Former Professional International Basketball player and International Sports Advisor, Tywanna Smith, PhD, joins Glenn on the field to discuss why elite athletes should consider playing professional sports overseas, the incentives and drawbacks of international athletics, and recruiting tips in order to get drafted to play international sports. Dr. Smith explains how athletes can make the most of their overseas playing experience, the transition process from American sports to International sports, and how athletes can deal with cultural differences and the aspects of culture shock. Dr. Smith also shares what it takes to be a competitive international athlete, the biggest differences between American and International professional leagues, and why she co-founded the first Athletes Abroad Summit – a business summit for American athletes who play sports outside the United States.

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Physical Therapist and Founder of HEAL Wellness and Therapy, LLC, Trudy Messer, joins Glenn on the field to discuss the benefits of sleep, the impact sleep has on athletic performance, the required amounts of sleep for active athletes, and how sleep deprivation leads to negative outcomes for athletic performance and overall health. Trudy also explains the role sleep plays with recovery from injury including the capacity to recover from physical stressors such as injury or illness and how proper rest impacts both mental and physical functioning such as the ability to learn new tasks and maintaining reaction time and precision performance. Trudy also shares steps on what athletes can do to improve their quality of sleep and how athletes can prioritize sleep as an equal element of training and physical activity.

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International best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and coach to parents of college-bound teens, Denise Thomas, joins Glenn on the field to discuss the various ways student athletes can fund their college experience outside of their athletic scholarship, why every scholarship receiving athlete should always complete their FAFSA form, the myths about athletic scholarships, and why athletic scholarships alone aren’t enough to pay for college. Denise talks about the various types of scholarships geared for student athletes, how to search for scholarships that align with an athletes major, merit, gender, race, GPA, and sex, and additional ways student athletes can earn money. Denise also shares why athletes should avoid student loans to supplement college funding, how she’s cracked the code to receiving a free education, how athletes can get paid for going to college, and why she’s on a mission to change lives, leave legacies, and ‘flip’ the student debt statistic in the U.S.

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