10 Talks

How Women Win Our Way – with CHAMP10N Guest International Professional Volleyball Player, Carli Snyder

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Check out this week’s 10 talks podcast episode to hear HOW WOMEN WIN with a former Florida Gator, Carli Snyder.

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. How does struggle create success? Struggling to fail will show up for many people in collegiate sports, especially at the beginning of your career when you are trying to gain trust from your teammates and coaches. Rewire your brain to feel a sense of reward when something feels right, even when it does not appear right to other players. Do your job that your coach gives you and the rest will fall into place.
2. How do you train with purpose and passion? Treat your team how you would your family. Have conversations about what your desired outcomes are and how you will get there. Express your love for each other and recognize that the struggle everyone is going through is going to push you to your best. Be together as one.
3. How do you change and win? Winning can be short term or long term, and it is important to have goals within both of those categories. It is based on your own definition of winning, so be sure to create that definition to have clear cut goals that are attainable for your future.

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Join us on today’s episode as Carlette and Kathy discuss How Women Win after hearing from Butler University Head Women’s Volleyball Coach and Current President of the American Volleyball Coach’s Association, Sharon Clark

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. The male system is based on hierarchy. The female system is based on a web of interconnected relationships. Men can often go back and forth at each other on the court or field and be completely fine afterwards, whereas women may encounter similar disputes and the damage within the team will still be occurring weeks later.
2. As women, when we get hurt, we either withdraw or attack; however, as women we have also been socialized not to attack. Anger and aggressiveness is penalized within the female paradigm. If you are hurt, you bury it and do not express any type of aggressive feelings. We must teach our athletes how to healthily express aggression between each other as well as how to emotionally accept aggression directed at you.
3. What do you want and what is your plan to get there? As a coach, it is your job to help athletes discover this within themselves, either as an athlete or also as a person depending on your coaching style. For athletes, coaches cannot decide these things themselves. They may have an idea of where they want you to end up in your career, but without your own personal goals and desired outcomes, it will be a struggle getting there.

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How Women Win Our Way – with CHAMP10N Guest Sharon Clark, Butler University Head Women’s Volleyball Coach and Current President of the American Volleyball Coach’s Association

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Check out this week’s 10 talks podcast episode to hear HOW WOMEN WIN with our next guest, Sharon Clark.

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. In the coaching arena, men are usually compared to women no matter what the accomplishments are. Due to gender stereotypes and societal norms, men have more room to be more aggressive, assertive, or loud compared to women. When women act this way, it becomes more to do with their gender than it does their coaching abilities.
2. How do you recruit? Your ability as a player to have a conversation with a coach will let them know if you are able to come and compete in their program. Being able to be emotionally intelligent when having discussions or interviews with players and looking for signs of what you are looking for is a good way to recruit; you just need to know what you’re looking for. Ask players what coaches they have had in the past and what they liked and didn’t like about those individuals.
3. Continue to groom women into coaching. At the youth level, girls learn at a very early age to be more coddled and less critiqued than men because of gender stereotypes of being too ‘weak’ or unable to handle it emotionally. Teaching them young that women are just as able to be coached by other women as they are men will help them to become more open to feedback and be able to be coached by people who will not sugarcoat things.

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Join us on today’s episode as Carlette and Kathy discuss How Women Win after hearing from Auburn University Head Women’s Golf Coach, Melissa Luellen

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. The relatability aspect has been emphasized throughout many of our conversations with women coaches and athletes. Having a relationship with your coach or athlete is important to many females within the sports industry, whereas with men, it is more transactional. “Women must bond to battle, and men must battle to bond” -Kathleen DeBoer. If men are presented with a secure opportunity to get better at their craft, they will invest what they need in order to get to where they want to be. On the other hand, women are more thorough with who they work with and are less transactional in these relationships.
2. Athletes will demand authenticity from us. After recruiting an athlete, as women, we cannot succeed without being authentic to our athletes. Though in a way it is still transactional - the athlete came to you to be a better player and to win, and you as their coach promised that to them - the authenticity component is still important to make that relationship work. Without it, cohesion may be lacking, and the relationship will not flourish.
3. There has been a huge transformation within the coaching industry when it comes to gender. Many female coaches nowadays even prefer coaching other women, which is perfectly okay. Similarly, with male coaches, it has become more normal and accepted for them to coach female athletes compared to the past.

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How Women Win Our Way – with CHAMP10N Guest Melissa Luellen, Auburn University Head Women’s Golf Coach!

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Check out this week’s 10 talks podcast episode to hear HOW WOMEN WIN with our next guest, Melissa Luellen.

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. How do you change and win? Embrace challenges and anchor in your competitive spirit to help move through tough patches. Surround yourself with those who love the game as much as you and emulate the same level of passion that you do.
2. Rest and recover. This can appear as many different things depending on the person. Find something that re-energizes you, whether that be physically resting, spending time with family, or going out with friends, and make sure to carve out time in your schedule to do these things. Rest and recovery is equally as important to training and preparation in order to come back refreshed and sharp.
3. Take lessons from your role models as you grow and mature throughout your career. We are never done learning, and having a support team around you to help push through the difficulties and celebrate the good is a great winning strategy to keep absorbing new knowledge.

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Join us on today’s episode as Carlette and Kathy discuss How Women Win after hearing from Professional Volleyball Players Brittany Abercrombie and Carly DeHoog

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. To get good at anything, you must be uncomfortable and you must struggle. When working with women, listening to their story and who the person is are essential winning strategies to establish the foundation when “going for it” and convincing them to struggle. For men, this part usually comes near the end after the struggle has even begun. These are stereotypical averages that have been observed across research within sport environments, regardless of the gender of the coach.
2. Honor that men and women may go about their paths in different ways, but the competitive spirit is still the same. When it comes to competitive men and competitive women, the outcome goal is the same, it is the process that may vary between the groups. Recognizing the importance of gender both as a coach and as an athlete will help set you up for success to ask for what you need and be able to compete in the environment you are in, no matter the gender variables.
3. Focus on the short term wins. In this game, what is your commitment? In this practice, what is your intention? What is your desired outcome based on your current challenge? Take these commitments one at a time to make them more measurable and sharp. This way, you can hold yourself accountable and still contribute to the team, even if you believe you did not do your best.

Stay tuned THIS FRIDAY to hear Kathy and Carlette Team Up with our next guest on How Women Win Our Way with. Want to G.I.V.E.H.O.P.E. to other women by sharing how you win?
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How Women Win Our Way – with CHAMP10N Guests Brittany Abercrombie and Carly DeHoog, Professional Volleyball Players

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Check out this week’s 10 talks podcast episode to hear HOW WOMEN WIN with our next guests, Brittany Abercrombie and Carly DeHoog.

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. It is important to connect with your why. Why do you play this sport? Everyone’s answers will vary, but being intentional and keeping your why in the front of your mind will help you to keep going and push forward. Ask each individual on your team why they are here, what do they want while they are here, and why do they want this.
2. How does struggle create success? Set small, specific commitments before each game or practice to hold yourself accountable and have something to focus on while practicing your craft. See your game or practice for what it is; how did you perform objectively? Take what you learn from those experiences and move forward with that new knowledge to apply in future situations. Learn what to filter in and tune in to with all the noise surrounding you, especially in a game, to find what can calm you and get you back on track.
3. Consistency is key. If you as a coach are mostly calm and collected during practices but become more emotional and harsh on game days, it can make athletes become more overwhelmed in these pressure situations because they are not used to seeing that and have not practiced managing it. The same goes for coaches who are more expressive and charged during practices; if you are suddenly calm and quiet on game days, the players may not react how you originally desired them to.

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Join us on today’s episode as Carlette and Kathy discuss How Women Win after hearing from Retired Professional Beach Volleyball Player, former Federation Coach for Beach Team Netherlands and 2021 Tokyo Olympic Gold Medal Coach for Team USA- April Ross and Alix Klineman- Angie Akers!

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. Say yes to the unknown. It can be scary, but anchoring in your strengths rather than in fear will help to keep moving forward through struggle and find success. Learning from failure is a great way to learn, even though it can be hard mentally and emotionally. Find what works for you and use that to overcome those doubts as a winning strategy for forward momentum.
2. We as women think about wanting it all: A partner, a family, a career, and everything in between. Having the courage to say yes to opportunities and be able to be on the same page as anyone involved with your life goals will help you to achieve them. Be smart about your journey and recognize failure when it occurs in order to learn and move on. Just saying yes does not mean you will succeed. Use your competitive spirit to go for it and you may just end up as a gold medal olympic coach.
3. What does it mean as a coach to be demanding and ask for accountability? Sometimes it can be difficult to do so without being mean or hurtful, especially with the higher emotional intelligence and importance of a relationship with female athletes. A broken relationship for female athletes will often deplete them of competitiveness. Being a more aggressive or harsh toned female coach may not resonate well with female athletes; being able to communicate this with athletes and have them differentiate anger vs. feedback will help these athletes to respond positively rather than become emotionally hurt.

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How Women Win Our Way – with CHAMP10N Guest Angie Akers, Retired Professional Beach Volleyball Player, former Federation Coach for Beach Team Netherlands and 2021 Tokyo Olympics Gold Medal Coach for Team USA- April Ross and Alix Klineman.

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Check out this week’s 10 talks podcast episode to hear HOW WOMEN WIN with our next guest, Angie Akers.

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. How do you change and win? One of the most important things is to rely on other people and ask for help when you need it. Make sure everyone within your team or organization are on the same page. Have conversations about your core values, team expectations, and how your program competes. You do not have to do everything by yourself; the standard or expectation for women coaches is to try to do it all and not ask for support, but this is not a great winning strategy for your team and most importantly yourself.
2. Reliability is important from a player-coach relationship perspective. When female athletes have female coaches, they will understand and relate more to components such as body insecurities or hormonal changes and responses, which are areas that male coaches coaching female athletes may not be able to fully understand or empathize with.
3. Pay attention to how players receive feedback you are giving them as coaches. On a general level, female coaches are more apt to give feedback in a positive, caring way, whereas males are more direct and may come across as more stern. Though this is definitely not true for all female and male coaches, it is still important regardless to understand your players and the ways in which they take feedback. Are your players more responsive to hearing feedback in a direct, harsh tone? Or are they more likely to succeed if it is brought to their attention in a more empathetic manner? Somewhere in between?

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Join us on today’s episode as Carlette and Kathy discuss How Women Win after hearing from Former UCLA Head Softball Coach, Sue Enquist.

WINNING STRATEGIES
1. Women athletes often have higher expectations for women coaches. The standards of what they think a coach should be are usually stereotypically male; however, they also often accept a more transactional relationship with male coaches, but expect a deeper connection within relationships with women coaches. The gender paradigm is more enforced within the gender than it is across the gender.
2. Unmerited acceptance. You do not have to like everybody; you must love them. You must love your teammates whether they have earned it or not, because you are all striving and working for the same goal. Though setting high standards and raising expectations can be a great winning strategy, sometimes lowering those will actually help the team be more successful. We all come from different backgrounds; whether it be socioeconomic status, race, or personal fitness and relationships goals, we must be willing to accept each other and our backgrounds in addition to the coach having enough emotional intelligence to go back and forth between the variety.
3. Endless curiosity. Do you like who you are as a player and a teammate? Are you owning what you want and going for it, being competitively great against yourself rather than your teammates? How can you honor your vulnerability while simultaneously anchoring in your strengths?

Stay tuned THIS FRIDAY to hear Kathy and Carlette Team Up with our next guest on How Women Win Our Way with. Want to G.I.V.E.H.O.P.E. to other women by sharing how you win?
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