Meet Elizabeth and Dr. Katie
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Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
Founder and CEO
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is one of the world’s leading voices in personal development and peaceful leadership. She is a bestselling and award-winning author, certified master coach, and founder of the Best Ever You Network — a global platform dedicated to helping people live with authenticity, purpose, and heart. For over two decades, she has helped individuals, teams, and organizations navigate change and cultivate resilience through her compassionate and practical approach to personal transformation.
Elizabeth is the author of several acclaimed books including The Change Guidebook, The Success Guidebook, Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through (co-authored with Dr. Katie Eastman), and numerous children’s books. Her work redefines change, success, and peace as everyday practices rooted in awareness, aligned action, and our shared humanity.
With a degree in journalism from St. Ambrose University and leadership studies at Harvard Business School, Elizabeth brings both professional depth and lived experience to her work. She is a leading advocate for food allergy awareness, having survived multiple life-threatening anaphylactic reactions and serving as a spokesperson and board member for FAACT (Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Connection Team). She also coaches gymnastics at the Maine Academy of Gymnastics, encouraging young athletes to build confidence, courage, and joyful strength.
Elizabeth lives between Maine and South Carolina with her husband, Peter, and their rescue cats. They have four grown sons, who continue to inspire her dedication to leading with love and leaving a legacy of peace.
Learn more at ElizabethGuarino.com
Dr. Katie Eastman
Contributing Co-Founder
Dr. Katie Eastman is an internationally acclaimed grief and change expert, licensed therapist, master grief coach, and co-founder of Recreate Coaching and Counseling. With over four decades of experience guiding individuals, families, organizations, and communities through life’s most complex transitions, Dr. Eastman is recognized globally for her unwavering presence, emotional depth, and ability to transform heartbreak into healing.
Trained and mentored by legendary psychiatrist and death-and-dying pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Katie’s work integrates the highest levels of clinical psychology with spiritual insight, compassion, and practical tools for peaceful living. Her approach empowers people not only to navigate loss—but to rise from it. From pediatric palliative care to end-of-life transition planning and organizational trauma recovery, Katie has spent her life helping others access meaning, peace, and resilience even in the most uncertain of times.
She is the author of Uplifting: Inspiring Stories of Loss, Change, and Growth, and co-author (with Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino) of Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through and The Peace Guidebook. Known for her ability to meet people in their most vulnerable moments with grace and grounded wisdom, Katie offers a rare and sacred space for reflection, reinvention, and inner peace.
As a speaker, coach, and consultant, Katie has impacted thousands around the world through her masterful teachings on anticipatory grief, emotional resilience, compassionate leadership, and the psychology of transformation. She is also a passionate voice in the global peace movement, reminding us that peaceful living is not the absence of pain—but the presence of love, self-trust, and human connection.
Katie lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband John. She is the proud mother of a strong, creative adult daughter. Whether guiding clients, mentoring professionals, or walking quietly by the shore, Katie leads by example, proving that peace and growth are possible, even after loss.
Learn more at DrKatieEastman.com