Dr. Hank Weisinger, author of 12 books, spent three decades helping individuals and organizations enhance their personal and work effectiveness through innovative applications of psychology. His latest book is a MUST read for parents. But before you dive into that, start with Performing Under Pressure and play it on Audible in the car with your teen athlete so they can absorb every word.
The Unlikely Art of Parenting Pressure has wonderful role plays so parents can hear actual conversations you have had or WILL have with your teen about dating, life, sports, etc. This book gives you the tools to be a better parent. The #RaisingAthletes Podcast highly recommends it!
Welcome to the #RaisingAthletes podcast, we are excited to share with you our conversation with a passionate coach and leader who wants to help parents and their baseball athletes fall in love with the game as he did as a young boy.
Justin Sherman was born and raised in Westchester, NY, where he played high school and college baseball. It was while he captained the Purchase College Panthers that realized he had such a love for the game he wanted to get into coaching. He started as an assistant for the Panthers and then started working with athletes individually. This entrepreneur saw a need from parents for support and directions for their athletes and JustinTime Baseball was born.
Justin shares his passion and wisdom with us on this week’s episode. We know you’ll feel it as well and learn from him as he helps parents and kids grow the game.
Robert Icart is the Founder and Executive Director of BTI, a boy’s basketball club which has trained elite athletes including: Gilbert Arenas, Casey Jacobsen, D’Andre Bell and even one of Susie’s four sons, Luke Walton. Robert created BTI back in 1997 and strives to showcase Southern California’s top student athletes who are interested in pursuing playing basketball in college at any level. BTI has connections with schools at the DI, DII, DII and NAIA levels.
We had fun speaking with Robert about how things have shifted during COVID-19 and how recruiting is changing coming out the other side. Full disclosure, my older son, CJ, played for BTI and. my middle child, Parker, is also playing for them. I love recommending them to any who are passionate about the game and think their son may be interested in continuing on after school. Not only do they focus on the fundamentals of the game, they also stress the academic importance and the opportunities that can come from working hard not only on the court, but in the classroom and in the community.
Coach Ballgame has the unique ability to rally young players and draw them into the game. By combining the levity of props, jokes, and nicknames, he connects with the kids to help grow the sport of baseball.
If you’re a parent and especially if you’re a parent who coaches youth sports, this episode is filled with wonderful insights about what it means to help kids fall in love with something that they may be passionate about for a lifetime.
Mike Jaffe is president and founder of SAVIA Leadership, a global leadership development firm that unlocks the potential of individuals and teams through conscious communication, experiential learning, and transformational conversations.
Also a nationally-recognized speaker, executive coach, and best-selling author, Mike has an inspiring, motivating, and powerful message as a 9/11 survivor. He shares his impactful story which left both Susie and me speechless for a minute.
Mike has appeared as a featured expert on CNN and Fox News and has been published and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, MSN, CNBC, US News & World Report, and other national and regional media outlets.
Mike is the father of two athletes. His daughter played soccer and tennis through high school and his 16 yr old some is currently playing football at a prep school in Massachusetts.
Today on the podcast, he shares his expertise as he does with his clients who have included Pandora, BuzzFeed, Starbucks, PepsiCo, and Disney Interactive, to name a few. Susie and I found his “Five P” approach the perfect formula to help parents make sense of how they can be anchors for their children during these times of uncertainty when we are all navigating unchartered waters.
Mike can be found on LinkedIn @MikeJafffe, Presiden and Founder of SAVIA Leadership
One of the biggest gifts an athlete can acquire by playing sports, in addition to the fun stuff like winning, learning about the power of teamwork and leadership, is the skillsets that can be developed over time which lead to creating good habits for life.
Habits which make you successful in life: such as being on time, doing extra, working hard even when no one is watching.
This week Kirsten and Susie speak about the benefits of helping our teen athletes build good habits & how to better do that. If it’s driven by will power it won’t last long, but if it’s work ethic that’s been created by doing the little things every day, this adds up exponentially over time.
In this week’s episode of the #RaisingAthletes Podcast, we spoke with Kyle Weindel, the Associate Club Director and Coach for the Sunshine Volleyball Club. Sunshine is the #1 club in Southern California and is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the country. If you have a young athlete who is considering playing club and/or has dreams to play volleyball in college, you’ll want to hear this episode where we discuss what age to start playing, when to specialize and how to navigate club volleyball. For those who think they may want to play in college, listen in for what coaches are really looking for in a student/athlete.
Weindel is a former DI collegiate All-American from Ball State University who pursued a coaching career at the collegiate assistant and head coach level at the University of New Mexico, Montana State University and the University of Southern California. He is now focused on coaching and leading one of the top girls’ volleyball clubs in the country.
Welcome parents to the #RaisingAthletes Podcast.
Let’s talk about LAX! Excited for the first time to have a former DI LAX player, Kim Christos on the podcast. Kim is now a LAX club director living in New Jersey, who is also a coach and mother of four athletes. We’re excited to have her on the podcast to speak about how best to support your athlete, how she navigated playing multiple sports and how she feels about specializing and at one age.
I love her advice on how to be the ideal sports parent… it’s juicy, wait for it.
Four ways you can support your athlete through the pressures of youth sports
Parenting is tough and responding in a way that is not only supportive but beneficial to your child can be tricky some times. Understanding WHY your teen plays is so helpful in supporting him on his journey.
Today Susie and Kirsten discuss four ways to support your athlete as adversity occurs. When we have the tools as parents to support them, it can make for a much more enjoyable ride for both YOU and your child. It doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
Let’s do this!
Austin Hatch is a survivor. A two-time plane crash survivor, he epitomizes what it means to be resilient. In 2003, at the age of 8, Austin’s mother, sister and brother were tragically killed plane crash. Eight years later, with many hours of hard work, the 6’6” basketball phenom was offered a college scholarship from his dream school, University of Michigan. Just nine days later, Austin would be aboard a plane with his father and “second mother” (he never considered her a step-mom) and this plane too would go down, killing both his parents and leaving Austin in a coma with severe injuries including traumatic brain injury.
Today, I was so honored to speak with Austin and hear him talk about how he made it to the University of Michigan through tireless work, unrelenting positivity that “a miracle is going to happen” and belief that he was truly blessed to have had all of his amazing family members in his life.
We can learn so much from Austin’s outlook as we parent and raise adults about what it means to be optimistic, even in darkest of times and what the belief in yourself and gratitude for the gifts you have been given can do for you.
