Long Shot Leaders with Michael Stein

Coming to North America from India with nothing and creating his own marketing empire, becoming a best-selling author and Ted Talk speaker with V Krishna Lakkineni VK is a digital marketing entrepreneur, Amazon bestselling author, technology enthusiast with a passion for marketing, strategic business growth, and operations. Currently CEO of ROI Media Works and Chief Mindset Coach at MindsetMonk!   VK is passionate about helping businesses and individuals navigate everyday life using mindset skills he learned and practiced over the years.

Paying to get kidnapped, training with the Navy Seals, gaining hearing back in a deaf ear after 10 years and stand up comedy with the unconventional life of Gina Casazza Gina Casazza is a first-time children's author for her book: You Really, Truly Do Belong! She got the idea to write this book during a time in her life when she was conquering her own belief that she didn't belong in the world.   Gina loves using a variety of outlets to express her creativity. She enjoys taking chances, pushing boundaries, and going through the uncomfortable.   Gina has trained with a Navy SEAL, paid to be kidnapped, conquered her fear of snakes, and worked for Ralph Macchio and Penny Marshall. She lost all hearing in her left ear, was told she would never get it back, and proved them wrong.   Gina is also a stand-up comic, actress, writer, director, and business owner.

Breaking the world record for scaling the world's largest volcano, climbing Mount Everest and exploring the world with Karina Oliani Medical doctor, Adventurer, and TV presenter Karina Oliani is the first South American woman to climb Mount Everest from both the North and South sides.  She was accompanied by Pemba Sherpa, Chairman of Adventure Ascent during both Everest ascents. Karina Oliani also became the 1st person to get through the largest lava lake on earth. She has had an adventurous spirit from a very young age and a desire to set new personal records. At age 12 she made her first parachute jump (double) and completed her scuba diving course. And in 1999, at age 17, she was already a two-time Brazilian wakeboarder. Besides those, Karina has also practiced many other sports, among them rock climbing, motocross, canoeing, stand-up paddle, abseiling, horseback riding, surfing, snowboarding, mountaineering, hang gliding, parachuting, and Bungee jumping. In her journey to pursue adventures, she has always loved and one of the things that makes her the happiest is being able to help others. She has been of immense help in the local project to rebuild Patle School. Karina being a person with an adventurous spirit, medical expertise and a loving heart makes her well suited for the role of advisory board member. Adventure ascent highly values her support and advice.

How to survive over 80 days in the wilderness alone, fighting off bears and badgers with TV Show "Alone" winner Jordan Jonas Jordan grew up in Idaho country, surrounded by the beautiful lakes of that vast state. Being surrounded by nature, he grew up spending his formative years in nature. As a young adult, he came of age as he spent a year riding freight trains across the US - spending countless days and nights navigating both rural and urban environments. Soon after he left for Russia where he would spend the better part of the next ten years living in Siberia in villages, with fur trappers, and ultimately with traditional nomadic reindeer herders. Amongst these people, Jordan would learn the art of survival - not as taught in classes, but as lived day in and day out by people whose existence depends on those skills. The skills acquired over his life were proven effective and reliable when Jordan won season 6 of History Channel's Alone show, spending 77 days in the Arctic while also successfully hunting a bull moose, a wolverine, dozens of rabbits, squirrels, grouse, and numerous fish.  

How to stick with your new year's diet and fitness plan with celebrity fitness guru Obi Obadike Obi Obadike is a Telly award winning TV host who has authored more than 100 articles for fitness magazines and fitness sites. He is a best-selling author of the diet and exercise book TheCut in which he co-authored with Hollywood Actor Morris Chestnut that came out April of 2017.   He has been a guest as an author and expert on national daytime talk shows such as Wendy Williams, Steve Harvey, Dr Oz, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, Home & Family, The Today Show, Roland Martin’s NewsOne Show, etc. And many national syndicated radio shows. He was a featured fitness contributor on a summer-weight loss series in 2017 on NBC’s The Today show for 2 months.  And he worked with their resident nutritionist Joy Bauer on that show. Since August of 2017 he has been a health and wellness contributor on Steve Harvey’s national syndicated morning radio show. His show has a reach of 9 million listeners per week. And he has graced the cover of over 50 domestic and international fitness magazines and has been featured more than 100 times in these magazines making him one of the most published fitness experts over the last ten years. Obadike was the co-host and co-judge (with Jillian Michaels (formerly of Biggest Loser) and Randy Hetrick, (founder and CEO of TRX) on a fitness reality competition show called Sweat Inc. that premiered on Spike TV in fall of 2015.   He has trained and dieted some of the most influential celebrities and public figures in the world as well as many average regular people.  And he is known for his before and after transformations. Some of the notable celebrities he has trained is Steve Harvey, Morris Chestnut, ESPN Analyst Stephen A Smith He has been the current co-host since 2014 for the last 3 years of an award winning nationally syndicated Health TV show called Lifestyle Magazine, which airs every week nationally on DirecTV and Dishnet and on some of the following national networks such as the Hope Channel, NRB, Sky Angel network and other nationally and local syndicated networks. The show is aired in Europe, West Africa, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most international countries.  This health TV show is viewed by over 3 million people domestically each week.  In 2015 he and his co-hosting colleagues at Lifestyle Magazine won a bronze (Telly TV award) in the lifestyle programming category for a TV episode they did with Actor Kevin Sorbo called “True Strength”.  On March 27th, 2017 he won a Telly TV Award for the interview they did with Deniece Williams called “Life Choices”. He and his cast also won a Remy TV award in 2014 and 2015 at the World Fest international TV and film festival. WorldFest Festival is the third competitive film festival in North America. In January 2014, he was metrically recognized as one of the Top 10 most influential fitness experts on the Web by Dr. Oz’s Sharecare.com along with Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper from Biggest Loser and Dr Sanjay Gupta from CNN and others.  He was named Writer of the Year for the largest Internet site in the world in Bodybuilding.com in 2012. He had a very popular bi-monthly fat loss column on the bodybuilding.com site called Ask The Ripped Dude on that site from 2011 to 2014. Metrically it was one of the most popular fat loss columns on that site for that 3 year timeframe. In 2013 he created and produced lifestyle exercise videos for Turner Broadcasting’s health and wellness entertainment digital brand called upwave. Those videos were bought out 2 years later by WebMD and they are now featured on their website. In April of 2016 he was also named one of the Top Ten Most Inspirational fitness personalities by Ask Men.com which is the largest lifestyle men’s website online and some of the names that were on that list was Jack LaLalane, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jillian Michaels along with other notable fitness names.  In August of 2016 Askmen.com named him one of the 50 fittest people of 2016 along with Michael Phelps, Connor Mcgregor, Usain Bolt and other mainstream athletes. Obadike was a top Division I collegiate track athlete at Cal State Fullerton, where he was the school record holder in the 100 and 200 meters as well as the 400-meter relay. He was also co-athlete of the year at the university and a two-time All Big West Conference sprinter. He was the fastest guy in the history of the university.

How to be an Olympic gold medal winner and a dual sport athlete with Kaleigh Gilchrist Kaleigh Gilchrist is a dual sport athlete in surfing and water polo from Newport Beach, California. She competed on the gold medal-winning US Women's Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics contributing 6 goals. In high school, she was part of the CIF-winning water polo team during the 2008 season.

Michael Armagost and Michael Stein Interview Each other, and talk about homelessness, business, stand-up comedy, and crazy podcast hosts  

How Amberly Snyder survived a car crash, suffered being paralyzed from the waist down, and kept competing as a champion barrel racer. Snyder's story was portrayed in a Netflix biopic Walk. Ride. Rodeo., released on March 8, 2019. She performed all the post-crash horse stunts in the film. Because of the similarity of their riding styles, her younger sister Autumn performed the pre-crash stunts. She also made a brief appearance as herself in the 3rd season of Yellowstone

Overcoming substance abuse, becoming the caveman in the Geico commercial, and creating a successful producing and writing career with John Lehr Lehr starred as Leslie Pool in “10 Items or Less,” from Sony on TBS for three seasons and recently starred as Sheriff Hoyle on Hulu’s original comedy western “Quickdraw” for two seasons. Lehr also co-created, wrote and executive produced both series. Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms and many more. Under their banner Howler Monkey Productions, Lehr and producing partner Nancy Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style found in “QuickDraw” (Hulu) “10 Items” (TBS) “Jailbait (Crackle) and “Memron” (Slamdance award-winner). With Lehr starring and Howler directing, the team completed comedy pilots “Let It Ride,” (Comedy Central), “Retreat!” (NBC), “Team McPhearson (Fox) and “King of Beers” (EUE/Sokolow). The team’s script/development deals include “The Loop” (HBO), “Troubadour” (MTV), “Life on Mars” (Sony/BBC), and “LARP” (Echo Lake), Tommy Chong’s Pipe Dreams (TBS).   Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms and many more.     John has appeared in numerous television series, including “Friends” and was a series regular on “Jesse,” both for Warner Brothers/NBC. His feature film roles include “The Sweetest Thing,” and three Noah Baumbach films, “Kicking and Screaming,” “Mr. Jealousy,” and “Highball.” John’s hosting credits include “News Weasels” for E!; “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” for ABC; CBS’ special “Clash of the Commercials” with co-host Heidi Klum; and “John Lehr’s Movie Club” for TBS. A recovering alcoholic and drug addict, Lehr is a seasoned monologist and comedian who speaks openly about his twenty plus years of sobriety. Under the banner “Cold. Sober. Comedy.” Lehr performs and MC’s at fundraisers, non-profits and sober communities about his personal/career struggles, his continuing sober journey and the importance of an authentic sense of humor. Lehr recently debuted his newest monologue “Wait, I Have to Give a Crap About Other People?” at the Annual Sober St. Paddy’s Day Comedy Night for the Atlanta Caron Treatment Center.” Lehr’s critically acclaimed “Comedic Lectures” solo performances have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. Lehr regularly performs stand-up comedy and MC/Hosts events around the country. John is married to author Jennifer Lehr with whom he has two children. The Lehrs reside in Los Angeles.  

How to become a singer-songwriter, producer, music editor, author, and podcast host with Michael Gungor Gungor is the epitome of creativity and authenticity. Created by Michael Gungor, a nondual spiritual teacher, author, and podcaster with two podcasts underway. One that is award-winning called "The Liturgists," which, at its height, had millions of downloads, and the second podcast is called "Loving THIS." Michael has been featured in USA Today, NPR, and more, and fans can hear his music featured in different commercials and trailers. Michael is now thriving with the upcoming relaunch of his band "Gungor" and album, "Love Song to Life."