Susun interviews Marilyn Mercado after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.

Bio: Marilyn Mercado is a passionate teacher, coach, and guide whose life’s work bridges movement, mindfulness, and creative healing. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Marilyn has spent over 15 years teaching Ballroom and Latin dancing, and enjoying Hula as a joyful expression of fitness and culture. Her wellness journey began in her 20s with a simple but powerful intention: to grow stronger and healthier with age. This led to a lifelong practice of yoga, which evolved into multiple certifications and a deep dedication to both teaching and learning. Marilyn has spent over two decades teaching dance, fitness, creative movement, and study skills to children and adults.

In recent years, Marilyn expanded her offerings to include Health and Life Coaching, earning certifications that allow her to guide people through challenges in health, career, relationships, and life purpose. She also received her Art Medicine Certification, which she beautifully weaves into her coaching to support emotional healing and self-expression through creativity. She is a Dreambuilder Coach, helping people through the process of building their dreams. A lifelong learner and creator, Marilyn is now a published author. Her teaching and coaching style is infused with playfulness, intuition, creativity, and compassion. Marilyn’s mission is to help others remember their wholeness and walk the path of self-discovery with grace, strength, and joy—through movement, mindfulness, and the power of sacred space.

Susun interviews Grace De La Rosa after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.

Bio: Grace De La Rosa is a Holistic Wellness Consultant and Spiritual Advisor with over 40 years of professional expertise in health and fitness and 19 years as a cancer thriver. As a creative visionary leader and founder of Living with Grace, LLC, she advocates for integrative healing, mental health support, and holistic well-being. Grace's leadership extends to community wellness initiatives and executive-level briefings, addressing issues like mental health, addiction recovery, and homelessness. Her commitment is further exemplified through her past work as the founding chairperson of First Coast Recovery Advocates, the first Recovery Community Organization (RCO) in Jacksonville, FL providing mental health, alcoholism and substance misuse resources across multiple counties. With an open-door policy and a focus on empowering others, Grace embodies compassionate and transformative leadership.

Susun interviews Nina Simons after 90 minutes of herbal health questions.

Bio: Nina Simons is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman's Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development. She loves convening – for mutual mentorship and shedding conditioning, and to explore methods and practices for reinventing leadership, reclaiming our whole selves, connecting across differences and co-creating communities of belonging.

Nina co-edited (with Anneke Campbell) Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices, which won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. She's also a contributor to the anthology Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women's Voices. All three are being used to ignite liberatory learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.