Tag Archives: Coaching

Season 2, Ep 12 – Jake Kelfer

July 18, 2021Business, SportAthletes, Author, Basketball, Business, Coaching, Drive, Entrepenuer, Entrepreneurship, High Performers, Mental Toughness, NBA, Professional Basketball Combine, Success, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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Jake Kelfer, Founder of Professional Basketball Combine and Bestselling Author

Is “no” better than “maybe”? Kevin and Lauren chat with Jake Kelfer about his path to creating a secondary combine for the NBA and becoming a bestselling author. He shares what it was like using his own money to fund his startup, the pitfalls of trying to please everyone, and the art of asking the right questions. His episode is full of great advice for everyone.

Learn more about Jake: Twitter, Instagram

Learn more about Professional Basketball Combine: Twitter

Bonus Episode – Debrief & Analysis: Dr. Adam Naylor and Joe Jacobi Discuss Goals

May 19, 2021Education/Research, SportAnalysis, Athletes, Canoe, Coaching, Dr. Adam Naylor, Drive, High Performers, Joe Jacobi, Mental Toughness, Olympian, Olympic Medal, Olympics, Performance, Persistence, Success, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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BONUS: Hosts Drs. Kevin Harris and Lauren S. Tashman discuss their conversation with a sport and performance psychology expert (Dr. Adam Naylor) and an Olympic Gold Medalist (Joe Jacobi). Highlights include their discussion of how goals can be counterproductive, how everything that gets popularized is at risk of being oversimplified, and the importance of contextual intelligence. They also discuss the approaches of focusing on what you have to lose versus have to gain, and assessing whether a goal is helping or hindering you.

Season 2, Ep 8 – Dr. Adam Naylor & Joe Jacobi Discuss Goals

May 16, 2021Education/Research, SportAthletes, Canoe, Coaching, Dr. Adam Naylor, Drive, High Performers, Joe Jacobi, Mental Toughness, Olympian, Olympic Medal, Olympics, Performance, Persistence, Success, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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Dr. Adam Naylor and Joe Jacobi – Discussion on Goals

What is your relationship with goals? In this episode, Kevin and Lauren chat with a sport and performance psychology expert (Dr. Adam Naylor) and an Olympic Gold Medalist (Joe Jacobi), about goals and goal setting. Highlights include a discussion of what makes goals truly helpful, the problem with rigidity in pursuing goals, and whether the easy access to analytical tools has pushed us to collectively overemphasize goal setting. The panel also discusses the difficulty many have with being in the moment and the addictive nature of having goals provide structure for our lives. Anyone who has ever set, or is pursuing a goal will want to tune in to this one.

Season 2, Ep 7 – Lauren Regula

May 2, 2021Business, SportAthletes, Business, Coaching, Drive, Entrepenuer, Entrepreneurship, High Performers, Impostor Syndrome, Lauren Regula, Mental Toughness, Olympian, Olympics, Persistence, Success, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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Lauren Regula, Olympian; Founder of the Strong Mom Movement, and Trak Athletics

What would your goals be if there were no limitations? Kevin and Lauren chat with Lauren Regula about her path from a very small town to becoming an Olympian and professional athlete. She discusses the need to personalize training for what works for you, having conversations with coaches while being coachable, and her struggles with mental health. Her journey of founding the Strong Mom Movement and returning to the mound is full of great advice about handling success, picking yourself up, and not placing limits on yourself.

Learn more about Lauren: Instagram

Learn more about the Strong Mom Method: Instagram

Bonus Episode – Debrief & Analysis: Iris and Felicia Zimmermann

December 16, 2020Bonus EpisodeAnalysis, Athletes, Coaching, Drive, Entrepenuer, Entrepreneurship, Felicia Zimmermann, Fencing, High Performers, Iris Zimmermann, Mental Toughness, Olympian, Olympics, Persistence, Rochester Fencing Club, Success, Training, Valor Performancethe-path-distilled

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BONUS: Hosts Drs. Kevin Harris and Lauren S. Tashman discuss their conversation with Iris and Felicia Zimmermann, US Olympic Fencers. Highlights include their discussion about the personalized needs of an activity serving to allow one to be seen or remain unseen, the need to customize lessons from others to one’s own needs, and the unpleasant components of all goal attainment pursuits. Kevin and Lauren also discuss the various interpretations of grit, the importance of self-compassion, and building confidence by how you have dealt with past adversity.

Ep. 035 – Iris and Felicia Zimmermann

December 13, 2020Business, SportAthletes, Coaching, Drive, Entrepenuer, Entrepreneurship, Felicia Zimmermann, Fencing, High Performers, Iris Zimmermann, Mental Toughness, Olympian, Olympics, Persistence, Rochester Fencing Club, Success, Training, Valor Performancethe-path-distilled

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Iris and Felicia Zimmermann, US Olympic Fencers

Is your success yours, or are you chasing someone else’s? In this episode, we speak with Iris Zimmerman and Felicia Zimmerman, sisters who grew up participating and competing in the sport of fencing including a chance to compete with each other at the Olympics. Following their transition out of the sport, they decided to take over and co-own the Rochester Fencing Club where they spent years training for excellence. They discuss their individual and collective paths and experiences as high performing athletes, the realities of being entrepreneurs and owning a business together, managing expectations, and their definitions of success. Iris, now a performance coach with Valor Performance, and Felicia, who splits her time between business consulting in Egypt and owning a business in New York, share many perspectives and takeaways useful for listeners pursuing excellence in sport, business, or any performance domain.

Learn more about Iris and Felicia: Iris LinkedIn, Felicia Twitter, Valor Performance, Rochester Fencing Club

Ep. 034 – Dr. Mark Williams (TPD Developing High Performers)

December 6, 2020Education/Research, Sport, TPD Developing High Performers SeriesA Mark Williams, Athletes, Author, Coaching, Drive, Footballer, High Performance, High Performers, Persistence, Professor, Professor Mark Williams, Research, Soccer, Sport, Sports Science, Success, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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Dr. Mark Williams, Professor, Author – The Best – How Elite Athletes are Made

Do you keep moving forward every day toward your goals? In this episode, Dr. Mark Williams shares his path from international youth footballer to world-renowned expert on human performance. He discusses the tremendous growth in the use of science applied to sport, touches on many of the current debates in the world of coaching, and provides his take on the role of genetics versus environment in the development of elite level performance. Dr. Williams also discusses his newest book on elite athletes for which he and his co-author interviewed dozens of elite athletes including Steph Curry, Marcus Rashford, and Pete Sampras to name a few.

To learn more about Dr. Williams: https://www.markwilliamssportsscience.com

To learn more about The Best – How Elite Athletes are Made: https://www.amazon.com/Best-How-Champions-Are-Made/dp/1529304350

Bonus Episode – Analysis: Sean McEvoy

August 19, 2020Bonus EpisodeAnalysis, Coaching, Football, High Performers, NFL, Persistence, QB, QB Takeover, Quarterback, Quarterback Takeover, Sean McEvoy, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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BONUS: Hosts Drs. Kevin Harris and Lauren S. Tashman discuss their conversation with QB Development Coach Sean McEvoy. Highlights include their discussion that many of the guests have mentioned gratitude as a component of their path, the thin line between success and failure, and how improvement can be messy and require repeated failures. The hosts also discuss how putting in the work sets one up to capitalize when the opportunity comes along.

Ep. 019 – Sean McEvoy (TPD Developing High Performers Series)

August 16, 2020Sport, TPD Developing High Performers SeriesCoaching, Deshaun Watson, Football, High Performers, Josh Dobbs, Joshua Dobbs, NFL, Persistence, QB, QB Takeover, Quarterback, Quarterback Takeover, Sean McEvoy, Trainingthe-path-distilled

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Sean McEvoy, Quarterback Development Coach with Quarterback Takeover

Would you be willing to scrap the technique that you literally wrote the book about? Sean McEvoy discusses his path from a side gig as a high school coach to working with a roster of well known NFL quarterbacks. We talk with him about the phenomenon of recruiting players at younger ages, his approach to developing a QB’s ability to diagnose plays and self correct, and the importance of performing under pressure for success. Listen for great advice and insight on continuous improvement, the value of making genuine connections with others, and the relevance of understanding the “why” behind anything one does.

Learn more about Sean: Instagram, Twitter

Learn more about Quarterback Takeover: Website, Instagram, Twitter

The Path Distilled Podcast, Ep 002 – Inga Stasiulionyte

May 5, 2020Business, SportCoaching, Entrepenuer, Mental Toughness, Olympianthe-path-distilled

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Inga Stasiulionyte, Olympian & Founders Coach

What would you do if you got pulled out of math class and a man you never met before — turns out was a national team coach — said you were going to be a javelin thrower? Inga is a former NCAA Division I Track & Field athlete and Olympian representing Lithuania in the 2008 Games in Beijing. She leads a startup called Ofounders.com that specializes in mind coaching helping startup founders, teams, and professional athletes achieve superior results by using Olympic-standard mindset development techniques, is a Performance Coach for Valor Performance, and heads the MIT Sports Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. Inga’s episode is packed full of useful takeaways from her journey, including the mental shift that propelled her to a world record, what it was like to have to compete in a duel for the last spot on her Olympic team, and how she defines high performance.

Learn more about Inga: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram

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