Casandra Brené Brown is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin..

Born to Indian immigrant parents in 1982, Ramit Sethi has transformed from a Stanford-educated tech entrepreneur into one of America's most trusted voices on personal finance.

**Wall Street prognosticator** Peter D. Schiff has built his reputation as one of the few financial commentators to accurately predict major economic downturns before they happen.