Stephan Kesting is a lifelong martial artist, outdoor expeditionary, and educator. Stephan is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt with more than 30 years of training across multiple martial arts systems, he is also a veteran firefighter of over 25 years and a recipient of the Canadian National Medal for Bravery. He is the founder of Grapplearts.com and host of The Strenuous Life podcast, and his latest book, Perseverance: Life and Death in the Subarctic, documents a 1,000-mile solo canoe journey through northern Canada to Hudson Bay, an expedition completed while managing significant health challenges, including a kidney transplant and major orthopedic recoveries.

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Kehinde McComb is a content entrepreneur who built his way out of hourly work by learning how attention really works online. Raised by a single mother, he worked 22 different jobs before turning 18, from warehouses and restaurants to delivery apps, before discovering online business. After nearly 20 failed attempts in e-commerce and a period of serious financial stress, Kehinde broke through by using TikTok to take a product from zero to six figures in a matter of days. Today, he helps brands grow through short-form content, runs a community focused on skill-building over hype, and speaks openly about failure, discipline, and what it takes to build leverage from nothing.

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David Easterbrook is a bonsai artist with over 55 years of experience and a central figure in the development of North American bonsai. He served for more than three decades as curator of the Montreal Botanical Gardens Bonsai Collection, where he helped build one of the most respected public collections on the continent. Trained through early mentorships in the U.S. and a formal apprenticeship in Japan near Nagoya, David is widely regarded as a pioneer of bonsai education in Canada. He also founded the Montreal Bonsai and Penjing Society, introducing a structured, European-style teaching model that helped grow it into one of the largest bonsai organizations in North America.

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Ciaran Brayboy is the Co-founder of Skye Performance and a former Harvard basketball player who received over 30 Division I offers. Ciaran credits much of his competitive edge to the clean nutrition habits he grew up with in a functional-medicine household. When he arrived at Harvard, he was surprised by how processed and sugar-heavy most “performance” snacks were, which led him and fellow student-athlete Elisha to start making their own alternatives. What began as kitchen experiments eventually became Skye, a clean performance nutrition company built around real food, no artificial additives, and products they would actually eat themselves.

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Dr. Dimitri Deheyn is a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He leads the Deheyn Lab, where his work focuses on marine biology, environmental health, and materials in the natural world. Dimitri studies how organisms interact with light and color, and he also researches the spread of microplastics and synthetic fibers through oceans, air, and food systems.

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Grace Keilbach, along with her sister Aria, founded Boonie Babies, a nonprofit rescue based on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands archipelago. Together, they document, coordinate, and lead the organization’s efforts to rescue, rehabilitate, and relocate the island’s boonie dogs, descendants of WWII combat dogs that still roam Saipan today. What began as a small, two-person effort has grown into a widely recognized rescue operation and nonprofit, reaching millions online and saving hundreds of dogs through medical care, hands-on rehabilitation, and both on-island and off-island adoptions.

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 Benjamin Kellett is a UK-born paraglider pilot and adventure flyer who splits his time between Queenstown, New Zealand, and the European Alps. With over a decade of experience in the air, Ben is known for his vol-biv style of travel, flying long-distance with all his camping gear and landing in remote alpine terrain to spend nights in the mountains. He’s flown tandem professionally, documented expeditions across the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Europe, and built a following by sharing the real, unpolished side of adventure flying. Ben uses paragliding as a way to explore some of the most inaccessible places on earth, turning the sky into both his highway and his home.

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Dr. Brendan Talwar and Dr. Chris Malinowski are marine scientists who have collaborated for more than a decade on conservation, fieldwork, and science communication. Brendan is a National Geographic Explorer and postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Chris is the Director of Research & Conservation at the Ocean First Institute. Together, they formed Team Shark Docs, a partnership focused on shark and ray conservation through scientific research, public outreach, and media projects. Their joint work includes the Netflix project “All the Sharks,” where they set out to document as many shark species as possible while supporting ocean conservation organizations.

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Chad Caruso is a professional skateboarder, filmmaker, and content creator best known for setting a Guinness World Record for the fastest cross-country journey across America on a manually powered skateboard. He skated from Venice Beach, California to Virginia Beach in 2023, covering 3,027 miles and 77,000 feet of elevation in just 57 days alone, using the same board, wheels, and bearings the entire way. Chad is also known for his YouTube series 50 Tricks in 50 States, his long-term sobriety, and his work supporting youth through Natural High, a nonprofit focused on drug prevention and mental health. His journey and community contributions earned him an official Chad Caruso Day proclamation in Virginia Beach.

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Cass Verdy is a Netherlands-born travel creator who, after struggling with depression in his late teens and choosing sobriety at nineteen, left his home with €6,000 and relocated to Bali, a place he first connected with during a 2018 trip. There, he spent his early months living in small village rooms, traveling across the island by motorbike, and posting daily videos. Cass’s first viral clips led to his entry into content creation and time, he shifted away from purely cinematic travel work toward more personal, intentional content, focusing on mindset, vulnerability, and helping individuals through honest communication. Now based in Bali’s creative community, he continues to develop lifestyle-driven videos, deepen his mental health messaging, and build digital projects that reflect his commitment to discipline, authenticity, and personal growth.

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