Grateful and Full of Greatness with Mark Glicini

Building off of Episode #1, Mark Glicini dives deeper into Brian Callanan's core philosophies inside leadership. Speaking from his experiences within the Marine Corps, law enforcement, and lacrosse coaching, Brian expresses the critical components that allowed him to develop winning teams from the ground up. In this conversation, listeners will hear how detrimental bad leadership can be, what true...

One of Mark Glicini's closest friends and mentors, Dr. Rob Gilbert, shares how to go from where we are to who we want to be. He has been a professor of sport psychology at Montclair State University in New Jersey for 43 years. He is a professional motivational speaker, an author, and the creator of "Success Hotline," three-minute motivational message released EVERY DAY for over three decades. List...

Leading with empathy, Scott Lenz is a trusted authority in deep health coaching through Body Composition Analysis (BCA), interactive planning, and accountability. Scott is the Founder and CEO of Inner Image and Inspiri Wellness, which provide routes for high-performing individuals toward optimal health. He has collaborated with entities spanning from the MLB, NFL, PLL, NBA, NHL, NCAA, USA Olympics...

One of the best two-way midfielders to ever play the sport of the lacrosse, Matt Abbott, sits down with Mark Glicini to reflect on how and why his childhood dreams were able to come to fruition. Matt is originally from Syracuse, New York. He played lacrosse at Syracuse University, where he won two national championships. He still lives in Syracuse and works as co-owner and investment advisor at Ar...

Mark Glicini sits down with the 2021 Premier Lacrosse League's (PLL) Most Valuable Player. For three straight years in a row, Blaze Riorden has been awarded Goalie of the Year. To top it all off, he won the 2021 PLL Championship with the Chaos Lacrosse Club. In addition to having one of the greatest lacrosse seasons of all time, Blaze has had a decorated career inside the National Lacrosse League...

Mark Glicini sits down with the first-ever paid strength coach in America. Over the course of roughly five decades, Boyd Epley built the University of Nebraska's strength & conditioning program from the ground up, producing All-Americans and winning National Championships along the way. Known as the "Godfather of Strength & Conditioning," Boyd is the founder of the National Strength &...

On this episode, Mark Glicini sits down with one of the greatest sport psychologists on the planet. Sylvain Guimond has evaluated, treated and worked with over one thousand elite athletes including Greg Norman, John Smoltz, Mario Lemieux, and Tiger Woods. He is a world renowned expert in posture therapy, a distinguished inspirational speaker, and the President/Founder of Biotonix, a leading medica...

There are fewer awards in lacrosse that Tom has not won than he has, it seems. An East Meadow, New York native who played at St. Anthony's and then Princeton University before heading to the professional ranks and Team USA. In 2017, he was the Rookie of the Year as a member of the Toronto Rock in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). In 2018, he won a gold medal with Team USA and was named to the Al...

Bill Naslonski is a member of the New York Lacrosse Hall of Fame and still holds the single-season scoring record at Rutgers University. Originally from Farmingdale, New York, he currently owns two New Balance licensed stores on Long Island. In the early 2000s, Bill was a catalyst in starting the Mahwah Youth Lacrosse Program in northern New Jersey, where Mark Glicini started his journey in the sp...

Dr. Greene is a Clinical and Sport Psychologist, the owner of Greenepsych, and a trusted advisor in mental health. He specializes in helping competitive athletes improve their on-the-field performances by teaching strategies to manage mind chatter (a topic he is currently writing a book about), to overcome self-doubt, and to stay focused on their game-day goals. Off the field, Dr. Greene consults...

Michelle is one of the best and most creative lacrosse players in the world. She has been on Team USA since 2011. Michelle won a gold medal and was selected to the All-World Team in the 2017 World Cup. At Syracuse University, she was a Tewaaraton finalist, an All-American, IWLCA and Big East Attacker of the Year. In parallel with her career as a professional athlete, Michelle has coached women's c...

Mark Glicini sits down with the Director of Student-Athlete Innovation & Performance at Yale University. Thomas Newman teaches cutting edge training solutions, which has helped Yale's sports teams climb the national rankings since 2016. During Mark's time as a Bulldog, Thomas gave him nuanced guidance and insight inside the realms of strength & conditioning, nutrition and recovery. Listene...

Lyle was named "Player of the Decade" by Inside Lacrosse. At the University of Albany, he was a two-time recipient of the Tewaaraton Award (for Division I lacrosse's best player). In 2016, Lyle was the 1st pick in both Major League Lacrosse's (MLL) and National Lacrosse League's (NLL) drafts. In 2017, he won a Champion's Cup and was NLL's Most Valuable Player. Two years later in 2019, he won a MLL...

On this episode, Mark Glicini sits down with his and the Head Coach of the Chaos Lacrosse Club in the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL), Andy Towers, who was the recipient of the 2019 Coach of the Year Award in the PLL's inaugural season. Coach Towers also owns and runs Lacrosse Draws, a player development company committed to moving the sport of lacrosse forward for boys and girls from youth to colle...

Adam Silva is a player, character, and executive coach. He remains a highly sought after public speaker and leadership coach with over 25 years of coaching experience among high school, college, and professional ranks. Adam is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was a captain for Army's lacrosse team and later named to the 1990's Patriot League Men's Lacrosse A...

Mark Glicini's first mental coach, Brian Cain, shares his story, insight, and philosophy on performance. In addition to being a best-selling author, speaker, coach, and consultant, Brian is the creator of "The Mental Performance Mastery Coaching Certification Course." He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, world-class athletes and teams, executives and professionals inside almost every professi...

Opponents on the field and like-minded friends off the field, Scott Ratliff sits down with Mark Glicini to discuss commitment to excellence, love for service, and what it takes to overcome ego. Scott is a 5x professional lacrosse all-star, 2x finalist for the Premier Lacrosse League's (PLL) Long-Stick-Midfielder of the Year, recipient of the 2019 Welles Crowther Humanitarian Award, co-founder of T...

Coach Ken Miller owns and runs the oldest club lacrosse team in the country (Long Island Sting for the last 26+ years). Ken sits down with Mark Glicini to discuss how his experience and expertise as a businessman on Wall Street [for the past quarter century], as the founder and director of Everest Recruiting Consulting and as a father and triathlete has created his current mindset and perspective....

On this episode, Mark Glicini discusses servant leadership and an evolution of training over the years with Matt Danowski. Matt remains one of the all-time leading scorers in NCAA Division I lacrosse history. As a former player at Duke University, he was the National Player of the Year and recipient of the Tewaaraton Trophy & the USILA Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award (2007). In addition, he was a 3x F...

Mark Glicini sits down with one of his mentors, Dr. Nick Molinaro, who has been a licensed psychologist for over 35 years. Dr. Nick specializes in clinical counseling psychology, sport psychology, executive assessment and performance enhancement. His expertise combined with his empathy allow him to take elite athletes and executives on a journey toward optimal performance. Listeners can expect to...

Current President of the San Diego Seals, former Team Canada Men's National Team player and longtime National Lacrosse League executive, Steve Govett joins Mark Glicini to talk about growth, opportunity and the sport they both love. Steve was unanimously voted to join the World Lacrosse Board of Directors earlier this month (September 2020). Listeners can expect to hear about Steve's outlook on th...

Mark Glicini dives deeply into what it takes to reach and to maintain high performance as an individual, team and business with Mike Rabil, Co-Founder and CEO of the Premier Lacrosse League. Mike shares his story, his philosophy behind how he continues to build successful startups and why surrounding oneself with the right people is so important. Listeners can expect to hear about principles such...

Mark Glicini sits down with the Head League Physician and the Medical Director of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). On top of their work with the PLL, Dr. Catherine Logan is a sports medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon and travels internationally + nationally as a member of the team physician pool for the US Ski & Snowboard teams each year; Mike Giunta is the owner and CEO of Evolution Physical Ther...

Professional lacrosse player heading to Harvard Medical School, Tyler Warner shares why he pursues his endeavors, how he came to understand what hard work really is and who helped him get to where he is today. Tyler not only won a National Championship at Yale in 2018 and a Premier Lacrosse League Championship in its inaugural season (2019), he also finished his college career as the #1 short-stic...

Andrew Baxter has coached and enhanced the lives of collegiate student-athletes for roughly 20 years. He is currently the Head Men's Lacrosse Coach at Fairfield University. For six years, he was the Defensive Coordinator for Yale Men's Lacrosse, winning the Division I NCAA National Championship in 2018. Coach Baxter played an integral role in Mark Glicini's development and transition from offense...