people of purpose

Nathan Brooks is the co-founder and CEO of Bridge Turnkey Investments, a Kansas City-based company renovating and selling more than 150 turnkey properties per year.

Having more than a decade of experience in real estate investing, Nathan is a sought-after speaker, writer, and real estate coach. He regularly produces educational content to fuel his passion for helping other people learn about and find success in real estate investing.

To this end, he started Bridge Real Estate Investing Meetup (BREIM), whose tremendous growth earned it the title of largest meetup in Kansas City after only three months running.

Nathan is a passionate leader, well-respected investor, and friend to everyone he meets. He currently lives in Kansas City on his 11-acre property with his wife and two beautiful children where he loves to enjoy the outdoors, train MMA, and come up with new business ideas to crush.

As a sought-after speaker, event facilitator, and executive coach, Finnian has been dubbed “the Business Mystic” because of his unique ability to put consciousness into business and inspire leaders to find new levels of meaning and purpose through their creative endeavors.

This approach flowed through his term as President of the Colorado Chapter of Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) - the largest and most influential community of entrepreneurs in the world. Finnian helps people ‘love their path’ so they can feel content with a life lived in the now.

As an entrepreneur, Finnian built and exited two multi-million dollar companies in the financial industry. He’s the Creator and Chief Visionary Officer of Intentionality.com. Using the Intentionality framework, Finnian guides people to create their path, get on their path, and stay on their path to wholeness.

Apparently, cats have 9 lives. For most humans, it’s usually just 1. For better or worse, he is a human.

For all practical purposes and as far as any outsider could see, his life was perfect. He has his own company, lived in a house in the middle of San Francisco, and went every summer to his wife’s home country in Europe.

Yet, on the inside, he was wondering when “that life I’m supposed to be living” was going to start.

He was starting to hope he was a cat because, apparently, the life he had imagined, wasn’t going to happen in this lifetime.

Until he took action on November 1, 2012.

Then everything changed.

Jason Stapleton is an American entrepreneur, podcaster, business coach, and trusted marketing and brand consultant.

He grew his first company, Trade Empowered, into a multi-million dollar brand as one of the largest and most well-respected trading education companies in the world.

Six years after founding Trade Empowered, Jason started "The Jason Stapleton Program," a podcast focused on economics and current events. Within 18 months, his podcast was the number one libertarian podcast on iTunes, with over 30,000 daily listeners.

Today, Jason teaches aspiring entrepreneurs how to bridge the gap between 9-5 employment and a life of true freedom, as well as coaching established entrepreneurs on increasing the influence they have in their market, so they can maximize their profits and create more abundant and rewarding life.

On one of her travels after she graduated high school, Carolin Zeitler met a woman who studied dance therapy. When she heard the term, she knew this was what she needed to study. A couple years later, she started to study dance therapy. The training did so much for her and her personal development and for that alone it was worth doing.

A couple of years later, she became an instructor and a member of the board of examiners at the dance therapy institute, where they developed a training for coaches who would use movement and expression as two of their main tools in coaching. Later in Qatar, she built a communication coaching company, as well as a women’s empowerment initiative from scratch. They built a community, offered year-round events, like workshops, masterminds and smaller conferences to keep the How Women Work (HWW) community engaged.

She then moved to a little island where she's been living her purpose in smaller ways by giving workshops at festivals, coaching one-to-one clients, ghostwriting books for entrepreneurs. Recently she's gotten involved in the Gaianet project, which has given her a chance to discover new ways of working together and organizing a company. Her work has always been about flow, connection, culture, inclusion and growth.

Evan Herrman graduated from Oral Roberts University, married for 10 years with two boys and another boy on the way. He loves personal growth and reading. He is a real estate agent by day and a podcast host by night. Evan is a superhero to his children and a wonderful husband to his wife.

He has been on a personal growth journey the majority of his life trying to figure out how to become the perfect version of himself when he found out it was impossible.

It wasn’t until he learned how to love himself that he starts seeing the change that he wanted in his life. He has now learned how to love himself through the process and journey of change without seeking a destination but enjoying the journey and sharing it with everyone along the way so that if they can relate to any part of the journey they can see it modeled.

Ellen Shane was born and educated at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After working at various positions (Xerox, STS Systems, and as a Program Director at a nonprofit to help university graduates secure entry level positions), she left the working world to focus on raising her three children. She became active on the boards of the PTA’s at her children’s schools, and was also the “room parent” in each class for all three children over the years.

Following Emily’s death, their family founded The Emily Shane Foundation and started the SEA (Successful Educational Achievement) Program as she felt compelled to do more. This Program helps others with something Emily herself dealt with in her life (academic struggles) who could not otherwise afford the support they truly need. The Program incorporates our initial “good deeds” concept and roots, as each SEA participant must perform one good deed per session and record it on our website. This embraces our Foundation’s “Pass it Forward” motto, and instills a social consciousness in our youth. In addition to the SEA Program, she has a private grief support practice.

She recently launched a children’s book titled “Emily’s Gift: The True Story of Sherlock and Jackson”. Sales of the book help support the SEA Program.

Alexander Keehnen, the Efficiency Guy from Amsterdam, is best known for his Stress-Free Work System and for the companies he founded: Gaianet and WIN Mastermind. Both platforms serve to connect and unite purpose-driven individuals in co-creation.

WIN Mastermind is a business network where purpose-driven entrepreneurs share their knowledge and network. Gaianet is a social network where mission-ready heart-driven individuals connect with disruptive projects to build a new earth.

Since Alexander discovered personal development in early 2008, his life revolves around learning and self-optimization. Since January 2019 Alexander lives his “surrender experiment” (inspired by Michael Singer): always returning to the Now, he learned to let go of unproductive thinking and open himself up to the beauty that surrounds us every day.

His big vision for Gaianet is that it functions as a doorway from the 3D to the 5D world. Inside Gaianet, it feels like home. Soul brothers and sisters unite in a place with no judgment where everyone’s authentic self is celebrated.

Tanya MFK is a Business & Life Strategist, specializing in specific action steps for Goals Success, Big Picture Planning, and Personal Growth.

Losing her husband at the age of 21, Tanya focused on learning and improving herself. This journey has helped her move forward and optimistically change, and later on, realize her purpose and the legacy she wants to leave.

With over 16 years of experience in global marketing, business development, and planning strategy, she leads courses, workshops, retreats, and planning intensives to guide you to create a business and life you love.

Tanya is also the Host of My Designed Life Show and Podcast, featured on FM radio, UI Media Network, online platforms, and globally through bingenetworks.tv

Holly Woods moved her bravado Texas roots to the West in her mid-20s, where she landed in Colorado. In the 2nd half of her life, she traversed the rugged peaks and wide valleys of the Rocky Mountains as she journeyed through the rocky contours of her own life.

Never undaunted, she sought refuge in the wilderness of the outdoors as she healed her childhood wounding from the inside-out. In what she now calls her 3rd half, a ‘calling’ pulled her to the San Francisco Bay, California, where she has grown into the expansive version of herself in the sanctuaries of redwood-lined foothills of Mt. Tamalpais and the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.

Throughout her 20+ careers and 30+ years as a Master Coach and Scientist of Human & Organizational Development, she has uncovered just a few things about how to live into our greatest potential as humans.

In addition to her #1 Bestselling Book The Golden Thread, she has a tried-and-true Purpose to Impact Roadmap that almost guarantees people like you can uncover and unleash your purpose and build a career or business around that.

Her purpose is to help YOU manifest your own Big Hairy Audacious Goals in this life, so you too can have more impact.