Sideline Sessions

Heather Sumlin is owner of Sumlin Solutions, a company specializing in helping women reach their potential in sport, competition, and in life.  Heather is a Master Level Mental Management Certified Coach trained personally by the Founder of Mental Management, Olympic Champion Lanny Bassham. We discuss: What is Mental Management? Why the mental game is vital to success in sport Having control of yo...

Welcome back, Sideline Sessions listeners (and a hearty welcome to our new listeners!) for the start of season two. I’m excited to bring you more conversations with a variety of coaches, performance experts, and influential stakeholders from across the sporting landscape.  Today’s guest is Jared Zeidman, a basketball coach with 15 years’ experience in college athletics who authored the new book Na...

Thank you to all of you who have joined us for Season 1 of Sideline Sessions, and a special welcome to our new listeners! I wanted to share a short message about what to expect next on the show, along with an opportunity to support our next season with your ideas and recommendations. Listen to this short episode for: A preview of what's upcoming on the show A request for your feedback and ideas to...

Evan Unrau joined PeacePlayers United States in 2020 as the Director of their Los Angeles chapter.  Prior to this role, she served as the Manager of Youth Basketball for the LA Clippers (NBA); was an assistant coach at Stanford, the University of Southern California, and UC-Santa Barbara; and was an Honorable Mention All-America as a player at the University of Missouri.  We discussed the transfor...

Brooke Knight is head coach of the Corvallis Knights of the West Coast Baseball League, a summer wood bat league for collegiate players, as well as CEO of Knight Financial Home Loans.  Brooke is the most successful manager in West Coast League history, having skippered the Knights to 10 championships in his 15-year tenure at the helm, including the last seven consecutive titles. He has been coach...

After helping his oldest son land at an NCAA Division-III college football program, today’s guest Jeff Howell uses his knowledge of the college sports recruitment process to help other student-athletes and their families navigate the process. The landscape can be complex and hard-to-understand, so it’s quite valuable to hear from Jeff. Our conversation covers: How Jeff developed his knowledge of t...

Today we're excited to bring you an episode from The Learning Bridge, a new Be Podcast Network show hosted by Richard Gerver, one of the world’s leading thinkers on human potential, leadership, and organizational transformation. In this episode, Richard speaks with Edu Rubio, a UEFA pro soccer coach who has been assistant manager for such storied clubs as Wolverhampton Wanderers, West Ham United W...

"Sue Humphrey is the consummate teacher," says Mike Holloway, Head USA Men's 2020 Olympic Coach and University of Florida Head Track & Field Coach. Sue is a trailblazing track and field coach who rates among the most successful coaches ever.  In the early 1970s, after Title IX was enacted, she originated the women’s track program at Arizona State University. She also has coaches at the Univers...

Taylor Siebert is in his second season as head coach of the high school boys basketball team in Heartland Community Schools (Henderson, Nebraska). He is also founder and CEO of Striv Education and has a long history in video streaming of school sports.  In this conversation, hear about: What taylor observed in his decade-plus working around high school sports Teaching, motivating, mentoring The cu...

Today, I’m thrilled to share a conversation with Dr. Alex Auerbach. Alex is an expert on peak performance and the psychology of coaching who is currently Sr. Director of Wellness and Development for the NBA’s Toronto Raptors.  In addition to his work with NBA players, Alex has worked with NFL and NCAA athletes, elite head coaches, military members, Fortune 500 executives, and venture capital funds...

It’s episode 4 of Sideline Sessions and I’m honored to have my fourth great guest.  Samantha Arsenault Livingstone is an Olympic gold medalist swimmer, high-performance consultant, speaker and mental health activist. She also co-captained the 2005 National Champion University of Georgia swim team.  Samantha spent time as a high school science teacher and swim coach, and in 2016, she founded Living...

Hello and thank you, listeners. I hope you're enjoying the first season of Sideline Sessions. As we take a short break from publishing new episodes over the holidays, I wanted to share an episode from my other podcast, The Authority. The Authority Podcast features weekly interviews with leading authors and new voices in the genres of education, leadership, and self-improvement. If you work in educ...

In episode 3, I had a fantastic conversation with Charlie Miller, a master basketball coach, author, and owner of ATTACK Basketball Academy in the Dallas, Texas area. In his playing career, Charlie was a McDonald’s All-American and Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year at South Miami High School, played at Indiana University and in the Junior Olympics, and played professionally in Europe and the U...

This week I’m honored to speak with Caroline McCombs, head women’s basketball coach at George Washington University.  2023-24 is Coach McCombs’ third season at GW and 10th season overall as a head coach at the NCAA Division-I level. As a head coach and assistant coach, her teams have appeared in six NCAA tournaments and made two Sweet 16 appearances, and she also made an NCAA tournament as an all-...

Welcome to the premiere episode of Sideline Sessions on the Be Podcast Network.  My first guest, Dr. Jenifer Welter, is a trailblazing athlete and coach who is extremely on-brand to kick off our show.  In 2015, Welter 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 foo...

Welcome to Sideline Sessions, a new original series from the Be Podcast Network. In each season of this podcast, designed for coaches, parents and other stakeholders in the world of youth, scholastic, and amateur sports, you’ll gain in-depth insights from a variety of experts. Hear from coaches at the highest levels of their respective sports — including the National Football League, National Bask...