Joanna Connor – The Blues Artist with the answer to everything we need to know
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Joanna Connor was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Massachusetts only to be drawn to the Chicago blues scene in the 1980’s. Connor benefitted from her mother's huge collection of blues and jazz recordings, and got her first guitar at age seven. When she was 16, she began singing in Worcester-area bands, and when she was 22, she moved to Chicago. Soon after her arrival in 1984, she began sitting in with Chicago regulars like , , and . She hooked up with group for a short time before being asked by to join his 43rd Street Blues Band. She...
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Paul Lee – Being a real human being is the best quality we can have
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Paul Lee is the President of McLeod Racing as well as an NHRA Nitro Funny Car Driver. Born and raised in Southern New Jersey, Lee has always focused on drag racing cars, building businesses, and following his passions since the age of 13. As part of his storied academic career, Lee went to school and graduated – Summa Cum Laude – from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Lee then went the extra mile to obtain a Master of Business Administration degree and a Juris Doctor law degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey. With his schooling completed, Lee got into...
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Shea Vaughn - Struggle is a gift
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Shea Vaughn is a lifestyle pioneer and nationally recognized health and wellness authority and the Co-Founder/CEO of WBTVN (the Women’s Broadcast Television Network). WBTVN, is the first OTT online TV network with original content created for women. Its hosts reach an audience of over 30 million through OTT partners Roku, AppleTV, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, Google Play and more. Ms. Vaughn is the Creator of SheaNetics®; a values-based doctor-endorsed lifestyle practice. Shea’s innovative work with corporate leaders, celebrities, entrepreneurs and athletes around the...
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Mike Weiss – Taking artistic engineering from the kitchen to the Hollywood A-List
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As President and CEO of Weistec Engineering in Orange County, CA, Michael Weiss is a highly successful entrepreneur and business owner. Mike’s company has designed, fabricated, serviced and tuned after-market racing products to create many of the world’s fastest automobiles, including the world’s fastest Mercedes. Weistec's dealer network and brand has grown to be known worldwide. Clients include numerous ‘Hollywood A-Listers’, Professional Sports stars, Motorsports Champions and Business titans. At the young age of 33, Mike has only begun his journey of professional and personal...
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John Soderberg, PH.D., Sculptor – Lyf as the world’s most interesting artist
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John Soderberg circled the world eight times and visited more than 60 countries before graduating high school in Bangkok, Thailand. Born in 1950, John spent his first four years in Afghanistan, after which the family moved to India for five years, and then Thailand for eight years. His parents loving art, John was exposed to the world’s great art in museums, galleries, cathedrals and temples, from the time he could walk. In Rome, when John was five, his mother Betty held him up so he could touch the foot of Michelangelo’s Moses. He experienced his first epiphany and was amazed at the...
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Wei Houng – The truth behind relationships – with others and yourself
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Wei Houng, CEO and co-founder of HumanOp Technologies, Inc. and The 6 Figure Academy has made it his passion, purpose, and goal to help people uncover and optimize their unique vehicle of self to achieve financial AND lifestyle success. For over 20 years, he has worked with celebrities, industry thought leaders, and thousands of entrepreneurs to redefine their unique path of happiness and success. As a serial entrepreneur himself that has experienced the struggle of simply surviving while pursuing one’s dreams, Wei serves his students and clients with a deep understanding of what it...
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Betim Berisha – Powering exotic cars while empowering the next generation
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As Founder and President of BBI Autosport of Hunting Beach, CA, Betim Berisha is a highly successful entrepreneur and business owner, husband and dad to a 3 year old. In addition to being accomplished off track, Betim has also accumulated quite a track record of winning as a Racing Champion driver and team owner. Betim’s company manufactures, fabricates, services and tunes some of the world’s fastest Porches while taking what the factory has perfected and making them even better. In his 30’s, Betim has followed his passion and created his American Dream while always keeping...
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Jim McIlvaine – Reaching Great Heights in the NBA and Beyond
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Jim McIlvaine is a tower of a man. At 7’1”, he was a shot blocking specialist in 7 seasons in the NBA, where he stared at center for the Washington Bullets, Seattle Supersonics and New jersey Nets. In addition to his storied professional basketball career, Jim was featured in the 2001 movie ‘Shallow Hal’ and is now a successful E-Care Manager for Optima Batteries, where he runs the social media and web-presence for the industry leading automotive accessory company – which keeps him in touch with one of his largest passions – cars. As an avid fan and supporter of his alma...
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Robert Drysdale – Showing weakness IS strength
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Regarded as the most accomplished American Grappler of his generation, Robert Drysdale is a black belt in and a former ADCC open weight champion. After being born in America, Drysdale grew up in Brazil, training in one of the most talented teams of the 2000’s era where he became the 2nd US national to win an IBJJF black belt World title. Drysdale also competed in mixed martial arts (MMA) reaching the pinnacle of the cage fighting, the UFC. In 2007, Drysdale returned to the USA, running grappling classes at Extreme Couture in Las Vegas, and later moving on to open his own...
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Cam Douglass – Work Less
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Cam Douglass is the Director of Product Development and Marketing for Johnson Controls, a global Fortune 500 diversified technology and multi industrial leader serving a wide range of customers in more than 150 countries. In his significant role, Cam oversees the global product and brand development, sales program development and marketing program development and implementation for the Optima Batteries brand. In addition to his duties running a global brand, Cam’s passion for the art of automobiles has driven him to collect some of the world’s most interesting and exotic cars while taking...
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Doug Kalitta is an American auto racing driver from Ypsilanti, Michigan and owner of airline Kalitta Charters.
Kalitta formerly raced in USAC events. He was the 1991 USAC rookie of the year in the midget series, and won the 1994 championship in the sprint car category. Kalitta won 21 USAC events: 14 in midget races and 7 in sprint competitions.
In 1998 he joined the NHRA, becoming a top fuel drag racer. Kalitta finished second in the top fuel points race in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2016. He is fifth on the all-time top fuel wins list;the most recent of his 43 victories (Kalitta also has 88 career final round appearances) came in winning at the World Finals in Pomona in 2016.