Jeff Seidel has been a journalist for more than thirty years, specializing in narrative stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. His work has appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and the The Chicago Tribune. For the past ten years, Seidel has been a sports columnist at the Detroit Free Press. Nick Baumgartner is an Olympic gold medalist snowboarder from Iron River, Michigan. He has competed in four Olympics and earned his first gold medal at the age of forty in the 2022 Beijing games when he and teammate Lindsey Jacobellis won the inaugural Olympic mixed snowboard cross race.