Contributors

Stephanie Gagos is a self-taught mixed media artist in Nyack, New York, who paints to inspire healing. A former teacher, she is a certified life coach, dedicated painter, and offers online and in person healing art classes. A firm believer in the healing power of art, Stephanie works with women who are ready for a life beyond survival. Her work can be found at StephanieGagos.com

L’Tanya Durante is a freelance writer, knitter, light chaser and mom of two sons who continue to be her spiritual guides. She lives in North Carolina and blogs at LTanyadurante.com

Floyd Rocker has spent three decades of his professional life with creatives, as an art buyer, creative department director and project manager in international advertising. When he’s not working, he enjoys taking pictures, listening to records on his hi fi, or cool hunting.

Besides being a free-range spiritualist, Elaine Gale is a writer, professor, comedian, speaker, and journalist who lives in California and co-founded the nonfiction literary series TrueStory and loves artists, writers, community, humor, play, possibility, healing, exploring and learning.

Angela Maxwell left her professional life to follow her calling, to walk around the world on foot, a journey that will take five years and four continents to complete. She completed her Australia walk in November, and will be sharing her story on SGR and her blog, SheWalksTheEarth.com, as she navigates solo through Asia and beyond.

Lisa Slavid, photographer, painter, and cartoonist (www.facebook.com/peadoodles), is also an organizational leadership coach and consultant, a world-traveller who finds wonder daily in her own back yard, and a sister-adventurer on evolving and learning.

Katie Grant is a freelance copywriter and micro-storyteller at Plume: a handcrafted copy shoppe, and at Wholehearted Business Development. As a former actor, she uses her expertise to step inside someone else’s skin and write with their voice. She lives in Culver City, CA and her secret wish is to sing backup for James Taylor.

Stacy Blake-Beard is a scholar-practitioner who researches, consults and teaches on Organizational Behavior topics, including mentoring, gender, diversity, networking, managing visibility and bystander awareness. She is a wife, mother, daughter, sister, researcher, runner, and spectacular backgammon player. She appreciates connecting people to opportunity–whether the opportunity is another person, a job, a learning space, a dream for the future. Her tag line is “I want to be audaciously authentic and authentically audacious”…every day.

Cate Groswird works as an Executive Assistant in Silicon Valley and is also an aspiring writer. She resides in Los Gatos, CA with her Yorkshire Terrier Neo.

Ariane Nicole is an expert nomad, passionate doodler, writes children’s stories so she can live in them, and is a painter, poet and lover of all things chocolate, art supplies and mood swings. Correction: mood rings.

As a deeply intuitive healer, she channels light language and plummets into your time lines to dissolve issues (like sugar in lemonade), and leaves you with side effects like peace, joy and clarity. She is also quite fanatical about how quantum physics looks like Spirit wearing different shoes. And vice versa. Adept at stopping time and exploring the wow in the NOW (no matter what it looks like), Ariane uses fear like a torch light to attempt going “where no one has gone before.” Presently she lives and works in Miami as an undercover lamp post.

A Special thanks to Wendy Alvarado Tienken for creating the Soul Growth Radio Logo and other calligraphic pieces for our site.