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#389 - Julian Worden (Music Producer and Musician)

Julian is a producer and musician, from creating songs using a lot of his experience with other bands he's played with, later to also focus on some solo work using a bit of knowledge from his music experience and audio engineering to bring out a sound that best reflects his personality or emotion in his work. Music no matter the genre has a way of capturing emotion or a feeling in one moment and turn it into something that can resonate or help overcome a time in someones life, The power of music has no boundaries and the options or varieties are endless.

#388 - Dave Herdan (Educator of Music, Root Beer Sommelier)

Dave Herdan is a professional musician, educator, and aspiring root beer sommelier. He is the creator and co-host of "Root Beer Radio" a podcast about root beer that he and his brother-in-law, Matt Holton have been researching, reviewing, and brewing root beer for their podcast for the last three years. RBR is the first podcast to focus exclusively on root beer, and continues to be a staple in the root beer community. From the classics of Coca - Cola or Pepsi, Root-beer has always been their and a frothy enjoyment for any occasion.

#387 - Andrew Peters (Beard Product Reviewer, Performance Engineer)

Andrew Peters a Systems Performance Engineer for a hospitality company by day where he;s been involved with for the company 23 years. His side project is as a Beard Product Reviewer with the goal being to help bearded men use healthy products for their skin and beard, while additionally throwing in spirituality and positivity to help men be more holistic in their approach to life. While also teaching Buddhist meditation classes in the Phoenix area giving him the name "The Bearded Practitioner".

#386 - Steve Marchion (Cannabis Chef & Educator)

Steve is an educator and medical cannabis patient in Philadelphia, PA. His undergraduate degree is in secondary education, he has a master's degree and is ABD for his PhD in educational psychology. After an injury he decided to prepare meals using edible cannabis in order to medicate opioid and smoke free alternatives following surgery. For the next three weeks he researched and learned many different ways of infusing and incorporating cannabis into food. This form of medicine picking up the public's eyes with the dangers of opiods becoming more prevalent in today's time leading hopefully to a effective more alternative form of medicine.

#385 - Mike Jack (Guinness Record Holder, YouTuber)

Mike Jack holds two Guinness World Records for eating ghost peppers being recognized in Canada at the international pepper eating competition earning the name Chili Head. Utilizing his YouTube channel to take on challenges and also reviewing hot sauces where company's can see if they can make him sweat with their own custom sauce. There is no better feeling than taking on a challenge and overcoming it especially when you train and ride through the pain to come out the other side victorious.

#384 - Antonia Armenta-Miller (Food Truck Owner, Advocate Small Scale Agriculture)

Antonia- or "Anto" as she likes to be called is a Master-chef Food truck Entrepreneur and Crafter of fine events and tasteful local foods. An advocate of small scale agriculture and getting back to Nature using her communicative skills to bring joy and a connection between her business and customers. Based in Wyoming she tries to advocate more for small scale business and schedule events for other food truck owners to share tips and helpful information changing competition into community.

#383 - Steve Best (Chili farmer & Sauce developer)

Steve used to work as a chef till he paired with his friend Andrew and decided to start putting their experience in the culinary field and start growing and making their own style of peppers and turning them into gourmet sauces. This idea turned into "Hurt Berry Farm" based in CA, Both of them taking a different role in the aspect of growing their farm Drew being more about the process of growing these plants and Steve using his years of culinary experience making creations as works of art into a way to develop style and add more to the social interaction aspect that can help promote a business in today's world.

#382 - Peter Marullo (Musician, Band Manager)

Peter is the singer in his band formed with his brother called "Protagonist" hailing from Florida they have a punk vibe to it brought from some of their initial influences. Music is one of the most powerful things its good for when we are down and better when we are up the way a song can connect and become an escape or focus you in the amount of creativity is endless which does create an issue in the marketing behind it but its never been so full of life and with the amount of artists out their its a wide selection.

#381 - Bill Smith (Speaker, Author & Podcaster)

Bill Smith is a speaker and author, having a passion to make an eternal impact on culture and to encourage others to do the same. In his podcast "Flawed Ink" is combination of thoughts that express severity with humor, true tales from his own outlandish nearly unbelievable life experiences, Life is a mysterious one and what we choose to stigmatize or avoid is something we should talk about even more because words or topics shouldn't be taboo or avoided because its just conversation.

#380 - Mike Holman (Auditor, Sacramento Pizzaiolo)

Mike is an auditor by day but delivers something a little different in his free time when it comes to making his own pizza's in his backyard. What makes someone become a teacher of a craft is the passion and pursuit of making and learning everything about it. Mike started his own brand called "Pizza in the SAC" after teaching others the way hes learned to make a style of pizza finding that when starting this craft might seem like just a pizza but the experience of therapy from making it to connecting with his family and truly making it an experience, who knew pizza could bring people together must be in the crust.