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• How do you make a career so special it makes Hall of Fame Status?
• Your Goal Achieving Path
• Today is today. Make it a good one!
• Motivation is like a Puppy (a second look)
• The Goal is Safe, Inclusive Sport for All
• The Value of Your Story – and Thank You
• We laugh, we cry, we go home with more…
• Let Me Introduce My Tsewtsáwḵen Drum
• Hello from the Olympic Village! | Salutations du Village olympique!
• On the doorstep! | À la porte des Jeux!
• 8 more Tuesdays | Huit autres mardis
• Moving forward every day. | Aller de l’avant chaque jour.
• That was then, this is now. And a Thank you.
• Choices, Perspective (and the no-fun books.)
• Life Lessons from Kathleen Heddle
• The Pendulum has swung!
• Sport Science, Finish Lines and this Pandemic
• You Are the Somebody You Are Waiting For! 
• Tokyo 2020+1 – How is it Going to Look
• Turn up the Volume!
• This is Your Story: Tokyo2020+1
• Celebrating Canada Day, Team Canada and you.
• Today is today. Make it a good one!
• Game ON! Seize the opportunity. Reconnect with play.
• Tokyo 2020 postponed to 2021 // Tokyo 2020 reporté à 2021
• Team Canada will not send athletes to Games in summer 2020 due to COVID-19 risks
• An Open Letter to Team Canada re:Covid19
• Whoa: This got real. Fast. – March 16, 2020
• Change, challenge & a quick word on COVID-19
• Can I? Will I?” And Your Three Choices
• Happy New Year, Will it be a Resolution or a Promise to Yourself?
• Episode 114: Team Canada Chef de Mission Marnie McBean
• Comfort vs Magic
• Hi from Marnie! – Let’s go to Tokyo believing in more!
• Player’s Own Voice podcast: Marnie McBean on a mission
• The Silent Impact of Being Chef de Mission and Mentoring
• I’ve Waited So Long For this
• New Olympics boss Marnie McBean knows how to bring attitude. For 2020, she’s championing diversity
• Advice from an Olympic Champion: Embrace your Fears
• I am so happy to share the news! I have been named as Canada’s Chef de Mission for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Games
• Expectation is it the Enemy of Play? (Is Experience the Enemy of Joy?)
• Meet Special Olympics Team Canada 2019 Honorary Coach: Three-time Olympic gold medalist Marnie McBean
• Do you look for solutions to problems or problems to solutions?
• Are you ready? Ready is relative.
• Be Extraordinary – Western Alumni Gazette – A chat with Marnie
• Rookie, Established or Veteran – Seeing Your Self as a Champion Takes Practice
• Hey Canada – Are We As Good As We Think We Are?
• “God” Used to be a Rower – discussing Wind, Racing and the Delays in Rio
• After 4 days of Racing in Rio – More of My Thoughts on Canada at the Olympic Rowing Regatta
• 1 Pretty Sure and 3 Maybes for Canadian Rowers in Rio – my picks
• Were you “pulling” for me then? Would you do it again?
• Do you look for solutions to problems or problems to solutions?
• SEE THE SPACES
• Finding Calm in the Midst of Chaos. Parenting vs Doing Nothing….a comment on my productivity
• Expectation Can Be the Enemy of Play
• As Your Career Matures, Anticipate That The Fun Will Too.
• Thank you Steve Nash.
• What Super Heroes Don’t Tell You
• The Dangerous Side of a Blind Pursuit of More ~ and What Ernie and Bert have to say about it
• What are you Listening to? Communication II
• Marriage, Medals and Mentorship – Toronto Star Article
• Getting the Spinach Out – The Value of Hard Conversations
• 3 Weeks to a Routine
• Out of routine – Getting unstuck
• Because You Can – Doesn’t Always Mean That You Should
• Speaking about Start Happy Finish Happy…
• Just Married!
• Truth Dare and Consequences – Olympic Style
• Start happy, finish happy.
• All in a (Olympic) Day
• How to ‘do’ the Olympics – nine tips from a vet
• The media has pre-Games stress and distraction too
• Going to Sochi – a chat with Matt Galloway (CBC radio)
• Hidden Impact of Mentoring
• Setting and keeping YOUR goals
• Prep’ing for battle with the Big Bad Wolf
• Who keeps a done list? We all should. – A Year in Review
• Finding answers from the ‘Don’t’ side
• Be the one who steps up – Expectation is a weapon.
• Why Fund sport.
• No stone unturned – Define how “involved” you want others to be
• Grains of Rice and Jelly Beans
• This amazing life
• Bubble wrap and priorities
• Canada Day – A unique relationship with our flag
• Officer of the Order of Canada
• Being a Role Model – with pride
• After the rush of a great conference
• May, the 1st month of your 2013/2014 year.
• You can hope you’ll be ‘thrown a bone’ but don’t expect the one you want.
• Never stop learning – the secret
• Suggested by Indigo!!
• Nice to know vs Need to know: The important bits and pieces
• Discussing Goal Achieving with Kathleen Petty
• Time and Action
• Setting new goals and keeping your New Year resolutions
• Cool – you did that too?
• My Rowing Career in a Book: My mom’s incredible labour of love
• Ambition toward Sochi … Happy 2013
• Perfection may be a myth – but it’s worth trying for
• The Art of Leadership: Love It or Hate It
• For Olympic champion Marnie McBean, the proof is in the medals
• Marnie McBean – Promoting girls’ rights around the World!
• London Olympic Rowing – Best seat in the house
• A sense of wow. In London and in the Olympic Village
• You are ready
• London 2012 : Marnie McBean still pulling hard for Canada
• Your Games. Your Experience.
• Your want-to sweet spot
• A Recipe for Success
• Strombo – Something you might not know about Canada
• Lucerne and its lion
• The joy of a local adventure – on a bike
• One week later – The Power of More has launched
• My 1st book review!!
• A reset button for joy and confidence
• Lucky to remember what’s important
• The Month of Wow
• Protect your performance
• Comfort vs. Magic 2012
• Bubble Wrap and Priorities
• The Best Answer
• 2012 is Finally Here
• All Fired Up and Proud
• See You Soon / À bientôt
• Games versus Competition
• This is your career
• You are your best teacher
• The Opportunity of Now
• Notes From Tina Fey
• 2010 is gone. 2011 is now
• Post Games – You are…
• Canada Owns a Podium
• Focus on Games vs Competition
• Here we go
• You might be hating your ‘job’ right now
• Happy New Year!
• “Can I? Will I?” moments
• Know what you can expect and you have the power to control how you feel about it.
• Somebody is going to do it
• Expectations can be the killer of a good thing.
• It is not the time, it is the effort that allows you to dream big.
• Hard work pays off
• it’s a Team effort
• A coffee cup and a t-shirt
• Motivation is like a puppy
• Yes AND… Simon’s note
• Inspiration from everywhere
• Random March notes
• When is it not Now?
• Happy New Year