Gen. Anthony Zinni's 39 years of military service took him to more than 70 countries. His operational experiences included two tours in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded. His last assignment was Commanding General, U. S. Central Command.
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ep. 47 - Ron White: Two-Time National Memory Champion, Author, Speaker, & Coach
Ron White is without question one of the top Memory Experts in the world.
He is a two-time national memory champion; winner of the USA Memory Championship in 2009 and 2010; held the record for the fastest memorization of shuffled deck of cards in only 1 minute and 27 seconds.
Ron’s desire is not that you see him as the person with the best trained memory, but that he teaches YOU to have the best trained memory!
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ep. 37 - Pippa Malmgren: Co-founder of H Robotics & Fmr. Bush Economic Advisor
Dr. Pippa Malmgren is a trend spotter who advises investors and governments about economic policy and investment strategy. She anticipated the Financial Crisis in 2007, the slowdown in China, Brexit, Trump and the return of inflation. She is also an economist who manufactures, having co-founded a robotics company that makes commercial-use aerial platforms (drones), H Robotics.
She has been named a Non Executive Board Member of the new Department of International Trade in the UK. She also serves on the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends. She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: She Chairs the Lewis PR Advisory Board (LAB) and is an advisor to Real Vision TV, the Greater London Authority Infrastructure Advisory Board and Indiana University School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs as well as the Indiana University Manufacturing Initiative.
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ep. 36 - Jamie Metzl: Futurist, Global Affairs Specialist, & Author
Jamie Metzl is one of the most remarkable people you'll ever meet and an electrifying speaker. He's lectured around the globe on technology and Asia's rise, is a regular CNN commentator, and his columns are read around the world.
Jamie appears regularly on national and international media discussing Asian economic and political issues and his syndicated columns and other writing on Asian affairs, genetics, virtual reality, and other topics is featured regularly in publications around the world. He has testified before Congress outlining emergency preparedness recommendations after 9-11 and on the national security implication of the biotechnology and genomics revolutions. Jamie is the author of a history of the Cambodian genocide and the novelThe Depths of the Sea, both published by St. Martin’s Press, as well as of the novel Genesis Code, published by Arcade in November 2014, which deals with issues of human genetic enhancement in the context of a future US-China rivalry. His most recent novel, Eternal Sonata, was published by Arcade in Fall 2016.
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ep. 34 - Sonia Nazario: Social Journalist, Author, & Humanitarian
Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems -- hunger, drug addiction, immigration -- and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards.
She is best known for "Enrique's Journey," her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, "Enrique's Journey" won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was turned into a book by Random House that became a national bestseller.