You'll want to setup the items in that featured section. You can choose which one's they are.
Go here:
http://simplylisa.net/genosis/core/skin_admin/global/skin=jrGenosis
and you will see:
featured profiles:
with this
Quote: Enter the profile ID's you want to show in the featured ancestor slider. Note: Separate multiple ID's with a comma, ie. 1,2,3.
Tip: You can find a profile's ID by looking at the profile - the ID is the number at the end of the profile URL
So you pick the profile id's that you want to show on your front page in that FEATURED section.
You can find the profile id's easily accessible in the USER PROFILE BROWSER which is here:
http://simplylisa.net/genosis/profile/browser
(If you don't want the name of your site published here, let me know and I'll change the urls to YOUR-SITE.com instead.)
updated by @michael: 12/29/14 09:23:55AM