Leave Your Mark

Send us Fan Mail Episode #34 of the Leave Your Mark podcast features former Olympic athlete turned media personality, Alexandre Despatie.  Since retirement from competing internationally as a diver in 2012, Alex has created a burgeoning media career and is currently a presence on morning radio in Montreal.   He's been an integral part of hosting Olympic coverage in Rio and Pyeongchang, and he...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features coaching legend Dan Pfaff, during his NCAA career, Dan coached 29 NCAA individual national champions and 150 All-Americans and was a lead staff member on teams that won 17 NCAA National Team Championships.  He has coached 49 Olympians including nine medalists, 51 World Championship competitors (also nine medalists), and five world-record holders. He has direc...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Gerry Ramogida an extremely talented chiropractor who’s been working in some of the most intense and demanding sports performance environments throughout his career.  He is currently a consultant with many Olympic athletes as well as professional athletes in the MLB, NHL, NFL, and EPL.  He has been the Seattle Seahawks team Chiropractor and performance therap...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #31 of Leave Your Mark features S+C and Sprints coach Stu McMillan. He’s trained numerous Olympic medalists over the course of the last 20+ years and has been a part of the success of three different nations performance teams at the Olympic Games.  He’s the CEO of ALTIS World a company dedicated to supporting a powerful training environment in Phoenix, AZ for athletes from...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features renown Canadian performance coach and sports scientist Matthew Jordan.  He is the Director of Sports Science for the Canadian Sports Institute in Calgary and he is deeply involved in the performance measures of all things power and strength.  He has a deep passion for understanding the "why" in performance, connecting the subjective evidence with th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #29 features Canadian Sports Hall of Fame athlete, Jennifer Heil.  She is a gold and silver medalist in the 2006 and 2010 Olympics. She is the winningest female mogul skier in Canadian history.  She is a mother of two wonderful boys, a women's activist, and a career woman bent on changing the face of sport in Canada.  She epitomizes the concept of Leaving Your Mark! I...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an interview with the host of the Finding Mastery podcast Michael Gervais.  He is a high performing sports psychologists working with fortune 500 executives, elite athletes and teams in Olympic and professional sport, and he is the business partner with coach Pete Carrol in Compete to Create.  He is also an avid and passionate surfer.  This conversation is ab...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features neuroscience pioneer David George.  An entrepreneur, inventor, educator, and clinician, he is changing the world of neuroscience with his own practice and his collaboration in business with others.  A named inventor in a growing international patent portfolio, he is a highly regarded expert in integrative approaches to physical rehabilitation.  This interview...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Linda Joyce a woman of many talents, writer, lecturer, life coach, and astrologer.  She has helped people of many backgrounds and abilities understand who they are and live a life more connected to their purpose.  She is the author of three books, but the one that brought her into my life was her first, "The Day You Were Born".  In every podcast, I...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Dominick Gauthier who has competed at the highest levels of sport coached world champions and Olympic gold medalist, and now stewards a foundation called B2ten dedicated to supporting the dreams of some of Canada's most talented athletes.  He has left a mark in every unique journey of his life and his passion and exuberance for life are infectious.  This...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features Stephen Norris who for many years has been one of Canada's leaders in human performance.  He is a powerful combination of pure and applied acumen and his influence on Canada's high-performance sports system is far-reaching.  An Englishman of birth, his adoption of Canada as his home has been a gift to our Olympic athletes and the professionals and o...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features eight-time X-Games Slopestyle champion Kaya Turski.  Widely regarded as one of the best freestyle skiers of her generation, she fought through a difficult career of savage injuries, always finding a way to return better than before injured, always finding a new way to win.  Her tenacity and resiliency are remarkable, and this interview is a fascinating explor...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features an interview with Paralympic swimmer Benoit Huot, one of Canada most decorated Paralympians.  A winner of 9 Gold Medals over the course of five Paralympic games, and many more Paralympic and world competition medals over the course of his career, just a start of what this man has accomplished.  A member of the Canadian Disabilities Hall of Fame, Order of Cana...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Leave Your Mark features Reid Zurlo, a now successful real estate agent in the high net worth community of Lexington, Mass.  But her success story starts early in life, overcoming odds when forced to leave home at 14, she rose above many challenges, finally finding solace in motherhood, only to find herself alone as a single parent after 18 years in a difficult and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Michael Woods a member of an exclusive list of Canadian's who have reached the pinnacle of competitive road cycling.  A former elite middle-distance runner turned roadie now competes for EF Education First - Drapac powered by Cannondale.  Fresh from a 19th place finish in the Giro d'Italia one of cycling's most prestigious races, Rusty as he is...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features James Simms, an innovative educator from the UK who is changing the very face of education as we know it.  James and his partners have created the Everlearner.com a virtual portal where teachers and students can connect and use virtual education to enhance their current classroom approach, and upscale their learning opportunities measurably.  James is on a mi...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Sue Falsone innovator and entrepreneur, she recently published the groundbreaking book Bridging the Gap, from Rehab to Performance based on a career and life as a therapist and performance coach.  She was the first female Head Athletic Trainer in a major league sport in North America, and she has been a leader in her field for many years.  She's on Leave...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features the dynamic duo of Brian Grasso and Carrie Campbell. These eclectic and amazing spirits have massive resumes and careers of their own that have transcended into the combined power of mindset.  They've taken the research in mindset combined it with the pragmatic application of their own strategies and created an exceptionally powerful system that is liber...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 16 of Leave Your Mark features Helen Upperton, Silver Medalist and pilot in the 2-man bobsleigh at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and a recent mother of a little one. Her life has been an amazing combination of wonderful parents, great family, a strong sporting background, and a personal work ethic and tenacity which has lead to much success, as well as some difficult fail...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features the amazing Phylicia George who has competed at the summer Olympics appearing in two finals of the 100m hurdles in London and Rio and then decided to transfer her speed onto the bobsleigh track winning a bronze medal as the brakewoman for Kallie Humphries at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.  She is an amazing human being who has overcome many obstacles in life...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am honored to spend time with Stephen Campanelli.  Widely recognized in Hollywood as one of the great camera operators, he has over 60 film credits in his craft.  His boyhood idol was Clint Eastwood and as fate would have it, Stephen became Clint's favorite cameraman relying on his exceptional abilities as a Steadicam operator to shoot some of the most impo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we feature Lindsay Christianson who is the Director of Business and Partner Development at the Plastic Bank and organization dedicated to ridding the planet of plastic waste.  Lindsay's mission is to collaborate with talented hearts and minds on high impact projects that stop ocean plastic. He cares deeply about our oceans, people, animals and the planet itse...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #12 of Leave Your Mark features Andy O'Brien the Director of Performance and Sports Science with the Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey Club.  He's an innovator at heart, a man from small-town on Prince Edward Island, he has affected the lived of countless high-performance athletes not only as a coach and educator but as a friend and mentor.  He is definitely on a course...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Peter Twist who is the founder of TWIST Performance and Wellness, he is a former NHL sports conditioning coach, functional training pioneer, international educator, researcher, published author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, CEO, father of two amazing women, and stealth cancer crusher! If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and commen...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of "Leave Your Mark" I'm chatting with Rod MacDonald CEO of the Certified Coaches Federation and founder of the Indestructible Human his personal brand.  Rod has a long and impressive career as a leader in the fitness and health industry in the world. He helped build one of the world's leading fitness organizations, Can-Fit-Pro and contributed a...