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KELLY STARRETT

Kelly Starrett is a coach, physical therapist, author, speaker, and creator of this MobilityWOD.com, which has revolutionized how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance. MobilityWOD was voted #4 in Outside Magazines Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, Breaking Muscles Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, and Health Lines Top 100 Health Blogs of 2011. Kelly and his work have been featured in Tim Ferris Four Hour Body, Inside the Box, Brian MacKenzie's Power Speed Endurance, Competitor Magazine, Inside Triathlon, Outside Magazine, Details Magazine, Power Magazine, and the Crossfit Journal. He teaches the wildly popular Crossfit Movement & Mobility Trainer course and has been a guest lecturer at the American Physical Therapy Association annual convention, Google, the Perform Better Summit, the Special Operations Medial Association annual conference, police departments, and elite military groups nationwide. Coach Kelly Starrett received his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California. Before starting his own physical therapy practice at San Francisco CrosSFit, one of the first 50 CrossFit affiliates, he practiced performancebased physical therapy at the world-renowned Stone Clinic. In his current practice, Kelly continues to focus on performance-based Orthopedic Sports Medicine with an emphasis on returning athletes to elite level sport and performance.Kellys clients have included Olympic gold-medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world and national record holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, Crossfit Games medalists, ballet dancers, military personnel, and competitive age-division athletes. Kellys background as an athlete and coach includes paddling whitewater slalom canoe on the US Canoe and Kayak Teams, and leading the Mens Whitewater Rafting Team to two national titles and competition in two World Championships. In his free time Kelly enjoys spending time with his wife Juliet and two daughters, Georgia and Caroline, surfing, paddling, Olympic lifting, hot-tubbing, and so-you-think-you-can-dancing.

With intelligence and swagger, Kelly Starrett is carpet-bombing the tired notions of what for years has stranded stretching and recovery thought in a ditch. With fresh vision harnessed to an exceptional background as an elite athlete, coach and physical therapist, he is pioneering a new era of sports performance as it relates to movement, mechanics and the actualization of athletic potential. Athletes and coaches from the entire spectrum of sport will benefit by following his lead.
T.J. Murphy, Editor-at-Large, Competitor Magazine

The 4-Hour Life: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

NEIL STRAUSS
Neil Strauss, is an American author and journalist. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone for more than 15 years, and also wrote regularly for The New York Times. He is a Seven-time New York Times bestselling author. Neils most recent book Everyone loves you when youre dead, collects the 228 best, craziest, and most soulbaring moments from his adventures with musicians, celebrities, and icons while writing cover stories for Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Strauss is the co-author of four previous bestsellers: How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (with Jenna Jameson), The Dirt (with Motley Crue), Dont Try This At Home (with Dave Navarro), and The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (with Marilyn Manson): He is also the coauthor, with Bernard Chang, of the satirical graphic novel How to Make Money Like a Porn Star, which has been banned in Singapore. Strauss lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is already at work on his next book, underground in a new secret subculture. After finishing a private Chicago high school, the Latin School of Chicago, Strauss attended Columbia University for two years, as well as Vassar College. He began his career writing for Ear, an avant-garde magazine, before moving on to the Village Voice, where he did everything from copy-editing to fact-checking. His fastidiousness paid off when he was invited by Jon Pareles to become a music critic at The New York Times, where he wrote the influential Pop Life column. He was then invited by Jann Wenner to become a contributing editor at Rolling Stone where he wrote cover stories on Kurt Cobain, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Orlando Bloom, the Wu-Tang Clan, Gwen Stefani and Marilyn Manson. He won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for his coverage of Kurt Cobain's suicide for Rolling Stone and his profile of Eric Clapton in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section. After leaving The New York Times to ghostwrite the memoir of Jameson, Strauss authored The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Regan Books, 2005), a book about a sub-culture of pick-up artists known as the seduction community. Under the alter ego Style, Strauss achieved the unexpected distinction of being named the worlds greatest pickup artist three years in a row. The book made a month-long appearance in the New York Times bestsellers list in September-October 2005, and reached the #1 position on Amazon.com immediately after its release in the United States.
The 4-Hour Life: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

NOAH KAGAN
After beginning his career at Intel, Noah went on to be employee #30 at Facebook, where he was a Product Manager, and employee number #4 at Mint, where he was the Director of Marketing. From there, he helped start two $1,000,000+ businesses - Kickflip (later called Gambit) and AppSumo, where he is currently Chief Sumo. Both were started in just one weekend. He also has a blog called OkDork, where he's been sharing his thoughts on startups, marketing, selfexploration and tacos for the last 7 years.

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LEILA JANAH
Im the founder of Samasource, an award-winning social business that connects people living in poverty to microwork small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. I serve on the boards of CARE, the global pover ty-fighting organization (and inventor of the care package), OneLeap and TechSoup Global and as an advisor to BrightFunds and RevelTouch. I also recently launched Samahope, a new site to crowdfund surgeries in poor countries. Earlier in my career, I was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National Universitys Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. I was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). Ive also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Lets Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo. Im a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship and technology. My work has been profiled by Forbes, CBS, CNN, NPR, the BBC, The New York Times, and The New Scientist, and I was on the cover of Fast Companys July 2012 issue. Ive been fortunate to receive several awards for my work, including a 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Social Enterprise Alliance, a 2010 World Technology Award, and a 2012 TechFellow Award. Sorel partnered with me this fall to launch the Get Your Boots Dirty campaign. I received a BA from Harvard and live in San Francisco with my fianc, Benjamin Leslie.

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JOHN JACKSON
John Jackson, of Waterloo, IN is an entrepreneur, inventor, owner of several businesses, and creator of ARCHERY TAG, a game that his team invented in 2011. Since its inception, it has gained worldwide interest with people of all ages and backgrounds. It is a game as exciting as paintball without the pain or mess, active as dodge ball, intuitive, and competitively challenging; making it a game like none other. In addition to the tag game, Archery Tag has opened up unlimited possibilities for target shooting as well. Jackson, who has been shooting a bow for 40+ years, enjoys sharing his passion for archery with others and has taught countless adults and kids how to hit the mark with his simple approach to archery. He created a whole new way of experiencing archery with his patentpending, foam-tipped arrows, because people find it much less intimidating to try.

The 4-Hour Life: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.

DAVE CAMARILLO
Dave Camarillo is the founder of Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu and Combatives program. He has had over a decade of experience with Law Enforcement, Military, and is one of the best in the world when it comes to teaching Grappling and Striking. Dave teaches full-time in the bay area to beginner level students to professional fighters and to law enforcement and military personnel. In 2011, Vincit Magazine named Dave Coach of the Year. 3rd Degree Black Belt in Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu, Sandan Level Black Belt Judo Guerrilla Combatives Master Instructor Over 25 years experience in elite competition in Judo and Jiu-Jitsu Over 8 years training professional fighters (MACP) Modern Army Combatives Program Level 4 Subject Matter Expert Certified CEO and Master Instructor of Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu program at Headquarters in Pleasanton and San Jose, California Author of Guerrilla Jiu-Jitsu, the book and Submit Everyone

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