Fascinated Observer : A Guide to Embodying S.t.a.r. Philosophy

Kristy Sweetland focuses her writing passions on guiding others through transitions that lead to personal fulfillment. Her professional mastery is in the release, exploration and transformation of deep blocks associated with fear, self-doubt or unseen patterns which impede life goals and hinder the recognition of passion and purpose. To accomplish this, she uses her wealth of intangible talents combined with her professional credentials which include a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota, a master's degree in psychology with a Certified Professional Coach Certificate from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and her professional executive coaching credential through The International Coach Federation. Strongly attuned to others going through soul-level struggles on life direction, Kristy serves/guides people through their transitions. Answering her own soul-level call-to-action launched her into a series of mystical, immersive experiences that dramatically altered the course of her life, placing her on the path to fulfilling her own destiny. Today a transformational coach, Kristy serves full-time as a guide for those on the path to owning and cultivating their own intuitive gifts. In both personal and executive coaching arenas, she cultivates her clients' power to develop and fulfill their dreams. For more than a decade, navigating with grace, love and intuition, she has coached a base of international clients from diverse industries including veterinary medicine, software development, health care, education, law, civil and industrial engineering, publishing, divisions of federal government and many more. Today Kristy operates her writing and her coaching practice from her home base in Northern New Mexico, surrounded by the love of her husband and an entourage of beloved four-legged companions. The Fascinated Observer, co-authored with Nina Brown, represents the merging of her lifetime of experiential training, wisdom, psychology and philosophy.

Nina Brown, a nontraditionally aged cum laude graduate of Bryn Mawr College, went on to distinguish herself as a pioneer in business. In 1990, she established an investment company to assist women entrepreneurs. In 1995, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to represent him at the White House Conference on Small Business and, the next year, was chosen as a Charter Member of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business. During this time, she presented at speaking engagements hosted by the US House of Representatives Field Hearings, the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce, the League of Cities Women's Caucus, Wharton Executive MBA Reunion and the Entrepreneurial Women's Expo, where she was the keynote speaker. Nina subsequently became a consultant and leader in alternative medicine. Among other initiatives, she collaborated in forming a company to bring neurosensory diagnostic tools to injured veterans who suffered brain impairment in the Gulf and Vietnam Wars. In 2014, after the publication of S.T.A.R. Philosophy, she traveled to India, where she presented before a gathering of more than 2,000 members of the Pyramid Society of Spiritual Scientists. While in India, she took S.T.A.R. philosophy to Raipur and Mumbai, and then on to Singapore. Two years later, Life University (http: //luglobal.org/about-us/) in India asked to add S.T.A.R. Philosophy and its companion book, The Fascinated Observer: A Guide to Embodying S.T.A.R. Philosophy, to its curriculum. Currently Nina serves on the executive board of Pristina Natural, Inc. helping to expand the company's presence across the United States and into Canada and Asia. Her desire is to bring S.T.A.R. philosophy into the realm of business, creating a new model for the union of consciousness and business. Throughout her endeavors, she has been guided by S.T.A.R. principles, devoting her energies full-time to this sacred spiritual mission. She has found that as the needs of the collective shift, the service asked of her evolves, and this transformative work unfolds. In addition to writing the S.T.A.R. series, Nina is the author of Return of Love to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary. Her writing has also been published in Kindred Spirit and Sedona Journal of Emergence.