Mentoring Moments with Martha
Martha Creek interviews some of the talented and courageous people that mean a lot to her, that have been her teachers, and with whom she shares a special relationship.
Rev. Renèe Leboa
Rev. Renèe Leboa is an Ordained New Thought Minister who served as the Spiritual Director of the Spiritual Living Center of Charlotte, North Carolina, for 12 years. She is a dynamic, humorous, and gifted speaker, bringing to her teaching style a blending of World Religions, Metaphysics, The Law of Attraction, 12 Step Recovery Principles, Mental Health-Trauma Peer Support Specialist, and the study of New Thought for more than 28 years.Renèe’s childhood was a combination of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse. Her beliefs formed around trauma and influenced her views on life. She learned to live by instinct and cunning to survive. Without a formal education and emancipated at fifteen, Renee’ fended for herself, living off her wits, drugs, and alcohol. With only an 8th grade education, pregnant at Sixteen, she found herself alone; giving her child up for adoption, she began a new life of shapeshifting to navigate her world.
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Frances Mann-Craik and Rev. John Riley
Reverend John Riley joyfully serves as Senior Minister at Unity Palo Alto Spiritual Center. His passion is helping people discover their spiritual magnificence and integrating spirituality into everyday life.Frances-Mann Craik, co-creator ThankU.io, Fairy Godmother, Friend
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Rev. Diana Kennedy
Rev. Diana Kennedy is a Unity Minister who serves at Unity Worldwide Ministries and is active with the Unity Arts Ministry Kindness Rock Garden. Diana’s passions are creativity, philanthropy, the science of creating positive change, and being in nature. She is a vegetarian and loves to take walks around the fountains at Unity Village. She is from Florida and now lives in the Kansas City area.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Kathleen Flynn
Rev. Kathleen Flynn is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist certified by the Grief Recovery Institute of Bend OR. She serves on the Spiritual Care Team at CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center where she coordinates the Bereavement Program. In May 2020, Kathleen received the designation of board-certified clinical chaplain.Read more and watch the interview...
John E. Welshons
John Welshons (“Ramananda”) is a highly respected contemporary spiritual teacher who lectures and leads meditation courses throughout North America. He has been a practitioner of vipassana (mindfulness) meditation and various forms of yoga for more than fifty years. In addition to his latest book, One Soul, One Love, One Heart: The Sacred Path to Healing All Relationships, he is also the author of Awakening from Grief: Finding the Way Back to Joy and When Prayers Aren’t Answered, two books that emerged from forty-five years of experience helping people deal with dramatic life change and loss.Ramananda has studied world religions throughout his life. His teachings weave together the mystical and contemplative aspects of the world’s great spiritual traditions. He is a beloved meditation teacher, and one of our most respected authorities on how to use life’s inevitable difficulties as the steps on our own path of spiritual awakening.
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Rev. Dr. Cassandra Butler
Rev. Butler is a retiree from New Jersey and a new resident in the Myrtle Beach area. Cassandra’s spiritual journey started in 1979. Over the years her interest gravitated towards energy work when she joined the Theosophical Society and the A.R.E. and learned of Therapeutic Touch. Cassandra has formal training in Healing Touch, Reiki, and Oneness Blessing and has participated in various workshops and seminars on health and spirituality. Rev. Butler still considers herself a Sai Baba devotee.Read more and watch the interview...
Lily Sandberg
Lily Sandberg is born and bred Unity. Growing up, she served as a regional officer for the Youth of Unity program and returned after graduation to create and run weekend retreats for Uniteens. She graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2018 with a BA in Religious Studies and a BA in Sociology. She is currently in her second year of ministerial school through Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute (UWSI).Read more and watch the interview...
Lin Schussler-Williams
As a speaker, sales coach, author, and women’s empowerment advocate, Lin works with Individuals, groups, entrepreneurs, and women to help them build their belief and confidence, accelerate results, and create richer more fulfilling lives.Read more and watch the interview...
Reverend Rich Carlini
Reverend Rich Carlini is an ordained Unity minister and currently serves the Unity congregation in Davis, CA. He is also the senior minister of an alternative ministry, Transform Myself Inc., A Unity Ministry.Read more and watch the interview...
Ron Holdaway
Ron Holdaway is a Licensed Unity Teacher, serving as Spiritual Leader at Unity Spiritual Center of Panama City, FL. Ron is enrolled in UWM's Field Minister Program, to become an ordained and licensed Unity minister.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Ric Beattie
Rev. Ric Beattie is a Unity Minister and currently serves Unity of Royal Oak, Michigan as Pastor. He is passionate about community building, making love visible, and Interfaith work.Read more and watch the interview...
Dr. Judy Blackwelder
Dr. Judy Blackwelder directed high school bands, choirs, church choirs and various other ensembles for over 40 years. Her work has been guided by her beliefs that "to whom much is given, much is required," and that music opens the heart in a way nothing else can.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Denise Yeargin
Rev. Denise has spent her entire life in service to others. Whether it be mother, daughter, teacher, therapist, or minister, her core belief seems to always shine through. Denise says, “I live to shine my divine light.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Dr. Janine H. Burns
Dr. Janine H. Burns is passionate about helping people shed limiting beliefs and live from the realm of possibilities. She holds a Doctorate of Divinity degree from Emerson Theological Institute and has served as their liaison for over 25 years. She loves to teach and inspire using affirmative jingles and often writes them to go along with the subject of her talks on Practical Spirituality.Read more and watch the interview...
Susan Hagar
Susan Hagar is a student of life and is guided by the gnostic teachings imparted by "spiritual messenger", Willaru Huayta of Peru. Susan is the Board President of Unity Spiritual Centre Ottawa, is a Registered Nurse and owner of Nurse On Board.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Johannys Jimenez-Hartog
Rev. Johannys Jiménez-Hartog is an ordained Unity minister who in 2010 founded and leads Unity Para Todos (“Unity For Everyone”), a Spanish language ministry (now totally online at www.unityparatodos.org). A spiritual teacher and mystic student (she also has been ordained by Pathways of Light, which uses A Course in Miracles as its curriculum), she is a multi-talented, engaging, and inspirational bilingual speaker, author, and personality.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Diane Robinson
Diane Robinson discovered Unity of the Palm Beaches in 1986 and immediately knew that she had found Truth. She became a Licensed Unity Teacher and spiritual leader of Unity Church in the Gardens in Jupiter, Florida in 2003, leading that ministry for 17 years. She was ordained on her 10th anniversary as spiritual leader in 2013. Diane decided to move back to her hometown of Tipton, Indiana last June and now serves Unity Church of Anderson as their senior minister.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Kurt Condra
Rev. Kurt Condra serves the inclusive, devoted congregation of Unity on the North Shore in Evanston, IL. His speaking, writing and teaching provide practical insights for applying spiritual principles in daily life. Subscribe to his weekly "Shoreline" e-blast at www.unityns.org.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Elizabeth Mora
Rev. Elizabeth Mora is the Senior Minister of Unity Northwest Church outside of Chicago. She has been a spiritual seeker since high school, and her mission is to share positive spiritual teachings with as many people as she can. With a Masters of Divinity, years of theater experience, and a training background, she offers a unique blend of the human and the divine when she speaks.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Rhona Segarra
Rev. Rhona Segarra's "North Star" is to fill the world with love, one person at a time. Passionate about people, Rhona's dream is to add contentment and joy to people's lives through the enhancement of their relationships. Her prayer is for peace, kindness, and safety in all relationships.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Erin McCabe
Rev. Erin is the Senior Minister of Unity Village Chapel, the local and livestream spiritual community located at Unity World Headquarters. Erin serves on the leadership council of AGNT led by Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith hosting the weekly livestream of leaders with AGNT Speaks and she is the founder and Director of Campaign for Consciousness.Read more and watch the interview...
Grace Terry
Grace Terry, MSW, has 40 years of combined experience as a licensed mental health professional, grief coach/mentor, author, and inspirational/motivational speaker. As a survivor of multiple traumatic losses and a conscious pilgrim on the grief pathway, her guiding intention is to pass forward the kindness and the opportunities for healing she has received.Read more and watch the interview...
Dr. Rima Bonario
Dr. Rima Bonario, Th.D speaks and teaches on women’s empowerment and embodiment practices through online and in person women’s circles. She also leads sacred travel journeys to places like Egypt, France, and Hawaii to awaken and activate a deep connection to the Divine Feminine within.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Beth Head
Beth is an ordained Unity Minister. She recently retired as minister of Unity of Melbourne in Melbourne, FL, where she served 20 years. Besides being a guest speaker at churches throughout the country, Beth also does board trainings and consults with churches about their financial reporting and accounting systems.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Chris Jackson
Reverend Christopher H. Jackson is a third-generation Unity student with a lifetime of service in the worldwide Unity movement. He is former Executive Vice President of Unity‘s World Headquarters, where he served for twenty-six years until his retirement in 2001. Chris has been a keynote speaker at Unity events throughout the United States and in Europe and Mexico.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Karen Lindvig
Rev. Karen Lindvig was ordained in 1984 and served ministries in Olathe, Kansas and Reno, Nevada before coming to Seattle Unity in 1990, where she has served for 30 years.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Juan del Hierro
Rev. Juan del Hierro serves as Associate Minister at Unity on the Bay, in Miami, FL. His call and life purpose is “to passionately and boldly awaken the human family.” He does this through inspirational talks and workshops; meditations that touch the heart and awaken the mind; and his sacred activism.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Mindy Tucker
Rev. Rev. Mindy’s holy purpose is to infuse connections with vibrancy. As a minister, she coalesces ideas of spiritual truth and communicates them in a way that inspires people to take positive action. Rev. Mindy has served as a catalyst of transformation for Unity communities since 2008, from her home church in Honolulu, to South Windsor, CT and now Wilmington, NC. She teaches. She preaches. She brings aliveness and joy to everyday living.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Bill Marchiony
Rev. Bill Marchiony is a co-founder and Spiritual Director of New Thought Philadelphia. He has been a practitioner of Practical Healing Prayer since 2002. His spiritual studies began six years earlier, and he received ministerial credentials in 2011 and Doctor of Divinity in 2020 from the Emerson Theological Institute.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Pamela "Pjae" Stanley
Reverend Pamela “Pjae” Stanley is Senior Minister of Harmony Spiritual Center, Fort Worth, Texas, and an ordained Inter-Faith ministerial graduate of Emerson Institute of Theology. She is a speaker, an author of a fiction series, and a singer performer who has lived and traveled throughout Europe, South America, and Asia.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Linda Machesic
Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Preacher, Teacher. Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Master’s in Liberal Studies, and Ordination as Unity Minister from Unity Institute.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Marty Newman
After working in six different "fields" and 25 seemingly unrelated jobs, a traumatic interruption in my life broke me open to begin my conscious spiritual search, which resulted in my being ordained a Unity Minister, 17 years ago.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. John McLean
Rev. John M. McLean is the Senior Minister at Unity of Nashville. Rev. John was previously the Director of the Center for Spiritual Living, in Los Angeles. Prior to his service there, beginning in 2010, he served as Senior Minister of Unity of Bellevue, Washington and as Associate Minister at Unity of Nashville, Tennessee.Read more and watch the interview...
Cynthia Alice Anderson
Cynthia Alice is an inspirational, charismatic servant leader, gifted with a communication style that invokes response from others.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Dr. Jerry Troyer
Rev. Dr. Jerry Troyer serves as Board President for ANTN (Affiliated New Thought Network), a membership organization of New Thought, Science of Mind and Unity centers and churches, as well as individuals. He is a staff minister at Om Center for Spiritual Living in the San Diego area, and works as the Director of Relationship Development for Urban Street Angels, an organization working to end youth homelessness in San Diego.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Tracy Quillen
Rev. Tracey Quillen graduated with a Master of Divinity from Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute and received her ordination as a Unity Minister June 15, 2020. Unity has been her spiritual practice for nearly 30 years, serving as Chair of the Board of Directors, Prayer Chaplain, Uniteen Teacher, and volunteer in many capacities.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Dr. Nickie Golden
Nickie Golden enjoys working with weaving together psychological and spiritual principles to incorporate into everyday life. A practicing psychologist, a former university professor, and a student of life, Nickie is dedicated to having fun and to experiencing joy.Read more and watch the interview...
Elizabeth Longo
Elizabeth is passionate about supporting individuals and groups to dive deep and go beyond their stopping points to awaken to their full potential. She is an Ordained Unity Minister, Coach, Consultant, Spiritual Teacher, Yogi and Intuitive Healer.Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. DeeAnn Weir Morency
A life-long spiritual seeker, Rev. DeeAnn serves as the Associate Minister at Unity San Francisco. She is a Unity Minister, Interfaith Minister, Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner, certified Q Coach and Reiki Master. Rev. DeeAnn is deeply passionate about the power of Unity’s teachings to change lives and Affirmative Prayer, Meditation and Shadow Work are the foundations of her healing ministry.Read more and watch the interview...
Dr. Angelo Pizelo
Dr. Angelo Pizelo is President and Director of Emerson Theological Institute, where, according to Dr. Pizelo, "There's something for everyone at Emerson."Read more and watch the interview...
Pam Grout
Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including New York Times Best-Seller, E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich, Art and Soul, Reloaded, and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World). Her mission is changing readers’ perspective, shifting from problem state to possibility state. She lives from a practice and embodiment of her teachings and writings.Read more and watch the interview...
Barbara L. Morgenstern
Barbara L. Morgenstern, attorney and former faculty member of Miami University’s journalism program and Cincinnati Post newspaper reporter. Trained in this wonderful craft of Memoir Writing at The Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, N.Y.Read more and watch the interview...
Diane Czerwonka
Diane’s success in the Human Resources arena is paramount. During her 30 year tenure serving organizations, teams, and humanity, she stays committed to being the “human” in Human Resources. Her ever growing, expanding, wholehearted ways of being with other humans in very intense situations, loss, grief, change, legal matters, death, disease, harassment, and the myriad forms that rules and regulations require is extraordinary. Her commitment to serve with equality and justice for every level of the organization is a lighthouse for all.Read more and watch the interview...
Alan Scherer
Alan has volunteered for more organizations than most people know exist. Over decades he has served Louisville events, non profits and compassionate Louisville initiatives that include: The Home of the Innocence, Unity of Louisville, Dreams with Wings, Deer Park Neighborhood Association and various charities. He has received The Bell Award for outstanding volunteerism work in the community; The Jefferson Medal of Freedom for Patriotic volunteerism; The AARP Real Possibility Faith Award for extraordinary volunteerism in faith communities; Mayor’s local awards for community service.Read more and watch the interview...
David Dafoe
Dave is the founder and owner of Flavorman and has become one of the country's foremost authorities on flavor. He began his career with Fries & Fries, now known as Givaudan. In 1989 he accepted a position with Brown-Forman Corporation in Louisville, KY to head up the product development of a new Jack Daniels Country Cocktails line. After five years with the company in 1992, Dave began Flavorman, previously named Pro-Liquitech known as the "Beverage Architects". Flavorman has grown from a consultation firm to an international, full-service custom product development and ingredient supply company.Read more and watch the interview...
Travis Darren Wilson
All About Travel is the result of the desire of its founder Darren Wilson to help those clients who entrusted him with their travel arrangements to create and have the best possible travel experience. They have access to a multitude of travel vendors and are able to access instant complete inventory of vendors which is pivotal in this constantly dynamic industry. Their goal is to help you see the world in a way that caters to your needs and goals!Read more and watch the interview...
Rev. Sheree Taylor-Jones
Rev. Sheree is a consultant, speaker, and author. Her passion is to assist people in questioning their personal beliefs, assessing and analyzing if those beliefs are valuable or need to be changed, giving them permission to release beliefs which no longer serve them , and facilitate them in creating new empowering ones. She believes it’s in our ability to question our convictions that we are able to create personal transformation which leads to a collective shift in consciousness.Read more and watch the interview...
Dawn Gee
Solving Childhood Suffering One Meal at a Time
When you are hungry, you can’t think of anything else! How can children focus on solving a math problem or being a positive force in the community when they are trying to ignore the persistent pangs of hunger? You may be able to survive without a home. You can live without a fancy car. But you cannot survive without food. Without proper nutrition, a child’s future physical and mental health, academic achievement, and economic productivity are threatened. There are few things in human life that are more essential than Food.Read more and watch the interview...