Winning is Not Everything

In Part 3 of our conversation with Mark Schlereth, a two-time Pro Bowl guard and three-time Super Bowl champion, shares the sacrifices he made — including undergoing 29 surgeries — to make the most of his football career, as well as his insights on parenting and his message for youth sports parents. 

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 2 of our conversation with Mark Schlereth, a two-time Pro Bowl guard and three-time Super Bowl champion, highlights the key people who helped in his childhood, including a teacher in seventh grade who gracefully championed him start to get help for Dyslexia. 

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 1 of our conversation with Mark Schlereth, a two-time Pro Bowl guard and three-time Super Bowl champion, discusses how his childhood in Alaska influenced him and provided a childhood highlight with a legendary NFL team.

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 2 of our conversation with John O'Sullivan, the founder of the Changing the Game Project, he discusses how awareness of the issues in youth sports has gone up since his epic TED Talk in 2014, yet the problems have gotten markedly worse and what his message is for young athletes and parents in the midst of the madness.

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 1 of our conversation with John O'Sullivan, the founder of the Changing the Game Project, he shares about the benefits of being a late-blooming athlete and the cost in the United States of rushing to identify "talented" athletes. 

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 4 of our conversation with Nikki Jessee, the head women's coach at Warner University in Florida, she provides context and great perspective on her viral thread on Twitter about transferring from the University of Florida and what she wished she had done instead. 

In Part 3 of our conversation with Nikki Jessee, the head women's coach at Warner University in Florida, she lays out keys to building and rebuilding programs and the rare distinction of coaching against her spouse Tom Jessee, the head women''s basketball coach at the University of Tampa.

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 2 of our conversation with Nikki Jessee, the head women's coach at Warner University in Florida, she provides context and great perspective on her viral thread on Twitter about transferring from the University of Florida and what she wished she had done instead. 

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 1 of our conversation with Nikki Jessee, the head women's coach at Warner University in Florida, she recounts how she fell in love with basketball and some of the key people who influenced her development into a Top-50 high school player.

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.

In Part 3 of our conversation with Michael DeAugustino, a two-time All-American wrestler at Northwestern University, he reflects on losing after giving up a big lead in an important match, and how other key lessons he's learned en route to being an elite college wrestler.

Winning Is Not Everything is a podcast aimed at bringing sanity back to youth sports with conversations with blue–chip athletes and coaches.