Podcast appearances and mentions of harlem lacrosse

In this episode of New England Lacrosse Journal's Chasing the Goal podcast, Kyle welcomes Dan Rosenak, owner of Flow State Yoga Therapy and former Clark University lacrosse player. The conversation begins with Dan's introduction to lacrosse in high school and his journey through different athletic pursuits. Dan shares his transition from playing and coaching lacrosse to a career in sales and marketing with Black & Decker, eventually leading him to Hawaii. The discussion covers Dan's experiences playing and coaching lacrosse in Hawaii, his return to the East Coast, and his roles in youth development with Harlem Lacrosse. Dan talks about the life-changing impact of COVID-19, his shift to yoga practice for balancing personal health, and how it became Flow State Yoga Therapy. He provides insights into the significance of connecting body, breath, and mind, offering practical tips for physical and mental well-being. The episode also touches on societal challenges and the value of maintaining a healthy mental state amidst career and personal transitions.   Topics   00:46 Dan's Early Lacrosse Journey 02:59 College Lacrosse Experience 07:53 Post-College and Coaching 09:12 Life in Hawaii 16:55 Return to Philadelphia and Coaching 19:53 Transitioning from Coaching to Education 20:34 Volunteering with Harlem Lacrosse 22:16 Impact of COVID and Family Decisions 23:16 Discovering Yoga and Personal Balance 24:48 The Importance of Therapy and Mental Health 27:14 Yoga Practice and Its Benefits 32:54 Practical Tips for Connecting Mind and Body 40:11 Yoga Therapy: Individual and Group Work 44:10 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsThe Show

This week host Colbert Cannon sits down with Mike Levin, the Chief Executive Officer of Harlem Lacrosse, a nonprofit organization which provides academic support, mentorship, and lacrosse programming to students in low income urban schools in Boston, New York, Philly, Baltimore, and Los Angeles. Mike shares how mentorship and team building through sports can be an extremely effective vehicle for improving educational outcomes that cuts across socioeconomic and class divides. We discuss Mike's own journey to get involved in education reform and how playing lacrosse in his youth through to the collegiate level at Brown University was foundational to forming his perspective. Mike shares how he has learned to navigate the world of nonprofits and fundraising to help scale and grow Harlem Lacrosse's programming in cities across the U.S. Then, we look ahead to the strategic vision that he is working to implement, and how companies and corporations can participate.    Learn more about Mike's work with Harlem Lacrosse here. You can check out Colbert's Best Idea for this week, Season 1 of the podcast CrimeTown by Gimlet Media, here.

As we close another fantastic summer of NXT lacrosse, Kate Henwood joins Leahy & Kupp to reflect. The gang looks back at their summer and shares their favorite moments from our show's third season.  (Check out the list of awesome guests below, and listen to any episodes you haven't heard yet!) 10:50 - Bill's take a girls box lax  16:00 - Kate on growing professionally through this show and the fun new challenge it has provided 18:00 - Some highlights from the shows of Season 3, which kicked off in September of 2021 -Mike Murphy, Penn Mens Lacrosse -Chris Goldberg, PhillyLacrosse.com -John Begier, Radnor High School -Bryan Kelly, Calvert Hall & FCA -Grant Ament, PLL Archers, Attack Academy & Haverford School  -Dr. Dane Donohue, Wellness Solution Centers -Peter Toner, Gettysburg College  -Laurie DeLuca, NXT Girls Lacrosse & University of Delaware -Regy Thorpe, University of Florida & USA Indoor Lacrosse -Ryan Terefenko, PLL Chrome, NLL Halifax Thunder & Culver Academy  -Mike Levin, Harlem Lacrosse  -Matt Hogan, Annapolis Hawks, and Hogan Lacrosse 30:00 - A toast to our “classic replays” that we sprinkled in over the past months  34:00 - Reflections from the summer, through our eyes: The good, the bad, and the ugly 40:00 - For Coaches: X & O Insight of the week  -Kate helps us understand what college coaches were talking about this summer -Bill loved the events that used a shot clock this summer  45:25 - For Players: Culture Building -“This group is coming together, and it's special”  46:40 - Rapid Fire NXT Homework For Parents:  Check out women lacrosse, repeat all versions of the game For Coaches:  Check out Youth Inc Podcast with Greg Olsen For Players:  Put your stick down and take a break What Kate is reading: Think Again, by Adam Grant  What Bill is watching: World War II & DB Cooper Documentaries on Netflix  And just like that…Season 3 of the More Than a Club Podcast is over.  We will be back for Season 4 starting in October 2022.  Thanks to all of our listeners out there! If you'd like to connect, please email info@nxtlacrosse.com.   Please help us grow by leaving a positive review and sharing your favorite episode on your social channels.   

Thanks to our special guest, Mike Levin of Harlem Lacrosse. Mike Levin has an awesome lacrosse resume, from learning the game in Upstate New York to playing at Brown University. Mike Continued his career playing professionally in the MLL. In our conversation, Mike shares his passion for teaching, specifically in urban education. His connections to lacrosse led him to change lives through both lacrosse and academics.  Here are some notes to help you enjoy this new episode. 19:40 - What is Harlem Lacrosse, and who do you serve? -Deep intervention and academic monitoring, a smaller number of kids with a higher number of hours -Lacrosse is central to the experience, but the most important outcomes have nothing to do with lacrosse -40 Program Directors, 1300 kids in middle school and high schools -College placement and support Alumni services post-college and carreer success 23:30, Challenges of resources - investment required to fill equity gaps and operate within school systems 26:00, Race and diversity within the lacrosse community  27:00, Developing cultural competency and discussing systemic racism and inequalities  30:30 Supporting the community through intense times through the pandemic and George Floyd protests  33:00 Training, developing, empowering anti-racist educators 35:30. Impact Report on Academic Improvement and more 40:40 Personal pathing towards academic success  42:00 Champions of Harlem Lacrosse Youth Sports Hot Topics 43:25, For Coaches -Culture trumps curriculum  -Scaffolding -Principles and variables 50:30, For Players  -Be a great teammate -Growth Mindset -Sport Outcomes 57:00, For Parents  -Where Harlem Lacrosse is headed and how to support Rapid Fire NXT Homework (1:00:00) For Parents: Let your kids find their joy within the sport For Coaches: Think about what you want the sport to be, and think about your broader responsibilities to the sport.  For Players: Spend time thinking about what it means to be a great teammate. What will your teammates say about the type of teammate you were? For more on Harlem Lacrosse, click here.

Live event Fred did for Harlem Lacrosse and organization that uses lacrosse to teach life skills. In this excerpts Fred shares the story of how is academic outcomes and opportunities radically improved. Harlem Lacrosse: https://www.instagram.com/harlem_lacrosse/ Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Follow Dr. Opie and share a link. Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ About Fred: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie Want to book Dr. Opie for an upcoming event or media appearance?: https://www.fredopie.com/speaking Fred's Tips, Thoughts and Reflections: https://soundcloud.com/fredopieshow/sets/freds-tips-thoughts-and?si=da493e0ead5f46f98a8cb7a66fb4d2ab&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Credits: 7. (Fred Opie Show them song) Music: Crimson Fly - Huma-Huma https://youtu.be/qpxhgby-ONI

Live event Fred did for Harlem Lacrosse and organization that uses lacrosse to teach life skills. Fred shares excerpts from the QA portion of the event. The excerpt is full of nuggets on topics from A to Z. Harlem Lacrosse: https://www.instagram.com/harlem_lacrosse/ Host and Producer Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie. Follow Dr. Opie and share a link. Books: https://www.fredopie.com/books/ About Fred: https://www.fredopie.com/courses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fdopie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrFredDOpie Want to book Dr. Opie for an upcoming event or media appearance?: https://www.fredopie.com/speaking Fred's Tips, Thoughts and Reflections: https://soundcloud.com/fredopieshow/sets/freds-tips-thoughts-and?si=da493e0ead5f46f98a8cb7a66fb4d2ab&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Credits: 7. (Fred Opie Show them song) Music: Crimson Fly - Huma-Huma https://youtu.be/qpxhgby-ONI

A pioneer and disruptor in sports, Paul Rabil is a professional lacrosse player, entrepreneur and co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League. Founded in 2018, the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) features over 200 of the world's best players. The PLL's games are played through a tour-based model and are televised through a partnership with NBC in addition to PLL's major corporate partners including Ticketmaster, Adidas, Capital One, Gatorade and others. As a sports league, the entity functions similarly to a startup with Rabil spearheading a staff of likeminded individuals whose goals are to help change the world of sports. The PLL has since been ranked a Top 10 Most Innovative Company in Sports by Fast Company, and touts Rabil as the first player in sports to simultaneously be an executive of the same league. Paul was also recently named to Sports Business Journal's 40 Under 40 List in 2021.​ Rabil is a current midfielder for the Cannons Lacrosse Club, after spending the previous two seasons in the PLL with the Atlas Lacrosse Club. This season began in early June with successful weekends at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts and Fifth Third Bank Stadium outside of Atlanta. The PLL will visit nine other cities this season including San Jose, Washington D.C., Albany, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia, among others. During the 2020 Summer, the PLL completed their second season – a condensed version of the PLL Championship Series, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The three-week tournament featured the league's seven teams competing in a fourteen-game group play format to determine seeding for the following week's single-elimination tournament. The tournament marked the first sports entity to find a safe solution to resume play, given the effects of COVID-19. Games were broadcasted domestically & internationally in 12 countries through the PLL's deal with NBC Sports, filling the programming holes left by the 2020 Olympics. Over the three-week tournament, the official PLL social accounts garnered 161 million impressions, 17.5 million views and 90 million minutes watched.​ Rabil has influenced the sport at every level, winning championships and MVP's both collegiately and professionally, as well as becoming a two-time World Lacrosse Champion with Team USA. ​ Off the field, Rabil has also found success as a business owner and investor, acquiring capital and operating Rabil Events and Rabil Ventures. In 2017, Rabil launched the award-winning “Suiting Up with Paul Rabil” Podcast, an interview-style show that hosts top athletes, entrepreneurs, and entertainers, such as Bill Belichick, Venus Williams, Gary Vaynerchuck and Adam Grant. That same year, SportTechie awarded Rabil as “Most Tech-Savvy Athlete on the Planet”, and in 2018 the Cynopsis Sports Media Award named Rabil “Best Athlete in a Web Series”. Rabil has also been named a “Top 40 Most Entrepreneurial Athlete” by Entrepreneur Magazine, alongside sports legends LeBron James and Tom Brady. ​Having grown up with an Auditory Processing Disorder and ADHD, Rabil started the Paul Rabil Foundation in 2011 to help children with learning differences by creating programs and partnerships through sport and scholarship. Rabil has also volunteered extensively with Harlem Lacrosse through the Premier Lacrosse League's community arm, PLL Assists. Harlem Lacrosse actively recruits special education students and students identified by school administrators as most vulnerable to academic decline and school dropout. As a result, the program serves high poverty and special education students at rates that surpass those of their standard school sites.​ Rabil graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2008, where he played collegiate lacrosse, and currently resides in Marina Del Rey, California.

Simon Cataldo shares his fascinating life journey that led him to reimagine the game of lacrosse. The story of how Harlem Lacrosse came to be has very little to do with the actual game, it’s all about how the sport itself, looked at differently, can change the life trajectory of our most forgotten and disenfranchised youth. 

Introduction:   Today’s guest is Brad Gerla, an Executive Vice President at CBRE and the 2014 award winner for REBNY’s Sales Brokers Most Ingenious Deal of the Year Award for 11 Madison Avenue. Given the manner in which Brad exudes a youthful yet passionate and relentless nature to make a difference for landlords and tenants alike, he reminds me of what Albert Einstein was conveying in his quote “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”   Episode Notes:   At 1:49, Brad Gerla discusses finding the balance between having fun and the business of real estate. At 3:28, Brad notes the importance of “doing your homework” on your clients as you are negotiating on behalf of them. At 5:27, Gerla stresses to know the business inside and out, and advises not to go half-assed into anything – whether that be a pitch, presentation, or meeting. At 6:57, he dives into his start in the business, and elaborates on his mentor Jim Gross. At 9:43, Brad speaks on leasing office buildings and knowing the product, as well as space tours being your time to impress. At 12:17, Gerla highlights CBRE’s platform and the firm’s resources. At 13:51, he touches upon the Harlem Lacrosse charitable initiative. At 15:54, Brad informs us of being a voracious reader, and the opportunity one can receive through reading. At 19:10, Gerla credits networking to being a key in business, and recollects meeting Larry Haber at the ICSC convention in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. At 21:35, he shares how he approaches the “game of life” – family, health, and business. At 23:17, Brad talks about the over 60 lacrosse team in which he plays on. Gerla also notes that it’s easy to stay focused when one is on a winning team in business. At 25:24, he discusses Leasing REality’s and AGMB’s David Byrne January event, and how he goes about making a difference in the community. At 27:53, Brad reminisces about winning REBNY’s Sales Brokers Most Ingenious Deal of the Year Award for 11 Madison Avenue in 2014. At 30:21, Gerla dishes on being a “glass half full” guy, and how he confronts challenges. At 31:35, Brad Gerla closes out the podcast mentioning how his real estate stories would make for great reading.

This week my guest is Wyatt Melzer, Co-Founder and Chief Change Maker of The Modern American Party, where he is dedicated to help solve America’s leadership crisis by inspiring passionate and innovative change makers of all ages to realize their life’s purpose and the importance of being engaged in the political arena. Politics on this show?... Really? Listen in and see how the influence of sports can bring good change to that aspect of our world as well.https://www.spreaker.com/show/mtp-dave-briglioAfter graduating from the University of Virginia and living in the Big Apple for over 5 years, Wyatt served in leadership roles in the nonprofit sector at Harlem Lacrosse, the corporate sector at CBRE, and the political sector at ‘Massey for Mayor’. During this period of personal and professional reflection and growth, Wyatt discovered his innate talent for mentoring young people and identifying emerging talent to seek their passion and pursue previously unimaginable goals. At the same time, while his own leadership skills were honed across 3 separate industries, he also discovered America is facing a major leadership crisis on all fronts: social, economic, education, and political. Through MAP, Wyatt is committed to lead the revolution of progressive and positive change to fill the leadership void facing our communities, states, and country!In this episode you’ll hear:•How youth/HS sports effect education, and the path to adulthood•How the student athlete experience reflects the way we adults run the world•How a new Political Party just might take the politics out of politics

This week my guest is Charlotte Morley, Program Director for Harlem Lacrosse, at the Promise Academy 2. Harlem Lacrosse’s mission is to empower children at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges and reach their full potential. Harlem Lacrosse provides school-based, full-day, year-round support by placing a full-time staff member at school sites. Their Program Directors maintain a constant presence in the lives of the students as tutors, mentors, and coaches who provide individualized attention. Their programming empowers students to set high expectations for themselves, achieve their goals and break the cycle of poverty by providing daily study halls, mentoring, push-in academic support, experiential & service-learning, and character-building lacrosse instruction.Lacrosse is at the heart of a “college-going culture” and holistic approach to developing the social emotional skill sets of children. Lacrosse’s team culture, perseverance, grit, and confidence translates directly into the classroom and students’ personal lives. Harlem Lacrosse now serves over 850 students nationwide across nineteen programs in five cities (NYC, Boston, Baltimore, Los Angeles & Philadelphia).Harlem Lacrosse students have maintained a 100% on-time middle school graduation rate, have passed their classes at a rate 20% higher than their peers at school sites, and have earned over $15 million scholarship offers to independent schools and colleges, including: Bates College, Colby College, Connecticut College, Gettysburg College, Haverford College, Hobart College, Tufts University, the University of Virginia, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.https://www.spreaker.com/show/mtp-dave-briglioAbout Charlotte: Charlotte Morley attended Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey. After graduating in 2013, she went on to play Division 1 lacrosse at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Charlotte started at Harlem Lacrosse in fall of 2017. Charlotte’s favorite part about working at Harlem Lacrosse is getting to share her love for the game with everyone!In this episode you’ll hear:•The amazing results from school-based support, with a “wrap-around” daily presence.•How to create a “College Going Culture”•Success stories of at-risk students who learned to believe in “Aiming High”.

From child model, to lacrosse standout after picking it up late, to national champion, to coach/mentor for harlem students, to millennial consultant - Wyatt Melzer knows the value of setting goals, and what it takes to achieve them. Thank you so much to our friend Gabi for hooking this one up. Wyatt was a hit and by the end of this I'm sure you'll be cheering him on to reach his goal of President of the United States. You heard that right.. and he's more in line for it than you would think. 0:00: Intro to Wyatt. 3:00: Wyatt's story.     4:05: life as a child model (we wish you prepped us with this one!)     5:20: Learning about Lacrosse (in 9th grade!) and falling in love with it.     7:30: The Ups and Downs experiences with UVA Lacrosse.     9:15: After school, the want to do something more than a desk job. About Harlem Lacrosse and it's mission of using Lacrosse as an opportunity platform for intercity kids. 12:30: Starting M2 Strategies, an Opportunity Platform for Millennials. 16:30 - 19:30: Why Wyatt has always been so comfortable in his pursuits. He's gone from extreme to extreme. Soundbites: "Enjoy the moment. What do you want to focus on next? Worry about who you are. Put the blinders on." 20:15: His National Championship Experience. 23:05: How the game of Lacrosse is growing and an intro into Harlem Lacrosse. 28:45: Resistance he faced when Entering his first year of Harlem Lacrosse. 37:50: You'll Learn: 3 Lessons from now retired and hall of fame Coach, Dom Starsia to live a better Life. 1) Be Nice to the Pizza guy. 2) Enjoy the Journey. 3) Be Resilient. How Do You Handle Adversity? 45:04: Making somebody's day.  46:32: Advice for somebody in a stuck point wondering "What's Next?" "Anyone can tell somebody to follow their dreams but how the heck do you get there?" 55:45: What's Next for Wyatt. You're going to like this one (stay tuned for 2028.....) 1:00:34: Outro/Final Thoughts