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Katherine Reutter-Adamek is a Former US Olympic Short Track Speed Skater turned Mental Skills and Nutrition Coach. She was a 2 x Olympic Medalist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, reaching the pinnacle of sports. This was a powerful conversation about how athletes can pursue their goals while building a healthier relationship with both their sport and the process, without placing so much pressure on themselves.Work with Katherine Monkey Mind Website Follow Monkey Mind on Instagram

In 2003, Kwame Nkruman-Acheampong put skis on for the first time. Seven years later, he was competing in slalom at the Vancouver Olympics, the first Ghanaian to ever qualify for the winter games. Kwame grew up in Ghana, but in 2002, at the age of 28, he moved back to UK. To support himself through his masters degree, Kwame decided to get a job and ended up working at the local indoor ski centre in Milton Keynes. Dubbed the "Snow Leopard," he tells Harry Stott how he qualified for the games. A Message Heard production. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive and testimony. Sporting Witness is for those fascinated by sporting history. We take you to the events that have shaped the sports world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes, you become a fan in the stands as we take you back in time to examine memorable victories and agonising defeats from all over the world. You'll hear from people who have achieved sporting immortality, or those who were there as incredible sporting moments unfolded.Recent episodes explore the forgotten football Women's World Cup, the plasterer who fought a boxing legend, international football's biggest ever beating and the man who swam the Amazon river. We look at the lives of some of the most famous F1 drivers, tennis players and athletes as well as people who've had ground-breaking impact in their chosen sporting field, including: the most decorated Paralympian, the woman who was the number 1 squash player in the world for nine years, and the first figure skater to wear a hijab. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the tennis player who escaped the Nazis, how a man finally beat a horse in a race, and how the FIFA computer game was created.(Photo: Kwame Nkruman-Acheampong competing in Vancouver 2010. Credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)

“What I do gives me purpose. Doing the right things for the next generation adds significance to your life. It's not just about having fun and going through life, you have to deliver for the next generation.” -Gregor RobertsonToday's guest on 2 Dads 1 Car needs no introduction for our listeners in Vancouver. Gregor Robertson had previously served as the mayor of Vancouver for 10 years, most notably during the Vancouver Olympics in 2010! He is a father to three adult children, and had also been a foster parent. In this episode, Gregor discusses the nuances of navigating political publicity with his children, and how his commitment towards being present for his family has informed his approach towards public policy. Gregor also shares his incredible experience as a foster parent to his daughter's high school friend, and how this formative experience had deepened his understanding of love for his family and community, and the systemic issues which found his platform towards building a healthier city for the next generation. Thank you very much to Gregor for taking the time to speak with us today! Please check out our website at 2dads1car.com, and follow us on Instagram for the latest update. I hope you love this episode!Credits:Podcast Guest: Gregor RobertsonPodcast Host: Steven NgoPodcast Producer: Baron Hsueh

Dr. Lee Warren hosts an engaging conversation with Steve Mesler, Olympic gold medalist and three-time U.S. Olympian. Steve shares his remarkable journey from being a track athlete in Florida to winning gold in bobsled at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He discusses the physical and mental challenges he faced, including overcoming injuries and making pivotal decisions. Steve also highlights his transition to leadership roles, his involvement with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and founding Classroom Champions, an organization that connects athletes with schools to inspire and mentor students. This episode explores themes of resilience, goal-setting, and the emotional impacts of peak achievements. Click here for the transcript Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:19 Meet Steve Mesler: Olympic Gold Medalist 01:20 Steve's Journey from Track to Bobsled 03:06 Overcoming Challenges and Pivoting 07:57 The Mental Game: Belief and Conviction 19:00 Training and Making the Olympic Team 21:35 Contaminated Supplements and Olympic Standards 22:08 The Journey to Becoming a Bobsledder 22:36 Olympic Mindset and Team Dynamics 27:20 Winning the Gold Medal 29:28 Post-Olympic Challenges and Depression 35:46 Classroom Champions: Inspiring the Next Generation 43:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Resources and Links Learn more about Classroom Champions here Follow Steve on Instagram and Twitter for daily inspiration! Be sure to check out my latest book, Hope Is the First Dose! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Run With Me" The Ontario-born Bry Webb formed the underground outfit The Constantines out of the ashes of the emo band Shoulder in 1999. With their jagged guitars, tribal drums, snarling bass lines and Webb's ferocious vocals along with his poetic lyrics, The Guelph-based Constantines were one of those rare bands that seemed to arrive fully formed. From 2004 to 2008, the Juno-award nominated Constantines put out four brilliant albums--their eponymous debut, Shine A Light, Tournament Of Hearts and Kensington Heights. And there's not a false note to be found anywhere--the syncopated rhythms, musical intensity and the sheer muscle and heart that powered every song brought to mind everyone from Fugazi to the Minutemen to The Replacements. This is a partial list of their highlights; they toured with The Tragically Hip and The Weakerthans, were signed to Sub Pop, played Lollapallooza, the Vancouver Olympics and a gig at the legendary Massey Hall. With the band on hiatus, Webb formed a band called The Harborcoats and put out three brilliant solo albums--Free Will, Provider and Run With Me. Redolent with raw intimacy, sensitivity, and poetic grace, Webb's solo work rings with as much conviction as his work with The Constantines. He's been nominated for a Genie Award, he contributed a track to This American Life and he sang back-up on Feist's album Metals. I can't say enough about this guy--he's a towering force and whether he's belting out anthems or staying low in the pocket to deliver some of the most stirring acoustic numbers you've ever heard, Bry Webb is a giant talent who is one of my all-time favorites. His body of work means everything to me and his presence on this show is nothing short of humbling. And he's one of the nicest dudes ever. www.brywebb.com (http://www.brywebb.com) www.brywebb.bandcamp.com www.bombshellradio.com (http://www.bombshellradio.com) www.stereoembersmagazine.com (http://www.stereoembersmagazine.com) www.alexgreenbooks.com (http://www.alexgreenbooks.com) Stereo Embers IG: @emberspodcast Bluesky: @emberspodcast Email: editor@stereoembersmagazine.com

Nick Baumgartner's life is the definition of out-working everyone and never giving up. This product of northern Michigan grew up with a traditional ”Yooper” work ethic and an enthusiasm you can't coach. While Nick's original passion was football and he played at the collegiate level, that didn't last and snowboarding took over. While he started with slopestyle, Nick became a force on the boardercross circuit and had to battle through four Olympics before he finally earned his Gold Medal. It's an incredible story, and US Snowboard Teammate Jonathan Cheever asks Inappropriate Questions. Nick Baumgarten Show Notes: 4:00:  Barcelona, Yooper, going out in the bitter cold, being loud, the importance of older brothers, football, wrestling, snowboarding, HS, funding snowboarding, and making it quickly 22:00:  Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com  Discount Code: Powell1913 Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar. The best skiing you don't know about is in Idaho; head on over to www.skiidaho.us to find out more 25:00:  Image, a different time in the US Team, bar fights, first podium, discretionary spot over Palmer and Powers, and Vancouver Olympics  42:00:  Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research:  the best outerwear is designed and tested in the brutal elements of the Pacific Northwest Insta360 Video Cameras:  Buy the X4, at checkout, use the code Powell and get a free ski pole or snowboard split board pole mount    Discount Code: Powell 49:00:  X-Games, not going to 2011 Worlds, injury to winning X, riding through pain, and breaking his back     71:00:  4th place in his 3rd Olympics at 36 years old, getting ready for his 4th Olympics, qualifying for the 2022 Games, his pump track, watching Lindsay, getting 10th, and then getting Gold    95:00:  Inappropriate Questions  with Jonathan Cheever  

From Miley's "Wrecking Ball" to The Weeknd's "Earned It" to his own successful instrumental albums, Oscar and Grammy nominated songwriter, composer and producer Stephen Moccio gives opens up on his creative process. PART ONEPaul and Scott share some of your submissions for favorite lyric lines, as well as lyrics that bug you from songs you otherwise love. In addition, they pay tribute to past Songcraft guests JD Souther and Billy Edd Wheeler, who both recently passed away. PART TWOOur in-depth conversation with Stephen Moccio.  ABOUT STEPHAN MOCCIOStephan Moccio is an Oscar-nominated composer and a three-time Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer. His breakthrough came when fellow Canadian Celine Dion's recording of “A New Day Has Come” made history by topping the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for 21 weeks. He went on to release Exposure, his first solo album as an artist, which hit the Canadian Top 10 and was certified Gold. Since then, Moccio has balanced his creative efforts between releasing his own projects and working behind the scenes writing for other artists. Highlights of Stephan's career include co-writing “I Believe” for the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 and co-writing and co-producing Miley Cyrus's multiplatinum international hit “Wrecking Ball.” Additionally, he collaborated with The Weeknd on “Earned It,” the end-credits song for Fifty Shades of Gray, which earned the rare RIAA Diamond certification and was nominated for an Academy Award. Stephan has also written songs for Andrea Bocelli, Avril Lavigne, Dua Lipa, James Blunt, Seal, and many more, notching seven Billboard Hot 100 hits and tallying 5 billion streams and counting. Among his solo material, 2020's Tales of Solace yielded the single “Fracture,” what has generated over 100 million streams on Spotify. His latest release is Legends, Myths and Lavender, which was composed and recorded on the spot in the South of France.  

In this week's episode of ReFolkUs, we chat with Robyn Stewart, the Executive Director of Women in Music Canada.Robyn delves into the crucial topics of equity and diversity within the music industry, providing a thoughtful analysis of the current landscape and sharing her views on both the importance of creating inclusive spaces for all, and the various ways to overcome barriers.Robyn also discusses the significant research study ‘'Share the Air: A Study of Gender Representation on Canadian Radio (2013 - 2023)'' that sheds light on representation across all radio formats and the role radio plays in shaping gender representation and diversity within the music industry. In addition, Robyn shares valuable information about Women in Music Canada and the programs they offer for both artists and industry workers.Read ‘‘Share the Air: A Study of Gender Representation on Canadian Radio (2013 - 2023)'' research study here.Join the Women in Music Canada Directory and receive the latest news, updates and event information.Check out ‘'Balancing Act'', a national initiative that aims to increase equality, accessibility, and employment opportunities in Canada for artists and cultural workers with caring responsibilities.Find Women in Music Canada online:InstagramFacebookWebsiteAbout Robyn StewartRobyn Stewart is a 22-year music industry veteran, accomplished organization and event director, currently the Executive Director of Women in Music Canada. Robyn is passionate about the creative process and the role culture plays in communities. Her experience reaches all areas of event management and talent buying, with her strongest skills lying in financial management, complex logistics, government relations and fund development, and partner relationship building. She has worked with budgets in excess of $3 million, always meeting and exceeding the expectations of clients and colleagues. Among the projects she is most proud of; Executive Director of Western Canadian Music Alliance, and Entertainment Buyer; PanAmerican Games 2015, and Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2010, which allowed her to support developing artists and engage in passion projects including working towards gender parity in the music industry on an international level. Robyn is incredibly driven by her work supporting artists to showcase and develop business in international markets, and has spoken at events in Estonia, Sweden, Australia, UK and more. Robyn holds board positions on the Polaris Music Prize (National Vice-Chair), and Heart and Stroke Foundation (Manitoba). ______________Tune in to the latest episodes of the ReFolkUs Podcast, featuring the latest releases from Folk Music Ontario members as well as some of our special guests, now broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1. Presented by Folk Music OntarioHosted by Rosalyn DennettProduced by Kayla Nezon and Rosalyn DennettMixed by Jordan Moore of The Pod CabinTheme music “Amsterdam” by King CardiacArtwork by Jaymie Karn

So, are the Olympic Games on your mind? I absolutely love watching them!I went with my family to the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 and it was so memorable. In a few weeks, Paris will be transformed! The Games will open with a flotilla of athletes floating down the river - that same river that will be a venue for open-water swimming events. It's going to be incredible and my next guest has the Olympic Games very much on her mind.It's a pleasure to welcome Dr. Karen MacNeill to the show today. She is a part of the incredible team behind Team Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this summer. A Mental Performance Consultant, Psychologist, and speaker, she helps athletes, leaders and organizations unleash their highest potential so they shine when it matters most. She has worked with athletes competing at the last 5 Olympic games and competed herself at the international level for over a decade. Her career includes so many accolades and tons of recognition, so you know we have so much to talk about.Check out the book! - Fearless: Girls with Dreams, Women with VisionThe Fearless Women Podcastfearlesswomenpodcast@gmail.comThe Beacon AgencyMacNeill Performance

Ollie shares some tales of his early days as a play-by-play hockey commentator for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and his confusion about ice cleaning and ad breaks. AJ expresses his current confusion about national stat holidays as National Indigenous Peoples Day approaches

n this video interview, Steve Mesler, Co-Founder of Classroom Champions, and Seth Rosenzweig, the organization's new CEO, discuss what the organization does and the recent change in leadership.   PRESS RELEASE Calgary, AB – Classroom Champions, a leading global charity empowering students socially, emotionally and academically through the mentorship and mindset of World Class Athlete Mentors, today announced a significant leadership transition. After over a year of planning, Steve Mesler, co-founder and Olympic gold medalist, will be stepping down from his role as CEO after 15 years and will take on a new position as Chair of the Board of Directors. Concurrently, Seth Rosenzweig, a seasoned nonprofit leader and former CEO of Team IMPACT, will assume the CEO role at Classroom Champions and guide the organization into the future. Mesler, a renowned U.S. Olympic bobsledder who broke the country's 62-year draught when he won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, co-founded Classroom Champions in 2009 with his sister Dr. Leigh Parise. Under his leadership, Classroom Champions has transformed the lives of hundreds of communities by connecting thousands of children with over 350 Olympic, Paralympic, NCAA, and professional Athlete Mentors who inspire and motivate them to achieve their goals in the classroom and beyond. Mesler has been instrumental in the organization's development and growth, expanding its reach to serve millions of students across North America and around the globe through powerful partnerships such as NBC Olympics, the NHL, Airbnb, Canadian Tire's Jumpstart charity, the Bualo Bills, Team Canada, Google, GoNoodle, and many more. Through his work building Classroom Champions over the past 15 years, Mesler has been recognized as a finalist for the International Champion for Peace, one of Sports Illustrated's “Athletes Who Care,” and was recently awarded the Government of Canada's second highest civilian award, the Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada, for Classroom Champions' contributions to educational opportunities for Canadian children. As Chair, Mesler will remain deeply involved and work with Rosenzweig to propel Classroom Champions into thousands more schools to reach millions more children. Reflecting on his transition, Mesler said, “Seeing Classroom Champions evolve into what it is today is both exciting and humbling. I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved for so many children and look forward to continuing to support the organization's mission in my new role as Chair of the Board of Directors. From the moment I met Seth, I recognized that his personal character, combined with his incredible experience building organizations leveraging athletes to help kids, meant that he could be the ideal leader to usher Classroom Champions into its next phase of growth and impact. I feel fortunate and excited he'll be putting on the Classroom Champions jersey.” Seth Rosenzweig brings a wealth of experience in nonprofit leadership and a passion for youth empowerment to his new role as CEO of Classroom Champions. As the former CEO of Team IMPACT, Rosenzweig spearheaded the organization's eorts to connect children facing serious and chronic illnesses with college athletic teams, fostering impactful relationships that provided crucial emotional support and inspiration. In his eight years stewarding Team IMPACT, Rosenzweig led the organization to unprecedented growth. Among Rosenzweig's core objectives in the role is to expand Classroom Champions' footprint across North America. Rosenzweig said, “I am honoured to join Classroom Champions as CEO and to work alongside such a dedicated team making a tangible dierence for students. I am deeply inspired by the organization's mission to empower students through mentorship, and I am excited to begin advancing our impact and reach. I look forward to collaborating with our athlete mentors, educators, and partners to create positive change in the lives of even more deserving students.” As Classroom Champions embarks on this new chapter, the charity remains steadfast in its commitment to empowering students to become resilient, compassionate, and confident community leaders. About Classroom Champions Classroom Champions is a non-profit that has empowered over 5 million children to thrive socially, emotionally, and academically through the mentorship and mindsets of world-class athletes. Working with over 300 Olympic, Paralympic, NCAA student-athletes and professional athletes who volunteer as mentors, Classroom Champions has provided program and curriculum grants to underserved, rural, and Indigenous communities across the continent. Students participating in Classroom Champions see significant improvements in the classroom, teachers see improved engagement, and athlete mentors learn new skills to prepare for life after sport. Learn more at: www.classroomchampions.org. Mario Toneguzzi Mario Toneguzzi is Managing Editor of Canada's Podcast. He has more than 40 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist, and editor. He was named in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Business Journalists in the World by PR News – the only Canadian to make the list. He was also named by RETHINK to its global list of Top Retail Experts 2024. About Us Canada's Podcast is the number one podcast in Canada for entrepreneurs and business owners. Established in 2016, the podcast network has interviewed over 600 Canadian entrepreneurs from coast-to-coast. With hosts in each province, entrepreneurs have a local and national format to tell their stories, talk about their journey and provide inspiration for anyone starting their entrepreneurial journey and well- established founders. The commitment to a grass roots approach has built a loyal audience on all our social channels and YouTube – 500,000+ lifetime YouTube views, 200,000 + audio downloads, 35,000 + average monthly social impressions, 10,000 + engaged social followers and 35,000 newsletter subscribers. Canada's Podcast is proud to provide a local, national and international presence for Canadian entrepreneurs to build their brand and tell their story businessCanada's Number One Podcast for EntrepreneursChampionsEducationentrepreneursentrepreneurshipsmall businessSports

Jennifer Scott - Jennifer is passionate about leveraging the power of sport to build leaders, capacity and communities.  As the VP, Community & Social Impact, she is responsible for the organization's community initiatives, ensuring the club is a transformational force in the communities it serves.  Prior to joining the Whitecaps, Jennifer was the Director, Sport Burnaby, where she built partnerships with local stakeholders and sport organizations to bring their notable events to Burnaby, BC in order to create positive social, sport and economic impacts.  She had the privilege of working for the Richmond Olympic Oval, Own the Podium and the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.  Jennifer was the Chef de Mission for Team BC at the 2019 Canada Winter Games and the 2022 Canada Summer Games.  She was the youngest and first female Chef de Mission in Team BC history. Tosaint Ricketts- Tosaint is a former 14-year professional soccer player and 2017 MLS Cup winner working at Vancouver Whitecaps FC as Liaison, Club and Player Engagement. Tosaint represented the Men's Canadian National Team 61 times and retired 7th among all-time leading goal scorers. His work ethic on the field translated to his life off the field, earning his Bachelor's degree in Sports Management and MBA while playing soccer full-time. Through his philanthropic work, which earned him the Whitecaps Humanitarian of the Year award three consecutive times, he has significantly impacted the community and is committed to inspiring future generations. Tosaint Ricketts is Vancouver Whitecaps FC's 2024 eMLS athlete and represents the Men's Canadian National Team at the governance level as the player representative on the Canada Soccer Member's Council. Vancouver White Caps FC is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Vancouver. They compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member club of the league's Western Conference. Links: Vancouver White Caps: https://www.whitecapsfc.com/community/ ----  Please subscribe to the Sports for Social Impact Podcast wherever you get your podcast! Leave us a review and a 5 star rating to help bring others in the world of sports into the conversation! The Sports for Social Impact podcast was nominated for a Sports Podcast Award and Canadian Podcast Award. Send us an email at ⁠sportsforsocialimpact@gmail.com⁠  Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/sportsforsocialimpact⁠ Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/sports-for-social-impact⁠ Follow us on Instagram (@SportsSocImpact)  Visit our website at https://www.sportsforsocialimpact.com/

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Jonny Moseley's Olympic gold medal at the Nagano Games in 1998 set the stage for a post-competition career that would be the envy of any athlete. Of course, a lot of athletes have followed a victory with a spot on late-night TV, as Moseley did on the David Letterman show, but not many are invited back, and even fewer go on to host their own show, as Moseley did for three years on MTV (which was a much more important entity then than now), or make the cover of Rolling Stone, or host Saturday Night Live, or segue into the announcing booth, as Moseley did for NBC at the Vancouver Olympics. This is the amazing story of the incomparable Jonny Moseley.

The Best Place On Earth, that was British Columbia's slogan for a while. It even showed up on license plates leading up to the Vancouver Olympics. Around the same time, Danya Fast was embarking on a project that would span the next fifteen years of her life. Her goal was to hear from young people […]

Broadcaster turned Author Lisa Bowes talks about starting out as a 'fliegen' at TSN, putting in the extra hours at Maple Leaf Gardens, taking over for Rod Black at CTV Winnipeg, working on CBC's weekly documentary program Sports Journal, all the creativity & innovations that came out of The Score Television Network, calling Women's Ice Hockey [and Canada's Gold Medal] at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, convincing Gary Bettman to do his best ‘duck call' live on TV, covering the ‘Finnish Flash' Teemu Selanne during his time in Winnipeg, and why she has high hopes for her ‘Lucy Tries Sports' book series! For everything Lisa Bowes, please go to https://lucytriessports.com/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Gear (Blackfin Sports Group) stops by to chat about his amazing 25 years as a Sports Executive! From his first sports client (PGA-Air Canada Championship) to his time on the organizing committee for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to Assistant General Manager for the Vancouver Canucks, Chris has almost done it all! Now, Chris has launched Blackfin Sports Group in Vancouver and talks all about it. What does Chris "DO?" How "DID" he do it? What "WILL" he do next? Sports law and agent work with a focus on Blackfin Sports Group. 0:00 Chris Gear shares his incredible career journey in sports and entertainment, from leading a law firm to founding Blackfin Sports Group, a comprehensive sports partnership agency, offering legal services and endorsements for athletes and teams. Sports agency and negotiation strategies. 5:18 Brent asks Chris about his preference between working with a lawyer or a non-lawyer agent, to which Chris replies that the standard player contract is agreed upon between the league and the Players Association, with the main negotiation being the term and amount of the deal. Chris discusses his experience working with the Canucks and how it prepared them for starting their own sports agency. Sports industry growth in Vancouver, Canada. 12:12 Chris says Vancouver's momentum is building with new events and businesses, and the new mayor is pushing for more involvement. Trevor Linden and James Conrad are mentioned as key figures in the speaker's journey in the sports industry. Career progression in sports law. 17:50 Chris offers to take over a colleague's sponsorship work for PGA and attends meetings at Northview Golf Course, soaking up knowledge from professionals in the sports business. Chris is excited to be chosen as a community contributor to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic bid and represents Blake's law firm, with senior partners guiding as needed. Legal aspects of hosting the Olympics, including contracts and brand protection. 23:03 Host city must navigate complex commercial agreements for Olympic events. VANOC had to negotiate and manage a large volume of agreements with various stakeholders, including sponsors, construction companies, hotels, bus providers, and more. The organization faced numerous legal challenges, including lawsuits over trademark enforcement, discrimination against female ski jumpers, and an inquest following an accident during the games. Olympic experiences and NHL team management. 27:14 Chris received a phone call from the Canucks offering a General Counsel role shortly after the Olympics, which started a 12-year career there. Chris reflects on his 12-year tenure with the Vancouver Canucks, highlighting the team's successes and setbacks, including a prolonged down cycle and eventual organizational changes. Career path and leadership roles in sports management. 34:05 Chris discussed his experience as an assistant general manager of an NHL team, mentioning their role as a dealmaker and advisor. Chris managed the budget, logistics, and contracts for the team, while also helping with legal matters Starting a sports consulting firm in Vancouver. 39:58 Blackfin have a team of experienced professionals, including Olympic gold medalist Christine Nesbitt, and is open to new opportunities and growth. Chris hopes Blackfin will become a leading sporting entertainment consulting firm in the Northwest, providing employment opportunities and giving back to the community through initiatives like supporting the Orca population. Speaker 2's excitement for Blackfin has been tempered by the challenges of starting a business, but they believe it will move into the number one position in their rankings over time. For all things Blackfin: https://blackfinsportsgroup.com/

The Talk of Fame Podcast got to chat with Ruben Gonzalez! He has been in 4 Olympics in 4 different decades, 5 Bestselling Books - 300,000 sold , 100+ Fortune 500 Clients, and 500+ Major Keynotes in 5 Continents.In school he was always the last kid picked to play sports. He didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Four years and a few broken bones later, he was competing in the Calgary Winter Olympics.  When he competed at the Vancouver Olympics at the age of 47, Ruben became the first person to ever compete in four Winter Olympics each in a different decade. Since 2002 Ruben has spoken for over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have sold over 300,000 copies and have been translated to over 10 languages.Ruben's incredible story takes people's excuses away and fills them with the belief and inspiration to face their challenges and fight for their goals and dreams. FOLLOW ME:  INSTAGRAM:  Officialkyliemontigney  Talkoffamepod  Facebook:  Officialkyliemontigney  Talkoffame  Twitter:  Kyliemontigney4  ABOUT ME:  Hi, I am Kylie! I love sports, spending time with my family, traveling, and meeting people that inspire me. I love listening to other people's stories and sharing their journeys. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talk-offamepodcast/support

Murf Laidlaw was born and raised playing multiple sports in Prince George, British Columbia. He was a national champion youth skier in his younger days, then turned to pro volleyball after graduating high school from Kelly Road Secondary School. Murf's first career out of high school made him famous. He landed a career with Molson Marketing in Vancouver and officially became knowing as "Murf the Pilsner Guy." He created the slogan “I Love My Life Right Now” which went viral across the country, especially during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Although Murf found his love for entertainment during this career, he eventually got burnt out from the party lifestyle and missed competing in his passion: competitive volleyball. Murf then started training with the national beach volleyball team at 37 years old. But then he hurt himself, and briefly felt lost, which serendipitously led to acting magically fell into his lap… Since then, Murf has enjoyed many successes in the acting world, primarily out of Vancouver, which has become known as “Hollywood North” over the years. The pandemic changed the acting industry, so now Murf can live in his hometown of Prince George and still act, while making fun commercials here in his hometown with local businesses. Follow Murf on Instagram at @iammurraylaidlaw

Gaming News Canada Editor/Parleh Media Group partner Steve McAllister delivers a primer on the past/present/future of sports gambling in Ontario, speculates on the gambling prospects for niche sports such as table tennis, cricket, jai-alai & pickleball, talks about moving from Prescott to Ryerson/Toronto to Kincardine, following in his Dad's footsteps [skates?] as a hockey referee, interesting career stops at The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, Yahoo Canada, the NHL Players' Association & Tennis Canada, great conversations about baseball & life with Cito Gaston while covering BOTH Blue Jays World Series championships, friendly US vs CAN media rivalries at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and why covering spring training baseball in Florida is the absolute BEST gig in sports journalism! GAMING NEWS CANADA is a one-stop destination for news, insight and analysis on Canada's sports betting industry. LinkedIn Audio events at 2 p.m. ET Thursdays and newsletter available at https://gamingnewscanada.substack.com/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at www.podpage.com/toronto-legends/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pass through the Gateway Arch and explore the Show Me State with us as we chat with our friend Cindy Underwood-Oleshak, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Cindy's career has taken her to all sides of the live events industry – from 13 years on the venue side at Scottrade Center (now Enterprise Center), to freelance marketing and publicity for Sesame Street Live, The Wiggles, Dreamworks, the Vancouver Olympics, music festivals, and so many more – she has a wealth of experience and perspective. Hear about her decisions to change career paths, work for herself, and some of the challenges and rewards that come along with those choices. We discuss the importance of taking a step back and evaluating your career and life priorities, and how pausing can help you not only explore new opportunities, but to strengthen your current path. She emphasizes the importance of relationship-building, which was critical to her freelance work with various tours. As Cindy continues to write new chapters, her outlook offers a refreshing take on working in an industry where it's easy to get lost in the grind. Enjoy this fun, inspiriting episode which is chock full of career advice, tips for freelancers, and fun stories.Cindy Underwood-Oleshak: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

Robyn Stewart is a 20-year music industry veteran, accomplished organization and event director, and is currently the Executive Director of Women in Music Canada. Her experience reaches all areas of event management and talent buying, with strong skills in financial management, complex logistics, government relations and fund development. Among the projects she is most proud of are; Executive Director of Western Canadian Music Alliance, Celebration Sites Manager; Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2010, Entertainment Buyer; PanAmerican Games 2015, and her current roles above. Her mission is to support developing artists and engage in passion projects including working towards gender parity in the music industry on an international level. As a board member and one of two official festival partners with KeyChange, a gender balance initiative in Canada, Robyn is a key contributor to projects forwarding the advancement of underrepresented genders in music. About Women in Music Canada Women in Music Canada (WIMC) is a registered non-profit organization and one of the largest music industry associations in Canada. The organization is dedicated to fostering gender equality in the music industry through the support and advancement of female identifying professionals and creatives at every stage of their career. The goal is to strengthen the social-economic balance of the music industry by providing professional development, support and resources for our community. Women in Music hosts educational, career development and networking events alongside broader programming initiatives, industry engagement, research and advocacy to serve the needs of our diverse community. Our panels, seminars, webinars, workshops and performance serve to educate, empower, and celebrate female contributions to the music world, and strengthen community ties. www.womeninmusic.ca Get your tickets to the Inaugural 2023 Women in Music Canada Honours HERE. Find out more about Robyn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-stewart-b9b0274/ Follow the Women in Media Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WomenInMediaPod Follow the Women in Media Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WomenInMediaPod Follow the Women in Media Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/WomenInMediaPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY They say that there are no shortcuts to success, but after years of failures, successes— and few broken bones— 4x Olympian Ruben Gonzalez discovered that there is a “shortcut” to success. A seemingly “ordinary guy,” 4x Olympian, Ruben Gonzalez, wasn't a gifted athlete.  Ruben didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Against all odds, four years and a few broken bones later, he was competing in the Calgary Winter Olympics.  At the age of 47, at the Vancouver Olympics, he became the first person to ever compete in four Winter Olympics in four different decades. Ruben is also an international bestselling author. Among his works are, “The Courage to Succeed,” “Fight for Your Dream,” and just last year, he released his first fictional book, “The Shortcut: The Fastest Way to Achieve Your Goals.” Now, after four years, Ruben is back on the Success Through Failure podcast! Ruben's story is going to inspire you to think differently and to live your life with passion to push yourself beyond your self-imposed beliefs and your self-imposed limitations.  After listening to this interview, you'll realize that you have no excuse to chase your big dream. Tune in now!  If you don't have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don't have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.  

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 14, Oakland A’s 2 Tigers were off Reds 4, Cubs 3 – India’s hit in 9th gives Reds 4-3 win over Cubs Jonathan India hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, and the Cincinnati Reds rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Chicago was ahead 3-2 when Alejo Lopez’s liner off Mark Leiter Jr. slipped between rookie right fielder Seiya Suzuki and center fielder Rafael Ortega. The ball rolled to the wall for a triple, allowing Nick Senzel to score from first to tie it. Lopez trotted home on when India lined a single to left, his third hit of the game. Suzuki doubled and scored in the sixth and put Chicago in front with a solo shot in the eighth. Alexis Diaz got five outs for the win. Ian Gibaut worked around a hit in the ninth for his first save. White Sox 14, A’s 2 – Moncada 5 for 6 with 2 HR, White Sox blast A’s 14-2 Yoán Moncada went 5 for 6 with two home runs and five RBIs, Dylan Cease fanned nine in six scoreless innings and the Chicago White Sox hammered the Oakland Athletics 14-2 on Thursday night. Chicago had 21 hits, including 10 extra-base hits, in its highest-scoring game of the season. It has won seven of its last nine games. Romy González went 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Elvis Andrus, released by the A’s in August, and Eloy Jiménez also homered. Cease (14-6) reached 206 strikeouts for the year, becoming the seventh White Sox pitcher with multiple 200-strikeout seasons. The right-hander allowed just three hits and two walks after coming within one out of a no-hitter in his last start against Minnesota. Today San Francisco (Rodón 12-7) at Chicago Cubs (Smyly 5-8), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Wentz 0-1) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-9), 8:10 p.m.           Cosy-FM 7:50/WSJM Joined after HSFB Chicago White Sox (Giolito 10-9) at Oakland (Kaprielian 3-9), 9:40 p.m. NFL – National Football League – Week 1 Last Night Buffalo Bills 31, Los Angeles Rams 10 Bills 31, Rams 10 – Buffalo Bills blow out champion Rams 31-10 in season opener Josh Allen passed for 297 yards while accounting for four touchdowns as the Buffalo Bills stamped themselves as a clear contender for the Rams’ Super Bowl crown with a 31-10 victory over Los Angeles. Von Miller had two of Buffalo’s seven sacks as the Bills opened the NFL’s 103rd season by overcoming three first-half turnovers and running away with a blowout win. Matthew Stafford passed for 240 yards with three interceptions in a bruising night for the Rams, who lost a season opener and fell below .500 for the first time in coach Sean McVay’s six seasons in charge. Sunday Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, 1:00 p.m.                 Rock 107 WIRX 12:00 San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears, 1:00 p.m. Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, 1:00 p.m. NFL – Bears say they’d need assistance to complete stadium complex The Chicago Bears say they will need taxpayer assistance if they are going to construct an enclosed suburban stadium that could host Super Bowls, Final Fours and College Football Playoff games and anchor a surrounding entertainment and residential complex. Chairman George McCaskey said the team would not seek public funding to build the stadium itself if the Bears complete the purchase of a 326-acre site in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and decide to move from Soldier Field. But they would need help to complete the rest of a multibillion dollar project. The Bears envision restaurants, retail, office space, housing, a hotel, fitness center, new parks, ponds and open areas. McCaskey said the project could take more than 10 years to complete. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Last Night Connecticut Sun 72, Chicago Sky 63                                          (CT Wins 3-2) Sun 72, Sky 63 – Sun rally in 4th, beat Sky 72-63 to advance to WNBA Finals Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Connecticut Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Chicago Sky 72-63 in the decisive fifth game of the semifinal series and advancing to the WNBA Finals. Connecticut scored the final 18 points of the game to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining. All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019. Connecticut will face top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas. Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since Los Angeles in 2001-02. Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points and added four steals. NCAAFB – College Football – Week 2 Saturday South Alabama at Central Michigan, 1:00 p.m. Western Michigan at Ball State, 2:00 p.m. Marshall at (8) Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. Akron at (14) Michigan State, 4:00 p.m.                  Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 2:30 Eastern Michigan at Louisiana, 7:00 p.m. Hawaii at (4) Michigan, 8:00 p.m.                            News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 7:00 NCAAFB – Notre Dame coach Freeman ready for home debut vs Marshall Irish coach Marcus Freeman is eager for No. 8 Notre Dame’s home opener on Saturday against Marshall. Yes, it gives the Fighting Irish a chance to rebound from last week’s season-opening loss at Ohio State. But it’s also a chance for Freeman to get his first career win in his home debut. The Thundering Herd come to town with one of the nation’s most prolific ground games. Marshall ran for more than 300 yards in last week’s rout of FCS foe Norfolk State. But they’ll face a much stiffer challenge against Notre Dame’s defense. NCAAFB – CFP committee digs into feasibility of early expansion to 12 The College Football Playoff management committee gathered for 4 ½ hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. It was the conference commissioners first meeting since their bosses voted last week to expand the CFP from four to 12 teams. The goal is to sort through a myriad of issues and have a new format in place for the 2024 season. It’s unclear whether there is still time to accomplish that. First and foremost, they need to figure out where and when 11 playoff games can be played. Availability of venues and television time slots could ultimately determine whether early expansion is possible. Tennis – US Open – Swiatek, Jabeur will meet in 1st US Open final for both Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur will face each other in the U.S. Open women’s final. Tunisia’s Jabeur reached her second consecutive Grand Slam title match by beating Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3 at Flushing Meadows on Thursday night. The No. 5-seeded Jabeur was the runner-up at Wimbledon in July. She took full advantage of a shaky performance by first-time major semifinalist Garcia. The No. 1-ranked Swiatek grabbed the last four games to eliminate No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Poland’s Swiatek already owns two trophies from the French Open’s red clay but never had been past the fourth round on New York’s hard courts. Tennis – US Open – Tiafoe offers hope for present and future of US men’s tennis Frances Tiafoe calls his run to the U.S. Open semifinals ‘a Cinderella story.’ He is a 24-year-old from Maryland who took up tennis because his father was a janitor at a junior training center, a player who never won a match past the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament until now, who owns one career ATP title and a sub-.500 career record, and whose ranking ranged from 24 to 74 over the past two seasons. Tiafoe’s tale also is a significant step forward for American men’s tennis and could help grow the sport in the future, too. Tiafoe is the first man from the U.S. to reach the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years. And he could become the first Black man from the U.S. in a major final since MaliVai Washington was the runner-up at Wimbledon in more than a quarter-century ago. Sports events in Britain called off following death of queen Several sporting events in Britain have been called off as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96. Organizers of the BMW PGA Championship golf event reacted to the announcement of the queen’s death by immediately suspending play with many players still out on the course at Wentworth. Friday’s play in the second test between England and South Africa at the Oval will not take place and horse racing meetings in Britain were suspended on Thursday night and Friday. Fridays games in the English Football League will not take place. Miller, Lamoureux twins elected to US Hockey Hall of Fame Longtime NHL and former Michigan State goaltender Ryan Miller and Olympic gold medal-winning women’s hockey stars Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando headline the 2022 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Three-time Paralympic gold medal-winning sled hockey goalie Steve Cash and late USA Hockey executive Jim Johannson were also elected. Miller backstopped the U.S. to the final of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and has the most NHL victories of any American-born goalie. The Lamoureux twins helped the U.S. beat Canada for gold at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang with Lamoureux-Davidson scoring the shootout winner. Johannson was general manager of the men’s team that year before dying unexpectedly at age 53 a few weeks before the start of the tournament. NASCAR – Kyle Busch still seeking on-track success, job for 2023 It didn’t seem much could still go wrong this year for Kyle Busch until his engine blew with 22 laps remaining in NASCAR’s opening playoff race. Busch had dominated at Darlington Raceway and led a race-high 155 laps for what should have been a much needed victory. He’s had a crummy season and the 10-race playoff stretch is probably the final days of his career with Joe Gibbs Racing. Instead of a victory that would have automatically advanced him into the second round, Busch finished 30th and remained 11th in the playoff standings. Even worse, he has no idea when he’ll have a job secured for 2023. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan 7, Great Lakes 6 Dayton 3, Lansing 1 Cedar Rapids 2, South Bend 1 Tonight Great Lakes at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m. Dayton at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Cedar Rapids, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Gull Lake 5, Lakeshore 0 Bangor 3, Michigan Lutheran 1 Bridgman 6, Berrien Springs 4 Howardsville Christian 8, Brandywine 0 South Haven 8, Buchanan 1 Bloomingdale 8, Parchment 5 Hartford 1, Fennville 0 Portage Northern 6, Battle Creek Central 0 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 4, Kalamazoo Central 3 Portage Central 5, Mattawan 0 Vicksburg 4, Otsego 0 Delton-Kellogg 2 Harper Creek 0 Schoolcraft 4, Saugatuck 3 Volleyball Edwardsburg 3, Niles 1 Otsego 3, Three Rivers 0 Sturgis 3, Plainwell 0 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 unless indicated otherwise SMAC St. Joseph (1-1) at Kalamazoo Central (0-2)                  News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:35 Lakeshore (0-2) at Mattawan (1-1)                               97.5 Y-Country 6:45 Battle Creek Lakeview (1-0) at Portage Central (0-2) Battle Creek Central (1-1) at Portage Northern (1-1) Wolverine Niles (1-1) at Edwardsburg (1-1) Three Rivers (1-1) at Otsego (0-2) Plainwell (2-0) at Sturgis (1-1) Lakeland Buchanan (1-1) at Dowagiac (0-2) SAC Delton-Kellogg (1-1) at South Haven (1-1) Lawton (2-0) at Constantine (1-1) Parchment (1-1) at Galesburg-Augusta Schoolcraft (2-0) at Kalamazoo United (1-1) Southwest 10 Cassopolis (0-2) at Comstock (0-2) Decatur (1-1) at White Pigeon (1-1) Non-Conference Benton Harbor (1-1) at Muskegon Catholic Central (1-1) Allegan (2-0) at Berrien Springs (2-0) Brandywine (1-1) at Saugatuck (1-1) Paw Paw (1-1) at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard (1-1), 4:00 p.m. Gull Lake (0-2) at Vicksburg (1-1) Centreville (1-1) at Sand Creek (1-1) Kalamazoo Loy Norrix (1-1) at Livonia-Clarenceville (1-1) 8-Man Football Twin Cities (0-2) at Eau Claire (2-0) Wyoming Tri-Unity (2-0) at Lawrence (0-2) Red Arrow (0-2) at Wyoming-Lee (0-2) Fennville (2-1) 1, Bloomingdale (0-2) 0 – Forfeit Bangor (2-0) at Gobles (1-1) Martin (2-0) at Marcellus (1-1) Bridgman (2-0) at Mendon (1-1) Saturday Football Non-Conference Watervliet (2-0) at Kent City (2-0), 1:00 p.m. Boys Soccer Paw Paw at St. Joseph,11:30 a.m. Wayland at Allegan, 10:00 a.m. Caledonia at Portage Central, 1:30 p.m. Midland Dow at Portage Northern, 11:30 a.m. Shoreline Shootout at South Haven Covert vs. South Haven, 9:00 a.m. Hartford vs. Covert, 10:30 a.m. Hartford vs. South Haven 12:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 14, Oakland A’s 2 Tigers were off Reds 4, Cubs 3 – India’s hit in 9th gives Reds 4-3 win over Cubs Jonathan India hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, and the Cincinnati Reds rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Chicago was ahead 3-2 when Alejo Lopez’s liner off Mark Leiter Jr. slipped between rookie right fielder Seiya Suzuki and center fielder Rafael Ortega. The ball rolled to the wall for a triple, allowing Nick Senzel to score from first to tie it. Lopez trotted home on when India lined a single to left, his third hit of the game. Suzuki doubled and scored in the sixth and put Chicago in front with a solo shot in the eighth. Alexis Diaz got five outs for the win. Ian Gibaut worked around a hit in the ninth for his first save. White Sox 14, A’s 2 – Moncada 5 for 6 with 2 HR, White Sox blast A’s 14-2 Yoán Moncada went 5 for 6 with two home runs and five RBIs, Dylan Cease fanned nine in six scoreless innings and the Chicago White Sox hammered the Oakland Athletics 14-2 on Thursday night. Chicago had 21 hits, including 10 extra-base hits, in its highest-scoring game of the season. It has won seven of its last nine games. Romy González went 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Elvis Andrus, released by the A’s in August, and Eloy Jiménez also homered. Cease (14-6) reached 206 strikeouts for the year, becoming the seventh White Sox pitcher with multiple 200-strikeout seasons. The right-hander allowed just three hits and two walks after coming within one out of a no-hitter in his last start against Minnesota. Today San Francisco (Rodón 12-7) at Chicago Cubs (Smyly 5-8), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Wentz 0-1) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-9), 8:10 p.m.           Cosy-FM 7:50/WSJM Joined after HSFB Chicago White Sox (Giolito 10-9) at Oakland (Kaprielian 3-9), 9:40 p.m. NFL – National Football League – Week 1 Last Night Buffalo Bills 31, Los Angeles Rams 10 Bills 31, Rams 10 – Buffalo Bills blow out champion Rams 31-10 in season opener Josh Allen passed for 297 yards while accounting for four touchdowns as the Buffalo Bills stamped themselves as a clear contender for the Rams’ Super Bowl crown with a 31-10 victory over Los Angeles. Von Miller had two of Buffalo’s seven sacks as the Bills opened the NFL’s 103rd season by overcoming three first-half turnovers and running away with a blowout win. Matthew Stafford passed for 240 yards with three interceptions in a bruising night for the Rams, who lost a season opener and fell below .500 for the first time in coach Sean McVay’s six seasons in charge. Sunday Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, 1:00 p.m.                 Rock 107 WIRX 12:00 San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears, 1:00 p.m. Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, 1:00 p.m. NFL – Bears say they’d need assistance to complete stadium complex The Chicago Bears say they will need taxpayer assistance if they are going to construct an enclosed suburban stadium that could host Super Bowls, Final Fours and College Football Playoff games and anchor a surrounding entertainment and residential complex. Chairman George McCaskey said the team would not seek public funding to build the stadium itself if the Bears complete the purchase of a 326-acre site in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and decide to move from Soldier Field. But they would need help to complete the rest of a multibillion dollar project. The Bears envision restaurants, retail, office space, housing, a hotel, fitness center, new parks, ponds and open areas. McCaskey said the project could take more than 10 years to complete. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Last Night Connecticut Sun 72, Chicago Sky 63                                          (CT Wins 3-2) Sun 72, Sky 63 – Sun rally in 4th, beat Sky 72-63 to advance to WNBA Finals Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Connecticut Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Chicago Sky 72-63 in the decisive fifth game of the semifinal series and advancing to the WNBA Finals. Connecticut scored the final 18 points of the game to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining. All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019. Connecticut will face top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas. Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since Los Angeles in 2001-02. Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points and added four steals. NCAAFB – College Football – Week 2 Saturday South Alabama at Central Michigan, 1:00 p.m. Western Michigan at Ball State, 2:00 p.m. Marshall at (8) Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. Akron at (14) Michigan State, 4:00 p.m.                  Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 2:30 Eastern Michigan at Louisiana, 7:00 p.m. Hawaii at (4) Michigan, 8:00 p.m.                            News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 7:00 NCAAFB – Notre Dame coach Freeman ready for home debut vs Marshall Irish coach Marcus Freeman is eager for No. 8 Notre Dame’s home opener on Saturday against Marshall. Yes, it gives the Fighting Irish a chance to rebound from last week’s season-opening loss at Ohio State. But it’s also a chance for Freeman to get his first career win in his home debut. The Thundering Herd come to town with one of the nation’s most prolific ground games. Marshall ran for more than 300 yards in last week’s rout of FCS foe Norfolk State. But they’ll face a much stiffer challenge against Notre Dame’s defense. NCAAFB – CFP committee digs into feasibility of early expansion to 12 The College Football Playoff management committee gathered for 4 ½ hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. It was the conference commissioners first meeting since their bosses voted last week to expand the CFP from four to 12 teams. The goal is to sort through a myriad of issues and have a new format in place for the 2024 season. It’s unclear whether there is still time to accomplish that. First and foremost, they need to figure out where and when 11 playoff games can be played. Availability of venues and television time slots could ultimately determine whether early expansion is possible. Tennis – US Open – Swiatek, Jabeur will meet in 1st US Open final for both Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur will face each other in the U.S. Open women’s final. Tunisia’s Jabeur reached her second consecutive Grand Slam title match by beating Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3 at Flushing Meadows on Thursday night. The No. 5-seeded Jabeur was the runner-up at Wimbledon in July. She took full advantage of a shaky performance by first-time major semifinalist Garcia. The No. 1-ranked Swiatek grabbed the last four games to eliminate No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Poland’s Swiatek already owns two trophies from the French Open’s red clay but never had been past the fourth round on New York’s hard courts. Tennis – US Open – Tiafoe offers hope for present and future of US men’s tennis Frances Tiafoe calls his run to the U.S. Open semifinals ‘a Cinderella story.’ He is a 24-year-old from Maryland who took up tennis because his father was a janitor at a junior training center, a player who never won a match past the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament until now, who owns one career ATP title and a sub-.500 career record, and whose ranking ranged from 24 to 74 over the past two seasons. Tiafoe’s tale also is a significant step forward for American men’s tennis and could help grow the sport in the future, too. Tiafoe is the first man from the U.S. to reach the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years. And he could become the first Black man from the U.S. in a major final since MaliVai Washington was the runner-up at Wimbledon in more than a quarter-century ago. Sports events in Britain called off following death of queen Several sporting events in Britain have been called off as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96. Organizers of the BMW PGA Championship golf event reacted to the announcement of the queen’s death by immediately suspending play with many players still out on the course at Wentworth. Friday’s play in the second test between England and South Africa at the Oval will not take place and horse racing meetings in Britain were suspended on Thursday night and Friday. Fridays games in the English Football League will not take place. Miller, Lamoureux twins elected to US Hockey Hall of Fame Longtime NHL and former Michigan State goaltender Ryan Miller and Olympic gold medal-winning women’s hockey stars Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando headline the 2022 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Three-time Paralympic gold medal-winning sled hockey goalie Steve Cash and late USA Hockey executive Jim Johannson were also elected. Miller backstopped the U.S. to the final of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and has the most NHL victories of any American-born goalie. The Lamoureux twins helped the U.S. beat Canada for gold at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang with Lamoureux-Davidson scoring the shootout winner. Johannson was general manager of the men’s team that year before dying unexpectedly at age 53 a few weeks before the start of the tournament. NASCAR – Kyle Busch still seeking on-track success, job for 2023 It didn’t seem much could still go wrong this year for Kyle Busch until his engine blew with 22 laps remaining in NASCAR’s opening playoff race. Busch had dominated at Darlington Raceway and led a race-high 155 laps for what should have been a much needed victory. He’s had a crummy season and the 10-race playoff stretch is probably the final days of his career with Joe Gibbs Racing. Instead of a victory that would have automatically advanced him into the second round, Busch finished 30th and remained 11th in the playoff standings. Even worse, he has no idea when he’ll have a job secured for 2023. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan 7, Great Lakes 6 Dayton 3, Lansing 1 Cedar Rapids 2, South Bend 1 Tonight Great Lakes at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m. Dayton at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Cedar Rapids, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Gull Lake 5, Lakeshore 0 Bangor 3, Michigan Lutheran 1 Bridgman 6, Berrien Springs 4 Howardsville Christian 8, Brandywine 0 South Haven 8, Buchanan 1 Bloomingdale 8, Parchment 5 Hartford 1, Fennville 0 Portage Northern 6, Battle Creek Central 0 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 4, Kalamazoo Central 3 Portage Central 5, Mattawan 0 Vicksburg 4, Otsego 0 Delton-Kellogg 2 Harper Creek 0 Schoolcraft 4, Saugatuck 3 Volleyball Edwardsburg 3, Niles 1 Otsego 3, Three Rivers 0 Sturgis 3, Plainwell 0 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 unless indicated otherwise SMAC St. Joseph (1-1) at Kalamazoo Central (0-2)                  News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:35 Lakeshore (0-2) at Mattawan (1-1)                               97.5 Y-Country 6:45 Battle Creek Lakeview (1-0) at Portage Central (0-2) Battle Creek Central (1-1) at Portage Northern (1-1) Wolverine Niles (1-1) at Edwardsburg (1-1) Three Rivers (1-1) at Otsego (0-2) Plainwell (2-0) at Sturgis (1-1) Lakeland Buchanan (1-1) at Dowagiac (0-2) SAC Delton-Kellogg (1-1) at South Haven (1-1) Lawton (2-0) at Constantine (1-1) Parchment (1-1) at Galesburg-Augusta Schoolcraft (2-0) at Kalamazoo United (1-1) Southwest 10 Cassopolis (0-2) at Comstock (0-2) Decatur (1-1) at White Pigeon (1-1) Non-Conference Benton Harbor (1-1) at Muskegon Catholic Central (1-1) Allegan (2-0) at Berrien Springs (2-0) Brandywine (1-1) at Saugatuck (1-1) Paw Paw (1-1) at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard (1-1), 4:00 p.m. Gull Lake (0-2) at Vicksburg (1-1) Centreville (1-1) at Sand Creek (1-1) Kalamazoo Loy Norrix (1-1) at Livonia-Clarenceville (1-1) 8-Man Football Twin Cities (0-2) at Eau Claire (2-0) Wyoming Tri-Unity (2-0) at Lawrence (0-2) Red Arrow (0-2) at Wyoming-Lee (0-2) Fennville (2-1) 1, Bloomingdale (0-2) 0 – Forfeit Bangor (2-0) at Gobles (1-1) Martin (2-0) at Marcellus (1-1) Bridgman (2-0) at Mendon (1-1) Saturday Football Non-Conference Watervliet (2-0) at Kent City (2-0), 1:00 p.m. Boys Soccer Paw Paw at St. Joseph,11:30 a.m. Wayland at Allegan, 10:00 a.m. Caledonia at Portage Central, 1:30 p.m. Midland Dow at Portage Northern, 11:30 a.m. Shoreline Shootout at South Haven Covert vs. South Haven, 9:00 a.m. Hartford vs. Covert, 10:30 a.m. Hartford vs. South Haven 12:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 14, Oakland A’s 2 Tigers were off Reds 4, Cubs 3 – India’s hit in 9th gives Reds 4-3 win over Cubs Jonathan India hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, and the Cincinnati Reds rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Chicago was ahead 3-2 when Alejo Lopez’s liner off Mark Leiter Jr. slipped between rookie right fielder Seiya Suzuki and center fielder Rafael Ortega. The ball rolled to the wall for a triple, allowing Nick Senzel to score from first to tie it. Lopez trotted home on when India lined a single to left, his third hit of the game. Suzuki doubled and scored in the sixth and put Chicago in front with a solo shot in the eighth. Alexis Diaz got five outs for the win. Ian Gibaut worked around a hit in the ninth for his first save. White Sox 14, A’s 2 – Moncada 5 for 6 with 2 HR, White Sox blast A’s 14-2 Yoán Moncada went 5 for 6 with two home runs and five RBIs, Dylan Cease fanned nine in six scoreless innings and the Chicago White Sox hammered the Oakland Athletics 14-2 on Thursday night. Chicago had 21 hits, including 10 extra-base hits, in its highest-scoring game of the season. It has won seven of its last nine games. Romy González went 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Elvis Andrus, released by the A’s in August, and Eloy Jiménez also homered. Cease (14-6) reached 206 strikeouts for the year, becoming the seventh White Sox pitcher with multiple 200-strikeout seasons. The right-hander allowed just three hits and two walks after coming within one out of a no-hitter in his last start against Minnesota. Today San Francisco (Rodón 12-7) at Chicago Cubs (Smyly 5-8), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Wentz 0-1) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-9), 8:10 p.m.           Cosy-FM 7:50/WSJM Joined after HSFB Chicago White Sox (Giolito 10-9) at Oakland (Kaprielian 3-9), 9:40 p.m. NFL – National Football League – Week 1 Last Night Buffalo Bills 31, Los Angeles Rams 10 Bills 31, Rams 10 – Buffalo Bills blow out champion Rams 31-10 in season opener Josh Allen passed for 297 yards while accounting for four touchdowns as the Buffalo Bills stamped themselves as a clear contender for the Rams’ Super Bowl crown with a 31-10 victory over Los Angeles. Von Miller had two of Buffalo’s seven sacks as the Bills opened the NFL’s 103rd season by overcoming three first-half turnovers and running away with a blowout win. Matthew Stafford passed for 240 yards with three interceptions in a bruising night for the Rams, who lost a season opener and fell below .500 for the first time in coach Sean McVay’s six seasons in charge. Sunday Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, 1:00 p.m.                 Rock 107 WIRX 12:00 San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears, 1:00 p.m. Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, 1:00 p.m. NFL – Bears say they’d need assistance to complete stadium complex The Chicago Bears say they will need taxpayer assistance if they are going to construct an enclosed suburban stadium that could host Super Bowls, Final Fours and College Football Playoff games and anchor a surrounding entertainment and residential complex. Chairman George McCaskey said the team would not seek public funding to build the stadium itself if the Bears complete the purchase of a 326-acre site in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and decide to move from Soldier Field. But they would need help to complete the rest of a multibillion dollar project. The Bears envision restaurants, retail, office space, housing, a hotel, fitness center, new parks, ponds and open areas. McCaskey said the project could take more than 10 years to complete. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Last Night Connecticut Sun 72, Chicago Sky 63                                          (CT Wins 3-2) Sun 72, Sky 63 – Sun rally in 4th, beat Sky 72-63 to advance to WNBA Finals Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Connecticut Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Chicago Sky 72-63 in the decisive fifth game of the semifinal series and advancing to the WNBA Finals. Connecticut scored the final 18 points of the game to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining. All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019. Connecticut will face top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas. Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since Los Angeles in 2001-02. Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points and added four steals. NCAAFB – College Football – Week 2 Saturday South Alabama at Central Michigan, 1:00 p.m. Western Michigan at Ball State, 2:00 p.m. Marshall at (8) Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. Akron at (14) Michigan State, 4:00 p.m.                  Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 2:30 Eastern Michigan at Louisiana, 7:00 p.m. Hawaii at (4) Michigan, 8:00 p.m.                            News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 7:00 NCAAFB – Notre Dame coach Freeman ready for home debut vs Marshall Irish coach Marcus Freeman is eager for No. 8 Notre Dame’s home opener on Saturday against Marshall. Yes, it gives the Fighting Irish a chance to rebound from last week’s season-opening loss at Ohio State. But it’s also a chance for Freeman to get his first career win in his home debut. The Thundering Herd come to town with one of the nation’s most prolific ground games. Marshall ran for more than 300 yards in last week’s rout of FCS foe Norfolk State. But they’ll face a much stiffer challenge against Notre Dame’s defense. NCAAFB – CFP committee digs into feasibility of early expansion to 12 The College Football Playoff management committee gathered for 4 ½ hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. It was the conference commissioners first meeting since their bosses voted last week to expand the CFP from four to 12 teams. The goal is to sort through a myriad of issues and have a new format in place for the 2024 season. It’s unclear whether there is still time to accomplish that. First and foremost, they need to figure out where and when 11 playoff games can be played. Availability of venues and television time slots could ultimately determine whether early expansion is possible. Tennis – US Open – Swiatek, Jabeur will meet in 1st US Open final for both Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur will face each other in the U.S. Open women’s final. Tunisia’s Jabeur reached her second consecutive Grand Slam title match by beating Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3 at Flushing Meadows on Thursday night. The No. 5-seeded Jabeur was the runner-up at Wimbledon in July. She took full advantage of a shaky performance by first-time major semifinalist Garcia. The No. 1-ranked Swiatek grabbed the last four games to eliminate No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Poland’s Swiatek already owns two trophies from the French Open’s red clay but never had been past the fourth round on New York’s hard courts. Tennis – US Open – Tiafoe offers hope for present and future of US men’s tennis Frances Tiafoe calls his run to the U.S. Open semifinals ‘a Cinderella story.’ He is a 24-year-old from Maryland who took up tennis because his father was a janitor at a junior training center, a player who never won a match past the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament until now, who owns one career ATP title and a sub-.500 career record, and whose ranking ranged from 24 to 74 over the past two seasons. Tiafoe’s tale also is a significant step forward for American men’s tennis and could help grow the sport in the future, too. Tiafoe is the first man from the U.S. to reach the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years. And he could become the first Black man from the U.S. in a major final since MaliVai Washington was the runner-up at Wimbledon in more than a quarter-century ago. Sports events in Britain called off following death of queen Several sporting events in Britain have been called off as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96. Organizers of the BMW PGA Championship golf event reacted to the announcement of the queen’s death by immediately suspending play with many players still out on the course at Wentworth. Friday’s play in the second test between England and South Africa at the Oval will not take place and horse racing meetings in Britain were suspended on Thursday night and Friday. Fridays games in the English Football League will not take place. Miller, Lamoureux twins elected to US Hockey Hall of Fame Longtime NHL and former Michigan State goaltender Ryan Miller and Olympic gold medal-winning women’s hockey stars Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando headline the 2022 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Three-time Paralympic gold medal-winning sled hockey goalie Steve Cash and late USA Hockey executive Jim Johannson were also elected. Miller backstopped the U.S. to the final of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and has the most NHL victories of any American-born goalie. The Lamoureux twins helped the U.S. beat Canada for gold at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang with Lamoureux-Davidson scoring the shootout winner. Johannson was general manager of the men’s team that year before dying unexpectedly at age 53 a few weeks before the start of the tournament. NASCAR – Kyle Busch still seeking on-track success, job for 2023 It didn’t seem much could still go wrong this year for Kyle Busch until his engine blew with 22 laps remaining in NASCAR’s opening playoff race. Busch had dominated at Darlington Raceway and led a race-high 155 laps for what should have been a much needed victory. He’s had a crummy season and the 10-race playoff stretch is probably the final days of his career with Joe Gibbs Racing. Instead of a victory that would have automatically advanced him into the second round, Busch finished 30th and remained 11th in the playoff standings. Even worse, he has no idea when he’ll have a job secured for 2023. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan 7, Great Lakes 6 Dayton 3, Lansing 1 Cedar Rapids 2, South Bend 1 Tonight Great Lakes at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m. Dayton at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Cedar Rapids, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Gull Lake 5, Lakeshore 0 Bangor 3, Michigan Lutheran 1 Bridgman 6, Berrien Springs 4 Howardsville Christian 8, Brandywine 0 South Haven 8, Buchanan 1 Bloomingdale 8, Parchment 5 Hartford 1, Fennville 0 Portage Northern 6, Battle Creek Central 0 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 4, Kalamazoo Central 3 Portage Central 5, Mattawan 0 Vicksburg 4, Otsego 0 Delton-Kellogg 2 Harper Creek 0 Schoolcraft 4, Saugatuck 3 Volleyball Edwardsburg 3, Niles 1 Otsego 3, Three Rivers 0 Sturgis 3, Plainwell 0 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 unless indicated otherwise SMAC St. Joseph (1-1) at Kalamazoo Central (0-2)                  News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:35 Lakeshore (0-2) at Mattawan (1-1)                               97.5 Y-Country 6:45 Battle Creek Lakeview (1-0) at Portage Central (0-2) Battle Creek Central (1-1) at Portage Northern (1-1) Wolverine Niles (1-1) at Edwardsburg (1-1) Three Rivers (1-1) at Otsego (0-2) Plainwell (2-0) at Sturgis (1-1) Lakeland Buchanan (1-1) at Dowagiac (0-2) SAC Delton-Kellogg (1-1) at South Haven (1-1) Lawton (2-0) at Constantine (1-1) Parchment (1-1) at Galesburg-Augusta Schoolcraft (2-0) at Kalamazoo United (1-1) Southwest 10 Cassopolis (0-2) at Comstock (0-2) Decatur (1-1) at White Pigeon (1-1) Non-Conference Benton Harbor (1-1) at Muskegon Catholic Central (1-1) Allegan (2-0) at Berrien Springs (2-0) Brandywine (1-1) at Saugatuck (1-1) Paw Paw (1-1) at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard (1-1), 4:00 p.m. Gull Lake (0-2) at Vicksburg (1-1) Centreville (1-1) at Sand Creek (1-1) Kalamazoo Loy Norrix (1-1) at Livonia-Clarenceville (1-1) 8-Man Football Twin Cities (0-2) at Eau Claire (2-0) Wyoming Tri-Unity (2-0) at Lawrence (0-2) Red Arrow (0-2) at Wyoming-Lee (0-2) Fennville (2-1) 1, Bloomingdale (0-2) 0 – Forfeit Bangor (2-0) at Gobles (1-1) Martin (2-0) at Marcellus (1-1) Bridgman (2-0) at Mendon (1-1) Saturday Football Non-Conference Watervliet (2-0) at Kent City (2-0), 1:00 p.m. Boys Soccer Paw Paw at St. Joseph,11:30 a.m. Wayland at Allegan, 10:00 a.m. Caledonia at Portage Central, 1:30 p.m. Midland Dow at Portage Northern, 11:30 a.m. Shoreline Shootout at South Haven Covert vs. South Haven, 9:00 a.m. Hartford vs. Covert, 10:30 a.m. Hartford vs. South Haven 12:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 14, Oakland A’s 2 Tigers were off Reds 4, Cubs 3 – India’s hit in 9th gives Reds 4-3 win over Cubs Jonathan India hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, and the Cincinnati Reds rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Chicago was ahead 3-2 when Alejo Lopez’s liner off Mark Leiter Jr. slipped between rookie right fielder Seiya Suzuki and center fielder Rafael Ortega. The ball rolled to the wall for a triple, allowing Nick Senzel to score from first to tie it. Lopez trotted home on when India lined a single to left, his third hit of the game. Suzuki doubled and scored in the sixth and put Chicago in front with a solo shot in the eighth. Alexis Diaz got five outs for the win. Ian Gibaut worked around a hit in the ninth for his first save. White Sox 14, A’s 2 – Moncada 5 for 6 with 2 HR, White Sox blast A’s 14-2 Yoán Moncada went 5 for 6 with two home runs and five RBIs, Dylan Cease fanned nine in six scoreless innings and the Chicago White Sox hammered the Oakland Athletics 14-2 on Thursday night. Chicago had 21 hits, including 10 extra-base hits, in its highest-scoring game of the season. It has won seven of its last nine games. Romy González went 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Elvis Andrus, released by the A’s in August, and Eloy Jiménez also homered. Cease (14-6) reached 206 strikeouts for the year, becoming the seventh White Sox pitcher with multiple 200-strikeout seasons. The right-hander allowed just three hits and two walks after coming within one out of a no-hitter in his last start against Minnesota. Today San Francisco (Rodón 12-7) at Chicago Cubs (Smyly 5-8), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Wentz 0-1) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-9), 8:10 p.m.           Cosy-FM 7:50/WSJM Joined after HSFB Chicago White Sox (Giolito 10-9) at Oakland (Kaprielian 3-9), 9:40 p.m. NFL – National Football League – Week 1 Last Night Buffalo Bills 31, Los Angeles Rams 10 Bills 31, Rams 10 – Buffalo Bills blow out champion Rams 31-10 in season opener Josh Allen passed for 297 yards while accounting for four touchdowns as the Buffalo Bills stamped themselves as a clear contender for the Rams’ Super Bowl crown with a 31-10 victory over Los Angeles. Von Miller had two of Buffalo’s seven sacks as the Bills opened the NFL’s 103rd season by overcoming three first-half turnovers and running away with a blowout win. Matthew Stafford passed for 240 yards with three interceptions in a bruising night for the Rams, who lost a season opener and fell below .500 for the first time in coach Sean McVay’s six seasons in charge. Sunday Philadelphia Eagles at Detroit Lions, 1:00 p.m.                 Rock 107 WIRX 12:00 San Francisco 49ers at Chicago Bears, 1:00 p.m. Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, 1:00 p.m. NFL – Bears say they’d need assistance to complete stadium complex The Chicago Bears say they will need taxpayer assistance if they are going to construct an enclosed suburban stadium that could host Super Bowls, Final Fours and College Football Playoff games and anchor a surrounding entertainment and residential complex. Chairman George McCaskey said the team would not seek public funding to build the stadium itself if the Bears complete the purchase of a 326-acre site in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and decide to move from Soldier Field. But they would need help to complete the rest of a multibillion dollar project. The Bears envision restaurants, retail, office space, housing, a hotel, fitness center, new parks, ponds and open areas. McCaskey said the project could take more than 10 years to complete. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Semifinals (best of 5) Last Night Connecticut Sun 72, Chicago Sky 63                                          (CT Wins 3-2) Sun 72, Sky 63 – Sun rally in 4th, beat Sky 72-63 to advance to WNBA Finals Jonquel Jones had 15 points and 10 rebounds and the Connecticut Sun overcame an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter, beating the Chicago Sky 72-63 in the decisive fifth game of the semifinal series and advancing to the WNBA Finals. Connecticut scored the final 18 points of the game to overcome a 63-54 deficit with 4:46 remaining. All the Sun starters scored in double figures and Connecticut advanced to the Finals for the third time overall and first time since 2019. Connecticut will face top-seeded Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA title. The first game of the series is Sunday in Las Vegas. Chicago was attempting to become the first team to repeat as WNBA champions since Los Angeles in 2001-02. Kahleah Copper led the Sky with 22 points and added four steals. NCAAFB – College Football – Week 2 Saturday South Alabama at Central Michigan, 1:00 p.m. Western Michigan at Ball State, 2:00 p.m. Marshall at (8) Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m. Akron at (14) Michigan State, 4:00 p.m.                  Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 2:30 Eastern Michigan at Louisiana, 7:00 p.m. Hawaii at (4) Michigan, 8:00 p.m.                            News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 7:00 NCAAFB – Notre Dame coach Freeman ready for home debut vs Marshall Irish coach Marcus Freeman is eager for No. 8 Notre Dame’s home opener on Saturday against Marshall. Yes, it gives the Fighting Irish a chance to rebound from last week’s season-opening loss at Ohio State. But it’s also a chance for Freeman to get his first career win in his home debut. The Thundering Herd come to town with one of the nation’s most prolific ground games. Marshall ran for more than 300 yards in last week’s rout of FCS foe Norfolk State. But they’ll face a much stiffer challenge against Notre Dame’s defense. NCAAFB – CFP committee digs into feasibility of early expansion to 12 The College Football Playoff management committee gathered for 4 ½ hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. It was the conference commissioners first meeting since their bosses voted last week to expand the CFP from four to 12 teams. The goal is to sort through a myriad of issues and have a new format in place for the 2024 season. It’s unclear whether there is still time to accomplish that. First and foremost, they need to figure out where and when 11 playoff games can be played. Availability of venues and television time slots could ultimately determine whether early expansion is possible. Tennis – US Open – Swiatek, Jabeur will meet in 1st US Open final for both Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur will face each other in the U.S. Open women’s final. Tunisia’s Jabeur reached her second consecutive Grand Slam title match by beating Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3 at Flushing Meadows on Thursday night. The No. 5-seeded Jabeur was the runner-up at Wimbledon in July. She took full advantage of a shaky performance by first-time major semifinalist Garcia. The No. 1-ranked Swiatek grabbed the last four games to eliminate No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Poland’s Swiatek already owns two trophies from the French Open’s red clay but never had been past the fourth round on New York’s hard courts. Tennis – US Open – Tiafoe offers hope for present and future of US men’s tennis Frances Tiafoe calls his run to the U.S. Open semifinals ‘a Cinderella story.’ He is a 24-year-old from Maryland who took up tennis because his father was a janitor at a junior training center, a player who never won a match past the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament until now, who owns one career ATP title and a sub-.500 career record, and whose ranking ranged from 24 to 74 over the past two seasons. Tiafoe’s tale also is a significant step forward for American men’s tennis and could help grow the sport in the future, too. Tiafoe is the first man from the U.S. to reach the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in 16 years. And he could become the first Black man from the U.S. in a major final since MaliVai Washington was the runner-up at Wimbledon in more than a quarter-century ago. Sports events in Britain called off following death of queen Several sporting events in Britain have been called off as a mark of respect following the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96. Organizers of the BMW PGA Championship golf event reacted to the announcement of the queen’s death by immediately suspending play with many players still out on the course at Wentworth. Friday’s play in the second test between England and South Africa at the Oval will not take place and horse racing meetings in Britain were suspended on Thursday night and Friday. Fridays games in the English Football League will not take place. Miller, Lamoureux twins elected to US Hockey Hall of Fame Longtime NHL and former Michigan State goaltender Ryan Miller and Olympic gold medal-winning women’s hockey stars Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando headline the 2022 class of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Three-time Paralympic gold medal-winning sled hockey goalie Steve Cash and late USA Hockey executive Jim Johannson were also elected. Miller backstopped the U.S. to the final of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and has the most NHL victories of any American-born goalie. The Lamoureux twins helped the U.S. beat Canada for gold at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang with Lamoureux-Davidson scoring the shootout winner. Johannson was general manager of the men’s team that year before dying unexpectedly at age 53 a few weeks before the start of the tournament. NASCAR – Kyle Busch still seeking on-track success, job for 2023 It didn’t seem much could still go wrong this year for Kyle Busch until his engine blew with 22 laps remaining in NASCAR’s opening playoff race. Busch had dominated at Darlington Raceway and led a race-high 155 laps for what should have been a much needed victory. He’s had a crummy season and the 10-race playoff stretch is probably the final days of his career with Joe Gibbs Racing. Instead of a victory that would have automatically advanced him into the second round, Busch finished 30th and remained 11th in the playoff standings. Even worse, he has no idea when he’ll have a job secured for 2023. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan 7, Great Lakes 6 Dayton 3, Lansing 1 Cedar Rapids 2, South Bend 1 Tonight Great Lakes at West Michigan, 6:35 p.m. Dayton at Lansing, 7:05 p.m. South Bend at Cedar Rapids, 7:35 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Gull Lake 5, Lakeshore 0 Bangor 3, Michigan Lutheran 1 Bridgman 6, Berrien Springs 4 Howardsville Christian 8, Brandywine 0 South Haven 8, Buchanan 1 Bloomingdale 8, Parchment 5 Hartford 1, Fennville 0 Portage Northern 6, Battle Creek Central 0 Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 4, Kalamazoo Central 3 Portage Central 5, Mattawan 0 Vicksburg 4, Otsego 0 Delton-Kellogg 2 Harper Creek 0 Schoolcraft 4, Saugatuck 3 Volleyball Edwardsburg 3, Niles 1 Otsego 3, Three Rivers 0 Sturgis 3, Plainwell 0 Tonight Football – All games at 7:00 unless indicated otherwise SMAC St. Joseph (1-1) at Kalamazoo Central (0-2)                  News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:35 Lakeshore (0-2) at Mattawan (1-1)                               97.5 Y-Country 6:45 Battle Creek Lakeview (1-0) at Portage Central (0-2) Battle Creek Central (1-1) at Portage Northern (1-1) Wolverine Niles (1-1) at Edwardsburg (1-1) Three Rivers (1-1) at Otsego (0-2) Plainwell (2-0) at Sturgis (1-1) Lakeland Buchanan (1-1) at Dowagiac (0-2) SAC Delton-Kellogg (1-1) at South Haven (1-1) Lawton (2-0) at Constantine (1-1) Parchment (1-1) at Galesburg-Augusta Schoolcraft (2-0) at Kalamazoo United (1-1) Southwest 10 Cassopolis (0-2) at Comstock (0-2) Decatur (1-1) at White Pigeon (1-1) Non-Conference Benton Harbor (1-1) at Muskegon Catholic Central (1-1) Allegan (2-0) at Berrien Springs (2-0) Brandywine (1-1) at Saugatuck (1-1) Paw Paw (1-1) at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard (1-1), 4:00 p.m. Gull Lake (0-2) at Vicksburg (1-1) Centreville (1-1) at Sand Creek (1-1) Kalamazoo Loy Norrix (1-1) at Livonia-Clarenceville (1-1) 8-Man Football Twin Cities (0-2) at Eau Claire (2-0) Wyoming Tri-Unity (2-0) at Lawrence (0-2) Red Arrow (0-2) at Wyoming-Lee (0-2) Fennville (2-1) 1, Bloomingdale (0-2) 0 – Forfeit Bangor (2-0) at Gobles (1-1) Martin (2-0) at Marcellus (1-1) Bridgman (2-0) at Mendon (1-1) Saturday Football Non-Conference Watervliet (2-0) at Kent City (2-0), 1:00 p.m. Boys Soccer Paw Paw at St. Joseph,11:30 a.m. Wayland at Allegan, 10:00 a.m. Caledonia at Portage Central, 1:30 p.m. Midland Dow at Portage Northern, 11:30 a.m. Shoreline Shootout at South Haven Covert vs. South Haven, 9:00 a.m. Hartford vs. Covert, 10:30 a.m. Hartford vs. South Haven 12:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ruben Gonzalez is a four time Olympian, motivational speaker, and best-selling author. Ruben didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Against all odds, four years later he was competing in the Winter Olympics. At the age of 47 he was competing against 20-year-olds in the Vancouver Olympics. At 55, after a seven year break, he became the oldest person to compete internationally in the sport of luge. Learn more about Ruben at his website thelugeman.com

We've waited a long time to make this episode happen and we're so thrilled to welcome Patricia Boal of the 6pm news on CTV Ottawa to the Tall Can Audio Studio for the first time. We'd love it if you'd take a second to support the podcast by leaving us a rating and a review inside your podcast app. It just takes a sec and makes a huge difference to us. So much to cover with Patricia including her days teaching our buddy Steve Lloyd the ropes, her career path through Ottawa radio to Headline Sports and theScore and on to the CTV News in Ottawa, her experiences covering the Olympics including Vancouver 2010, some of the biggest stories Patricia has dealt with since taking over the anchor seat, whether she was treated differently as a woman while covering sports, the added abuse journalists are taking online these days from people who don't trust them, where sports meets news in a city like Ottawa and so much more. You can catch Patricia Boal every night at 6pm on the CTV News in Ottawa. The Iggy Heard ‘Round The World: https://youtu.be/_tvesS328vI (https://youtu.be/_tvesS328vI) Check out the brand new Tall Can Audio 1000 playlist featuring songs associated with the show as we approach our 1000th episode. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/tall-can-audio-1000/pl.u-pZ2ETYAq6vy (https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/tall-can-audio-1000/pl.u-pZ2ETYAq6vy) Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rZG14zZDmm70onDkGrv2a?si=yeSwQIUXTaW2XfUPUY50_w (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2rZG14zZDmm70onDkGrv2a?si=yeSwQIUXTaW2XfUPUY50_w) Follow TCA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tallcanaudio (https://twitter.com/tallcanaudio) Follow TCA on Instagram: https://instagram.com/tallcanaudio?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= (https://instagram.com/tallcanaudio?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) Follow TCA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tallcanaudio (https://www.facebook.com/tallcanaudio) Stuff We're Digging Right Now The Tragically Hip: Live At The Roxy https://amzn.to/3yvC1jL (https://amzn.to/3yvC1jL) Hearts On Fire - Six Years That Changed Canadian Music. https://amzn.to/3yvrCEG (https://amzn.to/3yvrCEG) From our pal Mike Commito: Hockey 365 - Daily Stories From The Ice. https://amzn.to/3nDyWaY (https://amzn.to/3nDyWaY) Hockey 365: The 2nd Period. More Daily Stories From The Ice. https://amzn.to/3Aqc8Dk (https://amzn.to/3Aqc8Dk) Mentioned in this episode: TCA 1000! Don't forget that the thousandth episode of Tall Can Audio podcast will drop Monday August 8th. Matty Laing, Michaela Schreiter, Rob Christy and Matt Robinson will all be in the TCA Studio together for the very first time. Don't miss it! https://www.tallcanaudio.com/subscribe (Subscribe To Tall Can Audio)

Ruben Gonzalez is a four-time Winter Olympian, who can not ski or skate. He was never a gifted athlete. He didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Against all odds, four years later he was competing in the Winter Olympics. At the age of 47 he was competing against 20-year-olds in the Vancouver Olympics. At 55, after a seven year break, he became the oldest person to compete internationally in the sport of luge. Ruben Gonzaleztakes people's excuses away. He's proof ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things if they will follow a few simple steps. What We Discussed With Ruben Gonzalez: How he went last person picked for sport in school to being the first person to compete in 4 Winter Olympics. . . in four consecutive decades Why in each of the 4 Olympics he competed in had completely different motivations. . . The difference between an Olympian and an Olympian Tourist . . . How Rubenqualified for his 5th Olympics in 5 decades . . . yet Covid and Visa red tape,ruined that dream . . . and much more . . .   When you like this Podcast, kindly leave us a review here. . . even a few words help. When you have enjoyed this episode and you want to know more about Ruben Gonzalez. . . check him out on Facebook, and take a look at his website. https://www.facebook.com/thelugemanhttps://ruben-gonzalez.com/    

THE "CURLING AS A KID & BEYOND!" SERIES: Episode #6This episode is part of a series where I interview current and former competitive curlers to find out how they grew to love the sport of curling as a young person. In addition, I'll ask some of them what it's like to coach young people. And, in other cases, I'll ask them what it's like having their own children in the sport.Johnson Tao is a silver medallist at the 2022 Canadian U21 Curling Championships. He also curls for the University of Alberta and is one of the winners of the 2021 “For The Love Of Curling” Scholarships given out by Curling Canada. In this interview, we talk about how he attended the Vancouver Olympics at age 7 and how that sparked his interest in curling. We talk about how he coached his own high school team in Richmond, B.C. Then we talk about what it means to be a competitive curler who is also Chinese-Canadian.Some of the topics we discuss:* How watching the curling at Vancouver 2010 led to him joining a junior curling program (3:57)* The first time he visited a curling club (5:28)* What was it about the sport that he enjoyed? (7:56)* His first competitive team (10:44)* Coaching his high school team (13:27)* How he was recruited to the University of Alberta (17:15)* What does a "typical curler" look like? (22:20)* How to get more BIPOC curlers into clubs (24:20)* Johnson's "curling idol" (27:28)* RAPID-FIRE QUESTION SECTION (28:36) including Mother's Day greeting (33:01)* Johnson's new hobby (33:33)* THE BIG QUESTION: How do we get kids to fall in love with the sport of curling and stay with it for the long-term? (34:18)Links to the resources mentioned in this episode:Richmond (B.C.) Curling Club Web sitehttps://richmondcurling.com/University of Alberta Varsity Curlinghttps://bearsandpandas.ca/sports/curlingVancouver Curling Club Web sitehttps://vancurl.com/"Fiesta" by IZ*ONE Music Videohttps://youtu.be/eDEFolvLn0AJohnson's IG: @jtaotaotaoTeam Tao IG & FB: @TeamTaoJohnson's E-mail Address: jtao0747@gmail.comFollow our podcast on Twitter: @kidscurlingGlenn Gabriel is an NCCP-certified curling coach who lives in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has been the coordinator of the Little Rocks (U12) program at East York Curling Club in Toronto since 2011. If you have a question or feedback on the podcast, send us an e-mail at coachingkidscurling@gmail.comThe intro and outro music is "Golden Sunrise (Instrumental Version)"https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunriseBy Josh Woodwardhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_WoodwardLicensed under CC BY 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Everyone has the ability to achieve their dreams.Having the courage to start, the courage to endure and finding someone to follow is all you need! This week's guest, 4 time Olympian, Ruben Gonzalez shares his journey from last one picked in PE to competing in the Olympics across 4 decades, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and running with the bulls in Pamplona! He shares how important it is to find the right mentor, how visualization helped him to succeed in his sport and so many inspiring one liners!    In this episode we chat about: Finding resilience & perseverance. Letting go of control in order to succeed.  Ruben's strategy of “follow the leader”. How to find the right mentor. How to correctly use visualization. The importance of creating a culture in business.   And so much more!   Ruben Gonzalez is a common man who achieved extraordinary things. He wasn't a gifted athlete. In school he was always the last kid picked to play sports. He didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Four years and a few broken bones later, Ruben was competing in the Calgary Winter Olympics. When he competed at the Vancouver Olympics at the age of 47, Ruben became the first person to ever compete in four Winter Olympics each in a different decade.    Since 2002 Ruben has spoken for over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies. He's considered one of the top motivational and inspirational speakers in America. His bestselling books have sold over 300,000 copies and have been translated to over 10 languages.    His incredible story takes people's excuses away and fills them with the belief and inspiration to face their challenges and fight for their goals and dreams.   Connect with Ruben!   TheLugeMan.com https://www.facebook.com/thelugeman https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruben-gonzalez-olympian/   & check out his Ted Talk FollowTheLeaderTEDTalk.com        Are you looking for an all-in-one affordable hosting platform? Try NewZenler!  Paula says, “This all-in-one platform has all the features you need to get started with your website, including blogging tools and easy to build funnels - plus create and sell online courses. No more trying to link everything together. And with super affordable pricing - it's a no brainer for entrepreneurs who want to keep their expenses low while staying visible!” Click here below to join today!   Check out Paula's recommended resources  HERE!   If you're interested in working with Paula, send her an email paula@thecourageblueprint.com   Continue the conversation by joining my private Facebook group “I am Becoming…” here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/befearlesswithpaula   Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/be__fearless_with_paula/ Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/befearlesswithpaula/   Don't forget to rate and review The Confidence Sessions and please subscribe if you like what you heard! https://www.thecourageblueprint.com/podcast Timestamps:   (02:18) Ruben shares his journey from “slow poke” to 4 time Olympian after learning resilience & perseverance from biographical books. (06:37) Ruben's strategy of “follow the leader” to let go of control and follow your goal in all sectors. (14:34) How to find the right mentor. (18:28) How Ruben learned visualization to create huge success. Feeling audiogram (22:04) Ruben was drawn to the spirit of Olympic athletes, their resilience to learn their skills. (23:30) “The Courage to Succeed”, Ruben's first book. Courage to get started and to endure (27:47) Moving away from numbers and finding the vehicle to your dreams. (30:40) Why you need to slow down, to get better results. (34:02) Creating the correct culture as a mentor and a leader. (37:35) Ruben's journey to the Ted Talk stage.  (41:57) Ruben's parting questions to remind you of your dreams.

Our Great Coach on this show is Rodger Schmidt. Rodger is a former a Curling champion and now coach. He was the European men's curling champion in 1985 and two-time German men's curling champion in 1987 and 1992. In 1994 he founded the "Rodger Schmidt Curling Academy" based in Switzerland. From this base he has coached at 5 Olympics and multiple World championships, leading the National teams of 8 nations including Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Russia and the USA. He is also the author of the definitive book on Curling coaching; The five elements of curling technique which was published in 2011. Rodger has coached all over the world and so has a broad perspective on the dynamics of teams and human behaviour. He believes that there is more that unites us than separates us; and that fundamentally good habits make good teams, and also help the individual build the self-belief needed to clear your mind and focus on the execution of the required skills. He sees the inter-connectedness of our actions, and how we transfer energy from one moment to the next through the way we chose to think and move. He is quiet, under stated and conscious of the need to keep a certain distance from his athletes so they can work effectively together, but not be so close that the athletes efforts are mis-directed into pleasing him. I found this interview to be just as graceful as the actual sport of curling, and some of the key parts for me were: His focus on building deep seated self-belief in his teams so that they take to the ice confident that they are going to win every single time. His desire for all athletes to actually have a big ego, and to use it for the benefit of the team, and the slogan Wego, that he uses to illustrate this. His experience of failure at the Vancouver Olympics and how this shaped his philosophy of ensuring athletes can perform multiple roles within the team. And The importance of routines and mental keys to ensure your that you don't over think when you are under stress. This was an insightful conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at thegreatcoachespodcast@gmail.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com

Now that Erin O'Toole has been removed from his role as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and an interim leader has been put in place, who would the Liberals want to take the helm of the federal Conservatives? Guest: Stephen LeDrew, Political Commentator; Host, The LeDrew Three Minute Interview; Former President, Liberal Party of Canada - Brian Flores, former head coach of the Miami Dolphins, has had a lawsuit filed against the NFL and teams for what will certainly be a landmark case. What has happened so far and where can we expect to see things go? Guest: Will Russell, Lawyer, Sport Law - Award-winning musician Alan Frew will be performing at a benefits concert here in Hamilton and Scott caught up with him to talk about this event, his experience as a rock star, writing the hit song "I Believe" which was played all the time during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and more. Guest: Alan Frew, Award-Winning Musician & Songwriter - The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee list has been released and despite the fact that "rock & roll" is in its name, this year's list follows the trend of having some big snubs coupled with some people who play music that probably wouldn't be described as "rock & roll". Guest: Eric Alper, Publicist, Music Commentator & Shameless Idealist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Four-time Olympian Ruben Gonzalez will share what he had to do to make it to the Olympics and how you can go from surviving to thriving in this rapidly changing world. Ruben's incredible Olympic Story will inspire, equip and empower you to win. Ruben Gonzalez is a common man who achieved extraordinary things. He wasn't a gifted athlete. In school, he was always the last kid picked to play sports. He didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Four years and a few broken bones later, Ruben was competing in the Calgary Winter Olympics. When he competed at the Vancouver Olympics at the age of 47, Ruben became the first person to ever compete in four Winter Olympics each in a different decade.   Since 2002 Ruben has spoken for over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies. He's considered one of the top motivational and inspirational speakers in America. His bestselling books have sold over 300,000 copies and have been translated to over 10 languages. His incredible story takes people's excuses away and fills them with the belief and inspiration to face their challenges and fight for their goals and dreams. People buy into what Ruben teaches because they can relate to him. Ruben will inspire and equip your people to win.

Jeremy Luke is Senior Director of Sport Integrity at the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport (CCES), the Canadian national anti-doping organization (NADO). He also led the anti-doping program for the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2010. Jeremy joins us in this episode to talk about CCES, discuss how NADO's have been dealing with the pandemic, and share his insights into what it takes to run anti-doping efforts during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Evanka Osmak is best known for her work at Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto. A career in sports television was not part of her initial plan, though...She graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. At 24-years-old it became very clear to her; she wasn't excited about engineering the way she might have been excited at the thought of working in television broadcasting.She completed a broadcasting diploma at Seneca College, worked on-air at JACK-FM in Orillia, Ontario and then made the leap into television taking a morning show opportunity at KYMA in Yuma, Arizona. ​She's been back home in Toronto at Sportsnet ever since 2007 covering everything from the Toronto Blue Jays return to the playoffs in 2015, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and reporting court side at the Rogers Cup.​Catch Evanka weekday evenings on Sportsnet Central along with her co-anchor, Ken Reid and find out more about her work below. Make sure to check out her podcast, Moms in the Middle, too!https://www.sportsnet.ca/author/evanka-osmak/https://www.evankaosmak.com/about-mehttps://www.instagram.com/evankaosmakhttps://twitter.com/evankaosmak

Our talk today will be about the nonprofit LoveYourBrain. I wish everyone, and especially cyclists, knew about LoveYourBrain and its fantastic support of the traumatic brain injured…but they don't…at least not yet. While I had heard of LoveYourBrain through a friend of mine who was hit by a car while riding his bike in the mountains of Colorado, I didn't really understand how important it was until now. Resilience won’t make your problems go away … but resilience will help you see past your problems, find enjoyment in life and handle the stresses of life. About LoveYourBrain: LoveYourBrain (LYB) is a non-profit that improves the quality of life of people affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI) and raises awareness about the importance of brain health. LYB’s evidence-based programs and resources are designed to create community, foster resilience, and help people understand the importance of loving your brain. Guided by their family's experience, brothers Kevin and Adam Pearce established LYB following Kevin's severe TBI from a snowboarding accident prior to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Kevin's remarkable resilience was documented and transformed into the award winning HBO Documentary, “The Crash Reel,” which brought to light the experience of TBIs. Why this matters Isolation, unemployment, failed relationships, and suicidal ideation is reality for the brain injured. And since brain injury is often invisible, affected people are misunderstood and often poorly served by the standard medical system. LoveYourBrain website: https://www.loveyourbrain.com/ For today’s podcast, I am joined by 3 people who have had deep personal connection to brain injury as well as to LoveYourBrain. We're going to hear about their journeys, AND the story of LoveYourBrain, we will also find out how any of us can benefit from the resources provided by LoveYourBrain should we need it, and how we can help the LoveYourBrain team to continue doing their good works. My guests today are: Adam Pearce, who is the co-Founder and Executive Director of LoveYourBrain. David Adler, who is a business leader and an avid cyclists and skier. In 2013, he was hit by a car while riding his bike….leaving him with more than 20 broken bones, two collapsed lungs and a TBI. Brett Tivers who is a high school sports coordinator and teacher now in New Zealand, but was a professional cyclist, and winner of the 2011 Tour of Battenkill in NY. In 2012, while racing in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Brett crashed at 38 mph and was knocked unconscious, resulting in a brain injury which ended his professional cycling career. Virtual Ride for Resilience info: Landing page link: https://www.loveyourbrain.com/ride-for-resilience Participant Guide link:

This week, Dan, Morg, and Devon make a quick trip to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, do some skiing, and discuss the tragedy of Waluigi THIS WEEK: Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (DS) NEXT WEEK: Sonic X episodes 7 and 8 Dan | Morg | Devon Twitter | Discord

There's a lot happening at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks. With new trails designed by John Morton and programs sanctioned by both USA Nordic and U.S. Biathlon, the future looks bright for athletes looking for a training base. To learn what's afoot in the Adirondacks, we speak with John Morgan, a former National Team bobsledder who is overseeing the program at Paul Smith's; Tim Burke, who's competed in four Olympic Winter Games and is the director of athlete development for U.S. Biathlon; and Bill Demong, Vermontville, New York's five-time Olympian who won a gold medal in Nordic combined at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and serves as executive director of USA Nordic. This episode of the Cross Country Skier Podcast is possible thanks to the support of Hotel Saranac. It's also possible thanks to support from our listeners—if you like what you hear and would like to hear more, please make a contribution.

Would you support this? Melissa De Genova presented the motion to council, and tells us why.

Born in Moscow Russia, while his Cuban parents worked for the Cuban Embassy during the reign of the USSR, Ulises grew up between his family home in Havana, Cuba and Moscow, Russia. In 2008 he immigrated to Vancouver, Canada where he had his first bartending job at the Russian House VIP bar during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He has since moved to Ontario and settled in Stratford, Ontario where he worked behind various local bars and in 2017 became the Head Bartender & Bar Manager of 21 Fir Whiskey Bar & Kitchen in Waterloo where he has remained since. Ulises has taken numerous courses in the bar and spirits realm. These include the Bar Chef International certification, WSET level 1, 2 & 3 in wine and WSET level 1 & 2 in spirits. He is a member of a local sommelier tasting group as well as being listed in the Bartender's Atlas. Ulises has competed in and judged the KW Collective Cocktail competition and was awarded the top prize in Sep 2018. Instagram:@superuli81 Podcast Artwork @zak.hannah

This is the first “beta” podcast for Marketing BS. I would love your feedback as I refine the interviews and the production quality. These interviews are all in two-parts. Part I covers the CMO's career - how they got their first head of marketing role, and how they have pushed their career from there. In Part II we dive into one specific business they have overseen to talk about growth levers.Transcript below:Edward: My guest today is Jason Goldlist. Today's episode dives into his career. How he got his first CMO role and beyond. University of New Brunswick, McKinsey, INSEAD, A Place for Mom operations, and then Strategy, and then Head of Marketing at Wealthsimple. Today's co-founder of TechToronto or TechTo, among other things.  Jason, we know each other quite well, but I don't think I know the story of how you got your first Head of Marketing role at Wealthsimple. I know you're working for me at APFM leading strategy, you've done some work on television, but how did you get a marketing offer to run the whole thing?Jason: Well, thanks for having me, Ed. I do owe a lot of my success as a marketer to you. You have been a manager and also a mentor to me over the course of my career. Quite a self-serving question, Ed, because the answer is going to be due to your guidance. But it comes down also to the people that I've met along the way. You mentioned McKinsey in my biography. I did start my career there and I had the opportunity to meet a lot of incredible people that have served me well over the course of my career. One of those happened to be the founder of a Canadian fintech startup called Wealthsimple. As I was working with you in Seattle, A Place for Mom, I wanted to make that transition back to Toronto, back to Canada where I'm from. I reached out to some contacts, including Mike, the founder of Wealthsimple, and told him I was coming back, and he was excited to share with me that he was looking for someone to lead marketing there. It just happened that the relationship that we'd had over many years at that point, it was a good fit for me to come on board and give it a go.Edward: Were they looking at any other people or just your personal relationship was what got you the job?Jason: At the time, they actually had an original marketer who joined the team, and that marketer didn't really have that third way about him. It was more of a traditional marketer who had come from a larger organization and didn't have that scrappy, thoughtful, counterintuitive thinking that the team really wanted. They did get rid of the first marketer and were looking for someone else. They had started a search and in fact, if I remember correctly, Mike's original way of finding me was to ask me if I had any referrals for him. He said, "Hey, we're looking for a marketer," and then he described someone that sounded a lot like me and maybe looked a lot like me and had a lot of my experience, and I said, "Oh, sounds really cool. Let me think about a couple ideas for you and then I'll bring them back to you." Then a few weeks later, we sat down and said, "Okay, I've got a couple of names for you." He goes, "Oh, yeah. I don't really want those names. I was hoping that it will be you."Edward: Obviously, he wanted you. He knew you and he trusted you. Why put you in a marketing role and not in a strategy or an operations role where you arguably had more experience?Jason: There's something that I've read from you, Ed, and that is marketing is everything. When the best leaders, the best founders are putting together their leadership teams, I think they recognize that. So my background is a little eclectic. I have done work in strategy, I have done work in operations, I have done work in product, I have done work in marketing, and especially for an early-stage company that had really big ambitions, more so than usual (I think) you had to pitch in and do everything.I think Mike recognized that was a good background for him and for what the company needed at the time and was something that I was more than eager to do, which was more than AdWords analytics, but actually anything that the company needed to grow and be successful.Edward: It was almost less of a marketing role and more of a ‘grow the business anyway you can' role.Jason: Sure. I would argue that when it comes to an early stage company, in that time the company was 10 people. It had raised under $2 million Canadian in funding, had a couple of hundred consumer clients, and had its sights set on being what it is today and beyond, which is the leading fintech company in Canada with over a million Canadians as clients, managing billions and billions of dollars with the team of over 300 people. We needed to grow. I would argue that it's actually everybody's responsibility in an organization to grow. The marketer is maybe just the one that's watching the metrics every day and making sure that all the activities that everyone's working on are adding up to the growth that we want to see of the company.Edward: You have that job, the job you came in on for a little less than 18 months before you were promoted to GM. How did your job change post the promotion? Or did it?Jason: It did change a lot and I think it changed more so with the growth of the company than it did with necessarily the kind of work that we're doing in marketing or in general management. I think what's really neat about joining a fast-growing company is that there are so many opportunities everywhere to contribute and to get impact. Something that I learned working with you is that it's much more fun to have 800% growth than just to have a 0.8% growth. Even though there are many opportunities where maybe working at one of the world's largest companies, 0.8% growth can represent a lot more dollar value than 800% growth. But in terms of a fast-growing startup, when there's that kind of growth and that kind of excitement, there's a lot of opportunity for impact. The kind of things that I would work on started at (I would say) traditional early stage startup channels, like how do we get earned media? How do we find our communities online that want to be early adopters of our technology? How do we go participate at local events and win customers one by one? That ended up turning really quickly into what new products do we need to introduce to keep our growth, sustain, and accelerate it? What are our customers telling us that we need to build and fix? As an example, what are the other skills we need to add to the team to grow and deliver the brand on the product promise that we've delivered with our brand?Edward: I want to go back a little bit. I want to talk about the path that got you to the place where you got that offer. I have a theory that the things people do when they're in junior high school ended up affecting them their whole lives. Let's go back to that time when you were in junior high. What were you passionate about back then?Jason: It's funny you mention it. When I think about my junior high experience, I was not super studious. I was not booksmart in junior high. I was the kid who was hustling his classmates in the hallways to buy from his latest venture. I remember one of the things that I built in junior high was, you'd call it today a direct-to-consumer clothing brand. Then, I just called it ugly wear and I sold very ugly sweatshirts to my friends at school. I had a paper order form that they would use to customize. I found in the Yellow Pages, a tailor that would come and actually stitch custom logos onto the blanks that I would buy in Chinatown. I think the total cost of one of my items was like $50, which was a fortune for a junior high sweatshirt, and I probably sold it at $51 or something.Edward: Why did you do that? Did you need that dollar that you're making? I can't imagine that was the motivation. What was the motivation?Jason: I thought it was cool and I think that's driven a lot of the things that I've done in my career is that I find it interesting and I want to learn more about how it's done. At the time, I think the core insight to me was everyone's wearing the same clothes, everyone's looking the same. There's got to be a way to express your personality more. Why can't we order custom clothing? That just turned into a bit of a self-directed research project to figure out how it could be done. Then once it was done, how to let others do it as well.Edward: What broader elements did you learn? You learned obviously how to make a sweatshirt. Did you learn anything that was more broad than that?Jason: I think that's one of the earliest examples that I can remember of something I kind of live my life by now, which is GTD. How do you get things done? And how do you ship product? How do you make decisions? And how do you not necessarily delegate and outsource things, but just go and do it yourself? I think that was a really important learning that I had from doing that. It wasn't like there was a turnkey provider who did it. It was every step of the way thinking through the process, finding out how these things get done in the real world, and then going out, getting driven around by your mom to go and do it.Edward: You outsource nothing except for the driving of the car? Jason: You know what? I wish we had more lax driver regulations here in Canada. I could have done it myself then. Maybe I would have Uber'd if that was around back then.Edward: Jumping ahead to your university experience. Who's unusual? Tell me a little bit about where you went to college and how that happened.Jason: Part of it is because it was cool, I think applies here, too. A part of that is also sort of thinking against the grain. For me, a lot of my classmates in high school were all going to the same colleges and studying the same things. I had been successful or interested in things that ran against the grain a little bit.I wanted to do something different and I found that at a small college in the Maritimes in Eastern Canada called the University of Brunswick, where they had a 20-person program that focused on interdisciplinary studies.It was a philosophy degree that helped you think about the world and instead of putting you in a large auditorium and giving you a multiple choice test, they sat 20 people around a piano in an old Victorian home and had discussions with the different deans of the faculties. You were sort of ranked and rated based on learning outcomes. There were no numbers involved or attached. It was really about the impact of your thinking, the quality of your discourse, how you interacted and pushed the thinking forward together with your classmates.Edward: How did you come out different from that experience than when you went in?Jason: They talked about different types of programs. One that accepts great people, there's no transformation, and they come out the same. Of course, you have the stamp of approval from the program. You've got all other programs that bring in certain people and then transform them into something different.I do think that this one was a transformational program. For me coming into it, I think I lacked perspective on how powerful those skills would be. I think I've still thought that perhaps you needed a high score in math to be successful or you needed to study engineering to know how the world works. I think what happened is when I came out of that program, I learned really the way that we interact with each other, the way that we solve problems together, and it's not just about what you know, but how to learn and how to know is more important.Edward: Do you think that your career and the kind of the rest of your life would have been different if you'd taken a different route if you'd gone to the University of Toronto? How would things have been different for the rest of your career?Jason: I think it would have been really different, actually. The reason is that I think that in any other program, if I hadn't gone against the crowd, I think I would have fallen in with the crowd. I think I would have thought the same way. I think I would have studied the same things. I think I would have coveted the same graduate roles as everybody else. By striking a little bit of an alternative path for the time, it let me think in a different way and question myself, just because other people are doing it, do I need to as well?I'll give you a great example. A very common path for people from my high school was to go in, do a college degree, go straight to a law program and practice law. Very common path for my friends, one that most of my peer group did, and those are higher-earning jobs. Those are people who have comfortable lifestyles and are able to provide for their families very well. For me, that wasn't interesting, and I think if I hadn't made that choice, I think I would have fallen into that path. For me, instead, coming out of that program, I was really interested in the world. Part of the program included sort of a domestic internship anywhere in Canada and an international internship anywhere in the world. Through my program, I was exposed to all sorts of different things. Having gone to the West Coast for an internship, a marketing internship, and then gone actually overseas, going to Switzerland and spending a summer there. I was curious about the world in a way that was different and I wanted an opportunity not to go to law school after I graduated, but to learn more about how the world worked.Edward: And yet, your first job after college was at McKinsey, which many people would argue is the epitome of the traditional path for high-performing young people.Jason: It's funny looking back at it now. It certainly looks the case and I have to agree with you. At the time, I had no idea what McKinsey was and I have to say, my family, my friends, my peer group, my school, for God's sake, do not know what McKinsey is. I did not go to a feeder school where there was on campus recruiting. I had never even heard of it. In fact, the way that I discovered it is also quite interesting. I was doing an internship in Ottawa after I graduated and I just struck up a random conversation with someone in the community and had mentioned to them that I did that internship in Switzerland. He said, "You know what? You remind me of my nephew who's actually working in Switzerland right now for a company called McKinsey. You guys should connect." In fact, I made that email to Rob Charon, who was in fact, finishing his second year as a business analyst in the Toronto office of McKinsey. He encouraged me to learn more about it and apply, helped me with the interview process, and helped me find that job.Edward: If you'd gone to University of Toronto, do you think you would have ended up McKinsey anyway, maybe even without doing the internship in between?Jason: Certainly not. I think I would have been on the path. I think I would have kept the blinders on, put my head down, and ended up following the path to the world of law or something like that.Edward: Okay, let's play another what if. Now you're at McKinsey. You don't have that lunch, and you don't find out about Rob Charron and the opportunity, and you don't go to McKinsey. What happens instead? What does your career path look like for that alternate Jason?Jason: We can play it out a few years. That could be fun. I do think I would go to law school. I do think I would start a job at a law firm. I do think that I would practice law, try to become a partner. I think that's the game that people try to play. I think that's a six- or eight-year game, which is kind of fun. Probably sometime along the way I become disillusioned with the art or the practice of law, and maybe I would feel the fallacy of sunk costs so strongly that I would leave private practice, just go in-house at a company, and keep practicing law in-house. I think it'd be sad. I think lawyers are sad.Edward: Do you think you end up being the in-house counsel for Wealthsimple?Jason: Certainly not, and the reason I say that is because the fiduciary responsibility of being the in-house counsel of a disruptive finance company is not something I want to take on, and I can't imagine that my career path would have led me to be intimately familiar with the capital market legislation in Canada. I don't think I could find that interesting. Even though we've played this what-if game where I've gone against my natural curiosity, I do think that would kick in at some point along this career path and prevent me from doing something like that.Edward: You come out of McKinsey and instead of going directly to business school, you work for the Vancouver Olympics. How many McKinsey people were you working with there?Jason: It was none when I started, but one of the cool things about working for an organizing committee (the Olympics) is that I think I joined as employee number 900 and something. By the peak of the games, I think there were 70,000 employees, contractors, and volunteers working for the games. So you need to scale up quite quickly. I think all that happens in the span of six or nine months. I had the opportunity to hire some great people to join my team, but on the other hand, it's not a professionally-managed business, for example, like the one that we joined later afterwards and A Place for Mom.Edward: What did you learn when you're at the Olympics that you wouldn't have learned if you'd done a more traditional post-McKinsey role?Jason: It's a good question because I think this goes back to part of the career arc here, which is after McKinsey, there is also a defined path that lots of people do that I also avoided at the time. It was very fashionable to go and spend a year or two at a private equity firm or a hedge fund before going to business school and coming back to the firm. For me, that also didn't sound interesting and I wanted to try something different. One of the things that I thought I had been missing from my McKinsey experience, even though I had managed teams of clients, is that I hadn't had a direct management role at McKinsey. As an analyst, I was doing tons of maybe big data insights, creating lots of decks, and trying to come up with strategic recommendations, but I hadn't really managed the team. I thought it would be cool to add that weapon to the repertoire and manage a big team. I think at the peak I was managing a hundred paid staff and volunteers to run the operations at the Games. That was the path that I took. I also thought it would be cool to be part of the Olympics. I mean, the Olympics don't come to your home country all the time. The timing had worked out and I thought it'd be really interesting to take a peek inside of that organization.Edward: Now, post-McKinsey, I hired you to come to A Place for Mom. This was the job you had before your CMO role. Why did you come work for me and what else could you have done instead?Jason: Actually, in between there. I did do my MBA in INSEAD, so that opens up a lot of job opportunities. There's a huge on-campus recruiting push. There are all sorts of post-MBA opportunities that open themselves up to you. But I think there was a transformation that I had there where before I had been guided by what I thought was cool.I thought clothing was cool. I thought that doing the small program was cool and interesting. I thought doing the Olympics was cool. I thought seeing the world with McKinsey would be cool. There was a bit of a transformation I underwent during my MBA, which was seeing a lot of other ambitious people that also thought some of those same things were cool.One of the defining factors for me of something being cool was that not a lot of people want it. It made me reflect a little bit more on what I wanted to do next and the reflection led me to this new insight, which is awesome people are cool. Instead of chasing industry, instead of chasing a brand, instead of chasing experience, how can I chase great people that I could work with who would care about me, who would invest in me, who would believe in me to take on more responsibility and grow? I made a list of people who had worked with before who I thought fit the bill and I guess you were just the first person to pick up when I called you. You told me there was a great opportunity and I think I said yes before I even asked who it was, or where it was, or what we were going to do. I just was excited about the opportunity to work with someone awesome.Edward: A lot of your career looks like jumping from success to success and sometimes fairly randomly where opportunities kind of happen and you jump at them. What were the biggest failure points in your career? Where did things not go as expected?Jason: It's not always up into the right in the sense that if you wanted to use a traditional measure like salary. I certainly made much more at McKinsey than I made at the Olympics. That was a major step backwards, for example.Edward: I wouldn't call it a failure, though. Where did the failures happen? Where did things happen that at the time at least you did not expect and did not want?Jason: The human mind is probably really good at erasing a lot of those things to be consistent with your story. But there's no doubt that at each one of those points, there are things that you want specifically, like local maxima that you're optimizing for, that you don't get.You can imagine at a firm like McKinsey, there are lots of different projects to work on. I'm certain there are projects that I wanted that I didn't get, and even worse, projects that I had that I hated, and ones where I wasn't working with great people or didn't feel like I was, and it was a slog every day to learn, to try to be productive, to try to even just be happy. It's the same also at the organizing committee for the Olympics. This was sometimes tedious and not exciting work. I can remember a time where I tried to make it better. I tried to apply some of the insights I had from McKinsey to some of the processes at the Olympics. After spending weeks building this macro model in Excel to help all of the volunteers get their preferred time spots on a 24 hour calendar for 77 days, I was told that I couldn't use it. I was like, what? All that time and effort that I put into what I thought, improving the process, making it more efficient, making it more effective was sort of all wasted.I had maybe some dreams or delusions of grandeur of this product that I built, sort of being rolled out across the entire organization and maybe it would be like a legacy of the organizing committee to be passed on to the next organizing committee, the next one, and there it ended with me using it by myself.Edward: When you left Wealthsimple, you did not move on to a new marketing role. What was your plan for what to do next and where did you end up at?Jason: It's similar to the transformation that I had at business school, which was driven by a lot of reflection and seeing sort of people around me be successful in their own career paths. I think I got the chance to do that a lot again at Wealthsimple, which is to think about the people that inspired me, the people that I looked up to, see their career paths and where they were going, and see which parts of those I wanted to take for myself and which ones I wanted to leave behind. I certainly saw lots of people continue on the marketing path, chase another CMO role or level up to a bigger brand with more spending, maybe one with more followers on Instagram, or maybe one that gets treated better by Google or Facebook because of their annual ad budget. That wasn't an interesting challenge for me. The people that I looked up to, they had taken marketing skills and they had created something entirely new. I think I got pulled into more of an entrepreneurship track and thinking, how can I take some of the skills that I have and apply it to something new and different, together with the people that I want to be building with.Edward: What's next for you?Jason: We are starting all over again. If you think about my career progression, I started at a really big firm, then I went to a smaller organization. I went to an even tinier organization, then I went to a 10-person startup. I think I finally—like Benjamin Button—gotten back down to being born and starting with just myself.What's next for me is building a software business in a sustainable way that's going to help really change the way that people meet each other, that people learn together, and that people grow as one and I'm really excited about it.Edward: That's great. Well, thank you, sir. We'll continue this conversation in part two, digging into Jason's experience at Wealthsimple. This is a public episode. 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Do you want to see the winter games make a return to Vancouver?  The chances of it are apparently a lot more realistic than you think. Bob Mackin joined us in studio.  He wrote a book about the Vancouver Olympics, and covered the 2010 games extensively.

He wasn't a gifted athlete. He didn't take up the sport of luge until he was 21. Against all odds, four years later he was competing in the Winter Olympics. At the age of 47, he was competing against 20-year-olds in the Vancouver Olympics. At 55, after a seven-year break, he's back on the International Luge Circuit on a quest to become the oldest person to ever compete in the Winter Olympics in Beijing 2022. He takes people's excuses away. He's proof that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things if they will follow a few simple steps.

Hey guys! It is Aiko with Schwagirl. I am an American English pronunciation coach. Welcome to my podcast "The Voice of English" Season 2. Season 2 focuses more on communication. In each episode, I bring a guest and he/she will give us tips to become a better communicator as a person who speaks English as a second language. In Episode 24, I invited RiRia who is an actor and musician based in Los Angeles. RiRia is a multi international award winning flutist who is originally from Tokyo, Japan. Her recording was used at Vancouver Olympics by its silver medal winning figure skater, Mao Asada. She moved to Los Angeles on her own, when she was 17 years old to further pursue her career in performing. In 2019, she dropped her debut single as a producer and singer songwriter “I Think I Like That” which she sings and raps in English and Japanese. RiRia's Social Media Link: Instagram @RiRiaOfficial Facebook @RiRiaOfficial "I Think I Like That" ft. RiRia https://soundcloud.com/musicbyhustla/i-think-i-like-that-ft-riria Here are my notes Fake it till you make it! Try to spend time with native speakers to learn English effectively If you would like to act in Hollywood, learn pronunciation as much as possible In the US, being too humble may not work well. Say "I can do it" when you are still semi-good at it. Enjoy the episode! If you have any questions regarding English learning or pronunciation, living in the US, working in the US, or if you would like to be a guest on this show, please contact me through http://schwagirl.com/contact You can download each episode from this link: http://thevoiceofenglish.libsyn.com/ Support me financially to be able to provide my podcast, youtube videos and FB live for free. Join my patrons on Patreon. You can donate from 1 dollar a month. https://www.patreon.com/schwagirl Don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter If you are interested in learning pronunciation from me, visit http://hatsuonkyosei.com/ for more information. Group courses and private coaching are available as well as online self-study materials.

I remember the first time I heard Anuja Rajendra speak. I thought, I must have her on the podcast. She spoke of being a mother to four, a wife, a businesswoman and that she was running for Michigan State Senate. And I thought, "Oh yes you are!" Fast forward several months, I received a mailer about Anuja Rajendra running for Michigan State Senate. I reached out and you get to hear our conversation. As the daughter of immigrants, a mother, a small business owner, and an activist, Anuja Rajendra's unique life experiences speak to the fabric of Washtenaw County's vibrant community. She's a problem-solver and she will bring a fresh voice to the Michigan State Senate. Her father came to Michigan from India with little other than a dream of a better life for their family in 1970. He earned his PhD from Michigan State University and worked as an engineer. Her mother was a schoolteacher in India and later stayed home with her three children.  She was the first in her family to be born in America. But her parents struggled to make ends meet — something that many working families still know all too well today. So her grandparents cared for her in India for several years and she returned to Michigan at age six. She has enormous gratitude for what this great state and country offered to her family. That's why this was the only place she wanted to raise my children. She grew up in Okemos and graduated from public schools there. She was the vice-president of the local chapter of Young Democrats. She went on to earn both an engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she played rugby. Anuja's husband, Vijay Sankaran, was from New Jersey, but she convinced him to move to Michigan. They have lived in Ann Arbor for over two decades. They are the parents of two sons and two daughters we adopted after they were abandoned at a train station in India. Her children certainly provided her with plenty of material when she wrote the “Mom” column for The Ann. In her career in both the private and non-profit sectors and as a volunteer and activist, she has tried to help nurture diverse communities. It has always been important to her to build spaces where people of all ages, races, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and genders have come together to find common ground and raise each other up. Many people in Michigan and across the country are deeply frightened right now. The basic rights of women, LGBTQ folks, and people of color are under attack from the president, Congress, and our state government. Immigrants and refugees now live in fear that they or their loved ones will be hauled away and sent back to war-torn countries. But even in these trying times, there is hope. It has brought out the best in people. She saw that when she took her eight-year-old son to the Women's March in Washington, D.C. in January 2017. She saw that fighting to keep our kids safe as a member of Washtenaw County's Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.   And that's why, like so many women and people of color, Anuja was inspired to run for office for the first time in 2018. We need progressive, diverse, and inclusive leadership in state government. Washtenaw County should lead by example. In the State Senate, she won't be afraid to make bold decisions. Her first bill will be banning most concealed weapons in Michigan. It's time for progressives to stop playing defense on issues and stand up for our values. One of my core beliefs is that everyone must have a seat at the table. As a State Senator, Anuja will focus on inclusion to bridge and heal the diverse communities that make up Washtenaw County. And she will be proud to represent an area that she believes can be a model of progressivism, innovation, and intersectionality for all of Michigan. We all have struggles. Like so many, her parents came here in search of the American Dream. They worked hard so that Anuja and her sisters could go to college and make a difference in the world. Anuja has tried to honor their sacrifice by earning two degrees at U of M, working in the non-profit sector, starting a small business, and raising a family. After the birth of her second child, she had a serious health scare. She was given too many opioids while recovering. This led to heart complications. Instead of nursing her newborn and taking care of her 18-month-old, she fought for her life in the Emergency Room. She was able to slowly recover, but had to have in-home nursing care for months. Fortunately, she never developed an opioid addiction, but this experience gave her an understanding of what far too many families in Michigan are going through. And Anuha was shocked to learn that for all our medical advances, the U.S. still has one of the highest postpartum mortality rates in the world. The rates are even higher for women of color like herself. She could have been one of those statistics. And if her family didn't have good health insurance, she probably would have been. That was a very frightening time for her young family. And it ended up inspiring her to start her business, BollyFit, and focus on a humanistic approach to health and wellness as a way to create a more peaceful world. A decade earlier, she started her first company, Moon-Baked Creations, at age 24. That was just after the untimely death of my sister. The Rachana Rajendra Bird Sanctuary at Michigan State University is named for her in a beautiful tribute. As Anuja was grieving, she decided to help people engage using art as therapy to improve mental health and community connections. She has always tried to emerge from challenges stronger and more determined to help others. After selling her business, she decided to pursue an MBA at U of M's Ross School of Business. She established herself as a student leader, serving as president and co-chair of multiple organizations and bringing elite business schools across the country together for a massive food drive. She co-authored a Wharton-published case study on public-private partnerships to help alleviate public health crises. She was honored to be chosen to deliver a commencement speech for her graduating MBA class at Crisler Arena in 2004. She has years of experience working in the business and nonprofit sectors. She was a successful leader at American Power Conversion Corp., a Fortune 500 company, where she created a customer satisfaction program that was implemented nationally. As Development Director for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, she achieved a record-breaking sponsorship rate, expanding not only the base, but the diversity of donors. Anuja feels that her life's work has been to decrease the toxic stress prevalent in society today and improve the lives of people in Michigan, especially underserved and immigrant populations. She has focused on empowering women and children to be healthier mentally and physically, and to realize their untapped potential. She has taken her work one step further by training other men and women so they can improve the health of their own communities. And so in 2007, Anuja started BollyFit, a fitness and dance studio in Ann Arbor. We have mobilized thousands of Michiganders to feel healthier through grassroots community organizing. She also helped Meryl Davis and Charlie White, two Michiganders on Team USA, win a silver medal for ice dancing at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a program that bridged cultures. BollyFit has grown to have a global presence with our empowerment skills training. Anuja has been asked to give speeches about her experiences to several groups, including TEDxDetroit and in a commencement address for Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility.      Learning is a lifelong process and Anuja has always enthusiastically sought out opportunities to expand her knowledge and the efforts of my community. Helping others has always been a top priority for Anuja. She was appointed to the Governor's statewide council on physical fitness and the State of Play task force formed by the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation and Aspen Institute on the health and nutrition of Michigan's youth and underserved populations. In 2015, she received a Congressional Award and was inducted into the Michigan Indian Women's Hall of Fame for my contributions to health and wellness in Michigan. She haas volunteered for many schools, libraries, and community service organizations. She has collaborated with nonprofits, small businesses, and schools, such as Beaumont Hospital, Ann Arbor Active Against ALS, and Mitch Albom's S.A.Y. Clinic, to serve Michigan communities. Anuja is a mentor with Walker's Legacy, assisting women entrepreneurs. She is also an Ambassador for University of Michigan's LEAD Scholars Program to support diversity and people of color. Anuja has been active in progressive and Democratic causes, starting with her time leading the local Young Dems chapter in high school. She has volunteered for Democratic campaigns, including those of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. Working at the grassroots level has always inspired her and she's been proud to organize for groups like Moms Demand Action and the Ann Arbor Advocacy Group. When Anuja decided to run for State Senate in 2018, she was so humbled by the support she received from people from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti and everywhere in between. She knows she is not a household name. She's also not a longtime public official or a party insider. She's a mom, a small businesswoman, and a problem-solver. And she thinks working people and middle-class families in Washtenaw County are looking for change. They want someone who believes our diversity is our greatest strength and in giving everyone a seat at the table. She is running for State Senate because we need a new way and a fresh, inclusive voice. That's what we need in Washtenaw County if we want to make real, meaningful, and progressive change in our state. Anuja believes in the best in people. And she will never give up. That's why she wants to be your State Senator.   To connect with Anuja: * Instagram: @anuja.rajendra * Twitter: @Anuja_Rajendra

Daron Rahlves is the most decorated American male downhill and Super G ski racer. Through World cup wins and a trip to the Vancouver Olympics, Daron's racing career spanned two decades and he still assists the US Olympic Ski team with training and mentoring. During this interview he talks to Cristina about the methods that made him a top competitor, his opinion on the current games in South Korea and how lessons from his sport apply to anyone's life.

Carrie interviews collegiate coach and NBC Olympics commentator Chad Salmela! Chad shares his scientific approach to training and discusses challenges he faces as a coach. They also chat about his breakthrough into NBC Olympics commentary and his role as a husband and father. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Chad Salmela As a junior competitor, Chad was one of the Midwest's top junior cross country ski racers, then switched to the sport of biathlon at age 19. After eight years of competing nationally and internationally as a member of the United States Biathlon Team, he moved directly into the assistant coach position for the U.S. Biathlon Team in 1998, while finishing his college degree at Middlebury College in Vermont. After graduation, Chad built and coached a national junior development program for biathlon, managed the 2002 Olympic Games biathlon competitions in Salt Lake City, served as assistant coach and wax technician for the U.S. junior world championship biathlon team, coached cross country running at the Marshall School in Duluth, and announced ski events across the country and on television. Chad was the biathlon color commentator for NBC's coverage of 2006 Torino Olympics and added cross country skiing and Nordic combined to his duties at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, he was the analyst of the cross country ski events, biathlon and the cross country skiing portion of the Nordic Combined. Chad became a household name for his exciting calls of the action. He began his first season as the head men's and women's cross country coach at St. Scholastica in 2016. Salmela had been the school's men's and women's Nordic ski head coach the previous 10 years. He will also assist with the men's and women's track & field programs. In his 10 seasons coaching CSS skiers, Chad led both the men and the women to Central Collegiate Ski Association (CCSA) Championships in 2015. He coached Paul Schommer to the programs' only All-America honors in 2014. In total, under his tutelage, the Saints had 12 NCAA qualifiers in his 10 seasons, including 10 since 2012. Chad was an assistant under recently retired Coach Steve Pfingsten for the first few years at St. Scholastica and prior to that had a role as a high school running coach. Since then he has spent time consulting several elite and master-elite marathon and distance runners.