Making The Play with Dave Briglio

This week my guest is Janis Meredith, Founder of Raising Champion Families. Sport parents, this episode is for YOU. And coaches, if you have parents struggling to enjoy watching their kids play,getting all caught up in the hype of "winning and losing", make sure they listen in.

As a wife and a mother of 3, she knows what it’s like to try to balance several spinning plates at once—taxi driver for 3 kids who played multiple sports, part-time working mom, supportive high school coach’s wife, volunteer mom—and not have any plates go crashing to the floor.

Raising three children who were active sports fanatics from the age of four through college, she developed a passion for helping families raise children who fit that same sports niche. Through the years of blogging, coaching and mentoring sports families, she realized that the needs she was meeting in the specific niche of sports needed to be met in multiple families, whether their kids played sports or not. As a certified life coach, Janis helps families re-establish their connectivity and navigate through their children’s change from childhood to adolescence to adulthood so that they are successfully raising kids who are champions in life.

I have partnered with companies like TeamSnap, USA Football, the University of Miami Health System and many others to help families navigate their challenges.

I believe strongly that families who are unified and strong can have a great impact on this world. I’m more than a family coach; I’m a family advocate. I understand and value the family unit, and I’ve dedicated my entire career to laying foundations today, that will raise tomorrow’s champions.

By partnering with me, you can lay the groundwork to raise children who are strong, compassionate, trustworthy and full of integrity, a family that will make you proud!

To sign up for a free consultation today.

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 239-237-6069

This week my guest is V.J. Stanley, an author and public speaker who formed Balanced Excellence (formerly Frozen Shorts) .With over 30 years experience and a published book V.J., with his holistic organic approach to teaching kids youth and high school sports,is changing the youth and high school sports paradigm (with a lot of help) using the Champion's mindset. Simply put, they specialize in balance. Home school your kids in youth sports.He bring's back the backyard back..

VJ has done consulting work with High school and youth coaches, ex professional athletes, college coaches, players, families,and youth organizations. Both mental and physical health is of long term benefit to all. "It's not my mission to decide when, if or how the light goes on for those participating in youth and high school sports. My goal is to just keep flipping the switch...
Children learn from internal realization, not external force!"

This week my guest is Tim Healy, President/CEO of TackleBar Football, addressing the current crisis in youth football: an alarming 30% reduction in youth participation, with concussions and youth injuries at the center of the discussion. Parents are paying more attention, the numbers are declining, and it is affecting every level of football.

TackleBar Football eliminates tackling while still maintaining contact. Players learn the fundamentals of the game while decreasing their chances of concussions and injuries at such a young age. Tim saw this first hand, with over 2000 kids having fun and safely playing TackleBar Football last year, they had ZERO concussions. Moms have told Tim they actually enjoyed watching the game of football once they realized their sons were not going to get hurt.

"I have been around football my whole life, playing 4 years at St. John’s University and spending the summer of 1987 in the New Orleans Saints training camp—the best two weeks of my life! I coached for 3 years at Roseville High School and over 10 years of youth teams with my 3 sons. I love football. I have learned so many life lessons and made lifelong friends on and around the field. It is sad to know that fewer boys will have this same opportunity to form their character and grow in virtue, perseverance, teamwork, brotherhood, and both mental and physical toughness. I believe that something has to change at the youth level or football will change as we know it. TackleBar Football is the answer. This will save the game we love." - Tim Healy

https://tacklebar.com/

This week my guest is Dr. Richard Wolfe of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, who will be getting into the organizational dynamics of sports, going beyond analytics and sport science, to gain the competitive edge to drive your sports team performance.

About Dr. Wolfe:
Professor Wolfe is a member of the Executive Education Faculty, Ross School of Business and Faculty Director of the Ross School’s Sport and Organization Dynamics Conference. From 2001 to 2007 Wolfe served as Director of the Sport Management Master’s Program, and was the Director of the Centre for Sport Management, at the University of Michigan.

Much of Dr. Wolfe’s current work focuses on how best practices in organization dynamics contribute to sport team success. Previously, Wolfe used sport as a lens through which we can learn about various business phenomena such as innovation, leadership, communication, teamwork, and strategy.

Richard is currently under contract with Harvard University Press to write a book on big time college athletics.

Wolfe is a past Editor of the Journal of Sport Management and has published in such journals as the Journal of Management, Organization Science, Journal of Sport Management, Human Resource Management, the Academy of Management Executive, and the European Sport Management Quarterly.

From 2010 to 2017 Wolfe served as Professor of Strategic Management and Winspear Fellow at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, the University of Victoria. Dr. Wolfe holds graduate degrees in organization theory (PhD, University of Michigan), business administration (MBA, Pennsylvania State University), and physical education (MA, University of Michigan)

About the Conference:
https://michiganross.umich.edu/news/michigan-ross-announces-first-ever-sports-and-organizational-dynamics-conference

Some of the key sessions during the conference include:

Team Culture (Kim Cameron, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan): Using his extensive research on NFL locker room culture and its correlation to team performance, Cameron will lead a panel discussion, featuring the SODC Board of Advisors, discussing how corporate culture and positive organizational scholarship can help build performance in sport.

The Emergence of Excellence: Leadership in Times of Dramatic Complexity and Change (Bob Quinn, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan): Quinn will moderate a panel discussion exploring how to lead in times of disruptive change and how that ties into sport team performance.

Creating “One Team” From Diverse Individuals (Lynn Wooten, Dyson School of Management, Cornell University): Wooten’s research explores workforce diversity and how that can be leveraged to an organization’s competitive advantage. She will lead a panel discussion about the effects of and approaches to diversity in sports and maximizing its positive impact.

Leading Change: From Resistance to Cooperation (Joel Brockner, Columbia Business School, Columbia University): This panel discussion will be moderated by Brockner, who has done extensive research on leading organizational change. They will discuss how to overcome resistance to achieve change in sports organizations.

The conference is highly geared toward senior leaders responsible for sport team performance, including general managers, head coaches, assistant general managers, and assistant coaches. For more information about the conference, visit michiganross.umich.edu/sportsdynamics.

This week my guest is Richard Shorter, the Non-perfect Dad: enabling coaches and parents to work together to produce winning character on and off the sports field. When the home and coaching environments are united an athlete is given the best possible chance to excel greatly in all areas of life, and that's what Richard makes happen for others.

His creative and pioneering work enables coaches to:
-help parents manage their expectations in the nonlinear process of talent development.
•help parents reinforce the character, mindset and culture of their team.
•reduce parent & coach conflict.
•support the parents in shaping the resilience and mindset athletes need to navigate the highs and lows of talent development.

The challenge comes in engaging parents effectively because optimizing the immense influence parents is not simple or because often there is an uneasy relationship between coach and parent.
Without a synchronicity of approach between parents and coaches, potential is easily missed.
Richard uses evidence-based strategies to engage with parents.

Learn more about Richard at: https://non-perfectdad.co.uk/

Or check out his new book: ‘Conversations for the Journey’ priming your child for success on and off the sports field, available at Amazon

More About Richard: Having three lively and energetic children has taught him he’s not a perfect dad! But he does have a background steeped in delivering high quality and successful support to organizations and parents enabling them to work effectively together for the best outcomes of the children. “I am not perfect as a parent, but I am pretty good at taking the opportunities which sport offers to build character which leads to success on and off the sports field. This is the gift I offer other parents and their children.”

This week my guest is Gordon MacLelland, CEO of ‘Working with Parents in Sport’, a UK-based company that works with sporting organizations globally, providing unbiased information that understands the difficulties that parents and coaches face in today’s world, for the goal of providing children with the best possible sporting experiences. Sport and physical activity should be seen as a lifetime investment for our children, not a short-term gain.

More about WWPIS:
https://www.parentsinsport.co.uk/
A generation ago children went out to play sport for the fun of the game, and if they became successful and were able to make a living from it that was great. It was not the primary motivation for parents setting out their children on their sporting careers.

Many young people are giving up sport in their teenage years due to some of the pressures, behaviors put on them by parents during their formative years and they simply fall out of love with sport. It is no longer fun, and that is the primary reason kids want to play sport in the first place. WWPIS helps parents and coaches go back to basics and see sport for what it is, a chance for our children to learn experiences for life: Teamwork, dealing with adversity, friendships, sportsmanship are all valuable traits in life and not just in sport.

More About Gordon: Gordon MacLelland set up ‘Working with Parents in Sport’ after 20 years as a teacher and as a coach to all age levels from 7-year olds to adults. He has a BA/Hons degree in Sports Science from University College Chester and a PGCE from Lancaster University. He is a qualified teacher and has been Director of Sport at an independent prep school in the UK for the last 10 years. He has worked in schools in both the UK and New Zealand for the last 16 years. He is the author of two books, ‘Great Sports Parenting’ – A pocket guide for parents of children in sport and ‘Engage’ – A coaches guide to building positive relationships with parents. In recent times he has become a parent to two children and the early sporting experiences of his own children prompted him to set up the company as well as write the two books above. As a speaker he brings a wealth of experience to working with organizations, coaches and parents gathered through 20 years as a teacher and coach as well as a parent currently involved in children’s sport.

This week I will be talking with 3 women who are part of I AM THAT GIRL: Katrina Voge, Medcedez Birnie & Madelyn Steurer. Join me and here why and how IATG asks women to take this simple but powerful pledge:
“I have a brilliant heart and a beautiful mind. I am me, a perfectly flawed, beautyFULL work in progress. I promise to lift other girls up, have their backs, and make it safe for them to be exactly who they are. I'm on a mission to raise the standards for how we treat each other, how we treat ourselves, and how we treat the world. Every time I look in the mirror I’ll remind myself that I’m not alone, that I’m beautiful, that my voice matters, and that I am enough.”

Learn more about IATG at: http://www.iamthatgirl.org/about

This week my guest is the Head Coach of the Bucknell University women's lacrosse team, Remi Steele. Remi authored a personal and impotrant article on the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association's (IWLCA) blog, "Behind The Whistle" that talks about the importance of coaches understanding how to recognize and address the stress they are under, which can lead to anxiety, depression, and poor mental health.

Coaches are just as big competitiors as (if not bigger than) their players - but if coaches are looking out the mental health of their players, who's looking out for the coaches?...Listen in for a journey that went through the darker times but now includes a bright future.

Remi's full article can be found here:
https://iwlca.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/dark-times-and-bright-futures/

This week my guest is Stephanie Hein, CEO of Maker Girl – an organization founded in a social entrepreneurship class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where two young women were empowered by the question "What bothers you?" Motivated by their past experiences, MakerGirl was created to inspire young girls to pursue STEM fields through 3D printing sessions.

The Maker Girl Story: Two diverse, young women began a Social Entrepreneurship class at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Little did they know, they would start a movement that would impact the life trajectories of young girls and women in their dreams for a creating a promising future. Mid-way into the semester, they were posed and challenged with a simple question, “What bothers you?” Group member Julia Haried quickly drew from her past research about the lack of women in C-suite positions. Their conversation moved to, “Why is that?” and “What can we do to change these issues?”

From this inspiration, Engele and Haried created MakerGirl--a mission driven program about more than 3D printing. MakerGirl seeks to inspire young girls to be active in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and to continue to say “Yes!” to future challenges by offering design and 3D printing workshops.

Check them out at: https://makergirl.us/

About Stephanie: Stephanie is a graduate of Educational Studies Master’s program at the University of Michigan as well as a former student-athlete and Molecular Biology major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She gained educational programming experience at her former position at Toyology Toys. Hein served as MakerGirl’s Engagement Director in 2016 and assisted raising over $30,000 through a Kickstarter campaign and organized #MakerGirlGoesMobile, a 10,000 mile cross-country road trip that brought 3D printing sessions to over 1,000 girls in rural and underserved communities across the country.