National Keynote Speaker, Author

& Addiction Psychologist

Dr. Heather DiBlasi is an Addiction Psychologist with over 30 years in the field. She is one of the most sought-after National Keynote Speakers in the country on the subject of Substance Use.

Her brand of Educating, versus promoting, 'Just Say No', presented in a lively, interactive, way, sparks her audiences to understand the ramifications of Substance Use and the Long-Term Effects it can have on their lves.

Her new book 'Understanding Addiction and Recovery', speaks about substances and the people who use them. Dr. Heather has put together a thorough and comprehensive guide to answer questions and share her personal experiences as an Addiction Psychologist.

Website: https://drheathertalks.com

Meet Michael Brooke

Born in Leeds, England, Michael Brooke moved to Canada in 1972 and took his first skateboard ride three years later and never really stopped.

Over the next four decades, he built platforms across publishing, music, Xerox, television, nonprofit work, and systems thinking. In 1999, his book The Concrete Wave sold more than 42,000 copies and helped revive global interest in skateboarding history and longboarding culture. That work later led to Concrete Wave Magazine, which reached more than 100,000 readers worldwide and became one of the most recognized voices in the longboarding movement.

In 2012, Michael founded Longboarding for Peace, using skateboarding to support reconciliation projects, blood drives, youth outreach, and awareness campaigns around wrongful convictions. Through partnerships and donations, the initiative distributed more than $300,000 worth of skateboarding equipment globally while helping connect young people through creativity, movement, and community.

After selling his publishing business in 2018, Michael spent five years working in funeral services. The experience changed him deeply. Again and again, he encountered the same quiet truth: most regret does not come from lack of talent, but from drift, delay, disconnection, and living out of alignment with who we really are.

That realization sent him into a deeper exploration of systems, judgment, human behavior, and the invisible patterns shaping people’s lives and organizations. Those years of research and reflection eventually led to the creation of The Inside Atlas and BridgeWave Magazine. These projects are designed to help people better understand themselves, each other, and the systems influencing their decisions, relationships, and sense of meaning.

Today, Michael’s work sits at the intersection of systems thinking, communication, human potential, and practical wisdom. Across every chapter of his life, from skateboarding, publishing, nonprofit work, death care, and systems design, the through-line has remained remarkably consistent:

helping human potential not get quietly lost.

https://bridgewavemagazine.com

https://theinsideatlas.com

Jeffrey Johnson, Harald Walter Azman on The Mental Health Series

Gina Gardiner is the host of the Gina Gardiner & Friends Show. Gina’s guests share their experiences and approach to life and to business, providing inspiration, practical approaches, a shift in perspective or a challenge to your thinking. Every episode offers an authentic and organic conversation designed to be of interest and of positive value to you the listener.

Gina shares with you a wide variety of guests each with their own unique set of experience, expertise, enthusiasms and views on life. Gina brings her unique take on life based on a ‘Can Do’ approach to the conversation and together they offer a different perspective and positive solutions to the challenges life offers.

Her holistic approach to consulting, training and coaching supports the development of self-worth, confidence, self-reflection, emotional intelligence, curiosity, intuition in others. She empowers people to become the leaders of their own life and then to lead others with integrity, compassion and courage.

Gina facilitates leaders to work smarter and think strategically and fully develop the potential of their team so that they become truly enlightened leaders. Doing so leads to highly motivated and engaged staff who see themselves as part of the solution. The outcome is better staff relationships, greater creativity and increased productivity, excellent leadership and change management and significantly increased profitability.

Gina is the CEO of Genuinely You Ltd, and of Gina Gardiner Associates. She has created many courses and programs including the Thriving Not Surviving (Personal and Spiritual Development Program), and The accredited Enlightened Leadership Program and many more.

Gina has been described by Ofsted as an “inspirational leader” and by Investors in People as an “impressive coach and exceptional mentor who has developed an innovative and exemplary training schemes”.

Following a serious ski accident in 1983 and two failed back surgeries Gina has learned to walk twice as an adult and for over 20 years ran an award-winning school, for the most part from a wheelchair. Her school was on Her Majesties Inspectors (HMI) List of the Top 100 Schools in England twice during her tenure. The gift of this experience was the creation of a unique approach to life and the development of leadership which has continued to be at the heart of her life’s work.

Gina lives in the UK, she loves to spend time with family and friends, to travel, see live theatre and is a keen gardener.

Gina has a huge mission – to positively impact on over a million people through the development holistic, spiritual, enlightened and profitable leadership within the next three years. She is absolutely passionate about helping people have the integrity, compassion and courage to be their ‘BEST’ selves.

To find out more about working 1:1 with Gina or to explore the benefits of becoming a participant in a Enlightened Leadership Mastermind with Gina email: info@genuinely-you.com

To book Gina as a speaker email: ginagardinerspeaks@gmail.com