Filed under: Combs & Company, CrossFit, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Get Creative, Sean ORourke | Tags: Chad Schroeder, Combs & Company, CrossFit, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” Ellen Glasgow
2022:03
CrossFit, as an exercise methodology and sport, is all about change. The just-completed CrossFit offseason saw some major changes, but at the same time, significant continuity. Helping me piece this dichotomy together is CrossFit’s official statistician, Chad Schroeder, who joins Did You Know That? for his second appearance.
Chad and I discuss the firing of Dave Castro, the offseason competitions, major athlete news, and how he’s prepping for the 2022 season. Speaking of which, the 2022 schedule is listed below if you’re interested in participating – at least in The Open – or just want to follow as a fan.
Lots more to learn about Chad via the connections below:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-schroeder-93373a60/
Instagram: cschroeder111
Twitter: @cschroeder111
CrossFit Games: https://games.crossfit.com/games
2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games Season:
Open
- 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games Open — Feb. 24-March 14, 2022
Quarterfinals
- Individual Quarterfinal — March 24-27, 2022
- Team Quarterfinal — April 7-10, 2022
- Age Group Quarterfinal — April 21-24, 2022
- Occupational Games — April 21-24, 2022 (Finals for occupational athletes)
Semifinals
- Individual and Team Semifinals
- Week 1: May 20-22, 2022
- Torian Pro | Pat Rafter Arena
- CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown
- North American Semifinal (TBA)
- Week 2: May 27-29, 2022
- Mid-Atlantic CrossFit Challenge
- CrossFit Fittest in Cape Town
- Week 3: June 3-5, 2022
- Far East Throwdown
- North America Semifinal (TBA)
- Week 4: June 10-12, 2022
- CrossFit Atlas Games
- CrossFit Strength in Depth
- CrossFit Copa Sur
- Week 1: May 20-22, 2022
- Age Group Semifinals
- Week 1 (Athletes in 14-49 Age Divisions): May 26-29, 2022
- Week 2 (Athletes in 50+ Age Divisions): June 2-5, 2022
- Adaptive Semifinal — June 2-5, 2022 (Fittest crowned for Vision, Intellectual, Seated with Hip Function, Seated Without Hip Function, and Short Stature Divisions)
Last-Chance Qualifier
- Last-Chance Qualifier (Individual Athletes Only) — June 29-July 1, 2022
Finals
- 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games — Aug. 4-7, 2022
Music: “Hard Way” by AlexGrohl via Artlist
Filed under: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean ORourke | Tags: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke, Stephanie Rodin
2022:02
Stephanie’s Picks:
#1: “Looper” (movie)
#2: “Dr Who” (reboot)
#3: “X-men” (movie franchise)
#4: “Battlestar Galactica” (reboot)
#5: “Star Trek” franchise (TV & movies)
Wildcard: “Alien”
Honorable Mention: “In Time”
Sean’s Picks:
#1: “The Martian” (book)
#2: “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (movie)
#3: “Fringe” (TV)
#4: “Edge of Tomorrow” (aka “Live Die Repeat”) (movie)
#5: “The Terminator” & “Terminator 2” (movies)
Wildcard: “The Forever War” (book)
Honorable Mention: “Galaxy Quest” (movie)
To find out more about Stephanie’s day job and her own podcast, check out the links below.
Website: https://rodinlegal.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanierodin/
Podcast: https://speakingwithsteph.libsyn.com/website
Music: “Best of Luck – Instrumental Version” by Katrina Stone via Artlist
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Filed under: Combs & Company, Combs & Company Blog, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean ORourke | Tags: Claire Poole, Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke
“On climate change, we often don’t fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.” Kofi Annan
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” Dan Gable
2021:27
What one word do you equate with both climate change and sports? I’ll give you a moment. For me? It’s passion. There are few topics that evoke more passionate responses than climate change and sports. It’s that common visceral response which spurred the creation of an organization focused on building positive environmental impacts through a partnership with sports organizations.
Claire Poole is a lover of nature, football (soccer in the U.S.), and rugby. Those passions are on full display with Sport Positive Summit and Sport Positive Leagues (links down below). These are Claire’s efforts to bring environmental changes to both the big stadiums and arenas as well as the fans’ everyday lives. She’s doing so by making it a competition. And what sports fan isn’t looking to always beat their arch nemesis?
Join us for an important and lively discussion on this episode of Did You Know That?.
Find out more about Claire and Sport Positive via connections below.
Claire’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairepoole/
Sport Positive LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sport-positive/
Sport Positive Summit Website: www.sportpositivesummit.com
Sport Positive Leagues Website: www.sportpositiveleagues.com
Twitter: @SportPosSummit
Twitter: @claireypoole
Filed under: Combs & Company, Combs & Company Blog, CrossFit, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean ORourke | Tags: Beard of Knowledge, Chad Schroeder, Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke
“Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” Unknown
2021:24
Sports and statistics seem to have been made for each other. Would we be so entranced by the history of a sport/game/league/franchise if we couldn’t marvel or argue about 56 (MLB), 92 (NHL), 100 (NBA), or 208 (NFL)? Maybe, but probably not.
What most sports statistics have in common is uniformity. If you want to break DiMaggio’s 56-game streak, then you will have to hit in 57 straight. But what if I told you there is a global sport where everything is the same for just a moment, but will be different an hour from now, and might not reflect anything that came before? What do the statistics mean then?
Well, that’s the challenge Chad Schroeder faces everyday as the official statistician of CrossFit. There are still clear winners in CrossFit, but how they earn the wins isn’t the same from hour to hour, day to day, or year to year. Yet somehow, he helps those following and working in the sport make sense of the chaos. Chad gives some insight into how he does that on this episode of Did You Know That?
Filed under: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, General Combs, Giving Back, Mizzou, Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic, Mizzou Law Veterans Society, Roger E Combs, Sean ORourke, Susan L Combs, University of Missouri
Host: Sean C O’Rourke
Guest: Brent Filbert
“We have to make sure the Hell the veterans come home from is not the Hell they come back to.” Marcus Luttrell
Episode 2021:5
The quote above carries many connotations, but for the purposes of this episode of Did You Know That?, we’re focusing on the relationship between veterans and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). This is not a hit piece on the VA, but an exploration of how bureaucracy, politics, money, and other factors force many veterans into a pitch battle with the very government they served.
Brent Filbert is the clinical director and a supervising attorney at The Veterans Clinic at the University of Missouri School of Law. This group of dedicated attorneys and law students take up the fight – free of charge – for veterans who aren’t receiving the benefits they earned for their service. It’s a disheartening conversation in some respects and inspiring in many others.
Check out the work of The Veterans Clinic by following the links below:
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-missouri-columbia-school-of-law/
NOTE: This episode comes at a special time as we honor my late father-in-law, Maj. Gen. Roger E. Combs, with the #PancakesForRoger campaign on various social media platforms. To check out the story behind the endeavor, Click Here!
Music: “Continent” by ANBR via Artlist
Filed under: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean ORourke | Tags: Combs & Company, Cybersecurity, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke, Traci Carnes
Host: Sean O’Rourke
Guest: Traci Carnes
Title: Are Your Confident In Your Cybersecurity?
“The hacker didn’t succeed through sophistication. Rather he poked at obvious places, trying to enter through unlocked doors. Persistence, not wizardry, let him through.” Clifford Stoll, “The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage”
“The Cuckoo’s Egg” was published in 1989; I first read it in 1995. You know what’s amazing/annoying/frustrating/unsurprising? Not much has changed in the intervening 30+ years when it comes to hacking. Sure, the systems and tools have gotten more sophisticated, but persistence and unlocked doors remain the key hallmarks of most hacks.
Cybersecurity, especially for small- and mid-sized businesses, remains a hazy priority that seems to fall down the to-do list every time a company runs out of coffee or snacks. That’s just playing with gasoline and matches, and my next guest on Did You Know That? knows this firsthand. Traci Carnes has worn many a technology hat in her career, so she’s seen cybersecurity from all sides. Her thoughts and processes should inspire businesses to take a more proactive approach to minimizing the damage from a cyber event. Remember, it’s not if but when you’ll experience one.
Want to learn more about Traci and her extensive background? Check out her LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracicarnes/
Music: “Broken Radios” by Stanley Gurvich via Artlist
Filed under: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Marketing, Marketing Yourself, Sean ORourke | Tags: Adrian Miller, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke
We all pretty much know the names and stories of the entrepreneurs who made it big (just check the list of the world’s richest people). But do you know the story of the person who started that dry cleaner’s down the block? How about your favorite non-chain coffee shop? That pub you frequent way too often? The graphic designer for the at-home workout app you’ve been frequenting?
If you think about it, entrepreneurship has been around since that first multi-cellular organism ventured off on its own to find a better source of food. Not much has changed in the intervening few billion years. (OK, maybe a few things.) Being an entrepreneur is still a risky, fulfilling, exhausting, invigorating, difficult, inspiring way of life, and my next guest on Did You Know That? has experienced it more than most.
Adrian Miller has been a successful entrepreneur – many times over – for 30+ years. She’s juggled multiple businesses for more than a decade now, all while being a mom, wife, world traveler, and fount of knowledge. If you’re thinking of taking the leap, or are struggling to keep your fire going, then this is the episode you don’t want to miss.
To learn more about Adrian’s fascinating history, check out her LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amillersalestraining/.
Music: “DuDa” by Ian Post via Artlist
Filed under: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Marketing, Sean ORourke | Tags: Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Hi-Tech Resource Recovery Inc, Mr. T Carting, Paul Zambrotta, Sean O'Rourke
Host: Sean C O’Rourke
Guest: Paul Zambrotta
“There is no such thing as ‘away’. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere.” Annie Leonard
I’m not a terribly nostalgic person, but have to admit, this episode took me back to show and tell in grammar school.
Have you ever heard the term wish-cycling? No, not the practice of wishing for the same thing each time you blow out birthday candles. This is the practice of throwing an item into a recycling bin in the hopes it can be recycled. While the intention may be good, in practice, this act of hope has real negative consequences – it can turn good recyclables into trash.
My next guest on Did You Know That? is Paul Zambrotta, Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Hi-Tech Resource Recovery, Inc. & Scholes Street Recycling Corp., and Director of Safety at Mr. T Carting. Paul’s grandfather, Tom Toscano (aka, Pop), started Mr. T Carting with one truck in 1947 and the family of companies has grown with the city to better address waste and recycling efforts.
The chat with Paul is broken into two segments. First, we discuss the overall status of the recycling business and market, with an emphasis on where we, the consumers, are falling short on proper recycling. The real fun begins with part two, where Paul and I go through many common household items to determine what can go into the recycling containers and what should hit the trash. I think you may be surprised by some of his answers.
To learn more about Paul and his work, check out his LinkedIn profile, CLICK HERE
To learn more about plastic recycling, visit Waste4Change by CLICKING HERE
Music: “Urban Drummers” by Mike Kirin via. Artlist
Filed under: Combs & Company, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Sean O'Rourke, Successful Women | Tags: 5 Under Forty, American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Did You Know That?, Feature Friday, Morgan Mitchell, Sean O'Rourke
Host: Sean C O’Rourke
“It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.” Robin Roberts
In 2019, two scientists presented evidence of a malignant tumor in a turtle bone that was 240 million years old. In 2016, a published paper identified cancer in a hominid – one of our ancestors – toe bone from 1.7 million years ago. An ancient Egyptian medical text, dating back at least 3,600 years, details cancer and removal procedures for breast tumors.
So what’s this have to do with anything? Well, first, it helps explain why cancer remains such an intractable disease, even with $200 billion spent in the last 50 years (in the U.S. alone). Second, it provides context as to why I think my next guest is such an inspiring badass.
Not to give too much away, but what should have been one of the happiest days of Morgan Mitchell’s life was overshadowed by a lump she found in her breast. A couple weeks later, at 28, Morgan was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer.
If this interview was about Morgan’s work, or our previous exploits on the football field, or a hike she just finished, you’d never know she was being treated for anything other than being too positive. It’s this strength of character I wanted to bring out during our conversation, in the hopes it might inspire others, and kick off Breast Cancer Awareness month on a positive message.
Morgan’s professional side is highlighted HERE
If you’d like to learn more about the organizations Morgan mentions, visit:
5 Under Forty: https://5under40.org/
American Cancer Society: https://www.cancer.org/
Music “Early Morning” by Borrtx via Artlist
Per Angusta Ad Augusta translates to “Through difficulties to honors.”
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