Phit for a Queen: A Female Athlete Podcast

Dr. John Sullivan shares why “The Brain always Wins” on PHIT for a Queen

Dr. John Sullivan shares why “The Brain always Wins” on PHIT for a Queen  

 

• The Brain is the Governor connected by the vagus nerve
• The brain hasn’t been viewed as cool because we don’t tell a good story about it.
• Why we should view mental health as brain health- “we don’t know what human consciousness is”
• Breath rate manages heart rate which also manages the brain.
• Shares how brain management starts with PROCESS- listen to find what those stand for
• When you can regulate heart rate and respiration rate you can regulate emotion.
• Leaving you to be able to “see and do” emotion regulation, pattern recognition.
• What if we viewed nutrition as the messages received to optimize brain health and function versus physical function? - “nutrition is neurotransmitters. “
• Does our lack of social connection- eye to eye, hand to hand impact our brain health?
• http://www.thebrainalwayswins.com/home.html
• https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Always-Wins-Improving-Management/dp/1909273732
• Some of the proceeds go back to the military where they can continue to study the brain and the impacts on war.

 

 

 

How you know he is legit:

Dr. John P. Sullivan is a Sport Scientist and Clinical Sport Psychologist. He has over twenty years of clinical and scholarly experience, including his work with the New England Patriots in the National Football League (NFL) for sixteen years assisting with the coordination of sport science and clinical care. Dr. Sullivan’s experience also includes such work within the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, British Premier Football League, Premier Rugby League, Australian Football League, and Olympic national teams. He is an expert consultant for the elite military of the Department of the Navy and law enforcement in regard to performance and welfare needs.

As the Clinical Sport Psychologist/Sport Scientist for Providence College and the University of Rhode Island, he maintains positions in Sports Medicine and Sport Science. He is also the Assistant Director of the South County Sports Medicine Concussion Clinic in Wakefield, Rhode Island.  

Dr. Sullivan is a visiting scholar/sport scientist at the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS)/Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Brisbane, Australian, examining the current state sports technology in the marketplace and its utility as well as concussion rehabilitation, cognitive training in sport, and sport recovery. He is also a visiting professor and researcher at Queensland University of Technology within the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Psychology, and Neuroscience departments focused on projects in athlete health, human performance, and neurophysiology (brain-based performance). Domestically, Dr. Sullivan also serves as an Instructor/Supervisor for Brown University Medical School Sports Medicine Fellowship.

He provides consultation to the NFL office on issues related to well-being and performance and is a member of the mental/behavioral health advisement group. Dr. Sullivan was one of five national experts identified by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to provide expert contribution to new guidelines for the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook, and he is the co-lead author for the interdisciplinary consensus statement regarding the treatment of mental health issues with student-athletes, which is sponsored by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and the NCAA. Dr. Sullivan also serves as a Scientific Advisory for five sport technology companies providing support and oversight throughout the development process.

Dr. Sullivan is a national and international practitioner-researcher who conducts central nervous system (CNS) measurement/assessment, performance optimization, testing, talent selection, recovery training, and concussion assessment/rehabilitation. He has established expertise in psychophysiological profiling and developing cognitive abilities (e.g., decision making, complex reaction time, and read-and-react abilities) of elite performers. Dr. Sullivan uses various markers such as, Central Nervous Systems Assessment - DC Potential, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Electroencephalography (EEG), Accelerometry/GPS, Multiple Object Tracking (MOT), Optic Flow (OF), and biofeedback to determine optimal training loads, recovery interventions, and maintaining as well as enhancing cognitive capabilities in performance environments.  

He is a frequent contributor writing on sport science and sports medicine for peer review journals and popular press (Australian Financial Review, The Atlantic, BBC Sports, ESPN, the Guardian, Huffington Post, New York Times, the Daily Morning Telegraph, the Telegraph, Sports Illustrated, and the Sydney Morning Herald). He has also co-authored a book focusing on the latest cognitive science and neuroscience related to optimal brain performance entitled The Brain Always Wins (Urbane Publishing London UK Ltd).

He has co-authored three recent chapters; the first on the merging of technology, neuroscience, biofeedback, and sport/performance psychology in Sport psychology: On the way to the Olympic Games; and the second chapter focusing on well-being and mental health issues in athletes within fundamental concepts in sport and exercise psychology; A project sponsored by the International Society of Sport Psychology, and the third chapter for the American Psychological Association (APA) book - Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You 3rd edition - focusing on working in sport and the role of Sport Psychologists and properly defining the title, role, and credentials.

 

 

Athletes are Humans! Performance Anxiety in Sport with Dr. Lonnie Sarnell.

Dr. Lonnie Sarnell tackles the world of mental health issues in sports, particularly performance anxiety and the overlap between anxiety and disordered eating.

 

  

* Athletes are humans and struggle with mental health issues! The thoughts around mental health and anxiety are that if we struggle with it it's a personal failing versus something that is extremely prevalent and can be treated. Lonnie tackles myths around mental health in the sports world.

* The average delay between onset symptoms of mental illness and intervention can be 8 to 10 years.

* We need a little anxiety to help with motivation and performance but when anxiety and stress lead to suboptimal performance, that's when it can become a problem.

So you know she’s legit:

Lonnie Sarnell, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides clinical and sport psychology services to adolescents and adults. Dr. Sarnell has experience working with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, academic stress, life transitions, eating disorders, and relationship concerns. Dr. Sarnell specializes in peak performance and anxiety management. She has worked with athletes at all levels, including high school, college and professional athletes. Dr. Sarnell completed her B.A. in psychology at Yale University, where she played as a goalie on the Division I women’s lacrosse team. Dr. Sarnell received her Psy.D. in clinical psychology with a concentration in sport-performance psychology from La Salle University, where she provided sport psychology services within the athletic department. She completed a pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Delaware’s Center for Counseling and Student Development, where she consulted with Student Services for Athletes and provided sports psychology and personal counseling services for students. Dr. Sarnell’s post-doctoral specialization areas were performance anxiety and eating disorders. From 2013 – 2016, Dr. Sarnell worked at the Metropolitan Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a private practice on the Upper East Side of New York City that specializes in the treatment of anxiety.

Connecting with Dr. Sarnell:

http://www.drlonniesarnell.com/

Michelle Cordero shares with us “How she uses a holistic approach when taking care of her athletes. “

Michelle Cordero shares with us “How she uses a holistic approach when taking care of her athletes.“

 

• Athletic Trainers are part of the Sports Medicine team and are usually the first to the athlete when injured.
• Also are behind the scenes to prevent injuries from happening.
• Share what puts the female athlete at risk for injuries- training, nutrition, maintenance.
• The goal is to break down the injury to relatable terms so they can understand what is going on to their body.
• Avoid generalizations and bring back information put into context.

Check out Michelle’s Facebook community- Athlete Remedy

So you know she is Legit:

Michelle A. Cordero is a Certified Athletic Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist in Miami, Florida. She was mentored by the leading expert in heat illness in the United States while pursuing her degree at the University of Connecticut as well as learn from top educators in the field. She went on to pursue her Master's Degree in Sports Medicine at Florida International University where she began her medical coverage with young athletes in the high school setting.

She has a passion for sports and loves nothing more than to help athletes overcome their struggles and get back to competition. Michelle has been the Head Athletic Trainer for the 5-time State Champion and 2-time Dick’s National Champion Girls Basketball team in Florida and has worked with elite level athletes in the U18 and U20 Women’s National Soccer Team. Although her primary practice has been working with student-athletes in middle and high school, Michelle has also worked with collegiate, professional, and high-level athletes in multiple sports as well as been part of the medical staff with the FC Barcelona Escola: an International academy based in Barcelona, Spain that holds soccer camps worldwide.

She is the creator of Athlete Remedy, a website devoted to empowering and educating sports parents and athletes with practical tips and guidelines for preventing, treating, and recovering from sports injuries in a language that YOU can understand! She strongly believes in providing a user-friendly approach that cuts to the chase and isn’t full of big scientific explanations. She leads a growing online community of sports parents by providing insight and filling in the gap in the world of sports injury treatment and recovery with weekly training, LIVE Q&A, and injury consultations. 

Contact Michelle

Instagram: @athleteremedy

Facebook: Athlete Remedy

Athlete Remedy Community 

Hollaback! To Street Harassment with Emily May

 

Emily May, the co-founder of Hollaback!, a global, people-powered movement to end harassment, joins us to discuss the issue, how to respond to harassment and how we can be a part of creating a safer community.

• Emily explains what street harassment is: sexual harassment that happens in a public space; a whole spectrum of behavior that is a product of sexism and racism. Everywhere across the world it exists and it is a problem! Youth are even more at risk, the majority of young women will have experienced street harassment by age 12.
• Street harassment might feel like a normal thing that we as women have to tackle when we are out there on a run, but it isn’t normal. If someone says something derogatory in the workplace there are systems in place to prevent this from occurring but not in public places. This makes consequences for the harasser difficult to enforce.
• There is no perfect response to a harasser. Emily shares tips on how to respond in these situations.

So you know she’s legit:

Emily is an international leader in the gender justice movement. In 2005, at the age of 24, she co-founded Hollaback! in New York City, and in 2010 she became its first full-time executive director.

Under her leadership, the organization has scaled to over 50 cities in 25 countries and launched HeartMob, Hollaback!’s platform designed to support people being harassed online, and The People’s Supper, a collaboration designed to bring people together to repair the fissures in our relationships, heal, and bridge difference. Emily believes that by having each other's backs in deep and meaningful ways, we can disrupt cycles of hate and create a world where everyone has the right to feel safe and confident.

Prior to running Hollaback!, Emily worked in the anti-poverty world as a case manager, political action coordinator, director of development, and most recently, a one-woman research and development team. She has also worked on four political campaigns. Emily has a Master’s Degree in Social Policy from the London School of Economics, is an Ashoka Fellow, a Prime Movers Fellow, and has won over ten awards for her work including the TEDCity 2.0 Prize.

Connecting with Emily and Hollaback!

https://www.ihollaback.org/

Dr. Amy Bender shares “why getting your ZZZsss is key to your success” on PHIT for a Queen podcast:

Dr. Amy Bender shares “why getting your ZZZsss is key to your success” on PHIT for a Queen podcast:

1. “I have always wanted to be an author so it was natural to write about her story”
2. Use perfectionism for good, not destruction!
3. Is on a mission to educate coaches on the forms of eating disorders and bring about awareness.
4. We have to have a behavior approach versus appearance approach.
5. Happiness in my core!
6. By breaking my silence I mustered the courage to recover.

You can follow Dr. Bender at:

@sleepforsport

So you know she is legit:

Dr. Bender received her Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Experimental Psychology from Washington State University specializing in sleep EEG. Her current research focuses on the relationship between sleep and recovery on athletic performance. She has developed sleep intervention protocols for numerous Canadian National Teams. Her research interests stem from being an athlete herself; she is a Hall of Fame basketball player, has summitted a handful of volcanoes, completed an Ironman in 2009, and currently runs around chasing her 3 children who are all 5 and under.

Flaunt Performance: THE Podcast for the Voluptuous Runner

 

Descriptor: Aja shares her experience of being stigmatized as a voluptuous runner and why this led her to start a podcast around these topics.

 

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• Aja shares how she has experienced weight stigma as a runner and why she decided to speak out about this problem in the running world. She started Flaunt Performance: THE Podcast for THE Voluptuous Runner and athletes.
• We don’t have to lose weight to start a sport. It is the perception that you CAN’T but that is not true. We address those stigmas!
• We live in a society that is very anti-pleasure. Aja shares that she feels that order to accept and love our bodies we have to embrace pleasure.

So you know she’s legit:

 

As the daughter of a marathon runner, Aja began to develop her passion for running at around 8 years old. However, her initial path to running bliss wasn’t filled with much satisfaction. As a fat kid, the overbearing messages of weight loss and body image overshadowed the pleasures that running had to offer. Ironically, running soon became a mental refuge that Aja used to retreat from the constant pressures of bullying and not quite fitting into what was “normal.”

But issues regarding body image persisted throughout her life...until they were no longer bearable.

December 30, 2015, Aja gave birth to her second daughter; Yaminah. Three days later, she and her husband heard the news that no parents ever want to hear. Yaminah was very ill and wouldn’t live very long. Yaminah died in her parent's arms on January 19, 2016.

At that point, everything stopped. Aja realized that she could no longer carry the load of weight loss pressures along with insurmountable grief. Weight loss, along with tons of other issues, seemed so minuscule when compared to losing a child.

So like she had always done when she needed to retreat, Aja ran. In fact, she decided to sign up for her first 1/2 marathon in honor of Yaminah.

Training for that 1/2 marathon wasn’t pretty at all. It wasn’t because Aja wasn’t in shape for running. Her body was used to running. In fact, she ran while pregnant with Yaminah. Training wasn’t pretty because at her highest weight ever, Aja learned what it really means to be fat and athletic. It means being ignored while shopping for running shoes. It means not being able to find running pants that fit over big hips. It means running in nightgowns to hide the fact that her butt hangs out of those too-small running pants!

In May of 2016, race day finally arrived.   Aja looked around at everyone at the starting line and saw people of all shapes and sizes coming together for one common goal. But she knew all of the other round athletes at that starting line had experienced many of the issues she’d experienced during training. Aja decided to do something about it. She wanted the world to at least hear their stories. So Aja launched Flaunt Performance Podcast.

Flaunt Performance Podcast is a podcast for voluptuous runners who just love to run. It’s a no diet-talk, no fat-shaming, no self-shaming zone where pleasure trumps weight loss.

Aja lives with her husband and two living children in Northwest Indiana.   She enjoys gardening, swimming, and retreating on running trails.

 

To Connect with the Flaunt Performance Podcast: THE podcast for the Voluptuous Runner 

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/flaunt-performance

 Facebook @flauntperformance

Twitter @FlauntPerfor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changing the Game of Youth Sports with John O’Sullivan

Changing the Game of Youth Sports with John O’Sullivan

 The world of youth sports that is changing drastically leading to high burn out. John joins us and discusses this changing atmosphere and ways parents and coaches can help to keep the Play in Sport!

• Changing the Game has the main goal of keeping the Play in sports. John discusses the changing times of youth sports, and how we have pushed the adult version of sport onto our children.

 

• How can the parent be encouraging but not too pushy with our children when it comes to engagement in sport? Let’s first increase their physical literacy. Second, let’s let them play sports that they really love.

 

• Is there anywhere else where we allow an adult ( a coach) to spend so much time with our children, yet they have no training?? Coaches need further training then they are getting now.

 

• It can be helpful to encourage your kids to have three goals for that sport season: have fun, work hard, fulfill your commitment.                                                                                                                                                                                  

So You Know He is Legit….

John O’Sullivan is an internationally known TEDx Speaker and the founder of the Changing the Game Project, which he started in 2012 in order to better educate parents, coaches and youth sports organizations and put some more “play” in playing sports. John is a former collegiate and professional soccer player and coached for 20 years on the youth, high school, and college level. He has been an advisor and presenter for numerous sporting organizations across the globe, including US Soccer, Football, Lacrosse, Swimming, and Hockey, and he sits on the National Advisory Board for the Positive Coaching Alliance and the National Association for Physical Literacy. John is the author of two #1 bestselling books, and his blog gets nearly 5 million visits a year. His goal today is to start a discussion about changing the environment in youth sports so we can keep more kids active, healthy and involved in physical activity.

To Connect with Changing the Game 

http://changingthegameproject.com/

John’s Ted Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXw0XGOVQvw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Laura Miranda shares how “strategies to align sports performance with capability” on PHIT for a Queen podcast

Dr. Laura Miranda shares how “strategies to align sports performance with capability” on PHIT for a Queen podcast:

1. Was inspired by the women that helped put her back together during her injuries as a young athlete.
2. Align sports performance with capability.
3. Loves to workout outside as it reminds of playing as a child.
4. Injuries can impact an athlete’s identity and being able to say “I am not OK and what can I do?”
5. Empowering positive talk is a must for mental & physical healing- Speak to yourself as if you were a young child.
6. Must adhere to the training program- It works if you work it

You can find Dr. Laura Miranda at:

• http://drlauramiranda.com/
• http://drlauramiranda.com/pursuit/
• Be sure to follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as @DrLauraMiranda

So you know she is legit:

By trade, Dr. Laura Miranda DPT, MSPT is an NYC based doctor of physical therapy, certified personal trainer, and creator of PURSUIT, the outdoor fitness movement. She is also an author, speaker, and has appeared in and writes for many major publications like Shape, Buzz Feed, Huffington Post, and Girls Gone Strong. By mission, she empowers people on their path toward becoming the best possible version of themselves.

 

 

Laura Moretti shares how she listens to her own body’s needs while training for ironman and being a dietitian on Phit for a Queen.

Laura Moretti shares how she listens to her own body’s needs while training for Ironman and being a dietitian on Phit for a Queen.

 

• Her combination of passions & interest lead her to a career path as a dietitian
• Laura shares her strategies on how to fuel and train as a competitive triathlete while juggling her job as a dietitian
• She really focuses on listening to her own body needs while training.
• Discusses how certain personality traits are drawn to certain sports.

 

Where you can learn more about Laura:

https://www.lauramorettird.com/

http://www.childrenshospital.org/directory/staff/m/laura-moretti

 How you know she is legit:

Laura Moretti completed a Master’s Degree in clinical nutrition as well as her didactic program in clinical dietetics at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies. She completed her dietetic internship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She previously worked as the Primary Nutrition Therapist at Columbus Park Collaborative and Appleman Nutrition in New York City. In 2015 Laura relocated to Boston from New York City to join the Sports Medicine Team and at Boston Children's Hospital where she is also the Dietitian for the Female Athlete Program. Her passion lies in educating athletes on how to properly fuel their bodies for optimum health and performance. She possesses a specialty in sports performance based nutrition as well as treating low energy availability, disordered eating and eating disorders in athletes. Laura has an extensive amount of experience in consulting and collaborating with Olympic and professional athletes, local colleges and universities, as well as professional sport and dance facilities. She also is the consulting RD for the Boston Ballet Company and School as well as an instruction at the Institute for Rowing Leadership. Laura is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, International Academy of Eating Disorders, Massachusetts Dietetic Association, Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitian Association, The American College of Sports Medicine, The International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Co-Chair of the AED Sport and Exercise SIG, and the SCAN Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. On a personal note, Laura is a competitive triathlete, Boston Marathon Qualifier, and Finisher, as well as an avid skier.

 

Kay Glynn shares why she plans to spend all of her life being active and why her grandkids call her the Grandma that eats broccoli.

Kay Glynn shares why she plans to spend all of her life being active and why her grandkids call her the Grandma that eats broccoli.

 

• Found her way to connect with others by doing track meets
• Never wants to stop learning and wants to share her story to help others
• Feels her balance in activities has helped her to continue strong in sports.
• Grandkids call her “the grandma that eats broccoli and has long blonde hair”
• Wants to show others who she is by being the motivational entertainer

Where you can learn more about Kay:

http://kayglynn.com/

 

How you know she is legit:

One of Kay's lifetime passions has been dancing and performing acrobatics since the age of 4. For over 20 years, she has owned her own studio where she taught various disciplines of dance--such as tap, jazz, ballet, and acrobatics. She won a Ford Mustang at the age of 15 doing a novelty acrobatic routine with chairs.

In the last 5 years, this routine has given her spots on such t.v. shows as The Late Show with David Letterman, The Jimmy Kimmell Show, Oprah, The View (with Barbara Walters), America’s Got Talent, 30 Seconds to Fame, I’ve Got a Secret and Country Fried Home Videos which also includes clips of Kay pole vaulting in her backyard pole vaulting pit. Recently, she also made a dream come true. She flew on a trapeze for the first time—at the age of 55!

In the spring of 2009, Kay closed her dance studio, and she and her husband bought a local insurance agency where she is working part-time. Kay is enjoying spending time as a motivational entertainer, and training for track and field at her home in the country where she has a pole vault pit, a high jump pit, hurdles, and an area comprised of a horizontal bar, rings, and trapeze. Also, Kay was featured in the Aug. 2009 issue of A.A.R.P. Magazine