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Robert Dahlstrom is a well-known investor, entrepreneur, and real estate broker. He holds an MBA and a BS in accounting. He has helped many small businesses as a marketing consultant and spent five years as the CFO of one of the nation’s largest lead generation companies. He has been interviewed by national radio and print media and is a popular speaker/educator. He was a founding board member of the Colorado Association of Real Estate Investors and leader of its Northwest group. He has been personally involved in hundreds of transactions and worked with a group that has purchased over 4,000 foreclosures. Having built houses and duplexes from the ground up, Dahlstrom is an expert in finding and assessing potential purchases, estimating expenses, and managing the rehab process through the sale.
Neil Dahlstrom is the author of The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), and Lincoln’s Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels, and a President’s Mission to Destroy the Press (Sourcebooks, 2005). Since the release of these two books, he’s built a career in corporate archives, agricultural and brand history. Today, Neil is the Manager of Archives and History at John Deere, the most well-known agriculture equipment brand in the world.
Recently, Neil has held a variety of leadership positions in archival organizations, with colleagues in some of the most prestigious archives and museums. Currently, he’s a member of the Kitchen Cabinet, the Food and Agriculture Advisory Board of The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and chair of the Society of American Archivists Business Archives Section, which includes more than five hundred corporate archivists.
Christina Daigneault is an attorney and the president of Orchard Strategies, an award-winning public relations and marketing company. She is also a certified aromatherapist and beauty product formulator. Through Orchard, Christina works with lifestyle businesses and corporate leaders worldwide. She has won numerous industry awards, and regularly speaks at forums and universities about women in business and leadership. She has been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, CBS Radio, NY1 News, and NBC News.
Christina discovered the benefits of natural beauty and plant-based medicine through her work representing top brands and experts, and soon started to apply natural practices to her own life. She earned a certification in aromatherapy from the New York Institute of Aromatherapy and also studied at the esteemed Maison Fragonard in Paris.
Erin Dailey is a freelance writer and Web designer who also happens to have the best damn day job in the world. She moved to New York City last year and would like you to know that she’s already becoming one of those insufferable New Yorkers who thinks that no place else in the world compares to the Big Apple. Yes, she’s already totally annoying. When she’s not pretending that she’s super cool, she covers the TV show “Heroes” on Television Without Pity (www.televisionwithoutpity.com). She’s not fond of doctors, but if her internist looked even remotely like McDreamy, she’d start exhibiting signs of hypochondria and FAST.
Russell W. Dalton is the associate professor of Christian education at Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author of Faith Journey through Fantasy Lands: A Christian Dialogue with Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings and Video, Kids, and Christian Education. He is a popular conference speaker on issues of religious education and faith and popular culture.
Charles Daly is the co-author of Make Peace or Die: A Life of Service, Leadership, and Nightmares, which was featured on Jocko Podcast. He has worked as a developmental editor on bestselling military memoirs including From Lawyer to Warrior and Civil: Life After the Foreign Legion. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, We are the Mighty, Kōkatat, and Thought Catalog. He is drawn to stories of rogues, reluctant heroes, and true originals.
Charlie lives in a cottage on the west coast of Ireland with his wife, a Swiss crime novelist, their baby boy and a black cat. He serves as a maritime first responder on his local Lifeboat.
A fourth-generation Puget Sound native, Kurt Beecher Dammeier entered the Seattle food scene with the purchase of Pasta & Co, an iconic Seattle gourmet shop for over thirty years. Since that time, he’s opened a number of Seattle food concepts under the Sugar Mountain umbrella, including Beecher's Handmade Cheese, Bennett's, Liam's, and Maximus / Minimus, where he serves as CEO and head chef of these businesses. His most recent addition to the Sugar Mountain family is two lines of premium meats: Mishima Reserve, a luxury Wagyu beef brand, and Beecher's Whey Fed Pork. With each endeavor, Kurt's goal is to demonstrate how quality ingredients make for delicious meals without the use of industrial additives like food colorings, flavor enhancers, or preservatives.
Beyond his retail endeavors, Kurt effects change in people's eating habits through his 2007 cookbook, Pure Flavor, and the Beecher's Pure Food Kids Foundation (501c3), founded in 2004. Each year, the Foundation's Pure Food Kids Workshop empowers more than 11,000 fourth and fifth grade students in the Seattle Metro area and in New York City to make healthy food choices for life. The program's mission is to spark curiosity in kids about what they eat, empower them to make healthier choices through label reading, and inspire them with the opportunity to cook and eat a wholesome, delicious meal right in the classroom.
Ryan Daniel Moran is the founder of Capitalism.com, where he teaches entrepreneurs to build businesses and invest the profits. Ryan is best known for helping over 300 new entrepreneurs build seven figure companies, without big teams or 100-hour work weeks. He helps business owners scale and sell companies and invest the profits for passive income, which is his own strategy to someday buy the Cleveland Indians. Ryan lives in Austin, Texas, where he loves to debate politics and religion.
Bradley J. Daniels, M.S., (Brad, for short) earned his B.A. (summa cum laude) in psychology from the University of Central Florida. He began attending the University of Florida in 2003 and completed his M.S. in psychology in 2005. He is currently a doctoral candidate working on a Ph.D. in clinical and health psychology, with a specialization in clinical neuropsychology (and a particular interest in forensic neuropsychology). He also teaches as an adjunct assistant professor at Santa Fe Community College. He is an avid film and pop culture enthusiast, and regularly uses these media in the classroom as a tool to enhance the teaching of psychology. He has also published a previous essay in BenBella’s Psychology of Joss Whedon anthology.
