Kevin Rutherford Before Kevin started his tenure at Nuun, he had a very progressive career that Started with Miller Brewing, Kashi, and as President and CEO of Caldrea, (which Is Mrs. Meyers Clean Day soaps) in 2013 be became the President and CEO of Nuun. He is a hockey player triathlete, marathon runner, Dog lover and beacon to light for humanity. From the Nuun Blog Two and half years ago, we asked ourselves the question: If we started all over again, how would we design Nuun? Would it be the ...
Aug 30, 2019•33 min
Jeff Olson Former professional athlete and seasoned executive, entrepreneur, consultant, keynote speaker, and board member. Career success across sports, Wall Street, technology, health, nutrition, human performance, and business. He leverages hi unique capacities and experience to mentor and partner with entrepreneurs, startups, and free agents in the Gig economy. Some quick Stats on Jeff: Stats: Professional athlete (10 years): Two-time Olympian, 3-time national champion, Pan American gold med...
Aug 23, 2019•31 min
Dave Meltzer is the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing , a Forbes “ Top 10 Keynote Speaker “, award-winning humanitarian , and two-time national best-selling author, with 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the legal, technology, sports, and entertainment fields. With expertise across many industry verticals, he is uniquely positioned as a world-renowned thought leader, business strategist and leading humanitarian. Dave has created a platform that allows him to communicate with eve...
Aug 16, 2019•26 min
Jeff Keith https://yourmission.org/staff-4/jeff-keith/ Tapping the same determination and vision that propelled him to play Division 1 lacrosse in college and run across America following graduation after losing a leg to cancer when he was just 12 years old, Jeff is reshaping the landscape for all who battle cancer. By way of an 18-year career in investment banking at firms including Salomon Brothers, Merrill Lynch and UBS and as a co-founder and past board member of the non-profit Swim Across A...
Aug 09, 2019•33 min
“THE BUCKET LIST LIFE” Kenyon Salo is one of the top trainers, facilitators and keynote speakers in the fields of adventure, leadership, team building, sales, customer service and inspiration/motivation. One of only five members on the Denver Broncos Thunderstorm Skydive Team, he is seen each week during game season flying into the Denver Broncos Stadium at 60+mph, ending with a soft tip-toe landing on the ten yard line. He brings to the stage over 20+ years of successful audience engagement thr...
Aug 03, 2019•30 min
Josh Crosby is a former professional ultra-endurance athlete, Ironman World Champion competitor, World Champion rower. Currently he is a coach, fitness consultant, product tester and the race director/creator of the Misery Challenge . He brings an elite caliber athletic pedigree to his work as a coach and co-creator of rowing based fitness programs Indo-Row™ and ShockWave both of which can be found in 100’s of clubs world-wide with partners such as industry leaders Equinox and Fitness First. Cro...
Jul 26, 2019•32 min
Joanna competed as a professional triathlete from 1998-2010. She placed 4th in the Sydney Olympics and was the 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Champion. She excelled at all 3 distances in the sport of triathlon, winning races in the Olympic, Half Ironman, and Ironman distances. She is an Olympic trials qualifier in 3 sports – marathon, triathlon and swimming. Professionally Joanna has been a coach and mentor to endurance athletes of all ages and abilities since 2003. In the past decade, Joanna has helpe...
Jul 19, 2019•30 min
Peter Cimoroni is a serial entrepreneur that has also assisted dozens of local and national companies in strategic growth, brand development, and acquisition negotiations. The Chairman and CEO of Razor Marketing, Founder of the Protocol and 30 plus year high school and college wrestling coach. He is also the Founder of Wrestlers in business. In addition to his day job as a serial entrepreneur, he an athlete and author who recently wrote a book called Benevolent Capitalism. https://www.linkedin.c...
Jul 12, 2019•31 min
It's been a fascinating ride over the past 50+ years, with certainly many more opportunities than deserved. He's looked to make the most of each of them to be the catalyst in helping others move toward #BetterThanYesterday through optimizing human potential within the realities of life. Highlights include: *30+ years of experience in health & wellness, including CEO of US Corporate Wellness (since 2007) Co-founder of the Catalyst Coaching Institute (2011), and 3 decades as a licensed Physica...
Jul 08, 2019•34 min
As a former All-American athlete at the University of Oregon and professional athlete representing my parents home country of Nigeria on an international stage, athletics taught me to never settle for second place. It also instilled success comes from years of putting in consistent hard work and the real you is the "you" which shows up on game day. As an Educator at top international schools such as Phillips Exeter Academy and the St Paul's School, it showed me every seat at the table has value ...
Jun 28, 2019•36 min
Carol Lynn is one of the industry’s most experienced and knowledgeable IT executive recruiters and is a founding member of Heller Search Associates. Carol Lynn has recruited an amazing range of CIO, CTOs and tough-to-find architects for companies in a wide array of industries. In addition to her own impressive search engagements, Carol Lynn directs Heller Search’s team of executive recruiters. I have my son to thank for introducing me to Crossfit. He started while in college, he worked out hard ...
Jun 21, 2019•37 min
Heather Hansen O’Neill is an award-winning speaker, author, coach and facilitator presenting to associations, corporations and nonprofits on leadership, team development, and change management. For the past 20 years Heather’s company has helped clients from entrepreneurs of new businesses to Fortune 100 companies improve their relationships and lead more effectively in a rapidly changing business environment. She has helped her clients create deeper more meaningful relationships in sales and cus...
Jun 18, 2019•31 min
For many years, our guest Bill Flanagan conducted research and clinical trials at UCI integrating ancient healing modalities into western medical models for the ultimate benefit of patients. Today, he’s sharing what he learned as a licensed acupuncturist and the CEO of HUSO, Inc. So, what is HUSO? HUSO stands for Human Sound, and it is a patented technology that uses individual sound frequencies sourced directly from human toning (think Tibetan monks or native American sound healers) to restore ...
Jun 14, 2019•38 min
At 17 Doug was awarded the Ontario Hockey League's top award for Academic Achievement and at 18 years old, Doug was drafted 2nd pick overall into the National Hockey League. Doug would play his first year for the Los Angeles Kings as their youngest player ever. In professional hockey game #607, at age 29, Doug went full speed, head first into the end boards & shattering the 5th and 6th cervical vertebrae in his neck. He would later wake up in ICU, a quadriplegic. No arms, no legs, no bladder...
Jun 11, 2019•34 min
Michael Bergmann is an accomplished Senior Executive, Consultant, and Board Member with more than 30 years of success across the sports apparel, nonprofit, and manufacturing industries. Leveraging extensive experience in innovation and product development, he is a valuable advisor for an organization seeking guidance in brand identity and/or business sustainability. His broad areas of expertise include coaching/mentoring, global business, e-commerce, product development, and go-to-market strateg...
Jun 07, 2019•38 min
Jesse Levin is the Founder of Tactivate, an initiative which employs strategies and tactics from the military special operations and international disaster response communities to launch private sector ventures hand in hand with military Special Operations veterans. Co-Founder of Brooklyn Boulders (Somerville and Chicago), a venture that builds and launches large-scale hybrid climbing and innovation centers across the country. He's also the Founder of the Active Collaborative Workspace, an uncon...
Jun 04, 2019•26 min
Colin Morgan- is a professional golfer turned successful Entrepreneur A few years ago, Colin found himself caught in the daily grind. He felt unfilled and certainly, he was not making the money he wanted to make. He left his job and set out on his own. He stumbled around until he found someone who could show him the way. That was the key. Now, he has a purpose and he looks forward to everyday with renewed enthusiasm. He has a great relationship, a growing business and an insatiable appetite for ...
May 31, 2019•34 min
Michelle Mead and is an Ironman and a Broken Neck Survivor, who always striving for a little more. Her life and times can be defined by decades of competitive sports and arts. Her early years were all about gymnastics, ballet, and dancing. Always competitive; after dancing marathon running became a passion. Completing 10 marathons and top 10 finish at OBX as a master. A friend suggested she might enjoy cycling and racing. Multi-sport and bikes came into her life. She took her love of running and...
May 23, 2019•38 min
Chris has over 12 years of legal and compliance experience; currently serving as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of a $3B New York City-based asset management firm, Semper Capital. Prior to his current role Chris was most recently in the Business Law Department of Goodwin Procter LLP advising on corporate and securities law matters. Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Chris was in the legal and compliance group of Invesco's alternative investments business, responsible for the pri...
May 21, 2019•41 min
In 2003, Andre Kajlich was a charismatic, handsome, 23 year old American student attending his father's alma mater in the city of Prague. On the night of December 6th, he went out partying with friends, and in the early hours mysteriously wound up on the tracks of an oncoming subway train. The conductor could not stop. His devastating injuries required that both legs be amputated above the knees, and after three weeks in a coma, he awoke to an insanely altered reality. Doctors told him that beca...
May 15, 2019•43 min
Marc is the CEO of bylr, Build Your Life Resume. A main focus of his role is being a challenge curator - creating endurance opportunities for like-minded individuals to invest in mind, body and spirit. The most recent creation, 29029, involved renting a private mountain whereby participants attempted to summit 17x until they reached the vertical height of Mt. Everest 29029. Prior to Be Boundless, Marc founded multiple nationwide event series including BeerFit and The Wall Street Decathlon. His e...
May 09, 2019•35 min
Doug McConnell, with the help of his A Long Swim Team, became only the 48th person over age 50 to swim the English Channel, in 14 hours that were divided between heavy waves and pitch black darkness. The success of the English Channel swim has inspired the A Long Swim Team to continue with marathon swims, including the 24-mile length of Tampa Bay, the 21-mile distance of the Catalina Channel in California, and a 29-mile circumnavigation of Manhattan Island in New York City. The swims of the Engl...
May 02, 2019•43 min
In April 2019, Caroline Gleich and Rob Lea will climb Mt. Everest as a “Climb For Equality,” to highlight the role that men and people of all genders can play in supporting women’s leadership, in the mountains and beyond. Despite gains for women in other areas of society, only 10% of climbers on 8000m are women. As of June 2017, only 536 women have climbed Mt. Everest. It’s not enough to have women showing up. We need more women at the top. The Climb for Equality is a social awareness campaign w...
Apr 25, 2019•32 min
Upon graduating in ‘00 with a BS from the University of Vermont (Marketing), Dyksterhouse returned to international competition (alpine skiing) in hopes of earning a U.S. Ski Team nomination and a 2002 Olympic berth. After a successful 2001 campaign, Brandon's Olympic dreams came to an abrupt halt with a season-ending injury. After his injury he jumped into coaching with both feet. At the University of New Mexico, GMVS (Green Mountain Valley School), BC Alpine, Ski Club Vail and the US Ski team ...
Apr 18, 2019•40 min
Brian's journey of helping people create transformational change in their lives began at the age of 14. As a result of experiencing significant emotional pain throughout childhood, a desire was kindled to understand the human psyche and uncover the keys to unlocking a person's inner power. It was, in reality, the genesis of Bergford Performance Systems and Brian's passion for developing strategies people could use to not only turn affliction into triumph, but also break through personal barriers...
Apr 11, 2019•39 min
Marco is originally from Tirol, Austria where he grew up skiing competitively since the age of 6. Marco began skiing professionally at the age of 16 and has participated in four Junior World Championships, the World Championships in 2005 in Bormio, Italy, and upon deciding to represent his mother’s home country of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Marco joined the Bosnian Junior National Ski Team at the age of 16. Marco competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy as a member of the Bosnian Alpin...
Apr 05, 2019•35 min
Alex Stieda is a true pioneer in the world of Professional cycling in the US and abroad. Turning professional in 1986, Alex and the 7-Eleven team raced the Tour de France for the first time. Finishing the 4km prologue time trial as the best rider on the team, Alex broke away on the following stage to claim enough time bonuses to win the yellow jersey, becoming the first North American to do so. In addition, he won five jerseys in total including the polka dot as best climber, white as best rooki...
Mar 29, 2019•38 min
Fourteen years of working in wealth advisory and a life time of love for all things health and wellness has brought JP to where he is today: a business owner, a father and a desire to help others improve their health/wellness and career/financial success. JP brings about a passion to see people succeed professionally, financially and without sacrificing their health and well being. With this comes an understanding that to succeed in your career, in your family life, in your business, in your pur...
Mar 22, 2019•39 min
James Fell- Author of the Holy Sh*t Moment I was in debt, drunk, flunking out, tipping the scales toward obesity. A single moment changed my life. I was in a state of despair over my situation, and with a sudden awakening of massive insight, my path altered course. My passion to succeed awakened, I was driven to accomplish something meaningful with my life. It was the moment that split my life in two, dividing it into “before,” and “after.” After this transformative experience, I began to ace my...
Mar 15, 2019•40 min
Kimberly Caccavo and Kate Nowlan founded GRACED BY GRIT , the first community-driven, direct-to-consumer premium athletic apparel brand for women. They made clothes that women look and feel fantastic. Their combination of skills and passion made them an unstoppable team. Kimberly Caccavo brought technology and business experience to GRACED BY GRIT . She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA. She has had a rich and varied career during which she designed me...
Mar 08, 2019•37 min
