Episode 12 - Marty Posch - The Hoosier Humanitarian

09/16/19 • 51 min

My guest today is the President of the FinishLine Youth Foundation, a Board Member of the Special Olympics of Indiana and a Board Member of the Boys & Girls Club of Indianapolis. I’ve had a great time getting to this guy. He’s got a ton of energy and a huge heart. Please welcome today’s guest, Mr Marty Posch!
Notes & Highlights
· 06:30 The lens through which I view rock stars has changed a little bit. The single moms trying to raise two kids, those are my rock stars now.
· 11:45 At Finish Line, we have an army of people that want to get involved
· 17:30 When you think about how much of an impact you’ve made, you should think about how many individual lives you’ve changed
· 22:10 53% of Special Olympics athletes were wearing shoes that were two sizes too big or two sizes too small until FinishLine helped put a dent in that number
· 32:45 Any time you’re building something, the most important thing to recognize is that you could not have built it alone
· 37:00 Takes & Fakes Trivia
· 42:15 When a gold medal athlete was overshadowed by a special olympics athlete 3-4 minutes behind him, you remember what the joy of sports can be. The smile on her face made the place erupt when she crossed that finish line.
· 45:50 Race For a Cure

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Episode 11 - Zoë Lepage - Namaste, make a choice for yourself

My guest today is the founder of Exhale to Inhale, a yoga foundation that employs movement, breath work, mindfulness, and relaxation techniques to empower survivors of abuse to heal. She has devoted her life to helping others. She witnessed something tragic that she didn't want future generations to have to endure, and she decided to do something about it.
I hope you feel centered and inspired after listing to the one and only, Zoë Lepage!
Notes & Highlights

· 02:30 Zoe believes that impact happens one person at a time, one breadth at a time

· 07:30 Community Outreach – Nina, Los Angeles

· 10:45 The Exhale to Inhale Origin Story: Get Off The Couch

· 17:00 All great non-profit organizations start in the Engineering School cafeteria. ETI doesn’t practice at a spa in SoHo.

· 23:00 Feeling your ability to hold yourself up and make a choice for yourself, that’s powerful, that’s your saving grace!
· 30:30 ETI is built on the notion that something was helpful to them, maybe it’s transformative for you too
· 39:00 The first thing non-profit founders should do is pause. Make sure no one is doing what you want to do, ask yourself why, and then create the damn thing! You’ll know that you should work on a new endeavor full-time when you don’t have time to do your day job anymore.

· 42:15 Takes n’ Fakes Trivia
· 50:00 Movement for Meaning + the Inaugural Gala, with keynote speaker, Cecile Noel, Commissioner of NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-based Violence (ENDGBV)

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Episode 13 - Dr. Ashleigh Huffman - If we’re not growing, we’re not living right

Notes & Highlights
03:15 That’s the beauty of sport, it’s a great teacher of life
07:00 Every little girl deserves a male champion
11:15 There’s more to humanity that unites us than divides us
16:00 When you have the cure, how could you know dedicate yourself to telling people about it? Sport is an incredible tool for social transformation
19:00 Embrace your weird and challenge the status quo
27:00 It doesn’t make sense to play with half your team - that’s why we need to empower women to have collaborative conversions with men in power
32:45 1 in 4 Americans believe that we’ll colonize Mars before there is a business leadership equality of gender - We need to move past insecurity, fear and ego to promote transparency and accountability
40:00 The Women’s World Cup team is arguing for equal pay - Should they be arguing for more pay?
49:00 Gone are the days of “shut up and dribble” - As athletes seek out the injustices they’ve experienced or seen, they continue to ask for ways to be equipped to rival those injustices
58:30 Hindsight is 20:20 - You can only hope that you led with your heart and your heart was pointing you in the right direction