Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan, here to bring you another edition of three more questions with David Novak.

David, how's it going today?

Fantastic. You know, it's interesting because we're going to be talking about Brad Richards today, the great hockey player who's Canadian.

And I just saw Nick Taylor win the Canadian

open and he's Canadian and it was a big deal there. I mean, everybody went nuts. It was like

he won the lottery or something. But it was, he did. He did make a lot of money. But I guarantee

it was more than that. It was the pride for playing for his country. And Brad's very proud of being from Canada as well.

It's so true.

Canadians love their country and they love their sports.

And like you said, Brad Richards is a phenomenal hockey player.

He's a two-time Stanley Cup champion and was MVP of the 2004 Stanley Cup.

And what I really appreciate about your conversation with him is it's

just this great reminder to trust the work that you put into something. Obviously with athletes,

professional athletes, that's their job, right? They work at it every single day. But the same concept

is true and business. David, you say all the time, when you do the right

things, the right things happen. And I'm excited to dive into our conversation today to go a little

bit deeper into some of these concepts. And preparation is everything. Absolutely. That's a great

segue into our first question. So let's get rolling.

Question number one.

Brad talks a lot about getting his mind right before going out on the ice and executing.

He says that when you're preparing for a big game, you really can't focus on it 24-7 if you want to do well, but rather you need to get your mind

into something else to help loosen you up and keep you calm before you go out on the

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