Coach 360

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 at...

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...

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. Discip...

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 e...

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 cult...

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 befor...

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 an...

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 c...

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 t...

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....

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 lu...

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...

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 an...

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 o...

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 ya...

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 miscon...

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 gr...

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...

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 hi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 co...