The Coaching Journey

This week on The Coaching Journey Podcast we continue our discussion on coaching and financial literacy. Last week our episode focused on setting the foundations for your financial success, and this week we look at "what's next." 401K...IRA...Roth IRA...SEP IRA, the word jumble can be confusing to many. We discuss your potential options when preparing for retirement, and things to look out for as you continue on your journey towards financial literacy! An important discussion that many coaches, especially younger coaches, should start to think about. Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

Oftentimes coaches go on courses to learn the nuances of technical development, tactics, psycho-social development and much more. In a nontraditional job like coaching, however, what often gets ignored is financial literacy. Given the current crisis that the majority of the world finds itself in currently, I thought this would be as good a time as any to talk about my journey going from "get a new car on that salary" financially illiterate to a much better path today and how anyone can get started! For some, it may just be common sense. It may be what you've been doing already. For others, it may be some needed information that I have found many coaches, especially those starting off in the profession, don't receive yet desperately need. Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week, The Coaching Journey Podcast returns after a brief coronavirus hiatus. On today's episode, I talk about how today's crisis has made me realize even more the importance of establishing routines in our daily life. With uncertain times still looming ahead, I talk about what that looks like for us as coaches and people. As always, I want to thank everyone for listening, and those who have reached out recently asking for new episodes. We are happy to be back and hopeful that we can provide you with more content very soon! Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome Dan Abrahams back on the show! Dan is a sports psychologist as well as the host of the Sport Psych Show! On today’s episode, Dan talks about Embodied Cognition which he has been contemplating for quite some time now. He discusses players internalizing that energy not only in their mind but also throughout their entire body, focusing themselves towards their desired performance and behaviors. It is a great discussion where Dan continues to offer new ideas for any coach to reflect on for the benefit of our players! Be sure to follow Dan on Twitter: @DanAbrahams77 and visit his website: https://danabrahams.com/ Listen to The Sport Psych Show here! Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome James Wagenschutz on the show! James is a performance coach with the Colorado Rapids Academy. He has 15 years experience as a former development academy director and is a USSF and United Soccer Coaches Instructor. On today’s episode, I talk with James about his presentations at the United Soccer Coaches Convention, focusing on integrating strength and power into a field session. James offers practical takeaways for coaches to utilize to begin improving players’ physical performance with a view towards developing healthy men and women beyond the game. He offers fundamental truths that will benefit all who listen to the episode! Be sure to follow James on Twitter: @JamesWagz Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week, The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome back Ian Barker on the show! Ian is the Director of Coaching Education with United Soccer Coaches. On today’s episode, I ask Ian what topic within coaching education has been on his mind the most recently. We discuss adapting coaching education methods to meet a constantly evolving landscape, and how United Soccer Coaches is working to help coaches at all levels despite structural impediments that may be arising in the soccer education ecosystem. Be sure to follow Ian on Twitter: @IBarkerSoccer Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome Matt Danaher on the show! Matt is a youth soccer coach with Charlotte Independence Soccer Club and the founder of SoccerPulse. Our discussion today looks at several ways in which coaches can best help their players when it comes to enhancing physical performance and preparation. Matt talks about how SoccerPulse can aid your coaching by bringing a new level of information to your fingertips which will help you adapt and serve your players every single day! Be sure to follow Matt on Twitter: @MattDanaher and check out SoccerPulse here!   The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Heja! Heja is a free team management app for getting your team organized this season. Schedules, player availability, attendance, messaging with read receipts, and much, much more. Best of all, Heja is 100% FREE for all team members! Click the link to download Heja now: go.heja.app/coaching Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey

This week The Coaching Journey is excited to welcome back Willie McNab on the show! Willie is currently the Head of Children's Programme with Celtic FC. On today's show we talk about Willie's presentation at the United Soccer Coaches Convention focusing on receiving and releasing the ball on the move. Willie breaks down his thoughts and offers practical takeaways for any coach to implement some key concepts within their own sessions! Be sure to follow Willie on Twitter: @WillieMcNab!   The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Heja! Heja is a free team management app for getting your team organized this season. Schedules, player availability, attendance, messaging with read receipts, and much, much more. Best of all, Heja is 100% FREE for all team members! Click the link to download Heja now: go.heja.app/coaching Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome Shawn Danhouser on the show! Shawn is a TOPSoccer coach in the Chicago area as well as having roles with Illinois Youth Soccer and US Youth Soccer with the goal of growing TOPSoccer programming! Our discussion today focuses on how Shawn got involved with TOPSoccer and why he believes everyone should have the opportunity to get involved in this great program. We discuss the formative experience Shawn and his volunteers have found working with the program, as well as exploring the powerful language we use when discussing these issues. Shawn shares his tip for any coach to maximize the involvement of any and every player you have in your squad, and it is a truly powerful conversation sharing a side of the game we don't include enough of. Be sure to follow Shawn on Twitter: @TOPSCoachShawn!   The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Heja! Heja is a free team management app for getting your team organized this season. Schedules, player availability

This week, The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome Paddy King on the show! Paddy is the Director of Coaching at CUSA as well as the author of several books including A Game Model and Accompanying Session Plans.  Our discussion today revolves around the concept of a game model. Paddy delves into what it is, how he went about creating one, and breaks down the idea for any coach to get a start on their own game model today. We talk about positional play activities and rondos and how several core activities can far outweigh a thousand different sessions, and Paddy discusses the difficulties in implementing a club wide style of play and how he overcame these challenges throughout his coaching journey. Be sure to follow Paddy on Twitter: @King8Paddy and check out his most recent book here!   The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Heja! Heja is a free team management app for getting your team organized this season. Schedules, player availability, attendance, messaging with read receipts, and mu

This week The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome Todd Beane back on the show! Todd is the founder of the TOVO Institute in Barcelona. On today's episode Todd discusses his presentation at the United Soccer Coaches Convention in Baltimore focusing on positional play as well as looking at why Todd believes we are underserving our youth players and need to shift our traditional development paradigm based on these fundamental concepts. Be sure to follow Todd on Twitter: @_ToddBeane and check out TOVO at www.tovoinstitute.com   The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Heja! Heja is a free team management app for getting your team organized this season. Schedules, player availability, attendance, messaging with read receipts, and much, much more. Best of all, Heja is 100% FREE for all team members! Click the link to download Heja now: go.heja.app/coaching   Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

The Coaching Journey is back, and we are excited to unveil a brand new season for our listeners! To start the new season, we decided to change things up a bit, and let you hear an interview where we were the one answering the questions, not asking them. Last year, we had the opportunity to be a guest on the "On The Touchline" Podcast hosted by Jason Broadwater! It was a great discussion where Jason looked at the origins of The Coaching Journey and my own personal coaching career. Be sure to follow Jason on Twitter @SoccerCoachJB and give his podcast a listen! We will be in Baltimore this week for the United Soccer Coaches Convention and we are excited to bring you a great lineup of episodes with some excellent recurring and new guests! The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Heja! Heja is a free team management app for getting your team organized this season. Schedules, player availability, attendance, messaging with read receipts, and much, much more. Best of all, Heja is 100% FREE for all team memb

This week on The Coaching Journey Podcast I explore a topic that has been circling my own thoughts recently. As I transition into a new coaching role, I have been wondering how often coaches think of "the next opportunity" and miss out on the present one. How are we finding ways to continually develop ourselves in our roles without always looking for "the next challenge." I share my thoughts in the episode. This will be our last episode before we begin our summer break. We will not have any new episodes as we take a short hiatus, and after the break we will have some excellent interviews and discussions coming your way. Stay tuned! The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up goals that we love. Check out their website at www.bounceathletics.com and you can get 10% off your order by mentioning our podcast when you email Info@BounceAthletics.com Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching

With the US Women's National Team having just won their second World Cup in a row, and appearing in 3 finals in a row, today's podcast might seem weird. In fact, over the last few World Cup cycles, I have been wondering if the results we see are happening while stagnation or decline is underway. As coaches, how are we honestly assessing the results while analyzing the overall process? Are we setting ourselves up for success through continual improvement, or are we resting on past successes while others start to bridge the gap? The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up goals that we love. Check out their website at www.bounceathletics.com and you can get 10% off your order by mentioning our podcast when you email Info@BounceAthletics.com Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

A conversation I saw on social media yesterday had me thinking on the play-practice-play methodology put forth by the U.S. Soccer Federation. Whether you like it, hate it, or find yourself somewhere in the middle, I shared my thoughts on who it might best serve, how any coach can utilize it, and why a blended approach may be a coach's best friend.   The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up goals that we love. Check out their website at www.bounceathletics.com and you can get 10% off your order by mentioning our podcast when you email Info@BounceAthletics.com Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

With the Spring season ending for most coaches, I have been thinking on ways for coaches to continue their professional development in informal ways. In our podcast today, I challenge you to try one thing that I have found most helpful in my own coaching journey and development! The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up goals that we love. Check out their website at www.bounceathletics.com and you can get 10% off your order by mentioning our podcast when you email Info@BounceAthletics.com Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week, with the Women's World Cup underway and the United States Women's National Team about to play their first game, I have found myself thinking of Tony DiCicco and the conversation I was lucky enough to have with him, as well as his contribution to the game as a coach and coach-educator. I had the privilege of meeting Tony at a coaching course with what was then the NSCAA, now United Soccer Coaches, and a little while later I was surprised when I found Tony's contact information in the subscriber list of The Coaching Journey's blog. I quickly sent him a message and after a bit of back and forth, we got on the phone and recorded a conversation. Tony's legacy will never disappear from the game, or from the countless players and coaches he has impacted however big or small. Our conversation, although several years old as of today's release, is still full of valuable and timely pieces of wisdom which is another testament to Tony. Enjoy the discussion, enjoy just a sliver of wisdom from Tony, and as you

This week, The Coaching Journey Podcast is excited to welcome Tom Rowney on the podcast! Tom is a coach whose experience has seem him work at the youth, college, and professional levels. He is a self styled eclectic pragmatist, and indeed our conversation today looks to add some different perspectives to the skill acquisition discussion. Be sure to follow Tom on Twitter: @TRsFactualFooty! The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up goals that we love. Check out their website at www.bounceathletics.com and you can get 10% off your order by mentioning our podcast when you email Info@BounceAthletics.com Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com

This week, The Coaching Journey is excited to welcome Reed Maltbie back on the show! Reed is the founder of Raising Excellence, a lifelong coach, and the host of the Coaching Code podcast! We have a great discussion in which Reed talks about the common issues facing coaches at all levels, as well as the solutions that can be found from grassroots and elite level coaches. We talk about empowering youth athletes in an age in which parental control is at an all-time high, and Reed shares some excellent stories with his travels throughout the country on best practices within youth development. Be sure to follow Reed on Twitter: @Coach_Reed, check out his website at www.CoachReed.com and listen to Reed's Podcast, "The Coaching Code," here! If you are interested in the Coaching Think Tank, check out this great offering featuring dozens of coaching and sporting leaders here! The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up go

This week, The Coaching Journey Podcast is going back in time with a throwback episode featuring Sefu Bernard! Sefu is currently the Director of Player Development with the Washington Mystics as well as the founder of theLLaBB! When we first recorded this discussion almost four years ago we had a great discussion on a variety of coaching topics, looking at the similarities and differences between basketball youth development and soccer youth development, coaching myths within both sports, and much more! Be sure to follow Sefu on Twitter: @SefuBernard and visit his website here! The Coaching Journey Podcast is sponsored by Bounce Athletics! They have premium, customizable soccer balls, training vests, and pop-up goals that we love. Check out their website at www.bounceathletics.com and you can get 10% off your order by mentioning our podcast when you email Info@BounceAthletics.com Follow us on Twitter: @TheCoachJourney Follow us on Facebook: The Coaching Journey Music: http://www.bensound.com