Using logic, rhetoric and humor to push back the bounds of ignorance one conversation at a time.

Erik was born into an Army family as the son of Major General (Ret) Anders and Sandra Aadland.  Moving over 21 times, Erik graduated from High School in Heidelberg, Germany, then went on to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.  Graduating in 2002 not long after 9/11, Erik was commissioned an Army officer and went on to serve with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, during which he received two Bronze Stars (one for valor).

Aadland left the Army as a Captain in 2011 to pursue a career in the Oil and Natural Gas industry, which culminated as a Project Manager managing the onshore construction of the Leviathan Project in Dor, Israel.  After leaving his company in 2020, Erik finished his Master’s degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Depth Psychology and chose to dedicate himself to the political arena.

With the country’s future imperiled by a corrupt establishment, Aadland once again feels called to honor his oath to defend the Constitution by running for U.S. Senate, committed to putting Colorado first.

Erik’s proudest accomplishment is his marriage of 15 years out of which he has three children (including a newborn).  He currently resides in the lovely front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains and never intends to move again.

A freelance journalist based in Washington, DC, Peter Tucker is a frequent critic of The Washington Post and writes for his own weblog, Pete Tucker.



Tucker’s stories have appeared nationally at HuffPost, Salon, CounterPunch and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Pete has also been published in various local media outlets including The Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, District Dig and WPFW.



He previously ran the website TheFightBack.org, which reported on activism in the D-M-V and hosted The Taxi Link on WUST 1120 AM.

SIMON MAINWARING

Simon Mainwaring is the founder & CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for purpose-driven brands, and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller LEAD WITH WE: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future. He’s a member of the Steering Committee of Sustainable Brands, the Forbes Business Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His first book, We First was a New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of the Year by strategy+business. He hosts the Lead With We podcast.

For far too long, businesses have operated with a dog-eat-dog mentality where the winner takes all. Yet over the past year and a half, through the social, political, economic, and environmental upheaval we’ve all experienced, this way of conducting business has proven not only futile, but irresponsible. Society is ready for, and desperately in need of, a revolutionary new way to run our businesses to preserve our future.

For us, together, to bring about real, lasting changes, we will all need to learn to operate as an interdependent collective rather than as opposing forces. It is time we stop leading with “me” and start leading with “We.”

The market is increasingly disrupted, the economy is only beginning to heal, consumers are more and more conscious, and the constellation of crises facing the world continues to compound. To help solve all of these interconnected challenges, Simon Mainwaring has developed a revolutionary blueprint for creating lasting business growth through impact in his new book, LEAD WITH WE: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future (Matt Holt Books, November 9, 2021).

As CEO and founder of We First, and author of the 2011 New York Times bestseller We First, Mainwaring is one of the world’s leading thinkers on leveraging the reach, resources, and unique responsibility of business to improve company cultures, the communities it serves, our society at large, and the planet on which all of our futures depend.

Equipped with a decade of research and hands-on experience as a key partner in some of the most impactful brand revolutions at companies such as Timberland, TOMS, SAP, Avery Dennison, VSP Global, VF Corporation, etc., Mainwaring reveals a critical blueprint for CEOs, top executives, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and all stakeholders in our collective future to pivot their thinking, behaviors, and impact, and to repurpose business as the vanguard of meaningful change before it’s too late.

CHRISTIAN SHUBIN

Christian Shubin of “Poseidon Collective”

Since childhood Christian Shubin was inspired by his mother DeAnne who grew up surfing in the late 50’s and 60’s in Malibu with legends such as Miki Dora, Mickey Munoz, Dewey Weber, and the other staples of Surfrider in Malibu. He lived and breathed a raw and unadulterated surf culture from his mother and family since his youngest days.

Christian explored music in his youth playing Bass guitar in local Malibu Ska, Reggae, Punk band Bonsai Tribe as well as “Jester’s Dead” in his Central Californian College days. In 2010 Poseidon Surf was formed to pursue his inner passions, making it an homage to their mother, a refuge for his lifestyle, and a reflection of his surfing dreams. Since founding Poseidon Christian has incorporated Live Music into his Poseidon Surf Shop Events making it a hub for local music and surf culture in Santa Monica.

His “Poseidon Collective” band features Christian on Guitar and Vocals with numerous friends joining in on

Bass, Saxaphone, Drums and any other number of instruments including Kazoo.