Show Your Scars

Kendall Johnson is a professional soccer player and creator of Arrow Living. She talks to me about growing up in Portland, going to her hometown school and playing professionally in-front of her biggest fan every game at Providence Park. We discuss her ACL injury, how she got through that fairly smoothly and what it took for her to realize showing and letting go of emotions was a good thing. We go into the hardest part of her career as she was sidelined for over a year due to concussions and how letting go let things open up.

You will love this conversation with Kendall and I encourage you to follow her and her journey with Arrow Living. Here are her links:

https://www.instagram.com/kendelish/

https://www.instagram.com/arrowliving/

http://www.arrowliving.com

Stu Singer joins me again to talk about challenges that come up in injury recovery. We discuss:

- imposters syndrom

- just showing up

- accepting failure

- benchmarks

- and fear.

This is a great podcast filled with so much information for you to consume. So get out your pen and paper and listen as Stu helps us through injury recovery.

Joanna Boyles talks with Jordan about her journey from a young kid growing up in North Carolina to finding a passion in soccer and pursuing her dream of playing professional. She speaks of her first dream coming true when she graduated high school a year early to attend UNC Chapel Hill and how everything seemed to be lining up. Until the end of her Junior season, one of the best to date for her at UNC, when she tore her ACL right before playoffs. She then tore her other ACL within 9 months and we dive into what she changed about her rehab process including who she trained with (Trainer Gorres see earlier episode with him). Joanna just finished her 5th year season on a high note, starting every game at UNC and entering into the NWSL draft on January 18th. We talk in depth about what helped her through and what she learned through the injury recovery process.

Check out her recovery here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg0QcQ9usTY

Follow Jo here

https://www.instagram.com/joannaboyles/

Hope you enjoy the conversation with Jo Boyles and I would love to hear what you think - write us a review on iTunes or tweet at us @aclclub to let us know your thoughts :)

Today I am joined by freestyling soccer super-duper star Indi Cowie - she will probably be embarrassed that I called her that but seriously people she is a BOSS! Just watching what she can do with a ball makes me trip over my own two feet. We talk everything from her dream school as a child to making dreams come true. Throughout the podcast she give her advice and motivation through her ACL injury and shares some of the deepest lessons she learned through the adversity in her career. Plus, we get into the nitty gritty of Rapid Fire and what her favorite song and emoji is right now. Great insight from Indi Cowie -- if you liked what you heard, it would mean a lot to get a review from you. How can I do better and what did you like? I love feedback so thank you in advance :)

You can follow Indi below:

http://www.indiecowie.com

https://www.instagram.com/indicowie/

https://www.youtube.com/soccerbola

051: Sports Psychologist Stuart Singer by Jordan Angeli

Jenna Minecci talks to me about her journey through ACL injuries and how it has lead her to where she is today. We talk about childhood idols like Mia Hamm, how she grew up so active, how her football skills changed her life forever, and how she is using what she went through to help others.

Jenna's book "Surviving 7: The Expert's Guide to ACL Surgery" is launching Dec. 1, 2017. Listen to the podcast to learn how you can win a copy and a gift from me at THE ACL CLUB.

You can follow Jenna on Instagram @jennactive

I caught up with Dr. Paul Williams, an experienced doctor who has worked with numerous professional sports organizations and athletes, to talk about the power of whole food nutrition to fuel athletic performance. We both spoke on a Facebook Live event on Friday night, and the episode is the audio from Dr. Paul's talk. It is so informative about what happens in your body during athletic performance and how we can combat the negative effects just by what we eat everyday!

If you have questions about adding JuicePlus+ into your diet, please email me [email protected].

Hope you enjoy the podcast and have much to be thankful for this week!

Jordan

Dr. Gregory DiFelice is looking at ACL injuries in a whole new light. After studying ACL injuries and all the techniques used to reconstruct them, he is now performing ACL repair surgeries on hundreds of patients a year. We talk about the difference between an ACL repair and an ACL reconstruction. What lead him to believe he should have another look at ACL repairs after they were done years and years ago. We talk about the difference in recovery and he also shows me some of the information from his keynote lecture in a recent sports medicine convention in Poland. Make sure to follow us on instagram @theaclclub to see clips of our conversation in video form.

To contact and follow Dr. DiFelice, you can find him here:

Website (where you can find his email to send him your MRI):

https://www.gregorysdifelicemd.com

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCstf390UFdS4UlKVc5J4yjg

Instagram @drdifelice

I want to thank Dr. DiFelice for taking the time to talk to us about what he is doing to advance the orthopedic surgery game and sharing what "Show Your Scars" means to him.

When you are in the middle of a hard time, your true character shines through. Who are you in these moments of struggle throughout the injury recovery process help reveal and build a strength within each and every one of us. Who can you share that strength with? It is a gift this process has taught you and now you have the ability to pass it on to others. Leave a review to tell us who you are going to Share Your Strength with.

046: Comparison is the Thief of Joy by Jordan Angeli