GivBk Sports Podcast
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsCompetition breeds excellence. Charity breeds community. Sports inspires action.
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Episode 20 - Hayley Wickenheiser - "Go Mom!"
December 27, 2019 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBNotes & Highlights 01:15 Did you know Hayley is becoming a doctor?! 04: 15 In a small town when you need bodies on the ice, girls have no trouble getting ice time. When you get older and you’re taking ice time away from boys, that’s when things got tough. 06:50 When Hayley was cut from her youth hockey team because “having a girl on the team is too difficult,” Hayley’s mom recognized this human rights roadblock and drove to the league coordinator’s house to right the wrong 10:30 Hayley’s ...
Episode 19 - Nicole Woodie - Small change and small actions make a world of difference
December 20, 2019 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBNotes & Highlights 1:30 Hoops2o is growing, and UVA played host to their coming out party 06:00 Nicole’s mom was an ‘activist’ and a single mom that believed in the power of people working together 9:00 Small change and small actions make a huge difference 15:55 Nicole started getting an itch to make the world a better place – working in sports was the fastest way to scratch it 17:45 Athletes and sports teams can help non-profit organizations amplify their message and mission when they m...
Episode 18 - Brad & Zach Gilbert - Nobody Beats Father Time
December 06, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBNotes & Highlights 10:00 Both Gilbert guys showed poise in 1990 13:00 If Andre Agassi is a sports car, Brad Gilbert is a Chevy truck. Brad doesn’t have a secret coaching sauce, but he thinks it’s important to go to dinner with your player. 16:30 Nobody recognized the value in a loss and handled them with more grace than Andre Agassi. He’s also the kind of guy that would give you the shirt off his back. 24:15 Brad & Zach got more competitive playing each other in ping pong than they did on...
Episode 18 - Brad & Zach Gilbert - Nobody Beats Father Time
December 06, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBNotes & Highlights 10:00 Both Gilbert guys showed poise in 1990 13:00 If Andre Agassi is a sports car, Brad Gilbert is a Chevy truck. Brad doesn’t have a secret coaching sauce, but he thinks it’s important to go to dinner with your player. 16:30 Nobody recognized the value in a loss and handled them with more grace than Andre Agassi. He’s also the kind of guy that would give you the shirt off his back. 24:15 Brad & Zach got more competitive playing each other in ping pong than they did on...
Episode 17 - Dedan Brozino - Leaves changing remind you of humble roots
November 22, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBNotes & Highlights 03:20 when you come from a small town, you learn how to like people 05:55 Dedan’s professional and personal philosophy is “get better every day and use that improvement to impact the people you surround yourself with” and he learned that from athletes he looked up to 08:45 Sports is a unifier of the people. Sports stands for leadership, teamwork, ethics, inspiration, and cooperation. 14:00 Dedan is a little like a turtle on a fence post - he doesn’t know how he got to ...
Episode 17 - Dedan Brozino - Leaves changing remind you of humble roots
November 22, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBNotes & Highlights 03:20 when you come from a small town, you learn how to like people 05:55 Dedan’s professional and personal philosophy is “get better every day and use that improvement to impact the people you surround yourself with” and he learned that from athletes he looked up to 08:45 Sports is a unifier of the people. Sports stands for leadership, teamwork, ethics, inspiration, and cooperation. 14:00 Dedan is a little like a turtle on a fence post - he doesn’t know how he got to ...
Episode 16 - Steve Bandura - We stand out. Not just because of our pigment, but because of how we play the game as a team.
November 01, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBNotes & Highlights 03:45 Steve worked at a sales and marketing firm. He had a company car and a secretary, and he hated every minute of it. He really felt that it was meaningless. 11:15 In 1993 Steve intentionally went on unemployment so he could start the Jackie Robinson Baseball League. He named all the teams after negro league teams and gave every kid a book called Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball. 14:00 The Anderson Monarchs were the first youth baseball team to raci...
Episode 15 - Valorie Kondos Field - Everything you do in life is a choice
October 21, 2019 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBNotes & Highlights 02:15 But oh my gosh, I loved to dance! 07:00 It proved that you didn't have to be perfect, you just had to be human, honest, raw, and real. 11:00 Miss Val began her illustrious career playing the floor music for her student-athlete gymnasts. Check out Life Is Short, Don't Wait to Dance! 17:30 Success is peace of mind and knowing you've done your best. - John Wooden 21:15 Yearn to Learn 30:30 Let's hear it for right-brained people! Katelyn Ohashi is a phenomenal human...
Episode 14 - Phaethon Bolton - If you’re doing good things, people will notice
October 09, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBNotes & Highlights 06:15 Playing in the ACC will teach you things about the game that don’t show up on stat sheets – that’s why Bolt 30 camps and clinics were created 10:30 This kid refuses to give up – after trying out as a first-year, sophomore and junior, Phaethon walked on as a Demon Deacon his senior year 16:40 Use whatever you have to make a difference 23:45 If you don’t have a branch of your business that isn’t involved in social impact, people are going to question you – ...
Episode 13 - Dr. Ashleigh Huffman - If we’re not growing, we’re not living right
September 30, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBNotes & 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 ha...
Episode 12 - Marty Posch - The Hoosier Humanitarian
September 16, 2019 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBMy 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 ...
Episode 12 - Marty Posch - The Hoosier Humanitarian
September 16, 2019 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBMy 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 ...
Episode 11 - Zoë Lepage - Namaste, make a choice for yourself
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBMy 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...
Episode 10 - Brandon Steiner - You don’t have to wait until you’re a millionaire to be benevolent
August 05, 2019 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBMy guest today is one of the more famous entrepreneurs in the last quarter century, a staple in Yankees fans vocabularies, the alleged creator of the everything bagel, a founding member of the David B. Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, the host of Memories of the Game on the YES Network, host of his own podcast called UNPLUGGED, and a true embodiment of the American Dream. I hope you’re as jazzed for this hour of the podcast as I am. It’s a real pleasure to wel...
Episode 10 - Brandon Steiner - You don’t have to wait until you’re a millionaire to be benevolent
August 05, 2019 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBMy guest today is one of the more famous entrepreneurs in the last quarter century, a staple in Yankees fans vocabularies, the alleged creator of the everything bagel, a founding member of the David B. Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics at Syracuse University, the host of Memories of the Game on the YES Network, host of his own podcast called UNPLUGGED, and a true embodiment of the American Dream. I hope you’re as jazzed for this hour of the podcast as I am. It’s a real pleasure to wel...
Episode 9 - Curt Yagi - R.O.C.K. n’ Roll Vibes
July 19, 2019 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBMy guest today is the Executive Director of Real Options for City Kids in San Francisco’s Visitation Valley, the 2008 Best of the Bay Singer Songwriter, and RAW San Francisco’s Musician of the Year. The GivBk Gang is pretty passionate about spreading our love from coast to coast as are our friends at DEED, and today we step into the mind of one the San Francisco Bay Area’s most talented musicians and sports philanthropists, a guy whose community impact was featured on NBC's Today Show, Mr C...
Episode 8 - Craig Hanson - A Growth Story
July 01, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBMy guest today is a mentor of mine, a two-sport collegiate varsity letterman, one of the more impressive sports philanthropists that Pennsylvania has to offer and a 12-year veteran head coach of the Dickinson College Red Devils baseball program. The opportunity to sit down with someone that molded me into the person I am today is a unique one. Coach Hanson saw an ambitious kid with pedestrian baseball skills at the college level and provided me with a path to navigate college life. When fi...
Episode 7 - Todd Smith - Not all superheroes wear capes, some wear jerseys
June 18, 2019 23:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBMy guest today is the Director of Business Development at one of my favorite organizations called Pledge It. He was the Managing Director of the Weinstein Carnegie Philanthropic Group, Co-Director of the Sports Philanthropy Executive Certificate Program at GWU School of Business, Advisory Board Member of Kids Play International, and VP and Board Member of Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation. Last episode you heard from a 2x NFL Super Bowl winner, in this GivBk Sports Podcast episode you’ll hea...
Episode 7 - Todd Smith - Not all superheroes wear capes, some wear jerseys
June 18, 2019 23:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBMy guest today is the Director of Business Development at one of my favorite organizations called Pledge It. He was the Managing Director of the Weinstein Carnegie Philanthropic Group, Co-Director of the Sports Philanthropy Executive Certificate Program at GWU School of Business, Advisory Board Member of Kids Play International, and VP and Board Member of Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation. Last episode you heard from a 2x NFL Super Bowl winner, in this GivBk Sports Podcast episode you’ll hea...
Episode 6 - Matt Stover - A candle loses nothing by lighting another flame
June 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBMy guest today is a 2x NFL Super Bowl winner, an NFL Pro Bowler, a Baltimore Ravens Ring of Honor Inductee, Founder of The Matt Stover Foundation & the Stover Family Foundation as well as Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder of The Players Philanthropy Fund. All of my distinguished guests deserve a platform like GivBk Sports Podcast to share the accomplishments they’ve made in the name of social responsibility. This particular guest is almost as decorated as a sports philanthropist as he was...
Episode 6 - Matt Stover - A candle loses nothing by lighting another flame
June 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBMy guest today is a 2x NFL Super Bowl winner, an NFL Pro Bowler, a Baltimore Ravens Ring of Honor Inductee, Founder of The Matt Stover Foundation & the Stover Family Foundation as well as Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder of The Players Philanthropy Fund. All of my distinguished guests deserve a platform like GivBk Sports Podcast to share the accomplishments they’ve made in the name of social responsibility. This particular guest is almost as decorated as a sports philanthropist as he was...
Episode 5 - Kirk Goldstein - “Whatever the game is, keeping playing it. You’ll meet good people along the way.”
May 23, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBMy guest today is a local legend. I’m surprised he hasn’t run for public office yet. I can’t wait for you to get to know this guy as intimately as I have over the last couple years. He’s the commissioner of Santa Monica Little League in southern California and a heck of a family man, Mr Kirk Goldstein! Notes & Highlights · 0:06:15 Santa Monica Little League registrations are up 150 players since Kirk and Jason Sherman took the reins · 0:15:40 kids reach a point in little league ...
Episode 4 - Alisha Greenberg - Coach Alisha, The Sports Philanthropy Pioneer
May 01, 2019 12:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MBI was humbled to speak with a former a Founding Executive Director of Justin Verlander’s Wins for Warriors Foundation, FIFA Women’s World Cup DC host teammate, founder of the Rounding Third initiative, Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Award and Founder of the Sports Impact Leadership Certificate, Mrs Alisha Greenberg! Notes & Highlights · 0:02:50 How diehard is diehard? Naming your son Camden shows Alisha’s @Orioles allegiance · 0:06:35 Sports Impact Leadersh...
Episode 3 - Arielle Moyal - You never know who needs you. Good energy is contagious.
April 17, 2019 12:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBMy guest today is the north star for some of the largest athletes in the world. I mean that both culturally and physically. I am so pumped to introduce a UCLA Young Alumni Rep and Merit Scholar evaluator, a Cal State Long Beach guest lecturer, and a brave branding extraordinaire who often finds herself being the only girl in the room, Ms Arielle Moyal! Notes & Highlights · 0:06:26 Mia Hamm, Lisa Leslie and Nancy Lieberman paved the way · 0:09:33 Take Arielle’s advice, get your k...
Episode 2 - Scott Carpenter - 3:19:59
March 26, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBMy guest today is a friend of over a decade who lets his actions speak louder than his words. It gives me great pride to introduce a fellow Dickinson Red Devil varsity athlete, a leading Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Heading Home Inc philanthropist, and a second-generation Boston Marathoner chasing two very significant numbers, Mr Scott Carpenter! Notes & Highlights · 0:05:16 – “I want to be out of thank you notes when this whole thing is done” · 0:08:06 – Surround yourself w...
Episode 1 - Michael Jan Friedman - A Role Model
March 26, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBWelcome to the FIRST episode of the GivBk Sports Podcast. I’m your host, Brett Friedman. As we will today and in all future GivBk episodes, we’ll learn about how our guests have parlayed athletic accolades or influence within the world of sports into an opportunity to uplift the community around them. Notes & Highlights 5:40 – El Viejo. On the handball courts, they were gentlemen. I thought, today, these kids are going to have the respect of themselves, and others, and they’re going to ha...