Podcasts about high impact athletes

What sorts of decisions are we making without even realizing we're making them? Are people aware of their own values? Do they know how those values rank relative to each other? What are all the various parties, interests, and values that have to be addressed and balanced when making decisions in a healthcare context? What does it mean to "play-test" yourself? What are the best strategies for giving feedback? How much energy is required to make various kinds of decisions? How can we practice and get better at decision-making? What is "tabletop exercising"? What are the most effective ways to bring other people into the decision-making process? What are some aspects of games that ought to be put to good use in non-game contexts? Why are educational games usually neither fun nor educational? How can game design features be used in ways that avoid turning metrics into targets? How can we make better decisions about how to divvy up our time?Dr. Dan Epstein is a practicing medical doctor and academic PhD focusing on decision-making and game design. Dan is the director of The Long Game Project, which helps businesses and leaders improve strategy and decision-making with games and tabletop exercises. Dan is also an ambassador for Giving What We Can, a community of people who pledge to donate a portion of their income to effective causes; and he's a member of High Impact Athletes, a community of current and past athletes who do the same. Follow him on Twitter at @drdanepstein, email him at email@longgameproject.org, connect with him on LinkedIn, or learn more about his work at longgameproject.org.Further reading:The Long Game Project newsletterThe Long Game Project YouTube channelFoundations of Tabletop Exercising: Design Exercises for Real Impact — a free course taught by DanStaffSpencer Greenberg — Host / DirectorJosh Castle — ProducerRyan Kessler — Audio EngineerUri Bram — FactotumWeAmplify — TranscriptionistsMusicBroke for FreeJosh WoodwardLee RosevereQuiet Music for Tiny Robotswowamusiczapsplat.comAffiliatesClearer ThinkingGuidedTrackMind EasePositlyUpLift[Read more]

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Meta Charity Funders: Second round retrospective, published by Joey on June 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Previously: Launching the meta charity funding circle (MCF), Summary of Our First Grant Round and Path Forward, Launching the 2nd round Meta Charity Funders (MCF) is a funding circle that aims to fund charitable projects working one level removed from direct impact. We think this post will be relevant for people who want to apply to MCF in the future and people who want to better understand the EA Meta funding landscape. The post is written by the MCF organisers (all authors of this post). Some of our members might not agree with everything said. Summary We received 109 applications and ultimately funded 11 projects: "AI Assurance Tech Report", an anonymous AI safety field-building initiative, an anonymous effective giving organization, an anonymous UHNWI initiative, EA Indonesia, EA New Zealand, EA Philippines, EA UK, Founders Pledge, Giving Multiplier, and High Impact Athletes. In total, our members granted $2,043,176 in this round, which is a significant step up from the $686,580 that was given in the last round. The next grant round will open in late August 2024, and we will welcome similar applications as in the last round. We are especially excited about initiatives targeting ultra-high-net-worth-individuals and are excited to fund such initiatives. However, we want to stress that we believe the skillset to do this well is rare. Information for the next round The next round will open in late August, with grants given out in late November. The application form will remain open but don't expect your application to be processed before September. If you want to join Meta Charity Funders as a donor, please fill in this form. Note that the minimum expected annual donation is $100,000. However, there is no obligation to donate if you don't think the opportunities presented are good enough, and during your first year, you are free to observe. If you have any questions, please contact us at metacharityfunders@gmail.com. Check out our website to learn more about Meta Charity Funders and stay up-to-date with the new funding round. How to increase your chances of success when applying First, read Summary of Our First Grant Round and Path Forward. We generally felt that the applications this round were of higher quality than the last round, and we believe this was partly due to the information we shared in the last grant round. Fewer initiatives were desk rejected, and we had a larger pool of grants that we considered during the meetings. We still want to strongly encourage all applicants to spend time on their Theories of Change as this is where you set out your path to impact. The clearer you make the connection between us providing you funding and you making a positive impact on the world, the more likely you are to get funded. Grants we made Below we will provide a summary of the projects we ended up funding as stated by the applicants themselves, the extent to which we have chosen to fund them, their request, and our reasoning. Note that all funding decisions are made by individual members, and therefore do not necessarily reflect the priorities of the funding circle in its entirety. General comments: On local EA Orgs: Due to a re-focus from CEA, it has recently become difficult for smaller EA organizations to get funded. As such, some funders have chosen to cover the budgets of some local EA orgs. On anonymity: Some organizations we have funded have chosen to remain anonymous. While we prefer to disclose what we fund openly, we made exceptions in these cases, since we agreed that it would be better all things considered. We include the "of $X" to indicate that the grantees might still be looking for additional funds and encourage other funders to reach...

Today's guest is one of the country's greatest tennis players, Marcus Daniell. He's back on the court for his final year before retiring, after two frustrating years out with knee injuries. Marcus is creating a legacy that will last beyond his playing days, and will reach far more than just the tennis court. This year, he's donating 50 percent of his prize money to charity - part of his mahi as founder of High Impact Athletes. A great chat with a professional sportsman who isn't afraid to tell it like it is.

What sacrifices does it take to be a pro tennis player? Is it possible to have a healthy mindset at the highest stakes? Marcus Daniell understands it all - he has played professional tennis for over 20 years, a career that has earned him an Olympic medal and a whole lot of wisdom around the nature of competition. He is also the founder of High Impact Athletes, a movement of professional athletes who donate to highly effective charities. Chapters 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:06:50 - Overlap of Tennis and Poker 00:13:56 - Dynamic Between Pro Tennis Players 00:22:00 - How competitiveness changes with age 00:29:08 - Strategies of Pro Players 00:31:11 - Competition As Young Athlete 00:31:57 - Playing Doubles 00:51:52 - Technology and Tennis 01:00:00 - Evolution of Tennis 01:05:44 - Moloch Traps in Tennis 01:11:10 - Enhanced Olympics 01:19:57 - Tennis Payout Structures 01:28:00 - High Impact Athletes and Philanthropy 01:49:43 - Kindest Things Someone Has Done 01:51:53 - Proudest Moment Links ♾️ High Impact Athletes https://www.highimpactathletes.org/ ♾️ Marcus Daniell Twitter https://twitter.com/marcusdaniell ♾️ Giving What We Can Pledge https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge Credits ♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree ♾️ Produced by Raymond Wei ♾️ Edit and Audio Mix by Ryan Kessler The Win-Win Podcast: Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Running 200 miles for New Incentives, published by Emma Cameron on March 2, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. What is this? After a running career[1] across marathons, 50K, 50-mile, 100K, and 100-mile distance events over the past eleven years, I'm tackling the 200-mile distance at the Tahoe 200 from June 14-18 this year. It's a bit of a ridiculous, silly challenge. It's also completely wild that I have a privileged life living in a high-income country like the US that allows me to tackle such an adventure. Given all this, I have decided to fundraise for New Incentives through my training and build-up for the event. This is my PledgeIt donation page. I'm thankful to have the support of the folks at High Impact Athletes in putting my page together and thinking through my campaign. My goal is to raise $10,036 to support 650 children enrolling in New Incentive's vaccination program at a cost of $15.44 per infant[2]. I hope you can help promote my fundraising efforts or consider donating yourself! I'm posting on the Forum because it's a wild enough idea that perhaps I can bring some new folks into effective giving in the process.[3] Can I even finish? The short answer: I think so! I have attempted the 200-mile distance once before, at the Moab 240. I only made it about 120 miles before succumbing to the hotter-than-average 110°F heat in the canyons on the second day. Unfortunately, they last-minute swapped out the Tailwind electrolyte solution on course and replaced it with a non-vegan offering, which I wasn't willing to take. I ended up relying on salt pills instead, which wasn't enough. Even after losing my hearing in one ear due to electrolyte imbalance, I was determined to shoulder ahead. Unfortunately, when I stopped being able to keep food or liquids down, my pacer[4] physically carried me a mile into the next aid station, where I passed out and woke up in a van with the race crew. Understandably, they let me know they would be pulling me from the race. So, I definitely "DNF'd" [Did Not Finish] that race, even though I took away a lot of important lessons from it. I have since completed a number of challenging 100-mile ultramarathons, including: Grindstone 100[5] in Virginia, September 2019 Kettle 100 in Wisconsin, virtual in June 2020 Black Hills 100 in South Dakota, June 2021 Superior 100 in Minnesota, September 2022 Javelina 100 [6] in Arizona, October 2023 I've otherwise completed Ironman Wisconsin, qualified for the Boston Marathon twice, backpacked around Wisconsin, biked, rock climbed, and generally feel that I am well-positioned as an endurance athlete to tackle this challenge in Lake Tahoe this June. I think I'm ready! To be clear, my only real goal is to complete the race. I would describe myself as a 'mid-pack' runner in the 200-mile distance, at best. I will be running alongside such professional legends as Courtney Dauwalter, who has notably attempted to break the course record at the Tahoe 200[7] by completing it in

Olympic Tennis Doubles Bronze Medallist Marcus Daniell catches up with McIvor to talk ASB Classic, his charity High Impact Athletes & what they are all about, Paris 2024 & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olympic Tennis Doubles Bronze Medallist Marcus Daniell catches up with McIvor to talk ASB Classic, his charity High Impact Athletes & what they are all about, Paris 2024 & more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing GiveHealth: a giving Pledge for healthcare workers (and a call for volunteers), published by RichArmitage on January 5, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. What GiveHealth is a new EA-inspired effective giving organisation. It is a community of healthcare professionals who have taken a public Pledge to donate at least 1% of their income to the most effective global health charities. Visitors to the website can Learn about effective giving, their relative wealth on the global stage, how healthcare professionals can improve their impact, the activities of GiveWell and the highly effective nature of the charities recommended by GiveWell. Healthcare professionals are invited to take a public Pledge to donate at least 1% of their income to GiveWell's top charities for the rest of their lives. They can use the Pledge Calculator to determine their monthly/annual donations based on their salary and desired donation percentage. Once they have taken the Pledge their name, profession and location will be displayed on the GiveHealth Community Board, and they can learn about the Charities recommended by GiveWell and follow the links to the donation page of their chosen charities. Pledge takers will receive a survey on each anniversary of their Pledge to capture their donation activities over the previous year so GiveHealth can measure the value of donations it is influencing. Anybody can sign up to the GiveHealth monthly newsletter. Healthcare professionals of all disciplines (nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, doctors, etc) and kinds (clinicians, researchers, managers, policy-makers, students, retired professionals, etc) of any level of seniority, from any part of the world, are welcome to sign the GiveHealth Pledge. Why Healthcare professionals are a self-selected group of generally altruistic individuals who both care about improving the health of others and are motivated to do so. There is also a strong sense of community and camaraderie amongst healthcare professionals, while their awareness and understanding of EA and its principles is generally low. Giving What We Can has shown the public Pledge model to be an effective vehicle for generating donations (by fostering commitment, community and culture), which GiveHealth has combined with a lower barrier to entry (at least 1% of income rather than 10%) that we feel is more appropriate for a group less familiar with EA. Pledge takers are still able to sign the Giving What We Can pledge, and their GiveHealth pledge can be included within, rather than in addition to, their GWWC pledge (since both pledges commit the individual to donating to effective charities) - for example, donating 10% of income can satisfy both a 10% GiveHealth Pledge and the 10% GWWC pledge. We hope the existing strong sense of community between healthcare professionals, and the 1% low barrier to entry, can be harnessed to generate Pledge-taking momentum amongst these professionals, while increasing their awareness and understanding of EA. In this manner, GiveHealth could be regarded as the healthcare profession analogue of High Impact Athletes and Raising for Effective Giving, which are EA-inspired communities of effective giving relevant to specific professions (elite athletes and professional poker players, respectively). Where Healthcare professionals from anywhere in the world are welcome and encouraged to take the GiveHealth Pledge. Who The Co-Founders of GiveHealth are three UK-trained doctors - Richard Armitage (GP in UK), Alastair Yeoh (infectious diseases doctor in UK) and George Altman (intern in Australia). How GiveHealth is currently run on an entirely voluntary basis by the three Co-Founders alongside their full-time work as frontline healthcare professionals. No funds were raised from external source...

The only thing more high-impact than tennis champion Marcus Daniell's serve is his philanthropy and his mission to encourage other athletes to give. An Olympic bronze medallist with five ATP titles, Marcus realized he had a unique opportunity to help the less-fortunate not only by donating but by using his platform to spread the word. In 2020, he co-founded High Impact Athletes to encourage other high-profile athletes to follow his example. In this episode, Charlie and Marcus talk about treating all Earth's creatures with respect, whether human, furry, feathered, or finned. In addition to human poverty, they touch on factory farming and climate change initiatives which can help make the world a place of less suffering for all. Be sure you check out the website highimpactathletes.org, to find a running tally of human and animal lives improved, tonnes of CO2e mitigated, and money influenced towards non-profit giving. High Impact Athletes works with “12 of the most effective charities in the world,” ensuring each donation goes as far and helps as many as it possibly can. And with a roster of more than 180 athletes representing 40 sports and 31 countries, HIA is doing a lot. Be sure to subscribe to The High Impact Athletes Podcast wherever you listen to Musings! Musings on Ourselves and Other Strangers is the podcast for the non-profit organization The Life You Can Save, and is hosted by co-founder Charlie Bresler. Please check out other episodes as well as our website for ideas on how you too can extend your impact for good in the world.   

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Seeking founders for new effective giving organisations, published by Luke Moore on August 4, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Giving What We Can is looking to help founding teams organise to grow effective giving around the world and wants to hear from people excited about helping new effective giving initiatives get off the ground. These are likely to be initiatives in new geographies, like Effektiv Spenden, but we are also open to hearing about ideas for projects seeking to promote effective giving to specific interest groups, like High Impact Athletes. At this point we will prioritise supporting organisations which will fundraise for GWWC's existing recommendations over helping with geographically specific research and making geographically specific recommendations, although we are interested in this as well. Send us your expression of interest Why? Effective giving is an incredibly efficient way for us to convert resources into impact and moreover, there are many positive indirect effects from promoting effective giving; such as advocating for effective altruism and promoting positive values globally. However, there are significant regional gaps in the current effective giving ecosystem. As a result, donors from unrepresented regions or communities may be unable to make (tax-deductible) donations to effective charities and more importantly may not even come to hear about effective giving, as the ideas are not available in their language or cultural/community/social context. We think that this represents a huge missed opportunity - and one that we hope to help rectify. What? These new effective giving initiative will likely be a fundraising organisation that hosts funds which make grants to other effective charities and high-impact funding opportunities. These new fundraising organisations will need to be able to accept donations (ideally tax-deductible) in their legal jurisdiction and be able to make grants to charitable programs. Who? We are initially interested in recruiting a working group that would set the strategy, take the initial steps, and hire the executive director (who could be one of the original founding team). The types of roles that could be useful at this stage will be very varied and include e.g. volunteers, board members, an executive director and other team members, particularly those with expertise in the following areas: Legal Governance Website design Philanthropic advising Marketing and communications Accounting and finance Community fundraising Events IT and information security Support from Giving What We Can? Giving What We Can can provide support to new organisations in the following ways: General advice and support Sharing best practice and lessons learnt An MVP starter-guide for new effective giving organisations Access to shared resources and content within the effective giving community Introductions to the broader effective giving network (potentially helping form mentorship relationships) Assistance in accessing legal advice when needed Help in finding funding for the project, and potentially spending some of Giving What We Can's own budget on initial costs In some cases, the use of the GWWC brand and donation platform The level of support will depend on the specific project, its potential for impact, and the strength of the founding team. Giving What We Can has previously provided support in various ways to different effective giving organisations, here are just a few illustrative examples: Don Efficace: We provided some funding, governance and legal support, access to our donation platform, and mentorship for the founding team. Ayuda Efectiva: We provided a brand partnership and Ayuda Efectiva acts as the community for our members in Spain with their Executive Director being an Ambassador for Giving What We Can. Giving Gr...

Marcus Daniell is a New Zealand Professional Tennis player, and the founder and executive director  of the organisation “High Impact Athletes”. HIA (High Impact Athletes) exists to create a groundswell of positive impact in the world, driven by the generosity and social influence of professional athletes. They partner with excellent and reputable charities around the world in the areas of Animal Welfare, Health and Poverty, and Climate Change. - In this podcast we talked about: The vision and dream behind HIA, and how it came about How to give effectively and support good causes The process of gathering high profile athletes who started to say yes to join the HIA team The reality of how much money most people earn compared to the rest of the world Marcus's own tennis journey and how he managed to find success Being a vegetarian athlete The idea of “giving back” and using sports as a force for good You can head to www.highimpactathletes.org to see the awesome mahi Marcus and his team are doing, and even see how you can get involved. This podcast is available on Spotify, Itunes and iHeartRadio.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing Artists of Impact, published by Fernando MG on March 25, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR Announcing a new EA-Aligned org to promote effective giving by leveraging the social influence and resources of professional and celebrity artists. Intro Hello EA Forum! My name is Fernando. I'm a professional ballet dancer who's excited to announce the launch of our new organization, Artists of Impact! We promote effective giving by leveraging the social influence and resources of professional and celebrity artists. Modeled largely off of High Impact Athletes, we help professional artists understand the power of effective giving and the importance of thinking critically about using their platform and resources to have a greater social impact. We connect them with EA-aligned organizations that they resonate with, support their high-impact donation and advocacy efforts, and leverage their platforms to inspire their fans to do the same! The arts community in general does a great job of advocating for different causes. However, these tend to reflect a more personal approach to philanthropy, which often prioritizes proximity and familiarity over impartiality and cost-effectiveness. As such, we hope to insert ourselves into that equation, leverage the motivations that we already see prevalent throughout the artistic community, and point them towards higher-impact opportunities. We're currently working on formalizing our organizational strategy, but we wanted to make this announcement ASAP so that the community is aware of what we're trying to do and can reach out if they have any ideas or people they think we should hear and connect with! We're excited to share more information about our theory of change, pilot projects, budget, etc. in a future post and we hope that you'll be excited to keep up with us as we continue to grow and learn as an organization! How you can help! Funders We're currently bootstrapping operations and actively seeking funders to help provide a 6-12 month runway to test out the assumptions underlying our Theory of Change and continue building up our social presence. Collaborators We're also seeking collaborators to join our project on a volunteer basis, so if you're excited by our mission and want to help us realize our organizational objectives, reach out! Connections If you know any professional/celebrity artists, we'd love to connect with them! Warm intros have been our most effective outreach method! Get in touch! Follow Us on Social Media and Spread the Word Instagram: @artistsofimpact Twitter: @ArtistsofImpact LinkedIn: @ArtistsofImpact More Info If you'd like to learn more about our project or have any feedback on how to make the project more impactful, comment down below or reach out to me at fernando@artistsofimpact.org Special thanks to Marcus D., Devon F., Sarah P., Neil F., Jeffray B., and too many others to name for all their help in bringing this project to life. Thanks for your time and for all that you do for the world! Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

When Marcus Daniell isn't on the tennis court winning Olympic titles, he's focused on high-impact charitable giving. He joins us on the podcast from New Zealand for a conversation about his organization, High Impact Athletes, which helps athletes create world-changing impacts through charitable donations. In our discussion, Marcus details athletes' historical donating patterns and how High Impact Athletes helps connect them… The post High Impact Athletes w/ Marcus Daniell appeared first on Our Hen House.

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.Enjoy! For more info, visit:On TiptoesHigh Impact AthletesBarre None 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: High-Impact Psychology (HIPsy): Piloting a Global Network, published by Inga on September 29, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Engaged with psychology or mental health? This is for you. Impartial compassion. Rationality. Wellbeing. For a movement built on these values, EA likely underutilizes psychology professionals. Together with our supporters from the Global Priorities Institute, the Center for Effective Altruism, and the Happier Lives Institute, HIPsy aims to help people engaged with psychology or mental health maximize their impact. Vision We will follow in the footsteps of the EA Consulting Network, High-Impact Medicine, and High-Impact Athletes. Accordingly, the goal of HIPsy shall be to increase the likelihood of high-impact decisions, make collaboration and information processes more effective, and reduce the risk of value drift for people engaged in psychology or mental health. Relevant resources shall be available, easy to access, and use: up-to-date high-quality information, career and work advice, networking and collaboration opportunities. Psychological know-how shall be effectively acquired, shared, and used for EA. Psychology expertise is particularly needed in the fields of: mental health and well-being, both within EA and globally, community building, and outreach, management, HR, and operations, priorities research, and effectiveness research, x-risk-reduction and AI safety, e.g. awareness-building, and persuasion. Summary The goal for the next few months is to find out which of the many potential actions to prioritize, and how to address them most effectively. We will check what materials, events, and services are in-demand, and pilot some of them. You want to help? Let us know here. If you'd like to collaborate, fund us, or if you have got any of the following skills, we want to hear from you: online content creation, running mentorship programs, hosting events, web-dev, community-building, running surveys, research, and cost-effectiveness analyses. Opportunities Engaging with > 50 members of the EA community and their materials revealed three major opportunities:1. EA has skill bottlenecks that psychological professionals can help with Industry: management, entrepreneurship, operations, HR Science: at universities and EA mental health/wellbeing orgs (lack of seniors) Therapy: EA-informed psychotherapists and coaches for members of the EA community 2. It's hard for psychology professionals to enter EA even if they are likely good matches Existing materials and advice are difficult to find, scattered, contradictory, out of date, and selective (e.g. reading list, Effective Thesis) which likely discourages prospects Effectiveness and altruism: People largely enter psychology because they want to help others, and most universities have very high entrance requirements and thus select intelligent and ambitious individuals Mental health as a cause area faces large funding constraints that make it hard to enter, contribute and stick for people engaged in this field. 3. There is unfulfilled potential for synergistic action and systematic exchangeThe impact of psychology-related EA orgs could be boosted by informing members of the community of techniques, knowledge, and best practices they can use to be more impactful, e.g. status quo of psychology research fostering collaboration and joint efforts between organizations that face similar challenges, e.g. mental health orgs that need to learn how to develop scalable and sustainable psychological interventions cooperating with leading psychology experts and EA-aligned individuals outside of EA that can help EA stay up to date with current industry, market, and research standards. Conclusion. It can be easier to access up-to-date high-quality information, advice, and networking opportunities. We imagine...

This week we welcome Marcus Daniell, Olympic medallist in Tokyo, and the man leading the way for sports stars to use their position to help others. Top doubles player Marcus, discusses his pride at winning an Olympic medal for his country New Zealand, how he divides his time on the tour, studying, and importantly running his initiative, High Impact Athletes, which encourages those in a privileged position, high earning and star athletes and others who give, to give effectively. Marcus, the winner of the Arthur Ashe ATP Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2021, is an inspiring figure like no other in the tennis world. This is a really great episode. Listen, Subscribe, review and share!

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: User-Friendly Intro Post, published by James Odene [User-Friendly] on June 23, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Introducing User-Friendly User-Friendly is an EA-aligned marketing agency. We provide marketing expertise to impact-driven organisations, multiplying efforts towards solving the world's biggest challenges. We have supported EA clients such as Giving What We Can, 80K, High Impact Athletes, WANBAM, Rethink Priorities, Happier Lives Institute and Carrick Flynn's recent campaign for congress, with a wide-range of strategic and creative marketing services.We had been operating User-Friendly as a freelance side-hustle up until early May this year when we increased our capacity following funding from the EA Infrastructure Fund. The grant is to give User-Friendly operational support whilst we continue to assess the worth and desire for our work in this space. The Pitch Effective communication is a key component to the success of many organisational aims. As a movement, core components of our work are unavoidably entwined in the way in which we communicate with our intended audiences. Whether you are aiming to change opinions, change behaviours, drive others towards a more impactful path or encourage donations or pledges, the way in which your message is constructed and disseminated plays a crucial role in how effective your organisation can be. As an indication of the scale for impact, it's worth considering the Kantar research that suggests the creative quality of marketing is one of the best multipliers of impact (x12). This indicates the substantial impact available between the best and worst marketing attempts on quality alone. We want to support EA-aligned organisations to achieve their strategic objectives by utilising our expertise and skills, ensuring that their marketing is effectively (and cost-effectively) implemented. The Service User-Friendly brings together the international marketing and behavioural science expertise of James Odene and the substantial global animal movement campaigns experience of Amy Odene. We also collaborate with external freelancers for specific expertise that we do not hold ourselves.Getting the best multiplying effect of marketing requires not only creative skill, but sound strategic underpinning honed through years of experience and training. We offer strategic services including; strategic consultation, messaging development, brand development and management and marketing auditing as well as creative execution services including; graphic design, branding, social media management and asset development, campaign development and ad creative. The Scoping In order to assess the current landscape of the movement's marketing and communications resource, we disseminated a scoping survey earlier this year. 35 organisations responded, the results from which were assessed alongside our top preconceptions about the desire and worth of such an offering in the EA space, informing our strategy moving forward. Here you will find a list of our initial preconceptions, a summary of the responses in relation to these, and our agency's solution. We identified 6 challenges that we felt the EA movement faced in relation to such a service. You can review the full scoping survey here. Internal resource Organisations are looking for a specific service or task to be completed but do not have the resource, funding or perhaps full-time capacity need, to hire in-house for this particular project.Survey result: Throughout the survey results it is clear that the demand for one-off project based work is high, and growing, with seemingly no short-term intention to build this capacity in-house. With the current lack of resource, skill deficit and predicted increase in spend, it is reasonable to suggest that a service such as User-Friendly, could provide a...

Marcus Daniell is a professional tennis player and Olympic medallist, whose organisation "High Impact Athletes" connects athletes with the most effective, evidence-based charities in the world In this chat Evie & Marcus discuss the topic of Effective Altruism and the inspiration behind Marcus's decision to set up High Impact Athletes. Also available as Vodcast at https://youtu.be/rVNDbT_kJSA 1:20 How Marcus got involved with the effective altruism movement "It just blew my mind how much sense it made" 3:23 "High Impact Athletes is the vehicle that I've created to try to be the best advocate for EA ideas as possible" 4:00 The significance of GiveWell "What GiveWell offers us is the most certainty we can possibly have in this space that our dollar is doing exactly what it should". 6:33 Confidence in GiveWell's process including their transparency about making mistakes, and the openness to criticism & new evidence in the EA community generally. 7:30 "If I can donate these amounts of money and it doesn't affect my quality of life or my happiness, then I'm not losing anything really, but that amount of money can be life-saving or life-changing for so many people or animals in the world" 9:58 Peter Singer's "Shallow Pond" thought experiment had Evie feeling pretty bad for a while there. Delighted with the recent focus on giving as an amazing opportunity, rather than a moral obligation (even if it is really a moral obligation) 11:30 The problem of relying on empathy to tell us how to do good. An example might be that vastly more money is donated to pet shelters than to organisations working to improve the lives of factory farm animals. 15:20 Marcus' decision to be vegetarian while at a sushi bar in Japan 17:00 Evie was a bit hazy on the details but got the gist of the scanning eggs example right. More about chick culling here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/can-new-technologies-eliminate-grim-practice-of-chick-culling-180977263/ 20:30 Evie & Marcus' views on Longtermism. The podcast episode mentioned by Marcus: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/alexander-berger-improving-global-health-wellbeing-clear-direct-ways/ More about Longtermism here https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/longtermism 23:50 An appeal to Messi, Neymar, The Williams Sisters, Lewis Hamilton, and whichever other athletes Evie can name (i.e. the very famous ones) to check out High Impact Athletes! https://highimpactathletes.org/ See the blogpost at https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/high-impact-athletes-with-pro-tennis-player-marcus-daniell/ And the video interview at https://youtu.be/rVNDbT_kJSA

Marcus Daniell is a professional tennis player from New Zealand and the Founder & Executive Director of High Impact Athletes (https://highimpactathletes.org/). He is an Olympic bronze medallist tennis player with 5 ATP titles, quarterfinal appearances at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open (twice), and numerous caps for the NZ Davis Cup Team. He has been Giving Effectively since 2014. On January 4th, 2021, Marcus took the Giving What We Can pledge to donate at least 10% of his annual winnings to effective organisations 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. In this conversation, Brian and Josh speak with Marcus about his career and playing with an impactful purpose. Donate via High Impact Athletes: https://highimpactathletes.org/donate

This week's guest is professional tennis player, Olympic medallist and founder of the brilliant High Impact Athletes organisation, New Zealander, Marcus Daniell. The chat you're about to hear is a very honest one from someone who's learnt so much from the journey he has taken. It's easy to think that being a professional athlete means that, not only do you know everything about preparation and performance, but that you also have an entourage around you to help and guide you. For the huge majority of those that make a living playing sport professionally, there is no full time support group and they are often doing the majority of their work on their own. Being self-sufficient is something we talk a lot about and how you can become more self-reliant and pro active. Going to an Olympic Games and how being part of a bigger group really added value for him and we expand upon the mistakes he has made and the learnings from it all. Away from the court the obvious drive that Marcus has, propelled him into starting up an organisation called High Impact Athletes, which aims to assist sports people with charitable giving and that's a rich part of the diet of topics that we touch upon this week, but we start with how he had to chose, at a pretty early age, between tennis and football, two sports he was playing at international level.More About Marcus Daniell:High Impact Athletes Website - https://highimpactathletes.org/teamWikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_DaniellATP Profile - https://www.atptour.com/en/players/marcus-daniell/d763/overviewInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/marcusdaniellnz/?hl=enTwitter - https://twitter.com/marcusdaniellLinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3swYzwuShow Notes - https://benryan.co.uk/podcast/Show Notes: Banská Bystrica in Slovakia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bansk%C3%A1_BystricaMichael Bourne - https://bit.ly/3sKzePuLTA - https://www.lta.org.uk/Owen Eastwood Podcast Episode - https://benryan.co.uk/podcast/episode-14-owen-eastwood/Mike Venus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Venus_(tennis)David Sammel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_SammelHaka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HakaPounamu Stone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PounamuMana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManaArthur Ashe Humanitarian Award - https://bit.ly/34YR3lzHigh Impact Athletes - https://highimpactathletes.org/Effective Altruism - https://www.effectivealtruism.org/80,000 Hours Website - https://bit.ly/3HJaHAPMaslow's Hierarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needsAtmosfair - https://www.atmosfair.de/en/Clean Air Task Force - https://www.catf.us/Carbon 180 - https://carbon180.org/Cool Earth - https://bit.ly/3uDwjeb'The Life You Can Save' book by Peter Singer - https://amzn.to/3Ll70DH'Stranger In A Strange Land' book by Robert Heinlein - https://amzn.to/34pPkGoListen & Subscribe to The Ben Ryan Podcast:Ben's Website - http://benryan.co.uk/bio/Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ben-ryan-podcast/id1553400216Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3iUL1eLA7HFKt5gxO7Uf4j?si=oN9YN6uFRSSGbO6kR01ONQAmazon Music - https://amzn.to/3shGDnOTuneIn - http://tun.in/pkdsmBen's Social:Follow me on Instagram - https://bit.ly/2Z5QSitFollow me on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3ph5W7oFollow me on LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3ah8FtvRead about me - https://amzn.to/2NLu0Ck

welcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio. this is: Are there any other pro athlete aspiring EAs?, published by Marcus Daniell on the effective altruism forum. Write a Review I'm starting an EA aligned non-profit called High Impact Athletes that is aiming to funnel donations from current and retired pro athletes and their fans towards the most effective orgs in the world. It's still early stage but I wondered if there were any pro or ex athletes hiding in the EA Forum who might be interested in supporting the idea? I believe pro sport is a relatively untapped space for EA and potentially has huge pulling power if the athletes get their fans on board. Many thanks, Marcus Daniell thanks for listening. to help us out with the nonlinear library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

welcome to the nonlinear library, where we use text-to-speech software to convert the best writing from the rationalist and ea communities into audio. this is: Introducing High Impact Athletes, published by Marcus Daniell on the effective altruism forum. Hi all, A while back I posted on here asking if there were any other pro athlete aspiring EAs. The response (while not including other pro athletes) was amazing, and the conversations and contacts that manifested from this forum were myriad. Thank you deeply for being such an awesome community! Now I am very pleased to say that High Impact Athletes has launched. We are an EA aligned non-profit run by pro athletes. HIA aims to channel donations to the most effective, evidence-based charities in the world in the areas of Global Health & Poverty and Environmental Impact. We will harness the wealth, fame, and social influence of professional athletes to bring as many new people in to the effective altruism framework as possible and create the biggest possible snowball of donations to the places where they can do the most good. You can poke around on the website to learn more at/ Feedback is welcomed, and even more welcome is a follow on any of the socials. I'm terrible at social media and could use all the help I can get to build an audience. Instagram: high.impact.athletes Twitter: HIAorg Facebook: @HIAorg On that note, if anyone is interested in helping out with the social media side of things or knows anyone who would be please do get in touch either on here or at marcus@highimpactathletes.com Thank you once again, you're all awesome. Cheers, Marcus Daniell thanks for listening. to help us out with the nonlinear library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

We're joined by Marcus Daniell, an Olympic bronze medallist, professional tennis player and founder of High Impact Athletes. Marcus shares his journey to effective altruism, experience founding a charity, working with athlete advocates and more. The full transcript and links are available at our blog: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/10/podcast-marcus-daniell/  00:00 – Introduction 00:45 – About High Impact Athletes 01:24 – Genesis of High Impact Athletes 03:40 – Achievements of High Impact Athletes 05:16 – Experiences founding a charity 08:12 – Experiences talking with athletes about EA 12:56 – Future risks and challenges for HIA 14:28 – Preparing for the future 15:28 – Supporting High Impact Athletes 16:48 – Childhood and moral development 18:48 – Media recommendations 20:50 – Similarities between sports and effective giving 22:12 – Common Objections or Responses While Trying to Recruit for HIA 27:30 – The battle for awareness 30:06 – Being motivated by community and opportunity 31:25 – What's Coming Up for Marcus and High Impact Athletes

Marcus Daniell, the Founder and CEO of High Impact Athletes, is this episode's guest.  Marcus is a professional tennis player and two-time Olympian representing New Zealand, and founded HIA after he engaged with the Effective Altruism philosophy and movement.  Effective Altruism asks “how can we best help others,” and answers that with, “by using evidence and reason to find the most effective causes to contribute to and by using our time and money to do the most good we can.”  HIA and Marcus (who has pledged to donate at least 10% of his annual winnings to nonprofits in the global health, environmental and animal welfare sectors), have been recruiting other athletes to take that pledge and learn how they too can do the most good with their charitable dollars and high profiles.  (0:30). Website: https://highimpactathletes.org/

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Marcus Daniell is not your ordinary professional tennis player. The 31-year-old from New Zealand has reached as high as 34 in the world in Doubles and has 5 ATP doubles titles to his name, but he´s also known for his work off the court. Since 2015 Marcus has donated a percentage of his earnings to charity, and in December 2020 he launched High Impact Athletes. The organisation channels charitable donations to the most effective evidence-based charities in the word, including extreme poverty, children´s, and environmental impact charities. In just 6 months, he´s signed up dozens of professional athletes including tennis players Stefanos Tsitsipas and John Millman to pledge a percentage of their earnings to help others. His goal is to reach $1 million in donations by the end of the year. In 2021, Marcus announced that he would be donating at least 10 per cent of his annual winnings to effective charity organisations for the rest of his life. Listen to Marcus discuss this, his career and more in this very inspiring episode. Some highlights of the episode:- [05:21] Growing up playing and competing in New Zealand [11:43] His experience moving to Slovakia as a junior to train [20:07] Imposter Syndrome and how he needed to break through a belief barrier to help him rise up the rankings [28:56] How he´s using his voice for doubles as a member of the ATP Council. [29:54] Marcus discusses the drop in prize money for doubles players at the this years French Open. [33:23] What ranking do you need as a pro doubles player to break even? [37:27] Discovering Effective Altruisim and donating 10% of his winnings to charity. [38:54] Why he decided to set up High Impact Athletes and the potential impact it will have as it grows. Links Mentioned in this Episode:- Follow Marcus on Twitter: @MarcusDaniell Website: High Impact Athletes Giving What We Can 80,000 Hours Episode 39: Mental Health Awareness Week - Joe Dixon

Marcus (https://twitter.com/MarcusDaniell) is a professional tennis player from New Zealand. He is a philanthropist and an advocate for effective altruism through his work as the founder of High Impact Athletes (https://highimpactathletes.org/) and as a member of Giving What We Can. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. We discuss: 0:00 Welcome 1:45 Marcus intro - pro tennis and High Impact Athletes charity 3:02 What's real? - Growing up on a farm in New Zealand - A "spiritual" father and a "hippie" mother - Pragmatism, a love for nature and animals, but a comfort with death. Hunting as a child - Attending Christian schools - Enjoying Religious Education but never buying in. Being agnostic/atheist from a young age - Moving alone to Slovakia for tennis - Discovering "spirituality" and eastern philosophies - Studying philosophy at university - Discovering animal ethics but thinking "I'm an athlete, I need meat" - A turning point when a friend ordered whale in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo - Going veg*an a week later - Finding awe and wonder in a naturalistic/scientific worldview - "Put me next to the ocean or in a forest or a jungle and it's like experiencing magic for me" - Naturalistic karma? Putting positive energy into the world and getting positive things back 14:06 What matters? Humans and non-humans - Meeting a vegan tennis pro - "I now feel like I'm living in my space in the world - in the right way" - A sense of solidity... "That's really helped me" - Our lack of understanding of non-human sentients - Intelligence vs. sentience as a moral qualifier - "I would consider myself a sentientist now" - I try to give respect to all sentient beings. If they can suffer, try not to cause them suffering - Artificial sentients? Does suffering matter regardless of species or substrate? - Sentience as an evolved class of information processing that could also be programmed in - Luna the puppy makes an audio appearance - Existential, catastrophic and suffering risks (S-risks) - Peter Singer's Animal Liberation. Trying not to cause suffering - It's so easy not to think. "I wonder how we can create more of these culturally shocking moments to make more people understand" - The morals were somewhere there, just hidden under layers of culture and tradition 28:05 The Future - Talking to others about animal products and hearing "We agree on all the reasons but I'm not going to make the change" - "I would love for the world to be plant-based" - Is regenerative animal farming an option? - Can slaughter ever be humane? - The broad common ground re: rejecting factory farming - And more... (see YouTube or Sentientism.info). Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at https://sentientism.info/​​​​​​​​​​​​​. Join our "wall" https://sentientism.info/wall/ w/this form: https://sentientism.info/im-a-sentientist​. Marcus is on our "celebs" page: https://sentientism.info/sentientist-pledge/marcus-daniell. ​Everyone interested, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. Main one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism​. Thanks Graham for the post-prod https://twitter.com/cgbessellieu.

“What I landed on was starting an organization and trying to leverage my connections and my relationships in the sporting world to try and bring effective giving into the total sporting arena." This week's guest is Marcus Daniell, a world No. 41-ranked doubles star with a much bigger purpose in life than just tennis. The 31-year-old has made it his mission to help others through charitable work, and founded High Impact Athletes last year to help athletes give back more effectively. Daniell hails from New Zealand and opted against college tennis to turn pro. He began focusing on only doubles in 2015, and has won five ATP doubles titles. Just last month, he broke through at the Grand Slam level by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (with Philipp Oswald). Philanthropy has always been a part of Daniell's life and as his tennis career earnings grew, so did his donations. He has been donating a portion of his earnings each season, and this year, he became a member of Giving What We Can, where members pledge to give 10 percent of their income to charities. Daniell explains it's not just about how much you choose to donate, it's also about where. During the tour shutdown in 2020, he discovered effective altruism, a philosophy that advocates using evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others. That same year, High Impact Athletes was born. The purpose of Daniell's organization is to connect athletes and the general public with the most effective, evidence-based non-profits in the world. Over 30 athletes have joined HIA including Stefanos Tsitsipas, Milos Raonic and Rajeev Ram. The main areas of focus are animal welfare, extreme poverty and climate change, all of which Daniell is passionate about. He explains how he got into tennis and philanthropy, how he's combined those two loves, and why effective altruism is so important to helping better the world. Watch TENNIS.com Podcast episodes on YouTube and Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marcus Daniell is an Olympian tennis player from New Zealand with 5 ATP titles, quarterfinal appearances at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open. He became involved with the Effective Altruism in 2015 and has since donated 5-10% of his annual income to effective organisations. In January of this year, Marcus took the Giving What We Can pledge, committing to donate at least 10% of his annual winnings to effective organisations for the rest of his life. Alongside his tennis career, Marcus is presently completing a Masters in Philosophy. In November 2020, Daniell founded High Impact Athletes, a non-profit organisation connecting athletes and the general public with the most effective, evidence-based non-profits in the world. You can read much more on these topics in our accompanying write-up: hearthisidea.com/episodes/marcus. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future guests, feel free get in touch through our website or by using the star rating form on each episode page. Please also consider leaving us a review wherever you're listening to this. If you want to support the show more directly and help us keep hosting these episodes online, consider leaving a tip. Thanks for listening!