A Dose Of Reality On Vaccination Inequality
A new war is on the horizon. The vaccinated against the unvaccinated. When we should be uniting against our common enemy that is fear, Americans might soon be turning on each other instead. In fact, it’s already happening. Fear...
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Cody O’Connor
Cody O'Connor battled Ewing’s sarcoma cancer in his right leg at the age of 14. Initially diagnosed with achilles tendonitis, the following 12 months he continued with normal life and took his team to a state championship in...
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Are You A No-Vaxxer Or Anti-Vaxxer?
Are you an anti-vaxxer or a no-vaxxer? The former is staunchly opposed to any form of vaccination, think Robert F.Kennedy Jr. The latter reserves healthy skepticism against vaccines that, according to top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci, neither...
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Montell Griffin
Raised by his father in the boxing world, Montell was highly influenced by Muhammad Ali as a young child. Forced to give up boxing at the age of 12 after his father’s death, Montell was left navigating the streets...
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Intuition And Navigating Chaos
Ever get the intuition that something bad is about to happen? MMA fighters get it all the time. Although I will say, when you’re locked inside a cage 10 feet away from a guy who’s trying to maul you,...
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My Three Favorite Exercises To Build Functional Strength
A common refrain you hear in fitness training today is the need to build functional strength. Pictures and videos of tire flips and sledgehammer exercises are fun, intense workouts and often accompanied by the term functional strength training. Before...
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Upside-Downside: Short Circuit Decision Making
Have you ever found yourself flustered, pressed for time and anxious when making a tough decision? That’s pretty much everyone I know and that’s ok. When it comes to decision making, human beings are fallible. We are susceptible to...
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Joe de Sena
There are people who push their boundaries and others who redefine them. Joe De Sena did that when he accidentally signed up to run three endurance runs in the same week. Founder of the Spartan Race, De Sena built...
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Leadership Under Pressure On The Apprentice
In any high pressure situation, leadership is critical, even more so when it means life or death. If a helicopter crashes into the ocean, its cabin rotates and takes on water very quickly. Sinking at a rate of nine...
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How I Won My Battle Against Burnout
If you don’t succeed at first, try and try again. Things will work out eventually, right? But for every person who succeeds, there are likely hundreds and thousands who either give up or burnout along the way. Athletes in...
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