Every Day, Getting Better Podcast - The Builders Project
Every Day, Getting Better, Episode 5, The Builders Project continues and today Ryan sits down with Rusty Hagenbuch.
Rusty was named in Episode 3 as the Builder of Jesse Trout. Today, we explore why Jesse chose Rusty. We also get to learn about Rusty as a coach, parent, and boss. Finally, at the end, we get to find out who built Rusty.
Topics:
- The Hagenbuch family name (it really is bad ass)
- Rusty’s reaction to being named as Jesse Trout’s builder
- Tough love
- Making the choice to give up on someone
- Coaching youth sports
- Potential, failure, and perfection
- Riding home with an athlete as a parent
- Making mistakes and athletics
- 24-hour rule
- Corporate Culture at Charger IT
- Coaching approach at work
- The Charger IT brand
- Denver Broncos (Rusty’s team!)
- Who built Rusty?
- Early success in life
- Will Brown
Learn more about Rusty and his brand at https://www.chargerit.com/ and https://www.chargeraccess.com/
Host: Ryan Wakefield
Guest: Rusty Hagenbuch
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Every Day, Getting Better, Episode 4, Ryan sits down with Coach Andy Towers from the Premier Lacrosse League and Head Coach of the Chaos Lacrosse Club
Coach Towers shares his lockerroom philosophy and his transition from coaching collegiate lacrosse to professional lacrosse.
This conversation visits a few different topics, starting with the early success of the Premier Lacrosse League, finding happiness in your profession, transitioning to professional athletics, leadership, and mentorship, and finally, who helped to build Coach Towers.
Today's topic discussed with Andy Towers:
- Early days of Premier Lacrosse League
- What was it like to be asked to be a professional coach?
- What were you doing the day before you became a professional coach?
- Did you get to choose which of the new clubs you got to coach?
- Format of the Premier Lacrosse League vs traditional professional sports
- Professional athletes and coaching doing youth clinics during the season
- PLL All-Star Game coaching opportunity, bittersweet vs embrace the opportunity
- PLL all-star game vs traditional all-star games
- Happiness in the workplace and the transition from collegiate athletics to professional athletics
- Selection of assistant coaches for Chaos Lacrosse club and core values of the coaching staff
- Important that when coaching professionals, having professionals on his staff that have walked in the footsteps of current players
- Does the Chaos Lacrosse club have core values as a team?
- Being genuine in handling interactions
- Having a shared vision
- Honesty, work ethic, mental toughness, team-first attitude
- Decision focused and effort related
- Leaders in the lockerroom of the Chaos Lacrosse Club
- Characteristics of different types of leaders
- Followership
- Players and Leadership Characteristics
- Humility vs ego
- Success, failure and mental toughness
- Non-negotiables for entering into a mentor / mentee relationship
- Parenting
- Heart and soul vs talent
- Controlling effort, focus, toughness, decision related
- Excuses and lack of mental toughness limiting success
- Physical limitations
- Defining success by desired results
- Reaching potential as a measure of success
- Making them better as a group, then they are as a group of individuals
- Being the best version of ourselves - who mentored Coach Towers
- High School lax coach, Coach Howard Benedict
- Never allowing anyone to feel like they were successful without reaching their potential
- Everyone was treated differently
- High School basketball coach, Don Usher
- As a group helped us exceed expectations
- Not letting others, dictate to you what you can be
- College Coach and Chrome Lacrosse Club Coach, Dom Starsia
- Challenge my competitive spirit and commitment to the program
- Less scheme based and more intangible based
- Former Yale Lacrosse Coach, Mike Waldvogel
- Make you verbally defend everything that came out of your mouth
- Making me think about what I was saying to the players on the field
- Bates Lacrosse Coach, Pete Lasagna
- Allowed you to get creative
- Connections with your player's fuels trust, and trust fuels sacrifice
- Growing up in a competitive environment
- We all build each other up and help each other
- Editors note: In the closing, I clearly wish the wrong team “best of luck” and Coach Towers calls me on it. We have a fun laughing exchange, and my initial thought is that I am going to cut that segment out of the pod. Instead, in the spirit of openly making mistakes and failing - I chose to leave it in. I hope you enjoy the laugh as much as we did.
- How to contact Coach Towers
Host: Ryan Wakefield
Guests: Andy Towers
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The Builders Project, Episode 3, Ryan sits down with Jesse Trout from Mindful Life Coaching.
Jesse is the first branch of The Builders Project and we hope to explore his tree in future episodes.
This conversation visits a few different topics, starting with accountability, transitioning to life coaching, Authentic Masculinity, and finally, who helped to build Jesse.
Today's topic discussed with Jesse Trout:
- Goals and transparency
- Authenticity
- Accountability and daily routines
- Life Coaching overview
- Curiosity
- Who is life coaching for?
- Coaching philosophy of holding people to be “Naturally creative, resourceful and whole”
- Inward vs outward perspectives
- Creativity
- Social influencers and the root of The Builders Project
- Inadequacies
- Jesse’s transition into coaching (challenges and rewards)
- The four-year process of becoming a life coach
- Being the expert is limiting
- The ratio of listening vs direct input
- Authentic Masculinity
- Traits to develop in young children (boys)
- Cultivate and grow curiosity, wonder, and appreciation
- Feelings
- How to experience feelings
- How to verbalize feelings
- Counteract default anger
- Parental influences and emotions
- Adults learning Authentic Masculinity
- Toxic Masculinity
- Be awesome and love each other - borrowed from http://jimbot.blog/
- Introducing the concept of Authentic Masculinity to high school boys
- Creating an atmosphere of belonging and vulnerability
- Frustration with failure and feelings
- Not getting stuck
- Who Built Jesse Trout
- “A man fell down seven times, but he got up eight” vs “Who picked you up when you fell”
- Failure
- Our next builder - Rusty Hagenbuck
- Tough love
- Escaping accountability and self-pity
- Timely mentors
- Gratitude
- How to contact Jesse Trout and Mindful Life Coaching
Host: Ryan Wakefield
Guests: Jesse Trout
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