Howard Fox is an award-winning outdoor adventure podcaster. He hosts the Outdoor Adventure Series. His episodes celebrate individuals and families, entrepreneurs, and organizations that seek out and promote the exploration, conservation, stewardship, access, and enjoyment of the outdoors.

This workshop will unpack the value proposition that podcasting, either as a guest or as host, offers media of all types as they look for ways to expand their brand, grow their audience, and discover new adventure opportunities.

Maayan Gordon is a 4x Founder and has been an entrepreneur for the past 13 years. She has generated over $1,000,000 in sales through social media and grown her online following to more than 2.3 million across Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. She currently works as a consultant and startup advisor, speaker, author, and travel influencer.

In this workshop, you will learn the 7-step process to build a powerful personal brand and use it to attract every single business opportunity you can imagine. Walk away with a complete action plan you can start using immediately.

Marvin Cash has been an avid outdoorsman as long as he can remember. He is the host and producer of the award-winning fly fishing podcast, The Articulate Fly. In its sixth year, the podcast has 800+ episodes. The Articulate Fly is Marvin’s laboratory for using digital tools to build the fly fishing community. Off the water, Marvin has spent the last thirty years as a lawyer, entrepreneur, and businessman .

In his interactive workshop, you will be provided with a foundational understanding of AI and a framework for evaluating and implementing AI to magnify your creative voice. The workshop is appropriate for all creatives regardless of media.

Carmen Gentile is the founder of Postindustrial Media, an outlet covering the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and Postindustrial Communities around the world. Before founding Postindustrial in 2018, Carmen covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other conflicts around the world. He is also the author of “Blindsided by the Taliban,” a retelling of his unusual injury in Afghanistan and recovery. He is a Western Pennsylvania native who splits his time between the United States and Croatia. A long, long, long time ago, when he was in college, Carmen wanted to be a travel writer and has been chasing that dream ever since.

Emily Buck joined the TWRA as its Director of Communications and Marketing in May 2022. Before coming to the Agency, she was on-air 5 days a week as the Washington News Bureau Chief for RFD-TV, a national cable channel dedicated to agriculture and rural America. She also worked for the United States House of Representative as a Field Representative for Congresswoman Diane Black, who represented the 6th Congressional District. In her current role, Emily oversees TWRA publications, media relations, digital media production, marketing, and internal communications.

Miles DeMott, managing editor of both Covey Rise and Bourbon+ magazines, has been hunting compelling stories and captivating spirits for more than three decades, writing across genres for a variety of audiences in the print and digital spaces. The author of two novels and a native son of the quail woods of Southwest Georgia, he relishes mornings afield with happy dogs, afternoons astride a mountain bike, and evenings alongside a fire pit telling tales that often resemble the truth.

Sarah Riddell serves as associate editor of LeisureMedia360, a prominent publisher based in Roanoke, Virginia, specializing in state, regional and local travel guides as well as city and regional magazines. One of these esteemed publications is Blue Ridge Country, an award-winning bimonthly magazine exploring travel, festivals, food, history, the outdoors and the environment in the mountain regions of seven southern states. Her multifaceted role includes work in both the print and digital spaces with the most meaningful part of it all being the opportunity to contribute to the showcasing of people, businesses, amenities and more that make tight-knit communities like her own so special.