Your Potential For Everything

In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Maddie Salamone a former student athlete who devotes her time to athlete advocacy. They discuss Maddie's time as a member of the NCAA student athlete advisory committee, her advocacy for NCAA reform, and being a woman in sports. This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series with Maddie.

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*Note: Since this episode was recorded on Jan. 20, 2022, Alex is no longer Director of the Players' Association. She wishes the members of the Players' Association all the very best for the future.

In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Allie Olnowich a member of the Metropolitan Riveters of the Premier Hockey Federation. They discuss Allie's slow burn success in ice hockey, her love of pickleball, and her desire to attend law school so she can advocate for professional athletes.

Allie's hockey journey wasn't typical, she didn't thrill on the ice when she first started in college and didn't get her first goal until her Sophomore season. She played with talented players who had a different skillset than her and learned that the only thing she could control was her effort and attitude. This served her well and she went on to play professional hockey as a practice squad player which she parlayed into a full-time roster spot.

Her talents don't stop when she gets off the ice, Allie also has a goal to attend law school. She has applied and even been accepted to some schools. Not only does she want to be a good teammate on the ice, she wants to be able to step off the ice and advocate for her teammates through a legal capacity. When she isn't practicing or studying, she bonds with her mother over a good game of pickleball.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Morgan Tuck, a former WNBA player, NCAA Women's basketball standout, & current Director of Franchise Development for the Connecticut Sun. Morgan talks with Alex about playing in the WNBA, her transition to sports business as the Director of Franchise Development for the Connecticut Sun, and her University of Connecticut NCAA Women's Basketball championships.

Morgan decided to pursue her career as a basketball player even though she didn't have as much natural talent as others. She knew that if she worked hard, she would get a scholarship to play NCAA Women's Basketball. Not only did she play at the University of Connecticut, but she won four consecutive NCAA championships. Then Morgan went to the WNBA and was drafted third overall in 2016. In 2020, she won a WNBA Championship with the Seattle Storm. Morgan decided it was time to go into sports business in 2021 and she was quickly offered the role of Director of Franchise Development for the Connecticut Sun. She accepted the role in May of 2021. This episode was recorded in 2021.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Theresa Knutson a member of the Metropolitan Riveters of the Premier Hockey Federation. When she isn't in season she loves to travel and hike, but also does landscape construction. She is a multifaceted person and takes every experience as a time to reflect and learn.

COVID has been especially difficult as she has had to balance being a professional athlete and staying motivated when games are postponed. She has learned to adapt to the world around her while keeping her eyes on her goals. Her day is extremely structured and she likes to keep it that way. But sometimes she does stay up late sometimes to watch Netflix with her roommate.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Mallory Souliotis. a member of the Boston Pride 2021 NWHL Isobel Cup Champion. She is also a biomedical engineer who received her degree from Yale. Mallory talks with Alex about how she balances her biomedical engineering research while being a mom to two cats and being a professional ice hockey player in the Premier Hockey Federation, formerly the NWHL.

Mallory has both brains and brawn which allows her to be a true multipotentialite. She plays professional ice hockey for the Boston Pride of the PHF who recently won the Isobel Cup in 2021 and are currently 3rd in team standings in the league. On top of that, Mallory's research as a scientist is changing the lives of humanity for the better. She recognizes she holds a unique position in the world and is a great role model for women and girls who want a career in science and technology.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Natalie Allport, a former former Canadian national team snowboarder and lifelong entrepreneur. Natalie talks with Alex about how Action Sports transition athletes well into entrepreneurship and how Mindset and Fear played into her snowboarding career.

Natalie started slopestyle snowboarding at the relatively ripe old age of 13 years old when most kids start to feel fear creep into their lives. Her foray into action sports was not uncommon considering she grew up in Canada with a family that loved to ski. She made the Canadian Junior National Slopestyle Snowboard team and her identity was wrapped up in the sport. Fear did play a factor in her eventual retirement, but she knew she wanted to do more than snowboard and had a constantly curious mind.

While she always had an entrepreneurial flare, she was not always able to cultivate it during her snowboarding career unless she had time off due to injury. She understood the importance of visualization and mindset in her sport and she carried over skills like adaptability and relationship building from sports to the business world.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Steve Fisher, a former professional snowboarder, multiple Winter X Games Champion, and current realtor in Colorado. Steve talks with Alex about his life as a professional snowboarder, the Olympics, and the X Games.

Steve qualified for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association nationals by age nine and at one point in his career he was ranked the #1 halfpipe rider in the United States. He won the Winter X Games in 2004 and 2007. The world of sport taught him a lot about resilience and adaptability and he carried that over into the business world.

They talk about how his mindset helped him through tough challenges and how stepping away from the half pipe for awhile reignited his love for the sport and helped him stay mentally healthy.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, Alex discusses how to break down your yearly goals into manageable chunks. You don't have to use monthly or quarterly breakdowns, but you do need to break down your goals into short-term, medium, and long term goals. This might be based upon your 8 months of slow time in your work or life. Your timeframes don't have to look like someone else's, but they do need to be in short, medium, and long term chunks.

Your big goals have to be broken down into manageable chunks so you have a roadmap. You have to know what to do each day in order to stay on track toward achieving those big goals.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, Alex discusses the habits of highly successful people, book recommendations for personal development, and some brainstorming tips for goal setting. Create goals that are centered around your personal and professional vision and mission. You should understand why you are crafting and creating your goals so they are more meaningful for you.

Your life will look different than those around you and thus your goals should be curated for your life and work. There are some habits that can help you jump start your productivity and achievement, but you don't have to implement them all if it doesn't make sense for your life. This process is about iteration and tweaking goals based around what you have learned about yourself and your life.

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In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, Alex discusses how to organize and categorize your goals based around your own life and work. How to goal set is something people are told they should innately know how to do, but that isn't the case.

The point of proactively planning your goals is to take the stress off yourself. It doesn't take the pressure off, because some good solid pressure is necessary for growth. But if this is giving you feelings of anxiety and overwhelm then perhaps you need to cut back on a few goals for now. Store them away for when you reach the other goals that you prioritized as the most important.

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