Carolyn Dismuke was living a great life but felt something was missing... Her view changed when she discovered vineyards in her backyard that weren't really on the map in the wine world. She decided to study in a world-renowned wine studies program learning about the classic wine regions, the grape growing process, and more. With her passion on fire she moved out of her home base with the goal of living in different California wine regions every month to soak it all in. 

We discuss the fear she overcame and the stigma of leaving a life that tradiitonally is seen as safe and "successful". What it means to follow your passion and other life lessons.

You can find her on social media @DrinkYourWords or on her website. 

Check out her book Drink Your Words  at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Walmart. 

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Dennis Torres grew up in a working class town in New Jersey, where his curiosity and diverse environment molded him into a man driven by adventure.

He has worked 64 different jobs and careers including running the merry-go-round at the Santa Monica Pier, bartending, industrial engineer, a dairy farmer, a big rig truck driver, exploring the Amazon, a commercial pilot, mediator and arbitrator of litigated cases and a graduate school professor at Pepperdine teaching courses to MBA students.

He is the grandson of a famous writer who mentored and encouraged him to write. He has authored four books including:
The Amazong of Ray Goldberg Rivera (A Life Well-Lived Book 1)
There Are No Good Giants (A Life Well-Lived Book 2)
Not Far From the Ocean (A Life Well-Lived Book 3)
The Course: Acquiring Wealth, Powers, Success Morally and Ethically (A Life Well-Lived Book 4)

Dennis shares with us his stories and what he's learned from "a life well-lived". 

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This episode is a follow up to #13 Joyce McAndrews - An Artist's Life. On this one, she shares the final pieces to the story of her completion of a three year long project named Project Co-Mingle. 

This project covers the entire process of building the world's first skyscraper built by a new process called "Speed Core". The tower was erected in downtown Seattle and Joyce's recount of the project is inspiring to put it lightly. It was a project that never should have been but Joyce was able to follow her intuition, overcome her fears and lead with love making this concept manifest to reality. 

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I was introduced to Alicia through my friend TK from episode #8 who told me one important fact about Alicia, she is RESILIENT.

Alicia struck me as extremely positive and kind right away and as we dug into her story about chasing her dreams and working her way into owning her own business I quickly realized how hard working and resilient she really is.

You can find out more about Alicia and her business at:
Her website Alicia Bell Design
Instagram @AliciaBellDesign

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I think we've all day dreamed of leaving our work lives behind to pick up a nomadic lifestyle. Traveling from place to place, living off of the basics, meeting new people and freeing ourselves from the stress of work. Dreaming is one thing but having the courage to actually follow through with a plan is another... can you see where this is going? 

Alison and her fiancé Tyler left their jobs and traveled to 25 countries in less than two years! Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Greece, Egypt, Cairo, Kenya, Madagascar, Botswana, South Africa and the  list goes on.

On this episode we talk about her travels, where the inspiration came from, what the plan was and all of the things she learned along the way about the world, life and herself.

You can follow Alison and her adventures in a few locations on Instagram:
@AlisonRosem - Alison's personal account
@AlisonandTylertravel - Alison and her fiancé Tyler's travel page
@SeattleTastyVibes - Alison's latest page where she posts about Seattle's food scene 

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Kooper has sea water running through his veins... okay, corny start to this bio but I'M NOT AN AUTHOR GET OFF ME... In all seriousness, Koop has been boating with his family since he was in diapers. After college, he knew he wanted to pursue a career in the boating world and his dream was to work on a National Geographic Boat as a Naturalist but had no idea how he'd do it. Then one day, while docking with his family on a boating trip, a Nat Geo boat was docked close by. With nothing to lose, Koop walked over and chatted with the crew and eventually found his way working as a deck hand traveling the world with Nat Geo. 

His story doesn't stop there. He's been on a unique journey sailing the world and I believe you'll enjoy hearing about it. 

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Christine Torres is an amazing woman. She's my wife, but that's not what makes her special (it's just a big part of it). Christine is my rock, she's resilient, she's funny, she's gorgeous, she's the full package and she is the greatest mom the world has ever seen.

This episode she shares our infertility journey and the challenges and eventual triumph of going through the process of IVF.

You can find her on Instagram @christinectorres

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Roman "Romi" Kristl is a passionate action sport junkie who comes from a line of athletes. His father was an olympic kayaker for his home country Slovakia and Romi's mother was a national collegiate swimmer and water polo player and his uncle Marek Kristl a national squash player in Slovakia who went undefeated for 6 years.   

At age 14 Romi started as a slope style rider for the slope style circuit. From there he progressed to the Mountain Dew Tour riding for the Grand Prix tournaments and eventually moved into the Free Riding world of snowboarding and was sponsored by North Face and Jones Snowboards riding internationally in North and South America and throughout Europe.

Riding professionally didn't come without a cost. By age 18 Romi suffered 15 surgeries and had to make a decision to continue chasing his dream or make a drastic change in his life.

You can learn more about Roman from the links below:
Instagram: @Romi_Kristl
His Slovakia Snowboarding movie: The Untracked Mind
Mammoth Riding Video
9-10 Season Video
Inertia Article
World Snowboard Tour

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