Nancy AustinW
Nancy Austin

Nancy Kimball Austin is an American writer and business consultant, best known for co-writing the bestsellers A Passion for Excellence (1985) and The Assertive Woman (1975). Her books have sold approximately one million copies, and been published in seven languages.

Susan BinauW
Susan Binau

Susan Binau born March 15, 1964 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a global philanthropist, published author, motivational speaker, businesswoman, and cancer survivor. A past Miss Universe Denmark and Miss International Friendship, Binau has since developed resources for families to use when coping with grief and the death or imminent death of a friend or family member.

Lillie Devereux BlakeW
Lillie Devereux Blake

Lillie Devereux Blake was an American woman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and educated in New Haven, Connecticut.

Brené BrownW
Brené Brown

Brené Brown is an American professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host. Brown holds the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and is a visiting professor in management at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Olivia Fox Cabane

Olivia Fox Cabane is an American author, public speaker, and the co-founder of Kindearth.Tech. She grew up in Paris, with a French father and attended French schools, eventually earning three separate master's degrees in law from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University. She is the author of The Charisma Myth and the co-author of The Net And The Butterfly, two books on charisma and the neuroscience of innovation, respectively.

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Jean Chatzky

Jean Sherman Chatzky is an American journalist, a personal finance columnist, financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show, AARP’s personal finance ambassador, and the founder and CEO of the multimedia company HerMoney.

Jane Cunningham CrolyW
Jane Cunningham Croly

Jane Cunningham Croly was an American author and journalist, better known by her pseudonym, Jennie June. She was a pioneer author and editor of women's columns in leading newspapers and magazines in New York. She founded the Sorosis club for women in New York in 1868 and in 1889 expanded it nationwide to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She also founded the Woman's Press Club of New York City.

Libby GillW
Libby Gill

Libby Gill is a leadership speaker, executive coach and author in Los Angeles, California. She also is the CEO of Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm. Previously, Gill was Senior Vice President at Universal Studios Television, and Vice President at Sony Pictures Television and Turner Broadcasting.

Lori HartwellW
Lori Hartwell

Lori Hartwell is the Founder and President of the Renal Support Network, author of Chronically Happy: Joyful Living in Spite of Chronic Illness, and co-host of KidneyTalk, a biweekly webcast of issues of interest to those with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).

Louise HayW
Louise Hay

Louise Lynn Hay was an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book You Can Heal Your Life.

Julia Butterfly HillW
Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Lorraine Hill is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She is best known for having lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in the tree, affectionately known as Luna, to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down. She is the author of the 2000 book The Legacy of Luna and co-author of One Makes the Difference.

Jane Howard (journalist)W
Jane Howard (journalist)

Jane Temple Howard was an American journalist, author, and editor. She worked at Life magazine from 1956 to 1972. She contributed articles to many publications and wrote several books; most well-known was her biography of Margaret Mead.

Isha JuddW
Isha Judd

Isha Judd is a writer and spiritual teacher who has gained popularity in Latin America.

Naomi JuddW
Naomi Judd

Naomi Judd is an American country music singer and actress.

Maria KangW
Maria Kang

Maria M. Kang-Casler, is an American fitness advocate, coach, blogger, and founder of the No Excuse Mom movement, a nonprofit organization which promotes a healthy lifestyle, centered on diet and exercise, for mothers. Residing in the Sacramento, California area, Kang began competing in beauty and fitness competitions as a teenager, winning several including Miss Petite Teen International, Miss Philippines USA, and Miss Bikini California.

Frances KellorW
Frances Kellor

Frances Alice Kellor was an American social reformer and investigator, who specialized in the study of immigrants to the United States and women.

Germany KentW
Germany Kent

Germany Kent is an American print and broadcast journalist.

Zoe KoplowitzW
Zoe Koplowitz

Zoe Koplowitz is a marathon runner who is afflicted with multiple sclerosis and diabetes, an inspirational speaker, and the author of The Winning Spirit—Life Lessons Learned In Last Place. As of and including 2013, Koplowitz has completed a total of 25 New York City Marathons, all of them in last place. Her 33-hour-9-minute run in 2000 set a world record for the longest marathon time in the history of women's running. "The race belongs not only to the swift and strong but to those who keep on running", says Koplowitz.

Frances Moore LappéW
Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is an American researcher and author in the area of food and democracy policy. She is the author of 19 books including the three-million-copy selling 1971 book Diet for a Small Planet, which the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History describes as “one of the most influential political tracts of the times." She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent books include Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want, coauthored with Adam Eichen, and World Hunger: 10 Myths. with Joseph Collins. In 1987, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them."

Sharon LechterW
Sharon Lechter

Sharon L. Lechter is an American accountant, author, and businesswoman. She is the co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, and the founder and CEO of Pay Your Family First, a financial education organization.

Tara MagalskiW
Tara Magalski

Tara Magalski is an American actress, television personality, and holistic health coach. She is the founder of Divine Lifestyles, IPA International and Healing is Hot TV. Magalski attended AIU in London and graduated with a degree in communications.

Caroline Adams MillerW
Caroline Adams Miller

Caroline Adams Miller is an American executive coach and motivational speaker. Miller has written six books, including Getting Grit, Creating Your Best Life, and My Name is Caroline, which chronicles her struggle with bulimia.

Alaa MurabitW
Alaa Murabit

Alaa Murabit is a Libyan-Canadian physician, Meritorious Service Cross recipient, one of 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals Advocates appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and a UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic growth. In 2019 Murabit was selected as one of the Top 20 of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy alongside Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Melinda Gates, and Michelle Obama. Murabit is the co-founder of The Omnis Institute, an independent non-profit organization that aims to work on critical global issues through the empowerment of emerging local leaders. She previously founded and spearheaded Voice of Libyan Women at the age of 21.

Jane RobertsW
Jane Roberts

Dorothy Jane Roberts was an American author, poet, self-proclaimed psychic, and spirit medium, who claimed to channel an energy personality who called himself "Seth." Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the Seth Material, established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena.

Katherine SchwarzeneggerW
Katherine Schwarzenegger

Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger Pratt is an American author, and the eldest child of actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and broadcast journalist Maria Shriver.

Florence Scovel ShinnW
Florence Scovel Shinn

Florence Scovel Shinn was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years.

Janine ShepherdW
Janine Shepherd

Janine Shepherd, is an Australian author, aerobatics pilot and former cross-country skier. Shepherd's career as an athlete ended when she suffered life-threatening injuries when hit by a truck during a training bike ride. Before the accident, she had been in contention to win Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics. Though she was told she would never walk again or have children, and doctors had significant doubts as to whether she would survive at all, she defied all of these, and her story later became the focus of national attention, as well as a popular telemovie.

Ivanka TrumpW
Ivanka Trump

Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump is an American businesswoman, serving since 2017 as Advisor to the President, her father Donald Trump, and the Director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship. The daughter and second child of President Trump and his first wife, Ivana, she is the first Jewish member of a first family, having converted before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner.

Marilyn Van DerburW
Marilyn Van Derbur

Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur is the Miss Colorado 1957, 1958 Miss America pageant holder, author and motivational speaker. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

Oprah WinfreyW
Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire, and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.