BC110: Ed Padalecki | Inner Circle Benefits

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This week, you get to hear from Inner Circle member Ed Padalecki. Coach Padalecki is a high school baseball and football coach in Flower Mound, Texas. On this episode, you’ll learn about: The #1 biggest improvement Coach Padalecki has experienced in the last year The power of a community of like-minded individuals What it takes to coach 2 sports and lead a family (with a newborn!) The 2016 Inner Circle Moment of the Year and much more… PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Morse: Throwing you a change up this week. It’s Matt Morse here hosting this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast. I’m joined by Inner Circle member and high school football/baseball coach, Ed Padalecki. Great to have you here today, Ed. Padalecki: Thank you, Matt. It’s a pleasure to be here and an honor. Morse: Awesome. If you would tell us a little bit about how you got to where you are today as a successful high school baseball/football coach here in the state of Texas. Padalecki: Well I guess it started shy of my 30th birthday. I was at a point in life where I was living in San Antonio. I had a financial firm, wealth management firm, and was doing the Wall Street thing for most of my 20s. I got to a point to where I was evaluating my life and I liked what I did but I didn’t love what I did. I was always passionate about sports and I looked back on my life and who had the biggest impact on me growing up and that was my teachers and coaches so I was able to transition out of my practice and became a coach and a teacher. I started off in southeast Texas, south of Victoria at a small little rural school. I did everything – football, baseball, track. I taught five different classes. Then from there I move up to the metroplex and I was in the Eagle Mountain Saginaw district and spent a couple years there. Then for family reasons I moved back down to central Texas to Hutto, Texas, home of the Hippos, and coached football/baseball. I taught junior US History. Then I came back up to the metroplex for my wife (or now wife) of going on 2 years. She can check me on that fact. Sometimes I miss that. I’m a guy. So I moved up here to metroplex, became the head baseball coach and defensive coordinator at a small school just west of Fort Worth – Millsap High School – and spent a year there. It got to the point to where I was driving an hour to work. I needed to reevaluate things. My name was brought up for Terrell High School which is on the opposite side of the metroplex and I figured well if I’m going to drive an hour to work I might want to do that on my own choice. So I moved to Terrell and was the head baseball coach there for this past year. But again an hour commute. My wife and I had a baby girl over the summer so I needed to reevaluate things, look at what I wanted to do versus what I needed to do, and stepping down as a head baseball coach and becoming an assistant for a few years to come is what I needed to do. Coach Danny Wallace over at Flower Mound High School graciously gave me the job at Flower Mound so I am there coaching football and coaching baseball. I am coaching football with Coach Brian Basil who is there for his first year as well. Big mental game guys, guys that love to build a championship culture. Morse: Awesome. Congratulations on the baby. I’m sure that has added a nice dynamic to the family. Padalecki: It has. It’s been a roller coaster – as those of you that have babies know. It’s been fun. Morse: Awesome. So your journey as a coach from Wall Street to coaching – obviously you started in the state of Texas and have stayed in this state. Where along in that journey did you meet up with Brian Cain?