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SHALOM KLEIN - DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, THE S4 GROUP & HOST OF "GET DOWN TO BUSINESS" Jul 15, 2016

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Shalom Klein serves as Director of Communications for The S4 Group, a full-service government affairs firm. As Vice President, Shalom has grown, managed and developed Moshe Klein, & Associates and MKA Receivables. Shalom oversees a staff of more than 10 associates and the operations of three offices, as well as handling client relationships and consulting opportunities. He also oversees a college and career program at Fasman Yeshiva High School, Hanna Sachs Bais Yaakov and Lubavitch Girls High School.

As Founder of Jewish B2B Networking and Jewish Business News, Shalom Klein saw a need in the small business and Jewish communities and created the vision for what is now the premiere business and employment networking organization across the Midwest. Shalom plans and runs events, oversees volunteers, meets with members / participants, and consults with other organizations in how to plan similar resources. He was also engaged in December 2013 to become the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of West Rogers Park, leading marketing and economic development efforts in the Chicago community, which includes Devon Avenue.

Shalom received Keshet's 2013 Community Service Award, the ATT's Young Leadership Award, multiple proclamations from the Illinois General Assembly, Senate, City of Chicago and the Illinois Villages of Lincolnwood, Evanston, and Skokie. He earned his Certificate in Jewish Leadership from Northwestern University and Master of Arts degree in Jewish Professional Studies with a concentration in non-profit management along with a Certificate in Jewish Arts Education from Spertus Institute. Shalom is a bone marrow donor and received honorary initiation from the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and has been named "Jewish Community Hero" by Jewish Federations of North America and listed as one of the "36 under 36″ by the Jewish United Fund. Shalom's work has been discussed twice on the floor of the United States Congress.

Shalom is one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show.

In the podcast, Host Steven Shalowitz explores with his guests where they'd go if given a one way ticket, no coming back! Destinations may be in the past, present, future, real, imaginary or a state of mind.

Several of Steven's guests have included: Legendary Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett; CNN's Richard Quest & Bill Weir; Journalist-Humorist-Actor Mo Rocca (of CBS Sunday Morning & The Cooking Channel's "My Grandmother's Ravioli" fame); Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.; as well as leading photographers, artists, writers and more.

Peter Shankman - Entrepreneur & Author Jun 22, 2016

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The New York Times has called him "a public relations all-star who knows everything about new media and then some", while Investor's Business Daily has labeled him "crazy, but effective".

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. A bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker, and worldwide connector, Peter is recognized worldwide for radically new ways of thinking about Customer Service, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, PR, marketing and advertising.

Peter is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out, (HARO) which in under a year became the de-facto standard for thousands of journalists looking for sources on deadline, offering them more than 200,000 sources around the world looking to be quoted in the media. HARO is currently the largest free source repository in the world, sending out over 1,500 queries from worldwide media each week. HARO's tagline, "Everyone is an Expert at Something", proves over and over again to be true, as thousands of new members join at helpareporter.com each week. In June of 2010, less than two years after Peter started HARO in his apartment, it was acquired by Cision, Inc.

Peter is the founder of ShankMinds: Breakthrough, a private online entrepreneurial community, with members in more-than ten countries. Peter also hosts the award-winning podcast on ADD and ADHD, Faster Than Normal, which is helping to turn the conversation around ADHD from curse to gift, by interviewing successful people who have made ADHD their secret superpower. Peter's Customer Service and Social Media clients have included American Express, Sprint, The US Department of Defense, Royal Bank of Canada, Snapple Beverage Group, Saudi Aramco, Foley Hoag, LLP, NASA, Haworth, Walt Disney World, Abercrombie and Kent, The Ad Council, Discovery Networks, New Frontier Media, Napster, Juno, Dream Catcher Destinations Club, Harrah's Hotels, and many, many others.

Peter is the author of four books: Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2015); Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management is Over, and Collaboration Is In (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013,); Customer Service: New Rules for a Social Media World (Que Biz-Tech 2010,); and Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work--And Why Your Company Needs Them (Wiley and Sons, 2006,).

He's a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at conferences and tradeshows worldwide, including: South by Southwest, Affiliate Summit, BlogWorld, TBEX, The Public Relations Society of America, CTIA, CTAM, CES, PMA, OMMA, Mobile Marketing Asia, and the Direct Marketing Association.

Peter is an angel investor in early stage startup companies, sits on multiple advisory boards, and is honored to sit on the NASA Civilian Advisory Council, appointed to his position by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.

A marketing pundit for several national and international news channels, including Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, Peter is frequently quoted in major media and trade publications, including: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, The Associated Press, Reuters and USA Today.

A proud Boston University graduate, Peter started his career at America Online as a Senior News Editor, helping found the AOL Newsroom and spearheading coverage of the Democratic and Republican 1996 conventions, which marked the first time an online news service covered any major political event.

Born and raised in New York City, Peter still resides there with his beautiful wife and daughter, and two cats. In the few hours of spare time Peter has per month he's completed 13 marathons, seven Olympic distance triathlons, two half-Ironman triathlons, and one full Ironman Triathlon. He's also a "B" licensed skydiver with over 400 jumps. In 2011, Peter authored a tweet that was voted as one of the Top Ten Tweets of the year by Twitter, out of more than 160,000,000,000 tweets sent.

Peter is one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show.

Dr. Efraim Chalamish – International Economic Law Professor Jun 07, 2016

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Dr. Efraim Chalamish is a powerful public speaker whose intellect and passion have seen him travel across the globe to lecture, provide high-level government counsel, educate and inspire.

Efraim has worked in international legal practices in New York, Paris, and Israel. His work has included international arbitration disputes, energy and cross-border transactions for multinational clients. He has been teaching International Investment Law and Energy Deals at New York University and serves as a visiting professor at IESE Business School.

He was selected to be a Global Fellow at New York University, where he explored global governance of corporations and multilateral institutions, the intersection of business and national security, energy and sovereign wealth funds' economics and policy, international investment arbitration, and global governance and financial regulation.

His articles have been published in leading journals and magazines in the US and Europe. An exclusive contributor to Economonitor of Roubini Global Economics and regular analyst for The Huffington Post, Project Syndicate, The Gulf Times, The Jerusalem Post, The marker, Haaretz and Jewish Week.

Efraim was the founder and president of the Global Center for Economic Development and Security and is distinguished by his passion for law, Israel and empowering others to better understand complex realities and make informed choices.

He has worked intimately with the sovereign funds and asset management industry and provided advice on funds' governance, investment management and risk allocation.

Efraim has been consistently involved in public service and diplomacy. He is highly committed to helping various non-profit organizations with their strategic thinking and leadership needs and is a frequent guest speaker at many international institutions, communities and universities. He has the ability to transmit complicated concepts in a straightforward and accessible manner.

He was named by the French Government as a Future Global Leader for 2011. He has served as a board member and a Permanent Representative to the United Nations of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and was the founding Co-Chairman of the American Jewish Committee's ACCESS. Dr. Chalamish is a recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, such as "36 under 36" of the Jewish world and Goldman International Fellowship.

Efraim is a sought after and dynamic public speaker and his presentations have consistently engaged and inspired around the world.

Dr. Chalamish is one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show.

Russel Wong - Photographer May 24, 2016

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A "celebrity photographer who also photographs celebrities", Russel Wong is one of the most profiled photographers in Singapore and Asia. He enjoys the acclaim of being the first Singaporean to break into the notoriously difficult Hollywood movie industry, and is also among the elite photographers commissioned to photograph covers for Time magazine.

From his beginnings in sports photography covering world record miler Sebastian Coe, Russel went on to carry out coveted photographic work for Nike, capturing luminaries including Carl Lewis, Mary Decker and John McEnroe. A Fine Arts degree in Photography from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles followed, and it was then that Russel began to establish a name for himself in international fashion photography, working for the world-renown Elite Modeling Agency.

His celebrity fashion spreads for the Los Angeles Times opened the door to working with top celebrities like Joan Chen, Isabella Rossellini, Oliver Stone, Paloma Picasso, Michael Jackson, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Glenn Close, David Lynch, Bruce Willis, and Jackie Chan. In developing a signature style amidst this highly competitive culture of fashion photography, Russel strove to distinguish his work by re-defining and re-styling the images of these glamorous figures with greater depth, texture and imagination. Supermodels, designers and musicians soon populated his portfolio – Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Amber Valetta, Kenzo, Anna Sui, Yo Yo Ma, and Luciano Pavarotti.

The establishment of his photographic studio in Singapore in 1989 brought in accounts with Raffles Hotel, Singapore Airlines, Cartier, American Express, Nike, British Airways, Sony, Visa, Compaq, Four Seasons Hotel, Nokia, The Ritz Carlton Hotel, the Development Bank of Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Telecoms and Apple. Meanwhile, the success of his commercial work also began to draw the attention of leading publications, which all sought Russel's work to grace their covers. These include the debut cover of Vogue Singapore, and international covers for Time, Fortune, Elle, GQ, Marie Claire, New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

The allure and acclaim of Russel's work draws from his ability to infuse his commercial accounts with creative elements, combined with a sensitive, thoughtful take on his subjects. This is clearly in the vein of the photographers he admires and appreciates – Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts. Such balance and versatility may be seen in Russel's work photographing stories and fashion spreads for movie sets, such as Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth, and publicity shoots for Lee Ang's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero and House of Flying Daggers, as well as portraits of Asian movie starts like Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fatt, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi.

Russel's latest work in filmmaking has also been an impactful one, having recently attended the prestigious New York University Film Program, and with plans underway for directing his first feature film. To date, he has directed numerous award-winning commercials, from a Breast Cancer spot that earned him a CLIO award – the advertising industry's Oscar equivalent – to commercials for Discovery Channel featuring Joan Chen, Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung. Also referred to as "The Richard Avedon of Asia" by many, he was recently commissioned to photograph a set of portraits for the Prime Minister of Singapore.

Today, Russel's photography continues to make its mark both regionally and internationally. In its millennium issue, a top regional magazine voted Russel as one of the Asians to look out for in the next millennium. He is the first Singaporean photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum (Russel Wong: 1980 – 2005), and also the first and only photographer to be invited for the art residency at the renowned Singapore Tyler Print Institute. In addition, his art works can be found in public and private collections, with his "Bamboo Forest" print going for a record US$40,000 at a recent Christies auction in Hong Kong.

Russel is one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show.

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia - Jeweler May 10, 2016

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Prince Dimitrije "Dimitri" Karađorđević was born on 18 June 1958 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Also known as Dimitri Karageorgevich, or Dimitri Karađorđević, he is the Founder, President and Creative Director of the jewelry firm bearing his name, "Prince Dimitri Company".

Prince Dimitri was raised in Versailles, and attended boarding schools in France and Switzerland, before graduating from the University of Paris with a degree in Business Law. He then moved to New York City in 1983.

Originally pursuing a career on Wall Street, he decided to move into the field of jewelry. He was offered a position in Sotheby's jewelry department, eventually rising to Senior Vice President. During his 15 years at Sotheby's, he also became an appraiser and studied gemology.

In 1999, Prince Dimitri began designing jewelry, with a collection of gemstone cufflinks that was sold at Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue. He also designed a line of women's jewelry for Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus. In 2002, he moved to the Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg auction house to head their jewelry department. In 2007, he and business partner Todd Morley founded the Prince Dimitri Company. His jewelry has also been sold at auction by Christie's.

Prince Dimitri was named to the International Best Dressed List's Hall of Fame in 1994.

In 1958, with his brother, Prince Michael of Yugoslavia, they became the first set of twins born to Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia and his first wife, Princess Maria Pia of Savoy, the eldest daughter of Umberto II of Italy. Alexander and Maria Pia had a second set of twins, Prince Sergius and Princess Helene of Yugoslavia in 1963. Prince Dimitri has a younger half-brother, Prince Dushan of Yugoslavia, from his father's second marriage to Princess Barbara of Liechtenstein.

Prince Dimitri belongs to the cadet branch of the Royal House of Yugoslavia, descending from Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia. He is a third cousin of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia.

His maternal grandmother was Princess Marie José of Belgium, whose father was Albert I, King of the Belgians. His paternal grandmother was Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (sister of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent). His paternal great-grandfather was Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, an avid oil painter and son of George I (1845–1913), King of the Hellenes. His paternal great-great grandfather was the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia, patron of the avant-garde, who spurred the creation of the Ballets Russes. From here, Prince Dimitri's lineage of creativity can be followed, as can his curiosity and love for fine gems and jewelry. It was his paternal grandmother who related first-hand the magnificence of the jewelry collection of her mother and grandmothers. His great-grandmother Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia had inherited all of the diamonds belonging to her mother, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, a collection renowned the world over for its lavish, exquisite breadth.

Prince Dimitri is also a first cousin of Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice, the son and heir of the pretender to the throne of Italy, and also first cousin of the actress Catherine Oxenberg. Through Prince Dimitri's parents he is related to every royal family in Europe, making him over 1000th in the line of succession to the British throne.

Prince Dimitri is one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show.

Michael Grandinetti - Magician & Illusionist Apr 26, 2016

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Michael Grandinetti is not your ordinary magician. With performances on national and international television, in stadiums, arenas, casinos, and theaters around the U.S., with Oscar winning composers and symphony orchestras, for NFL halftime shows and major sporting events while surrounded by 70,000 people, for Fortune 500 companies, and even at The White House, Michael has made a name for himself around the world as an extremely talented and innovative illusionist and entertainer.

He has starred in NBC's "The World's Most Dangerous Magic" television special, The CW's "Masters of Illusion" series, and Pop Network's "Don't Blink" series, and has been featured in FOX's "Bones" series, the "Hollywood Christmas Parade" on The CW, "Entertainment Tonight", "Access Hollywood", "SportsCenter", "NBA on TNT", "New York Today", "FOX & Friends", and "The Bold and the Beautiful". Michael was recently featured on the cover of TV Times magazine, released in newspapers across the U.S. Entertainment Weekly named Michael as "a great magician who can truly communicate with a TV audience".

Michael has also pioneered live magic in one of the most challenging environments imaginable, major-league football stadiums, baseball stadiums, and basketball arenas for NFL and NBA halftime shows and large-scale sporting event shows. For example, at Bank of America Stadium, Michael caused people to appear, disappear, shrink in size, and levitate above the 50-yard line, while 70,000 people witnessed the magic with a 360 degree view. At Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium, Michael performed one of the largest live interactive illusions in history when he read the minds of all 45,000 people in the stadium at the same time. At University of Phoenix Stadium, for the Arizona Cardinals, Michael's halftime show was part of large-scale entertainment at the game, which included legendary rock band Journey who performed the national anthem. Michael's performance for halftime at the Chicago Bulls NBA playoff game at United Center in Chicago caused commentators Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley to comment in amazement during the live national broadcast on TNT.

Michael was recently honored to be the first Illusionist ever invited to perform in the National Independence Day Parade in Washington DC. During this remarkable celebration of the U.S., Michael levitated a girl high above one of the floats as it moved down Constitution Avenue, while a live audience of 250,000 people lined the streets.

This is magic on a major scale.

Make sure you catch Michael when he stars in Season Three of the hit CW series "Masters of Illusion", premiering in the summer of 2016.

Michael is one of the extraordinary people featured on The One Way Ticket Show.

Steven Shalowitz - Host, The One Way Ticket Show Apr 13, 2016

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Steven Shalowitz is the Host of The One Way Ticket Show. In the podcast, he explores with his guests where they'd go if given a one way ticket, no coming back! Destinations may be in the past, present, future, real, imaginary or a state of mind.

Edmond Mulet - Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General Mar 15, 2016

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The Secretary-General appointed Mr. Edmond Mulet (Guatemala) to serve as his Chef de Cabinet effective 2 December 2015. Mr. Mulet has most recently been serving as Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, since 1 June 2011, a function that he had previously held from 2007 to 2010. In this function, he has helped oversee and manage operations on four continents, in a period when peacekeeping operations reached historic heights in levels of deployment, troops and police contributors, budgets and complexity of mandates. Mr. Mulet has served twice as Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), most recently in 2010-2011. In 2010, he deployed to Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the January earthquake and led the United Nations' contribution to the country's recovery, from the provision of humanitarian assistance to reconstruction to the holding of presidential elections. During his tenure in MINUSTAH from 2006 to 2007, the Mission worked in close partnership with the Haitian authorities and international partners to make significant improvements in the country's stability and to undertake key institutional reforms. Prior to his appointment with the United Nations, Mr. Mulet served his country as a diplomat and a legislator, having been posted as Ambassador both to the European Union and to the United States, and having served as a member of Guatemala's National Congress for some 12 years, including one term as President of the National Congress. During his years in the legislature, he was intensely involved in the Central American peace process, the Esquipulas Accords and the Guatemalan Peace negotiations. Mr. Mulet was educated in Guatemala, Canada, the US and Switzerland. In addition to his public service, he worked for many years as a journalist and as a legal counsellor to public institutions and for the private sector, including as manager of several private enterprises and as senior partner in a legal consulting firm. Born in Guatemala in 1951, Mr. Mulet is married and has two children. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French, and understands Portuguese and Haitian Creole.

Chris McGinnis - Travel Expert Feb 16, 2016

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Chris McGinnis is the Founder of the Travel Skills Group, and the purveyor of the popular travelskills.com website which offers money-saving, comfort-enhancing travel advice, with a business travel bent. During Chris' more than 25 years in the industry he's done it all -- from being the travel columnist for BBC.com to travel correspondent for CNN Headline News. His popular Frequent Travel Advisor column is a mainstay on SFgate.com, the website of his adopted-hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. Chris regularly comments about travel trends on TV, and creates occasional special business/luxury travel sections for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Bloomberg-BusinessWeek magazines. The author of two books on business travel, Chris is a regular speaker and panel moderator.

Jeffrey Shaw - Entrepreneur & Host of Creative Warriors Podcast Feb 02, 2016

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For more than 30 years, Jeffrey Shaw has been a portrait photographer whose images have appeared in numerous publications, including People and O Magazines. These days, Jeffrey's attention has turned to numerous other pursuits, including business coaching and speaking. He's a self-proclaimed freedom fighter for the Uncommon Entrepreneur -- encouraging talented individuals and transformation agents to use their natural creative strengths to build businesses that are profitable and fulfilling, so they can make a living doing what they love. Jeffrey's also the host of the popular podcast, Creative Warriors, often ranked as one of iTunes hottest business podcasts. He's a contributor to the Huffington Post, and creator of the online training program The Creative Warrior Unleashed.

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