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🧭 How a 29-time national champion defines mental toughness

Dec 14, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 How a 29-time national champion defines mental toughness

Plus: John Harbaugh on servant leadership and a new way I am thinking about resilience

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Mindset

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Nick Saban
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Dec 13, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Nick Saban

A Nick Saban masterclass on team-building, leadership, and how to build a mindset of excellence in your team.

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Mental Toughness

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🧭 Brad Stevens on the 3 Things Every Leader Must Master

Dec 7, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 Brad Stevens on the 3 Things Every Leader Must Master

Brad Stevens was asked what young leaders must master. He gave 3 things. Plus: the mental skill that helped the Cubs win the World Series

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Pat Riley
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Dec 6, 2025

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11 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Pat Riley

Pat Riley on Leadership, Culture, and the Price of Greatness

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Mindset

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🧭 Kobe shot 5 air balls - his response is why he won 5 rings

Nov 30, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 Kobe shot 5 air balls - his response is why he won 5 rings

Kobe Bryant's winning mindset, plus Jim Rohn life advice that I can't stop thinking about

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Dan Gable
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Nov 29, 2025

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12 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Dan Gable

The undefeated wrestler who discovered that the greatest preparation happens after you think you're already prepared

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🧭 The Leadership Mistake Bill Parcells Refused to Make Twice

Nov 23, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 The Leadership Mistake Bill Parcells Refused to Make Twice

Why your team follows your energy before your words, the question that stumped Kerr before he ever coached, and the rules that built two Super Bowl champions

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Steve Kerr
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Nov 22, 2025

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14 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Steve Kerr

Insights from one of the best coaches of today on how to build a winning culture, leadership, and what it takes to be a great teammate.

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Mindset

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🧭 The 6 Enemies Destroying Your Mental Toughness (And You Don't Even Know It)

Nov 16, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 The 6 Enemies Destroying Your Mental Toughness (And You Don't Even Know It)

Today we talk about which enemy is sabotaging your performance, Kobe's personal philosophy and what Clark Lea discovered about consistency that nobody celebrates.

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Clark Lea
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Nov 15, 2025

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17 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Clark Lea

The Vanderbilt head coach who returned to his alma mater to fix what broke him as a player and discovered that transformation requires internal belief before external results

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🧭 Confident People Don't Focus on Confidence (They Focus on This Instead)

Nov 9, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 Confident People Don't Focus on Confidence (They Focus on This Instead)

Inside: The lie your habits are exposing, why competence beats confidence every time, and Bill Walsh's proven blueprint for championship culture

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Wayne Gretzky
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Nov 8, 2025

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13 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Wayne Gretzky

How "The Great One" learned the most important lesson of his career at age 10 (and why his father's approach to pressure would be considered controversial today)

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🧭 What Apolo Anton Ohno Did 30 Minutes Before Winning Olympic Gold

Nov 2, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 What Apolo Anton Ohno Did 30 Minutes Before Winning Olympic Gold

The counterintuitive mental technique that turns pre-race fear into composure under pressure

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Jocko Willink
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Nov 1, 2025

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14 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Jocko Willink

Jocko Willink on Action, Discipline, and the Choice That Changes Everything.

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🧭 The 3 Step Framework Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey Use for Success
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Oct 29, 2025

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5 min read

🧭 The 3 Step Framework Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey Use for Success

Why champions work backwards (and everyone else starts at the wrong end)

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🧭 What You Can Learn From the Modern-Day John Wooden

Oct 26, 2025

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11 min read

🧭 What You Can Learn From the Modern-Day John Wooden

How Anson Dorrance's Competitive Cauldron built 21 national championships through daily accountability (and why talent alone never survives his system).

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: George Mumford
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Oct 25, 2025

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14 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: George Mumford

What Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant's Mindfulness Coach Can Teach Us About Winning

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🧭 How Joe Montana Went from 7th String to Super Bowl Legend

Oct 19, 2025

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9 min read

🧭 How Joe Montana Went from 7th String to Super Bowl Legend

The preparation mindset that turns overlooked players into champions (and why complaining about opportunities guarantees you'll waste them).

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