Talking With Coaches

Coach Charlie talks about the importance of shaping young minds and delivers a speech to Boys Team Charity about what to do when life closes a door on you.

Coach Charlie interviews one of his pitching heroes, Noah Peery. Learn how playing baseball, especially for the legendary ASU coach Jim Brock, shaped Noah's life as a parent, a coach, and a business owner.  

As a parent or a coach, it is easy to motivate kids when the talent of the opponent is similar. But what do you do when they feel completely over matched and have virtually no chance of winning on the scoreboard?  Coach Charlie will explain how you can still get the most out of your kids and make progress in that very challenging environment.  

After last week, Coach Charlie was too emotionally spent to answer any emails, so this will be a full episode of the best emails that have come through so far, along with Coach Charlie's answers to them.  There will be lots of great movie quotes in this one too.

What will be your legacy? When you are done playing or coaching your sport, will you be able to look back and honestly say that you left the game better than you found it?  What impact will you have had on those around you through your love of the game?  If you put enough good things out there in the world, good things will come back to find you every time.

Coach Charlie explores the subtle differences between nervousness and excitement and provides several tips and tricks to always be excited in the face of a daunting challenge, instead of nervous. He also shares a colorful pregame routine your kids are likely to find amusing.

After apologizing to Cubs fans, Coach Charlie explores the nuances of our kids' personality traits and how elite coaches teach everyone differently to get the most out of them.

Coach Charlie talks about how blaming others may temporarily help you avoid responsibility for failure or bad outcomes, but ultimately blaming others tears down important relationships in your life and prevents you from learning from your mistakes. You'll learn tips and tricks to help your kids manage adversity, and use it to get better.

Coach Charlie talks about his experience with playing and coaching baseball and all of the ways that communication can break down between parents and coaches as well as how to fix them.

As a parent of a young athlete, it can be difficult to know what your role is in your child's youth sports experience.  For several hours each week, you willingly hand over the reins of your child's development to a coach, whom you likely have never met before, and knows nothing about your child.  How can you retain some control over the situation without crossing the line and undermining the coac...