Sue Johanson

Sue Johanson is Canada's foremost sexual educator and counselor, and recipient of the distinguished Order of Canada. For the last 30 years, she has provided frank and honest sexual education to thousands through her lectures, radio programs, and the "Sunday Night Sex Show" on television. Since 2002, Ms. Johanson’s wisdom and experience have been available to U.S. viewers on "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson", a live phone-in program airing on Oxygen TV. "Talk Sex" also airs in Brazil with Portuguese subtitles on GNT. In addition to her duties as a sexual educator, Ms. Johanson is a registered nurse, a mother, and a grandmother. As a best-selling author, her works include: “Talk Sex” (Penguin); “Sex Is Perfectly Natural But Not Naturally Perfect” (Viking); and “Sex, Sex and More Sex” (Regan Books). In 2004, Ms. Johanson appeared as the keynote speaker at the Passion Parties Convention – her only U.S. engagement that year.

Jennifer R. Berman MS, MD

Dr. Jennifer Berman is Co-Director of both the Female Sexual Medicine Center (FSMC) at UCLA Medical Center, Department of Urology, Los Angeles, CA and The Network for Excellence in Women's Sexual Health (NEWSHE) and its website, www.newshe.com. She is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Urological Association, the New England Urological Section, and the Society for the Study of Impotence Research.

Considered a leader in her field, Dr. Berman has been cited and quoted in various publications and periodicals. She has also appeared as an expert on television talk shows including NBC "Later Today", "Good Morning America", "The Oprah Winfrey Show", CNBC, CNN, America's Health Network and the NBC and ABC News for both local and national affiliates. Dr. Berman is on the editorial board of Health Gate Inc. and Sexual Health Capsule and Comment, by Mcgraw Hill, Co. She is co-author of the book "For Women Only." In 2005, Dr. Berman was the keynote speaker for Passion Parties 11th Annual Convention.

Mary Jane Minkin, MD

Mary Jane Minkin, MD, is a recipient of the Irving Friedman Award, given by Yale School of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for excellence in clinical abilities and patient care. Additionally, she has twice been awarded the Resident's Teaching Award for best community attending physician. Dr. Minkin is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist in private practice in New Haven, Conn., and a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Minkin is an outspoken advocate for helping women with their sexual health. She is noted for recently publishing “The Women's Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause.”

She is also the lead author or coauthor of articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals and coauthor of “What Every Woman Needs to Know About Menopause” (Yale University Press). She also gives lectures to a menopause support group called Red Hot Mamas. In February 2005, Dr. Minkin spoke with Passion Parties President Pat Davis at a discussion forum examining sexual changes associated with menopause.

Louanne Cole Weston, PHD

Dr. Louanne Cole Weston has been a licensed marriage, family, and child counselor and a board-certified sex therapist since 1983. She is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

Dr. Weston has been an on-going contributor to the Passion Parties newsletter, one of the many educational resources used to train Passion Parties Consultants.

Michael Castleman

Michael Castleman has been a sex and health writer since 1973. Library Journal calls him "one of the nation’s leading health writers." Mr. Castleman acts as an advisor for Passion Parties by conducting monthly training seminars with the organization’s sales force.

A prolific medical journalist, Mr. Castleman has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs, including: “Today,” “Good Morning America” and “Phil Donahue.” Mr. Castleman’s health articles have appeared in “The New York Times,” “Los Angeles Times,” “USA Today,” “San Francisco Examiner,” “Reader’s Digest,” “Prevention,” “Modern Maturity,” “Family Circle,” “Redbook,” “Self,” “Glamour,” “Cosmopolitan,” “Good Housekeeping,” “Ladies’ Home Journal,” “Health,” “Men’s Health,” “Men’s Fitness,” “Men’s Journal,” “Psychology Today,” “Parenting,” “Child,” “Natural Health,” “Mother Jones,” “Your Health,” “First for Women,” “Yoga Journal,” “Herb Quarterly,” “Herbs For Health,” “New Woman,” “Mademoiselle,” “American Health for Women,” “Healthy Living,” and many others.

He has authored 10 consumer health books including:

• “Great Sex: A Man's Guide to the Secret Principles of Total-Body Sex” (Rodale)
• “Sexual Solutions: For Men and the Women Who Love Them.” (Simon and Schuster)
• “The Medical Self-Care Book of Women’s Health.” (Doubleday)
• “The New Healing Herbs: The Classic Guide to Nature's Medicines.” (Rodale)
• “Blended Medicine: Combining the Best of Mainstream and Alternative Therapies for Optimal Health and Wellness.” (Rodale Press); and
• “There's Still a Person In There: The Complete Guide to Preventing, Treating, and Coping with Alzheimer’s Disease” (Putnam).

Jack Canfield

Affectionately known as America’s Success Coach and the originator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, Jack Canfield has personally taught millions of individuals his unique and modernized formulas for success. In his latest book, “The Success Principles™: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be,” he presents a new self-improvement standard, which contains 64 powerful principles of success utilized by top achievers from all walks of life and all areas of commerce. The Success Principles – and the entire empire of "Principles" books, products, coaching programs and branded retail merchandise – is Canfield's next offering to the more than 100 million readers he currently reaches worldwide.

• Originator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series
• CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul® Enterprises – A billion dollar empire
• Featured co-author of “The Secret”
• Author of the best-selling books “The Power of Focus,” “The Aladdin Factor” and “Dare to Win”
• Holds the Guinness Book World Record for having seven books simultaneously on the New York Times Bestseller List - beating out Stephen King
• Holds the Guinness Book World Record for the largest book-signing ever for “Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul”
• Featured on national television shows and networks, such as: “Oprah,” “20/20,” “Inside Edition,” “Today,” “Larry King Live,” “Fox and Friends,” “CBS Evening News,” “NBC Nightly News,” “Eye to Eye,” CNN's “Talk Back Live!,” PBS and QVC
• Founder and Chairman of the Canfield Training Group in Santa Barbara, California
• Founder of The Foundation for Self-Esteem in Culver City, California

Brian Biro

Brian Biro is America’s Breakthrough Coach. Building new energy and confidence in everyone he touches, Biro is above all a team builder deeply inspired by an irrepressible belief in people.
 
He is a four-time winner of “Inc.” magazine’s Peoples’ Choice Top Speaker, and has appeared on “Good Morning America,” CNN’s “Business Unusual,” Fox News Network, and as a featured speaker at the Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida. He has authored seven books including “Joyful Spirit,” “Through the Eyes of a Coach,” and the bestseller “Beyond Success!”

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