Podcasts about ncaa division one

In this engaging conversation, Kate shares her inspiring journey from being a NCAA Division One basketball player to becoming a pivotal figure in women's cycling. As the director of women's strategy and partnership at Zwift, she discusses the importance of innovation, community building, and investment in women's sports. Kate highlights the challenges women face in cycling and sports in general, emphasizing the need for equal opportunities, visibility, and representation. The discussion also touches on the role of data in driving change and the importance of creating a supportive environment for young girls in sports.TakeawaysKate's journey from basketball to cycling showcases her relentless drive.Innovation is crucial for the growth of women's sports.Zwift Academy has created a global community for women cyclists.Investment in women's sports leads to greater visibility and opportunities.Data is essential in proving the viability of women's sports.Creating safe spaces for women in cycling encourages participation.Representation in sports media is vital for inspiring future generations.Brands that align with women's values can tap into a powerful consumer base.Encouraging young girls to stay in sports is essential for their development.The cycling community is evolving to be more inclusive and supportive.At Her Spirit, we're building a FREE global community designed exclusively for women's activity. Join us to connect with like-minded women, discover events, and find local groups that inspire you to move more. ✨ Find your tribe. Achieve your goals. Thrive together.

Beaver Dam High School senior Eli Braynt talks about committing to play NCAA Division One baseball at Kent State.

This week the boys are joined by NCAA Division One, FDU Knights Soccer Coach, Jaymee Highcock, who shares his journey from the UK to the top of the college game. Currently the Head Coach at Farleigh Dickinson University, Jaymee shares his journey from his playing days in the UK to testing out the waters across the pond before making the US his home. Jaymee speaks on what it takes to progress on the coaching ladder and the challenges he has had to face as well as some top tips for both players and coaches looking to get into the College Game. FDU Knights: https://www.instagram.com/fduknightsmsoc/As always please like, subscribe, follow. Jack, Stu & Jaymee Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I noticed that the skill gap between the lower and upper levels of NCAA Division One college volleyball are larger than the gap between less competitive D2 schools and my daughter's current national level of club play.The creative lesson I took from this Noticing is that all credentials are subjective, not always based on an objective standard. For writers, acknowledging the subtle but significant differences in characters' abilities adds depth to our stories. It's reminding me to write characters with a range of competencies and growth potentials, not some fixed stereotype.WANT MORE?Members get extra episodes of the podcast, extra companion blog posts (see below), and more every week … all for the price of a fancy coffee. Learn about membership here.Prefer reading?Listening to the Art of Noticing podcast is only one way to get these lessons. Every episode of the podcast also has a complete companion blog post, all of which you can find here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit johnnybtruant.substack.com/subscribe

What happens if you realize your dream has changed in the middle of achieving your lifelong goal of becoming an NCAA Division One hockey player? Do you stick it out? Or do you make the hard decision to change dreams?    In this episode of the Utah book report, we sit down with former Arizona State University hockey goalie, Hank Levy to discuss just that.

This week, we reach beyond our studios and bring you interviews from Wyoming PBS' Wyoming Chronicle. At one point, the Wyoming Cowboys were an NCAA Division One baseball team. And Jeff Houston was one of the best players they had. He came to Laramie from Arizona. Fossil fuels are an important industry for the state. But as the nation is trying to move away from relying on oil, the state says it's important to diversify. An interview with a historian on the history of oil in Wyoming from 2010.

Beaver Dam High School senior Gabby Wilke signs her National Letter of Intent to play NCAA Division One college basketball at South Dakota.

Willie Spears is a critically acclaimed keynote speaker, author, evangelist, and award-winning teacher and coach. Coach Spears has excited audiences with his energetic, relatable, and educational presentations. Through his social media presence, weekly editorial, and fourteen books, Coach has become one of the country's most sought after speakers. As founder of The Willie Spears Experience, Willie has added value to several successful organizations including The Southern Company, State Farm, Allen and Jean Millar Center in Alberta, Canada and dozens of universities, schools, teams, and churches. Willie has been featured on CNN, FOX, HBO, ESPN, and several regional television stations. Coach's Journey Willie has lived a most interesting life and uses his experiences to help others. Before earning a bachelor's degree in communications and a master's degree in education he grew up playing sports, going to church, and dabbling in entertainment. Willie has coached at the NCAA Division One and Division Two level, was Athletic Director of three high schools and Head Football Coach of seven high schools. Before becoming a coach, he worked for Disney Cruise Line as a comedian and entertainer. Willie writes a weekly column for newspapers and has a podcast to encourage others.  He is also on staff with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. His strategies and principles have turned around schools and communities. His twenty years in education has served as prerequisites to motivate, inspire, and remind educators of their value and significance. His time with Disney has given him great perspective on how successful business grow and flourish. Willie has a team of researchers who aide him in preparing tailored presentations for fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Willie's life experiences have uniquely gifted him to relate to any audience. These life experiences combined with his gift of storytelling have audiences walking away inspired, encouraged, and empowered to improve and impact others in a positive way.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chefranjohn/support

Beaver Dam High School junior Gabby Wilke talks about verbally committing to play NCAA Division One college basketball at the University of South Dakota.

Leah Church was an NCAA Division One basketball player for the University of North Carolina when, as she would say, she was met with the choice of basketball or Jesus. Today we hear her inspiring story of how God led her to UNC but then gave her the courage to step away when she was asked to compromise her convictions.    Leah Church Show Notes  Take the Strong Women Survey Leah's viral video of making basketball shots backwards  Choosing God Over Basketball article by the Gospel Coalition  This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti  Goliath Must Fall by Louie Giglio  Sylvia Hatchell: The Life and Basketball Legacy by Roberta Teague Herrin & Sheila Quinn Oliver  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc   Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/    The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what's happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/    Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women 

We're joined by Bristol Flyers' first new addition of the summer Tevin Olison, who shares his story of signing a first professional contract out of Youngstown State University.Also on this week's episode:Tevin reveals all on why he wanted to sign with the FlyersWe talk food as Tevin shares his opinion on a full English breakfastTevin shares his first impressions on some of his fellow Flyers teammatesWe look back on Tevin's college career, which saw him become the only NAIA player in all of college basketball to make the transition to the NCAA Division One level in 2021Tevin talks us through a typical day as he prepares to head to England to start his pro careerTevin answers your questions from the mailbag.

Terry is the author of Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life to help people find and live their uncommon and extraordinary life. Join the community: SustainableExcellenceMembership.com Watch on YouTube “What are your 4 Truths and how did you come up with them?” 1. Control your mind or your mind is going to control you. 2. Embrace the pain and difficulty that we all experience in life and use that pain and difficulty to make us stronger and more resilient individuals 3. What you leave behind is what you weave into the hearts of other people. 4. As long as you don't quit, you can never be defeated. The three F's of Terry Tucker's life: Faith, Family and Friends He has reinvented himself frequently over his professional career. "After I graduated from college at The Citadel, where I played NCAA Division One basketball against Michael Jordan and James Worthy at University of North Carolina in 1982, the year they won the championship, and played against Jim Valvano, coach of 1983 N.C. State National Champions. Right out of college, I was employed in the Marketing Department at the corporate headquarters of Wendy's International in Dublin, Ohio. From there, I worked in hospital administration for Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. After getting married and moving to California, I became the Customer Service Manager for an academic publishing company in Santa Barbara. We then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, I became a police officer with the Cincinnati Police Department, where I was a SWAT Hostage Negotiator. Following a family relocation to Texas, I started a school security consulting business and coached high school girls basketball in Houston. "But my greatest challenge began in early 2012 when I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Acral Lentiginous Melanoma, which presented on the bottom of my foot. By the time the melanoma was detected, it had metastasized to a lymph node in my groin. I was treated at the world-renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center. After two surgeries to remove the tumors, I was put on a weekly injection of the drug, Interferon, to help keep the disease from coming back. "I took those weekly injections for four years and seven months before the Interferon became so toxic to my body that I ended up in the Intensive Care Unit with a fever of 108 degrees. "The Interferon gave me severe flu-like symptoms for two to three days after each injection. I lost fifty pounds during my therapy, was constantly nauseous, fatigued, and chilled, my ability to taste food significantly diminished, and my body constantly ached. There were times I felt so poorly and was in so much agony that I prayed to die. Each day was a struggle to use my mind to override my body's apathy and distress.I was no better at dealing with pain and discomfort than the next person. But every day, I found a way to survive. Join the community: SustainableExcellenceMembership.com

On this bonus episode from our friends at Slate's How To! podcast: Elizabeth's son Lucas is a talented athlete who wants to compete in track and field at an NCAA Division One school. But so far he's been running away from doing any research or planning. His mother, Elizabeth, wants to help him be recruited and maybe even get a scholarship. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Steve Magness, performance expert, former track coach for the University of Houston, and author of Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He's navigated both sides of the recruitment process and has some hard-earned wisdom about what it takes to be noticed by college recruiters and why the system itself needs to be reformed.  If you liked this episode, check out “How To Coach Squirrelly Kids (and Screaming Parents).” Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth's son Lucas is a talented athlete who wants to compete in track and field at an NCAA Division One school. But so far he's been running away from doing any research or planning. His mother, Elizabeth, wants to help him be recruited and maybe even get a scholarship. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Steve Magness, performance expert, former track coach for the University of Houston, and author of Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He's navigated both sides of the recruitment process and has some hard-earned wisdom about what it takes to be noticed by college recruiters and why the system itself needs to be reformed.  If you liked this episode, check out “How To Coach Squirrelly Kids (and Screaming Parents).” Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth's son Lucas is a talented athlete who wants to compete in track and field at an NCAA Division One school. But so far he's been running away from doing any research or planning. His mother, Elizabeth, wants to help him be recruited and maybe even get a scholarship. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Steve Magness, performance expert, former track coach for the University of Houston, and author of Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness. He's navigated both sides of the recruitment process and has some hard-earned wisdom about what it takes to be noticed by college recruiters and why the system itself needs to be reformed.  If you liked this episode, check out “How To Coach Squirrelly Kids (and Screaming Parents).” Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Atlas is a former NCAA Division One athlete, author and speaker. We discuss his near death experience at birth, childhood as a congenital amputee, grief, bullying, his powerful journey into basketball, spirituality and mental health, mentorship in schools and so much more.

#064: In this episode of Beyond the Culture, Dr. Walker speaks with the 1982 NCAA National Finalist Cheyney State College Lady Wolves .   On March 28th 1982 Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University) Lady Wolves basketball team coached by HOF coach C. Vivian Stringer, laced up their shoes to play the Lady Techsters of Louisiana Tech University. It was an historic night. It was the first ever NCAA Division 1 Women's Basketball Championship Game. It was the first and only time that a HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and University) competed in an NCAA Division One final four and championship game.It was the first time an all-Black women's team with all-Black coaching staff played for a Division 1 national title. It's been 40 years since that momentous occasion. And 40 years later, herstory can never be erased.On this episode of Beyond the Culture, I have the esteemed honor. To have a conversation with several members of that 1982 team. The members of the team who are here tonight are:Deb Walker, Yolanda Laney, Ann Strong, Valerie Walker, Sharon Taylor, Faith Wilds, and Karen Draughn. I want you to stay with me for this inspiring and legendary conversation.Don't go anywhere as I go Beyond the culture with the 1982 Cheney State College Lady Wolves.SUBSCRIBE to the show on iTunes or YouTube (Dr. David M. Walker) to be notified when new weekly episodes are available.Connect with Dr. Walker: LinkedIn: @drdavidmwalker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drdavidmwalker Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdavidmwalker Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/drdavidmwalkerSubscribe: https://www.beyondtheculturepodcast.com Leave a comment and a review 

Todays guest,  Tucker who has been an NCAA Division One college basketball player, a Citadel cadet, marketing executive, hospital administrator, an undercover narcotics investigator, SWAT Team Hostage Negotiator, high school basketball coach, business owner, motivational speaker, author, and most recently, a cancer warrior.He is the author of, Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles To Living Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life. Terry and his wife have lived all over the United States and currently reside in Colorado with their daughter and Wheaten Terrier, Maggie. In 2019, Terry started the website, Motivational Check to help others find and lead their uncommon and extraordinary lives (www.motivatioalcheck.com).  Today, Terry shares his own story and explains what are the 4 truths.To find out more about Terry go to:Motivational Check: https://www.motivationalcheck.com/  LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-tucker-9b5605179/Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/motivationalcheckTwitter:  https://mobile.twitter.com/terrytucker201Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/sustainableexcellenceauthor/Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life - Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GLGVTVSOh and don't forget leave a comment and most importantly subscribe to the show!Also if you're a business or startup that is need of growth taking it to the next level I've co-founded the Peak Wealth Network - The Mastermind Group. Build your network, create strong daily habits, get high value feedback, collaboration opportunities and inspirational guest speakers. Challenge yourself and others in a supportive growth mindset environment.You do not have to grow your business on your own we can support each other. Scale your business surrounded with like minded people. Growth focused, networking and knowledge based designed to grow exponentially within six months.Book In A Call! - Connect CallConnect/Follow Us - Peak Wealth Network - The Mastermind GroupTweet Me! - @ChetHiraniInstagram! - @ChetHiraniFacebook! - https://www.facebook.com/NotYourOrdinaryCoachConnect/Follow Me! - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chethirani/Find Me! - https://notyourordinarycoach.comEmail Me! - GetInTouch@NotYourOrdinaryCoach.comAlso  Get Recharge in 21 Days an intensive program designed to give you the insight of what really matters to you and how you will take immediate action. Tailored to your needs using the 5 States of Optimisation - START HERE!Interested to get in on this success?  Work With Chet

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Quintroy Harrell is the legendary head coach of the Harvey Twisters, one of the most successful wrestling clubs in Illinois history. The Twisters were founded in the early 1980s by Don Whitted and by 1984, Quint was named head coach. The Twisters have achieved unprecedented success, winning 20+ IKWF team state titles, placing numerous wrestlers on Division 1 college programs, with Twisters wrestlers winning six NCAA Division One titles and representing the USA on two Olympic teams. Coach Quint retired in 2021 and this interview was recorded at his home in the South Chicago Suburbs. This interview is heavily focused on the early years of the Twisters and was recorded as part of my research process for the Tony Davis audio documentary that airs this spring. Most of the Tony Davis commentary has been removed as it needs a bit of context to resonate. That said, what remains is the first known interview Coach Quint has ever given. Enjoy! * PRESENTED BY QUANT WRESTLING This episode is presented by Quant Wrestling, an app that provides detailed analytics on the sport of wrestling. Download the Quant app now in the Apple and Google stores. Use the discount code WCML to get your first month free. * FANS If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews! * TEXT THE SHOW –Keyword: Wrestle –Number: 224-54 * FOLLOW the PODCAST Twitter: @Ryan_N_Warner Instagram: Wrestling Changed My Life Facebook: Wrestling Changed My Life Website: wrestlingchangedmylife.com Shop merchandise at our Online Store: Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com *** ABOUT Presented by Spartan Combat, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features long-form interviews with amateur wrestlers - past and current - MMA fighters and titans of industry. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday, where host Ryan Warner talks college wrestling, Olympic wrestling and more with some of the biggest names in the sport. Wrestling Changed My Life also produces original audio documentaries including Slaying Saitiev, The Smiths and Gable the GOAT.

Robert Burlingham shares his journey from bagging groceries to becoming a coach at the NCAA Division One level. He began his coaching career as a student manager Nick McDevitt at UNC Asheville in 2013. He transferred to Western Carolina - where he continued serving as a student manager - this time under [the late] Larry Hunter. After graduating in2016 he returned to UNC Asheville and spent the spring and summer there before accepting an Assistant Coach position at Spire Academy. Coach Burlingham remained at Spire until January of 2017 before moving onto Carolina Day School. WVU Tech hired him as the top Assistant Coach and he helped Bob Williams guide the Golden Bears to a 30-5 record, River States Conference regular season and conference tournament championship, and advancement to the NAIA National Tournament second round. Following the historic run at WVU Tech, he accepted a Graduate Assistant position at Central Michigan under Keno Davis, where he remained until 2021 when he was named the Director of Basketball Operations at McNeese State. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beyondtheboxscore/support

Keith Madison served for 25 years as the head baseball coach with the University of Kentucky. Hired at the age of 26 in 1979, he was the youngest head baseball coach in NCAA Division One at the time. He is the winningest coach in Kentucky Wildcasts history with 737 career victories and was inducted into the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. For many years after coaching, Keith served with SCORE international, a Christian Mission Organization leading players and coaches on short term baseball mission trips to the Dominican Republic. Today on the podcast, Keith shares about his coaching journey, growing up in the 60's, signing a pro baseball contract at 17 years old, walking with God during his wife's breast cancer battle and finding his identity in something other than baseball.  --- Receive our 10-day Sports Spectrum Devotional written by professional athletes for FREE when you sign up for our Sports Spectrum Weekly Email Newsletter. Sign up here.

Fobi AI Executive Vice President of Business Development, Mike Canevaro joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has a new relationship with REVEL XP, which delivers fan engagement across collegiate athletics and professional sports. Canevaro shares with Proactive the deal will see Fobi receive an initial setup fee for each event they do and also see licensing revenue for each Wallet pass distributed to fans. REVELXP will utilize Fobi's Wallet pass technology to provide fans with a digital ticket for the company's premium hospitality events at select NCAA Div. 1 Football Power 5 schools.

On this latest edition of "Halftime", Chuck and Drew discuss how NCAA Division-One football's second tier is not second best when it comes to the quality of entertainment and then trade notes about the movie industry's two most popular spies... James Bond and Jason Bourne.

This week, we are thrilled to be joined by both hosts of The Hockey Think Tank Podcast, former Cornell University Hockey captain, NCAA Division-One coach and founder of the Hockey Think Tank, Topher Scott and former Western Michigan University standout, longtime pro and owner of RIPT Hockey, Jeff LoVecchio. In this interview, we chat the story behind how and why Topher and Jeff started the Hockey Think Tank, their journeys as players and their transitions to the real world, the power of building a brand for current players, crazy parents and finding your “why”, some coaching tips and finally we have some fun at the end talking about what triggers us. Huge thank you to Topher and Jeff for coming on the show!!

Joe Gonzales was a 1984 Olympian, former NCAA champion and just the seventh American to win the prestigious Tbilisi Tournament. Joe wrestled for Cal State Bakersfield under the great Joe Seay. Though Cal-State Bakersfield was a Division Two school, they had two NCAA Division One champions in 1980: Joe and John Azvedo. Joe also had a win over Anatoly Beloglazov, an Olympic champion for the Soviet Union. After competing, Joe coached at Arizona State with Bobby Douglas. The Sun Devils won the 1988 NCAA’s, becoming the first non-Midwestern school to win an NCAA team title. Today Joe resides near Los Angeles. Please enjoy! * FANS: If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews! * SPONSOR: This episode is brought to you by the Wrestling Changed My Life text message newsletter. Text the word “Wrestle” to the number 224-54 to join. * FOLLOW the PODCAST Twitter: @Ryan_N_Warner Instagram: Wrestling Changed My Life Facebook: Wrestling Changed My Life Website: wrestlingchangedmylife.com Shop merchandise at our Online Store: Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com *** ABOUT: Hosted by Ryan Warner, the Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers and coaches to learn how the sport shaped and molded their lives. By stitching together stories of sacrifice, triumph, defeat and perseverance, the Podcast takes the listener deep inside the world’s oldest sport. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday.

Jakob sits down with Trace Engelkes, a former NCAA Division One tournament competitor. Engelkes, 24, will be making his professional MMA debut at Cage Aggression XXVIII on October 16.

Episode 492   Cat Osterman is one of the most decorated softball players ever. She was a standout pitcher in college at the University of Texas where she ended her college career with records in wins, strikeouts, ERA, WHIP and innings pitched.  She still owns the NCAA Division One record for perfect games and is top-10 in wins, strikeouts, shutouts and no-hitters.    As a member of the Longhorns softball team, Osterman was named Big 12 Pitcher of the Year all four years she played and is a 2-time ESPY Award winning for the top collegiate female athlete (2005, 2006).   In 2004, she led USA Softball to an Olympic Gold Medal, teaming with the likes of Jennie Finch to lead America to victory. In 2008, she helped Team USA to a Silver Medal and in 2012, was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.   In 2018, she un-retired from softball to make one more push for a Gold Medal with Team USA at the Summer Olympics, now expected to be played in 2021.    On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Cat about unretiring from softball, how her approach changes with the Olympics now being moved to 2021, when she made Christ a priority in her life, the struggle with identity, and the difference between religion and relationship.    For more stories of sports and faith, check out our website - http://SportsSpectrum.com 

On this episode, I interview Stacia Momburg - a transformational coach and writer. On the podcast, Stacia talks about her recent diagnosis of ADHD and how she works with the good and bad aspects of ADHD. We discuss her career and working from home with COVID 19 and ADHD.  To connect with Stacia, please follow her  on LinkedIn (Stacia Momburg) and check out her coaching services with special rates for COVID19 at https://planetnd.market/   Go to our website www.forallabilities.com for information on our software that enables employers to support their employees with ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Differences and Autism. Thanks for listening!  Betsy     Thanks for listening to For All Abilities today!    Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it!   Get our newsletter and stay up to date! The newsletter link is on our website www.forallabilities.com   Follow me   Twitter: @betsyfurler   Instagram: @forallabilities   Facebook: @forallabilites   LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler   Website: www.forallabilities.com   Full Transcription from Otter.ai             Betsy Furler  0:17   Hi everybody. Thank you so much for tuning into the for all abilities the podcast today. Again we are talking to somebody who is going to talk about neuro diversity and our strengths and our differences and how we all have our brains are so important and valuable in this world and how we can use our unique brain to live our best life. So today I have Stacia Momburg as our special guest and she is going to correct me if I misspelled or mispronounced her name and tell us all about herself. So hi, how are you today?   Stacia Momburg  1:11   By my psychologist   Betsy Furler  1:15   start over because I missed a hole, though, too. Hi, how are you today? Okay.   Stacia Momburg  1:23   Hey, Betsy. Thank you.   Betsy Furler  1:25   Hi, how are you today?   Stacia Momburg  1:26   Hi, Betsy. Good to be here. Thank you for having me. My name is stasia mom Berg. I am a transformational coach, a communicator by trade, a writer, and a neurodiversity advocate. I was diagnosed with ADHD just last year by my psychologist during a very interesting conversation. And I live in California with my son, my dog, my two cats and a ball python named trouser   Unknown Speaker  2:00   Wow. See,   Betsy Furler  2:04   as we record this, we're in the middle of the Coronavirus COVID-19 crisis. So I guess we're you're probably sheltered more than sheltered in place more than we are. I'm in Houston, Texas, and we are currently able to move around the city but almost everything's closed and we're probably going to shelter in place soon. So, anyway, kind of a crazy time. But thank you so much for being willing to be on my podcast today.   Stacia Momburg  2:33   And I'm absolutely thrilled. Thank you.   Betsy Furler  2:35   Yeah, so I can't wait to hear more about what you what you're about your work. But first, tell us what you were like when you were a little   Stacia Momburg  2:42   girl. When I was a little girl, I had bouts of anxiety. I didn't know it at the time.   I remember being fearless doing a lot of things. I like to go fast on bicycles. And I like to jump bicycles off of curbs and ride big wheels down the street as fast as I could. And I think at that time not knowing that I had it anything for a dopamine uptake, if you will. So I was pretty fearless when it came to doing stuff. And in school. Up until about sixth grade, I was getting, you know, close to straight A's. I think for me, school was kind of a respite from my home life only because we had a lot of people in my house. My grandmother died when she was 50. And so my mom took on raising her two younger, much younger siblings, and they lived with us for quite some time. So school was a way to kind of be with friends. You know, being able to hyper focus on the subjects that I loved. I was thinking about this conversation this morning, having this conversation with you and I remember a project in third grade where we use sunflower seeds, Google eyes and a stick to make an owl on a board like glue and owl to a board and I swear to God, it was the best thing ever. Because I just got to sit there and meticulously glue sunflower seeds to a board to make owl feathers.   Unknown Speaker  4:09   Wow.   Stacia Momburg  4:10   Yeah. The fact that I have that memory, right. So up until about sixth grade. And then I think, you know, kids hormones start kicking in things change. There's a lot of social interaction that changes and we moved a couple of times in my preteens early teens. So I wasn't able to keep and make friends for a couple years. And I learned how to find very close friends that I could be with because it was easier. So I did that I'm an introvert as well. So it was just easier to have very close friends that I could have deep connections with as opposed to cords of friends. And in high school, I just stuck to myself and got C's and B's because nothing was interesting anymore. So I think that's kind of a reflection of what was going on. I had some stuff going on in my home life that was difficult, took attention away. So yeah, it was just a lot going on. But you know, learn how to survive, learned how to cope and found my own mechanisms to keep myself going, I guess.   Betsy Furler  5:17   What about after school? Did you go on to college? Or did you go into the workplace? What did you do after high school?   Stacia Momburg  5:24   After high school I floated around. My mom was pretty strict, in terms of like, having high expectations of what not to do socially. So straight out of high school, I went to a junior college that was near the coast, away from where I lived, and I partied and I found alcohol, which, for some of us, neuro divergence, it's a great self medicator. When that internal hyper activity gets going, it helps settle that down a bit. It's not the healthy way but I didn't know that at the time and I you know, I partied for a little bit and grew out of that I wasn't a huge party or after like 20 I think, you know, just a couple years. And when I went into the workforce was a tax preparer office manager bank teller, didn't know if I wanted to go to college finally decided to get into junior college and hit the ground running and it was in college that I was able to determine what I wanted to study. And so I got really good grades in college. I wound up studying history, I didn't focus on any specific time. I just loved learning about all the connections and I had some really great teachers moved to South Carolina to finish my undergrad finished that at 27. went back into the workforce. I've never used history and launched my career shortly after college.   Betsy Furler  6:51   It sounds like you're a person who does really well when you can hyper focus.   Stacia Momburg  6:56   I love hyper focus. It's my favorite   Betsy Furler  6:59   thing. That's your superpower.   Stacia Momburg  7:01   It is. It absolutely is. Yeah. I mean, when you're a history major and you're doing research, that's all you do. Right? Right. And when you're doing all of that research and you're hyper focused and interested in that subject, you're going to test well on that subject. I can't guarantee that I always tested well in other subjects that I did. You know, I did my best. So yeah, I was able to choose what was interesting, you know, Mm hmm.   Betsy Furler  7:23   Yeah. And the little the fact about the self medicating with alcohol is really interesting. And I think a common a common issue, especially for kids when they go off to college. And then and alcohol is so available, and I'm assuming it still is today. Like it was back when I was in college. Very available and very inexpensive. And at that time, where it's so you know, you're kind of trying to find yourself and trying to figure out how you can, you know, survive without your parents. I think that is something that that a lot of a lot of people kind of start leaning on instead of maybe, you know, regular medication or other coping strategies.   Stacia Momburg  8:11   Well, yeah, and when you're undiagnosed, and you're doing that, you're also dealing at that time. And I think, with ADHD as well, sometimes relationships can be like creating relationships can be awkward, because we don't have the same kind of Governor's on what's appropriate and what's not. And so, alcohol is kind of a social lubricant as well. And if someone else is drinking with you, a lot of excuse me, a lot of behaviors are more allowable. So it's a way to kind of inject yourself in a safe space, you know, in a safe way, you kind of learn that and you go, Okay, well, I'll just have a couple drinks and I'll relax and then they'll relax and it'll be fine. So you know, but then you learn other coping mechanisms as well. So   Betsy Furler  8:57   awesome. So when you so after you grow from college and you started working, what what was your career? What did you start doing?   Stacia Momburg  9:05   Like when I went when I finished college, I went back to the tax preparation person that I knew. And I was working briefly with her. And then I got a couple of other jobs, but I fell backwards kind of into a an associate member Association for cancer doctors. And I was hired as an office assistant. And my boss saw a lot of potential because one of the things we're really good at when we are able to hyper focus is when we're given a task, we complete the task immediately, very quickly, very efficiently. Yeah. And so she hired me on very, very quickly and I became a communications assistant. And I stayed with that organization for four years, and wound up doing some things really well. And they still use some of those things today, which I'm really proud of. But you know, at 20 Seven I was organizing newsrooms for 300 national and international reporters when in a time of fax machines and telephones, email was just coming online. So that was that was fun too. But I was also creating, you know, spreadsheets with how we were going to do press conferences based on when plenary sessions were and you know, all these cool things and pulling together an art installation as my final kind of farewell gift to them and they've done the art installation ever since. And now they make a calendar out of it every year and it was based on patient art. So it was I was able to learn and do a lot of things as this organization grew its membership. And then I got pregnant and I moved home to California, and wound up getting a job at the local university. I eventually became the crisis and issues manager for all crisis and issues on campus, again, able to hyper focus. You know, I think too with ADHD, our personalities are kind of unaffected by extremes. We're not really well for me anyways, my, my particular brain doesn't react one way or another to an extreme situation. It's like, Oh, it's an extreme situation, how do we fix it like problem solving? Right?   Betsy Furler  11:25   Right. Right.   Stacia Momburg  11:27   So I became the campus crisis and issues manager dealing with all manner of situations on campus suicides, births, students, birthing babies and bathrooms. People, you know, a place trying to kill each other with machetes. Yeah, it was it there were some wild times in their infrastructure failure, email threats, you name it, but it was it was like my thing. You know, it was my go to and, and I was good at it. And it wasn't. I always said it wasn't difficult for me. It was something I knew how to do. It was never Uh oh, that's such a big job. It's like No, not really. Right?   Betsy Furler  12:05   Did you have trouble getting? Or? And do you have trouble getting places on time and anything like that? Are you uh, are you a punctual person?   Stacia Momburg  12:14   You know, it's funny I, I laugh about this. My mom was diagnosed with ADHD when she was 71. And my mom is notorious for being late for everything like up to an hour and a half late. I was like crazy. And so it kind of it was always something that was hard for me to watch. So I try to be on time and for things that I deem I deem important. I like job interviews, or this podcast, for example, I'll be watching the clock and be early to something but if it's a mundane thing, like work, I'm usually you know, anywhere from three to 10 minutes late. Every day. I mean, every day, my boss like you have to show up on time and I'm like, yeah, I'm only three to 10 minutes late. It's hard to deal. I work through lunch, come on,   Betsy Furler  12:56   you know, so that's my idea on time. I'm I'm a, I'm a neuro typical person, like, like, pretty, like so much that sometimes it's a problem. But I'm a, like, get there by the skin of my teeth kind of on, you know, like it's, I mean, I consider anything between at the moment I'm supposed to be there. Seven minutes late to be on time.   Stacia Momburg  13:23   But same   Betsy Furler  13:26   but my husband has ADHD, and he is a 15 to 20 minutes early, or he's late, like he thinks he's late if he's not 15 to 20 minutes early, and I find it so interesting because a lot of especially employers will, one of the accommodations will always be something about getting to meetings on time and it's like, so many people with ADHD don't need that. Right. Like to stop wasting so much time being everyplace early. My theory about it. But I'm like, if I bet if I have to be at the airport for a flight? Yeah, not a gift. I mean, I want to be there a good at least hour and a half before the flight. Right? So it's a bit like super important to me, then I will like, be early, but it's really interesting to me. I love hearing different people because kind of one of my things is that everyone's brain works differently. And just because you have a diagnosis of ADHD doesn't mean you need the hundred and 50 accommodations that someone has deemed work for people with ADHD.   Stacia Momburg  14:35   It's, it's so funny because I it's so true. I just read a study that was published in 2017. About a group of doctors I believe it was out of Philadelphia. I just wrote about it in my blog on Planet neurodivergent. marketplace. It's where I have a regular blog posting once a month to talk about my diagnosis. But I just read this study. Where these doctors got together 117 people who were diagnosed with ADHD and they put them up against 134, neurotypical people, and one of the things they found, or they not that they found, but they verified is that every person with ADHD has a very different brain. So when you have a diagnosis, it's a myriad of symptoms that will present differently in each individual person, right. So, in this study as well, what they found based on some of the testing that they did, were potentially three new subgroups. And you can read more about it a little bit in my blog, but these subgroups just verified that there was even more difficulty understanding and learning about the ADHD diagnosis and they confirmed on MRI that no part of the brain lit up the same It all lit up differently. Yeah, it's fascinating. So is like I was just diagnosed last August and I've been having, I've been having difficulty getting a formal diagnosis. And then to learn that just a few years ago, we're still trying to figure out this diagnosis is just, it's fascinating to me. And it's like, this is why I want to advocate for not so much for accommodation, but just better understanding of different thinking, you know,   Betsy Furler  16:30   well, and I think it's even compounded for women, because men can frequently women with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, everything that's considered neuro diversity. And women tend to be able to socially kind of fit in a little bit better than men with the same condition, which is good in some ways, but then it really leads to a problem with diagnosis. Exactly. Oh, As girls and then also as adults, and I've seen that so many times, both in my career I was a I'm a speech pathologist by training, and so many times in my career and then as well, as I've started doing this podcast and everything else, I really see that as an issue and diagnosis.   Stacia Momburg  17:19   Now I hundred percent agree, I have to wonder, you know, as little girls, we're taught to be compliant and empathetic and you know, go with the flow and don't speak up. I mean, not recently, but certainly for my generation. I'm, you know, I'm in right at the tail. Yeah, Generation X. We're the product of the baby boomers. So we're very, you know, is very patriarchal society, and we're still very patriarchal, but we're trying to move into more equity right, slowly but surely. But I have to wonder if learning those social skills as a result, kind of, you know, as kids as girls with ADHD, you hyper focus and if you're empathic, On top of that, and you're taught to have empathy, you learn to read people to fit in. Yeah, I think without even knowing it, you know what I mean? Because I've always considered myself a chameleon. I can fit in with any group at any time. Because I read, I read the room, and I don't like the room, I have a drink, I stay an hour and I leave.   Betsy Furler  18:20   Well, and that's a good point that as because as girls as, especially as Gen X girls, I would say, I know, a lot of what made me a very successful child and college student, which was doing what other people wanted me to do. being pretty quiet for the most part, although I'm an extreme extrovert and always have been, but you know, well behaved. You know, I spoke when I was spoken to like all of those things like the dream, little girl, right? Yep. Yep. Well, then as a business owner, I've completely how too and as a really, as a software startup founder, it's even gone further. why I've really had to unlearn a lot of that. Mm hmm. That I was, you know, really good at doing as a child like it does. It hasn't necessarily served me as an adult as a leader. But it certainly made me a very easy child to have in a classroom. And, and I think girls with ADHD frequently can, like you were saying, can kind of start picking up all on all of that. And in you know, maybe not be disruptive, like the boys with ADHD are like swinging from the chandelier. There's obviously something different about they, how they interact. And so I think that I think it really is a diagnostic issue. So speaking of that, so how did you ended up pursuing a diagnosis   Stacia Momburg  19:58   and I was actually Okay, so it's a little bit I'm gonna go around my ass to get to my elbow, but there's a reason. So, I was laid off in 2016 when a donor for a grant program I was working for pulled three quarters of a million dollars. So the the institute couldn't afford to keep me anymore. And I searched hard for a job for six months, and I didn't land anything. I like I did not land anything. And so I had to go to work at a restaurant to keep my family afloat. And I was I did an eBay business which I started myself and I made pretty successful in order you know, I, I did well, well enough to have cash. Because I was able to hyper focus on it right and do it really well. And so I did that and I would look for jobs intermittently because I'd be so good. busy with my eBay business and then I'd be working at the restaurant, I was exhausted. And then I'd only have two days off a week and I was still working eBay. And so I finally got a job working as a secretary for our high school principal here where I live, and it was regular hours regular pay, you know, I had health insurance at the restaurant is actually better than the school but I have health insurance in retirement. And I started applying for jobs again. And so it was, you know, over the course of trying to figure out, like, how to keep the family afloat. I barely have enough money and applying for jobs that I was like, You know what, I am just so done, and I was at rock bottom. I was literally at rock bottom was like, This is ridiculous. I work at a place that I'm overqualified. I'm making no money. I barely have enough money to get by I just hit Like, I hit low. And I was so depressed for so long that I jumped back into therapy. And I went to my therapist who does acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which is Stephen Hayes's therapy, which I don't know if you're familiar, but it's about mindfulness and reframing how we look at ideas and thoughts as just ideas and thoughts. And kind of taking control of our mind that because our mind can be a really dangerous place if left, you know, unchecked, so to speak. It's it's a fabulous therapy. So I went back to see my therapist and I was talking with her and you know, crying and I'm a mess and she goes, Okay, everything's really painful right now as I'm I was also dealing with the loss of my son, which hasn't happened yet because he's getting ready to go off to college, but being at age, being an ADHD, I'm like, I'm gonna have empty nest right now a year and a half. gotta prepare for this shit. ever thinking? Yeah, way overthinking. So I'm like, Okay, let's rein this in. So she looks at me and she goes, Okay, then let's just pretend that we're pulling all of that out. And I'm like, okay, so visualize pulling it up, and we pull it out into the center of the room, right? we visualize this and she's like, what do you see them? Like, it's just this black wall of just disgusting, gross, slimy, gross mess. And she thought, okay, let's identify what it is. So we did the whole deal. And we identified what it was and what the feelings were. And she says, basically, with your son leaving, you've lost your purpose because you've been hyper focused on raising this great kid. So for 16 years, I've been a single mom his entire life. I've provided a home for him food for him, everything he's ever needed, driven him everywhere. He's on track to go to college. He's a great athlete, volleyball player. You know, we're, we've got it. We're on it like I'm doing driving the bus and dustless she paid to write. So she gets you're driving the bus down the road. And you're so focused on getting where you need to be. And you have all that old pain in various seats in the back of the bus. And every time one of them tries to pop up and remind you of the pain, you turn around like a mean Buster and go just sit down and shut up. And you keep driving, and she goes, but now there's nowhere left to drive to so you kind of pulled the bus over at the side of the road and you don't know what to do. And all the pains coming up and I'm like, I looked at her. I said Ramona, the bus is on its side, in a ditch full of muddy water. It's going nowhere. Uh huh. And she's like, yeah, pretty much and I'm like, okay, she goes, now how are you going to take that pain because we all carry pain with us and we'll carry it forever. We never get rid of pain. And that's really hard for a lot of people to accept. And but we have to carry it and we have to look at it in a very   very kind in mindful way. Like Yeah, that happened and it's kind of shaped who I am. But it doesn't necessarily have to be my story. And she was, well, how are you going to carry it? So I'm putting it in a backpack. I'm gonna carry it in my backpack. And I got a picture of Denzel Washington in the book of Eli with the machete in the back, and I'm like, that's me. I'm gonna walk my new road for purpose looking right with my machete in my backpack of pain. And I tell you what, for me, going through that kind of catharsis helped me focus on finding a new path. And so at the next   appointment I had with her.   I said, She goes, how's it going? I'm like, Oh, my God, it's great. I feel so much better the pains in that that's how we're moving along, trying to figure out what I want to do. And she saw Wow, that usually takes like three appointments, to work through stuff. And I'm like, Well, I got it. We're good. And she goes, Okay. And as she's talking to me about something I tuned out and attentive. And I'm looking at the corner of the room thinking to myself, how come I can't keep a damn relationship? And she goes, where'd you go? And I said, Well, I was just thinking, I was just thinking, and she was like, What are you thinking? I said, I was thinking about how, you know, I have friends and I lose them because they're not loyal. And I really need loyalty, and honesty, and some, you know, and I just go through friends, and I can't I only keep really good friends. And I've had friends for 20 years, but then I try and get in a relationship with a guy. And it doesn't last more than two years because I get bored. If they're not smart and constantly up on something and making me laughs I get bored. Tell me a little bit more about that. I'm like, well, for example, blah, blah, blah. And she goes, I think you have ADHD. I said one   Betsy Furler  26:47   idea before, like, that's what   Stacia Momburg  26:51   this was, I had no idea   Unknown Speaker  26:53   and dread   Stacia Momburg  26:54   zero because I'd coped my entire life and I've had, you know, a relatively successful career and have raised a great kid. And after a roof over my head, my house is clean. I don't know. Right? And she and I said, What do you mean? I, I don't have trouble focusing on everything. And she goes, No, no. That's not how it works. And she proceeded to explain some things to me. And I said, Okay, okay. And she goes, Alright, so here's, here's some things that people do. And she goes, you know, it's funny, I should have seen it. She does that every time I gave you a test to do, you would just go do it, and we would move through it. And she said, and that should have been an indication that you were just so good at it. Uh huh. I just thought we were doing a good job together. And I'm like, okay, hyper focus. Um, and so she said, I think you have that and we explored that for a few sessions and my world cracked wide open and I was thrilled like I called all my really good friends. I'm like, Oh my god, I have ADHD. That's the best thing I've ever heard. I totally understand you. How did that make you feel? Good or bad. It was so fantastic. It was great. I mean, I finally understood like, it came full circle like I finally got it. You know what I mean? Like my whole life became in focus for the first time whereas before it was more like a vignette, everything was kind of out of focus and fuzzy on the edges. Now, it was like a panoramic, clear picture of why I am the way I am and who I am. I understood that I'm actually much prettier than I ever thought I was. I'm way smarter than I ever gave myself credit for. I'm probably smarter than most people in the room. Most of the time. Meetings are an hour long meeting should take 10 minutes I was never wrong about right.   I mean, it's like good lord.   Betsy Furler  28:45   Like, wait, this is really boring.   Stacia Momburg  28:48   I don't even know how it took me this long to get to this conclusion. I said it 10 minutes ago, and you're just now saying, Oh, yeah, you might be like, come on.   Betsy Furler  28:58   Now that kind of like Understanding of yourself and how you process things can suddenly just hit you. I had something the other day where I was thinking I've been very happily married for 25 years. I have a wonderful husband. But I was thinking about the people that I dated prior to him. And I was thinking, yeah, they Yeah, I started thinking through all of them. I was like, how they really had a problem with commitment. Yeah, this one really had a problem with a commit with commitment. This one didn't. I was like, wait a minute. There's, there's one commonality and all this and it's not   Unknown Speaker  29:32   them.   Betsy Furler  29:37   Like, you know, I guess I just wasn't ready for a serious relationship.   Unknown Speaker  29:41   Yeah,   Betsy Furler  29:43   yeah. But it is weird how that things like that can just hit you where all of a sudden, like parts of your life just are crystal clear. And you understand how you how you work in a certain way, and how freeing that can be and how, you know what actually What I've discovered from the people I've interviewed for the podcast is that when this happens and you're finally diagnosed or your diagnosis is accepted by either yourself or other people or a combination of that, then all of a sudden, it's not. It's more of a superpower and less of a burden.   Stacia Momburg  30:19   It's it's so true. It's so true. Like, I, when I figured this out, and as I've been, as I started on this journey, and this journey is evolving, I, I have wanted to do nothing, nothing but advocate for the neurodiverse because being, you know, hemmed in by a neurotypical world and have been myself having managed neurodiverse people and understanding how insanely smart they are, even though they're kind of weird, like and I say that because I'm weird to like pee. I'm a lot for people and I get that like, I'm a lot. I used to say I'm an acquired Before I knew HD, like I'm gonna acquire data, but the things that people with autism, ADHD, OCD, even Tourette's, like I have a friend with Tourette's, brilliant people, like brilliant, like the ideas that come from them and their way of finding end arounds or efficiencies and the creativity, the creativity is through the roof like crazy and not just like creativity pen to paper or, you know, art create, like, we talked about creativity when I want to talk about art creativity, when talk about creative ways of fine solving, problem solving, right?   Betsy Furler  31:41   Yes.   Stacia Momburg  31:42   Yeah, like so crazy good. And so all I want to do now is advocate for, you know, finding neurodiversity for your workplace because you need that diversity to kind of have a successful business and if you're able to lead neurodiverse people You are going to be so much more wildly successful than you ever imagined. Absolutely, in my opinion, because I've worked with them and I was just to give you an example. I worked for an athletics department at an NCAA Division One mid major college here where I live. I was one marketing communications person. I hired interns to help me with the job. Several of them were neurodiverse several of them were neuro typical. I was able to run a marketing department that post that did you know, 11,000 seat football game sold out, selling out all of our men's basketball games, you know, marketing all 21 sports, essentially plus fundraising, and doing all the communications and film for like all the communications for fell abroad. fundraising sorry. When I left, they replaced me with three people and they got rid of the internship program. Wow,   Betsy Furler  33:01   yeah, yeah, you can get a lot done.   Stacia Momburg  33:06   Well, I could get a lot done with the help and it didn't cost them as much, which was confounding to me. But you know, it's what they wanted to do. And so, you know, good on you go for it, get it. But that's the kind of stuff I want to help people understand is you don't have to accommodate us. You just have to let us tell you what we're really good at. And then give us everything we like we can do with those things we're good at and we're going to exceed any expectation you have. Don't be afraid of us.   Betsy Furler  33:36   Right. Right. And having people who think differently is so important.   Stacia Momburg  33:41   Oh my god. Yeah. It's what makes the world go round. Absolutely. So I   Betsy Furler  33:45   have a quick question for you about Coronavirus. And I want you to tell my listeners, kind of what you're doing now how they can get in touch with you and all of that. So, right. Correct. My question about Coronavirus is You know, we're all coping with being cooped up in our houses in different ways. So how do you think ADHD has affected your quarantine or shelter? I guess I think you're sheltering in place, right?   Stacia Momburg  34:13   I yeah, all of California has shelter in place. And all of our stores except for essentials are closed at this point. So I can tell you how with ADHD, I'm coping, but I have to tell you that I also have co more comorbidity so I have body focused repetitive behavior. So I have excoriation disorder. Okay. I also have, I'm also a massive introvert. And so, I also love extreme things, as I think I mentioned before, so being a huge person who loves extreme things. I've watched a lot of horror and survival movies. And I have to tell you, I'm dealing extraordinarily well with this because I feel like I've learned Paired my entire life for it. And   Betsy Furler  35:03   I know you don't get the energy from other people as much so I do not. It's probably not too bad for me it's, it's excruciating,   Stacia Momburg  35:13   I can imagine. Yeah, I can't even imagine what that's like I I feel like my life hasn't really changed because I'm an extreme introvert and I don't have a significant other. That's a whole nother podcast talking about ADHD and relationships. Which I would love to do. I'd love to talk to anybody about that. But you know, I hyper focused on getting survivalists things like batteries and baseball bats and sharpening knives and you know, getting gas in my car. But for my to kind of help with my internal hyperactivity, I've been doing a lot of cooking and baking, which are my favorite hobbies I found out because I just love to do it.   Betsy Furler  35:54   Yeah. And I have more time   Stacia Momburg  35:57   to do that. I have a ton of time I'm working from home. Which is great because I don't have to deal with all of the people at work. And so I'm just kind of managing it. And even though we're in shelter in place, we can go out and walk, you know, with social distancing, or we can hike or whatever. grocery stores are hard because some people don't understand the six foot rule, which can be annoying for me because it's like, I want to hit people that aren't smart.   Betsy Furler  36:22   I mean, you can't hit them because that's making you   Stacia Momburg  36:25   know that exactly. Maybe if I just wave a bat around, I don't. I I tend to be a little extreme in my ideologies. But yeah, I'm managing well enough. And my son is managing, he's doing homeschooling. Everything's online now. The dog is absolutely in absolute heaven. You know, she's just so happy. Yeah, yeah. So it's okay. I feel sorry for extroverts.   Betsy Furler  36:52   It's, I have been on so many zoom calls. I say. I say I'm talking on the phone like it's 1985 All my colleagues, all my girlfriends and just because I just need and I don't need just some people around me I need 150 people around me at all time. Yeah, yeah, it's it's been interesting but I'm, I'm also trying to get on exercising a lot and actually exercising much more than I know. And I'm really appreciating the fact that I have so much extra time because I'm not spending so much time driving around in traffic. You know, I had kind of underestimated how much time I was because my commute is not bad. But But then when you drive someplace, you know, when you're like, let's go out to dinner and it takes 2025 minutes to get there and 20 to 25 minutes to get back. That's almost an hour of time and now that we're not doing that, it's like, oh, I can watch movies. I've like I said these phone calls where I really miss being able to drag that phone with the cord. You know, yeah, yeah, it's those kind of it's those kind of phone calls where like we're looking through photos together.   Stacia Momburg  38:07   Yeah. Oh, I love that. I love that.   Betsy Furler  38:10   That's been great but it I have had to like constantly thing but it's interesting to me how all our different brains work differently in this crisis too. And, and I and I am a prepare to like I'd like to plan and I like to know what I have yesterday I am completely reorganized all of our food and, and did a complete inventory. So I know exactly what we have.   Unknown Speaker  38:34   And I know my God,   Betsy Furler  38:36   I informed my children and my husband that we would now be having to track like what we consume because I'm not going to the grocery store every other day. We need to like be mindful. Exactly.   Stacia Momburg  38:49   Yeah. Make a list outside of the cabinets. When you use something. This is what we use every day,   Betsy Furler  38:56   like listed by what shelf it goes on and everything and you know That's how I cope with with   Stacia Momburg  39:02   crisis. That's fantastic. I actually cope. I've been going out probably once a day to the stores just because it feels like The Twilight Zone to me and being an introvert is it's heaven. Shopping is heavy. Yeah, and I in you know, we don't have to worry about supply chain in the US. I mean, we're going to have access to food, we're going to have electricity, we're going to have gas, I mean, all of our essentials are going to be in place. We just have to manage the social distancing. You know, and people freak out, and that's okay. I mean, and that's one thing I am available to talk to people about their anxiety, and any ADHD stuff that comes up or triggers I have. I want to put this out here for you guys. I do have a certificate in as a neuro linguistic practitioner. And I've done years of work with acceptance and Commitment Therapy. So I'm really good at kind of bringing people into the presence and kind of Facing what's going on my son had generalized anxiety disorder. He was diagnosed when he was nine. And I had to go through practicing that training of helping him with that anxiety and now he doesn't suffer from it as a result of this work.   Betsy Furler  40:16   If people are interested in getting in touch with you either to work with you or to follow you online, Mm hmm. I do that.   Stacia Momburg  40:24   So I am my main platform that I love is Instagram and you can follow me at PlayStation PL a y sta CIA. It's my own personal Instagram but I post stuff about ADHD I post stuff about mindfulness. I post horrible memes. It's a place to kind of go and let your freak flag fly if you will. And then my website to work with me formally is Coach stasia calm and for the month of May And while we're doing pandemic for anybody who's interested, I will do a 30 to 60 minute session for free. Oh, wow, that's   Betsy Furler  41:09   Yes.   Stacia Momburg  41:10   Yeah. Just I mean, of course, I have to limit it to one and then I'm considering doing. There's some discounted hourly stuff on planet, Andy dot market, which is where I do hourly coaching at 125 an hour or hourly help. Which is, yeah, it's, it's deeply discounted. It's also on my website, you can click through on my website, but it's deeply discounted for neuro divergence, because my fees are pretty high for coaching. Because you know, I need to make a living.   Betsy Furler  41:46   We all do as well. Yeah. And our families are not nonprofit.   Stacia Momburg  41:52   That's right. And you can also you can always find me on LinkedIn at Stacia Momburg. I'm on there. I think that's how you and I Sound each other?   Betsy Furler  42:01   Yes. And I will put all of that in the show notes. Great. So it has been a pleasure having you on the podcast today. Thank you so much. And oh my gosh, it's been so fun. Betsy, thank you for having me now, and I think my audience is going to really benefit from this. So thank you for being willing to be on and being so open. I truly appreciate it. And to my audience, please subscribe to my podcast rate, my podcast, review the podcast on whatever podcast platform you're on. And you can always contact me on LinkedIn at Betsy Furler. And if you want to find out more about my software and my company, it's for all abilities calm. So thank you so much for tuning in today. I will talk to you all soon.

Meet Mike Kemp Mike Kemp was brought to the University of Nebraska Omaha as its first head hockey coach on July 1, 1996.   He was elevated to the position of Associate Athletic Director in May of 2009 after serving as the head hockey coach for 12 years.  In March of 2019, he was further elevated to the position of Senior Associate Athletic Director - Events/Facilities.   Do you think the NCAA is does enough for athletes to prepare themselves for what sports is their athletic careers are over? I think it's becoming a more increasingly focused area. For example, here, you know, we have we have a academic office, or that has a development director for helping individual development for your future career and experiences. Where will we have various people come in and do lectures with our student athletes to tell you how to work with them on on learning kind of what the life after athletics could be. And I think that important element plus having some practical opportunities to get experiences in the community where you're doing community service and getting exposed to a variety of different businesses. options and opportunities and just getting to meet people in the business world. You serve on the NCAA committee for men and women's soccer as well for NCAA Division One hockey.  Did you play a role in some of these new NCAA rules when it comes to paying players? The purview of our committees because the soccer committee is just basically playing rules and enforcement of playing rules.  Our hockey committee is the tournament we manage the tournament NCAA tournament at all levels at the division one level but I should say but at regionals and the Frozen Four, so we don't really get involved with those type of which we called Association wide rules, because that applies to every sport right across the board. And that's done it by at a committee level much higher than ours. How do you think a that'll affect recruiting and how will it affect student athletes here? I think the biggest thing is the real test for that is not over with The NCAA is going back and looking at how it might implement that.  I think from the standpoint of the implementation is going to be one of the bigger things and certainly having at this point in time divided decided by the states could have some really interesting significant effects on college athletics. It is one of those things that I think is still so fluid and liquid, it's going to be hard to tell what real effect will have.  We're a mid major and in all sports we would be classified as a major in hockey but in our other sports, we're a mid major institution and I think opportunities to take advantage of name image and likeness for our athletes might be a little less lucrative than it is for power five conference athletes, so that's gonna be an interesting part of it. After serving as a head coach for 10 years, 12 years and then assistant coach before that, since the mid 80s. How do you see recruiting today in comparison to what it was 20 years ago? It's interesting. It's so different. today. Of course, there's so much more access to information, whether it It's video that you can just get online or information online, you know, back in the late 70s, early 80s and through the early 90s, when I was recruiting coordinator at the University of Wisconsin, it was largely you're digging through newspapers you had to call a coach to get their schedule. Can you fax my roster and what do you fax me or stats, a fax machine was working overtime. And we didn't have cell phones so we were in a rink watching a junior game in Canada and you're standing in line three or four guys deep to call some recruit and you're waiting for the payphone and waiting for this other coach to get down at the payphone to make your call.  I mean, it's changed dramatically. I think from the standpoint of you know, guys today the negative of that is you never get away from it. You know, you're caught you're constantly texting. You're right, that Computer you have in your hand is monopolizing your time. And so you know, from that standpoint, the information is better, the actual work might be actually harder because you can't get away from it. The other thing that's changed a lot is the fact of the matter is the family advisor has got a huge effect on what and when kids make decisions and what kind of decision they make as far as where they're going and when I was doing that as a full time job recruiting, you didn't have the agents weren't involved. What are some characteristics that you hope to get out of the people that you have play for you as student athletes or  work here? I think one of the great things about the staff that I have here in hockey program is that two of the three full time coaches are former players of mine. So they played here, they understand the culture that we set when we started the program in 1997.  There are guys who live by that culture, which is hard work, we realize that, in many cases, we may or may not be the most talented team but we will outwork anybody, we're very committed to that. The staff and our coaches reflect that and I think, part of whatever we do here, and I believe this in any aspect of leadership, is you model certain behavior and you model what you expect to have athletes who actually run reflect the what you model.  I think that's kind of one of the keys that we've always emphasized here is, we model hard work, we model consistency, we model honesty, we model character. And that's what we expect out of the student athletes that are going to compete for us. What was your approach to coming to a university that didn't have a hockey program, you had to build it from the ground up?  What were some of those important pillars that you knew you needed to put in place in order to be successful? I was at the University of Wisconsin at that time and it was one of the three, four top successful programs in the country for a long period of time. I'd been there 14 years and a lot of people asked, they couldn't believe I was leaving to go to start up a program, I wasn't going to be waiting for an established program to have an opportunity for me.  The reason I made the decision was I thought, how many times in your life do you have an opportunity to put your stamp on every single element of the program?  You're either going to inherit a program that has to be rebuilt, or  you're going to go in there and repair something, or you're going to be maintaining a program that's had great success, but where do you actually get to start where you design the uniform you are involved with every aspect of what was going to be in place. I had the privilege of putting in so it was an opportunity that was rare. I don't know very many other people have ever had that opportunity in college hockey today. So for me, that was part of the lure of taking the job. But the things that I thought were most important, most critical for me, first and foremost, and I think it always is, I had to do is get a good quality coaching staff and support staff. I was very fortunate. The first hire I made turned out to be an incredible hire. That was David Quinn, who's now the currently the head coach in the New York Rangers. He was here from day one with me starting the program during the recruiting of that first team. Both of us work together.  What do you think goes into play there from a mentorship perspective and how coaches work together and are able to advance each other's careers? You know, none of us we're born coaches, most of us have to have somebody we model after.   I was incredibly fortunate because every step of the way, I was under an incredible mentor. My college coach Don Roberts is one of the winningest coaches from the MIT in Minnesota Division Three conference, where I went to college and played and coached under for five years. And then I went from him to Bob Johnson, of course, who is as recorded, he's a hockey legend. And then from him, it was Jeff Sauer who is the winningest coach in Wisconsin hockey history. An incredible man and you know, from each one of them you take something, you learn something. It's not just X's and O's. In fact, in every case, it was far less the X's and O's.  It was way more the how do you deal with people. How do you treat people, how do you motivate people?  What's important? All of those things and everything that I would say that I put into the UNO program here is a reflection one way or the other of each one of those gentlemen.   Those are the things that's truly important.  I've tried to do that myself  with these various assistance I had throughout my 13 years of coaching here, as the head coach, each guy that was on my staff, I tried to find something that I could bring to them to help them in their careers.   And much much more.... Mike Kemp Bio

Episode 402 Brooks Webb is currently the Director of Operations for the Vanderbilt University baseball team. Prior to his role with Vanderbilt, he was a General Manager with Team USA Baseball from 2013-2016. A former pitcher with Birmingham-Southern college, Brooks helped the Panthers to there conference titles. In 2019, Brooks was a part of a Vanderbilt team that went 59-12, won the SEC title and then the College World Series title to become NCAA Division One champions. On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Brooks about being a part of a national championship team, leaving a legacy for Christ, how a Christmas Eve service in 2008 changed his life and how he lives out his faith in his job each day. For more, log on to http://SportsSpectrum.com 

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Today we have a special episode of Sustainable Nation. We're talking sustainability in sports and the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference. Consistent with its reputation as the conference of champions, the PAC-12 is the first collegiate sports conference to convene a high level symposium focused entirely on integrating sustainability into college athletics and across college campuses. All of the PAC-12 athletic departments have committed to measuring their environmental performance, developing strategies and goals to reduce their impact and monitoring their progress in engaging fans and communities in greener practices. The PAC-12 sustainability conference signals in elevated approach to enhancing sustainability efforts within collegiate athletics departments, designing new collective initiatives and sharing best practices to transform college sports into a platform for environmental progress. Today we're interviewing two members of the PAC-12 sustainability conference committee, Dave Newport and Jamie Zaninovich. Jamie Zaninovich - Jamie joined the PAC-12 Conference as Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer in July of 2014. He's responsible for all aspects of the PAC-12's administrative operations, including television administration, sports management, championships, football bowl relationships, PAC-12 global, compliance and officiating. During his first two years at the PAC-12, Jamie helped guide the conference through unprecedented governance changes, major increases in its international efforts, and continued high level success of its 23 sponsored sports. Dave Newport - Dave launched the first US college sports sustainability activation with corporate partnership for the Florida Gators when he was the University of Florida's director of sustainability in 2002. Later he became director of the University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Center and founded the nation's first comprehensive NCAA Division One sports sustainability program, Ralphie's Green Stampede. Dave is also secretary of the Green Sports Alliance board of directors, former board secretary of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, an award winning publisher and editor and a former elected county commission board chairman. Jamie Zaninovich Jamie Zaninovich. Welcome to Sustainable Nation. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me, Josh. Looking forward to it. I gave the listeners some background on your professional life but tell us a little bit about your personal life and what led you to be doing the work you're doing today. College sports has been a passion of mine since my early days in Eugene, Oregon where I was a faculty brat, son of a faculty member who played basketball in college back in the day and used to take me to all the games at the old historic Matt Court and Autzen Stadium in Eugene as a kid. So that's really where my passion for collegiate athletics started, and I was not a good enough to be a collegiate student athlete, so of course, decided to be an administrator instead. That's how it works. I've spent the last 25 years working both on campus and in college athletic conferences starting at Stanford and then Princeton University, and now here at the PAC-12 for the past four years. Like I said, it's a passion of mine as is sustainability, so we're really excited that we're at least making some progress in putting those two things together here at the PAC-12. And now the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference coming up in July. Really the first sustainability focused conference put on by a collegiate sports conference, the PAC-12. Tell us a little bit about how that came about and what people can expect at this year's PAC-12 Sustainability Conference. It's really a reflection of our 12 schools who have taken a leadership position in sustainability, and sports sustainability more specifically, in the collegiate space. So when I came to the PAC-12 four years ago, Dave Newport is the sustainability director at Colorado, showed up on our doorstep and said, "Hey, I'm not sure if you knew this, but all 12 of our PAC-12 schools are members of the Green Sports Alliance. That's the only conference in the country that that's the case and you guys should really look at doing something in this space." So, we said, "Yeah, this is interesting." Myself and Gloria Nevarez, who formerly worked at the PAC-12, both have a passion for sustainability having grown up on the west coast. We sort of took Dave's lead. The PAC-12 at that point joined the Green Sports Alliance and started looking at what a plan could be for us to take a leadership position, really reflecting what our schools have already done. So we created an informal working group within our schools of sustainability officers and athletics department reps. They suggested having a first of its kind conference, so we did that last year in Sacramento at the LEED platinum Golden One Arena just ahead of the GSA annual conference, and that went very well. From there we started thinking about do we do this again and what could come next? So we'll have our second event this year in Boulder, July 12th. It's going to be a great group of on campus athletics reps, sustainability professionals and industry folks. We have some really great panels lined up including two former NBA players, in Jason Richardson and Earl Watson, two former gold medalists, in Arielle Gold who just won gold in snowboarding at the Olympics - he's a Colorado grad. And Mary Harvey, who's a former goalkeeper for the University of California, who's an Olympic gold medalist for the USA. She has also headed up, which is now a successful, 2026 World Cup North America endeavor, and she's heading up their sustainability areas. So, we're going to have some awesome panels. The folks that I mentioned will be augmented by programmers on our campuses that have submitted proposals in the areas of fan engagement, student athlete engagement in sustainability, and it's going to be a full day of great best practice sharing, networking and hopefully a lot of learning to move forward what is an important initiative. That's very exciting. Jamie, this is bringing together my two greatest passions in life, the environment and sports. So, I love what you guys are doing and really excited to be there on July 12th. Why have these professional athletes and gold medalists speak? What do you think that sustainability professionals or campus leaders can learn from these accomplished athletes? I think the philosophy of purpose plus sport, and the power of that, has never been more relevant than today with some of the societal challenges that we face. I think those in the sports industry, college or professional, understand that with privilege comes responsibility, right? And if you have the opportunity to make a positive difference, such as those that have had made their living in doing something like sports, then there is a kind of an obligation to find a way to give back. And I think the environment is very front and center. In a lot of respects, it's almost a bulletproof cause and those are sort of hard to find these days. It's one of those causes were there may be some people on the other side, but in general everybody's for a sustainable future. So I think those are the elements that sort of have gotten this into it and I think are there reasons why we're getting at least some attention, still very early days for us, but some attention from folks that want to be involved in it as an endeavor. At last year's conference you had basketball legend, Bill Walton, speaking at the event. If anybody has seen him speak, Bill is very passionate person. At the conference last year, Bill said, "Sustainability is good policy, good economics, and it's good for all of us." From a chief operating officer perspective, can you tell us why sustainability is good for business in the PAC-12? I'm very much a believer in this notion of both doing good and doing well. I think for a long time, issues of social based programs, whether it's sustainability or otherwise, have sort of been perceived as cost centers. Right? Here's something you spend money on and you measure it in the value of maybe the positive PR you get. But what I'm learning, and I think we'll have some interesting news around this at our conference, just to tease that a little bit, is the commercial value around this space in sustainability and purpose based sponsorship and engagement more broadly is robust. And so if you could find the right partners that align with your values, you can drive great commercial value to them and to you, whether that's endemic partners that might be specifically involved in sustainability, or just the DNA of some larger corporations that understand that this is important for the future. I think this has never been more relevant. And what we're seeing in our campuses is this is really market driven. There are students coming to our campuses are not saying, "Oh great, there's a recycling banner. Oh cool, we have solar panels." They are saying, "Hey, where are the solar panels? Where are the recycling bins. We expect this. This is our generation speaking." So part of this is really serving that market as well and aligning interest that way. Absolutely great points. And I think you can kind of see that happening in professional sports. Some of these leagues like the NHL a NASCAR are really stepping out and leading in sustainability. It's pretty clear that they understand the long-term business benefits of sustainability and visible sustainability programs. Is the PAC-12 conference looking towards those professional sports leagues and learning from what they're doing? I think certainly. I think they've taken the lead with their green platforms. I think we want to learn from what they've done and put it in the appropriate context for collegiate, which is similar yet different. But I think one of the advantages we have, honestly, is we have these great institutions that are leaders in research and thought leadership. And it's really about leveraging the power of our campuses around this because they tend to be where great ideas start. In our case we happen to have 12 elite research institutions all in the western part of the United States, in centers of innovation. We want to align what we do with their DNA. So we see that as a real opportunity, If anyone is interested in learning more or attending the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference, where can they go check that out? So just go a PAC-12sustainabilityconference.com or put it in Google and the website will come up. You'll get the full program there. You can register online. We have hotel partnerships in Boulder that are available and we hope to see everybody there. I think this is a really unique space and it's going to be another great conversation. Last year we had an oversubscribed room and Bill wowed them last year. He's a great ambassador. Bill won't be there this year, we're giving them a year off. But we do have some exciting speakers as I mentioned before, and look for a reasonably big announcement in the sustainability space at the conference as well. So I'll tease that up. That's exciting. Jamie, we like to end the interview with a final five questions. What is one piece of advice you would give sustainability leaders? Think big and expand who your partners could be. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I think this notion that we can create a commercially viable platforms that bring together sustainability partners and athletics leagues and teams and schools. How about a book recommendation? Do you have one book you could recommend for sustainability professionals or other professionals? Well, this is a little bit off the radar and it's probably been read by most, but Cadillac Desert is one of my favorite books related to sustainability and the history of water in the western US. So that's a must read. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that you use that really help you in your work? I think it's just people. I'll go back to finding the right partners. Our best resources are our best thinkers and our best people, and that's why our campuses are so valuable to us. Whether it's student athletes, sustainability professionals, university athletic directors etc. And finally, we mentioned where people can go to learn about the conference, anywhere else you'd like to send people where they can learn more about you and the work that you're leading the PAC-12, We have a PAC-12.com website and I'd also encourage people to tune into our PAC-12 networks, which is linked from there. We have a lot of great stuff in terms of what we're involved in, including soon, a link to our sustainability platform. Jamie, I'm very much looking forward to the conference in July and that big announcement. I think everyone's excited about that now. It's so great to hear about the wonderful things the PAC-12 Conference is leading in sustainability. It's just so important to have that top-level support when committing to sustainability, so it's great to hear from you and hear about your passion. Thank you for making the world a better place, Jamie. Well, thank you. And thanks to people like yourself and Sustainable Nation for making this publicly available. We really need that contagion to catch on in this area even more to do well this way. Dave Newport Our next guest is Dave Newport. Dave launched the first US college sports sustainability activation with corporate partnership for the Florida Gators when he was the University of Florida's director of sustainability in 2002. Later he became director of the University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Center and founded the nation's first comprehensive NCAA Division One sports sustainability program, Ralphie's Green Stampede. Dave is also secretary of the Green Sports Alliance board of directors, former board secretary of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, an award winning publisher and editor and a former elected county commission board chairman. Dave Newport, thank you for joining us. It's great to have you on to chat about the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference, which we'll get to in a second, but first tell us a little bit about you. I gave an introduction on your professional life but tell us a little bit about your personal life and what led you to be doing the work you're doing today. Well, I guess most people in sustainability come from very diverse backgrounds in terms of their career and their interests, and I'm certainly no exception. I've been a little bit in the environmental arena, one way, shape or form, for a long time. I think personally, what led me to sports sustainability is the inevitable search for leverage. That is, what's the multiplier effect of the work you do? How many people does it affect? How many people can it potentially effect? And of course, sports, there's no bigger platform on the planet then sports. So moving into sustainability in sports was natural from that analytical point of view for me personally and professionally, but like yourself, Josh, I grew up playing sports. I love sports and love sustainability, so let's combine fun with work and boom, here we are. That's what got me here. That's great. And I understand it all kind of started down in Florida when you were at the University of Florida, director of sustainability, you launched the first US college sports sustainability activation with a corporate partnership for the Florida Gators. Tell us how that came about and how it all started for you. Yeah, that was cool. It was 2002, and I was getting the sustainability program running on the giant University of Florida campus. Had lot of support and a great president to work with, and one day said, "Hey, let's see what we can do in The Swamp, the Florida field. I mean, there's no bigger icon of American College football, then Florida Field and Florida Gators, and we can make a statement that would be great." I went to see the athletic director, Jeremy Foley, a legendary AD for Florida, and he liked it. He didn't see any downside to it, but what we'll do is due diligence as smart guys do. And so he pulled a lot of people and talked it all through. He said, "Yep, let’s go with it and we're going to reach out to our fanbase well in advance and let them know what's going on." So he put in place a great communications effort. The corporate partner at the time was a petroleum marketer. So talk about our odd bedfellows, but it was a petroleum marketing company that has a series of stores across the Southeast and the Midwest, and as far as Texas, called Kangaroo stores. They had a very progressive CEO who was trying to move basically out of the oil business and into the renewable energy business, believe it or not. So they wanted to do build some stores in the Gainesville area that were the first LEED certified convenience stores in the United States. They put in bio diesel, and things like that. They were promoting their greenness so it was a good fit. We pitched them and they liked it. We did a pilot on homecoming, at the homecoming banquet, which was huge, and then in the clubs and suites of Florida Field during the homecoming game. I walked around with the AD there and we just visited with the fans, alumni of the Gators, and asked them how they felt about all this stuff. We got 500 comments back and 499 of them were like, this is really cool. The grumpiest comment we got back was from this one old alumni gentlemen who said, "Yeah this is great. How come we haven't been doing this all along?" So that was the worst comment we got back, and after that everything was golden because athletics figured out, hey, there's no downside of this. People intuitively like it and once you get past the inevitable startup problems in implementation and all the operational stuff, which we solved, the fans like it. And so fan engagement is key and has been part of why we've done this right along, is that fan engagement element is very strong. Sure, that's great. Especially the college level it's mostly young folks and these are the people that are really passionate about the environment and that's great. And then eventually you left and now you're the director of the University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Center. And you founded the nation's first comprehensive NCAA Division One sports sustainability program - Ralphie's Green Stampede. Tell us a little bit about that program. So, at Florida we started the first zero waste program in the NCAA, and then when we got to Colorado we came first comprehensive one. So we do it in all sports, and it's not just a zero waste, it's zero carbon, zero water, zero net energy in new buildings, no pesticides, local food and a few other things I can't remember. We've got four LEED Platinum athletics facilities, which is half of the number of LEED platinum buildings on the entire campus. And we've got the lion's share, like 90 plus percent, of all of the installed solar on athletics facilities. So, the University of Colorado Athletic Department is the most sustainable department on campus, a fact that bugs the heck out of the environmental science people, but it is what it is. When I got to Colorado and told them both to the Florida story, it got me a meeting with the AD at the time, Mike Bohn.  He listened to what I had to say and he said, "Okay, we can do that here." It was about that easy. So I said, "Hey, you know, this was awful easy. How come you said yes so fast." And this I will carry with me the rest of my career. His response to me was, "Dave, what you don't understand is people don't come here on Saturday for football. They come here for community. And sustainability is all about community. So this will work." I will tell you that that is a lesson in how to engage fans and what is really going on in sports, that I now see everywhere. I checked it out, I worked on it and we've done research on it. And indeed, sports is a bonding moment for our fans. That's why you come. That's why everybody's singing the same songs, wear's the same shirts, looks at the same environments and all that kind of stuff. Because we are communal species and we want to be part of the community. So, that added to my repertoire of ways to approach this thing and leverage that fan engagement we were speaking of. That's great. And so now we have the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference coming up July 12th and that's going to be at the University of Colorado Boulder, is that right? Correct, and come on down. Absolutely. So, tell us about that conference. How did it come about and what can we expect? From the time when I started working at Florida and then Colorado in sports, many sports organizations have moved into this space, especially at the pro level and increasingly at the college level. I'm seeing the value of: A) Saving money through operational sustainability and B) Engaging your fans through this leadership. However, no athletic conference or sports network has moved into the space of promoting it as sort of a behavior and a lifestyle, as a conference and as a league, until the PAC-12 showed up. And Jamie's great leadership with PAC-12, and Larry Scott the commissioner, I've met with both of them, and Larry is 100 percent behind this because they get everything I just said. They get the savings, they get the leadership and the fan engagement. And so, they're now talking about this in game. They're talking about it as a conference. They're talking about it as a leadership position, as consistent with the Conference of Champions and other people have taken notice now. So, their leadership is really a game changer in terms of taking it to the next level and using the sports platform to engage fans to be more sustainable at home, work and play. That is the mission. Running a recycling system in your stadium is great. Using that as an influencer to influence those fans that show up for that community every Saturday, as part of being a good fan of their favorite team, to live the life and to embody that as part of their fandom. That's the strategy. That's what the sustainability conference is all about - How do we do our operational stuff better and how do we use it to influence fans? You guys have some famous accomplished athletes who are going to be there speaking as well. Professional athletes and Olympic athletes. Tell us a little bit about who will be there. It's a really good group. We have Arielle Gold, a professional snowboarder and one of our students AT UC Boulder, and part of our Protect Our Winters, and is touring the hallways of Capitol Hill and other places to talk about climate change and how it affects our lives and our sports. So she's obviously our millennial target athlete. Mary Harvey, who I have the pleasure of working alongside of the board of the Green Sports Alliance. She is just fabulous in terms of her overall acumen. She's won gold medals, World Cups, she played with Mia Hamm, she's worked for FIFA back in the day and now she's working with the World Cup, a group here for the United States that successfully landed the World Cup bid for North America in 2026. There's some other great athletes as well. Obviously Steve Lavin, a fabulous coach, ESPN commentator and a spokesman for UCLA. Jason Richardson, another NCAA Championship basketball player and retired from the NBA. Last year you may recall we had Bill Walton show up and give us a keynote and some life lessons, and that was entertaining. I think I've missed a couple, but there's obviously more detail at the PAC-12sustainabilityconference.com. And Jason Richardson retired and left the Golden State Warriors a little bit too early. He kind of missed out on all the fun. Oh boy, those guys are something else. So, Dave, some people may not see the connection, but I actually think there's a strong parallel between sports and leading sustainability, having passion and perseverance, cooperation, teamwork, team building and strategy. What do you think sustainability professionals who were leading sustainability can learn from these accomplished professional athletes? Yeah, I think you said it well, Josh. I think that's exactly right. One of the things that sustainability professionals do is basically giving credit away for everything, and being all about teamwork and not really trying to be a showboat or anything. They're much like hockey players. Where do you hear of an arrogant hockey player? Most of them were like, "Oh man, my team is so great," and all this stuff because they know it's all about teamwork. I think likewise, as you said, in sustainability it's the same thing. We want everyone to be part of it. And so when you do it inclusively and you bring people together to have a conversation about moving forward sustainably, then you bring in people that wouldn't normally be part of that team, and that's the key. That's how you grow the scope of what you're doing, by getting beyond the usual suspects and getting into folks where this may not be what they get out of bed thinking about every morning. But it's important to them when they have the opportunity to be influential in it. And so allowing for that influence, allowing for people who are doing other things, to be part of this and really bringing them in and getting those ideas, that's how you grow the team. That's how you move towards sustainability. And that is all a process. It is not an end game. Sustainability is not an end game. It's a process. The process is the product. And the process is inclusion and teamwork. Very well said, Dave. For any of our listeners who would like to attend the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference, where can they go to find out more and to sign up. So, PAC-12sustainabilityconference.com, or just Google it and it'll take you there. The website is up and running and accepting your reservations. Come on down. We've got all kinds of fun things to do in Boulder on the 11th and 12th of July. And then that weekend, the Grateful Dead are going to be in our stadium playing. So, come for a conference and stay for the concert. Sounds great. Dave, before we let you go we're going to end on our Final Five Questions. Are you ready? Five Questions. Who used to do that? It was the original Daily Show guy. Craig Kilborn. Funny thing about Craig Kilborn, who was actually a great athlete himself and played some college basketball. He's from Hastings, Minnesota, which is the same small town that I'm from. His mom was my middle school English teacher. I remember the first day of class I had with her, she had a picture of Craig on the back of the classroom and said, "That's my son. He's in radio and learn from him. He's a great communicator." Then about a year later I saw him on Sports Center for the first time and I was like, "I know that name somewhere." And it was him, Craig Kilborn. So, he's one of the few famous people to come out of my small town. He's funny and he was really good at it too. And when he left I thought, "he's going to be a hard act to follow." Yeah, he was great. So, what is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? Don't think of anything. Have other people think about it and have it be their idea. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? How fast it's growing. I'm old, so I've observed the beginning and there was nobody. There was five of us doing this job when I started at Florida back in the nineties, and now I've lost count. What is one book you would recommend sustainability professionals read? If you don't read any other book in your entire life? You have to read Natural Capitalism. Excellent. And we had Hunter Lovins on as a guest a few weeks ago, so everyone can check out that episode of Sustainable Nation. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in the work that you do? Being a member of AASHE and using their website and their member community is a daily thing. I'm looking at their email right now. I think AASHE, again, didn't exist when we started. Now it's booming and all the many people that I've never even heard of are now offering information and gaining information through their website, aashe.org. And finally, where can people go to learn more about you and the work that you're leading at the University of Colorado Boulder, Green Sports Alliance and/or the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference? I'm on LinkedIn. Let's just go with LinkedIn. They will find you on LinkedIn. Excellent. Dave, it's so great to learn about all the work you've been doing and how this sustainability in sports movement really got started all the way back in 2002. I very much look forward to seeing you in Boulder in July. Thank you so much for joining and thank you for making the world a better place. And thank you for hosting us today, Josh. Look forward to seeing you in boulder.  

Amy Burnett is one of the best South Dakota basketball players ever. Burnett grew up in Huron and led Huron High to a class AA State Championship in 1989, her junior season. The team took third place during Burnett's senior year but she set a state tournament scoring record with 86 points over three games. She also lettered in volleyball and track. Burnett went on to play NCAA Division One basketball at the University of Wyoming. In her junior and senior years, she led the Western Athletic Conference in total points scored and percentages in free throws, rebounding, and field goals. She was named Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1994 and 1995. Burnett is an inductee of the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame, the South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame, and the University of Wyoming Athletics Hall of Fame. Amy Burnett is now a coach and teacher at an Austin, Texas middle school. She also works with an Austin-based basketball club dedicated to developing young