Long Shot Leaders with Michael Stein Michael Stein: Entrepreneur, actor, filmmaker, comedian & self help expert

Tristan has led expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains in Europe, Africa and Asia, sailed small boats across oceans and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. He has walked with and studied the methods of the Tuareg, Bedouin and Dayak in some of the remotest regions on Earth.
He has tested Viking navigation methods in a small boat in the north Atlantic, leading to the academic paper, Nature’s Radar.
He is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed singlehanded across the Atlantic and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Royal Geographical Society.
He has written for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and many magazines.
Tristan set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of award-winning and internationally bestselling books, including The Natural Navigator (2010) The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs (US) / The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs (UK 2014), How to Read Water (2016), The Secret World of Weather (2021) and How to Read a Tree (2023), some of the world’s only books covering natural navigation. His books have been translated into 19 languages.
He has spent decades hunting for clues and signs in nature, across the globe, and has been nicknamed: “The Sherlock Holmes of Nature”

A father of 2 girls Adam is an Australian living the Utah. Having worked professionally as an actor and dancer he also travelled the world seeking adventure.
Equally comfortable sleeping under the stars, running 200-mile races he runs an Adventure program helping guys discover their sense of adventure, connect with themselves and redesign their quality of life.

KAIT DUNTON is an LA-based keyboardist & composer. Her emotive musical expression and joyful energy have garnered her hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and over 40,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
 
Starting with her first album, Real & Imagined - now a fan favorite with over three million streams - Kait has continued to cultivate her signature sound over many subsequent albums and releases, including her latest single featuring her evocative improvisational style - and nearly 3M views on Instagram: “this one’s for you”.
 
Kait’s new album, Keyboards, is a love letter to the sounds and instruments of ’70s jazz-funk. A celebration of vintage grooves and classic keyboards: the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, Clavinet and - always - the acoustic piano.
 
Keyboards documents the music Kait was writing and recording last year when her following on Instagram really exploded - now with close to 140,000 followers - and takes inspiration from the music of Stuff (Richard Tee), Herbie Hancock, the Brecker Brothers, Weather Report, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and Ahmad Jamal, to name a few.
 
Together with Andrew Synowiec on guitar, Sean Hurley on bass and Jake Reed on drums, Kait and band radiate joyful sonic energy and groove.
 
In addition to composition and performance, Kait is also an active recording artist and educator. Her playing appears extensively on the Mister Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, as well as in The Lego Movie 2, Downsizing, Empire, and ABC’s The Little Mermaid Live!
 
Kait was an early member of Snarky Puppy during their formative years in Texas, appearing on their sophomore record, The World is Getting Smaller. She records often for film, television and other artists, and has taught at the University of North Texas, USC's Thornton School of Music, Musician's Institute, Chaffey College, and most recently at Los Angeles College of Music (LACM) in Pasadena, where she developed their new Piano Performance program and served as the inaugural chair.

Renee Anderson, aka Wild Oregon Girl. Author, creator, mental health advocate, mother and artist. I began writing my hiking blog when my child entered Kindergarten. I had been in food and beverage for 15 years prior and needed a creative outlet while being a stay at home mom. I researched and photographed one hike in Oregon per week for a year. I moved over to social media and my blog took off. As my platform about Oregon grew I began to share my mental health and women's health stories. I live with schizoaffective disorder. So many people connected to my journey. Today I am writing a guide book about Oregon, work with over 40 small businesses around the state, connecting people to nature and experiences. My goal is to show what can be done despite having a mental health diagnosis.

Alfie Noakes is a London-based comedy coach and promoter. He is the creator of the We Are Funny Project. Alfie has written and presented a series of online courses designed to support anyone who wants to have a go at stand-up from their first gig to reaching for the paid circuit and bagging an agent. Alfie is a potent champion of stand-up as an art form and encourages people to feel the fear and still "give it a go". There are so many transferable skills, all while having a lot of laughs. In a former life, Alfie was a film journalist and documentary maker, writing and directing films on artists as diverse as Jennifer Lopez to Metallica. Richard Gere really does not like him. Jack Black really does.

John Shegerian creates profitable impact companies that make the world a better place. A serial entrepreneur responsible for co-founding Homeboy Industries, FinancialAid.com, Engage, and many other impactful organizations – Shegerian currently serves as co-founder of ERI, the largest cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction and electronic waste recycling company in the United States.
 
He's passionate about protecting the planet and has lectured globally about responsible e-waste recycling and the circular economy.
 
Goldman Sachs recently named Shegerian one of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” at its annual Builders + Innovators Summit.
 
Suggested Questions:
 
1--You have had a successful career thus far as a social entrepreneur. From Homeboy Industries to FinancialAid.com to the largest recycler of e-waste in the country, ERI. What has that road been like and what drove you to travel it?
 
2-How did you decide to focus your innovation and passion for protecting the planet on recycling electronic waste, specifically?
 
3-How has the e-waste landscape altered and changed over the last three years during the pandemic?
 
4- Is e-waste still the fastest growing waste stream on the planet?
 
5- How much of a positive impact can companies make today by responsibly recycling their e-waste? Is there an energy savings factor?
 
6 -- How serious an issue is hardware hacking of discarded electronics?
 
7. What is the "circular economy"? When it comes to electronic waste, is the circular economy something that is truly attainable?
 
8. What can people and businesses do to proactively and responsibly recycle their electronics AND protect data at the end of a device’s life?
 
9 – Tell us about your book, “The Insecurity of Everything” – what is it about?
 
10 -- Tell us where you see the electronic recycling industry going in the next 5-10 years