Leadership Laboratory

Challenging Braces, Orthotics, and Other Crutches

What’s the difference between a tool and a crutch? The nuance here is profound, but it’s worth exploring nonetheless. While I’m not a doctor and if you wear orthotics, maybe

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PODCAST: Harvey Martin on Fear, Performance, and Becoming

In one of the most vulnerable and expansive episodes of the Hold The Standard podcast, I sit down with performance coach and former professional pitcher Harvey Martin for an unforgettable

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Life’s Only Neutral Ground: Training

Training is simple. It’s a dose of stress that elicits a response. That’s it. That’s the message.  Now, living in the human experience with an ego, things can get complicated.

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Happy 14th Birthday DEUCE Gym

I remember sitting on the dryer at the coin laundry on Main Street in Santa Monica washing the yoga mats after class. They never got clean and the smell was

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Your Future Predicted and What We Can Do About it

You don’t need a fortune teller to predict your future. It’s simple. Your past is creating your future and the default future will soon be yours. Period.  That’s scary bad

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