Our Creative Team
Keith and Beth met in late 2018 thanks to a dating app and Diwali, a holiday known as "The Festival of Lights.” Quickly, the pair connected over shared life philosophies and by exchanging ideas about how to find happiness and sustain inner peace.
About Keith, the Author
For the first half of Keith Ruffner’s life, he lived a traditional lifestyle as a corporate executive. There were happy moments with his kids, but he didn’t know how to express those moments of happiness. In January 2020, with his children grown, he semi-retired to focus on creating a happy and fulfilled life. He volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate® (CASA) to help children who have experienced abuse or neglect, raised funds for BuildOn to help build a school in Nepal, and volunteered as an animal keeper aide for the Dallas Zoo.
His new lifestyle afforded him the opportunity to take a trip to Spain and walk a portion of the Camino de Santiago, meeting the most wonderful people along the way. He is an avid reader of Thích Nhất Hạnh and other compassionate thought leaders. The interpersonal connections he has experienced since semi-retirement encourage him to believe the human values displayed by the bunnies in this book can improve the world.
About Beth, the Co-creator
Beth Wuller is the founder and Chief Intention Officer of Neugroove®, a brand she created to invite others to celebrate new ways of thinking, living, and just being. Beth was a featured speaker in 2021 during World Happiness Week hosted by the World Happiness Foundation (WHF). In 2020, she presented at the WHF’s Belonging Virtual Summit and the Gross Global Happiness Summit in Costa Rica, hosted by the United Nations University of Peace. As a neuroscience-based happiness coach, she has published a series of articles simplifying neuroscience concepts to make them understandable and actionable. In addition, she has written a series of articles about finding happiness and is the co-creator of the children’s book Making Friends With Feelings. After twenty-five years in leadership and marketing strategy roles, she is now a model of living with intent and how to create a fulfilling work-life balance. As a happiness life coach, and through Neugroove, she actively supports others’ healing journeys with gentle reminders about practicing patience, self-compassion, resilience, and courage.
To learn more about Neugroove, go here.
About Kate, the Illustrator
Kate Gleyzer is a Ukrainian-born artist with over twenty years of experience as a professional illustrator. After graduating from The Kharkiv State School of Art, one of Ukraine's oldest art educational establishments, she moved to Moscow. She began her career in 1990, working as a young and ambitious theater and set designer. In 1994, she received the award for the best set design at the First Festival of Municipal Theaters of Moscow Oblast.
Soon after, she became interested in digital art, mastering graphic design, layout, and illustration. She has collaborated with several award-winning Russian publishers and illustrated Russian Fairy Tales, for Apricotbooks, a well-known Russian publisher focusing on children, middle-aged, and YA books. In January 2022 she moved to Israel with her family where she continues her passion for illustrating children’s books.
