Coach has worn so many hats in the volleyball world and has coached successfully at the highest of levels of his sport. Over his career, he has been an assistant coach with the US men's national volleyball team when they won a gold medal in the 2008 Olympics. He was also an assistant coach for the US women's national volleyball team when they won a World Championship in 2014 and a silver medal in the 2012 Olympics, a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. He was most recently the coach of the Nether...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 12 min
You are going to love listening to this episode of the Max Out Mindset podcast. Their connection off the beach is a big reason why they are so successful on the beach. Taryn Kloth was a four-year starter at Creighton University where she was an All-American for indoor volleyball and then was able to continue her career with LSU Beach Volleyball. She is one of 15 athletes in history to be All-American in both indoor volleyball and beach volleyball. Her LSU beach partner, Kristen Nuss, is the NCAA...
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 5 min
National Championship setter at the University of Nebraska. Two-time All-American. Professional. National Team member. Division I Head Coach at Iowa State University for 16 years advancing as far as the Regional Finals. Learn what has made Coach excellent at every level in her sport. Learn about her failures and setbacks as well and what she did to overcome them. She is the perfect example of what it means to train at the highest level your mind, your body, and your craft.
May 14, 2021•1 hr 16 min
I wrote about this Coach a lot in my book, Max Out Mindset, in the chapter The Power of Positive Coaches. He was the head women’s gymnastics coach at the University of Nebraska for 25 years! He was the first coach to give me “a seat at the table” with his team and our collaboration from 2011-2018 was one of the most special times of my life. In his 25 years at the helm, he had 14 Conference Championships, two National Coach of the Years honors, 20 of his teams made NCAA appearances in the postse...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Today, I have a couple of guests on the Max Out Mindset podcast. It's the first husband and wife team I've ever had on the podcast. I jokingly called them “the power couple” when they were at the University of Nebraska. Madison McConkey Janovich is somebody I know well, working with her individually and with the women’s gymnastics team at the University of Nebraska. She has a pretty unique story because she took off over a year off before coming to college and it took an unbelievable effort-phys...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Brett Ledbetter is a Performance Consultant, author and speaker. He works with some of the best coaches and teams in professional and college sports. He is the Co-founder of What Drives Winning. What Drives Winning puts on conferences, shares conference videos, and has a coaching lab. His books and workbooks all elevate performance. His latest book What Drives Winning Environments helps with the question; How do you build an environment where people can do their best work? Brett is the best in t...
Mar 26, 2021•43 min
Coach Terry Pettit brings a unique perspective to championship coaching, team building, and leadership training. He is an author, poet, and podcast host. Coach Pettit was the head coach of one of the most successful athletic teams in NCAA history. Under his leadership, the University of Nebraska’s women’s volleyball team won 21 Big 8 and Big 12 conference championships while leading the nation in both All-American and Academic All-American selections. He directed the Nebraska volleyball team to ...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 40 min
I'm excited about the guest that I have on the Max Out Mindset podcast today. He’s the head football coach of my alma mater, Omaha Westside, that had a big impact on my growth as a human being. Over the last four years, I've been blessed to collaborate with Coach, his coaching staff and with his team. During this time I have seen tremendous growth on and off the field. Coach Froendt has a growth mindset and has been able to get buy-in from his coaching staff to learn about and model the mental s...
Feb 25, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Alyssa has spent much of her life immersed in the volleyball world as a player, a coach, a parent of three high-level volleyball players, and a Club Director. She understands the game from so many vantage points and has great insights into what it takes to be a high performer in sport and life. It has been a pleasure to get to know her over the past year, and we are in alignment with what we want student-athletes to gain from playing sports—especially volleyball. She currently is the Club Direct...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 3 min
A standout volleyball player at the University of Nebraska and for Team USA, Kayla Banwarth is a rising star in the coaching ranks and has taken her championship pedigree to Ole Miss, as she was announced as the Rebels’ eighth head coach in program history on Dec. 21, 2019, at the ripe old age of 30! As a player and assistant coach, she helped guide Nebraska to four conference championships, three Final Four appearances, and a national title. Her illustrious career with Team USA garnered eight m...
Dec 31, 2020•1 hr 28 min
Maggie has an extensive volleyball background, competing 9 years for Sports Performance Volleyball out of Aurora, IL. At the club level, Maggie won 2 Junior Olympic titles, was a 4-time AAU All-American, and 2-time JO MVP. Maggie went to Michigan State before transferring to the University of Nebraska, leading her team to a National Final in 2005 and being on the 2006 team that won the National Championship. She traveled to Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and the Netherlands to play professionally for...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 15 min
I'm very excited to have a guest on the Max Out Mindset podcast that I know very well. He is in his 21st season at the University of Nebraska as the women's head volleyball coach. He has an astonishing win/loss record at Nebraska currently 588-81. His teams have won four National Championships and he is a two-time AVCA National Coach of the year. He is also the first one in his family to go to college. Coach Cook is an author of the book, Dream Like a Champion and co-host of his podcast called C...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 53 min
Marcus Zegarowski is currently a Junior on the Men’s basketball team at Creighton University. He is continually working on all aspects of his game, including working on strategies to make his elite mindset even stronger. There are so many nuggets that Marcus shares as we recount his journey from an underrated high school recruit to his current position as one of the best point guards in the country. Last year he showed tremendous growth in his physical and mental game as was rewarded with the fo...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 22 min
Today on the podcast I had the pleasure to speak with Gazmine GG Mason who I had a chance to work with while she was a student-athlete in college. GG is a 3X Gold medalist and the First African American to win singles and all-events gold medals for the USA. 'GG' was given to Gazmine by her youth coach meaning Got Game. GG is a former University of Nebraska, Lincoln bowling stand-out graduating with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Informatics. GG is also a global ambassador for...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr
Jordan Larson was a three time All-American at the University of Nebraska from 2005 to 2008. She won a national championship in 2006 and had an incredible run to the Final Four in 2008 during her senior season. She joined the US Women's National Team in 2009 that won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics, the only World Championship in the United States history in 2014, and a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She’s currently a captain for the US Women's National Team. Her professional teams have ...
Sep 04, 2020•1 hr 22 min
Lexi Zeiss was thirteen years old when I met her in the spring of 2019. She had been part of the sport of gymnastics since she was two years old. Lexi had a big dream in sixth grade to reach Junior Elite status, which would allow her to compete nationally and internationally in her sport. I actually met with “Team Zeiss,” which included Kelley Green (her coach) and her parents, Jess and Dana. Lexi decided that she needed to elevate her mental game to put herself in the best position to reach her...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 5 min
It was great to have Lauren on the podcast to share her views on the importance of training mindset for sport and life. She is a former All-American setter for the University of Nebraska and played professionally.
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 22 min
Coach Jenny Rowland, head coach, University of Florida Women’ gymnastic, has been successful in every stage of her journey from being a member of the US Women's National Team that won a World Championship in Gymnastics to most recently being named National Coach of the Year by the WCGA in 2020. Her recipe for success: Make the most of every opportunity, surround yourself with high character people, have a growth mindset, build relationships, learn from adversity, and make a commitment to being p...
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Today on the Max Out Mindset podcast is Jake Gibb a professional beach volleyball player. My partner Commander Jack Riggins at Performance Mountian and I did a joint podcast with Jake. Jake has been to 3 Olympics and is the oldest professional player on the tour. We talked about the mental side of his game in different capacities, the drive to compete against competitors half his age, and his final professional goal to medal in the 2021 Summer Olympics. Follow Jake on Twitter , Instagram Check o...
Jun 09, 2020•24 min
Christopher Tamas is currently the head coach of the Illinois Fighting Illini Volleyball team. Under Tamas’s leadership, the Illini collected a number of individual honors, highlighted by AVCA All-America First-Team selections in Jordyn Poulter and Jacqueline Quade – the first time in program history that Illinois has had multiple first-team honors in a season – as well as a Third-Team selection in Ali Bastianelli. Poulter and Bastianelli, who also garnered All-America Third Team honors in 2017,...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 16 min
Today on the Max Out Mindset podcast is Jaali Winters. She played Volleyball at Creighton University from 2015 to 2018. I was fortunate to work with the team during those years and Jaali impressed me in terms of her willingness to work on her mental skills and her openness to vulnerability. Those skills aren’t usually common for an 18-22 female. Today we talk about her mental game, where she started, and her transition from college to professional volleyball. Follow her I nstagram Max Out Mindse...
May 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min
Stephanie Barnier a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Founder & CEO of Clear Sky Wealth ”My Grit came from not being the best. I sat the bench a lot, I cried a lot, because I wasn’t good enough. There were hundreds of reasons to quit, But that vision of being in San Diego and playing on a green field in 80-degree weather stuck with me. When I got to play five minutes, I started to celebrate that and I stopped comparing myself to my other teammates” After over a decade of working in the financial...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Coach Owen Field passion for gymnastics started at a very young age. When he could no longer compete, he wanted to find a way to stay around the sport. He reached out to Coach Dan Kendig at the University of Nebraska with an offer to help out and the rest is history. Owen recounts his several-year journey at Nebraska and how it led to one of the top assistant coaching jobs in the country at the University of Florida-demonstrating passion and perseverance along the way. Follow Coach Owen Fields T...
Apr 08, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Coach Renee Saunders is a top high school volleyball coach at Skutt Catholic HS. Renee has won 5 State championships in her career and was a two-sport Division I athlete at the University of Nebraska. Renee is a positive, process-focused based coach. “Commitment is important to me because there are so many variables and it’s just not on the court. Commitment involves everything in life in the decisions you make, what you perceive as important. If a student isn't making good decisions and not doi...
Mar 28, 2020•1 hr 34 min
Andrew had been just hours old when doctors first discovered he had a rare heart defect called transposition of the great arteries. “My heart was backward. It was hooked up wrong,” Andrew says. It pumped oxygenated blood through his lungs and circulated the non-oxygenated blood to the rest of his body. He was just three days old when pediatric cardiovascular experts created a hole in his septum to separate the left and right sides of his heart to send more oxygenated blood through his body. A mo...
Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Today on the Max Out Mindset podcast we want to spend some time talking about what's going on in the world today. The coronavirus is a big part of the news and causing stress for a lot of people. Parents, coaches, teachers, high school kids, top to bottom and it's not sparing anybody. Today we will talk about how to use our mindset to cope with stressful times. How we can get into solution focus mode and use strategies to make the best of the situation and work on our own psychology and our own ...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 55 min
Welcome to the Max Out Mindset podcast. Dr. Larry Widman is your host and known as Doc in the mindset world. The purpose of the max out mindset podcast is to give you insights and experiences working with some of the best coaches, championship teams, and business leaders around the world. Dr. Widman welcomes Kelly Hunter today on the podcast. Kelly played volleyball at the University of Nebraska from 2013 to 2017. She is a two-time national champion, All-American and Nebraska volleyball assistan...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 30 min
High performers in any sector have excellent recovery habits that are both physical and mental. These are the great separators that professional athletes and Olympians spend a lot of time on. The number one performance enhancer is sleep, and it’s free. The mental part of recovery is controlling our nervous system. Training your brain to get on to the next point or the next moment is critical. But like anything else, it takes lots of practice and is trainable. Follow Dr. Widman Twitter Facebook i...
Mar 11, 2020•4 min
A good teammate supports their teammates. No matter their role and are happy for their teammates when they do well, even if they've lost their starting position. That doesn’t mean that they don't continue to work hard and try to get back the role they may have lost. The best teams I've been around accepted and embrace their roles are the ones that put themselves in the best position to max out when it matters the most. Follow Dr. Widman Twitter Facebook instagram...
Mar 10, 2020•5 min
In most cases, the parent provides financial, moral, and emotional support every day. Most likely they show confidence and belief maybe when nobody else is seeing it. Parents can hurt their son or daughter as it relates to elite performance and it should be talked about. Communication between the athlete and the parent with what helps them and what hurts them is critical. Follow Dr. Widman Twitter Facebook instagram...
Mar 09, 2020•5 min•Ep. 10
