Football is the American passion, but in many cases, it’s more than just a sport: it’s literally life or death. Acclaimed sports writer Kent Babb witnessed how football and the great coaches that emerge from the sport, help save lives in some of the most impoverished communities across the country. Kent has been a longstanding sports writer for The Washington Post and his work was included three times in The Best American Sports Writing Anthology and was selected in the inaugural edition of The ...
Feb 23, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Games are won and lost in practice.” To a lot of people, the pandemic was a show stopping almost world ending event that threw everything into chaos. However, for some people the pandemic was a “forced timeout,” and what do you do in a timeout? You adjust, you re-strategize, you rest, and you rethink your goals. For Paul Epstein, when the pandemic hit, he knew exactly what to do. Prior to the pandemic, Paul took some time to really think about his purpose. What were his non-negotiables, what di...
Feb 17, 2022•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you don’t think that culture is a big deal for your organization, then why do 60% of employees who leave a full-time job say it had nothing to do with the pay? Why are rates of burnout hitting new all-time high levels? Why are some industry leaders and coaches creating whole movements about building good culture? Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton are some of the world's premier experts on building a safe, successful, and winning culture. With over 20 years of experience, they founded The Cultu...
Feb 03, 2022•25 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast Sports are kind of a big deal. Not just among the pro leagues across the world, organized sports are also where a lot of future members of the workforce meet coaches and teammates for the first time. Like our K-12 educational system, organized athletics are a massive influence on future members of our workforce. Despite this, 70% of kids drop out of organized sports because sports culture has taken the ‘play’ out of ‘play ball’. No wonder we’re seeing only 15% of employees being engaged in our w...
Jan 26, 2022•30 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast There are millions of institutions, programs, supplements, and hacks that claim to help you learn better. Among all this noise though, no one’s really answering a very simple question: how do we learn? What actually works? Joshua Eyler is probably one of the best-suited scholars in the world to answer these question. He’s the author of How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching. Joshua has been a dedicated teacher for institutions such as Columbus State Universit...
Jan 20, 2022•23 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast What do we mean when we say “hitting our limit?” Especially in a time when reports of burnout are hitting record high for workers across the globe, it’s never been more important for employees and employers to understand how to effectively and safely push themselves. Today’s guest, Alex Hutchinson , has a bold idea. In his book “ Endure ” Alex claims that hitting your limit and giving up is always a mental decision. As a lifelong runner, 2X Canadian Olympic team member, repetitive ultra marathon...
Jan 13, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast At 1Huddle, we know practice needs to be challenging, it requires feedback, and it needs to be as real world as possible. Unfortunately, not a lot of managers and folks in charge of upskilling people believe that. But, this is a perfect episode for them to listen to with our guest Guy “Bus” Snodgrass , former TOPGUN instructor who shares his take on how to best implement challenging practice. With over 20 years in uniform in the Navy, including flying some of the first aerial missions in Operati...
Dec 29, 2021•26 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast Is it possible to learn anything? Maybe, but only if you’re really young, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” as the saying goes, right? As an author, speaker, and academic for institutions such as NYU , the Canadian Centre for Architecture , and the Design Trust for Public Space , Tom Vanderbilt wanted to understand why so many adults simply stop trying to learn new things. Vanderbilt was inspired by a simple question from his daughter to get to the bottom of why so many adults stop learnin...
Dec 23, 2021•28 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast It’s no secret that a lot of managers and leaders out there are struggling to get the most out of their people. Between a changing workforce, technology constantly changing the nature of jobs, and the effects of the COVID pandemic still being felt, it’s difficult to lead a cohesive, focused, and fired up team. Coach Aliceann Wilber, though, has nearly perfected this craft. Being the first and only head coach of the women's soccer team at William Smith College, Coach Wilber has accumulated 2 Nati...
Dec 15, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast The big question employers everywhere, from small size mom-and-pop shops to global enterprises, are struggling with is “how do we attract and keep talented workers?” There are a lot of different and important factors, such as wages, having safe COVID policies, remote work, culture, but one thing very few people are talking about is even in such a serious time, making the effort to make a workplace fun. Kevin Werbach is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of Legal studies and Business Ethics a...
Dec 08, 2021•16 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast Despite many employers complaining about not being able to find talent during “The Great Resignation,” there’s one group of our nation's population that is more than ready to tackle any kind of job, our veterans. However, amongst all the flag waving, the “thank you for your servicing,” and patriotic social media posts on holidays, the jobless rate for all veterans rose to 6.5% across 2020 (for reference, the non-military unemployment rate rose to 6.7% over 2020). Tony Stewart , a 20-year-veteran...
Nov 30, 2021•28 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast In the early 2010s, a study was conducted across the U.S. to get a sense of the levels of poverty in the nation. Staggeringly, in the supposed “wealthiest nation on Earth,” 1.5 million households were living on $2.00 a day, including over 3 million children. These were families where people had jobs, often multiple jobs, working their hardest and longest, and still were unable to escape from this extreme poverty, despite doing everything in their power to “pull themselves up by the bootstraps.” ...
Nov 24, 2021•45 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve talked a lot about the importance of culture in the workplace, but what exactly is culture? How does it impact your company? Why is it such a make-or-break part of your company? Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder of ghSMART and 3X Forbes Winner of Best Management Consulting Firm in its segment, has made developing a winning culture the foundation of his business. According to a Gallup study pre-pandemic, 70% of people who left their jobs said it had nothing to do with pay. It all came down ...
Nov 18, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you Google the word ‘talent’ and click the news tab, hundreds of articles pop up about the tightest labor market in people's lifetime. This environment has been changing hiring practices, starting wages, and caused many companies to send out desperate cries for new workers, hoping to find talented individuals to fill the gap. However, many employers are still unsatisfied with the amount of qualified applicants they’re receiving, despite the hundreds of thousands of workers still looking for a...
Nov 10, 2021•31 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast According to a CDC Survey , 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. say they feel as though they don’t get enough sleep. The U.S. has the highest annual economic loss due to insufficient sleep in the world with up to $411 billion lost per year, mostly made of lost productivity from workers. Kristen Holmes is the Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP , an innovative wearable that helps users optimize their days for peak performance. She works with hundreds of the best tactical, professional, surgical,...
Nov 03, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast While a lot of the national spotlight gets pushed to the federal level, the state and local levels are arguable what impact American constituents and businesses more on the day to day. Representative Joe Ciresi has dutifully served the 146th District in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 2018 and has made it a priority to create an effective, all inclusive job training pipeline from K-12 to the workforce. Born in Long Island to two first generation Americans who had never gone to college, Re...
Oct 27, 2021•24 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast The majority of working Americans today have temporary, unstable, low paying jobs. When a monthly job report flaunts how many ‘new jobs’ have been created, very often it’s these types of jobs. This discrepancy leaves a vast population in a state of constant poverty, stress, and in no exaggeration, life threatening circumstances. This is the crux of our guest, Jamie McCallum’s work. After years teaching at the University of New York , Jamie moved into a position at Middlebury College as an Associ...
Oct 19, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the 2018-2019 School Year, New Jersey Homelessness Statistics estimated that about 14,000 K-12 public school students experienced homelessness over the year. Of those homeless, approximately 9.2% were likely victims of human trafficking. Since COVID, unfortunately these statistics have only increased. Since 1989 Covenant House New Jersey has served homeless youth across the state and from the very beginning, Jim White has been growing and working alongside the organization. Jim first st...
Sep 30, 2021•27 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast According to the Center for American Progress , 1 in 7 children fall under the poverty line and this was pre-pandemic . Over a year into the pandemic, 4 out of 10 children live in a family that struggles to meet basic needs and anywhere between seven to eleven million children live in a household with inconsistent access to meals from cost. It’s safe to say poverty, especially generational poverty, is the root of thousands of issues that plague our nation. Today’s guest has dedicated her life to...
Sep 22, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Innovation brings promise or peril.” That’s one of the standout lines in the book " Industries of the Future " by today’s guest, Alec Ross . Alec’s experience as an entrepreneur, investor, political advisor, and educator, has given him a unique perspective on the relationship between business, government, and the people that make up these groups. Alec’s success in building a startup in the South Side of Chicago led him to be appointed to Former President Obama’s 2008 Election Campaign as the Co...
Sep 14, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re proud to be headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and work closely with groups that seek to improve the state of New Jersey. So, for this episode, we figured why not give our home state a shoutout! Jose Lozano is the President and CEO of Choose New Jersey , a non-profit economic development organization dedicated to providing resources to businesses interested in making New Jersey their home. Over the past ten years, Choose New Jersey has helped hundreds of companies secure thousands of jobs...
Sep 08, 2021•17 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Coaching an ever-changing workforce is difficult enough and the pandemic forcing us apart has only made it more challenging. With Gen Z and Millennials now making up the majority of the workforce, managing and coaching skills many Gen X and Boomers grew up used to, simply no longer work, especially in a post-pandemic world. And, Coach Brian Polian has something to say about this. As the Special Teams Coordinator for LSU and Fmr. Associate Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator at Notre Dame Fo...
Sep 01, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast The news is filled with talk on what the public and private sector should be doing to help overcome the challenges facing our future workforce, but what about the nonprofit sector? Or rather, the social sector, as Susan Dreyfus considers this the 1 of 3 critical pillars of our workforce economy. Susan was the former President and CEO of the National Health and Policy Forum from 2012-2021. There, she led the Forum to educate policy makers on decisions that would impact the national healthcare sys...
Aug 25, 2021•27 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast You can learn anything through a game. Fact. If you still need some convincing, then this episode is just for you! Jamie Madigan has spent the last decade of his life studying how video games hold the secret to creating a motivated, positive, and engaged workplace. He’s consulted for over a dozen high-profile enterprises over the years, such as Anheuser-Busch , APTMetrics , and Sempra Energy . Jamie has compiled much of his research and experience into his blog and podcast Psychology of Gamers ,...
Aug 20, 2021•26 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast “Do you really want to solve the problem or complain about it and use it as a shield?” This is the question Andy Stern has for employers, especially as the world still grapples with the impacts of COVID and a changing workforce. Andy Stern is the former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and now serves as its President Emeritus. He has been a senior fellow at Georgetown University , Columbia University , and is now a Senior Fellow at the Economic Security Project. Unde...
Aug 10, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Skills gaps are real...right? In a ‘tight’ labor market, where we’re hearing employers complain left and right that they can’t find good workers for their companies, author, Fulbright scholar, and Professor of Human Resources at the Wharton School at UPenn, Peter Cappelli, has some other things to say... Peter Cappelli was the Co-Director of the National Centre on the Educational Quality of Workforce with Robert Zemsky for the U.S. Department of Education during the Bush and Clinton Admini...
Aug 03, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast “Coaching matters. It's an on-going thing.” Brendan Long is the Vice President of Sales for "The World's Most Famous Arena," Madison Square Garden , and leads the charge in coaching and developing young salespeople who represent some of the most iconic franchises in New York City. Home to The New York Knicks and The New York Rangers , but MSG Entertainment also represents Radio City Hall , Beacon Theater , The Hulu Theater , and dozens more historic locations. Being based almost entirely around ...
Jul 27, 2021•17 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Why are we all so bad at learning? Well, maybe it’s because we aren’t being taught right. According to Patrice Bain, author of Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning , teaching and learning are like muscles, they need to be exercised correctly. A Fulbright scholar, adjunct professor at numerous universities, national educational advisor, with over 25 years of experience teaching K-12, Patrice has dedicated herself to teaching others about the process of learning. This episode we dive...
Jul 22, 2021•25 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast With COVID forcing teams to distance themselves and create a divide between those who had the privilege to work remotely and those who didn’t, having a uniting culture in a company was more important than ever. As things begin to reopen, it’s important to never lose sight of the importance of a strong culture. That’s something Donna Orendar is focused on right now; recognized as one of the top 10 women in the sports business, she knows how strong culture drives sales, engagement, and creates a b...
Jul 16, 2021•22 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast When you and your team are thrust into stardom from Netflix’s Last Chance U: Basketball documentary, you’d expect things to change pretty quickly for you right? Not for Coach John Mosley , who’s looking to continue a dominant run with the ELAC Huskies with a 189-52 record, and 8 straight trips to the CCCAA Championships. Coach Mosley is an East L.A. Husky through and through. He was a player and 2x Team Captain in his time as a student-athlete at ELAC before moving on to coach and play at ...
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