#ELB Podcast with Michael Hansen

Meet Michael Hansen, a Technical Administrator with State Farm Insurance Company. I met Michael at the Illinois Sports Officials conference and learned about his journey with State Farm, as a soccer official, a deaf person, and a deaf athlete. Michael is part of the Deaf National Soccer team representing the USA and serves the game as a soccer official. He is a husband and father, a man of strong faith, and he'll join us on the #ELB podcast tomorrow, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026, LIVE at 4:15 EST, 3:15 CT.Learn more about the Deaflympics here: Deaflympics: International Games for Deaf Athletes | DWThis podcast is sponsored by IXL Personalized Learning. IXL is used by more than 1 million teachers each day. It is also the most widely used online learning and teaching platform for K-12. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/ELBIXLLearn more about the host, Andrew Marotta @ https://andrewmarotta.com/