During COVID Coach Joe quit his 9-5 finance job and decided to hike the Appalachian trail end to end, this meant 5 months of hiking 20-30 miles a day, totaling 2200miles or 3500km (shoutout my Canadians). He said that the thing that drove him to do this was reading the book "Mindset" by Carol S. Dweck. In this episode max gets quizzed on what he learned after reading the book which coach Joe gave him, why just working hard isn't enough to succeed, and how he used the lessons from this book to help push him through his toughest days and accomplish his goal of hiking the AT.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro

2:02 Podcasting

4:10 Coach Joe's Story

8:31 The Growth Mindset / Hiking Appalachian Mountains 16:13 The Book That Started It All

22:00 Coach Joe Has No Social Media

25:04 Back To The Book

32:43 Intentionality

35:23 Working With Olympians

42:30 Getting To Elms College

46:06 How To Actually Improve

49:18 Goals

54:21 Coach Joes Lifting Program

57:54 The Bird Dog Row

1:03:14 Life Outside Of Strength and Conditioning

1:08:14 Advice For Your Younger Self

Austin spent last year at Elms as a practice player and decided if he wanted to succeed at the college level he needed to transfer to a JUCO. Ok this episode we talk about his growth after transferring, what he wants to work on, and why creating memories is more important than winning in basketball.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

1:29 JUCO Basketball

8:59 Growing As A Player

11:54 Living A-ARon

14:03 Memories Are More Important

24:24 Look Beyond The Surface / Time Is the Ultimate Nullifier

30:30 Going Forward

36:08 Being Held Accountable

40:20 JUCO Academics

Another Episode of some attempted philosophical ramble, max getting his first college start, and New Year’s resolutions.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

1:03 We're Back/ Max Is Moving Different

11:00 What Did It Take?

17:36 Playing A Division 1 Team

23:28 Christmas Break Shenanigans

29:55 Delusion and Men's Leagues *

37:12 Effort Vs Effortlessness

45:23 Work Vs Play

50:17 Cultivating The Image You Present to The World

1:05:23 Not All Seeds Planted Will Be Bear Fruit

The return of Addy, after he spent a semester abroad in New Zealand he has returned and we got the chance to spend an hour quizzing Addy on how travel has affected the way he views the world, Anthony Bourdain, and Addy's secret overseas wife and kids (for legal reasons this last one is obviously satire).

We each get 5 questions to expose our deepest darkest secrets.

Nancy Davis is the Assistant Dean of Academic Student Success and one of the many crucial pieces that makes Elms College function as well as it does. In this episode we talk about Nancy's previous job in recruiting, what made some people successful and others not so much, why networking is so important, and whether or not Nancy would be rich and anonymous or broke and famous.

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Daniel made a huge leap from not even having a jersey his freshman year to playing double digit minutes in the first 2 games of this season, in this episode we go talk about Daniel's parents having him when they were still in high school, how Daniel was able to make such a big leap in one year, and how to hit people with the bong bong.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

1:00 Daniel Is Ducking Us

2:23 How Daniel Got To Elms

7:37 Growth From Freshman Year To This Year

11:40 Trash Talk

15:46 Hit Em With The Bong Bong

20:08 Balancing Basketball With Work

21:46 Avoiding Jealousy

32:21 Preparing For Freshman Year

37:22 Daniels Childhood

48:14 Daniels Love Story

50:09 Tony

51:17 Leaning On Your Family Unit / Childhood Stories

1:11:57 Life Outside of Basketball

1:19:08 Becoming Self Reliant

1:32:26 One Piece Of Advice to Your Younger Self

After Chris's borderline basketball comeback he's left with this odd longing for his basketball career to be longer, which sparks a conversation about what makes that feeling of being on the court so incredible, if it can be replaced, why there needs to be some level of risk involved, and if Joey Chestnut feels that way while gobbling glizzies.

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Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

1:24 Story Time

28:40 Takeaways From The Experience

35:32 Is It Just About Competing?

37:27 Is It Just About Winning? *

39:57 The Three Pillars

47:29 Maxes First College Bucket (technically)

49:21 The Immediate Resistance Of Basketball

1:00:40 The Risk Of Embarrassment

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You read the title, we're running out of ideas.

Yapping about golf, Ryan getting screamed at while doing hill sprints, Ryan's thought process when stepping up to pitch, and how Ryan dealt with injury his freshman year in college.

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