Meet Elizabeth and Dr. Katie
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman are internationally recognized leaders in personal growth, transformation, and peaceful living. Together, they blend science and soul to help individuals, families, and organizations navigate change with courage, compassion, and grace. Their collaborative work—including Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through and The Peace Guidebook—invites readers to rediscover their potential, practice mindful presence, and create peace within themselves and the world around them. With decades of combined experience in psychology, coaching, writing, and leadership, Elizabeth and Katie are united by a single mission: to help humanity heal, grow, and live with greater love and understanding.
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
Founder and CEO
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is an award-winning bestselling author and internationally recognized speaker whose work empowers individuals and organizations to navigate change, cultivate peace, build resilience, and lead with purpose.
She is the Founder and CEO of Best Ever You, CEO of Compliance4, co-founder of The Percolate Peace Project, and host of The Best Ever You Show, a globally recognized podcast with more than 5 million downloads and 700+ conversations featuring bestselling authors, CEOs, physicians, athletes, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. Through Best Ever You, her books, coaching, speaking, media, and global initiatives, Elizabeth has inspired millions of people worldwide to embrace meaningful personal and professional transformation. Her work reaches a community of more than 500,000 followers across social media and digital platforms.
For more than 20 years, Elizabeth has helped individuals, leaders, organizations, healthcare systems, schools, and communities navigate life's challenges with greater confidence, compassion, and resilience. Her work redefines change, success, and peace as daily practices rooted in awareness, aligned action, and our shared humanity.
Elizabeth is the author of The Change Guidebook and The Success Guidebook, and co-author, with Dr. Katie Eastman, of The Peace Guidebook and Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through (Hay House). Published by HCI Books, home of the iconic Chicken Soup for the Soul series, her books have received numerous national and international literary awards and have been recognized by Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Fox 5 DC, and other national media. She is also a member of the Forbes Business Council.
With a degree in journalism from St. Ambrose University and executive leadership studies at Harvard Business School, Elizabeth brings together executive leadership, publishing, media, business, and lived experience to inspire meaningful change in people and organizations around the world.
Elizabeth is also a passionate advocate for food allergy awareness. After surviving multiple life-threatening episodes of anaphylaxis—including being resuscitated twice, once while six months pregnant with her son Cameron—she transformed her personal experience into a lifelong commitment to education, advocacy, safety, and inclusion. She is the founder of Food Allergy Zone, a longtime spokesperson for FAACT and MedicAlert, and co-author, with Sally Huss, of award-winning children's books that help families navigate life with food allergies.
Known affectionately as the "Chief Cookie Baker," Elizabeth has baked and donated thousands of homemade nut-free chocolate chip cookies to children, families, schools, hospitals, first responders, and communities across the United States. What began as one act of kindness has become a lasting symbol of compassion, belonging, and hope.
Elizabeth also coaches gymnastics at the Maine Academy of Gymnastics, encouraging young athletes to build confidence, courage, resilience, and joyful strength.
Elizabeth and her husband, Peter, have been married for nearly three decades and are the proud parents of four grown sons. They divide their time between Maine and South Carolina and share their home with two beloved dogs and two rescue cats.
At the heart of everything Elizabeth does is one simple belief: we are not entitled to time. Every book she writes, every audience she addresses, every organization she serves, and every act of kindness she shares is guided by a commitment to help people navigate change with courage, cultivate peace every day, and leave the world better than they found it.
When your life touches Elizabeth's, her hope is simple: that both lives are better because of it.
Dr. Katie Eastman
Contributing Co-Founder
Dr. Katie Eastman is an internationally acclaimed grief and change expert, licensed therapist, Master Grief Coach, and cofounder of Recreate Coaching and Counseling. With over four decades of experience guiding individuals, families, organizations, and communities through life’s most complex transitions, Dr. Katie 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, Dr. 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-oflife transition planning and organizational trauma recovery, Dr. Katie has spent her life helping others access meaning, peace, and resilience even in the most uncertain of times.
She is the author of the award-winning book Uplifting: Inspiring Stories of Loss, Change, and Growth, and coauthor (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, Dr. Katie offers a rare and sacred space for reflection, reinvention, and inner peace.
As a speaker, coach, and consultant, Dr. 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.
Dr. 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, Dr. Katie leads by example, proving that peace and growth are possible, even after loss.