A former NIKE colleague, Lauri Kriva, joins Kirsten on this week's podcast. Lauri’s early life followed a predictable progression of academic and professional accomplishments: overseas study. College degree. HR Management certification. Fifteen years global HR experience with NIKE and Timberland. In 2006, her heart led her to life coaching, and a cascade of experiences that married her skills with a love of learning: voiceover, real estate, health/wellness, and authoring a children’s book. She o...
Dec 19, 2023•43 min•Ep. 86
Have you ever had something otherworldly lead you on a path? 🧙♀️🔮🌠 My guest on Monday's podcast is @krivadercci Lauri Kriva, a former NIKE colleague who has written a wonderful book, FORE! The Love of Golf. ⛳📖 Her son, Axl’s, experience learning how to play golf🏌️ (and the limited number of kids books on the subject) inspired her to write her new book! 📚 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirsten-jones0/support...
Dec 15, 2023•1 min
Kirsten sits down with Cory Heitz from Prep Athletics to speak about helping high school basketball players find the right fitting prep school, with the goal of finding the best option for student athletes to play in college. They have a great talk on going DI vs DIII and going where the fit is right because if you don’t listen to the signs, you will be miserable playing the game. The break down the process of Prep Schools vs Basketball Academies vs JUCO. As Cory states, Basketball is not fair. ...
Dec 11, 2023•58 min•Ep. 86
Kirsten sits down with Cory Heitz from Prep Athletics to speak about helping high school basketball players find the right fitting prep school, with the goal of finding the best option for student athletes to play in college. They have a great talk on going DI vs DIII and going where the fit is right because if you don’t listen to the signs, you will be miserable playing the game. The break down the process of Prep Schools vs Basketball Academies vs JUCO. As Cory states, Basketball is not fair. ...
Dec 08, 2023•1 min
Kirsten sits down with fellow Sunshine Volleyball Coach, Alex Chigas. Alex explains that he coaches and plays volleyball because he loves the game and tries to give his athletes space to find their passions. Alex Chigas grew-up in the suburbs of Chicago where he played volleyball for Oak Lawn Community High School and the Ultimate Volleyball Club. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS in Statistics. While attending university Alex worked as a line judge for B...
Dec 04, 2023•41 min•Ep. 85
SUPRPRISE!!! We have a new @raisingathletespodcast dropping on Monday with @alexchigas 🎉🎉🎉 Parents often ask, What can I do to help my child??? 🤔 Alex gives such important advice here. 🗣️ Listen and learn 👏🥰 ... Alex Chigas grew-up in the suburbs of Chicago where he played volleyball for Oak Lawn Community High School and the Ultimate Volleyball Club. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BS in Statistics. While attending university Alex worked as a line ...
Dec 01, 2023•2 min
On this week of Thanksgiving, I want to say I’m grateful for this women’s insight and friendship. On our newest #RA podcast, Kristin and I will share tips and words of wisdom for parents and athletes. It is something we often do - hike, talk, coach and learn from each other. So, we hope you enjoy a look inside our friendship and together we came up 5 Top Tips to help YOU and help your child! Thankful! Kristin Keefe played four years of volleyball at Marymount High School before playing for Stanf...
Nov 27, 2023•40 min•Ep. 84
On this week of Thanksgiving, I want to say I’m grateful for this women’s insight and friendship. On Monday’s podcast, Kristin and I will share tips and words of wisdom for parents and athletes. It is something we often do - hike, talk, coach and learn from each other. Thankful! Kristin Keefe played four years of volleyball at Marymount High School before playing for Stanford University; she was a four-time All-American Outside Hitter and 1991 National Player of the Year. From 1992 through 1996 ...
Nov 25, 2023•3 min
Today’s guest, NYU Coach Andrew Brown, is the head coach of the highly successful (29-7 record and advanced to the NCAA DIII Tournament Final Four 2022 season) New York University’s Women’s Volleyball Team. Coach Brown sits down with Kirsten to talk about how his program has changed from the jungle tiger - practicing ugly mentality to playing from the top and being the hunted vs the hunter. He speaks to how you show up after success, when opponents are so motivated to take you down. Kirsten and ...
Nov 20, 2023•40 min•Ep. 83
Monday's return guest, NYU Coach Andrew Brown, is the head coach of the highly successful (29-7 record and advanced to the NCAA DIII Tournament Final Four 2022 season) New York University’s Women’s Volleyball Team. In this clip, Coach Brown sits down with Kirsten to talk about how his program has changed from the hunter to the hunted. This episode is a fascinating discussion on mindset, grit, expectations, culture and really finding out who your team is! NYU Violets repeated as UAA conference ch...
Nov 17, 2023•52 sec
Kirsten and Joy have a fascinating discussion of NIL and youth sports. Have you wondered how this NIL thing works? Joy and Kirsten try to unpack this process of NIL, entrepreneurship and building your own brand (spoiler – it’s not all about sports!). They talk also about how much NIL is doing for women. Did you know women are getting paid 3:1 to their male counterparts!? Joy Harris is a successful entrepreneur with over 10+ years of experience helping others scale their ambitions. CEO of Score a...
Nov 13, 2023•35 min•Ep. 82
Kirsten and Joy have a fascinating discussion of NIL and youth sports. Have you wondered how this NIL thing works? Joy and Kirsten try to unpack this process of NIL, entrepreneurship and building your own brand (spoiler – it’s not all about sports!). In this clip, they talk also about how much NIL is doing for women. Did you know women are getting paid 3:1 to their male counterparts!? Joy Harris is a successful entrepreneur with over 10+ years of experience helping others scale their ambitions. ...
Nov 10, 2023•1 min
Kirsten had such a great conversation on SLEEP with Julie Wright, MFT and Heather Turgeon, MFT — psychotherapists, authors, and sleep experts. The Happy Sleepers join Kirsten to uncover one of the greatest threats to our teenagers’ physical and mental health: sleep deprivation. Based in NYC / LA, they help people of all ages (babies, little kids, teens and adults) improve their sleep. As their first book, The Happy Sleeper became a popular parenting book, they’ve expanded to develop tools that h...
Nov 06, 2023•42 min•Ep. 81
Kirsten had such a great conversation on SLEEP with Julie Wright, MFT and Heather Turgeon, MFT — psychotherapists, authors, and sleep experts. In this clip, The Happy Sleepers join Kirsten to speak to one of the greatest threats to our teenagers’ physical and mental health: sleep deprivation. Based in NYC / LA, they help people of all ages (babies, little kids, teens and adults) improve their sleep. As their first book, The Happy Sleeper became a popular parenting book, they’ve expanded to devel...
Nov 03, 2023•37 sec
Originally aired June 2, 2022 Former DI Virginia Tech basketball college athletes, turned NIKE executives and now parents of Stanford Women’s Basketball star, Cameron Brink, join Kirsten in discussing raising athletes, recruiting, NIL, the transfer portal and The Curry Family connection! Stick around for the end to hear about the link to the White House! Michelle and Greg Brink met as college basketball players at Virginia Tech University. I first crossed paths with them at NIKE, two power broke...
Oct 30, 2023•49 min•Ep. 52
Kirsten had a blast talking to Frankie Valdez about his story and how he shapes young people. Kirsten laughs out loud at Frankie's answer to, "The Best Athletes I Know Do This" :) Francisco Valdez played for the Dominican National team for 14 years, starting in their youth program and continuing to the elite men’s team. After winning the USAV Open division championship, Frankie was recruited to play NCAA D1 volleyball at Long Beach State. He went on to play overseas in Venezuela, Turkey and Puer...
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 80
Kirsten had a blast talking to Frankie Valdez about his story and how he shapes young people. In this clip, Frankie talks about letting young people explore other things - arts, sports, whatever! Be curious. Francisco Valdez played for the Dominican National team for 14 years, starting in their youth program and continuing to the elite men’s team. After winning the USAV Open division championship, Frankie was recruited to play NCAA D1 volleyball at Long Beach State. He went on to play overseas i...
Oct 21, 2023•2 min
Dan Blewett is an author, speaker, YouTuber, former professional pitcher, and mindset coach. He took his up and down career as an athlete and morphed that passion into helping sports families find their way. As former athletes and current coaches, Kirsten and Dan have very interesting takes about making sports intensely fun, prioritizing the family and how sports help divert us from the hardship of daily life. A resident of Washington, D.C., Dan is passionate about helping sports families - givi...
Oct 16, 2023•50 min•Ep. 79
In this clip from Monday's episode, Coach Dan Blewett breaks down why he believes character building is a side effect of sports, not why you should play! Dan Blewett is an author, speaker, YouTuber, former professional pitcher, and mindset coach. He took his up and down career as an athlete and morphed that passion into helping sports families find their way. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirsten-jones0/support...
Oct 13, 2023•1 min
Two years to the day, 2021 National HS Coach of Year returns to talk about her current 2023 Marymount High School team, loving the season you're in and being where your feet are. Her current team isn't 35-0 but is battling in tournaments and at 13-7 is poised to make a playoff run. Cari talks about controlling the controllables (Strength and Speed, Form and Fitness) and how it's her job as a coach to push her team to compete so that she honors each of her senior classes to leave better than they...
Oct 09, 2023•37 min•Ep. 78
In this clip from Monday's episode, Kirsten sits down with returning guest Coach Cari Klein (Marymount High School and Sunshine Volleyball Head Coach) and Cari discusses the Tom Brady 2 reps video. It's all about growth from where you are actually in your process – you need to show up ready to compete and get better! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirsten-jones0/support
Oct 06, 2023•3 min
Kirsten continues her discussions in the Talking to the Student Athlete Series, speaking to Holy Cross Soccer Player, Matt McGonigle. Matt has been a 4-year starter at Holy Cross, serving as one of the Crusaders’ team captains for the fourth straight year. Matt enters the season tied for 11th all-time at Holy Cross with 10 career assists. Matt played four seasons of varsity soccer at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Kirsten and Matt talk about the Captain’s arm band, leadership and...
Oct 02, 2023•40 min•Ep. 77
Kirsten continues her discussions in the Talking to the Student Athlete Series, speaking to a four-year DI starter, Holy Cross Soccer Player, Matt McGonigle. In this clip from Monday's new episode, Kirsten and Matt talk about leaders on the pitch and leaders on the bench (as his teams have 30 players with 11 on the field at a time) and how empowering all the roles leads to Growth Mindset. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirsten-jones0/support...
Sep 29, 2023•2 min
Kirsten had the pleasure of sitting down with the new head coach at William and Mary Volleyball, Ryan Adams. As you will hear, the episode has some hometown feel as Kirsten was a proud member of Tribe Volleyball in the '90s. Ryan talks about how he's a learner and that's the most successful skill his players can learn in Volleyball and Life. Kirsten and Ryan talk leadership, recruiting and how good people make great volleyball players. Ryan Adams was named the tenth head volleyball coach in scho...
Sep 25, 2023•34 min•Ep. 75
NEW EPISODE with Coach Ryan Adams drops Monday! In this clip, Coach Adams shares, "You need to fail a heck of a lot of times before you get good at stuff" and Kirsten asks him to describe the concept of "practicing ugly". Such great mindset skills for our athletes! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirsten-jones0/support...
Sep 22, 2023•1 min
Prepare to compete by getting in the right mindset space. This quick little mini episode is here to help! Whether you are an athlete setting your internal thermostat for your upcoming competition or a parent who wants to bring their best to the sidelines, check out this quick little "reset". Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kirsten-jones0/support
Sep 19, 2023•12 min
Kirsten sits down with a force of nature this week, Megan Henry, and they talk about her grit, determination, resilience, and perseverance whether it was in the Armed Forces or as a Team USA Athlete. A lifelong athlete, Megan competed in Division I Sports - Field Hockey & Track and Field. After joining the Army, her next athletic pursuit took her on an icy 80mph headfirst sled ride where she represented Team USA Skeleton and the Army World Class Athlete Program for over a decade. She’s a sel...
Sep 18, 2023•58 min•Ep. 74
In this clip from Monday's episode, Megan is all of us (well maybe not all of us as she's a world class athlete). But, she loves her father and still says to Parents - leave the coaching the coaches. We can't wait for you to hear the full episode! Megan Henry Captain, US Army 49kg USA Weightlifting Masters National Champion 3 x US Army World Class Athlete 2 x World Record Holder (Lake Placid & Park City) World Cup Bronze Medalist 6 x US National Team Member 3 x World Championship Team Member...
Sep 15, 2023•3 min
On this week’s #RaisingAthletes podcast, I do a #PodSwap with Jessica Lahey (best selling Author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation) and her podcast, #AmWriting which she co-hosts with Sarina Bowen and KJ Dell’Antonia. Jess and I break down the process of writing, how my book, Raising Empowered Athletes , came to be and how we became friends and cheerleaders for each other (so refreshing, right!?!). We go back and forth talking about such hot topics as Parents Weekend Pressure,...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 73
On this week’s #RaisingAthletes podcast, Kirsten does a #PodSwap with Jessica Lahey (best selling Author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation) and her podcast, #AmWriting which she co-hosts with Sarina Bowen and KJ Dell’Antonia. Jess and Kirsten break down the process of writing, how Kirsten's book, Raising Empowered Athletes , came to be and how they became friends and cheerleaders for each other (so refreshing, right!?!). In this clip, Kirsten and Jess discuss the Pressure of P...
Sep 01, 2023•2 min•Ep. 73
