Peter Read Miller has been photographer for more than 40 years. He worked as a staff and contract photographer for Sports Illustrated for more than 35 years, with his images appearing on over 100 Sports Illustrated covers. In addition to covering 9 Olympic Games and 41 Super Bowls, Peter has shot 14 NBA Finals. He has covered the Stanley Cup Finals, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby, the NCAA Basketball Final Four, and the Men’s and Women’s World Cup Soccer Finals. Peter has published a book ...
Jan 07, 2022•2 hr 30 min•Season 3Ep. 1
I’m strong believer of being involved in local government. Sure State and National government get all the heads lines but only local with a few people can make changes that effect your life immediately. My guest is a La Habra city councilman James Gomez, with over 20 years of local government under his belt I knew he would be a Fantastic resource…The power of local government.
Dec 31, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Paul Rodriguez spent 33 years making Orange County his visual playground. He’s was never one to back down from pushing the envelope to when it came to making a power image. We talk about his journey to the OC Register, keeping letters and his love of all things USC. You can see his work at www.paulrodriguez.biz
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 28 min
In part 2 we take a deep dive into how a kid from Southern California became a farmer in Washington. Carlos Delgado was raised in Southern California and graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2007 with a emphasis in photojournalism. A professional photographer with a client list that includes The Associated Press, The New York Daily News, The Orange County Register, Molina Healthcare, Alorica Inc., and many more. Two years ago Carlos and his wife packed up the kids and moved up north to Washouga...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 52 min
Carlos Delgado was raised in Southern California and graduated from Cal State Fullerton in 2007 with a emphasis in photojournalism. A professional photographer with a client list that includes The Associated Press, The New York Daily News, The Orange County Register, Molina Healthcare, Alorica Inc., and many more. Two years ago Carlos and his wife packed up the kids and moved up north to Washougal, WA. Carlos now finds himself a farmer living on a 3 acre small farm raising food and animals. The ...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 42 min
A Denver based photographer, Garrett Ellwood originally started in Los Angeles as an assistant to the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings and Los Angeles Clippers in the 90's. In 1998, he moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and became the Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Panthers team photographer. In 2002, he had the opportunity to return home and assume the team photographer position for the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Rapids. Since 1995 Garrett has photographed 22 NBA Finals, 23 NBA All-St...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Why More Couples Are Divorcing at Older Ages (and After More Years of Marriage) Than Before — and What You Can Do to Avoid It. Dennis and Claudia Hajjar celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary, so who better to talk to and get some advice from. Past research published in The Journals of Gerontology found that more than 1 in 4 people getting divorced in the United States are over age 50, and over half of those divorces happen after 20 years of marriage. Pew Research data from 2017 found that th...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Los Angeles based photographer Jeff Cohen was brought up going to track meets. Internationally recognized for his unique view, he continues to travel the world capturing the essence of the sport. His interest has taken him to Olympic Games and World Championship meets for athletics since 1983. Checkout Jeff's work at jeffcohenphoto.com and on Instagram at jeffcohenphoto
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Education is a hot topic, so I bring Dr. Sarah Lepe back to talk about it. With over a decade of educational leadership experience being a classroom teacher and a school site administrator, she helped build strong school culture and community at her school sites. From unions, students and teachers are all on the table.
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 2
Jason Flowers played basketball at both UCI and UCLA. Started his coaching career at Santa Ana Valley high school before diving into college. Stints at Long Beach State and UC Riverside as an assistants before getting his first heading coach job at Cal State Northridge. Winning 150 games over ten year picking up two Big West Conference Coach of the Year as well as winning three Big West Conference tournament titles. We talk about finding basketball, learning leadership and having a wife thats an...
Nov 12, 2021•2 hr 29 min
Paul Kennedy started his photography career as a stringer for the Associated Press. In the early '80's Paul become a was a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated. In 1984 I worked as an official photographer for the 1984 Olympics games. For the last 25 years Paul has shot corporate annual reports and done a considerable amount of work for colleges and universities.
Nov 05, 2021•2 hr 46 min
Mike Goulding is an award-winning photojournalist with over four decades under his belt. He covered the World Series, NBA Finals, three Olympic Games, Super Bowls, Academy Awards ceremonies and other major events. We talk about finding the camera, his path through college and the many photo jobs that shaped his career. Mike is teaching photo journalism at Long Beach State to help guide the next generation of creatives.
Oct 29, 2021•2 hr 40 min
Michael Der is a full-time photographer with nearly 10 years of experience in the freelancing world, we sit down talk marketing, business, and the lessons we learned in their careers with the hope of helping younger creatives. Michael has a podcast, ARTrepreneurs a weekly podcast that can be heard every Friday.
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 47 min
Joshua Lavallee is the Pittsburgh Pirates Manager of Photography. Not bad for a young man at the ripe old age of 31. From D1 soccer player to shooting weddings Josh has made his way to one of the oldest teams in baseball. We talk about learning a camera, saying no to Hollywood and moving across the country to be a pirate.
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 21 min
Brace Hemmelgarn is currently the Coordinator, Publications and Photography for the Minnesota Twins. Hemmelgarn is responsible for photography needs throughout the organization as well as overseeing the content produced in the club’s yearbook and magazine. After graduating from St. Cloud Cathedral High School, Hemmelgarn attended Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN, where he played baseball and graduated in 2012 with a degree in Communication.
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Kelly Gavin has been making photos for 16 years, 9 of those with the Texas Rangers. Kelly has shot Super Bowls, a Pro Bowl, MLB Postseasons, an All Star Game, no hitters, the NBA Finals, and some incredible events and concerts along the way. Recently, She achieved a lifetime goal having her photo grace the cover of Sports Illustrated. We talk about finding photography, her love of baseball and climbing to the top of the Rangers new stadium.
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Mark Langill is the Team Historian at LA Dodgers. It doesn't get any better then that! He fell in love with the team the moment he walked into the stadium as a young boy and for over 25 years he's been working for the team he loves. We talk about he's love for baseball and all things Dodgers.
Sep 16, 2021•2 hr 52 min
Robert Lachman has been around photography since his childhood. He attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he earned a bachelor's degree of fine arts in photography. Robert started at the LA Times as a intern in 1974 and had been a staff photographer and photo editor for 42 years. He covered the Olympics, World Series, Super Bowls, Stanley Cup presidential elections and other major events in Southern California.
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Austin Perryman is a staff photographer at Mississippi State Athletics. He oversees and maintains Mississippi State's photography systems while covering MSU's events for all 14 intercollegiate teams. We talked about covering the 2021 College World Series during covid as well as working through a very difficult personal moment while covering the final game.
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 34 min
Rodney Allen Rippy is a former American child actor, television personality, marketing director, producer, and politician. He appeared in TV commercials for the fast-food chain Jack in the Box in the early 1970s, as well as in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Caron, The Odd Couple, The Six Million Dollar Man and Blazing Saddles. Rodney was also a candidate for Mayor of Compton in 2013. We talk about that and more on the podcast.
Aug 13, 2021•2 hr 2 min
Mike Franze is the owner of the Fullerton and Buena Park bicycle shops as well as the Fullerton electric bikes. We talk about his love for BMX, September 11th and buying a small business. www.fullertonbicycle.com www.facebook.com/FullertonBicycleCo/ www.instagram.com/fbbicycles/ www.youtube.com/channel/UCIrs_VDHzLRFNiymL7bdIeg/featured
Aug 06, 2021•2 hr 20 min
Ron Henry is huge lawn care geek and uses his youtube channel to share what he's learned along the way with the world. He documents all the steps over several seasons. www.youtube.com/c/RonHenry/videos
Jul 16, 2021•47 min
Robert's work then earned him a position as Staff Photographer at Getty Images where he photographed high profile events in the news and entertainment industry. His success enabled him to open his own business in 2003 where he has since served clients such as MGM Resorts, Golden Nugget, Adidas, and The Honda Center. Robert Chief Team Photographer for the LA Galaxy, Major League Soccer's most successful club.
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Robert Mora began his photography career in high school at the age of fifteen. After attending Art Center College of Design, he became an assistant photographer at Bernstein & Associates in Los Angeles. His experience grew immensely at the age of twenty one while being one of the team photographers for the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings.
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 36 min
Jon Wilhite is the sole survivor in the fatal drunk driving crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart Henry Pearson and Courtney Stewart in April of 2009. Suffering an internal decapitation might have been the easy part to what happened to Jon and dealing with the aftermath has become his real challenge.
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Rebranded Athlete was founded by Dr. Sarah Lepe who is a former Division I Cal State University, Fullerton Volleyball Alumni. Athletics played a tremendous role throughout Sarah’s life and especially in pursuing her career goals. After the final whistle of her last game, little did she know what a challenge it would be to transition out of athletics and pursue her career.
Jun 11, 2021•2 hr 46 min
Jenny Topping is one of the best softball players period! Pac 10 newcomer of the year, 3 time Big West player of the year. Gold medalist at Pan American Games 2003, Gold medalist at the Athens Olympics 2004, International Sports Invitational Champion 2005, Softball world Champion 2006 and 2012 Olympic Hall of Fame as well as Cal State Fullerton Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015. She started a softball training center goldmedaltraining31.com to help young girls better understand the softball. We tal...
Jun 04, 2021•2 hr 7 min
Todd Bigelow is an adjunct professor of photography & photojournalism, founder of The Business of Photography Workshop, and author of " The Freelance Photographer's Guide To Success: Business Essentials . You can find Todd on Youtube as well talking about business practices for a freelancers. We talk about this and more on the podcast. We talk about what makes a good contract and a bad one. The power of the internet and how it changed the way photography was seen and more....
May 28, 2021•2 hr 2 min
Todd Bigelow is an adjunct professor of photography & photojournalism, founder of The Business of Photography Workshop, and author of " The Freelance Photographer's Guide To Success: Business Essentials . You can find Todd on Youtube as well talking about business practices for a freelancers. We talk about this and more on the podcast.
May 21, 2021•1 hr 55 min
The lost art of building and maintaining work relationships is the topic Robert Huskey and I discus. From mentoring, working together to now a working partnership. Take a listen to how he did it and the pay off in the end. Check out his work at huskeyweddings.com or roberthuskey.com
May 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min
