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Sean Lane is a football (soccer) coach who’s had success as a head coach across 3 different continents.  Laney shares his journey from staring as a professional player at the age of 16 years old, to transitioning into a financially successful cooperate career to giving it all up to pursue his passion for coaching while still having to support 5 kids, a mortgage and starting from the bottom when most would consider too late to start. Laney is now the director of soccer and head coach of Spire in Ohio, USA. 
If you are someone who feels it is too late to reinvent yourself, you feel it is impossible to start from the bottom again or its simply unfeasible to break away from the golden handcuffs of financial success, Laney’s lays out the blueprint of how anyone with a bit of sacrifice, a lot of hard work and humility you can still live out your dreams.

Highlights from the episode…

• The importance of getting out of your comfort zone. After a professional football career in England Laney moved to Australia, even though he had offers in England, Ireland and other European clubs. 
• After an incredible football career, Laney went onto climb the cooperate ladder to become a general manager of his own successful sales company.
• I share a personal cautionary tale of why it’s important to include your family when making career decisions in an industry that often requires most to be selfish.
•  After a decade long financially successful corporate career, giving it all up to start his coaching career coaching an under 6s girls team.
• The importance of paying your dues.  5+ years working with academy teams, being paid less than $100/week, driving 1 1/2 hours each way to training 6 days a week before he got his first senior role.
• “To develop intuition you have to pay a tuition!” 
• After 5 + years paying his dues he reaped success with as a senior team coach winning the league twice in a row as well as wining coach of the year in 2017.
• “People open doors for you and it’s up to you whether you walk through them”. Laney shares how he got the opportunity to go from coaching on the Gold Coast to Bangladesh. 
• Stories of working in one of the most passionate footballing countries with a population of over 145 million, in one of the oldest and biggest clubs in the Bangladesh Premier League. 
• His next opportunity with a state of the art sporting academy as the head of football in Ohio, USA. 
• Key must have attributes of any Physios, Sport Scientists, Analysts, S&C coaches etc.  coming from a head coach perspective. 

 
People mentioned: 

•  Scott McDonald 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McDonald

•  Troy Bingham

https://www.spireacademy.com/about-us/leadership/leadership-troy-bingham/

 
Sean Lane contact details:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-lane-688b4522
• Spire Academy website: https://www.spireacademy.com/

Host: Luis Resa

Contact me on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-resa-a975196b/
• Email: [email protected]

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