The High Impact Athletes Podcast

Naya comes from a family of track athletes and football players. She came to volleyball late but has had a stellar career spanning many countries and awards. 

After discussing the pathway to professional volleyball (definitely not a typical one), Marcus and Naya dive into the unseen side of sport - abusive coaches, negative environments, and speaking up for what’s right despite pushback.

Off-court topics include climate action, corporate responsibility, and the best and worst of humanity.

Naya is a strong and energetic person who has a lot to give. You’ll love this episode!

Enjoy.

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Marcus and Dylan chat with Sasha de Sola and dive deeply into Sasha’s on-stage and off-stage life.

On-stage topics include: Sasha’s journey from the Kirov Academy as a young woman to Principal Dancer at the San Francisco Ballet, her insanely physical daily schedule, the most difficult thing about ballet, what happens when dancing ends, and whether ballet dancers are artists or athletes (or both!).

Off-stage topics include: Sasha’s academic career and how Sasha and Marcus met, On Tiptoes - her childrens book, Sasha’s personal experiences with poverty and generosity, her charity work with High Impact Athletes and Barre None, the biggest questions and challenges facing our planet, and her doggo.

This was a deep and vulnerable conversation, with Sasha opening up about some aspects of her life for the first time in public.
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Barre None 

In this episode, Marcus and Dylan chat with Tampa Bay Bucs NFL player Patrick Laird about his winding journey to pro football, how he became known as “The Intern”, his first NFL touchdown, reading and teaching kids to read, his short-lived career as a hip-hop producer, charity and giving back, and dietary choices. 

In Patrick’s words, “I’ve been on a good amount of podcasts but the depth of stuff we covered I don’t think I’ve ever touched.” This is a side of Patrick you haven’t seen before.

You can read Patrick’s book reviews on Twitter at @PatrickMLaird, and follow his career on Instagram at @patricklaird. 

In this episode, Marcus and Dylan team up with professional tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas to discuss the pressure of representing his country at the highest level of competition from junior to professional, his passion for filmmaking and storytelling, the recent uptick in the popularity of tennis in Greece, and the importance of family and charity.

In this episode, we turn the tables and interview our host Dylan! Marcus and Dylan discuss Dylan’s experience as an Olympic silver medalist with Canada, his life-threatening accident just before the 2018 Olympics, and his perspectives on relationships in skating. Dylan offers his outlook on giving, and talks about what drew him to HIA.

In this episode of Larger Than Ourselves, Marcus teams up with professional tennis player Gaby Dabrowski to discuss the pressure for success at an early age, the weight of athletic potential, and the deeper meaning in a career. Gaby expands on her experience playing Mixed doubles at the US Open, the WTA player council, and the importance of charity selection.

In this episode of Larger Than Ourselves, Dylan teams up with static bike triple world record holder to discuss her rise to the top of the triathlete podium, and her training to cycle 3000 miles around the coastline of the UK’s main island to raise awareness for global health. Kate expands on how sport can transcend entertainment, how to fight against societal pressures not to be charitable, and Kate’s most personally resonant cause areas.

Hugo is a triple Olympian and a veteran of the New Zealand Black Sticks hockey team. He has been considered one of the best hockey players in the world, and vice-captained the NZ team at the Tokyo Olympics.
Hugo is one of HIA’s earliest pledgers, and after receiving his MBA with distinction from the Heriot-Watt Edinburgh Business School he worked in business development with Lever Room and banking with ANZ, New Zealand’s largest bank.
He also has experience with startups, founding a sustainability based company called Borrowed Goods.
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In this episode, Hugo and Dylan discuss:
• Hockey origin story
• What Hugo attributes his success in sport to
• What has sport brought into his life
• Fondest sporting memory: Rio 2016 and finding perspective
• Worst sporting memory and how to construct meaning from experiences
• Charitable journey - Maslow's hierarchy
• How HIA changed his approach to giving - addressing scepticism with research research
• Finance background helps to understand effective giving. The idea of ROI - thinking about
• How to optimise training/investments and transferring that framework to charity
• How donating and pledging adds meaning to your career - win or lose, you make a difference
• Most important issue in the world
• What we can do to combat overstimulation, and the importance of quiet
• The hedonic treadmill
• How one person can create change in the world 
• How do you consider future generations?
• Quick-Fire 

In our very first episode, Host Dylan Moscovitch and High Impact Athletes Founder Marcus Daniell discuss the organization's backstory, Marcus' work to connect athletes with effective, evidence-based charities, and just how important it is to harness the power of the collective athlete voice to educate the world about the outsized benefits of giving effectively. Marcus expands on how he found inspiration in Peter Singer and the ideas of effective altruism, his pledge and the meaning it added to his career, and his long-term vision for how athletes can create positive change in the world.

Join us on our journey as we explore the ways that athletes and leaders are doing the maximum good possible and helping to build a future that is... Larger Than Ourselves!

Marcus is a tennis player from New Zealand with 5 ATP titles, quarterfinal appearances at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open (twice), and numerous caps for the NZ Davis Cup Team.
On January 4th, 2021, Marcus took the Giving What We Can pledge to donate at least 10% of his annual winnings to effective organizations for the rest of his life.
Alongside his tennis career, Marcus has completed a B.A. from Massey University in Psychology and Spanish and has been awarded the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award for his work with HIA, joining recipients such as Nelson Mandela and Roger Federer.
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