Life Lessons Through Treating the Person, Not the Injury There are mentors who teach you what to do, and then there are mentors who quietly show you how to be. Long before I ever stood in front of a faculty, addressed a national audience, or was entrusted with leading Staten Island Technical High School, I … Continue reading Mentor Moments: Thank you, Dr. Larry Kopelman!
The Courage to Step Out of Line & The Name Tag That Changed Everything (For my son, Mark Erlenwein, Jr., who is now the same age I was when this story began, yet already carries more courage, self-awareness, and moral clarity than I did at that moment in my life. You are living proof that … Continue reading Thank You, Jimmy Miranda
by Mark Erlenwein (Special thanks to Dr. Lavie Margolin and John ‘Poz’ Pozarowski for the fun interview on Episode 261 of “The Business of the Business” podcast, which inspired writing this article.) If you had told four-year-old me, perched on my father’s shoulders outside Madison Square Garden, waiting to rub WWF champion, Bob Backlund’s crew-cut … Continue reading Suplexes, Scantrons, and School Spirit: How Wrestling Raised a Principal
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