Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

This week’s conversation is with Carissa Moore, one of the most prolific surfers on the world stage. At age 18, Carissa became the youngest person – male or female – to win a surfing world title and was the first woman to compete in the Triple Crown of Surfing, Hawaii’s most prestigious contest series featuring the world’s best male surfers.  This year, Carissa became the first surfer in hist...

This week’s conversation is with Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s chief marketing officer and executive vice president of worldwide consumer business. As the chief marketing officer, Chris runs marketing across both the consumer and commercial businesses, which includes marketing for all Microsoft services and products, business planning, brand, advertising, events, communications and research. ...

This week’s conversation is with Jim Nantz, an American sportscaster who has worked on telecasts of the NFL, NCAA Division I men’s basketball, the Olympics, the NBA and the PGA Tour for CBS Sports since the 1980s.  Jim is an absolute legend in the field. If you’re a sports fan, you know his voice.  He has anchored CBS’s coverage of the Masters Tournament since 1989 and been the play...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Amishi Jha, a professor of psychology at the University of Miami.  She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010.  Amishi received her Ph. D. from the University of California–Davis and postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke Un...

This week’s conversation is with professional volleyball players and Olympians Alix Klineman and April Ross. Otherwise known as, The A-Team. On August 6 of this year, Alix and April captured the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, after winning in straight sets versus Australia.  In the entire tournament, they went undefeated in match play, only losing one set throughout seven matche...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Gil Blander, an expert in nutrition, biomarker analytics, athletic performance, biochemistry, and aging research. Gil holds numerous patents and has published peer-reviewed articles in these fields.  He received his PhD in biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and undertook postgraduate research on aging at MIT.  Gil is also the Founder and...

This week’s conversation is with trailblazing psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Dr. Daniel Goleman. Daniel has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. Well-known for his work in leadership and education, Daniel is also a distinguished voice in the field of meditation.  A meditator sin...

This week’s conversation is with Rebecca Rusch, a 7x-world champion in the ultra adventure/endurance realm and a member of the prestigious international Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Rebecca has been recognized by Outside Magazine among the Top 40 Women Who’ve Made the Biggest Impact and by Men’s Journal as one of the 25 Most Adventurous Women. Known for seeking the toughest challenges imaginable an...

This week’s conversation is with Zak Williams, the son of the late Robin Williams and co-founder and CEO of  PYM , a mental wellness company rooted in the belief that there is a world where someone can be the best version of themselves simply by establishing easy daily rituals that help support their mind and overall wellbeing.  Zak is a US trustee of the international advocacy organizat...

This week’s conversation is with Dr. Philip Zimbardo, a professor emeritus in psychology at Stanford University, and creator of  The Stanford Prison Experiment . Philip has spent over 50 years teaching psychology - he’s an absolute legend in the field.  He’s written more than 60 books and has over 600 publications (professional and popular articles, and chapters).  Among his bo...

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...