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Alicia M. Phidd’s has spent her career representing high profile clients in boxing, entertainment law, and general business. She has also shared her knowledge in academia as an adjunct professor. She’s taught Sports Law at Barry University and Business Law and Employment Law at the University of Phoenix.

Ms. Phidd was the first black female General Counsel panelist at the Daily Business Review’s General Counsel Legends of the Boardroom, Law & Technology Section held in Miami, Florida in 2016. She holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from St. Thomas University School of Law. Ms. Phidd is currently a member of the Florida Bar, the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the 11th Circuit. Ms. Phidd is of Jamaican descent and she has a new book, ‘Success is Subjective, The Business Lawyer’ that is coming out next week on August 27th and here is the link: https://youtu.be/g11Ai4tNKdE.

JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of ten books about rational living, including "When everything fails, try this" (2009), "Rationality is the way to happiness" (2009), "The philosophy of builders" (2010), "The 10 principles of rational living" (2012), "Rational living, rational working" (2013), "Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief" (2014), "On becoming unbreakable" (2015), "Thriving in difficult times" (2016), "Sequentiality: The amazing power of finding the right sequence of steps" (2017) and "Undisrupted: How highly-effective people deal with disruptions" (2019).

John Lagerholm, author, producer and director of ‘The Capsule.’

John is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who was recognized by ManaSota Films as "Person of the Year" in 2016. As the primary creative force behind "The Neighborhood" film series, John wrote and directed over a dozen comedic short films interconnected by a variety of distinct characters and locations. The series was screened in total at the 2017 Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival as well as broadcast on the Tampa Bay Arts and Entertainment channel (TBAE.) In 2018, John wrote and directed the short films SLEEP OF THE ABYSS and SLEEPLICKER and produced SHARED LIST. John is also a writer/director/producer for the audio series "Domain of Terror" which adapts classic horror comics from the 1950s into audio theater for podcast listening.

John Lagerholm, author, producer and director of ‘The Capsule.’

John is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who was recognized by ManaSota Films as "Person of the Year" in 2016. As the primary creative force behind "The Neighborhood" film series, John wrote and directed over a dozen comedic short films interconnected by a variety of distinct characters and locations. The series was screened in total at the 2017 Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival as well as broadcast on the Tampa Bay Arts and Entertainment channel (TBAE.) In 2018, John wrote and directed the short films SLEEP OF THE ABYSS and SLEEPLICKER and produced SHARED LIST. John is also a writer/director/producer for the audio series "Domain of Terror" which adapts classic horror comics from the 1950s into audio theater for podcast listening.

JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of ten books about rational living, including "When everything fails, try this" (2009), "Rationality is the way to happiness" (2009), "The philosophy of builders" (2010), "The 10 principles of rational living" (2012), "Rational living, rational working" (2013), "Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief" (2014), "On becoming unbreakable" (2015), "Thriving in difficult times" (2016), "Sequentiality: The amazing power of finding the right sequence of steps" (2017) and "Undisrupted: How highly-effective people deal with disruptions" (2019).

After spending 14 years of her professional life as a director of a profit center for an insurance company, Valérie Métais was tasked by the regional IDF [Ile de France, a circular area around greater Paris] management to train the network in communication techniques. She created behavioral workshops where each employee would think about getting rid of his/her own blockages or limits in order to optimize his/her performance while taking into account his/her identity, behavior and aspirations. Valérie Métais has maintained an active and constantly evolving communication and psychotherapy practice since 2002.

Today my guest is ROBERT SPENCE who has spent most of his life as a health administrator but also as a Medic and Operating Room Technician during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1967, Robert was drafted twice into the US Army, getting a deferment for college in March but finally drafted in December 1967 before he had even finished his semester. In those days, not everyone could get college deferments like Clinton, Howard Dean or even Trump. For over a year during 1969-1970, Robert served his country in the 3rd Surgical Hospital in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. When he returned from the war, he obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Health Administration from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974. Robert worked as an OR Tech at the hospital for 5 years, and then spent over 28 years in NYS DOCS as Health Administrator in Clinton CF, a 2800 inmate maximum security prison... After 7-8 years at the facility, he was promoted to Asst. Director of Health Services for all of NY State’s 70 prisons in 1989 (which meant that 19 of his 28 years in Corrections were spent as the Asst. Director of Health Services)

ISABELLE BRIL is a linguist. She completed her PhD in Linguistics in 1994. She was a Lecturer at the University of Tours in France, and subsequently has been a Research Director at the CNRS (the French National Center of Scientific Research) since 2001.

She began her work on the large family of Austronesian languages that stretch throughout the Pacific Ocean. In 1991, she initiated her research into two of New Caledonia's 28 Kanak languages. Most recently in 2011, she began researching one of Taiwan's 14 Austronesian languages.

Michel de Rougemont is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Paris II and a researcher at the IRIF (Institute for Research in Fundamental Informatics) at the University of Paris. His Specialty is: Logic and Complexity.

Professor De Rougemont completed his studies at the National School of Telecommunications in Paris in 1975. He then completed a master’s degree in Mathematics at Berkeley in 1976 followed by his Ph.D. in Mathematics at UCLA in 1983.

He also held the following positions: from 1977-1978, he was an assistant at the Universidad Autonoma in Mexico; from 1984-1987, a Researcher at the European Research Center (ECRC), Munich; from 1988 to 1995, he was a professor at the National School of Advanced Technical Study. And from 1987-1988, he was a professor at the University of Paris Sud.

Four countries, four languages, Michel, and now you're perfecting yourself in Chinese! Very good!

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