Coach 360

David Smoak has over three decades of experience covering sports in Texas and is a graduate of Tyler Junior College ('79) and Stephen F. Austin State University ('81). He became the program director and talk show host for ESPN-Central Texas (AM1660, 100.9FM, 106.9FM) in June 2010 after spending the spring of 2010 at ESPN Radio in Dallas.

Mackey joins "You Make the Call" on ESPN Central Tx 1660 with David Smoak and shares a little bit of his life and what it looked like creating 2Words Character Development.

Some key points to take away from this podcast:

• Don't start with no, start with yes
• The day that you stop trying to make everyone else think you're the best is the day that you will see the most growth and improvement in what you do
• Sports are a great conduit for learning the skills that will make you successful in the game of life

We hope you're ready to go left lane, hammer down, full tilt boogie with us on this one.

"Good, Better, Best Never let it Rest, Until the good is better And the Better is Best."

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Ross McMurry, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Colmesneil HS.

This week will look a little different as Coach McMurry dives into his background and the struggles he faced before becoming the mentor, coach, and husband he is today.

In today's podcast, here are some key points to take away:

• Your past circumstances don't define your future success
• You are the average of the five people you hang around the most
• You can't be a leader without first being honest

Coach talks about the struggles that are all too real in high schools today, from drugs and alcohol to broken homes. Coach experienced it all. He talks about his journey from being lost, not expected to have a successful future, to becoming a Head Football Coach and mentor to young men.

Coaches and mentors in his life helped change his trajectory, and now he has the opportunity to pay it forward and do the same for athletes in the same town he grew up in.

In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Chris Castillo, Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator from Dallas Sunset High School.

Coach took over at sunset 2 years ago and has since been on a mission to take Sunset to the next level. With an open enrollment district and a tough few seasons coach had 12 guys show up his first day of practice.

Coach talks about the importance of positivity in his locker room and the idea that leaders will always be followers in times throughout their lives. He encourages his players to be the best version on themselves every single day, from the locker room to the classroom, Coach Castillo pushes and encourages them.

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Coach James Stagnitta, Head Coach of the Charlotte Hounds Major League Lacrosse team.

Coach dives into his career and shares with us this idea that coaching is different than leading. Coach explains that as he grew and developed as a coach, he grew as a leader as well. It's one thing to put people in set and tell them what to do, and it's another thing to truly develop them and lead them, then it's a lot easier to get them to do things as a group and collective unit.

Coach goes on to talk about culture and what the process for creating a team culture looks like for a professional organization. Coach says, "A good culture can make an average team very good, and a bad culture can break down a great team."

Coach shares some advice he would've given himself as a first year coach knowing what he knows now. He shares a little about empathy and putting yourself into you player's position by asking more questions and understanding what they're going through a little more instead of assuming how they feel and what they're going through.

Connect with Coach Stagnitta: Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @Stagsj

We have a special episode for you as we reach the end of the week. We're sharing a clip from one of our curriculum videos, "Your Role". Colton shares with us a little bit about what this idea means to him and how sports were an outlet for him while he faced family struggles. This is an all too familiar story, that we know coaches see every day.

Mackey asks us a powerful question. He asks, "do you know your role?" Sometimes that question that a negative connotation. There's been a stigma associated with the idea of being a role player in comparison to a 5-star player. So many people believe that if they are a "role guy", then they are a no-star guy.

Every single one of us have a role to play, not only on a team, but in life.

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In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Todd Vesely, Executive Director at Ector County.

Coach shares his transition from being a coach to working towards an administrative role. He talks about how the common themes he used in coaching was easily translatable to other programs across the board, which is what drew him to a more administrative role.

Coach goes on to talk about what winning means to him. He believes winning is maximizing your performance and the performance of others, making as big of an impact in young people as you can. Winning can take on many different looks, but our real purpose is to help develop others.

Coach gives us a deeper understanding of the steps it takes to grow and develop leaders. One of the steps to becoming a great leader is giving your best every single day, which Coach talks about being the hardest thing you'll do.

Giving your best is being able to measure, whether you really gave your best, and the only person that really knows that is you. It becomes a habit if you continue to give your best day in and day out, never compromising for anything less. When you give a little bit less than your best, you are showing those around you that that is acceptable and becomes the culture that surrounds you. People will learn so much more from you by what you do rather than what you say.

Coach ends our podcast with a message to listeners. "A profound positive vision for the future, is the first and most important ingredient for success."

In our latest episode Colton and Mackey are talking about perspectives and the idea that having different perspectives than one another doesn't make one party right and one wrong.

Mackey shares a story about an experience he and his wife had while engaged and how the way they viewed the situation then is completely different than the way they view now looking back. He talks about the importance of experience shaping our perspective and how different situations can be looked upon differently as we mature and grow.

Mackey shares the idea that as we all step into different leadership roles, we will encounter others who will not share in our perspective or understanding of a situation due to the fact that they lack experience. When we find ourselves in a position where someone doesn't understand a decision that we're making or a strategy that we're implementing because they have not had the experience, there is an element that they have to simply trust the leader, but there's also the element that the leader has to be secure enough to explain and invite them into understanding an experience that they've not yet experienced.

When we take the time to take a step back from our perspective and step into someone else's, whether it be following a head coach's decisions as the assistant coach and not necessarily thinking their decision is right, we need to go all in and give it as much effort as if it's our own. That humbleness shows respect and that shows a willingness to learn. As a coach, you have shown the ability to be coachable in that moment.

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In our latest episode, Colton is speaking with the Aggie Christian Business Leaders Club about his move from the security of a job at a fast-growing company to diving head first into a start up with his best friend.

Colton and Mackey go back about 10 years, and over that time as he was crafting his speaking ability, Colton was growing in business experience. Colton was connected to an amazing company really young and was fortunate to be apart of their growth from roughly 20 people to 220 at the time he stepped away for 2Words.

During that time he served for 5 years on their senior leadership team managing culture in our rapidly growing business. Colton shares how he ended up leaving the security of everything he had ever known to jump into a Start up with one of his closest friends, and mainly how they both decided to act in Faith, not fear.

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Kent Jackson from Seminole High School.

Coach Jackson talks about his program's mantra, TR1BE. Which stands for: Trust Respect Integrity Belief Enthusiasm

Coach talks about replacing the i with a 1 representing one tribe, one unit, one mission. Coach dives in a little deeper on what exactly it means to have belief and do everything with enthusiasm.

Coach talks about going from a winning season to a losing season and how as coaches, they continually tried instilling confidence in their players throughout the drought. He talks about the character and bond that was built during that season and how it positively impacted the athletes.

Coach shares about a new program they started where they find male mentors to meet with them each Friday morning on gamedays to talk about sports, life, and everything in between.

In our latest episode, Colton is live at Hamlin High School telling his story of putting in the hard work in hopes of winning in a power building competition.

Colton talks about putting in months and months of effort into this one moment, for seven minutes on stage competing. Colton talks about wanting more at the end of that competition. He thought that if he was putting in months of effort, endless amount of time and dedication, he should be reaching for an even bigger title.

Colton goes on to talk about the fact that at the end of his competitions, after competing at Worlds, he realized that no medal, no championship ring was going to make him a champion. The process makes you a champion.