Jay P. Dolan, PhD., is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has written or edited numerous books related to the history of American Catholicism. His book, The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present, is recognized as the standard history of Catholicism in the United States. Other titles include In Search of an American Catholicism, a study of how American culture has shaped Catholicism over the course of the past 200 years.  He has lectured widely across the United States and also in the British Isles. Most recently he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. Professor Dolan was also a visiting professor at Boston College and University College in Cork, Ireland. He served as the President of the American Society of Church History and also the American Catholic Historical association. He is only one of four individuals who have served as president of both these scholarly societies during the course of their history. He has also served on numerous editorial boards for scholarly journals and publication series. Professor Dolan founded the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism in 1975 and served as its director until 1993. Visit his webpage.

Greg felt his son would need the education of the fighting arts to help give him confidence and drive. At the tender age of four, Glen put on his first pair of boxing loves and began his pugilistic career. Under the strict guidance of his father, Glen continued to train for over eight years in both boxing and the Doyle family style of Irish stick fighting.

However, at age twelve, Glen startled his father with an observation about his boxing art. He told his father that although boxing was an outstanding sport for both endurance and coordination, he found it limited in its realism for street combat. Glen sat his father down and mapped out boxing limits with respect to striking and defending below the waist, and weight disadvantages.

With the support of his father, Glen decided to look for a more complete fighting art. The search took him through a sampling of the Japanese and Korean arts, and even into the military for a few years to test out its hand-to-hand combat program. Nothing seemed to make him feel complete.

Then in 1983, strictly by chance, Glen met an elderly Chinese gentleman, Mr. James Lore (Lore King Hong). Lore was a Hung Gar Gung Fu teacher at the Jing Mo Kung-Fu Club, which operated out of the Chinese Community Center of Ontario. Glen watched one class and signed up...the partnership had begun.

For the next five years, Glen trained every day for six to seven hours and moved up his club's pecking order. Though Glen was not Chinese, he threw himself totally into both his martial art and the Chinese culture and became a recognized face in Toronto's Chinatown, earning the Chinese name of Lok Siu Fung (after a figure in Chinese mythology).

Glen's next step was the competition circuit, and on his first outing he won the Eastern Canadian Championships and won a chance to compete in the Canadian National Championships, which saw teams from all over Canada and numerous teams from the U.S. The competition was fierce, but Glen emerged as the Canadian Champion, and would keep the title, until he stepped down to pursue other interests in the form of training sports teams and adopting his fighting theories to all aspects of life -- from self-defense to self-help.

Developing his andmartial arts cross-training techniques, Glen went on and became the martial arts coach for figure-skating mega-star Elvis Stojko (who still works with him), ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz,Pro-Roller Hockey teams, AHL and OHL players, soccer teams, football teams and more.

Glen now offers unique, highly effective martial arts cross-training classes and seminars specifically tailored for hockey,figure skating,running, soccer, basketball, and other sport. Using his keen ability to analyze motion and movement within sport, he takes the muscle explosion, muscle awareness, focus, breathing, power, control,and emboldening self-confidence found in the martial arts and directly applies them to each specific sport and athlete. This streamlined approach allows the athletes to reap many of the benefits of martial arts that are directly applicable to their sport without the time required for studying martial arts in the traditional manner.

Glen's style, flair, and open approach to his martial arts has landed him on the cover of numerous magazines, seen him perform at both national and international events, on television shows throughout Canada and the U.S., and even won him the prestigious honor of being the special guest performer at the historic Opening Ceremonies of the World Wu Shu Championships in 1995, held in Baltimore. It was the first time the games had been held outside Asia, and the event was to be seen by millions via satellite.

Always looking for new ways to spread his teachings, Glen accepted assignments as a fight choreographer for Cynthia Rothrock and for Canadian film and television programs. This helped him realize his potential to both teach and learn, and Glen began to set aside much of his time to explore this area. Studying film arts and screenwriting at Ryerson University and then journalism at Humber College, Glen developed new creative avenues to increase his power to teach and invent. However, he did not want to stray from the purity of his art, and he still had a drive to continue to educate and help those wishing to better themselves so Glen decided to put some of his thoughts and ideals into a book entitled The Martial Artist's Way. It is not a picture-filled "how to" book, but rather a simple set of thoughts and suggestions for those wanting to get more from their martial art or sports experiences.

Glen recently opened his own martial arts club in Milton, Ontario. The CÃad Bua Club offers traditional Kung Fu, Irish stickfighting, Sports Cross-training, as well as Theatrical Martial Arts forFilm. Contact Glen at cead_bua@yahoo.ca for more information.

Glen has made foray into the entertainment world via screenwriting. He has had three of his scripts produced within the last few years - and they have been seen at numerous international film festivals and TV networks. Look for Sometimes a Hero, The Circuit, and Circuit II at a video store near you.

Visit Sifu Glen Doyle's website.

Dr. Warren Farrell is the only man in the US ever elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in New York City. Dr. Warren Farrell has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the worldâs top 100 thought leaders. His most recent book, Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and What Women Can Do About It, has been the subject of widespread praise, from features on ABCâs 20/20 to The New York Times and U.S. News and World Report.

Dr. Farrellâs books are published in over 50 countries, and in 13 languages. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power.

Warren has run his own business for more than 35 years. He has done keynotes, expert witness testimony or corporate training for Toyota, IBM, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, Revlon, Ogilvy-Mather, Texaco, NASA and the U.S. Air Force. He has spoken worldwide to associations of corporate executives (YPO, TEC, the Australian Institute of Management) associations of professionals (e.g., the American Management Association, and the Financial Planning Association), and think tanks (CATO,the Renaissance Weekends). Warren has appeared more than 20 times on CNN (e.g., Larry King Live),and repeatedly on Oprah, the Today Show and Good Morning America.

He has also been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings and John Stossel, and been the subject of two special features on ABCâs 20/20. In 2003 his campaign for Governor of California was a specialfeature of CNN.

Warren has been featured repeatedly in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal,as well as in Business Week and Boardroom publications. He is often quoted or featured in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, and been the subject of features in both People and Parade. He has written for publications ranging from the World Book Encyclopedia to Ms and journals of sociology and psychology.

Warren is in Whoâs Who in America and Whoâs Who in the World, but is most comfortable at home. He lives with his wife and two daughters (teenagers!) in Carlsbad,California. Visit his website.

Dr. Kevin Keough, host of The North Star Guardians and Warrior Traditions podcast interviews Ms. Alix Lambert, Director of the DVD Alix Lambert's The Mark of Cain and the book Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle.New York Times Sunday Magazine named Alix Lambert as one of â30 people under 30 who will change the culture in the next 30 years.â 

 Lambertâs feature length documentary âThe Mark of Cainâ was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. âThe Mark of Cainâ was used as reference by David Cronenberg in the making of his film âEastern Promisesâ. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as produce 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360.  Her fine art work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide for the past 15 years.

Lambert iwas a contributing editor for INDEX magazine and for the literary journal OPEN CITY. Lambert wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: âA Rich Findâ and was a  a writer and associate producer on the HBO / David Milch drama: John From Cinicinnati.  Lambert was recently nominated for a WGA award for outstanding writing for a dramatic series for her Deadwood episode.  Visit her website.

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