Send us a text On April 3rd, 2018, my journey began with podcasting. The first was simply me telling the listener what LYM would be, the second was my first guest Erik Guay. I had trained Erik for the last six years of his career, and I thought sitting down with him and understanding his life and career as they were coming close to a conclusion would be a great way to start this show. I had no idea what was ahead, how many I would do, or who I would have the honor and pleasure of speaking with t...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 38 min•Season 7Ep. 400
Send us a text This EP features Anthony Findlay. Anthony has owned Level 10 Fitness in North Vancouver since 1997. The company grew from 1 employee to 20, and now it supports 50 practitioners, including physios, osteopaths, counselors, and independent strength and conditioning coaches. Anthony has been working with Canada Snowboard for what is now his 5th Olympic cycle. He has further worked with the Men's and Women's Wrestling Teams, the Triathlon Team, the Track Cycling Team, Whitewater/Flatwa...
Nov 26, 2024•51 min•Season 7Ep. 399
Send us a text LYM EP 398 out tomorrow, features fellow podcaster Eric Malzone. Eric is a Northern California native with a lifelong passion for fitness and athletics. After ten years in corporate America, he started his first fitness business in 2008, CrossFit Pacific Coast followed by Lighthouse Fitness in 2015. In 2017, Eric successfully sold his gyms going nomadic for years, finally landing in Whitefish, Montana. He is the host of Fitness Blitz Radio, Athletic Unscripted, and the Future of F...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 398
Send us a text This EP features Sean Donellan. Sean has been in the fitness, performance, and rehabilitation field for over 35 years. He was the NHL’s first Director of Sports Performance, for the New York Islanders. Where using a medical model he assembled and oversaw all aspects of the sports performance department from 2011-2024. This period was his second stint with the team as he served as the Assistant Athletic Trainer and then Strength and Conditioning Coach from 1996-2003. After leaving ...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 397
Send us a text Ewell Gordon is an experienced leader and lifetime steward of the strength and conditioning profession who has maintained a performance focus on proper movement, energy systems, and management. He is my guest in EP 396. A thought leader and professional who uses an individual-centered, holistic approach to performance improvement/enhancement, injury prevention, and overall preparation for high-level physical training and performance. He is a retired officer in the US Army and has ...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 396
Send us a text 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 Performance. The Horned Frogs went undefeated in the regular season and became the first team from the Big 1...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 395
Send us a text 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 youth hockey players. He’s also been a strength and conditioning coach with the U.S. Women’s Olympic Ice Hoc...
Oct 22, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 7Ep. 394
Send us a text 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 their teams at the country’s top accelerators. He advises founders as board member investors, entrepre...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 7Ep. 393
Send us a text 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 established to drive evidence-based fitness and human performance thought leadership into all aspects of Tonal...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 7Ep. 392
Send us a text 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 decade with involvement in numerous Olympic medal-winning sports. Her PhD examined novel applications of ...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 391
Send us a text 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 Physical Therapy. While in graduate school, he worked as a personal trainer and coach at a local Crossfit...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 390
Send us a text 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 mental performance, with expertise in the teaching of brief self-regulation skills validated by psychophysiology measu...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 389
Send us a text 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 Department of Sports Science and also as Adjunct Faculty at the NAIT’s College School of Health Sciences. Michol curr...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 388
Send us a text 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 the easy part of life, understanding why you want to go one direction or the other is the hard part. We are no...
Sep 02, 2024•49 min•Season 7Ep. 387
Send us a text 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 role being the Director of Performance Rehab with the Los Angeles Dodgers during which time he was a p...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 7Ep. 386
Send us a text 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 Clinics, Fellowship Director for the Sports Medicine Fellowship, and Thread Leader for Preventive Medicine fo...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 385
Send us a text 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 evolutions tied to growth management. He carries a belief in business fundamentals tied to clear culture, bra...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 384
Send us a text 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 head of the Equinox Fitness Training Institute (EFTI). In that position, she was responsible for training...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 7Ep. 383
Send us a text 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 Mobility. He's been a Calgary's Small Business of the Year Award winner and featured in INC. Magazine’s “Busine...
Jul 30, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 7Ep. 382
Send us a text 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 of sports experience and has done two Olympic cycles as a physiotherapist with Alpine Canada. Her philosop...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 381
Send us a text 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 Performance for the Golden State Warriors. His area of interest and expertise focuses on global performanc...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 380
Send us a text 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, Birmingham. She covered the 2022 Commonwealth Games 3 on 3 basketball and beach volleyball. And she worked at ...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 379
Send us a text 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 a few include IBM, Coors, Panasonic, Disney, Budweiser, CBS, ABC, Pepsi & Apple. Jay’s narrative f...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 7Ep. 378
Send us a text 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 Essentials of Nutrition Coaching for Health, Fitness, and Sport ; Pre- and Post-Natal Coaching Certif...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 377
Send us a text 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 between! A lot has happened in Todd's world as well. He's let go of full-time ownership of his baby Fitn...
Jun 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 376
Send us a text 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 national rugby team. More importantly, he is also a husband and father of two children. If you liked th...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 375
Send us a text 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 extreme demands, pressure, and stress of the job. With expertise in stress management, burnout, switching off fro...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 373
Send us a text 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 medications as the only solution but driven by his belief in a better path to healing, Jackson embarked ...
May 27, 2024•53 min•Season 7Ep. 373
Send us a text 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-winning team was the first for the USA in the 4-man bobsled in 62 years. In 2011, Steve founded Classroom Champion...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 372
Send us a text 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 levels of achievement across four continents. Urs is the founder of the Radical Humility Leadership In...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 371
