Mary Ellen Psaltis

Mary Ellen Psaltis is a Certified Nutrition and Wellness Consultant, an activational Well Being Speaker, and a newspaper columnist.

Highly in demand as a speaker, Mary Ellen makes presentations on well being throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her speaking - like her writing - is seasoned with humorous reflections and heartfelt observations about life, family and the art of living extremely well.

She serves as Chair for the Council on Well Being with the Alliance of the American Dental Society, volunteers with her church, and is active in Toastmasters International.

Mary Ellen and husband Greg make their home in Olympia, Washington where Mary Ellen is also a full time parent to the one very busy teenage son still living at home.

Favorite activities just for her? Mary Ellen enjoys weight training, bike riding, nutrition and reading - and her annual treks to sunny Mexico where she and her husband are helping to set up dental clinics.

Maureen (Mo) Kiefert

Now in her 70s, Mo Kiefert considers herself a "late bloomer" and declares this to be the very best time of her busy life.

A native of Minnesota, Mo holds degrees in criminology and counseling and credentials as a licensed Marriage/Family Therapist. After years of successful work in relationship, addiction and anger management counseling, Mo retired in the late '90's but soon was back in school in a three year program to become a Licensed Unity Teacher.

She has served as a Stephen Minister and volunteered for Hospice where she wrote life stories of hospice patients. She currently sits on the Advisory Board for Circles of Love, an eductional/support group for families of men with prostate cancer.

Happily in her second marriage for the past 20 plus years, Mo and husband Jim share eight children, 13 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren and divide their time between Arizona and Washington State.

Mo is passionate about her family, writing, cooking, quilting, reading and exercise. She especially loves to write and perform wedding ceremonies - watch for her upcoming book of wedding ceremony ideas.