No Stress Midwest Podcast

Season5 Episode 2 of the No Stress Midwest Podcast brings Lisa Lubke as our guest. Lisa and I met in our USSF B License course last year in 2021 and although most of it was virtual, when we had our in-person meeting we instantly clicked! At the time Lisa was the assistant coach/GK coach at University of Illinois but has since transitioned into a Video Analyst for the US Women's Youth National...

WE ARE BACK!!! Season 5 is here and I am really excited for this season! If you have followed along to past seasons you will know that each season has a theme to it. Season 5 will focus on Coaches and do we have an awesome line-up ahead for the next coming weeks with coaches representing almost every level of the game in the U.S. We kick-off episode 1 with Jordan Ferrell who is the Technical Direc...

The season finale of our Soccer-Preneur's is here and we have a special host to close us out! Tom Cristino is one of my closest friends and actually one of the first people I talked to when I was thinking about starting this podcast. When you listen/watch the episode you will see why I chose him as the host to interview me talking about No Stress Midwest. I talk about my day to day tasks runn...

Lets start off by wishing everyone happy holidays! We are winding down this season of soccer-preneurs and are joined by Jason Belz of A Greater You (AGY). AGY is a sports performance business in the KC Metro that now primarily focuses on training soccer players at all ages and levels. Jason and I met back in 2019 at a HS soccer coaches symposium and he has worked with my teams and some individual...

If you played youth soccer in the 90's and went to any "British" soccer camp, good chance Peter was your coach or the one running the camp. Peter Arch currently is a VP at GymShark but before that was a founder of Challenger Sports. Peter is in GymSharks new North America HQ in Denver which looks like the type of office I would love to work in! We do a lot of talking on the landscap...

We are half-way through season 4 of this season and are lucky enough to be joined by Owner & Director of AFC Corktown Eddie Hudson. Maybe a not well known fact about the podcast, I am probably 50/50 on guests that I know and have met in person vs. ones that I have not met and dont know prior to the podcast. Eddie falls in his own category of people I have not met but know. I was excited to fin...

This weeks episode of our soccer-preneurs features Nick Manzoni of SportsLab 360.  Nick and I met way back during my club days in maybe 2014-15 where he was reaching out to KC clubs and coaches trying to test out his new program called SportsLab360 an almost tactical decision making program that helps players read/understand/execute various in game scenarios. Nick and I spoke while he  was off in...

It feels good to be back with this weeks episode of the podcast and we are lucky enough to be joined by Ryan Van Goethen from States Soccer. States Soccer is an American Soccer brand founded here in KC and if you dont recognize Ryans name, maybe you've heard of some of the other founders Matt Besler or Seth Sinovic. Either way Ryan has turned into a close friend of mine over the past few year...

WE ARE BACK! Season 4 of the No Stress Midwest Podcast is live and we did not disappoint with this season! Out theme is more on the entrepreneurs/business side of the game. Dont worry we still talk about the game but not from a sideline view, this is more the front office. To get us kicked off this season we are joined by Tom Shields (Director of Coaching Ed.-Beyond Pulse, Technical Director- S.T....

The season finale is here and I promise it won’t be a disappointment! Not only one of the purest goal scorers in the NWSL, but a member of the 2019 US Women’s National World Cup winning team! Jessica McDonald talks about her time growing up in Arizona and her path to becoming a Tar Heel. Jessica shares some first time stories with us on why she wanted to become a Tar Heel and what gave her the mot...

Episode 3 of our Black Excellence Season brings us Armante Marshall, assistant coach and head of recruitment at Temple University. Armante and I were connected through season 1 guest, Joe Amico, who was coached by Armante while at Jacksonville University. Armante has been with them as well as USF during his coaching career, all NCAA D1 universities. Armante speaks about his time as a player at USF...

Episode 2 brings us Ms. Ellie Jean all the way from the Netherlands where she plays for PSV Eindhoven. Ellie was a teammate of season 2 guest Maddie Nolf at Penn State where they won a national championship! I am really happy I was able to get Ellie on because her story was AMAZING! Hearing about her early days in Connecticut, to her time at Penn State where she was ready to get more involved arou...

Welcome back to a new season of the No Stress Midwest Podcast! The theme for season 3 is “Black Excellence” and to get us kicked off, our first guest is Mabricio Wilson, the owner and founder of Futbolr Clothing (https://www.futbolr.com) a lifestyle clothing brand focused on bringing the Futbolr lifestyle, off the pitch. We dive into Mabricio’s Jamaican roots and how it shaped him into the player...

Season 2 Finale! Crazy how fast we got here but what a great season It has been. We have had an assortment of guests that have all had some great stories, and shared some great wisdom to the young players. As we wrap up, we are visited by Monica Bosiljevac, a high school varsity assistant coach at Marian High School and Executive Director at Football For The World (FFTW).  I have made reference to...

In the soccer culture, the # 10 may be the most coveted jersey number ever, after watching what Caitlyn Schrepfer (@Caitfreestyle) can do with a soccer ball at her foot, you can see why she was our 10th guest! Caitlyn currently holds the #1 and #2 ranked best freestyler in the U.S. and World respectively. Caitlyn shares with us how she started off playing goalie and a serious injury led her to the...

There was this one time that I was able to get someone on the podcast that played in a UEFA Champions League match... this is that person! Maegan Kelly joins us from Houston where she is enjoying the off-season with the Houston Dash following up a 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. Maegan is yet another KC native who spent her HS days at St. Teresa's where she made quite an impact starting her freshmen...

It's sad to think that there are more episodes behind us than ahead of us, but as promised, the second half of the season has another great guest. Today we sit down with Jaycie Johnson who Is currently an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska. Jaycie was a high school standout scoring 195 goals during her time as well as collected a few awards (All American, Gatorade Missouri Player o...

I know that the past guest have all been current professional athletes, but todays episode we head into a different direction and look at the life of content creation and social media. Cheyenne Foster is the owner of "Between Clean Sheets" (Youtube: Between Clean Sheets, Instagram: @BtwnCleanSheets) a vlog dedicated to speaking on everything D.C. United and MLS. We dive into Cheyennes pa...

We go into the second half with a strong start having Shea Groom as this episodes guest! Shea has been absolutely buzzing this past season helping the Houston Dash win the NWSL Challenge Cup, scoring NWSL's Goal Of The Year and being called into the U.S. Women's National Team Camp. Shea is a local KC product who has trained by some of the best coaches In not only youth soccer but profess...

We are just about half way through season 2 and our mid-season guest Is Hallie Klanke, Sophomore for the UNC Tarheels and former player of mine. Klanke and I talk about some of her earliest influences, her early club and ODP days and when we first met during her Freshmen and Sophomore year of HS when I coached her at Saint Thomas Aquinas. We then dive Into her decision to join newly formed girls D...

Bienvenido! Episode 4 brings us Shelby High who is currently living in Guadalajara, Spain playing for Club Dinamo Guadalajara In the Primera Nacional division. Shelby and I met back during summer 2019 when she was playing for the local Women's semi-pro team KC Courage. We managed to keep a good friendship and stay in touch during her time in Spain. Even managed to get her to snag me a Barcelo...

Episode 3 brings us Addisyn Merrick, current defender for the North Carolina Courage, former KU Jayhawk and KC Metro native (Lees Summit). Addisyn and I met during her standout senior year at KU when I befriended her head coach Mark Francis and was lucky enough to attend the latter part of the seasons training sessions into their Big XII Championship Tournament win and into NCAA. We talk about her...

No Stress Midwest Podcast is back! Season 2 is here and this line-up Is actually kinda crazy! I honestly dont know how I was able to get them all to agree to it but here we are and here we go!  Episode 1 brings us Cari Roccaro who currently plays for Back-to-Back NWSL Champions the NC Courage! Cari and I dive Into her youth career collecting some big time awards as a High School player In New York...

Episode 2 brings us Mrs. Maddie Nolf of Utah Royals FC (NWSL) who from the start of the podcast, has a contagious bubbly personality that definitely wore off on me by the end of the episode! Maddie talks on her youth soccer days in Omaha Nebraska and eventually going on to win an NCAA National Tournament during her time playing at Penn State. Maddie also shares some of her experiences during her t...

Season 1 finale brings us United Soccer Coaches Director of Coaching Education Ian Barker! On the podcast we speak on how Ian and I met and how he has turned into a mentor of mine. We speak on how Ian came to the states and his time as a college coach as well as his time as the Minnesota Youth Soccer DOC. We hit on Ian's role within ODP, what he thinks is missing from the youth game here in A...