Leave Your Mark

Send us Fan Mail This episode features James Morton who is currently a professor of exercise metabolism and nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University.  He is also the Head of Nutrition for Team Sky and has led the nutrition strategy for the team through its victories at the Tour de France since 2015.  From 2010 to 2015 James provided support in conditioning and nutrition with the Liverpool Foo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Rachel Martin.  Having pulled herself up from poverty to being named one of  Inc.  magazine's top 40 entrepreneurs, she’s been writing online for over a decade. She is the writer behind the site  FindingJoy.net   and author of the life-changing, find-your-heart book  The Brave Art of Motherhood . Her site reaches millions, her content has been translated...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kelly Starrett who  is a physical therapist, and a co-founder of San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD.com, where he shares his innovative approach to movement, mechanics, and mobility with coaches and athletes .  He travels around the world teaching his Movement & Mobility Course and works with elite Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard force...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Carmen Bott who has been in the sports performance and fitness training industry for over twenty years and her passion and focus go deep in combative and collision sports athlete preparation.  She is currently a professor of Kinesiology at Langara College and Simon Fraser University.  She is grounded  in a combination of pure and applied science in her coachi...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Richard Monette who is a sports psychology consultant to many Olympic and professional athletes.   He has coached athletes to success under pressure at the highest levels of sport and he is an expert in helping individuals and organizations achieve sustained performance.  His talents span the disciplines of business, education and sports psychology, all of wh...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Bill Knowles who is currently the Director of Reconditioning and Athletic Development for HPSports.  He is a consultant to many professional and college sports teams throughout the world, and many high performing athletes from teams in almost every league around the globe.  Bill is a pioneer in the world of reconditioning, a practice near and dear to my own h...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Brett Bartholomew who is a performance coach, author, consultant, and founder of the performance coaching and consulting company, The Bridge Human Performance.  His book, Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In was ranked in the “Amazon Top 100 Books Overall” in 2017 and has become a must-have resource guide to coaches of any kind who seek...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Rhian Wilkinson who was a professional soccer player and member of Canada's Women's National Team for 13 years.  She is one of a very select group of players ever to appear in 150 games for Canada. As a member of the national team, she won a bronze medal at the London Olympic games and has further competed at four world cups and two other Olympic ga...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features Trent Stellingwerff who is one of Canada's secret weapons in Olympic sport. He's been in the trenches for many years innovating his area of passion; performance nutrition and endurance sports physiology. He is a unique combination of an exercise physiologist, sports nutrition practitioner, coach, and researcher.  His capacity to digest information,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features physical therapist, performance coach, teacher, lecturer, author, and mentor Gray Cook.  In life, you occasionally encounter unique people who are a special combination of thought creating and thought-provoking. Gray is one of those people. He's been on a mission to change the way we see human movement, how we affect it, and how we live more sustainable...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features performance coach Matt Nichol who has been working in the field of human performance for over 20 years.  He has a long list of amazing athletes from many different sports, but he specializes in the off-season training some of the National Hockey League's best players. He's the founder and inventor of Biosteel a supplement product he built simply bec...

Send us Fan Mail This episode does not disappoint featuring Mike Boyle, undeniably a pioneer in the world of performance training for sport.   His career spans close to 40 years of practice as an S+C coach at BU, the Boston Bruins, the Boston Red Sox and within his own business Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning.   He's a leader, a learner, a teacher, a lecturer, a mentor, and a businessman...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #34 of the Leave Your Mark podcast features former Olympic athlete turned media personality, Alexandre Despatie.  Since retirement from competing internationally as a diver in 2012, Alex has created a burgeoning media career and is currently a presence on morning radio in Montreal.   He's been an integral part of hosting Olympic coverage in Rio and Pyeongchang, and he...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features coaching legend Dan Pfaff, during his NCAA career, Dan coached 29 NCAA individual national champions and 150 All-Americans and was a lead staff member on teams that won 17 NCAA National Team Championships.  He has coached 49 Olympians including nine medalists, 51 World Championship competitors (also nine medalists), and five world-record holders. He has direc...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Gerry Ramogida an extremely talented chiropractor who’s been working in some of the most intense and demanding sports performance environments throughout his career.  He is currently a consultant with many Olympic athletes as well as professional athletes in the MLB, NHL, NFL, and EPL.  He has been the Seattle Seahawks team Chiropractor and performance therap...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #31 of Leave Your Mark features S+C and Sprints coach Stu McMillan. He’s trained numerous Olympic medalists over the course of the last 20+ years and has been a part of the success of three different nations performance teams at the Olympic Games.  He’s the CEO of ALTIS World a company dedicated to supporting a powerful training environment in Phoenix, AZ for athletes from...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features renown Canadian performance coach and sports scientist Matthew Jordan.  He is the Director of Sports Science for the Canadian Sports Institute in Calgary and he is deeply involved in the performance measures of all things power and strength.  He has a deep passion for understanding the "why" in performance, connecting the subjective evidence with th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #29 features Canadian Sports Hall of Fame athlete, Jennifer Heil.  She is a gold and silver medalist in the 2006 and 2010 Olympics. She is the winningest female mogul skier in Canadian history.  She is a mother of two wonderful boys, a women's activist, and a career woman bent on changing the face of sport in Canada.  She epitomizes the concept of Leaving Your Mark! I...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an interview with the host of the Finding Mastery podcast Michael Gervais.  He is a high performing sports psychologists working with fortune 500 executives, elite athletes and teams in Olympic and professional sport, and he is the business partner with coach Pete Carrol in Compete to Create.  He is also an avid and passionate surfer.  This conversation is ab...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features neuroscience pioneer David George.  An entrepreneur, inventor, educator, and clinician, he is changing the world of neuroscience with his own practice and his collaboration in business with others.  A named inventor in a growing international patent portfolio, he is a highly regarded expert in integrative approaches to physical rehabilitation.  This interview...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Linda Joyce a woman of many talents, writer, lecturer, life coach, and astrologer.  She has helped people of many backgrounds and abilities understand who they are and live a life more connected to their purpose.  She is the author of three books, but the one that brought her into my life was her first, "The Day You Were Born".  In every podcast, I...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Dominick Gauthier who has competed at the highest levels of sport coached world champions and Olympic gold medalist, and now stewards a foundation called B2ten dedicated to supporting the dreams of some of Canada's most talented athletes.  He has left a mark in every unique journey of his life and his passion and exuberance for life are infectious.  This...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features Stephen Norris who for many years has been one of Canada's leaders in human performance.  He is a powerful combination of pure and applied acumen and his influence on Canada's high-performance sports system is far-reaching.  An Englishman of birth, his adoption of Canada as his home has been a gift to our Olympic athletes and the professionals and o...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features eight-time X-Games Slopestyle champion Kaya Turski.  Widely regarded as one of the best freestyle skiers of her generation, she fought through a difficult career of savage injuries, always finding a way to return better than before injured, always finding a new way to win.  Her tenacity and resiliency are remarkable, and this interview is a fascinating explor...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an interview with Paralympic swimmer Benoit Huot, one of Canada most decorated Paralympians.  A winner of 9 Gold Medals over the course of five Paralympic games, and many more Paralympic and world competition medals over the course of his career, just a start of what this man has accomplished.  A member of the Canadian Disabilities Hall of Fame, Order of Cana...