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Julie Foudy - Iconic Women’s Soccer Player, Journalist, and Trailblazer
I tried to match Julie’s legendary energy in this podcast. You’ll have to be the judge of whether I was successful or not. She’s famous from her team’s history changin...
John Maclean - Ironman Champion, English Channel Swimmer, Former Professional Rugby Player, and Paralyzed Athlete Who Has Completed a Triathlon without a Wheelchair.
John was a professional rugby player and aspiring triathlete during the off-season when an eight-ton truck hit him as he trained on his bike. Medical experts set his c...
Dan Egan - Pioneering Extreme Skier of “Egan Brothers” Warren Miller Fame and the Business Mind to Make it a Career
Dan followed his brother John, six years older, into Warren Miller movies. They skied the steepest and gnarliest, but also went where the news was happening. Dan said,...
Lori Frisher - Game Changing Disability Rights Advocate
Lori played Division I tennis player even though she couldn’t hear the racket hit the ball. Relying on lipreading to communicate, COVID’s masks rendered the world quie...
Scott Wolf - Actor, Producer, Director
Those of you of a certain age, will definitely remember him as Bailey from Party of Five. He has tons of acting credits in film and television and has been part of som...
Ivan Blumberg - Sports Agent Who Leveraged the Power of the Athlete to Make the World a Better Place.
It was Arthur Ashe, who made Ivan recognize the power of the athlete. Arthur had just been diagnosed with AIDS as a result of a tainted blood transfusion during heart ...
Laurel Sander - Chinese Medicine Doctor, Shaman, Healer and so much more
Laurel might enjoy her job, some of which includes colonics, which she cheers, more than anyone I know. Her passion is to heal and to help and her motivation is both p...
Stephani Victor - Paralympic Skiing Champion, who filmed her story from the moment she lost her legs in a freak car accident.
Storytelling consumed Stephani as a film student at USC, but one of her professors told the class that they didn’t know anything because they lacked life experience. W...
Marc Harrison - Healthcare CEO changing the system to serve everyone in wellness.
Marc jokingly says that he’s been the one to ask the difficult questions from the time that he got kicked out of Sunday School as a kid for questioning why we as oppre...
Jill Orschel - Emmy Award Winning Independent Filmmaker
Jill spent nine years building trust, friendship and the story of Cora’s escape from an abusive, polygamist marriage through her artwork. Snowland will be Jill’s first...
Retired Rear Admiral Mike Hewitt - Nuclear Power as a Green Solution
Energy Sovereignty, Authoritarian Regimes, Climate Change, Green Solutions, Decarbonization, Climate-Neutral Future, Energy Poverty, Reliable Energy, US, China, Russia...
Brad Snyder - Navy Explosives Ordnance Disposal Officer who lost his sight to an IED. Paralympic Champion. World Record Holder. Princeton PhD candidate.
It’s easy to see Brad as a superhero because he’s achieved things about which most of of us just dream: Naval Academy graduate, explosives expert, breaker of a thirty ...
M.C. Antil - Author of Floor Burns: Love, Passion and the 1967 Syracuse All-City Championship.
M.C.’s professional career started, or attempted to start when he sent message to Ted Turner that he would walk from Syracuse to Atlanta to get hired by the Braves. As...
Matt Ounsworth - Award-Winning Chainsaw Artist!
Mattochainsaw is my cousin. After dangerous years of climbing trees as an arborist/tree trimmer, he started down a different path when his wife asked him to carve a be...
Lonnie Mayne - Red Shoes Living Founder
Lonnie’s father was a second generation pro wrestler–a villain, who turned kind, soft and human with his fans after the match. His uncle was a turnaround executive lea...
Gregg Garfield - COVID Patient Zero in LA Given 1% Chance of Living
Along with twelve buddies on a skiing trip to Val Gardena in Italy, Gregg contracted COVID before anyone knew what to make of it. He’d spend thirty-one days in a coma,...
Bryan Fletcher - Two-time Olympian in Nordic Combined who was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was three years old.
While he was still in Chemotherapy, Brian convinced his parents to hit the Nordic jumps at his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. With each bigger jump he was more a...
Odessa Jenkins - Founder and CEO Women’s Football Conference
Odessa is a Hall of Fame Running Back and the President of Emtrain, a revolutionary eLearning and analytics company that goes beyond compliance to create inclusive wor...
Steve Brosnihan - resident cartoonist at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
I kept Steve’s title lowercase because he usually does and because he doesn’t take himself too seriously, even though he’s undertaking the serious work of brightening ...
Kara Goucher - First woman or man to stand on a World Championship 10,000 meter podium, Boston and New York podiums, NBC analyst, battling Repetitive Exercise Dystonia
Kara is one of the most respected, beloved and outspoken members of the running community. She was a historic performer and continues as a huge proponent of clean raci...
Peter Holmes à Court - Businessman, Author, Environmentalist and Rugby team owner
In Riding with Giants, Peter Holmes à Court demonstrated the honesty and vulnerability to be human, fallible and curious as he searched for his path. His father Robert...
Jeremiah Core - Athlete, Special Forces, Actor
Back in ninth grade, I knew that Jeremiah was a performer when he was break dancing for the other team before our soccer games during a school trip to what was then th...
Beck Castle - Farm to cone ice cream with social change bent!
Becky Castle has been in social change her whole working life, starting her career with the Carter Center and working with the Gates Foundation among others to try el...
Eduardo Garcia - The Bionic Chef and Host of Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia
Eduardo is a chef. He’s also an entertainer, a philosopher, a son and a husband. Most significantly, he’s a man, who lives in concert with his world, and seeks ways to...
Erik Weihenmayer - Totally Blind Adventurer: Summitted highest peak on all seven summits. Kayaked the Grand Canyon
Erik has achieved the incomprehensible, climbing the world’s highest mountains and kayaking some of its biggest rapids, but he’s also a thoughtful guy who builds commu...
John Moffet - Two-Time Olympian, Three-Time Emmy Winner!
John broke the World Record for the 100 meter breaststroke at the 1984 Olympic Trials. He broke the Olympic Record in the Prelims, but also told his abductor muscle. W...
Clayton Frech - Co-Founder and CEO of Angel City Sports
This was a far-ranging conversation that started with Clayton’s wife’s role in the movie Crash. I couldn’t help but think that the race, class, family and gender issue...
Denis Coleman - Music Pop Star Heading to the Ivy Leagues
When Denis and I skied together with his father and a family friend, he searched for a flow on the mountain. A quiet, smiley determination pointed to a sense of curios...
Mike Marolt - The Humble 8,000-meter Climber and Skier
Mike’s is a story of evolution from doing the brashest of things climbing and skiing 5,000–8,000-meter peaks (always within their ability and the bounds of good decisi...
Donna Volpitta - Neuroscience you need and can understand!
I’ve known Donna Volpitta approaching thirty-five years. She has always been one of the kindest and most compassionate people. When she said that her parents knew that...