Miles Beccia had a sudden halt to his teenage athletic potential in Boston when at 14 he was struck by a car, breaking both legs. After spending three months recovering, he found himself frustrated in his efforts to regain his strength and conditioning so he could achieve his goal of playing college sports. Without a coach to guide him, Miles immersed himself in books, classes, and practice to discover how to rebuild his body.
He developed the physical conditioning necessary for success in collegiate football and track & field after mastering Olympic lifting, power lifting, sports conditioning, bodybuilding, martial arts, Yoga, Pilates, and many other training systems.
The results of his education and experience is a life free from physical discomfort, excess weight, poor muscle tone, limited range of motion, poor circulation, weak respiratory system, or poor diet. He taught himself how to thrive and now teaches others to use nutrition and fitness to do the same. His success and expertise in coaching and mentoring thousand of clients over the last two decades have become well known, and he is now dedicated to changing the course of fitness and health concepts with his innovative, organized programs.

Cynthia Beck has been a Certified Clinical Transpersonal Hypnotherapist for more than 15 years. A gifted communicator, she helps clients make wanted changes in a safe and healing atmosphere. She uses integrated hypnotherapy techniques such as guided imagery; progressive relaxation and positive suggestions to help clients in reach emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. Above all, she teaches clients techniques they can use for a lifetime, so they do not become therapist dependent.
Cynthia is a graduate of the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute in Nederland, Colorado where she studied with renowned Master Hypnotherapist, Yukio Hasegawa. She also studied with Marcia Wieder, CEO of Dream University and coach to Jack Canfield, to acquire her Dream Coach Certification. She is uniquely qualified to assist individuals to identify their purpose, remove road blocks and achieve their dreams. She holds a Doctor of Divinity from the Universal Life Church giving her the full confidentiality of the confessional. She graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in Communications.
In addition, Cynthia has passionately studied a wide variety of psychological and spiritual modalities including spiritual direction, transcendental meditation, walking meditation, Christian mysticism, Buddhist meditation, Hindu traditions, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, neurolinguistic programming energy healing and brain science. She also has extensive experience helping people with 12 step programs.
Her personal experience as a business woman, single parent, caregiver of ailing parents and personal recovery from chronic illness, gives her the depth and perspective needed to help you move from where you are to where you dream of being.

David Bezanson, Ph.D. is a retired clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist who worked at UCSF and an interdisciplinary clinic in Palo Alto. He volunteers on 4 environmental committees, including 3 in the Sierra Club, and the Security Committee of Physicians for Social Responsibility. The objective of PSR is global nuclear disarmament to improve public health, international security, and environmental resilience. He also administers intelligence testing for Mensa. His current hobbies include blogging: www.meditationonwheels.org/blog. His book, entitled Meditation: Happiness, Wellness, and Self-knowing: Now was published in 2016. Beginning in June 2017, his series entitled “Nuclear Weaponry is Obsolescent” was published in Intelligencer - the monthly newsletter of SF Regional Mensa.

Kebba Buckley Button passionately pursued a hydrology career, 2.8 university degrees and years working for the Army Corps of Engineers and a flood control district. At 26 she had a painful health crash. She took up meditation and energy medicine, becoming an expert in Jin Shin Jyutsu, Healing Touch, and Divine Healing. In 8 years, she had recovered. Now she has a holistic healing practice, speaks, and writes award-winning books. She is also an ordained minister. Kebba’s books teach people how to trade in their stress for energy Discover The Secret Energized You, find their personal peace Peace Within, Second Edition, and, if they are interested, get into a closer relationship with the Divine Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.

Jim Delton was born in 1949 in the Frigid north of New York state and transported by his Parents to warm and sunny Arizona in 1953. Mr. Delton was raised in Sunnyslope (North Central Phoenix) where he served on the Student Council of his grade school. In that capacity he shared a stage with the late Barry Goldwater, well known Arizona Conservative and Presidential Candidate. He lived in North Phoenix until 1968 when he moved to Tempe while attending ASU. There he studied Civil Engineering with an emphasis on structural engineering. Upon Graduating with a BSE from ASU in 1972 Mr. Delton joined the Arizona Highway Department, now the Arizona Department of Transportation. He spent most of his career at ADOT involved with dirt in it's many and varied forms and uses. Mr. Delton worked on a wide variety of pavement research projects throughout the state including one of only a handful of pre-stressed post-tensioned concrete highway pavements ever built. He was also the initial ADOT construction manager for the first major multiple level freeway interchange in Arizona, the "Stack" at I-10 and I-17, the most expensive project ever awarded by the Department up to that time. For the last 8 years of his career he served as the State Materials Engineer where he was in charge of all ADOT Central and Regional Laboratory testing and all soil, pavement, and geotechnical design work. Mr Delton retired from ADOT in 2011.
Licensed as Professional Engineer in Arizona and California, Licensed Real Estate Broker, Licensed Private Pilot. Unlicensed as Skeptic, dabbler in Politics, nominal libertarian, and vintage car collector.

Dr. John DenBoer is a Clinical Neuropsychologist specializing in the assessment and detection of early-stage dementia. He received his internship training at VA Boston Healthcare System (Boston University School of Medicine/Harvard University) and received his postdoctoral training at Barrow Neurological Institute. He has published extensively in the area of Clinical Neuropsychology and has been an expert speaker at many local, national, and international conferences. He is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Medical Officer of SMART Brain Aging, Inc., a company designed to help prevent and intervene in mild cognitive impairment and early-stage dementia.

In the last 3 years he has become a world-renown speaker in the area of early-stage dementia detection and treatment. This has culminated in a Netflix documentary (Trailer) and corresponding book, entitled “This is Dementia?!”

Wyatt Earp has been portraying his famous relative in his one-man play called "Wyatt Earp: A Life on The Frontier" since 1996 which won an AriZoni award and has over 690 performances, and was written by his wife Terry Tafoya Earp who is an award-winning Arizona playwright. A Life on The Frontier has had performances throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe along with many performances aboard cruise ships. In November 2000, Wyatt performed for the American Studies Program at the University in Budapest Hungary, in which the Cultural Attaché had attended.

In 1998 he began performing another one-man play "The Gentleman Doc Holliday" which is based on the book "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait" by Karen Holliday Tanner, who is the closest living relative of Doc Holliday", which the play is primarily, based on. Therefore, what you will hear in this play is truly the real story...

Wyatt is retired from the New Your Life Insurance Company where he worked as an agent for over 35 years. He is also a charter member of "The Arizona Gunfighters", a historical reenactment troupe and a member of Park Central Toastmasters since 1980. His athletic endeavors include the competition in two Hawaiian Iron man Triathlons, numerous marathons, 10k's and long distance swimming events including the "Escape from Alcatraz". Wyatt also serves on the Phoenix Downtown YMCA board of directors as well as coaches the Y's Master's swim program. In addition, he is the race director for the YMCA Half-Marathon, which is the oldest foot race in Arizona. Wyatt also actively volunteers at the Arizona Spinal Injury Association and Terry is teaching how to write and execute theater from a wheel chair.

He currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Terry, two cats named Doc Holliday and Cowboy along with George the German Sheppard. More information may be found on his web site.

James M. Giunta is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Inspirationist. He has been distinguished as “Hypnotist of the Year” by the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association and is a Certified Instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists. James is the creator of “Hyp+Note=Therapy”© and he presented his noteworthy hypnotic induction in a TEDx talk in 2014. James holds a Master’s Degree in Communication and Information Studies from Rutgers University.

Eric (Rick) Goeld was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his early years in New York and Miami, Florida. After attending Windsor Mountain School (1961-63), he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern University, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering. His business career in the semiconductor industry spanned 33 years. During his 26 years at Motorola, he ran businesses based in Europe and Asia, and, from 1993-96, was VP and GM of the Analog Integrated Circuits Division, based in Tempe, Arizona. He has taught Strategic Management to MBA-level students, served on various boards of directors, coached and mentored owners of small businesses, self-published three books, and written a screenplay. He lives in Scottsdale. More about Rick's books HERE.

Deeann Jo Griebel is a full time Financial Advisor since 1984, Managing Director-Investments, Moors & Cabot, Inc. While at Wells Fargo Advisors she was selected as one of the firm’s Premier Advisor from 2004 through 2012. She also served as a trainer to other financial advisors at Prudential Securities, a predecessor of Wells Fargo Advisors, under the Growing Your Business program.

Ranked in Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors in 2007 thru 2013
Ranked in Barron’s Top 1,000 Financial Advisors 2009 thru 2013

Dee assisted three news organizations in preparing articles for their programs on the Ponzi scheme called The Baptist Foundation of Arizona:
- Taken on Faith on 07/30/2002 www.cbsnews.com › 60 Minutes › 60 Minutes II
- Religious Prey-Baptist Foundation of Arizona on 07/19/2007 www.cnbc.com/id/100000099
- No Accounting for Greed on 07/23/2002 www.worldcat.org/title/no-accounting-for-greed

She is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) but does not practice accounting. Retention of this license requires a minimum of 40 hours of continuing education annually. Experienced in collateralized notes, hedging and option strategies, commodities, stocks, mutual funds and managed money, she is series 7, 63, and 65 and life insurance licensed. As an educational speaker she gives several presentations annually on such topics as how to read investment offering documents, how to spot fraudulent investments, world economic events, and general investment concepts. In recent years she has given presentations to such groups as National Public Radio and National Public TV members and the Southwest State University GOLD training programs.

Every year (that I'm in town), I offer a brand new custom presentation that combines that year's Phiesta theme, behind-the-scene movie topics and interesting trivia especially for my fellow Mensans. I have nothing to sell and (sadly) nothing to give away. For Phiesta XXXII, I presented "Everything I Know About Mental Health I Learned in Dark Movie Theaters"; for Phiesta XXXI, it was "Pulling A Phast One: How Hollywood Special FX Phool Us"; and for Phiesta XXIX, it was "Movies and How to Make Them". (I missed Phiesta Triple-X...man, what an opportunity THAT would have been!) I'm a retired corporate director turned movie producer, with one feature film coming out in theaters (or Netflix) next year and another in production right now.

Will Hepburn is the owner of Hepburn Capital Management, LLC, with offices in Scottsdale and Prescott, AZ. He is a professional money manager specializing in strategies that Adapt to Changing Markets®.

Will began his career in the investment business in 1987. He has managed two mutual funds and is a past-president of the National Association of Active Investment Managers and conducts training courses for other money managers. Will is also a college instructor having taught classes on investing at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ, since 1990.

Retired Physicist/Engineer/Statistician. Graduated Bristol University UK 1956. Seven years with Rolls-Royce Aeroengines UK and Canada. Seven years with General Electric Computer Department USA. 1970 started own consulting business; Plan-Ttest Associates. Consulted and taught Quality Control, (Statistical) Design of Experiments and Scientific Method in USA and Asia for 30 years.

For more than 25 years, Matt Lehrman has studied, practiced and innovated at the intersection of marketing, loyalty and customer engagement in a career spanning government affairs, banking, and arts & cultural management, including, most visibly, as the Founder and long-time Executive Director of Alliance for Audience & ShowUp.com, the audience development initiative of Arizona’s arts & cultural community. Audience Avenue LLC

In July of 2016, David Medansky weighed 217 pounds. His doctor told him to lose weight or find another physician, because he didn't want David dying of a heart attack on his watch. Within four months, Medansky dropped 50 pounds and now weighs 167. Being an author, he decided to write about his incredible weight-loss journey to inspire and help others achieve their weight-loss goals.

Born and raised in the Chicago metropolitan area, Medansky graduated from the University of Arizona School of Law in 1991. He practiced family law in Phoenix, Arizona until 2004, when he took up the pen to create thriller/suspense novels set in Sin City otherwise known as Las Vegas.

A bestselling author, Medansky’s books are based on his experiences in Las Vegas, his legal background, and his interest in gangsters.

He lives in the Phoenix metropolitan area with his wife.

Jan Krulick-Belin has more than four decades of experience as a museum and art consultant, and art and jewelry historian. She has served at institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and Corcoran Gallery of Art. She retired as director of education at the Phoenix Art Museum but continues to lecture and consult, and serves as guest curator at the Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum in Phoenix. The New York native has a master’s degree in museum education from George Washington University. She is also an award-winning author. Her recent publication, Love, Bill: Finding My Father through Letters from World War II is the true story of her personal journey to reconnect to her father who passed away when she was only six years old. She and her husband, Jim, live in Phoenix, Arizona.

Personal fashion stylist Loren North is a former geologist who traded in her steel toed boots for high heels to pursue her passion for saving the planet by changing how we style, care and shop for our clothes.
She works with women and men who are frustrated with what's in their closets, feel like they have nothing to wear, and usually don't like to shop or don't have time to go shopping. Loren teaches you what works for your body, restyles your clothing in new ways allowing you to extract value from what you already own and shows you how to shift your shopping habits so they are more sustainable.
After working with Loren, her clients look pulled together, feel more confident and comfortable, and dress with ease. Her company Through the Closet Door is a personal styling consultancy focused on helping professional men and women show up powerfully each day looking confident and comfortable because their style and clothes work for them. Visit Loren's website LorenENorth.com to learn more about how she can help you.

Laura Orsini is a self-publishing and marketing consultant who specializes in new author book launches. Socially conscious authors hire her to help them identify their ideal readers and streamline their marketing processes so they can sell more books. Her goal is to change the world one book at a time – and to dismantle the self-sabotaging belief that people have to be trained writers in order to publish good books.
With a BA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Arizona, Laura is the author of many books, including Publish Your Book Already!, The Author’s Media Tool Kit, Practical Philanthropy, and the award-winning 1,001 Real-Life Questions for Women. She will publish her first novel in Spring 2018.
Laura began her public speaking career presenting on the topic of creativity for such groups as American Express and the Scottsdale Library. When she’s away from the computer, she enjoys movies, music, the outdoors, chatting over chai latte at a local coffeehouse, and spending time with her husband and her pets.

I was born in Rhode Island 1946, the same year as Mensa was founded. In high school, I loved science and got an intro to electronics via ham radio. After high school, I received a scholarship and went to an electronics trade school, leading to my first job as a technician at Honeywell Data Processing in Boston. (I loved working in air-conditioned spaces.)

Everything changed when I got a draft notice in November of 1965. I signed up for a tour in the Navy, serving during the Viet Nam era out of ports in California, continuing in my electronics career as a Missile Fire Control Technician and serving on a nuclear-powered surface ship.

After nearly six years of the Navy I was eager to finally go to college. In 1976, I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine, and got my first design job at Ford Aerospace in Newport Beach, CA. In 1980 my wife and I grew tired of the crowding and high real estate prices of CA and moved back to New England. I did design engineering for a few years and then took a job with Motorola Semiconductor as an Applications Engineer. I got a Master's Degree in Engineering Management from Northeastern University and by 1988, transferred here to Phoenix where I have been ever since.

My career has spanned the roles of electronics technician, digital and analog circuit design engineer, semiconductor applications engineer, semiconductor technical marketing manager and director of strategy. Along the way I have done much technical writing and gave technical presentations and training around the world.

Retiring from Motorola in 2002, I had one more job at an electronics startup, before that company folded and the recession made it difficult to continue in engineering. However, I had one final "dream" job, working part-time in an Apple Store, helping people use my favorite products in the roles of a Sales Specialist, Trainer and Genius. I retired in 2009.

All along the way, I was interested in personal computing, getting my first computer in 1980. I was eager to be on the leading edge of what would become today's internet, using dial-up bulletin boards, Prodigy and CompuServe. I jumped at the chance to get on the internet with my own web site in 1996 and continue to maintain a presence HERE today. There I expose my primary interests: my family, genealogy and photography.

I took the Mensa test here in Phoenix in 1989, but let my membership lapse a few years later, being too busy with work and travel. After I retired, I reactivated my Mensa membership and attended one of the monthly Ahwatukee Mensa meetings. It was at that first meeting that I volunteered to take over the GPM web site and became Webmaster in October of 2011. I have served on the ExCom as Member at Large and participated in Communication, RG and Marketing Committees. Last year stepped up to be LocSec. I had also joined the Triple Nine Society, using the results of my Mensa qualifying test as evidence.

I have been accompanied on this journey by my wife, Lovina, for the past 49 years. She has been a Registered Nurse , but more recently worked in her second career as a behavioral health counselor after receiving a Master of Counseling degree from ASU. She has recently joined me in retirement. We have two sons, 37 and 47, whom have each provided us with two beautiful grandchildren and thankfully, they are all close-by here in Phoenix.

Silver Rose was born and grew up in Boston. She majored in journalism at San Diego City College. At age 25, she owned an insurance agency and was selected as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America. She was recruited by a British Media Tycoon to be his second in command including serving as Creative Director and Head of Sales. For the next 20 years she was in the computer industry where her specialties were Human Resources, Sales, and Marketing. Management positions included Manager of Sales Database, Manager of Marketing Intelligence and Vice President of Sales & Marketing.

For the last decade, Silver has been a professional speaker, heading her own Management Consulting and Executive Coaching practice. Her specialty is working with professionals to increase their influence and their impact.

Master Frank Sasso is a Karate and Tai Chi instructor who has been actively involved in the martial arts for nearly 50 years. Sensei Sasso was promoted in April of this year to an Eighth Dan Master (8th degree) in Goju Shorei Karate, a martial arts system that incorporates both hard and soft styles. He has been awarded the titles of Renshi, expert teacher, and Shihan, master teacher who heads his own style. He has also been inducted into three Martial Arts Halls of Fame with a Golden Life Achievement Award as a Distinguished Master.

Sensei Barbara Hofmann is a 2nd degree Black Belt in Goju Shorei Karate and a Certified Instructor of Western Tai Chi. Ms. Hofmann was a school teacher for many years. She also traveled much of North America: every US state except Alaska, southeastern Canada, and various locations in Mexico. However, she always maintained her interest in martial arts. After moving to Arizona and finding Master Sasso, she studied Karate and Tai Chi seriously, and received her first Black Belt the day before her 70th birthday.

Otto Siegel is an author, nationally known public speaker and Master Certified Coach. After teaching Biology and Chemistry to High School students in Munich/Germany and Sao Paulo/Brazil for 17 years he started his company Genius Coaching in 2002 in Scottsdale, AZ to serve highly intelligent children, young adults and leaders. His individual and team programs are customized for high performing executives, entrepreneurs, parents and teenagers to decode and activate hidden natural genius to increase productivity and engagement in companies and at school.

Sean Sweat spends his days in Intel Corporation's supply chain, and his nights improving Phoenix's transportation options through The Urban Phoenix Project and various City of Phoenix committees. Past notable projects include Valley of the Sunflowers and St. Luke's Complete Streets initiative. He has a BA Physics from Austin College, BS Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, and MS Transportation from MIT.

Niranjan, is a dad, entrepreneur, educator and positive futurist. His purpose in life is to empower individuals to enjoy a conscious experience of life. He is an ambassador for Conscious Capitalism, Arizona and frequently consults leaders how to liberate their heroic spirit and lead the "right" way to gain an competitive-edge.

Dr. Vrenios is a retired computer scientist with long term interests in astronomy, photography and amateur radio. Combining these skills, amateur radio astronomy fills the need for a technical challenge, draining his time and discretionary income in the process.

Sharon Winters has retired from teaching English and math, but continues to study Mandarin and visit China. She has a BS in Psychology from Illinois State University and an MA in Humanities from the University of Texas. Her stories have appeared in the MENSA BULLETIN: The Magazine of American MENSA, as well as The New Mensican, and The Rodent Reader Quarterly.