Grand Slam Journey

Coach Agustin Moreno is currently the Women's Tennis Head Coach at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and the Head Coach of Mexico's Billie Jean King Cup Team. Agustin Moreno LMU webpage Email: agustin.moreno@lmu.edu Instagram Agustin Moreno was named head coach of the women's tennis program on June 28, 2015. During this short time, he has created and coached the team to achieve LMU...

Sandy Farquharson is the Founder of The Padel School and the Host of The Padel School Podcast . He has over a decade of professional padel coaching experience. He is currently one of the LTA's lead coach educators and is responsible for designing and delivering the LTA's padel coach education program. To date, he has trained 100+ padel coaches across the world. Alongside his coaching exp...

Some announcements, consistency, and my contemplation about Power as I reflect on my reading "Power for All" by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. Link to an article I wrote about consistency. I would appreciate your feedback on how you enjoyed or didn't enjoy this episode.  #powerforall #consistency #power Send us Fan Mail LEORÊVER COMPRESSION AND ACTIVEWEAR Get 10% off Loerêver...

Tracy Reifkind is the Author of "The Swing!" Lose the Fat and Get Fit with This Revolutionary Kettlebell Program . Tracy's book is inspired by her transformation journey and is a fantastic manual that is detailed yet simple to follow and can be easily personalized. At forty-one years of age, Tracy, after being overweight her entire life, made a fantastic transformation and lost 120...

Zachary Green 's experiences in the Marine Corps shaped his destiny. His time in the military, then as a firefighter, gave him the resourcefulness, integrity, and grit to become a highly successful entrepreneur. Taking risks, trusting himself, and never letting go of his dreams drove him to create, produce, market, and sell a product that saves lives. Zachary was named Entrepreneur of the Yea...

Amy Eliza Wong is the Founder of " Always On Purpose " and an author of an upcoming book " Living on Purpose ."  Amy is a transformational coach and facilitator working with the biggest names in tech, organizations such as Salesforce, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. Amy offers transformative leadership development and cutting-edge communication strategies to executives and corpor...

Samah Damahoori is the co-founder and creator of Madina Papel . You can subscribe to this channel on YouTube. Please watch the eight-minute story of Madina Papel before listening to this podcast.  Samah grew up in Saudi Arabia and came to the USA in 2014 to pursue her Master's degree in Creative Writing at Notre Dame de Namur University. Samah worked for some of the largest tech companies in...

Irina Lykina , originally from Kazan, Russia, played lines 1 and 2 for the University of Oklahoma's women's tennis team between 2003-2007. During her time at OU, their team was ranked #15 NCAA Division I. Irina's best NCAA D1 singles ranking was #63 and was named All-Big 12 Women's Tennis Singles Player in Spring 2005, a four-time member of the Academic All-American ITA Team, a...

Jesse Burdick's contact info: jesseburdick@gmail.com. You can also find Jesse on all social media under Jesse Burdick and check out his strength program at PowerWod.com.   Instagram Twitter Topics discussed in this episode: 1. Using sport to build your network of people, 2. The importance of asking questions and being curious, 3. What it means to be a dad to three daughters, and how Jesse goe...

Don Tirsell and I reminisce on our athletic college years. Don talks about his basketball journey, what his sport taught him, and how his Basketball journey evolved from being a competitive collegiate basketball player to using his sport as something that allows him to create new friends and support groups at work. Don also talks about him being a father, his journey of supporting his kids to choo...

Nadia Belkind is passionate about supporting work environments that thrive on interpersonal communication. She sees it as her mission to help generate trust, mutual understanding, connection, and positivity. After her relocation to Stanford in 2018, Nadia started teaching her class called "The Secrets of Interpersonal Communication" at Stanford Bechtel International Center, helping dozen...

Today's episode is with my friend, a former colleague, and a professional racquetball player, Mitch Williams .  Mitch and I started at Ericsson at the same time and on the same team. Much of our telecom journey to date has been very similar as we seemed to make similar moves at almost the same time and in a similar direction. I had a lot of fun speaking with Mitch about many topics related to...

Today's discussion is with my former UTA tennis coach, Christian Wassmer . I had so much fun speaking and re-connecting with Christian that we ended up running over our reserved time, and I still had many questions left. Christian and I talk a lot about tennis, our college tennis journeys, and different coaching styles - things we could have done better and things we have implemented to maxim...

Today's conversation is with Liz Goldman . Liz is my personal life coach. Liz has been assisting individuals and groups in accessing their unique gifts and wisdom for over 20 years. Link to Liz's website .  Liz and I discuss her diverse and cultural upbringing in New York City, family dynamics, the importance of support systems, communication and challenges, coaching, the benefits of coa...

Wayne Ferreira is a former ATP tour professional tennis player from Johannesburg South Africa. Wayne had an outstanding tennis career. He won 15 top-level singles titles and 11 doubles titles. His career-high rankings were world no. 6 in singles and world no. 9 in doubles. Wayne is the third tennis player with 56 consecutive Grand Slam appearances in men's tennis.  During this podcast, Wayne...

Fazal is a tennis coach a former professional tennis player and a friend of mine. We met in Dallas in 2007 playing mixed doubles together. He was #1 junior in India, represented India in Davis Cup 1998-2001, and achieved top 200 and top 400 ATP ranking in doubles and singles, respectively. Fazal was the National grass-court Champion of India in 2000. He was a Bronze medalist at the 1998 Asian Game...

About the podcast: Takeshi and I talk about his multi-cultural upbringing, the launch of his new book "Strong Like Never Before" and his path towards becoming an olympic athlete. What stood out to me during this conversation is Takeshi's well roundedness, optimism, deep wisdom and ability to build in space for grace. We talk about the importance of having a good support system, sett...

During this episode, Julianna Gates and I explore the beginnings of our tennis journeys, what it takes to be a professional tennis player, and the importance of mental toughness.  We talk about the benefits of slowing down, visualization, productive vs. unproductive thoughts and the awareness of our thoughts. We also discuss how to rewire our brain to improve productivity and the power of reframin...