Jeff St. Peters was senior manager of product development at Universal Companies, a supplier of massage and skin care products.

Amanda Huggins is a respected anxiety and mindfulness coach, certified yoga instructor, brand ambassador, writer, and keynote speaker. She offers workshops and digital courses for clients across all spectrums, and cultivates her ever-expanding social media community of over 350,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Huggins resides in New York City with her beloved dog Spartacus. For more information, visit amandahugginscoaching.com.

Joyce Gauthier, LMT, is the creator and founder of Respect Massage, a campaign to protect massage therapists from sexual solicitations. Join the Respect Massage movement by visiting respectmassage.com.

Ben E. Benjamin, PhD, has done much pioneering work in the areas of ethics and comunication, writing articles on professioal, sexual, and business ethics, and is the co-author of The Ethics of Touch, a textbook used in schools throughout North America to teach ethics and boundaries to massage therapists as well as other hands-on health-care profesionals. He has been an expert witness in cases of sexual assault in the massage and bodywork field since 2004. In 1974, Dr. Benjamin founded the Muscular Therapy Institute, a school he owned and directed for over 30 years. In the 1980s, he developed a 150-hour curriclum in ethics and communications skills for therapists in training. He has taught courses in ethics, boundaries, sexuality, and communication to somatic therapists for over 30 years.

Elicia Crook is a business coach and mentor for massage therapists, sharing the tactics she used to create her business success over 16 years. She is a diploma-qualified remedial massage therapist, using modalities such as Bowen and craniosacral therapy, and has a Cert IV in Workplace Training and Assessment, which she used while teaching massage for several years. Through her career and business experience, Crook discovered who she needed to be and what is required to run a deeply satisfying massage business. Now she takes the Fully Booked Without Burnout blueprint to other therapists around the world to create more success and passion. For more information, visit massagechampions.com.

Angie Parris is a licensed massage therapist and the advertising director for ABMP. Angie is Chopra Center Certified in meditation, Ayurvedic lifestyle, and total well-being coaching. Her training explores physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. You can also see Angie in ABMP’s Meditate & Move series on ABMP’s YouTube Playlist. Angie is also the founder of the nonprofit Project Inti, an organization that provides aid and education to low-income Peruvian families and communities. For more information, visit projectinti.org.

Amanda Long is a writer and massage therapist in Falls Church, Virginia. She likes to dance and laugh, loudly.

Lola Michelin, LMT, LAMT, SAMT, founded the Northwest School of Animal Massage in 2001. She has practiced animal massage for over 30 years and massage for people for 17 of those years. A graduate of the animal science program at Michigan State University, she has experience in both the veterinarian and zoological fields. For more information, visit nwsam.com.