Coach 360: Recent Episodes
Stephen Mackey and Colton Leonard
Coach 360 is a podcast dedicated to helping high school coaches take their leadership to the next level.
In each episode, we'll talk to high school coaches and athletic directors about topics like: developing culture, locker room management, character development, hiring staff, mental toughness, anger management, practice and preparation techniques, and more.
What happens when a school district of more than 18,000 student-athletes decides to raise the bar for sportsmanship? In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, presented by 2Words Character Development, host Colton reconnects with longtime mentor and friend, Coach Charles Ament, Associate Athletic Director of Cy-Fair ISD. With nearly three decades of experience in coaching and leadership, Coach Ament brings a wealth of insight into how character, community, and consistent communication shape the culture of athletics.
This conversation highlights The Texas Way—a statewide sportsmanship initiative designed to decrease ejections, build stronger relationships among coaches, athletes, officials, and parents, and create a better experience for communities across Texas. Coach Ament shares how Cy-Fair ISD implemented this initiative with intentionality, moving beyond posters and slogans to practical actions that transform culture.
Whether you’re a head coach, an assistant, or an athletic director, this episode challenges you to ask one powerful question: What are we really doing to model and build sportsmanship? From empowering student-athlete leaders to celebrating officials, Coach Ament reveals how small, consistent steps lead to lasting change.
Key Takeaways
- Community matters: Athletics thrive when schools create a sense of belonging, discipline, and shared values.
- Consistent messaging is key: Posters aren’t enough—coaches and administrators must live out sportsmanship daily.
- Student leadership drives culture: Cy-Fair’s SALT (Student Athlete Leadership Teams) gave players ownership in leading the Texas Way.
- Celebrate the positive: Recognizing officials, honoring opponents, and highlighting sportsmanship moments reinforces good behavior.
- Coach voices carry weight: Even in small schools, a single coach’s consistent emphasis can shift culture.
- Parents and fans must be engaged: Announcements, cards, and ticketing agreements all helped set expectations for spectators.
- Momentum builds over time: Change doesn’t happen overnight, but consistent small actions create lasting results.
- Vision + Action = Impact: Setting a clear district vision and empowering coaches to implement it led to tangible improvements in Cy-Fair ISD.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
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What does it take to lead through transition without losing the heart of your mission? In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, we welcome back Coach Jonathan Lamb—now Athletic Director at Pflugerville ISD—for a thoughtful conversation on leadership, character development, and embracing growth through change.
Having spent nearly two decades in Leander ISD, Coach Lamb shares his journey from a place of comfort to one of challenge and new opportunity. Whether you're a coach considering a professional transition or an athletic leader looking to grow your impact, this episode is full of timely insights. Tune in as Coach Lamb unpacks the mindset shifts, leadership practices, and people-first philosophy that are driving change in Pflugerville athletics.
Key Takeaways
- Step Outside Your Comfort Zone: Growth often comes when we choose to pursue new challenges instead of staying where we feel secure.
- Prepare Daily for Future Roles: Don’t wait for a promotion to begin leading—build your leadership habits now.
- Research Before You Leap: Understanding the culture, values, and leadership of a new district is essential before making a career move.
- Lead with a Listening Posture: Entering a new role starts with humility, curiosity, and learning the “why” behind existing systems.
- Lean on Legacy: Veteran staff and existing leaders can be invaluable in transitioning effectively and building trust.
- Invest in Emerging Leaders: Programs like Pflugerville's PFACTS develop the next generation of athletic leaders from within.
- Support Student Growth Beyond Sports: Leadership is about preparing students to graduate with character, choices, and lifelong skills.
- Stay Rooted in Relationships: Leadership is relational. Building buy-in begins with trust, visibility, and empathy.
- Chase Purpose, Not Just Titles: Choose positions that align with your core values and coaching philosophy, not just prestige.
- Keep the End Goal in Sight: At the heart of coaching is the mission to pour into kids and shape future leaders.
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The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
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COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
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In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, presented by 2Words Character Development, we’re joined by Coach Todd Winfrey, Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Canyon High School in Texas. With over two decades of experience serving under Coach Blake Bryant before stepping into the head role, Coach Winfrey shares a powerful testimony of leadership, patience, and the impact of long-term investment in a single community.
Coach Winfrey opens up about the influence of his coaching mentors, the importance of building relationships, and how love—not just discipline—is at the heart of his coaching philosophy. This episode dives deep into what it means to lead with intention, build a player-led team, and prioritize family while navigating a coaching career. Whether you're an aspiring head coach or a seasoned veteran, Coach Winfrey’s story is a valuable reminder that how we lead matters just as much as where we lead.
Key Takeaways
- Lead with Love: Coach Winfrey emphasizes the importance of telling players “I love you” and building strong, trusting relationships as the foundation for effective coaching.
- Patience Pays Off: Spending 21 years as an assistant before becoming head coach taught him invaluable lessons in humility, preparation, and trust in God’s timing.
- Avoid Comparison: Every coaching journey is unique; don’t fall into the trap of measuring your path against someone else’s timeline.
- Player-Led Teams Thrive: When players are given ownership, leadership councils, and the freedom to speak truth (even to coaches), the program flourishes.
- Be Present in the Moment: Great coaching isn't just about winning games—it's about showing up in your players’ lives during their hardest moments.
- Mentorship Matters: Having a head coach who empowers assistants builds a coaching tree and a culture of growth.
- Leadership is Modeled, Not Just Taught: From funeral visits to leadership development book studies, Winfrey ensures that love and integrity are shown, not just spoken.
- Sacrifice for the Bigger Win: If developing great husbands, fathers, and leaders costs a few football wins, it’s a trade worth making.
- Consistency Builds Culture: Being rooted in one community for decades shapes lasting impact—on families, teams, and legacy.
CONTACT COACH WINFREY: todd.winfrey@canyonisd.net
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The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
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COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
What happens when tradition meets transformation? For Coach Kelli Barnett, it meant stepping into a brand-new role at Wichita Falls Memorial High School—formed from the consolidation of three legacy campuses—and turning a blank slate into a platform for something extraordinary. In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Barnett shares how she laid the groundwork for a culture of character, trust, and resilience among her volleyball athletes.
By anchoring her program in character development and a shared mantra—“The Standard”—Coach Barnett reveals what it takes to unite athletes from different schools, build trust among teammates, and create a team-first mindset. From offseason workouts to character conversations, this episode offers a playbook for coaches looking to build more than just winning teams. It’s about building strong, confident young women who lead with heart—on and off the court.
Key Takeaways
- Start With Character: Coach Barnett focused on character development from day one to unify her team and establish core expectations.
- Trust Is Earned: Team trust was built through consistent workouts, shared experiences, and intentional conversations.
- Define “The Standard”: Her program’s mantra embodies resilience, accountability, and showing up—even on the tough days.
- Create Pressure Situations: Using time-limited or high-stakes drills helps athletes grow comfortable with discomfort.
- Culture Is Lived, Not Posted: Core values only matter if they’re practiced daily—not just printed on shirts or walls.
- Build Player-Led Teams: Empower athletes to hold each other accountable and lead through example.
- Consistency Builds Buy-In: Daily commitment to expectations fosters deep program-wide belief and cohesion.
- Leadership Through Relationship: Coach Barnett’s “Big and Little Sis” initiative strengthens cross-grade mentorship.
- Pressure Is a Privilege: Teaching athletes to embrace tough moments helps them develop perseverance and poise.
- Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing: Coaching is ultimately about growing people, not just players.
CONTACT COACH BARNET: kbarnett@wfisd.net
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The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
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COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
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Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, we’re joined by Coach Daniel Fitzmorris, Athletic Coordinator at Pasadena Dobie High School and a proud alumnus of the very program he now leads. With deep roots in Dobie football and a winding journey that spans Missouri, Denmark, and across Texas, Coach Fitzmorris returns to his alma mater with a clear vision: restore discipline, build tough athletes, and develop men of character for life beyond the field.
Coach Fitzmorris shares how influential mentors shaped his coaching philosophy and how he's paying it forward by empowering his own staff and student-athletes. From promoting leadership among young coaches to reviving old-school toughness through innovative offseason programs, Coach Fitzmorris offers a playbook for cultivating grit, accountability, and loyalty within a program. Whether you're a seasoned coach or just getting started, this episode delivers invaluable insight into what it means to lead with heart and conviction.
Key Takeaways
- Leadership Through Delegation: Coach Fitzmorris stresses the importance of delegating responsibilities to develop younger coaches and empower them to grow in their roles.
- Promoting From Within: Trust and continuity are built by recognizing the leadership potential already on staff and giving them opportunities to step up.
- Reviving Old-School Toughness: Through high-expectation offseason programs, including daily mat drills and a disciplined point system, Coach Fitzmorris is rebuilding the culture of Dobie Football.
- Accountability Through Real-Time Feedback: His “point system” encourages consistent attendance, academic success, and positive behaviors both on and off the field.
- Building Player-Led Teams: By drafting captains, co-captains, and anchors within small accountability teams, student-athletes are challenged to lead and hold one another to a higher standard.
- Cultural Rebuilding With Purpose: Coach Fitzmorris is blending Dobie’s championship legacy with new traditions, aiming to make every opponent “feel Dobie” win or lose.
- Coaching Beyond the Game: His ultimate goal isn’t just football success—it’s to raise first-team All-State husbands, dads, and community leaders.
- Know Your Players Personally: Today’s athletes thrive under coaches who understand their personal lives and adapt their coaching to build trust and motivation.
CONTACT COACH GONZALES: DFitzmorris@pasadenaisd.org
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development
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The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
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COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
What does it mean to lead with grit, heart, and humility? In this powerful episode of Coach 360: Beyond the Game, we sit down with Coach Sergio Gonzales, the Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Pasadena Rayburn High School. From his blue-collar roots in Galena Park, Texas, to leading student-athletes with passion and purpose, Coach Gonzales shares a raw and inspiring journey of character, leadership, and what it truly takes to make an impact.
Coach Gonzales opens up about the defining moments that shaped his career—from his father’s accident that brought him back home from college, to finding mentorship in unexpected places, to building a football program based on accountability, resilience, and love. His story is a reminder that true coaching goes far beyond the field. It’s about building young men of character who are ready to face life with strength and integrity.
Whether you’re a coach, parent, or athletic director, this conversation is a masterclass in how to balance toughness with compassion, and discipline with encouragement. Coach Gonzales reminds us that “nobody cares—work harder” isn’t just a mantra. It’s a mindset, a culture, and a path to lasting transformation.
Key Takeaways
- Blue-Collar Mentality: Coach Gonzales instills a “nobody cares, work harder” mindset into his program, rooted in the grit and determination he learned growing up in an industrial Houston neighborhood.
- Lead with Love and Standards: His coaching philosophy is about holding high standards while leading with love—creating an environment where athletes are held accountable but deeply supported.
- Resilience Through Real-World Lessons: His program emphasizes real-world preparation, teaching kids to be dependable, solution-oriented, and ready for life after high school.
- Earned, Not Given: Opportunities within the team are earned through effort and commitment, not handed out—a value Coach Gonzales learned through years of grinding from the bottom up.
- Mentorship Matters: Coaches and mentors like Dusty McGee played a vital role in Gonzales' development—underscoring the importance of investing in the next generation.
- Culture of Accountability: From calling in absences like a job to flipping tires as consequences, Coach Gonzales sets clear expectations and consistent discipline.
- Positive Hobbies Replace Negative Habits: By encouraging hobbies like fishing, the team steers players away from negative influences and toward healthy outlets.
- Know Your Identity: “Be you, while being a part of the team”—athletes are encouraged to keep their individuality while embracing collective purpose.
- Look in the Mirror: One of his most powerful questions for coaches: “Would you follow yourself?” Self-reflection is key to effective leadership.
CONTACT COACH GONZALES: GONZ5307@gmail.com
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit http://www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
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Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
When a school district undergoes one of the most significant transformations in its history—shutting down three long-standing high schools to create two brand-new campuses—strong leadership becomes essential. In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Grant Freeman, Athletic Director at Wichita Falls ISD, shares the pivotal role that character, relationships, and culture play in leading through change.
Coach Freeman, a lifelong educator and coach, unpacks how his personal upbringing, the lessons he learned from his father, and a transformational leadership philosophy helped him guide coaches and athletes through a historic district-wide transition. Whether you're facing a program rebuild or want to cultivate a player-led culture, Coach Freeman’s experience offers a playbook on how to lead with purpose.
Key Takeaways
- Transformational vs. Transactional Leadership: Freeman emphasizes the importance of focusing on transformation—building people—rather than just checking off tasks.
- Building Culture During Transition: Leading Wichita Falls ISD through the consolidation of three schools into two required intentional culture-building and trust across unfamiliar teams.
- The Three E’s Framework: Freeman’s leadership philosophy centers around Effort, Execution, and Everybody—ensuring all stakeholders are aligned and moving in the same direction.
- Focus on Relationships First: In any program shift, relationships are the foundation. Freeman prioritized team-building among coaches and athletes who had never worked together before.
- Effort Is the Equalizer: Regardless of background or skill level, Freeman believes every student and staff member can control their effort—and that’s where excellence begins.
- Practical Character Building: Coaches model and teach what effort and leadership look like beyond the field—whether it’s picking up trash in a hallway or showing up to class on time.
- Filtering the Noise: In today’s digital world, leaders must help athletes and coaches discern genuine support from distractions.
- Tangible Sportsmanship Training: The Texas Way initiative turned abstract ideas of sportsmanship into teachable, repeatable actions for students, coaches, and even parents.
- You Are Not Alone: Freeman encourages coaches to lean on mentors and resources like 2Words Character Development when navigating challenges in leadership and program development.
Memorable Quotes
“We focused on being transformational instead of transactional.”
“Effort is the one thing everybody can give—regardless of skill or role.”
“The Texas Way gave us a landing spot for sportsmanship. It made a mythical creature tangible.”
“The most important thing coaches need to know is you are not alone.”
“You find out who’s running with you halfway down the track—that’s your team.”
“Coaches must walk with their kids beyond the field to teach character.”
“Culture change isn’t about resumes—it’s about personalities that fit the mission.”
“We’re not just merging schools. We’re merging people, values, and purpose.”
CONTACT COACH FREEMAN: gfreeman@wfisd.net
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit http://www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
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Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
In this powerful episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, presented by 2Words Character Development, we reconnect with Coach Cody Moore, Athletic Coordinator at Round Rock High School, and his Assistant Head Football Coach and O-Line Coach, Jordan Gesch. Building upon their earlier conversation in Episode 332, this round dives deep into one of the most impactful elements of their program: the Leadership Council.
What started as a way to recognize student leaders has evolved into a structured, purpose-driven initiative designed to build true servant leaders on and off the field. Coach Moore and Coach Gesch share the origins, development, and day-to-day execution of their Leadership Council—from student nominations and rigorous interviews to summer retreats, service projects, and weekly team meetings. This episode is a masterclass in building a student-led program grounded in accountability, humility, and intentional leadership. If you're a coach aiming to empower your athletes to lead with integrity, this is the blueprint you’ve been searching for.
Key Takeaways
- Leadership Must Be Earned: Round Rock’s Leadership Council requires nominations, resumes, video submissions, and interviews—ensuring students genuinely want to lead and are willing to work for it.
- Train the Leaders Your Team Recognizes: Instead of picking leaders based on performance or popularity, the council is shaped by peer input, allowing students to nominate those who truly influence the team culture.
- Servant Leadership is Central: Council members are held to high standards and are trained to lead through service, not authority. Their role is to protect and represent the program's core values daily.
- Preparation for Real Life: From creating resumes to participating in panel interviews, students experience real-world processes that enhance their confidence and professionalism.
- Symbolic Leadership: Each member receives a custom-designed challenge coin symbolizing their oath to serve and protect the team—a daily reminder of their responsibility.
- Year-Round Engagement: Leadership development doesn’t pause during the off-season. Retreats, book studies, and summer service projects help maintain momentum and strengthen the bond among council members.
- Intentional Weekly Leadership Meetings: Council members meet every Monday and Friday to discuss team morale, logistics, and leadership responsibilities, creating alignment and fostering trust throughout the program.
- Results on and off the Field: Coaches have witnessed profound transformation in students who might have otherwise been overlooked, proving the long-term value of intentional character development.
Memorable Quotes
- "Sometimes you have to train the leaders your kids see as leaders—not just the ones you want."
- "If you're not going to practice leadership, you're leaving it up to chance."
- "We want go-getters—students who do the work, not just the popular kids."
- "Leadership is learned by doing. It becomes real when they teach it."
- "You wouldn’t call a play you haven’t repped. So why expect leadership without training it?"
- "If you want it to be right, you’ve got to put the work in."
CONTACT COACH MOORE: cody_moore@roundrockisd.org
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit http://www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
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Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
In this inspiring episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, we hear from Coach Lawrence Johnson, the Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Wichita Falls Legacy High School. Taking on the challenge of merging three schools into one unified program, Coach Johnson shares a raw, powerful account of what it takes to build culture, character, and unity in the face of adversity.
With a new campus, a new team, and no shortage of challenges—including an 0-10 season—Coach Johnson offers a masterclass in leadership through hardship. Rather than focusing on the scoreboard, he turns his attention to the character of his athletes, teaching them to believe, compete, and serve each other through a values-driven framework he calls the ABCDs. For any coach navigating change, struggle, or a rebuild, this conversation is essential listening.
Key Takeaways from the Lawrence Johnson Interview
- Adversity is a classroom: Coach Johnson believes tough seasons teach the most powerful life lessons—resilience, humility, and belief.
- Start with values: His team is built on ABCDS—Accountability, Brotherhood, Compete, Discipline, and Selflessness—as daily standards, not just slogans.
- Merge through relationships: Bringing together students from three schools, Coach prioritized bonding, trust, and shared experiences over immediate wins.
- Leadership is modeled, not mandated: Johnson emphasizes showing love through actions, creating spaces for student-led leadership like Unity Councils.
- Celebrate others: Selflessness is taught through intentional acts—cheering teammates, community service, and authentic encouragement.
- 1-0 mindset every day: After a winless season, the rally cry is simple: win today. In the classroom, the weight room, in effort, and attitude.
- Coaching is about belief: "Believe in your head and your heart" became a foundational mantra to help athletes push forward.
- Love first, coach second: Johnson challenges coaches to know kids beyond the field—who their siblings are, what they’re going through, what matters to them.
The Highlight Reel – The top quote-worthy moments from the episode.
- “You can’t ask for discounts when you're trying to win. You’ve got to pay full price for it.”
- “You control your response to adversity. Don’t let it control you.”
- “I told the kids, ‘Don’t believe what I say. Let me show you that I love you.’”
- “You can’t overcome adversity until you overcome your biggest excuse.”
- “The scoreboard isn’t the only way to win—life is happening between the lines.”
- “Even in success, discipline matters. Celebrate with control. Lead with purpose.”
- “Believe—believe it in your head, and believe it in your heart.”
- “If a kid knows you love them unconditionally, they’ll run through a wall for you.”
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit http://www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
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Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative
Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit http://pmxstrength.com/ today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, we hear from Coach Cale Melton, Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Hico ISD, whose leadership journey is rooted in legacy, authenticity, and building a program with lasting character. From his upbringing under a coaching father to his own transition into a head coaching role, Melton shares how trust, team ownership, and consistent investment shape the heart of a successful program—on and off the field.
Coach Melton dives into the power of mentorship, the importance of genuine relationships, and how foundational trust creates not just better athletes, but better people. Whether you’re a seasoned coach or just getting started, this episode is full of practical wisdom on leadership, culture building, and developing character through sports.
Key Takeaways
- Lead with Authenticity: Coach Melton emphasizes that being genuine with players creates a foundation of trust that’s essential for long-term success.
- Legacy Matters: Coming from a coaching family, Melton shares how his father’s influence shaped his approach to leadership and the game.
- Build, Don’t Borrow, Culture: You can’t just copy another team’s values—true culture must be built with consistency and intention.
- Trust is Earned Daily: Trust doesn’t come from titles; it’s developed through actions, vulnerability, and follow-through.
- Empower Player Ownership: Culture takes root when athletes take ownership of their team’s standards and identity.
- Invest in Relationships: Players don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Melton prioritizes knowing his athletes beyond their performance.
- Be Patient and Present: Building something great takes time. There’s no substitute for showing up and consistently pouring into your people.
- Do Simple Better: Complexity doesn’t build consistency—keeping things simple and doing them well drives progress.
CONTACT COACH CALE MELTON: cmelton@humbleisd.net
Memorable Quotes from this Episode:
- “It’s about relationships, and if they trust you, they’ll run through a wall for you.”
- “You can’t borrow culture—you have to build it every single day.”
- “When players buy in and take ownership, the team becomes self-sustaining.”
- “You don’t win every game, but you can win every day by showing up and being who your kids need.”
- “My dad coached for 38 years and told me, ‘Coach the heart first, not just the player.’”
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In the latest episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, presented by 2Words Character Development, host Colton sits down with Coach Michelle Dalton, the girls athletic coordinator at Pasadena Bondi Intermediate and a seasoned coach and mentor, to discuss the profound impact of mindset in leadership, coaching, and personal development. Through years of experience, Michelle has cultivated a deep understanding of how mental resilience shapes both individual and team success. She shares invaluable insights on how coaches can develop a winning culture, inspire young athletes, and navigate challenges with a growth-oriented perspective.
With over 16 years of coaching experience, Coach Dalton shares how the dynamics of middle school sports have evolved over the years, and how she continues to impact her athletes by instilling the core values of class, commitment, and character.
Whether you’re a seasoned coach or new to the field, this episode is full of insights on fostering a positive team culture and helping students grow both on and off the court.
Key Takeaways
- Building Character: Coach Dalton emphasizes the importance of teaching young athletes to “win with grace and lose with grace,” encouraging humility and respect regardless of the outcome.
- Values-Driven Coaching: Through the “Three C’s”—Class, Commitment, and Character—Coach Dalton fosters an environment of responsibility and growth.
- Adapting to Change: Over 16 years, she has seen shifts in student interests and demographics, but the core drive for success remains unchanged.
- Practical Leadership: Coach Dalton shares strategies for maintaining a positive, team-first culture, including daily reminders and consistent communication.
- Mentorship Matters: Reflecting on her own experiences as an athlete, she highlights the lasting impact of her coaches and the value of maintaining those relationships.
- Perseverance Through Challenges: Coach Dalton acknowledges that some seasons are about thriving, while others are about surviving, and both are valuable in shaping resilient athletes and leaders.
- Team Building for Middle School: She discusses the unique challenges of coaching middle school students, focusing on foundational skills and the joy of witnessing young athletes’ breakthroughs.
CONTACT COACH DALTON: MDalton@pasadenaisd.org
Memorable Quotes
- “We win with grace, and we lose with grace. It’s not about rubbing it in or feeling defeated—it’s about respect.”
- “Some years we thrive, and some years we survive, but every season has purpose.”
- “Class, commitment, and character—these are the pillars that guide our girls on and off the court.”
- "Discipline isn't about restriction; it's about creating the freedom to succeed."
- “Coaching middle school is about more than sports—it’s about teaching responsibility, teamwork, and respect.”
- “You don’t give up just because it’s tough. Next year could be your thriving year.”
- “The beauty of middle school sports is witnessing the ‘click’ moment when fundamentals fall into place.”
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit http://www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
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Every coach has the opportunity to make a lasting impact, and Coach Paul Sharr, Athletic Director at Community ISD, is a prime example of what it means to lead with integrity and purpose. In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Sharr shares his approach to fostering leadership, instilling sportsmanship, and holding athletes accountable in a way that prepares them for success in life, not just sports.
With over three decades of experience, Coach Sharr has coached at every level and understands that building a program isn’t just about championships—it’s about helping young people become their best selves. He emphasizes the power of mentorship, the importance of relational coaching, and why investing in athletes as individuals leads to long-term success.
If you’re a coach, athletic director, or leader looking to create a positive and lasting influence, this episode is a must-listen.
Key Takeaways
- Relationships Drive Success – Coaching is about fostering strong connections with athletes, staff, and the broader community to create meaningful impact.
- Sportsmanship is a Team Effort – Setting the standard for respect and accountability starts with leadership and extends to athletes, parents, and fans.
- Accountability Builds Leaders – Teaching athletes to take ownership of their actions instills valuable life skills that extend beyond the game.
- Winning Beyond the Scoreboard – The true measure of a coach’s success is found in the character and development of their athletes.
- Coaching is a Lifelong Influence – A coach’s words and actions shape young people far beyond their years in athletics.
Standout Quotes from Coach Paul Sharr’s Episode * “Coaching is about more than wins—it’s about shaping people.” * “A coach’s influence doesn’t end when the game does.” * “If we model respect, our athletes will too.” * “The Texas Way isn’t just about sports—it’s about building character in everything we do.” * “Accountability and sportsmanship aren’t just buzzwords; they’re the foundation of any great program.”
Related Articles & Resources * The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative – Founded by THSCA, THSADA, and 2Words Character Development, The Texas Way aims to enhance sportsmanship, reduce ejections, and foster positive relationships among coaches, athletes, officials, and fans. To coach, play, officiate, or support The Texas Way means you commit to the following three pillars: Respect For Others, Control of Self, and Spirit of Competition. Learn more at PlayTheTexasWay.com
CONTACT COACH SHARR: paul.sharr@communityisd.org
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The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
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Burnout isn’t just about feeling tired—it’s the slow erosion of passion, purpose, and energy that can take even the best coaches out of the game. If you’ve ever found yourself drained, disconnected, or questioning if you can keep going, you’re not alone.
In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Host Colton Leonard visits with Coach Stephen Mackey as they dive into the real causes of burnout and outline a four-step process to help coaches finish strong instead of flaming out. Whether you’re a veteran coach or just starting your journey, these principles will help you stay energized, focused, and in the game for the long haul.
Key Takeaways from the Episode * Burnout happens slowly and then all at once. Recognizing the early warning signs—like emotional exhaustion, detachment, and a low sense of accomplishment—can prevent total burnout. * Rhythm and intention matter. Without daily habits that fuel you, it’s easy to run on empty and lose sight of why you started coaching in the first place. * Reflection combats recency bias. Bad weeks don’t define your career—taking time to reflect on your progress and wins keeps you grounded in reality. * Refueling is non-negotiable. Just like a truck pulling a heavy load burns fuel faster, the more responsibility you carry, the more intentional you need to be about recharging. * Focus on what truly matters. The best coaches aren’t just busy—they’re focused on the right work. Avoid distractions, set priorities, and align your efforts with your greater purpose.
MORE ABOUT COACH MACKEY Stephen Mackey is a keynote speaker, and founder of 2Words Character Development. Building on the Six Pillars of a Championship Character – Toughness, Integrity, Belief, Excellence, Effort, and Service – he helps equip players, teams and organizations elevate their performance by building a culture of character. If you would like to connect with Coach Mackey, invite him to speak at an event, or receive his weekly encouragements texts, click here to visit Stephen Mackey's Zaap page with all of his most current related links and information.
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit http://www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
JOIN 2WORDS ON SPORTSYOU Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
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Every coach dreams of building a winning program—but what defines winning? Is it state championships and trophy cases, or is it developing young athletes into leaders who thrive beyond the game?
In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Ben Nicholas, Athletic Director at Village Tech Schools, shares his journey from unexpected coaching opportunities to leading a 3A athletic program in a highly competitive region. Coach Nicholas has spent years shifting his school’s athletic mindset from a club team culture to a championship mentality, proving that resources don’t define success—culture does.
If you’re a coach leading a smaller program, a team facing adversity, or looking to reinforce character development, this episode is packed with insights on leadership, athlete identity, and building a player-led culture that lasts.
Key Takeaways * Culture Is Greater Than Circumstances – Facilities and budgets don’t make champions—mindset does. Champions find a way, no matter the obstacles. * Athletes Are More Than Their Sport – 99% of high school athletes don’t play beyond high school, meaning their identity must be built on who they are, not just what they do. * Relationships Over Dictatorship Coaching – The best programs don’t run on fear-based leadership, but on mutual respect and understanding between athletes and coaches. * Success Looks Different for Every Team – Progress isn’t always about championships—it’s about personal and team growth, learning to overcome adversity, and consistently improving. * Coaches Are Still Students – Great coaches never stop learning. Who’s coaching the coaches? Seeking guidance, mentorship, and continuous improvement is essential for leading young athletes.
Quotes from the Episode * "Champions find a way—no excuses, no shortcuts, just solutions." * "You are not defined by your sport. You have value beyond the game." * "Coaching isn’t about telling athletes what to do—it’s about building relationships where they want to follow." * "We may not have the biggest facilities, but we have the biggest heart—and that’s what wins." * "Success isn’t measured by trophies, but by growth—on and off the field."
Related Articles & Resources * The Captain’s Course by 2Words – A leadership development curriculum designed to help student-athletes become leaders on and off the field. Custom-developed by 2Words, this 10-lesson course helps answer the common coach's question "How do I build a player-led team?" and provides coaches with the tools to do it.
CONTACT COACH NICHOLAS: bnicholas@villagetechschools.org
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
JOIN 2WORDS ON SPORTSYOU Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit www.pmxstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Culture isn’t just a catchphrase on a locker room wall—it’s the foundation that defines who your team is under pressure. Every great program, from high school teams to college powerhouses, thrives on clear core values that guide athletes beyond the game.
But how do you go from a list of words to a culture that actually shapes behavior? In this episode of Coach360: Beyond The Game, Coach Stephen Mackey lays out four essential steps to defining, teaching, and living out core values in a way that gets buy-in from your athletes.
If you’re a coach starting a new program or looking to reset and strengthen your team’s culture, this episode gives you a proven framework to make core values come alive—not just for one season, but for years to come.
Key Takeaways from the Episode * Connect Core Values to Character Traits – The best values aren’t just words; they are anchored in character like grit, accountability, or humility. * Define Values Through Commitments – Athletes need clear, action-based definitions so they can assess themselves and hold teammates accountable. * Coach Core Values Like You Coach the Game – Just like X’s and O’s, values must be taught, reinforced, and practiced in different situations. * Turn Core Values into a Mantra – A great catchphrase or team mantra helps players internalize and own their team’s identity.
CONNECT WITH COACH MACKEY Stephen Mackey is a keynote speaker, and founder of 2Words Character Development. Building on the Six Pillars of a Championship Character – Toughness, Integrity, Belief, Excellence, Effort, and Service – he helps equip players, teams and organizations elevate their performance by building a culture of character. If you would like to connect with Coach Mackey, invite him to speak at an event, or receive his weekly encouragements texts, click here to visit Stephen Mackey's Zaap page with all of his most current related links and information.
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
JOIN 2WORDS ON SPORTSYOU Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit www.pmxstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Every coach wants a player-led team, but how do you create a culture where athletes hold each other accountable, play for something bigger than themselves, and show up every day ready to compete? At Round Rock High School, Coach Cody Moore and Coach Jordan Gesh have built a football program centered around brotherhood, relentless effort, and above-the-line behavior—not just on the field, but in life.
In this episode of Coach 360: Beyond The Game, Coach Moore and Coach Gesh discuss their turnaround season, shifting from a 4-7 record to 8-1 by focusing on culture over results. They share how self-reflection, accountability, and redefining leadership helped reshape their team, their coaching approach, and ultimately, their success.
If you’re a coach looking to build a lasting culture that goes beyond the scoreboard, this episode is packed with practical strategies and coaching leadership insights.
Key Takeaways from the Episode * Self-Reflection is the First Step to Growth – Instead of blaming external factors, great coaches start with the person in the mirror and focus on what they can control. * Culture Over Talent Wins Every Time – Shifting from focusing on wins and losses to building leadership and accountability made all the difference for Round Rock’s turnaround season. * Brotherhood is a Choice – Players must actively choose to be part of the team culture, looking out for their teammates and holding themselves to a higher standard. * Above-the-Line vs. Below-the-Line Behavior – A simple, powerful framework that helps athletes course-correct quickly and understand the impact of their actions. * Accountability Starts with Leadership – Assistant coaches play a vital role in supporting head coaches, offering honest feedback, and ensuring everyone is aligned with the program’s values. * Make Character Development a Priority – Round Rock’s BE REAL acronym (Brotherhood, Relentless Effort, Above the Line) is woven into everything they do—not just a poster on the wall. * Invest in Kids Beyond the Game – The best coaches mentor, encourage, and love their athletes unconditionally, knowing that coaching is about building men, not just players.
CONTACT COACH CODY MOORE: cody_moore@roundrockisd.org COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
JOIN 2WORDS ON SPORTSYOU Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit www.pmxstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Coaching today isn’t the same as it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago. The landscape of youth development has changed, and adolescence now extends well beyond high school. As adolescence expands, today’s athletes need strong coaches more than ever. In this episode, Coach 360 host, Colton Leonard, welcomes back Coach Stephen Mackey for our special series "Huddle Up With Coach Mackey."
Mackey introduces the Five E’s of Leadership—Empathy, Example, Expectation, Equipping, and Encouragement—as a game plan for maximizing impact on and off the field.
If you’re looking to set high standards while still meeting young athletes where they are, this episode is for you.
Key Takeaways from the Episode * Adolescence is Expanding – Many young adults aren’t reaching full independence until 25, meaning coaches have an even greater responsibility to provide structure and mentorship. * The Five E’s of Leadership – The best coaches lead through Empathy, Example, Expectation, Equipping, and Encouragement. * Empathy Doesn’t Mean Soft – Understanding why athletes think and act a certain way helps coaches lead more effectively, not lower expectations. * Set the Standard by Example – If you demand hard work, discipline, and excellence from your athletes, you must demonstrate it first. * High Expectations Inspire Growth – Athletes don’t fear challenges; they thrive when they know a coach believes in them and equips them to rise to the occasion. * Encouragement Fuels the Process – Without consistent encouragement, even the most disciplined athletes can burn out. The best coaches build up their players every step of the way.
2W PURPOSE STATEMENT PAGE: www.2words.tv/purposestatement
CONNECT WITH COACH MACKEY Stephen Mackey is a keynote speaker, and founder of 2Words Character Development. Building on the Six Pillars of a Championship Character – Toughness, Integrity, Belief, Excellence, Effort, and Service – he helps equip players, teams and organizations elevate their performance by building a culture of character. If you would like to connect with Coach Mackey, invite him to speak at an event, or receive his weekly encouragements texts, click here to visit Stephen Mackey's Zaap page with all of his most current related links and information.
COACH 360 IS PRESENTED BY: 2Words Character Development Interested in connecting or taking the next step with 2Words Character Development? Let us know! Email Colton Leonard at: Colton@2words.tv Visit www.2words.tv/preview to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
JOIN 2WORDS ON SPORTSYOU Interested in regular encouragement on the SportsYou platform? 2W has a dedicated page on sportsYou where we share encouragements for coaches and athletes 2-3 times a week! Click here to join our sportsYou page. Use the access code C4CB-DN5T when prompted.
The Texas Way Sportsmanship Initiative Interested in registering for The Texas Way? Join the initiative at: www.PlayTheTexasWay.com
COACH 360 IS SPONSORED BY: ProMaxima PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit www.PMXstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Today, Coach McDougald tells us what it takes to be a championship team and lessons she has learned throughout her coaching journey.
Email Address: jmcdougald@iolaisd.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
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Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit PMXstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Welcome to the Coach360 podcast! Today we interview coach Jack Bowles from Hooks High School. He has been coaching for over 30 years and in the last 6 years has recently made the switch from coaching Boys Basketball to Girls Basketball. We discuss the similarities and differences and advice he would give to other coaches.
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Visit www.2Words.tv/gameplan to learn more and for a free week of the curriculum.
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit PMXstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Today we have a special guest on the podcast in the form on Beau Blackard from PMX Promaxima. Listeners will learn more about the organization and how they have set out to support coaches and school programs across the country.
To learn more, visit PMXstrength.com.
If you are a partner school of either Promaxima or 2Words, we want to know about it! Reach out to us and we would love to get mackey out on site to encourage your athletes. Email Colton@2words.tv
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PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit PMXstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
In today's episode, Colton sits down with Coach Marcus Bronson of Tri-City Prep. Coach Bronson shares with us the importance of building relationships that lead to success for his athletes not just on the field but in their lives as well. We discuss his philosophy and passion of helping students become leaders and well-rounded adults.
Connect with Coach: mbronson@tricityprep.org
Learn more at www.2words.tv/gameplan
PMX ProMaxima is your one stop shop for the ultimate fitness equipment solution. From strength to cardio, They manufacture a wide range of high-quality products made in the USA to maximize your teams performance.
Experience the difference with PMX ProMaxima and see why thousands of athletes and schools trust them. Visit PMXstrength.com today to explore their catalog and elevate your fitness journey.
Coach Jackson has spent his career developing youth. As Head Basketball Coach and Lead Behavior Mentor for the school he shares with us some of his tactics for engaging students, building trust, getting them to open up, and being there for them when they need it the most.
Email Address: myles.jackson@rop.com
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today Coach Meeks dives into the pillars that changed the culture at Center High School taking them from 1-9 to 8-4 in just one season. We also discuss how to encourage your athletes in today's digital age.
Email Address: ricky.meeks@centerisd.org
Cell Phone: (903) 563-9784
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today Coach Savell shares an encouraging message with us about how to push our athletes in practice and help them experience failure in a controlled environment. He's in his first year as an AD but is already doing great things at Buffalo ISD!
Twitter: @coach_j_savell Email Address: savellhb@buffaloisd.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we visit with Coach Sam Rakowitz from Sweeny High School. She grew up playing for Sweeny and is now coaching and raising her family there. She shares some of the valuable lessons her coaches instilled in her about being tough but fair and earning the respect of your athletes. Family is at the heart of everything they do in Sweeny.
Email Address: srakowitz@sweenyisd.org
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today, Coach Region walks us through how he built the powerlifting program at Ballinger High School from 6 to 60 in just under 3 years. He shares with us the importance of building relationships and setting high expectations with his athletes.
Connect with Coach on Twitter @coachregeon or by email at isaiah.regeon@ballingerisd.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we are spending time with Coach Justin Crow. He took over in his first ever Athletic Director/ Head Football Coach role in 2022 at Elysian Fields ISD. Today Coach goes over some of the challenges he faced as a first year head coach, the lessons that the kids learned after a hard season, and what it looks like to build player-lead teams vs coach-lead teams.
Connect with Coach at justin.crow@efisd.org
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today Coach Will Bass shares with us the way Millsap ISD lives out their "Character First" mantra. One of the ways is with their offseason character program called Success Class. Listen in for more details on what this looks like and how they implement it.
Catch up with Coach via Email at CoachB07@ymail.com or wbass@millsapisd.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we hang out with Coach Dan Loyd. He is the head football Coach and Athletic director at Seymour ISD. Coach has a passion for coaching kids hard and showing them they are loved just as much. Coach walks us through how he instills toughness in his players and how he helps athletes connect this character trait to life.
Connect with Coach at: dan.loyd@seymour-isd.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we are hanging out with Coach Jarrick Farmer. He is the Head Football Coach and Athletic Director of Linden-Kildare High School. Coach shares with us the importance of stressing the details in your program and about their "Once a Tiger" mentorship program they have with community members and their athletes.
Connect with Coach on Twitter: @coachjfarmer
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we interview Coach John King, Head football Coach of the Longview Lobos. Coach shares with us the Lobo's mentality that has lead to the programs success over the years along with some of the lessons he learned from his mentor Coach Pat Collins. He also gives us a brief update on what is going on at the Texas High School Coaches Association.
To learn more visit: www.Thsca.com
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
First year Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Chad Tutle joins us on the podcast today to talk through his journey to Eldorado High School. Coach emphasis the importance of a family environment and sacrificing for your neighbor.
Connect with Coach Tuttle at: chad.tutle@scisd.net or on Twitter @chadtutle
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today Coach Scott Funke from Smyer ISD is hanging out with us on the Podcast. When his district started an enrichment period, he saw it as an opportunity to start a leadership class for his athletes. He walks us through from the application process to the weekly content and everything in between.
Connect with Coach at scott.funke@smyer-isd.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Coach Zac Quinlan, Athletic Director/Head Football Coach at Farmersville ISD, joins us on the podcast today. Coach gave some great insight into his hiring process and how to build a close team that cover each others weaknesses. We also discuss what it means to teach kids to win again after a series of tough seasons.
Connect with Coach at zquinlan@farmersvilleisd.org
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
On this episode, Coach Jeremy Hickman, aka Mr. Intensity, shares with us his journey to Fort Stockton and some of the people that have influenced him along the way. As a first year head coach, he took these lessons he learned from many great coaches along the way and has come out of the gate swinging.
Connect with Coach Hickman through email or on Twitter:
jeremy.hickman@fsisd.net
@thecoachhickman
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Coach Nic Williams is the Athletic Director, Head Football Coach and Assistant Principal at Booker High school in the Texas panhandle. Coach shares their "Society of Champions" program and shares how they give back to their district and community.
Connect with Coach Williams at: nic.williams@region16.net
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we are hanging out with Coach Leandro Gonzales from West Campus South San Antonio. Coach tells us about his program and what it was like getting the program started in the midst of the 2020 pandemic.
Connect with Coach Gonzales on Twitter at: @coachgonzales11
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we hang out with Coach Cody McGuire, Athletic Director of Bridge City ISD. He shares with us some of the foundational principles he has picked up along the way while playing and while coaching under his mentors. He also describes how he leverages his community members and the alumni to help build character with his athletes.
Connect with Coach McGuire at: 940-782-3961 or cody.mcguire@bridgecityisd.net
New PE Character Development Curriculum Information: www.2words.tv/pe
Three free Athletic Curriculum Lessons: www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we hang out with Coach Bill Elliott who has been with Celina for over 30 years. He shares with us lessons and values his mentors instilled in him, which he now instills in his athletes. We discuss the importance of submitting to authority and how the values of submission, empathy, and love can bring out the best in you and in your team.
Connect with Coach Chandler at: 469-742-9120 or billelliott@celinaisd.com
New PE Character Development Curriculum Information: www.2words.tv/pe
Three free Athletic Curriculum Lessons: www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we hang out with Coach Darren Chandler, a program-building Basketball Coach who took over as the Deer Park Athletic Director in 2018. Coach shares with us some of his tips and tactics for taking over and building successful programs. Coach also emphasizes the importance of a player-led program and just how much consistency really matters. Connect with Coach Chandler at: DCHANDLER@dpisd.org
New PE Character Development Curriculum Information: www.2words.tv/pe
Three free Athletic Curriculum Lessons: www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we hang out with Coach Ojeda who is the brand new Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach at Aldine High School. Coach tells us about his journey to Aldine, what the transition has been like, and what he has been focused on in these first few weeks on the job. Coach highlights the importance of spending time to save time and he has implemented this idea both with his kids as well as personally in this transition. He also shares a couple of lessons his mentors taught him that greatly influence how he coaches today.
Connect with Coach Ojeda at: cmojeda@aldineisd.org
New PE Character Development Curriculum Information: www.2words.tv/pe
Three free Athletic Curriculum Lessons: www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Today we have Coach Jamie Boswell on the podcast. Coach comes at us with a deep wealth of knowledge after over 30 years coaching. He is 3 weeks into his new role at Andrews High school as the Athletic Director. Coach explains the value of mentors on our lives and careers. He encourages us to show up every day with a Full Cup and be ready to pour out every drop for our kids and athletes. This mentality requires us to be truly selfless during a time when it's not very easy to be a coach or educator.
THSCA Rock Mentor Program Resources:
R.O.C.K. MENTORING | Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA) Connect with Coach Boswell at: jaboswell@andrews.esc18.net
New PE Character Development Curriculum Information: www.2words.tv/pe
Three free Athletic Curriculum Lessons: www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
This weeks Episode we have coach Jerry Prieto, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Crosby ISD. Coach walks us through some of his foundational program principals and how he installs these every offseason with a one to two week character intensive with his athletes. Coach is constantly calling his players to focus on their purpose, education, and keeping their priorities in order. He shares how this has translated to success on the field after a couple of deep playoff runs in just his first few years. Coaches Email: jprieto@crosbyisd.org
New PE Character Development Curriculum Information: www.2words.tv/pe
Three free Athletic Curriculum Lessons: www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Interested in connecting or taking the next step with us? Let us know! Colton@2words.tv
Coach David Munoz is a new Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator at Irving High School. He is going on his 16th year of coaching. Coach Munoz saw first hand the power of building relationships and investing in kids when he and his mentor Coach Jason Tucker rebuilt a struggling program and made a deep play off run several years later. He said they didn't change the playbook, they changed the way they invested into their players.
Find Coach Munoz on Twitter @sambacker61
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
Coach Gerald Osborne is a State Championship Baseball Coach in Oklahoma and was inducted into the Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2015. Today we talk about what it takes to be a great leader, lessons he learned and has applied in his AD role, how character makes an impact on the field, and his beautiful take on humility.
Connect with Coach Osborne: osborneg@pryorschools.org
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
Over the past 18 months, Mackey and the 2Words team have been asking students athletes from across the state of Texas about their experience with mental health, racial injustice, COVID frustrations, and the pressures facing teens today.
In this THSCA Coaching School Session, Mackey speaks on 5 Things Kids Wish Adults Knew (But Are Too Afraid Say).
Key Takeaways:
- How to remove the stigma of failure by defining what it means to fail on your team.
- How to create space for your team members to be honest about mental health.
- How to build positive leaders who can handle the pressures of leadership.
Download the slides here: https://www.2words.tv/coachingschool/
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
Coach Armando Jacinto was told "No" 25 times before he was finally told "Yes".
In this episode with the President of the Hispanic Texas High School Coaches Association and AD of Spring ISD, we talk with Coach Jacinto about his long road to success. From being guided into the coaching profession as a player, to struggling to land a job due to his ethnicity, to being inspired by a former player of his own to set his sights even higher, Coach Jacinto knows the importance of seeing what CAN BE, rather than only what is.
We also meet the Hispanic Coaches Association, whose mission is to build and equip Hispanic coaches for positions of leadership in Texas.
Key Takeaways:
- "A good coach makes players see what can be rather than what they are."
- It's important for kids today to see men and women who look like them in positions of leadership.
For more info on the Hispanic Coaches Association visit:
https://htxhsfbca.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2518223128416916/
Armando Jacinto can be reached at ajacinto@springisd.org
Coaches Social on July 19th 7pm at Smoke BBQ!
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
In our 300th episode (!!!), we hear from Johnny Ringo, Boys AD at Highland Park HS on how high expectations build high achievement. Coach Ringo talks about how character and sportsmanship allow their athletes to compete above their talent and become champions. We also hear about balancing career aspirations with today's work and the importance of remaining present and enjoying the impact you can make right where you are.
Key Takeaways:
- Team always comes first
- Building a culture of gratitude. Power of "thank you."
- Whether at an away game or program wide, "leave it better than you found it."
Contact Johnny Ringo at RingoJ@hpisd.org
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
"Deep down, our players want discipline. They want accountability."
Chris Dudley, AC at Cinco Ranch HS, builds TRUST in his program with clear and consistent communication; "Aggressively over communicating" is how he puts it. With that trust in place, he is then able to hold his athletes to clear standards that set them up to succeed on the field and off as they learn to sign their name to something worthwhile and live up to the standards they've agreed upon.
Key Takeaways:
- "To succeed in life you need some measure of organization."
- Productive doesn't equal finished. Sometimes we simply move the ball forward.
- Having players sign to a contract cuts through the haze of uncertainty.
Contact Chris Dudley at ChrisDudley@katyisd.org
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
"We don't get this day back, and neither do our kids."
When our kids are with us, we want that to be the best part of their day. In this episode with Kody Groves, AD at Mesquite ISD, we zoom in to hear about his motivation to give his absolute best for the athletes in his program, knowing that they only come through the program once. Then we zoom out to his role as district AD and recognize that giving our daily best is piece in a much larger puzzle.
Key Takeaways:
- "Things can be challenging, but what coach doesn't love a good challenge?"
- Being People First means giving your full attention to the relationship in front of you.
- "Culture is how you live it."
Contact Coach Groves at KGroves@mesquiteisd.org
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
"We do all we can, for as many as we can, for as long as we can."
In this episode with Todd Vesely, Executive Director of Athletics for Fort Worth ISD, we dive into the building blocks of what he describes as a "culture of improvement based on relationships and conversations." No single tool will ever be enough, but a culture that seeps into all departments can give life to a community. Though sometimes it may feel like we are "running on ice", Coach Vesely would remind us that what truly matters is coaches capitalizing on opportunities to impact their athletes beyond the game.
Key Takeaways:
- Self-reflection fuels self-improvment
- Defining your Profound Positive Vision
Contact Todd Vesely at (432) 631-4912
See his TED Talk here: http://tedxoptimistpark.com/speakers/winter-2018-moonshot-madness/todd-vesely/
Episode 112 here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coach-360/id1224657497?i=1000412117433
"Discipline is the bridge between peaks of motivation."
Whether it's tucked in shirts or being on-time, DISCIPLINE is the vehicle that carries us when our motivation has dried up. In this episode, Diane Wilson, Volleyball Coach at Eaton HS, walks us through building the trait of discipline through small, consistent expectations. She doesn't stop there. We then learn about Relationship Banks: catching our athletes doing something GREAT and calling them out so that when we need to push them, we've got sufficient funds to do so!
Key Takeaways:
- You can be a great Mom or Dad AND a great coach. It isn't either / or.
- What is the length of your investment in your athletes: 1 season? 4 years? More?
Connect with Coach Wilson via email at dwilson01@nisdtx.org or on Twitter @eatoneaglevb
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
"Don't underestimate the time that needs to be spent on building behaviors that make people successful."
In this episode with David Collins, AC and Head Football Coach at Pearce HS, we explore how culture drives BEHAVIOR and how "well trained" goes far beyond simple X's and O's. Coach Collins casts his VISION to have every athlete fulfill their potential and become, in his words, ELITE. He then unpacks the system in place at Pearce to turn this vision into reality. This episode is challenging and filled to the BRIM with dirt-level actions to be taken to meet kids where they are and help them become their best.
Key Takeaways:
- Aligning vision from 7th to 12th grade.
- "Competence isn't what you know. It's what you can teach others."
- Accountability both up and down the chain of command.
- "We don't set goals for our kids, we teach skills."
Contact Coach Collins via Email at David.Collins@risd.org
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan
"It sounds cliche but, for us, the biggest thing is academics."
In this episode with Merdith Shaw-Moore, Girls Coordinator and Volleyball Coach at Shoemaker HS, we dive into the cliche of focusing on academics and how grades can be a jumping off point into teaching character and life-maturity. She takes us through her Accountability Board, Team Tutoring, and a host of other dirt-level strategies you can employ to help your athletes excel academically. She also brags on 2Words, which she uses almost daily, saying that, "2Words has become our morning coffee. It's our boost!"
Not going to lie, that kind of feedback makes us at 2W feel pumped UP!
Key Takeaways:
- The importance of a consistent Coach in an inconsistent world.
- Daily grade monitoring.
- Networking and sharing with other coaches.
Contact Coach Shaw-Moore via Email at Merdith.ShawMoore@killeenisd.org or by phone at (409) 351-1428
Sign up for THSCA Leadership Summit on 2/22/21 HERE: https://www.thsca.com/summit
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
"The mind is everything. What we think we become."
Coach Brian Randle knows this is true, especially for athletes today. That's why he has his football team lie on the weight room floor, close their eyes, and visualize their success both on the field and off. "My job is to get kids out of their own way, to help them find their purpose and get fired up about it." In this episode, we dive into Coach Randle's 3PT program and his Monday Minutes, a Twitter video series that has us at 2W both laughing and taking notes. Good stuff!
Key Takeaways:
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Faking it till you make it.
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The one thing you have complete and total control over.
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The power of positivity.
Contact Coach Randle: Twitter @BrianRandle40 | BGRandle40@gmail.com | BrianGRandle@katyisd.org | (832)524-8090
Sign up for THSCA Leadership Summit on 2/22/21 HERE: https://www.thsca.com/summit
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
- Faith 2. Family 3. Academics 4. Football
These are the priorities of a Jenks HS athlete. And putting these into practice is paying off to the tune of 17 Oklahoma State Championships! So our ears are up to see what we can learn. In this episode, Coach Keith Riggs talks about the importance of building men and the job satisfaction that gives him. He dives into core principles of their success and being the benefactor of a great culture built by his predecessor, the legend Coach Allan Trimble.
Key Takeaways:
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Academically supporting your athletes with coaches acting as a weekly advisor.
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Can a quiet person be a leader? YES!
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Young coaches, start with developing relationships, and the Xs and Os will follow.
Contact Coach Riggs via Email at keith.riggs@jenksps.org
Sign up for THSCA Leadership Summit on 2/22/21 HERE: https://www.thsca.com/summit
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Before there is trust, effort, and a run-through-a-brick-wall-for-you commitment, there is LOVE.
This episode with Devon Mann, Head Football Coach and A.D. at Santo ISD, hinges upon love. Not a Valentines Day feels love, but a Day One, Unconditional Choice to love and want the best for your athletes. From there, we range widely, hearing about keys to success for first-year coaches, the difference between a GOAL and a MISSION, running a Leadership Council (hint: there's gotta be food involved), and the benefits of allowing other voices speak, not only the Head Coach.
Key Takeaways:
- Team Meals show the kids that we as coaches are human.
- "COVID has felt a lot like coaching: you try something, it doesn't work, you back up, punt, and try again."
- Culture is sexy to talk about until you have to defend it.
Coach Mann can be found on twitter @CoachDmann
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
"When I was growing up, we just did whatever coach told us to do. Today, that's not enough. You've got to model it." In this episode, we speak to A.D. and football coach, Chad Olson out west in Pecos, TX about his program's core values of Effort, Attitude, Guts, Love, Energy, and Sacrifice... E.A.G.L.E.S.
We focus in on SACRIFICE, and how the same discipline that carries your athlete through a 6:30 AM workout will pay dividends in the real world as husbands, fathers, employees, and employers.
Key Takeaways:
- Being a positive force for your athletes doesn't mean you're soft or easy on them
- What is the role of a coach when tragedy strikes?
When you try to do someone else's job, you fail at their job AND you fail at your own. In this weight room talk, Mackey reminds us that while we can't do EVERYTHING, we can remain laser-focused on what is ours to accomplish today, on YOUR JOB.
- Deal in the truth, not in fantasy
- Embrace the obstacles along the way. They are mean to make you stronger
When you are about to speed up, you'd better know you're headed in the right direction. That's why the first week of Boot Camp at Anderson-Shiro happens in the classroom. Bradley Hodges, Head Football Coach and Athletic Director talks to us about slowing down at transition points in the year to ask, "What is best for THIS group, at THIS moment? What have we done well and what have we not?"
Key Takeaways:
-Kids see right through the phony. If you're going to say it, be about it.
-Respect isn't only kids to coaches. Respect comes from within.
-Relationship is first. There is no buy in that's not built on relationship.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
"School Pride" is a term often thrown around, but what does that mean? What does that look like in action and how do we as coaches build it?
In this episode with Coach Eli Brown, we hear of the STORIED Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And by storied, we mean 42 State Championships and 5 National Championships in 100 years of Boys Basketball... Coach Brown discusses how his team rehearses the history of the school along with its role in the community as a vehicle to win games and build the character of athletes within his program.
Key Takeaways:
- You can't control when an opportunity will come, but you can be ready when it does.
- What does it mean for your athletes to be good stewards of the program?
- The platform of a coach is bigger than we sometimes believe. How do we use it to foster respect in our communities?
Coach Brown can be found on twitter @CoachEliKBrown3
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Any athletic program needs a solid foundation in relationships. Relationships between athletes and coaches, as well as between the school and the community. Relationships are about getting to know each other and spending time together. Relationships are about caring for each other beyond what we can get out of the other person. In this episode, Coach Ruben Garcia offers down-to-earth advice for coaches about relationships, teaching athletes and assistant coaches to be leaders, and sticking to your guns.
Key Takeaways:
-Relationship should be a program's foundation.
-Everybody has a story; it's up to the individual to make it a successful one.
-Teach your athletes and assistant coaches how to be leaders.
To learn more about the 2Word Character Development curriculum email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Relationships are built on trust. If our athletes don't trust us, then we won't be able to build strong relationships with them. Without strong relationships, we can't help them become the best young men and women they can be. We can't just tell our athletes that they can trust us because trust is built slowly over time by both our words and our actions. In this episode, Coach Brandon Hankins tells us how to show athletes that they can trust us so that we can help them reach their full potential.
Key Takeaways:
-Don't tell your athletes they can trust you; show them.
-Be involved in the community you live in.
-Always be loyal and treat people right.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website, www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Being a coach isn't about you. It's not about your success; it's about the students' success. How our your athletes successful? How are you helping them to be ever more successful? Ensuring the success of others is what coaching is all about. In this episode, Coach Seth Stinton reminds us that coaching is never about us. Instead, it's about the kids and the journey we get to take them on.
Key Takeaways:
-Be positive and support others.
-Loyalty is doing what's in the best interest of others.
-It's never about us; it's about the kids and the journey you take with them.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
This week, Mackey talks with retiring US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ingebrigt A.L. “Andy” Riise. Andy is a Mental Performance Coach, Consultant, Speaker, and Author who passionate is helping individuals, leaders, and teams get better at what they do. A West Point graduate and former Army Football player, he had a decorated 20 year career, leading soldiers in a variety of austere missions highlighted by three combat deployments, strategic missions on four continents, and five years in two elite Special Forces units. They talk football, the importance of coaches, and Andy’s new book, Deliberate Discomfort: How US Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable. As if all that wasn’t enough, Andy is also a key leader at the Texas A&M Coaching Academy and instrumental in the Veterans to Coaching program.
Most students dislike tests. But tests are valuable and even necessary because they allow us to see where we stand. When we know where we are, then we can figure out how to get where we want to be. In this episode, Mackey explains the value of testing our athletes so they (and we) know where they are--not to judge or label, but to help them move forward to reach their full potential.
Key Takeaways
-The value of a test is that we see where we are.
-When we see where we are, we can see the path forward.
-We must continually test ourselves to come to grips with the truth of where we are.
Does winning in sports really matter? Yes, it does. But perhaps not for the reasons that we immediately think of. The value of winning isn't in beating another person, and it's not in the accolades that come from a win. The true value of winning is in how it pushes us to prepare and compete to our greatest ability. In this way, winning in sports teaches us to win in life. In this episode, Mackey breaks down the value of winning and why the most successful people learn how to win well.
Key Takeaways
-The most successful people are the ones who can take things going wrong and make them right.
-The value of winning in athletics is how it teaches us to win in life.
-We must learn to value the process over the results.
The main reason given for not establishing character development as a routine part of an athletic program is lack of time. But here's the truth about time: We make time for what we value. If we "don't have time" for character development, it's because we don't value it enough.
In this episode, Mackey explains that we have to take control of making time for the things that we value. We are responsible for making things like character development a priority and organizing our time accordingly.
Key Takeaways
-It's not about the amount of time you spend on character development; it's about the quality and intentionality of that time.
-If we don't audit our time, we're likely wasting our time.
-Don't let what you cannot control keep you from controlling what you can.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan
The most dangerous racism is implicit racism, the kind that we think we've already dealt with when we haven't. We can't fight racism like this in the world until we deal with that racism in ourselves. That means we have to call right, right and wrong, wrong. We've got to prepare to face racism, to protect each other from its effects, to protest until peace is found, and to press on to the end. Those are the 4 Ps of racism, and in this episode of Coach360, Mackey dives in on how we can use each of them to fight racism.
Key Takeaways:
-You can't change racism in the world until you deal with the racism in you.
-The product of protest will be peace.
-Call right, right and wrong, wrong.
Coaches are important figures in the lives of young adults everywhere. To be a great coach requires passion. It requires an eagerness for more truth, more knowledge, and ever greater improvement. Being a coach is a tough but rewarding job, and we could all use additional resources to help us become the best coaches that we can be. In this episode, Coach360 speaks with Dr. John Thornton of the Coaching Academy at Texas A&M University, which is built for the prospective coach or current coach, regardless of experience level.
Key Takeaways:
-We don't know what we don't know.
-The intelligent person is eager for more truth.
-You have to be passionate to be a coach.
If you want to learn more about the Coaching Academy and the resources they provide, please visit www.coachingacademy.tamu.edu or email coachingacad@tamu.edu.
You don't have to get sick to be affected by the pandemic. Everyone is experiencing loss due to COVID-19, whether that's loss of a season, loss of experiences, or loss of loved ones. Going through this difficult time is naturally going to bring up a lot of emotions, and it's not uncommon to feel like you're on an emotional roller coaster.
In this episode, Mackey explains that it's okay to grieve, but it's not okay to stay in that grief for too long. At some point, you've got to go from grief to giddy up.
Key Takeaways:
-COVID-19 can’t take away your value or your worth.
-It will take more strength to ask someone to help you than to cope alone, but that is the only way to truly heal.
-It's okay (and even necessary) to grieve, but it's not okay to stay grieving for too long.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
If you haven't listened to the Virtual Mackey Leadership Camp Sessions, head on over to youtube/mackeyspeaks and give it a listen!
Starting in a new career is tough. Whether you've been in the job market for a while before taking up coaching or whether coaching is your first job, there's a lot to learn. But perhaps the most important lesson is: Never stop learning. There's a lot of good stuff in this episode for all coaches, but especially for beginners, so don't forget to take notes and learn as much as you can!
Key Takeaways:
-Continually grow your coaching toolbox.
-Take notes and learn as much as you can.
-Don't just be a coach; be a teacher, too.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
If you haven't listened to the Virtual Mackey Leadership Camp Sessions, head on over to youtube/mackeyspeaks and give it a listen!
Bad days happen to everyone. But not everyone has the character and preparation to respond to bad days in a way that turns those bad days to growth. The good news is that everyone can develop the character and learn how to prepare to do this.
There is nothing wrong with having bad days; they are just part of being human. But if you can turn those bad days into growth days, if you can be the kind of person who handles failure and setbacks with a growth mindset, then you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. In this episode, Mackey provides encouragement to push through the bad day to the growth that is waiting on the other side.
Key Takeaways:
-No matter how much you prepare, it is guaranteed that something will go wrong.
-Set goals that are worthy of your talents.
-Be the kind of person that does what they say they will do, no matter how difficult it is.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
If you haven't listened to the Virtual Mackey Leadership Camp Sessions, head on over to youtube/mackeyspeaks and give it a listen!
We tend to think of the expectations we set for our athletes as minimums, but in reality, those expectations are generally ceilings. In other words, coaches and athletes are going to rise to the expectations that are set, and go no farther unless we adjust the expectations to a higher standard each time they reach it.
In this episode, Coach Tony Daniels reminds us that coaches set the expectations for their athletes, so when our athletes reach those expectations, we've got to move the bar just a little higher to encourage them to keep growing.
Key Takeaways:
-It's about more than X's and O's; it's about becoming young men and women.
-Embrace the grind.
-Learn from those older or in a higher position than you.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please contact Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Success isn't final, and failure isn't fatal. Success will always be interrupted by failure at some point, and failure is necessary for finding success. You can't have one without the other because failure and success go hand in hand. It is only through failure that we learn and grow in the ways necessary for us to find success. In this episode, Coach Bill Blankenship talks about failure, correction, and what both of those things mean for our athletes,
Key Takeaways:
-Failing is a huge component of finding success.
-Earn your athletes' trust before you correct them.
-Use failure as an opportunity for growth.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Culture is crucial to success. It's true in business, it's true in the family, and it's definitely true in the locker room. Culture is the soundbite encapsulating what the athletic program or team is really like to be a part of. It's what athletes say about their team to their non-athletic friends or their family. In this episode, we talk with Coach Kevin Flanigan, who explains that a program's culture is determined by it's leadership. If you want to have a great team culture, you've got to be a great leader.
Key Takeaways:
-Trust should be the foundation of your program.
-The true value you place on something is the time you invest in it.
-The leadership of a team dictates the culture, which dictates the behaviors, which dictates the results.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Servant leadership means serving first. A servant leader understands that he or she must serve others to find success in life. A servant leader also becomes closer to his or her team through their service to their teammates and the wider community. When a team serves together, it brings them closer together. In this episode, Coach Tony Benedetto gives us advice for how coaches can build servant leaders in their locker rooms.
Key Takeaways:
-When athletes serve others together, they become more of a team.
-Be explicit about requiring athletes to serve others.
-Know every athletes' name and something about them.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Sports teach us many lessons that will be useful for the rest of our lives. We are trying to reach students through athletics to teach them the skills and values that will help them find success beyond the game. Sports people have a lot of wisdom to share from their time on the field or court. So in this episode, we are speaking with Jeff Traylor, Head Football Coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and he gives us some pearls of wisdom about using our gifts and talents for the good of others, having a humble heart, and getting back up when we get knocked down.
Key Takeaways:
-The gifts and talents you have are not just for you. They're for you to give to others.
-Have the heart of a humble competitor.
-Be empathetic to how others feel.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan.
Life is not all about sports, but sports is all about life. The things that our student-athletes learn in practice and during games will help them well beyond the field, so long as we are intentional about passing on the most important lessons. For example, one of the core values we can teach our athletes is that regardless of what life throws at us or how many setbacks we encounter, it is always possible to win the day by giving our best in everything that we do. In this episode, Coach JD Berna explains this "win the day" mindset.
Key Takeaways:
-Be creative and passionate about growth.
-Life is not all about sports, but sports is all about life.
-Everything that you do, you want to be the best.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum, email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
We have an influence on our student-athletes' lives. Our words to them matter, so we have to be careful what we say to these young people. They are dealing with middle and high school, the two places where everyone's self-identity is tested over and over again. Our athletes will become what they think they are, so we have to be sure that our words convey their worth, both as members of the team and as individuals. In this episode, Coach Kenneth Loyd reminds us that everything speaks to something, and everybody is somebody.
Key Takeaways:
-Everything speaks to something.
-Everybody is somebody.
-You are what you think you are.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at Colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
There are a lot of reasons for finishing strong, such as showing your integrity by finishing through instead of at the line and pushing yourself to your limits so you can reach your goals. But perhaps one of the most important reasons to finish strong is this: Your finish line today will be your starting line tomorrow. In this episode, Mackey explains why and how to finish strong in everything that we do.
Key Takeaways:
-Your finish line today will be your starting line tomorrow.
-You start where the weakest teammate ends.
-When you learn how to finish strong in sports, you learn how to finish strong in life.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at 2words.tv/gameplan3.
Most young people look at respect as something you earn, not something that is given to you. But this thinking is completely backward. We should respect others because of who WE are, not who they are. Respect is at the core of creating a team and school culture where it's not only okay, but expected that student-athletes will stand up and say "this is not right" with regards to sexual harassment.
In this episode, Jesse Mahler and Valencia Peterson discuss how coaching is a platform for preventing sexual harassment. There is a privilege that comes with being a coach, and we need to use that to our advantage to stop sexual harassment from happening in our schools.
Key Takeaways:
-Coaching is a platform for sexual harassment prevention.
-Respect looks like healthy communication and vulnerability.
-Repetition is everything.
Valencia Peterson is an assistant football Coach at Penn Wood Highschool in Pennsylvania and is the Founder of Open Door Abuse Awareness Prevention also known as ODAAP. Find more of her work at: http://www.odaap.org/ Jesse Mahler is a program specialist at FUTURES without violence, a national violence prevention organization. Jesse lives in Oakland, California and helps manage Coaching Boys Into Men. CBIM can be found at https://www.coachescorner.org/ or by email at CoachesCorner@FuturesWithoutViolence.org To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Ownership is one of the keys to making sure our athletes stay in the game. In other words, if we want to keep them from quitting, and if we want them to play to their highest level, we've got to help them feel that they have a stake in our athletic program. When our athletes have ownership, they have passion, and with that passion, they will find success in sports and in life.
In this episode, Coach Tim Teykl explains why ownership is so important in athletics and other parts of life. Everything in sports mimics life, and if we can teach our athletes early what it feels like to take ownership and be passionate about their hard work, they will find success later in life, too.
Key Takeaways:
-When you're given ownership, you have passion.
-When you have passion, you can succeed.
-Everything in sports mimics what happens in life.
To learn more about our 2words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
Your health limits how far you can go in life. When you're in poor health, it limits what you can do and the impact that you can have on others. That's not to say that illness or obesity will always prevent people from reaching their dreams or influencing their community. But it is true that the healthier you are, the further and faster you can go. Health isn't about just one thing, but to get healthy you do need to take one step in the right direction every day. In this episode, Mackey dives in on the importance of doing the work to get healthy.
Key Takeaways:
-The healthier you are, the further and faster you can go.
-The healthier you are, the longer and better you can serve.
-Take one step in the right direction every day.
To learn more about the 2words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
Anger is a powerful emotion. It can destroy so quickly and so completely. And sometimes, what it destroys cannot be rebuilt. Anger can destroy relationships and entire lives. But the thing is, anger is also useful if it's used in the right way. When the destructive nature of anger is kept in check, it can be used for positive change. Angry indignation at the suffering or unfair treatment of others can help us create a new, more equal world. But we have to remember our Anger Rights, or that force for good will become the force of our destruction.
In this episode, Mackey breaks down the three Anger Rights and encourages us to remember that when we use our anger to lift other people up, to fight for equality, then we can bring about positive change.
Key Takeaways:
-You have the right to be angry, but your anger does not have the right to have you.
-You have the right to get angry, but its not right to get there too quick.
-You have the right to be angry, but you don’t have the right to be disrespectful.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
The team belongs to the athletes as much as it does to the coaches, and the team is bigger than athletes or coaches. Everyone is working together in service of the team. And if there are people who aren't working in service to the team, people who aren't fulfilling their roles, then the team breaks down. But if everyone has a We over Me mentality, there's nothing the team cannot accomplish. In this episode, Coach Dusty Crafton tells us several ways to bring the team together for the greater We.
Key Takeaways:
-Give your athletes ownership on the team.
-Establish a We over Me mentality.
-Dealing with a little pain and adversity is good for you.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
The only way to finish strong is to give your best to the cause or goal straight through (not to) the finish line. There will be real consequences for our world if this generation of coaches fails to finish strong. You are that generation, and you have a great responsibility to your athletes, your family, and future generations to prepare the leaders in your locker rooms for the world they will face tomorrow.
Part of that preparation involves teaching tomorrow's leaders how to finish strong. In this episode, Mackey dives deep on what it means to finish strong and how to do it.
Key Takeaways:
-Change the mindset from a "have to" to a "get to" mentality.
-If you're going to finish strong, you cannot do it alone.
-Continue giving your best, even when it costs more than you thought it would.
The Mackey Leadership Camp will be held online, July 6-10, 2020. Details will follow upon registration.
The MLC Virtual Summit is completely free, and you are encouraged to get as many of your team to participate as possible. Register Today!
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Having a 5-star talent is not as important as having a 5-star character. Talent cannot take you very far without a solid foundation of good character. Talent can also only take you as far as your character will allow. So in that sense, character is both a foundation and ceiling. This is just one of the things that makes character so important in our lives. In this episode, Mackey breaks down why character matters.
Key Takeaways:
-Character is a talent amplifier.
-Character is both a ceiling and a foundation.
-Character will limit how far your talent can take you.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, please email Colton at Colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
The Mackey Leadership Camp will be held online, July 6-10, 2020. Details will follow upon registration.
The MLC Virtual Summit is completely free, and you are encouraged to get as many of your team to participate as possible. Register Today!
https://form.jotform.com/92875089599179
Culture is a mindset. When your mindset is that your team's culture matters and the values you talk about settle into your daily mindset as guiding principles, that mindset, that culture, becomes evident to your athletes so that they can share in it. When athletes see that the athletic program is important to their coaches, the program will become important to them, too. In this episode, Coach Billy Mathis discusses the importance of culture in building a successful athletic program.
Key Takeaways:
-Culture is a mindset.
-Athletes can hold each other accountable.
-Kids will run through a brick wall for you if they know that you love them.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website, www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Connect with Coach Mathis:
bmathis@weatherfordisd.com
@coachn_4christ
Systemic racism is a topic too big for any one person to tackle. That's why a movement grew on social networking sites and turned into protests in the streets. The movement is people, black and white and everything in between, coming together to say "This is wrong and I will not remain silent." In this episode, Mackey addresses current events related to systemic racism and his perspective on why we have to keep fighting until it's gone.
Key Takeaways:
-We have to call right right and wrong wrong. We cannot allow wrong to be normal.
-Saying “I don’t see color” is not helpful in fighting racism, it just normalizes everyone else’s experience to your own.
-What starts on Twitter can't stay on Twitter.
To learn more about the 2words Character Development and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
Thomas Edison is credited with saying some version of the quote: "Opportunity is missed my most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work." In this episode, Mackey encourages us to look past the overalls to the opportunity underneath. Yes, there will be hard work involved. But if we do today's work today, we will reap the benefits of growth tomorrow.
Key Takeaways:
-If we want to get where we want to go, we have to do what we don't want to do.
-Do not miss the opportunity of growth because you aren't willing to put in the work.
-Do today's work today.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website at www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
Our athletic programs aren't just here to let kids run around with a ball. The program exists to make our student-athletes better, to help them become the men and women who will lead our society in the future. That's why we can't just talk about our values and personal codes, we have to actually live it out so our athletes can see it clearly.
In this episode, Coach Chris Fisher breaks down the phrase OneFamily, which he uses to guide his athletic program and his life. It's a partial acronym that stands for: Faith, Attitude, Mental Toughness, Integrity, Love, and You.
Key Takeaways:
-You can't just talk about OneFamily, you have to live it.
-Let your yes be yes and your no be no.
-It's a calling to be an educator and a coach.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv.
We tend to think that if we practice long enough, hard enough, the thing we're doing will be easy. But the truth is, things don't get easier, we just get stronger. And the only way to get stronger is to fail. That's right. It is not our successes that help us improve so that the hard things seem easy, it is our failures that propel us to that place. In this episode, Mackey breaks down why the most important lesson we learn from athletics is how to fail.
Key Takeaways:
-Athletics teach us how to fail.
-Things will go wrong in the game of life.
-Things don't get easier, we just get stronger.
Schedule a time to for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Often we view complaints as negatives. After all, complaints tell us what is wrong with the world, and who wants to be reminded of that? But this thinking is backwards. Complaints don't just tell us what's wrong. Complaints offer an invitation to make wrong things right. In this episode, Mackey reminds us that life is based on how we see things and that we can choose to see complaints as invitations for change.
Key Takeaways:
-Complaining is an invitation to get involved in something that is not right.
-Life is full of invitations and complaints.
-Whether you see invitations or complaints depends on your choice.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
Discipline and accountability go hand in hand. We must hold our athletes accountable for their actions both when they are with us and when they are away. Our athletes represent our athletic program, which is essentially our brand. They are representing us when they are in other teachers' classes and when they are out with their friends. We hold them accountable for their behavior regardless of where they are because that is how we will instill discipline in them. In this episode, Coach Claude Mathis breaks down why discipline and accountability should be high priorities for any coach.
Key Takeaways:
-Your athletes represent your athletic program.
-All coaches should be held accountable.
-Do not let the little things pass.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum and e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
We all need a little encouragement from time to time--encouragement to look out for our FAMILY, encouragement to help us through tough situations, and encouragement to remind us of what's most important in life. In this episode, Mackey serves up these three types of encouragement. He reminds us that every member of your family (whether that's blood relatives or sports fam) is important to making the family successful. He encourages us to remember that our response is always within our control. And he encourages us to tell the people we love how proud we are of them. Ready to be encouraged?
Key Takeaways:
-We are only as strong as the weakest one of us.
-Tell the people you love that you are proud of them, and be specific about why.
-We can't choose our circumstances but we can choose our response.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
Adversity reveals a lot about us. It reveals the level of our integrity, our humility, and our toughness. During times of adversity, business is not as usual. That's why we are called to show either the best of us or the worst of us, depending on if we default to serving others or serving ourselves. In this episode, Mackey discusses how adversity exposes our true character and how we can make times of adversity reveal the best of us.
Key Takeaways:
-We get great at what we give reps to.
-Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
-Tough people win.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at Colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
One of the greatest gifts we can give our athletes is helping them understand that they are playing for family. When they see their teammates as brothers and sisters, there is no limit to what they will do for each other. The greatest edge you can give your athletic program is a culture founded on family. In this episode, Coach Jeremy Reed discusses building a greater culture from the inside out.
Key Takeaways:
-You have the greatest edge when you have a greater culture.
-You have to understand the community in which you are coaching.
-Be consistent with your standards and expectations.
To contact Coach Jeremy Reed with any questions you may have, please email him at jeremy.reed@yukonps.com.
To learn more about our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www/2words.tv/gameplan3.
Schedule a virtual locker room talk with Mackey by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv.
We spend a lot of time thinking about being champions on the field, but what about being champions in the home? How do we become championship fathers? How do we teach the boys in our athletic programs and under our roofs to be championship fathers when they grow up?
In this episode, author, mentor, and friend, Carey Casey tells us that being a championship father starts with being present for your kids. He reminds us that millions of boys and girls go to bed every night without a father in the house. You can't be a father to all of them, but you can be a championships father to the children in your life.
Key Takeaways:
-Always be teachable and be around people who will take you further than you can take yourself.
-Championship fathers listen to their kids and are present for their kids.
-Encourage your athletes and children to deal with disappointment.
To learn more about our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv /gameplan3.
Schedule a virtual locker room talk with Mackey by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv!
"Do what you can with all that you have wherever you are." Teddy Roosevelt
Thinking about what you can't do or don't have is easy, but useless. Thinking about all the good you could do if you were in a different location is also useless. If you want to make a difference and have an impact, focus instead on what you CAN do with what you DO have, right where you are standing. Remember: Leaders always lead, regardless of circumstances or resources.
Key Takeaways:
-It's easy but useless to focus on what you can't do.
-Focusing on what you can do will get you infinitely further.
-Leaders need to focus on what they can do, not what they can't do.
To learn more about our e-learning resources, email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3.
Schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes or coaches by emailing Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv!
Every person you meet is in one of three places:
-Having a bad time
-About to have a bad time
-Recovering from a bad time
It is guaranteed that you will have bad days and rough times. There may even be days when you struggle to get out of bed. Those rough times and the struggles you face can either anchor you down or be the catalyst that propels you forward.
The choice is yours. Will you choose to let your struggles make you stronger?
Key Takeaways:
Choose to view adversity as an opportunity
Own your mistakes so they don’t own you
The best thing to do is your job
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If you would like to schedule a time for Mackey to virtually encourage your athletes, please email Alyssa at alyssa@2words.tv
Adversity is something we're teaching our athletes to deal with every day on the field. The goal is to prepare them for when unexpected adversity strikes outside of athletics. We are all dealing with an adverse season right now. We can either rail against it, or put into practice what we've been trying to teach our athletes all this time: Adversity is just an opportunity for growth. In this episode, Mackey encourages us to use this time of adversity to become better, to invest in ourselves, and to connect with our athletes and other coaches (from a distance).
Key Takeaways:
-Show athletes that you care about them as people.
-Use this time to grow in your leadership.
-Don't forget to take care of yourself.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Develop Curriculum and our e-learning resources, email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
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Love is not weakness. Love is strength. Love makes you willing to die to self for your teammates. It makes you willing to serve them. Without love, there's no service, no selflessness, and no sacrifice As we've said many times before, sacrifice is required to find success. When you love your team and your teammates, you will sacrifice for them, and together, you will succeed.
In this episode, Coach Kirk Sundberg explains that real love is sacrifice. And, he reminds us that love brings strength and success to our team.
Key Takeaways:
-Do not be timid or fearful.
-Coaches must be both loving and tenacious.
-Love is not weakness. Love is strength.
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
“Because I said so” isn’t just a statement of authority. It’s also a statement of dependability: Because I said so, it will be done. Dependability is all about doing what you say you are going to do. Dependability will always beat ability because no matter how much talent you have, it’s worthless if you can’t be depended upon to do what you said you would do.
In this sample from the 2Words Character Development curriculum, Mackey lays out the difference between ability and dependability, and why dependability will win every time.
Key Takeaways:
-Talent does not exempt you from the getting the little things right.
-When you are dependable in the little things, you’ll be dependable in the big things.
-The most important ability you can ever have is dependability.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum email Colton at colton@2words.tvor go to www.2words.tv/gameplan
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Celebration is contagious. When we see someone smile or laugh, we want to smile and laugh with them. Complaining is also contagious, though. When we hear someone complain about the weather, it makes us realize it's too hot, too muggy, or too something when moments before we were enjoying a beautiful day. When we hear someone complain about a situation we're coping with well, we suddenly find it harder to cope.
The words that we use and the things that we do are contagious to others. In this episode, Mackey and Colton challenge us to think about this contagiousness and what we are infecting the people around us with. Are we infecting them with celebration or complaints?
Key Takeaways:
-What we say and do is contagious.
-The work you do matters.
-When you celebrate others, you find even more things to celebrate.
To learn more about our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit our website, www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Team values that aren't put into practice are just words. That said, having an easy-to-remember acronym to consistently remind athletes of our team values can help athletes to turn those words into action.
In this episode, Coach Sam Harrell breaks down the acronym FAST, which they use at Ennis High School to talk about their team values. FAST stands for: Faith, All in, Selfless, and Toughness. They put this acronym on t-shirts, encourage each other to be a FAST team, and talk about the values everyday. FAST reminds athletes to have faith in each other and something greater than themselves, to be all in with their effort, to be selfless and giving, and to be both mentally and physically tough.
Key Takeaways:
-It's amazing how much you can accomplish when no one cares who gets the credit.
-Instill the values in athletes today so they will keep that mentality when they leave.
-FAST: Faith, All in, Selfless, Toughness
To learn more about our 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our current e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tvor visit www.2words.tv/gamplan3
Our work adds up a little at a time until we reap big results. But if we don't put in our little bit of work today, that little bit rolls to tomorrow, which pushes tomorrow's work to the next day, just like a snowball begins to gather mass as it rolls down the hill, until the work has piled up into an overwhelming heap.
It's easy to put things off until tomorrow. It's easy to schedule and plan for what you will do tomorrow instead of just doing it today. It's much harder to execute today on what you said you would do today. In this episode, Mackey and Colton discuss the whys and hows of doing today's work today, rather than putting it off for tomorrow.
Key Takeaways:
-Don't let your worry outpace your work.
-Do today's work today, or it will have an effect on tomorrow.
-Focus on the work that is right in front of you.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
In this episode with Coach Mike Fecci of Mckinney North High School, Coach Fecci stresses that winning games is a byproduct of a great team culture. The young man or woman must be built first; then the winning part will take care of itself.
It all starts with our athletes' character. The more opportunities we give them to get character reps, the better their character will be, and the more wins and success that will come as a result. As Coach Fecci tells us, "Do right, act right, and everything will be right."
Key Takeaways:
-Give your athletes opportunities to get character reps.
-Think of ways outside the box to serve those who serve you.
-Do right, act right, and everything will be right.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum and our e-learning resources, please email Colton at colton@2words.tv or visit www.2words.tv/gameplan3
Our athletes have the capacity to become tough, gritty individuals. As coaches, we have the capacity to help them get there. We want to teach our athletes to be mentally tough, to do the right thing in everything that they do, and to succeed at challenges they think are beyond them.
During this interview, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Zac Harrell of Athens ISD discusses the importance of putting our athletes in tough situations so we can help them become mentally tough. Coach Harrell also stresses that we should never ask our athletes to do something that we haven't done because the example we set for our athletes is that important.
Key Takeaways:
-Never ask athletes to do something you haven't already done.
-Sacrifice for the team.
-Teach athletes to be mentally tough.
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Inside every struggle there is tremendous opportunity. We live in interesting times, and interesting is often a euphemism for difficult. But even in these interesting, difficult times, there are opportunities everywhere. Opportunities to affect others. Opportunities to get up and do something. Opportunities to step beyond our comfort zone so that we can grow.
In this episode, our guest Damon West poses the question: where is your opportunity right now? We are all deep in the struggle of our times, but there is an opportunity. We just have to seek it.
Key Takeaways:
-Not one person can reach everybody, but everybody can reach somebody.
-Inside every struggle there is tremendous opportunity.
-Vulnerability is a strength.
Connect with Damon West:
damon@damonwest.org
damonwest.org
Purchase his 2 books:
The Coffee Bean
The Change Agent
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Second-in-command, second chair, assistant coach. These are all ways of describing the same thing: a leader. An assistant coach is just as valuable to the team as the head coach. A second chair has a responsibility to help the first chair become his best, just as the first helps the second to be the best they can be. Just because a leader isn't the top dog doesn't mean they aren't important, valued, or influential.
In this episode, Colton and Mackey dive in on leading from the second chair. When the first and second chair are divided, the rest of the team can't find any unity, either, so Colton and Mackey also discuss how to respond when you disagree with a higher up's decision.
Key Takeaways:
-The second chair seat is not a second place trophy.
-The assistant coach helps the head coach become the best they can be, and vice versa.
-At the end of the day, it's your job to champion your leader's decision and execute it at 100%.
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Coaches are under a lot of pressure to get wins and have model athletes, but there isn't necessarily a lot of praise or thanks for all the hard work that goes into meeting those demands. But coaches are helping to develop the adults of tomorrow. Many of us had an influential coach in our middle or high school years who left a lasting impact on our lives.
Coaches who are authentic. Coaches who speak truth, not because it is popular, but because it is right. Coaches who teach athletes to use their voice for change. Coaches who are intense about what matters. Coaches don't always get the praise they deserve, but the role they play in young people's lives is worth it.
We're joined this episode by Angus Reid to talk about coaches, athletes, and using your voice for change.
Key Takeaways:
-Coaches are authentic and speak truth because it is right.
-What you put on social media makes a difference.
-If you ever have a platform in life, use it to make change.
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In the midst of uncertainty with school and business closures, Mackey and Colton bring us this episode, where they discuss accepting reality, taking action, and being there for our athletes and our F.A.M.I.L.Y.
Mackey and Colton want to remind us that it's okay to be blindsided by the current situation because no one could have seen this coming. But what is not okay is to stay blindsided and lamenting that things are not as they should be. Our student-athletes deserve better from us than that.
During this crisis, we can band together and go the extra mile for our students. We may be stuck at home, but we're not powerless. We can and we will go the extra mile to continue coaching beyond the game.
Key Takeaways:
-Use this time to go the extra mile with your students.
-Make sure you're taking care of your F.A.M.I.L.Y.
-Accept the reality of the situation and take action.
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The people that we surround ourselves with at work and in our personal lives have a huge influence on us. That's why it's so important to surround ourselves with people who do things the right way and who help us grow personally and professionally This is one of many insights provided by Coach John Walsh of Denton ISD in this interview. Coach Walsh also discusses doing research to find an athletic program or head coach that is the right fit and growing within that program.
Key Takeaways:
-Discipline is what you're teaching athletes every day.
-Surround yourself with people who do things the right way.
-Find the athletic program that will help you grow the most.
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Our team and school standards are what make us who we are. Everything runs more smoothly when coaches and athletes are doing the right things based on those standards. Our high standards give our athletes something to grab and hold onto when something goes wrong in their lives. It's an anchor for our student-athletes' lives where they can learn how to do hard things with integrity.
In this episode, Colton interviews Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Michael Waldie of Gonzalez ISD. Coach Waldie dives deep on being the best version of yourself, meaning what you say, and holding athletes to high standards.
Key Takeaways:
-Choose to be the best version of yourself every day.
-Everything in life has to be earned.
-You can't quit on your family, keep striving for them daily.
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As coaches, we have to hold our athletes accountable for their actions. When they mess up a play in the middle of a big game, that's on them. After all, we're not the ones playing; they are. But, we have to remember that every kid responds to constructive criticism differently, so the way that we address accountability and hold each athlete accountable for their actions will be slightly different. To get to the point where we know how to hold each of them accountable, we have to know our athletes on an individual and personal level.
In this interview, Colton discusses accountability and knowing your athletes with Athletic Director and Wrestling Coach Bobby Cook of Duncan High School in Oklahoma. As Coach Cook remind us, the majority of coaching isn't about teaching kids to play a sport, it's about developing a growing human being.
Key Takeaways
-Hold your athletes accountable.
-Get to know your athletes on a personal level.
-Try your best to delete negativity because negativity loves company.
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Your family isn't just your blood relatives or your spouse. Your family is also your friends, your co-workers, and, your athletes. Having a team that acts like a family means that everyone is valued, and everyone has a place in the program. When we focus on inclusion and togetherness, other values like hard work and competition are easier to drive home.
In this episode, head football coach Kyle Abshire of Carizo Springs High School talks us through building a family atmosphere where everyone is valued, as well as providing other great advice about learning from mentors and modeling mistakes.
Key Takeaways:
-Build a family atmosphere where everyone is valued and everyone has a place.
-Model owning your mistakes so your athletes will see it and do the same.
-Don't try to be the coach who mentored you. Be the coach you are.
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Our athletes will not grow without challenges and adversity. They need obstacles in their path, so they can learn how to overcome natural opposition. The playing field isn't always fair--refs make mistakes and the other team might have better players than we do. But, life is not always fair either, and the field is a safe place for our athletes to learn this truth. Regardless of unfairness or adversity, our athletes are capable of learning and growing, and we just need to put them in positions where they can prove that to themselves.
In this interview with assistant athletic director and Girl's Basketball Coach Jade Allison of Bishop Kelly High School, in Tulsa, OK, you'll hear her views on creating obstacles and adversity for athletes, as well as advice for when to remove athletes from competition.
Key Takeaways:
-Your attitude affects your outcome.
-Control the controllables, and let the rest go.
-Create opportunities for your athletes to overcome adversity.
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The role of a coach is intricate, even complex. It seems like it should be very simple: Set drills, work out plays, review tape, play the game, rinse and repeat. But if all we focus on is the X's and O's, or the nitty-gritty details of the sport, we are missing the mark.
As Coach John Contrucci, Athletic Director of Junction ISD reminds us in this episode, coaching goes beyond running plays and scoring points. As coaches, we fill a void in the lives or our athletes by modeling appropriate behavior for them and helping them to rise to a higher standard.
Key Takeaways:
-Coaches must model a good work ethic and lead by example.
-Coaches fill in the gap in their athletes' lives.
-Love for athletes and passion for encouraging others are the keys to good coaching.
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Without truth, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no relationship. Without a relationship, there can be no chemistry. Truth and trust are the foundation of any team. Without truthful feedback, no trust will form, and without trust, there is no progress, no growth, and no wins. For that reason, "Speak the Truth" is one of the laws of the Depend Upon Brothers (DUB) concept used by the football program at Whitehouse High School.
This concept, or code of conduct, makes it clear to athletes what is expected of them, so that they can execute to the best of their abilities within that framework. In this episode, Colton discusses the DUB concept in detail with Athletic Coordinator, Head Football and Boys' Track Coach Marcus Gold of Whitehouse High School, where the DUB concept is lived daily.
Key Takeaways:
-Everything starts with the coach.
-If there's no trust, there's no relationship.
-Trust comes from believing in each other.
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Your athletic program won't look like the one in the next town over, the one is another district, or really any other program in existence. In fact, your program this year won't look like the program from last year. Why? Because your athletes this year don't look like your athletes from last year. The athletes are what make your program different. That's why you build relationships with your athletes, coach them based on their individual strengths, and create game and practice strategies based on athletes' needs and abilities.
In this interview with Head Softball and Assistant Volleyball Coach Kristina Stephens of Bells High School, we break down why it's always the athletes who are (or should be) at the heart of the athletic program. They are the reason why we are here, so let's treat them that way!
Key Takeaways:
Coach each player differently.
Build relationships with your athletes.
Let athletes know you are there for them.
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Can you describe your coaching style in five words or less? The key to consistency in your coaching is knowing how you coach. You have to have a clear picture of what you want to accomplish with your athletic program, so that you can pass that message on to your coaching staff. Once the coaching staff gets it, that vision will trickle down to your athletes.
In this episode of the Coach 360 podcast, Colton talks to Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Ricklan Holmes of Tyler High School about self-knowledge and consistency in coaching.
Key Takeaways:
-Understand that correction is to make you better.
-Be willing to understand and work with your coaching staff.
-Be consistent.
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Athletes perform better when they are confident in themselves and trust in their coaches. So how do we, as coaches, help our athletes get to that point of confidence and trust, so our athletes can go on to reach their full potential in sports and life?
During this interview with Head Volleyball Coach and Girls' Athletic Director Clark Oberle of Decatur High School, Colton and Coach Oberle discuss how to build confidence in our athletes. Some of the suggestions you will hear about include: making practice fun and personal, helping athletes focus on their individual roles, and teaching athletes the dedication needed to sacrifice for their team.
Key Takeaways
-If you focus on building your athletes, the wins will come.
-Each player has a role, and they more they focus on that role, the more confident they will be.
-Athletes will try their hardest when practice is fun and personal.
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When your program is founded on the vision, standards, and values that you live by, you give the athletes in your care an opportunity to learn how to be great men and women. It's not just the big ideas like: Be better than you were yesterday, Don't settle for good enough, and Treat others with respect. Those ideas are communicated through sports, but it's not the big ideas that actually hit home; instead, it's the daily repetition and living of those ideas that makes the difference in your athletes' lives.
During this interview with Head Football Coach Carlos Lynn of Cedar Hill High School, Coach reminds us that we only have a small window of time to impact our student-athletes, so let's pour as much good into them as we can in the time that we have.
Key Takeaways
-The world is full of average; be above average.
-Be better today than you were yesterday.
-Focus more on the game of life.
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Many coaches will not stay with one school or district for their entire career. Circumstances with the school or your family, as well as your own ambitions, can all lead you away from your current athletic program and athletes. It's a natural progression, and there may come a point where you have to make the hard decision to leave the student-athletes that you have poured so much into. When that time comes, remember that kids are kids, and they all need a good coach to pour valuable lessons into them.
In this interview with Athletic Coordinator and Head Football Coach Brian Herman of Marble Falls High School, Colton and Coach Herman dive into ways to make connections with students and leave them with a legacy of toughness and discipline when your time with them is over.
Key Takeaways
-Do the best you can where you are.
-Reward kids for exhibiting toughness and discipline.
-Make connections with athletes, build relationships.
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Being an athlete is a major commitment. You don't get time off from it. Even if you are injured, you support your team from the bench and you uphold the team values off the pitch. Our student-athletes need to understand that whether or not they're wearing the jersey, once they join our team, they are an athlete, and there are expectations for that - Expectations that they put character first, learn from their mistakes, and demonstrate self-discipline.
During this interview with Coach Ged Kates of Birdville ISD, we are reminded that being an athlete doesn't stop when we leave the field and being a person of character doesn't stop when we're behind closed doors.
Key Takeaways:
-There are no days off when it comes to being an athlete or a person of character.
-We're all one decision away from the worst decision of our lives, so let character always be your guide.
-Kids want something to believe in, something to demand something of them, and someone to love them.
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Coaches and athletes are motivated by a scoreboard. Sometimes that scoreboard reflects the game results, but sometimes it reflects an A/B honor roll percentage. The difference is in the focus of the athletic program. Are we in it just for the on-field wins and trophies? Or, do we understand that there is something more important than sports going on here?
In this interview with Coach Ray Zepeda, District Athletic Director of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Coach Zepeda explains why the focus should be on academic excellence and how wins in the classroom lead to wins on the field.
Key Takeaways
- An athletic director's most important function is to provide service and communication to coaches.
- Success begets success. When you're successful in the classroom, you'll be successful on the field.
- Coaches must hold their athletes accountable to supporting the school's academic mission.
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Coaches aren't successful unless their athletes are successful. That's why we push our athletes so hard in practice and off-season. That's why we yell and assign burpies. We want to see them grow and succeed. But, as Coach Rod Blount of Navarro ISD reminds us during this interview, there's more to helping our athletes become their best selves than just yelling. We've also got to love them. If we love our athletes well, they will run through a brick wall for us. Love is how we make the greatest impact in our role as coaches.
Key Takeaways
-A coach isn't successful unless his or her athletes are successful.
-Always look for the best in your situation instead of what's next.
-Push your athletes to be the best version of themselves they can be.
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If we expect our athletes to keep returning day after day, game after game, and year after year, they need to want to be here.
Coach Gerald Brence of Plano ISD asks coaches to remember that our athletes want encouragement, fairness, and organization. If we can give them that, we can make athletics the highlight of their day.
During this interview, Coach Brence also discusses the four traits that he believes the best coaches possess.
Key Takeaways:
- Athletes need to want to play.
- Athletes desire organization, encouragement, and positive coaching.
- New coaches can learn a lot from veterans if they check their ego at the door.
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Trust has to be built before you can make any major changes after you transition to a new-to-you athletics program. See, the program is new to you, but it’s already been established by others. If you try to bring in a wrecking ball on day one, it’s going to ruffle feathers. Sometimes feather-ruffling is necessary, but you won’t know until you observe the status quo.
In this interview with Coach Zack Hudson, head football coach of Mabank High School, Coach discusses how to get a feel for a new athletic program after making a transition.
Key Takeaways:
-Check in with the community before making changes to a new-to-you program.
-Set clear and concise expectations for athletes.
-Athletes can and should hold each other accountable.
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How you weekend has a direct impact on how you perform during the week. It’s not separate from the rest of the week or from your personal identity. When you weekend poorly (i.e. wasting time, doing things you shouldn’t), it’s a symptom of a deeper issue with the balance in your life.
Leaders rise above the TGIF mentality. They recognize that although the things you do might be different on the weekend, how you do things shouldn’t be any different from the weekly hustle. In this episode, Mackey breaks down five steps to help you weekend well.
Key Takeaways:
-If it’s not right, don’t do it.
-The weekend doesn’t give you permission to avoid taking care of responsibility.
-Reflect on the prior week so you can do better in the week ahead.
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According to Coach Eric de los Santos of Irving High, athletes want discipline because it equals freedom. The team at 2 Words definitely agrees. Coaches expect things from their athletes that the kids might not expect of themselves, and discipline is the only way to make it a reality. Discipline gives us the space to learn and grow within boundaries that keep us safe and focused. It gives us the freedom to succeed.
In this episode, Coach Eric also gives advice on working with athletic program and community traditions, learning from mistakes, and creating leaders through athletic programs.
Key Takeaways:
-There are always lessons to be learned from mistakes.
-If you want leaders, you have to help create them.
-Understand that you are learning every single day.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum email Colton at colton@2words.tvor visit www.2words.tv/gameplan
Lao Tzu, Oprah Winfrey, and Charles Darwin all have something in common: They get the importance of time management. Time is a precious, finite resource. Each minute that passes can’t be retrieved, and how we spend our time is a direct reflection of what our priorities are. In this episode, Mackey dissects three quotes that give us insight into how we can make the best use of our limited time.
Key Takeaways:
-How you spend your time is your choice.
-The day will come when you run out of time.
-When you say no to something, you say yes to something else, and vice versa.
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If you want your athletes to invest their time, energy, and effort in your program, you have to invest in your athletes. Continuously building relationships with your student-athletes allows you to speak to them on a deeper level than pep talks and plays.
In this episode, Coach Chance Westmoreland of Argyle High School shares why building relationships is crucial to a sound athletic program. He also provides tips and techniques for how to build and strengthen those relationships.
Key Takeaways:
-Model and set the example for your athletes.
-Challenge your athletes to make them better players.
-Always build relationships with your student-athletes.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum, visit 2words.tv/gameplan or email Colton at colton@2words.tv
When you start something new, the very novelty of it makes everything exciting. You’re curious and ready to see where this new activity can take you. But there will come a point when that stops. This is the point when motivation fades, and there’s a long slog to get through before habit makes this hard thing easy.
To honor your integrity, you have to do what you said you would do, even when it’s hard or the novelty has worn off. In this episode from a ruck in Cedar Hill, Mackey explores why doing what you said you would do is so important to yourself and to your athletes.
Key Takeaways:
-Do what you say you are going to do.
-Novelty and curiosity are not enough to create a habit because they will eventually fade.
-Recognize that your athletes are watching your actions.
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Investing in your athletes is sort of like investing in a 401k for retirement. The more you put in, the more you will get out later. That investment is particularly important when you join a new program. The athletes don’t know you yet, and they probably won’t be ready for you to drop a 50 lb. hammer on them in practice.
In this episode, Colton and Head Football Coach Kurt Traylor of Lee High School in Tyler ISD discuss what it means to invest in your athletes and how the PRIDE mentality helps frame the program at Lee HS.
Key Takeaways:
-When athletes don’t know you, you can’t come in a be hammer right away.
-Be positive and find the positive.
-The more you invest in your athletes, the more you can draw from them.
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No matter what season you’re in, it will come to a finish. High school ends, college ends, eventually even the pros retire. Every season will finish, but you choose how you will finish it. Will you finish strong—blowing past the finish line? Or will you have a meh finish where you reach the line, but not at full steam?
How you finish is how you set yourself up for success. You’ll have to finish; there’s no choice about that. But there is a choice in how. Remember these two words: Finish Strong.
Key Takeaways:
-Finish strong in the little thing, and you’ll train yourself to finish strong in the big things.
-What you do today matters for tomorrow, so don’t quit!
-Everyone will finish, but not everyone will finish the same. It’s a choice.
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Things won’t always go our way. During tough times, our primary job as coaches is to be there to support our athletes. We can help them grow through the struggle as long as we stand firm and support each other.
This inspiring message and more comes from Coach Travis Reeve, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Cuero High School. In this episode, Coach Reeve tells us about his team’s phrase “uncommon men win” and their four core values.
Key Takeaways:
-Ever person has a chance to make a difference and to influence the world.
-If you develop the person, the development of the athlete will come, too.
-You can tell what is most valuable to your team by what you are most intentional about.
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“Because I said so” isn’t just a statement of authority. It’s also a statement of dependability: Because I said so, it will be done. Dependability is all about doing what you say you are going to do. Dependability will always beat ability because no matter how much talent you have, it’s worthless if you can’t be depended upon to do what you said you would do.
In this sample from the 2Words Character Development curriculum, Mackey lays out the difference between ability and dependability, and why dependability will win every time.
Key Takeaways:
-Talent does not exempt you from the getting the little things right.
-When you are dependable in the little things, you’ll be dependable in the big things.
-The most important ability you can ever have is dependability.
To learn more about the 2Words Character Development Curriculum email Colton at colton@2words.tvor go to www.2words.tv/gameplan
We love talking to coaches like Head Football Coach John Fish of Bonham high school about the values of their program, their ideas about the most important skills for coaches and athletes, and good, sound advice.
In this episode, Coach Fish shares his program values, including discipline, relating to peers, and responding to our emotions. He tells us why being detail-oriented is a valuable skill for coaches and players. He also gives advice such as the importance of learning a team’s identity when you start with a new program.
Key Takeaways:
-Be driven by the process, not the results.
-Both coaches and athletes should learn to be detail-oriented.
-Understand the team identity before anything else.
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It does no good to be a 5-star athlete if you have 0-star character. The same is true for any area of life. When you’re 5-star in one area and 0-star in another, it shows that you are compartmentalizing your life.
The people who compartmentalize are the ones who live with the greatest disappointments. So, if you want to find success on the field and in life, stop compartmentalizing and focus on developing 5-star character.
Remember: Your character drives and influences every area of your life. In this episode, Mackey breaks down the five things that people with 5-star character get right.
Key Takeaways:
-Character is more important than talent, technique, or test scores.
-Hard work has to be done in areas where you know you have to grow.
-The greatest ability a person can have is dependability.
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Coach Andy Sexton, Director of Athletics for Bastrop ISD, took some time to talk with Coach 360 about the issues facing coaches today, and how the Bastrop ISD program is finding solutions. The issues and solutions discussed include: holding athletes accountable for mistakes, fighting to keep players engaged in the program, and hiring the right people.
Key Takeaways:
-Hold athletes accountable for mistakes so they learn how to change
-Don’t lose sight of why you’re a coach: for the students
-One of the most important things a head coach does is hire good people
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How much negative self-talk do our student-athletes experience everyday? Probably more than we suspect, since most of that negative self-talk is happening in their heads where we can’t hear it or correct it. We may never know how much negative self-talk our athletes are dealing with, but we can help them overcome it.
This episode of Coach 360 provides tips and ideas for how to encourage our student-athletes to move beyond negative self-talk. We want to help them re-draft the narrative they tell themselves, so they can realize the great potential we see in them.
Key Takeaways:
-Encourage athletes to see what they don’t see in themselves.
-Invest in our athletes by walking alongside them in their journey.
-Challenge athletes to go for the big challenges.
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During this interview with Coach Jonathan Lamb of Leander ISD, Colton and Coach discuss how to build deeper relationships with athletes, coaches, and parents. The first step is being authentic because that opens the door for developing deeper relationships.
Along with authenticity, we build deeper relationships with our athletes by knowing them beyond the sport. We want to know: What other activities are they into? Who are they really?
When the student-athlete’s parents realize you have an authentic relationship with their child, it forms a deeper relationship with the parents, too. Then, they are more likely to give you the freedom to challenge their child. As we all know, challenge is necessary for growth.
Key Takeaways:
- When you are authentic, it opens the door to building deeper relationships.
- Develop the whole athlete by building a relationship.
- Find work/life balance because the better you are personally, the better you will be professionally
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Who are you?
What motivates you? Are you motivated by success or by integrity?
Are you the person that says “I’m going to set the standards that are worthy of the talents inside of me”?
Do your goals require you to fail greatly?
In this episode of Coach 360, Mackey is live at Champion, and he’s got these questions for you and more to help you think about your motivation in life and what that means for success.
Key Takeaways:
-If your goals don’t require you to fail greatly, they aren’t big enough.
-Let who you are motivate you more than success.
-Work harder today than you did yesterday to be better today than you were yesterday.
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or email Colton at: colton@2words.tv
How do you get your athletes to go above and beyond? How do you encourage them to be successful?
According to Coach Brad LaPlante of Hutto High School, you do it through living what you teach, so that you lead by example. Communication is the key to teaching new skills and encouraging character-driven behavior. But all the talking in the world is useless if your own actions as their coach fail to drive the message home.
Let your actions drive the message of going above and beyond to find success.
Key Takeaways:
-Recognize your athletes’ accomplishments on and off the field.
-Lead by example.
-Ask athletes to make decisions based on Faith, Family, Future, or Football.
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You know the importance of coaching beyond the game, but what does that look like practice?
For starters, coaching beyond the game means being intentional with everything that you do. It means being present for your athletes so they can see and mirror your actions. It means teaching them how to interact with other people, including giving a good handshake and expressing gratitude.
In this episode, Mackey speaks about coaching beyond the game, beyond the locker room, to impact your student-athletes’ lives and futures.
Key Takeaways:
-Great coaches are intentional in everything they do.
-When you coach beyond the game, athletes mirror their coaches.
-A strong handshake is essential.
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During an interview with Coach Tim Russell, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach for Harmony High School, Coach shared that the team is a family built on accountability and trust.
The team has to love each other enough to call each other out when they are wrong - to hold each other accountable. That commitment to the truth, even when it’s tough, builds trust that strengthens the bonds of family.
The family atmosphere of the team is the foundation for character building in the Harmony athletic program because Coach knows that if you win off the field, you also win on the field, and more importantly, you win in the game of life.
Key Takeaways:
The team is a family.
The better you serve, the better leader you will be.
When you win off the field, you win in life.
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Every person you meet is in one of three places:
-Having a bad time
-About to have a bad time
-Recovering from a bad time
It is guaranteed that you will have bad days and rough times. There may even be days when you struggle to get out of bed. Those rough times and the struggles you face can either anchor you down or be the catalyst that propels you forward.
The choice is yours. Will you choose to let your struggles make you stronger?
Key Takeaways:
Choose to view adversity as an opportunity
Own your mistakes so they don’t own you
The best thing to do is your job
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As coaches, we have to coach beyond the game to make a lasting impact on our student-athletes. A good game plan is crucial for making an impact, but the process of creating and executing a good game plan can be daunting.
The good news is: You don’t have to do it alone. Your fellow coaches and 2Words Character Development are here to help. If you need help, just ask for it.
Key Takeaways:
We can’t stop at a scoreboard if we want to make a lasting impact
The better your game plan, the better it allows you to coach.
You can’t do it alone and you don’t have to
In our latest episode, Mackey is live from the Texas High School Coaches Association Coaching School talking about the 8 pillars of a culture of character.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Athletics teach skillsets that will NEVER expire
- Integrity will not ONLY be learned by example. You have to MODEL and TEACH.
- Intentionality comes when you have a culture that values character
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As coaches, we build leaders for the game, through the game, and beyond the game.
In this weeks episode, we’re coming to you live from the Texas High School Coaches Association, Coaching School. Mackey shares the building blocks of leadership and how leadership hinges upon identity.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Model, teach, test, and reward to lay a positive identity in your athletes
- Who you are determines what you do
- What you do reveals who you are
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In our latest episode, Mackey is talking about the simple, yet difficult practice of living family first.
It is okay that family goals COST something because your family is more important than your goals.
When you put your family goals above your personal goals, your personal goals will fall in line and your personal goals serve your family goals.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Your personal goals will suffer when you have family goals.
- Your personal goals should serve your family goals.
- If your personal goals serve your family goals, then the harder you work for your family goals the more successful you will be for your personal goals.
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In our latest episode, we’re bringing you a mashup of some of our favorite thoughts on putting we before me.
We hear from Coach Gambill, Coach Gillum, and Coach Rebe on ways they put importance on teaching their athletes and coaching staff on how to put others first.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- Coach person first, and the player second
- Growth comes when you are helping others succeed
- Allow your athletes to ask questions to let them know that you’re in this together.
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When you make a mistake do you justify them? Do you try to cover them up? If so, you're losing.
You never lose so long as you learn.
Our latest episode is a past favorite on iron clad character and learning from past mistakes. In this podcast, Mackey takes us through where 2Words was at over year ago. He emphasizes the idea that there is no overnight success and building 2Words took over 27 years of experience to come to fruition.
If you admit that you are wrong and take steps to grow, you're a learner.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- The people who have the greatest integrity have made mistakes and LEARNED from them.
- People with great integrity don't HOPE for who they are, they AUDIT who they are.
- There is no such thing as an overnight success
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In our latest episode, Mackey is coming to us live sharing 2 words with us, One Day.
We tend to think of “one day” as a far off day in the distance.
We think that “one day” is synonymous with “some day”.
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow isn’t promised, and the only day we have is this ONE day.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- How you spend this one day will determine the quality of your some day.
- Do not let opportunity pass to the next one because the next one is different.
- Do not neglect the work of today, today. Do not put it off until tomorrow.
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In our latest episode, we’re bringing you a mashup of two different important ideas. We share the importance of controlling your responses because they effect the situation’s outcome AND the importance of positive pressure and using that pressure to catapult you into success.
Mackey and Colton talk positive pressure and the fact that pressure in itself is neither inherently bad or good, but it is your response, your outlook that creates it into a bad or good situation.
Believe it or not, stress is actually a good thing. Stress can keep you moving forward on the right path. It takes time to reach your goal, to win a state championship, to build a business, and so in order to stop you from being burnt out, pace yourself. Slow and steady wins the race!
We also share an interview with Brian Kight where he shares the idea behind E+R=O and what it practically means and looks like both on the field and in life.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- There is positive stress, not all stress is bad. Stress can keep you on pace.
- “You can’t win a state championship in one week.”
- Events + Response = Outcome
- If you want better outcomes, you have to engage in better responses
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In our latest episode, we’re bringing you a Mackey Mashup. We pulled three of our favorite moments on being all in in the present to bring your best self into the future.
The only thing you can control NOW is the next thing, not something one week, one month, or one year from now. Keep your eyes forward and dig in.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- When you focus on what you CAN control NOW, it’s importance rises because of the investment you make into it.
- The more you put into something, the more it matters.
- Failure is not fatal, and success is not final.
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Stanley Laing, a 25-year educator, has served as a teacher, coach and high school administrator. He was the principal at Clark High School from 2006-2010. In 2010 he was named Executive Athletic Director of Northside ISD. He is a graduate of McMurray University in Abilene, TX where he earned his bachelor's degree. He also earned his master's degree from Texas A&M University at Kingsville.
In this episode, we’re bringing you a past favorite with Coach Laing as he pulls back the curtain on Northside ISD. Coach shares his story, and the importance of building hope in the lives of our athletes.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- You’ll never lose putting other people first.
- Before you ever change the culture in your program, you have to first change the culture in the adults that will be leading them.
- Adversity builds endurance, endurance builds character, and character creates hope.
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Are you anchored in DOUBT or PROPELLED by hope?
In our latest episode, Mackey is bringing us our final podcast on commitment.
Mackey shares with us how it’s so easy to get caught up in doubt and fear. It is through hope that we propel ourselves forward.
It’s easy to doubt and hard to hope. Hope seems far away, but doubt is easy to hold on to.
Doubt has a way of paralyzing us right where we are.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Doubt anchors us down and hope launches us forward
- Hope gives you the confidence that where you are isn’t where you’ll have to stay forever
- Leaders believe that there is more tomorrow than there is today
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In our latest episode, we’re bringing you a mashup of what coach’s view as most important in their program and what they tend to focus and put emphasis on.
Coaches share from all aspects of the game, from introspective ideas to help you gain insight on how to be a better coach to outward skills that will aid you in developing your athletes.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- You can’t coach every athlete the same and expect them to succeed and grow
- There is a stark difference between coaching and leading
- Public stats and measurements encourage growth faster
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In our latest episode, Mackey is sharing part 3 of our 4 part series on commitment.
A servant leader will do more than is expected of them, and they’ll do it before someone asks them to.
You do:
- For others
- More than they expect
- Before they ask you to do it
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Do not have a “Is that no enough?” mentality.
- Bitterness grows when you expect to do the bare minimum
- Leaders have to choose “It’s my pleasure.”
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Today we have a very important and special repeat episode. This episode was one of the most memorable podcasts we have had the privilege of hosting. A few weeks ago, Texas high school football lost one of the great, Coach WT Johnston.
Coach Johnston talks about the importance of setting the stage the first practice by explaining the responsibility to the community and the team each player has when he has the uniform off and on.
Early during his coaching career, Coach Johnston was diagnosed with a condition that affected both his heart and his lungs. After being diagnosed and being on a waiting list for a transplant for over a year, the time came for him to undergo surgery. He underwent the surgery and soon after, the doctors realized that the organ had began to reject his body, which has been the case for only 15 people in the world. With his odds balancing, Coach was determined to get better. With no one ever have surviving this disease, Coach has continued to power through adversity and three years later, is coaching football, dedicating his life to changing the lives of his athletes.
Coach talks about how he feels lucky to be able to go through his life and see the impact he's made and the people he has encouraged before he dies. He talks about understanding that adversity will come and when you face adversity you have to look at it head on, avoid going around it, and go right through it.
We make 35,000 choices every single day.
“The decisions that we make, make our lives.” John Maxwell
Our latest episode is the second lesson we're bringing you from a recent talk Mackey gave, Commitment Counts. Follow along with us the next couple of weeks to learn 4 ways to show TRUE commitment in all areas of your life.
Leadership is not about achieving your goals, but it’s about helping others achieve theirs.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Leaders choose positivity, not negativity
- Positivity isn’t about feeling, it’s about choice
- Ask yourself, do I add more to this, than I do take away
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In our latest episode, we're bringing back a fan favorite with Coach Pete Hard, Athletic Director and Head Football coach at Alvord ISD.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 hard day and keeping a line of communication always open.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Be available for your athletes
- It takes a village
- Continually strive to be the positive leader in their life
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In our latest episode, Mackey shares with athletes the truth behind success and what it takes to become successful. Success isn’t easy, and success COSTS you.
Leaders choose long term, not short term. They are willing to commit over the long term even if that means it cost them in the short term.
So often, people want everything in the short term, and they’re not willing to commit.
Don’t lead like a child, lead like a man or woman.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Long term success COSTS you.
- Immature children are impatient.
- Children who are immature get distracted from their long term goal in the short term.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Brett Ratliff, Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Hondo ISD.
“I am a winner because I think like a winner. I prepare like a winner. I perform like a winner.”
Coach shares his vision for this athletic program: be winners. Coach emphasizes the importance of creating a winning mindset both in sports and in the game of life.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Nothing great is accomplished without enthusiasm
- Think, prepare, and perform like a winner
- Energy breeds Energy
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In our latest episode, Mackey is live with athletes sharing the importance of keeping your commitments.
People with good intentions make promises, and people with good character keep them.
It costs you nothing to make a promise, but it costs you everything to keep it.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Talk is cheap
- Making a promise and keeping it will cost you
- You have to say no to something to say yes to something else
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Today, we have mashup from five coaches who have been on our show, and they peel back the curtain on what exactly they hang their hat on in their program.
From focusing on developing the player, their internal response system, and how they value the team as a whole to factors outside the locker room, each coach gives us a deep dive into what has help them be successful in investing and developing their players, and on the field.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- When you’re faced with adversity, continue to go back to your core and who you are
- Push through the hard to get to the easy
- We have some things that we can’t control, but we can always control our work ethic.
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In this episode, Mackey is sharing what it looks like to to NOT fear.
There’s a lot of things out there that we can fear, and if we’re honest there’s a lot of reasons to fear everything out there.
We get stuck in this mindset of doubt that paralyzes us from reaching our goals. So, let’s ask ourselves, How do we stop FEARING uncertainty?
When we trust the people that are around us, we can face the fears that are in front of us.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- Family doesn't fear the hard days. (Forget About Me, I Love You)
- When the hard work comes, embrace it.
- Tough love is still love
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We're bringing back a fan favorite and special 2W episode on creating and shaping your coaching philosophy with Coach Rusty Rogers, retired Concordia Chicago's Head Women's Basketball Coach. This episode is a special one because Coach Rogers coached one of our very own 2W team members.
Coach Rogers shares his story and how his mindset on coaching was changed after the birth of his daughter. He talked about the shift from thinking solely about winning and records to focusing on using basketball as a facilitator for his ministry of creating a sense of confidence and character in his athletes.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Know your why
- Light a fire within your athletes, not beneath them
- Emphasis on character building will completely transform your organizations culture and record.
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In our latest episode, we're bringing you some of the most teachable moments from Coach 360 history. We are bringing you some of the greatest thoughts, ideas, and tools from some amazing coaches.
We're changing it up and bit and creating the perfect podcast for coaches who are new coaches, and those who are searching for coaching positions.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Know your "why"
- Love the kids more than you love winning
- Hold yourself to a higher standard if you want your athletes to as well
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In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Luke Turpin, Head of Production here at 2Words. Luke steps out from behind the camera to join Mackey for a conversation on Luke’s journey to 2Words which included a few leaps, a whole lot of trust, and a passion for following and believing in something that was going to change the lives of hundreds of thousands coaches and athletes.
Luke shares how curriculum videos he created 2 years ago have changed the way he interacts and lives his life now. Mackey encourages that the content will consistently be absorbed differently and viewed through a different lens depending on how you’ve have grown and changed from listening to it the first time.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Do things that intersect all aspects of who you are and what you love
- There may be value in taking a leap, and so much so that you may not think it was a leap at all
- Always focus on the GREATER goal
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In our latest episode, Mackey is bringing us a recap of his weekend spent camping with the athletes in Hamlin ISD.
Mackey shares a conversation he was having with the athletes about what it means to be a man.
Mackey shares the difference between being a boy and being a man and how EASY it is to be a boy.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Age does not define whether or not you’re a “man”
- Men make choices that cost them
- Men are willing to die to self to find life
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In our latest episode, Mackey shares more on what it looks like to be 5 star in life.
In last week’s episode, we shared the danger of compartmentalizing everything in your life, and the roadblock it adds to your growth. We shared the importance of monitoring what you put into your life because what you put in, is what you’ll get out.
We continue the conversation and equip you with practical tools on how to be aware when your blocking growth and how to keep persisting.
Key takeaways:
- Decisions that go against our integrity were made because we tried to be someone we were not.
- When you know who you are, you don’t have to prove who you are.
- Work harder to be better today than you were yesterday
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We hear all the time about 5 Star athletes. But it turns out, that it does little good to be 5 star on the field, but no star in the life.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live with athletes from Alamo Heights HS talking about what it means to have a 5 star character.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- You can’t compartmentalize your life
- 5 star character influences and changes everything
- To change what comes out in your life, change what you put in
What is a 5-star character?
1. You surround yourself with the right people
2. You know who you are and who you’re not
3. You work to be better today than you were yesterday
4. You do what you say you’re going to do
5. You believe in something bigger than yourself
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Daniel Hunter, Athletic Coordinator at Anderson HS.
Coach shares the impact his coach made on him as an athlete, which then inspired him to be a coach himself.
Coach shares the importance of being an active listener and active learner as a coach, and how he did that through his relationship with Coach Gary Joseph of Katy High School.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Don’t blame a kid until you blame yourself
- Evaluate yourself and your strengths and weaknesses and then make a plan
- True growth is always parallel growth
Coach also shares that the best way to lead other people is to SERVE them.
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The very best work you will do is hard work.
So many people when they hear hard work, and they experience hard work want to throw in the towel.
You CANNOT go around the hard work to get to your goal.
When you die to yourself, you find life. You’ve got to die for me, to help the “we”.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Hard work qualifies you for success
- Hard work is the currency of success
- Hard Work = Best Work
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Brandon Easterly from Comfort ISD.
Coach shares what their acronym ELITE means.
Coach also shares the idea that if you influence one person, you are a leader. Leadership is influence.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Work hard, love kids
- Tough people win
- If you influence one person, then you’re a leader
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In our latest episode, we're bringing back an interview with Mackey and Colton that was one of you all's favorites!
Mackey and Colton are live talking about how to make where you are the big time.
Mackey talks about the idea that as coaches, we can easily look for the next big play, get prepared for our next move, when in reality, we need to make where we are big time.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Where you are has got to be the big time for you.
- “Big time” has little to do with the stature of the program, but has a lot to do with what you bring to the program.
- If you aren’t willing to put in the work today, you won’t reach your goal tomorrow.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Athletic Director and Head Football Coach of Tivy HS, Coach David Jones.
Coach Jones shares a motto that not only his program lives by, but the community as well: TFND.
Tivy fight never dies.
Colton begs the question, “How do you train that never quit attitude as your players face adversity?”
You grow a group of kids that love and care about each other more than anything else.
Key takeaways from podcast:
- Love others more than yourself
- In every action we take, there’s always a response and result.
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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
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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 do it?"
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- The individual has to change themselves, the team can't do it for them.
- Belief is turning a value or word into an action
- Hold your athletes accountable in all aspect of their lives
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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.”
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Twitter: @CoachJacksonTPW
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Book: Culture Defeats Strategy: 7 Lessons from a Texas High School Football Coach
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 undisciplined pursuit of more
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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 teammates accountable on the field and off
- Always be diligent and look for ways to improve
- Train your juniors and seniors to be leaders
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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.
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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
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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 dreams and continuously pursue excellence in your successes along the way.
Mackey gives practical advice to athletes on what it looks like (successes and challenges) to be successful.
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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.
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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 structure of your priorities
- Goals can't be reached without sacrifice
Mackey and Dr. McCabe talk about this idea of sacrificing what is comfortable, sacrificing your time and energy NOW to become successful and reach your goals and dreams TOMORROW.
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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 carry it on into their lives later on
- You are all some athletes have, welcome them as part of the family
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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 podcast:
- FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real
- Fear paralyzes, and love eliminates fear
- Love is patient
- The two most powerful warriors are patience and time
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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 of us."
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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 those who get better. If you are insecure you won't be able to lift up your teammates, but if you have humility you are secure in who you are.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Love deals in truth
- Love doesn't have a swelled head
- Love never gives up
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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 podcast:
- Build your athletes self-esteem by noticing what they do for others.
- Things that are measured are improved, things that are measured in public are improved faster.
- Metrics can be an accountability system for those that lag behind in your program.
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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
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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 every single day.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Just because today didn't go well doesn't mean that you are disqualified from your responsibility tomorrow.
- As coaches, you gift your athletes the reality that they have to keep showing up
- Always give total effort.
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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 attitude and your effort.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- Surround yourself with people you can learn the most from
- Establish trust in your athletes by showing them you CARE about them as a human being
- Push through the hard to get to the easy
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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 all day event.
As some seasons come to a close, it is easy to get caught up in fixing what was wrong this past season and getting stuck in the "fix it" mindset. The more that we focus on a fix, the less we actually grow. The more that we focus on growing and being the fullness of who we can be, the more that we do just that.
Let your efforts be focused on growing into your potential, not merely fixing the things that are broken. Let the focus be on the growth, not the brokenness.
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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 Process
- Coach in detail
- Build trust in your athletes, and they'll do anything for you
- Get on their level and put in the work with your athletes
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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 will have to say no to some things you don't want to say no to.
- The measure of the greatness of a program will first be defined by how you serve those around you.
- You have value because you have breath in your lungs. You are worth the fight that your future will demand. You are worth more than you past would tell you you are.
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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 in your program as well.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Be relatable
- Nutrition is about timing
- Wake up everyday and fight
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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 vampire."
Mackey approaches this question from two different angles. He approaches it from a one on one standpoint. He gives us active ways in which we can individually, one on one, help solve this problem. He also gives us advice on how to deal with it from the team level.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Instead of coming down on those athletes that are energy vampires, ask them what they see, what's going on through their eyes
- Call out the energy vampire lovingly in front of their teammates
- If you think about something three times, on the third time, tell them about it.
Craig Groschel Leadership Podcast Episode
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Jon Gordon- Energy Vampires
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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 teammate and then executing as a team.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- As a coach, you help build up and establish beliefs in your athletes lives
- Relationships are first, coaching is second
- You have to invest in your kids before they can invest in you
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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 circumstances for the good of yourself and others
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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 looks like to come along side them and build them up not just as players, but as men and women.
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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 that is NOT possible without carrying out the actions to improve the current you now.
Be aware that the actions you are making today are in a certain area of your life that will affect your future self.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- What you do now, affects the future you
- Your inherent belief statement is the deeper alignment
- Check what your actions are congruent with
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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 hard day and keeping a line of communication always open.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Be available for your athletes
- It takes a village
- Continually strive to be the positive leader in their life
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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 from this podcast:
- Winning is NOT all there is, realize that.
- Mere ambition is selfish
- When you fight for a numeric or a status, once you get it, it'll still not be enough
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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 of your word because your character will follow.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Say what you mean and mean what you say
- You've got to build that relationship before you can be a coach
- As a coach, you're no defined by the outcome
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In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Alamo Heights High School.
Mackey breaks down some misconception about character and integrity. He explains that the pursuit of character, the pursuit of integrity does not mean that there is a lack of ambition.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Building character is not about a lack of ambition but about a deeper alignment of what matters most
- Focusing on character doesn't resign you to a participation trophy
- Ambition and character live in the same world
Our character aligns us with something more than ourselves. When we love our family, we'll do whatever it takes to succeed for their sakes. That deeper alignment between our goals, our family, and our character, moves us farther toward success than mere ambition ever could.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Debbie Fuchs, Athletic Director at Clear Creek ISD.
Coach shares how in her thirty-five years of coaching and being Athletic Director, she has always had mentors. She tells listeners how she has been challenged to grow in many different areas of coaching.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Think about the kids first
- Get to know the kids not only as an athlete, but as a person and where they come from
- Be a part of something larger than yourself
Coach shares how her program serves the community and what values they teach through and during that service.
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In our latest episode, we pieced together some of our favorite "coaching moments" we've had so far.
During this episode, you will hear leaders from the military, professional sports, and high school coaching and how they continually stay focused on one goal: developing and enriching the lives of those they lead.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Be transformational, not transactional
- You CHOSE to be a coach
- Coaching is showing athletes how they can develop their own skills themselves
This is a special episode as we dive deep and narrow into the world of coaching, the different types of coaching, and how you too can implement what they teach.
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In our latest episode, we're live with Coach Rupert Jaso, Athletic Director at Pasadena ISD.
Coach shares his heart behind transitioning from being a Head Baseball coach for many years to entering into the administration world. He also shares how he transferred what he learned as a Head coach and Assistant coach to his now administration position as Athletic Director.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Athletics help teach your athletes how to turn the page in their struggles.
- The most important play is the next play
- Athletics is leadership in life at light speed
Coach also goes on to share what Pasadena ISD does to ensure that their students and athletes have the tools and knowledge they need to become successful in life.
Coach explains how they teach their athletes that their response to difficult and trying situations will determine whether they make or break it. Your response helps mold your outlook, which can propel you forward, or hold you back.
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In our latest episode, we interviewed coaches from all around Texas and asked them a simple question, "Why 2Words Character Development?" You will hear stories of impact, encouragement, and positive change.
As coaches we have a greater responsibility than just teaching the X's and O's, we have the opportunity to teach kids how to become better men and women and reach their goals. The time, work, and effort you are putting into your athletes, kids, and students NOW is the building block to how they will continue to live life after high school and college.
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In our latest episode, we are bringing one out from the Mackey Speaks Leadership Journal archive. This episode is power-packed, so make sure a pencil is at hand!
Mackey talks about the idea of going the extra mile, and when you go the extra mile, your impact will be amplified. When you are willing to go the extra mile, when you are willing to do things that others are not, they realize that you are different. When you are willing to go the extra mile for someone and invest in them, that return on investment will come back and be a far greater commitment than you could have ever imagined.
Takeaways from this podcast:
- Invest in the long term, continually.
- There is no such thing as a viral moment
- Your standard operating procedure should be to go the extra mile
We often think of leadership as “going viral.” We think that if we can just get that one big position, or that one perfect podcast, or write the perfect blog post, then I’ll get noticed, and people will want to buy what we’re selling.
But the problem with that thinking is that yes, a “viral moment” may get you noticed, but unless you’ve been putting in that “extra mile” effort, there’s nothing under the surface. There’s nothing for anybody to follow.
You’ve got to invest in the long term OVER AND OVER. You build buy in with a lifetime of extra mile effort, not buy a quick, flash-in-the-pan viral moment.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Nikki Nelson, Athletic Director at Lamar Consolidated ISD.
Coaches dives into the challenges of being an Athletic Director of one of the fastest growing school districts in Texas. She talks about the challenges of changing the mentality of the district from a small-town mentality to a large school mentality.
Coach Nelson also goes on to share a little bit of her story from being in administration, teaching, and coaching and what brought her to LCISD.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- Encourage your coaches and players through authentic engagements.
- Be consistent on your messaging with expectations in your program
- You have the potential to be your players and staffs' biggest advocate.
Coach goes through the various mentors she's had both as a coach and as an Athletic Director and shares values and learnings that she's taken and applied to her program from each of them.
Coach ends the podcast digging a little deeper into what her program focuses on and how hard work is a consistent theme that they all try to live by and instill in their players.
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In our latest episode, we are bringing you an archived favorite from the Mackey Speaks Leadership Journal.
Mackey is bringing us a message he heard from Coach Braxton of Howard Payne University while out on the West Texas Tour a few months ago. Coach said something that made Mackey grab his pencil and start writing.
Coach said that whether you excel or whether you fall short and don't reach your goals, other people are going to identify you as a part of a team, and we will represent a team in our actions.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- You are a part of a greater team, so rep the brand well.
- In moments of anger, stop and count the eyes.
- Protecting your brand is not only a defensive posture, but it is an offensive posture as well.
Mackey encourages us to handle our anger, handle situations that may not be going our way well because there are people watching. We must continually remind ourselves to count the eyes. People will not only evaluate you, but they will begin to evaluate the brand that you represent, whether that is your team, your company, your faith, or your family.
If you are not okay with what you're doing being in the light, then don't let it live in the dark because what's in the dark will eventually come to the light.
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In our latest episode, we're live with Coach Todd Rodgers Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Argyle ISD.
He shares more about the Argyle community and how it expects and demands excellence, and he shares how this mentality all throughout the community has helped develop the students as well as put them in the best possible position to succeed.
He also goes on to talk about his one percent better mentality and how the program has developed over time by building it from the ground up, starting in middle school.
Key Takeaways from this episode:
- Ask more from your coaches, athletes, and parents
- Every kid has a starting point and an excellent point, and they're all different. Coach them where they're at.
- As a coach you have to realize it's never as good as it is and it's never as bad as it is
Coach shares a little bit about the expectations every coach has for their players and how to use those expectations to continually point them in the direction of their personal excellence both on and off the field.
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Our latest episode is a special one as Mackey joins the AFCA Inside the Headset podcast with Coach Mario Price.
The AFCA is an association of over 11,000 American football coaches and staff on all levels. According to its constitution, some of the main goals of the American Football Coaches Association are to "maintain the highest possible standards in football and the profession of coaching football," and to "provide a forum for the discussion and study of all matters pertaining to football and coaching."
Mackey shares how he encourages and reaffirms parents and coaches to keep pressing on, even in times of continued hardship.
Key Takeaways from this podcast:
- Invest in yourself because the only way you can pour yourself out to others is if you have something left in you to give.
- The choices you make affect the energy and morale of your team or program
- Call out energy vampires immediately
Mackey also goes on to explain what energy vampires are and how coaches and parents can deal with those on a practical basis.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Athletic Coordinator/Head Football Coach for Shadow Creek HS in Alvin ISD. Shadow Creek HS is a fairly new school, which opened in 2016, and Coach dives into some successes they've had in a few of their programs already.
A Few Key Takeaways:
- Growing your athletes into leaders starts with hard work and commitment
- Never give excuses. Always accept personal responsibility
- Have a we before me mentality
Coach dives into how he helped create and build a program from scratch and explains how the process of starting with a blank canvas has positively impacted his athletes hard work and determination.
Coach also goes on to talk about the programs' values and how each program has a we before me mentality, emphasizing the importance of unity both on and off the field.
Coach shares their saying, "ACF", which stands for attack, compete, finish and goes into depth on what that means for his program and exactly how they live by that.
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Our latest episode is a special one. Mackey shares a curriculum lesson with us, Family Name.
Mackey shares how our lives are touched by several different traditions, which can come from our family, our community, our school, and our team.
As athletes, coaches, and parents, we have a responsibility to uphold these traditions, but also to enhance them. Tradition doesn’t determine what we do. What we do determines our tradition.
Mackey also shares that the traditions that we inherit don't define what we will become. They can serve as guides for the path we can follow if we choose, but the only thing that determines the traditions we pass on, the legacy we leave behind, is what we do today.
Key takeaways from this podcast:
- Continually communicate traditions and expectations you have for each athlete
- Leader's responsibility does not stop at helping the current athletes, but it is their job to start paving the way for future athletes as well
- Appreciate the traditions each player brings to the team and program as a whole
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In our latest episode, Colton is spending time with Birdville ISD's Athletic Director Chris Feris. Coach Feris was awarded Texas High School Athletic Directors Association Director of the year and has been with Birdville since 2013.
Key Takeaways for this week's podcast:
- Each individual kid cannot be coached the same
- Be present with your students and athletes
- Focus on developing both the player and the athlete through personal interactions with each player.
Coach shares about his time playing and coaching at Rice and how that has helped shape him into the Coach and AD he is today. Coach also shares the importance him and his coaches place on continually building up and encouraging each athlete to excel in academics.
Coach also shares a quotes he gives to his coaches that really rings true to him and his program. "There's nobody that can ever keep you from doing the best you can." Lou Holtz
Coach ends the podcast discussing the idea of choice and how as a coach, you made the decision to be about kids and making a difference. You can always learn from your athletes, and you can always help someone learn. It is your job to be a facilitator and give your athletes the tools they need to be successful both on and off the field.
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In our latest episode, Mackey is live with coaches from Northside ISD sharing words of encouragement about their upcoming LEAD event. Mackey shares what this event looks like and how it is used to facilitate change in each athlete that attends.
Tomorrow's leaders will be built in today's locker rooms. This year alone there will be over 15 million high school students that walk through school doors in America. As coaches, teachers, and parents, you are taking this next generation to the next step in their life. You are influencing, equipping, and encouraging them to become the best person they can be.
Key Takeaways:
-Take notes (a short pencil is better than a long memory)
-When asking your athletes questions, reframe it three different ways to allow each athlete to understand and apply questions in their own way
-When discussing character and personal growth concepts, defer to the athlete.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Renee Putter of Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD.
Coach Renee Putter is the Athletic Director at Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD and has spent over 25 years with the district. Prior to that, believe it or not, she spent some time as a police officer. In this podcast we get to learn more about CFBISD and the things they value.
Coach emphasizes the character traits that CFBISD hopes to instill in each athlete during their time as students, and she reiterates the importance of school and athletics laying the groundwork for each student to become a successful individual and citizen later in life.
Some key takeaways from this week's podcast:
- Pay attention to the little things
- Take the time to know your students, children, or athletes
- Encourage your athletes, students, and kids that they can do it all, and you're right there to help them.
Coach really emphasized the importance of building community engagement. They recently held a district wide prep rally that consisted of over 5k people from the community. We go into details about how they achieved this incredible event.
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In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Marion County HS Coaches talking about the idea of coaching "long shelf life" traits.
As coaches, mentors, and parents, we are responsible for making sure our athletes and students are ready not only for the test next week, but for the tests they'll face in life. We need to make sure we are equipping them with the tools to be successful in life.
Some key takeaways from this podcast:
-It is important to do the right thing at the right time and not fear the consequences of doing so.
-It is our job as coaches and teachers to teach students that they are the most powerful person in their world.
-If you decide to have a bad attitude, that's on you. Your circumstances can't choose that for you.
As coaches, teachers, and parents, when you teach a student the power of commitment to their homework or to the team, you're teaching them how to be a successful mother or father. Everything you are teaching your students now, have a longer shelf life than you can ever hope or imagine.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Basketball Coach David Peavy from Duncanville HS. Coach David Peavy is the new Head Coach at Duncanville High School. He was previously at Houston Dekaney where he coached them to a 34-4 record losing to Jesuit in the Class 6A Regional II Semifinals. They were also regional semifinalists in 2017 when they lost to Dallas Skyline after a 27-8 season.
Coach shares a little bit about his journey from leaving his past role as a coach in Houston to his current role and what that looked like stepping into an already developed program.
Some key takeaways from this episode:
- Watch your actions because they'll turn into habits, which affect your success
- The power of the group is stronger than the individuals
- As a coach, don't make it so much about you, make it about THEM
Coach finishes up the episode by giving listeners a bit of advice he would have given himself when he first started his coaching career. Coach Peavy stresses the importance of not making it about you, the coach, but making it about them. It's so easy to get caught up in your season record and pushing your athletes hard in practice, but while that is important, it's necessary to not lose sight of developing them as people as well as athletes.
To connect with Coach Peavy you can email him at dpeavy@duncanvilleisd.org.
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In today's episode, Mackey is live at Spring Branch ISD Coaches training sharing the importance of coaching up and developing your athletes mindset.
Key takeaways from this week's episode:
- Attitude is a personal choice
- YOU are the most powerful person in your life
- If you don't have great effort, you have no one to blame but yourself
Mackey brings the heat in this episode, teaching coaches ways to acknowledge and overpower negative mindsets in their athletes. He shares how coaches can continually shape and mold an athlete's view of himself or herself and ultimately make an impact that goes far beyond the game.
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In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Jeff Hulme, Head Football Coach from Midway High School. Coach Hulme took over at Midway in 2016 after leading Mansfield to the Class 6A state semifinals. This past year, in his second season at Midway, he took the Panthers to the Class 6A State Championship game.
This week, Coach Hulme talks to us about his journey to Midway and everything that he has learned along the way.
In today's podcast, here are some key points to take away:
- You can't just talk the talk, you have to walk the walk
- Putting the right coaches around you can make all the difference
- Character Development is more than just checking a box
Coach gives us a look at what his Midway program looks like on the inside and how they view character development. He emphasizes the strengths of his assistant coaches and the impact they have on the program, as well as, the students that they teach.
Coach Hulme and his coaching staff make it a point to embody great character everyday, whether that be on the practice field, in the film room, or in the classroom. Character Development is more than just checking the box and doing the bare minimum. It is something that coaches need to live by, and Coach Hulme strives to do just that.
David Smoak has over three decades of experience covering sports in Texas and is a graduate of Tyler Junior College (’79) and Stephen F. Austin State University (’81). He became the program director and talk show host for ESPN-Central Texas (AM1660, 100.9FM, 106.9FM) in June 2010 after spending the spring of 2010 at ESPN Radio in Dallas.
Mackey joins "You Make the Call" on ESPN Central Tx 1660 with David Smoak and shares a little bit of his life and what it looked like creating 2Words Character Development.
Some key points to take away from this podcast:
- Don't start with no, start with yes
- The day that you stop trying to make everyone else think you're the best is the day that you will see the most growth and improvement in what you do
- Sports are a great conduit for learning the skills that will make you successful in the game of life
We hope you're ready to go left lane, hammer down, full tilt boogie with us on this one.
"Good, Better, Best
Never let it Rest,
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And the Better is Best."
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Ross McMurry, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Colmesneil HS.
This week will look a little different as Coach McMurry dives into his background and the struggles he faced before becoming the mentor, coach, and husband he is today.
In today's podcast, here are some key points to take away:
- Your past circumstances don't define your future success
- You are the average of the five people you hang around the most
- You can't be a leader without first being honest
Coach talks about the struggles that are all too real in high schools today, from drugs and alcohol to broken homes. Coach experienced it all. He talks about his journey from being lost, not expected to have a successful future, to becoming a Head Football Coach and mentor to young men.
Coaches and mentors in his life helped change his trajectory, and now he has the opportunity to pay it forward and do the same for athletes in the same town he grew up in.
In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Chris Castillo, Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator from Dallas Sunset High School.
Coach took over at sunset 2 years ago and has since been on a mission to take Sunset to the next level. With an open enrollment district and a tough few seasons coach had 12 guys show up his first day of practice.
Coach talks about the importance of positivity in his locker room and the idea that leaders will always be followers in times throughout their lives. He encourages his players to be the best version on themselves every single day, from the locker room to the classroom, Coach Castillo pushes and encourages them.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Coach James Stagnitta, Head Coach of the Charlotte Hounds Major League Lacrosse team.
Coach dives into his career and shares with us this idea that coaching is different than leading. Coach explains that as he grew and developed as a coach, he grew as a leader as well. It's one thing to put people in set and tell them what to do, and it's another thing to truly develop them and lead them, then it's a lot easier to get them to do things as a group and collective unit.
Coach goes on to talk about culture and what the process for creating a team culture looks like for a professional organization. Coach says, "A good culture can make an average team very good, and a bad culture can break down a great team."
Coach shares some advice he would've given himself as a first year coach knowing what he knows now. He shares a little about empathy and putting yourself into you player's position by asking more questions and understanding what they're going through a little more instead of assuming how they feel and what they're going through.
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We have a special episode for you as we reach the end of the week. We're sharing a clip from one of our curriculum videos, "Your Role". Colton shares with us a little bit about what this idea means to him and how sports were an outlet for him while he faced family struggles. This is an all too familiar story, that we know coaches see every day.
Mackey asks us a powerful question. He asks, "do you know your role?" Sometimes that question that a negative connotation. There's been a stigma associated with the idea of being a role player in comparison to a 5-star player. So many people believe that if they are a "role guy", then they are a no-star guy.
Every single one of us have a role to play, not only on a team, but in life.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Todd Vesely, Executive Director at Ector County.
Coach shares his transition from being a coach to working towards an administrative role. He talks about how the common themes he used in coaching was easily translatable to other programs across the board, which is what drew him to a more administrative role.
Coach goes on to talk about what winning means to him. He believes winning is maximizing your performance and the performance of others, making as big of an impact in young people as you can. Winning can take on many different looks, but our real purpose is to help develop others.
Coach gives us a deeper understanding of the steps it takes to grow and develop leaders. One of the steps to becoming a great leader is giving your best every single day, which Coach talks about being the hardest thing you'll do.
Giving your best is being able to measure, whether you really gave your best, and the only person that really knows that is you. It becomes a habit if you continue to give your best day in and day out, never compromising for anything less. When you give a little bit less than your best, you are showing those around you that that is acceptable and becomes the culture that surrounds you. People will learn so much more from you by what you do rather than what you say.
Coach ends our podcast with a message to listeners. "A profound positive vision for the future, is the first and most important ingredient for success."
In our latest episode Colton and Mackey are talking about perspectives and the idea that having different perspectives than one another doesn't make one party right and one wrong.
Mackey shares a story about an experience he and his wife had while engaged and how the way they viewed the situation then is completely different than the way they view now looking back. He talks about the importance of experience shaping our perspective and how different situations can be looked upon differently as we mature and grow.
Mackey shares the idea that as we all step into different leadership roles, we will encounter others who will not share in our perspective or understanding of a situation due to the fact that they lack experience. When we find ourselves in a position where someone doesn't understand a decision that we're making or a strategy that we're implementing because they have not had the experience, there is an element that they have to simply trust the leader, but there's also the element that the leader has to be secure enough to explain and invite them into understanding an experience that they've not yet experienced.
When we take the time to take a step back from our perspective and step into someone else's, whether it be following a head coach's decisions as the assistant coach and not necessarily thinking their decision is right, we need to go all in and give it as much effort as if it's our own. That humbleness shows respect and that shows a willingness to learn. As a coach, you have shown the ability to be coachable in that moment.
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In our latest episode, Colton is speaking with the Aggie Christian Business Leaders Club about his move from the security of a job at a fast-growing company to diving head first into a start up with his best friend.
Colton and Mackey go back about 10 years, and over that time as he was crafting his speaking ability, Colton was growing in business experience. Colton was connected to an amazing company really young and was fortunate to be apart of their growth from roughly 20 people to 220 at the time he stepped away for 2Words.
During that time he served for 5 years on their senior leadership team managing culture in our rapidly growing business. Colton shares how he ended up leaving the security of everything he had ever known to jump into a Start up with one of his closest friends, and mainly how they both decided to act in Faith, not fear.
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Kent Jackson from Seminole High School.
Coach Jackson talks about his program's mantra, TR1BE. Which stands for:
Trust
Respect
Integrity
Belief
Enthusiasm
Coach talks about replacing the i with a 1 representing one tribe, one unit, one mission. Coach dives in a little deeper on what exactly it means to have belief and do everything with enthusiasm.
Coach talks about going from a winning season to a losing season and how as coaches, they continually tried instilling confidence in their players throughout the drought. He talks about the character and bond that was built during that season and how it positively impacted the athletes.
Coach shares about a new program they started where they find male mentors to meet with them each Friday morning on gamedays to talk about sports, life, and everything in between.
In our latest episode, Colton is live at Hamlin High School telling his story of putting in the hard work in hopes of winning in a power building competition.
Colton talks about putting in months and months of effort into this one moment, for seven minutes on stage competing. Colton talks about wanting more at the end of that competition. He thought that if he was putting in months of effort, endless amount of time and dedication, he should be reaching for an even bigger title.
Colton goes on to talk about the fact that at the end of his competitions, after competing at Worlds, he realized that no medal, no championship ring was going to make him a champion. The process makes you a champion.
Mackey and Colton are live in our newest episode of Coach 360 talking about Colonel Craig Flower's idea of tier 1 leadership.
Mackey shares the three questions that get asked of these tier 1 leaders:
1. Can they do it?
2. Will they do it?
3. Will others follow them when they do?
So many times we believe that in order to be the best leader, you have to be the best player on the field, and if you were the best player, then by default, you were the best leader.
In the book, "The Captains Class" Sam Walker unveils that after investigating all the seventeen sports dynasties from the past, the best leaders were not necessarily the best players, they were the glue that held the team together. They were capable, willing, and others followed them.
The best leaders aren't necessarily the best players or the best motivators, they are the players who can do a little bit of it all the best.
Mackey and Colton go on to talk about ways in which coaches can develop their players in certain areas they are lacking to create tier 1 leadership qualities within each of them.
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This episode is a special one as Colton is live with retired Concordia Chicago's Head Women's Basketball Coach, Rusty Rogers, who was the coach of one of our very own 2W team members.
Coach Rogers shares his story and how his mindset on coaching was changed after the birth of his daughter. He talked about the shift from thinking solely about winning and records to focusing on using basketball as a facilitator for his ministry of creating a sense of confidence and character in his athletes.
Coach shares his coaching philosophy and the idea that being a successful coach means lighting a fire within each player, not lighting a fire beneath them. He also gives practical ways how coaches can navigate a shifting mentality from focusing on records to focusing on lives.
In our latest episode, we are bringing you the latest curriculum video, Tick Tock.
Life is often unpredictable, and you can never know or control what the next day will bring. You can control how you react to whatever the future holds. Even though you can’t predict exactly what struggle you will face, you know that some type of struggle is coming. Each day you can prepare for those unknown obstacles by building skills like commitment, determination, and discipline.
Those skills will help you make it through the heat of August and the pressures of the season, and they will help you make it through the unknown struggles that life will throw in your path.
Every moment is an opportunity to prepare for the next big event or the next struggle waiting just over the horizon. The clock is ticking.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Leadership Summit encouraging coaches and leaders to be of good character.
Mackey talks about how we can put rings on a finger and records on a wall, but all of those things are temporary and can be taken away at any given moment, but the one thing that cannot be taken away is your character.
As you help raise up the next generation, recognize that they will not learn from words on a paper or bold words painted in the locker room. They will learn from the quiet actions of your life. Winning is a by product of being successful. When you commit to being successful in the little things, success in your life and in who you are, others will see that and that will begin to shape who they are.
Simply talking about it isn't enough, our actions must follow. If we are different in private than we are in public, one day we will be exposed. Your private life will always become your public life.
In this episode of Coach360, Mackey interview LTC. JC Glick, U.S. Army, Ret. Mackey and LTC. Glick dive deep into the difference between capacity and capability, the power of teaching athletes "how to think" not just "what to think", and the importance of disciplined, nuanced thinking.
JC served in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer for 20 years, primarily in special operations and special missions units with more than 11 combat tours. Since retiring from the military, JC has brought his innovative and unconventional thoughts on education, leadership and resiliency into the private sector, consulting with Fortune 500 companies, the NFL and professional sports teams including the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers.
JC recently wrote and published the thought-provoking, groundbreaking book titled "A Light in the Darkness: Leadership Development for the Unknown", which has been implemented by major corporations including the NFL and Microsoft and endorsed by leaders in the field of education, business and the military.
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In our latest episode, Mackey is live at the Leadership Summit encouraging coaches and leaders to stand firm in what they do and who they are.
Mackey talks about how easy it is being so close to the end of the year to want to coast and quit continually pursuing excellence in everything you do. If you are at that place in the year, at the place in your life when you want to give up and quit, stand firm.
Everyone has been in a place where your mind wants to tell you to keep at it and your heart wonders whether it's worth it or not. Mackey takes us through a similar battle he experienced in high school. He did everything right, he was bigger, faster, stronger than everyone else. He was in extracurriculars and had good grades, he did everything in his power to do what was right. Mackey gets a call from a college coach, all his dreams were coming true, and in the first play, playing in front of those coaches for the first time, he injured his knee, his dreams and goals seemed to slip through the very hand he thought he had held his future in. He did everything right, but everything still went wrong.
More than one of you know what that feeling is like, the feeling of continually pursuing excellence, making the right decisions, and everything still seeming to go wrong. Stand firm. You and your dream and everything you have worked for is worth fighting for. There is no shame in your struggle. There is no weakness in asking for help. The greatest demonstration of strength you could have is not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, but it is peeling open your hands and inviting others into your struggle to help you.
In our latest #Coach360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Hank Semler from Aldine Senior High School.
Coach Semler talks about the challenges his program faced, not only through the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, but also through different obstacles placed before his team throughout the season.
Throughout the uncertainty of the season, Coach made it a point to create and maintain a mindset that you do not lose in a season, in life, or in a game until you GIVE UP. When you lose at anything it's because you quit trying. That mentality is a recurring theme you can see throughout their season. Each game, every single player fought until the bitter end and gave it everything they had.
In this episode of Coach360, Colton, and Mackey discuss just how damaging lowering your standard can be, the dark side of pride, and the greatest show of strength you can ever display.
The guys speak from the heart on this one, and you won't want to miss out!
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Herring of Refugio ISD.
Coach talks about the importance of not allowing circumstances to affect your performance, and shares the devastation that Hurricane Harvey had on his town. He talks about putting himself aside and being more than a coach for the athletes by sleeping in cots with them when their home was destroyed, beginning football early to keep them focused on something other than their hurt, and continually being a support system throughout the rebuilding process.
Coach goes on to talk about the fact that as coaches, they were going to allow the athletes to use Harvey as an excuse to not give their best each and every day. The way they had to go about discipline and enforcing rules looked a little different than normal because Coach ensured each athlete put his family first, but his expectations of every single one of them stayed the same.
Because of the coaching staff's attitude, the athletes were given a sense of hope during a time when most of their life felt unsure.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Anderson HS in what he says was one of the most electric places he's ever spoken at.
Mackey emphasizes that what we learn in sports will translate to the rest of our life. We learn things like integrity, doing the right things because they're the right things to do, and we don't fear the consequence of doing so. We live in a world where people stay quiet because they are afraid of the consequences of doing what's right. What we learn in sports is that there is POWER in standing up for the person on your right and on your left. You makes sacrifices for one another so you can come together as one and stand up for one another.
We learn about commitment and attitude and how to respond to situations through sports. There is not a person in the world more powerful than you. You are the most powerful person in the world because no one can make you have a bad attitude. There's not a person in the world that can control your effort but you. You cannot control the cards you've been dealt in life, you cannot control the outcomes, but you can always control your response.
In our latest #Coach360 episode, Mackey (@mackeyspeaks) is fired up about a recent quote he posted on Twitter talking about the idea that the very best coaches care too much about their players to not let them be their best.
The smallest things matter to the coaches that won't accept anything except each players' best. The best coaches accept nothing but the very best. They see in them what the athletes don't always see in themselves. They know and see where athletes could go when the athletes themselves don't believe they could get there. We all have someone who we would run through a brick wall for, someone who has shaped and molded us to be the people we are today.
Do you love YOURSELF enough to demand the best of you? The truth is, we're really great at loving other people and we're awful at loving ourselves. It only takes one person for doubt to be effective. The only person that has to have doubt for it to be effective is you, and the moment that you doubt yourself, you allow in the very worst language, the worst thoughts to creep in. If we cannot learn to love ourselves, we can never receive the love of other people. As much as you love other people, do things for other people, do the same for yourself.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Coach Steve Wood at Aledo HS.
Coach Wood shares the importance he puts on himself to set expectations and be a model of his own expectations within his program. Athletes feed off of their coach's attitude, so having a solid group of men around them, not just men who are good at the X's and O's, but genuinely good hearted men, help create a character building culture within the team.
Coach goes on to talk about the importance he places on athletes valuing and respecting their differences and how the differences that set them apart. It all starts with the coaches, having that tight knit group of men, impacting and influencing the next generation of young men.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Wills Point and Grand Saline.
Sometimes as leaders we think that we have to have all of the right answers, that we have to be without blemish, but the reality is that the mark of a good leader is not one who is above correction, but one who embraces it. There are twi different types of discipline: discipline of structure and discipline of correction. Discipline of structure is when you order your life to know what you say yes to and what to say no to. Discipline of correction says that when I make a mistakes, I'm going to own it.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. If we want to become leaders, we must surround ourselves with people that make us better. Not only to do you have to surround yourself with people that make you better, but you have to make other people better! You have to ask, "how can I make you better?" Don't exploit, don't leach on other people.
People like to put humility up as a token trait. They're quick to praise it, but slow to practice it. Humility is hard because it's not about me, but it's about you. Humility requires up to look beyond ourselves, but it doesn't require us to put ourselves down.
We have a special new #Coach360 episode as Mackey joins us live from the road.
Mackey talks about the powerful time he spent at Anderson HS and how he was jamming with a coach about the idea of being one team. It's so easy to believe we are one with our basketball or softball team, or with whichever team we are a part of, but it's rare for teams to has this "one team" mentality with regarding an entire athletic department.
When every athlete comes together, there's a different energy surrounding them because every athlete is driven and has goals, and to point all of that focus towards the idea that you are all of the same, but you are different. Athletes are the most influential students in the school building.
By joining together, athletes will realize how much of an impact they can and will make, not just in sports, but through sports.
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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Gary Joseph. Coach Joseph is a Living Legend in the High School Football World. In this episode he tells us a little bit more about the tradition of Katy football and the expectation of success his athletes have to continue the winning legacy.
Coach talks about the value of respecting others and respecting yourself. He describes how he builds a culture of mutual respect in his program by continuously understanding and knowing the hearts of each one of his players.
Coach goes all in on building relationships and trust with his players and contributes that intentionality to how they the raise up these young men not just to be good football players but men of character.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Wills Point and Grand Saline talking about the different ways to be a leader worth following.
Mackey emphasizes that to be a leader worth following, you must be slow to anger or be long tempered. Being slow to anger doesn't mean we never get angry, being slow to anger means catching ourselves and thinking twice before we are about to blow up. We pause before to stop the storm. You have to ask, "what will my anger accomplish in this moment?" A good leader always has a purpose for what they do.
A good leader buys wisdom. Wisdom is something to be pursued. Wisdom is something to be purchased, and when you buy something, you do it with intentionality. Mackey challenges us to seek wisdom, in whatever way you believe you can, read your Bible, read a book. Continually seek out wisdom by talking with others, listening to podcasts, or reading a book.
In our latest Mackey and Colton are live talking about how to make where you are the big time.
Mackey talks about the idea that as coaches, we can easily look for the next big play, get prepared for our next move, when in reality, we need to make where we are big time. Where you are has got to be the big time for you. If you can't make where you are big time then you probably shouldn't be there and the next place you go probably won't be big time either because "big time" has little to do with the stature of the program, but has a whole lot to do with what you bring to the program.
In so many areas of our lives, it's easy to think the grass is always greener on the other side, whether that be in work, school, life, or sports. If you are not willing to put in the work today and grow where your feet are planted, then you aren't going to reach that goal tomorrow.
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Joe Hubbard of East Central High School talking about the importance of focusing on building relationships with athletes in your program.
Coach explains how the initial goal he has as new players join the team is to invest time and love into each athlete. Another mentality that they focus on is becoming the best they can be, whether that be in the classroom, at home, or in school, they continually instill the "work hard, play hard" mentality.
Coach Hubbard challenges and raises the level for each of his players to see how they respond to a challenge with the hope of creating good habits and a powerful work ethic in life.
Coach continues to communicate the idea that as athletes, as coaches, as parents, we cannot change the hand we've been dealt in life, but we can control the way we play them.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Wimberley High School talking discipline and pride.
Mackey stresses that whatever your goals and dreams are, both in sports and in life, they require discipline. Those goals are going to require that you say "no" to some things that everybody else gets to say "yes" to. Some of you will have to sacrifice what you do on the weekends and who your friends are to reach your goals and dreams. There's going to be something in you that thinks it's not fair to have to say "no" when others say "yes", but you will realize that your hard work, your dedication, and your goals and dreams are bigger than theirs are. The cost of your goals and dreams are higher than theirs are. Success is always expensive and its currency is sacrifice.
The difference between where you are and where you want to be is your pride. There are two types of pride. There's the pride that says, "I'm gonna prove that I'm right without the evidence, the pride that can never be coached. You can tell how successful we will be by how eager each of us is to be coached. The intelligent person is the one who asks all the questions and isn't satisfied with being their best today, but wants to pursue being the best for the future.
We must continually pursuing daily excellence, the pride that says, "no matter what it is, I'm gonna own it. I'm going to take personal responsibility for everything in my life every single day. Excellence isn't about chasing perfection, excellence is trying to be the best version of yourself you can be every single day. What you do with your pride is the difference between where you are and where you want to be.
In our latest episode, we decided to share with you a favored Mackey Speaks Leadership Journal episode. Mackey (IG: @mackeyspeaks) shares three quotes with us about time management that helps shift our perspective on how we spend our time.
Download the leadership guide at http://www.mackeyspeaks.com/podcast/117
“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” Lao Tzu
We have a choice. We choose how we spend our time. Even if you are required to be somewhere at a specific time for a specific time frame, you still have the ability to decide what you do with those hours. You can either spend those hours effectively or very ineffectively. If you find yourself saying, "I just don't have the time." The reality is probably that you just don't want to. You can prioritize and use things in a different way; therefore, making more time than you thought you had.
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin
When we waste time it's because we think we have enough time. We live in a world where we think time will always keep turning. We have bought the idea of the circular clock.
When we realize that we don't necessarily always have time. The day and time will come when we run out of time.
“You can have it all. Just not all at once.” Oprah
This quote shows us the importance of prioritization. We can't say yes to everything, we have to say no to things. Rarely, we explicitly say no. Most of the time when we are saying no to something, we are saying yes to something else.
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach WT Johnston of Newton High School.
Coach Johnston talks about the importance of setting the stage the first practice by explaining the responsibility to the community and the team each player has when he has the uniform off and on.
Early during his coaching career, Coach Johnston was diagnosed with a condition that affected both his heart and his lungs. After being diagnosed and being on a waiting list for a transplant for over a year, the time came for him to undergo surgery. He underwent the surgery and soon after, the doctors realized that the organ had began to reject his body, which has been the case for only 15 people in the world. With his odds balancing, Coach was determined to get better. With no one ever have surviving this disease, Coach has continued to power through adversity and three years later, is coaching football, dedicating his life to changing the lives of his athletes.
Coach talks about how he feels lucky to be able to go through his life and see the impact he's made and the people he has encouraged before he dies. He talks about understanding that adversity will come and when you face adversity you have to look at it head on, avoid going around it, and go right through it.
Email Address: wt.johnston@newtonisd.net
Social Media: @mackeyspeaks, @2wordstv, @FullCurlColton
In our latest episode, Mackey is coming to us live with the Wylie Girls Soccer team. This episode is a special episode in that, it is from Week 26, Be You, in our Character Development Curriculum.
Mackey brings the passion as he talks to the team as if he was talking to his daughter, Jane, many years from now. Mackey stresses finding your self-worth and not listening to the constant voices in your head that tell you you are not enough.
Be you because who you are is enough. Coaches don't really care about what you do, but they care about who you are because your identity is not found in the goals you score or how fast you are. Your identity is found in who you are, and if nobody has told you this, you are enough.
In our latest episode, Colton and Mackey catch up after some down time after a busy season. They talk about taking time to rest, but not for long, as Mackey will soon be visiting the University of Houston to speak at a coaching clinic.
If you're in the Houston area, Mackey invites you to listen to him speak March 23rd at the University of Houston. He will be speaking about treating others right and continuously pursing the idea of being your best self while making other people your MVPs.
Mackey recently spent some time speaking with Green Mountain HS, and he spoke about amplifying your impact. When you are willing to work harder and go longer, your impact will be amplified. You've got to go the extra mile. Mackey talks about the ways in which Coach German of Green Mountain, has been going the extra mile by turning his football program into a leadership academy. He's not been building leaders only on his team, but in his school as well.
As coaches, when we look beyond ourselves, beyond our four walls and ask how we can serve our community, when we begin to open our scope and our perspective, then our impact can be amplified.
Mackey talks about the challenges that Coach German deals with on a daily basis. From smaller staff sizes, to the inability to work with junior high students, he has taken on those challenges to create his program and allow it to go the extra mile.
In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Todd Howey sharing his story on becoming a coach and how his program focuses more on building champions than wining championships.
Coach Howey talks about how as a program, they raise expectations and don't listen to excuses. Being a coach of a school in a lower income area, Coach Howey stresses the importance of making sure that just because some of his players grew up in poverty, that should not reflect the poverty. He makes it a point in his coaches to show no signs of poverty in the way you dress, in the way you behave, in the way the kids play, or in the ways they act. They do not let poverty reflect in their program in how they treat the kids. They are held to a higher standard to show them their potential and the show them that they deserve more.
He tells other coaches who are dealing with similar struggles to continue to push, push to make the school and the facilities better for the students.
Every week Coach Howey writes a weekly newsletter to his parents, custodial staff, office staff, and his HR director. The latest newsletter he shares with us a short story and the message that we can all learn from one another, we all have the opportunity to help kids improve both on the field and off, and if we work together, we can make a huge difference in the lives of students.
Link to "Winning Created" by Coach Todd Howey: http://amzn.to/2HjNCoP
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Vista Ridge High School.
Mackey tells a story about Einstein taking a train and losing his ticket, and uses that story to beg the question, where are you going?
Mackey highlights the idea that in whatever sport you focus on, in whatever game you play, you are not defined by a number. Your worth is not found in your batting average, in your RBI's, in your yards or the points you score. Your character is defined by the impact you make in other's lives, and by the way you treat other people.
Wherever you go, you can learn how to treat and serve others by the game you play.
Three lessons that you'll learn in the game of sports to help you in the game of life are:
- It'll teach you to BE ON GUARD
- It'll teach you to STAND FIRM
- It'll teach you how to DO everything in love
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Cairn University's athletes chapel talking identity.
The minute that you find your identity in what you do instead of who you are, you fail. You will never find success in what you do because one day, what you do will stop, and you'll have to hangup your cleats in whatever areas or whatever abilities you've been dependent on.
Mackey shares the common misconception that most of us have of thinking we can control everything. We try to control things at the detriment of our own lives. How many of us try to hold onto things as life is spinning out of control? We are so bullish and so convinced that we can do it that we are blind to the help that others want to provide.
Mackey tells the story of the man who asks Jesus, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" He explains Jesus' response and leads us back to the idea that God loves us too much to not let us be our best. God will sometimes call you out. God will sometimes say "not yet" when we want something really bad. In the book of Job, Job cries out to God asking him where He was while everything was being stripped of him, and God tells him that He sees far greater than the human mind can understand. He looks ahead, and his mind isn't fixed on the present.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Cairn University with Coach Phil Shallenberger.
Coach Shallenberger shares a little about on intentionality and transforming a program by it. Coach talks about how he grew through his failures throughout his life, and how he hopes to create an atmosphere where failing isn't frowned upon, but invited because the more you fail, the more you are learning to grow.
Their culture is about building relationships, which they show by pouring into their players. Winning is a byproduct of building and maintaining a growing relationships between the coaches and players.
Mackey and Coach Shallenberger distinguish the difference between setting standards and having rules, and what that looks like in life and in the locker room.
Our latest episode is a little different than the others. Mackey is coming to us live from Mountain Valley answering any and all questions. From the inception of his calling as a speaker and motivator to learning more about how he creates each speech for each school, Mountain Valley Middle leaves no questions out!
Mackey peels back the curtain in his own life and what his sports career looked like, the difficulties he faced, and what it looked like coming back to the game after quitting the first time.
In our latest episode, Colton shares some struggles he's been dealing with this week as him and his family prepare moving houses. Colton explains how easy it can be to get wrapped up in our struggles and lose sight of the opportunities and blessings we've been given to even be in that struggle.
Mackey discusses some strategies he learned from a coach up in Garland, Tx about how coach would make his players show his current events happening in the world, so they knew their struggle wasn't insurmountable, that they could overcome whatever they were dealing with because day after day and week after week, other people go through similar struggles, or even tougher situations and reach their goals and dreams.
It is a privilege to go through your struggle. This struggle will help you grow to be where you want to be. A relatable quote is, "the world changes when we change our perspective." When we change how we see things, it changes the things that we see.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our latest episode, Colton's joined by Coach Sam Harrell from Southwestern Assemblies of God University who shares his journey of having to step back from coaching for a while after being diagnosed with MS to fighting back and being able to pursue his passion of being a coach once again.
On his way to a wheelchair, Coach Harrell never thought he'd have the opportunity to coach again until after a successful stem cell treatment (3rd round) turned his world upside down. Slowly gaining feeling back in his leg and starting to be mobile, he began coaching.
Coach Harrell talks about appreciating the small details in life like getting up and being able to put on Nike shoes and outfits in the morning.
He takes us through his own experience and the mindset he had while dealing with his illness, his motivation to continue to fight, and his determination to pursue excellence in his life.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live with the Georgetown High School Women's Basketball team talking fear. Whatever your fear is, it begins to shape how you feel, what you think, and ultimately who you become.
If there is fear inside you, on the court or off, lean into that fear because where you are going, the path you are on is greater than where fear will take you.
Don't let that fear keep you from being vulnerable, from giving everything you have for the people on your left and on your right. If you are all willing to go all in, you will be taken to a level you haven't reached before.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live with the Clemens High School Women's Soccer team.
Mackey goes on to talk about the very small success rate for New Years Resolutions and expresses the reason for it being largely unsuccessful because it is easy to transform your desires, but it is hard to transform your actions. It doesn't cost you anything to change your "want-to".
Mackey applies this to the idea that we should always strive to live above the line in all aspects. There are going to be days where living above the line is hard and you will have to say yes instead of no, but if you will do that and commit to it, it will not only change what you do, but what you think.
Mackey also talks about the idea that we are not disqualified, no matter our struggle, no matter what we've been through, we are never disqualified.
Colton is joined by Coach Jeff Rayburn of Lone Star High School. Coach Rayburn talks about his past and how he got into coaching, and the continuous support he had from his coaches to become better. He goes on to talk about how he runs his program and his program's mentality of:
5 Life Skills
-Discipline
-Physical Conditioning
-Love and Respect Eachother
-Love your coaches (let your coaches coach you hard)
-Reacting to and handling emotion in a positive way
Coach Rayburn goes on to talk about the importance of relationships and a relationship culture in your program. Each and every day you are either building and growing a relationship between coaches/athletes and athlete/athlete or you're breaking it down. Believing in each other and making sure your athletes fall in love with the process is what has dramatically changed their program.
Email Address: RayburnJ@friscoisd.org
In our latest episode, Mackey is back in the locker room at Prosper High School. Mackey shares the importance of honoring one another and ways in which we can do that in life and in the game.
Mackey goes on to talk about the common habit we all have in compartmentalizing the different aspects of our life, choosing which one to truly focus on, when in reality, we should strive for greatness across the board. We must focus on the good things, not the bad.
When you pursue excellence across the board, in the relationships on your team, in your academics, in your sport, you begin to only notice that excellence, and that will propel you forward!
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@FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks
In our latest episode, Colton and Mackey pair up and talk about finish strong. Mackey shares a little bit about his New Years Resolution and the importance he gives to continually pushing and working towards it.
Mackey also encourages coaches to be aware and diligent to not push "cruise control" in their life as seasons end. February and March can be tough months as seasons are ending, but as a coach, you have to set the standard to keep pushing and continually being a representation of the men and women you want your athletes to be. There is no "break", there is no "timeout". You've got to continually put in the work!
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our latest episode, Colton is joined by Coach Phil Danaher, who is the most winningest coach according to Max Preps.
Coach Danaher shares his mindset on family, and creating an environment with his team and his coaches where family comes first and football comes second. He expresses the importance of handling your business in practice and games, but continually making an effort to carve out time for you family.
In the latest Coach 360 episode, Mackey is live at Clark High School talking about discipline and the continuous effort it takes to grow as an athlete and person.
The future you is depending on the present you doing the right thing, right now. Your future you needs the present you to have discipline to do what you don't want to do today.
Are you willing to take the right action today for your future tomorrow? If you aren't then it's no one else's fault if you aren't willing to take the action because you are responsible for you .
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@FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks
In our latest episode, Colton catches Mackey right before he hops a plane to speak with some teams in Chicago.
They discuss the servant leader mentality and methodology and how that effects both your success and your team's success. It's important to help others up, and the idea of "it's lonely at the top" doesn't have to be lonely at the top as long as you're not stepping over other people to get there but rather get there through the helping others up first and in turn, letting them help you when you most need it.
Serving others is not due from a lack of ambition, it's having a greater alignment of what matters most.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our latest episode, Colton pairs up with our first wrestling coach, Coach Mark Balser.
Coach Balser talks about how he has changed as a coach over the years, focusing more on the relationships he has with his players, rather than winning alone. He also talks about his approach to coaching, which centers on the idea of both discipline and fun, creating an atmosphere that encourages learning and becoming the best person you can be.
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@2wordstv @FullCurlColton
In our latest episode, Mackey is live with the LD Bell Football team talking preparation. Mackey asks the question, "are you prepared to be successful?"
Talk is cheap. It doesn't matter what you say, it matters what you do. Mackey highlights the importance of motivation and understanding where your motivation lies. Success doesn't merely built on motivation, but it is using that motivation to create discipline in yourself, which will lead to fruitful actions.
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@FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks
Colton and Mackey catch us up on what's happening in the 2W world as they're traveling to 12 different schools in the San Antonio area.
Mackey digs a little deeper this week as he talks about creating a legacy and the way he was able to change the course of his family name through hard work and sacrifice. Most students and athletes don't think about the fact that they have been given their family name to invest in and improve.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
Colton is joined by Coach Larry Hill from Smithson Valley High School. Coach Hill shares a little bit about how they view rivals, or lack thereof.
He also peels back the curtain on the service him and his team does for the community and the reason behind it. Service is crucial in developing players, but as a coach, you have to instill the reason behind doing it and do it without personal recognition.
In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Mountain Valley Middle School putting a little spin on the Focus Forward talk. Mackey stresses that tomorrow’s outcomes are determined today and how the things you pay greatest attention to now, are the things that will shape you in the future.
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@FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks
In our latest episode, Mackey and Colton meet up to talk about what's going in the 2W world next week as well as some of their important virtual mentors.
They highlight the work Tim Ferriss is with some of the most influential people in our day. They also discuss his newest book, Tribe of Mentors, and how he asks a list of 11 questions to some of his mentors from every industry. They also discuss the idea that great questions beg you to answer them for yourself and create a constant inward reflection. Mackey and Colton gear up and answer some of Tim's questions.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our newest Coach360 episode, Colton is joined by Coach Joe Lombard from Canyon High School.
Coach takes us through the way in which they approach goal setting and shares with us some of their Gold Standards. He also highlights some of the gold standards themes that have been consistent across his most successful teams.
Coach also takes us through his definition of success and how he uses that definition to lay the foundation for the way his team works together finds success in the game of basketball.
In this episode, Mackey is hanging out in the bleachers of the Georgetown High School baseball team. Mackey talks to those 5-star athletes about leadership and service.
Coach Mackey emphasizes that if you want to be a leader, you have to serve the people on your right and your left because the "we" is always greater than the "me". If you serve others, you will notice that those people will run through a brick wall for you, they will take ownership of their job and together, you will bring the team success.
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@FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks
In our latest Coach360 episode Mackey and Colton pair up to talk about attention to detail and the highlight of that idea at Mackey's latest stop: LD Bell HS.
Mackey talks a little bit about paying attention to the details in life, working along side a bigger picture, but focusing on the small details within it.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In this episode, Coach Clint Harper joins Colton to speak more on his heart behind coaching and the ultimate goal he intends to reach, getting players' school paid for.
He also discusses the importance of being high character athletes. Character is what you do when nobody is watching and discipline is what you do when everyone's watching.
In this episode Mackey is live in Goonville, TX with the North Forney Falcons. He shares a little bit about what's guaranteed in life: struggle.
You will experience struggle in your life, whether it be in the weight room, the classroom, or internally. Struggle will come, and we need to learn how to EMBRACE that struggle. So many people treat success as if it's guaranteed and struggle as if it's optional when in reality it's the opposite. Mackey shares a little insight on how to welcome struggle and use that struggle to get you to reach your goals and dream.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our lates episode of Coach360 Colton catches up with Coach Adam Foster, head baseball coach at Georgetown High School. Coach Foster talks about the three pillars that are the foundation his program relies on.
- G.R.I.N.D. (Greatness Requires Intense, Non-Stop Determination)
- P.R.I.D.E. (Personal Responsibility In Daily Excellence
- W.I.N. (What's Important Now)
Coach Foster also encourages coaches and parents to have higher expectations of their players and children.
Our newest episode hits home for the 2Words fam. In this episode, Mackey visits Central JH to talk about making your next mistake, your best mistake.
Mistakes are going to happen, in the game of life and in sports, and you have two options after making a mistake, you can either learn from it or be crushed by it. So many people try to live in such a way that they never make a mistake, but that's just not realistic.
How can you use that mistake to your advantage and not your advantage? Make it 1,000 mph. When you go into that mistake, you cannot let that mistake be an effort mistake. It's time to fail fast and realize what you DON'T need quicker so you can get what you DO need sooner!
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our latest episode of Coach 360, Mackey and Colton are coming to us live from the Indianapolis, Indiana at ABCA's Convention.
Mackey and Colton talk generosity and how generous coaches have been with their time and resources. Mackey also tells listeners a little bit about his time on stage and the privilege it was to speak with coaches about their lives and where they're at now.
In this episode, from our archives, Coach Sheets joins Coach Mackey to discuss changes in the game of baseball, how the ABCA is working to promote baseball as America's pastime, and transactional vs transformational coaching.
Jeremy Sheetinger joined the ABCA as College Division Liaison in September 2015. In his role with the ABCA, Sheetinger is responsible for helping service the membership at the NCAA Div. II, Div. III, NAIA, Junior College and Pacific Association Division levels as well as increasing the awareness and services of the ABCA to all potential members. Sheetinger also hosts the ABCA's "Calls from the Clubhouse" podcast.
Connect with Coach Sheets:
jsheetinger@abca.org
@coachsheets3
Mackey is back at home with the Kaufman Lions in our latest Coach 360 episode. Mackey gives us his personal cheat code to success: consistency.
In our microwave society, everyone wants to have everything right here right now: what's the next hack, the best short cut. But it turns out, there is no short cut to success, and the only cheat code is consistency!
Wake up day after day and work harder today, than you did the day before, (rinse and repeat)...then you will find success. Stay hungry for more; stay consistent with your positive actions; and stay focused on your goal ahead.
Social Media Handles:
@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In our latest episode Mackey and Colton catch up after a long (2 days) time apart! They talk positive pressure and the fact that pressure in itself is neither inherently bad or good, but it is your response, your outlook that creates it into a bad or good situation.
Believe it or not, stress is actually a good thing. Stress can keep you moving forward on the right path. It takes time to reach your goal, to win a state championship, to build a business, and so in order to stop you from being burnt out, pace yourself. Slow and steady wins the race!
Social Media Handles:
@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In this episode, Coach Rebe joins Colton to discuss the importance of instilling an accountability mindset in her players and how that in turn effects their actions on the field. Coach Rebe reiterates the idea that when players realize they are playing for something greater than their stats, their time, or their scouts, the team gets better in the long term, which makes each player more successful.
Coach Rennie Rebe is coming off of a state title in 2017 and her expectations are high for each player, but she emphasizes the importance of creating relationships and understanding how each girl specifically fits the team to create not only a cohesive team, but a family as well.
Contact information provided in Podcast:
rrebe@comcast.net
512-736-6503
In our latest episode of Coach360, Mackey is live with the Vandergrift high school football team. Mackey touches on several big ideas on success:
-Success is found internally before it is found externally
-Success is not simply defined by a scoreboard
-Success is built on a foundation of character
-Success is defined by your character.
-Success is defined by doing what is right in the right way because it's the right thing to do.
He also goes on the emphasize the importance of treating others as they are the most valuable person you've ever met: Treat others with respect, shake their hand, and look them in the eye. When you treat others will respect, they WILL notice, and when the most need it, they will lift you up.
Social Media Handles:
@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
Colton and Mackey share a little about what's going on in the 2W world and how the creation of 2W, the idea to leave what they had and pursue something they believed in, took a leap of faith. They encourage others to take action in their lives. Take action on the field, in the classroom, at home. You are the driver in your own life, and it's time to take hold of what you have and work towards what you want.
They go into the idea that we cannot compartmentalize our lives. We cannot put different events, different attitudes, different responsibilities in their own compartment. We have to realize that everything is connect, every moment, every interaction is connected, and the only way we can "win" at life is to win every single day in the small moments, small actions.
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In this week's episode, Coach Russell Lucas shares how the 2W Curriculum is being used in his locker room weekly and the affect it has had on his students. Coach Lucas goes on to describe his focus on building character in his players by teaching them respect, family, and hard work.
Coach Lucas' dedication to establishing a foundation of character goes beyond the locker room with his active involvement in The Playmaker, an event that brings in speakers to share the importance of having integrity, of having a purpose and how that translates to everyday life. He reiterates the importance of asking yourself, "Why do I get up everyday? Why do I do what I do?" If you don't know the answer to your "why" how are you going to be able to get up and do it everyday?
Contact information provided in Podcast:
Cell: 325-668-3975
rlucas@hamlin.esc14.net
In this week’s episode, Mackey is live with Oak Ridge High School's football team. Mackey highlights the importance of starting each season with a growth mindset; the perspective that in order to play in the championship next December, the work, begins this December; responsibility; owning our mistakes, and more.
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@mackeyspeaks @riseoftheridge @2wordstv
In this week’s episode, Mackey and Colton recap what could have been a major setback and how they processed through the mistake. Mackey shares the two options we have when we are faced with when someone on our team makes a mistake: Allow our emotions to take control, or we can take control of our response and focus on the positive
As ADs, teachers, coaches, administratiors, and parents, we all face frustrating circumstances; we all deal with hard situations. Today, we learn the value of taking responsibility for our mistakes, using those mistakes to propel us forward into success, and not allowing our mistake to hold us back.
When we own our mistakes, our mistakes don't own us!
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@mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv
In this week's conversation, Dr. Langston takes us through her amazing career and we dive into the details of personal and professional growth as a coach or AD. Dr. Langston gives us several suggestions and thoughts on always pursuing growth and establishing that mindset.
Dr. Lisa Langston was a two-sport standout, a four-year (1983-86) letter winner in women's basketball, and earned two letters in track and field at Texas A&M. She earned first-team All-SWC honors in 1985 and was the first Texas A&M selection as the SWC Player of the Week during the 1984 season.
Off the hardwood and the track, she was an All-Academic team member, earning her bachelors of science degree. She received her master's from Tarleton State in 1998 and her doctorate in 2010 from Texas Women's University.
Contact information provided in Podcast:
lisa.langston@fwisd.org
Social Media Handles:
@AD_DrLisa @FWISDAthletics
Mackey visits the Canyon Lake football team on our latest episode of Coach 360. The Canyon Lake Eagles Football were the 2017 district champs and regional semi-finalist. Mackey helped get the guys' mindsets in hyper-gear by highlighting the importance of finishing strong.
When you focus forward; when you don't let your past mistakes affect your future performance; you finish strong, and when you finish strong, you reach your goals.
Mackey is live with Chip Baker of the Success Chronicles. Mackey and Coach Baker discuss what led to the creation of 2Words, Mackey's proudest accomplishments, and the legacy he hopes to leave.
They also discuss the importance of sacrifice to achieve success and the many ways sacrifice changes based on who you are, where you are in life, and what you value. Success can be achieved, and Mackey shares a little insight as to how each of us can do that.
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Chipbakertsc@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbFQhsdMnvic9XN-iY5bsag
Tony Johnson played high school football for 7 time State 6 A Champion Olathe North High School in Kansas City. Upon graduation, he attended Mid America Nazarene University on a football scholarship. Johnson has coached at numerous high schools in Texas and Kansas and has college coaching experience at TCU, Texas A&M University of Kingsville, and Bethany University to name a few. He has a bachelors in History and two Masters degrees. One in Administration and one in Liberal Arts. This is Coach Johnson 25 season in education.
Johnson shares his coaching philosophy that has been crafted by years of coaching. He and Colton discuss the impact a coach has on young minds and the culture he has sought to build in his program. Coach Johnson also shares what it is like to jump into a program in the rebuilding years. He shares four critical areas that he focused on when he took over as Bonham head coach. He suggests: getting to know the program, to build strong relationships, clarify vision and shared purpose, and finally maintain a positive mindset.
We don’t always say what we mean or mean what we say. We can say every day that we're fired up, that we're ready, that we're prepared, but just because we say it, doesn't mean we mean it. It could be empty talk.
When it comes to reaching our goals, our goals only hear the action, not empty talk.
If we want to reach our goals, we've got to have pregnant talk—talk that is full of something that has to get out, and that something has to be action!
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Mackey and Colton sync up for their weekly rundown. In this episode, Macky and Colton discuss some of the 2W schools that are in playoffs, the winning vs success mindset, and the idea that every no is a yes, and every yes is a no.
They also introduce the Letterman 2 Leadership Scholarship powered by 2Words. Nominations will open up the first week in December. For more information visit: www.2words.tv
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Coach360 now has a new format! Mondays will feature full audio from a 2Words live event. Wednesdays will showcase interviews and discussions from coaches across the nation that are using their influence to make an impact. On Friday, Mackey and Colton will deliver their weekly rundown consisting of various leadership ideas and the latest updates from 2Words Character Development.
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Stanley Laing, a 25-year educator, has served as a teacher, coach and high school administrator. He was the principal at Clark High School from 2006-2010. In 2010 he was named Executive Athletic Director of Northside ISD. He is a graduate of McMurray University in Abilene, TX where he earned his bachelor's degree. He also earned his master's degree from Texas A&M University at Kingsville.
In this Episode, Coach Laing pulls back the curtain on Northside ISD, shares his story, and the importance of building hope in the lives of our athletes.
Who is the most valuable person in your life? You might say your mom, your grandfather, or maybe even your girlfriend or boyfriend. Sure, there’s always an easy answer to that question, but the easy answer may not always be the most accurate. If we zoomed out of your life and looked at the person you value the most, do the most for, and focus on the most, you’d most likely be looking in the mirror.
If you want to find success in the game of life, then you must learn to treat every person you meet, from the custodian to the coach that’s recruiting you, the same. Treat every person you meet like they are the most valuable person you’ve ever met.
In this episode, Mackey dives in deep and explains what it means to focus forward. He takes a quick dive into sharing the inevitable stumbling blocks we may face in life, and shares how to move past those and continue focusing on our goal forever faithfully.
Coach Keeney started the Hebron High School volleyball program in 1999 in the school's first year. A graduate of Northeast Missouri State University (B.S.E.); she played four years of volleyball and one year of softball as a student-athlete. Karin has dedicated her career to coaching for 30 years with the last 23 years as a Head Coach. She has earned four state championships at Hebron High School (2004, 2010, 2015, 2016) as well as numerous district titles, bi-district titles and state tournament appearances.
Coach Keeney dives into some of the key aspects that have allowed the Volleyball program at Hebron to win four state championships and how to leverage parents involvement in the program.
In this special Thanksgiving week episode, Mackey and Colton talk about the 2Words journey and share their gratitude for the impact of coaches in their lives. They take a quick dive into what it means to make gratitude a discipline, not just something we do when we are reminded to be thankful.
Debbie was named the Executive Director of Athletics for Katy ISD in 2012 after serving as an assistant athletic director in the district since 2005. Prior to entering into athletic administration, Debbie had been teaching/coaching since 1991 holding a Bachelor of Science degree from East Texas State University and a Masters of Education from Tarleton State University. Coach Decker earned her Principal Certification while at Tarleton State and is a Certified Athletic Administrator as recognized by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.
In this episode, Coach Decker peals back the curtain on Katy ISD and shares more insight in the new THADA certification initiative.
Coach Brandon Houston is the Offensive Coordinator at Rockdale High School in Rockdale, Texas. He founded CoachHuey.com in 2005 as a way to grow as a football coach. Coach Houston started his coaching career in Odessa, Texas in the mid-90s and has since coached in many areas around Texas.
In this episode, Coach Houston gives us a look at the four golden rules the Rockdale Tigers live by.
- Be a Great Teammate
- Play with Relentless Effort
- Trust Your Coaching and the Process
- Details Matter
Coach Philip Young was the Yellow Jackets offensive coordinator before becoming Head Coach at Arlington Heights. Prior to that, he was the head coach at 4A Cleburne for 6 years. He was an offensive coordinator at Gainesville where they played in 2 state championship games. He has worked as an assistant at Rice University, University of North Texas and Denton Liberty Christian High School.
In this episode, Coach Young gives us some insight into how his mindset and attitude has evolved over his coaching years and shares a little bit about the legacy he hopes to leave.
Coach Don DeLozier is the head football coach and boys' athletic director at Hereford High School. He played collegiate football at The University of Texas at Arlington. In his career, Coach DeLozier has served as Defensive Coordinator, Offensive Coordinator, Assistant Head Coach, Head Basketball Coach, and Head Football Coach. Coach DeLozier is passionate about developing young athletes into successful men.
In this episode, Coach DeLozier tells us a little bit about what it's like coming home to coach at the high school you played for. He also presents the idea that everyone is a leader. Throughout his athlete's careers, he gives them all the opportunity to step into and embrace leadership.
After 22 years of coaching, Karen Funk moved to the NEISD athletic office in 2000 as an Assistant Athletic Director and in 2011 became the Director of Girl’s Sports. In 2014 Karen Became the first female Athletic Director in San Antonio's history. Karen has been a member of the hosting state conference committee twice and worked for THSADA as the secretary from Spring of 2006-2010. She then served as the Region 8 Director and vice-president. In 2013, Karen was named THSADA's Athletic Director of the year.
In this Interview, Karen tells us more about the ways North East ISD has been giving back to their community and how that has impacted their students, coaches, and schools.
Thompson graduated from Rice in 1992 with a degree in political science/pre-law. After spending 11 seasons on the Cypress Falls staff, the last six as offensive coordinator for a program that played in two regional finals and a state championship game between 2004 and 2006, Thompson Made the jump to Head football coach at Langham Creek.
In this interview, Thompson shares his background and the importance of setting the standard for his players from day one.
Coach Derick Roberson is the Head Football Coach at Skyline High School in Dallas, TX. Coach Roberson started at Skyline as an assistant coach, he went on to be the Head Coach at Bryan Adams High School. Then, before returning to Skyline, he became Assistant Athletic Director at Dallas ISD for 2 years.
Pratt served for seven years (1993-2000) at Slaughter Middle School and McKinney High School as a history teacher, football coach, basketball coach, and track coach before opening McKinney North High School as the head football coach and athletic coordinator. He remained at North until 2008, when he took on his new role as MISD Director of Athletics.
Pratt received his Bachelor of Science in History at Texas A&M University-Commerce in 1993 and his Masters of Education in Educational Administration from Texas A&M-Commerce in 2003. Pratt is a member of the Texas High School Coaches Association, Texas High School Athletic Director’s Association, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Coaches Outreach, and the McKinney Education Foundation.
Matt Stepp is known for being one of the best news breakers in Texas' high school football. As an insider for Texas Football, Mr. Stepp does year-round coverage for all high school football related topics. Prior to Texas Football, Mr. Stepp worked for TheOldCoach.com.
Because of his extensive experience in the field, in this episode, Mr. Stepp was able to give us great advice on how to crush your next media interview!
Coach Servance joins Coach 360 to dive into how his team overcame a challenging 2016 season and his advice for coaches who are facing a hard season.
Former Lubbock Estacado head football coach, Danny Servance became Head Football Coach at Odessa High School in 2016. Servance, a 1986 graduate of Permian High where he was a member of the 1984 state championship team, was 53-50 during his nine years at the helm of the Matadors’ program, qualifying for the playoffs each season.
Hal Wasson is the Head Football Coach of Southlake Carroll High School. Southlake Carroll High School has won 8 State Championships in the state of Texas. Before moving over to Southlake Carroll, Wasson coached at Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Worth, TX.
Coach Wasson talks to us about the fundamentals that have been passed down over the years at Southlake Carroll High School. He also explains the value of consistency and what he chooses to preach to his athletes daily. Coach Wasson also tells us about the one piece of advise that he would give himself at the start of his career.
Contact:
hal.wasson@southlakecarroll.edu
Coach Zeller reflects on how his time in the US Airforce has impacted his coaching and leadership.
Jay Zeller is the Assistant Athletic Director for Grapevine Colleyville ISD. Author of "Coach 'Em Up" and "Becoming a Soldier", Coach Zeller, explains his purpose and influence to write these inspiring books. He also goes into detail about different experiences that have guided him and shaped his leadership.
Contact:
@JayDZeller
Coach Terry Gambill joins Coach360 fresh off a big when over Cedar Hill. In this Podcast, Coach Gambill talks about his approach to off the field development of his players and the improtance of seeking knowledge.
Coach Gambill began his coaching career at Garland in 1985 and also coached at Duncanville, Southlake Carroll and Forney before arriving at Allen for the first time in 2001. Gambill left for Midway in 2010, and he had a 68-13 record in a six-season run that included advancing to the 4A Division I state final in 2011. He was named district Coach of the Year in each of his seasons at Midway. Coach Gambill returned to Allen as the Head Football Coach and Assistant Athletic director in 2016.
Contact:
@Coachgambill
Terry.gambill@Allenisd.org
Greg Tepper joins Coach 360 to pull back the curtains on all thing Dave Campbell's Texas Football!
Greg is the managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football — the Southwest's leading football source since 1960. He also co-hosts "Fox Football Friday Powered by DCTF" on Fox Sports Southwest, and "The DCTF Radio Hour" on the Texas State Networks.
Contact:
@Tepper
texasfootball.com
Coach Brakel is going into his 20th season as the Head
Coach at North Crowley High School. During the last 19 seasons, Brakel’s Panther teams have compiled a 549-116 record, with 18 playoff appearances, 18 years with 20+ wins and 19 straight years of being state ranked. Brakel highlighted his coaching career with a magical 2007-2008 season that saw his Panthers accumulate a 38-1 overall record, win the Texas 5A State Championship and a Consensus Public School National Championship.
Coach Tommy Brakel tells us about his story, why he started coaching, and how his "why" has evolved throughout the years. Coach shares the importance of communication and the ability to step back and see the whole picture.
In this episode, Coach Glaze joins Colton Leonard to discuss his path to Head Coach at LD Bell High School. Coach reviews his time at Cedar Hill, character lessons learned over the years, the importance of communication, and taking notes for your future program before you ever become Head Coach.
Connect with Coach Glaze: mikeglaze@HebISD.edu Twitter: @mike_glaze
In this episode, Coach Sheets joins Coach Mackey to discuss changes in the game of baseball, how the ABCA is working to promote baseball as America's pastime, and transactional vs transformational coaching.
Jeremy Sheetinger joined the ABCA as College Division Liaison in September 2015. In his role with the ABCA, Sheetinger is responsible for helping service the membership at the NCAA Div. II, Div. III, NAIA, Junior College and Pacific Association Division levels as well as increasing the awareness and services of the ABCA to all potential members. Sheetinger also hosts the ABCA's "Calls from the Clubhouse" podcast.
Connect with Coach Sheets: jsheetinger@abca.org
Twitter: @coachsheets3
Coach Massey is a graduate of Aldine High School where he played Quarterback for the Mustangs. He attended Texas A&M while earning his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. He has coached at Cy-Fair High School, Texas A&M University, University of Florida, Conroe High School and Katy High School where he spent eight years as the offensive coordinator – before coming to Deer Park in 2003.
He works as a director for the Greater Houston Football Coaches Association, and is a past Board of Director for the Texas High School Coaches Association. He is the Executive Director for the Bayou Bowl, the Texas vs Louisiana High School All Star Game. Coach Massey was inducted into the GHFCA Hall of Honor in 2013. He and his father, Barton Massey, are the only Father/Son inductees.
Tyler Gillum enters his sixth year on the baseball staff at South Mountain Community College.
Gillum serves as the infield and 3rd base coach, as well as assisting with hitters, strength training, and recruiting.
Coach Gillum is also the Health & Wellness Faculty at SMCC. In his five seasons at SMCC, the Cougars compiled a team batting average of .306 while having 14 position players earn All-Conference honors, sent 33 players to Division 1 institutions, 5 players drafted and posted an overall record of 172-112.
@Gillum13
tyler.giillum@southmountaincc.edu
602-370-7649
Former pro baseball player, speaker, and twenty something that’s now in the entrepreneurship world while living in big city Arizona. In 2013 with confidence from Trevor, Kyle left his baseball life to start his first company, Athletes Brand. His first six months in business brought six figures in sales, a thirty under thirty nod, and since then he’s spoke at the nation's top universities on living a life of purpose. Kyle has found success in sports, and now has his sights aimed at business to find success at success.
In this episode we talk with Jon Eagle.
Coach Eagle is the Head Football Coach at Camas High School, ranked by MaxPreps as the 22nd best football program in the country.
In this episode we talk to Steve Specht, Head Football Coach at St. Xavier High School.
St. Xavier's football program is currently ranked 15th in the country, and Coach Specht shares the principles that led to the program's success.
In this episode we talk with Coach Tony Franks, Head Football Coach at St. Mary's High School.
Coach Franks has been coaching for 27 years, and he's currently leading the 25th best high school football program in the country.
If you're looking to take your relationships with both your staff and your athletes to the next level, this episode is for you.
You can connect with Coach Franks via email at tfranks@saintmaryshighschool.org.
In this episode we talk to Liam Flynn, a professional basketball coach and consultant.
You can connect with Liam on Twitter (@coachliamflynn), or you can visit his website at www.coachliamflynn.com.
In this episode talk to Brian Kight, CEO of Focus3.
You can connect with Brian on Twitter here: @TBrianKight. You can learn more about the work that Brian does at Focus3.com.
In this episode we talk to Billy Dawson, Head Football Coach at Fayetteville High School.
Coach Dawson has been coaching for more than 20 years, and he's won multiple state championships.
In this interview, we talk about what Coach Dawson wishes he would've known in year 1 of coaching, his best advice for hiring coaches, and why family groups are an important element of his success.
To stay connected with Coach Dawson, you can visit their website at PurpleDogFootball.com, or email him directly at billy.dawson@fayar.net.
In this episode, Mackey talks with Coach Chris Fisher.
Coach Fisher (@coachfisher_rp) is the OL coach and academic coordinator at Ridge Point HS in Missouri City, TX. He is also the creator and moderator of #txhsfbchat (@txhsfbchat) and serves as the weekly host.
The mission of #txhsfbchat is and always will be, to provide coaches a forum of communication to promote professional growth and education.
Join in each week at 8pm CST and take part in the best hour of your coaching education!
Chris Fore is a Special Education English teacher and Varsity Special Teams Coordinator in Southern California.
He also serves part time as an Adjunct Professor at Azusa Pacific University in their Masters of Physical Education program.
He has coached high school football for 16 years (8 as a Head Varsity Coach), and has been an Athletic Director for 6.
Fore has a Master’s Degree in Coaching and Athletic Administration, and has earned the Certified Athletic Administrator distinction from the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.
He has served on the California Interscholastic Federation – Southern Section Football Coach’s Advisory Committee, and currently serves as a Board Member for the California Coaches Association.
Fore also writes a weekly column called “Coaches Corner” for Max Preps, America’s #1 source for high school sports.
Contact Coach Fore by email at chris@eightlaces.org. Follow him on Twitter @coachfore.
In this episode we talk to Sean Sterkel, Head Men's Basketball Coach at Ainsworth High School.
In this episode Mackey talks with Coach Randy Jackson, Head Football Coach at N. Forney High School and Author of 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