Asking Better Questions

We are built to compete. Some more so than others but it is in our nature to compete against each other and within ourselves. Being active in sports brings this competition out of us in positive and negative ways. BUT sports will always have a humbling aspect to the game. No matter the game. If you competed in sport long enough, you know exactly what I am talking about. That moment when you were competing at your highest level but maybe came up short or didn’t yield the results you would have liked. Sports teach us a lot about life. 

Cody Allen has come on the show to talk with us about how he has taken his mentality from his competitive football career and used that within his business, training, and coaching. 

Cody is a former collegiate athlete turned entrepreneur that has excelled in the fitness space for years now.

I've has spent time working with fitness professionals helping them turn their brands into businesses. From organizing fitness events to holding fitness business development seminars, I've become an authority in this space. As a performance athlete, I've spent years resistance training, endurance training, and much more. Cody’s  digital marketing and branding agency has done a ton of work with companies to help them gain clients and efficiently run their businesses. Within this episode, Cody dives deep into:

-       Sports and life lessons

-       The importance of role models

-       Creating an online presence

-       Authentic branding – Who are you speaking to?

-       Becoming your biggest and best self

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The most important attribute for a leader is their time and energy. What consumes most of your time? If you were to log your time for an entire week, would you be surprised where you are putting your energy? 

 As a leader I want you to understand that your attention matters and that your impact is directly correlated to your focus. For us to have the most focused work and most focused leadership we need to be intentional about how we spend our time.

There are 3 ways in which I think we can have more focused work and leadership:

1.     Define and Measure Wins

2.     Distance Distractions

3.     Obsess Over the Process

As leaders, fathers/mothers, husbands/wives, we get pulled in multiple different directions but if we can prioritize these three things we will set ourselves up for more success. 

REMEMBER, your life is too valuable and your calling is too great to waste time on distractions. It is usually not a lack of time, yet a lack of focus and prioritization. Increase your work capacity and have your most focused work starting today. 

Reach out to Connor Derrickson

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How many of you have ever been in need of a personal trainer? A fitness instructor? Somebody to tell you what to do when you go to the gym? 

Us humans are busy people. The last thing we want to do after we get off work, pick the kids up from school, drop them off at practice, prepare dinner…. is think about going to the gym. And when you make it to the gym, what will you do? You want to lift weights but nobody has ever taught you how, you don’t want to look dumb, so you get on the treadmill for 15 minutes until boredom succumbs. Back to your life of hurry. 

What if I said there was easier better way. I way in which you wouldn’t have to break the bank to afford the trainer at your gym but a way where your trainer would be at your finger-tips every day. The future of health, wellness, and fitness is within the app called Future.  

One of the most highly regarded performance coaches in America and the VP of Performance at Future, Josh Bonhotal, joins the show to chat all things Future. Previously, Josh was the Director of Sports Performance for Purdue Men’s Basketball, where he oversaw training and nutrition for a program that perennially ranked in the Top 25, earned two Sweet Sixteen appearances, and had multiple All-American selections during his tenure.

Before that, Josh worked for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. As a part of the Bulls’ Strength & Conditioning staff, he coached Derrick Rose – while Rose won Rookie of the Year (2009) and MVP (2011) – and contributed to the team’s 62-win season in 2011-2012. Josh has been featured in ESPN, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and Women’s Health. Josh’s experience within the performance world is nothing short of some of the best in the country. 

Topics discussed:

-       The American health epidemic

-       Start up company, Future, solving a problem

-       The Future of health and fitness

-       How technology can bring you health, wellness, and happiness

-       Creating relationships virtually 

-       The importance of client experience and habit loops

-       Collecting and connecting dots with your clients

-       Educating employees while keep creativity high

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Via Twitter: @jbonhotal

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Have you ever been in a position where you needed to start from the ground up? You needed to do a total transformation from the inside out? 

When put in situations like this, it takes deep courage and a lot of searching within. If you are ever planning to build something from the ground up, starting something new, or rebuilding a culture, your first step should be understanding yourself. Before you begin to think about the mission, the purpose, or the people within, you need to have a deep understanding of where your heart is. What are your motives? What are your biases? 

What do I need to do to become hyper confident in my abilities to start this project? Before you can begin to fix other people or other cultures, you need to have a deep understanding of who you are. 

Coach Ryan Davis, Director Football Strength and Conditioning at the University of Maryland, rebuilt a culture from the ground up. He took a program that was shredded with grief, despair, fear, and created an environment that was built on trust. An environment built on humility and perseverance. Ryan is at the top of his field, he has coached all over the country, and has even won a championship with the University of Alabama football program.  

Topics discussed:

-       Coaching all over the country

-       Learning opportunities:  Taking nuggets from every experience

-       Steps in the rebuilding phase: Where do you begin?

-       How to gain trust with a broken team: Where do you start?

-       Where the S&C field failed it’s colleagues and how to rebuild it

-       Coaches bashing coaches: Why do we do this?

-       Progressing the field and giving back

-       Progress doesn’t pour from an empty cup: How to stay sharp

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This week we  were lucky enough to have the crew from The Built To Last Podcast come on the show! This crew involves Charlie Rhea, Justin Bentivegna, and Andrew Slay. Built to Last is a sports performance coaching community founded on the principles: encourage, equip, and empower. They are coaches who enjoy talking shop with other coaches so that they can maximize their impact for eternity. 

Charlie Rhea is the director of Olympic Athletic Performance at Houston Baptist University, Justin Bentivegna is the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach at Hofstra University, and Andrew Slay is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Lee University. Together they work to create a space where athletes, coaches, and more can learn about the love of God. 

Topics discussed:

-       The Built To Last Podcast

-       What it means to Encourage, Empower, & Equip

-       Ministry within your career

-       Consistency – Values matching your actions

-       The dichotomy bw Grace and Firmness

-       Why we are all in full time ministry

-       How to be a light in a world of darkness

-       The power of influence: 1 soul can = 1,000s

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Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of our guests this week! They would love to hear from you! 

Reach out to Charlie Rhea

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CDPerformance Website HERE

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Luka is an entrepreneur, business man, and most importantly, a coach. Crediting a lot of his success to the adversity he pushed through at a young age, he started this life in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he credits basketball, fitness and coaching for taking him from a path of crime to success. Following his professional playing career, Luka pursued his passion of training. As the founder and co-owner of Vigor Ground gym in Ljubljana, Slovenia and owner of Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance in Seattle, WA, Luka has coached over 3,000 elite athletes (in the NBA, NFL, UFC, MLB, college and high school), rehab patients and clients from every walk of life. Luka is also the creator of Vigor Ground Fitness and Business Summit, an educational event for coaches and gym owners.

Luka and Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance have been featured in Men’s Health, Stack Magazine, Onnit Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, HBO Real Sports, Precision Nutrition, as well as CBS, FOX, USA Today, ABC and KING5 New Day NW as Seattle’s top fitness expert.

Topics discussed:

-       How your past can shape your future

-       Looking at adversity

-       Insecurities and seeking significance

-       Internal voids and habit formation

-       Why we seek external validation

-       Learning how to Make NEW Mistakes

-       Key habits to being a high achiever

-       Finding your sense of belonging

If you LOVED this episode, I encourage you to leave a review and tell me why. If you HATED it, leave a review and tell why! We encourage feedback and want to improve your listening experience.

Reach out to Luka

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Via Instagram: @lukahocevar

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How do you handle feelings of extreme self doubt?

Despite the notable successes within your life and your overall competency within your given field, you still feel this way?

Don't panic. You aren't alone. Almost 2/3 of the world feels this way. 


Check out this episode to hear

-   What is Imposter Syndrome

-   Who is impacted? Why?

-   Finding your blindspots

-   Common archetypes

-   Winning the war in your mind


We really appreciate any and all ratings and reviews that your are willing to give! If you are reading this I encourage you to leave us a review. If you enjoyed the episode, tell us why. If you hated it, tell me why. I want to improve your experience! 

Lastly,

A friend and a mentor of mine, Brett Bartholomew, has some GREAT resources on this topic. 

Check him our at:
Podcast: The Art of Coaching
Website: artofcoaching.com
Instagram: @coach_brettb


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There is a lot of talk about building and creating a system when it comes to having a centralized approach to an organization. With many companies and organizations, you have principles in which you want to follow. These are your basic guidelines that drive all of your decision making. Without these principles and standards, it is easy to just start throwing 💩 on the wall and hope that it sticks. For example, as a sports performance coach, these principles and standards would guide my programming, decision making, coaching mentality, and thought process.

Today, we are joined by Dr. Josh Heenan, president of Advanced Therapy Performance (ATP) and founder of the 90mph formula.  Some of the topics discussed in this episode are:

-       Creating the standards that built ATP

-       The 90mph Formula

-       Organic growth vs. Copycat Growth

-       Centralizing staff and speaking the same language

-       Branding your standards – More than just deadlift shirts

-       The Exit Velo Formula and 300yd Formula (Golf)

-       Where Chinese medicine will take us

-       The next big thing in baseball

-       The future of baseball, “I think we will live in a world where every guy is 95-104mph then we need to keep them there”

-       Where Chinese medicine will take us

-       Blending Eastern and Western medicine

Reach out to Dr. Josh Heenan

Via website: advancedtherapyperformance.com

Via Instagram: @advancedtherapyperformance / @drheenan

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If you happened to enjoy this episode we really appreciate ratings, reviews, and shares. Feel free to reach out with the information above.

Olympic Sports Performance Coach for the University of Tennessee, Coach Greg Adamson sat down with us to give the big picture about leadership, the myth about servant leadership, and his journey through faith and how that has impacted his leadership. Greg has been coaching for over 10 years, is a wonderful person, and absolutely loves adding value to others. 

In this episode Greg discusses:

-       His journey in the National Guard

-       Defining Servant Based Leadership – Good or Bad?

-       Situational Leadership

-       Codependent athletes and employees

-       Loving Tough

-       Faith based leadership

-       How faith and the bible shaped his mentoring

Greg was awesome to have on the show and gave us a lot to chew on throughout the episode. 

We say this every week, but if want to reach out to myself or Greg, PLEASE feel free to use the contact information below. We look always look forward to hearing from our audience and getting feedback. If this episode was enjoyable to you, we always appreciate ratings, reviews, and shares. Join along in our community and post this episode to your story!

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MLB Hitting Coach for the Boston Red Sox, Pete Fatse comes on to chat about some of his experiences and concepts that he has learned within his time coaching and leading. Fatse played baseball at UCONN before he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers. After bouncing around in the minor leagues, Fatse played independent ball before hanging up the cleats. Pete then started coaching and later opened up his own baseball training facility. He has been coaching hitters for many years and has coached people from the age of 8-35. 

In this episode Fatse discusses:

-       What successful integration looks like

-       How to create organic conversations

-       The relationship process

  o   Kids to Big leaguers

-       Changes in Communication

  o   How to approach communication in the private setting

  o   Approach at a higher level

-       How to study hitters and their mentality

-       Driving creative thinking

-       Staying competitive during training

-       Current resources and material Fatse is growing in

I hope you enjoy this episode! Fatse is extremely knowledgeable and easy to talk to, if you have any questions for either of us, feel reach to reach out to us with the contact information below. If you happened to enjoy this episode we really appreciate ratings, reviews, and shares. 

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