No Stress Midwest Podcast

WE ARE BACK! Season 4 of the No Stress Midwest Podcast is live and we did not disappoint with this season! Out theme is more on the entrepreneurs/business side of the game. Dont worry we still talk about the game but not from a sideline view, this is more the front office. To get us kicked off this season we are joined by Tom Shields (Director of Coaching Ed.-Beyond Pulse, Technical Director- S.T.A.) who tells us his pathway to the coaching and business side coming from across the pond. Tom and I met while he was getting his A license and I was lucky enough to supply the team and sit-in on the course a few years back. We met up again at United Soccer Coaches 2020 convention in Baltimore and have managed to stay in touch. Tom is the man to know in the soccer community and has met some pretty phenomenal people along the way. Sit back, relax, and take a listen, the No Stress Midwest Podcast is back!

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The season finale is here and I promise it won’t be a disappointment! Not only one of the purest goal scorers in the NWSL, but a member of the 2019 US Women’s National World Cup winning team! Jessica McDonald talks about her time growing up in Arizona and her path to becoming a Tar Heel. Jessica shares some first time stories with us on why she wanted to become a Tar Heel and what gave her the motivation she needed to make the push for the World Cup roster. Although we had a partial break-up during recording, Jessica shares some great info with us and is definitely a must listen! Thank you for joining us through another season of the No Stress Midwest Podcast, season 4 will be here before you know it!

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Episode 3 of our Black Excellence Season brings us Armante Marshall, assistant coach and head of recruitment at Temple University. Armante and I were connected through season 1 guest, Joe Amico, who was coached by Armante while at Jacksonville University. Armante has been with them as well as USF during his coaching career, all NCAA D1 universities. Armante speaks about his time as a player at USF, the racial landscape, along the sidelines during his time as a coach and what his long term goals are. For those youth players wanting to play in college, this is a MUST LISTEN. Our season finale guest is not only a current professional player in the NWSL, but helped the national team win a World Cup in 2019! You won’t want to miss it!


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Episode 2 brings us Ms. Ellie Jean all the way from the Netherlands where she plays for PSV Eindhoven. Ellie was a teammate of season 2 guest Maddie Nolf at Penn State where they won a national championship! I am really happy I was able to get Ellie on because her story was AMAZING! Hearing about her early days in Connecticut, to her time at Penn State where she was ready to get more involved around social injustice issues, all the way to how she is handling those same important issues across the Atlantic. Ellie also opens up about a depressive funk she was in while at University and how she was able to fight back and come back mentally tougher than ever! Next episode will feature a NCAA Div. 1 assistant coach/head of recruitment. 


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Welcome back to a new season of the No Stress Midwest Podcast! The theme for season 3 is “Black Excellence” and to get us kicked off, our first guest is Mabricio Wilson, the owner and founder of Futbolr Clothing (https://www.futbolr.com) a lifestyle clothing brand focused on bringing the Futbolr lifestyle, off the pitch. We dive into Mabricio’s Jamaican roots and how it shaped him into the player he was as a youth and what connections brought him to choosing the division 1 university that he played at for 4 years. We also hear how Futbolr started and how it’s grown into the empire it is today. Enjoy the listen and stay tuned for our next guest who just finished up playing in her first champions league!


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Season 2 Finale! Crazy how fast we got here but what a great season It has been. We have had an assortment of guests that have all had some great stories, and shared some great wisdom to the young players. As we wrap up, we are visited by Monica Bosiljevac, a high school varsity assistant coach at Marian High School and Executive Director at Football For The World (FFTW).  I have made reference to Monica in multiple episodes this season as someone that gave me the idea to get an all female guest list. I have met some great people during this journey and I believe that it all comes together nicely in the final episode.  Monica and I met taking our USSF C License back in 2019 and have developed quite the friendship in the short period of time, being one of two podcast guests that I had a friendship with prior to recording really shows this episode. We discuss her time as a youth player growing up in Omaha, Nebraska and her high school playing career that emulated the start of her coaching career. I would get in trouble if I did not mention a special guest in Nelson who for the most part played it cool but did have a part that he wanted edited out. Interested in getting more women involved In soccer after their playing career? Monica is plug that you need to know! Thank you for following me through season 2, season 3 is right around the corner!


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In the soccer culture, the # 10 may be the most coveted jersey number ever, after watching what Caitlyn Schrepfer (@Caitfreestyle) can do with a soccer ball at her foot, you can see why she was our 10th guest! Caitlyn currently holds the #1 and #2 ranked best freestyler in the U.S. and World respectively. Caitlyn shares with us how she started off playing goalie and a serious injury led her to the path she is on now. From traveling all around the world, being in 2 commercials with Messi and currently living in the Baller House (@Blrhouse) the last thing this episode will do is disappoint you! Whats a baller house you ask? Dont worry, I had the same question and the answer was everything that I Imagined it would be, and then some. Sit back, kick your feet up and get ready to coast.

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There was this one time that I was able to get someone on the podcast that played in a UEFA Champions League match... this is that person! Maegan Kelly joins us from Houston where she is enjoying the off-season with the Houston Dash following up a 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. Maegan is yet another KC native who spent her HS days at St. Teresa's where she made quite an impact starting her freshmen year. From there we go Into her days laying at Marquette University and of course her Draft Day story being selected by FCKC in 2014.
The story then gets a little more interesting as Maegan takes her talents overseas to Iceland, Finland and Italy and how she was able to play in the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE while in Italy. The story doesn't stop there as we talk about Maegan's time with the Canadian National team, playing for the now U.S. Women's national Team coach (Vlatko Andonovsky) and put an end to the debate on which Kelly sister (Maegan or Katie) is the better of the two. 



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It's sad to think that there are more episodes behind us than ahead of us, but as promised, the second half of the season has another great guest. Today we sit down with Jaycie Johnson who Is currently an assistant coach at the University of Nebraska. Jaycie was a high school standout scoring 195 goals during her time as well as collected a few awards (All American, Gatorade Missouri Player of the Year amongst conference and All State awards) along the way. Jaycie suffered multiple major ACL and knee injuries that would take even cause the strongest competitor to hang up their cleats but Jaycie talks about her recovery process and what/who have played major parts in taking care of her body. 
We of course have to hear Jaycie's Draft Day story but more Importantly we hear some BREAKING NEWS from Jaycie where she shares on our podcast an exclusive about what could  come in the future!


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I know that the past guest have all been current professional athletes, but todays episode we head into a different direction and look at the life of content creation and social media. Cheyenne Foster is the owner of "Between Clean Sheets" (Youtube: Between Clean Sheets, Instagram: @BtwnCleanSheets) a vlog dedicated to speaking on everything D.C. United and MLS. We dive into Cheyennes past as a student-athlete, working on the Soccer City project in San Diego, her brief time spent here in Kansas City (You know I had to ask her favorite BBQ spot) and what brought her to D.C. and become their number one supporter! Cheyenne lets us know that you don't have to be a player or coach to still be involved with the game, listen to how she was able to expand her love and what her ultimate goal is with Between Clean Sheets. 2026 is right around the corner, so remember where you heard about Cheyenne first!


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