Raising Athletes

By Kirsten Jones, Bleav

Sports Parenting podcast. Kirsten Jones interviews coaches, parents, athletes and trainers about everything youth sports. Follow Kirsten at kirstenjonesinc.com, @kirstenjonesinc (Facebook and Twitter)... more

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The podcast currently has 346 episodes available.

Raising Athletes episodes:

October 18, 2019 Episode #27: Kim Christos, Founder & Managing Director of Girls LAX at Center court Club & Sports
Welcome parents to the #RaisingAthletes Podcast.
Let’s talk about LAX! Excited for the first time to have a former DI LAX
player, Kim Christos on the podcast. Kim is now a LAX club director living
in New Jersey, who is also a coach and mother of four athletes. We’re
excited to have her on the podcast to speak about how best to support your
athlete, how she navigated playing multiple sports and how she feels about
specializing and at one age.
I love her advice on how to be the ideal sports parent… it’s juicy, wait
for it.
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June 20, 2019 Episode #26: Why Does Your Athlete Play? Kirsten & Susie
Four ways you can support your athlete through the pressures of youth
sports
Parenting is tough and responding in a way that is not only supportive but
beneficial to your child can be tricky some times. Understanding WHY your
teen plays is so helpful in supporting him on his journey.
Today Susie and Kirsten discuss four ways to support your athlete as
adversity occurs. When we have the tools as parents to support them, it can
make for a much more enjoyable ride for both YOU and your child. It doesn’t
have to be overwhelming.
Let’s do this!
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May 10, 2019 Episode #25: Dan Mavraides, Qualifying for Tokyo Olympics 2020 FIBA 3x3 Hoops
Dan Mavraides is a top-ranked FIBA 3x3 professional basketball player and a
2020 Olympic hopeful. Prior to playing 3x3 professionally, he played in the
top 5x5 leagues in Greece and Italy. He graduated from Princeton University
in 2011 where he was the two-time team MVP and let the Tigers to an Ivy
League Championship and NCAA tournament birth.
But for all of Dan’s success, which is tremendous, the most impressive part
of his story is that he is a self-professed “late bloomer” and what gifts
that gave him. It has taught him to be curious, become resilient and be
grateful for every opportunity. He says he has probably more than
compassion for others because his path wasn’t a straight line and the
insight that he’s gained has helped him, now at the age of 30 continue to
pursue his hoops dreams, one more time.
Dan’s personality is infectious. He’s also a motivational speaker, so
anyone looking for inspiration for high school or college kids, he is
outstanding at sharing his story and how never giving up is the key to
success.
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March 20, 2019 Episode #24: Austin Hatch- Adversity is Opportunity
Austin Hatch is a survivor. A two-time plane crash survivor, he epitomizes
what it means to be resilient. In 2003, at the age of 8, Austin’s mother,
sister and brother were tragically killed plane crash. Eight years later,
with many hours of hard work, the 6’6” basketball phenom was offered a
college scholarship from his dream school, University of Michigan. Just
nine days later, Austin would be aboard a plane with his father and “second
mother” (he never considered her a step-mom) and this plane too would go
down, killing both his parents and leaving Austin in a coma with severe
injuries including traumatic brain injury.
Today, I was so honored to speak with Austin and hear him talk about how he
made it to the University of Michigan through tireless work, unrelenting
positivity that “a miracle is going to happen” and belief that he was truly
blessed to have had all of his amazing family members in his life.
We can learn so much from Austin’s outlook as we parent and raise adults
about what it means to be optimistic, even in darkest of times and what the
belief in yourself and gratitude for the gifts you have been given can do
for you.
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February 26, 2019 Episode #23: Empathic Parenting & Other Tools to Support Your Athlete
Are you a sympathetic parent or an empathic parent? When your child “falls
in a hole”, ie, he gets cut from a team, didn’t get the playing time he
hoped he get, had a bad game, lost, do you “jump in the hole” with him or
do you stand near “the hole” (proverbially hole, of course), ask good
questions and see how you could help by witnesses his pain.
In today’s episode, Kirsten and Susie talk about several tools we find
helpful when parents contact us to ask how best to help their child in a
moment of crisis. Kirsten also shared a four step process to help your teen
learn ANY NEW SKILL. Check it out, try it out and please, let us know how
it goes!
We love hearing from you. Please feel free to rate and share this podcast
on iTunes. Do you know another sports parent who could use some support in
their journey to raising not only strong athletes but extraordinary kids.
We’d be so grateful if you shared it with them.
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January 31, 2019 Episode #22: Derek Cox, Former NFL Cornerback, It's All About Balance
Derek Cox was a D1 athlete who had never really considered playing pro
football until a scout came to see him play in his senior year in college
and told him he could become a “Priority Free Agent”…. Derek said he wasn’t
exactly sure what that was, but liked the sound of it.
Because he wasn’t a First Round pick, Derek worked tirelessly with the
hopes of landing a spot in the NFL…which he did. We spoke about the journey
and and through the pro’s and now that he’s retired and raising his son
with his wife, how have his ambitions and dreams shifted and what did he
learn along the way which is helping him with his current dream of
finishing his MBA and becoming an agent for players who are just arriving
into the league.
It’s all about Balance is a theme for Derek. And while he talks about
pursuing excellence with such clarity in everything he does from how he
works out, to what he eats to who he surrounds himself with, he also is
very aware that it takes balance to make it all happen.
For anyone with a teen athlete who aspires to make the team at the next
level, whatever that may be— MS, High School or college, this is worth the
listen.
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December 12, 2018 Episode #21: Slay the Day with These Five Rituals
One of the greatest gifts we can give this next generations (and ourselves)
in the gift of inner peace. What if your child could possess a knowing that
whatever they encounter, good or bad, they will be ok?
Rates of depression and anxiety are sky-rocketing. So much of it is caused
by the fear of the unknown, the panic of the question that arises in
everyone’s head, “What if I’m not enough?”
Susie and I give tools in this episode (good for parents to use, too!) to
quiet the negative self-talk and create a daily routine which puts you on
purpose for your dreams, goals and desires.
Perfect for the holidays when you need to decompress!
XOXOXO Kirsten & Susie
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November 11, 2018 Episode #20: Sue Enquist, OneSoftball.com, 11-Time National Champion Softball Coach & Player
Sue Enquist was UCLA Softball’s first All-American, National Champion, and
Hall of Famer. In 2006, Enquist wrapped up a 27-year career as head coach
of the UCLA Bruins with a 887-175-1 (.835) record, making her the
winningest softball coach among all active coaches.
On today’s episode we discussed how twelve years after retirement, softball
is still her passion and through her business OneSoftball.com, they are
helping inspire the player, organize the parent and educate the coach.
She is a wealth of knowledge on what “micro behaviors” as she calls them,
make athletes successful and has tips for parents on how best to support
their athletes at every stage of their development. You’ll love learning
from Sue, we sure did!
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October 26, 2018 Episode #19: My Kid Got Cut- Now What?
My kid got cut- now what!?
Kirsten and Susie discuss what happens when our athlete gets cut… no matter
what the level, whether it’s the middle school team or the varsity team or
even at the college or pro level. They discuss the three different
approaches we can take as parents to support them, which will give him/her
the opportunity to feel the pain and move through it, together.
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September 28, 2018 Episode #18: Jason Booher, US Navy SEAL on the Power of Adversity
This week on the #RaisingAthletes Podcast, we are excited to have United
States Navy SEAL veteran, Jason Booher on. While he is currently the leader
of the management consulting firm, Northwest Harbor Solutions, Booher
served 23 years as a commander in the SEALS, leading teams in everything
from basic SEAL training, i.e., BUD/S to commanding hundreds of combat
operations as well as driving integration of cross-functional intelligence
teams. He currently serves as an advisor to the local Southern California
public sector as well as at the most senior levels of U.S. Congress,
professional teams including the LA Dodgers and at RedBull High
Performance, as well as is a guest lecturer at Harvard and MIT on
Leadership.
Jason's life experience as a leader in one of the US military's most
exclusive and rigorous branches makes him the perfect person to talk to
when we want to know more about raising resilient, gritty, hard-working
kids. He shares some incredible insights which are completely transferrable
to the coaching/playing world for how to build peak performance teams!
(Hint: it starts with accountability from within.)
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