David Hackbarth, model/actor and entrepreneur, tells us it's all about having goals…."anyone in the world can have anything they want if they set their mind to it." Personally, he constantly pushes and challenges himself by setting goals.

David, who is also attending university, shares his thoughts on achieving success, the great influences on his life and running with his dogs Dings and Bella.

Thomas Watkin, the well known American photographer tells Mike Morris that people are his primary interest, and finding ways of capturing the essence of the person he is photographing are his special interests.

Tom, whose work is no stranger to Connex247 visitors, lives in Vermont, where in a lost, remote area called the Northeast Kingdom, which is one of the most beautiful places in the world, he loves to do photo shoots.

Brian Allen tells our Edward Carl that he would love to become the face/body of a major fashion campaign.  Being on a billboard, cover of a magazine, and all over a store is his ideal modeling dream.

Putting a career in medicine on hold to pursue his dreams, Brian took time while at Boston College to enjoy giving up his Spring Break to travel to Kentucky and build a home for a family in the Habitat for Humanity Program. His advice: Never give up on your dreams!

Kyle, who plays many sports admits, 'I am a JOCK', and he really loves his younger sister too, and credits his mother as being the most positive influence in his life.

Leighton Stultz has his first two romance novel book covers released, while he heads off to Toronto for activities connected to his win of the Handsome Male Models contest.

Leighton, who is now hosting Connex247,  tells us he is also learning all about deadlines!!!!

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At college, encouraged by friends, Myles entered the Musclemania Superbody competition in Florida, was discovered, and the rest is history. Here is more of his story:

Joey Lubarsky who has appeared in many of the leading health and fitness magazines shares some of the secret of his success. When everyone competing is in great shape, Joey stands out in the crowd!

Joey, who also works as a personal fitness trainer, also tells us about some of his favorite night spots in the Big Apple! And yes, it is him in the 2xist underwear ads.

Leighton Stultz broke so many page view records on Connex247 in the past six months that we decided to invite him to join us as the host of the site. Leighton agreed and he shares some of his thoughts with us.

Mike Morris commented that with Leighton's popularity, "it is a 'win win' to have him officially with us. In fact he has been with us each week since earlier in 2006 and the page view statistics speak for themselves. I really hope everyone will swamp Leighton with email with ideas and comments." Send email to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Jabari, whose dream is to make martial arts movies, also wants to improve the lives of other people.

The university track star, who has launched his career as a professional model is now working on his acting skills. As a model Jabari says he can do commercial, high fashion, look young or older as the case may be!!!! And he is fun to work with, and always happy.

Michael-Sean Levering took the lead on day one and never lost it as he won the second round in the Connex247 Hottest Guy on the Planet contest. He is now assured a place in the finals

Jiri Borkovec and Krag Hopps move on to the semi-finals.

Bruno Serato sent 'the taxi' to bring Leighton Stultz to dinner at the world famous Anaheim White House restaurant. Leighton shares his experiences on his latest trip to California where he really felt a member of the A Team!

Bruno, who has won many personal awards for his humanitarian work, is also the proprietor of the Anaheim White House restaurant, famous for its Italian and sea food menu. And, yes, Leighton learned that President Jimmy Carter had eaten there too. (Both live in Georgia)

Travis Kraft, who has made a very successful move from wrestling champion to modeling and acting, brings us up to date on his very successful career to date.

In the past few years, Travis has been working as an actor and model in the United States as well as abroad. He is known as The Billboard King of Asia because he has so many billboards for various products. He was even on the biggest billboard in the world for Rexona Deodorant.