mr. Barnett has been building his profile as an expert in the field of small and medium sized enterprises.     From 1998 to 2005, Mr. Barnett was a major account representative with the Yellow Pages.  This opportunity gave him an insight into the particular challenges of small & medium businesses as he dealt daily with the owners of these companies.  In 2005, Mr. Barnett left the publishing industry to start a small business with a partner.  Their venture was an immediate success.  After opening, operating and building the business, an opportunity to sell presented itself in late 2006.     Around this time, Barnett began buying income properties. He eventually owned 3 multi-unit properties and one house which he disposed of in a lease-option deal.   In 2006, Mr. Barnett began building his professional consult

Daniel Goodenough is the author of The Caravan of Remembering, A Road Map for Awakening the Experience of Your Life’s Mission, from Heart Way Press, and co-founder, coach, and teacher at The Way of the Heart, an international program of personal growth and self-development. He has worked as a research scientist, professional musician, and graphic designer. He has taught thousands of students in the last 30 years through The Way of the Heart program to discover the life’s path they were meant for and to walk that path in the world. Recently, he has been consulting with Thecompanies that want to do business with integrity, purpose, and heart.

Considered by many to be the nation's leading mortgage marketing coach, Doren Aldana is the founder of several highly acclaimed training programs, including the Mortgage Superstar Coaching Program, Autopilot Referral Systems, Meetings with Mortgage Masters, and the FastTrak Coaching Program. He is a contributing author for The Mortgage Journal, Mortgage Professional America, MBABC Magazine, AMBA Magazine, CMP, and has trained thousands of mortgage professionals how to utilize his marketing secrets to create a predictable stream of closed deals... regardless of market conditions.

Rocky Rosen, The Cigarette Whisperer, describes himself as having been a die-hard, got to quit, can’t quit, must quit, won’t quit, desperate to quit, tried everything there is to quit, never going to quit smoker who has many, many people stop smoking over the years.  With his the approach there are no tricks, gimmicks, drugs, hypnosis, nicotine replacements, or b.s. Rocky was smoking up to 2-packs a day smoker for over 20 years and had tried numerous ways to stop smoking, including nicotine replacement therapy, acupuncture, hypnosis, injections, aversion therapy, support groups. Although he was able to get some time off of cigarettes (once even up to 2 years), eventually the urge to smoke would reappear, and Rocky would find that he was right back smoking as much as ever.  The technique he teaches his clients is how to use the urges to smoke as the way to get free instead of always trying to fight, ignore, deny those urges which still creep up after we stop.

Jeanne Beard is a thought leader in the autism arena. The founder of the National Autism Academy, a speaker, coach, consultant, and author of Autism & The Rest of Us: How to Sustain a Healthy, Functional and Satisfying Life with a Person on the Autism Spectrum. Jeanne is a graduate of Northwestern University and had a successful 30-year career in business to business sales. The mother of 2 sons, one diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and one diagnosed with ADHD, Jeanne is certified as a life coach and dedicates her time to helping families find success, peace, and inspiration in life with autism.

Single men who are the polar opposites of Donald Trump are invited to meet single women at upcoming parties throughout America: San Francisco on September 23; Rohnert Park on October 15; San Diego on October 20; Los Angeles on October 21; followed by parties in November on the East Coast (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C.).       President Trump has five qualities that most women prefer in a romantic partner: Older (he is 71), Taller (he is 6’3”), Wealthier (he is a billionaire), Well-Educated (he “went to the finest schools”), and Dominant Alpha Male. Unfortunately, they often wind up with narcissistic womanizers like Donald Trump.      Rich Gosse, in his new book, The Donald Trump Syndrome: Why Women Choose the Wrong Men to Love (Marin Publications: August 2017) recommends women seek the opposite: bachelors who are Younger, Shorter, Poorer, Less-educated, and Shy. And, most of all, they must be Faithful. The parties are organized by www.SinglesAgainstTrump.com, a division of The Society

Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA, is a full time internationally recognized mediator and peacemaker, specializing in difficult, complex, and intractable conflicts. He is a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, on the American Arbitration Association panel of mediators and arbitrators, and is certified under international standards established by the International Mediation Institute. He is the author of the award-winning book Elusive Peace: How Modern Diplomatic Strategies Could Better Resolve World Conflicts published by Prometheus Books. Doug has been listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2005 by US News & World Report, is a Northern California Super Lawyer and is one of 193 mediators word wide selected for inclusion in the International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediators. He was honored as California Lawyer Magazine Attorney of the Year in 2012 and is a Purpose Prize Fellow.

In  June 2014, Henna was interviewed on The Bright Side with Tekneshia show  as a youth health/wellness advocate and radio host.  Currently Henna is a junior at Harvard University studying Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology. She continues to be passionate about scientific research and has further developed interest in health disparities and rural health care. Henna founded and co-hosts the Polylogue program on Harvard Radio Broadcasting.  In addition, she is a contributor to a forthcoming book project, Be The Star You Are! For Millennials, in which youth share stories about finding their way in this evolving world. Henna can be contacted through email at hennahundal@college.harvard.edu,    

Ty is an intuitive healer, self-taught in many energy/healing techniques and formally trained in quantum/distance healing through the True Quantum Healing course. His main focus is to help communities heal from parasitic vibrations of all types and bring back the idea of a trusted local (and inexpensive) spiritual/physical holistic healer. He is a designer and creator of many types of orgonite and will discuss several of his creation available at chriskehlerholistic. Nora from Ener-ChiWellness is a True Quantum Healer Practitioner, Orgone device maker, Distance Healer and Healing Jewelry maker. Nora has been in tune with the subtle energies, healers and phenomena since an early age. She is considered the practitioner at Ener-ChiWellness with a few more of the traditional psychic and life coaching skills. Nora's official healing work started 5 years ago.....after an intense dark night of the soul period. Searching for solutions to emf sensitivities, entities and general imbalance