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Sideline Sessions
by Ross Romano
Designed for coaches, parents and other stakeholders in the world of youth, scholastic, and amateur sports, this show brings you interviews with leaders at the highest levels of their respective sports. Hear from coaches and performance experts with experience in the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Olympics, and NCAA Division-I, plus those who run elite youth programs, successful high school teams, and more. Hear about their motivations, philosophies, and strategies for success, and take away actionable insights to support the athletes in your life.
Episodes
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Gabe Nosseir — Elevating Soccer Players Through Transformative Coaching
Gabe Nosseir is a soccer coach, performance coach and life coach. He works with professional soccer players and does individual coaching. In this episode, we discuss: Goals for his athletes What is transformative coaching? Elevating soccer players to become better versions of themselves through...
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Dan O’Connor — St. Louis Cardinals Major League Video & Advance Information Assistant Coordinator
We have a great guest to kick off season 4 of Sideline Sessions. Dan O’Connor is Major League Video & Advance Information Assistant Coordinator with Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals. Before joining the Cardinals organization, he worked in a variety of baseball operations and player...
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Matt Doherty — NCAA Champion Basketball Player and Former North Carolina Head Coach on the 6 Principles of Leadership
This is the final episode of Sideline Sessions season 3, also simulcast on The Authority. I speak with Matt Doherty, former head coach at Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina, Florida Atlantic, and SMU. As a starter on the 1982 National Championship team at UNC, with his teammate Michael...
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Best of Sideline Sessions: Charlie Miller on Teaching Young Athletes to Find Their "Bright Spots"
Next week, we'll have the final episode of Season 3. Today we're sharing a "Best Of" episode, one of our earliest conversations with Charlie Miller. This chat is packed with great insights. Charlie is a master basketball coach, author, and owner of ATTACK Basketball Academy in the Dallas, Texas...
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Running a Championship Practice with Adam Sarancik
This week Adam Sarancik returns to the show. Adam is a longtime baseball coach teams have consistently won championships at every youth league and high school level. In administration, he has served as league founder, board member and coaches’ and players’ clinic director. He is also owner of...
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Adam Sarancik — Coaching with the Person-Athlete-Player Philosophy
This week it’s a pleasure to be joined by Adam Sarancik, a longtime baseball coach and owner of Elevate Sports Academy. In baseball, Adam’s teams have consistently won championships at every youth league and high school level. In administration, he has served as league founder, board member and...
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Matt Murawski — A Player-Centered Approach to Little League Baseball
Matt Murawski has been coaching Little League baseball for over six years. Like many coaches he has been inspired by amazing coaching experiences and seeing poor coaching situations for kids. He is a big fan of the player-centered approach to coaching. In this episode, we discuss: What inspired...
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George Andriopoulos — Serving Young Athletes Through the Police Activity League
Today I’m happy to bring you an episode about youth coaching with George Andriopoulos. George has coached basketball and flag football and serves as Commissioner of Basketball for the Police Activity League. In his day job, George is a distinguished leader renowned for his transformative impact...
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Travis Reed — International Basketball MVP Shares Lessons Learned Along His Athlete’s Journey
Travis Reed is a professional basketball player who played 10 years overseas in countries such as Colombia, Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, Estonia, Germany, Australia and more. He was a League MVP in Holland 2004, Winning Finals MVP, League MVP in Estonia and also Baltic League MVP in 2006....
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Claudio Reilsono — Carnegie Mellon Baseball Coach and Pro Scout on Leading From the Heart Up
Claudio Reilsono is the General Manager and professional baseball scout with the Global Scouting Bureau and the head baseball Coach at Carnegie Mellon University. In this episode, we discuss: How Claudio entered coaching at age 18 His coaching philosophy developed over 40 years of experience His...
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Jennifer Gross — UC Davis Women’s Basketball Coach on Her Program’s Core Values and Building a Winner
Today’s guest Jennifer Gross is entering her 14th year as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California - Davis. UC Davis is a special place for Coach Gross, as she was a point guard for the program from 1993-1997, before returning as an assistant coach in 2004. She led the...
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Damon Lembi on Helping Young Athletes Develop a Learn-It-All Mindset
Welcome to “opening day” here for Season 3 of Sideline Sessions! I’m thrilled to start the season with a great guest, Damon Lembi. Damon is a two-time bestselling author, the host of The Learn-It-All Podcast, and CEO of Learnit – a live learning platform that has upskilled over 2 million people.…
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Aaron Makelky — HS Football Coach on Overcoming the Challenges of Culture-Building
In the Season 2 finale, I speak with Aaron Makelky. Aaron has served as a head high school football coach for 12 seasons in Wyoming, assistant for 4 seasons, and has also coached wrestling, basketball, and track. He is currently consulting with sports teams and elite individuals who want to learn...
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Lee-Anne Gilchrist — How Parents Can Help Junior Golfers Access Opportunities
My guest today is Lee-Anne Gilchrist. Lee-Anne is currently the CEO of the Golf Performance Center & Academy, in Ridgefield, Connecticut working with young people from all over the world to nurture intrinsic motivation and unlock human potential. We discuss: How to introduce kids to golf Good...
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Taylor Cook — Retired Hockey Pro and Mental Performance Coach on the Building Blocks of Success
Taylor Cook is a retired professional hockey player with over 25+ years of international experience. She currently works as a mental performance coach serving athletes and sports coaches. We discuss: How Taylor’s experience as an athlete serves her as a coach — and understanding the limits The...
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Adolfo Gómez Sánchez — Pro Tennis Coach Shares the Formula for Optimal Performance
Adolfo Gómez Sánchez has dedicated over three decades to studying and modeling what drives optimal performance. Adolfo was a competitive athlete and is a performance mentor to professional athletes on the ATP and WTA tours, C-Suite executives of large multinational corporations, and performance...
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Best of Sideline Sessions: Boundary-breaking football coach Jen Welter
This week, we're sharing a "Best Of" episode, going back to the series premiere with the amazing Dr. Jen Welter. In 2015, Jen became the first female coach in NFL history when she coached linebackers for the Arizona Cardinals. She was also the first woman to play a contact position in men’s...
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Jason Payne — High School Basketball Coach and Mental Performance Coach on Avoiding Burnout and Connecting with Today’s Student-Athletes
Jason Payne has coached the Varsity Boys Basketball team in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada for the past 24 seasons. He also works with teams and athletes as a Mental Performance Coach. It was a pleasure to speak with Jason about the following and more: How Jason got into coaching and why he almost...
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Connor Gettemy — Director of Sports Performance at Flagler College Helps Us Bust Strength Training Myths and Understand Weight Programs
Connor Gettemy is the Director of Sports Performance at Flagler College and Owner of Gett Strong Performance, both located in St. Augustine, Florida. At Flagler, whose sports teams compete at NCAA Division-II, Connor oversees a sports performance department that services over 400 athletes. Under...
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Mike Jarvis — Former NCAA Basketball Coach at St. John’s, GW and More Shares His Message to Coaches Who Want to Make Their Mark
Mike Jarvis is a well-known name to fans of college basketball. In his long career at the high school and NCAA Division-I levels, he coached future professionals, including Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing, won hundreds of games, and developed a number of future leaders. He coached first at Cambridge...
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Troy Bassham — Mental Performance Coach for Golf and Shooting on the Habits and Attitudes of a Champion
Troy Bassham has been a mental performance coach, teaching mental management fulltime since 2004. He works with athletes of all ages and levels, from high school to professional. He has authored two books "Attainment, the 12 Elements of Elite Performance" and "Fore the Mind, the Mental Program…
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Kurt Hines — HS Football Coach and Nationally-Known Speaker on the Power of WHY and How He Found His Coaching Philosophy
Coach Kurt Hines has been coaching football for more than 25 years. He is currently Head Coach at Coronado High School in California. We discuss: How Kurt got into coaching Differences in coaching on the east coast vs. west coast His core coaching philosophy How he turned it around when he was...
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Krissy Webb — Executive Director of Student ACES, Softball and Flag Football Coach on What it Means to “Create Champions”
Krissy Webb is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Student ACES, a 501c3 with the mission to create Champions. Through Student ACES, Krissy has positively impacted over 50,000 high school student-athletes and has taught them leadership skills, values, and character education to be successful...
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Robert Castillo — Certified Mental Performance Consultant for MLB, NBA, and MLS Athletes and Coaches on the Key Skills for Success and Learning from Failure
Robert Castillo is a Certified Mental Performance Coach (CMPC) with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology. He has over 15 years of experience working with elite military service members, MLB, NBA, and MLS players and coaches, college athletes, and business executives, bringing to the table...
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Dwain Chambers — Olympic Sprinter & Youngest-Ever World Championship Medalist — from The Learning Bridge with Richard Gerver
Today we're excited to bring you an episode from The Learning Bridge, a BE Podcast Network show hosted by Richard Gerver, one of the world’s leading thinkers on human potential, leadership, and organizational transformation. In this conversation, Richard speaks with Dwain Chambers. Having come…
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Heather Sumlin — Master-Level Mental Management Coach on Controlling Your Mind Under Pressure
Heather Sumlin is owner of Sumlin Solutions, a company specializing in helping women reach their potential in sport, competition, and in life. Heather is a Master Level Mental Management Certified Coach trained personally by the Founder of Mental Management, Olympic Champion Lanny Bassham. We...
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Jared Zeidman — NCAA Basketball Coach and Author of Nail the Recruiting Process on the Changing College Landscape, Must-Haves, and Red Flags for Getting Recruited
Welcome back, Sideline Sessions listeners (and a hearty welcome to our new listeners!) for the start of season two. I’m excited to bring you more conversations with a variety of coaches, performance experts, and influential stakeholders from across the sporting landscape. Today’s guest is Jared...
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Coming up next on Sideline Sessions
Thank you to all of you who have joined us for Season 1 of Sideline Sessions, and a special welcome to our new listeners! I wanted to share a short message about what to expect next on the show, along with an opportunity to support our next season with your ideas and recommendations. Listen to…
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Evan Unrau — Director of PeacePlayers Los Angeles and Former LA Clippers Manager of Youth Basketball, NCAA Division-I Coach, and WNBA Draft Pick on Transforming Lives Through Sport
Evan Unrau joined PeacePlayers United States in 2020 as the Director of their Los Angeles chapter. Prior to this role, she served as the Manager of Youth Basketball for the LA Clippers (NBA); was an assistant coach at Stanford, the University of Southern California, and UC-Santa Barbara; and was…
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Brooke Knight — 12x Championship-Winning Baseball Manager and Former Professional Player on Taking Teams and Athletes from Good to Great
Brooke Knight is head coach of the Corvallis Knights of the West Coast Baseball League, a summer wood bat league for collegiate players, as well as CEO of Knight Financial Home Loans. Brooke is the most successful manager in West Coast League history, having skippered the Knights to 10...
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Jeff Howell — Navigating the college sports recruitment process
After helping his oldest son land at an NCAA Division-III college football program, today’s guest Jeff Howell uses his knowledge of the college sports recruitment process to help other student-athletes and their families navigate the process. The landscape can be complex and hard-to-understand…
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Edu Rubio — UEFA Pro Soccer Coach and Premier League Assistant Manager — The Learning Bridge with Richard Gerver
Today we're excited to bring you an episode from The Learning Bridge, a new Be Podcast Network show hosted by Richard Gerver, one of the world’s leading thinkers on human potential, leadership, and organizational transformation. In this episode, Richard speaks with Edu Rubio, a UEFA pro soccer...
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Sue Humphrey — Three-Time Team USA Olympic Track & Field Coach, Trailblazing NCAA Coach on 50+ Years of Teaching Athletes How to Succeed
"Sue Humphrey is the consummate teacher," says Mike Holloway, Head USA Men's 2020 Olympic Coach and University of Florida Head Track & Field Coach. Sue is a trailblazing track and field coach who rates among the most successful coaches ever. In the early 1970s, after Title IX was enacted, she...
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Taylor Siebert — High School Basketball Coach, Founder & CEO of Striv Education, Advocate for Future-Ready Learning
Taylor Siebert is in his second season as head coach of the high school boys basketball team in Heartland Community Schools (Henderson, Nebraska). He is also founder and CEO of Striv Education and has a long history in video streaming of school sports. In this conversation, hear about: What…
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Alex Auerbach, PhD — Toronto Raptors Sr. Director of Wellness and Development, Performance Psychologist, and Executive Coach on Achieving Individual and Team Success
Today, I’m thrilled to share a conversation with Dr. Alex Auerbach. Alex is an expert on peak performance and the psychology of coaching who is currently Sr. Director of Wellness and Development for the NBA’s Toronto Raptors. In addition to his work with NBA players, Alex has worked with NFL and...
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Samantha Arsenault Livingstone — Olympic Gold Medalist, Swim Coach, High-Performance Consultant, and Mental Health Advocate on Her Journey from World-Class Athlete to Whole Athlete Coach
It’s episode 4 of Sideline Sessions and I’m honored to have my fourth great guest. Samantha Arsenault Livingstone is an Olympic gold medalist swimmer, high-performance consultant, speaker and mental health activist. She also co-captained the 2005 National Champion University of Georgia swim team....
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The Authority: Discussing Gwen Jorgensen, USA’s First Olympic Gold Medal Triathlete
Hello and thank you, listeners. I hope you're enjoying the first season of Sideline Sessions. As we take a short break from publishing new episodes over the holidays, I wanted to share an episode from my other podcast, The Authority. The Authority Podcast features weekly interviews with leading...
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Charlie Miller — Master Basketball Coach, McDonald’s All-American, Indiana University and Professional Player on Teaching Young Athletes to Find Their "Bright Spots"
In episode 3, I had a fantastic conversation with Charlie Miller, a master basketball coach, author, and owner of ATTACK Basketball Academy in the Dallas, Texas area. In his playing career, Charlie was a McDonald’s All-American and Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year at South Miami High School,...
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Caroline McCombs — George Washington University Women’s Basketball Head Coach, 20+ Year NCAA Division-I Coaching Veteran, and 2020 America East Coach of the Year on Success at the D-I Level
This week I’m honored to speak with Caroline McCombs, head women’s basketball coach at George Washington University. 2023-24 is Coach McCombs’ third season at GW and 10th season overall as a head coach at the NCAA Division-I level. As a head coach and assistant coach, her teams have appeared in…
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Dr. Jen Welter — Trailblazing NFL Coach, World Champion Football Player, and U.S. State Department Sports Envoy on "Shattering the Glass Sideline"
Welcome to the premiere episode of Sideline Sessions on the Be Podcast Network. My first guest, Dr. Jenifer Welter, is a trailblazing athlete and coach who is extremely on-brand to kick off our show. In 2015, Welter became the first female coach in NFL history when she coached linebackers for the...
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Introducing Sideline Sessions
Welcome to Sideline Sessions, a new original series from the Be Podcast Network. In each season of this podcast, designed for coaches, parents and other stakeholders in the world of youth, scholastic, and amateur sports, you’ll gain in-depth insights from a variety of experts. Hear from coaches…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Designed for coaches, parents and other stakeholders in the world of youth, scholastic, and amateur sports, this show brings you interviews with leaders at the highest levels of their respective sports. Hear from coaches and performance experts with experience in the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Olympics, and NCAA Division-I, plus those who run elite youth programs, successful high school teams, and more. Hear about their motivations, philosophies, and strategies for success, and take away actionable insights to support the athletes in your life.
HOSTED BY
Ross Romano
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Designed for coaches, parents and other stakeholders in the world of youth, scholastic, and amateur sports, this show brings you interviews with leaders at the highest levels of their respective sports. Hear from coaches and performance experts with experience in the National Football League,...
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