Freestyle Way

In this episode of the podcast the roles are reversed and I take the seat as the guest while I get interviewed by Chase Nelson, the host of the podcast - Chase Wildly.  During our conversation I share my curiosity for the creative process and how being creative in my work as a coach has served me in finding my voice and crystalizing my life’s mission and purpose. We also dive into what led to the shift I made in my business in 2014, when I transitioned from focusing on the physical aspects of performance to now the mental and emotional side of it. Although the focus has changed the root of helping and teaching people how to move has remained the same. Movement is still the core of who I am as coach, business owner, and family man. To move is the one thing that has given me the most clarity in my life. We dive into what it’s like to live in a constant state dissatisfaction or in others words, to live in a proactive and constant state of adaptation and change. How the constant search of my true self has become the fuel to my fire and what some would perceive as having the IT FACTOR. I share how I’ve harnessed IT and how I have focused on producing the outcomes I believe can have the most positive impact in this world.  Chase asks me about parenting and how it has effected my life, which you will learn in this episode that it has been a life changer and my greatest lesson in life. We discuss the benefit of speaking multiple languages, which is something we all do whether we are aware of it or not. We talk about how when one cracks the code that make up different languages, we begin to realize who we are, how we see the world, and how we are currently expressing ourselves. Moreover, we become aware of how we can begin to express ourselves at higher level. We talk about death and what it means to know that THIS TOO SHALL PASS. We get into my new coaching initiatives such as Lifestyle Design and the importance of one’s ability to think clearly. I share how we are all mirrors of each other and emphasize the importance of finding your style and doing things your way can be the right way. The Freestyle Way. I share my relationship with money and how it has changed over the years. I shed light on what I believe you can do to have a healthier relationship with it as well. We get into how I view and set standards and how these standards are the backbone of my process. In addition, I share how these standards set the tone for the behavior we are modeling which ultimately is producing the reality we live in. I talk about the importance of communication and what Non Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg has taught me and helped my marriage, my role as a father, a friend, a leader, and a citizen of the world. We finish the conversation by asking the question I have found to be the one that we can all asks ourselves and which I believe has the ability to provide us with the most valuable feedback. FOR WHAT? I hope you enjoy this episode and if you did, make sure to go visit Chase Nelson over at the Chase Wildly Podcast. Carl Paoli

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In this episode Carl Paoli sits down with his childhood friend Oliver Russell-Cowan, Founder of Rad Season - A company dedicated to helping people book tickets, accommodations and travel to the world’s best action sports and adventure events. In their conversation Oliver dives into the inception of RAD and how he has navigated the waters of creating a platform that now features hundreds of events and collaborates with over 100 contributors to produce entertaining, insightful, and meaningful content for their clients and readers. The main takeaway of the conversation is to challenge your belief system, to seek support where needed, to exercise self care on a daily basis, and learn how to show up daily with the intent of contributing to the greater mission and picture of what one is building. We hope you enjoy this intimate and insightful conversation.

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In this episode of the podcast, Carl sits down with Diane Sanfilippo - The Founder of Balanced Bites and 2X New York Times Bestseller. Diane is a Certified Nutrition Consultant and the New York Times bestselling author of Practical Paleo and The 21-Day Sugar Detox. Her newest book, Keto Quick Start which was released on January 1, 2019.  It's Diane’s my mission to empower people to live a better life through real food nutrition, advice on entrepreneurship, and beyond which is something she shares in this intimate and casual free flowing conversation with Carl. In this conversation Diane describes how her Rebel tendencies as defined by Gretchen Rubin have given her clarity and structure to understand why she is wired and unsecured to try new things, learn new skills, develop a strong community of independent and critical thinkers. One of the big takeaways from this conversation is the importance of self awareness which Diane discusses in this conversation as she reflects on her career path, the choices that got her where she is today, on how she communicates with others, and how she continues to be a student of self development. We hope you enjoy this sneak peak into the mindset of a rebel and serial entrepreneur.

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In this episode of the Podcast, Carl Paoli sits down with returning guest Tony Dam from Episode 7 of Season 1 and John Marman, the Transitional Age Youth In Custody Program Manager at Five Keys - The first charter school for incarcerated adults in the nation. After Carl had Tony Dam on the podcast, John Marman reached out to Tony to ask if he would be willing to come and speak and share his story of transformation with Marman’s students who are currently serving time in County Jail in San Francisco, California. After Tony agreed, Tony asked Carl to join him and ended up becoming a life changing moment for Carl and the reason for this podcast episode. In this episode, Tony dives deeper into his transformational story which started when Tony was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and since has returned back to society where he currently acts as the Head Coach at Telegraph CrossFit in San Francisco while John who is currently working as the Program Manager for Five Keys is dedicated to helping those who are incarcerated develop the tools required to re-enter society or as John mentions in the podcast - To Return Home. We hope you enjoy this powerful conversation that dives deep into the core of what it means to be human.

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In this week's episode of The Freestyle Way Podcast Carl Paoli sits down with the founders of WeMove Magazine - James Shaw and Chris Baker. James and Chris share how they founded the magazine, what they've learned along the way, where the magazine is going next, and how they are staying true to their original message as they grow. WeMove now has a podcast titled Movers and Mavericks which you can find on any platform where you listen to podcasts and are gearing up to launch their first event called the Complete Human Experience.

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In this week’s episode of the podcast, Carl sits down with his friend Kimmy Moss who is an athlete, coach, and the mind behind Rhetoric In Motion.

Carl met Kimmy in 2017 when she attended one of his movement seminars and later applied to be one of Carl’s Lifestyle Design Students in 2018. Lifestyle Design is a coaching initiative dedicated to working with lifestyle entrepreneurs interested in developing their communication skills, their brand, and business. It was Kimmy’s drive and love for communication that gave birth to Rhetoric In Motion, a projected to help people communicate and become their most genuine selves.

It was Kimmy’s commitment to live in a constant state of development that scored her a spot as an attendee at Carl Paoli's first ever Freestyle INSIDER, which took place in London in 2018. In addition to attending the exclusive event dedicated to those individuals looking to level up in mind, body, and business, it was Kimmy’s contagious energy that led Carl to offer Kimmy an opportunity to be one of the speakers at the event as part of her Lifestyle Design graduation.

In this episode, Kimmy shares everything RHETORIC. Ranging from self awareness to developing tools to effectively communicate verbally, physically, and emotionally. If you care about communicating at the highest level, holding space for complex ideas, becoming solution conscious, and putting your ideas into motion, this episode is for you.

This week on the Podcast, Carl Paoli talks to Tim Stevenson and David “Jacko” Jackson - Founders of The School of Calisthenics. 

Both Tim and Jacko have a background in rugby. During Tim’s years of playing rugby, he suffered several shoulder dislocations and had two reconstructive surgeries, and Jacko who played professionally for 14 years was forced to retire after suffering numerous head injuries. 

"Making the impossible possible." - Tim and Jacko 

After rugby, Tim became a strength and conditioning coach and one day on his quest for finding something that would help keep his shoulder in place and safe, he began to practice handstands. Although humbled by the difficulty of learning how to perform basic gymnastics movements such as a handstand, he fell in love with the process and began sharing what he was learning with his friend Jacko - who at the time had just retired from playing  professional rugby and no longer had a purpose for training his body other than for looks. 

Besides training calisthenics together, Jacko also started shadowing Tim in his strength and conditioning practice. Thanks to Tim’s focus on working with adaptive athletes, Jacko got a chance to quickly develop the ability to coach and develop inclusive and effective progressions to help others improve their physical performance regardless of their background. 

Since they first met and started practicing calisthenics for fun, Tim and Jacko have made it their profession by founding a wonderful organization called the School of Calisthenics - a digital platform for teaching individuals the foundation of bodyweight training with the intent of making the impossible possible. They also travel and teach in person workshops all over the UK. In this fun and insightful episode, Tim and Jacko share how they first founded and funded the school of calisthenics, what they’ve learned, the mistakes they’ve made along the way, how they made corrections that have allowed them to continue to grow, and what legacy they hope to leave through all of their initiatives. 

The School of Calisthenics - www.schoolofcalisthenics.com 

Freestyle - www.freestyleconnection.com

In this week’s episode of the podcast, Carl sits down with his friend Caroline Burckle - Olympic Swimmer and Co-Founder of Rise Athletes.

Caroline is not only a top level swimmer who stood on the podium with a bronze medal around her neck at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Caroline is someone who understands performance beyond the physical. Caroline gets it when it comes to developing the mental and emotional side of performance as well.

In this conversation Caroline shares how at a young age she went from feeling like anything was possible to being overcome with a cloud of expectations when realizing the hard road she had ahead of herself to get to the Olympics. Caroline discusses how she dealt with this feeling and was able to eliminate all distractions to keep her on the path.

Caroline also shares what it was like making it to the Olympics, spending time in the Olympic village, and how she met Usain Bolt 3 days prior to him making history. She also shares what she felt standing on the podium after dedicating every moment of her life leading up to that day to swimming. 

Carl and Caroline discuss her transition from swimming to focusing on school, where after going through a dark period of time she had a breakthrough one day when she got together with her fellow Olympic swimmer Rebecca Soni. Burckle and Soni discussed how hard it was to retire and acknowledged the importance of having mentorship as a young athlete so one can develop a mindset that can transcend their sport and carry over to all aspects of life, which became the inception of Rise Athletes - A company dedicated to developing the Athlete Mindset with an Olympian mentor.

Caroline also shares how growing up although she was in great shape, she struggled with body image, relationships, and later in life became plagued with injuries that were caused by trauma she had been holding onto for years but was able to finally release and find healing.

Caroline is now operating at a whole new level which she shared in this episode and how she is expressing it through her work at RISE, her physical practice, and her passion for design.

In this Episode of the podcast Carl sits down with his long time friend Sheena Lister, founder of Workforce Athletics (WFA.)

Sheena shares how she grew up in Calgary, Canada and from a very young age loved playing every sport she could get her hands and feet on, but eventually chose to focus on playing tennis which landed her a division I scholarship at Northern Arizona University.

After enduring a career ending knee injury she left NAU to finish up her undergraduate degree in Montreal. First leaving Calgary to pursue playing collegiate tennis and later leaving NAU was tough as it meant leaving behind a huge piece of her identity - the sport of tennis, her routine, consistent practice and training, playing daily, and competing.  

After graduating college and dabbling in everything from working on a film set to traveling all over South America, I Sheena moved to San Francisco, California where she began her career in Youth Sports Management. During her time in youth sports she yearned for the feeling she got every time she stepped onto the court. She missed her teammates, coaches, the nail biter matches. She missed wearing the team swag loud and proud. Sheena missed the early workouts and late night snack stops on route back from a tournament. Sheena missed being a high performance athlete even though she never forgot the "feeling" and incredible impact that sports had in her life. 

It was during her time working for the JCC that Sheena couldn't help but ask herself: Why is there an enormous focus on youth sports?  What happens to athletes once they graduate college and enter the workforce? Why don't adults have team sports coaches? How can we create that "feeling"  I got from playing sports? 

It was one night at 3am when Sheena woke up from a dream. She dreamt of a time and place where sports would have the same impact on adults as it does on youth. She dreamt of playing for her company, wearing the logo loud and proud. She dreamt of having a coach and learning new skills. She dreamt of competing and caring about the outcome.  She dreamt of teammates becoming family and family watching me compete again.  She woke up from her dream and announced to her wife - "The NCAA for Companies,  A governing body for corporate sports - I must create this!"

And so she did. Introducing Workforce Athletics, the NCAA for Companies, dedicated to the lifelong success of Employee-Athletes. 

WHAT IS WFA

Workforce Athletics, the NCAA for Companies,  strengthens company culture  by investing in the lifelong success of Employee-Athletes. 

WFA's authentic, "pro-like" sports leagues are guaranteed to deliver great value, energy and impact to Employee-Athletes's and their companies. WFA  brings company values to life by providing sports league experiences that facilitate leadership, teamwork, retention, networking, inclusion, wellness and professional development.

WFA takes care of everything from  hiring amazing coaches, to roster creation,  payment collection, custom uniform orders and scheduling! WFA is guaranteed to provide the best adult sports experience ever.  

THE WFA WAY

At WFA, our mission is to strengthen company culture through sports by investing in the lifelong success of Employee-Athletes.  We do this by ensuring  safe, structured, authentic sports environments that promote teamwork,