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How Paul Peck Built a Music Festival Empire Paul is the co-founder and president of Fandiem a fundraising platform for the entertainment industry that amplifies revenue and reach from non-profit campaigns. A veteran festival and concert producer, Paul is the co-founder of the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival where he served as chief creative officer and head of programming. Prior to that Paul worked with Superfly Presents, where he helped to launch and develop the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Outside Lands in San Francisco. During his tenure, Paul was a key member of the booking and programming team, as well as other pivotal areas. Paul is known for his creative touch and producing once-in-a-time collaborative concerts that feature superstar artists and virtuoso players in unique configurations. He has worked closely with artists such as Skrillex, Chance the Rapper, Mumford & Sons, Trey Anastasio of Phish, Miguel, D'Angelo, SZA, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, Solange and Questlove amongst many others. During his final years at Bonnaroo, his Superjam concerts were the top annual story from each year's event, garnering coverage from New York Times (including multiple times in the year-end, nationwide top 5 concerts of the year), USA Today, Rolling Stone (#1 concert of the event 3 times) and Billboard. Paul also has an extensive media production background as Superfly and Bonnaroo's creative director of original media where he was responsible for creating and producing media content for broadcast and streaming.

What to know if you want to be an independent filmmaker. C.J. began his career in the entertainment business while in the U.S. Navy, having been discovered by a casting director while stationed in Miami, FL in the mid-1980s. From there, he began appearing in commercials, on television, and in print. Upon his return to Chicago, he re-started his theatrical career, performing with a variety of companies. The culmination of his theater work was when he established Theatre-on-the-Hill in Bolingbrook, Illinois as a premium destination for actors who wanted to perform in rarely staged productions, such as Stephen Adly Guirgis' "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" and "Den of Thieves", "A Flea in Her Ear!", "God of Carnage", "End Days", and the world premiere of the musical "Zenobia", written by Lorrisa Julianus. During his tenure as President and Artistic Director at Theatre-on-the-Hill, he wrote, produced, and directed numerous corporate videos and movie shorts, skills that have translated directly to producing and directing features.

In his words: I feel dirty. I'm sweating bullets. It's already been a fourteen-hour day on set in the blazing Los Angeles sun and all I want to do is the shower. That is NOT going to happen. My day was far from over. Every other Thursday that summer of 2004, I would finish shooting Jerry Bruckheimer's acclaimed TV series Skin and then tack on a four-hour nightcap at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As tough as my days were, I knew they'd get a lot worse if I skipped my date with four bags of poison at the all-night chemo ward. I would pass the hours of those late-night infusions watching classic 50s reruns, thinking about work, and thinking about life. Where I had been, where I was going, what I'd leave behind. That's where the seeds of this book were planted: in the desolate basement of Cedar-Sinai, while I waited for my fortnightly poison cocktail to empty into my arm and get to work. Not Just Sunglasses and Autographs follows me from bar bouncing in Boston to working on award-winning television and movies as I made my way up the entertainment industry ladder. It is an endearing story of overcoming the odds through dark humor, tenacity, authenticity, and a smile. I had originally envisioned this as the memoir of a man who'd beaten Hodgkin's Lymphoma and lived to tell the tale, but that was before I was pitched a curveball called Parkinson's Disease. Equal parts pep-talk and gut-punch, this unvarnished and vulnerable memoir-meets-handbook shares lessons I've learned in life and work and encourages readers to keep moving forward, embrace resilience, step out of their comfort zones, and take life head-on. Not Just Sunglasses and Autographs is 70,000 words and stands alone, but I also have stories in mind for a follow-up book. I look forward to hitting the road and supporting this book as I have brought hope and inspiration speaking about the film industry for the last twenty years. I've been in the industry for nearly forty years. Nicknamed "the Irish Bull" by my west coast colleagues, I earned my reputation and secured Assistant Director credits on productions including the film Close to Home, Skin, CSI Miami, the pilot for Desperate Housewives, and many others. I spent the last five years of my film career on location in Chicago, working as First Assistant Director on Chicago PD from 2014-2019. After my Parkinson's diagnosis in 2019, I hung up my AD walkie and returned to the west coast to enlist all of my drive, determination, spirit, stubbornness, and good humor in the second battle of my life.

The crazy ride of Hydro Flask creator Travis Rosbach Travis shares stories about how he built HydroFlask, two previous companies before that. The rise and fall of a guy that started what would eventually generate over one billion dollars in gross rev. Shares some never before stories about how he smuggled a sailboat out of Venezuela, lived in Australia for a year, why not right?! And a few other really great stories about his life as an entrepreneur. As importantly…Travis shares his lessons learned from sourcing products in China, and a ton of other high percentage business tips and lessons that can you can put into action quickly to help you build your business and grow sales.

How to start your own hit homegrown TV show with Back Woods Life reality star Michael Lee Since 2004, Michael Lee has been blessed enough to bring outdoor television into the homes of loyal viewers each week. The Backwoods Life team works hard to bring their lives, personalities, and experiences to the viewers that show what the average person goes through each year trying to fill tags and their freezers. After 17 years on the air, they have grown to new levels and are proud to say they are average folks living a dream. Michael grew up in the woods and on the water of the Flint River in South Georgia. From a young age, he learned to appreciate the outdoors. He was taught how to hunt and fish by his father and grandfathers. Michael graduated from Valdosta State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems, so he really is the "high-tech redneck". With over 1.2 million followers and hundreds of millions of video views over the years, the team keeps pushing for more.

How Heather Smith became the queen leader of Bass Fishing - a competitive angler. Texas Ambassador as for the Professional Team Fishing Circuit. Heather Smith from Florida Fisherman magazine and her show on hunt channel tv called Heather Smith Outdoors. Heather, in her own words: In 2018 my family passed away, so I moved from Houston, TX up to Sam Rayburn Lake to take over the family business. My mom wanted her ashes spread on Sam Rayburn. I didn't know anyone here and with everyone in our family now passed on, I was in a new place with my two small children and I was alone. I missed my family, I missed my mom. I grabbed a fishing pole and went out on the lake everyday to visit her. Eventually it became more about fishing and less about visiting Mom. Two-time Hall of Fame Bass Fishermen Bob Sealy, was a family friend. He saw what I was doing everyday and one day he told me, "Alright kiddo, if you are going to do this, you are going to do this the right way." He took me under his wing and started mentoring me. The Pro Bass Fishermen and Legends in the area all wanted to see me learn the right way and they put me thru what I call a bass fishing boot camp for months. Then I started entering tournaments. From there networks and magazines saw what I was doing and they started contacting me. Texas Outdoor Lifestyles from NBC had me on their show, Texas Parks and Wildlife TV had me on, Florida Fishermen Magazine brought me on their staff and then the Producer from the Elite Fishing League on Discovery Channel reached out to me to come on the show as an analyst. After that, the Co-Founder of the Pursuit Channel and owner of the Hunt Channel contacted me and asked me if I wanted my own show, Heather Smith Outdoors. All the while, I just kept fishing. My dad had been a tug boat captain for Otto Candies and my mom was in Sam Rayburn. So whether I am fishing Saltwater or on the Lake, I feel like my family is with me every time I step on a boat. It gives me peace. I found something that I love to do and share with others. One can say that fishing saved me, at the very least saved my heart. ln addition to my show, I now have my own signature clothing line with Reel Wicked Fishing Apparel.

Escaping bullies from Brazil, coming to America and becoming a successful recording artist with Gabe Furtado About Gabe Furtado Gabe Furtado initially was studying communication with a focus on journalism. However, while in school, his Dad suddenly passed, and he realized life was too short not to live your best life. With his new mindset, Gabe decided to drop out of college to focus on his passion for music. He began in 2014 by releasing cover songs by Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Mika. By 2017, he released his first professional EP titled "Just Feelings." The album had three cover songs, including his version of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," his most streamed on Spotify, receiving 200k streams. Gabe started making homemade videos on his YouTube channel for two songs to accompany his EP. With the success of the videos, he decided to make his original LP. Gabe launched his original music with "Last Goodbye," a song about his Dad's passing. Accompanied by stunning visuals, the "Last Goodbye" video sparked the attention of the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival and was nominated for all the music video categories in the Los Angeles International Music Video Festival.

Lost but now found with stand-up comedian Daniel Gonzalez Stand up Comic, podcaster, martial artist. Originally from Bayamon, PR. Currently living in Austin. Has performed with acts like Brian Holtzman, Jeremy Piven, Tony Hinchcliffe, and many more.

The 4 secrets of Success with The Success Factor author Dr. Ruth Gotian Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and by August, was shortlisted as the top eight emerging management thinkers in the world. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about 'optimizing success'. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts and Olympic champions. Her forthcoming book, The Success Factor, will be out in January.

Forrest Galante is an American outdoor adventurer, television personality Escaping Africa at gunpoint and making the show "Naked and Afraid" look easy. World-leading survivalist Forrest Galante shares his success of being an outdoor adventurer and a television personality