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Available courses
How to Be a Great Sports Parent
This 60 minute course will help you understand how to help your athlete compete harder, play with more confidence, and ensure that your child's sports experience is not only a fun learning experience, but an extension of what your family values
7 Cs of a Positive
Sports Experience
This online video course walks you through the 7 essential things that all high-performing athletes need, and how to provide them to your athletes. Learn these seven essentials, and you are well on the way to having an optimal performing young athlete.
Warriors Not Winners
Coaching Mastery is our 6-part online course that delves deep into leadership, athlete psychology, building team culture, engaging parents, coaching best practices, and long-term athlete development. It includes over 10 hours of interviews with leading Olympic and Professional Sports Psychologists, Skill Acquisition Experts, authors, conflict resolution experts, and so much more. The course has 3 basic parts: Leadership, Team Culture, and Long-Term Athletic Development.
Most Popular Lessonss
How to Be a Great Sports Parent Module 1: The 3 Big Myths That Drive the 70% Dropout Rate
How to Be a Great Sports Parent Module 2: The Mindset of High-Performers
Warriors Not Winners: Developing a Warrior Ethos
Top Articles
The Race to Nowhere in Youth Sports
Why Kids Quit Sports
The Storm Has its Purpose
Saying Goodbye to my #1 Fan
The 4 Biggest Problems in Youth Sports Today
Is it Wise to Specialize?
3 Myths that are Destroying the Youth Sports Experience for our Kids
The Perils of Single-Sport Participation
Let's Stop the Early Sport Specialization Madness!
The One Quality Great Teammates Have in Common
The Ride Home
Our Biggest Mistake: Talent Selection Instead of Talent Identification
Our Favorite Interviews
Sports Parenting
Long Term Athlete Development
Mindset and Inner Game
Interviews about Sports Parenting
Asia Mape Loves to Watch You Play
Asia Mape, a 4-time Emmy Award-winning sports journalist and founder of "I Love to Watch You Play," brings her extensive experience covering major sporting events and interviewing top athletes to provide parents and coaches with valuable insights into coaching, parenting, nutrition, and youth sports.
Skye Eddy on Sports Parenting
Skye Eddy is a former Collegiate All-American, Professional Player, Collegiate and Youth Coach, and founded the Soccer Parenting Association which aims to educate, engage, support and advocate for youth soccer parents. We dive into the youth sports world and discuss how to get parents to listen to what their children want/need, the difference between encouraging and distracting sideline behavior, and creating alignment between clubs so positive change can happen.
Nick Buonocore on D1 or Bust
Nick Buonocore started The Reformed Sports Project to provide a platform for coaches and athletes from the highest levels to share their perspective and experiences with parents and kids. Nick uses his experiences as a former NCAA National Champion baseball player, his adventures coaching and parenting his own children, and his connections in the sports world to bring wisdom from the highest levels of sport down to your local town league.Â
Linda Flanagan on Youth Sports
Linda Flanagan is the author of the book Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports, and Why it Matters. We cover how sport has become a business, how much pressure is on parents to do more and more at younger ages, how the fact that sports help kids get into and pay for college is driving much of the mania, and so much more. She has compiled the latest research on the economic and social impacts of sport, as well as research post-COVID
Interviews about Long Term Athlete Development
Dr. Joe Baker on Talent
Dr. Joe Baker is the Tanenbaum Research Chair at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is a world-leader in research on talent identification, developing sport expertise, relative age effect, and high performance athlete development. His book is called The Tyranny of Talent: How it Compels and Limits Achievement... and Why We Should Ignore It
Dr. Jean Cote on Joy
Dr. Jean Côté, renowned professor and Director at Queen’s University, delves into the significance of fostering positive youth sport experiences and challenges traditional notions of athlete development, advocating for a holistic approach that prioritizes feedback, relationships, and connection alongside technical and tactical skills.
Ted Kroeten on Free Play
Ted Kroeten (@Joyofthepeople) is founder of Joy of the People, a free play soccer program in Minnesota. Kroeten leads the way in rethinking and delivering player development always championing kids based on his experienced, dedicated, and innovative soccer career. Joy of the People’s mission is to support the idea of play as an important part of a child’s development, to build small soccer spaces for kids to play, to serve disadvantaged youth, and to build community spirit.
Interviews about Mindset and the Inner Game
Jonah Oliver on Mental Strength
Combining his training in sport psychology and neuroscience, Jonah Oliver brings a unique, simple and effective approach to facilitating peak performance. Over the past two decades he has worked with a wide variety of clients: ranging from professional golfers (caddying on the PGA tour), Olympic athletes, professional soccer teams, AFL clubs, car racing teams (Porsche – Le Mans World Champion) elite tennis players and coaches
Dr. Michael Gervais on F.O.P.O
Dr. Michael Gervais, renowned high-performance psychologist, author of The First Rule of Mastery, and host of the Finding Mastery Podcast, is sought after by top professionals in business, sports, arts, and science to unlock extraordinary achievements, with a distinguished career including collaborations with Microsoft, Red Bull, and the Seattle Seahawks, as well as contributions to multiple Olympic Games.
Zach Brandon on Mistakes
Zach Brandon (@mvp_mindset) serves as the Mental Skills Coordinator for the Arizona Diamondbacks where he oversees mental performance services for players and staff across all levels of the organization. His focus is on helping players and coaches achieve peak performance consistently, while also increasing their enjoyment and satisfaction in sport and life. Prior to his current role in professional baseball, Zach served as a Mental Conditioning Coach at IMG Academy (FL)Â
Mark Pulisic on Christian Pulisic's Path to the Top
Graham Betchart on Palms Up vs Palms Down Behavior
Ben Freakley, Toronto Blue Jays Mental Performance
Margaret Domka on Mental Health and Sport
Dr Jim Taylor on Positive Pushing
Dr Neeru Jayanthi on Specialization and Overuse Injuries
Skye Eddy on Parent Engagement
Dr. Eric Potterat on Navy SEALs Mental Performance
Dr. Mitch Greene on Quieting Mind Chatter
Stephen Rollnick on Motivational Interviewing
Maureen Monte on the Confidence Crisis with Girls
Amanda Visek on How Kids Define Fun
Rasmus Ankerson on The Talent That Whispers
Kelly and Juliet Starrett on Being an Athlete for Life
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