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Longtime Toronto Blue Jays radio voice Mike Wilner hosts Deep Left Field, a baseball podcast from the Toronto Star. With great baseball coverage, opinion and analysis from Mike and other Star sports journalists including Laura Armstrong and Gregor Chisholm, as well as MLB players and others in the game, Deep Left Field has everything you need to know about the Jays, specifically, and baseball in general.
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In the Toronto Star’s sports podcast, veteran sports reporter Doug Smith teams up with his colleague, rookie reporter Laura Armstrong to banter over pints about the latest sports headlines.
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The Growth Hacking Podcast with Laura Moreno

Featuring Neil Patel, Ari Meisel, Casey Armstrong and many more twice a week

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The Growth Hacking Podcast is a bi-weekly show created for YOU, the Startup Founder, Marketing Expert or Investor. If you are looking for inspiration and ACTIONABLE advice on how to GROW your Startup, Laura Moreno delivers great interviews twice a week. Each episode brings you a successful Startup Founder or Growth Hacker who shares a Growth Hacking Strategy that worked for them. Each episode ends with the Lightning Round where they will share with you their secrets for lean growth and success!
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This podcast interviews alumnae of St. Paul's School for Girls and explores the history and impact of SPSG. Special thanks to our guests: Kathy Armstrong Gaudet ‘69 Nell Tapscott Goetze ‘89 Ebony Harley ‘05 Emily McKhann ‘79 Laura Ciekot Newell ‘99 Edee Waller Jan Colt Wang ‘69 Karen Berger Yeagle ’63 St. Paul’s School for Girls educates hearts and minds in an inclusive community that is grounded in the Episcopal values of respect, integrity, and spiritual growth. We empower voice, nurture i ...
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The world of leadership is rife with information, listicles and re-hashed advice. We all know that we need to have more difficult conversations, be kinder and more empathetic with those we lead, and walk the path of servant leadership. And yet we rarely seem to get any closer to developing ourselves as the leaders we wish to be. Instead, we clutter our brains with more information, enact a new promise to ourselves and those around us to lean in and show up more powerfully than we did last ti ...
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Guests: Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman, Dodgers 1B coach Clayton McCullough This week in Deep Left Field, Kevin Gausman – who had his worst season in five years – joins us to reflect on what went wrong with the Blue Jays this year, how he turned his season around in July and how badly he wants to not just get back to the playoffs but to go on a de…
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If you had a bad start to the day, you are wrapped up in the story of what a shitty day is. As you go with the rest of the day, you will look at things to justify that it is indeed a shitty day. Generating the event in yourself how you want to experience it requires some energetic input. Generating as a leader is the act of choosing how we will be …
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Guests: Blue Jays 2024 Team Award Winners Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Jose Berrios, Spencer Horwitz and Bowden Francis Every year, good or bad, we poll the Blue Jays’ clubhouse to ask players, coaches and support staff to vote for the Jays’ end-of-season awards. This week, we bring all the winners into Deep Left Field! You’ll hear from unanimous MVP Vla…
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If you've ever found yourself in a situation where you do a lot of research and try to get the answer but can never seem to find it, this episode is for you! As a child, we are taught to trust our paths and learn by failing. We understand how to move through life by doing crazy stuff. As we age, we will meet people who want to keep an eye on our fu…
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“Ross needs to get better.” Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but Blue Jays’ president/CEO Mark Shapiro reiterated – word for word – the same thing he said last year while saying that Ross Atkins will remain in his position as general manager. We go through Shapiro’s end-of-season media conference as well as Atkins’ appearance that followed …
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"My life is already super busy and I have very few precious resources to manage time to practice." Practice is a concept that gets used a lot in coaching, sports and meditation. It comes into play whenever there is something in life that we want to improve, change, shift and develop in ourselves. Before we go to practice, this is not typically our …
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Guest: Blue Jays manager John Schneider The Blue Jays season ends with a whimper, swept at home by the 100-loss Miami Marlins. In this special bonus edition of Deep Left Field, we sit down with John Schneider to discuss what led to one of the most disappointing seasons in club history and what needs to be done to fix things to get the team back on …
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Guests: Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen, Blue Jays associate manager DeMarlo Hale and relief pitcher Dillon Tate The Blue Jays final homestand of the season opened with Danny Jansen coming home, but playing for the Red Sox, after the long-time Jay was traded to Boston at the deadline. We renew acquaintances with the fan favourite to talk about the war…
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In the concluding part of The Heartbreak of Leadership series, we will discuss a person who doesn't know where to stand in their leadership process. To summarize our previous episodes, in Part 1, we talked about the heartbreak of leadership from your perspective as a leader standing for the people you are leading. In the second part, we talked abou…
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Guests: Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt, infielder Ernie Clement, Baseball Canada legend Stubby Clapp With the Jays’ worst season in years winding down, Chris Bassitt joins us to talk about where the blame lies for the disappointment and to discuss being the Jays’ nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award. We catch up with Ernie Clement to go over his…
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In the previous episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the heartbreak of leadership. The heartbreak of leadership occurs as you are leading someone, and they turn against you, fight with you, and argue with you. Today, we will look at the other angle. We can't see the new dimension. All we can do is pull whenever someone is…
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Guests: New York Mets bench coach John Gibbons, Blue Jays catcher Brian Serven and outfielder Nathan Lukes John Gibbons, who returned to Rogers Centre in uniform for the first time since being fired as Jays manager after the 2018 season, joins us to talk about his time in Toronto, his great (and not-so-great) Jays squads, playoff runs and trade dea…
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The heartbreak of leadership is a function of the fact that, as a leader, your job is to have a little more altitude than those whose leadership you are developing. Altitude is the ability to see a little bit more of the picture, like a coach, than the players on the court can. With this altitude, the leader can see a little bit more of a bigger pi…
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Guests: Blue Jays shortstop Leo Jimenez and reliever Ryan Yarbrough; Jays’ prospects Josh Kasevich and Alan Roden The Blue Jays are playing much more entertaining baseball lately with the influx of youth around the trade deadline, and we catch up with one of the youngsters, Leo Jimenez, who has seamlessly fit into the middle infield after the injur…
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Conversation for transformation and conversation for survival are two important distinct conversations valuable when leading, coaching, and supporting someone. In this episode, we will see the distinctions between these two types of conversations. Some distinctions include conversation for transformation is different from our default conversation o…
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Guests: Los Angeles Angels outfielder Kevin Pillar and infield coach Ryan Goins, Blue Jays prospect pitcher Jake Bloss This week in Deep Left Field, we catch up with a couple of former Blue Jays who are now working together on the west coast. Kevin Pillar talks about contemplating retirement and Ryan Goins, already onto the next chapter of his base…
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How can you inspire people to be physically active? Why is it important and what are the benefits greater physical activity can have? What support is available to me to provide this advise to patients? Andrew Harris from Active Together speaks to Ralph and Claire about making physical activity and sport more accessible and part of our everyday live…
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There are two types of investment for yourself. The first type is where you make an investment that does not cost you much financially and is not of too much concern. This type of investment is common for most people. But what happens when you invest in something you couldn't afford to fail? This is the type of investment that arrests you. In this …
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Guests: New retiree Joey Votto, Blue Jays starter Bowden Francis, Jays infielder Will Wagner, Cincinnati Reds infielder Santiago Espinal This week, we share highlights of the impromptu scrum that Joey Votto did at Rogers Centre just hours after announcing his retirement from baseball. Also, we sit down with reigning American League player of the we…
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If you ask people who are high performers how they experience disappointment, they will tell you that they don't have a lot of disappointment in their life. Disappointments are uncommon for these people. What is going on is that people learn to perform and put out some excellent work, and they constantly try to outrun the specter of disappointment …
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Guests: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Geddy Lee, lead singer and bassist of seminal Canadian rock band Rush This week in Deep Left Field, we are joined by honest-to-goodness Canadian rock royalty. Geddy Lee is here for an in-depth conversation about baseball and the Blue Jays, two of his great loves. We remember Jays history and discuss what went wro…
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Guests: Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah, outfielder Joey Loperfido On a special Monday bonus episode of Deep Left Field, and his insight into what’s been a miserable season for Bo Bichette. We also get to know one of the new guys acquired by the Jays at the trade deadline – Joey Loperfido, one of three players who came over from Houston in the Yusei …
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In this episode of The Transformational Leader, we talked about the Ontology of Patterns, the nature of a pattern, and how we stay stuck. The nature of a pattern is that over time, we do something and are rewarded for it. We learn a particular set of thoughts and beliefs, and we learn to take a specific set of actions from those thoughts and belief…
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On this week’s mid-week episode, Adam is breaking down all things related to the topic of Empathy. You’ll hear him discuss What is in the way of our empathy, How empathy is related to our aging process, How empathy can provide access to our own blindspots, What the consequences of opening our heart empathetically are, and more.…
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Blue Jays President and CEO Mark Shapiro met with the media this week – for the first time since spring training – and we break down what Shapiro had to say. He touched on the Jays’ lost season, the future of Ross Atkins, what the Jays need to do to get back to being contenders and more. We analyze what Shapiro said, what he meant, and what that me…
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In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the danger of the typing model. The trouble with the typing systems is that they are ostensibly in service of helping people transform and grow, but what they do is diminish possibility. They take it off the table because if you relate to yourself as low emotionality, you will …
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Guests: Blue Jays starters Chris Bassitt and Kevin Gausman, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Kevin Kiermaier We move into August with the Jays having dealt away nearly one-third of their big-league roster, including Kevin Kiermaier, who gave us his last 1-on-1 interview as a Blue Jay before being traded to L.A. You’ll hear his thoughts on a season go…
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Guest: Toronto Star Baseball Columnist Gregor Chisholm In this special bonus episode of Deep Left Field, we recap the Blue Jays’ comings and goings at the trade deadline that just passed. The Jays traded eight members of their major-league roster and got back 13 minor-league prospects (plus one 32-year-old big-league reliever). How did they do? Did…
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In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the Ontology of Indecision. If you find yourself indecisive, what often happens is you conclude "That's just the way I am, I am indecisive." It doesn't give you any other options but to label yourself indecisive. Looking at it ontologically, we are looking at how this way of be…
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Guests: Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen, starting pitcher Yusei Kikuchi With the trade deadline looming, the Blue Jays are sellers for the first time in five years. Two of the most prominent free-agents-to-be, Danny Jansen and Yusei Kikuchi, who are very likely to be traded, join us to talk about what it’s like to be living with the uncertainty of w…
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In this week's episode of The Transformational Leader by Adam Quiney, we will talk about the interaction of ontology and other models. It is the ontological layer and how it interacts with various models. Once you work with people ontologically, it's not so much about a model as it is about cultivating in ourselves, the ability to deeply feel, see,…
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How do elite sport team environments work with their medical teams? How is this landscape changing? Ralph and Claire talk to Lee Blackett, assistant coach at Bath Rugby and former player for Rotherham and Leeds Tykes about working in a high performance multi-disciplinary team. An insightful discussion, providing a look at the evolving perspective a…
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Guests: Former Blue Jays first-round pick and top prospect Travis Snider In a special episode of Deep Left Field, we focus on mental health. Travis Snider joins us to discuss his career and why he wound up being a journeyman big-league outfielder as opposed to the can’t miss superstar that he was projected to be. Snider talks openly and honestly ab…
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The ego has one straightforward job. It is to keep you safe by keeping you where you are. It is not geographically keeping you where you are, but it's keeping you surrounded by circumstances and experiences on how you currently know them. It keeps you playing the game that you are already playing. The ego allows us to move forward or backward. It p…
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With the Blue Jays fighting against heavy odds trying to get back into a wild card race as they head toward the all-star break, we talk to a couple of former Jays about their all-star experiences back in the day. Tom Henke (1987) and Marco Estrada (2016) made the all-star team once each as Blue Jays and they get together to share their stories abou…
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Growing up, we learn of particular ways to survive our circumstances. When we reach the capacity of willingness to keep doing the stuff or experience a growing level of resentment or frustration, external circumstances will occur to us like they are the issue. We are fixated on the issue that we can see externally. We aren't aware that what we see …
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This week, on the 200th episode of Deep Left Field, we catch up with some of our favourites. Kevin Kiermaier talks about the mess the Jays continue to find themselves in, his poor season, the injury to Isiah Kiner-Falefa, the DFA of Tim Mayza and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s all-star nod. Mark Budzinski gives his thoughts on the tough road ahead and how…
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There is a tremendous amount of proximity between cults and leadership. In this episode of The Transformational Leader with Adam Quiney, he talks about the NXIVM cult and other cults. NXIVM is a cult led by convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. It started as a group called "Executive Success Program" that taught a lot of ontological w…
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Guests: Canadian stars of stage and screen Ryan Bondy (“Book of Mormon”), Sandy Jobin-Bevans (Second City, “Just Like Mom and Dad”), Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (“Kim’s Convenience,” “The Mandalorian,” “Avatar: The Last Airbender”) The Toronto Blue Jays are about to hit the halfway point of the season and, despite snapping a seven-game losing streak on Tues…
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The Blue Jays have been swept in back-to-back series. They’re playing their worst baseball with the most important week of the season beginning Monday – three games at Boston and then four at home against the first-place New York Yankees. With the team taking on water, literally and figuratively, it was time for an emergency bonus episode of Deep L…
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THEATER PEOPLE!! I'm so excited to tell you that I've teamed up with BROADWAY ICON Jennifer Simard--the two time Tony Nominee and star of the upcoming Death Becomes Her for a brand new podcast called The Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED TO SHARE EPISODE 1 WITH YOU RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW! Each week we recap an episode of The Golde…
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In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney dives deep into the ontology of the legal profession. The starting point for the legal profession is that people get into this profession with a really big heart and brain. People want to make a difference in the world, care so much about it, and want to see positive things happen. They al…
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Guests: Blue Jays DH Justin Turner and infielders Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Spencer Horwitz This week in “Deep Left Field,” we talk to the resurgent Justin Turner, who has shaken off a terrible month of May to get back to his normal self in June. We catch up with Isiah Kiner-Falefa for his thoughts about the team’s current predicament and having to ta…
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In this episode of The Transformational Leader, you will learn about the ontology of taking time off. What does it mean to take time off? Going on vacation is an interesting practice because when you go on a vacation, you are halting what you regularly do. With this, you are permitting yourself to do something different. When you go on vacation, wh…
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Guests: Blue Jays broadcaster Buck Martinez, former Jays farmhand (and son of Tom Cheek) Jeff Cheek This week, we honour Tom Cheek, the forever voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, on what would have been his 85th birthday. We remember the Hall of Fame broadcaster with stories and memories from Buck Martinez, who Cheek pushed toward a post-playing caree…
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Episode Description In this episode, Ralph and Claire welcome Guy Lubitsh to discuss leading and collaborating with others within a complex health care environment and SEM. Guy is a Professor of Leadership & Psychology at Ashridge Executive Education/Hult International Business School and an organisational psychologist. About Guy Lubitsh Guy has ov…
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