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Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kyle Bolton. Kyle is currently the Director of Speed and Performance for University of Oregon Football. His primary role within the program is to direct and facilitate all aspects of speed development, conditioning, athletic development, and load management.  Previously Kyle was with the TCU Horned Frogs’ staff as an Associate Director of Football Human Perfo...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Kevin Neeld. Kevin is the Head Performance Coach for the Boston Bruins.  Before working for the Bruins, Kevin spent 2 years as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the San Jose Sharks.  Before his NHL journey began, Kevin was the director of a private sports performance facility in New Jersey working with pro, college, junior, and elite-level yout...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Luke DeCoste. Luke has been involved in buying, building, and selling several ventures throughout his career, he is an alumnus of Techstars and Creative Destruction Lab. He helps students start companies by teaching courses on Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Dalhousie University. He co-founded MindFrameconnect.com to develop the resilience of founders and...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features Troy Taylor. Troy is an internationally renowned human performance leader, with extensive experience developing and leading world-class, multi-disciplinary teams and working collaboratively to connect high-level strategic insights to operational execution.   Troy is currently the Senior Director, Performance Innovation at Tonal. Troy leads a department establ...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Julia Casadio a sports physiologist, applied researcher, and performance consultant with 15+ years’ of experience working in elite sports. Originally from Canada, where she grew up cross-country ski racing at a competitive level, she is now based in New Zealand with her husband and two children.  She has worked with High Performance Sport New Zealand for over a de...

Send us Fan Mail This Episode features Kevin Kirsch. Kevin is an educator, sports performance coach, physical therapist, and the co-owner of The Athlete’s Edge Rehab and Performance. An athlete all his life, Kevin played multiple sports growing up and ultimately was able to play collegiate soccer at the Division 1 Level for Saint Joseph’s University. After college, he obtained his Doctorate of Phy...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features a human performance pioneer, Vietta "Sue" Wilson. Sue is a world-renowned performance enhancement specialist considered the “grandmother” of biofeedback for sports performance.    She is a professor emeritus from York University where she dedicated much of her career to studying the connection between stress and its effect on physical health and men...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest, Michol Dalcourt, is an internationally recognized leader in the health and human performance industry. He is the Founder and CEO of the Institute of Motion, the inventor of ViPR and ViPR PRO, and Co-Founder of PTA Global (acquired by The National Academy of Sports Medicine).  He's served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of San Francisco in the Depa...

Send us Fan Mail In this EP I decided to talk alone about an important subject to me, mentorship. Informal and formal mentorship can shape the experiences of your life.  If it's done well, it challenges you to self-reflect and grow.   A good mentor will not only give you advice but will challenge you to understand why you want to do what you want to do in the first place.  Making decisions is...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Andrew Hauser. Andrew is the owner of Continuum High Performance in Phoenix, AZ, specializing in integrated rehab, as well as strength & conditioning for college and professional athletes of all sports.  Andrew has worked in a variety of roles in his 14 years of experience as an athletic trainer and strength coach in professional baseball, with his most recent...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Brandee Waite.  Brandee is a physician and a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at UC Davis School of Medicine. She holds additional sub-specialty certifications in both Sports Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.  She serves as the PM&R section chief for Sports Medicine, medical director for UC Davis Health Sports Medicine Clini...

Send us Fan Mail EP 384 features Patrick Boivin. Pat is a career executive and leader in amateur and professional sports, driven by foundational change opportunities and fostering visions that can disrupt how things are done.   Pat has a soft spot for human performance, health, and wellness startups that will generate societal shifts. He has a strong track record in organizational pivots and evolu...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Geralyn Coopersmith. Geralyn has 30 years of experience creating cutting-edge programs and leading teams for best-in-class wellness brands. Geralyn was a full-time personal trainer and group exercise instructor based in New York City and The Hamptons for the first decade of her career.  In 2004, she took a corporate role with Equinox that evolved into being the he...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features fitness entrepreneur Louis Stack. Louis is the Founder and President of Fitter International a Canadian-based company that has been “Leading the World to Better Balance” since 1985.   The Fitterfirst brand is recognized as the premium North American leader when it comes to professional and personal products that help people maintain Stability, Agility, and Mobilit...

Send us Fan Mail Stefania Rizzo. Stef is a physiotherapist currently working with the Brooklyn Nets.  She’s been in practice for 23 years. Before working with the Nets she worked one year with the Buffalo Sabres.  She had been working at Fortius Health and Sport and was one of the first three physiotherapists to help set up this incredible performance center in Burnaby, BC.  She has a great deal o...

Send us Fan Mail Carl Bergstrom is currently the Director of Performance for Stephen Curry as an individual athlete, as well as his business unit, 30ink.  Born and raised in North Vancouver, Canada, Carl previously held positions in the private space, as well as with the Vancouver Whitecaps, Vancouver Canucks, and Canadian women’s national team for soccer.  More recently, he was the Director of Pe...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Catherine Tomkies. Catherine has a practice at the Bosworth Clinic in Oxford England.  She has many experiences throughout her career, most interestingly as a physiotherapist each year at the Wimbledon fortnight. Among her other varied experiences, she’s worked as a part-time teaching fellow on the Masters in Sports Physiotherapy at the University of Bath, Birming...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features film director and photographer, Jay Silverman. For over 30 years, Jay has excelled as a leading Director, Producer, and Photographer specializing in award-winning films, television, digital, and print campaigns. Jay has worked with renowned celebrities like Denzel Washington, Beyonce, Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, and Ray Charles. His advertising clients to name...

Send us Fan Mail Krista Scott-Dixon is Product Director at Simple, a nutrition app with global reach, responsible for designing evidence-based nutrition and health behavior change programs. Previously she served as Director of Curriculum at Precision Nutrition, leading the development of the PN Academy and PN Certifications. She is the author of several books and co-author of textbooks such as The...

Send us Fan Mail This EP is a return visit for Todd Durkin.  Todd was one of my early guests in year one of the podcast. Todd is an internationally recognized strength, speed, and conditioning coach, personal trainer, body worker, motivational speaker, and author who motivates, educates, and inspires people worldwide. Since we first talked, a lot has happened worldwide, just a little pandemic in b...

Send us Fan Mail Tom Tombleson.  Tom is a former England Sevens and professional rugby player in the UK and Australia. Since leaving the game, Tom has been a strength and conditioning coach with now 15 years of experience working with high-performance professional athletes in the UK, USA, and Australia, including NSW Waratahs in Super Rugby.  For the last 9 years, he has also worked with England’s...

Send us Fan Mail This is Josh Fletcher's third time on the podcast.  Josh has 15+ years of experience as a human performance coach working with Olympic medal-winning programs, the military Special Forces, F2/F3 racing drivers, and corporate professionals from PwC, Deloitte, and Capita. He helps senior leaders, people managers, and talented corporate professionals to thrive alongside the extre...

Send us Fan Mail Jackson Corley, the visionary CEO and Founder of Incrediwear, brings over two decades of entrepreneurial expertise in product design and development. His career has been dedicated to creating ground-breaking products that advance optimal health, wellness, and recovery.  In 2008, Jackson faced a pivotal moment after a serious biking injury. Multiple doctors suggested prescription m...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features Steve Mesler.  Steve is a 3-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist, Board Director, co-founder, and CEO of Classroom Champions. As the world’s foremost sport-for-education organization, Classroom Champions supports academic, social, and emotional student well-being through the mentorship and mindsets of world-class athletes. Steve's Olympic gold medal-winnin...

Send us Fan Mail This EP features a former United Nations military peacekeeper and NATO military peacekeeping commander, a highly accomplished ultra-endurance champion, URS Koenic.  He is a widely published professor, bestselling author, and a seasoned executive coach and keynote speaker with more than three decades of experience helping hundreds of leaders and dozens of executive teams unlock new...