Theater Of The Courtroom

Alan Fessenden has been performing and studying improv in New York for the last 10 years. He has studied under improv luminaries, Armando Diaz, Kevin Dorf, Ian Roberts, T.J. Jagodowski & David Pasquesi, Christina Gausas, Bob Dassie, Jean Villepique, Billy Merrit, and many more. 

Chris Ruggiero has spent the past 6 years traveling the world entertaining audiences with his One Man Variety Show. His new book JUST GO encourages readers to create a life that most people only dream of. He also has a podcast that is absolutely crushing it in iTunes. He has also appeared on Ellen DeGeneres. His message is simple: Stop thinking about it. Just go!

Kirk Du Plessis is a full-time options trader, real estate investor, stay-at-home Dad and trading coach. His background and experience includes time on Wall Street as an investment banker, a senior stock analyst and a senior loan officer. He is the Founder and Head Trader at Option Alpha, an online education and training platform for options traders with students from 42 different countries around the world.

Tim Paige is the Conversion Educator at LeadPages. An experienced marketer in all forms of media, Tim spends his days speaking to the most successful marketers across multiple industries and sharing his findings with business owners who want to increase their marketing results. You may recognize Tim’s voice from the hundreds of webinars he has hosted at LeadPages, or as the intro voice of EO FIRE!

Jathan’s passion and professional focus is helping organizations develop the human potential within them. As principal of Janove Organization Solutions, he has worked with law firms and other law organizations . 

Joanna is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author. Her books blend my love of traveling and learning new things with psychology and the supernatural in a fast-paced style. She is also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013. She has a Masters degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, Mansfield College and also a Graduate Diploma in Psychology – both interests are entwined into my writing.

After graduating from law school and passing the bar exam in 1998, Dan built successful law firms in Seattle and Phoenix. While practicing law, he launched his first legal tech company, a successful online legal directory. That company was later acquired by a large internet company. Dan has tried over 100 cases to verdict, and is currently an inactive member of the bar in good standing in Arizona and Washington State. In 2011, following the acquisition of his first legal-tech company, Dan co-founded LawLytics to make it simple for lawyers to effectively participate in their firm's online marketing.

CPA On Fire is a tax and accounting firm focused on helping entrepreneurs, wantrepreneurs, sidepreneurs and all the other preneurs you can think of. We love small businesses and their owners and want to help make their tax and accounting as simple as possible. If you have a business, or are thinking of starting one, and the idea of taxes, accounting and bookkeeping have your head spinning or keep you up with cold sweats at night, you are in the right place.

Todd Henry teaches leaders and organizations how to establish practices that lead to everyday brilliance. He is the author of three books (The Accidental Creative, Die Empty, and Louder Than Words) which have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he speaks and consults across dozens of industries on creativity, leadership, and passion for work.

The Real Brian (Kane) began behind the microphone in high school.  Brian hosts 4 podcasts, and he has a business hosting podcasts for others. Profitcast, Podcasters’ Paradise, Audiobooks.com, and Arrow Squad to name a few. Brian is a musician, roasts his own coffee, enjoys biking, sci-fi, superheroes, gaming, basketball, his wife and greyhounds!    

Mike Michalowicz  is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and what BusinessWeek deemed the entrepreneur’s cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the former business makeover specialist on MSNBC. Today Mike travels the world as entrepreneurial advocate speaking to groups just like ours. He is globally recognized as the guy who “challenges out dated business beliefs” and teaches us what to do about it.  

Gwen is a media strategist and a TV producer. She’s the producer for The Naked Entrepreneur TV which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada. Gwen helps entrepreneurs get their big break with media. She’s also the creator of ‘Your Big Break’ a podcast that shares the stories of how entrepreneurs got their big break in business with help from mainstream media. She’s helped entrepreneurs get featured on Forbes, Virgin, LearnVest, DailyWorth, Levo, national TV shows, morning shows and local cable shows. Gwen has also been featured in Forbes as a Fierce Female Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, TEDx to name a few media outlets!

One-woman revolution Ja-Naé Duane stormed into the limelight at age 13 as an award-winning public speaker. Since then, the intrepid speaker, strategist, social scientist, artist, creative economist, and author of How to Start Your Business with $100 has captured the media’s attention, appearing in The Associated Press, NPR, Classical Singer Magazine, The Boston Globe, and Business Week.

Alan M. Levin, JD, MA, LCSW, is a lawyer* and a therapist. Heis a licensed clinical social worker. He spent over three decades practicing law in Chicago, as an associate, partner, mentor, senior name partner, member of the executive committee, and chair of the ethics committee of a respected mid-size firm. In his law practice, he also represented law firms. Having previously received his BA from Yale University and his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, Alan concluded his law practice for the sole purpose of obtaining his master’s degree in social work, with a clinical concentration, from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, where he was trained in multiple modes of therapy and counseling. He works with men and women of all ages experiencing many kinds of distress, from mild anxiety and difficulty with relationships and life’s changes, to depression and panic attacks, as well as various forms of mental illness. 40 to 50% of his private practice are lawyers.

LORI HAMMEL is a NYC based actress and writer who has performed on Broadway and Off Broadway and has toured around the world.  Film work includes playing a morning show host in the Coen brother's feature Burn After Reading; An Invisible Sign; She's Lost Control (2014 Berlin Film Festival, SXSW) and playing the lead in Coney Island Queen (2014 Cannes Shorts Corner). TV includes 30 Rock, The Following, As The World Turns, The Colbert Report and the Today Show.  Lori's improvisational skills have been put to use as recurring political pundit Leslie Hillerman on the Onion News Network series, In The Know and as her alter ego NY2 Broadway reporter character, Margo Rose Ferderer.

Brenda Adelman received a best actor award from Zaki Gordan Institute for “Daddy’s Girl,” a short film based on her one-woman show, My Brooklyn Hamlet – a critically acclaimed show that moves people to change their lives.

Andrew has over 27 years of experience as a professional actor and was personally trained by renowned litigation strategist and witness preparation expert Katherine James, a previously guest. He is an adjunct professor of law at Belmont University College of Law where he helped found and currently leads the nationally-ranked Interscholastic Trial Advocacy Competition Program, which has been turning a lot of heads lately due to their extraordinary accomplishments in mock trial competitions.