90% Mental with Madeline Walsh

Daily Fantasy Sports, or DFS for short, is an accelerated version of traditional fantasy sports where participants draft a roster of real-world athletes and compete against other players based on those athletes’ actual statistical performance in games. Unlike season-long leagues, DFS contests typically last just a single day or a single week. Needless to say, the odds are not in your favor. By mos...

When you think about investing, you probably think about picking stocks, conducting diligence, and running financial analysis. What’s less obvious is the heavy mental and emotional component that investing requires. Today I’m excited to dive deeper into the psychology of investing with public markets-focused, deep value and event-driven investor John Davenport. John is the founder of Davenport Fun...

For over a decade, Brian Whorley worked at a non-profit, community-owned 400-bed hospital in Columbia, Missouri and loved every minute. In reflecting on his time there and the needs he witnessed within our healthcare system, Brian says, “I felt a great deal of pride being a very small part of a place full of really talented, mission-driven people who provided great care during life’s most uncertai...

Bryan Clayton spent years building one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee. He grew Peachtree from a small operation into a company with over 150 employees and 8 figures in annual revenue before selling the business in 2013. While he initially thought he'd take time off, Bryan found himself drawn back to operating. Only this time he didn't start in an industry he already...

Matt Lombardi played college hockey at Boston College before going on to play professionally for two years before injuries forced him into an early retirement. As he navigated life after sport, Matt searched for something that would challenge him mentally the way competitive sports had challenged him physically. He found his answer in entrepreneurship. In 2018, Matt started Beam with another forme...

Stacey Copeland knows a thing or two about facing your fears in pursuit of ambitious dreams. As a football player, she represented England on the U-18 team and played professionally in the Premier League for the Doncaster Belles, Manchester City, and Tranmere Rovers. That said, Stacey’s first love was boxing. It was a love that began in her granddad’s boxing gym and never died. Unfortunately, Stac...

What do you do when the mental strategies that once made you successful start making you feel stuck? That’s the focus of my conversation with today’s guest, Dr. Norman Farb. Norm is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he studies the neuroscience of human identity and emotion. I became familiar with Norm’s work when I read the book he coauthored with clinical psyc...

Bennie Fowler is a former wide receiver who played college football for Michigan State before spending 8 years in the NFL. Notably, he played for the Denver Broncos during the last season of Peyton Manning’s legendary career; the same season that the Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers to win Super Bowl 50. During that game, Bennie helped secure the victory by catching the final pass Manning ev...

Today's interview is with Superfiliate cofounder and CEO, Andy Cloyd . Over the course of the interview we chat about: * How a random encounter with Andrew Yang in a New York coffee shop put Andy on the nonlinear path that led him to where he is today * Why he intentionally invests in a culture of appreciation and the origin story behind Superfiliate’s rallying cry also known as “Rah Rah” * The sh...