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Car Ride Home – Part 4

"If you want to keep playing, you need to take a good hard look at yourself." The video has the father saying these words to his son, but the video is asking us, as the adults to take a good hard look at what we are doing in these car rides. Additionally they zoom in on the father when he…
Grit Leadership
December 17, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParenting

Car Ride Home – Part 3

"We only get so many rides home with our kids before they are gone from our lives. What do we want them to remember about those car rides?" - Girls High School Varsity Basketball Coach (Michigan).  It is not hard to see how much this man cares for and loves his son. We are all pretty much the same. We love and care…
Grit Leadership
December 10, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParenting

Car Ride Home – Part 2

"When it comes to our kids in sports, we need to be supportive and positive. We want to encourage our kids to be themselves, to make mistakes, and to learn. Your kid may be too nervous and too tight to put themselves out there if they know they'll hear about any mistakes from their coaches, from social media, and from their parents."…
Grit Leadership
December 3, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetParenting

The Car Ride Home – Part 1

"...parental actions and conversations after games made them (kids) feel as though their value and worth in their parents’ eyes was tied to their athletic performance, and the wins and losses of their team." - John O'Sullivan, Changing the Game Project Learn about what we mean to do, what we accidentally are doing, what we need to start doing, and the exception to…
Grit Leadership
November 23, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetNewsParenting

Baylor University Presents: “What is a Coach?”

Coaches. Athletic Directors. Leaders:Join Paul Putz, Elizabeth Bounds, Valorie Kondos Field, and myself on October 28 as we discuss this critical role as coach and leader for a generation of people that needs us now more than ever! Schools once used athletics as a way to promote physical health, teach skills, build character, and create community. But as youth athletics have transformed and emerged…
Grit Leadership
October 11, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetNews

Leadership Lessons from Ted Lasso Presented by Snap! Mobile and The Leading Edge

Calling all program leaders! If you’re looking to level up your aptitude to lead, you’re in luck. Leading Edge and Snap! Mobile are partnering up on 9/21 to offer a “Leadership Lessons From  Lasso” webinar hosted by owner and operator of Grit Leadership for Educational Athletics, Kevin Broene. Explore leadership lessons from the fan-favorite, seven-time Emmy Award-winning series Ted Lasso…
Grit Leadership
September 15, 2022
CoachingGrowth MindsetVideos

Be Gritty. Push the Rock.

Our world is seemingly obsessed with highlighting accomplishments. However, I think gritty people worry less about accomplishments because they feel most alive when they are working on something big, something challenging, something that pushes them to the edge of their abilities and slightly outside their comfort zone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qNGWjDzxpQ "I don't want to rest. I don't want to coast...I don't want…
Grit Leadership
September 9, 2022
CoachingGrowth Mindset

Coach K Embracing the Process

It takes guts to embrace the process. All the best coaches and leaders understand the power of the process. Check out this article about how Coach K got his chance from a wise leader who embraced and valued the process over the results intitially, knowing the process would produce better results in the end. That is Grit Leadership in a…
Grit Leadership
March 17, 2022