The Thing You Can't Say With Coach Reg

I'm a coach. I read what's underneath the surface for a living. On Sunday, the story was right in front of me on a tee box, and I missed it completely. A while back, in a Zoom breakout with a stranger, I asked one question. When the breakout ended, he repeated it to a room of sixty people. As this episode goes out, I'm on a flight to New York for dinner at his home. In this episode: a tee box, a Z...

There's an idea I've been sitting on for a long time, and I kept dismissing it, because you're really not supposed to be able to do this. You're not supposed to say you can build a business around something that feels completely playful, something you thoroughly enjoy, something that, if somebody else had the guts to build it first, you'd say yes to before they finished the pitch. But as an entrep...

In May of 2023, a month after my mom passed, I stood on a friend's stage and said something out loud that you're not supposed to say. I want to spend as much time as I possibly can on a golf course, and as much time as I can with my wife. I had no idea what I was setting in motion. A year later I retired from 38 seasons of basketball coaching. A year after that, I was handed the golf program at my...

About 10 days ago, lightning struck close enough to my house to do real damage. Fried a printer, killed a sofa, knocked out two DirecTV receivers, and took out the internet. It happened while I was in the middle of removing SPARK from everything I do. In this episode I talk about what I found when I went back through a hundred coaching sessions, the four questions that showed up in almost every on...

This week's episode isn't about golf. Michael Bamberger wrote something on Golf.com after Tiger's latest car accident that stopped Coach Reg in his tracks: "It's not easy...to have to find meaning in your life when that chapter of your life is over." Bob walks through why that statement fuels his work, runs a thought experiment applying the Purpose Factor® framework to Tiger's public career, and c...

I asked someone a question on a call this week and it boomeranged right back at me. A guy from overseas was pitching me on his AI marketing tools, and I did what I've been doing more and more lately - I flipped the conversation. I asked him what part of himself he gets to express through building those tools. He didn't have an answer. Most people don't. Then my inner voice decided to have some fun...

I was out walking, listening back to yesterday's episode on MAGIC, and an Amazon driver was barefoot in the grass dancing with ribbons on their lunch break. So I stopped and said "Hi". Goes by the handle beloveflows : What does this human do? They are a fire performer, and within about a minute we were deep into identity, performance, and what drives us. Just a raw conversation captured in the mom...

I was sitting on a beach in Mexico after leading a fire ceremony when I realized something. Magic was showing up in my life constantly and I was ignoring most of it. A nickel that rolled to my feet on my 55th birthday. A Billy Joel concert that appeared out of nowhere the same morning. Both delivered without me chasing, forcing, or hustling anything. In this episode I tell the full double nickel a...

This is the first audio episode of SPARK Insights and it exists because three friends showed me something I couldn't ignore. I've been using AI to help write my newsletter for over seventy issues. I speak everything first, run it through Claude, and edit the draft. The ideas have always been mine. But a conversation with Caitlin, Amy Birks, and Brandon Fong from a community called Curiosity Island...