Essential Coaching Conversations

So...this episode wasn't at all part of the plan. It just kind of happened. We had a topic we wanted to talk about, but instead you get the unfiltered, raw conversation that followed a series of questions and thoughts posed by both of us. This is what we do on ECC. Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coachk424 | @rastogi_aseem Check us out on YouTube: youtube.com/@essentialcoaching As alw...

This may be the most asked yet least important question in the history of recruiting. Yet...we continue to hear it, almost as if it's been doubled down upon as a necessity to make decisions. Let's talk about it. Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coachk424 | @rastogi_aseem Check us out on YouTube: youtube.com/@essentialcoaching As always, visit our website at www.essential-coaching.n...

Why does it seem like we're at an 11 all the time? We live in a society! We all just need to take a deep breath. Let's talk about it. Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coachk424 | @rastogi_aseem Check us out on YouTube: youtube.com/@essentialcoaching As always, visit our website at www.essential-coaching.net Shoot us an email at admin@essential-coaching.net DM's are always open...

It's not just about learning new things, it's about unlearning the things we've held on to as truths. You need this. We needed this. Let's all unlearn together. Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coachk424 | @rastogi_aseem Check us out on YouTube: youtube.com/@essentialcoaching As always, visit our website at www.essential-coaching.net Shoot us an email at admin@essential-coa...

Yeah. We said it. Just because you played doesn't mean squat when it comes to coaching. Let's talk about it. Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coachk424 | @rastogi_aseem Check us out on YouTube: youtube.com/@essentialcoaching As always, visit our website at www.essential-coaching.net Shoot us an email at admin@essential-coaching.net DM's are always open for your feedback!

In this very special episode, we deep dive the phenomena known as The Vibe Architect, inspired by Austin Hedges of the Texas Rangers. Who is the vibe architect on your team? How do we build that skill? Further, how do we encourage that skill in all our players, not just the ones that don't play a whole lot? All that and more on this episode of ECC! Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coac...

There's a difference between sharing the game and stealing the game. There's a difference between sharing COACHING and sharing something you can DO as a coach. We differentiate, discuss, and dive deep into the era of content creators masquerading as coaches and what that means for exponential generational change. All that and more on this episode of ECC! Follow us on Twitter: @coachessenti...

In this episode, the guys tackle the idea of ignoring the noise and how damaging that can actually be. How do we decipher through the noise? Do we RACA appropriately in the moment? How do we take care of our insecurities and mental health while dealing with everyone having an opinion that is usually unfounded in reality? All that and more on this episode of ECC! Follow us on Twitter: @coachessenti...

Follow Kip on Twitter: @teams_men. In this episode, the guys welcome Kip Ioane, founder of Teams of Men and 25 year veteran of coaching D3 College Men's Basketball. We dive into behavior-based coaching, unbridled anger, and how toxic masculinity has taken over coaching and what we can do about it. You do not want to miss this! All that and more on this episode of ECC! Follow us on Twitter: @co...

Take a deep breath. Woosah. This is a heavy episode that needed to be made. Hazing affects all teams, all organizations, and can be innocuous in nature or super damaging. Either way, it's a challenge to navigate. We do our best in this episode to bring light to questions we need to be asking as educators, how to talk to teams about it, and really just unpacking the latest news in athletics haz...

Join us for this episode where we talk all things impacting winning but this time, we are talking all about administrators. Yeah - we went there. Admins need to listen to this and we want you to send it to your admins as soon as you can. Let them listen to it and use this as a substantive conversation starter with them. We said what you wish you could - use it and run with it! Please share this ep...

Kyle & Aseem are on a brief hiatus this week and will be back with new content next week! We invite you to catch up on Season 1 and Season 2 and go back to some of our favorite episodes to keep learning, growing, and reflecting. See you next week!

You've heard the phrase - it's on shirts, it's on our website, it's everywhere. Recruit Everyone Every Day. We've never done a podcast episode on it, and we had nothing else to talk about but somehow had an hour long conversation about THIS. Which, in all honesty, is probably the most important conversation we've ever had. Please share this episode with your teams and colle...

Our FIRST EC OG's episode is with the esteemed Head Girls Basketball Coach and English teacher at Western High School in Davie, FL, Brandie Taylor. If you're looking for relatable - listen to Brandie on this episode! Brandie is a WEALTH of knowledge and drops bomb after bomb on this episode reflecting on her journey with EC, how it all started to where she is now. You do not want to miss t...

Join us for this episode where we talk all things impacting winning but this time, we are talking all about parents. Yeah - we went there. Parents need to listen to this and we want you to send it to your parents as soon as you can. Let them listen to it and use this as a substantive conversation starter with them. We said what you wish you could - use it and run with it! Please share this episode...

Join us for this episode where we talk all things impacting winning but this time, from a coaches standpoint. What do coaches do or not do to impact winning positively? How can we reframe how we choose to impact winning? Please share this episode with your teams and colleagues as it relates to ALL sports and ALL levels! We'd love to hear your feedback and your team's feedback about what we...

Welcome to Season 2! We start off this season with a bang where we spend time talking about how PLAYERS can impact winning. Please share this episode with your teams as it relates to ALL sports and ALL levels! We'd love to hear your feedback and your team's feedback about what we get into on this episode. All that and more on this episode of ECC! Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @co...

What? We're already on SEASON 2 of Essential Coaching Conversations?! Let's take a moment to reflect on Season 1, and also to announce some of the exciting things we have in store for the next year of the pod. Get ready because we're coming in hot! All that and more on this episode of ECC! Follow us on Twitter: @coachessential | @coachk424 | @rastogi_aseem Check us out on YouTube: yout...

We wrap up our Decluttering Szn series of episodes with the top of the pyramid - X's and O's/tech tac/content. This is the least important part of the pyramid, and we offer some thoughts as to how to reframe even how you might think of X's and O's. This really does turn into a human component conversation, but there is something for everyone in this - we even talk about, GASP, Zoom...

We're in Part III of our Decluttering Szn episodes and this time, we moved up a tier on the pyramid to Practice and Environmental Design - this is the continuation of the previous episode. You are the Chief Environmental Operator - the CEO - of the program. How you clear the clutter in this section is vital to the healthy operation of the program. We deep dive on strategies to do it, success s...

We're in Part III of our Decluttering Szn episodes and this time, we moved up a tier on the pyramid to Practice and Environmental Design. You are the Chief Environmental Operator - the CEO - of the program. How you clear the clutter in this section is vital to the healthy operation of the program. We deep dive on strategies to do it, success stories from EC Fam, and give a special shoutout to...

Intro credit: Jordan Sperber aka @hoopvision68 on Twitter & on YouTube. We're in Part II of our Decluttering Szn episodes and this time, we moved up a tier on the pyramid to Person and Program Development. Most people know this by the buzzwords of culture and leadership, etc - we prefer to use climate and character. Either way, we discuss this in detail and give our take on the failings we...

We're starting at the base of the pyramid - the foundation - as we look to declutter the Human Component. We discuss what we can do to automate some decision making, create more opportunities for the next connection to take place, and how we can declutter some other things to make room for more of the human component in coaching, teaching, learning, and life. We may make this a two-parter sinc...

It's that time of year! Time to declutter and get rid of the fluff. We're going on a deep dive into the chats we did a few years ago and taking a look at how that's gone for us and for our EC Fam. This intro gives insight into why the #DeclutteringSzn is so important and what we can learn from just simply letting go of STUFF that is holding us back from being our best selves as coaches...

It's almost July - you know what that means. "Exposure events," for athletes across the country in almost every sport. Why do we do this? What's the point? Is every kid in need of EXPOSURE? The easy answer is no - in fact, most of them will likely be exposed as not very good and it's not their fault. Why is the 98% doing the same thing as the 2%? All that and more on this epi...