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MELINDA HARDIN is an author, a prolific journaler and keeper of a stack of notebooks, the sporadic creator of social media posts, and the infrequent contributor to her town's local magazine. She's a professional encourager, with trained experience in wellness and resilience, and is gifted at reimagining a better way. She loves soulful music, everyday rituals, being in nature, and redemption stories. She and her husband Ben live in their hometown of Shelbyville, Kentucky, with their two girls, Celia and Annie.  

JC is a writer, originally from the US and now living in Bangkok, Thailand. We chat about his new release The Divided Stories of America: The Green Forest.

Adelia Acker is the Co-Host of We’re Our Only Fans (WOOF), the worlds first podcast about Only Fans. WOOF aims to empower women by breaking the stigma behind Only Fans and sex work by providing an inside look at the industry.

Adelia and her co-host break down everything from Only Fans strategies to how they cope with the stigmas surrounding it.

Adelia’s reach is over 600k, and she would be happy to let her network know to listen in!

When Monique was 19 she ended up clinically dead from a cardiac arrest. She was dead for 25 seconds and experienced an out-of-body-experience drifting into another dimension, something like one usually only sees in movies. 

When she woke up, on the edge of her life yet with enough perseverance left to fight her way back, a question popped up into her mind immediately after she entered the other dimension, but Monique remembers it almost screaming at me when I woke up…  

The question was: “Did I live up to my ultimate potential? Or did I even try?!”  Monique's harsh answer was: Not at all. It hit her like a ton of bricks. This was an extra hard pill to swallow.  Regret is one of the most destructive feelings. It can ruin us. Especially if there is no chance to change our choices because time has run-up. That’s why Monique is here to help business owners and corporations to Transform Time into Freedom, Lead from Within & Create Social Impact.

In Monique's first life, she says she thought she didn’t have the chance to live life on her own terms AND be successful – But, she says, she was wrong. She was fighting hard to have a second chance and set up life with an extremely powerful mission, with loads of things she does that are important so she can invest her time wisely.  

Time is not waiting for you!  

So each day Monique is asking herself: “If you were about to die again tonight, for good, is this how you REALLY want to be spending your day?”   So far she says 85% of the time the answer is a big, fat YES.  – Make sure it’s a BIG YES for you, too.  

THE SPACE PEN CLUB is a timely & true first-hand account about close encounters and public UFO/UAP disclosure.  At last, the world is hopefully witnessing the Big Thaw about the UFO/UAP subject in mainstream media, the military and in government. 

Daniel Jonathan Henk is an American artist and writer, noted for his work in tattooing and painting. He has produced record-album covers, political cartoons, controversial articles, and a variety of other media.

For more on Stephan and his work check out:  

By his own description Suman is just a regular bloke, living in Chiang Mai, Thailand who has done stage, radio, tv, and film.  

Google him to find out more: Suman C. Tharan  

Epi Ludvik Nekaj is the Founder of BOLD Awards and Crowdsourcing Week. In 2008, he created Ludvik + Partners – one of New York’s hottest boutique virtual ad agencies built on a 100% crowdsourcing model. Epi Ludvik is one of the pioneers in the crowdsourcing ad space, an industry expert and thought leader in entertainment advertising – including public relations, event production, experiential marketing, consumer advertising and digital marketing. 

"On this episode I speak with one of the leading voices in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry, Topp Jirayut." - Matthew Rickard

Topp has dedicated the majority of his career in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry. He co-founded coins.co.th, Thailand's largest bitcoin exchange. Before Blockchain emerged, Topp worked as an investment banker, financial consultant, and central banker. He is a speaker and one of Thailand's leading bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He holds an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University, UK. Now he is the founder and group CEO at Bitkub Capital Group Holdings Co., Ltd. (BCGH), the largest blockchain and cryptocurrency company in Thailand. He is also the Executive Board Member and Vice President at the Thai Fintech Association.  

We talk about where Topp sees the crypto sector heading over the next decade, the excitement over NFTs & the varying use cases, and how the social sector will benefit from blockchain and crypto. 

Self-employed since 2001, Jonathan is a British award-winning film director and director of photography based in France and Hong Kong.

Brought up in Yorkshire and educated in the UK, professional life followed art college in London.

Since moving to Asia 27 years ago the world opened up. Hanging out of helicopters in Sumatra,  filming with nomads in Tibet, rescuing elephants from Pakistan and wandering through the Taklimakan desert in search of Marco Polo’s legacy are just some of the adventures that have presented themselves in the course of the ordinary day job.  So, it’s no surprise that filming in wild places in difficult situations are considered his specialty for the likes of National Geographic.

As we all know, technology has revolutionized the film industry and Jonathan realized he needed to evolve to stay competitive.  So becoming a skilled editor and cinematographer was a natural evolution and has, as importantly, increased his enjoyment of the craft of filmmaking.

From Head Chorister at All Souls, Langham Place, London and a musical education firmly rooted in the classics, Tony took a job as a tea boy in a small London music publishing company and thereby began a career which established him as one of the UK’s leading arrangers, conductors and record producers and a world-famous composer of popular songs and music for television.  

Duncan Bridgeman is a double Grammy nominated filmmaker and musician. born in London to Leslie and Zena Bridgeman.  

Bridgeman has composed and produced music for 20 years, working on a diverse musical journey. His first break into filmmaking came from Island Records/Palm Pictures owner Chris Blackwell, making the Grammy nominated cult hit 1 Giant Leap. 

In 2004, Simon Fuller of 19 Entertainment funded second 1 Giant Leap, film titled "What about me?". Bridgeman quickly followed with the award winning film Hecho en Mexico, funded by Mexican media mogul Bernardo Gomez. Most recently Bridgeman directed and produced the East Meets West, a documentary film for The Smithsonian Institution about the Kumbh Mela, largest Hindu festival on the planet, with actor Dominic West (The Wire) as presenter.  

Don Linder, a native New Yorker, is an award-winning scriptwriter, fiction and travel writer, and academic who has lived and worked on five continents. He did his BA and MA degrees at Columbia University where he studied film theory with the critic Andrew Sarris. 

Don's first feature-length film, "The Last Executioner," has its world premiere when it was invited to compete at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2014, where it received Best Actor honors. On 2 June 2015 "The Last Executioner" received the Best Film and Best Screenplay Awards at Thailand's prestigious Tukkata Tong Awards -- the equivalent of the Golden Globes -- which have been given since 1958 when the King of Thailand attended the ceremonies, and they are still considered royal awards. Don was the first non-Thai to win a Tukkata Tong Award for Scriptwriting, and only the second non-Thai to win in any category in 58 years. 

Don has also written for a Japanese-American television series, a Discover Channel documentary on Angkor Wat, a pilot for an American sitcom, educational programming and more. Don's creative and academic work span a broad spectrum. He has directed academic departments in the U.S., the Canary Islands, China, and Thailand; headed writing programs at Poets & Writers, Inc., the State University of New York, and the North Carolina Arts Council; produced and hosted jazz and blues radio programs in NYC; lectured on Western culture on Radio Beijing; mounted several one-person photography shows; acted in several films, and more, including a stint as a New York City taxi driver in the 1970s. He has taught and evaluated script writing worldwide in such diverse locations as Egypt, Mongolia, Brazil, Thailand, and the U.S. He lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife Wannida Jiratha.

For more information on Don click on his IMDB channel:

Who is J.D. STRANGE?  

J.D. STRANGE is an English novelist, journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker, pod-caster, and story-teller based in Bangkok, Thailand. Strange has written and produced for the page, stage, online, and onscreen. Creating entertaining media for as long as he can remember, midwifing various projects from cradle to production, J.D. Strange is one of Bangkok's most active creatives.   

Joel Beckett is a well known actor from the small screen, best known for playing the role of Lee, Dawn's fiancée, in the multi-award winning comedy classic The Office and is also well known for the role of Jake Moon in EastEnders.

Joel has been working as a voiceover artist since 2006, and has worked on countless projects for TV and radio, commercials, documentaries, films, corporate narration and TV promos.

Chatting movies with James Newman and Richie Moore. For more on their work click the links below:

Benny Moafi spent nine years, eight months, and two weeks in various Thai prisons for a crime he says he didn’t commit. He has an overwhelmingly large stock of evidence to prove his innocence and wrongful incarceration, all supported by lawyers, international human rights groups, and a faction of the Thai DSI (Department of Special Investigations).

He's been free 9 years. I speak to him about his experience.

Chatting on the pod with photographer William Hartley.