Coach 360: A Podcast For High School Coaches

In our latest episode, we decided to share with you a favored Mackey Speaks Leadership Journal episode. Mackey (IG: @mackeyspeaks) shares three quotes with us about time management that helps shift our perspective on how we spend our time. Download the leadership guide at http://www.mackeyspeaks.com/podcast/117 “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.” Lao Tzu We have a choice. We choose how we spend our time. Even if you are required to be somewhere at a specific time for a specific time frame, you still have the ability to decide what you do with those hours. You can either spend those hours effectively or very ineffectively. If you find yourself saying, "I just don't have the time." The reality is probably that you just don't want to. You can prioritize and use things in a different way; therefore, making more time than you thought you had. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin When we waste time it's

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach WT Johnston of Newton High School. Coach Johnston talks about the importance of setting the stage the first practice by explaining the responsibility to the community and the team each player has when he has the uniform off and on. Early during his coaching career, Coach Johnston was diagnosed with a condition that affected both his heart and his lungs. After being diagnosed and being on a waiting list for a transplant for over a year, the time came for him to undergo surgery. He underwent the surgery and soon after, the doctors realized that the organ had began to reject his body, which has been the case for only 15 people in the world. With his odds balancing, Coach was determined to get better. With no one ever have surviving this disease, Coach has continued to power through adversity and three years later, is coaching football, dedicating his life to changing the lives of his athletes. Coach talks about how he feels lucky to be able to go through his life

In our latest episode, Mackey is coming to us live with the Wylie Girls Soccer team. This episode is a special episode in that, it is from Week 26, Be You, in our Character Development Curriculum. Mackey brings the passion as he talks to the team as if he was talking to his daughter, Jane, many years from now. Mackey stresses finding your self-worth and not listening to the constant voices in your head that tell you you are not enough. Be you because who you are is enough. Coaches don't really care about what you do, but they care about who you are because your identity is not found in the goals you score or how fast you are. Your identity is found in who you are, and if nobody has told you this, you are enough.

In our latest episode, Colton and Mackey catch up after some down time after a busy season. They talk about taking time to rest, but not for long, as Mackey will soon be visiting the University of Houston to speak at a coaching clinic. If you're in the Houston area, Mackey invites you to listen to him speak March 23rd at the University of Houston. He will be speaking about treating others right and continuously pursing the idea of being your best self while making other people your MVPs. Mackey recently spent some time speaking with Green Mountain HS, and he spoke about amplifying your impact. When you are willing to work harder and go longer, your impact will be amplified. You've got to go the extra mile. Mackey talks about the ways in which Coach German of Green Mountain, has been going the extra mile by turning his football program into a leadership academy. He's not been building leaders only on his team, but in his school as well. As coaches, when we look beyond ourselves, beyond our four walls and ask h

In our latest episode, Colton is live with Coach Todd Howey sharing his story on becoming a coach and how his program focuses more on building champions than wining championships. Coach Howey talks about how as a program, they raise expectations and don't listen to excuses. Being a coach of a school in a lower income area, Coach Howey stresses the importance of making sure that just because some of his players grew up in poverty, that should not reflect the poverty. He makes it a point in his coaches to show no signs of poverty in the way you dress, in the way you behave, in the way the kids play, or in the ways they act. They do not let poverty reflect in their program in how they treat the kids. They are held to a higher standard to show them their potential and the show them that they deserve more. He tells other coaches who are dealing with similar struggles to continue to push, push to make the school and the facilities better for the students. Every week Coach Howey writes a weekly newsletter to his par

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Vista Ridge High School. Mackey tells a story about Einstein taking a train and losing his ticket, and uses that story to beg the question, where are you going? Mackey highlights the idea that in whatever sport you focus on, in whatever game you play, you are not defined by a number. Your worth is not found in your batting average, in your RBI's, in your yards or the points you score. Your character is defined by the impact you make in other's lives, and by the way you treat other people. Wherever you go, you can learn how to treat and serve others by the game you play. Three lessons that you'll learn in the game of sports to help you in the game of life are: 1. It'll teach you to BE ON GUARD 2. It'll teach you to STAND FIRM 3. It'll teach you how to DO everything in love  

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Cairn University's athletes chapel talking identity. The minute that you find your identity in what you do instead of who you are, you fail. You will never find success in what you do because one day, what you do will stop, and you'll have to hangup your cleats in whatever areas or whatever abilities you've been dependent on. Mackey shares the common misconception that most of us have of thinking we can control everything. We try to control things at the detriment of our own lives. How many of us try to hold onto things as life is spinning out of control? We are so bullish and so convinced that we can do it that we are blind to the help that others want to provide. Mackey tells the story of the man who asks Jesus, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" He explains Jesus' response and leads us back to the idea that God loves us too much to not let us be our best. God will sometimes call you out. God will sometimes say "not yet" when we want something really bad. In t

In our latest episode, Mackey is live at Cairn University with Coach Phil Shallenberger. Coach Shallenberger shares a little about on intentionality and transforming a program by it. Coach talks about how he grew through his failures throughout his life, and how he hopes to create an atmosphere where failing isn't frowned upon, but invited because the more you fail, the more you are learning to grow. Their culture is about building relationships, which they show by pouring into their players. Winning is a byproduct of building and maintaining a growing relationships between the coaches and players. Mackey and Coach Shallenberger distinguish the difference between setting standards and having rules, and what that looks like in life and in the locker room.

Our latest episode is a little different than the others. Mackey is coming to us live from Mountain Valley answering any and all questions. From the inception of his calling as a speaker and motivator to learning more about how he creates each speech for each school, Mountain Valley Middle leaves no questions out! Mackey peels back the curtain in his own life and what his sports career looked like, the difficulties he faced, and what it looked like coming back to the game after quitting the first time.

In our latest episode, Colton shares some struggles he's been dealing with this week as him and his family prepare moving houses. Colton explains how easy it can be to get wrapped up in our struggles and lose sight of the opportunities and blessings we've been given to even be in that struggle. Mackey discusses some strategies he learned from a coach up in Garland, Tx about how coach would make his players show his current events happening in the world, so they knew their struggle wasn't insurmountable, that they could overcome whatever they were dealing with because day after day and week after week, other people go through similar struggles, or even tougher situations and reach their goals and dreams. It is a privilege to go through your struggle. This struggle will help you grow to be where you want to be. A relatable quote is, "the world changes when we change our perspective." When we change how we see things, it changes the things that we see. Social Media Handles: @mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordst

In our latest episode, Colton's joined by Coach Sam Harrell from Southwestern Assemblies of God University who shares his journey of having to step back from coaching for a while after being diagnosed with MS to fighting back and being able to pursue his passion of being a coach once again. On his way to a wheelchair, Coach Harrell never thought he'd have the opportunity to coach again until after a successful stem cell treatment (3rd round) turned his world upside down. Slowly gaining feeling back in his leg and starting to be mobile, he began coaching. Coach Harrell talks about appreciating the small details in life like getting up and being able to put on Nike shoes and outfits in the morning. He takes us through his own experience and the mindset he had while dealing with his illness, his motivation to continue to fight, and his determination to pursue excellence in his life.

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with the Georgetown High School Women's Basketball team talking fear. Whatever your fear is, it begins to shape how you feel, what you think, and ultimately who you become. If there is fear inside you, on the court or off, lean into that fear because where you are going, the path you are on is greater than where fear will take you. Don't let that fear keep you from being vulnerable, from giving everything you have for the people on your left and on your right. If you are all willing to go all in, you will be taken to a level you haven't reached before.

In our latest episode, Mackey is live with the Clemens High School Women's Soccer team. Mackey goes on to talk about the very small success rate for New Years Resolutions and expresses the reason for it being largely unsuccessful because it is easy to transform your desires, but it is hard to transform your actions. It doesn't cost you anything to change your "want-to". Mackey applies this to the idea that we should always strive to live above the line in all aspects. There are going to be days where living above the line is hard and you will have to say yes instead of no, but if you will do that and commit to it, it will not only change what you do, but what you think. Mackey also talks about the idea that we are not disqualified, no matter our struggle, no matter what we've been through, we are never disqualified.

Colton is joined by Coach Jeff Rayburn of Lone Star High School. Coach Rayburn talks about his past and how he got into coaching, and the continuous support he had from his coaches to become better. He goes on to talk about how he runs his program and his program's mentality of: 5 Life Skills -Discipline -Physical Conditioning -Love and Respect Eachother -Love your coaches (let your coaches coach you hard) -Reacting to and handling emotion in a positive way Coach Rayburn goes on to talk about the importance of relationships and a relationship culture in your program. Each and every day you are either building and growing a relationship between coaches/athletes and athlete/athlete or you're breaking it down. Believing in each other and making sure your athletes fall in love with the process is what has dramatically changed their program. Email Address: RayburnJ@friscoisd.org

In our latest episode, Mackey is back in the locker room at Prosper High School. Mackey shares the importance of honoring one another and ways in which we can do that in life and in the game. Mackey goes on to talk about the common habit we all have in compartmentalizing the different aspects of our life, choosing which one to truly focus on, when in reality, we should strive for greatness across the board. We must focus on the good things, not the bad. When you pursue excellence across the board, in the relationships on your team, in your academics, in your sport, you begin to only notice that excellence, and that will propel you forward! Social Media Handles: @FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks

In our latest episode, Colton and Mackey pair up and talk about finish strong. Mackey shares a little bit about his New Years Resolution and the importance he gives to continually pushing and working towards it. Mackey also encourages coaches to be aware and diligent to not push "cruise control" in their life as seasons end. February and March can be tough months as seasons are ending, but as a coach, you have to set the standard to keep pushing and continually being a representation of the men and women you want your athletes to be. There is no "break", there is no "timeout". You've got to continually put in the work! Social Media Handles: @mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv

In our latest episode, Colton is joined by Coach Phil Danaher, who is the most winningest coach according to Max Preps. Coach Danaher shares his mindset on family, and creating an environment with his team and his coaches where family comes first and football comes second. He expresses the importance of handling your business in practice and games, but continually making an effort to carve out time for you family.

In the latest Coach 360 episode, Mackey is live at Clark High School talking about discipline and the continuous effort it takes to grow as an athlete and person. The future you is depending on the present you doing the right thing, right now. Your future you needs the present you to have discipline to do what you don't want to do today. Are you willing to take the right action today for your future tomorrow? If you aren't then it's no one else's fault if you aren't willing to take the action because you are responsible for you . Social Media Handles: @FullCurlColton @2wordstv @MackeySpeaks

In our latest episode, Colton catches Mackey right before he hops a plane to speak with some teams in Chicago. They discuss the servant leader mentality and methodology and how that effects both your success and your team's success. It's important to help others up, and the idea of "it's lonely at the top" doesn't have to be lonely at the top as long as you're not stepping over other people to get there but rather get there through the helping others up first and in turn, letting them help you when you most need it. Serving others is not due from a lack of ambition, it's having a greater alignment of what matters most. Social Media Handles: @mackeyspeaks @fullcurlcolton @2wordstv

In our latest episode, Colton pairs up with our first wrestling coach, Coach Mark Balser. Coach Balser talks about how he has changed as a coach over the years, focusing more on the relationships he has with his players, rather than winning alone. He also talks about his approach to coaching, which centers on the idea of both discipline and fun, creating an atmosphere that encourages learning and becoming the best person you can be. Social Media Handles: @2wordstv @FullCurlColton