In our latest episode, Mackey is coming to us live sharing a conversation he and James Carbary had about success. Who you are is not dependent on what you do, but what you do it dependent on who you are. Key takeaways from this podcast: If we cannot find fulfillment inside of ourselves, we’ll never find it outside of ourselves. Success is first internal, then it’s external Hold your outcome loosely if you ever want to hold your outcome at all Follow us on social: @2wordstv @mackeyspeaks @fullcur...
Mar 19, 2019•13 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Fairfield HS, John Bachtel. Coach shares a change of mindset he and his program had after hearing Coach Saban share on the importance of making the individual athlete fulfill their consequences instead of the whole team. Coach shares that the importance of correcting the athlete instead of the team is that it forces the athlete to ask themselves, "am I going to do it the correct way or do it the way I want to...
Mar 18, 2019•27 min
We’re bringing you a fan favorite interview with Coach Randy Jackson. Coach Jackson stresses the importance of words and how he incorporates them into his program. Coach goes on to share more on his book “Culture Defeats Strategy.” Connect with Randy here: Twitter: @CoachJacksonTPW Website: www.CoachRandyJackson.com Book: Culture Defeats Strategy: 7 Lessons from a Texas High School Football Coach...
Mar 11, 2019•13 min
In our latest episode, Mackey is coming to your live talking about how to make commitment count and what it looks like practically. We want to be the kind of leader who values commitment. It’s so easy to make a commitment NOW to help you LATER with other commitments. Commitments are seen as small tasks instead of promises that COUNT. We tend to over commit and under deliver. Key takeaways from this podcast: Count the cost of your commitment Must have boundaries Cannot succumb to the undiscipline...
Mar 07, 2019•15 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator, Jeff Ellison, of Permian High School. Coach shares what his message was to his athletes when he took over the program. Coach emphasized how the program could either go one of two ways, and he wasn't going to let it and the athletes do anything other than chase excellence. Key takeaways from this podcast: When you face adversity, go back to your foundation and who you are as a person and program. Hold your te...
Mar 04, 2019•21 min
In our latest episode, Mackey is bringing us two new words from Anahuac HS, OPPORTUNITY COST. Opportunity costs you in preparation and execution. You have to put in the hard work, you have to invest in things before you can see opportunity go knock knock. Key takeaways from this podcast: Success costs you before you ever get there Count the costs before making decisions You make today’s decisions today, don’t focus on tomorrow until tomorrow comes. Follow us on social: @2wordstv @mackeyspeaks Do...
Feb 28, 2019•12 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Chris Soza from Medina Valley ISD. Coach shares the importance in being a positive role model in your athletes lives. Key takeaways from this podcast: When coaches share their experiences, they build trust within their athletes Coach for the right reasons You don’t have to be a position coach to develop a deep relationship with your athletes Follow u s on social: @2wordstv @mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton Download ...
Feb 25, 2019•16 min
In our latest episode, we’re mixing it up a little bit and bringing you a live Q & A while Mackey was visiting with athletes at Anahuac HS. Some key questions athletes ask Mackey: How did 2Words start? Why did you start 2Words? Do you memorize your talks? Key takeaways from this podcast: Don’t start with no, start with yes Never stop preparing and learning There is a cost to the choices you make What podcast would you suggest? Mackey shares his perspective on what it’s like to chase your dre...
Feb 21, 2019•14 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Athletic Director and Head Football Coach, Jerod Fikac of San Saba HS. Coach shares how he has created a championship atmosphere in his program. He shares how to instill character and challenge your athletes to become better individuals. Key takeaways from this podcast: Culture over strategy Allow your athletes to be a part of creating your core principles Build relationships with your athletes and encourage your athletes to serve their community. Follo...
Feb 18, 2019•19 min
In our latest episode, we are bringing you Mackey's interview on the Mindside Podcast with Dr. Bhrett McCabe. Mackey shares how to take a vision from being a dream to making it your reality. He shares with us how he was able to take what he loved from volunteering with a football program for seven years and create it into something that he could support his family with every single day. Key Takeaways from this podcast: Put in the reps to achieve your goals Money isn't an issue, it's the structur...
Feb 14, 2019•19 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Chris Hagler, Athletic Director at Anson ISD. Coach also goes on to talk about the importance of being there for your athletes because sometimes the team is the closest thing they’ve got. Coach shares what it means to his athletes to sharpen their tools to become the best version of themselves they can be. Key takeaways from this episode: Offer a comfort zone for your athletes to turn to When you treat your athletes with love and respect, they car...
Feb 11, 2019•16 min
We're bringing you part 2 of Mackey live at the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association. Mackey shares that the greatest coaching strategy that you can ever employ is love. If you want to know how to build champions, if you want to know how to win championships, it begins and ends with love. Love eliminates fear. A good coach notices where a child is as, shows them their potential, and encourages them to pursue their goals to reach the best version of themselves. Key takeaways from this p...
Feb 07, 2019•14 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Football Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at Manvel HS. Coach talks about the importance of having a servant heart. It's important to recognize that we have to die to our own selfish needs and selfish desires and to do what's best for the community around you. Key takeaways from this podcast: The team pays both the negative and positive consequences of the actions of each individual Lead with the right intentions "None of us is as smart as all...
Feb 04, 2019•18 min
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association. Mackey shares that the greatest coaching strategy that you can ever employ is love. If you want to know how to build champions, if you want to know how to win championships, it begins and ends with love. Mackey shares the importance of running a program and leading a team with humility. Humility requires strength. If you are not confident in who you are and what you do, you will always be intimidated by ...
Jan 31, 2019•23 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Philip O'Neal, Athletic Director at Mansfield ISD. Coach shares what his vision was stepping into the Athletic Director position and what steps they take as a program to focus on character building and going beyond the game. Coach also shares the different metrics they track as a district and how that has been an important way of having perspective and understand how the district and individual schools are doing as a whole. Key takeaways from this...
Jan 28, 2019•25 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Beverley Humphrey, Athletic Director and Head Girls track coach at Lancaster. Coach shares what she wants her legacy to be and how that has made an impact in the way she interacts and encourages her athletes. Key takeaways from this podcast: Encourage your athletes through one-on-one relationships Challenge your athletes to go beyond the game Be the team that supports everybody Follow us on social: @2wordstv @fullcurlcolton @mackeyspeaks Get a FRE...
Jan 21, 2019•18 min
In our latest episode, Mackey is bringing us a solo cast on a recent conversation he had with Coach Aaron Manous talking about the idea of showing up every single day both in sports and in life. Coach shared with Mackey a slogan on a shirt he gave him, which read, KSUED: Keep Showing Up Every Day Mackey talks about showing up and how no matter what you did on THIS day, you still have to show up tomorrow for THAT day. There will be days where we make bad decisions, but we have to keep showing up ...
Jan 17, 2019•8 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Kit Martin Assistant Athletic Coordinator and Women's Head Basketball Coach at Timberview HS. Coach shares some wisdom with beginning coaches. She emphasizes that when you're looking for a coaching job, don't seek out the job that pays the most or where you think you might want to live forever, but go where you can work for someone who is a known great coach. Coach also shares the idea that you only have control over two things in life: your attit...
Jan 14, 2019•21 min
In our latest episode Colton is joined with Mackey taking a look back at 2018 at the celebrations, challenges, and encouragement that it brought. Mackey and Colton share the idea that service and influence lead to success. When you invest into your community, they will invest in you. Mackey shares some details on a recently establish summit 2Words is hosting called LEAD 2019. LEAD is an all day student athlete leadership summit where 2Words brings in Mackey and other phenomenal speakers for an a...
Jan 10, 2019•16 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Boys Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Ilyan Martinez of Natalia ISD. Coach shares what it was like stepping into a new program, what his vision was for it and what skills he wanted to bring to the program to enhance it. Coach shares the foundation of their program: work ethic. No matter how much stronger or faster the competition is, you can always out work them. Work ethic is always in your control. Takeaways from this podcast: TTP: Trust The ...
Jan 07, 2019•17 min
In our latest episode, we're bringing you a mashup from some of the most powerful lessons from Mackey's live talks around the state of Texas and beyond. Mackey is live at Georgetown HS, Clark HS, Wimberley HS, and Prosper HS sharing powerful messages about dealing with pride, embracing discipline, and becoming a servant leader. Key takeaways Discipline is doing what you don't want to do today, so you can do what you want tomorrow. Your goals and dreams will require you to embrace discipline. You...
Dec 20, 2018•6 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Football Coach Jason Strunk from Port Isabel HS. Coach shares what it was like stepping into the Head Football position at Port Isabel HS coming from coaching a college program. Coach shares the different things that he wanted to bring in from his past experience and things that he kept and now added to his own playbook. Coach shares some insight into why he values nutrition in his program and gives us practical reasons and ways to encourage that i...
Dec 17, 2018•29 min
In our latest episode, Mackey talks about the idea of energy vampires. There are so many people in our life who we're surrounded with who focus on what is wrong. These people literally suck the energy out of the team because of their negativity and doubt. Mackey answers a question a coach recently asked him. She asked, "What do you do when you're best player is an energy vampire? When the player is awesome, they are unbelievably awesome, but when they're playing bad, they're an absolute energy v...
Dec 13, 2018•12 min
In our latest episode, we're live with Head Basketball Coach, Greg Gober from Waxahachie HS. Coach dives into the impact coaches made in his own life growing up and how his coaches continually made an effort to make sure he was on the right path. His coaches helped show him how to have perspective both in life and situationally. Coach shares how his program works diligently to go beyond the athleticism and the talent and get down to the foundational pieces of being a good person and a good teamm...
Dec 10, 2018•19 min
In our latest episode, we're bringing you a special episode from the Mackey Speaks Leadership Journal. Mackey begs an important question in today's episode: "how much of your success would you attribute to luck?" There are certain things in your life that you cannot control, but because of your core beliefs and your outlook on life, you can leverage those things and use them for your good. Key Takeaways from this podcast: Life happens for you, not to you It's not always about luck Leverage your ...
Dec 06, 2018•8 min
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Shane Stephen, Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator at Lubbock HS. Coach shares what he kept and lifted up stepping into an already developed program and also what he added to and changed. Key takeaways from this podcast: Success isn't defined by the scoreboard Work with teachers regarding your athletes Get to know your athletes on a personal level Coach also shares the idea of getting to know your players on a personal level and what it l...
Dec 03, 2018•14 min
What is the thing that you are living for? What is the thing that is bigger than the scoreboard, that is bigger than the status, bigger than the here and now that you're fighting for? Your future self is dependent on your present self making the right choices, right now. Stay on guard, and make sure that your belief statement, that deeper alignment thing is congruent with your actions. It's so easy to sit back and talk about what you want to do and who you want to be at the end of the day, but t...
Nov 29, 2018•11 min
In our latest episode, we're live with Coach Pete Hard, Athletic Director and Head Football coach at Alvord ISD. Coach tells us the importance of respect and discipline in his program, and shares with listeners how their community rallies behind and reinforces those values. Coach shares in detail how he makes himself available to each of his athletes regardless of what's going on in his personal life. He expresses the importance of knowing your players well enough to know when they're having a h...
Nov 26, 2018•23 min
In our latest episode, we are bringing you part two of Mackey's live talk with the athletes from Alamo Heights. In today episode, Mackey challenges athletes to realize that mere ambition will never be enough to satisfy. Mackey dives a little deeper in this talk, reiterating the fact that being successful is about more than mere ambition. He talks about the fact that being successful is taking everything you have been given and use that to grow to become the very best YOU can be. Key takeaways fr...
Nov 22, 2018•11 min
In our latest episode, we're live with Coach Randy Thornton, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Hico ISD. Coach shares the importance of understanding that each program is unique in the way they need to be coached. There can't be a one size fits all mentality when it comes to coaching. Coach shares the importance of focusing on the younger players and giving your older players the best opportunities to be successful as well. Coach shares some of his program's values such as being a man...
Nov 19, 2018•15 min
