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Dan Meyer is known for appearances on America's Got Talent Finals, as Golden Buzzer winner and finalist on Sweden's Talang, on NBC's The Today Show, and Stan Lee's Superhumans on History Channel.

Meyer began his career in the music business as an audio engineer and producer for Bill Gaither's Pinebrook Recording Studios in Indiana in 1983. He later moved to Nashville where he worked in the music business and became Director of Internet Licensing with SESAC performing rights agency in 1988, and later international copyright licensing with STIM Swedish performing rights organization in Stockholm Sweden in 1990.

In 1997, after learning there were less than a dozen sword swallowers left around the world, Meyer began practicing sword swallowing. After four years and over 14,000 unsuccessful attempts, he successfully got his first sword down his throat on February 12, 2001.

In 2006, Meyer swallowed swords underwater in a tank of 88 sharks and stingrays for Ripley's Myrtle Beach SC, garnering him his first Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon.

In 2007, Meyer was awarded the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard University for award-winning medical research published in the December 2006 British Medical Journal.

In 2008, Meyer auditioned on America's Got Talent Season 3 where he appeared on 9 episodes and made it to the finals. In 2010, Meyer appeared on Stan Lee's Superhumans on the History Channel and Guinness World Records TV Lo Show Dei Record in Rome Italy, and in 2016 he returned to America's Got Talent where his appearance garnered over 500 million views.

Since 2001, Meyer has appeared on over 100 TV shows, documentaries, podcasts and shorts, made it to the Finals of America's Got Talent, on Australia's Got Talent twice, won the Golden Buzzer on Sweden's Talang, and returned to the finals in the top 5, and has been featured on 16 Got Talents including Italy's Tu Si Que Vales, France's Got Talent, Spain's Got Talent España, Israel's Got Talent, Croatia's SuperTalent, Germany's Das SuperTalent and Canada's Got Talent. Meyer has also performed at 16 Ripley's Believe It or Not museums, on over 500 fair, corporate and church shows, and live in 60 countries around the world.

Meyer is the co-author of "To The Hilt: A Sword Swallower's History of Sword Swallowing" published in 2024 by Schiffer Books. He lives in Phoenix AZ.

It takes courage to fail, and failure to succeed. The most successful people you&#39;ll ever meet were the greatest failures who overcame defeat.

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