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Sports & Business: Know the Rules of the Game – Part 1

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I’ve played sports my entire life starting with recess on the playground to organized sports K-12 to intercollegiate volleyball. During my college years and thereafter, I had an 18 year career in the fitness industry. Oh, and let’s not forget the “way too old to still be playing leagues”. Every game I’ve played, every practice I’ve endured (with all sorts of coaches), every teammate I’ve had, and every student I’ve inspired to practice a fit life has prepared me for the business world. These sports and fitness governing truths I’ve learned have been applied to running my own business (on […]

Leaders Guide to Storytelling Book Cover

Be a more effective business leader with storytelling!

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We remember our lives through stories! Almost all of us have gown up with stories as part of our lives through books read to us, books we’ve read, academics, as well as movies, plays, entertainment and even religion. Stories give us the opportunity to learn, feel, empathize or live through the lives of others. Our own stories of our lives do the same thing. We remember our lives through stories; first day of school, high school graduation, getting married or divorced, birth of your first child and on. Those stories are not just what we remember, but can include all […]

Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports, Arts & Business

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Leveling the Playing Field Over the last several years we’ve been inundated with stories of alleged use of Performance-Enhancing-Drugs (PEDs), from steroids to Human Growth Hormones and others. The most recent names linked to steroid use and actual legal action include Rogers Clemens and Barry Bonds, but let’s not forget about Lance Armstrong’s truly amazing come-back from cancer to capture yet another Tour de France. What about Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa? Baseball’s not the only sport supposedly tainted by PEDs, how about track and field’s line-up of athletes who’ve been stripped of Olympic medals, suspended or banned […]

A Tribute to My Father on Father’s Day!

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Ever since I was little I’ve always had this personal rule… “Always Finish What You Started Before Starting Something New”. I know exactly where this comes from, and I’m not sure whether to thank my Father on this Father’s Day or curse him for what at the time seemed like another pointless life lesson. It’s only today that I realize many of these life lessons had application in the business world. Even today, almost 11 years after his passing I still abide by most of these life lessons or at least feel guilty if I willingly don’t.