Chris Backe is the blogger behind One Weird Globe, a travel blog that focuses on the weird and offbeat destinations around the world. He’s lived in Asia since 2008, and is currently in northeast Thailand. He’s written about twenty books and itineraries, and has recently completed A Guidebook To Offbeat Thailand in April 2015. To find out more about him, check out his

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Noah is a marketing expert. As a thought leader in strategic marketing and customer loyalty, Noah helps clients dramatically and rapidly increase sales, multiply profits, and maximize customer value. He is the trusted source for coaching and consulting to thousands of owners, executives, and individuals. Noah is the author of the Amazon #1 bestselling book in Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service -EVERGREEN: Cultivate The Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving(a book I highly recommend).He’s an expert blogger for Fast Company Magazine, and a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Section. Noah has been routinely quoted and mentioned in publications like Forbes, The New York Times, Reuters, and more.Noah has taught master classes on retention for the popular website, Mixerg

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Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World® Resort. "As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping & entertainment village and the ESPN sports and recreation complex in addition to the ancillary operations which supported the number one vacation destination in the world."One of Lee's major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World. Lee has held various executive positions in the hospitality and entertainment business with Hilton Hotels for 8 years and the Marriott Corporation for 17 years before joining Disney in 1990 to open the Disneyland Paris project.Lee has served as Chairman of the Board of Heart of Florida United Way, the Board of Trustees for The Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the board of the...

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Clay is an educator, entrepreneur and entertainer. He has started numerous successful businesses, written three books, consulted with companies in nearly every industry under the son and has committed to “family time” necessary to create five beautiful children with his wonderful wife Vanessa. He educates, he inspires and coaches teams and businesses on the specific action steps that are required to grow.In this interview, we talk about his entrepreneurship journey and how and why he founded Thrive 15 which teaches entrepreneurs how to start or grow their businesses. He was definitely dropping valuable nuggets of wisdom for millennial entrepreneurs. As a gift to the UYD audience he is off

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Andy Hayes is the founder and creator of Plum Deluxe, the website that helps you create moments that matter. A published author, prolific writer, tea lover, and public speaker, he is based in sunny Portland, Oregon. Featured in sites and magazines such as CNN, Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic, Andy is known for his fresh ideas on living a good life.

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Manny Palomo is the co-founder and part owner of Spondulic, a company helping small businesses realize their dreams by finding them the loan that fits their business and personality.  Previously in various finance positions eg. stock broker, finance specialist, he has learned what it takes to really make a difference in business owners lives on the personal and professional level.  He seeks to assist businesses in taking their company to the next stratosphere.

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Dr. Bill Dorfman is not just a famous cosmetic dentist, he is THE famous cosmetic dentist. Affectionately known as "America's Dentist," Dr. Bill is widely recognized world wide as a leading dentist who is responsible for creating smiles for many of Hollywood's brightest stars. In fact, Dr. Dorfman has become a star in his own right as the featured dentist on the hit ABC series, "Extreme Makeover," where he performed amazing dental transformations on the show's participants as well as the number one guest co-host on the new Emmy Nominated daytime talk show, "The Doctors." In addition, Dr. Dorfman is a world-renowned lecturer & author of the best-selling cosmetic dentistry book, The Smile Guide & the NY Times bestseller Billion Dollar Smile. Dr. Bill also co-founded The LEAP Foundation in 2008. LEAP is a week-long youth leadership program for young adults age 15-24, held every summer at UCLA. LEAP’s goal is to help young people from around the world find professional and personal achievement by...

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A life spent growing up in North Africa, UK, India and Germany. A head thinking in four different languages. And a musical background spent with musicians who would never share a stage together.''When you spend your formative years with constantly changing backdrops, you realize at some point, that you'll always be at home and out of place everywhere. Music was the only constant companion. One which made sense no matter what the backdrop was.''Born to a young couple of doctors fond of traveling, T.L. (short for Tapo

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Travel is in Andres' blood. He was the first from either side of his family to be born in the US, to Colombian parents. He grew up speaking Spanish at home and visiting South America every year.His connection to Japan began fortuitously when he signed up for a Japanese literature class while studying at Columbia University in New York. He ended up loving the course so much that he decided to start studying the Japanese language, which ultimately become a lifelong passion.In 2005, he decided to move from New York City to Tokyo to fully immerse myself in the Japanese culture and language. While living in Japan my explorations of the country began – He has had the chance to live in Tokyo and Kyoto, and travel from Hokkaido to Okinawa – and

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Christina Soto likes to say "Live your best life today- Cancer or No Cancer" and that's exactly what she has done. She is a a two-time survivor of stage IV Hodgkin Lymphoma and so in order to get her life back she decided to come up with her own cancer game plan and focus all of her attention away from her sources of pain. She continuously told herself that she was feeling strong and that her body was healing. The more she started to do this, the more alive she felt.She and her partner decided to quit their jobs, sell everything they owned – except what they could fit in their suitcases – start a business and travel the world. This decision was one of the best decisions in her life as she was as happy as she could be, and living out her dreams, but she couldn’t stop thinking about all of her fellow cancer warriors out there who were most likely struggling with the same things she had, and finding little help to overcome them. That’s when the idea for The Cancer GamePlan was born and she has continued...

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