Happiness Foundation
of Florida!

“Melanie is a wonderful connector of people across the globe with a deep interest in helping educate and empower others. I have enjoyed working with her for many years now!”

Despite substantial personal and professional success, former Investment Banker Max Ansbacher had always been haunted by feelings of failure. Eventually, Ansbacher sought to find his own happiness and after much studying and practice, developed wellness tools to emerge from “a very dark place.” After successfully turning his life around, Max became an entrepreneur of emotional fitness. His new book, A Practical Guide to Happiness, uses science-backed tips and common sense to empower readers to choose happiness, curb self-doubt, live fully and cultivate and maintain a life filled with joy. His mantra is a good foundation for life: “Get real, think positive.” Max is the author of three books on investing, including the first book ever published on exchange traded options. He was featured in Forbes Magazine and is often quoted in the media. Max graduated from the University of Vermont and Yale Law School. When not actively trading on behalf of clients, he pursues his other great passion: learning. Recognizing that learning is a lifelong endeavor, he founded The Great Lectures, a series of talks led by highly regarded professors from top universities. For 24 years, he sang bass with a group that performed in Lincoln Center. Max splits his time between New York and Florida.

I moved from Paris, France, to South Florida 15 years ago. While working several years in real estate I used the cultural and personal challenges I went through over time, my own healing experience as well as the tools I have learned and crafted to inspire people, especially women, to let go of doubting or pushing themselves to be or act a certain way in order to connect to their inner beauty, talent and bliss.” Arielle creates wellness workshops and one-on-one in person or video mentoring sessions customized for her client’s needs and dreams, anywhere in the world. www.SurrenderToYourBliss.com

Originally from Geneva, Switzerland, Chef Alex was raised on a farm with a macrobiotic lifestyle where his passion for eating in harmony with nature developed at an early age. As his passion for food and cooking matured, Chef Alex was mentored by Master Chefs in France, Switzerland, the United States, and Japan. He applied his craft in over 16 countries after successfully reversing his own health challenges. As founder of Vegan Wagon, he designed a simple and powerful macrobiotic protocol to help people maintain a healthy balance in their diet and life. He is happy to share the High Vibe to the ones who truly desire it. www.VeganWagon.com

Diana Davis is a woman who turned her passion for film making into a powerful force for social change. She founded “MoviesMakingADifference.org” with the mission to make socially conscious movies highlighting the injustice of human trafficking, child slavery, child marriage and spiritual abuse. She decided to take action after discovering the appalling situation of corruption and organized pedophilia hidden under the guise of a twisted religion rampant in the USA. As an actress, Diana used her skill and passion for storytelling to produce two award-winning feature films, with a third in pre-production, to inform and inspire others. MoviesMakingADifference.org directly aids the survivors upon whom the films shed light. Diana is an inspiring woman who is making a difference!

A dynamic father-daughter duo, Carol Dixon, CFP® and Michael Dixon, CPA/PFS, created Your Planning Partners, LLC, a unique, team oriented financial planning and wealth management practice, to implement holistic planning services to all clients. Believing that education is an essential focal point of every plan, Carol and Michael are advocates of empowering and assisting clients in creating their own successful financial future. They presented a series of distinct educational, interactive, and uplifting financial programs for us. Carol is a graduate of the University of Norte Dame with a BA in Entrepreneurship and Management. Michael is a graduate of the Wharton School, is a member of the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and awarded the credential of Personal Financial Specialist in addition to Certified Public Accountant. Michael’s expertise is providing the highest level of advisory services and planning solutions to meet the financial challenges of affluent individuals. He brings accounting, tax, financial advisory planning, and extensive wealth management experience to every client. Michael is active in community organizations, serves on multiple boards, is a member of several local business and community groups, and is a patron of the arts. He has presented numerous financial literacy and planning programs throughout Palm Beach County.

“I wasn’t always a winner. Heck, I was a loser for decades. A sugar addict and junk food junkie for 45 years, I shouldn’t be alive today. My epitaph would have read ‘Death by doughnuts and Dove Bars’. Twenty years ago, overweight, newly divorced, without direction and unemployed I began studying the mindset of Olympic athletes, Navy SEALs, and Greek philosophers. I developed a unique mental toughness program to overcome my negative attitude, lack of direction and life-threatening sugar addiction. Wow did I get results! I won a gold medal in Olympic Weightlifting at age 63, I’m sugar free, mentally strong and vibrant. I am winning in many areas of my life because I consistently do hard things. It’s 80% mindset, 20% muscle. ” https://www.lauraeiman.com

Edwige holds certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (N.L.P), Hypnotherapy, Substance abuse counseling, Behavior Change, Yoga and Qigong. As a Wellness/Stress management Coach and Founder of New Life Directions, she created a unique blend of Eastern and Western techniques to integrate the physical, mental and spiritual for her international audience. Her forte is teaching people how to transform “Stress into Success”, clear unwanted habits, discover their unlimited energy, and live healthier and happier lives with “Joie de vivre” (French for joy of life). Edwige is author of “The Fresh Start Promise: 28 Days to Total Mind, Body, and Spirit Transformation” and “Victim to Victorious”. www.newlifedirections.com

Affectionately known as “The Heart Healer” Ilene combines over 50 years in nursing and 25 years in vibrational healing to create a holistic approach to clear energy blocks and promote healing. She is a certified as a Healing Touch Practitioner, Medical Intuitive and Quantum Practitioner.  In addition Ilene embraces Ho’oponopono, the traditional and ancient Hawaiian practice of forgiveness and reconciliation and uses it as a tool for restoring self-love and balance. By guiding you to a conscious connection to your Heart, your path to healing opens to you on all levels. Whether your issue is physical, emotional, mental or spiritual, the path to healing is always the same, Begin at the Heart and go from there. https://www.ilenethehearthealer.com

When we sensed massive change being thrust upon us in February 2020, we created a newsletter to stay connected to our community. Every week from March through July 2020 we sent out positive, caring words of wisdom, encouragement, and useful information. Lou graciously created poems for our newsletter. He sensed the need for calming words as soothing balm for the darkness of those days. Lou found just the right words to shine healing light for the unfolding moment. We are grateful. These poems became the basis for his book “Art & Soul: The Journey Within”. Lou was born in New York City and graduated from the prestigious School of Visual Arts. Spirituality plays an important role in his life and influences his art and poetry and music.   www.imperatoart.com

Debby is founder of The Woman Behind the Smile, Inc. She is an author, international speaker, entrepreneur, podcast host, former bank branch manager, former Air Force officer, and now is a woman on a mission. In her book “The Woman Behind the Smile”, she shares her personal experience with an online romance that turned into betrayal and financial disaster. As a young widow, friends pushed her to get into online dating, saying “You need a life”. What followed was a two-year deception. Debby’s mission is to warn singles about con-artists who lurk on dating apps and websites. Millions of unsuspecting people are scammed out of millions of dollars every day around the world. The scammers are well-trained. They have playbooks. It is a billion-dollar business. “Most of the victims don’t speak up. Family and friends give them victim’s shame.” She removes the mask of shame and shows others how to do the same. Debby works with the Society of Citizens Against Relationship Scams (SCARS), a worldwide nonprofit cybercrime victims’ assistance, support, and advocacy organization. “Every second, somebody is being scammed by somebody. We must have some support for the victims, so they are willing to speak up otherwise nothing will be done. If governments and social media sites don’t know how many people are being taken, they’re not going to take it seriously.”    Debby@TheWomanBehindTheSmile.com

Happiness Club Palm Beach is thrilled that our dear friend Anthony Penta Kramer designed a new Logo for us! Tony is well known as the illustrator of more than a dozen books, including “Mizner Mouse: the Pride of Palm Beach”, which takes children on a tour of special sites of historic Palm Beach, Florida, one of America’s most famous resort communities. Tony has worked with several major children’s book publishers, including Simon & Schuster, Delacorte Press, Bantam Books. Lothrop, Lee & Shephard. Tony was assistant art director for Clarion Books in New York. Originally from Connecticut, he is a graduate of The Paier College of Art.

“Happiness Is…An Education!” was presented by Kathie Kreh, a remarkable woman and an inspiration. She founded the African Orphan Educational Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that supports the educational and personal development needs of disadvantaged youth in Africa at the Primary, Secondary and Post-Secondary levels. In a world peppered with abundance while so many struggle for daily survival, education is the great equalizer and opportunity multiplier. Not only does it prepare and equip young minds for higher learning, also opportunity for advancement to develop into future leaders. Kathie is following her heart and her faith by continuing the missionary work of her father. https://africanorphaneducation.org

Michele is a Board Certified Life Purpose Coach and Hypnotherapist. She is a dynamic and gifted lecturer, teacher, author and consultant on the subjects of Personal Empowerment, the Law of Attraction, and Numerology. Recognized and highly regarded as an authority in her field she has helped thousands of clients gain more clarity and direction in their lives, discover their own unique talents and natural abilities, and reach their full potential. “I believe that we all have a special gift to share with the world and all of my services reflect this belief.” Her books, The Tao of Numbers and The Year of Living Miraculously are both informative and entertaining.  www.michelelanders.com

Paula’s motto is “Love yourself! Tomorrow may never come; yesterday came and went; your future begins today!” Paula shares her common-sense and practical advice for a happy and fulfilled life in her new book “From Half-Full to Overflowing: A Simple Guide to Personal Happiness”. With so much negativity surrounding us, Paula’s attitude for a better life is a joyful message for the time we’re living in. Her book title comes from the expression of looking at life’s glass being half-empty or half-full. Her exuberant response is her glass is overflowing. “Choose to be happy and start by making this day your BEST DAY EVAAH…until tomorrow!”

Empowerment Coach, author, and motivational speaker, Dede is founder of the Feel Good Express lifestyle program and guides clients with the tools to attract abundance in romance, finance, career, and a joy-filled life. Her life-long passion for feeling good coupled with her success at guiding others to feel energized, inspired her to create the FGE methodology for all of life’s challenges. Whether clients are working toward self-love, attracting a soulmate, opening their spiritual connection, or revamping a business plan, the effortless FGE express practices will catapult you towards achieving your personal and professional goals. In addition, Dede creates workshops on Journaling and working with Angel Guides which are among our most popular. www.FeelGoodExpress.com

Mike has been a fixture on the Palm Beach County radio scene for 20 years with various programs of almost every music style. Now this talented radio personality is at Legends Radio. Mike asked us to consider music as our muse. Music is a universal language we can all speak, enjoy, and use to connect with others. Music is energy which influences our moods and touches our soul. What would the soundtrack of our lives be? Our lives are ballads which we create every day with our own unique melody and song. You are the songwriter of your life, what will your signature song be? Somedays you won’t have a song in your heart…make the choice to sing anyway! You’ll be happy you did.

Kat is an award-winning executive, leadership and life coach helping high performing women achieve the goals that bring them the most purpose, passion and prosperity. She has over 10 years of experience and has worked with startups, SME’s, NGO’s and multinational organizations globally on topics such as Creativity and Innovation, Team building and Leadership development. Kat is also a mind-body skills practitioner, author, and artist, helping others step fully into their power holistically. Kat has always been curious about people and turned an Engineering Master’s degree at MIT into a research dissertation on how humans learn and while she worked on her PhD in Environmental Science, she wrote a book that was a finalist in the international book awards. When she realized that her education didn’t fit with her values, she made the leap from working with underwater robots and writing software to working with people and writing creatively. Watch her TEDx talk on The Power of Distraction to find out how. As a coach, Kat helps people redesign their lives, unlock their creativity, and become the heroes of their own story. She is a mother of three and believes that success in life is having freedom, love and creativity. https://www.audacityactivated.com/

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Every January our Happiness Club speaker has been Elaine Pomfrey from the Transcendental Meditation Center in Palm Beach. Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless technique to settle the mind, reduce stress, and bring on a state of peace and calm. It’s an incredibly beneficial practice for mental and physical health to carry into the new year. Elaine Pomfrey, MA, is a Certified TM Teacher and has enjoyed an (almost) lifelong meditation practice having learned TM when she was 15. It has helped her stay healthy and happy even while caring for her elderly father for 7 years, while going through a divorce, and weathering life’s inevitable storms.

“Building a Community of Passionate Advocates”. When Travis’s young daughter Piper was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system, he took action. Travis turned his focus to becoming an advocate for the CF community and created a nonprofit. “We are a CF family, fighting for other CF families to provide innovative solutions to empower each individual and family to live their greatest life possible.” The unsung heroes are the hundreds of volunteers that raise awareness and participate in events that bring their mission to life. Their annual event “The Crossing For Cystic Fibrosis” is a long-distance endurance paddle challenge and international championship race that takes paddlers 80 miles across the Gulf Stream from the Bahamas to Palm Beach. www.PipersAngels.org

“We try not to live by a clock, but when you’re living with a child with a terminal illness, there is a sense of urgency and an importance of valuing time as a gift.”

Frannie Sheridan is the co-owner of the Loving Light Regeneration EE System Center. The Energy Enhancement System (EESystem) generates multiple bio-active life enhancing energy fields, including “scalar waves” which supports cell regeneration, improves immune function, relief from pain, detoxify the body, elevate moods, and assist in balancing right and left hemispheres of the brain to increase energy levels. This stunning technology was developed over 20 years ago by Dr. Sandra Rose Michael, using custom-installed computers to generate morphogenic energy fields that can promote healing. The EESystem is ecologically and environmentally safe and has been recognized at dozens of medical and scientific conferences in the USA and around the world to promote wellness, healing, relaxation, purification and rejuvenation. This is used by individuals, doctors, therapists, and meditation and wellness centers to improve human development and psychological well-being. The EESystem combines Body, Mind, Spirit, and Science to help you achieve peak performance and reach higher states of health, consciousness, and self-actualization. The future is here.

Create Your Very Own Happiness. Forget FINDING happiness, CREATE IT instead. We often hear phrases like “Happiness comes from within” and “Happiness is a choice,” but turning these concepts into reality can be truly challenging. Not anymore. Simon has a program to help CREATE happiness in every facet of your life. Simon Swerdlow’s life has been a remarkable journey, who has traversed from Chernobyl to the pinnacles of success, working his way up from floor employee to becoming CEO of a global license/franchise company represented in 56 countries.

Simon was raised in the Soviet Union, living 20 miles from Chernobyl. When he was just 9 years of age, Chernobyl was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, and Simon witnessed its tragic aftermath. At age 13, he was separated from his parents and was rescued from a dire Soviet reality to an ultra-orthodox community in Israel on the same day that Iraq invaded Kuwait. Simon’s plane was diverted to London and then landed in Tel-Aviv. Returning a year later to his hometown, now a battleground for gangs wing for the local oil refinery’, marked the tumultuous t—inning of Simon’s extraordinary journey to happiness. This isn’t just a story; it’s an exploration of happiness.

Arthur is a people-focused and heart-centered entrepreneur, speaker, personal and business mentor who through his decades of experiences finally understood how to have a successful spiritual and financial life. He authored several books to share his valuable knowledge on how to have peace, love, happiness and success in life: “Quantum Shift into Greatness” and “21 Days to Love: The Secret to Longevity, Happiness and Success”. His message is about the importance of relationships, loving who you are and what you do, and how to find happiness, peace and success through integrity and transparency. Arthur is also a passionate advocate for essential oils and their beneficial qualities for good health.  www.arthurtassinello.com

Heather presented “Mindset is Everything: You Control Your Energy” and how to re-wire the neural network and train the subconscious to be happy. She shared the story of her transformation using Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning program. Originally from Augusta, Georgia and graduating with a B.A. from the University of Virginia, Heather is an award-winning luxury real estate professional in Jupiter, Florida. She enjoys helping business professionals succeed and hosts various business development groups in northern Palm Beach County. She enjoys SCUBA and has a Rescue Diver Certification.

Krisztina Varga is a Life Coach and Business Development Adviser, who started her career and her company, Workplus in 1989 in Hungary. While working with hundreds of clients, several international methods and assessment systems, she discovered a simple, interactive, Emotional Quotient oriented method to help clients, partners and friends with the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, get over crisis, depression and anxiety. She created the Krisztina4Steps© For a Better Life Coaching Method which has worked successfully with more than 300 clients. The method works for any age groups. Today Workplus operates in 3 offices: Budapest (EU), London, (UK) and South Florida, including Fortune 500 company leaders. www.workplusglobal.com

Hadley Williams, AIF®, founder and CEO of Campbell Williams, Independent Investment Consultants, hosted our popular Financial Education Seminars to provide concepts and working knowledge for the long-term investor to optimize their personal goals and investment outcomes. The objective is to impart sufficient understanding of how investment portfolios should be managed, and the ability to have a knowledgeable dialogue with an advisor/broker. Topics included: arriving at suitable Investment Strategies, participating in on-going decision making, and evaluating overall performance on the investments and the advisor/broker/firm. Managing your wealth should not be a reactive affair based on what’s happening in the markets at any given moment. Rather, it should be a disciplined process based on a strategic analysis of your future needs and tried and proven methods of investing over the long-run. Any investment firm is only as good as the people behind it. Hadley founded Coral Gables-based Campbell Williams in 1995 to provide those services with a focus on client education, transparency, proven management tools, proprietary research, institutional level reporting and analysis and active management of managers. Campbell Williams prides itself on working as an independent firm with no conflicts of interest or dependencies on other firms and focusing on the specific circumstances and needs of each client. Hadley and his team have extensive knowledge of management processes, global economies, markets, and investments. “We are very proud of our advisory capabilities and believe we are unique in the industry. We use our expertise to serve you and only you.”  https://www.campbellwilliams.com/

“Three years ago, I was the speaker at a Happiness Club event. I had put out a guidebook called “Solo Palm Beach”, a possible new start up. I had won a writing prize in the Palm Beach book festival for Nonfiction, and there I was standing in front of a room full of intently listening people telling them that “Happiness is a Choice”. What did I not know is that evening would be the catalytic event that would take my life off into a completely new direction and onto an exciting new life adventure, that ultimately (so far) has been the most gratifying chapter in my life.” Marianne was invited again to speak to the Happiness Club on her new novel, Suddenly Single in Palm Beach. “I would like to share my story of how I got “here”… from “there”. And it’s all good. It’s funny, it’s full of heart and a great positive way to end this quirky year and set the tone for what is yet to come.