SAX IN THE MORNING

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Bucky Dent is famous for many things. He hit one of the most iconic home runs in baseball history against the Boston Red Sox in 1978 and he also posed shirtless for a poster that women still bring for him to sign today.  I talked with Bucky and his wife Angie about his career and the joy he is able to s...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. To finish this week of “finishing strong,” I wanted to talk about how you can build momentum which is crucial to get you to the finish line of your big project or goal. Today I talk about some tips from author Darren Hardy about how to build regular habits that will build momentum.  Establish a morning...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I continue to talk about finishing strong. There is a very famous acronym regarding goal setting that I think is really helpful to follow when it comes to finishing a project strong. That acronym is SMART.  S-Specific M-Measurable A-Achievable R-Realistic T-Time bound  Use these parameters when wr...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. At the end of a season or year or project it is so important to finish strong. I looked back over my life to see when I had let up and slowed down and when I had run right through the finish line.  As we get into the holiday season and look to a new year I wanted to give you four tips on how to finish s...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. May 16, 1980 was the day that perhaps the greatest single game playoff performance in any sport was put on by the great Magic Johnson. It wasn’t just that he put up 42 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists. Or that he went 14-14 from the free throw line. Or that they won the game and the championship. It wa...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I get more in-depth talking about some of the greatest playoff performances of all-time. What I love about drawing parallels to great athletes performing in the biggest moments is the fact that they all have lost, A LOT, in their careers on the way to those big moments. They all had moments of inj...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. This week I am talking all about playoff performances and how you take examples from professional athletes and apply them big moments in your life and career.  Take Justin Verlander, who bowed his neck in game 5 after getting in some early trouble and dominated to get his first World Series win in seven...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. What do Russell Wilson, Tom Brady, Oprah and Michael Jordan have in common? They are all talented and worked incredibly hard to reach the very top of their fields. But hard work isn’t enough and talent isn’t enough. Mental toughness is what separates those who succeed at the highest level and those that...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today we continue to talk about how to prepare for those big moments in life. While yesterday we talked about preparation in general terms, today I’ll give you some specific ways to prepare yourself mentally for those big moments.  Some of the tips include:  -Visualize your victory -Meditate positive th...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. It’s World Series time! I thought I’d take this week to talk about one of my favorite subjects…preparation. Particularly, how you prepare for when major moments or opportunities come into your life.  I know what it’s like to have to perform on a huge stage with tons of pressure and what I learned is tha...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. I'm wrapping up this week of football comeback stories with Rocky Bleier, who after his rookie year with the Pittsburgh Steelers was drafted into the Army and later shipped off to Viet Nam.  Bleier was shot in battle and while lying on the ground had a grenade land near him and a comrade. While att...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. I want to talk about a different kind of comeback in Doug Flutie. After winning the Heisman Trophy in college and playing a year in the USFL and then a few years in the NFL, no one believed in Flutie so he went to Canada to play football.  There he won three championships and became a star before return...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. I have talked about a lot about great stories in baseball where players have come back from harrowing circumstances, but given football season is in full swing I thought I’d highlight some of the greatest personal comebacks from that great sport.  There are so many to choose from because, frankly, anyon...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Tomorrow you’ll hear my full interview with Patti Palamidessi, who has overcome epilepsy, major brain surgery and kidney cancer. So much of her message in our interview and in her book is about perseverance.  Today I share the five tips about how to survive difficult times in your life that I learned fr...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Patti Palamidessi has an absolutely amazing story to share with you today. She suffered from epilepsy her whole life, causing her to have to take cocktails of drugs for treatment that dramatically affected her quality of life.  Finally at age 38 she had a VERY experimental brain surgery, first to find o...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. On Thursday you will hear an amazing interview I did with my good friend Patti Palamidessi, who overcame epilepsy and major experimental brain surgery more than two decades ago. But in that interview you won’t hear the full scope of just how much Patti has overcome.  So today I wanted to share more of P...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. In our next full episode this week you’ll hear me talk to Patti Palamidessi who has an amazing story of how a brain surgery affected the fear center of her brain and caused her to live in constant fear. Yet she overcame that fear to live a rich and full life.  With that in mind I wanted to talk about so...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Yesterday I shared the first two core beliefs out of eight that come from Lewis Howes who wrote a book called The School of Greatness about how to go from being good to great .  Lewis breaks down how to become great by focusing on these eight things and I loved it so much I thought I would share them wi...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Yesterday I shared my own thoughts on how you can achieve greatness if you focus on seven simple things. Today I share eight more tips that come from Lewis Howes who wrote a book called The School of Greatness.  Lewis breaks down how to become great by focusing on these eight things and I loved it so mu...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. There are many things that separate those who are merely good at something to those that are great. It’s easy to just say “work hard” and “never give up,” but after doing a lot of reading on the subject and reflecting on my own life I made a list of seven essential things you need to do if you want to b...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. As I continue talking about Hispanic Heritage Month, I wanted to focus on the history of Latin American players in baseball and the boom of the last several decades.  I go back to some of the white Hispanic players early in baseball and talk about my old friend and the first Black Latino player, Minnie...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I talk about one of my favorite players of all time and one of the most important Latin American players to ever play in the big leagues: Roberto Clemente.  Clemente was the first Latino voted into the MLB Hall of Fame, he had over 3000 hits, 12 gold gloves and his lifetime average was .317. Most...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. We are right in the middle of Hispanic Heritage Month and so I wanted to talk a little bit about how the month came to be and about Colonel Gil Coronado, the man who is responsible for getting it national recognition.  Listen to today’s short for a little history lesson on Hispanic Heritage Month and ma...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. The other day I read an amazing story in Sports Illustrated about a man named Adam McKay who has been paralyzed from the neck down for 14 years and he recently set out to break the world record for most miles traveled in 24 hours in a motorized wheelchair.  But Adam didn’t just do this one feat in a vac...

I would love to hear from you, just send me text and let me know what you think of the podcast. Today I talk about what Queen Elizabeth meant as a world leader and how she was an example of how a public person can act with dignity and class. In a time where everyone has to have an opinion, she showed that it’s ok to just nod and smile whether you agree with someone or not.   I think we can all tak...