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After a roadside bomb in Baghdad took one of her legs in 2004, lifetime athlete Melissa Stockwell wasn’t going let her disability get in the way of her Olympic dreams. Her goal to compete on the world stage was achieved in Beijing 2008, where she defied expectations on the Paralympic Swim Team. This summer, she’s ready to take on the Paratriathlon in Rio.
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Rudy Garcia-Tolson set his first goal at age eight when he declared he’d go to the 2004 Paralympic Games for swimming. Not only did the double amputee compete, he won gold and has been inspiring people ever since. Now, Rudy wants Americans to help inspire Team USA this summer in Rio.
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Kamala Nellen is the founder of Coaching for Champions, a consulting firm for professional and elite athletes and high achievers that utilizes the comprehensive science of yoga for peak performance. Nellen pioneered the method called The Art and Science of Working IN for Champion Sports Performance and is the author of the newly released book Working IN: The Elite Athlete’s Guide to Working Out From The Inside.
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Dara Torres is one of the most decorated Olympians of all-time. As a swimmer, she is a 5-time Olympian and a 12-time medalist. She will also be leading Team Kellogg’s leading up to Rio. With less than 100 days from now, the nation will be cheering on Team USA at the Summer Games in Rio. As a veteran of five separate Olympic Games, legendary swimmer Dara Torres is captain of Team Kellogg’s, a group of first-time Olympic hopefuls vying to represent Team USA. Believe it or not, more than 55% of Team USA is made up of first-time hopefuls.
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The recent opening of the 2016 Major League Baseball season has also launched a brand new platform for baseball fans of the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and New York Mets looking for a daily news source. Sports Lunch, a sports, entertainment and media start-up which piloted its “Sox Lunch” daily email newsletter last season, has launched two new versions of a simple news communiqué aptly named, “Cubs Lunch” and “Mets Lunch.”
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Today Joey lives in Venice Beach, CA, within blocks of most of the Carve team and has founded a new business model while acting as Carve Bar’s CEO (which keeps her very busy, to say the least.) The platform and mobile application Joey has created is called DEPT OF GOOD; it encompasses all that Joey has experienced and learned during the last 15 years: disruptive business models steeped in innovation, community building and giving back will be an exciting area for the future generations to embrace. As CEO of Carve Bar, Joey brings exceptional leadership, passion and vision which are important when you are leading the charge of a company called Carve. Joey states with all smiles, “I love the bar so much I became CEO and invested as well.” Nothing is better than when your CEO lives and loves the brand to the fullest!