FreedomFest 2024

Joel F. Wade, Ph.D. is Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Coach, and the author of Mastering Emotions, Moods and Reactions Workbook, The Virtue of Happiness, Mastering Happiness, The Mastering Happiness Podcast, and The Mastering Happiness Blog, all drawing from the increasingly useful research in psychology in general, and positive psychology in particular; a deep understanding of somatic psychotherapy, and his over four decades of working with people and organizations professionally. He has written regularly for a variety... Read More →

At the height of a successful career in the computer industry, Mr. Cobb left to pursue more pioneering opportunities in the emerging real estate markets of Central America. In 1996, he and his business partner formed a company, Exotic Caye International, to provide loans to North... Read More →

John Mackey is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and visionary of Whole Foods Market. In his 44 years of service as CEO, the natural and organic grocer grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, to 540 stores in the U.S., U.K., and Canada with annual sales exceeding $22 billion and more than... Read More →

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Net... Read More →

Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovati... Read More →

Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a we... Read More →