The Obsessed Podcast

On this episode I discuss the end of season 1. We also look back at some highlight moments on episodes since episode 89.

Jay Storm is the owner of Storm Insurance Services. He is also passionate about Hockey. He is the author of the book Chasing The NHL: From Pond Hockey To Pro The Trent Daavettila Story. 

Check out the book: https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-NHL-Hockey-Trent-Daavettila/dp/0692952551

Jay's Insurance Website: https://shopmichiganinsurance.com/

Dr. Zackary Bowers is a college instructor teaching courses in neuroscience and psychology. He has a PhD in neuroscience from Central Michigan University. His bachelors is in psychology and biology from Saginaw Valley State University. He has extensive lab experience studying traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases.

Troy Ryynanen is an avid hunter, fisherman, and outdoorsman. The peak of his pursuits is archery mule deer hunting. He has had a ton of success archery hunting and it is a large part of his world.

Frank Honkala is a log truck owner operator in Upper Michigan. He is well known for having the cleanest trucks around. He has a long history in the world of trucking starting off with helping his dad during his trucking days when Frank was young. On top of log truck driving he has spent time in the western North Dakota oil fields trucking.

Dr. Jane Summersett had an unbelievably interesting life in the world of ice dancing. She competed at a super high level before going to school to become a dentist. Currently she runs her practice in northern Michigan. She also enjoys fishing and hunting.

Gary Hupp is passionate about quite a few areas of life. We discussed an array of topics including his history in running machinery, working in the logging industry, and now helping with sales and deployment for Waldo Solutions, which describes themselves as "Intelligent Supply Chain Software For The Logging Industry". Gary is the type to get into different hobbies on an intense level and we explored where that comes from.

On today's episode I go over highlights since episode 74 and discuss release rates. Essentially breaking down some thought process shifts on internal deadlines and weighing that variable with family, health, real estate, etc...

Mark Halonen is a cofounder and the CTO of Steelhead Technologies. He has been involved with, created, or been engaged in several startup ventures. His area of passion revolves around the programming and technology side of business.

Josh Rheault, along with his wife Nikki, are the founders and owners of Frozen Squid Productions, a comedy production company in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Charlie Klassa is a passionate whitetail hunter. He hunts several different species and helps his own kids and other kids get into the world of hunting, but his personal favorite pursuit culminates with hunting mature whitetails in big woods in the Midwest.

Lance Kangas is the owner of Thrive Chiropractic and Wellness in Houghton, Michigan. Check out his website at https://thrivechiropracticandwellnesshoughton.com/. Lance's website describes: Here at Thrive we utilize the triad of health through adjustments, muscle testing, and soft tissue work for the physical aspect while using nutrition and custom labs to follow the biomarkers of the body for the chemical and mental aspects. 

Nathan Ackerman is a cofounder of Chicken Tramper Ultralight Gear, a backpacking company that strives to create lightweight and durable backpacking gear. Check out their website at www.https://chickentrampergear.com/. Nathan is passionate about backpacking and spending time outside. Along with his business partner, Austin, they combined their engineering background and passion for backpacking and turned it into their business.

Jamie Pietila is passionate about food and feeding her family, specifically tasty and nourishing food as it relates to health and wellness. A few aspects of this is operating a minimal waste kitchen, utilizing nose to tail practices on animals, and homemade from scratch meals. Check out her page on Instagram @naturallynourishedhome.

Travis White is the owner of Keweenaw Charters, a Lake Superior trout and salmon charter service. He’s also a cofounder of ProNav Marine. Along with this he’s also an engineer.