Coach Karlee is a movement coach who teaches her athletes to move their bodies as nature designed: strong, secure, pain-free, and forward. Utilizing slow-motion video assessment, she can assess, address, and correct pattern errors that are causing pain and/or hindering performance goals. With a background in soccer, endurance running, and strength and conditioning, Karlee takes an intense passion for competition and athletics into her coaching style to help build mentally and physically capable athletes, regardless of age, gender, sport, or background. She prioritizes foundations for durability through awareness and integration of pain-free movement practices to maximize performance and longevity. Are you ready to unlock your INNER ATHLETE?

Gina Iaffaldano is a legal operations professional, writer, and everyday athlete who recently relocated back to the Chicagoland area. She is working on her first book, Little Gifts, which covers much of her experience overcoming Guillain-Barré syndrome. This rare autoimmune syndrome caused her to be neurologically paralyzed. Gina has been in remission for two years and is training for her second Spartan competition post-recovery.

Dr. Justin Ternes is a Doctor of Physiotherapy, Breath & Mindset Coach, and Human Performance Optimizer. His work centers on mind/body, breathwork, and performance.

Today, on the podcast, I am joined by my friend, Mike Taccona. In this episode, we talk about his experiences joining the whoop community.

Mike has been wearing his Whoop for just about just over a month at the time of this recording. Mike is a registered nurse. And one thing that I enjoy talking about wearables, in general, is the impact that these devices can have on people with high-stress jobs.

I wanted to get his take on what he's been learning by wearing Whoop. This is a step one conversation since he hasn't been wearing it for too long—this kind of prefaces his opinions early on.

Anne is the owner/artist of Cards by Anne, an inspirational greeting card company founded in 1986. Anne's cards, hand-designed in calligraphy and ink, are available online (cardsbyanne.com) and hundreds of stores.

For fourteen years, Anne taught “Cross-Cultural Understanding of Religious Meaning” at Carlow University; for seven years, she taught courses ranging from Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Nutrition, to World Religions and Ethics at a local community college.

My guest today is Bret Gornick. Brett is the co-founder of Live Better. Live Better’s mission is to design wellness experiences to connect people to pursue purpose. He empowers people to care for their mental and physical health to give back to our planet.

In his previous life, Brett was a data analyst at Walgreens. Since then, he has advised CEOs, Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and creatives alike on prioritizing self-care and applying energy to find purpose in their work.

Krista Stryker founded 12 Minute Athlete, a leading expert on high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and bodyweight fitness. She is also the author of the new book The 12-Minute Athlete. In today's conversation, we don't spend too much time around the working-out aspect of Krista's life. Instead, we talk about how we deal with the uncertainty in your life. It's front and center. And we talk about how we deal with uncertainty. How can we learn to focus on things that we can control?

Darin Davidson is an orthopedic surgeon. Darin founded Darin Davidson MD Consulting, which seeks to improve everyone’s health and wellness by integrating holistic principles within the traditional medical model. We can obtain the greatest well-being by combining the best available knowledge and evidence from all fields that contribute to human performance and wellness, such as medicine, psychology, sleep, nutrition, and exercise.

Today, on the podcast, we are joined by Lindsey Sherwin. Lindsey is a professional actress and youth and family therapist. She employs therapeutic drama, expressive arts, and counseling techniques to work with adolescents, families, artists, and creative entrepreneurs to resolve problems, make new choices, and expand their creativity throughout their lives.

Adam Lowenstein is the author of Reframe the Day: Embracing the Craft of Life, One Day at a Time outlines ten practices for creating a more fulfilling life by building more fulfilling days. Adam previously spent eight years working in American government and politics, most recently as a speechwriter and strategic communications advisor in the United States Senate. Today, Adam lives in London with his partner, Erin, and frequently writes about politics, work, and life. Visit his website, see his latest work, and subscribe to his newsletter at www.adaml.blog.

Fritzi Horstman is the founder and executive director of the Compassion Prison Projection organization. It is dedicated to bringing compassion, childhood trauma awareness, and creative inspiration to all prisoners.

She is currently directing “Step Inside the Circle,” a documentary about childhood trauma behind bars. The PSA created from some of the footage from the documentary has already received over 2 million views across all platforms. Fritzi is passionate about equality, civil rights, education, and stories about justice. She has made it her life’s work to ensure these stories are told.

In this episode, we are joined by Kirsten Holmes. As Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP, Kristen drives thought leadership by engaging with industry-leading researchers and partners to understand better individual and team biometric and performance data across high-stakes verticals. Kristen also works with hundreds of the best tactical, professional, and surgical teams and NCAA Athletes/Teams worldwide, helping them interpret WHOOP data to optimize training, recovery, and sleep behavior.

Panos Papadiamantis, Co-Founder of PNOE, the world’s first portable cardio-metabolic analyzer. PNOE is a mask that you wear during a 10-minute test on a treadmill, and from that, you gain incredible insights into your health and fitness

PNOĒ is on a quest to bring cardio-metabolic analysis to everyone. As the gold standard for nutrition & exercise prescription, the most non-invasive method for cardiovascular disease screening, the clinical standard for triaging between pulmonary and cardiac limitations as well as a valuable tool in detecting latent causes of myoskeletal problems, cardio-metabolic analysis is rapidly becoming the central assessment in holistic health.

Andy Vasily is an educator who wants to push his understanding of teaching and learning to a deeper level.

This conversation is a continuation of our first conversation you can listen to here. The first conversation covered Andy’s experiences related to travel, recovery, and connection. In this conversation, we expand on Andy’s inner exploration, starting with darkness in his life and experiences. Andy shares what works for him to keep the darkness from overwhelming him. We expand on the ideas of self-discovery and reflecting on your journey to help guide others on there own.

Dr. Michael Greenberg is a Dermatologist dedicated to providing patients with state-of-the-art care at the Elk Grove office of Illinois Dermatology Institute. He specializes in medical dermatology, as well as treating patients with an emotional or spiritual component to their skin condition. He is a co-founder of Illinois Dermatology Institute.Dr. Greenberg embraces the benefits of a group practice, stating that "practicing in a group that is more family than corporate has added to my joy of being a physician."

In this conversation, Michael shares his insights on how to cope with heightened stress related to COVID-19. Michael strives to be in service to his community for as long as he can and truly wants to make an impact on each person he connects with. Even though this conversation takes place during this time, I believe the ideas are timeless; they are only more relevant given the current situation.

In this episode, Erich wanted to check in with each of you! In the wake of the response to COVID-19, the world seems to hold its breath. In this short podcast, Erich shares how he's dealing with the quarantine in effect.

Gabe Salinas owns the Sports Performance Facility, The Sports Lab, a former professional MMA Fighter, and a speaker on performance in various facets.

Gabe has helped Professional Athletes to Weekend Warriors, and everything I'm between to achieve their peak athletic performance. As someone who desires to learn and improve daily, Gabe stays on the cutting edge of the research on Human Performance in hopes of helping his athletes and himself.

Claudia is someone who prefers to go by many hats. By day, she works as an adolescent/young adult mental health therapist in private practice. Outside of her professional career, she enjoys sports/exercise, dinners with friends, and, above all, TRAVEL. 2019 was the year of battling several major health conditions while still trying to live life to the fullest.

In this episode, we are exploring daily recovery. Prioritizing daily recovery for Erich has been striving for the better part of the year. As an engineer, he sees it as the ultimate quality problem. Companies spend a considerable amount of time and money focusing on the qualities of their products and services; however, we've overlooked a significant component, the humans that make the products and services possible.

Nick Buegel and Erich have a conversation about training the mind. In this episode, we go deep into how to train mindfulness. Mindfulness can be interchanged with meditation, but we use the word mindfulness to make it a skill-based practice. We try our best to get very practical from our own lives on how we have used mindfulness. We want to make mindfulness accessible to as broad an audience as possible.