Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith is a physician, speaker, and bestselling author. She is an international thought-leader and media resource on the mind-body-spirit connection featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN Health, KLOVE, NPR, The 700 Club, Women’s Day, Daystar, Fast Company, INC, Psychology Today, and TED.com. 

Dr. Dalton-Smith is the author of numerous books, including Colorful Connection: 12 Questions About Race That Open Healthy Conversations (Selah Award winner); Set Free to LiveFree: Breaking Through the 7 Lies Women Tell Themselves; and Come Empty (winner Golden Scroll Nonfiction Book of the Year and Illumination Award Gold metalist. Her international bestseller Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity shares life-changing insight on the seven types of rest needed to optimize your productivity, increase your overall happiness, overcome burnout, and live your best life. Over 250,000 people have discovered their personal rest deficits using her free assessment at RestQuiz.com. Her new release is Being Fully Known: The Joyful Satisfaction of Beholding, Becoming, and Belonging which goes deeper into the topics of spiritual, emotional, and social rest.

Dr. Dalton-Smith is the host of I Choose My Best Life podcast with over 200 interviews with Christian authors and speakers. Her program airs on multiple platforms, including IHeartRadio, Spotify, iTunes, and Amazon. Learn more about her at IChooseMyBestLife.com

Arlene Pellicane is a speaker, host of the Happy Home podcast, and author of several books including Parents Rising, Making Marriage Easier and Screen Kids. Arlene has been featured on the Today Show, Fox & Friends, the Wall Street Journal and Focus on the Family. Arlene and her husband James have three children and live in San Diego. 

 To learn more, visit her website at ArlenePellicane.com

Debbie Alsdorf known as a cheerleader of hope, has a mission to help women live a better story by leading them to the heart of God’s love and the truth of His word. She has spent most of her adult life serving women, previously leading one of the largest women’s ministries in Northern California— teaching, shepherding, discipling, training leaders and directing Design4Living conferences. She is a best-selling author who has been featured on Focus on the Family, The Today Show and other nationally syndicated broadcasts and is a featured Bible teacher on the Aspire Women’s Tour. Her most recent release is, Ten Minutes with God for Women—a 365 day devotional. Four years ago, she joined the agent team at Books & Such Literary Management.  

She and her husband Ray have raised a blended family and now love on ten grandchildren who affectionately call her Grammy. Her favorite thing is pool time and Grammy dance parties. After a lifetime in California, they now call Arizona home.

Carol Kent is a best-selling author and a popular international public speaker who is known for being dynamic, humorous, encouraging, and biblical. She is a former radio show co-host and has often been a guest on Focus on the Family and a featured speaker at Time Out for Women and Heritage Keepers arena events; she has also spoken at The Praise Gathering for Believers and at Vision New England's Congress. Her testimony was recently aired on the Billy Graham Prime Time TV Special and she frequently speaks at Extraordinary Women events.

Carol has spoken internationally in Germany, Bulgaria, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Mexico, and Canada. She regularly appears on a wide variety of nationally syndicated radio and television broadcasts. Past appearances have included Dateline NBC, CNN LIVE, Deborah Norville Tonight on MSNBC, At Home Live with Chuck & Jenni, Focus on the Family, On Main Street, LIFE Today with James Robison, Prime Time America, Midday Connection, Family Life Today, and 100 Huntley Street. Carol has also been a keynote speaker for the televised and nationally syndicated women's conference, THRIVE!

She is the president of Speak Up Speaker Services, a Christian speakers' bureau, and the founder and director of Speak Up With Confidence seminars, a ministry committed to helping Christians develop their communication skills. She founded the nonprofit organization, Speak Up for Hope, which benefits the families of incarcerated individuals.

She holds a master's degree in communication arts and a bachelor's degree in speech education. She has taught speech and drama, and directed women's ministries at a large mid-western church. She is also on the advisory boards of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association and MOPS International.

Her books include: A New Kind of Normal (Thomas Nelson), When I Lay My Isaac Down, Becoming a Woman of Influence, Mothers Have Angel Wings, Secret Longings of the Heart, Tame Your Fears, Speak Up With Confidence, and Detours, Tow Trucks, and Angels in Disguise (all NavPress). She has also co-written with Karen Lee-Thorp the Designed for Influence Bible Studies (six books in the series, NavPress). Carol is the co-author and general editor of the Kisses of Sunshine Series of five books (Zondervan). She has been featured on the cover of Today's Christian Woman and her articles have been published in a wide variety of magazines.

Learn more: https://carolkent.org