EP62: Joe De Sena - Spartan Founder, Mobster Neighbor, and not That Pool Guy!
Release Date: 03/04/2020
EP 69: 4 Team USA Softball Legends in the Win Again Clubroom - Winning the Gold on and off the Diamond
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Four USA Softball Olympic Medalists in one room! WOW! Listen to these impressive athletes and hear their stories of rising to the top of their sport, their grit, determination and tenacity needed to achieve victory, and how they have leveraged their athletic excellence into business success! The Win Again Clubroom is proud to present "4 Team USA Softball Legends in the Win Again Clubroom - Winning the Gold on and off the Diamond" with: Leah Amico - 3X Gold Medalist – USA Softball | Public Speaker Cat Osterman - 3X Olympic Medalist - USA Softball | Commentator| Softball...
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EP68: Rowing Across the Atlantic with Robert Hamilton Owens
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Who's up for rowing across the Atlantic? Not me. Not a big fan of being in the middle of the ocean for 40 seconds, much less 40 days! But one of my heroes, Robert Hamilton Owens, is joining 11 other brave souls and making the dangerous and exhausting journey to raise money for the Mark Crampton Memorial Trans-Atlantic Row. Robert is taking on the challenge to row 3500 miles across the Atlantic to raise awareness of, and funding for, the prevention of veteran suicide, in honor of his friend, retired Navy SEAL Mark Crampton, who took his own life in April 2022. Robert is a...
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EP67: Concussions, TBI, & How to Heal - Curtis Anderson, Clint Malarchuk, and Christina Smith with Mark Moyer
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"Concussions, TBI, and How to Heal” - An important discussion surrounding the impact concussions and TBIs have on athletes, including challenges to their mental, physical and emotional health with a panel of athletes who have been fighting their own battles for years. Curtis Anderson – (Brain Injury – Mental Health Advocate | Public Speaker) Christina N. Smith – (Canadian Olympic Bobsledder | Brain Injury Advocate | Author | Public Speaker) Clint Malarchuk – (NHL Alumni | Mental Health Advocate | Best Selling Author | Public Speaker) Please dive into this...
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EP66: Vance Johnson (NFL Vet) - The 12 Yards Between Rock Bottom and Recovery
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Heartbreaking. Gut-wrenching. Shocking. "Vance Johnson came home from playing his first Super Bowl, sat in the dark of his bedroom suite, and tried to slit his wrists." WHAT? Vance Johnson - The 12 Yards Between Rock Bottom and Recovery - w Mark Moyer in the Clubroom Hosted by: Mark Moyer – Transition Coach & Business Connector for Athletes and Entrepreneurs | Founder - Win Again & Clubroom Event Series | Author Wait until you hear this incredible story, the alcohol and drug abuse, 8 divorces, 7 kids who wanted him dead, so much pain, unforgivable behavior, trauma and steps backward,...
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EP65: Theo Fleury and Eric Kussin - Your Mental Health Post COVID
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“The biggest epidemic of 2021 isn’t Covid. It is mental health, trauma and addiction”- Theo Fleury I’ve had plenty of Make Your Mark podcast guests and Clubroom events that have focused on victory of bad over good, overcoming hurdles, challenges and struggles. Plenty of laughs too. But having both Theo Fleury and Eric Kussin in the Clubroom to talk about mental health issues as we continue our march through Covid was worth every second of this event. Each suffered through significant trauma, and as you listen to this podcast you will not only hear their life experiences, but also...
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EP64: Clint Malarchuk - NHL Goalie | Mental Health Advocate | Best Selling Author | Suicide Survivor
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Clint Malarchuk’s life can’t be summarized in a few words. But I’ll try. Very successful NHL career as a goalie. Great sense of humor. Strength, kindness, and a huge heart. Rancher. Tougher than nails. Mix in severe mental health illness, anxiety, crippling OCD, depression, alcoholism, rehab centers, and a suicide attempt. “I’ve had a lot of surgeries, a lot of physical pain. I tell you what. The most painful thing in the world is mental illness. I’d rather have my jugular vein cut again. If God gave me the choice “Hey Clint, want to have your vein cut again and get rid of...
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EP63: Brandi Chastain and Haley Rosen - from the pitch (field) to the pitch (boardroom)!
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What's more impressive than two accomplished women's soccer players? How about if they are both successful entrepreneurs scoring goals in the business world! "You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things." - Brandi Chastain Another big time coup for and the Make Your Mark podcast to have both AND discuss their path from the pitch (field) to the pitch (boardroom)! Brandi and Haley each scored...
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EP62: Joe De Sena - Spartan Founder, Mobster Neighbor, and not That Pool Guy!
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Obstacles are inevitable, whether you run a business, hold down a job, or simply just try to get through your day. Who would want to face them if we didn't need to? Well, I know a few people who can't wait! Founder and CEO is one of them! My Podcast guest is the true definition of a badass! “Rather than wrapping the kids up in bubble wrap like most of us parents do, you wrap them up in barbed wire. You give kids obstacles and make it harder for them. You make them take the stairs and walk to school. We’re not looking to put them in danger but we are looking for them to learn how to...
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EP61: Dale Moss - From the Gridiron to the Glossy Magazine Covers!
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A dramatic pivot from sport to a totally different career is what truly excites me about the potential of athlete transition, and today’s guest on my #MakeYourMark podcast, Dale Moss, has become an impressive entrepreneur, and oh, did I mention, one of the first professional athletes to become a professional model? Hundreds try to sign with world-renowned Wilhelmina Models, and Dale has made the cut! “The biggest thing I can say to any athlete who is 100 percent into their sport and doesn’t have or has not begun the process of building outside of that, is to start building a team....
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EP60: Jesse Cole - Fans First! Running a Baseball Team in a Yellow Tuxedo!
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Dancing grandmas? Baseball players skydiving to their positions? Just a normal day at the office for one of the most exciting, interesting, and big-picture thinking owners in sports, and my guest on the Mark Your Mark podcast, Jesse Cole. Oh, did I mention the yellow tuxedo and top hat that he wears more often than not? “I found out only 200 fans were coming to the games, and the team had been there for seven years. I made ten phone calls out to the community. The first seven phone calls no one had even heard of the team, the next two wouldn’t work with us, and the last one hung up on me....
info_outlineObstacles are inevitable, whether you run a business, hold down a job, or simply just try to get through your day. Who would want to face them if we didn't need to?
Well, I know a few people who can't wait! Spartan Founder and CEO Joe De Sena is one of them! My #MakeYourMark Podcast guest is the true definition of a badass!
“Rather than wrapping the kids up in bubble wrap like most of us parents do, you wrap them up in barbed wire. You give kids obstacles and make it harder for them. You make them take the stairs and walk to school. We’re not looking to put them in danger but we are looking for them to learn how to navigate the world. Because once we’re gone they are expected to have the tools necessary to know how to survive.”
Barbed wire, mud, medicine balls, burpees, climbing, and sprinting are just some of the obstacles you will face as a participant in a Spartan race. It goes without saying that once having completed a Spartan race course you will feel nothing short of a badass yourself!
“If business were a sport it would be rugby. Our goal is to keep growing, because if you aren’t growing you’re dying! I want it to be a healthy growth, and anything we bolt onto the Spartan brand has to be rugged and has to be hard.”
Make sure to catch the next Spartan Race in your neck of the woods, sign up, and find that moment where everything lines up, and you’ll have a new level of excitement you’ve never felt! Go here to get all the info you would need about the races, and my favorite barbed wire-loving guest, Joe De Sena!
Go here: https://www.spartan.com/en If you see Joe tell him I say hiya!
Thanks Mat Guido and his Decibel Studios for hosting the podcast, top of the field sound studios!
“I decided to start my own business, and it didn’t work on the first try, because you know at some point the student thinks they're smarter than the teacher, and I thought I knew too much. I made some fatal mistakes but recovered, and then built a thriving business for the following decade.”
Some Topics we talk about in this episode:
- 2.00 - Welcome to the Big Kahuna
- 2:20 - The first time recording a podcast in a studio
- 4:40 - My mom was the original Spartan!
- 8:40 - “Going to the Army” in a mob neighborhood
- 9:40 - Fireworks and gasoline on the street!
- 12:00 - The mobster was killing the architect because he asked for money
- 12:30 - Had 700 customers from Brooklyn all the way to the Hamptons
- 16:00 - The journey to Wall Street
- 17:00 - Taking on multiple roles in the finance world
- 17:30 - Starting my own business didn’t work on the first try
- 19:00 - The first version of a Spartan race
- 21:00 - The first “the real survivor”- Sports Illustrated
- 22:45 - If business was a sport it would be rugby
- 26:30 - That incomparable top of your game feeling
- 27:50 - It has to be tough!
- 29:15 - I like to suffer
- 29:45 - Huge Surprise for the Listener Here!
- 30:30 - How to train like a Spartan
- 32:15 - Celebrities in Spartan
- 34:30 - Launching Deka in the cities
- 37:30 - Favorite places to live
- 41:00 - Did the Iditarod by foot through Alaska
- 42:15 - Doing a full feature film
- 45:00 - Wrap your kids in barbed wire
- 45:50 - Mom locked me out of the house
- 48:00 - Society today has made us weak, we are learning helplessness
- 49:00 - Hit Your Mark!
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