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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 ...

Alex Smith - #1 NFL Pick, 3 x Pro Bowler. Lost his job twice and almost lost his leg!

Alex might be the most humble superstar you’ve ever met. He talked about how success came from staying in the moment, maintaining focus and letting go of worry while t...

Steven Nyman - Alpine Skiing 3x Olympian, 3x World Cup Winner and 11x podium finisher in Downhill

How did a Junior World Slalom Champion become a 3x Olympian, 3x World Cup Winner and 11x podium finisher in Downhill? It all started with a $10 pair of stretch pants f...

Melissa Stockwell - Triathlon Champion tries the Boston Marathon!

In 2004, Melissa Stockwell was the first woman to lose a limb in combat. By 2008, she was a Paralympic swimmer. In Rio 2016, she and her teammates swept the first Para...

Susannah Scaroni - Paralympic Wheelchair Racing Gold Medalist and Marathoner!

With seven laps to go in the Paralympic 5000 meters, Susannah Scaroni went to the front of the pack. When she looked at the big screen she had almost 100 meters on the...

Marcel Hug - World record holder, he is the man to beat in wheelchair racing!

A wrong turn kept Marcel Hug eight seconds from breaking the course record at the Boston Marathon under less than ideal conditions last year. He’s since eclipsed the t...

Bryon Friedman - Former US Ski Team Member, Entrepreneur and Musician

Bryon Friedman–World Cup Downhill Ski Racer, turned award-winning musician, turned entrepreneur and environmentalist. How a horrific crash led to another career and so...

Duke Beardsley - Painting the modern cowboy and cowgirl, while imagining their position in this ever changing world.

Sixth generation Coloradan, Duke Beardsley has been drawing and painting the American west for as long as he can remember. Raised both in Denver, and on a 1000 acre ca...

John Lawrence - Actor, Doctor, and Author of Playing Doctor Part 1 and 2

John Lawrence Playing Doctor, Part Two, the second installment in bestselling author John Lawrence's medical odyssey drops December 27th. John is so supremely talented...

Ben Eaton - Iron Sculptor, Paraglider, Skier and all around expert on being a happy human!

Ben is a lover of life, who makes beauty for a living. He’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet and you’ll leave wishing you could be like him.

Mike Augspurger - Inventor of the One-Off Off Road Handcycle

Mike called me one day out of the blue to see if I would be a test pilot for his new off-road handcycle. He’d seen me in a local newspaper article. Returning to the wo...

Daniel Romanchuk - The Men's Wheelchair Racer in Tokyo to beat

It’s exciting to see when everything comes together for an athlete. Daniel makes going fast look really simple and that’s when you know that it’s going great. He’s hum...

Matt Stutzman - The no armed Archer, World Record Longest Accurate Shot... Ever!

Matt might just be one of the funniest people I’ve met. You can’t help but feel better about life in general when you hang out with him. He has the World Record for th...

Josh Blue - Winner Last Comic Standing. Member 2004 US Paralympic CP Soccer Team

You know how you have those people, who were involved in your world, then they went on to do great things and even though you never knew them well, you enjoy telling t...

Joe Tompkins - Alpine Skiing Athlete, Baseball Coach and Paralympian

Joe was my roommate when I was on the US Adaptive Ski Team. While he would tell you that I taught him a lot about skiing, I have always marveled at his ability to brea...

Missy Kelly - Co-founder, CEO and President of Cat Tongue Grips

CatTongue Grip, a non-abrasive gripping solution, resulted from a slippery phone and an attempted and aborted adhesive sandpaper remedy. It spawned the solution to pro...

Edie Thys Morgan - 2x Olympian and author of two books. One on Skiing, the other on Sex.

Edie threw herself into the fear of being a Downhiller, then again when she became a writer after retiring, but the time that really impressed me was when she, an able...

Bayard Winthrop - Founder and CEO of apparel manufacturer American Giant

Bayard Winthrop’s, “what if” we make clothes in the US again led Slate Magazine to write, “This is the Greatest Hoodie Ever Made,” but for American Giant and Bayard it...

Tatyana McFadden - Possibly the greatest wheelchair racer ever!

Tatyana has blown people’s minds in the wheelchair racing circuit, sweeping the four major marathons (Boston, London, Chicago and New York) for four years in a row in ...

Ted Ligety - "Mr GS" 2-time olympic gold medalist and 4-time Olympian

I loved watching Ted win races by incomprehensible margins, but what I liked even more was that he wasn’t fast as a kid. He made himself into the champion that he beca...

Frank Sesno - CNN Correspondant, Anchor and Bureau Chief, Author of Ask More

Frank is one of the kindest and most thoughtful people I know. His book Ask More reflects that. It is a great reminder for us to ask instead of speak--to remain genuin...

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