Pre-Zero Sports Talk
Pre-Zero Sports Talk is a sports leadership podcast exploring high performance, coaching, athlete development, sports business, faith, purpose, innovation, sustainability, clean progress, and life beyond the game.
Hosted by Sid Bensalah, with over 30 years of global sports industry experience, the podcast brings honest, long-form conversations with athletes, coaches, leaders, founders, innovators, and changemakers.
This is not only a podcast about sport. It is about what sport reveals about people, how we lead, how we handle pressure, how we pursue meaning, and how we build lives, teams, and communities with purpose.
Through real conversations beyond the game, Pre-Zero Sports Talk explores leadership, performance, faith and purpose, identity, resilience, human potential, athlete well-being, coaching culture, community impact, sports governance, clean progress, sustainability, technology, innovation, and the future of sport.
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Family Meals, Food Waste, and Mindful Leadership | Janet Irizarry
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Can the kitchen teach leadership, empathy, gratitude, and legacy?
In Episode #87 of Pre-Zero Sports Talk, Sid Bensalah sits down with Janet Irizarry, founder of My Mindful Kitchen, for a heartfelt conversation on family meals, food waste, mindful cooking, sustainability, and the values we pass on through daily routines.
Janet shares her journey from owning restaurants to launching a food advocacy movement, sparked by a powerful line in her son’s college essay: “There was never food in the house.”
This episode explores family meals, mindful cooking, reducing food waste, food insecurity, emotional intelligence, sustainability, climate impact, eating local and seasonal, gratitude, parenting, leadership, legacy, and how the kitchen can become a classroom for values.
Full episode details: https://prezerosportstalk.com/podcast/family-meals-food-waste-mindful-cooking-janet-irizarry/
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