The Ticket Podcast

Denard Span is a former professional baseball center fielder. He played for the Minnesota Twins, Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Rays and Seattle Mariners. Span batted and threw left-handed and at the height of his career was known as one of the premier leadoff hitters in baseball due to his exceptional on-base percentage. Span was selected by the Twins with the 20th overall pick 2002 Major League Baseball draft from Tampa Catholic and retired in 2019. Denard’s lifetime MLB batting average is .281; he hit 71 home runs; and he had 490 RBIs. 

Jalen Rowell (formerly Robinette) is an Air Force Academy graduate, the leading receiver in Air Force Academy history, and a former projected Third Round NFL Draft Pick. Jalen is currently in the Air Force Reserves and works at Northwestern Mutual in the financial services industry. 

David Meltzer is an entrepreneur, a best-selling author, the host of The Playbook Podcast, a business and life coach, a preeminent keynote speaker, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing. https://sports1marketing.com/

Tom McMillen is a Rhodes Scholar, an Olympian, a former United States Congressman, the former Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports, the former member of the Board of Regents for the University System of Maryland, and is currently the CEO and President of the Lead1 Association, an organization that advocates for Division 1-A Athletic Directors. www.lead1association.com

Chris Polaszek is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and athlete. Chris is a co-owner of Diesel Fitness, the Chief Legal Officer of One Plant, the owner of Thunder Sports Management, and the owner of The Polaszek Law Firm. Chris formerly worked at Holland & Knight LLP, for Solomon Brothers, and on Capitol Hill for US Senator Bob Graham. Chris is a renaissance man with a passion for service and wellness.

Barbara Martinez is a member of Holland & Knight's Global Compliance and Investigations Team and is based in Miami. After a distinguished career handling an array of significant matters as a federal prosecutor, Ms. Martinez focuses her practice on internal corporate investigations, corporate compliance and training, and white collar criminal defense. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Martinez served as the chief of the Special Prosecutions Section at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. In this capacity, she supervised federal prosecutors who handled cases involving international and domestic human trafficking, money laundering, child exploitation, extortion, international kidnappings and other transnational crimes.  Ms. Martinez also served as the human trafficking coordinator and the Project Safe Childhood coordinator for the Southern District of Florida for more than a decade. As the coordinator for these programs, Ms. Martinez spearheaded coordination efforts among law enforcement, non-governmental organizations and prosecutors nationwide and globally to more effectively prevent and identify human trafficking and child exploitation, as well as to investigate and successfully prosecute cases. She routinely collaborated with foreign governments, private industries, non-governmental organizations and community members to assist in these efforts and raise public awareness. Ms. Martinez previously worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Economic Crimes Section for the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami, as well as a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) trial attorney for the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division in Washington, D.C. In these roles, Ms. Martinez prosecuted complex white collar cases involving healthcare fraud, bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, telemarketing fraud, identity theft and credit card fraud, computer intrusion, false statements and obstruction of justice. Ms. Martinez has tried more than 20 jury trial cases in federal court and more than 30 bench trials in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Some of her notable federal trials include:

• a six-week international sex trafficking case
• a month-long sex trafficking case involving 50 adult victims from across the U.S.
• a two-week, multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud case against the owner of a medical clinic
• a three-week, multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud case against two physicians
• a nine-day, multimillion-dollar U.S. Department of Education fraud case against the owners of a vocational school

In addition, Ms. Martinez has extensive experience teaching and conducting training courses. She conducted and created anti-trafficking and money laundering training sessions for law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates and members of the financial industry throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries, including Mexico, The Bahamas, St. Lucia, Barbados, Portugal, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria and Iceland. She taught trial advocacy to law enforcement and prosecutors in Chile and a session about computer crimes to representatives of financial institutions in Peru. In addition, Ms. Martinez teaches a human trafficking seminar at the University of Miami School of Law. Ms. Martinez joined the DOJ in 1997 as a trial attorney through the Attorney General's Honors Program. She worked for the fraud section in the criminal division from 1997 until 2000, when she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Nicki Jhabvala is the Washington Post’s beat writer covering the NFL and the Washington Football Team. Nicki is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where she studied journalism. She formerly worked for Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, and the Denver Post (covering the NFL and Denver Broncos).

Dr. Steve Graef is a psychologist, an entrepreneur, an Ohio State Buckeye, and a man on an incredible journey through life. Dr. Graef can be found at www.mindurance.com. Dr. Steve played football at The Ohio State University (2002 National Champion), received an M.A. and PhD from the University of Akron, and was a sports psychologist at The Ohio State University for nearly 6 years before founding Mindurance. Dr. Steve has traveled the world and has a unique perspective on life, success, and the journey.

Danny Vega is one of the most respected and most interesting people in the world of all things keto, carnivore, and being fat fueled. He is a nutrition and life coach to some of the highest performing people in America. Danny optimizes human performance. Danny played football at Columbia, was a strength and conditioning coach at the University of Florida (under legendary strength and conditioning coach Mickey Marotti) and Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the host of the Fat, Fueled, Family Podcas, can be found on Instagram @dannyvega.ms, and at www.couchtocarnivore.com.

Rob Sanzillo is General Counsel & SVP of Lacrosse Operations for the Premier Lacrosse League. The PLL is a professional lacrosse league made of the best players in the world and has skyrocketed on to the scene since its conception in 2019.