HOW I COACH
I wonder if you can relate to this:
During my basketball career I had a strength coach, skills coach, and team coach.
My strength coach trained my body to be strong, fast, flexible, and durable.
My skills coach grew my technical abilities to dribble, shoot, create space,
protect the ball, absorb contact, and move my feet.
My team coach grew my understanding of the game,
how to read a zone, how to beat a full court press,
how to hedge a flair screen, how to exploit weakness in another team, etc.
But all together, over my entire life as an athlete, all the wisdom I received around the mental side of the game can be summed up in three words…
…“suck it up.”
Clearly this will not do.
I coach athletes to understand their internal world and value mental well-being.
Sometimes this requires distinguishing between different kinds of hard, like the “good hard” of pushing your body to develop strength/speed/stamina, and the “toxic hard” of playing without the internal and external resources you need to excel.
Through a powerful one-on-one coaching relationship, we will uncover your limiting beliefs, say “yes” to your internal wisdom, and create the skills you need to flourish as an athlete and a human being.
I won’t give you a lecture or a seminar.
I won’t give you advice.
My job as a deep performance coach is to listen deeply, push boundaries, and coach you to become a grounded, passionate, human-centered competitor.
My Process
ENGAGE
DEEPEN
TRANSFORM
A client recently told me that working with me is like having a personal wizard.
The “magic” that he is speaking to doesn’t come from spells or enchantments, I promise I don’t have a staff or a crystal ball.
I just have the ability to listen deeply.
That’s why the first step to working with me is to apply for my Baseline of Shift program so we can hop on the phone and listen to your needs.
When we are ready to begin your program I will call you at our agreed upon time.
I’m also happy to meet online via Zoom - but be warned, this work is done best standing up, walking, feeling deeply into the fears and desires that motivate your career. If we meet online I’ll be moving around :)
As we begin we will jump into your story to find your particular stuck points and push into the background psychological/emotional barriers that limit your performance. Along the way I’ll help frame your experience and provide insight into how fear keeps your brain/body stuck in a posture of non-performance.
Mostly I ask questions, more questions, and more questions until you find yourself saying exactly what you need to hear. Truly, I’ve stopped being surprised at how much wisdom athletes have on their own behalf when they stop to deeply listen.
Along the way we may also utilize breath work, mindfulness, active imagination, and other tools to help reshape your approach to performance.
Homework is standard. But there are no grades. This is your life and your game and you’re the only one who sets the limits as to how far and deep we will go.
In every program I’ll include a recording of our conversations for your records; sometimes it takes a few days for new concepts to sink it so it can be helpful to revisit the discussion.
When we wrap up your program I provide you with a written summary of the key themes and take aways from our time together. Consider this a grounding document that captures the deep insights and action items uncovered in our coaching calls.
At this point many clients invite me on to their team long-term so we can deepen the work and push into fun, exciting, terrifying territory.
I am deeply honored to be a valued and trusted presence in your life, and find tremendous joy in working hard to serve you towards your dreams.
“I think a champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they recover when they fall.”
If you are wondering why I coach athletes, the answer is …
You.
Truly.
When you “change the game” and connect with your deepest truth I can feel the world changing.
When you thrive at what you do and in who you are I get inspired to play all out in my own life.
And so do others.
Your success is a gift to all of us – friends, family, community, and future athletes looking for an archetype of an athlete who “gets it right.”
My favorite part of coaching athletes is using the powerful context of competition to watch your life change, and as a result, the world change around you.