LEAVE MY LIFE ALONE

Christopher  D. Michaels

WHO AM I?

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 

• CEO of a public corporation for 15 years – at it’s  “peaks” a market capitalization $200M-$300M. 
• Extensive experience as Chief Executive Officer.
• Professional Public Speaker
• Peace Corps Volunteer
• Peace Corps Management
• Experience in commodity trading, marketing, sales, public relations, general business, both nationally, and internationally.
• Considerable "hands-on" time overseeing various international project sites ,  including ones in Bolivia, Borneo and the Amazon.
• Expert sales and personal growth teacher.
• Extensive travel and living experience, primarily in New York, San Francisco, and L.A., overseas –England, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Bolivia, Singapore and Indonesia (see below).       
• Consulting and international marketing.
• Commodity Trader and Broker

            Oil Exploration (owner)

 INFORMAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

A partial list of the 20 places where I have lived  (three months or more):

New York City  (born) San Francisco // Los Angeles //Alfred, (upstate New York)

Key West, Florida// Miami Beach

Las Vegas // Hartford, CT

Fananu (an extremely tiny Pacific Island), Micronesia, // Costa del Sol, Spain

Crete // Amsterdam // Belem, Brazil 

Santa Cruz, La Paz Bolivia //Jakarta, Indonesia. Yungas Jungle, Bolivia

I have spent periods of time in:

 New Orleans,// Mykonos Island, Greece

 La Paz, Bolivia // Stockholm

 Grand Cayman Island 

 Saipan Island, Micronesia 

 4 Caribbean Islands // Lisbon // Paris  

The South of France // Reno  ,NV// Hawaii

 Athens // Italy

 Laurentian Mountains, Quebec

Toronto, Canada

 Dalmatian Coast, (then) Yugoslavia

 Tangier // Zurich

 Marblehead, Massachusetts

 Cebu, Philippines// Bahamas // Singapore

 Washington D.C.  // Venice

 Islands of Micronesia including Nan Matol   

 Vancouver // Guam

 Rio de Janeiro // Fortaleza, and Brasilia,  Matt Graso Brazil

 Southern England (including London)

 Odessa, Texas// Cozemel, Mexico 

 Panama

The jungles of:  Caceres,  Guayaramerin,  Matto  Grasso, Brazil //Borneo, Indonesia  //Yungas, Bolivia

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I reached these places by air in jets, in fourengine, two engine, and single engine propeller planes. By foot, horseback, car, truck, bus, motorcycle and donkey, tramp steamers, catamarans, sailing boats, motorboats, houseboats, outriggers, and canoes.

I have lived in dormitories, shacks, tents, little apartments, pensions and grand homes and hotels.

I find myself almost equally comfortable sitting on the floor of a hurt in the jungle, living in a tent or in the sitting room of a great mansion in England, although the truth be told, I very much prefer a suite in a Four Seasons.

I have worked for various lengths of time as a lifeguard, Hatha Yoga teacher, clam digger,  assembly line worker, on a sanitation truck, farming (small), nurses aid, gold mine supervisor, door-to-door salesman, telephone salesman, writer, speaker, bartender, busboy, handyman, manager of a fishing coop, and as an English and math teacher.

I have been lost in the jungle swamps of Borneo. There were cobras and crocodiles and other very unfriendly critters and insects. I  My life was saved by the Dyak headhunters.

Deep in the Yungas jungle of Bolivia, by the light of the moon, I have crossed rivers far below on ancient rope bridges.

I have been chased by fifty villagers swinging machetes yelling, ”kill the gringo 200ft below in the Mipiri River in the Yungas of Bolivia

I spent days in Cochabamba, Bolivia searching for a witchdoctor to help us find a missing gold shipment.

I've been a Boy Scout and commander ( 16) in the Civil Air Patrol. Parlor games - just Gin, Chess and Go. I’m not that good at most of them.

“Daily” I exercise alternating weight training, jogging and Hatha Yoga. I've flown small planes but never landed one.

I am deeply spiritual. I meditate and pray daily. Its now part of me.

I love animals. On our farm in southern Spain, we had horses, a donkey, a parrot, two goats, four dogs, four cats, a hedgehog, a rabbit, an owl and many various other assorted visitors, including the human kind.

I’ m passionate about politics, science, especially astronomy, quantum mechanics and biology, they all fascinate me.

I have dined with, done business with, played sports with or just have hung out with people of a multitude of nationalities. I have found a simplicity and goodness in most - the media to the contrary.

I have the exceptional fortune of having been exposed to the words of some of the most profound and great teachers this planet has to offer.

I graduated with a B.A. in Experimental Psychology with almost majors in math, biology and chemistry. I have done things as diverse as running a public company to teaching Hatha Yoga on a hilltop: I have taught math and English, salesmanship and goal setting. My passions: which I have not begun in earnest, are politics, teaching and writing.

I have developed an intense love for this earth and all the miracles on it, and around us

I have truly blessed with an extraordinary family. My children - as extraordinary and amazing as the events of my life have been. there is nothing or could there be, to compare to the birth of my four children, Damon William, Justin Joseph, Chloe Alexander and Jonathan Edward.

Yes, I feel blessed and humbled by it all, and there is rarely a day that goes by that I am not deeply, very deeply thankful for it all!

Its all such a great, grand adventure!!!