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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...
Bill Walton - One of the greatest basketball players, sports broadcasters, Deadheads, and a guy in search of happiness!
Bill’s parents gifted him curiosity. He took it to basketball, music, books and almost anything else. A crippling stutter rendered him almost mute as a child, but he w...
Kawser Amine - Former Afghan Women’s National Team Soccer Player. Current Women’s Rights Advocate.
Kawser started with the Afghan Women’s National Soccer Team when she was in second grade because there was a window of opportunity for women–or really in her case, you...
JV Crum III - Enlightenment and Financial Security: The Conscious Millionaire
Personal, spiritual growth and money often seem at odds, but they are best when they work in concert and that’s exactly what JV Crum does.
Matt Ellenthal - Just Add Ice. Co-Founder of Award-Winning Barrelsmith Ready to Pour Cocktails
Matt has always been a great storyteller, I didn’t realize how much depth the stories had (speakeasys and moonshine is in the family’s bloodlines) and how much they ap...
Erin Weed - Erin can crystallize purpose to one word!
Erin’s super power is getting your purpose to one word, but there’s a lot more: teaching self-defense, coaching Tedx speakers and mostly pursuing and facilitating unab...
Amanda Stoddard - Director of One Revolution Documentary and Emmy-Award Winning Director/Producer.
Amanda has been one of the most influential people in One Revolution and telling my story.
Joanne Pasternack - Co-Founder of Athletes’ Voices: The Premier Program for Athletes’ Seeking to Increase Their Influence and Social Impact.
After a career of high-level positions in sports social responsibility and philanthropy for the San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors, Joanne increased her...
Connor Fields - From BMX Olympic Gold Medalist to one of the worst accidents ever in the Games.
The sport of BMX is a massive, all-out sprint over bumps and jumps with inches separating competitors. In that tumultuous world, Connor knew that he was the best, but ...
Beth Levison - Emmy and Peabody Award winning Producer/Director
Co-Director of Peabody Award Nominee Storm Lake, Beth does a great job of communicating the essential voice and character of her documentaries and she’s not scared to ...