The Dr. Greg Wells Podcast

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Today we're going to go back to sports and interview Kylie Masse, a Canadian Olympic swimmer. In the 2016 Summer Games, Kylie tied for bronze in the 100 metre backstroke. At the 2017 World Championships, Kylie broke the world record in that event, becoming the first Canadian woman to become a world champion in a swimming event. 

I grew up swimming and did it all the way through college, and so it remains a passion of mine. I actually had Kylie in one of my classes at the University of Toronto and I watched her develop into being a world record holder and Olympic medalist. With the World Championships coming up this summer, I thought this would be a good time to connect with Kylie and get some insight about what her history was like as a young athlete, key factors that led to her being successful, and how she manages competition and training. 

It's pretty cool to have a few minutes with someone who is absolutely the best in history at what they do. So please enjoy my conversation with Kylie Masse. 

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Today we’re going in a different direction and chatting with country music singer and songwriter Tim Nichols. With nearly two dozen smash hits, multiple BMI songwriting awards, a Grammy for Best Country Song, as well as recently being a 2017 Nashville songwriter Hall of Fame inductee, Tim Nichols has earned his place amongst Nashville's most elite and respected tunesmiths. 

In 2004 Nichols co-wrote Tim McGraw's “Live Like You Were Dying,” which stayed at number one for ten consecutive weeks. In addition to breaking a 30-year record, “Live Like You Were Dying” won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 2005. It also won Song of the Year Award from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music, BMI Country Awards, ASCAP Country Awards, Billboard, and the Nashville Songwriters Association International. It is the only song to have won every major song award that is presented for country music.  

Feeling the importance of giving back to the community and the industry, Nichols has served on the board of directors for the Country Music Association, the Nashville Songwriters Association International, and the High Hopes Preschool and Pediatric Therapy Clinic, which serves children with special needs in Nashville and surrounding counties of middle Tennessee. 

This interview is all about the process of creating. We uncover a few nuggets around the creative process and what it takes to be as prolific and productive as Tim has been over the last twenty five years. 

Please enjoy my very powerful chat with my buddy Tim Nichols!

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Today we have a really cool interview with Shane Feldman. Shane has basically become an expert in community and building more community into your life in this era of constant unrelenting distraction. 

Shane is the founder, visionary, and CEO of Count Me In. Count Me In is his youth-led movement which basically started as a small project that went viral and has evolved into a global phenomenon. It is committed to transforming the way teens see themselves in connection to the world through volunteerism, community, and mentorship. It is now the largest youth-led organization on the planet. Since the first program in 2011, Count Me In community members have organized and supported hundreds of service projects, contributing to over 100 million volunteer hours logged, which is valued at over $2.3 billion.

Shane has been featured by Larry King, Dr. Oz, Forbes, and People magazine, and has been highlighted in a documentary TV series on A&E. He's spoken with and worked with some of the most dynamic companies on the planet including Google, Microsoft, and Walt Disney, and has been recognized by the White House, the prime minister of Canada, and the United Nations. 

Please enjoy my wide ranging conversation all about community with Shane Feldmann!

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Today we are revisiting one of the very best interviews from my previous podcast, with Dr. Bill Howatt. 

As Chief Research and Development Officer at Morneau Shepell, Bill is an internationally recognized expert in mental health who has spent 25 years helping employees, patients, and leaders achieve their potential. Bill has a PhD in Organizational Psychology, did post-doctoral training at UCLA, has developed programs with organizations like the Conference Board of Canada and the University of New Brunswick, and is author of numerous books and articles, including regular contributions to The Globe and Mail.

As I’m sure you know we're faced with a tremendous mental illness epidemic. Around one in five people will access the medical system at some point because of a mental health related challenge. However, much like cancer in the 1950s and AIDS in the 1980s, there is a stigma around talking about mental health challenges. 

In this conversation Bill has an amazing ability to explain all of these topics and really explore in great detail where exactly we need to go in the future if we're going to actually address this particular challenge. So I hope that you enjoy this conversation with the amazing, brilliant, and insightful Dr. Bill Howatt.

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Today we're going to revisit an interview with Lisa Bentley that I posted on my previous podcast.

Although she is primarily regarded as one of the best Ironman athletes in the world, Lisa spent the first eight years of her triathlon career racing Olympic distance and representing Canada on several national elite teams at the World Championships and the 1995 Pan Am Games. In 1997, Lisa switched her focus to the Ironman distance, winning her first long distance event, Strongman Japan, and breaking the course record by 19 minutes. She placed ninth in her first Ironman World Championships, beginning a progressive rank improvement that culminated in a third place win at the 26 Ironman World Championships. Over the course of her career she has won eleven Ironmans and sixteen 70.3 Half Ironman distances, and achieved several top five finishes at Ironman World Championships. She had at least one Ironman victory for each year from 2000-2007 and was ranked among the top five triathletes in the world for over a decade.

Lisa competed at the highest level in Ironman despite having cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease resulting in chronic infections and limited lung capacity. Lisa came to see CF as a blessing, fuelling her passion for sport and excellence. Every race gave families hope that their children with CF could achieve similar things in life. 

Since she retired from pro sport in 2009, Lisa has been doing marathons, doing motivational speaking, providing television commentary for CTV Olympic Swim coverage, and CBC triathlon and Sportsnet Ironman coverage. She coaches and does sales and marketing work for other triathletes and triathlon events. She is also an advocate for CF, women in sport, and equality in sport. 

I'm honoured to have her on the show. Her new book is out called “An Unlikely Champion: Finding a path to fulfillment and winning in life”. She is an amazing human being and you are going to absolutely love this interview.

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This week I’m going to share with you an interview that we did on my previous podcast. It was the number one rated podcast on our first iteration so I wanted to bring Dr. John Izzo back because so many people have been asking for it.

Dr. John Izzo has been a pioneer on creating successful businesses and emerging work trends for over 25 years. Izzo was a pioneer on employee engagement and social responsibility, a trailblazer on shifting generational values, and he showed how individuals shape the future. He is now blazing a new trail showing businesses why a rising class of people worldwide will shape the economy of the future with his book The Purpose Revolution. This rising class is not one of nationality, income, race, or gender, but one that aspires to have a good life while doing good. 

He’s spoken to over one million people, advised over 500 companies, authored six best selling books, and helped some of the world's most admired companies. His clients have included IBM, Qantas, the Mayo Clinic, Verizon, RBC, Telus, WestJet, DuPont, Humana, Microsoft, and McDonald's. 

We are really fortunate to get him on the show so I hope you enjoy this podcast interview with Dr Izzo!

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I'm happy to announce that this is the first episode of Season 2!

To start off this season, this week I had an incredible conversation with Scott Livingston on his podcast “Leave your Mark”. Scott’s podcast is all about high performance and how his guests are leaving their mark on the world.

We got into all sorts of cool stuff around exercise training, wellbeing, and even career. I thought it would be cool to change it up and do a deep dive into some of the things I've been working on lately. 

You can find all of Scott’s podcast episodes on iTunes and you can follow him on instagram @Kingopain, on Twitter @ Builtbyscott, or on his Facebook fan page Scott G Livingston.

Enjoy the episode!

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Today we have a crazy good interview with one of my oldest friends in the world Tara Norton. Tara is a former professional Ironman triathlete and now an Ultraman world champion. Tara has overcome some unbelievable obstacles in her life, including multiple injuries which you will hear about. This might be one of the most inspirational podcast interviews I've ever done with a ton of takeaways about mindset and positivity. 

Please enjoy this really cool interview with my dear friend and Ultraman world champion Tara Norton. 

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This week we have an incredible interview with someone who I grew up tracking and idolizing - Silken Laumann.

From broken bones and shredded muscle to Olympic glory, Silken’s story is one of courage, perseverance, and the triumph of the human spirit. In May of 1992 just 10 weeks before the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Silken was injured in a brutal rowing accident that left her right leg shattered and deeply injured. She was reigning world champion in single sculls rowing, but her doctor told her that she might never row again. Twenty seven days, five operations, and countless hours of gruelling rehab later, she was back in her rowing shell and began to pursue her Olympic dream all over again. On August 2nd 1992, Silken made the greatest comeback in Canadian sports history and one of the greatest comebacks in all of sports history, winning a bronze medal at the Olympics and ultimately capturing the hearts of millions of people. 

Now retired from rowing with three Olympic medals, she has continued to inspire and encourage people to dream, live in the moment, and embrace failure as a stepping stone to progress. She has launched a new initiative called We Are Unsinkable, which is gathering stories from people who have overcome obstacles in their lives and sharing those to help other people become inspired. 

I'm really excited about having Silken on the show. We do a review of her entire sporting history, learn a lot about the challenges that she faced after the Olympics were over, and ultimately landing this incredible new initiative that she's launching. 

You can check her out on all of her social media which are listed at her website silkenlaumann.com and at weareunsinkable.com. Her story is unbelievable and I think you're going to love this conversation.