Tips for Motivation: Unmissable Advice from 194 Experts

Mark Babbitt is a speaker, author and blogger who serves as CEO and Founder of YouTern, a social community for college students, recent graduates and young professionals that Mashable calls a “Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career.” He is also President of Switch and Shift and CMO and co-founder of ForwardHeroes.org. Mark is the father of five and a grandfather; he and the woman who tolerates him (barely) call Seattle, Washington home.

Peter Banerjea is co-founder of SuccessIsWhat, a blog on productivity and leadership. He has coached several entrepreneurs and leaders from Fortune 500 companies to become more productive and achieve their goals faster. Peter is also the author of the free ebook Productivity Secrets of 7 Billionaires You Can Put into Action Right Now.

Josh Bersin founded Bersin in 2001 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. Josh is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted on talent management topics in key media, including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, on BBC Radio, CBS Radio and National Public Radio.

Farnoosh Brock is an entrepreneur who believes that true business success lies in the power of your leadership, the effectiveness of your team and authenticity of your relationships. Today, she is a published author, business consultant and executive coach.

Alex Cavoulacos is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of The Muse, the most trusted and beloved career destination for Millennials and beyond, helping over 50 million people every year advance in their careers. Alex has spoken on WNYC and at SxSW, and was named one of INC’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech and TIME’s 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014. She is a frequent keynote on productivity and entrepreneurship. Prior to founding The Muse, Alex was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She graduated from Yale University, and is an alumna of YCombinator. Follow her @acav.

Lolly Daskal is the founder of Lead from Within, a successful leadership firm that offers custom made programs in leadership and organizational development. She is recognized as a Top Thought Leader In Business. Lolly is an advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs and boards. She is one of the top executive coaches in the world.

Ebong Eka is a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and former professional basketball player in Europe. He is a leadership, entrepreneur and small business expert who regularly appears on MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, NBC and CNN. Ebong is also an accomplished TEDx Speaker, motivational speaker, Huffington Post Small Business Blogger and Office Depot Blogger. Ebong is the author of the book, “Start Me Up! – The No-Business-Plan Business Plan,” published by Career Press. Ebong is the Founder of EKAnomics, leadership and business development training company.

Jennifer Gresham is a coach who helps people achieve extraordinary professional success, without sacrificing their personal lives. She is the author of the popular blog, Everyday Bright.

Chris Guillebeau writes at the The Art of Non-Conformity and organizes the annualWorld Domination Summit. He’s the author of Born for This,The Happiness of Pursuit, The $100 Startup, and The Art of Non-Conformity, and has traveled to every country in the world.

Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is formerly the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors and author of the critically acclaimedDisrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work and Dare, Dream Do.

Yuri Kruman is a trusted career, business and life coach and professional strategist based in New York. As Member of the Forbes Career Council and CEO / Founder of Master The Talk Career Consulting, he has helped clients of all career stages, industries and job markets around the world (and all around the U.S.) to chart a clear path on their careers, building confidence and understanding along the way.

Adrian Granzella Larssen is the editor-in-chief and first official employee of The Muse—the career and job search platform that’s helped more than 50 million people find and succeed at their dream jobs. In the past five years, she has recruited a team of 600+ freelance writers, garnered awards such as Forbes Top 100 Sites for Women and Top 75 Sites for Your Career, and been featured as a career expert on Forbes, Money, Inc., Real Simple, and Fox TV.

Kate Matsudaira is an experienced VP & CTO with a passion for large scale web systems and startups. She has extensive experience as a hands-on programmer with a strong interest in product. Her greatest asset is my ability to build great teams and execute quickly and efficiently on business goals. She is also a keynote speaker and has spoken at conferences all over the world on distributed systems, scaling, technology leadership, and entrepreneurship. She spends her days running the branding firm Urban Influence and operating the ecommerce website inkandvolt.com.

Jeanne is a Partner in Future Workplace, an HR Executive Network and research firm dedicated to the future of learning and working. Jeanne is the receipt of the Distinguished Contribution in Workplace Learning Award, an award given by Association For Talent Development to one executive each year honoring their body of work. She is also a Contributor to Forbes Magazine and her column can be found here:http://blogs.forbes.com/jeannemeister/. Jeanne is the co-author of the best selling book, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today. Jeanne’s newest book, The Future Workplace Experience: 10 Rules For Mastering Disruption in Recruiting and Engaging Employees will be published in November 4, 2016. Glassdoor named Jeanne to the top 50 Influencers in Corporate Human Resources and Recruiting.

Margaret Molloy is the global chief marketing officer at Siegel+Gale, a renowned strategic branding and design firm, where she is a member of the executive leadership. She oversees new business/sales and marketing. A respected thought leader, she has been published in HBR, Forbes, Fast Company and beyond. She is one of the world’s most connected and prominent CMOs.

Shawn Murphy is the CEO and Founder of Switch & Shift, a boutique consultancy and advisory firm dedicated to developing and advancing positive organizational business and leadership practices. Shawn’s debut book, The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone, shares path-breaking beliefs and simple techniques to help leaders at all levels positively shift how people not only perform but how they feel while at work. You can also read Shawn’s weekly column, “Positive Business,” on Inc.com.

Kimberly Palmer is the author of Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family, a money/career guide for moms. Previously, she wrote two books,The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life, and Generation Earn: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing, and Giving Back.

Dr. Darian Marcel Parker graduated from Yale University with his PhD, M.Phil and MA in anthropology, and with Highest Honors from UCLA’s College of Honors with degrees in American literature and anthropology. He is the Founder & CEO of Parker Academics, a company that specializes in test prep and academic subjects tutoring. Informing the philosophy and structure of the company is Dr. Parker’s work in the fields of psychological anthropology and education. Dr. Parker is the author of Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling (Rowman & Littlefield Press, 2015).

Joel Peterson is the Chairman of JetBlue Airways and Founding Partner and Chairman of Peterson Partners. Joel has a long history of successful growth capital investments in a variety of industries. He currently teaches Entrepreneurial Management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and serves as a Director of Franklin Covey. Joel is the author of The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds that make a Business Great. He served formerly as Managing Partner of Trammell Crow Company. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Skip Prichard is CEO and blogger at www.skipprichard.com, an inspirational site designed to help you become a better leader. He serves as President & CEO of OCLC, a global nonprofit computer library service and research organization.

Don Purdum is the Founder and owner of UnveiltheWeb.com and is an award winning blogger, author, speaker, business consultant and business coach. Don helps businesses discover their message by helping them identify the problems they solve, who they solve them for and how their products or services are part of the solution.

Rhiannon Rees is renowned as one of the world’s best self-development experts, referred to as Australia’s answer to US self-help guru Dr. Wayne Dyer. The best-selling success of her first book, “How to Climb Mount Everest in Sandals – The courage to live an ordinary life”, (the startling tale of her own life-journey) has lead to the imminent release of her second book, out in 2015.

Renowned as one the world’s best self development experts, and ranked 4th Best Business Coach in the World 2010, Rhiannon has worked with stars including the Spice Girls, X-Files and Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice cast members. She is the author of the bestseller How to Climb Mount Everest in Sandals.

Stever Robbins helps people create extraordinary lives and careers through online workshops and one-on-one coaching in career planning, entrepreneurship, and life mastery. He is a co-founder of 3 companies, co-designer of the Harvard Business School Foundations program, and graduate of HBS and MIT. You can find him on the web at http://SteverRobbins.com

Penelope Trunk has founded four startups, including Brazen Careerist and Quistic, and writes about career and life at PenelopeTrunk.com. She also researches prolifically, lives on a farm, and homeschools her sons.

Harsh Agrawal is an award-winning professional blogger and the founder ShoutMeLoud and Shout University. ShoutMeLoud is one of the most popular international resources on blogging, SEO and internet marketing. When he’s not blogging, Harsh is probably traveling or trying a new kind of adventure sport.

Mike Allton is a leading Blogging and Social Media Consultant. Mike has developed a reputation for being an excellent teacher and particularly enjoys showing businesses how Content Marketing, the combination of blog content, social media and SEO, can lead to increased website traffic, generation of more leads, and conversion of more sales. Allton is paticularly active on Google+ where he’s known for his mad blogging skills and impressive HootSuite expertise.

Sarah Arrow is one of the UK’s leading business bloggers, and has been listed in Forbes three times. She’s the creator of the 30-day Blogging Challenge to get more clients and increase visibility for your business in 30 days.

Matt Banner is the head honcho of On Blast Blog, where he puts proven & practical strategies to the test to help you blast off your blog. Matt has dedicated his life to mastering the craft of starting and growing web based businesses. He’s helped almost 10,000 people now start their own blog and has consulted for Fortune 500 companies to help them get more profitable traffic.

Ryan Biddulph has traveled the world for over five years. While he travels, he writes at Blogging from Paradise, where he teaches others how to boost their blogging income and generate more traffic. He believes that if you really work at blogging, you can retire to a life of island hopping through smart blogging, as he’s been blessed to do.

When he isn’t delivering pearls of wisdom in great roundup posts like this one, Kevin J. Duncan of Be A Better Blogger curates the week’s best hand-picked articles for bloggers and delivers them to inboxes worldwide every weekend.

Erik Emanuelli has been a professional blogger and freelance writer since 2010. He’s created and published more than 1000 articles on a variety of websites around the web. He has a passion for extreme sports and has practiced bungee jumping, canyoning, rafting, free climbing, diving, snowboarding, and kickboxing. He’s also a travel aficionado and has visited over 30 countries (and counting).

Mary Jaksch is best known for her exceptional training for writers at WritetoDone.com. Grab a copy of her free report, How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet in Less Than 5 Hours. In her “spare” time, Mary’s also the brains behind AlistBlogging.net. and GoodlifeZEN.com, a Zen Master, a mother, and a 5th Degree Black Belt. Join her FREE online training, 5 Powerful Online Writing Strategies.

Zac Johnson has been making money online for nearly 20 years now and would love to help you do the same. For that reason, he created his own blog at ZacJohnson.com. With over 1,000 original and real life experience based articles, he walks readers through the ups and downs, and in and outs of affiliate marketing and teaches how others are making money online.

Glen Long is the Managing Editor of Smart Blogger (a.k.a. chief content monkey). When he’s not creating or editing content for the blog or an upcoming course, he’s probably reading or watching Nordic Noir.

Matthew “Kaboomis” Loomis has been blogging professionally and for fun since 2005. He put together a total blog building program so that more people can get out of the rat race and find meaningful work they love to do through their own high quality blog.

Sonia Simone is Founding Partner and Chief Content Officer at Copyblogger. Everything she does and everything she’s done has been focused on creating more remarkable relationships with customers. When you communicate intense respect, integrity and an attitude of service, you’re rewarded with business. Simple, but rarely easy.

Ramsay Taplin is the Owner and Founder at BlogTyrant.com. While attending university, he sold a fitness blog for 5-figures. This was the initial “spark” that caused him to delve deeper into professional blogging and internet marketing. He founded BlogTyrant.com as a way to share his experiments with blogging and online marketing so that others could jump forward and avoid some of the mistakes that he made. The site now gets well over 100,000 visitors per month and has been referenced by some of the world’s top marketing websites.

Alp is the founder of Trial & Eureka and the Guest Posting Game Plan. He helps online businesses build an email list of buyers and sell out their programmes. Once upon a time he tried to start a blog as a lawyer-turned-marketing strategist***, but ended up accidentally building a marketing agency instead. (***That sounds like “Sauron turned Sith”, but it’s all innocuous really.)

Harsh Agrawal is an award-winning professional blogger and the founder ShoutMeLoud and Shout University. ShoutMeLoud is one of the most popular international resources on blogging, SEO and internet marketing. When he’s not blogging, Harsh is probably traveling or trying a new kind of adventure sport.

Jeff Bullas is an entrepreneur, blogger, author, marketer and speaker. He works with personal brands and business to optimize their online personal and company brands with emerging technologies, content, social media technologies and digital marketing.

Pauline Cabrera has been working in the field of web design and development for more than eight years, with experience in both agency and in-house roles. She is the founder of TwelveSkip, a company that helps bloggers and small business owners maximize their online visibility.

Josh Coffy is a fully caffeinated, social media marketing expert. Between his 100,000+ social media followers, his 250,000+ annual blog visitors and the dozens of speeches he gives each year, his effective social media principles and strategies have gained massive traction in the marketing world. Why? Two words:they work. He’s spent the last four years crafting social marketing blueprints for hundreds of brands and has become one of the most sought-after digital marketing trainers on the planet. Josh owns a fast-growing digital marketing and design company, Flight Media, with offices in three countries, that manages millions of social media followers daily. They build high-converting websites and run digital marketing campaigns to help customers increase traffic, leads, and more importantly–revenue.

Annemarie Cross is a Brand & Communications Strategist. She specializes in Podcasting, Digital/Online technologies, Social Platforms and Compelling Story-Telling and Copywriting, working to help YOU boost your visibility, reach and influence. Known as the “Podcasting Queen,” her podcast has been listed in the Top 25 Podcasts for Entrepreneurs, Top 50 Podcast for Entrepreneurs, and Top 100 Small Business Podcasts worldwide by well-known and respected small business websites, including Entrepreneur.com.

Gail Gardner provides expert advice to small businesses. She is the owner of GrowMap, a Cision Top 100 Site for Marketers that has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. She has been named a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter by D&B.

Sashka Hanna-Rappl is the founder of BrandSashka & Brand-ING Your Soul. Her work helps companies and entrepreneurs build a consistent brand to grow recognition and credibility. She’s a momma of 3 kids and wife to one husband.

Fabrizio Van Marciano is a savvy blogger, web designer and digital marketer from England. He works to help others create a rocking online brand through smart web design and creative branding.

Roxana Nasoi is by definition a creative entrepreneur. She is a Data Analyst, Statistics consultant and Internet Marketing Pro. She has switched from Freelancing to Entrepreneurship, founded several ventures and is preparing to launch a 3rd one in 2017.

Charles Ngo is one of the foremost affiliate marketers online, and made over $1 million in his first year. He has spoken at events in London, Ibiza, Bangkok, Singapore, Berlin, New York and many more. The readers at StackThatMoney voted CharlesNgo.com as the #1 Affiliate Marketing Blog online.

Sujan Patel is a data-driven marketer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of WebProfits US, a growth marketing agency. In his 13 years in digital marketing Sujan has helped companies like Sales Force, TurboTax, Sony, Mint, and hundreds of others acquire more customers, build brand awareness, and grow their businesses. Sujan took everything he learned in his career and wrote a book to help marketers with growth with his book 100 Days of Growth.

Don Purdum is the Founder and owner of UnveiltheWeb.com and is an award winning blogger, author, speaker, business consultant and business coach. Don helps businesses discover their message by helping them identify the problems they solve, who they solve them for and how their products or services are part of the solution.

Jason Quey helps internet entrepreneurs connect with influencers to rapidly grow their business together on The Storyteller Marketer.

Rick Ramos is an online marketing professional with over 18 years of experience across multiple online and offline media channels. He is presently CMO of HealthJoy, an enterprise healthcare engagement platform. Rick is also the author of Amazon.com’s #1 rated best seller in advertising Content Marketing: Insider’s Secret to Online Sales & Lead Generation

Dave Schneider is currently the CEO and CoFounder of digital marketer software NinjaOutreach, which helps small businesses find and outreach to bloggers to grow their sales through blogger outreach. Previously, he worked at Capital One as a business analyst until 2012, when he left to travel to the world with his girlfriend (over 40+ countries visited). During this time he started several online businesses, which grossed several hundred thousand in revenue. (Update – Dave no longer runs these websites, but can be found at lesschurn.io and daveschneider.me)

Jeremy Schoemaker is a web entrepreneur, founder of NextPimp.com, ShoeMoney Media and PAR Program, and co-founder of the AuctionAds service. He is a frequent speaker at search engine marketing and affiliate conferences.

Dennis Seymour currently runs SeriousMD and LeapFroggr, a digital marketing and SEO company, based in the Philippines. Over the years, he and his team have worked with hundreds of companies, all around the world.

Gideon Shalwick is a creative serial entrepreneur and loves helping people start global movements using video. So far, he has helped over 200,000 entrepreneurs grow their businesses using the power of video marketing. He is co-founder of Veeroll.com, a powerful platform that completely automates the production process for video advertising. And with over 20 MILLION video ads served already, Veeroll is set to disrupt the video advertising landscape forever! For Gideon’s rants and raves about entrepreneurship and living a fulfilled, action packed life, please visit www.entrevana.com.

Dustin W. Stout is a digital media consultant and speaker who’s learned how to make a living from doing things he loves. Currently he is part owner and co-founder of Warfare Plugins, creators to the best social sharing plugin ever created. He’s also a husband, father of two boys, and has done a bit of acting and modeling.

Terri Trespicio is a New York-based writer, brand strategist, and the co-creator of Lights Camera Expert, a 6-week course on how to get more media attention. Her work has appeared in Jezebel, Marie Claire, O magazine, Prevention, and MindBodyGreen. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has earned more than a million views. She’s also a stand-up comic and performs regularly all over NYC.

Stuart Walker is the founder of NicheHacks.com. To date, Stuart has revealed well over 1,500 hot niches. He’s living his dream of being location independent, and having traveled the world, thanks to internet marketing. The aim with Niche Hacks is to help you live your dream thanks to online marketing, whatever that may be.

Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur, small business advocate, speaker and author. Her first business was started with $100 and sold eight years later for $20 million. Today she is the founder & CEO of CorpNet.com, an online legal document filing service, where she helps entrepreneurs start a business, Incorporate, Form an LLC, set up Sole Proprietorships (DBAs) and more for their businesses. Nellie has been named a Top 100 Small Business Influencer by Small Business Trends the last five years and CorpNet.com has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately-held companies in America in 2015 and 2016.

James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr. He has published eleven books, and is a frequent media contributor. USA Today named his book Choose Yourself one of the 12 Best Business Books of All Time.

Erlend Bakke is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur, speaker, and #1 international bestselling author born in 1981 in London, UK. He currently owns the following three companies Mr. Outsource, 3sixty, and 3sixtyfactory. Erlend speaks on the topics of entrepreneurship with focus on how to automate and outsource your business to avoid the trap of becoming a business prisoner.

Corbett Barr is a blogger, podcaster, independent entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Fizzle, where he helps extraordinary people earn a living doing something they love. He splits his time between Portland and Mexico with his wife Jessalyn.

Evan Carmichael built then sold a biotech software company at age 19. At age 22, he was a VC helping raise $500k to $15mil. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, a popular website for entrepreneurs. He aims to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. He loves being married, his son, salsa dancing, DJing, League of Legends, and the Toronto Blue Jays.

Annemarie Cross is a Brand & Communications Strategist. She specializes in Podcasting, Digital/Online technologies, Social Platforms and Compelling Story-Telling and Copywriting, working to help YOU boost your visibility, reach and influence. Known as the “Podcasting Queen,” her podcast has been listed in the Top 25 Podcasts for Entrepreneurs, Top 50 Podcast for Entrepreneurs, and Top 100 Small Business Podcasts worldwide by well-known and respected small business websites, including Entrepreneur.com.

Ebong Eka is a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and former professional basketball player in Europe. He is a leadership, entrepreneur and small business expert who regularly appears on MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, NBC and CNN. Ebong is also an accomplished TEDx Speaker, motivational speaker, Huffington Post Small Business Blogger and Office Depot Blogger. Ebong is the author of the book, “Start Me Up! – The No-Business-Plan Business Plan,” published by Career Press. Ebong is the Founder of EKAnomics, leadership and business development training company.

Greg Faxon is the only business coach that makes entrepreneurs into champions. His mission is to help you get out of your own way and grow your business fast so that you can unleash your full potential. You can get started now by downloading a free chapter of his new book, Don’t Let The Fear Win, at gregfaxon.com/download.

David Hassell is the founder and CEO of 15Five, a leading employee engagement solution that helps create high performing teams by combining pulse surveys, weekly check-ins, peer recognition, and people analytics all in one platform. Forbes has called him “the most connected man you don’t know in Silicon Valley.”

Ana Hoffman is a successful internet entrepreneur and founder of Traffic Generation Cafe. She is also wife to a wonderful husband, and mother to a beautiful and, no doubt, genius little girl.

Lewis Howes is the author of The School of Greatness. He is a lifestyle entrepreneur, business coach and keynote speaker. A former professional football player and two-sport All-American, he is a current USA Men’s National Handball Team athlete. Howes hosts The School of Greatness podcast and was recognized by President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30. He has been featured in The New York Times, People, Men’s Health, The Today Show and other major media outlets.

Amber Hurdle is a certified coach, speaker, trainer and host of the Bombshell Business Podcast. Amber uses her experience working with international celebrities and Fortune 500 companies to show small businesses how to play big. As a communication and engagement expert, she helps entrepreneurs identify what they want to be known for, so they can strategically tell their stories, grow their tribes, and ultimately find their calling.

Joanna Jast helps career changers, entrepreneurs and freelancers accelerate their learning and personal change so they can adapt faster to the new environment. If you want to learn more about creating new habits faster, check her Hack Your Habits site and start improving your habits today.

Nick Loper is an online entrepreneur and lifelong student in the game of business who believes it’s all about the side hustle! He wants to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses or take their side hustles to the next level.

Nancy Lublin is a social entrepreneur who harnesses people, technology, and data to change the world. While many operate in traditional models of outreach and management, Lublin breaks them. She turns her new and effective solutions into some of today’s most innovative and disruptive nonprofits and social movements, which is why Fortune named her one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.”

Kate Matsudaira is an experienced VP & CTO with a passion for large scale web systems and startups. She has extensive experience as a hands-on programmer with a strong interest in product. Her greatest asset is my ability to build great teams and execute quickly and efficiently on business goals. She is also a keynote speaker and has spoken at conferences all over the world on distributed systems, scaling, technology leadership, and entrepreneurship. She spends her days running the branding firm Urban Influence and operating the ecommerce website inkandvolt.com.

John Meese helps new entrepreneurs start and grow an online business from scratch, even if they only have a few hours a week to spare. He teaches the strategies, systems, and software behind online business success through blog posts, podcast episodes, and online training programs (both free and paid), in addition to his strategic coaching programs.

Sean Ogle is the Head Rebel at Location Rebel, and his purpose is to help you build a small business that gives you the freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere in the world.

Jason Quey helps internet entrepreneurs connect with influencers to rapidly grow their business together on The Storyteller Marketer.

John Rampton is a serial entrepreneur. He loves helping people in addition to building amazing products and services that scale. John was recently named #2 on Top 50 Online Influencers in the World by Entrepreneur Magazine as well as a blogging expert by Forbes. Time Magazine recognized John as a motivational speaker that helps people find a “Sense of Meaning” in their lives. He currently advises several companies in the bay area.

Stever Robbins helps people create extraordinary lives and careers through online workshops and one-on-one coaching in career planning, entrepreneurship, and life mastery. He is a co-founder of 3 companies, co-designer of the Harvard Business School Foundations program, and graduate of HBS and MIT. You can find him on the web at http://SteverRobbins.com

Dragos Roua is a serial online entrepreneur, personal development fanatic, blogger, father, ultramarathoner, and tanguero. He has more than 15 years experience in starting, managing and upgrading (selling) companies, mainly in online publishing. He believes happiness is a process, not a goal.

Gideon Shalwick is a creative serial entrepreneur and loves helping people start global movements using video. So far, he has helped over 200,000 entrepreneurs grow their businesses using the power of video marketing. He is co-founder of Veeroll.com, a powerful platform that completely automates the production process for video advertising. And with over 20 MILLION video ads served already, Veeroll is set to disrupt the video advertising landscape forever! For Gideon’s rants and raves about entrepreneurship and living a fulfilled, action packed life, please visit www.entrevana.com.

Sonia Thompson is a content marketing strategist that loves roaming the streets of foreign lands. She’s the founder of TRY Business School where she’s on a mission to help you develop and execute the right strategy for your business.

Deborah Tutnauer helps frustrated and confused entrepreneurs get real about money, marketing and make the impact they want to make from a place of clarity and authenticity. Information on her coaching and client testimonials are available at DeborahTutnauer.com.

Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche is an award-winning teacher of financial empowerment and is quickly becoming America’s favorite personal financial educator. The Budgetnista specializes in the delivery of financial literacy and has served as the personal finance education expert for City National Bank. Author of two #1 Amazon bestsellers, The One Week Budget and Live Richer Challenge, Tiffany and her financial advice have been featured in multiple media outlets.

Sophia Bera, CFP® is not your father’s financial planner. After working in traditional financial planning firms since 2007 she quit her job at a NY start-up to launch her own firm, Gen Y Planning. Now, she runs a 6-figure online business from her laptop. Her recent accolades include the “Top 40 Under 40” by Investment News, “10 young Advisors to Watch” by Financial Advisor Magazine, and “10 of the Best Personal Finance Experts on Twitter.”

Jeremy Biberdorf is the founder of Modest Money, a web publication providing breaking investment news and analysis. Jeremy also created the Top Finance Blogs List, a massive resource providing the rankings of hundreds of sites.

Robert Farrington is America’s Millennial Money Expert™ and America’s Student Loan Debt Expert™. He is also the founder of The College Investor, which is the #1 resource for helping millennials get out of student loan debt and start building real wealth for their future. He’s been on this mission since 2009.

Barbara Friedberg has decades of finance and investing experience. She is a former investment portfolio manager and taught Finance and Investments at several universities. Her published work includesPersonal Finance: An Encyclopedia of Modern Money Management,Invest and Beat the Pros-Create and Manage a Successful Investment Portfolio and How to Get Rich; Without Winning the Lottery. Her work is featured in U.S. News & World Report, Investopedia, Yahoo!Finance, GoBankingRates and many more publications.

Deacon Hayes is a Financial Expert who is best known for paying off $52,000 in consumer debt in 18 months. Through his company Well Kept Wallet, he has helped thousands of people develop a financial game plan so they can achieve their financial goals in life. He has been featured in the US News & World Report, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance and more.

Hilary Hendershott is the founder and CEO of Hilary Hendershott Wealth Management, a service where she serves women who already have $500,000 in investable assets. Hilary provides her special version of the top tier wealth management services evolved investors expect, delivered in ways that feel more like a relaxing day at the spa than a tedious meeting with the accountant.

Jesse Mecham is a recovering CPA that started a company called “You Need A Budget” (Y-NAB, if you’re busy) while in college. He teaches people the unique Four-Rule Method that completely transforms how they view and manage their money. When people follow the YNAB Method, they break the paycheck to paycheck cycle, get out of debt, and save more money.

J. Money is an award winning blogger, consultant, experimenter, and daddy. With over eight years building communities online, Jay’s projects have reached 20 million+ views and are routinely featured in the media. He loves coffee, hip-hop, personal finance, and hooking people up.

Robert Pagliarini is a Mission Viejo financial planner and president of Pacifica Wealth Advisors – a preeminent financial planning and wealth management firm with a national reputation for serving affluent investors and sudden wealth recipients. Robert relies on his nearly two decades of financial experience as well as his master’s degrees in financial services and psychology to provide comprehensive and personal wealth management solutions. Robert is the author of the new book, The Sudden Wealth Solution: 12 Principles to Transform Sudden Wealth Into Lasting Wealth.

Kimberly Palmer is the author of Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family, a money/career guide for moms. Previously, she wrote two books,The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life, and Generation Earn: The Young Professional’s Guide to Spending, Investing, and Giving Back.

Victor Ricciardi is a Finance Professor at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and co-editor of the book Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing.

J.D. Roth is an acclaimed blogger and the founder of MoneyBoss.com. He founded Get Rich Slowly, wroteYour Money: The Missing Manual, created the year-long“Get Rich Slowly” course, and contributed the monthly ” Your Money” column to Entrepreneur magazine.

Joe is the host of the award winning Stacking Benjamins podcast (Kiplinger just called it “Best of 2016”). While most shows focus on hard-edged money topics, Stacking Benjamins takes a lighter, innovative approach emphasizing play, which has been written about in Inc. and FastCompany. You’ll find the show wherever you listen to podcasts.

John Schmoll is a veteran of the financial services industry who’s learned the hard way how to invest, save, and manage his money. At Frugal Rules, he’s created an online community where together, he helps readers pursue financial literacy and freedom.

Jeremy Schoemaker is a web entrepreneur, founder of NextPimp.com, ShoeMoney Media and PAR Program, and co-founder of the AuctionAds service. He is a frequent speaker at search engine marketing and affiliate conferences.

Andrew Schrage is co-owner of Money Crashers Personal Finance. He majored in Economics while in school and has found it to be very applicable to everyday life and useful in understanding the economy and everyday topics like retirement, savings, and credit cards. He also gained some great investment experience previously working at a hedge fund.

Philip Taylor is an entrepreneur and CPA currently obsessed with creating the best annual conference for the financial media community. He’s the founder of FinCon: Where Money and Media Meet and the Ffunder of PT Money: Personal Finance.

Melissa Tosetti is the author of the international best seller Living the Savvy Life and founder of The Savvy Life, an online lifestyle magazine for women who want to enjoy life with the money they are making right now. As much as she loves writing about personal finance, she especially enjoys speaking, giving seminars and working 1:1 with coaching clients.

Todd R. Tresidder is a former investment hedge fund manager turned writer and financial educator who offers coaching, a blog, and ebooks on how to build wealth and invest smarter at FinancialMentor.com. Todd’s goal is to help millions of people lead happier, more productive lives by freeing themselves from the financial tyranny caused by poor decisions and planning.

Ankur (aka “Encore”) is a personal trainer & nutrition specialist who makes health & fitness more attainable for busy people by helping them build easy, but powerful, habits that fit their unique lifestyles. He’s also a lifelong learner and personal development fanatic on a mission to help others live more healthy, happy, and successful lives!

Gillian is a Self-Care Teacher living in Victoria, BC. Her mission is to empower her students to take personal responsibility and aligned action to create the best life ever. She shares her message of holistic health, yoga, spirituality and self-love through her writing, online course Healthy Living 101, transformational mentoring and international retreats. Gillian truly lives and breathes what she does, her intent is to inspire positive change in as many people as possible, leading by example.

Amy Clover is a fitness personality, motivational speaker and the force behind Strong Inside Out, a site that helps people “become stronger than their struggle” through mindfulness, movement and positive action.

Donna (amrita) Davidge is the owner of Sewall House Yoga retreat in Maine and Yoga instructor in New York City since 1985. Donna (Amrita) guides you through various forms of yoga and brings her 30 years of yoga teaching to you. Her video Kundalini Yoga The Challenge was chosen top ten by Yoga Journal in 2000 and is being rereleased in 2017.

JC is a traditional fitness coach with a non-traditional approach to his work. A fitness coach who focuses on brand, quality, and results, JC is a holistic thinker who weaves together bodybuilding, eastern philosophy, and lifestyle design into his work. He is an open-minded life-long learner who has been learning as much as he can about fitness since the age of 18. Few coaches who make the decision to go all-in and ignore the typical marketing tactics of the fitness industry, but JC has done just that.

Heather Frey is an entrepreneur, Fitness Strategist, clean eating advocate, trainer, writer, speaker, artist, and former Figure Competitor. Heather has worked with countless clients to create health and fitness strategies that work into their life; do-able, manageable plans that make sense so they can have lifelong fitness.

Nate Green is an author, writer, marketing strategist and fitness expert. His articles have been featured in Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, on Livestrong.com, and Tim Ferriss’s blog. He is the author of Built For Show, theThe Hero Handbook and Bigger, Smaller, Bigger.

Ben Greenfield’s mission is to show you how to get your body performing at peak capacity, with maximum fat burning efficiency and ideal hormonal and health status, in the safest and fastest way possible. Ben teaches people how to become Superhuman as fast as possible, as safely as possible.

Kate Horney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science and is a Metabolic Effect certified Level III Hormonal Nutrition Consultant. She specializes in female-specific fat loss, using proven techniques to offer body change and coaching services to women both online and locally. She launched Bikini Boot Camp for moms and busy women who want more out of their fitness program.

Radhika Khanna is an entrepreneur, yoga instructor, and fashion designer. She believes in living a fulfilling life and in following your dreams, which cannot be achieved if you ignore your body and health. She has taught modern and ancient yoga techniques to students all over the world. Radhika is a motivational speaker of much renown, an expert on psychosomatic diseases and positive thinking.

Dashama Konah is an internationally known Teacher, Author and Lifestyle Coach. She is the founder of the Global 30 Day Yoga Challenge, Perfect 10 Lifestyle online Community, Yoga for Foster Children and Pranashama Yoga School. After a tumultuous childhood facing many challenges, she has triumphed over adversity. She now uses her own story to empower and inspire others to work through their own obstacles by using the powerful yogic methods.

Laura London is by trade a Board Certified Health Counselor (AADP), holistic weight loss coach & fitness specialist. But really, she is a fun loving free spirit, a wife of over 25 years, and a mom of 3, who decided to step out of her comfort zone and reinvent her health, body and life in her 40s. She has not looked back since.

Andrea Metcalf is passionate about fitness, health and wellness and inspiring people to live their best lives. With over 30 years experience in the healthy lifestyle industry, she has become recognized by national media outlets as a trusted expert and adviser. She is a nationally requested speaker, the best-selling author of Naked Fitness, fitness DVD choreographer and trainer, and a force in the business media world.

Christopher Stepien is a chiropractic physician/strength coach whose goal is help people, empowering movement as the basis for health. He is educated in the logic of analysis, biomechanics of movement, fitness, nutrition, joint/muscle manual therapy, and mental beliefs/behaviors. Christopher is focused on individuals who have lost hope and been through various fields to find an answer without success, and showing people that they don’t have to suffer is his inspiration.

Jeremy Anderberg is a lucky husband and father, hungry learner, voracious reader, devoted coffee drinker, and craft beer enthusiast. He is the managing editor at The Art of Manliness. Originally from the Midwest, he now calls Denver home.

Sumitha is the blogger behind afineparent.com and invites you to come take a look at the unique parent-child journal she has designed for positive, intentional parents. Connected Hearts Journal is a keepsake memory book you put together with your kids and in the process you connect, have conversations, teach life lessons, build up self-esteem, instill gratitude and so much more! Click here to find out more.

Antonio Centeno founded Real Men Real Style soon after starting ATailoredSuit.com. In an early effort to make my company more scalable, he tried to head off questions he knew future clients would have by building an online library about how to properly wear suits, dress shirts, sports jackets, and other professional clothes. RMRS has built a loyal following due to its solid authoritative content that is both detailed and clearly laid out.

Dave and Deb are well-known travel personalities in both online and mainstream media.

Their highly acclaimed website, The Planet D, won back to back Gold Medals for Best Travel Blog by the Society of American Travel Writers (2014/2015) and Gold for Best Travel Blog and Online Excellence in Travel at the 2015 North American Travel Journalist Awards. They’ve travelled to more than 100 countries on all 7 continents.

Chelsea Dinsmore is the owner and Chief Inspiration Officer of Live Your Legend, a community whose mission is to change the world by helping people find their passion and build a career around the work that only they are capable of doing. Live Your Legend hosts monthly in person meetups in over 200 cities across nearly 60 countries, focused on creating in-person connections with like-minded living legends.

Vanessa Van Edwards studies, hacks, and writes about human behavior at Science of People. As a recovering boring person, her goal is to help her readers become more powerful, charismatic, attractive and influential.

Whitson Gordon is a writer and editor currently based in San Diego, California. He is the editor-in-chief of How-To Geek, having previously been editor-in-chief of Lifehacker, as well as a contributor to Macworld, Wired, and other publications.

Chris Guillebeau writes at the The Art of Non-Conformity and organizes the annualWorld Domination Summit. He’s the author of Born for This,The Happiness of Pursuit, The $100 Startup, and The Art of Non-Conformity, and has traveled to every country in the world.

Alan Henry is a writer, gamer, and the editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. He’s the person with one of everything, and thinks loyalty to a brand, gadget, or OS is for suckers. He previously covered tech news, gaming, mobile tech, and science for Ziff Davis, is a certified Project Manager, and before that an actual astrophysicist. He loves to cook and likes long walks on the beach at sunset.

Lewis Howes is the author of The School of Greatness. He is a lifestyle entrepreneur, business coach and keynote speaker. A former professional football player and two-sport All-American, he is a current USA Men’s National Handball Team athlete. Howes hosts The School of Greatness podcast and was recognized by President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30. He has been featured in The New York Times, People, Men’s Health, The Today Show and other major media outlets.

Jeremy Kochis is a dating and relationship expert who helps men meet and find their perfect match. He offers unique, time-tested dating strategies for single men on his site Unstoppable Match.

Benny Lewis, is fun-loving Irish guy, a full-time globe trotter and accomplished language learner.

Since 2003, he’s become a fluent and confident speaker of seven languages. He is the founder ofFluent in 3 Months, and international bestselling author of the book by the same name.

Anthony Metivier has taught as a professor, is the creator of the acclaimed Magnetic Memory Method and the author behind a dozen bestselling books on the topic of memory and language learning.

Sean Ogle is the Head Rebel at Location Rebel, and his purpose is to help you build a small business that gives you the freedom and flexibility to work from anywhere in the world.

Cory Ohlendorf is the co-founder and editor in chief of the men’s style site ValetMag.com. His fashion and culture writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Men.Style.com, New York magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.

Joel Runyon is the founder of Impossible X and blogger at IIMPOSSIBLE. He is also the founder of Paleo Meal Plans LLC. He is an athlete, endurance runner, businessman, and speaker. His TEDx talk has received over 215,000 views.

Sven Raphael Schneider – Founder of the Gentleman’s Gazette the largest website for classic men’s clothing and Fort Belvedere quality accessories for gentlemen.

James Swanwick is an Australian-American investor and TV & podcast host based in Hollywood, California. Swanwick is the creator of the Swannies blue-light blocking glasses, 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge, and 47-Day Habit Hacker.

Tynan believes in making deliberate decisions and breaking away from the herd mentality. He likes learning new things, building habits, exploring the world, connecting with awesome people, and creating good work. He was chosen as one of Time Magazine’s top bloggers in 2013.

Dan Western is an entrepreneur and self-development blogger. He is the founder and CEO of Wealthy Gorilla, a website built to help and inspire people in their journey to success in business and life. The site is an ever growing source of motivation, inspiration, knowledge and advice for people with aspirations and dreams in this world.

Scott H. Young writes prolifically on the science behind learning at ScottHYoung.com. His accomplishments include learning four languages in a year and finishing MIT’s 4-year computer science curriculum in 12 months (without taking classes).

Dietitian Cassie is the celebrity Registered, Licensed Dietitian, professional speaker, founder of Healthy Simple Life® and #1 International Best Selling Author. Dietitian Cassie has built a following of loyal fans by helping people with the root causes of their health issues–especially ones that healthcare practitioners often overlook.

Heather Frey is an entrepreneur, Fitness Strategist, clean eating advocate, trainer, writer, speaker, artist, and former Figure Competitor. Heather has worked with countless clients to create health and fitness strategies that work into their life; do-able, manageable plans that make sense so they can have lifelong fitness.

Kris Gunnars is a nutrition researcher with a Bachelor’s degree in medicine. He has spent years reading books, blogs and scientific studies on nutrition. Evidence-based nutrition is his passion and he plans to devote his career to informing people about it. He stays fit by lifting weights, taking walks and eating real food.

Melissa Hartwig is the co-founder of Whole30 and New York Times best-selling author ofThe Whole30 and It Starts With Food andFood Freedom Forever. Her forthcoming book, The Whole30 Cookbook, is now available for preorder!

Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognized leader in the fields of ancestral health, Paleo nutrition, and functional and integrative medicine. He is the creator of ChrisKresser.com, one of the top 25 natural health sites in the world, and the author of the New York Times best seller, Your Personal Paleo Code (published in 2014 as The Paleo Cure). Chris was recently named by Greatist.com as one of the 100 most influential people in health and fitness, and his work is frequently cited in national publications such as Time, The Atlantic, and NPR, and on Dr. Oz and Fox & Friends, where he has appeared as a guest.

Jamila René Lepore, MS, RDN, is a Florida-based registered dietitian nutritionist and food scientist with a passion for food, nutrition and overall wellness. She focuses on a habit-based approach to healthy eating on her websiteNo Nonsense Nutritionist and through her free Healthy Habits Challenge.

Stephanie McKercher, MS RDN, is a Colorado-based integrative registered dietitian nutritionist and creator of food and nutrition blog, The Grateful Grazer. On The Grateful Grazer, Stephanie shares healthy recipes and evidence-based nutrition tips. She also offers individualized nutrition coaching services to clients throughout the United States and partners with wellness-focused brands on nutrition communications, marketing, and recipe development.

Sharon Palmer, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian, is a registered dietitian, plant-based and sustainability expert, and author of Plant-Powered for Life and the award-winning Plant-Powered Blog. She has written over 950 articles, and also serves as the editor of Environmental Nutrition and Nutrition Editor for Today’s Dietitian.

Julie Upton, MS, RD, CSSD is a registered dietitian, nutrition spokesperson, writer, author, sister, daughter, athlete, muscle confusion advocate and pro sports fanatic. She writes at Appetite for Health, a site dedicated to showing that healthy eating is delicious, satisfying and always possible-no matter the circumstances.

Shawn Achor is a New York Times bestselling author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage. He is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. Shawn has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success.

James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr. He has published eleven books, and is a frequent media contributor. USA Today named his book Choose Yourself one of the 12 Best Business Books of All Time.

Brendan Baker is Australia’s leading personal development blogger who helps people build and grow online businesses based on their passions. He is the founder of Start of Happiness, Launch Your Life Academy and Your First 1000 Subscribers.

Beth Bongar, the Laughing Diva, has fun for a living teaching people how to breathe and laugh, which is the simplest way she knows to move our immune systems and be healthier. She joined the circus at age 19 and became a professional clown. Now her mission is to teach YOU how to use the breath of HA for your health so that you can laugh your way to health and happiness any time you choose.

Tim Brownson is a Certified Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Certified Hypnotherapist and Coach Trainer. He is also a published author in 7 different countries. Using his years of experience, he trains other Life Coaches at Coach the Life Coach.

Valorie Burton, MAPP, PCC is founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute and best-selling author of 11 books, includingSuccessful Women Think Differently and Get Unstuck, Be Unstoppable. Visit her online at ValorieBurton.com.

Dr. Aymee Coget (pronounced Co jjayy) is a sustainable happiness expert and the CEO of Happiness for HumanKIND. In 1996, Dr. Aymee made the decision to devote her entire life to helping millions of people live happier lives. Since then she has established a proprietary happiness increase formula which she teaches to individuals, families, groups and organizations. She has been a contributor for many mainstream media outlets for positive psychology. For information about the science based happiness increase programs visit www.happinessforhumanKIND.com

Henrik Edberg lives on the west coast of Sweden. Since 2006 he’s written practical articles and newsletters about simplifying life, social skills, self-esteem, reducing stress and becoming happier. He is the author of 6 courses and guides.

Hal Elrod is one of the highest-rated keynote speakers in America, #1 best-selling author of one of the highest rated books in the world (with over 1,500+ five-star Amazon reviews), The Miracle Morning, and creator of The Miracle Morning book series. He is also a Hall of Fame business achiever, ultra-marathon runner (that’s 52 consecutive miles), host of the top ratedAchieve Your Goals podcast, creator of the Best Year Ever [Blueprint] live event, and grateful husband & father of two.

Erin Falconer is the President and Co-Founder of LEAFtv-a video ecommerce lifestyle brand for the Millennial generation. She is also the Editor in Chief and Co-Owner of the self-improvement site PickTheBrain.com, where she finds content that will motivate, inspire and instruct readers best, as well as help them to make the changes that matter most in their lives.

Vladimir Gendelman is founder and CEO of Company Folders, an online presentation folder printing company. He is an active member of Entrepreneur’s Organization and the Jewish community in the metro Detroit area. Vladimir enjoys sharing his knowledge to help others, and frequently writes informative articles for magazines, industry organizations and blogs.

Ann Hermes is a Freelance Creative Writer, Copy-editor, Translator and Graphic Designer based in Indonesia. She is on the editorial team at Lifehack.org.

Mary Jaksch is best known for her exceptional training for writers at WritetoDone.com. Grab a copy of her free report, How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet in Less Than 5 Hours. In her “spare” time, Mary’s also the brains behind AlistBlogging.net. and GoodlifeZEN.com, a Zen Master, a mother, and a 5th Degree Black Belt. Join her FREE online training, 5 Powerful Online Writing Strategies.

Joanna Jast helps career changers, entrepreneurs and freelancers accelerate their learning and personal change so they can adapt faster to the new environment. If you want to learn more about creating new habits faster, check her Hack Your Habits site and start improving your habits today.

Sylviane Nuccio is a life coach and copywriter. As a life coach, she transforms people’s lives with painful emotions that led them to negative experiences which keep them from fulfilling their potentials and dreams. As a Copywriter she improves her clients experience to attract more clients through their blog content and online articles.

Erin Pavlina is a world renowned intuitive counselor who uses her psychic abilities to help her clients achieve what they desire in the realm of career, relationships, finances, health, spirituality, and more. She has written more than 800 articles you can read for free on her blog. Her book on Astral Projection has been read by thousands of people.

Rhiannon Rees is renowned as one of the world’s best self-development experts, referred to as Australia’s answer to US self-help guru Dr. Wayne Dyer. The best-selling success of her first book, “How to Climb Mount Everest in Sandals – The courage to live an ordinary life”, (the startling tale of her own life-journey) has lead to the imminent release of her second book, out in 2015.

Renowned as one the world’s best self development experts, and ranked 4th Best Business Coach in the World 2010, Rhiannon has worked with stars including the Spice Girls, X-Files and Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice cast members. She is the author of the bestseller How to Climb Mount Everest in Sandals.

Dragos Roua is a serial online entrepreneur, personal development fanatic, blogger, father, ultramarathoner, and tanguero. He has more than 15 years experience in starting, managing and upgrading (selling) companies, mainly in online publishing. He believes happiness is a process, not a goal.

Sid Savara created The Action Solution andThe Outsource Solution, and writes on personal development at SidSavara.com. He’s lived around the world and writes software in his free time.

Luminita Savuic is Founder and Blogger-in-Chief at Purpose Fairy, home of the most viral personal development article on the Internet, 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy. As an enthusiastic student of the arts, psychology, and spirituality, she take great pleasure in shining light on life’s hidden truths, the paradoxes that both stare us in the face and hide from us in unison, as they silently shape our every waking moment.

Steve Scott is an author, blogger and speaker. He writes about self-help, personal development, habit change and online publishing. He currently writes for developgoodhabits.com as well as his own self-published books. His thoughts on habit change and self-improvement are simple and expressed in the tagline of his webpage, “Build a better life. One habit at a time.”

Laura and Mark Tong have been on their own personal journey to find happiness for over a decade. They study awesome people from around the world to bring to light the habits and actions that allow them to lead happy lives and stay positive when life gets tough. Everything they know and learn they then share on PositivelyHappy.me so you can shortcut your way to happiness starting right now.

Jay White is the pen name of the founder of Dumb Little Man, a site with articles on a countless number of personal development topics. To date, over 17 million people have stopped by Dumb Little Man.

Kendra Wright is a blogger, writer, speaker and location independent entrepreneur. Since creating the Year Of Fear Project in 2013, she has completed over 700 self-assigned comfort zone challenges. Kendra specializes in teaching others how to break through fear and uncertainty, productivity slumps, and create better work-life balance (without abandoning the inner hustle). Get 100 of her simple and unconventional comfort zone challenges here.

Chris Bailey’s year-long productivity experiment quickly expanded to the popular blog A Life of Productivity. Chris is a speaker, consultant, and author of The Productivity Project, a bestselling book teaching the lessons he’s learned through his experiments and research.

Peter Banerjea is co-founder of SuccessIsWhat, a blog on productivity and leadership. He has coached several entrepreneurs and leaders from Fortune 500 companies to become more productive and achieve their goals faster. Peter is also the author of the free ebook Productivity Secrets of 7 Billionaires You Can Put into Action Right Now.

Brittany Bullen owns NerdyGirl.co, a company that helps business owners find great freelancers (translation: she gets to geek out about marketing all day long). She specializes in saving people’s time, money and sanity by helping them do the best things first. Check out her free mini-course, Reclaim Your Sanity in 7 Days!

Alex Cavoulacos is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of The Muse, the most trusted and beloved career destination for Millennials and beyond, helping over 50 million people every year advance in their careers. Alex has spoken on WNYC and at SxSW, and was named one of INC’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech and TIME’s 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014. She is a frequent keynote on productivity and entrepreneurship. Prior to founding The Muse, Alex was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She graduated from Yale University, and is an alumna of YCombinator. Follow her @acav.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world’s foremost researchers on positive psychology. He recognised and named the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state, and authored the groundbreaking book of the same name. He is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Dr. BJ Fogg directs the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford University. A psychologist and innovator, he devotes half of his time to industry projects. His work empowers people to think clearly about the psychology of persuasion – and then to convert those insights into real-world outcomes. He is the author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do, a book that explains how computers can motivate and influence people. Fortune Magazine selected BJ Fogg as one of the “10 New Gurus You Should Know”.

Neen James, MBA CSP, is an Aussie productivity thought leader, best known for her engaging keynotes that have educated and entertained audiences with real-world strategies that apply in all roles at work and in life. With a background in learning and development and managing large teams at various corporations, Neen is a natural fit for organizations looking for presenters that focus on productivity strategies, tools and resources. Neen also provides one-on-one consulting and mentoring to women on a variety of business issues and topics.

Liam Martin is co-founder and direct of marketing at Time Doctor, where they develop tools for team productivity concentrating on improving communication for remote teams. He has been a consultant for many online businesses concentrating on process design and scaling companies through outsourcing. In his spare time Liam likes to give talks on how to become a more productive student throughout universities in Canada and the U.S.

Kayla Matthews is a researcher, writer and blogger covering topics related to technology and productivity. She is the owner of ProductivityTheory.com and ProductivityBytes.com as well as a regular contributor to MakeUseOf, Inc. Innovate, The Huffington Post and The Daily Muse. In the past, her work has appeared on Inc., The Next Web, Lifehacker, Mashable and others.

Paul Minors is a productivity expert who teaches people how to manage their time, energy and attention through his writing at PaulMinors.com. When he’s not writing, he’s exercising, reading, or drinking coffee.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five provocative books – including three long-running New York Times bestsellers,A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell is Human. Dan’s books have been translated into 35 languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children.

Zachary Sexton earned a dual degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Wyoming. Since then, his career has lead to the US Senate, teaching in Denver Public Schools, writing, growing startups and small business consulting. Currently, nothing gives him more pleasure than showing business owners and individuals how to be more productive by using online and mobile tools to create their own digital organization systems.

Mark Shead is the founder of Productivity 501. He has worked extensively as a coach with the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks implementing Agile development and deployment practices. He specializes in helping teams build development/deployment pipelines in organizations with legacy change management policies and turning six-month deployments cycles into something measured in hours.

Michael Sliwinski is a productivity guy. He’s the founder of Nozbe, a project management and collaboration platform (web-based with native apps for the Mac, Windows, Android, iPad and the iPhone), the editor of the Productive! Magazine and best-selling co-author of the #iPadOnly book.

Nick Snapp is the owner of Inspire Me Solutions, where he consults and coaches with overwhelmed entrepreneurs to remove bottlenecks, save time and increase profitability using his analytical engineering roots. He is obsessed about helping entrepreneurs uncover their “game-changer,” the one activity that will deliver the greatest return on invested time both at work and at home. He is best known as the atypical-engineer host of The Make it Snappy Productivity Show podcast, and all things “snappy,” for that matter.

Maura Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and attention management for clients including VMWare, Old Navy, and AIG. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of RegainYourTime.com, author of two books, and she appears weekly in business media outlets such as Fast Company, Inc., and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review.

Laura Vanderkam is the author of I Know How She Does It,168 Hours, and What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast-a paperback compilation of the bestselling ebook series, all from Portfolio/Penguin. Please visit www.lauravanderkam.com.

Harsh Agrawal is an award-winning professional blogger and the founder ShoutMeLoud and Shout University. ShoutMeLoud is one of the most popular international resources on blogging, SEO and internet marketing. When he’s not blogging, Harsh is probably traveling or trying a new kind of adventure sport.

Mike Allton is a leading Blogging and Social Media Consultant. Mike has developed a reputation for being an excellent teacher and particularly enjoys showing businesses how Content Marketing, the combination of blog content, social media and SEO, can lead to increased website traffic, generation of more leads, and conversion of more sales. Allton is paticularly active on Google+ where he’s known for his mad blogging skills and impressive HootSuite expertise.

David Amerland is an author, speaker and analyst who spends more time than might be considered healthy looking at different device screens and analysing patterns, trends and the impact of current technological developments on our working lives and lifestyles. In addition to the books he writes, he also advises a handful of companies globally, and is a frequent contributor to Forbes, journalism.co.uk, Imassera and Social Media Today.

Jeff Bullas is an entrepreneur, blogger, author, marketer and speaker. He works with personal brands and business to optimize their online personal and company brands with emerging technologies, content, social media technologies and digital marketing.

Matthew Capala is an international SEO and content marketing strategist, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. As the Founder and Managing Director at Alphametic, a data-first SEO and content marketing agency, Matthew helps businesses increase their online visibility through data-driven solutions that yield higher ROI. Matthew runs Search Decoder, a popular SEO blog for entrepreneurs, and has appeared speaking on main stages at some of the largest conferences in the world. He is the author of bestselling “SEO Like I’m 5” and writes on The Next Web, Entrepreneur and Social Media Today.

Jim Dougherty writes content on Leaders West. He writes about how smaller businesses can leverage social media to their advantage (and some other stuff).

Scott Eddy has gone from being a stockbroker to a social media influencer for the travel industry. Originally from Miami, he lived in Bangkok for 10 years, Spain for 4 years, London for 1 year, Philippines for 1 year and Portugal for 6 months. He is the Global Brand Ambassador for Zipkick, a travel personalization company that’s set to revolutionize the industry.

Ashley is an SEO and WordPress specialist and founder of Mad Lemmings. He loves helping clients get found (and ranked higher) on Google. When he is not chained to his computer, you will find him in the Swiss Alps yodeling or making Swiss chocolate disappear.

Luke Guy is a blogger, marketer, and strategist. He looks forward to helping you grow your business. He has been featured on many marketing blogs and has gained national attention. Luke studies SEO, website conversion, email marketing, and product launches.

Andréa Jones is a Social Media Manager, Blogger & Community Builder who creates engaging and beautiful content for your fans while you run your business. She teams up with overwhelmed creative entrepreneurs to develop and implement social media and content marketing strategies in order to free up their time for building their businesses.

Brent Jones specializes in social media solutions for startups, solo entrepreneurs, professionals, and local brick-and-mortar businesses. He also writes a popular blog providing advice on how to achieve the freedom, flexibility and financial independence offered by a career in freelancing.

Christian Karasiewicz is a consultant and public speaker on social media, Internet Marketing and technology. He enjoys helping individuals and business owners develop, create, and put into action, a successful marketing campaign. With over ten years of experience across social media, e-commerce, Internet Marketing, personal branding, affiliate marketing and related technologies, Christian Karasiewicz strives to create meaningful social media campaigns that help businesses connect and engage with their customers and to keep coming back.

Kevan Lee is the director of marketing at Buffer, the social media publishing tool for brands, agencies, and marketers. He shares his best, actionable advice on content marketing, his favorite writing tips, and his top time-saving tools on his personal website KevanLee.com. He works to help others get more results from their online writing.

Dan R. Morris is an expert in the digital media industry. He actively studies the trends, advances and everything new in tech, social media and content marketing. He delivers that information weekly through his Amplify Podcast, recently ranked the 27th best podcast out there. Through live events, consulting, a forum and a membership platform, he helps bloggers and businesses understand the science of online success.

Ted Rubin is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Brand Evangelist, CMO and Keynote Speaker. His book Return on Relationship was released in 2013. He has a deep online background beginning in 1997 working with Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, which was acquired in 1998 by Yahoo! He is known in the social media world for his enthusiastic, energetic & undeniably personal connection to people.

Ron Sela is a Profit-Driven Marketer who was recently named one of Top 100 Influencers in Social Media Marketing by Onalytica. His unique talent lies in helping businesses increase their bottom-line by creating innovative digital marketing experiences.

Brooke B. Sellas is the Founder & Chief Digital Strategist at B Squared Media. She is an entrepreneur, a wife, a really cool older sister to two absolutely amazing women, and an advocate for curing cystic fibrosis. She is an adjunct lecturer in the spring, teaching classes on consumer behavior at CUNY Baruch in New York City.

Dennis Seymour currently runs SeriousMD and LeapFroggr, a digital marketing and SEO company, based in the Philippines. Over the years, he and his team have worked with hundreds of companies, all around the world.

Tim Soulo is the guy responsible for marketing and product development at Ahrefs. But most importantly he’s the chief evangelist of the company. He also runs a small cozy personal blog called BloggerJet.

Owen Video is a Video Marketing Consultant specializing in Small Business Growth. He has a YouTube channel with over 100,000 views and recently defeated cancer while doubling his business. With over 1,000 web videos produced for clients and hundred of thousands in revenue from video marketing campaigns, Owen is uniquely qualified to show small business owners and entrepreneurs the pathway for making money with online video.

James Wedmore has a simple mission: show business owners how to create and execute effective video marketing campaigns without spending a lot of time or money. After several successful ventures, including an Online Bartending School, James founded Video Traffic Academy: an online YouTube Marketing Training Program that has enrolled over 10,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs all over the country. He has been featured on numerous sites such as Entrepreneur.com, Rise to the Top, Mixergy and many more.

Jaime Buckley is an author, illustrator, and father of 12. He is the creator of the popular Chronicles of a Hero book series and produces custom artwork for hundreds of bloggers and Indie Authors through JaimeBuckley.com and on Fiverr as a ‘Top Rated Seller’.

Elna Cain is a freelance writer for hire. Her writing has been used as a lead generation tool for small businesses and entrepreneurs. She has expert knowledge in digital marketing, branding, email marketing, content marketing, and blogging. When she’s not crafting compelling copy, she’s running around chasing her twin toddlers…with her coffee in one hand.

Jeff Goins is the author of four books including the national best seller, The Art of Work. He shares his reflections on writing and life on his popular blog Goins, Writer.

Ann Hermes is a Freelance Creative Writer, Copy-editor, Translator and Graphic Designer based in Indonesia. She is on the editorial team at Lifehack.org.

Mary Jaksch is best known for her exceptional training for writers at WritetoDone.com. Grab a copy of her free report, How to Create an Irresistible Lead Magnet in Less Than 5 Hours. In her “spare” time, Mary’s also the brains behind AlistBlogging.net. and GoodlifeZEN.com, a Zen Master, a mother, and a 5th Degree Black Belt. Join her FREE online training, 5 Powerful Online Writing Strategies.

Mark Lawrence is the accomplished author of The Broken Empire and Red Queen’s War book series. In addition to his writing, he works as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. At one point he was qualified to say ‘this isn’t rocket science … oh wait, it actually is’.

Kevan Lee is the director of marketing at Buffer, the social media publishing tool for brands, agencies, and marketers. He shares his best, actionable advice on content marketing, his favorite writing tips, and his top time-saving tools on his personal website KevanLee.com. He works to help others get more results from their online writing.

Pooja Lohana is a freelancer who writes books, edits copy and writes stuff for businesses like yours. You can find (and hire!) her atDamn Fine Writing. Pooja is also the creator of the Well-Paid Writer’s Club, a free course to help others break into the freelance writing market.

Glen Long is the Managing Editor of Smart Blogger (a.k.a. chief content monkey). When he’s not creating or editing content for the blog or an upcoming course, he’s probably reading or watching Nordic Noir.

Sylviane Nuccio is a life coach and copywriter. As a life coach, she transforms people’s lives with painful emotions that led them to negative experiences which keep them from fulfilling their potentials and dreams. As a Copywriter she improves her clients experience to attract more clients through their blog content and online articles.

Samar Owais is a freelance writer who helps small companies spread the word about their business through blogging. Aside from blogging for her clients, she also create content plans, acts as their blog’s editor, and even helps create style guides for their blogs.

Steve Scott is an author, blogger and speaker. He writes about self-help, personal development, habit change and online publishing. He currently writes for developgoodhabits.com as well as his own self-published books. His thoughts on habit change and self-improvement are simple and expressed in the tagline of his webpage, “Build a better life. One habit at a time.”

Sonia Simone is Founding Partner and Chief Content Officer at Copyblogger. Everything she does and everything she’s done has been focused on creating more remarkable relationships with customers. When you communicate intense respect, integrity and an attitude of service, you’re rewarded with business. Simple, but rarely easy.

Lauren Tharp is a freelance writer who develops brands through blogging. After over a decade of writing as a “side job,” she started her own business – LittleZotz Writing – and made writing her sole source of income. She’s worked in the writing & marketing departments of a television mini-series, an online radio station, a designer headphone company, and countless small businesses around the world.

Carol Tice is the founder of the blog Make A Living Writing, which has been in Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers for multiple years. Carol is on a mission to help writers grow their income. She has created premium courses at Useful Writing Courses and a paid community at Freelance Writers Den, which was founded in 2011 and now has over 1,000 members. She has self-published twelve ebooks and counting, including Small Blog Big Income, and The Step by Step Guide to Freelance Writing Success. She has written or co-written two traditionally published print books-How They Started: How 25 Good Ideas Became Great Businesses, and The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Starting Your Business on a Shoestring. Her most recent articles were for Forbes Magazine and Delta Sky.

Joanna Wiebe is a copywriter with 11 years’ experience as a full-time agency and in-house writer (for a major software company). She is the founder of the blog copyhackers.com, a resource for other writers. She is a self-motivated, highly-productive professional who listens well to clients, writes for end users, develops refreshing concepts & communications materials and balances grammar with style.