SAX IN THE MORNING
352 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsSteve Sax, known by many for his phenomenal 14 year career as a major league baseball player where he was a 5-time All-Star, Rookie of the Year and 2-time World Series champion, hosts his podcast with the familiarity and experience that comes from playing on such great teams as the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox and Oakland A’s. In addition, playing under such iconic coaches as Tony LaRussa and Tommy Lasorda, Steve gained invaluable life lessons through sports. After his playing career he found success not only as a coach and broadcaster but also as a financial consultant, author, motivational speaker and executive/life coach. Twice a month on his longform podcast “Sax in the Morning” he speaks with leaders in the world of sports, business and finance to find out what makes people successful, passionate and joyful in their lives. In addition to the full-length shows you’ll find “Sax in the Morning” shorts three days weekly that will focus on the motivation necessary to get your game plan for the day set with the right tone to accomplish those goals you have for success. Starting your day with the right mindset, making the shift to persevere through challenges and helping you to follow your emotional heart to reach your dreams.
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4-25-22: Jackie Robinson's legacy
April 25, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.12 MBTen days ago we watched games across all of baseball where every player wore number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson. As a former Dodger it makes me proud to see the entire league celebrate a guy who loomed large in the Dodger organization ever since he broke in the league in 1947. As Dodgers we were taught to work together with all of our teammates in honor of what Jackie and his teammates went through decades earlier and we were taught about the special relationship Jackie had with Branch ...
Episode 9: Level Up with Debbie Neal
April 21, 2022 08:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBDebbie Neal is an entrepreneur, a coach, podcast host, motivational speaker and mother of four children. She started the Level Up with Debbie Neal podcast a little over a year ago and has garnered a big following with her fiery, powerful advice and affirmations for her listeners. Debbie and I share a lot of the same ideas about how to create self-empowered people, having no excuses on the road to success and how improving ourselves can help improve the world. We talk about ignoring the “odd...
4-20-22: Silencing your inner critic
April 20, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.48 MBWe all have a voice in our heads that tells us to stop what we are doing in our efforts to be successful or make a change. That voice is a bully called the inner critic and there are three ways to put that guy in his place and keep him quiet. First, you have to shine a light on that voice and acknowledge it exists. Your inner critic loves to live in the shadows hiding and whispering, so acknowledge they are present and accounted for so you can tell them to quiet down. Second you need a g...
4-19-22: Optimism increases life expectancy
April 19, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.07 MBA study published just a few years ago showed some amazing results about the benefits of living with optimism. First, people who are optimistic live longer, plain and simple. They are more resilient and are less affected by stressful situations, which reduces their risk of heart disease, depression and chronic illness. In an article published by NPR about the study quoted a clinical psychologist saying that optimism can be taught through therapy and can be useful in reducing depression and...
4-18-22: From failure to $500 million
April 18, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.38 MBI love stories of entrepreneurs who have huge failures before huge successes. Today I wanted to share the story of Kathleen King, who founded Tate’s Bake Shop. If you don’t know Tate's, they are the crispy, crunchy chocolate chip cookies in the green bag that you can buy at the grocery store. King started a cookie company called Kathleen’s Bake Shop when she was just a teenager and grew it into a large scale bakery. But after 20 years she partnered with two brothers who ran the company int...
4-13-22: Dusty Baker talks universal DH and my World Series picks
April 13, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.63 MBBefore wrapping up my week of baseball predictions I wanted to bring you an interview with the Houston Astros Manager Dusty Baker. I talked to Dusty while visiting Spring Training and we talked about how the universal designated hitter will affect not just Major League Baseball but youth baseball as well. Dusty also talks about the pressure on the guys replacing Carlos Correa at shortstop after he left in free agency and I give my predictions for who will win the World Series! Visit my we...
4-12-22: National League predictions
April 12, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.03 MBYesterday I gave you my predictions for the winners of each division in the American League and today we move on to the National League. I make some picks that stray form conventional wisdom because I still go with my gut and I'm not running a bunch of predictions through a computer. Listen to hear my picks for the winners of each division. Visit my website: saxinthemorning.com for merchandise and other links. Follow us on social media: Instagram: @saxinthemorning_podcast YouTube: s...
4-11-22: American League predictions
April 11, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MBIt’s springtime, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining and baseball is officially underway, so I thought I’d focus this week on talking about the season ahead. Today is all about a little inside baseball as I give my predictions for who will win each division in the American League. Enjoy! Visit my website: saxinthemorning.com for merchandise and other links. Follow us on social media: Instagram: @saxinthemorning_podcast YouTube: subscribe and watch shorts here
4-6-22: My big league call up
April 06, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.82 MBI got called up to the big leagues on August 17, 1981. The next day I was in the starting lineup against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field and I was facing Mike Griffin, who I faced in high school and he had owned me. As fate would have it I got a hit off Mike in my first at bat and launched my big league career. That moment was so important for two reasons. The first is I was able to savor and enjoy how hard I had worked to get to the big leagues. It was an amazing feeling I can still rem...
4-5-22: My first All-Star Game
April 05, 2022 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.2 MBThis week I’m sharing some of my favorite memories of my career and how they still impact my life. In 1982 I was voted as an All-Star and I got to bring a guest with me. I decided to bring my dad and during the All-Star luncheon he sat between Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt with me next to Schmidt. He talked baseball with the two legends for a couple of hours. The next day I got a hit in my first at bat and the camera panned to my dad celebrating in the stands. I have a still photo of him ce...
4-4-22: How I lost then won, the Rookie of the Year
April 04, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.58 MBThis week, in honor of the regular season getting started in baseball, I wanted to share some stories of my favorite memories of my own career and how they have stuck with me. Today I wanted to tell you about when I got that phone call telling me I won the 1982 National League Rookie of the Year. What was so powerful about that moment was remembering back to being a kid in Babe Ruth baseball. At I had an amazing season and they gave out trophies for end of year awards and my little 13 year ...
Episode 8: Eddy and Gaby Alvarez of the Los Angeles Dodgers
March 31, 2022 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBMy guests today are Eddy and Gaby Alvarez. Eddy is a Major League Baseball player who recently signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He made his major league debut with the Miami Marlins in 2020 but what he is best known for is being one of just six athletes ever to win Olympic medals in both the summer and winter games. Eddy won a silver medal with the US baseball team in 2020 but his first Olympic sport was actually short track speed skating, where he won a silver...
3-30-22: A dream almost lost to Tourette Syndrome
March 30, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.28 MBJim Eisenreich was an all-star caliber player for over a decade in the majors. But just two months into his rookie season in 1982 he was taken out of three straight games due to fits of panic and anxiety. Doctors didn’t know what the cause was and Jim was forced to retire when his dream had barely started. Three years later and after finally having his condition diagnosed as Tourette Syndrome, Jim returned to Major League Baseball. He went on to have an extremely productive career and hit ...
3-29-22: Pete Gray: 51 base hits with one arm
March 29, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.55 MBThis week I am talking about baseball players who overcame tremendous adversity. Yesterday it was a mangled hand but today it’s the loss of an entire arm. In 1945 Pete Gray, who had just one arm, was called up to the big leagues. He spent the year as a fourth outfielder but managed to hit .218 with 51 base hits that season. He had hit .333 the year before in the minor leagues and stole 68 bases. He undoubtedly was aided by an increased opportunity due to players being gone during the war...
3-28-22: Mangled hand = best curveball ever
March 28, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.47 MBThis week we are going to celebrate two of my favorite things: baseball and people who overcome adversity. Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown was a hall of fame pitcher from the early 1900’s. When he was 7-years-old he got his hand stuck in a wheat shredder and lost his index finger. Just weeks later he tripped while running and broke the remaining fingers on his right hand. The injury never healed correctly and he was left with a badly bent middle finger and a paralyzed little finger. The in...
3-23-22: Having a purpose saves you in hard times
March 23, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.86 MBI love to talk about the importance of having a purpose, so it was a joy for me to find an article and a study that showed how people with purpose are actually more level-headed and grounded then those who do not. The study found that those who have a purpose actually get more blood flow to the part of the brain which controls decision making and also helps control an ancient part of our brain that signals fear and aggression. This means that purpose can help you better handle stress or di...
3-22-22: Shoeless Joe never got a second chance
March 22, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.13 MBYesterday I talked about forgiveness and today I want to talk about second chances. Shoeless Joe Jackson is known for being a part of the “Black Sox” scandal when a group of players agreed to throw the World Series in exchange for money. Jackson tried to warn the commissioner, he was found not guilty in court but he kept $5,000 that the mob gave him and he was banished from baseball forever, leaving behind a career .356 batting average. Jackson carried the shame of his ban throughout his...
3-21-22: An amazing story of faith and forgiveness
March 21, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.14 MBToday I wanted to tell the story of Louis Zamperini, who was an Olympic athlete, WWII pilot and prisoner of war. Zamperini’s plane was shot down over the South Pacific and he survived 47 days at sea before being captured by the Japanese. Unfortunately his nightmare had only begun as he was mercilessly tortured by a guard nicknamed “The Bird.” When Zamperini returned after the war he suffered from PTSD and nightmares. Then he became a born-again Christian and that path led him to being ab...
3-16-22: Great advice from female entrepreneurs
March 16, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4.01 MBToday I am sharing some great wisdom I found from some amazing female entrepreneurs. Their words on success come from a Forbes article and I wanted to share it with you. They cover the importance of adaptability, dealing with rejection and how you should treat customers or clients as human beings with hopes, dreams and harms rather than just sales. Listen to hear the great advice from these amazing current thriving women and happy Women’s History Month. Sources: The 11 Most Inspiring...
3-15-22: Women's History Month: Suzyn Waldman
March 15, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.71 MBThis week I am celebrating inspiring women for Women’s History Month. Today I wanted to highlight Suzyn Waldman. If you don’t know, Waldman has been the color commentator for the Yankees radio broadcast since 2005. Waldman is the first woman to call a World Series game on the radio and has been a trailblazer as a female reporter and broadcaster in New York. She has dealt with everything from having cassettes stolen when she was a reporter to dealing with death threats as a female broadcast...
3-14-22: Women's History Month: my female hero
March 14, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.45 MBIt’s women’s history month so this week I thought we would celebrate the accomplishments and positive effects women have had on my life and on our world. When thinking about women I admire I have to start with my mom. My dad called her the Italian princess. She saved my life when I was a little kid, she ran our family and she is even responsible for my brother getting signed to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Listen to today's short to hear how powerful a force she was and check out my Instagra...
3-14-22: Women's history month, my female hero
March 14, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.45 MBIt’s women’s history month so this week I thought we would celebrate the accomplishments and positive effects women have had on my life and on our world. When thinking about women I admire I have to start with my mom. My dad called her the Italian princess. She saved my life when I was a little kid, she ran our family and she is even responsible for my brother getting signed to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Listen to today's short to hear how powerful a force she was and check out my Instagra...
3-10-22: Obsession counts more than talent
March 09, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.29 MBObsession is a word and a quality that people often look down on or misunderstand. No one should be so obsessed with something that it ruins their relationships or their lives but it takes a healthy level of obsession to be truly great. I was obsessed with being a big league ball player and if I wasn’t I never would have made it. When I worked in finance, the people who were the best producers also happened to be the first ones in and the last ones to leave. It’s not a coincidence that tho...
3-8-22: What does it mean to have a burning desire?
March 08, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.46 MBToday, I talk about the importance of having a burning desire to achieve a goal or to make a change in your life. The term comes from an old war story when a general sailed his men into battle and had the boats burned after they landed so there was no opportunity for retreat. The only path was to fight and win. That’s what cupcake queen Candace Nelsen did when she left an investment banking firm to start a cupcake only bakery. Now, Sprinkles has 24 locations and Candace is a TV star in add...
3-7-22: Volodymyr Zelenskyy's impressive demonstration of courage
March 07, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.42 MBToday I wanted to take some time to talk about having a backbone and no current example demonstrates this more than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He has stayed in his government’s center to help defend his country. He has survived assassination attempts, refused his own evacuation and is inspiring his people and the world with his courage and resolve in the face of a devastating force and poor odds of victory. All this comes from a man who was a comedian, actor and satirist wh...
3-2-22: We get what we tolerate
March 02, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.72 MBWhat do Tony Robbins and the great Frederick Douglass have in common? Well, they both are/were fantastic speakers and motivators. And they both spoke about oppression and the fact that people will suffer as much as they allow for limits to be imposed on them. With Douglass, it was the much more real outside forces of slavery and inequality. When Tony Robbins speaks about oppression he refers to the negative stories we tell ourselves about why we aren’t who we want to be. Listen to today’s ...
3-1-22: How to overcome your limits
March 01, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.99 MBWe are so good at telling ourselves stories that sometimes we don’t even know what our real limitations are and what are just fears we make up in our heads. One way to tell is the language we use. Do you ever hear yourself saying “they” as in, “they will know I’m too young, too inexperienced, too old, too dumb, etc.” We make up this group of people judging us with no proof or feedback from others. It’s merely our own insecure fears. If you hear yourself saying “they” then it’s probably a l...
2-28-22: The voice inside that limits your potential
February 28, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.59 MBThis week we are going to talk all about overcoming limits. The funny thing about limits is that many of the ones that really stop us from achieving our dreams are limits we place on ourselves. Take that little voice inside our heads that tells us to stop what we are doing. It tells us not to take a big risk because we might look foolish, or it’s too vulnerable or we’re too old or too young. In life-coaching we call this voice the saboteur. The saboteur is there to protect us but it often ...
2-23-22: Another lockout update
February 23, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MBIt’s time for another lockout update as the players and owners of Major League Baseball have met for two days to try to hash out a new collective bargaining agreement. The update is they are still very far apart on the major issues. The players want a ton of money for pre-arbitration players and for a much larger percentage of players to be arbitration eligible after two years. Neither of those is going to happen. The owners may come up a little on the pre-arbitration pool but it’s never g...
2-22-22: The boy who is starting a kindness revolution
February 22, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.84 MBToday I wanted to share another story of someone dedicating themselves to kindness and service to others. What is so remarkable about today’s subject is that it’s a 10-year-old boy. Orion Jean from Dallas, Texas started his journey of kindness after winning a national speech competition where the subject was “kindness.” The grand prize was $500 and instead of spending the money on a Nintendo Swtich or a new bike, Orion started a “race to kindness” challenge where he donated his money, enco...
2-21-22: BBQ, cars and kindness
February 21, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.73 MBKindness and selflessness are things that can feel like they are in short supply these days, but there are so many people out there working to make their communities a better place. One such man is Eliot Middleton. Middleton owns a BBQ restaurant in South Carolina and in 2020 at the nudging of friends entered a BBQ competition and won. Eliot decided to take half his prize money and put it towards Thanksgiving meals for those who needed them in his community. On the day of his food drive he...
2-16-22: Don't sweat what you can't control
February 16, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.87 MBToday I wanted to talk about an important lesson I’ve learned over the course of my different careers. We talked about the importance of preparation and the importance of having some heart and some guts to believe you are the right person for the job. Just as important as those are is the realization that you can’t always control the outcome. You increase your chances by being prepared and believing in yourself, but there are a million other little variables that could throw something off ...
2-15-22: The ingredients for greatness are heart and guts
February 15, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.95 MBYesterday we talked about preparation being vital to success. But what happens when you have two people with the same natural talent, the same work ethic and the same drive to succeed? Who is going to win out? It’s the person with the heart and the guts that make them fearless and confident who succeeds. When I stepped to the plate against Nolan Ryan, I legitimately thought, “bring it on man!” I didn’t care who it was, I believed I was going to win that battle. That belief comes from the h...
2-14-22: The obvious secret to confidence
February 14, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.57 MBThis week I wanted to cover three lessons I have learned over the course of my life succeeding in several different careers. The first is that preparation is where confidence is built. It didn’t matter if I was facing a Hall of Fame pitcher, preparing a presentation for a financial client or practicing a speech I had to do in front of thousands of people, preparation has been the most important component to my success. It may seem obvious and yet so many people try to “wing it” in life a...
2-9-22: How failure led to the Super Bowl
February 09, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.59 MBThis week we have been talking about how failure is a necessary part of the process to being successful and today we need look no further for examples than the two teams in the Super Bowl. The Rams had lost to the 49ers six straight times and it seemed as though the 49ers might have the upper hand in the NFC Championship Game. But the Rams’ failures lead to a solid game plan that shut down the 49ers running game and picked apart their secondary for a 20-17 win. In the AFC the Cincinnati ...
2-7-22: The painfully slow story of success for the Leatherman tool
February 08, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.46 MBThis week we are talking about how failing is just part of the process to being successful. Take Tim Leatherman who created the Leatherman multi-tool. Tim had a simple idea of making a pair of pliers with a fold out knife. He spent two years in a garage trying to build a tool he thought people would use and finally, after one failed prototype after another, he finally made a tool he thought was worthy of selling. The problem was no one wanted to buy it. He was rejected by every knife and...
2-7-22: Failure leads to success
February 07, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.7 MBThis week on our shorts I wanted to focus on one of the most painful and necessary hurdles to success. That hurdle is failure. It’s inevitable. We are all going to fail in little ways and spectacular ways. Right now is a great time to witness athletes who have overcome failure or who literally fall and have to get back up again in the Winter Olympics. One great example of this is the U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen. Chen failed pretty brutally in 2018 when we fell on all his biggest jumps...
Shari Fitzpatrick is berried in chocolate
February 03, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBShari Fitzpatrick always loved strawberries. Her dad even planted her a strawberry patch in their yard when she was a girl growing up in Oregon. In her early 20’s she began giving chocolate dipped strawberries to clients as a mortgage broker and the more people raved about them the more she thought she could turn her love of bringing joy with chocolate dipped berries into a business. So she took out a $1500 cash advance and started Shari’s Berries out of her apartment in Sacramento. Over the...
2-2-22: MLB lockout update
February 02, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.75 MBYou all know that baseball is still one of my passions, so today I wanted to give an update on where we stand with Major League Baseball coming to a new collective bargaining agreement with the players. Both sides have made some concessions when finally meeting a couple times last week, but there has still been very little movement on a couple key issues and we are just two weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. Listen to my short today for a 5 min breakdown...
2-1-22: It's a great time to be alive
February 01, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.82 MBIt’s so easy today to flip on the news and get bombarded with negativity and to focus on all the things wrong with the world today. So today, I wanted to focus on the fact that 2022 might just be the best time ever to be alive. Think about it. We have all the information we could ever want at our fingertips. You can order anything you want and have it delivered. You can deposit checks with your phone and the idea of a paper map is now laughable. Not only that, we have radical surgeries a...
1-31-22: Focusing on your strengths
January 31, 2022 20:00 - 5 minutes - 3.93 MBSo many of us spend too much time during our lives trying to fix what’s “wrong” with us. Many of you right now may be feeling down because of a failed new year's resolution. But what if you focused on your strengths instead of your weaknesses? There has been a lot of research done on this idea of focusing on strengths and the results are clear. When people focus on their strengths they are more engaged, more joyful and are more productive in their lives. The best years of my baseball car...
Episode 6: Al Jean executive producer of The Simpsons
January 27, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBToday I talk with Al Jean, the longtime executive producer of The Simpsons. We talk about the iconic episode that I was part of 30 years ago when Mr. Burns hired me to be the second baseman of his nuclear power plant softball team along with eight other Major League Baseball All-Stars like Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr. We cover how Al went from studying for a math degree at Harvard to writing at the Harvard Lampoon. The joy he found in writing comedy led him to write for Johnny Carson,...
1-26-22: Tips for perseverence
January 26, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 4.18 MBWe are in the middle of winter and we have been weathering yet another COVID surge that may have you wondering, “is this ever going to end?” Well the short answer to that is, yes it will end. But in the meantime I wanted to share some tips that I have learned from long baseball seasons and grinding through tough times that have helped me to persevere in the past and have helped me to enjoy my life today. Listen to today’s short to hear more about how passion, being a pro, curiosity and b...
1-25-22: The power of forgiveness
January 25, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.91 MBOn today’s short I wanted to talk about a principle which I believe is vital for all of us to live a life free from resentment and anger. That principle is forgiveness. I found this amazing story about a man named Rais Bhuiyan who was shot in the face and left for dead in a hate crime 10 days after 9/11. The man who shot Rais killed two other people that week as revenge for 9/11 and he was caught, convicted and sentenced to death. Bhuiyan’s life was forever changed and for a time he was ...
1-24-22: Teddy Roosevelt's tip for focusing
January 24, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.92 MBWe all have a ton of things which can distract us everyday and make us less productive which can lead to a feeling of emptiness and low energy. To combat this I found a tip that came partially from one of the greatest Americans ever, 26th President Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt found that if he focused intensely on one task at a time he was more productive and more efficient. He discovered this practice while at Harvard. He would go to the library each afternoon and spend an intense hour or t...
1-19-22: Some people cannot be stopped
January 19, 2022 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.71 MBFor our last story of people overcoming adversity this week, I found the beautiful story of Katie Cooke, a young woman who competes in long distance running races despite having epilepsy. And Katie doesn’t just a have a seizure every once in a while either, she suffers from 14 per day! Yet she gets out on the trail and runs and runs. She’ll have a seizure, fall to the ground and when it’s over, she dusts herself off and keeps on running. On top of all that she has an attitude of joy and ...
1-18-22: Build yourself up, don't tear others down
January 18, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.36 MBThis week we look at stories of people who overcame difficult situations to make something of themselves. Today we talk about the famous poet and professor John Ciardi. Born to Italian immigrants in 1916, Ciardi’s father was killed in a car accident when he was three. He was bullied by neighborhood kids and his mother who raised him could neither read nor write, yet he became a well known poet and etymologist. Ciardi is also the author of one of my favorite poems called In Place of a Cur...
1-18-22: Build yourself up, don't tear others down
January 18, 2022 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.36 MBThis week we look at stories of people who overcame difficult situations to make something of themselves. Today we talk about the famous poet and professor John Ciardi. Born to Italian immigrants in 1916, Ciardi’s father was killed in a car accident when he was three. He was bullied by neighborhood kids and his mother who raised him could neither read nor write, yet he became a well known poet and etymologist. Ciardi is also the author of one of my favorite poems called In Place of a Cur...
1-17-22: How to turn trash into treasure
January 17, 2022 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.36 MBThis week we are focusing on stories of people who have taken difficult circumstances they were born into and persevered to achieve something great. That doesn’t mean they became rich and famous necessarily but it means they overcame their situations to make more of themselves and their lives than you might think they could given those circumstances. Today we talk about Alcindo Soares, who lives on a tiny island off the west coast of Africa. When he saw his local beach becoming polluted wi...
1-12-22: Getting advice from the right people
January 12, 2022 09:00 - 3 minutes - 2.67 MBAsking for advice or feedback is often a wise and prudent thing to do when you are unsure about the quality of your work or a decision you need to make. But we have to be very careful about who we ask advice from and we must be willing to hear the advice good, bad or otherwise. Additionally, we shouldn’t run around asking for feedback from people who are unqualified to give it to us. Not only that, we should be aware that all advice is subjective and based on that person’s personal experie...