Coach 360: A Podcast For High School Coaches

In our latest episode, Colton is spending time with Birdville ISD's Athletic Director Chris Feris. Coach Feris was awarded Texas High School Athletic Directors Association Director of the year and has been with Birdville since 2013. Key Takeaways for this week's podcast: Each individual kid cannot be coached the same Be present with your students and athletes Focus on developing both the player and the athlete through personal interactions with each player. Coach shares about his time playing and coaching at Rice and how that has helped shape him into the Coach and AD he is today. Coach also shares the importance him and his coaches place on continually building up and encouraging each athlete to excel in academics. Coach also shares a quotes he gives to his coaches that really rings true to him and his program. "There's nobody that can ever keep you from doing the best you can." Lou Holtz Coach ends the podcast discussing the idea of choice and how as a coach, you made the decision to be about kids and mak

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with coaches from Northside ISD sharing words of encouragement about their upcoming LEAD event. Mackey shares what this event looks like and how it is used to facilitate change in each athlete that attends. Tomorrow's leaders will be built in today's locker rooms. This year alone there will be over 15 million high school students that walk through school doors in America. As coaches, teachers, and parents, you are taking this next generation to the next step in their life. You are influencing, equipping, and encouraging them to become the best person they can be. Key Takeaways: -Take notes (a short pencil is better than a long memory) -When asking your athletes questions, reframe it three different ways to allow each athlete to understand and apply questions in their own way -When discussing character and personal growth concepts, defer to the athlete. If you'd like to see a LEAD event held at YOUR school, please email colton@2words.tv. Follow us on social: @mackeyspeaks

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Renee Putter of Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD. Coach Renee Putter is the Athletic Director at Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD and has spent over 25 years with the district. Prior to that, believe it or not, she spent some time as a police officer. In this podcast we get to learn more about CFBISD and the things they value. Coach emphasizes the character traits that CFBISD hopes to instill in each athlete during their time as students, and she reiterates the importance of school and athletics laying the groundwork for each student to become a successful individual and citizen later in life. Some key takeaways from this week's podcast: Pay attention to the little things Take the time to know your students, children, or athletes Encourage your athletes, students, and kids that they can do it all, and you're right there to help them. Coach really emphasized the importance of building community engagement. They recently held a district wide prep rally that consisted

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Marion County HS Coaches talking about the idea of coaching "long shelf life" traits. As coaches, mentors, and parents, we are responsible for making sure our athletes and students are ready not only for the test next week, but for the tests they'll face in life. We need to make sure we are equipping them with the tools to be successful in life. Some key takeaways from this podcast: -It is important to do the right thing at the right time and not fear the consequences of doing so. -It is our job as coaches and teachers to teach students that they are the most powerful person in their world. -If you decide to have a bad attitude, that's on you. Your circumstances can't choose that for you. As coaches, teachers, and parents, when you teach a student the power of commitment to their homework or to the team, you're teaching them how to be a successful mother or father. Everything you are teaching your students now, have a longer shelf life than you can ever hope or imagi

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Head Basketball Coach David Peavy from Duncanville HS. Coach David Peavy is the new Head Coach at Duncanville High School. He was previously at Houston Dekaney where he coached them to a 34-4 record losing to Jesuit in the Class 6A Regional II Semifinals. They were also regional semifinalists in 2017 when they lost to Dallas Skyline after a 27-8 season. Coach shares a little bit about his journey from leaving his past role as a coach in Houston to his current role and what that looked like stepping into an already developed program. Some key takeaways from this episode: Watch your actions because they'll turn into habits, which affect your success The power of the group is stronger than the individuals As a coach, don't make it so much about you, make it about THEM Coach finishes up the episode by giving listeners a bit of advice he would have given himself when he first started his coaching career. Coach Peavy stresses the importance of not making it about you, th

In today's episode, Mackey is live at Spring Branch ISD Coaches training sharing the importance of coaching up and developing your athletes mindset. Key takeaways from this week's episode: Attitude is a personal choice YOU are the most powerful person in your life If you don't have great effort, you have no one to blame but yourself Mackey brings the heat in this episode, teaching coaches ways to acknowledge and overpower negative mindsets in their athletes. He shares how coaches can continually shape and mold an athlete's view of himself or herself and ultimately make an impact that goes far beyond the game. Follow us on social media! @mackeyspeaks @2wordstv @FullCurlColton YouTube: www.youtube/mackeyspeaks www.2words.tv

In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Jeff Hulme, Head Football Coach from Midway High School. Coach Hulme took over at Midway in 2016 after leading Mansfield to the Class 6A state semifinals. This past year, in his second season at Midway, he took the Panthers to the Class 6A State Championship game. This week, Coach Hulme talks to us about his journey to Midway and everything that he has learned along the way. In today's podcast, here are some key points to take away: You can't just talk the talk, you have to walk the walk Putting the right coaches around you can make all the difference Character Development is more than just checking a box Coach gives us a look at what his Midway program looks like on the inside and how they view character development. He emphasizes the strengths of his assistant coaches and the impact they have on the program, as well as, the students that they teach. Coach Hulme and his coaching staff make it a point to embody great character everyday, whether that

David Smoak has over three decades of experience covering sports in Texas and is a graduate of Tyler Junior College (’79) and Stephen F. Austin State University (’81). He became the program director and talk show host for ESPN-Central Texas (AM1660, 100.9FM, 106.9FM) in June 2010 after spending the spring of 2010 at ESPN Radio in Dallas. Mackey joins "You Make the Call" on ESPN Central Tx 1660 with David Smoak and shares a little bit of his life and what it looked like creating 2Words Character Development. Some key points to take away from this podcast: Don't start with no, start with yes The day that you stop trying to make everyone else think you're the best is the day that you will see the most growth and improvement in what you do Sports are a great conduit for learning the skills that will make you successful in the game of life We hope you're ready to go left lane, hammer down, full tilt boogie with us on this one.

"Good, Better, Best Never let it Rest, Until the good is better And the Better is Best." In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Ross McMurry, Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Colmesneil HS. This week will look a little different as Coach McMurry dives into his background and the struggles he faced before becoming the mentor, coach, and husband he is today.  In today's podcast, here are some key points to take away: Your past circumstances don't define your future success You are the average of the five people you hang around the most You can't be a leader without first being honest Coach talks about the struggles that are all too real in high schools today, from drugs and alcohol to broken homes. Coach experienced it all. He talks about his journey from being lost, not expected to have a successful future, to becoming a Head Football Coach and mentor to young men. Coaches and mentors in his life helped change his trajectory, and now he has the opportunity to pay it forward and do the s

In our latest Coach 360 episode, Colton is live with Coach Chris Castillo, Head Football Coach and Athletic Coordinator from Dallas Sunset High School. Coach took over at sunset 2 years ago and has since been on a mission to take Sunset to the next level. With an open enrollment district and a tough few seasons coach had 12 guys show up his first day of practice. Coach talks about the importance of positivity in his locker room and the idea that leaders will always be followers in times throughout their lives. He encourages his players to be the best version on themselves every single day, from the locker room to the classroom, Coach Castillo pushes and encourages them.

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with Coach James Stagnitta, Head Coach of the Charlotte Hounds Major League Lacrosse team. Coach dives into his career and shares with us this idea that coaching is different than leading. Coach explains that as he grew and developed as a coach, he grew as a leader as well. It's one thing to put people in set and tell them what to do, and it's another thing to truly develop them and lead them, then it's a lot easier to get them to do things as a group and collective unit. Coach goes on to talk about culture and what the process for creating a team culture looks like for a professional organization. Coach says, "A good culture can make an average team very good, and a bad culture can break down a great team." Coach shares some advice he would've given himself as a first year coach knowing what he knows now. He shares a little about empathy and putting yourself into you player's position by asking more questions and understanding what they're going through a little more ins

We have a special episode for you as we reach the end of the week. We're sharing a clip from one of our curriculum videos, "Your Role". Colton shares with us a little bit about what this idea means to him and how sports were an outlet for him while he faced family struggles. This is an all too familiar story, that we know coaches see every day. Mackey asks us a powerful question. He asks, "do you know your role?" Sometimes that question that a negative connotation. There's been a stigma associated with the idea of being a role player in comparison to a 5-star player. So many people believe that if they are a "role guy", then they are a no-star guy. Every single one of us have a role to play, not only on a team, but in life. Social Media Handles: @mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Todd Vesely, Executive Director at Ector County. Coach shares his transition from being a coach to working towards an administrative role. He talks about how the common themes he used in coaching was easily translatable to other programs across the board, which is what drew him to a more administrative role. Coach goes on to talk about what winning means to him. He believes winning is maximizing your performance and the performance of others, making as big of an impact in young people as you can. Winning can take on many different looks, but our real purpose is to help develop others. Coach gives us a deeper understanding of the steps it takes to grow and develop leaders. One of the steps to becoming a great leader is giving your best every single day, which Coach talks about being the hardest thing you'll do. Giving your best is being able to measure, whether you really gave your best, and the only person that really knows that is you. It becomes a habit if yo

In our latest episode Colton and Mackey are talking about perspectives and the idea that having different perspectives than one another doesn't make one party right and one wrong. Mackey shares a story about an experience he and his wife had while engaged and how the way they viewed the situation then is completely different than the way they view now looking back. He talks about the importance of experience shaping our perspective and how different situations can be looked upon differently as we mature and grow. Mackey shares the idea that as we all step into different leadership roles, we will encounter others who will not share in our perspective or understanding of a situation due to the fact that they lack experience. When we find ourselves in a position where someone doesn't understand a decision that we're making or a strategy that we're implementing because they have not had the experience, there is an element that they have to simply trust the leader, but there's also the element that the leader has

In our latest episode, Colton is speaking with the Aggie Christian Business Leaders Club about his move from the security of a job at a fast-growing company to diving head first into a start up with his best friend. Colton and Mackey go back about 10 years, and over that time as he was crafting his speaking ability, Colton was growing in business experience. Colton was connected to an amazing company really young and was fortunate to be apart of their growth from roughly 20 people to 220 at the time he stepped away for 2Words. During that time he served for 5 years on their senior leadership team managing culture in our rapidly growing business. Colton shares how he ended up leaving the security of everything he had ever known to jump into a Start up with one of his closest friends, and mainly how they both decided to act in Faith, not fear.

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Kent Jackson from Seminole High School. Coach Jackson talks about his program's mantra, TR1BE. Which stands for: Trust Respect Integrity Belief Enthusiasm Coach talks about replacing the i with a 1 representing one tribe, one unit, one mission. Coach dives in a little deeper on what exactly it means to have belief and do everything with enthusiasm. Coach talks about going from a winning season to a losing season and how as coaches, they continually tried instilling confidence in their players throughout the drought. He talks about the character and bond that was built during that season and how it positively impacted the athletes. Coach shares about a new program they started where they find male mentors to meet with them each Friday morning on gamedays to talk about sports, life, and everything in between.

In our latest episode, Colton is live at Hamlin High School telling his story of putting in the hard work in hopes of winning in a power building competition. Colton talks about putting in months and months of effort into this one moment, for seven minutes on stage competing. Colton talks about wanting more at the end of that competition. He thought that if he was putting in months of effort, endless amount of time and dedication, he should be reaching for an even bigger title. Colton goes on to talk about the fact that at the end of his competitions, after competing at Worlds, he realized that no medal, no championship ring was going to make him a champion. The process makes you a champion.

Mackey and Colton are live in our newest episode of Coach 360 talking about Colonel Craig Flower's idea of tier 1 leadership. Mackey shares the three questions that get asked of these tier 1 leaders: 1. Can they do it? 2. Will they do it? 3. Will others follow them when they do? So many times we believe that in order to be the best leader, you have to be the best player on the field, and if you were the best player, then by default, you were the best leader. In the book, "The Captains Class" Sam Walker unveils that after investigating all the seventeen sports dynasties from the past, the best leaders were not necessarily the best players, they were the glue that held the team together. They were capable, willing, and others followed them. The best leaders aren't necessarily the best players or the best motivators, they are the players who can do a little bit of it all the best. Mackey and Colton go on to talk about ways in which coaches can develop their players in certain areas they are lacking to create tie

This episode is a special one as Colton is live with retired Concordia Chicago's Head Women's Basketball Coach, Rusty Rogers, who was the coach of one of our very own 2W team members. Coach Rogers shares his story and how his mindset on coaching was changed after the birth of his daughter. He talked about the shift from thinking solely about winning and records to focusing on using basketball as a facilitator for his ministry of creating a sense of confidence and character in his athletes. Coach shares his coaching philosophy and the idea that being a successful coach means lighting a fire within each player, not lighting a fire beneath them. He also gives practical ways how coaches can navigate a shifting mentality from focusing on records to focusing on lives.

In our latest episode, we are bringing you the latest curriculum video, Tick Tock. Life is often unpredictable, and you can never know or control what the next day will bring. You can control how you react to whatever the future holds. Even though you can’t predict exactly what struggle you will face, you know that some type of struggle is coming. Each day you can prepare for those unknown obstacles by building skills like commitment, determination, and discipline. Those skills will help you make it through the heat of August and the pressures of the season, and they will help you make it through the unknown struggles that life will throw in your path. Every moment is an opportunity to prepare for the next big event or the next struggle waiting just over the horizon. The clock is ticking.