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Tuesday January 15, 2019
Austin Aries, speaker, author and professional wrestler, shares his story of how he became a plant-based wrestler.
Michelle Kommer, North Dakota Department of Commerce, discusses why people need to shift their thinking about the traditional 4-year-college degree.
David Allen, Elite Energy Services, share his family business story and how they are preventing spills in the oil patch.
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Austin Aries, speaker, author and professional wrestler
There are more and more people adopting a Vegan or plant-based diet. McDonald’s has started selling McVegan burgers. Sales of vegan foods in America in the year to June 2018 rose ten times faster than food sales as a whole.
The plant-based pro-wrestler, author and speaker Austin Aries is one of the world’s most recognizable professional wrestlers from his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), Impact Wrestling (TNA), and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Known for his athletic ability in the ring, and charismatic personality outside the ring, Austin currently wrestles around globe for various top promotions in addition to his other various projects and speaking engagements within the plant-based community.
A decorated competitor, Austin has held multiple championship titles over his career including ROH World Champion (2), ROH World Tag Team Champion, TNA World Heavyweight Champion, TNA X-Division Champion (6), Impact World Tag-Team Champion, Impact Global Champion, and Impact Grand Champion. In early 2018 Austin was holding five championships simultaneously, including both Impact Titles, as well as World Series Wrestling Championship in Australia and Defiant and IPW:UK Championships from the UK.
Previous to his 2018 success, The Wisconsin native quickly gained recognition for his abilities in the ring as well as a color commentator with WWE, most notable on RAW, where he appeared weekly leading to him competing in front of 75,000 fans at Wrestlemania 33 on April 2nd 2017. Shortly thereafter, Austin and WWE parted ways allowing him the ability to focus on using his platform to promote his passion for living a plant-based lifestyle.
In 2011, Austin transitioned to a vegan diet after being a vegetarian for 10 years. Since his decision to adhere to a vegan diet, he has become an outspoken advocate for the plant-based community, which led him to release his first book “Food Fight” in 2017. The revealing memoir chronicles the athlete’s plant-powered rise to fame as he climbed the ranks in his wrestling career, and his evolution of food knowledge and leading a plant-based lifestyle. With “Food Fight,” Austin hopes to inspire others to reconsider their food choices and the impact it has on their health, in their lives, and the lives of others. Food Fight is available for purchase at austinariesbook.com.
Michelle Kommer, North Dakota Commerce Department
The job market and workplace has changed in many facets and forms. In other words, the skills gap was the consequence of high unemployment rather than its cause. With workers plentiful, employers got choosier. Rather than investing in training workers, they demanded lots of experience and educational credentials.
Another way is whether the student should focus on a traditional 4-year-degree or a trade or skills degree. There is adequate information for both sides, the one thing most experts will agree on is that the conversation needs to be had.
Michelle Kommer recently sat down to discuss this issue. Kommer is currently the head of the North Dakota Department of Commerce. She recently left her dual position as commissioner for the state Department of Labor and Human Rights and executive director of Job Service North Dakota.
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David Allen, Elite Energy Services goes into detail regarding their product, an electronic heater treater scanner that is assisting oil producers in prevention of saltwater disposal spills on production locations.
