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Everard Williams Jr. is has the look of a TV doctor and the voice for radio. He has a business degree and went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California because he taught the bug. The photo bug. A working photographer for over 30 years Everard still has the drive and passion for his craft. Deeply curious and welling to push bounds in photography has pushed him into becoming an educator at the school he once attended. For over 20 years Everard has been help shape the next great photographers coming out of Art Center. After meeting him for 45 minutes I knew I had to have him on the podcast. We sit down and talk living in a house with a darkroom, discovering the magic in that room as well as the high and lows in a ones career. Talk a listen to us solve the worlds problems through photography. Check out his instagram https://www.instagram.com/everard_williams/?hl=en

Luis Sinco is a photojournalist with more than 40 years of experience. His career started with small, ethnic community newspapers in Seattle and Los Angeles. In 1987, he got a job as a reporter-photographer with Copley Los Angeles Newspapers. He was a freelance photographer for four years before joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times in 1997.

Sinco was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for the Times—for coverage of the Northridge Earthquake and for the 2004 California wildfires. In 2003 and 2004, the Times assigned him to cover the war in Iraq. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographic coverage of the battle of Fallouja.

Born Sept. 11, 1959, Sinco migrated from the Philippines to the United States as a child. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism from the University of Washington. He has lived in Long Beach, California, since 1984

Joe Johnston’s approach to photography is grounded in an earnest desire to serve his community through the lens of his camera.

His most cherished assignments have given him the opportunity to document the events that shape the human experience. In particular, he is drawn to the beauty and destructive power of nature and humankind’s relationship with the environment.

Joe has received awards from the Associated Press, the National Press Photographer's Association, The Society for News Design, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and others. His images have been published in newspapers around the country and the world, as well as in several magazines including National Geographic Explorer, The Surfer’s Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and People.

Joe is now works full time at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California as the University Photographer.

Ben Orloff finished his fifth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 10th season with the program for the 2022-23 school year. Orloffassumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in 2019, he took the team to a second-place finish in the Big West going 37-17 overall with 21 home wins.

Coach Orloff and the Anteaters had their season shortened like every collegiate program in 2020. After just 15 games, the 'Eaters were 8-7.

Spearheading the Anteater recruiting efforts, Orloff played at UCI from 2006-09 and became the program’s first Big West Player of the Year. An accomplished shortstop, Orloff won the 2009 Brooks Wallace Award and was also the first Anteater player to win an American Baseball Coaches Association Gold Glove award. A three-time All-American, Orloff also was named to two NCAA Tournament teams and helped UCI to four post-season berths.

Recognized for his defensive talents, Orloff also evolved into a potent offensive threat, ending his collegiate career with a lifetime .320 batting average. Orloff is UCI’s all-time hit leader with 281 and owns the top mark in runs scored with 178. He leads all players with 241 games played and 877 at-bats. With 62 stolen bases, he is second in the UCI career annals and also dots the single-season records in multiple categories. Orloff led the nation two consecutive years in sacrifice hits and holds the NCAA single-season mark of 34 set in 2007 and in a career with 86.

Orloff was drafted in the ninth round by the Houston Astros. He climbed to Double-A Corpus Christi, hitting .298 this season with 11 RBI on 39 hits with 20 runs scored before finishing out his professional career playing 355 games over five seasons. Orloff was also a participant in the World Baseball Classic in 2012 as a member of Team Israel. Israel was eliminated in the qualifying round with Orloff starting one of the three games

Erik Helmstetter is a partner with Oder Investment Management, LLC. Erik’s responsibilities include portfolio management, investment plan construction and new client generation. He has been in the industry over 20 years and has previously worked at Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. His experience is enhanced by his professional designations as a Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist and Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor. We talk about saving for the future at all ages, what to ask and what to know. Erik attended the University of California at Los Angeles and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Business Specialization.  While at UCLA he also played on the golf team.

Scott Wilson is a Master Gardener in Colorado. As the Master Gardener at the Galileo Garden Project he managed and coordinated the garden activities for a school garden with 105 raised beds, a 42' dome greenhouse, and over 20,000 sq ft of growing space. This program educates students in gardening activities and produces thousands of pounds of healthy produce to the school district's lunch program.  

He's in a new house, with a new garden, and building it from scratch. Every step is documented on his Gardener Scott YouTube channel. With almost 300,000 subscribers and 23 million views on gardening Scott Willson is the guy to turn too. Check out his channel www.youtube.com/c/GardenerScott/featured  

Gardening in Colorado, and many other areas, can be quite challenging. We can all learn a more about gardening and he's here to help.  

Join him on the journey through gardens past, present, and future. Through his gardens, your gardens, and the gardens of strangers. We're all on the journey together.

Wyman Meinzer is the only official State Photographer of Texas, named so in 1997 by the Texas State Legislature and then Gov. George W. Bush, an honor he still holds today. He was raised on the League Ranch, a 27,000-acre ranch in the rolling plains of Texas. Since then, he has traveled to every corner of this great state and all points in between in search of the first and last rays of sunlight in its magnificent sweep across the Texas landscape.

Meinzer graduated from Texas Tech in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Management and was voted Outstanding Alumnus in 1987 by the department of Range and Wildlife Management at Texas Tech University. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus award in 1995 from the School of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. In august of 1999, Meinzer was honored to give the graduation commencement address at his alma matter Texas Tech University.  During his 12 years as adjunct instructor in communications at Texas Tech University, Wyman was selected as Agriculture Communications Teacher of the Year in 2005. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Alumnus award from Texas Tech University in recognition of outstanding achievement and dedicated service.

Post graduation Wyman spent five years as a professional predator hunter on the big ranches of the rolling plains. During this period he worked to perfect his photographic skills and now, after 33 years as a professional photographer, Wyman has photographed and /or written 24 large format books, and his images have appeared on more than 250 magazine covers throughout America. His images have appeared in Smithsonian, National Geographic Books, Natural History, Ebony, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Audubon, Sports Afield, Field and Stream, Outdoor life, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Highways, Korea GEO, German GEO, Das Tier, Airone, Horzu, BBC Wildlife, and a host others.

Honors include: Official State Photographer of Texas by the 75th Texas State Legislature, the John Ben Sheppard Jr. Award from the Texas State Historical Foundation for contributing to the preservation of Texas History through writing and photography, 1997 National Literary Award for the book, “Texas Lost: Vanishing Heritage” (with author Andrew Sansom), the San Antonio Conservation Award for the natural history book, “Roadrunner”, the 2003“Star of Texas Award”, from the Gillespie County Historical Society with author John Graves for their collaborative work, “Texas Hill Country”, and in 2011 the dual awards of “Texas Heroes Hall of Honor”, from the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas, and The A.C. Green Literary Award, presented to a distinguished Texas author for lifetime achievement.

Meinzer is a self-taught historian who lives in Benjamin with his wife, Sylinda.  Along with his photography, Meinzer loves hunting with rifles, pistols and bow, flying and wood work.  David Baxter, former editor of Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, described Meinzer best when he called him “a man with the eye of a nineteenth-century impressionist painter and the soul of a buffalo hunter”.

James Quantz is a commercial, advertising photographer. Things have been rolling along quite nicely for James, managing to work with some amazing clients over the past twenty years. James started a YouTube channel during Covid to fill his time. He shows some great behind the scenes stuff as well how and the why he made his images. www.youtube.com/c/QuantzPhoto/featured He has a great instagram page www.instagram.com/quantzphoto/ James also starting making a really cool photo product Pro Light Mods. Checkout his work and product.

John Biever was born in 1951 in Port Washington, Wi. He started photography working with his father, Vernon, who was the long time Green Bay Packer sideline photographer. John started shooting football in 1965 with him

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1973, he worked 13 years at the Milwaukee Journal & Sentinel, before leaving to freelance in 1986. He became a Sports Illustrated contract photographer in 1988, and a staff photographer in 1998. During his time at SI, he has been privileged

He is a 2-time winner of the NFL Photographer of the Year’ plaque, awarded by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Lynn Rogers came to Cal State Fullerton as a student with aspirations of playing baseball. He picked up gymnastics in a classroom and the rest is history. The 1972 CSF graduate began coaching gymnastics at the Anaheim YMCA and with the Long Beach KIPS Club. Soon he launched the Titans’ program and ran it with his heart and soul for its first 24 years (1976 thru 1999), compiling an overall record of 246-115 (.681). He won the 1979 national championship (AIAW) and had three second-place (2 AIAW, 1 NCAA) and five third-place (3 AIAW, 2 NCAA) finishes. His Titans won 10 conference championships and nine regional championships and were regional runnersup four times. He was the national coach of the year in 1979 and a three-time Big West Conference coach of the year.

As co-coach for the inaugural 1976 season with Charlotte Wolfe, he earned a salary of $500 with a budget of $500 more. He proceeded to win his first 71 matches spanning from 1976 to 1980 and he didn’t lose a home meet until the 1983 season. 

Lynn and Bonnie Rogers invented Coach’s Oats in their home kitchen in 1992.

That winter, they decided to make a special holiday breakfast for their friends. Coach and Bonnie loved steel cut oatmeal, but it took too long to cook, and rolled oats turned mushy and pasty. So they did what Coach always taught his athletes to do: They went back to basics.

Coach and Bonnie experimented by grinding, sifting and cooking whole oats called groats. After a lot of hard work, they tried something new. They put the oats into the oven before grinding them and … magic! The oatmeal was textured, nutty and flavorful. It didn’t become soggy or pasty, and it took only a few minutes to cook.

The Rogers’ family and friends loved the oatmeal, which quickly earned the nickname Coach’s Oats, and before long, Coach and Bonnie were grinding oats all weekend just to fill their friends’ orders. One admiring friend introduced the oats to a representative from Roman Meal Milling Company, and in 1996 Coach patented their oatmeal and Roman Meal began milling Coach’s Oats.

Since those unassuming beginnings, Coach’s Oats has gained many fans throughout the United States and select international locations. Thanks to those fans, what started in the kitchen is now a healthy family owned business dedicated to making the best oatmeal ever.

In other words, the story of Coach’s Oats is simple: Oatmeal has been reinvented.