My guest today is Daniel Coyle , best-selling author of The Talent Code , The Culture Code , and his newest book that was released this week, The Culture Playbook: 60 Highly Effective Actions to Help Your Group Succeed . In this episode, Daniel shares insights he’s learned about how to build a strong culture, what some best practices are around hiring and team building, and what he’s learned from consulting with the Cleveland Guardians. My co-host today is Oliver Winterbone , Director of Coaches...
Aug 03, 2024•51 min
My guest today is Paul Oyer , a professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He’s also the author of An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports . Paul and I start with the most insane statistic I have come across in my entire life. Then we blow through a number of topics, including gambling, the NIL, the effects of conference realignment within college athletics, public financing of private stadi...
Jan 17, 2023•57 min
My guest today is Francesca Gino , a professor at Harvard Business School focused on why people make the decisions they do at work, and how leaders and employees have more productive, creative and fulfilling lives. Harvard is well-known for their case studies being used by colleges and companies all over the world, and when I saw she wrote a case study on Steve Kerr, I had to get her on the podcast. Our conversation today starts with lessons learned from studying and talking to Coach Kerr. Then ...
Dec 13, 2022•50 min
Today’s episode features a conversation between Jeff Seder and Meb Faber on The Meb Faber Show podcast . In my last episode with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, we touched on the incredible story of Jeff Seder and how utilizing data led him to go all-in on American Pharoah and later tell his employer, “ Sell your horse, don’t sell this horse .” Wise words considering the horse would go on to become the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years. Meb was kind enough to allow me to release the episode on my ...
Aug 15, 2022•51 min
My guest today is Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life . I’m not sure if there’s someone whose work is more fascinating to me than Seth. His first book, Everybody Lies , looked at how our Google searches reveal our true selves with topics like racism, child abuse, This book looks at what the data says on how to live a better life. We touch on parenting, finding a spouse, being a sports fan, what sport your child should play if t...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Today’s episode features a conversation my good friend Preston Greene recently had with world champion cyclist, Shane Perkins . Preston is the strength coach for the University of Florida men’s basketball team and one of the most well respected strength coaches in all of college athletics. Shane is a professional track cyclist who won the Bronze Medal in the 2012 London Olympic games and also won 2 world championships. In this episode, Shane talks about how he trained his mind and mentally prepa...
Oct 26, 2021•56 min
Subscribe to the *free* newsletter here My guest today is David Shaw , head coach of the Stanford football team. In this episode, he talks about what it’s been like to coach players like Andrew Luck and Christian McCaffrey at an elite academic institution like Stanford and lessons he’s learned working with guys like Brian Billick and Jon Gruden. Coach Shaw has been pursued by NFL teams and shares advice on how he thinks about his professional career, what makes him happy in life, and what one NF...
Mar 30, 2021•28 min
Subscribe to the *free* newsletter here Click HERE to watch the video referenced in the intro. My guest today is Dr. Michele Gelfand , a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Gelfand is a cultural psychologist and uses field, experimental, computational, and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture--as well as its multilevel consequences for human groups. She’s also the author of Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cult...
Mar 16, 2021•52 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Becky Burleigh , the head soccer coach at the University of Florida. She’s also the co-founder of What Drives Winning , which unites the top minds in sports. In 25 years at Florida, she has led UF to a NCAA Championship, two NCAA College Cup appearances, 14 Southeastern Conference titles and 22 NCAA Championships berths. She has 507 total wins, putting her third all-time in Division-1 soccer. In this episode, we discuss what it was like to ...
Mar 02, 2021•48 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Anson Dorrance, UNC Women’s Soccer Head Coach. He has won 22 National Championships and is the first coach in NCAA history to win 20 championships coaching a single sport. That is correct - 22 national titles. And as impressive as that is, his approach to coaching, competitiveness, and character development of his girls is even more impressive. In this episode, we discuss why he doesn’t think you can teach leadership, why he thinks it’s so ...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 19 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Travis Wyckoff , founder of Kingdom Coaching , a consulting business for coaches to help provide the tools, strategies, and skills you need to transform how you lead yourself, lead others, and win in all areas. He also hosts the podcast called Coaching DNA, which I was recently a guest on. Previously, he coached college baseball for 11 years and spent six years leading on a church staff. In this episode, we discuss the transition from ...
Feb 09, 2021•54 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Ethan Kross , one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind. He’s currently a professor at the University of Michigan, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory . He’s also the author of Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It , which is the focus of our conversation today. In this episode, we learn about what coaches can do to help reframe the negative self-talk we have...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 9 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Coby Karl, head coach for the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League. He played professionally in the NBA for multiple teams, including for Phil Jackson and the Lakers, and overseas. In this episode, we discuss what it was like to grow up the son of former NBA Head Coach George Karl and the lessons he learned being around the game at a young age. Then we dive into his transition from a player to a coach with the Knicks G-League team and ...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 5 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Bret Burchard , co-founder of the mindset development company ChampionShift and co-author of “Catching Confetti: Developing the Mindset of a Champion." For the last 10 seasons, he has worked with the Phoenix Suns in various roles, most recently as a development coach and the head coach of their G League team. In this episode, we discuss his coaching experience with the Phoenix Suns and what piqued his interested to dive head first into...
Jan 12, 2021•48 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Dana Cavalea , who spent 12 years with the New York Yankees, many of which were as the Director of Strength and Conditioning & Performance Enhancement. He won the 2009 World Series and was named the top strength coach voted by his peers during the same season. He is also the author of Habits of A Champion . During the episode, we discuss what it was like to be called by Yankees GM Brian Cashman at the age of 23 to be promoted to the He...
Jan 05, 2021•33 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Craig Custance , who is The Athletic’s editor-in-chief for the NHL and the author of Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey’s Greatest Coaches , where he explains his 18 month journey to meet with nine of the top hockey coaches in the world to interview them about their philosophies while watching the most important game of their coaching career. Craig explains the different ways the coaches were able to connect with their player...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 8 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Nick Nurse , the 2019 NBA Champion head coach of the Toronto Raptors and author of Rapture: Fifteen Teams, Four Countries, One NBA Championship, and How to Find a Way to Win - Damn Near Anywhere . He has one of the more unique coaching backgrounds of any professional head coach, with stops as a player-coach and owner-coach in England, 11 years in Europe, and multiple stints in the NBA G-League. In this episode he explains how his non-t...
Dec 22, 2020•22 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Dr. Vikram Mansharamani , who is currently a lecturer at Harvard University and advises several Fortune 500 CEOs. He has a Ph.D., two Masters degrees from MIT, and a Bachelors degree from Yale University. In this episode, we discuss his new book, Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence . He explains when to rely on experts for help, the importance of focus in today's age, the downside...
Dec 15, 2020•48 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Nancy Lieberman , who is one of the most decorated basketball players of all time. Nancy was a two-time national player of the year at Old Dominion, where she also won two national championships. She was also both a WNBA coach & general manager before being hired as the coach of the Texas Legends in the NBA D-League, making her the first woman to coach a men’s basketball team. She later became the second woman to be an NBA assistant co...
Dec 08, 2020•32 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Ben Cohen , the sports reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks . The book is a fantastic read on humans’ ability to get in the “zone” and our ability, or lack of ability, to decipher patterns from data. He also explains how the hot hand applies to areas of life besides sports, including artists, scientists, and directors, and how even Shakespeare experienced a hot streak when ...
Nov 24, 2020•36 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Annie Duke , who was previously one of the best poker players in the world and is now a renowned public speaker and best-selling author. If anyone has the perfect background to discuss decision-making, it’s Annie. She pursued a Ph.D. in psychology at UPenn before starting her poker career, and when she stepped away from poker in 2012, she was the leading money winner among women in the World Series of Poker. Our conversation today focu...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 2 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Matt McCall , head coach for the UMass men’s basketball team. Previously, he was the head coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he took them to an NCAA tournament in his first year. He also spent years working under Billy Donovan at the University of Florida, where he won two national championships while working as the Director of Operations and earned a trip to the 2014 Final Four as an assistant coach. In this epi...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 5 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Kevin Eastman , a corporate and sports team speaker and previously spent 13 years in the NBA as both a coach and executive. He was a top assistant to Doc Rivers with the 2008 NBA World Championship Boston Celtics, and most recently served as an assistant coach and Vice President of Basketball Operations with the Los Angeles Clippers. He’s also the author of Why The Best Are The Best: 25 Powerful Words That Impact, Inspire, And Define C...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 19 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Jim Schlossnagle , the head baseball coach at TCU. Since joining TCU in 2003, he has taken the program to new heights by making the College World Series five times in the last 10 years, and was named National Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2016. In this episode, he explains why he focuses so much on the mental aspect of the game with his players (he even brings in a sports psychologist to meet with his team every week), why he chose to ...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 6 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ My guest today is Fran Fraschilla , a college basketball analyst for ESPN and former Division I basketball coach. In this episode we discuss his career path as a head coach, with stops at Manhattan, St. Johns and New Mexico. We hear what it was like to coach at St. Johns with players like Ron Artest and Felipe Lopez, what he wishes he had done differently as a head coach, and why he made the conscious decision to stay at ESPN after he left New Mexico. W...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 8 min
My guest today is Tim Corbin , the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt University. Coach Corbin has built Vanderbilt into one of the most prominent programs in college baseball, making the College World Series four times and winning the National Championship in both 2014 and 2019. He’s also coached 15 players at Vanderbilt who ended up being selected in the first round in the MLB draft, including David Price, Sonny Gray, and Walker Buehler. In this episode we learn why he made the Vanderbilt baseb...
Oct 13, 2020•54 min
🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FREE NEWSLETTER ------ The biggest takeaway from my seven years working under Billy Donovan at the University of Florida is that the most successful are the ones who are committed to their own growth. They never stop learning and trying to make themselves better. This show will bring you interviews with the world’s most-respected coaches, best-selling authors, and top leaders to give you insight into their philosophies, lessons, and mindsets for you to apply to your own. Some...
Oct 05, 2020•2 min
