Denise Austin is a pioneer in the exercise and sports industry. A five-foot-four-inch dynamo, she has sold more than 20 million exercise videos and DVDs, authored 10 books on fitness and starred in the longest-running fitness show in the history of television. Denise's trademark zest for life, positive outlook and can-do attitude have endeared her to millions of fans across the country - and around the world - and earned her the reputation as "America's favorite fitness expert."
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This high-spirited how-to hipster has made it her life's work to empower others to express their creative side and to take a fearless approach to "doing it yourself" and "being yourself." After a 9-year career in broadcast television, she established Simply Michele, Inc. (SMI)™ - a multimedia company on a mission to empower people to explore, express and exchange fresh ideas through rousing content platforms built around originality. In 2003, she launched the company's signature series, Michele Beschen's Courage to Create. That product evolved into B. Original and launched on DIY Network and HGTV in September 2006. Watch for her new television series B. Organic to launch in June 2009.

Karen Salmansohn is an ex-Senior VP ad creative director who (at age 26) left her job to pursue her passion of writing - and is now a best-selling author with over 1 million books sold, with titles including How to be Happy, Dammit; Enough, Dammit; Ballsy: 99 Ways to Score Extreme Success; The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity, Setbacks, and Losses. Journalists call Salmansohn "Deepak Chopra meets Carrie Bradshaw" because she merges empowering psychology with edgy humor and stylish graphics. Basically, she creates self-help for people who would never be caught dead reading self-help books.

Chester Santos, the 2008 USA National Memory Champion, has competed at the highest levels of competitive memory for more than seven years. Chester is one of the few who can memorize 99 faces and names, two decks of shuffled playing cards or a sequence of 1,000 random digits in a matter of minutes. The amazing memory that Chester has developed is a result of exercising his brain with years of practice and by mastering a wide variety of memory- improvement techniques.