Exploring Athlete Development with James Gardiner and Friends

This EP features Strength and Conditioning Coach, and High-Performance Manager with the Canadian Armed Forces, Elliott Richardson.  His background includes experience as an athlete, coach, mentor, educator, presenter, and integrator of disciplines to optimize human performance. 

 Before he transitioned to working with the military population, he spent almost a decade as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Sports Performance Manager with Acadia University. There he oversaw a team of multidisciplinary staff and interns supporting over 300 Varsity athletes across 10 teams. 

 He also built a private business - Acadia Performance Training - that served three functions: serve the community and provincial athletes, generate revenue to support Varsity staffing positions and provide an opportunity for coaches to develop their skills. While at Acadia, he also taught in the school of kinesiology. 

 His coaching career began after a three-year career in the Canadian Football League with Edmonton and Saskatchewan. His goal when transitioning to coaching was to provide athletes with the opportunities that he didn't have growing up and provide mentorship to coaches that he wished he had started. He now lives in Ontario with his wife and three kids. 

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This EP features Nick Jonsson a business leader, author, speaker, podcast host, networking expert, and entrepreneur. His primary mission is empowering individuals to live beyond their wildest dreams through vulnerability and holistic happiness. 

He is the co-founder and Managing Director of Executives' Global Network (EGN). Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia, and Southeast Asia’s largest confidential peer group network providing more than 900 senior executives and business owners a haven to share their challenges, receive support, and learn from each other. 

Nick is deeply passionate about Physical, mental, and emotional health awareness and believes that well-being is crucial for leaders to perform at their best. He has written a bestselling book, "Executive Loneliness: The 5 Pathways to Overcoming Isolation, Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Modern Business World". I know you'll enjoy his journey, there is so much wisdom to unpack.

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This EP features Sam Spinelli a Physical Therapist and strength & conditioning coach with experience coaching individuals from the sick and frail to high-performing Olympic athletes. 

 Sam co-founded Thrive Kelowna in 2021 to help provide the town of Kelowna, BC with high-quality coaching. He’s built multiple businesses in the rehab and fitness space, and he’s currently working on a book to be published towards the end of this year. 

 
Sam is the father of 2 young daughters, and he spends a ton of time with them, getting out and doing sports and activities. He also owns a smoothie bowl restaurant with his wife, and they are currently working on expanding to a food truck.  I trust you'll find some great insights in his journey.

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In this episode, I chat with nutrition expert Jennifer Broxterman. Jennifer is a Registered Dietitian and founder of PROSPER Nutrition Coaching, a world-class nutrition certification for gym owners and coaches.

She's an award-winning Foods & Nutrition University professor, writer for Precision Nutrition, and owns her private practice NutritionRx.

Jen has worked with clients from NHL hockey players and Olympic athletes to everyday folks looking to eat and feel better.

On top of that, she's a stage 3 ovarian cancer survivor who was given less than an 8% chance of living to 5 years, and she self-healed without chemo or radiation. This was an insightful session that brought up many interesting topics beyond nutrition. You can find Jen below:

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In this episode, Alex Dziri and I discuss the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform various industries, including coaching.  AI is here to stay and we must recognize what it can do for us, and how we can employ it to support our work, not eliminate it.  

We emphasized the need for humans to adapt to the changing landscape and collaborate with AI systems while acknowledging the limitations of AI and the potential for it to impact jobs. 

Alex introduced a metaphor to help people think about AI more productively, viewing it as a sort of autistic cousin who is smarter than us, and recognizing that AI has all the answers we need but we need to ask it the right way. 

We also discussed the potential of AI in content creation, emphasizing its role as a collaboration tool rather than a replacement for human writers or artists.  We hope this episode helps you to embrace the use of AI in your work and life, and that it supplies you with some strategies to get started or continue on your journey with Artificial Intelligence. Enjoy!

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This EP features Miles Krol who has been in the wellness industry for over 20 years, first starting as a personal trainer at a young age, and then going on to pursue numerous certifications & internships with many of the industry’s top professionals.

 Miles once weighed close to 300 pounds.  Losing over 120 pounds, his physique transformation motivated him to help other people create their metamorphosis of body, mind, and spirit. 

 At 23 years of age with no business background or experience, Miles opened his private fitness studio called Milesfit. Over the next 12 years, he would build the business from just himself in a basement to a team of 20+ trainers and 30 team members impacting over 3000 clients in Montreal. 

After successfully exiting his business in 2022, and off the back of his own business and marketing success strategies and systems, Miles has been working with gym and therapy clinic owners, and wellness business owners of any kind - helping them grow and scale their physical & digital businesses.  I think you'll enjoy his unique story and perspective. 

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This EP is a conversation with an old friend and colleague, Chad Benson. Chad is the CEO of the Personal Trainer Academy.  He’s been a strength and conditioning coach for almost thirty years now.  

His influence in the world of fitness and human performance is wide and valued.  He's been an innovator in human performance throughout his career and has always desired to share his knowledge and experiences with others.

He is a published author, public speaker, and an accomplished trainer of trainers, and has an educational program he supports online and in person.

He resides in Victoria, B with his wife Joanne, whom he recently married in August of 2023.

In this episode, we discuss shared experiences, and he asks me a few questions too, enjoy!

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This EP features Paul Laursen, a prominent figure in endurance sports, a versatile athlete, coach, scientist, and entrepreneur, encompassing more than three decades of experience. 

His academic career includes over 150 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and the mentorship of more than 20 PhD/Masters students. 

Paul is also the co-author with this colleague Martin Buckheit, of the bestseller "The Science and Application of High-Intensity Interval Training.”, and its education provider HIITScience.com.

On a personal level, Paul has completed over 100 endurance events, including 18 Ironman triathlons. Notably, he has coached accomplished athletes such as Kyle Buckingham and Andi Becherer to triumph in Ironman competitions. 

Driven by a passion for innovation, Paul co-founded Athletica.ai a pioneering training platform that skillfully combines scientific principles with artificial intelligence, including machine learning and numerical optimization. This dynamic platform is rapidly evolving and is set to redefine the future of athletic training. 

He lives in Revelstoke, BC with his wife Alison and their daughter Kaia. 

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This EP features Enda King, the Head of Elite Performance and Development in Aspetar in Doha, Qatar. Enda integrates his roles as a sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and educator in his work with individual athletes and elite teams across various sports and disciplines. He travels internationally to work with athletes and professional clubs. 

In his current role, Enda combines his clinical practice and research work through the use of 3D biomechanics and high-level residential rehabilitation to optimize performance and efficient recovery after injury. 

 He has worked with athletes and consulted for teams across a wide variety of disciplines including rugby, football, AFL, NBA, NFL, UFC, boxing, jockeys, and GAA. 

 His greatest areas of expertise lie within hip and groin-related injury, as well as knee / ACL rehabilitation, and he is committed to performing innovative research to develop robust methods for injury prevention and rehabilitation in elite sports. 

 He lives between Qatar and Ireland with his wife Michelle and their 3 children. 

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This EP features Randy Goodman a sports physiotherapist in practice for 30+ years and currently the Director of Athlete Health and Performance for Sport PEI.

He built a thriving clinical physiotherapy business with multiple facilities in Kelowna, BC rehabbing and training elite athletes (NHL, NFL, NBA, NCAA, CIS, national teams, etc.).  He also ran Therapy Services in the Athlete Village for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games.

Randy sold his clinics and consulted for a while but was loured to Vancouver to help good friends Rick Cellebrini and Dr. Jack Taunton start Fortius Sport and Health.  This cutting-edge facility at its peak had 70 practitioners and 110 staff with an operating budget of $12M.  After 3.5 years of commuting from Kelowna to Vancouver, he closed his involvement there and eventually found himself in PEI for life balance and to be close to his kids and grandkids and his wife Brenda's family.  

He loves developing and helping elite athletes recover from injury and achieve their goals, and inspiring, mentoring, and coaching sports medicine and science professionals to achieve their success.  

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