Using "The Hero's Journey" to improve sports performance with Ben Smith

Hello and welcome to all you Captain’s Coach Podcast listeners. We have a really fun one lined up for you today, especially for those of you who like more conceptual into the weeds type of conversations. And there is no one I enjoy having those type of conversations with, except maybe Jonny Wolfgram, shouts to you Jonny, than our very own Founder and CEO of The Captain’s Coach Ben Smith. Unlike me, Ben is an actual leadership expert and just finished his first of many books The Captain’s Playbook, which you will hear more about at the end of this episode, but today Ben and I discuss the impact and importance of story on our lives and within the framework of leadership; specifically The Hero’s Journey or Monomyth and how that model or framework can be applied to sports on a program or team level and also on an individual leader level. Like I said at the onset, this will be a little more conceptual than we’re used to on here which I think is a good fun change up. So without further ado here is Ben Smith and our conversation on The Hero’s Journey.

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