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Chris Nowinski on Making an Impact
Chris Nowinski on Making an Impact

Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. is co-founder and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation. He is also co-founder of the Boston University CTE Center and the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, a collaboration with Boston University and the US Department of Veterans Affairs, where he currently serves as the outreach, recruitment, education, and public policy leader. Chris has quite a story to tell. He was an elite athlete in high school, but that certainly was not his only identity. He excelled in the classroom, theater, and also participated in academic competitions.

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Bob Bordone on Mastering Negotiation
Bob Bordone on Mastering Negotiation

Bob Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop. Bob also teaches in the Harvard Negotiation Institute and the Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Senior Executive Education seminars.

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View All, Thought LeadersBrian LevensonBob Bordone, Harvard Law School, Harvard Negotiation & Medication Clinical Program, Negotiation Workshop, Intentional Performers, Brian Levenson, Podcast, Sport PsychologyComment
Paxton Baker on Going Toward Tough
Paxton Baker on Going Toward Tough

Paxton Baker is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, who has served in the entertainment, music, sports and production industries for over 30 years. He is a minority owner of the Washington Nationals Baseball club and currently serves as chairman of the Washington Nationals Founding Partners Group. In 2015, he became a partner in the ownership group of the Washington Kastles World Team Tennis League. He is also a governing Board Member of the Global Sports Summit.

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Jake Sherman on Competing for Stories
Jake Sherman on Competing for Stories

Jake Sherman is a senior writer for POLITICO and co-author of POLITICO’s Playbook, the most indispensable morning newsletter for the biggest influencers in politics. Jake is the top congressional reporter on Capitol Hill and has built a career on landing hard-to-get scoops. Since 2009, Jake has chronicled all of the major legislative battles on Capitol Hill, and has also traveled the country to cover the battle for control of Congress.

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Rebecca Scritchfield on Body Kindness
Rebecca Scritchfield on Body Kindness

Rebecca Scritchfield is a well-being coach, registered dietitian nutritionist, and certified health and fitness specialist. Through her weight-neutral Body Kindness practice, she helps people create a better life with workable, interesting self-care goals. She has influenced millions through her writing, podcast, and appearances in over 100 media outlets including NBC Nightly News, CNN, the Today show, the Washington Post, O Magazine, Health, Shape, and many others.

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Adell Harris on the Adversity Advantage
Adell Harris on the Adversity Advantage

Adell Harris is a strong woman who has not just survived adversity, but thrived from her adversity. Adell has been a victim of sexual abuse, was raised in a chaotic household, and has lost a number of important people in her life. But, that's just part of her story. Adell played division 1 basketball at Wake Forest University and had a 14 year coaching career that led her to become the head coach of UNC Wilmington at the age of 31. She recently resigned from her post as head coach to pursue her dream of being a public speaker where she leverages story to help people make adversity their advantage.

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View All, Coaches, Sports and Entertainment, InspirationBrian LevensonIntentional Performers, Brian Levenson, Sport Psychology, Podcast, Adell Harris, Resilience, Wake Forest Women's Basketball, UNC Wilmington Women's Basketball CoachComment
Ron Paul on Loving Leadership
Ron Paul on Loving Leadership

Ron Paul is a humble man but his accomplishments include being named “Community Banker of the Year” for the Eastern Region, by the Independent Community Bankers of America, Named by Washington Business Journal as a member of the Washington, DC area “Power 100”, and being inducted into the “Washington Business Hall of Fame”. Yet, while his accolades in business are many, he brims with pride when talking about his family and the philanthropic work he has done to fight kidney disease and different forms of cancer.

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Martin Bahar on Diversity of Thought
Martin Bahar on Diversity of Thought

Martin Bahar is an assistant coach with the men's basketball team at the University of Southern California. Martin has been coaching for over a decade and his coaching journey has taken him all over the country. Because I am in the basketball community, I am constantly meeting people who know and love Martin. He's a special guy.

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Dave Smith on Learning Leadership
Dave Smith on Learning Leadership

Dave Smith was the Canisius College men's ice hockey coach for 12 seasons. At Canisius, he built the Men's Ice Hockey program to a number 25 ranking among Division I NCAA Men's Ice Hockey teams. Dave guided Canisius to a 21-11-7 record this season and was named the Atlantic Hockey Coach of the Year after winning the program's first regular-season title. He led the Golden Griffins to three straight trips to Atlantic Hockey Championship weekend for the first time in school history, including consecutive appearances in the title game and the team's first crown in 2013.

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Joanna Lohman on My Authentic Self
Joanna Lohman on My Authentic Self

Joanna Lohman is a professional soccer player with the Washington Spirit. Lohman was captain of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 2002–2003 and was the first four-time First Team All-Big Ten selection in the school's history. She earned a 3.98 GPA while obtaining her business degree at Penn State, resulting in her also being a four-time Academic All-American. In 2004, she was named Pennsylvania's NCAA Woman of the Year. Joanna also helped launch an organization called GO! Athletes that aims encourage schools to create safer spaces for lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and questioning athletes. Joanna is Vice President of Tenant Consulting, LLC, a commercial real estate firm in the Washington DC area. She helped create the first "carbon neutral calculator" for office buildings, resulting in an invitation to meet former Vice President Al Gore.

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Darris Nichols on Blue Collared Work
Darris Nichols on Blue Collared Work

Darris Nichols is an assistant coach with University of Florida Men's basketball. Darris has also coached at many other schools. Before coaching, he was a standout guard at West Virginia University where he was a four-year letterwinner under legendary coaches, Bob Huggins and John Beilien.

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View All, Sports and Entertainment, CoachesBrian LevensonIntentional Performers, Brian Levenson, Podcast, Sport Psychology, Darris Nichols, University of Florida Basketball CoachComment
Maggie Lucas on Never Quitting
Maggie Lucas on Never Quitting

Maggie Lucas is a professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Maggie also attended Penn State University where she was 2X Big Ten Player of the year and an All-American. While Maggie has certainly had an accomplished career, in this episode she will also talk about some of the challenges she has faced along the way. Maggie has torn her ACL twice since becoming a pro and has had to develop a tremendous mindset to deal with that adversity. Maggie will also talk about how her mindset has changed through the years.

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View All, Sports and EntertainmentBrian LevensonIntentional Performers, Sport Psychology, Podcast, Brian Levenson, Maggie Lucas, WNBA Player, Indiava Fever, Penn State Women's BasketballComment
Laron Profit on Lifelong Learning
Laron Profit on Lifelong Learning

Laron Profit played professional basketball for over 10 years. He played for the Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers and also played for teams all over the world. Laron was fortunate to have his career journey cross paths with two of the most mentally strong athletes of all-time: Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. After finishing his career he went on to coach with the Orlando Magic for a number of years before making the decision to get out of coaching to take a job with the Jordan Brand clothing company.

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Jesse Itzler on Going for It
Jesse Itzler on Going for It

Jesse Itzler wears many hats. He’s a former rapper, entrepreneur, and author. As a rapper he reached #74 on the billboard top 100, he wrote the NY Knicks theme song “Go NY Go”, and has written and produced songs for a number of companies. As an entrepreneur he co-founded Marquis jets which was later acquired by NetJets, he partnered with Coconut Water company, Zico which he helped sell to Coca Cola. Jesse is also a co-owner of the Atlanta Hawks. As an author he wrote a New York Times bestselling book called Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training With the Toughest Man on the Planet.

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Adrianne Haslet on Resilient Dancing
Adrianne Haslet on Resilient Dancing

Adrianne Haslet's life changed on April 15th, 2013. As Adrianne watched the Boston Marathon participants finish their grueling 26.2 miles she heard an explosion and her life was forever changed. Adrianne lost her leg that day. The leg that she had relied on to become one of the best dancers in the world. Her life was forever changed. In this conversation we unpack that faithful day, but much of our conversation is about the rest of Adrianne's life. Who she is. Who she was. And who she is constantly aspiring to be. Adrianne's willingness to make herself vulnerable leads to conversations about her battles with perfectionism, post traumatic stress, and the everyday challenges of living with a prosthetic leg.

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Hernando Planells on The Unique Journey
Hernando Planells on The Unique Journey

Hernando Planells is the associate head coach with Duke University's women's baskebtall team. Hernando's journey is anything but linear. Basketball has taken him all over the world and his entrepreneurial spirit can be heard throughout our conversation. Hernando is not just a coach. He also has a company that puts on workshops to develop leadership, communication, and culture, predominantly by using improv.

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View All, Sports and Entertainment, CoachesBrian LevensonBrian Levenson, Intentional Performers, Sport Psychology, Podcast, Hernando Planells, Duke Women's Basketball Coach, Basketball CoachComment
Jessica Kern on Being Irregular
Jessica Kern on Being Irregular

Jessica Kern is the head women's basketball coach at Tennessee State University. Coach Kern has a terrific way with words, is super engaging, and has an incredible and irregular story. She will discuss her path to coaching, what it was like to growing up around basketball, and how sport psychology helped her excel as a college track athlete and in the future as a pro basketball player.

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View All, Sports and Entertainment, CoachesBrian LevensonIntentional Performers, Sport Psychology, Podcast, Brian Levenson, Jessica Kern, Tennessee State University Women's Basketball CoachComment
Alan Stein, Jr on Developing Performers
Alan Stein, Jr on Developing Performers

Alan Stein, Jr is a basketball performance coach, corporate speaker, and podcast host. He is currently the director of basketball for pure sweat. We discuss how passion and purpose drive motivation, the pitfalls of grinding, how to be fearless without being complacent, and many more concepts.

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View All, Thought LeadersBrian LevensonBrian Levenson, Podcast, Sport Psychology, Intentional Performers, Alan Stein Jr., Basketball Performance Coach, Pure SweatComment