Neurosurgeons say if they practiced the way they did 18 months ago, they'd be sued for malpractice. Heart surgeons believe if they practiced the way they did 5 years ago, they'd be sued for malpractice. Yet, in youth sport coaching we still practice the way we did when we were kids. John Kessel believes we should all be sued for malpractice because we have not evolved the game to meet the times. Do you agree? Listen in on this thought provoking, information packed podcast as John shares an amazi...
Aug 14, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 2017Ep. 22
If an athlete's inner dialogue is made up of the voices they hear most often and most intensely in their daily lives, what are we as parents and coaches saying that can form a champion's mind? Join us as we talk to Two-time Iowa High School State Basketball Championship winning coach, Nate Sanderson, to discuss how better engagement with parents leads to on court success and off course success for players. He will share how he engages the parents, how important it is to implant a championship di...
Aug 07, 2017•1 hr 6 min•Season 2017Ep. 21
What if there was a single component you could add to your coaching that would get total commitment from your players, create better relationships with your parents, and possibly help you win more games? Jim Thompson shares this component and more in the newest Way of Champions Podcast. He also discusses the knowledge, strategies, and advice he has learned from some of the world's greatest coaches in his 20 year journey of "Developing Better Athletes, Better People". Listen in to hear more. Bio ...
Jul 31, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Season 2017Ep. 20
What do the Collingwood Magpies, the New Zealand All Blacks, Barcelona Football Club and the New York Yankees have in common? They're all members of author Sam Walker's list of the 16 greatest sports teams ever. It's not the talent, the coach, or the strategy that made these teams great - it was the Captain. Syd Coventry, Richie McCaw, Yogi Bera, and Carles Puyol led these teams to eternal greatness, and what made them great captains is not what you think… Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal's...
Jul 24, 2017•1 hr 3 min•Season 2017Ep. 19
Ryan Holiday is a strategist, speaker, and best-selling author. He dropped out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, and later served as the director of marketing for American Apparel. His company, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors. Holiday has written five books including Ego is the Enemy, The Obstacle is the Way, and Trust Me I'm Lying. His most recent, The Obstacle...
Jul 17, 2017•50 min•Season 2017Ep. 18
Lynn has over 45 years of experience in youth, high school, collegiate, and professional sports. Lynn was an All-American water polo player and swimmer at Slippery Rock University where she received her BS and MS Degrees in Physiology and Education. She was a 12-year member of the United States National Water Polo team, and then served on their Executive Committee. Throughout an 18 year career at Bucknell University, Lynn held various coaching positions, including serving a decade as the head co...
Jul 10, 2017•57 min•Season 2017Ep. 17
Stuart Armstrong is the Head of Coaching for Sport England. Prior to Sport England, he was the Player Development Manager for the Rugby Football Union. He is one of the world's top experts on player development pathways and skill acquisition, and has helped thousands of coaches in the UK create better learning environments and develop deeper relationships with their players. His sports coaching experience is in golf, cricket, field hockey, rugby, and soccer. He leverages the knowledge gained fro...
Jul 03, 2017•56 min•Season 2017Ep. 16
Julie Foudy is a two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist. She played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1987–2004. Foudy finished her international career with 271 caps and served as the team's captain from 2000–2004 as well as the co-captain from 1991–2000. In 1997, she was the first American and first woman to receive the FIFA Fair Play Award. From 2000–2002, Foudy served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation. In 2006, she co-founded the ...
Jun 26, 2017•42 min•Season 2017Ep. 15
As co-creator of social enterprise 'myfastestmile' and with a role in the UK Olympic sport system, much of Mark's work revolves around understanding learning & expert performance in order to facilitate the development of sport participants, coaches and leaders. He is passionate about creating dynamic environments for people at all levels of sport to be their best, blending his own and others experiential knowledge of sport with principles from the emerging field of Complexity Science. Prior ...
Jun 19, 2017•45 min•Season 2017Ep. 14
Author of Women in Sports Coaching, Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the area of social and behavioral sciences in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Minnesota where she is also the Co-Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, and the co-founder of the Minnesota Youth Sport Research Consortium. She received MA ('96) and doctoral degrees ('02) in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport psychology/sociology from the University of Minnesota. A...
Jun 12, 2017•51 min•Season 2017Ep. 13
After a record setting career as a quarterback at Dartmouth College, Jay Fiedler went on to play for 10 years in the NFL. He was tutored by some of the top names in the world of offensive football, playing under coaches such as Tom Coughlin, Jon Gruden, Brian Billick, Norv Turner, Chan Gailey, Marc Trestman, and Bobby Petrino. Since 1999, he has been passing along his knowledge to football players of all ages and skill levels through the PrimeTime Football camps and clinics. He has distinguished...
Jun 05, 2017•51 min•Season 2017Ep. 12
Jon Gordon's best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous Fortune 500 companies, professional and college sports teams, school districts, hospitals, and non-profits. He is the author of 17 books including 5 best-sellers: The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, Training Camp, You Win in the Locker Room First and The Power of Positive Leadership. Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, CNBC, The G...
May 29, 2017•41 min•Season 2017Ep. 11
Founder and CEO of Empowerment Through Sport, Angela Hucles is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist for US Soccer, two-time World Cup Bronze Medalist, former professional soccer player of the Boston Breakers and the US Soccer Foundation's 2009 Humanitarian of the Year. Angela led the U.S. team in scoring with 4 goals in the 2008 Olympics; 2 of these goals came in the U.S. victory over Japan. With a passion for helping others achieve their goals and dreams and over 30 years experience in the sports i...
May 22, 2017•53 min•Season 2017Ep. 10
English Premier League and World Cup Soccer player Jay DeMerit has one of the most unique stories to success the sport of soccer has ever seen. An MLS reject that backpacked to Europe and climbed the English soccer pyramid from the 12th tier to become the captain of Watford FC in the English Premier League. He also represented the US Mens National Team for five years, playing every minute of his teams games in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In 2011 he became the first ever signing & cap...
May 15, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Season 2017Ep. 9
Tony DiCicco is the former Head Coach of the US Women's National and Olympic Soccer Teams and the Head Coach of the US U20 Women's National Team. In 2008, in his return to international soccer, he coached the US to the FIFA U20 World Cup Championship in Chile. He had previously lead the Full National Team to the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Championship, the largest women's sporting event in history. And in 1996, he coached the US Women's Olympic Team to the first ever Gold Medal in Women's Socce...
May 10, 2017•59 min•Season 2017Ep. 8
Maureen Monte builds winning teams by harnessing the untapped talent in the locker room or the conference room and aligning it with success. Her approach has been honed with over ten years of experience in large companies, tech startups, and sports teams – from San Francisco to Singapore. She believes there are three universal truths about teams: All teams struggle There is untapped talent on every team Most teams haven't defined what success looks like Those teams and companies that leverage ev...
May 03, 2017•47 min•Season 2017Ep. 7
Chris Snyder is the Director for Coaching Education in the Sport Performance Division of the United States Olympic Committee. His responsibilities include discovering and providing resources to better benefit sport culture and the National Governing Bodies that service sport in our great nation. In addition, Chris is focused on supporting both the Sport Performance Department and Team USA coaches as they strive to be the best they can be. Chris has coached for over ten years at both the collegia...
Apr 26, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 2017Ep. 6
Ashton Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in both the decathlon and indoor heptathlon events. Ashton competed for the University of Oregon, where he was a five-time NCAA champion, and won The Bowerman award in 2010. In 2011, he won the first international medal of his career, a silver, in the decathlon at the 2011 World Championships. The following year, Eaton broke his own world record in the heptathlon at the 2012 World Indoor Champ...
Apr 19, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Season 2017Ep. 5
Professional Soccer Coach Lisa Cole discusses her amazing coaching journey as a longtime college assistant and head coach, Head Coach of the Boston Breakers in the NWSL, and international coach with Papua New Guinea Women's Soccer during the 2016 U20 Women's World Cup. She discusses some of the qualities of the best athletes and coaches she has worked with and tells us about her experience the past 18 months working with PNG and their amazing ride through the World Cup. The story is an incredibl...
Apr 13, 2017•47 min•Season 2017Ep. 3
Dr. Jerry Lynch has won 36 International and NCAA titles ass a consultant to some of the top teams in American Sports. DR. LYNCH HAS BEEN A SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY CONSULTANT for the past 33 years TO OVER 36 INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS at the professional and NCAA collegiate levels. In one survey,he has been recognized as one of the top five in his profession nationwide.He is the former Sports Psychologist for men's and women's Basketball, Lacrosse and Soccer teams at the universitie...
Apr 13, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 2017Ep. 1
Dan Abrahams- English Premier League and PGA Tour Sport Psychology Expert - talks about the mind of a champion. Dan Abrahams is a global sport psychologist, working alongside leading players, teams, coaches and organisations across the world. He is known for his passion and ability to de-mystify sport psychology, as well as his talent for creating simple to use techniques and performance philosophies, and he is the author of several sport psychology books as well as the founder of the Dan Abraha...
Apr 13, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Season 2017Ep. 2
David Epstein - International best selling author - discusses his book The Sports Gene. David is a relentless researcher who is more concerned with doing things the way research says instead of how we've always been doing it. To that end, he sets himself apart from others by seeking what science says about extraordinary athletic performance and pushing for it to be tailored to the individual. David Epstein writes about sports science and medicine, Olympic sports, and is an investigative reporter...
Apr 13, 2017•1 hr•Season 2017Ep. 4
