The Coach for Life Podcast w/ Coach Barry Ryan.

Helping coaches build players that win in life.

CFL 06 | Derrick Sewell on Preparing Players to Face Hard, Finding the Player in the Stall Before Suicide, Going to Pick up the Kid who Tried to Quit

✅ Finding the player in the stall before he committed suicide

✅ What he tells parents in the first parent meeting

✅ Asking players for forgiveness

✅ Biggest fear as a coach

✅ Coaching kids in bad home situations

✅ When it finally clicks for a coach

Episode 06

Host: Barry Ryan

Guest: Coach Derrick Sewell

CFL 05 | BJ Brooks on Building a Staff that Shows Players What Family Looks Like, Living Room Football with Dad, Building a Program on Strong Relationships

✅ Gotta catch 3 passes in the living room to win

✅ Best part about coaching

✅ Building a staff that shows players what family looks like

✅ Meeting the son of a former player

✅ How parents have changed over the last 15 years

✅ Why he keeps good kids that aren’t that good at football

The Coach for Life Podcast w/ Coach Barry Ryan.

Helping coaches build players that win in life

✅ Coaching 2,000+ kids

✅ The real price of travel ball

✅ The night before the state championship game

✅ Finding out a player was suicidal

✅ The problem with parents of players

✅ How his coaching has changed over the last 10 years

The Coach for Life Podcast w/ Coach Barry Ryan

✅ The impact social media has had on the high school game

✅ Fatherless kids have already been let down enough

✅ “We don’t do ball at the house”

✅ Coach Billingsly would fire you if you didn’t go to your kid’s games

✅ We’re not making a 4 year investment

✅ How to handle a player’s mistake

✅ The time his dad chewed him out in front of his friends

✅ How to handle the trust your players put in you

✅ How to know when to challenge and when to hug

✅ Coaching kids that come from father-deficient homes

✅ You’ll always be “Coach”

✅ Kids are more entitled and the parents are to blame

✅ How he’s using his fitness gym to build more than physical strength

Man, the sheer amount of TIME that coaches have to build their players is incredible. How do you use that time? How do you avoid mishandling the trust your players put in you? How do you form future fathers each day in practice? How do you know when to challenge and when to hug? We’re talking about all of it with Coach Brett Ellis today. He’s owns his own fitness gym, where he trains men and women on a daily basis and is also the strength and conditioning coach at Gadsden City High School. I’m fired up about this episode. Coach, it’s gonna inspire you.

The Coach for Life Podcast w/ Coach Barry Ryan

helping coaches build players that win in life

"Dad's Phone Call, Post-Hole Diggers, and our First State Championship"

Episode 01

Host: Barry Ryan

Guest: Matt Kennedy