Leave Your Mark

Send us Fan Mail This is such an important episode. Every parent, every coach, every young athlete should hear this episode and understand how easily our children can fall prey to evil.  There are so many great youth coaches out there working hard to see our children find joy and growth in play, but there are also some terrible individuals we must all work to eliminate and remove from our sports s...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a return after a few weeks' absences to discuss the idea of starting from a place of kindness, consideration, and compassion when interacting with others.  Instead of standing in judgment, or reacting with anger or hate, begin by trying to understand. Being curious, asking questions, and becoming informed is the most important part of creating an opinion or a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Dan Coughlan. Dan is a strength and conditioning coach, physiotherapist, and applied sports scientist with an interest in golf.  He is the Head of Strength and Conditioning at the European Tour, National Lead for Sports Science and Medicine with England Golf and founder of the Golf Performance Network, a company that focuses on sports science and medicine edu...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Bruce Craven.  Bruce has been at the leading edge of human performance in Canada for over thirty years.  He is both a Sports Physiotherapist and Strength and Conditioning Coach and is the co-owner of Craven Sports Services in Saskatoon. During his profound career, he’s worked with athletes in a multitude of sports, competing at provincial, national, internati...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Dr. Maren Gube. Maren has a Ph. D. in Educational Psychology and currently helps organizations understand the intimate connection between innovation and contextual social emotions.   Growing up in Finland among forests and paper mills, she developed an early interest in how things are made and how they work.  Her formative career experiences included...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode, Dom Gauthier and I go deep on things that support an athlete's longevity in a sport. It's not always about bigger, faster, stronger, but also how long you can stay in the game.  If you're not playing, you're not contributing, and you're not creating success. You can be the fittest, fastest, or strongest in the game, but if you're in t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a quiet leader in human performance, Sean Skahan.  Sean is in his fifth season as Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Minnesota Wild. He served in the same capacity for the Men's Ice Hockey and Field Hockey teams at Boston University in 2015-16. Prior to joining the Terriers in the summer of 2015, Skahan spent 13 seasons as the Strength and Condition...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode is a Sunday Re-Marks and I use a few personal examples of where I've chosen what may not be the conventional decision or socially referenced decision in my life in order to live a more fulfilling life.  Are you driving your bus, or are you a passenger? A worthy self-reflection exercise.  Enjoy! If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share...

Send us Fan Mail Our official 200th Episode features a former Navy SEAL Commander, Rich Diviney. He completed more than 13 overseas deployments – 11 of which were to Iraq and Afghanistan. During his time as the officer in charge of training for a specialized command, he reworked the selection and assessment program to identify key performance attributes rather than just skills which allowed for a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is another in the Performance Conversations with Dom+Scott featuring our guest Brett Bartholomew.  We go deep on communication as the essence of coaching.  How we can improve it, and tailor our message so that we get the most out of our athletes or clients. Enjoy! If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Steve Saunders who is in his sixth year as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach with the Baltimore Ravens.  Saunders guides all sports science, speed, strength training, and recovery initiatives, working closely with the team's athletic training department. His focus includes player injury prevention, recovery, and energy system training in an effort...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I take a moment to reflect on some of my journey as a father, my learning watching the growth and journey of my wife Jaime. As well, the gratefulness of my own adoption by my amazing mother and her care for me.  Happy Mother's Day 2021 If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels I...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Marty Lauzon. Marty is a physical therapist and athletic trainer and has worked for the past thirty years in numerous roles in elite performance. He is Canadian, born in Quebec, and educated at the University of Ottawa.  Post-graduation back in 1994 he interned for the Montreal Machine of the start-up World Football League.  He then found himself doing an int...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is another in the series of Performance conversations with my good friend Dom Gauthier. Our Guest this week is former Canadian Women's Soccer National Team member Rhian Wilkinson.  Rhian retired several years ago and became a development coach for the women's program in Canada, and has recently taken on a role with Team GB as the Assistant Coach.  We go deep...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy Mauck. Kathy has spent her entire professional life furthering the science and education of Health and Human Performance.  She began in medical research at Oregon Health Sciences University and launched from there into her own entrepreneurial pursuits. She partnered to create a neuroscience-based education company called Z-Health Performance and after selling that business,...

Send us Fan Mail In this Sunday Re-Marks, I get into what self-reflective practice is not some sort of esoteric lala land, but a purposeful and consistent process of recognizing your journey in any circumstance, evaluating your motives and means and allowing yourself to course correct and refine the value proposition of your experience.  Enjoy If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an amazing Australian performance professional, Lachlan Wilmot. Lach has been working in the fitness industry going on 17 years, working with both the general population and elite-level athletes.  After completing a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science, Lachlan continued his education, completing his Honours thesis in Sports Science. Lach spent 8 years as t...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode #191 of the podcast, guest host Dom Gauthier and I welcome Olympic Silver Medalist in Bobsleigh Helen Upperton to discuss the subject of women in sport. Her experiences with coaching, as a coach, and as a new mother in the world of performance sport. It's an ignition conversation to future sessions Dom and I plan to have around this topic and so many other amazing...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a Performance Zoom Lab with an exceptional performance pro, Damien Moroney.  I invited Damien to chat with our Reconditioning community on his process, and bring some of his amazing experience to the table. Damien has a huge career resume, having worked in many different performance spaces, and many different types of performance athletes.  He has a particular inte...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sunday Re-Marks, I talk about the Five Agreements written about in the wonderful books by Don Miguel Ruiz "The Four Agreements" and "The Fifth Agreement".  The combination of thoughts digested in these two great reads is so important for everyone to read, especially with the way the world is rolling today.  Media, Social Media, Politics, and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a fitness industry legend, Larry Indiviglia.  Larry is a life coach, fitness icon, author, father, and grandfather.  He’s had a formidable career in the fitness industry, with many ups and downs like all of us.  Most recently he suffered his own challenges with Cancer, and then experienced the loss of new love in his life to the same disease.  He’s written a...

Send us Fan Mail To open season 4 this is a new offering of the Leave Your Mark podcast. It's a dynamic conversation with my good friend and colleague Dom Gauthier.  Dom possesses a massive life experience in the high-performance sport as an Olympic athlete, coach, leader, and businessman.  Our experience together spans many years and many amazing stories, some of which we hope to use to brin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I was invited to steward a performance conversation with an experienced group of human performance practitioners around the subject of movement screening, assessment, and intervention.  Having coach Dan Pfaff introduce the session with a 30-minute walkthrough of their Living Screen process (you can find that gem on the ALTIS website (https://altis.world/) was a gr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sunday Re-Marks, I talk about the concept of Minding the Gap to provide you with a moment of celebration from where you've come. This provides forward momentum and motivation to continue making progress in your life. I hope you find it valuable. Enjoy If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Max GartnerMax, former President and CEO of Alpine Canada and now a founding partner of his consulting company GoldMettle which he owns with his wife, former National Team Skier Kerrin Lee-Gartner. Max a native of Linz, Austria, is a former professional soccer player who spent five years at the famed Stams Ski Academy in Austria. After joining Alpine Canada a...