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This week’s conversation is with Katrina Adams, the first African American to lead the United States Tennis Association (USTA), the first two-term Chairman and President of said organization and the first former player to hold that honor.  Under her guidance, the USTA achieved a number of major milestones, including the opening of the 100 court USTA National Campus in Orlando, the strategic t...

This week’s conversation is with Aaron Kirman, a prominent figure in the luxury real estate market for the past 20 years. Aaron is the President of the International Estates Division at Compass and founder, CEO and techpreneur of the eponymously named Aaron Kirman Group, which includes a team of nearly 100.  With over $7 billion in luxury home sales, Aaron represents the finest estates across...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Stephen Porges, a distinguished university scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium.  He is also a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland.  Stephen more than 350 peer‐...

This week’s conversation is with Anne Morriss and Frances Frei. Anne has spent the last twenty years building and leading mission-driven enterprises, serving most recently as CEO and Co-Founder of GenePeeks, a computational genomics company developing breakthrough ways to identify genetic risk.  She has worked with entrepreneurs, companies and governments throughout the United States and Lati...

This week’s conversation is with Chris Bosh, an 11-time NBA All-Star, 2-time Champion and the NBA’s first Global Ambassador of Basketball. Chris fell in love with basketball at an early age and earned the prestigious “Mr. Basketball” title while still at Lincoln High School in Dallas, Texas.  A McDonald’s All-American, Chris was selected fourth overall by the Toronto Raptors after one year at...

This week’s conversation is with Steve Smith, one of America’s most experienced astronauts and spacewalkers, with 4 spaceflights and 7 spacewalks to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and build the Space Station. Steve dreamed of being an astronaut at age 7. Then he made his dream come true through sheer determination and intelligent risk taking.  During the 3-decade pursuit of his dream...

This week’s conversation is with Dawn Staley, the  University of South Carolina Women’s Basketball Head Coach and Team USA Olympic Head Basketball coach for the Tokyo Olympics. Catapulting South Carolina into the national spotlight, Dawn has made the Gamecocks a mainstay in the battle for SEC and national championships.  Under her leadership, the Gamecocks have reached many firsts – Nati...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Jud Brewer, a New York Times best-selling author, neuroscientist, addiction psychiatrist, and thought leader in the field of habit change.  He is the Director of Research and Innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, the executive medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare Inc., and a research affiliate at MIT. Dr. Jud has developed...

This week’s conversation is with Adeline Gray, one of the top professional freestyle wrestlers in the world, male or female.  She is a 2016 Olympian, five-time World Champion (2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019), seven-time World Championship medalist and went undefeated in international competition from 2014-2016.  Adeline’s 2019 World title and fifth World Championship win gave her the title...

This week’s conversation is with Matteo Franceschetti, the CEO of Eight Sleep. Matteo has always been obsessed with performance. Athletic performance, business performance, and now sleep performance. His drive to succeed propelled him from sports podiums to the top tier of the international legal world and to start starting up two clean-tech companies on two different continents, all before age 30...

This week’s conversation is with Jordyn Wieber, a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame and the “Fierce Five” United States gymnastics squad that won team gold at the 2012 Olympics. Jordyn was a two-time U.S. all-around champion (2011 and 2012) and the 2011 World all-around champion.  Her illustrious Elite Career included three medals at the 2011 World Championships (all-around and team :...

This week’s conversation is with Darin Olien, who you might be familiar with as the co-host of the widely popular Netflix docu-series “Down to Earth with Zac Efron”.  Darin is a highly recognized exotic superfoods hunter, supplement formulator, and author of the New York Times bestselling book, “SuperLife: The five fixes that will keep you healthy, fit and eternally awesome. He’s worked with...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Richard “Harry” Harris, an Australian anesthetist and cave diver who played a crucial role in the Tham Luang cave rescue.  For those of you unfamiliar, it’s an incredible story…  In June 2018, Harry was about to depart on a cave diving holiday to the Nullarbor Plain. He and dive partner Craig were requested by the Thai go...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Marissa King, a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, where she developed and teaches a popular course entitled Managing Strategic Networks.  Over the past fifteen years, Marissa has studied how people’s social networks evolve, what they look like, and why that’s significant.  Her research has been featured in outlets...

This week’s conversation is with Per Lundstam, the Director of Alpine Sport Science for the US. Ski & Snowboard team. He rejoined the organization after an 11-year stint with Red Bull, where he served as the Director of Performance, supporting athletes in their pursuit of improving athletic performance as well as building a platform for optimization within sport sciences. Prior to Red Bull, Pe...

This week’s conversation is with Dean Karnazes, an acclaimed endurance athlete and  NY Times  bestselling author, who has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits.  TIME  magazine named him one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World.”  Men’s Fitness  hailed him as one of the fittest men on the planet. Stan Lee, of Marvel Comics fame, called...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist and professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  Over the course of her career, she has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to encourage positive change, including Google, the U.S. Department of Defense, the American Red Cross, and Morningstar.  Her research is regularly fea...

This week’s conversation is with Joe de Sena, the founder and CEO of Spartan, the world’s leading endurance sports and wellness brand. Throughout his lifetime, Joe has competed in any extreme sports adventure he could find, testing his mental and physical endurance against nature.  His racing resume is the stuff of legend – over 50 ultra-events overall and 14 Ironman events in one year alone....

This week’s conversation is with Ryan Holiday, the bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition.  His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company. His company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, TASER, and Comp...

This week’s conversation is with Joanne McCallie, better known as “Coach P” – one of the most highly decorated female college basketball coaches in the country.  Over the last 28 years, Coach P has coached at Maine, Michigan State, and most recently Duke. She’s the only Division I head coach to lead two different programs to 30-win seasons with three National Championship game appearances, an...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Peter Attia, a physician focusing on the applied science of longevity.  Peter earned his M.D. from Stanford University and holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics. He trained for five years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including resident of the year, and...

This week’s conversation is with Tony Blauer, a coach in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for over four decades. He founded Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) in 1985 and it has grown into one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of performance psychology, personal safety, and close quarter tactics & scenar...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Marv Dunphy, widely recognized as one of the premier coaches in the history of the sport of volleyball. He directed Pepperdine to four NCAA men’s volleyball titles and concluded his 34th and final season as the Waves’ head coach in 2017. He remains involved with the program as its head coach emeritus. Marv also had a long, successful coaching tenure with the U....

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Ethan Kross, one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind.  After graduating magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, Ethan earned his Ph. D. in Psychology from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the neural systems that support self-control.  H...

This week’s conversation is with Max Lugavere, a filmmaker, health and science journalist and author of the The Genius Life and the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life. Max appears regularly on the Dr. Oz Show , the Rachael Ray Show, and The Doctors.   After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form o...