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Dr. Kathleen Hall, internationally recognized lifestyle expert in stress, work-life balance and mindful living, is the founder and CEO of The Stress Institute and The Mindful Living Network. During times of stress and crisis – the Newtown Massacre, the West Virginia and Utah coal miner tragedies, Katrina ravaging the Gulf Coast, Air France crash in Canada, London terrorist bombing, the Runaway Bride, the national television and print media consistently seek the authoritative knowledge, information and direction of Dr. Kathleen Hall.

Dr. Hall’s advice has been featured on most the major national media including NBC’s The Today Show, Dr. OZ Show, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, FOX, CNN International, FOX News, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, TEDMED, Huffington Post, ESPN.com, Oprah & Friends, Good Morning America Radio, Martha Stewart Radio, Fortune, Money Magazine, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, Associated Press, Business Week, Body + Soul, Parents, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Real Simple, Working Woman, Woman’s Day, and Parade. As a weekly guest commentator on WTOP, Washington D.C., she is also featured in hundreds of articles in most major magazines and newspapers in America.

Dr. Hall was the spokesperson for many Fortune 500 Companies including Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Unilever, (the Global Ambassador for the Unilever/Knorr Soup Campaign – Eat Soup, Live Healthy), Darden Restaurants, Princess Cruise Lines along with others companies such as Tempur-Pedic. She has also been a world thought leader to many corporations. In fact, Martha Stewart Publications coined her as the “Stress Queen.” Dr. Hall has worked with many Fortune 500 Companies in the areas of stress and work life balance. A few in her client list are McDonalds, S. C. Johnson, Southern Company, Kimberly Clark, Proctor and Gamble, Kellogg Foundation, Grant Thornton and Turner Broadcasting.

She is the author of 3 books: Uncommon HOPE (Sourcebooks 2010); A Life in Balance: Nourishing the Four Roots of True Happiness (AMACOM, January 2006), 2008 Mom’s Choice Book Award winner, and winner of the prestigious 2007 Nautilus Book Award; and Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed? (Oak Haven, April 2005), she offers simple methods for reducing stress, creating balance and living mindfully.

Dr. Hall earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Jacksonville State University, a Masters of Divinity from Emory University and a Doctorate in Spirituality from Columbia Theological Seminary. Her diverse background of study with medical pioneer’s including Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind/Body Institute, Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the U Mass Stress Reduction Center, as well as illustrious Nobel Peace Prize recipients including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Hall has perfected her expertise in these related fields—Where Science Meets the Soul®. John Ratey M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard and author of numerous groundbreaking and bestselling books, named Dr. Hall “the midwife to a movement – Mindful Living.”

Dr. Hall lives on a horse farm with her family where she maintains a bird sanctuary, fosters and rescues animals outside of Atlanta, Georgia. She also works at both Stress Institute locations in the North Georgia mountains and in Atlanta. For more information about her corporate services, click HERE or EMAIL us.

Dr. Kathleen Hall’s Media Appearances
(list represents a small sampling of all the global media she has appeared in)

TELEVISION

CNN: Headline News; Paula Zahn Now; Anderson Cooper 360°; International Business Traveler; Saturday Live
NBC – The Today Show; KUSA-TV Denver
MSNBC
ABC – News Now; KMGH-TV Denver; WABC-TV New York; WFAA-TV (Dallas/Ft. Worth) Good Morning Texas; WLS-TV News This Morning, ABC7 Las Angeles
CBS – WUSA-TV Washington, DC
CN8 – Your Morning
ESPN
FOX – Business Channel, Morning Show, Dayside, N.Y.
FOX- KDFW-TV Good Day Dallas; WAGA-TV Good Day Atlanta
UPN Focus Atlanta

RADIO

Dr. Hall hosted “Live with Dr. Kathleen Hall,” KCAA-AM radio, Los Angeles
Oprah and Friends, Dr. Oz
Oprah and Friends, Jean Shotsky Show
CNN Radio; “HealthWatch” CNN Health Radio
Good Morning America Radio
Martha Stewart Living Radio, Living Today Show
Martha Stewart Living Radio; and XM Radio
“All About You” KFTK-FM, St. Louis
“The Barbara Dooley Show” WGAU-AM
“Bob Lancer’s Parenting Solutions” WSB Radio, Atlanta
“Code Red!” WMET-AM, Washington, DC
“Doctor Talk Radio” KUMU, Honolulu
“For Heaven’s Sake” XM Satellite Radio
“Broad Minded” XM Satellite Radio
“The Giftionary” WSTR Star 94.1, Atlanta
“Interconnect” WMUB-FM
“John St. Augustine” WCHT-AM
“The Jordan Rick Show”
“On The Money” WXEL-FM, West Palm Beach
“Remarkable Women” WMGC-FM, Detroit
“The Silver Lining Show” WTVN-AM, Columbus
“The Up Beet Gardener”, Alaska
“Woman’s World” WSB-AM & FM
“Windsor Now” CKLW-AM, Windsor, Ontario
“The Woodstock Roundtable” WDST-FM, Woodstock, NY
“Aware Talk Radio Chicago
CBS Radio Pittsburgh
Michigan Talk Radio Network
Rich Levin Talk Radio
CJOB 680, Canada
KKea Sports Radio, Honolulu
KLPW-AM
KQIC-FM
KTRS-AM, St. Louis
WXEL FM, West Palm Beach
WHPC-FM, Garden City, NY
WERE-AM, Cleveland
WHO Radio, Des Moines
WFHM 95.5 FM:”The FISH”, Atlanta
WHBC-AM, Canton, OH
WFLA-AM, AM Tampa Bay
WSPA-FM, Greenville/Spartanburg, SC
WHIR 1230AM, Lexington
WTOP, Washington – Weekly radio segment

MAGAZINES

Atlanta Woman
Balance Magazine
Better Homes & Gardens
Body and Soul
Bride Magazine
Business Week
Computer World
Cosmopolitan
Deep Magazine
Disney Family Fun Magazine
Elegant Bride
Elle
Endless Vacation
Essence
Every Woman
Family Circle
Fitness
For You
Fortune
Forbes
Glamour
Health
Home Basics
Ladies’ Home Journal
Latin Biz
Marie Claire
Mind Body and Spirit
Men’s Fitness
Money
More Magazine
Parade
Parents
Pink Magazine
Quick and Simple
Real Simple
Redbook
SELF
Spirituality And Health
Success
Wired
Woman’s Day
Women First
Women’s Health and Fitness
Woman’s World
Working Woman
Yoga Journal

NEWSPAPERS

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
USA Today
The Boston Globe
The Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles Times
HuffingtonPost.com
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Boston Herald
Detroit News
The Detroit Free Press
Associated Press
Baltimore Sun
Baton Rouge Advocate
Birmingham Business Journal
The Birmingham News
The Buffalo News
The Charlotte Sun
The Daily Green
Investor’s Business Daily
Johnson City Press
Jugglezine
La Opinion
The Oakland Tribune
Orlando Sentinel
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
The Sacramento Bee
San Antonio Express News