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Guest Occupation: Former NFL QB, Analyst, Winery Owner
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Damon Huard is a former American football quarterback. He is a Chief Administrator and fundraiser for the University of Washington football program. He was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 1996. Huard also played for the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs. Huard played college football at Washington. Huard won two Super Bowl rings with the Patriots.

Huard is a radio analyst for Husky football broadcasts.

Huard and Dan Marino recently started Passing Time Wines.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Associate VP of Referee Development
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George Toliver, the NBA Director of D-League Officials, has been a member of the NBA’s Basketball Operations Department since 2004. A FIBA official since 1985, George Toliver has officiated games in the 1995 European Championships, 1994 World Championships, 1993 World University Games, 1986 Sports Festival and 1984 Olympic Trials. Over his 15-seasons NBA officiating career, Toliver has worked 742 regular season games, as well as the 1996 All Star Legends Game and the 1994 Japan Games in Yokohama.

Toliver has international officiating experience in the Chinese Basketball Association, where he officiated the Championship Series, conducted clinics in Germany, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Taiwan, and officiated in the 1994 World Championships. He also has one year of USBL officiating experience where he officiated the playoffs and finals. Toliver also has six years of collegiate officiating experience in the Atlantic Coast, Metro, and Southern Conferences, as well as the ACC Tournament, NCAA Tournament and NIT. He also has 11 years of high school officiating experience, having worked six state championship games.

A member of the James Madison University Hall of Fame since 1991, Toliver earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Social Science from JMU, as well as his Masters degree in High Education from James Madison. He played four seasons of basketball for JMU and was the team MVP in 1971 and 1972. Toliver was an instructor at JMU and was the assistant baseball coach from 1973-74, and assistant basketball coach from 1973-75. Toliver played four years of high school basketball at King George High School in Virginia, playing in the State Championship in 1969 and was named All State the same year.

George is the founder and general manager of the Harrisonburg HEAT Girls Basketball Club, which helps develop basketball skills for girls ages six to seventeen. Toliver hosts a charity golf tournament for the organization, which he began in 1995.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Basketball Coach/Mentor
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Coach Benjamin Mireles is a professional all the way around. He owns a small Automotive Detailing Business (Ben's Elite Detailing), the Next Level Elite Training and Development basketball program, while having over 17 years coaching experience and 8 years as a professional coach and training and development coach. He currently owns the Central Basketball Development League and the South Florida Spartans professional basketball team out of Orlando, Florida. He owns a record of 24-3 in the minors and have sent several players overseas over the last 6 years. He has a passion for the game and even declined to accept a $400,000 coaching contract from a team in Ecuador which is a Division 1 league to stay here in the states to assist in building these young players and teaching them the basketball industry while training and developing players to the highest levels. He promotes professional basketball to the highest level and has coached in many professional combines and workouts as well as the Global Basketball Summer League in Las Vegas.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Basketball Coach/Mentor
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Lewis is a former high-level professional basketball player who played internationally in Chile, Venezuela, Korea, Poland, Cyprus and the CBA. He is a former star player for Weber State where he won two Big Sky championships. He has coaching experience in the ABA and was a featured coach in the Eurobasket Summer League (ESL) from 2008-11. Lewis is the founder of the Utah Sports Academy a program that has positively impacted thousands of youth through a variety of sports programs and educational platforms. Lewis serves as a mentor to aspiring professional athletes for the Global Basketball brand. Lewis is a dedicated father of four beautiful daughters and works hard developing sports programs in the Salt Lake City area.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Researcher
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Located in the back of Nice city (French Riviera), the plateau of the pass of Vence is the seat since long times of strange events of nature very diverse.

Pierre Beake was interested there since the end of the Seventies. A spectacular observation personally implying him at the beginning of the Nineties will lead Pierre to be even more strongly invested in the study of these strange phenomena, and to tie bonds of friendship with other investigators.

It is the starting point of a new period of investigation which will lead to a disconcerting form of interaction with what seems to hide behind these demonstrations.

Guest Category: UFOs, Near Death Experiences, Ghosts, Numerology, Astrology, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Shamanism, Psychic & Intuitive, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: National Speaker
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Within a 5-year period, Joyce OBrien’s husband, Kevin, was paralyzed after a brain hemorrhage and both Joyce and Kevin were diagnosed with late stage cancers.

Faced with their devastating diagnoses, and fearing leaving their baby girl an orphan, Joyce, an Executive Vice President on Wall Street, left a successful 18 year career to begin her healing journey.

Ten years ago, Joyce and Kevin were blessed with healing stage 3b and stage 4 cancers, chronic fatigue, depression and more. Joyce’s life mission became clear and she invested years in training, research and studying with top doctors and experts in holistic health to discover many of the secrets of what makes us sick and how to heal.

Joyce, trained in Biological Medicine and Microscopy, is a national speaker empowering, inspiring and educating her audiences with the tools to improve their health – body, mind and spirit.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon
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Dr. David Hanscom is a board certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in complex spine problems in all areas of the spine. He has expertise in adult and pediatric spinal deformities such as scoliosis and kyphosis. A significant part of his practice is devoted to performing surgery on patients who have had multiple prior spine surgeries. He works for Swedish Neuroscience Specialists in Seattle, WA with eight neurosurgeons and a physiatrist.

Dr Hanscom completed his medical degree from Loma Linda University in 1979, .a residency with internal medicine in Spokane, WA from 1979-1981, an Orthopedic surgery residency was at the University of Hawaii from 1981-1984, .a six-month orthopedic trauma fellowship in 1984 at UC Davis in Sacramento, CA. and completed his spinal deformity fellowship in Minneapolis, MN at Twin Cities Scoliosis Center in 1986.

He is the founder of the “DOCC” project. It stands for “Defined, Organized, Comprehensive, Care.” This is a structured rehabilitation protocol for chronic pain, which involves improving sleep, managing stress, engaging in long-term conditioning, obtaining adequate pain control with aggressive medication management, re-setting goals, and educating the patient so as to regain control of their decision making.

He is the founder of the Puget Sound Spine Interest group, which was formed in 1987. It is a non-profit educational group, which provides a regional forum for physicians to share ideas regarding optimum spine care.  “Awake at the Wound” is a process, which brings athletic performance principles into the operating room. He co-founded the program with his golf-instructor, David Elaimy, in 2006. David Elaimy is also a performance coach who has been giving golf-based performance seminars in the financial sector for over fifteen years.

He had written many articles and his latest book Back in Control: A spine surgeon’s roadmap out of chronic pain, publish in 2012 is still a top seller on Amazon.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Self Help