Sideline Sessions

Gabe Nosseir is a soccer coach, performance coach and life coach. He works with professional soccer players and does individual coaching. In this episode, we discuss: Goals for his athletes What is transformative coaching? Elevating soccer players to become better versions of themselves through transformative coaching to recognize and overcome obstacles What holds talented athletes back from succe...

We have a great guest to kick off season 4 of Sideline Sessions. Dan O’Connor is Major League Video & Advance Information Assistant Coordinator with Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals. Before joining the Cardinals organization, he worked in a variety of baseball operations and player development roles with the New York Yankees in addition to a number of other positions in the game of...

This is the final episode of Sideline Sessions season 3, also simulcast on The Authority . I speak with Matt Doherty, former head coach at Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina, Florida Atlantic, and SMU.  As a starter on the 1982 National Championship team at UNC, with his teammate Michael Jordan, Matt began his leadership journey under the legendary Dean Smith. As a coach, he was the 2001...

Next week, we'll have the final episode of Season 3. Today we're sharing a "Best Of" episode, one of our earliest conversations with Charlie Miller. This chat is packed with great insights.  Charlie is a master basketball coach, author, and owner of ATTACK Basketball Academy in the Dallas, Texas area. As a player, he was a McDonald’s All-American and Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year at South...

This week Adam Sarancik returns to the show. Adam is a longtime baseball coach teams have consistently won championships at every youth league and high school level. In administration, he has served as league founder, board member and coaches’ and players’ clinic director. He is also owner of Elevate Sports Academy.  Building on our previous discussion, we cover: Running a championship practice an...

This week it’s a pleasure to be joined by Adam Sarancik, a longtime baseball coach and owner of Elevate Sports Academy. In baseball, Adam’s teams have consistently won championships at every youth league and high school level. In administration, he has served as league founder, board member and coaches’ and players’ clinic director. In this episode, we discuss: What are the reasons for sports part...

Matt Murawski has been coaching Little League baseball for over six years. Like many coaches he has been inspired by amazing coaching experiences and seeing poor coaching situations for kids. He is a big fan of the player-centered approach to coaching. In this episode, we discuss: What inspired Matt to become a coach The role of a youth coach Reviewing the youth sports landscape Player-centered co...

Today I’m happy to bring you an episode about youth coaching with George Andriopoulos. George has coached basketball and flag football and serves as Commissioner of Basketball for the Police Activity League. In his day job, George is a distinguished leader renowned for his transformative impact across management consulting, pharmaceutical, and non-profit sectors. He founded the boutique consulting...

Travis Reed is a professional basketball player who played 10 years overseas in countries such as Colombia, Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Estonia, Germany, Australia and more. He was a League MVP in Holland 2004, Winning Finals MVP, League MVP in Estonia and also Baltic League MVP in 2006.  Travis hosts a podcast targeted to athletes who are thinking about or about to embark on a journey overs...

Claudio Reilsono is the General Manager and professional baseball scout with the Global Scouting Bureau and the head baseball Coach at Carnegie Mellon University.  In this episode, we discuss: How Claudio entered coaching at age 18 His coaching philosophy developed over 40 years of experience His book Lead from the Heart Up, Not the Neck Up How scouting helps Claudio with coaching His focus areas...

Today’s guest Jennifer Gross is entering her 14th year as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California - Davis. UC Davis is a special place for Coach Gross, as she was a point guard for the program from 1993-1997, before returning as an assistant coach in 2004. She led the Aggies to five straight Big West Conference regular season titles from 2017-2021.  During her time as bot...

Welcome to “opening day” here for Season 3 of Sideline Sessions! I’m thrilled to start the season with a great guest, Damon Lembi. Damon is a two-time bestselling author, the host of The Learn-It-All Podcast, and CEO of Learnit – a live learning platform that has upskilled over 2 million people. He also was a Division-I college baseball player who was drafted to play professionally and draws from...

In the Season 2 finale, I speak with Aaron Makelky. Aaron has served as a head high school football coach for 12 seasons in Wyoming, assistant for 4 seasons, and has also coached wrestling, basketball, and track. He is currently consulting with sports teams and elite individuals who want to learn mindset and mental conditioning skills. Our conversation covers: How to determine the culture you want...

My guest today is Lee-Anne Gilchrist. Lee-Anne is currently the CEO of the Golf Performance Center & Academy, in Ridgefield, Connecticut working with young people from all over the world to nurture intrinsic motivation and unlock human potential. We discuss: How to introduce kids to golf Good motivators for golfers The opportunities available to young golfers What parents should be prepared fo...

Taylor Cook is a retired professional hockey player with over 25+ years of international experience. She currently works as a mental performance coach serving athletes and sports coaches. We discuss: How Taylor’s experience as an athlete serves her as a coach — and understanding the limits The education and training that contributes to her coaching Personalization of coaching Building blocks of me...

Adolfo Gómez Sánchez has dedicated over three decades to studying and modeling what drives optimal performance.  Adolfo was a competitive athlete and is a performance mentor to professional athletes on the ATP and WTA tours, C-Suite executives of large multinational corporations, and performance artists such as Grammy nominated singers and opera stars. Our conversation covers: The Optimal Performa...

This week, we're sharing a "Best Of" episode, going back to the series premiere with the amazing Dr. Jen Welter.  In 2015, Jen became the first female coach in NFL history when she coached linebackers for the Arizona Cardinals. She was also the first woman to play a contact position in men’s professional football when she signed as a running back with the Texas Revolution, a professional indoor fo...

Jason Payne has coached the Varsity Boys Basketball team in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada for the past 24 seasons. He also works with teams and athletes as a Mental Performance Coach. It was a pleasure to speak with Jason about the following and more: How Jason got into coaching and why he almost quit in 2018, nearly 20 years into his career What he learned about avoiding burnout Advice for new co...

Connor Gettemy is the Director of Sports Performance at Flagler College and Owner of Gett Strong Performance, both located in St. Augustine, Florida.  At Flagler, whose sports teams compete at NCAA Division-II, Connor oversees a sports performance department that services over 400 athletes. Under his direction, Flagler has produced 169 All-Conference selections, 22 All-Americans, and a number of p...

Mike Jarvis is a well-known name to fans of college basketball. In his long career at the high school and NCAA Division-I levels, he coached future professionals, including Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, won hundreds of games, and developed a number of future leaders.  He coached first at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where his players included Ewing, and in NCAA Division-I at Boston University...

Troy Bassham has been a mental performance coach, teaching mental management fulltime since 2004. He works with athletes of all ages and levels, from high school to professional. He has authored two books "Attainment, the 12 Elements of Elite Performance" and "Fore the Mind, the Mental Program for Golf" and is the mental coach for Crown Golf Academy.  Our conversation covers: How Troy became a men...

Coach Kurt Hines has been coaching football for more than 25 years. He is currently Head Coach at Coronado High School in California.  We discuss: How Kurt got into coaching Differences in coaching on the east coast vs. west coast His core coaching philosophy How he turned it around when he was feeling overwhelmed When he learned from his mentors Lessons learned the hard way Approach to building a...

Krissy Webb is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Student ACES, a 501c3 with the mission to create Champions. Through Student ACES, Krissy has positively impacted over 50,000 high school student-athletes and has taught them leadership skills, values, and character education to be successful men and women in the classroom, the athletic fields and in their communities. Krissy coaches both 12U...

Robert Castillo is a Certified Mental Performance Coach (CMPC) with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology. He has over 15 years of experience working with elite military service members, MLB, NBA, and MLS players and coaches, college athletes, and business executives, bringing to the table not only years of knowledge in research-based mental performance but also over a decade of experience i...

Today we're excited to bring you an episode from The Learning Bridge , a BE Podcast Network show hosted by Richard Gerver, one of the world’s leading thinkers on human potential, leadership, and organizational transformation. In this conversation, Richard speaks with Dwain Chambers. Having come from an abusive and challenging home, Dwain discovered a talent for athletics and became the fastest tee...