It feels like yesterday I was sitting in my living room with my family, watching on as Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made a combination of desperation saves to secure the 2009 Stanley Cup. I can remember how excited I was to finally have a team I cheered for win a championship. I imagined lifting the …
Seriously, don’t let you do it. Often times we can be our own worst enemy – sometimes it’s because we are our harshest critic, sometimes it’s because we set too many limits internally, and sometimes it’s because we overthink so many moments and interactions that we get stressed over things that haven’t even happened to …
If you graduated from a business program, undoubtedly, you were required to take an Organizational Behaviour (OB) course. If you were anything like me, you found this course incredibly dry. While the study of leadership, culture, decision-making, motivation, and other related topics may seem like excellent knowledge for an aspiring businessperson to acquire; I could …
There are some things you understand and appreciate more as you age. The impact that childhood coaches have on our development, the lessons they teach us, and the role they play in shaping the person we become is often only realized when we are no longer being coached and are stepping into new roles, whether …
A few weeks into my internship I was walking outside to get lunch when I was hit with the realization that in four months it would be a new Sara walking the same streets looking for her lunch. It was the moment where everything sank in and I grasped the hard fact that there will …
As the final seconds counted down on the scoreboard reading 2-1 Oilers over the Kings, the crowd gave a thunderous ovation that left me with goosebumps. For the first time since 2006, the Edmonton Oilers were going to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I’d avoided the decade of less-than-stellar on-ice performances, but my “rookie” year working …
John Mayer wrote one of the most impactful tweets I’ve ever read on December 31st, 2014. It caused such a stirring inside of me, that over two years and probably a million tweets later, I could recount to you the date I read it. His tweet said: Replace the word 2015 with life, …
One second you’re a bright eyed frosh and the next you’re graduated and on the job market. I normally love markets, but I can safely say this one isn’t my favourite. When I began searching for a job I had absolutely no idea just how difficult landing a job in the sports industry would be. …
Really though. And to add to that, let’s all admit it, no one likes a 23 year old. People might be giving you advice and will listen to your #lifeproblems, but they truly want you to get it together and to leave them alone to be a real adult. Being twenty-three years old means that …
As a first year university student, I had to battle through some less-than-fun classes. Even ‘Intro to Sports Administration’, which would have caused high school Tyler to faint out of excitement, was a bit of a bore sometimes. Still, my professors always did a good job at emphasizing the importance of networking, especially considering the …