Michael Brein is an author, lecturer, consultant, travel storyteller, adventurer, and publisher of travel books and guides. He earned his PhD in social psychology, with a specialty in psychology-all things travel-as well as an MBA at the University of Hawaii. He has had a career for more than 20 years as a college professor in psychology and business, teaching at a variety of universities in Hawaii, as well as an overseas two-year stint teaching for the University of Maryland in Europe.
Michael was the first to coin the term "travel psychology." Through his doctoral studies, work, life experiences, and world travels, he became the world's first and perhaps only travel psychologist. As "The Travel Psychologist," he appears in leading newspapers, magazines, blogs, and radio programs all over the world, commenting on the psychology of travel.
Michael has been a member of a number of world travel clubs including the Travelers Century Club, whose requirement for membership is travel to a minimum of countries, and the Circumnavigators Club, which requires going around the world in one complete trip.
He was the first to complete the United Airlines "50 State Marathon" contest in 1985, flying to all 50 U.S. states to win a first-class pass for a year on United's domestic U.S. flights, including Hawaii.
Michael's travel guide series, Michael Brein's Travel Guides to Sightseeing by Public Transportation, is a first of its kind, showing travelers how to sightsee the top 50 visitor attractions in the world's most popular cities easily and cheaply by public transportation. Michael has traveled the world over for the last four decades interviewing nearly 1,800 world travelers and adventurers, collecting their fantastic travel stories for an e-book and audiobook series on the psychology of travel.
Michael resides on Bainbridge Island, Washington. His website is www.michaelbrein.com, and email is michaelbrein@gmail.com.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley is one of the leading figures in the paranormal and metaphysical fields: author, researcher, investigator, and publisher. She has written more than 65 nonfiction books on a wide range of topics, including a series of authoritative single-volume encyclopedias. She is often the "go-to" person for explanations of unusual phenomena and events.
Her works focuses on the how and why people have extraordinary experiences of all kinds: paranormal, spiritual and mystical, contact with the dead, contact with aliens and otherworldly beings, and psychic breakthroughs.
Rosemary owns and runs an independent publishing house, Visionary Living, Inc., which publishes paranormal, metaphysical and ufology titles. She also publishes Strange Dimensions, a monthly newsletter and blog. She is Executive Editor of FATE magazine.
Rosemary is a former board director and member of the research committee of the Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research Into Extraterrestrial Encounters. She is a founding member of the Afterlife Research and Education Institute, and a fellow of the International Institute for Integral Human Sciences in Montreal.
Rosemary makes numerous media appearances and lectures internationally. She is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. She lives in Connecticut.
Her website is www.visionaryliving.com, and her email is reguiley@gmail.com.