Shannon Thomas, LCSW is the international bestselling author of Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse and Exposing Financial Abuse: When Money is a Weapon. Thomas is the owner/lead therapist of an award-winning counseling practice in Southlake, TX. As a leading therapist and survivor, Thomas is one of the few in the field to bridge the gap between pop culture and clinical advice.

Thomas has been featured in top media outlets including The Oprah Magazine, Associated Press, Business Insider, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Finance, Teen Vogue, Elite Daily, Bustle, and Romper. Her first book, Healing from Hidden Abuse, an international bestseller, has been published in multiple languages, and serves as a road map for book studies and host groups in eleven countries and thirty-five states across the United States. Thomas also coined the Six Stages of Healing model, which has been met with favorable reviews and high applause from readers and medical professionals across the world.

Lauren Midgley, a business strategist, time behaviorist and motivational keynote speaker, is known for her gift to help others get very focused on their desired results. She has written three books: It's 6 a.m. and I'm Already Behind, Successfully Failing at Procrastination, and Masterminding Our Way: The Power of 5 Minds.

Lauren is passionately about the topic of Productivity and how the time we spend each day must be used for accomplishing tasks AND finding personal satisfaction. The words that make Lauren crazy are: "I'm too busy or I don't have time". Instead, she wants us to think about "What matters most right NOW".

As a time behaviorist, Lauren studies how we perceive time, use time, and impact our individual lives using time effectively. She is working on her fourth book, which will be due out in 2017.

Lauren began her own consulting company in 2010 in the Dallas-Ft.Worth TX area, after a 25+ year career with two Fortune 500 companies in a variety of roles: Sales, Marketing, and Franchising. Her educational background consists of an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Arizona State University and a MBA from Golden Gate University.

Wendy Knutson ​has over 30 years of accounting experience and received her CPA license in Texas in 2008​.​ ​A​ QuickBooks user since the 1990's and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Wendy ​served a two-year term as one of 15 members of Intuit's Accountant & Advisor Customer Council​ from 2012-2014. ​This gave her insight into the software and a hand in its development.

Wendy started Knutson CPA in Southlake in 2010 with the vision of providing responsive, forward-thinking accounting services. Knutson CPA currently has eight professionals on its team and serves a variety of small to mid-size businesses. The firm has won many awards including the 2015 Firm of the Future Award from Intuit.

In 2015, Knutson CPA became a Certified Profit First Professional firm, one of only three in Texas. This designation allows Knutson CPA to guide business owners on the journey to increasing their profits. Wendy, and her husband, Dan have two adult daughters and live in Keller, Texas. In her spare time, Wendy enjoys knitting.