The Human Performance Podcast

On the podcast this week, Emil Ekvardt talks about how high stakes poker changed his life, and how the lessons he learned from 12 hour-long sessions with no breaks and big economic swings helped him develop his mindset and increase his performance.

On the podcast this week is Dr. Patrick J. Cohn. Patrick teaches mental skills and sports psychology strategies to athletes, teams, and corporate professionals to help improve performance. In addition to working with athletes and teams, Dr. Cohn teaches parents, coaches and athletic trainers how to help athletes achieve peak performance through mental game skills training. He is also the founder of the MGCP certification program for coaches and therapists.

In addition to his work with athletes, Dr. Cohn has also worked with major corporations such as IBM, Canada and USA Today. Furthermore, he’s been a sports commentator on the Golf Channel and has been featured in trade publications such as Golf Magazine and Golf Digest. He also participated in USA Today’s “Soul of a Champion” series and developed the “Soul of a Champion Test.” He was also featured as the mental game expert on Versus network.

We talk about improving mental performance and why in sports and business mental training is so important.

On the podcast this week is Karese Laguere. Karese is the author of Accomplished: How to Sleep Better, Eliminate Burnout and Execute Goals and a registered dental hygienist with a focus on orofacial myology. 

Karese, like many parents, suffered in silence while her children struggled with the symptoms of undiagnosed sleep and breathing issues. One visit to a pediatric dentist changed the trajectory of their lives. Already a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH), Karese, trained with Sandra Holtzman, Lois Laynee and Sarah Hornsby to establish her orofacial myology knowledge. With this initial training and numerous others, in a few short years she had not only resolved all her children's issues, but helped hundreds of patients, children and adults alike, discover how great life can be functioning on full. Her private practice, The Myo Spot is now a leader in the quest for myofunctional therapy awareness and public education. Karese's mission is to transform and positively impact as many households as possible through dynamic breath, brain and body work.

We discuss the science behind poor sleep, why sleep hygiene is vital to being productive and helping you accomplish goals and the latest technology to help you improve how you sleep.

On the podcast this week is Kim "Kidd" Curry.  Kim worked in radio for nearly 33 years growing Miami's largest talk-time radio show until Multiple Sclerosis forced him to change his path in life aged 50.  What came next was a battery of doctor appointments, tests, therapies, expensive pharmaceutical drugs, hospital stays and adaptive equipment to live a quality of life worth living.

Since his diagnosis, Curry has written “Come Get Me Mother, I’m Finished” and “The Death of Fairness”

Kim discuss his diagnosis, how it changed his life, Kim’s book and his experiences working and growing a major broadcast radio station.

Website: https://www.krcurry.com/

On the podcast this week is Tony Chatman. Tony is a subject matter expert and recognized thought leader in the area of workplace relationships and has devoted his adult life to understanding what makes people tick, how to bring out the best in people (including ourselves), and how to pass this information on in simple, yet practical terms. He helps leaders, team members, and people from every background and diversity adopt empowering mindsets and strategies that allow them to adapt, reinvent, and transform the results they produce both personally and professionally.

Tony has worked with hundreds of corporations and government agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, The Department of Homeland Security, Chase Bank, Estée Lauder, and N.A.S.A., to them reach new heights of effectiveness by understanding themselves and others better.

Tony recently completed his first book: The Force Multiplier: How to Lead Teams Where Everyone Wins and in 2018 he delivered his first TEDx talk – How to Stop Settling for Less.

Links:

https://tonychatman.com/

On the podcast this week is Dominique "Dom" Brightmon, DTM, a certified self-leadership expert with the John Maxwell Team from Baltimore, MD that empowers and equips others to share their stories.

We discuss the importance of reading, self-leadership and more.

On the podcast this week is Jim Rajan. Jim is a former award-nominated producer and director at MTV-UK Networks and other TV production companies in London, Jim has now been running a successful Healing Practice for over 17 years. He is trained in Shamanic Healing, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Reiki, and Sound healing, and has been a diligent practitioner of Nicherin Buddhism for over 13 years, with a city-wide leadership responsibility. 

Jim has a dedicated global following of 6000 people on the meditation app InsightTimer for his guided visualisations and music for meditative practice. A self-taught musician, composer and producer, Jim has produced work for artists in London UK, Canada and North America as well as three of his own albums (The Cloud Forest, Nrty Hiran and Talisman). His work is currently available on Spotify, iTunes, etc. and of course InsightTimer. Jim’s work, courses and workshops are fundamentally based on the relationship between consciousness and sound. 

As an experienced Distance Healer Jim has an ever expanding client base across the globe. He's developed a way of connecting to a persons base frequency, in an empowering and enriching experience called The Healing Ceremony. This work is helping people transform their lives in all aspects from health and self-esteem, to fulfilment and living with true purpose. 

We discuss employee well-being, coping with lockdown and the benefits of visualisation and mindfulness.

To connect with Jim find him on Instagram at @jimrajan or at www.jimrajan.com

My guest on the podcast this week is Shawn Harper. Shawn is a former NFL offensive tackle who has played for the Rams, the Houston Oilers, the Indianapolis Colts and for three years in NFL Europe.

Shawn is also a coach, motivational speaker, investor and now helps to transform corporate environments, build leadership, train teams and impact youth development in schools with high energy keynote speeches that activate winners.

We talk about over coming adversity, the Habits Of Elite Level Athletes and how to develop a winning edge and be a winner in anything you do.

https://www.shawnharper.org/

On the podcast this week is Dr Jonathan Sackier, MB, ChB, FRCS, FACS who is an internationally renowned surgeon, technology innovator and entrepreneur. 

Trained in Britain as a surgeon and recruited to the USA in 1989 he helped lead the laparoscopic surgery revolution. As a Professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, he founded, and funded the Washington Institute of Surgical Endoscopy, a center for education, research & innovation. He is a Visiting Professor of Medicine & Surgery at the University of Virginia and his activities in basic and clinical research funded by multiple grants have led to many publications, chapters and books. He has served multiple journals as editor or reviewer, has been involved in medical societies at the highest level and has been honored for his work in many countries.

Ed Kressy is probably the only person ever to have once been arrested by the FBI, then gone on to receive a community service award from the director of the FBI! 

Ed threw away many opportunities: Career with Fortune Magazine's aBest Company in America to Work For, a home ownership in San Francis­co, many loving relationships. He spent years in psychosis and destitu­tion, months in jail, nights in homeless shelters. Yet today Ed achieved a lifelong dream by publishing a book, My Addiction & Recovery: Just Because You' re Done with Drugs, Doesn't Mean Drugs Are Done with You (Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press) as well as articles in The Washington Post. He appeared on stage for The Moth and delivered talks for MIT, Cisco, Google, and Linkedln. 

Ed volunteers inside maximum-security prisons and jails, helping incar­cerated persons develop skills for employment, entrepreneurism, and self-advocacy. He volunteers for law enforcement, helping them better serve communities affected by incarceration and addiction. 

Alex and Ed discuss mental health, overcoming adversity and more.