by Rob Valincius | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog
Leave Your Backpack at the Fence This week on Drink O’Clock, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Janet Dickey, head field hockey coach at Westbrook High in Connecticut, certified mindset coach, and founder of Victory Mindsets. Janet is about to head into her...
by Rob Valincius | Apr 10, 2026 | Blog
What happens when a 22-year-old from a small town in West Michigan decides, with almost no planning and no cell phone, to fly halfway around the world to teach English in South Korea? She spends the next 20 years trying to decode what actually happened to her. That is...
by Rob Valincius | Mar 25, 2026 | Blog
You know that feeling when you’re about to drop a huge chunk of money on something and your gut is telling you to slow down, but everything on the surface looks fine? That’s basically what it’s like hiring a contractor for a home renovation. And...
by Rob Valincius | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog
What happens when you take someone who grew up in the Silicon Valley of India, give them an engineering degree, put them in the room as the primary architect of the London Olympics streaming platform at 22 years old, and then drop them into the world of enterprise...
by Rob Valincius | Feb 26, 2026 | Blog
How much of your golf score comes down to putting? If you guessed somewhere around 20 or 30 percent, you’re not alone. Most golfers drastically underestimate how much the putter matters. But according to Bob Labbe, author of Putting by the Numbers: A...
by Rob Valincius | Feb 18, 2026 | Blog
What does it take to build a life outside the traditional 9 to 5? In this episode of the Drink O’Clock Podcast, I sat down with Spiffy Sean Styles, a professional wrestler, musician, entrepreneur and self-described modern day Renaissance man. What followed was one of...