Unplugged with Brandon Steiner

An intimate conversation hosted by Brandon Steiner with New York Yankees pitchers CC Sabathia, Chance Adams and Tommy Kahnle and Steiner Sports customers at Steiner Sports headquarters in New Rochelle, NY - January 24, 2019.

The acclaimed J. Alexander Martin has externalized many successful ventures in the fashion industry including the iconic clothing line FUBU –“For Us By Us” – serving as the co-founder and Vice President. Today, his kingdom includes a clothing line, a non-profit and a consulting firm. Through all of his endeavours, it is his innate talent and ability to predict trends that have caused him to impact the fashion world once again. Rightfully portrayed as the man who made urban culture a part of the mainstream, J’s consistency in fashion has now given him a platform to emerge as an effectual leader once again. Born and raised in Hollis Queens New York, his professional desire was realized at a young age. With an evoked confidence, motivation, and a sense of direction, this allowed J to navigate around the traps of urban life that snared many of his peers. With his developed vision to become an efficacious entrepreneur, J attended the Fashion Institute of Technology after courageously serving with the United States Navy during Desert Storm. J is the Cofounder and creative director of Fubu The Collection, President of FUBUTV. He has held licenses & has worked with successful multi million dollar brands, (Crown Holder, Kappa, Drunken Monkey, Ted Baker, Coogi, LRG Ladies, Under 2 Flags, Married to the Mob, Heatherette as well as consulted others. (Posner/Loreal, Luster Hair Care Products, Echelon Indian Virgin Hair & Human Hair Mfr., Scunci, Camus Cognac, FashInvest, Vumee, Siemens, Samsung, Vertu, Black Chambers of Commerce NY/NJ) Van Heusin, Fabien Couture Group, Sean John, Under 2 Flags. He is currently Exec. Vice President & Creative Director & Co-founder of FUBU and Founder And CEO of FUBU Television Network & Partner Trace Tv US. Author of “Money Makes Me Crazy”, Board Member of the National Black Chambers of Commerce, President of the New York State Black Chamber of Commerce and Representative of the Urban League Young Professionals. About Money Makes Me Crazy: How I Squandered Millions of Dollars Building The FUBU Empire: FUBU co-founder and entrepreneur J. Alexander Martin shares his compelling story about how he helped build a neighborhood business into a billion-dollar international brand. Teaming with behavioral finance expert and author Ted McLyman, they present an easy to understand and useful road map for success and financial security. J uses his inspirational story as the backdrop to explain why financial success is about discovering your Money Values and Money Temperament. This book offers an enlightening account of how our human nature conspires against us when we make money choices. This is a revolutionary approach to financial success and a must read for everyone who must decide how to spend their hard earned money. Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Money-Makes-Me-Crazy-Squandered/dp/0692915850

There are a lot of things that factor into your success in business and they start with your mental, physical and nutritional health. I brought back two my GURUS, Dana Cavalea, former Director of Strength & Conditioning for the 2009 World Series Champion New York Yankees and author of Habits of a Champion, and Steve Nudelberg, expert speaker and author of Confessions of a Serial Salesman. A surprise visit to the show was made by entrepreneur Bonnie Sussman, who's innovative new product GoLidz (https://golidz.com) is going to take over the food service industry. About Habits of a Champion: In his first published book, Coach Dana Cavalea shares 15 lessons about what it takes to become a champion. He shares stories and insights from some of the worlds top performers in sports, life and business. An easy to read, funny, attention grabbing journey on how to take your life and game from average to extraordinary, you will soon find out that achieving your full potential is a lot more simple than you think. Along his journey, Coach has learned that there is not such thing as a Default Champion. It takes work. Not just any kind of work though--very specific day-to-day work. This book was written for anyone looking to take their game to the next level. Whether you are a coach looking to lead your team to victory, an athlete looking to maximize on-field performance, a CEO or entrepreneur wanting more out of yourself or your team, or somebody out there aspiring to be better today than they were yesterday, this book is for you. Straight-forward, direct, honest and goal-oriented--that is what Habits of a Champion: Nobody Becomes A Champion By Accident is about. Are you ready to elevate yourself to Champion status Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Champion-Dana-Cavalea/dp/1641840382 About Confessions of a Serial Salesman: Have you ever wondered what separates a top performing sales person from the rest of the pack? Top sales professionals know that the difference between a good and great performance requires a set of disciplines and best practices that will drive you to new levels of success. In most cases, it's because they apply many of these best practices in their daily routine. These rules and/or actions are called the Rules of Engagement and are Standard Operating Procedures that have been cultivated from over 40 years of sales experience and relationships with top performers all over the world. Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Serial-Salesman-Influencers-business/dp/0692901051

Darren Gurney has been coaching baseball at the collegiate and high school level since 1992. Since receiving his first coaching position, Gurney has coached over 20 players who were selected in the MLB Draft or who have gone on to play professional baseball. Gurney was the field manager for the Metro New York Cadets (ACBL) from 2005 through 2007. The Cadets was a team comprised of premier college baseball players from top Division I baseball programs. He was named field manager for the 2006 ACBL All-Star Game in Lafayette, Pennsylvania. Gurney was also an assistant coach at Iona College from 2005 through 2007. His responsibilities included coaching first base and working with outfielders, catchers, and base runners. In addition, he compiled practice plans, scouting of opponents, statistical analysis, and handled the recruiting of high school and junior college players. Gurney is the founder and director of a college preparatory baseball program for players ages 17-18 at Ultimate College Prep. UCP s comprehensive workouts help market and prepare players for the college baseball experience. He is also the director of Rising Star Baseball Camp, the largest baseball camp in Westchester County, where he develops the daily curriculum, staffing, and player evaluation criteria for campers ages 7 to 15. Gurney is the chief video analyst for the progressive, online baseball instruction website: TheBaseballDoctor.com. By providing mechanical analysis and feedback through Internet-based instruction, he has assisted athletes around the world. Gurney is recognized among the elite economics instructors in the country. In 2004, he was selected by NASDAQ as one of the top 10 economics educators in the USA. About Darren's Book Covering All the Bases: The Ultimate Baseball Handbook Covering All the Bases has everything a baseball coach needs to know. This well-written and easy to follow book is full of hundreds of photos of actual players demonstrating the skills and drills. Whether the topic is pitching, hitting, defense, or baserunning, you will find additional content aimed to improve various coaching skills including administrative, interpersonal, in-game strategy, and teaching.

When you hire Dan Clark as your Keynote Speaker, you get a CEO of an international high performance communication and leadership development company; a New York Times Best Selling Author; a Hall of Fame Professional Speaker; a University Professor; an Extreme Adventurer; a Gold Record Songwriter; an Award Winning Athlete; and 2012 Utah Father of the Year, who has become the modern day Napoleon Hill, having interviewed the world’s most successful business gurus and champion athletes to share their secrets on what works and why. As one of the most in-demand speakers on the planet, Dan delivers customized, cutting edge keynote speeches and transformational training programs to entry level employees, emerging leaders, seasoned executives, educational administrators and military Officers and NCOs. In the last thirty years Dan has spoken in all 50 states, 61 countries, on 6 continents, to over 5500 audiences, to millions of people, to a ‘who’s who’ list of clients including 200 of the Fortune 500 companies, National Trade Associations, Million Dollar Round Table, Super Bowl Champions, NASA, U.S. and Foreign Government Agencies, and the United Nations. Dan has also had the honor of presenting his ideas at the Festival of Thinkers in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to the general assembly of the United Nations World Congress in Hamburg Germany, to the senior leadership of the United States military, and to U.S./Coalition combat troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Southwest Asia, Europe, Korea and Africa.

A widely known voice of esoteric ideas, Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Mitch has written on everything from the war on witches to the secret life of Ronald Reagan for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, Time.com, and Politico. The Washington Post says Mitch "treats esoteric ideas and movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness that is too often lost in today's raised-voice discussions." He narrates popular audio books including Alcoholics Anonymous and The Jefferson Bible. Mitch has discussed alternative spirituality on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, NPR's All Things Considered, CNN, and throughout the national media. The Chinese government has censored his work. About Mitch's latest book: The Miracle Club Following in the footsteps of a little-known group of esoteric seekers from the late-nineteenth century who called themselves “the Miracle Club,” Mitch Horowitz shows that the spiritual “wish fulfillment” practices known as the Law of Attraction, Positive Thinking, “the Secret,” and the Science of Getting Rich actually work. Weaving these ideas together into a concise, clear formula, with real-life examples of success, he reveals how your thoughts can impact reality and make things happen.

Nourishment Expert, Speaker and Author Jeanette Bronée has more than 15 years of experience helping people overcome their daily confusion and struggles with eating while avoiding the restrictive nature of dieting. Her core belief is that when we focus on feeling healthy, vibrant, and nourished, weight loss is just a welcome side effect. This handbook offers a condensed guide to the first step in her path to self-nourishment. With a focus on basic food knowledge -- including a lucid explanation of hunger and digestion and an in-depth guide to the foods and eating habits that will help you stay satisfied longer after a meal -- her book Eat to Feel Full aims to help its readers feel better about eating, feel better after eating, and gain mastery of their appetites through an increased sense of well-being. Her TEDx talk is an example of how we can take charge of our health by changing our relationship with food. More: Now more than ever, time is currency, but self-care is not where to save time, it is how we get time back. To achieve ideal personal and organizational health, it is essential to make self-care the foundation for how we perform–at work, at home and on the go, because essentially health is the new currency. Health and nourishment is the foundation for peak performance, sustainable success and a good life. WHY NOURISHMENT MATTERS: The way we work in our modern busy lives doesn’t work and we are a breaking down from burn-out and overwhelm. What if instead of just surviving every day, we could thrive? We struggle, because the first thing we leave behind on a busy day is ourselves and our self-care, even our basic needs for sustenance and our longing for feeling nourished. I developed the Path for Life Method, which integrates the 3 key essential ingredients to create sustainable change in the way we eat, perform and thrive every day: Food-Knowledge, Mindfulness, and Habit-shifting. Food-knowledge is how food becomes a tool for being at our best. By learning how food affect us it becomes a tool to support our body and ourselves in achieving better daily well-being while still being busy at work. Mindfulness is how we learn to listen within. To pause and ask questions. Questions that create change. It is how we can re-train our mindset from that of the inner critic to the inner coach. Habit-shifting is how we change from being stuck to being engaged, active and focused. When we feed the natural process of change; the human desire to make progress and grow our human need for connection, community and contribution, good change happens and we can create sustainable success. Self-care does not come last. Self-care is not a luxury or a perk, it is the foundation for achieving work/life/health integration and living a life we love.

A conversation with Bryan Eisenberg, one of the authors of "Be Like Amazon: Even A Lemonade Stand Can Do It." About Be Like Amazon: Even A Lemonade Stand Can Do It: You're on a road trip with an old man and a younger one. Business stories are told. Wisdom is revealed. A new perspective emerges. Companies like Costco and Kodak, General Motors and Walmart provide color and texture as they appear on the horizon and in the rearview mirror. Real companies. Real decisions. Real outcomes. Jeff Bezos and Amazon give this road trip its rhythm as the four pillars of their success are made plain. It's a wonderful success, easily repeated, even by a lemonade stand. But only if you understand the importance of the marshmallow. Purchase the book here: https://amzn.to/2HpojGP

Susan Sly and Jeff Cox join the show to discuss mental and physical wellness, and their new business, Radius AI. About Susan Sly: Susan Sly is a best-selling author, speaker, trainer and entrepreneur. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox, Lifetime Television, The CBN, The Morning Show in Australia and been quoted in Forbes Magazine Online. Susan is the author of 7 books, including Have It All Woman and Organize Your Life. Her latest book project with NY Times Best Selling Author, Jack Canfield, made six Amazon Best Selling lists. As an athlete, Susan has completed the Boston Marathon 6 times and placed Top 10 in the Pro Division of the Ironman Triathlon in Malaysia. Susan is passionate about philanthropy and has dedicated a significant amount of time and money working to liberate girls from trafficking and invest in education to support women and girls who have survived trauma and abuse, both domestically and overseas. Susan is the mother of five children and resides with her husband in Scottsdale, Arizona. About Radius AI: Our mission is to help brick & mortar stores improve their profitability by utilizing our revolutionary visual AI technology to generate more foot traffic and provide a customized, frictionless, shopping experience for their customers without having to collect personally identifiable information.

Michael Dermer is an entrepreneur, speaker, lawyer and founder/author of The Lonely Entrepreneur. Michael is considered the founder of not only a company, but an industry – rewarding individuals for healthy behavior. Michael left a promising law career to start IncentOne, the first company to provide rewards for healthy behavior. At the time, rewards in healthcare were not only non-existent – they were offensive. He was told over and over “we will never reward people for things they should be doing to be healthy.” After bootstrapping for a decade, his company received a large private equity investment on October 15, 2008. They had arrived. It should have been a time for celebration. Then the financial crisis hit. Ten years were gone in ten days. Bankrupt customers. Investment gone. Credit dead. Family dollars at risk. Angry investors. Family relationships on the brink. It would take two years of working 24 hours a day to save what took ten years to build. The perfect storm. It was doomed. Or was it? Today, health rewards are everywhere, he sold IncentOne to industry innovator Welltok and his company is credited with creating the health rewards industry. What resulted was not only a business success, but the discovery of a unique method on how to thrive under the pressure, chaos and burden of being the entrepreneur. The Lonely Entrepreneur was born.

From bratwursts to bobbleheads, mascots to mohawks and walkoffs to walkup music, everything awesome in MLB--that's Cut4 and Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman, after creating a blog called Cespedes Familly BBQ in high school, now are a part of a growing youth wave in baseball. About Cespedes Family BBQ (as told by Jake and Jordan): We are Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman, and we are the Cespedes Family BBQ. You may know us from Baseball Twitter or from some of the stuff we've done here on Cut4 over the past year. If you don't know who we are, let us provide a brief introduction. To start, what's the deal with the name? In January 2012, current New York Mets outfielder/horserider/dinger-knocker Yoenis Cespedes had just become a free agent. In order to rouse up interest in his alluring skillset, Cespedes and his EGOT-winning team of producers crafted a showcase video to advertise himself to big league clubs. At the very end of the 20-minute-long video -- after the part where he thanks former Packers running back Ahman Green and after the shot of his family members performing a complicated three-person dance maneuver -- we are treated to Yo himself roasting a large pig over an open spit. Even Vin Scully has seen it! Some teenagers are inspired by music, some by art, some by literature. We were inspired by a large baseball man from Cuba roasting a large pig on a rotisserie with his family in the background. To each their own. Then we, two high school seniors, started a website and Twitter account, and the BBQ was born; a spontaneous baseball-blogging journey had begun. Nearly four years later, here we are -- joining MLB.com. We've already done some pretty cool stuff over the past few years. Our cross-country summer road trip in the summer of 2016 was documented on Cut4, and featured a ridiculous variety of activities with some of the top prospects in the game. For example, Jake competed in a July 4th apple pie eating contest, we watched a Red Sox prospect throw a bat over the Mini Green Monster, our road trip's final destination was All-Star Week in San Diego, where we asked relief pitchers about the Home Run Derby (naturally), And of course, we had to talk to Odubel Herrera about his glorious bat flips, we even made it to the World Series, where we sought out the most eclectic Cubs fans around Wrigley Field. While we don't have the expertise of former All-Stars, Jake did play Division III baseball at Washington University in St. Louis. A sidearm reliever with below-average control, above-average movement and buckets of irrational confidence, Jake was only ejected once in his four-year career. After being beyond dreadful his first three years (11.94 ERA), he was -- much to the surprise of his friends and family -- actually really good his senior year (0.81 ERA in 31 innings). Jordan on the other hand is significantly less athletic, but means really well. His baseball career ended in 10th grade after he made the difficult and painstaking decision to do other things with his free time. We thrive at the intersection of millennial distraction, baseball, and tomfoolery. We think baseball is fun and weird, and we want to share that with all you other people who also think baseball is fun and weird -- in writing, on camera or in your earholes (podcasts are also our thing). Welcome to the Cespedes Family BBQ. We hope you like the food, and we know you'll love the banter.

Author Krista Rizzo joins the show to talk about the key to sustaining loving relationships. About #WhyIamAYelling: YOU + THIS BOOK = SUSTAINING LOVING RELATIONSHIPS Since the beginning of time, we humans have been working to have successful relationships in every area of our lives. Krista Rizzo knew early on through her coaching work, that she would write a book about this very struggle. In this book, Krista Rizzo uses real life stories of humor and heartache to demonstrate how, by focusing on 5 simple relationship essentials, we can cultivate and maintain our own loving, successful relationships. Transformational Life Coach, Krista Rizzo was inspired to write this book through her own relationship experiences as a woman, wife, daughter, friend and mother. She realized that while there are plenty of relationship books out there addressing specific needs, there’s not one that touches on all of them in the same place. In this book, Krista shares with you everything she’s learned through her own experiences with relationships and through her coaching work. From the failures to the successes and everything in between, throughout every stage of her life! Through the creation of the 5 Relationship Essentials, Krista is making available to you: The art of successful communication in all of your relationships Why intimacy in every relationship is so important Why creating boundaries can be a game changer The reasons why R-E-S-P-E-C-T matters How having a support system in place is imperative to help you thrive . . . and so much more! Whether you are a seasoned relationship veteran, are in need of some guidance or just someone who wants a good laugh at Krista’s expense, you’re sure to find pieces of this book that are relatable and helpful to you as you continue to build on your relationships! About Krista Rizzo: Krista Rizzo is the very definition of #WhyAmIYelling? Once an aspiring talk show host, she’s now a Professional Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and the creator of the life changing “Inspiring Transformation” programs, where she is determined to YELL about spreading optimism everywhere she goes. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her very tolerant husband and their two boys. When she’s not busy being the World’s Okayest Mom, Krista can be found hiding in her closet enjoying the peace and quiet with a good book, a glass of prosecco and some dark chocolate.

One of ESPN’s preeminent journalists, Jeremy Schaap, joins Brandon Steiner to discuss "42 to 1," ESPN's newest 30 for 30 feature co-directed by Schaap, which chronicles Buster Douglas' iconic defeat of Mike Tyson in the boxing ring in February 1990. 42 to 1 will air on ESPN on Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 9pm ET. About Jeremy Schaap: Jeremy Schaap has been with the ESPN since 1994. He now serves as the co-host of the weekly E:60 on Sunday mornings and continues to contribute to ESPN’s other studio shows, including Outside the Lines and SportsCenter. Additionally, Schaap is the host of the award-winning weekly radio show and podcast The Sporting Life. In 2015, Schaap won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on human rights and social justice issues, a first for ESPN. The RFK Center honored Schaap for his story exposing the plight of migrant laborers in Qatar, who live and work in inhumane conditions. It’s been projected that thousands will die as the tiny gulf emirate, by some measures the richest country on earth, prepares to play host to the 2022 World Cup. Schaap has also won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards, two National Headliner Awards and eleven national Sports Emmy Awards. He is the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, a New York Times bestseller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics, which Disney is developing as a feature film. His best-known stories at ESPN include a Bobby Fischer profile, which earned him the national Sports Emmy Award for writing, an award named for his father Dick Schaap, and an investigation that took him to Serbia in search of a basketball player accused of a brutal assault, which earned him the national Sports Emmy Award for journalism.

Former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi reveals what makes football organizations tick at the championship level. From personnel to practice to game-day decisions that win titles, Lombardi shares what he learned working with coaching legends Bill Walsh of the 49ers, Al Davis of the Raiders, and Bill Belichick of the Patriots, among others, during his three decades in football. Why do some NFL franchises dominate year after year while others can never crack the code of success? For 30 years Michael Lombardi had a front-row seat and full access as three titans--Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick--reinvented the game, turning it into a national obsession while piling up Super Bowl trophies. Now, in Gridiron Genius, Lombardi provides the blueprint that makes a successful organization click and win--and the mistakes unsuccessful organizations make that keep them on the losing side time and again. In reality, very few coaches understand the philosophies, attention to detail, and massive commitment that defined NFL juggernauts like the 49ers and the Patriots. The best organizations are not just employing players, they are building something bigger. Gridiron Genius will explain how the best leaders evaluate, acquire, and utilize personnel in ways other professional minds, football and otherwise, won't even contemplate. How do you know when to trade a player? How do you create a positive atmosphere when everyone is out to maximize his own paycheck? And why is the tight end like the knight on a chessboard? To some, game planning consists only of designing an attack for the next opponent. But Lombardi explains how the smartest leaders script everything: from an afternoon's special-teams practice to a season's playoff run to a decade-long organizational blueprint. Readers will delight in the Lombardi tour of an NFL weekend, including what really goes on during the game on and off the field and inside the headset. First stop: Belichick's Saturday night staff meeting, where he announces how the game will go the next day. Spoiler alert: He always nails it. Football dynasties are built through massive attention to detail and unwavering commitment. From how to build a team, to how to watch a game, to understanding the essential qualities of great leaders, Gridiron Genius gives football fans the knowledge to be the smartest person in the room every Sunday.

2x Olympic gold medalist, NCAA Champion and one of the greatest players in women's basketball history, Teresa Weatherspoon joined Brandon Steiner for a discussion about the state of the WNBA and women's basketball overall.