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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
LockSimple

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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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Lanny Bassham
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Oct 18, 2025

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16 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Lanny Bassham

The Olympic goal medalist who created a global mental management system that has helped thousands of athletes.

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🧭 Game 7 Mindset: Mark Messier
LockSimple

Oct 16, 2025

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4 min read

🧭 Game 7 Mindset: Mark Messier

Here’s how Mark Messier trained his mind to thrive when everything was on the line.

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🧭 You're Accidentally Training Yourself to Fail

Oct 12, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 You're Accidentally Training Yourself to Fail

Why analyzing mistakes makes performance worse (and the Olympic system that rewires your brain instead).

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Teamwork

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Tom Coughlin
LockSimple

Oct 11, 2025

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14 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Tom Coughlin

The fired NFL coach who discovered why "aiming low" destroys more teams than bad players (and the leadership secret that turned media enemies into Super Bowl allies)

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🧭 Lou Holtz's 5 Rules That Built Championship Programs for 40 Years

Oct 5, 2025

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10 min read

🧭 Lou Holtz's 5 Rules That Built Championship Programs for 40 Years

The complete system for sustained excellence that works in any competitive arena

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🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Pete Carroll
LockSimple

Oct 4, 2025

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11 min read

🧭 Saturday Speaker Series: Pete Carroll

The fired NFL coach who discovered a 3-word philosophy that transformed teams into Super Bowl champions (and why most leaders get competition completely wrong)

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