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Phil Jackson

Philip Douglas Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. A power forward, Jackson played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning championships with the New York Knicks in 1970 and 1973. Regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time, Jackson was the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1998, leading them to six NBA championships. He then coached the Los Angeles Lakers from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2005 to 2011; the team won five league titles under his leadership. Jackson's 11 NBA titles as a coach surpassed the previous record of nine set by Red Auerbach. He holds numerous other records as a coach, such as most postseason wins (229), and most NBA Confere

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Eric Thomas

Eric Thomas, Ph.D., is an Educator, Best-Selling Author, Motivational Guru, and international business phenom. Eric's unique brand of pragmatism continues to take the world by storm. It has made him the preferred "go-to" problem-solver for many of the world's largest corporations, sports franchises, colleges, and universities. Through a thorough examination and application of these same principles, his conference attendees continue to maximize their successes both in the office and at home. This trusted and proven approach to sustained personal and professional growth and success has made his firm, Eric Thomas and Associates, LLC., one of the most highly sought-after consulting agencies globally. Husband, father, and philanthropist, ET, as

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Edwin Torres

Edwin Torres is a former New York State Supreme Court judge and author, who wrote the 1975 novel Carlito's Way. His book was the basis for the 1993 movie of the same name, starring Al Pacino, and for the 1979 book After Hours, the sequel to Carlito's Way.

In 1958, Torres was admitted to the New York State Bar. In 1959, as an assistant district attorney, Torres participated in the prosecution of Sal "the Capeman" Agron. Shortly thereafter he became a criminal defense attorney.

In 1977, Torres was appointed to the New York State Criminal Court. In 1980 he was selected to the State Supreme Court, where he served as a justice in the Twelfth Judicial District in New York City. The Supreme Court has jurisdiction over felony cases, and Torres presid

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Andrea Fontana

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Andrea Fontana è autore, critico e sceneggiatore. Nato a Genova, le storie sono da sempre la sua pas- sione. Esperto di cinema e fumetto, collabora con «Fumettologica» e «Segnocinema». Clara e le ombre è il suo primo graphic novel.

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Drew Brees

Drew Brees is the 2009 Super Bowl MVP winning quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. A 2001 graduate of Purdue University, Drew was a two time Heisman finalist and led the Boilermakers to a Big Ten championship and a Rose Bowl appearance during the 2000 season.

In Drew's five years with the San Diego Chargers and four years with the New Orleans Saints, he has been elected to four Pro Bowls while being named 2004 Comeback Player of the Year, 2006 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, and 2008 NFL Offensive Player of the Year.

On February 7, 2010, he led the Saints to their first World Championship against the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV, completing a record thirty two passes on his way to being named Super Bowl MVP.

As much pride as Dre

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D.J. Khaled

DJ KHALED is a music-industry mogul, an executive, a mega producer, and a recording artist who has made dozens of chart-topping records with artists such as Jay Z, Nas, Kanye West, Drake, Lil Wayne, and more. The founder of the We The Best Music Group, he is also the creator of one of the most globally viewed Snapchat accounts. He lives in Miami.

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Tom Brady

Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He is one of only two players to win five Super Bowls (the other being defensive player Charles Haley) and the only player to win them all playing for one team.

After playing college football for the University of Michigan, Brady was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. In Brady's 15 seasons as a starter, he has quarterbacked the Patriots to seven Super Bowl appearances, the most for any player in history.

Brady has been honored with four Super Bowl MVP awards (Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX, and LI), the most ever by a single player, has won two league MVP

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Gary Williams

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Elaine Fox

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Elaine Fox is a psychologist and neuroscientist who has researched widely on the science of emotions. She grew up in the 1970s in Dublin and has worked at St James Hospital Dublin, University College Dublin, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and has been a visiting senior scientist at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. She is currently a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at the University of Essex.

Elaine has published widely on the scientific aspects of fear and optimism, and her work, which has appeared in many leading scientific journals, has been summarized in an academic book Emotion Scien

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Sam Smith

Sam^^Smith is an NBA writer for the Chicago Bulls website bulls.com. He is the author of multiple articles and books, including The New York Times bestseller, The Jordan Rules.

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Flor M. Salvador

Flor M. Salvador (1998) o Ekilorhe.

Su gusto y la pasión por la literatura le fue inculcado desde muy pequeña, iniciándose en la escritura desde el 2014, mostrando una inclinación hacia el género de romance juvenil y drama. Actualmente estudiante de medicina (2017).

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Annie Matthew

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Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is the instant New York Times, International bestselling, & Award-winning author of ACE OF SPADES and WHERE SLEEPING GIRLS LIE. In 2024 she was a world book day author with her title THE DOOMSDAY DATE and she also has a Marvel Spider-Verse story coming out this year where she writes a new Spider-Verse character known as Spider-UK/Zarina Zahari. Faridah is an avid tea drinker, a collector of strange mugs, and a graduate from a university in Scotland where she received a BA in English Literature. She also has an MA in Shakespeare Studies from Kings College London. When she isn’t spinning dark tales, Faridah can be found examining the deeper meanings in Disney channel original movies.

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Ariana Godoy

Autora de romance y misterio
(Romance/Mystery Author.)
Traditionally published novel/ Mis libros:
"Mi amor de Wattpad."
"A través de mi ventana."

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Elisa A. Bonnin

Elisa A. Bonnin was born and raised in the Philippines, after which she moved to the United States to study chemistry and later oceanography. After completing her doctorate, she moved to Germany to work as a postdoctoral scientist. A lifelong learner, Elisa is always convinced that she should “maybe take a class in something” and as a result, has amassed an eclectic collection of hobbies. But writing will always be her true love. Publishing a book has been her dream since she was eight years old, and she is thrilled to finally be able to share her stories. She is the author of Dauntless and Stolen City.

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T.J. Klune

TJ KLUNE is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author (Into This River I Drown) and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company. His novels include The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Extraordinaries. Being queer himself, TJ believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive, queer representation in stories.

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Sergio A. Sierra

Sergio A. Sierra was born in Barcelona in 1975. He combines his passion for writing with his work as a distributor of merchandise and collectible figures. He studied Classical Philology and, for a time, wrote reviews of Asian fantasy cinema and anime for the official magazine of the Scifi channel and in the culture section of free newspapers in the city.

In 2007, together with Meritxell Ribas, he published their first illustrated story, "Pincel de Zorro", for the publishing house Ediciones Ondina. In 2009, the Parramon publishing house released his comic book adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", once again in collaboration with Meritxell Ribas.

In 2012, he wrote "Pergamino, el hijo del cazador de libros", his first illustrated novel f

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Tracy Wolff

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tracy Wolff is a lover of vampires, dragons, and all things that go bump in the night. A onetime English professor, she now devotes all her time to writing dark and romantic stories with tortured heroes and kick-butt heroines. She has written all her sixty-plus novels from her home in Austin, Texas, which she shares with her family. tracywolffbooks.com

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Roland Lazenby

Roland Lazenby is an American sportswriter and educator.

Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about basketball and American football. He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers.

Lazenby's book Bull Run! was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association.

Lazenby studied at Virginia Military Institute and Hollins University, and has been a member of Virginia Tech's Department of Communication and Radford University's School of Communication. A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers (2007), an account of the Virginia Tech massacre. Lazenby served as editor.

In 2005, Lazenby and Andrew Mager created Planet

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Michael J. Fox

Canadian/American film and television actor.

His roles include Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty from Spin City (1996–2000), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He also starred in Doc Hollywood and Secret of My Succe$s and the lead voices in Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire and in the film Stuart Little and it's sequel.

Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, and disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. As the symptoms of his disease worsened, he retired from full-time acting in 2000.

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Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer (pronounced Owen) was born in Wexford on the South-East coast of Ireland in 1965, where he and his four brothers were brought up by his father and mother, who were both educators.

He received his degree from Dublin University and began teaching primary school in Wexford. He has lived and worked all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Italy. After the publication of the Artemis Fowl novels, Eoin retired from teaching and now writes full time. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

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Phil Jackson

Philip Douglas Jackson is an American former professional basketball player, coach, and executive. A power forward, Jackson played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning championships with the New York Knicks in 1970 and 1973. Regarded as one of the greatest coaches of all time, Jackson was the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1998, leading them to six NBA championships. He then coached the Los Angeles Lakers from 1999 to 2004 and again from 2005 to 2011; the team won five league titles under his leadership. Jackson's 11 NBA titles as a coach surpassed the previous record of nine set by Red Auerbach. He holds numerous other records as a coach, such as most postseason wins (229), and most NBA Confere

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Mike Lupica

Michael Lupica is an author and American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN.

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Roland Lazenby

Roland Lazenby is an American sportswriter and educator.

Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about basketball and American football. He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers.

Lazenby's book Bull Run! was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association.

Lazenby studied at Virginia Military Institute and Hollins University, and has been a member of Virginia Tech's Department of Communication and Radford University's School of Communication. A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers (2007), an account of the Virginia Tech massacre. Lazenby served as editor.

In 2005, Lazenby and Andrew Mager created Planet

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Sam Smith

Sam^^Smith is an NBA writer for the Chicago Bulls website bulls.com. He is the author of multiple articles and books, including The New York Times bestseller, The Jordan Rules.

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Richie McCaw

Richard Hugh McCaw is a retired New Zealand rugby union player. He captained the national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He is the most capped test rugby player of all time, and has won the World Rugby player of the year award a joint record three times.

McCaw was the first All Black to reach 100 caps, and the first rugby union player to win 100 tests. He is the most-capped player in rugby union history with 148 caps, having overtaken Brian O'Driscoll's record in 2015. McCaw has also equaled the record for most appearances at the Rugby World Cup with Jason Leonard.

McCaw predominantly played in the openside flanker position for the New Zealand, Crusaders and Canterbury teams, but also p

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Andrés Iniesta

Andrés Iniesta Luján (Fuentealbilla, Albacete, 11 de mayo de 1984) es un futbolista español que juega como centrocampista en el Emirates Club de la UAE Pro League de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos.
Ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera en el F. C. Barcelona y en la selección española, equipos de los que fue capitán. Es el futbolista español más laureado de la historia con un total de 39 títulos oficiales y ampliamente considerado como uno de los mejores futbolistas del mundo de su generación y uno de los mejores centrocampistas de la historia del fútbol.

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Mike Tyson

Michael Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is considered to be the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. Claiming his first belt at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old, Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, as well as the only heavyweight to unify them in succession. The following year, Tyso

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Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known as Slim Shady and his primary stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor. Having sold over seventy million albums worldwide, Eminem is one of the highest-selling rappers of all time.

Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP. The following album, The Marshall Mathers LP, became the fastest-selling hip hop album in history, followed by an increasing amount of popularity, critical praise, as well as controversy. While Eminem has won many Grammy Awards, been praised for having "verbal energy", high quality of lyricism and been ranked at number nine on MTV's list of The Greatest MCs of All Time, #13 on the MTV's "22

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Paul O'Neill

Paul O'Neill is a retired right fielder and Major League Baseball player who won five World Series while playing for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees.

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Stephen J. Harper

Stephen Harper is retired politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada for nearly a decade, from 2006 to 2015. First elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1993, he became became the first leader of the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada in 2004. Harper is an economist and entrepreneur who has served as the leader of the International Democrat Union since February 2018.

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Gary Myers

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Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher. He is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals working today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Harari co-founded the social impact company Sapienship, focused on education and storytelling, with his husband, Itzik Yahav.

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Phil Knight

Philip Hampson Knight, whose nickname is "Buck", is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and current chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., and previously served as chairman and CEO of the company.

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Enrico Moretti

Enrico Moretti is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Slate, among other publications.

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Michael Jordan

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

After a stand-out career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he led the Tar Heels to a National Championship in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA's Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds w

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Myron Golden

Myron Golden is a renowned business strategist, public speaker, and author with decades of experience in guiding entrepreneurs toward financial success

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John Thompson

John Robert Thompson Jr. (September 2, 1941 – August 30, 2020) was an American college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

-Wikipedia

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Thomas Pletzinger

Born in 1975, Thomas Pletzinger has won several awards for his writing, including fellowships and teaching positions at the University of Iowa, New York University, and Grinnell College. He lives in Berlin.

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Tom Shales

Tom Shales is the Pulitzer Prize-winning TV critic of The Washington Post, and a movie reviewer for NPR's Morning Edition. His books include On the Air and Legends, and he has written for many major magazines.

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John O'Sullivan

John O'Sullivan is the author of Changing the Game The Parents Guide to Raising Happy High-Performing Athletes and Giving Youth Sports Back to Our Kids and Every Moment Matters: How the World's Best Coaches Inspire Their Athletes and Build Championship Teams. He is a consultant for numerous sport governing bodies around the world including the US Olympic Committee, US Soccer, US Ski and Snowboard, USA Swimming, PGA Golf, Ireland Rugby, as well as a frequent contributor to CNN, ESPN, Outside Magazine and other sports publications. He is the founder of the Changing the Game Project, and has spent over two decades involved as both a soccer player and coach at the youth, high school, college and professional level. John received his BA from For

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James Kerr

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Mike Krzyzewski

Mike Krzyzewski has been the basketball coach of the Duke Blue Devils for twenty-seven years, winning three NCAA championships and twelve national Coach of the Year awards. He is revered and respected by sports fans and business leaders everywhere. Coach K. lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina.

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Mike Sielski

Mike Sielski is the author of four books, including Magic in the Air: The Myth, the Mystery, and the Soul of the Slam Dunk and The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality. A co-host on Sports Radio 94 WIP, he has been a sports columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Inquirer.com since 2013 and was formerly a reporter at The Wall Street Journal. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing and The Year’s Best Sports Writing, and over his career he has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Association of Black Journalists. He lives in Bucks County, Pa.

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Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player.

He has been ranked No. 1 for 209 weeks, and has finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.

Nadal has won 21 Grand Slam men's singles titles, the most in history. He has won 90 ATP singles titles, with 62 on clay, including a record 13 French Open titles and 26 of his 36 Masters titles.
His 81 consecutive wins on clay is the longest single-surface win streak in the Open Era.

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Novak Djokovic

Famed tennis player.

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Austin Netzley

Austin Netzley is an author, investor, and business growth advisor.

He is the Founder and CEO of 2X, helping 6- and 7-figure businesses scale exponentially through operational excellence.

In less than three years, Austin and 2X have helped private clients generate over $255 Million in revenue by implementing the proven 2X Operating System and methodology. 2X works hands-on 1-on-1 with CEOs to help them simplify their strategy, systemize their operations, and scale with consistency and control.

Austin is also the author of the new, updated book ‘From 6 to 7 Figures’ that authority Dan Martell calls “the playbook entrepreneurs NEED.”

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Nick Foles

Nick Foles is the 2018 Super Bowl MVP-winning quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
A graduate of the University of Arizona, Nick was drafted by the Eagles in the third round of the 2012 draft. In 2013, he became the first quarterback in NFL history to post a perfect passer rating (158.3), and to throw seven touchdowns in a single game, earning him a spot in the Pro Bowl, and Offensive MVP honors. Foles played one season in St. Louis (2015) and one in Kansas City (2016), before returning to the Eagles in 2017. On February 4, 2018, Foles led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl victory in franchise history. He and his wife, Tori, have a daughter named Lily and a Golden Doodle named Henry.

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Tarmo Tamm

Tarmo Tamm on Sell Iti peakoolitaja, kes on juhtinud kõiki selle seniseid projekte. Tema kogemuste pagasis on paljude eri toodete ja teenuste müümine nii lõpp- kui ka äritarbijale ning müügijuhi rolli täitmine arvukates projektides. Peale selle on ta müügitoetusagentuuri Promoset üks asutajatest.

Tarmo on töötanud Eesti parimate müügiinimestega, neilt õppinud ja ka ise parimaid koolitanud. Ta on kirjutanud hulgaliselt artikleid müügi, turunduse, enesearengu ja ajajuhtimise teemal.

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Dustin Pedroia

Dustin Luis Pedroia is an American professional baseball second baseman.

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Toni Nadal

Antonio Nadal Homar es un entrenador y preparador físico de tenis español.

Ha entrenado, desde el inicio de su carrera hasta 2017, a su sobrino el jugador de tenis profesional Rafael Nadal.

Aparte de su capacitación deportiva, cursó estudios de Geografía e Historia y Derecho –inacabados–. Es padre de tres hijos.

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Stephen Rosenfield

Stephen Rosenfield is the Founding Director of the American Comedy Institute. The New York Time’s heralded him as “the best known comedy teacher in the country.” Marc Breslin, owner of the Yuk Yuk’s, the largest chain of comedy clubs in Canada, said “Stephen Rosenfield is the best standup comedy teacher in North America.” Starz produced and aired the mini-series, Standup or Shutup, about his standup comedy workshops. His workshops were also the subject of a NPR documentary, hosted by Sara Fishko. His students have gone on to major comedy careers in the U.S. and around the world.

His students have performed standup on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Nightly Show with

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