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Non Fiction, Personal Development, Psychology

Jan 07: Upping Your Game When It Matters Most with Dr. Dana Sinclair

January 7, 2026

Performance psychologist helps identify your performance style for work, home, and winning in life.

Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most with performance psychologist and author Dr. Dana Sinclair

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! And, as always, thank you for joining us.

Today, we’re not talking about new year’s resolutions – which most of us have abandoned by January 15th anyway. But we are talking about about how you can learn to step up your performance, with Dr. Dana Sinclair – her book, Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most.

Dr. Sinclair says ” … motivation is overrated”, and we’ll find out why. We discuss how to identify our individual performance style, and the importance of planning. And we bust some of the most common myths and lousy advice.

Why is daydreaming important? Why does character beat out talent? How do you develop helpful habits and routines? How do they differ from superstitious rituals? And how do you overcome the fear of failure, and stop self-sabotaging We share all of that, too.

Meet Dr. Dana Sinclair

Dialed In: Do Your Best When It Matters Most is a 2024 Globe & Mail Bestseller, and still going strong. Author, Dr. Dana Sinclair, is a registered psychologist, specializing in performance psychology for more than two decades. A founder and partner of Human Performance International, Dr. Sinclair is a former athlete, and as a psychologist, has partnered with elite athletes to help them achieve peak performance in professional football, hockey, baseball, and basketball. She is a clinical assistant professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and also works with surgeons and high-level medical and corporate organizations.

Inspirational, Memoir, Non Fiction

May 15: Tom Seeman – Animals I Want to See

May 15, 2024

A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects & Defying the Odds

Animals I Want to See with author Tom Seeman

A coming of age story, Tom Seeman’s memoir shares his journey from child janitor to Ivy League success.

When you grow up with a disconnected, alcoholic father and 11 siblings, living on welfare and food stamps in the Projects of Toledo, what drives a young boy to work his way out? What’s the difference between someone who breaks away and someone who stays? What drove Tom to Yale, to Harvard. And what were some of the many challenges he faced?

Most importantly, Tom shares some of the lessons he learned along the way, the need for community and mentors. And why we must keep “wonder” and magic alive – even during our darkest days.

Meet Tom Seeman

As a businessman, Tom Seeman has owned and led several businesses. He grew up in a family of 14, on welfare and food stamps in the projects of Toledo, Ohio. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Yale, where he rowed on the crew team, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, before going on to earn his J.D. at Harvard. Animals I Want to See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds is Tom Seeman’s debut book.

Career, Non Fiction, Personal Development, Professional Development

Aug 03: Career Self-Care with Minda Zetlin

August 3, 2022

Find Your Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment at Work

Minda Zetlin says building the life and career you really want is about changing “… the way that you value yourself.” Science shows the better you care for yourself, the better it is for your career. And that’s what differentiates Career Self-Care from other career books.

We discuss why we must stop working so hard. How to show up at work as our authentic selves. Why you have a responsibility to be happy. And why, even when we say we want something, goal ambivalence often gets in our way.

About Minda Zetlin

Minda Zetlin is an author, speaker, journalist, and contributing editor at Inc. Minda is a former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and contributor to CNBC.com, Insider.com, and CIO.com. Her latest book is Career Self-Care: Find Your Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment at Work.

Jan 07: Upping Your Game When It Matters Most with Dr. Dana Sinclair