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Stephen Colbert

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Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, satirist, actor, and writer known for his ironic style, particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders and deadpan comedic delivery. Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theater when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians and , with whom he developed the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy series Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived...

Melissa Urban

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MELISSA URBAN is the Whole30 (whole30.com) co-founder and CEO, and an authority on helping people change their relationship with food and create life-long, healthy habits. After overcoming a five-year drug addiction in 2000, she adopted a growth mindset, dove into fitness, and began to study nutrition. In 2009, she self-designed a 30-day dietary experiment and saw unexpected and life-changing physical, mental, and emotional benefits. A few months later she blogged about the experiment and invited her readers to give it a try, calling the program "the Whole30."More than 11 years later and Whole30 is now a household...