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This EP features Tim Fleiszer.  Tim was the first player in Canadian Football League history to win four Grey Cup championships with four different teams. Selected 1st overall in the 1998 CFL Draft, Tim was a team captain on three teams (Montreal, Ottawa, and Edmonton) and a CFL Players Association representative for four years.Throughout his ten-year career, Tim was passionate about his involvement in community-building initiatives. He was twice nominated for the Tom Pate Award, which is given to the CFL player who reflects outstanding community service. Today, he continues serving the community as the Executive Director of the Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada.A cum laude graduate of Harvard University (B.A. '98), Fleiszer was a Partner with Gil Scott Sports Management for more than a decade. He has also consulted for Xenith, Gravitas Financial, All-American Games, SportsLab NYC, and STACK Media. He also works currently as a sports business consultant and a sports agent, as the Principal of Fleiszer

This episode is an interview with Sun Ah Brock, Founder & owner of LUX décor and a passionate entrepreneur on a mission to build the most influential design community in North America.She founded LUX Decor in 2003 and scaled the business with the help of three things: her ability to bring together talented creative individuals, a strong work ethic, and a constant drive to succeed.LUX Decor has gone on to do some incredible things. Her team has won Houzz awards for Service and Design for 6 consecutive years; they won the 2019 Quebecois House of the Year Award and AIA Maine Award in 2023; they’ve been featured in publications including Canadian Home Trends, Maison et Demeure, and more; and they’ve grown their social media following to over 65,000 followers and counting!In 2020, LUX Decor experienced a make-over to become the epicenter of the Canadian design community. They launched a collaborative shared workspace where the country’s best designers and creatives could come together under one roof. Above all

This EP features legendary Athletic Trainer Kenny Lowe.  Kenny is semi-retired now, but the former Head Therapist with the Edmonton Oilers of the NHL from 1989-2010 and the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL from 1982-1989.Kenny started his career as the Head Therapist at Concordia University before taking a job with the Eskimos (now Elks) and was a member of multiple Grey Cup-winning teams through the early 80s.  He is the older brother of former Oiler Kevin Lowe and experienced winning the Stanley Cup with his brother in his rookie season with the Oilers in 1990.  From 2010 to 2018 Kenny acted as the Senior Coordinator of Medical Services for the Oilers.  He’s been the lead therapist with several Canadian National teams including several world championships and Olympic medals in Salt Lake City and Turino Italy.He is married and father of 2 girls Amanda & Melissa. Now in semi-retirement, he can be involved with his 5-year-old grandson (Jack) and 2-year-old granddaughter (Lena). Enjoy the insights of a legend!If

This EP features Vinny Malts for a second time. In this second interview, we get into Vinny's journey from mindset education, to mentoring youth development athletes, a realization that academic underpinnings hold value, and the re-iterative process of Mastering his approach to mental preparation.Vinny is a former professional hockey player and coach who brings decades of experience and training with top mental development leaders to elevate elite athletes to their highest potential. As the NHL’s first-ever mindset performance coach, Vinny has revolutionized how athletes approach the mental side of the game.Owner and founder of Bloodline Hockey, Vinny is known as the 'Player Whisperer' for his unmatched expertise in mental conditioning. He has coached at every level, from youth and juniors to college and professional athletes, helping elite players and teams unlock their full potential through a holistic approach to player development. His commitment to excellence extends beyond the rink, focus

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 throughout this journey of six-plus years.  So many great stories, so many incredible guests, and so much insight unpacked.  How lucky am I to have had this experience?400!!Four hundred podcasts and the 400th is being released today on my 61st birthday! Unplanned, LOL! Who's on it you ask?Two of my favorite people in high-performance sports. The perfect combination of smarts, humility, desire to accomplish, willingness to pull on the rope with others, always willing to share, learn, and mentor, and most of all, always up for a go

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/Flatwater, Ski Pipe, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Sailing, TKD, Jr Tennis Canada, Women's Field Hockey, and many individuals in several other National/Olympic Teams. He’s also worked with many athletes in MLB, NFL, CFL, extreme sports, and ultra-endurance athletes. More importantly, he's been married for 26 years to Alix, his high school sweetheart. They have two grown boys, Graydon and Jackson. If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopa

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 Fitness podcast—a top-rated B2B podcast for four years running. He’s interviewed 750+ industry professionals, ranging from personal trainers to Fortune 500 company founders. The Future of Fitness exposes cutting-edge trends in fitness technologies, modern wellness, and health sciences.As the co-founder of the Podcast Collective, Eric consults for fitness and wellness brands like Proteus Motion, F45, ASENSEI, Vi Labs, Spren, Physmodo, The SageHouse, Morpheus Labs, Dark Horse Rowing, FitTech Company, The Brand X Method, Fitness Professi

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 the team in 2003 Sean moved back to his native New Jersey and worked in the commercial sports performance industry, most notably as the Director of Sports Performance for Velocity Sports Performance in Mahwah NJ from 2005-2011.He then founded Donellan Sports Performance where he specialized in training elite athletes at different facilities throughout the North Jersey area Aside from his 20 seasons in the NHL, Sean has been fortunate to work with a wide range of exceptional athletes during the course of his career including athletes

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 worked in the world of human performance for over 30 years. He is the host of the podcast Performance Talk. I think you'll get a lot from this man, enjoy!If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/Please take the time to visit and connect with o

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 12 to win a College Football Playoff game and play for a National Championship. Prior to working at TCU, Kyle spent a year as an assistant athletic performance coach at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the Director of athletic performance operations at Arkansas State University from 2019 to 2021.Bolton was an assistant athletics performance coach on the athletic performance staff at Baylor University from 2015 to 2016, working with football, track and field, and softball. Kyle was a standout wide receiver at Baker Unive

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 Hockey Team.Kevin recently completed his PhD in human and sports performance, and his research focused on the relationship between workload and performance in elite hockey. He’s published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and has authored 2 books Ultimate Hockey Training and Speed Training for Hockey. He’s been a guest speaker at events hosted by the National Hockey League (NHL), the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and USA Hockey. He is also a husband and proud father. Please enjoy this conversation.If y

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, entrepreneurs-in-residences, and friends. You can find all things Luke DeCoste on his website https://www.lukedecoste.com/ He is researching entrepreneurial mindsets, and coaching as part of a Ph.D. in Positive Organizational Psychology with Claremont Graduate University.  His work is grounded in mindfulness. Above all, he is a husband and father. If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all t

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’s curriculum and product development and to conduct, commission, and collaborate on peer-reviewed research to advance human potential through resistance training. Above all his accomplishments he is also a father and husband and his story is a truly informative and valuable listen. Enjoy!If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free L

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 heat training to enhance performance in elite athletes, and she led the New Zealand heat strategies for both the Rio and Tokyo Olympics. In 2022, Julia founded Impact Factor, an online physiology consultancy service for high-performance athletes.  Julia’s latest venture, Her Strength, is an online learning platform aimed at supporting coaches of adolescent female athletes, offering insights into the physical changes of puberty and strategies to enhance training, recovery, and nutrition. The course will launch in the Fall of 2024 (Nor

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 gym and competed at the Mid Atlantic CrossFit Regionals in 2012. Kevin went on to compete in multiple olympic lifting and powerlifting meets in addition to some amateur strongman competitions. He has since transitioned his focus to helping other individuals achieve their goals. Kevin has been privileged to work with a variety of athletes competing at the state and national levels. His goal is to help each client realize their individual potential by providing proper education, enhancing movement capacity, and instilling the right min

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 measurement.Sue has worked with many executives, coaches, and elite athletes, from intermediate to world champions. You can find out more about what she has been doing at her website https://vewperformance.com/If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. You can find all things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-l

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 currently sits on several Health Advisory Boards for Health and Human PerformanceMichol has given hundreds of international lectures and has been a featured speaker at many of the world’s top health and coaching conferences and many colleges and universities around the world. He has done extensive work in the areas of health and human performance, and consults with many of the health and performance industry’s biggest companies - including Microsoft Health and Nike -among others.  Above all of his accomplishments, he is also a

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 not encouraged to look inside ourselves early enough in life.  Instead, we are encouraged to follow the protocols of life, the directions acknowledged and advised by society at large.  This leads inevitably to the mid-life crisis, the burnout, or the sense of disappointment that is often medicated by all the vices of life that become the insulation for the fear and pain of our circumstances. It doesn't need to be this way, you can begin to find a quality internal compass much earlier in life that will allow you to follow a

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 part of their 2020 World Series team. Andrew's passions lie in both the strength and medical aspects of sports, but also in professional development and education. Before moving to L.A., he served as the Director of Health & Performance for the Atlanta Braves where he oversaw medical and strength staff and was able to integrate departments both in the Major League and Minor Leagues all while continuing to develop and refine his and his colleagues' skills. Andrew's experience in sports extends beyond baseball. He has

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 for the UC Davis School of Medicine Curriculum.Brandee treats a wide range of patients with musculoskeletal issues, including collegiate and professional athletes, while being featured as a presenter at national conferences and international venues. She has worked as a team physician with Team U.S.A. Track & Field, the NBA and WNBA, the Sacramento Ballet, and has been the medical director for the World’s Strongest Man Championship event. She serves as the physician leader for the Sacramento Republic FC professional soccer team and