Making The Play #28: Jerry Lynch - Championing Your Cause

This week I’m very excited to chat with Dr. Jerry Lynch, author of “The Way of The Champion” “Coaching With Heart”, and other books that will change the way you view life. Seriously. They will. Dr. Lynch has been recognized as one of the top five in his profession nationwide.While most would consider him simply a sports psychologist, Dr. Lynch is a coach, mentor and teacher who guides and coaches athletes and parents to explore the meaning and purpose of sport, as a powerful vehicle to help us understand the mental-emotional-spiritual components of the athletic game and how they apply to the bigger game, LIFE.He has worked with men's and women's basketball, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, golf and other sports at the universities of North Carolina, Duke, Maryland, California, Syracuse, Stanford, Harvard and Middlebury and continues to work with several teams and parent groups nationally. Several of his clients have participated in various summer and winter Olympic Games. Most recently, he has established a consultancy with Steve Kerr, head coach of the World Champion Golden State Warriors. In the past 30 years alone, he has been part of 54 Final Four and 36 National Championship at the collegiate and professional levels.Dr. Lynch has a deep calling, where his success is not measured by "making a living" but by "making a difference" in the athletic and personal lives of others. He helps us to understand how sport is a microcosmic classroom for helping athletes, coaches and parents develop crucial capacities to love, respect and care for each other while simultaneously learning to enhance the spiritual elements of courage, commitment, compassion, patience, perseverance, sacrifice, integrity, trust, belief and selflessness: the values essential to extraordinary performance in athletics and life.Using an unconventional approach, he combines Eastern thought, Native American tradition, Christian mysticism and western psychology to help coaches, parents and their athletes to create confidence, mental toughness, inspiration and empowerment for competitive events and to better navigate the unchartered waters of sports, parenting and life.In this episode, you’ll hear…•How to do what you love best, more often, through The Way of The Champion•Adopting a Samurai mindset, and expect nothing – and get far more from Life•Lessons on embracing adversity, dealing with fatigue and “self-doubt”•What real leadership is, and how to let yours grow and serve