Dick Sutphen has established distinguished careers in advertising and audio publishing, in addition to writing several bestselling books and conducting seminars for over 150,000 people. Dick grew up in Nebraska in the 1950s and after high school worked in an advertising agency art department for a year before attending the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California. Starting out as an art director for major advertising agencies, he went on to receive over 150 awards for creating outstanding advertising and design for clients such as Scotch Tape and Betty Crocker. While still working for the agencies, he launched a publishing company on the side and was soon selling books to the professional advertising market internationally.

His book, The Mad Old Ads was published in 1966 (McGraw Hill--U.S. and W.H. Allen--England) and received huge reviews, including a full page in Newsweek. Effective advertising is the power of persuasion. In the mid-seventies, Sutphen sought to expand his understanding of this power by studying brain/mind technology and hypnosis. One of the studio offices became the Scottsdale Hypnosis Center. As a result of these explorations, in 1976 he created and marketed the first prerecorded hypnosis tapes through his own company, Valley of the Sun Publishing.

The Hypnosis Center explorations also led to writing a book: You Were Born Again To Be Together (Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 1976). It has never gone out of print and has sold nearly a million copies. Dick is often a featured speaker at conventions such as the American Council of Hypnotherapy. Sutphen Seminars are conducted annually in as many as 35 U.S. cities and England, Ireland and Australia.

Dick and Tara Sutphen have been together since 1983 and live in Malibu, California with their children, horses, dogs and cats.

Tara Sutphen was raised in the 1970s in the San Francisco Bay area and Anchorage, Alaska. Following high school, she went to work for British Petroleum on the Alaskan Pipeline above the Arctic Circle. Within two years, she had the money to buy a house and returned to California where she worked as a model for the Adrian Agency in Pasadena. When a job in the movie industry opened up, she went to work for Warner/Columbia at Burbank Studios.

She took college classes in equine science, studied for two years at the Brentwood Art Center, and privately with palmist Helene Kayal and astrologer Barbara May. Tara had natural talent for all things psychic and she was soon devoting full time to these studies. Today, she often demonstrates her abilities in professional trainings, and has written articles about the psychic sciences for national women's magazines such as American Woman and Woman's Own.

Using automatic writing, Tara communicates with her spirit guide Abenda, who sets up ethereal connections for readers asking questions -- connections that have often been verified by the questioners. One quarter Native American, she draws upon her roots to specialize in Shamanistic and occult techniques such as leading vision quests, automatic writing, palmistry, and astrology.

Tara's tapes are among the most popular in the Valley of the Sun line. She has often used automatic writing to assist her husband in his research as is evidenced in Dick's books, Earthly Purpose (Pocket Books) and With Your Spirit Guide's Help (Valley of the Sun, 1998).