Leave Your Mark

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Pierre McGuire. Pierre is an NHL hockey analyst for NBC Sports. Until 2011 he was a prominent analyst for TSN in Canada.   Pierre’s post-athletic career was in coaching initially, and he was an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Penguins when they won the Stanley Cup in 1992. He also had a brief stint as head coach of the Hartford Whalers in 1993. He further...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Jennifer Sygo a Registered Dietitian and Sports Nutritionist with the Cleveland Clinic in Toronto.   Jennifer works with athletes and active individuals of all abilities, including Olympic medallist and athletes in the NHL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and professional tennis.   She has provided nutrition services for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Triathlon Cana...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Rick Chamney as an expert in physical rehabilitation for performers in the arts and athletes in sports for more than 25 years, his career has allowed him to follow his passion.  He’s developed artistic athletes with organizations like Cirque du Soleil, as well as individual and performance team athletes from dozens of sports.   Rick started his career with Ci...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Pistol Pete Friesen an extremely accomplished performance professional with a background in physical therapy and strength and conditioning as his foundation.  He is currently the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the United States Women’s National Hockey program.   Peter spent 21 years with the Carolina Hurricanes as the team’s Head Athletic Trainer...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a Canadian sports broadcasting icon. He's been the face of TSN's hockey coverage for several decades. Episode #55 of Leave Your Mark features James Duthie and it's a great story about a kid from the east end of Ottawa who discovered he had a knack for talking to an audience.  His quirky sense of humor and his affinity for sport helped him carve...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Nick Winkleman who is the head of athletic performance & science for the Irish Rugby Football Union. Formerly Nick was the director of education and training systems for EXOS. As the director of education, Nick oversaw the development and execution of all internal and external educational initiatives.  As a performance coach, Nick oversaw the speed and as...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Dana Lis who is a very talented high-performance sports dietitian, and in this role , she’s had the honor of working with many of Canada’s top athletes and sports scientists.   She’s also worked nationally and internationally with many professional athletes including her current work as a consultant with the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors of t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Reg Grant who has been the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the New York Rangers Hockey Club of the National Hockey league since 2002 and currently serves as the President of the Strength and Conditioning Association of Professional Hockey.  Prior to his work in the National Hockey league , Reg served in the same capacity with Concordia University in...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features David Joyce. David is currently the Head of Athletic Performance at the Greater Western Sydney Giants of the Australian Football League.   He has worked in professional rugby at the club and international level in both the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as in club and international football in the English Premier League and in Turkey.  He’s been a part...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Leave Your Mark is a special one.  I started out nine months ago on a journey to achieve a dream.  I wanted to be a broadcaster when I was a boy, and some 40 years later, I chose to podcast as my vehicle.  In those nine months I was able to complete 48 interviews, as well as my introduction podcast, and so I felt that the best way to celebrate the New Year of 2018...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Sophia Nimphius who is an Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University and leads High-Performance Services for Softball Western Australia.   She previously served as the Sports Science Manager for the Hurley Surfing Australia High Performance Centre and has held positions in sports science and strength and conditioning in the US and Australia supporting athl...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #48 of Leave Your Mark features Fergus Connolly who is a leading expert in team sports and human performance. Fergus is the author of the ground-breaking Game Changer (the first holistic coaching philosophy for winning in all team sports).  He has worked within many of the major professional sports leagues in the world including work with Liverpool FC, the San Francisco 49...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Richard Collinge who is a Master’s level Chartered Physiotherapist with over 20 years of clinical experience.  His journey has seen him work in the NHS, private practice and predominantly elite sport in the UK and North America.  He has worked at Crystal Palace FC, Brentford FC, Watford FC, Wigan Athletic FC, Montreal Impact FC, the Scottish Men’s National Te...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features James Morton who is currently a professor of exercise metabolism and nutrition at Liverpool John Moores University.  He is also the Head of Nutrition for Team Sky and has led the nutrition strategy for the team through its victories at the Tour de France since 2015.  From 2010 to 2015 James provided support in conditioning and nutrition with the Liverpool Foo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Rachel Martin.  Having pulled herself up from poverty to being named one of  Inc.  magazine's top 40 entrepreneurs, she’s been writing online for over a decade. She is the writer behind the site  FindingJoy.net   and author of the life-changing, find-your-heart book  The Brave Art of Motherhood . Her site reaches millions, her content has been translated...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kelly Starrett who  is a physical therapist, and a co-founder of San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD.com, where he shares his innovative approach to movement, mechanics, and mobility with coaches and athletes .  He travels around the world teaching his Movement & Mobility Course and works with elite Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard force...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Carmen Bott who has been in the sports performance and fitness training industry for over twenty years and her passion and focus go deep in combative and collision sports athlete preparation.  She is currently a professor of Kinesiology at Langara College and Simon Fraser University.  She is grounded  in a combination of pure and applied science in her coachi...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Richard Monette who is a sports psychology consultant to many Olympic and professional athletes.   He has coached athletes to success under pressure at the highest levels of sport and he is an expert in helping individuals and organizations achieve sustained performance.  His talents span the disciplines of business, education and sports psychology, all of wh...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Bill Knowles who is currently the Director of Reconditioning and Athletic Development for HPSports.  He is a consultant to many professional and college sports teams throughout the world, and many high performing athletes from teams in almost every league around the globe.  Bill is a pioneer in the world of reconditioning, a practice near and dear to my own h...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Brett Bartholomew who is a performance coach, author, consultant, and founder of the performance coaching and consulting company, The Bridge Human Performance.  His book, Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In was ranked in the “Amazon Top 100 Books Overall” in 2017 and has become a must-have resource guide to coaches of any kind who seek...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Rhian Wilkinson who was a professional soccer player and member of Canada's Women's National Team for 13 years.  She is one of a very select group of players ever to appear in 150 games for Canada. As a member of the national team, she won a bronze medal at the London Olympic games and has further competed at four world cups and two other Olympic ga...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features Trent Stellingwerff who is one of Canada's secret weapons in Olympic sport. He's been in the trenches for many years innovating his area of passion; performance nutrition and endurance sports physiology. He is a unique combination of an exercise physiologist, sports nutrition practitioner, coach, and researcher.  His capacity to digest information,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features physical therapist, performance coach, teacher, lecturer, author, and mentor Gray Cook.  In life, you occasionally encounter unique people who are a special combination of thought creating and thought-provoking. Gray is one of those people. He's been on a mission to change the way we see human movement, how we affect it, and how we live more sustainable...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features performance coach Matt Nichol who has been working in the field of human performance for over 20 years.  He has a long list of amazing athletes from many different sports, but he specializes in the off-season training some of the National Hockey League's best players. He's the founder and inventor of Biosteel a supplement product he built simply bec...

Send us Fan Mail This episode does not disappoint featuring Mike Boyle, undeniably a pioneer in the world of performance training for sport.   His career spans close to 40 years of practice as an S+C coach at BU, the Boston Bruins, the Boston Red Sox and within his own business Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning.   He's a leader, a learner, a teacher, a lecturer, a mentor, and a businessman...