Professional Panelist

Michael Birchfield grew up in Alabama with his 4 younger siblings, mother and father. Michael lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife and two cats. He is a lifelong entrepreneur, avid gamer, Sci-Fi lover, and a huge anime enthusiast. Tennis, fishing and playing various instruments with his friends, consumed his free time throughout his life. He loved it all! Michael is a people person, he was selected to be a City Ambassador for the Moody Chamber of Commerce and grew up playing an active role in his local Community and volunteered at his parish, Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic Church.

Michael received a collegiate Tennis scholarship at Central Alabama Community College and attended there from 2007 to 2009 studying computer science. Michael's love for music led him to begin his audio and video production career, which took him away from college in 2009. He worked and traveled with several bands as a jack-of-all-trades, managing events, running sound boards, and mastering, recording and editing video and audio content. He found that he enjoyed creating and cooking unique foods through this journey and worked from time to time as a chef.

In 2014 he settled back in Birmingham, Alabama, working for the house band at The Syndicate Lounge, a local bar and music venue, and was hired full time at EWTN Global Catholic Radio and Television Network, where he is currently employed as an International Radio Producer. An entrepreneur at heart, in 2016 he co-founded, "Sons of Heaven," a voice over company for onair commercials. He became part owner of The Syndicate Lounge and led it to become one of Birmingham's top music venues. In 2019, he founded a video and audio production company, Videos, Vocals, and Adventures, which he currently owns and operates. Videos, Vocals and Adventures creates video content for individuals and corporate companies for everything from advertising, social media and training. They also contract out video and audio editing jobs as well as. In 2019 began working for the Interstellar Research Group as the Head of the Committee for the Youtube and podcast series, "From Here to the Stars." https://www.videosvocalsandadventures.com/