James Mihaley creates inspiring content across a broad spectrum of genres. He is an award winning children’s author published by Macmillan. His eco-novel, ‘You Can’t Have My Planet But Take My Brother,’ Please uses humor to empower children, instilling the belief that kids can have a gigantic impact on the environment. James is currently adapting his novel into a screenplay. As working screenwriter, he developed a project for Gale Ann Hurd, producer of ‘The Terminator’ and ‘The Walking Dead’. He also optioned a screenplay to Bryan Cranston, star of ‘Breaking Bad’. James made a breakthrough as an artist when he discovered that his strength was versatility. No longer fighting the urge to explore new art forms, he decided to embrace it. In the field of poetry, he published a collection of spiritual poems titled ‘The New Yogi Manifesto’. This led to a collaboration with acclaimed guitarist, Grecco Buratto, on a groundbreaking guided meditation set to music called ‘Traffic Jam Meditation’. The highly irreverent tone of TJM is designed to appeal to the 295 out of 300 people in this country who don’t have a regular meditation practice. Having grown up in Wisconsin, a bonafide cheesehead, James is determined to use laughter to bring the healing power of meditation to rural America and big cities, to red and blue states. James is a public speaker and spoken word artist. He teaches unique ‘Writing & Yoga’ workshops around the country. His specialty is helping inexperienced writers get jumpstarted. Through a more relaxed, non-competitive, yogic approach, he is committed to aiding people who have always aspired to write a book, to fulfill their lifelong dreams. He has a thriving literary coaching practice and now resides in Los Angeles and can be reached at jmihaley@yahoo.com. He enjoys football, dancing and rolling burritos on a food truck for the homeless. His father, James Senior, is an Korean War Air Force Veteran.