Daily Mantra is written by:
Nicole Powers, editor & author
Editor, writer, photographer and conversationalist Nicole Powers believes in working hard and playing hard – preferably simultaneously. When she’s not working hard at having a really, really good time, she tries to make her corner of the world a better, neater place (one stray sock at a time). She strives to live by her personal mantra, you can sleep when you’re dead. She aims to experience as much as she can while she walks on this wonderful earth, and has a passion for sharing the things she’s passionate about. She loves her husband, Al Gore, Michael Moore, Moby, Apple Macs, yoga, modern dance, Vanity Fair, Douglas Adams and John Stewart, hates Wal-Mart, 4X4s, greed and apathy, and thinks Zero 7 make the best music to make love to – which, incidentally, is what we all should be doing instead of waging wars.
Carmen De Jesus, author
Carmen De Jesus is a certified hypnotherapist and master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming and timeline therapy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her artistic journey has led her through many careers. She performed in the original Canadian company of Miss Saigon (Kim), worked as a session singer in the Philippines and as an advertising account supervisor for J. Walter Thompson. A film produced from her first screenplay, Ang Pamana: The Inheritance, is currently on the film festival circuit, and she has also written a series of mobisodes for 3G-enabled video phones in Asia. Carmen has a select private practice as a hypnotherapist, productivity coach, and vocal trainer. She enjoys esoteric learning of all forms, practices her own brand of lunar rituals, is a gleeful fetishist, Discordian, sybarite, apopheniac and technophile.
Linda Furiate, author
Astrologer, author, and television talk show host Linda Furiate wishes to cover every angle in her quest to heal one soul at a time. Her mission is to help others move through adversity to find the next happy and healthy phase of their lives. She has helped countless souls with her insightful astrology readings and articles, as well as through her television show Portraits in Determination. She is also the author of 101 Simple Suggestions and Quotations to Express Compassion and Empathy
which can be found on Amazon.com. One thing that surprises people about Linda is that she served in the Air Force for eight years, working with the Department of Defense aiding national intelligence for the State Department and the White House. Her communication skills, and experience working with military and government contractors, landed her a staffing consultant position with a D.C. based information technology firm, where she currently places ex-military and civilians in national security jobs to keep our country safe.
Marisa Mickel, author
Marisa Mickel is a Wisconsin-raised, Yale-educated writer and actor with an astonishing predilection for really good tea. Raised among a small herd of teachers and professors, Marisa loves writing and acting for their ability to enlighten, educate, and inspire – and she is forever seeking and creating projects to this end. As such, Marisa is delighted to contribute to the Daily Mantra community, fusing her educational and creative passions with a medley of favorite topics, from health and yoga, to spirituality and meditation. Currently dividing her time between New York, Los Angeles, and the British Isles, as opportunity and inclination see fit, Marisa spends her non-writing/acting time as a hiking, cooking, crosswording, and horseback-riding enthusiast with a decided weakness for Eddie Izzard and single malt scotch.
Michelle Carchrae, author
Writer and stay-at-home mom Michelle Carchrae tries to stay zen and find a balance between pondering the deep questions of life and picking the raisins up off the floor. When she's not kissing boo-boos or playing at the park, she can be found doing yoga, hiking up a mountain, sewing clothes, knitting socks or baking apple pies. Michelle believes that enlightenment can be found in the moment between sleep and waking, at 4am in the swirling, pounding bass of a dance floor or in the vortex of a hula hoop. In a past life she lived in Ireland and was a training developer, a children's helpline counselor and a baker. She's not sure exactly who she will be in the future. Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, a cat, a daughter, a husband and a spanking new compost heap.
Malayna Dawn, author
Writer and author Malayna Dawn has a somewhat skewed perspective on the world. It could be because of her mixed heritage and multi-cultural upbringing, but it could just as easily be attributed to being raised in L.A., which blurred the lines of fiction and normal reality for her at a young age. Working in the entertainment industry and traveling around the world has given Malayna a behind-the-scenes view of her beloved pop culture and her fascination with the way the world’s people convey their beliefs. She brings all of her loves together in her spiritual adventure novel Echoes Across Time, available at Amazon.com and at bookstores near you. She is thrilled to share her perspective with Daily Mantra readers.
Lael Gold, author
Writer, filmmaker, “prabbi” (priest + rabbi), and comedian Lael Gold has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley where she has taught classes on a wide range of topics including Nietzsche and funny neurotics, film comedy and race, the writing of poetry, and depictions of women warriors. She contributed the essay “A Mammy Callie Legacy” to Faulkner’s Inheritance (Mississippi University Press), and her documentary about half-Jewish identity entitled Semi-Semites is currently in postproduction. Lael is available to perform weddings and memorial services (but not brises, definitely no brises). Following what she hopes will be a massive bidding war of historic proportions, she is ready to sell her pilot script and treatment for a highly original and compelling reincarnation-related TV series. Also available to the highest bidder are a darkly comic novel playing off the culture’s hysteria over child safety and a proposed nonfiction book on forgiveness. Lael would really like to appear on an episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. (Larry, call her!)
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