Marco Lamina and Michael Shehane are co-founders of JourneyLoop, an AI-powered platform transforming professional coaching from an intuition-based practice into an evidence-based profession.

Marco brings 15 years of Silicon Valley software engineering experience and is an emerging AI implementation coach. After leaving corporate tech, he's now empowering educators and democratizing transformational learning through AI. He's also a martial arts practitioner (soon to be black belt!) and musician.

Michael is an executive coach with 10+ years of experience through his company InStride Leadership. With expertise in linguistics, organizational psychology, and learning theory, he's a university-level educator who discovered coaching's biggest challenge: coaches develop in isolation without systematic feedback. He's a Quantum Martial Arts black belt (3 years) and pioneer in using AI for coaching self-improvement.

Christopher Robinson. Christopher is a seasoned facilitator, program manager, and leadership development professional with over 15 years of experience supporting large organizations across industries—from retail to technology. He is recognized for his engaging and energetic facilitation style, exceptional communication skills, and proven ability to drive change management initiatives. Chris excels at designing and delivering impactful training programs using a variety of modalities, and is highly regarded for his talent in building strong relationships and lasting partnerships.

Outside of his professional pursuits, Chris is passionate about exploring new cultures and destinations, spending quality time with family and friends, and staying active through fitness and sports.

Colin Scotland. Colin provides AI strategy and marketing guidance for humans building what matters. His work bridges timeless wisdom with emerging possibilities - creating frameworks that connect consciousness development, strategic positioning, and conscious AI partnership. He teaches systematic approaches to transformation, but sees that the real shift happens in consciousness. Through WAVE, MOVE, and AMPLIFY frameworks, leaders discover how to navigate change while maintaining their truth, build authority that serves, and partner with AI in ways that expand rather than diminish human wisdom.

Colin believes and teaches: It's strategy, but it's the consciousness beneath the systems that changes everything.

Pear Urushima. Author, poet, writer, publisher, producer, and filmmaker. Pear Urushima is founder of Kanreki Productions, is a third-generation Japanese American with a background in marketing, production, directing, and writing, and hails from Los Angeles. With over 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley’s high-tech marketing and branding landscape, she has skillfully navigated countless creative challenges. Her portfolio highlights the intricacies of marketing, multimedia content creation, and storytelling. Her corporate experience gave her the foundation to leap into producing and publishing new works independently. In addition to Kanreki Productions, she founded Slow Drum Press as a woman-owned small business based in California. Both ventures were born from a commitment to community service—to share stories, poetry, and prose from and for people who quietly inhabit the earth, whose voices are an integral part of our culture.

Marta Weinstock. Marta Weinstock is a seasoned marketing strategist and operations leader with a unique blend of business acumen and spiritual depth. Her 30-year journey through yoga, meditation, and Buddhism has cultivated a profound sense of purpose and compassion, which she infuses into her professional endeavors. A skilled architect in marketing, Marta excels in combining data-driven insights with creative strategies to build strong brands and drive business growth. With a successful track record in B2B technology and a passion for our planet's sustainability, she is committed to creating a positive impact through her work. Her eclectic mix of yoga, business, and environmental stewardship encapsulates her holistic approach to life and work. Marta is a dynamic leader who believes in the power of human connection and the importance of living a purposeful life.

Ciprian Rarau. Ciprian Rarau is a seasoned entrepreneur and software engineer from Romania, where he discovered his natural aptitude for software engineering during high school. In 2004, he moved to Canada, drawn by the opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship. As a father of two and an entrepreneur at heart, Ciprian has founded two companies in Canada. His latest venture, Wisk.ai, is a software solution designed for the restaurant industry. As the co-founder and CTO of Wisk, he has successfully led the company to become venture-backed and profitable, with a team of 20 employees. Four years ago, coinciding with the Covid pandemic, Ciprian became deeply engaged in yoga and meditation, attending retreats and focusing on reconnecting with his body and inner self. Influenced by thinkers like Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, Michael Singer, and Tara Brach, Ciprian has embraced practices centered around awareness and mindfulness. He views the mind as a separate tool rather than the entirety of his being, striving to shift from mental to heart-centered living. This journey has enhanced his ability to focus, be present, and fully experience life as it unfolds.

This podcast episode is a primer on investigating AI and how we navigate the possibilities and risks present as it evolves.

Ciprian Rarau. Ciprian Rarau is a seasoned entrepreneur and software engineer from Romania, where he discovered his natural aptitude for software engineering during high school. In 2004, he moved to Canada, drawn by the opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship. As a father of two and an entrepreneur at heart, Ciprian has founded two companies in Canada. His latest venture, Wisk.ai, is a software solution designed for the restaurant industry. As the co-founder and CTO of Wisk, he has successfully led the company to become venture-backed and profitable, with a team of 20 employees. Four years ago, coinciding with the Covid pandemic, Ciprian became deeply engaged in yoga and meditation, attending retreats and focusing on reconnecting with his body and inner self. Influenced by thinkers like Eckhart Tolle, Alan Watts, Michael Singer, and Tara Brach, Ciprian has embraced practices centered around awareness and mindfulness. He views the mind as a separate tool rather than the entirety of his being, striving to shift from mental to heart-centered living. This journey has enhanced his ability to focus, be present, and fully experience life as it unfolds.

This podcast episode touches upon the bumps and beauty of finding true love after what feels like devastation. Bottom line: love and life are possible after Plan A disintegrates and Plan B can be beautiful.

Angela Miller. Angela is a thriving woman and supports high school girls with direction and purpose at a college preparatory all-girls school in Omaha, NE - Marian High School.  She has lived in Omaha for most of her life and is mom to two beautiful children, Brooks and Alexa, and a new step-mom to four additional children through her marriage to Rick.  She enjoys working with youth and seeing the world through the lens of ease and enjoyment. She also enjoys walking her dog Luna, hosting family dinners with her newly blended family, and laughing as much as possible!

Rick Miller. Rick is a business professional with 25+ years of financial services experience in the insurance and leadership industry. A results-oriented driven salesperson who effectively provides a high level of customer service. He is an outside-the-box thinker who relies on a combination of data and relationship management to grow sales and create successful partnerships with key clients. In the same light, he is loving father to four beautiful children and a new step-dad to two more given his union with Angela.

Christina Roberts Enneking is an experienced coach, facilitator, and leadership consultant supporting large and small businesses and individuals throughout Silicon Valley. Christina is a catalyst for generating insights with clients interested in upping their game in leadership, relationship-building, and communication. With an engineering and business background from Santa Clara University and UC Berkeley, various leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies, a think tank company, a 7-person start-up firm, and being a solopreneur, she brings rich experience and perspectives into group or 1x1 sessions.

Christina likes to work with clients to uncover key behavioral strengths that accentuate their leadership edge and work to identify and resolve limiting beliefs.  She deeply values the balance in the mind, body, and spirit – with a passion for leading service-based yoga and meditation retreats around the globe, often combined with the element of installing solar lights to families or schools off-the-beaten-path and off-grid, with the non-profit organization Lighting For Literacy.

Renee Sanguinetti, MFT: Renee is a psychotherapist licensed in California and Oregon. She approaches therapy from a whole-person, transpersonal, and humanistic lens. That is, she works to help adults bring more meaning and fulfillment to their lives. She offers skill-based therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as well as experiential, process-based work such as Brainspotting Focused Mindfulness (BSP).

 She is also a earth-based ways practitioner representing multicultural indigenous healing practices, an avid dreamworker and dreamwork facilitator, a Reiki practitioner from the Usui Lineage and a student of Intentional Creativity.

Vivian Canci Foulke: BSN, IBCLC, and the Executive Director of The Narrative Initiative (TNI). As a certified TNI facilitator, she works by bringing diverse healthcare professionals together to address cultural challenges in the workplace, and helping create narrative sessions and workshops to benefit healthcare professionals and patients. She expertly presents the perspective of nursing as a balance to the perspectives of TNI founder Dr. Lorraine Dickey.

Vivian is also a senior nurse with nearly 30 years of experience working with high-risk infants, their parents, families, and healthcare professionals for all disciplines at The Children’s Hospital at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania. She is a strong advocate of the principles of Person-Centered Care/Patient-and-Family-Centered Care (PFCC) that guide her daily work with families and colleagues at the NICU. 

Drew Lawrence: Drew is a successful author, speaker, Sanskrit scholar and Vedic astrological consultant. He was head of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Sanskrit Editorial Dept in Los Angeles from 1975-1977. He has been a practitioner/teacher of Vedic Astrology or Jyotish for more than 46 years and has been a featured speaker at an International Symposium on Vedic Astrology held in San Francisco and also in London. He has authored five books thus far.

This podcast episode touches upon beginning anew, moving beyond the past and focusing on the here and now. We discuss archetypes, storytelling, the “friend” spiritual guide, and how we collectively elevate one another in this lifetime. Expect philosophy, humor, psychology, neuroscience, casual dialogue, and deep insights to reflect upon in your own hero’s journey, in both the conscious and unconscious realms.

Dr. Manoj Chalam: “Murti Wallah”. Manoj Chalam uses humor and personal anecdotes in his lectures and workshops to illuminate Hindu mythology. An Indian-born scientist with a PhD from Cornell University, Manoj helps individuals find their archetypes in Hindu Yogic deities and teaches the 4 ways to work with an archetype as a Vedantic practice. He has also compiled a book on the symbolisms of Hindu and Buddhist deities. Manoj presents workshops on Hindu symbolisms and Tantra at yoga studios, keynotes at festivals, ashrams, and universities, worldwide.

This podcast episode touches upon the pillars of success for these two women co-founders and the importance of trust, honesty, and supportive partnership. They embody what it is to truly partner and have business and friendship mix successfully. They share tips, tricks and trends of leadership challenges post-COVID and the ways in which they are finding ways for themselves and clients to thrive. This is a tell-all tale and we’re excited for you to find out more about these stellar leaders and their work in this world.

Justin Michael Williams. From growing up with gunshot holes outside of his bedroom window, to sharing the stage with Deepak Chopra, Justin knows the power of healing to overcome. He is an author, top 20 recording artist, and transformational speaker who is using music and meditation to wake up the world. With over a decade of teaching experience, Justin has become a pioneering voice of color for the new healing movement—between his podcast, keynotes, and motivational online platforms, Justin’s teachings have now spread to more than 40 countries around the globe. Justin is dedicated to using his voice to serve. To being a beacon of hope for those who are lost, and to make sure all people, of all backgrounds, have access to the information they need to change their lives. “When people wake up to their own brilliance—it’s like magic,"says Williams. 'If my work and art can inspire people to do that, then I’ve fulfilled my mission.” His first book, Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us, was released nationwide February 11, 2020. 

Shelly Tygielski. Author of the book, “Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World,” launched on October 26, 2021 from New World Library. She is also the founder of Pandemic of Love, a global, grass-roots, volunteer-led mutual aid community that has directly matched nearly two million people since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for over $60 million in direct transactions. Her work has been featured in over 100 media outlets including CNN Heroes of 2020, Forbes, Upworthy, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times and Washington Post. Shelly has been hailed by individuals from President Joe Biden to Arianna Huffington, and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn to Maria Shriver. Shelly is a trauma-informed mindfulness teacher named one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful Magazine in 2019. She teaches formalized self-care and resilience practices at organizations around the world, and is widely regarded as a self-care activist.

Jane Finette.  Jane Finette is obsessed with accelerating change at scale through conscious leadership. Her passion, expertise and two decades of experience are anchored at the intersection of technology and human potential. At her core, she empowers individuals and communities to solve the world's largest, most persistent and perennial problems.

Jane is the Executive Director and Founder of The Coaching Fellowship, a 501c3 non-profit which nurtures and brings together some of the world’s most extraordinary emerging young women leaders in social change.

Some of Jane’s past work includes senior leadership roles at global brands such as eBay, Sotheby's and Mozilla reaching hundreds of millions of users through all stages of growth. She has founded and run large international teams, expanded organizations globally, built products, ran marketing departments and grown large scale open source communities. Jane is also a successful serial entrepreneur and certified CPCC ACC executive coach, and leadership expert.

Jane is the author of the book Unlocked — How Empowered Women Empower Women, a referendum on women's inequality and a toolkit for leveling the playing field for women and girls. Part inspiration, part practical guide, Unlocked was written to encourage and empower women to take action into their own hands, and to reach gender equality in our lifetime.

Reisa Babic. Reisa is a single mother, working full time, living with cancer. When she is not working, she is spending time with her 14-year old son (when he isn’t playing video games) who is her “life saver,” watching him play soccer or football. Reisa is an active volunteer with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, supporting those diagnosed with cancer and helping them understand there is hope. Work/life balance is very important to ensuring she is available for her son while still succeeding at work. Too many people live to work and not enough of us enjoy what we have while we are here.

When I asked Robert & Rene if they would be open to an interview on REAL Eyes Realize podcast, they said they work with people face to face in order to see what is important for healing. That is hard over a podcast platform, then they could feel my heart and intention was pure, and said “of course, Princesa. Happy Birthday!” I introduce to our listeners these two incredible teachers, and their teachings.

If listeners are so inclined and fund a cause that lights a lantern in your heart, giving to something or someone that matters deeply to you, please donate. I have initiated a Go fund Me campaign for two causes that matter to me and you are invited to donate there, if desired.

Roberto & Rene Flores Solis. Brothers. Friends. Master Spiritual teachers. Roberto and Rene are plant medicine guides and instruments for deep awakening. Roberto is a kind-hearted and well-educated guide in Quechua traditions, a channel to “the doctors” of plant medicine, and a soul who will keep you laughing, loving, and enjoying the life you have been gifted to live. Rene is assistant to his brother and has proofed text books, and studied in-depth about Incan archeology and history. He is a fluent English-speaking guide who shares wisdom, stories, and has a heart of gold to all who meet him.

Govind Dass (Gv) Freeman. Gv Freeman is a Personal Growth Strategist & Psycho-Spiritual Counselor with over 25 years of experience living at the center of a marketing, product, sales, and self-care Venn diagram. Gv is the creator of Founders Thriving, a movement designed for founders, entrepreneurs, and executives to be successful and happy - here and now - by decoupling net worth and self-worth and developing a healthy relationship with themselves and their business. Gv's interests and experiences span many roles including serial entrepreneur, fractional CRO, entheogen guide, and spiritual tourist. Gv pulls from all of these disciplines to help startups launch, companies grow, and founders thrive.

For Gv, who is a dedicated Yogi, accepting the gift of his name (Gv is short for Govind Dass, a gift from his teacher Ram Dass) serves as an ever-present reminder that while we can never go back and make a brand-new start, we can start now and change our ending. In his spare time, Gv hosts retreats and travels the world, enjoys as much music as possible, and loves spending time with his friends and soul family.

Jennifer Prugh. Jennifer Prugh is the co-founder and owner of Breathe Together Yoga in Los Gatos, CA. She created the JOY of Yoga School of Integrative Learning where she oversees and teaches for the 200 and 300 Hour teacher trainings. She also created JOYMAP, a 100 hour course in meditation and awareness practices. 

Jennifer is passionate about “life education”, making mind and body practices accessible so students are empowered to live fully and contribute to life brilliantly.  She offers eight years of experience as an Associate Professor of storytelling, storyboarding, and creativity, ten years as a professional artist, and a Master’s Degree in Art and Consciousness studies to her teaching and business leadership. 

Jennifer leads four international retreats a year, and this year she published River of Offerings, Twelve Journeys Along the Ganges River, a book of her stories and photographs ten years in the making, available at Insight Editions or your favorite local bookstore.

Cain Carroll: Cain Carroll is a wild mystic and rebel spiritual teacher whose embodiment of radical presence and teachings on awakened consciousness offer a fresh and much needed blueprint for the new humanity we yearn for. He is the architect of the Clearbright Teachings that invite seekers back into intimacy the sacredness of life, and co-creator of Innate Medicine — a new paradigm in whole person healing — with Josefa Rangel, MD.

Anne Heffron: Anne Heffron has taught writing for most of her adult life. She has been eating ice cream for even longer. She is currently writer-in-residence, farmer-in-training at Spirit Hill Farm in Sebastopol and holds online classes for adopted people with Pam Cordano. As a writing coach, she teaches both groups of people and individuals how to express their most authentic selves on paper. She got a dog not long ago and is deeply, wildly, in love.

Caitlin Hoffman: Caitlin has extensive experience working with parents, teenagers, and schools as a Silicon Valley educator, academic coach, academic intervention specialist, and screen addiction specialist.  She has over thirty-five years of experience in academia and  is the Founder of All Minds Matter, Academic Coaching Works, Parenting Works and Digital Detox Works.  Caitlin excels at advocating for adolescents, and helping parents navigate the complexities of the education system, specializing in working with students who are gifted and talented (GATE), have ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, or other learning challenges.  Through academic coaching, she creates new pathways for teens and parents.

Jessica Eastland: Jessica is an elementary school teacher with a passion for social emotional well-being. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, where they were both born and raised. They live very near to most of their extended family, and she loves every second of it! A woman of many hobbies, Jessica enjoys any opportunity to be creative and to get outside in nature. She is currently working her way through the 2021 52 Week Hike Challenge! Though life can throw many hard curve balls, she doesn't let the beautiful moments and lessons go unnoticed.

Kristi Nelson: Kristi is the executive director of A Network for Grateful Living.  She has a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and has spent more than 30 years in nonprofit leadership, development, and consulting.  She has worked at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Soul of Money Institute. Kristi is a Stage IV cancer survivor who cherishes living among friends and family in western Massachusetts.

 Jessica Smith: Jessica is a Writer, Podcast Host (of the show Career Coaching with Jessness), Career Coach, and Public Speaker based in Modesto, CA. She’s an explorer of life and sees it as one big experiment to learn and grow. Jess believes the main ingredient we need to cultivate is a connection to our -NESS and to embody the knowing that we’re not here to figure out what to do, but rather, who we are. This journey of experimentation isn’t for the faint of heart, but to begin all you need is a willing-NESS and open mind. 

Jess works 1:1 with coaching clients, is available for speaking engagements and guest appearances, and is currently co-creating with Spirit to bring book #2 into the world.

Julia Midland: Julia has worked in international policy and humanitarian aid for over 15 years, evaluating the efficacy of aid programming and impact vs. intended outcome. Specializing in gender and conflict, she has worked across numerous sectors, including education, humanitarian assistance, governance, health, counter-trafficking, illicit finance, and counter-terrorism. Her work across the globe, with particular expertise in conflict and post-conflict environments such as Somalia, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, has given her an acute understanding of the problems with the typical aid model, and insight into how to make development programming more sustainable through equitable, community-centered intervention.

Lonnell Graham: Lonnell grew up in the Midwest. He was born in St. Louis and spent most of his childhood and young adult years in Kansas City. After graduating from Rockhurst University, he and his college sweetheart moved to San Jose, California. While there, he got married, earned a living as an insurance broker, and started a family. After feeling unfulfilled in the corporate sector, he became a stay-at-home Dad to his two children. He also discovered yoga and a new purpose in his life. Lonnell was a paraprofessional and a substitute teacher in the Kansas City and San Jose school districts and has always felt a calling towards being a civil servant. His dedication to the youth and teaching inspired his new career as a yoga instructor. Now, living in Houston, Texas he can be found teaching yoga at various gyms and studios and is an active member of his community!

Manoj Chalam: Manoj is the Murti Wallah, somebody who schleps and sells Murtis (statues of Hindu & Buddhist deities), teaches their symbolisms, archetypes, philosophy, mythology and a story teller who combines science, popular culture, psychotherapy and whatever he can get his hands on. He’s a scientist by training (Ph.D. In chemical engineering from Cornell) and also trying to keep teachings real with a healthy dose of humor.

Jyothi Chalam: Jyothi is a scholar of Advaita Vedanta (non dual philosophy) and an accomplished South Indian classical music singer. Jyothi is a master teacher when it comes to sadhana and Vedanta philosophy. Jyothi's guru is Swami Tattvavidanandaji from Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Pennsylvania. Jyothi spends at least 3 months every year at their ashram studying the Vedantic scriptures of the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and Brahma Sutras.

Christina Roberts Enneking (she, her, hers) is an experienced coach, facilitator, and leadership consultant supporting large and small businesses and individuals throughout Silicon Valley. She is known as a catalyst for positive change, combining entrepreneurial spirit with practical tools and skill practice to hone leadership efficacy and help align people with their deeper purpose. When Christina isn't serving corporate or private clients, she is leading service-based yoga retreats to install solar lights built by children in the Silicon Valley to children and families who live off the grid, worldwide, and want light in their homes to support education and family bonding.

Jessica Smith (she, her, hers) is an author and public speaker. She wrote the book, 'YOUR TWENTIES, a book about navigating change and transition and taking good care of ourselves as we navigate the 'real world'. She loves to travel the world speaking at events, workshops, conferences and universities. Jess is a career advisor, podcaster of the show titled 'Career Coaching Jessness'. She also incorporates essential oils into both her personal and professional life and sells them as a Wellness Advocate with Doterra, whom she loves because of their commitment to purity, sustainability + respect for farmers and the Earth.

Ariela Cuellar (she/her/hers) identifies as salvadoreña/latinx, queer, Leo sun, Taurus moon, Gemini rising, dog mom, and pizza fanatic. She grew up in Vallejo CA and in her spare time can be found hanging out with her partner, friends, at local parks with her dog Waldo, and cooking. Some of Ariela’s side hobbies include photography, creating YouTube videos, and hosting a Live show on Instagram showing folks how to make essential oil DIY products. As a professional in the social media world, Ariela brings an eye for strategy and creativity to the Real Eyes Realize podcast team. She is passionate and excited about promoting positive ripples that initiate change in our world. Ariela loves engaging with community members (online and in-person) and is grateful to be a part of the Real Eyes Realize podcast.