Blast Talks Podcast

Blast Talks Podcast

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Blast Talks Podcast episodes

  • Blast Talks Podcast - Talks w/ Tomas Episode 43 Featuring Daniela Mendez

    Daniela was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Puerto Rico. Daniela is a proud graduate of Tampa Bay Technical High School, class of 2008. After high school, Daniela attended the University of South Florida, where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Criminology, cum laude. Later, Daniela obtained a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice and Correctional Leadership from the University of Central Florida. Lastly, Daniela obtained a Juris Doctorate degree, magna cum laude, from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. 

    While in law school, Daniela interned with the Cooley Innocence Project, where she reviewed and worked on claims of innocence. While volunteering her time at the Project, she assisted in the exoneration of Ledura Watkins, a man who spent 41 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

    Upon being sworn and admitted to the Florida Bar, Daniela joined the Law Offices of Julianne Holt, Public Defender, 13th Judicial Circuit. While at the Public Defender’s office, Daniela represented juveniles charged with both misdemeanor and felony crimes. 

    Currently, Daniela serves as the Campus Director at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay Campus. Additionally, Daniela is the Legal Counsel to The Sunny Center in Tampa. The Sunny Center assists individuals with temporary and permanent housing to those wrongfully convicted. Daniela volunteers her time as an Attorney Ad Litem (AAL) for juveniles in Delinquency court proceedings in the13th Judicial Circuit. 

    Daniela resides in Brandon, FL, with her husband and high school sweetheart, Josef, and their dog, Emmie.

    56 min
  • Blast Talks Podcast Episode 41 Featuring Dr Terry Wahls

    Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback), and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.

    You can learn more about her work from her website, www.terrywahls.com. She conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems. She also teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens. She hosts a Wahls Protocol Seminar every August where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol with ease and success. Follow her on Facebook (Terry Wahls MD), on Instagram drterrywahls, and on Twitter at @TerryWahls. Learn more about her MS clinical trials by reaching out to her team: [email protected].

    38 min
  • Blast Talks Podcast Episode 38 Featuring David Meltzer

    Dave Meltzer is currently the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing one of the world’s leading sports & entertainment marketing agencies, which he co-founded with Hall of Fame Quarterback Warren Moon.  

     

    Prior to S1M, he was CEO of the world’s first smartphone, the PC-E Phone, and later became CEO of the world’s most notable sports agency, Leigh Steinberg Sports and Entertainment.  He is an award-winning humanitarian, an international keynote speaker, best-selling author, Chairman of the Unstoppable Foundation, and is profiled by national publications such as Entrepreneur, Forbes, ESPN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Yahoo, SB Nation and Variety.  

    22 min
  • Blast Talks Podcast-Talks w/ Tomas Episode 37 Featuring Danny Kim
    Danny Kim is native born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has been in the Hawaii Film and TV industry for 18 years working as stuntman, actor, fight coordinator, and producer. Daniel began his career as a stunt double for Daniel Dae Kim in Lost and currently on Hawaii 5-0 for its 10th season. Daniel has also been involved with major blockbusters films that have been filmed in Hawaii. Some of his working credits include Lost, Hawaii 5-0, Jurassic World, Godzilla, Skull Island, Battleship, Jungle Cruise .
     
    Kim is utilizing his extensive martial art as a 7th degree Taekwondo black belt/ 4th degree Hapkido black belt . Daniel is an accomplished Taekwondo champion and represented the US National Team 5 times, he was also the main event for PRO-TKD on ESPN. His passion is being a motivational speaker and instructor for the youth and runs a self development martial arts program MIND POWER ACADEMY in Honolulu.
     
    He will be sharing his secrets to success on the topic of manifesting your dreams with Goal setting with Mental fortitude.
     
    THIS is a game changing mind program that will give our Athletes the missing edge they are seeking.
    1 hr 15 min
  • Blast Talks Podcast Episode 35 Featuring Laura Frecon

    Laura Frecon has a passion for beauty, fashion, life and all things green. She is an Emmy nominated Costume Designer, Wardrobe Director for the hit TV show American Beauty Star, and the CEO of Verte Luxe, where you can learn about and shop eco-luxury products to lead a more sustainable life. 

    59 min

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