The Art Of Coaching

On Episode 9 of the Art of Coaching Podcast, I sit down with a guy who has one of the best jobs in all of strength & conditioning. Matt Bertsch is the Performance Director for Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln Nebraska where he overseas the strength and conditioning for 6 area high schools and more than 3,500 athletes. Too often, coaches chase big name jobs whole overlooking other opportunities fo...

On Episode 8 of the Art Of Coaching podcast I am joined by my long time friend Molly Binetti to talk about being a Pro strength and conditioning coach. If you aren't familiar with Molly she is the head strength and conditioning coach for the South Carolina Women's basketball program. Before accepting this position she also worked at University of Louisville and Purdue University. Molly is straight...

On Episode 7 of this podcast I sit down with one of coaching and sciences most brilliant minds, Dr. Matt Jordan. If you aren't familiar with Matt is a sought after presenter on return to sport after injury, training program design for elite athletes, and creating interdisciplinary high performance practitioner teams and the information we cover on the episode is mind blowing. I wanted to get him o...

Authenticity is word that gets tossed around often in the world of social media, but few actually live it. On Episode 6 of the Art of Coaching Podcast I am joined by someone who is sincerely authentic in everything she does, Coach Brianna Battles. Brianna is former D1 strength and conditioning coach and corporate wellness vet who left both of those worlds to start her own company called Everyday B...

"Please God don't let me be pigeon hold in a normal job." This was a prayer of mine immediately after graduating under grad and being denied a internship by the United States Olympic Committee. I am fairly certain that many of you out there pray the same thing in regards to looking for your first break in the coaching field out of school, or maybe even looking for a promotion. On this episode of t...

On Episode 4 of the Art of Coaching podcast I am joined by Coach Davis Conley from Northern State University to talk about what it's like to be a young coach coming up in the profession as the climate in the coaching profession is constantly changing around us. Specific Topics We Get Into Are Development of interns What are the important things to learn Taking risks and the value of that in improv...

On this episode of the podcast I am joined by Brock Bittle, who is a former student athlete of mine to about one of the tough parts of our profession: what happens when you can get a job. Brock played football at Southern Illinois and after his collegiate career came to a close and he moved into the coaching side. After a few years of interning and grad assisting he found himself burnt out and ask...

Today I am talking about one of the most bastardized terms in the human lexicon: culture. It's often used to describe what's going right or wrong with teams or organizations, but we really don't have a good working definition of what culture is, which means it's pretty hard to make changes to it if we don't know what it is. So on this episode I will share a definition I really like and then explai...

Over the years I have been vehemently against doing a podcast, but after talking to many of you about leadership, coaching, management..etc my passion for educating on the little things that go unnoticed was reinvigorated and I decided that It was really important to make what I know available in every medium possible. So I'm doing a podcast. On this first episode I sit down to talk about what you...