Dynamic Leaders Podcast

On today's special edition episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Claudio Reilsono. Claudio is the author of the book Lead From the Heart Up, Not the Neck Up. He is also a General Manager/professional baseball scout for the Global Scouting Bureau, the Head Baseball Coach at Carnegie Mellon University, and the host of "The Claudio Reilsono Show," where Claudio interview sports legends of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and talks with friends about sports topics.

Follow Claudio: 

• Twitter: @ClaudioReilsono

Buy Claudio's book:

• http://claudioreilsono.com

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide people to discover their Talent Altitude, and increase their opportunities to be in positions of leadership and influence.

Find more information:

• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

Follow the host:

• Twitter: @colintalent409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Michaela Porter. Michaela is a student-athlete on the women's basketball team at Appalachian State University (Boone, NC).

Topics on the podcast include: how her mom went from not wanting Michaela in basketball to helping her decide on where to play in college, why being relationship-focused was her biggest concern when she transferred from Cincinnati to App State, basketball players she models her game on-and-off the court after, and why she's using her voice to achieve more racial equality as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Follow Michaela: 

• Twitter: @itsmikay___

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide student-athletes and coaches in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

Follow the host:

• Twitter: @colintalent409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by his wife, Christine, for the latest episode of Behind The C's! The duo returns after taking a few months off from podcasting together after the birth of their daughter, Stella. 

In this episode, they chat about parenthood, specifically discussing three positives, challenges, and surprises of raising their Bambino during a pandemic. Tune in to hear about all of that and more!

Follow Christine:

• Instagram: @sweatwithstodds
• www.sweatwithstodds.com

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide student-athletes and coaches in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
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• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

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• Twitter: @colintalent409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Dr. Paul Semendinger. Paul is an elementary school principal, award-winning author, and is is the Editor-in-Chief of the very popular Yankees blog, “Start Spreading the News.” 

Topics on the podcast include: how to do the things you love even in the face of working a lot, why saying "I don't know" equals a self-aware leader, ensuring kids safety and learning in school during a pandemic, and how to best connect with students to create our leaders for tomorrow.

Follow Paul: 

• Twitter: @drpaulrsem
• Personal Blog: https://drpaulsem.com/

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide student-athletes and coaches in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

Follow the host:

• Twitter: @colintalent409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Emma Leyden. Emma is the Founder of Pick Her Up Basketball and is also a Product Manager at Ideo. Emma is a former basketball player at Macalester College, where she was a 3x Academic All-Conference selection and a team captain.

Topics include: why her athlete mentality is a way of life and not something she tries to separate, how WNBA players like Maya Moore have been role models to Emma in her life, what her responsibility is to mentor young girls in basketball, what it takes to rebuild a culture that was once great but has fallen on hard times, and why she founded Pick Her Up Basketball so women would have more opportunities to continue playing the sport.

Follow Emma:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmaleyden/

Some of the best quotes from Emma:

• In a lot of ways, I think once you're an athlete, you're always an athlete.
• Taking those opportunities to show young girls their power and everything they already have within them is the most direct way you can push the women's [basketball] game forward.
• You have to think about your vision: what are you actually trying to build?

Pick Her Up Basketball:

• Website: https://www.emmaleyden.com/pick-her-up-basketball
• Instagram: @pickherupball

The Maya Moore Story: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/us/maya-moore-jonathan-irons-prison-released-spt-trnd/index.html

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide women in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Amanda Clements. Amanda is the owner and operator of Beyond the Game. She is a Mental Performance Coach who has worked with clients in the NFL, women's football, and college sports. Amanda is also a former Division-1 gymnast and competed in the sport overall for seventeen years.

Topics include: how she was able to be so competitive at such a young age while in gymnastics, why she struggled with her transition into life after college and how that led to her playing women's football(!), then we break down pillars to her performance coaching -- especially when it comes to managing anxiety,  and why "winning" or "the outcome" shouldn't be the focus of performance.

Follow Amanda:

• Website: https://www.btgcoach.com/

Some of the best quotes from Amanda:

• You don't just want comfort because it feels good, you want it because it aligns with who you are.
• We have very little control over it [the outcome] directly.
• Leaders need to know -- coaches and bosses need to know -- that they too are performing.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Hannah Martin. Hannah is a world-class Olympian judo competitor for Team USA. Her career in judo spans over twenty years and she is now training for the Summer 2021 Games in Tokyo.

Topics include: what it means to dedicate so much training time to be competitive at judo and the sacrifice that comes with that, being teammates with Ronda Rousey, why we need to have people around us who can guide us to the finish line, making connections within the judo world when it's such an individualized sport, and her process for ensuring she gets off to a fast start in a competition so that she can continue to fight and not have to go home.

Follow Hannah:

• Twitter & Instagram: @judohannah

Some of the best quotes from Hannah:

• I've always been a very motivated person. I've always wanted to be the best at everything I've done, no matter what it is.
• If you're willing to put in the work and go the extra mile then you'll be successful.
• I always go out there [on the mat] with a game plan for myself and focus on what I need to do instead of focusing on what they're [the competition] doing. 

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide women in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Jessica Cook. Jessica is a former college softball pitcher for John Carroll University. She now works in Inside Sales for the Pittsburgh Pirates, is a public speaker, and is the author of the #1 New Release book on Amazon, Own It: Navigating The College Athlete Experience to a Successful Career and Life.

Topics include: how being a pitcher helped her learn leadership qualities and responsibilities, why it's important to have positive body language, how having "short-term memory" can help you bounce back from a bad experience or adversity, how she came up with the idea for her book and what her process was for writing it, how she got her book to #1 on the "New Releases" category of Amazon, and how her role in sales has helped develop stronger relationship-building skills.

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/OWN-Navigating-College-Experience-Successful-ebook/dp/B0828G6CB6

Follow Jessica: 

• Twitter: @jesscookauthor
• Instagram: @jessicacook.ownit
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-l-cook/

Some of the best quotes from Jessica:

• Your [positive] body language is what makes you a leader on the field.
• Playing sports conditions you to deal with the pressure [of a situation].
• From a mentality and skill standpoint, I was definitely prepared [for life after softball] because I was a student-athlete.

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide women in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Nancy Hogshead-Makar. Nancy is the CEO of Champion Women, which supports the legal advocacy for girls and women in sports. Nancy is also a former competitive swimmer that represented the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, CA, where she won three gold medals and one silver medal.

Topics include: the grueling workouts it took to make it to the Olympic level and how that has changed over the years since Nancy competed due to scientific and technological findings, why reliance on community has aided her in becoming successful in competition and in life after swimming, how you can support legal advocacy for supporting women of sexual abuse in Olympic sports, and how we can better ensure that girls and women have a great experience in sports.

Follow Nancy:

• Website: www.championwomen.org

Some of the best quotes from Nancy:

• One of the main things that I got out of swimming is being able to push through, even when it's tough.
• I'm a real athlete advocate.
• I want more girls and women to have a great sports experience.

Heard on the podcast:

• Athletes, Survivors, and Supporters of Olympic Sport: https://usopu.info/

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide women in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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• www.talent409.com
• Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn: @talent409
• Twitter: @DynamicLeadPod
• Instagram: @dynamicleaders_409

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On today's episode of the Dynamic Leaders Podcast, Colin is joined by Allie Gleason. Allie is a lacrosse coach at St. Andrews School in Boca Raton, Florida. Allie was a lacrosse player at Siena College and was team captain her senior year.

Topics include: challenges coaches and educators face in the youth sports environment, why it's ok for schools to act like a business (because they need money to survive) but how we can't let that drive us away from the vision of developing students, and how she learned what a player-led culture was like as a varsity lacrosse player in high school.

Follow Allie:

• [email protected]

Some of the best quotes from Allie:

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At the Talent 409 Leadership Academy, we guide women in sports to discover their Talent Altitude and increase their opportunities to be in positions of influence.

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