Ana Teresa Dengo retired after more than three decades of working in the international field. She served as a diplomat in Washington DC and New York and as Ambassador of Costa Rica to Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and to the United Nations in Vienna. She also has worked at several international organizations, including as Associate Director of the US Peace Corps Office in Costa Rica, the Comprehensive-Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBTO), and the United Nations System. She holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s in Public Administration with an emphasis in Public Policy and Strategic Management from Harvard University. Her main areas of expertise include nuclear diplomacy and negotiation and training and capacity-building. She has also trained in several holistic energy balancing methods, including emotional freedom technique (EFT), Feng Shui, reiki, and Hawaiian spiritual practices. She speaks several languages. She was President of the UN Society for Conscious Living (today the VIC Body, Mind and Spirit Club) which organizes lectures for the staff working at the United Nations in Vienna in support of their efforts to work for the betterment of the world. Just to name a few, lecturers during her time were Roy Martina, Neal Donald Walsch, Gay and Kathy Hendricks, Mabel Katz, Jasmuheen, Carmel Greenwood, and Vishen Lakhiani. She co-authored A Search for Purpose, from the Best-Selling Series Wake Up and Live the Life You Love.