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. Dan Bittner is an actor and voice artist. He has appeared in The Wolf of Wall Street and Adventureland. His audiobook narration credits include the Relic Master series by Catherine Fisher and Stolen by Melissa de la Cruz. 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 a living example of determination and perseverance. He won an Olympic gold medal at forty years old, funding his dream by working construction and pouring cement. A humble hero!"" -- ""Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder and entrepreneur"""