Dana Cavalea | Habits of a Champion

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Jon Gordon

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🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dana Cavalea spent 12 years with the New York Yankees Organization, many of those years as the Director of Strength and Conditioning & Performance Enhancement winning a World Series in 2009.

Currently he is a high performance speaker and consultant to Pro Athletes, Entrepreneurs, Business Executives, Workforces and Universities on lifestyle strategies to reduce stress, improve work/life balance, and most importantly improve daily performance/outcomes. All of this is known as Performance Enhancement.

www.danacavalea.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University podcast, where John and his guest will share positive
0:07.4	inspiration, encouragement, and lessons to help you overcome your challenges and make a greater impact.
0:13.7	Our goal is that you'll know it, live it, and share it.
0:17.2	Let's begin.
0:19.2	Hey I'm John Gordon with Positive University and today my guest is Dana Cavalia.
0:24.6	Dana, I've known you for about a year now and just learning how to pronounce your last name,
0:29.8	which is a good thing.
0:32.3	But you were for years the New York Yankees strength and performance coach,
0:36.4	won a World Series championship with them. Have a new book out now called
0:41.7	show it. Show the book actually.
0:44.0	Habits of a Champion.
0:45.8	Yeah, Habits of a Champion.
0:47.2	I love this book.
0:48.6	I love this title.
0:49.7	Tell me why you decided to write this book in the first place.
0:53.0	Well, you know, for me, you know, in my journey, I got a chance to meet some really great people,
0:58.0	you know, from coaches to players to CEOs, executives and leaders.
1:03.0	And, you know, honestly, I was as a coach reading a lot of different books.
1:07.8	You know, obviously I get a lot of value from reading your books,
1:11.0	but a lot of books I would read, just I didn't connect to and I knew that a lot of people, especially in the sports world, didn't connect either to some of the messaging that was out there.
1:22.2	And I wanted to create a book that
1:24.4	number one shared my experiences of success and failure and put it all in one place
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