Podcast appearances and mentions of skip bertman

Mike and Charlie reported on Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss' court case to gain another year of eligibility in college football. Gil LeBreton, a sportswriter getting inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, joined Sports Talk. LeBreton gave his favorite memories from his long career, lamented the decline of print news, shared stories of the 1970s Saints, and praised Skip Bertman's impact on college baseball. Mike, Steve, and Charlie played their daily "Triple Option" segment.

Gil LeBreton, a sportswriter getting inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, joined Sports Talk. LeBreton gave his favorite memories from his long career, lamented the decline of print news, shared stories of the 1970s Saints, and praised Skip Bertman's impact on college baseball.

This week, I'm honored to welcome Coach Keith Madison — former University of Kentucky Head Baseball Coach, ABCA Hall of Famer, ABCA Lefty Gomez Award winner and author of Coaching With Purpose.Coach Madison led the Wildcats for 25 seasons, retiring with the third-most wins in SEC history, behind only Ron Polk and Skip Bertman. But his impact extends far beyond the record books. Through Inside Pitch Magazine, SCORE International, and now his book Coaching With Purpose, he continues to guide coaches and players toward something bigger than the game itself.Coach Madison's story is about far more than baseball — it's about why we coach and who we become through the process.

Welcome to Episode 90 of Tablesetters, where the game's biggest stories collide with scorching heat, late-June pressure, and postseason implications already beginning to brew. We begin in Omaha, where the LSU Tigers didn't just win their eighth College World Series — they secured their place as the defining force in modern college baseball. From the dynasty built by Skip Bertman to the edge honed by Jay Johnson, LSU's legacy now spans three decades, multiple eras, and a standard no one else in the sport has matched. Then we shift west, where the Padres and Dodgers turned a simmering rivalry into a full-blown powder keg. Benches cleared, stars got plunked, and managers were tossed in a four-game series that saw eight hit batters and more bad blood than baseball. This wasn't just a tense series — it was personal. And the aftermath could define the rest of the NL West race. In New York, the Mets and Braves meet again — both clubs in search of clarity and consistency as they open a four-game set under the oppressive Queens heat. Atlanta may have swept New York last week, but both teams are still trying to find themselves in a season that keeps asking questions they can't quite answer. From Chris Sale's injury to Frankie Montas' high-stakes return, we break down what's at stake in a pivotal series. We also head to Cincinnati, where the Reds are turning the page — and turning to fire. Chase Burns, one of the most hyped pitching prospects in recent memory, will make his major league debut against the Yankees. With the rotation in tatters and the Reds hovering around .500, this isn't just a call-up — it's a bet on the future. We unpack Burns' meteoric rise, what makes his arsenal electric, and why his debut feels like a potential franchise reset. Elsewhere around the league, big names are coming and going. Max Scherzer returns to the Blue Jays. Shota Imanaga and Nathan Eovaldi are nearing activation. Adley Rutschman hits the IL. And the Padres and Mariners move on from veterans Jason Heyward and Rowdy Tellez. We close with a look at the surging and the slumping — a segment spotlighting players heating up or going ice cold. And in the AL MVP race, Cal Raleigh's historic first half behind the plate has Mariners fans fired up — but Aaron Judge is quietly putting together one of the best seasons of his career. Who has the edge as July approaches? Follow us on Instagram and X @TablesettersPod for extra content, polls, and weekly MLB breakdowns. Like, subscribe, and share to support the show.

The LSU Tigers were dominating on Saturday night in their College World Series opener vs. Arkansas. Well, maybe we should say pitcher Kade Anderson was dominating. Can Anthony Eyanson do something similar Monday night vs. UCLA, and how important is it the Tigers remain in the winners' bracket? Host Jim Derry has a nice chat with Advocate and Times-Picayune LSU beat writer Koki Riley on Monday's Dattitude Podcast (Ep. 386) presented by Evangeline Securities. They'll also talk about an interesting stat in which the Tigers are nearly unbeatable if they score a certain amount of runs, and is Coach Jay Johnson about to step into Skip Bertman territory? Jim also has thoughts on the importance of the Saints signing running back Cam Akers and whether he will play a role for this team. Lastly, Gabe Henderson has a few things he wants to talk about and his opinion on Akers, who is a former Houston Texan.

Mike, Charlie, and Steve played their daily "Triple Option" segment. Steve previewed USA's rematch with Canada in the championship of the Four Nations Tournament. Charlie lamented Victor Wembanyama's season-ending blood clots. Mike remembered the start of Skip Bertman's legendary career.

We have spent most of the late spring and early summer talking about the potential for the New Orleans Saints' new offense under Klint Kubiak. But what about Dennis Allen's defense? They were not good last season against the run and had virtually no pass rush. Will they be better? Can they find depth on the defensive line, and is this the last year for Hall-of-Famer to be defensive end Cameron Jordan? Jim Derry talks to his old friend, Larry Holder of The Athletic, on Friday's Dattitude Podcast (Ep. 248) presented by Evangeline Securities. They also offer their early top surprise picks in the NFL and potential disappointments, as well as Jim's and Larry's Super Bowl predictions (which they reserve the right to change before September). Lastly in the ‘Extra Point,' Jim looks back 33 years to when LSU baseball started its run in becoming the premier program in the country and Skip Bertman became a legend, as they won their first national championship over Wichita State.

Charles and Dan are joined by Skip Bertman to preview the Regional at Chapel Hill, NC.

Todd Walker, a former LSU star & current SEC Network baseball analyst, joined Mike and Charlie. Walker praised the talent on the Tigers' 2024 roster, highlighting their returning talent and transfer portal additions.

Paul Byrd, a former LSU & MLB pitcher, joined Bobby and Mike to discuss his induction into the 2023 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Byrd remembered his path from sports to broadcasting. He talked about his relationship with Skip Bertman. Byrd also expressed his pride in a 14-year MLB career. 

Bobby and Mike reported on Dolphins CB Jalen Ramsey's injury at practice. Mike compared Ramsey to Saints CB Marshon Lattimore. The guys reviewed Sean Payton's comments about Nathaniel Hackett. Paul Byrd, a former LSU & MLB pitcher, joined Bobby and Mike to discuss his induction into the 2023 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. Byrd remembered his path from sports to broadcasting. He talked about his relationship with Skip Bertman. Byrd also expressed his pride in a 14-year MLB career. Steve joined the crew for their daily triple-option segment. The guys broke down their observations from day two of Saints training camp. 

Legendary New Orleans sports broadcaster Ro Brown joined Mike and Charlie to discuss the Saints' off-season. Brown said New Orleans should win the NFC South. He gave his positions of concern on the Saints' roster. Brown projected Taysom Hill's role with the team. He talked about the media coverage of LSU's run at the 2023 College World Series. 

Welcome to the Sports Zone Podcast, where we discuss, opine, and report on all things local sports.In this episode, LSU Baseball hosts its first super regional in four years. The Tigers are two wins away from Omaha.Would Kentucky even be in this spot if it wasn't for Skip Bertman?The Saints go marching into mandatory minicamp. Will 13 plus four equal 17 games for Michael Thomas?From Northwestern to Southeastern, the Lions have a new head baseball coach, and he comes from a family with a South Louisiana pedigree.All next in the WGNO Sports Zone.The Sports Zone Podcast is also available via Apple Podcasts on iTunes.

Rick Jones, a former Tulane baseball coach, joined Mike and Charlie to review the rise of college baseball in Louisiana. Jones shared a story about former LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman. Jones recapped memorable seasons from his 20-season career leading the Green Wave. He also praised current head coach Jay Uhlman.

Mike and Charlie discussed Zion Williamson's comments to the media regarding his injury recovery. Mike spoke to WWL listeners about Pitt DT Calijah Kancey and Tennesse QB Hendon Hooker. Rick Jones, a former Tulane baseball coach, joined Sports Talk to review the rise of college baseball in Louisiana. Jones shared a story about former LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman. Jones recapped memorable seasons from his 20-season career leading the Green Wave. He also praised current head coach Jay Uhlman. The guys talked about Devin White's trade request from Tampa Bay. 

In today's episode of the "The Runway Decade Podcast," hosts Bill Bush and Pete Bush, advisors at Horizon Financial Group are chatting with Paul Hood. He is going to talk about trust, estates, and wills. He is also going to talk about business valuations for those owners.   Episode Highlights ·         04.31: Paul is a Louisiana guy, despite being in Ohio right now he grew up in Alexandria, LA. He talks about the early days and his experience of growing up in Alexandria, right in the middle of the state. ·         05.33: The thing that Paul noticed as a kid listening to the rainy day show on KALB, the mighty 580AM every morning was that they developed this growing up and antipathy toward New Orleans. ·         07.41: Paul is in the process of endowing $1000 a year student writing award at his alma mater high school, Holy Savior Menard Central High School in Alexandria and the scholarship will be awarded on Friday, April 28th at a school assembly and he will give a speech to the students. ·         09.29: Paul doesn't view what he has literally done since Hurricane Katrina as work. He has written nine books, published hundreds of articles. He has done 96-90-minute webinars on estate and tax and charitable planning. He doesn't view all this as work which is why he doesn't ever see himself stopping. ·         12.05: Paul shares how things changed for him when Katrina made its third and final landfall on August 29th, 2005. ·         14.04: Paul discusses the things that are important for a buy-sell agreement. ·         18.25: It's not a triggering event that causes the problem. It's the procedure that is drafted and one of those common errors Paul sees is the appraiser has to produce an appraisal in 30 days. ·         20.14: The appraiser can't appraise in 30 days and no appraiser can, says Paul. ·         22.40: One thing that the TV show Shark Tank has taught Bill is that a business owner at least a lot of business owners come up with this idea of valuation in their head that in the most cases seems to be based on not a lot and it could be very inflated. ·         24.36: One of Paul's strongest bits of advice for people in business is your business should be ready for sale 24/7, 365. ·         25.06: What happens to a lot of people is they skimp on their accounting and then they sign up a non-disclosure agreement and they enter due diligence and people who can't figure out, their financials, they are not audited, they are not reviewed, they're not consistent, they are not complete. ·         28.02: Paul's earliest LSU memory was probably a trip to Tiger Stadium in 1973 when the Tigers weren't very good.   Three Key Points 1.    Paul talks about his mindset and how he felt when he turned 50. 2.    Paul talks about two of his books, both are based on planning your future series, the last will and testament for your business, "Buy- Sell Agreements" and then “It's Yours," Mine and Ours" which Pete loves because it's on the blended family. 3.    Paul talks about his earliest LSU memory.         Tweetable Quotes ·      - "I took a job in New Orleans, and it was a great job because my four years there, from 88 to 92, that's where I learned a lot of what of what I know, I was taught by four excellent estate planning and tax lawyers." -  Paul Hood ·      -  "Retirement is not really something that I even think about even at 62, almost 63 in June." - Paul Hood ·      -"If you work for one of them, you got temporarily relocated to Baton Rouge or Lafayette, Lake Charles or even Houston, TX. But those of us who work for individuals, we were out." - Paul Hood ·    -"I am a one-page guy because I believe if you can condense something down to a page, you understand correct, and that's a big deal." -  Paul Hood ·       - "If your client gets the appraiser and answers all their information document requests in 30 days give yourself a blue star." -  Paul Hood ·    -"When I wrote my business valuation book, I did something that I don't know that anybody else had ever done. I have read every single income tax case involving valuation back to the beginning of the income tax in 1913." - Paul Hood ·        -"I don't think that the true grasp of the greatness of Skip Bertman has been understood yet." - Paul Hood     Resources Mentioned ·         runwaydecade.com ·         https://paulhoodservices.com/

In this episode Brian shares the story about meeting his mentor the great Skip Bertman and the #1 strategy the 5x NCAA National Championship winning coach shared with his program. Please click here to view the twitter thread Brian made on using mental imagery for increased confidence through mental preparation. You can access all of Brian's sport specific mental imagery audios on a YouTube playlist here Brian Cain, MPM, the World's leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations every day that you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.   Have a question you'd like Brian to answer on a future Mental Performance Daily episode? Click here to submit your question. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and leave us a review for a chance to win a FREE 1-1 coaching session with Brian each month and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak  Be sure to join Brian's email list at BrianCain.com/join so that you can stay updated and in the know when it comes to mental performance training and opportunities to work with Brian. If you are a coach looking to master mental performance coaching, the missing link in your clients and athletes performance, join Brian's MPM Coaches Insiders List and receive his best strategies for coaching mental performance and save $200 off his MPM Certification Course when it opens in May and November. Are you a coach? Join Brian's FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Coaching Mental Performance Are you an athlete? Join Brian's  FREE 3 Day Mini Course on Mental Performance for Athletes Are you a golfer or golf coach? Join Brian's  FREE Golf Masterclass Are you a baseball player or coach? join Brian's FREE Baseball Masterclass Mental Performance Daily is an IRONCLAD Original

Back this week on the baseball side of things and connecting with another National Championship coach - the head coach at Ole Miss and the NCAA Division I champs from a year ago, Mike Bianco stops by and joins the show! An amazing conversation as we start by telling some great Skip Bertman stories followed by great insight in the process of building the Ole Miss program. Coach Bianco shows unmatched vulnerability in unpacking his own journey and growth in coaching along with how social media and access have opened doors for his program there in Oxford! @CoachMikeBianco @OleMissBSB

On this episode of The Secrets to Winning, I chat with Glenn Guilbeau of OutKick.com and author of Everything Matters in Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story. The book is about my former LSU head baseball coach Skip Bertman, the man who brought winning baseball to LSU. It sheds light on Skip's work ethic, inventiveness, attention to detail, entrepreneurial ability, and overall contributions to LSU in his capacity as coach and later as athletic director. It includes chapters on each of the five National Championships won under his direction, beginning in 1991; it reveals his secrets to training great pitchers who later pitched in the Major Leagues; and it shows how he embraced and used "The Power of Positive Thinking" throughout his career.

On today's episode of the "The Runway Decade Podcast," hosts Bill Bush and Pete Bush, advisors at Horizon Financial Group talk to two-time NCAA baseball coach of the year Mike Bianco. He is the head coach Ole Miss, the reigning College World Series Champs, and reached the pinnacle of his sport and career by winning the national championship.       Episode Highlights 2:47: Mike is fortunate to do what he does as a baseball coach and works with young people in intercollegiate athletics, and when you go to work, there are thousands of people watching you what you do. 3:30: Mike played at LSU, went to the College World Series as a player and then was an assistant for the legendary Skip Bertman for five years and was fortunate enough to go to the World Series four times as an assistant coach and won three national championships. 4:42: At Ole Miss Mike says he's got a great fan base. They were in the top five in national attendance for the last 15-16 years or so and have been in the top two or three along with LSU and some other of our counterparts in the Southeastern Conference. 8:08: Mike knew LSU had a great coach and they played in Southeastern Conference, and he got an opportunity visit there and fell in love with the place and great campus and a great coaching staff and he just wanted to play college baseball. 9:50: Back in the days, you could go to spring training game and lean over the dugout and hand your ball and Tony Perez would grab it, sign it, hand it back to you but you can't do that anymore. But that was a cool time, says Mike. 12:42: Mike says it was very different to play under coach Bertman. He told them that they were getting a PhD, Harvard Education in baseball and they laughed when they were at that age, but it was true. 15:31: In year 1989, we didn't play well all year long either but it's interesting how teams end up being in the World Series and all kind of different paths, says Pete. 16:50 Mike beats Auburn on the road to remain number 1 and so they were number one for two weeks in a row and then they came home and got beat up by Tennessee and that set us into a tailspin for about six weeks where they didn't play well for a few weeks and lost some series they probably shouldn't have. 20:11: Mike explains how it is terrific for a team to hear from a guy that has worn the uniform, a guy that has won a national championship and now is a successful businessman. 22:39: Mike explains how fortunate he was that he started drawing in the people who bought into this vision of baseball and they started having success and they needed to build seats. 28:01: If someone is good enough to play sport, they are good enough to play anywhere. 30:48: Keeping championship and all that aside, Mike feels super blessed in so many ways to be able to do and work and do something that he loves to do and has done it basically his whole life because not so many people get to do that. 32:31: Mike and his wife were putting $50 away in a retirement plan, so thankfully that they started it then when they were trying to play catch up because in your mid 50s and you're so thankful that you were disciplined and that you did it earlier. 35:30: The first time on the ESPN coverage Bill saw that he was hugging one of the players and the second shot of Mike is hugging one of the Oklahoma guys and really struck him that sportsmanship is certainly a pillar of what you preach. 43::37: Every kid or every person of our age remembers sitting and watching, like Hill Street Blues or whatever that show was with your family and that was really a cool time. 45:13: If you are playing the sport, you're supposed to have fun. You are supposed to try to succeed. Not sit there and scared and hope and have moms clap that you have a good eye, says Mike.       Three Key Points Mike was one of the fortunate folks who has carved out a career in this great sport of baseball. He takes the listeners back to where it all began. Mike talks about his reconnect with Luis Garcia, one of their old 89 teammate and going down to Miami and running into him again because the guys that they had played with never going to separate from each other. As per Mike you got to find what works for you, whatever that is or whatever routine that is because everything is about catching your routine.       Tweetable Quotes "In any profession, if you're fortunate enough to reach the pinnacle at least at some point, it's just what you dream about." – Mike "Somewhere between t-ball and high school baseball, you lose four and a half million baseball players." - Mike "When you are in danger you don't need anybody else to lose their games. Just try to win your games." – Mike "You are having a top-notch facility at front stage and the backstage part and with that the improvements you guys have made over the years are phenomenal." – Bill "I always talk about Coach Bertman, but the best thing that happened to me in my life that I met Cammy, my wife. Cammy was a trainer at LSU." - Mike "I think I can handle, and I think my coaching staff could handle but I don't think I wanted my son to have to handle that he is a coach's son." - Mike "I work with the 18- to 22-year-old kids and that's one of the things that I think kind of keeps you young, keeps you mobile, and keeps you moving around." - Mike "I do like emotion. I love the guys that play with positive emotion because what I do is more than just coach baseball. I teach life lessons." - Mike     Resources Mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bianco www.runwaydecade.com www.horizonfg.com  

In today's episode of the "The Runway Decade Podcast", hosts Bill Bush and Pete Bush, advisors at Horizon Financial Group are talking with Pat Cuntz, a successful business leader in Baton Rouge. He was baseball player at LSU before he became a successful business owner.   Episode Highlights 30: Pat met Pete somewhere between 1985-1986. Pete was a freshman the year after Pat had finished playing baseball. Pat was hanging around, finishing school and the two got to be friends… and ended up living together for a little bit. 18: Pat's first year in baseball at LSU was around 1981-82, and he played for a couple of years, but things were a lot different under his first coach. LSU baseball certainly wasn't anywhere near what it is now, but he was there to see the change when Skip Bertman took over the program. Pat was on Skip's first team at LSU 43: Pat has been the luckiest guy on the planet because when he talked to coach Bertman about graduating and going into business, Coach said “you are going to do great”, and it gave him a different level of confidence. 11: Pete says he wasn't a great player either. It made him work harder at taking in all other things that Bertman tried to talk about to us. 14: Pat left LSU not only with a degree, but he meets his wife, another athlete. 08: Pat dated Cecelia for 10 years before they got married. He and his wife were friends who kind of hung around each other a little bit more, and then next thing you do…go on a date. 05: Pat dated for 10 years and then he got married, and then 10 years later, Christopher Cuntz their only child came along. 30: Once, a successful real estate businessperson said to Pat that, work for Motorola and get to know that corporate world and learn from it. Learn the good, learn the bad and then eventually go work for yourself. 52: The goal was always to go acquire some other companies in South Louisiana and we are going to build this business from New Orleans through the 10-12 corridor, all the way through Beaumont, into Houston and Pat really enjoys it. 04: Pat says that he and his family have been lucky enough to communicate the gifts that we have been given. There are things they want to do, and he doesn't know what that means today, but we talk about how we will help some people out. 50: If you are a person of faith, life is about helping people. It is about helping the less fortunate, says Pat.     Three Key Points Pat went to Houston for training period of about 3 months after getting offer from Motorola and had a funny story about when you talk about confidence and how things play out. The atmosphere for the world of baseball or football or basketball or any type of sports across country is so different. The parents, the kids, even the opposing people, everybody cheers for everybody, and everybody is rooting for everybody. You can make a bunch of money, you can have all the plans, but at the end of the day, it's all about what do you want to do and what do you want to do with it, says Pat.     Tweetable Quotes "The whole early era of Skip's teams is kind of a big fraternity of guys that did spend a lot of time together off the field as well." – Bill "When I was getting out, I was in business marketing, and I wanted to go into some type of sales where you didn't have those aptitude tests." - Pat "When I came to work for EMCO, my really good friend ended up being my business partner. I was running the communication side and Todd ran the information technology side and there was always an intention of buying the company." – Pat "COVID showed me I can't work from my house. I'm way too easily distracted. I have got to get up and go somewhere." – Pat "I have to say I'll never really retire. I got to do something and as long as I enjoy what I'm doing and they allow me to do this, I'll continue to do this." - Pat     Resources Mentioned https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-cuntz-208b424/ Podcast Editing www.runwaydecade.com  

Tigs visits with Louisiana sports media legend Tommy Krysan. They discuss his career in sports media, the state of LSU and Saints football, Skip Bertman's Hold The Rope podcast, music, and more! Follow Hold The Rope on YouTube, checkout Meat and Potatoes for TK's weekly picks, and listen to his podcasts on Anchor. If you want a good laugh, checkout the Legendary Ronnie Rantz and Skip Bertman Marijuana Story! Checkout Heart's version of Stairway to Heaven live from the Kennedy Center Honors show in 2012. Follow all of the TigBits Socials TikTok Instagram YouTube Facebook Merch

In hour two of After Further Review, Matt is joined in studio by LSU Baseball legend Skip Bertman for the whole hour. The guys talk Skip's new book, baseball and Bertman's time as LSU's AD.

Glenn Guilbeau, an SEC columnist at Outkick.com, joined the show to talk about his new book, "Everything Matters in Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story." Guilbeau shared stories regarding the legendary former LSU head baseball coach. He praised current head coach Jay Johnson for his work to bring winning baseball back to Baton Rouge. Mike and Bobby also discussed expectations for LSU football's season-opening game against Florida State.

Glenn Guilbeau, an SEC columnist at Outkick.com, talked to Bobby and Mike about his new book, "Everything Matters in Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story." Guilbeau shared stories regarding the legendary former LSU head baseball coach. He praised current head coach Jay Johnson for his work to bring winning baseball back to Baton Rouge. Mike and Bobby also discussed expectations for LSU football's season-opening game against Florida State.

Hunt Palmer and Jeremy Hill start off the first hour of today's show with breaking news out of LSU football as Myles Brennan makes the decision to walk away from football. Saints vs Texans preseason impressions.. what'd the guys see from the Saints first action on the field? Glenn Guilbeau of USA Today joins the show to give the guys a look into a new book written on Skip Bertman and his tenure at LSU.

Next up on the ABCA Podcast is Division I National Champion Ole Miss head coach, Mike Bianco. This continues our series of ABCA Coaches that were National Champions this year. Bianco was honored with the ABCA/ATEC Coach of the year award. Bianco just finished his 22nd season at Ole Miss and is the longest tenured coach in the SEC. In 22 seasons leading the program, Bianco has led Ole Miss to 18 postseason, 8 Super Regional and 2 College World Series appearances. Bianco is one of the best we have in the game and has had some tremendous mentors in Jim Wells and Skip Bertman. Bianco has had a busy summer going straight from winning a National Championship to managing the USA College National Team. If you want to dive back into the archives, Coach Bianco and his sons were on the podcast with me for the Father and Son series. The ABCA Podcast is presented by Netting Pros. Netting Professionals are improving programs one facility at a time, specializing in the design, fabrication and installation of custom netting for backstops, batting cages, dugouts, bp screens and ball carts. They also design and install digital graphic wall padding windscreen, turf, turf protectors, dugout benches, dugout cubbies and more.

On today's episode, Anthony's sitting down with LSU Baseball royalty as former LSU baseball coaches Skip Bertman and Dan Canevari join the podcast. They're chatting about the evolution of college baseball and how NIL looks a lot like free agency. Hear Skip and Dan's thoughts on NIL, what it takes to win a College World Series title and how you can listen to their weekly radio show, Hold the Rope.

Kristian talked to Kendall Rogers, the managing editor of D1Baseball, and former legendary coaches Skip Bertman and Ron Maestri about the changing atmosphere in college baseball. The transfer portal has changed the strategy around how coaches build their rosters, and the NIL has added free agency to the sport.

Skip Bertman and Ron Maestri joined Kristian to talk about the current state of college baseball. The legendary coaches discussed the impact that the transfer portal and NIL will have on the sport they love. They also praised the AABC Connie Mack World Series.

Sports Shorts is live from Calandro's Supermarket, as the typical trio of Ronnie, TK and Joel Davis hold it down for the first hour. The show opens up talking the NFL coaching carousel, including the Saints search and the Jaguars hiring Doug Pederson over Byron Leftwich. The guys talk Curley Hallman and Skip Bertman stories, […] The post Sports Shorts with Ronnie Rantz 2-5-22 HOUR ONE appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

In my profession, I am fortunate to get to be around some great athletes, but I also spend a lot of time around coaches. I have a unique perspective as I have played for the best college baseball coach of all time, Skip Bertman at LSU, and I also currently work for the best college football coach of all time, Nick Saban at Alabama, as well as the entire Alabama athletic department. I don't know many people in my field or in the entire athletic circle who have actually had the experiences that I have had in being around the caliber of coach that I get to work with on a regular basis. There are some common themes and trends among all of these great coaches that make them who they are. In this episode, I want to dive in to those themes and processes that these coaches have in place at each of these programs that allow them to not only achieve success, but to sustain it over long periods of time.

Today I uncover a lesson I learned from interviewing 5x NCAA National Champion and former baseball coach at Athletic Director at LSU, Skip Bertman. This is a lesson that will change your life. Brian Cain, MPM, the World's leader in Mental Performance Coaching brings you practical tips, techniques, stories, strategies, meditations and motivations you can use to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be each and every day with The Mental Performance Daily Podcast.   Be sure to subscribe wherever you are listening to this podcast, leave us a review and engage with Brian on social media @BrianCainPeak

The College Baseball Foundation inducted 14 new members into its Hall of Fame and this week's Episode of Amateur features interviews from award winners and inductees, along with a clip from PG College Baseball. TTU's Cal Conley earned the Brooks Wallace Award as the best shortstop in college baseball, Arkansas' Kevin Kopps earned National Collegiate Pitcher of the Year, Nebraska's Spencer Schwellenbach takes home the John Olerud two-way player of the year award and Georgia Gwinnet's HC Jeremy Sheetinger is the Skip Bertman coach of the year. Plus, we hear from Mark Marquess who lead Stanford for 41 seasons, Tennessee's two-way sensation Todd Helton, and Florida State C Matheu Nelson on PG College Baseball with Hunter Pence. Follow @CollegeDiamonds or visit CollegeBaseballHOF.org for more information about this year's 2021 College Baseball induction class.

Twitter handles for hosts:Shawn Clynch  https://twitter.com/ShawnC_ATX"Big Mike" Murphy https://twitter.com/mercury_mamboMike "Hardball" Hardge https://twitter.com/HardballHardgeMaurice "Coach Mo" Harris https://twitter.com/CoachMoFitnessEpisode 77 brought to you by:saxtoninsurance.com  https://www.saxtoninsurance.com/ & cosmiccoffeebeer.com  https://twitter.com/cosmicaustinSince the turn of the century, Lufkin, Texas native and a proud former student of Texas A&M University, Kendall Rogers found his nichè by producing content for his passion, college baseball.Follow Kendall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KendallRogersFrom Rivals.com to the modern day business, D1baseball.comA platform which has over 137,000 followers on Twitter.Rogers' love for college baseball and his ability to generate compelling content has earned himself the unofficial title of "The authority of college baseball".Rogers has developed a wealth of relationships and network with college baseball coaches and players throughout the country. This is the week the 74th College World Series begins in Omaha and this will be the 16th CWS Rogers will cover.Rogers provided his analysis of the 2021 CWS field and believes the Texas Longhorns pitching staff may be the deepest in the country. His Jim Saxton State Farm Insurance Agency "Man Cave Story" involved LSU legendary retired coach, Skip Bertman.The middle segment promotes: Saxton Insurance Agency, The Travis Manion Foundation, & Cosmic Coffee & Beer.Segment 2, Big Mike and Clynch wrap it up by discussing Texas Longhorns baseball and the atmosphere at Disch-Falk Field the previous two weekends during the NCAA regionals and super regionals.The boys wrapped up episode 77 with some positivity in the Cosmic Coffee & Beer Garden "Tell Me Something Good" segment. 

Twitter handles for hosts: Shawn Clynch https://twitter.com/ShawnC_ATX "Big Mike" Murphy https://twitter.com/mercury_mambo Mike "Hardball" Hardge https://twitter.com/HardballHardge Maurice "Coach Mo" Harris https://twitter.com/CoachMoFitness Episode 77 brought to you by: saxtoninsurance.com https://www.saxtoninsurance.com/ & cosmiccoffeebeer.com https://twitter.com/cosmicaustin Since the turn of the century, Lufkin, Texas native and a proud former student of Texas A&M University, Kendall Rogers found his nichè by producing content for his passion, college baseball. Follow Kendall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KendallRogers From Rivals.com to the modern day business, D1baseball.com A platform which has over 137,000 followers on Twitter. Rogers' love for college baseball and his ability to generate compelling content has earned himself the unofficial title of "The authority of college baseball". Rogers has developed a wealth of relationships and network with college baseball coaches and players throughout the country. This is the week the 74th College World Series begins in Omaha and this will be the 16th CWS Rogers will cover. Rogers provided his analysis of the 2021 CWS field and believes the Texas Longhorns pitching staff may be the deepest in the country. His Jim Saxton State Farm Insurance Agency "Man Cave Story" involved LSU legendary retired coach, Skip Bertman. The middle segment promotes: Saxton Insurance Agency, The Travis Manion Foundation, & Cosmic Coffee & Beer. Segment 2, Big Mike and Clynch wrap it up by discussing Texas Longhorns baseball and the atmosphere at Disch-Falk Field the previous two weekends during the NCAA regionals and super regionals. The boys wrapped up episode 77 with some positivity in the Cosmic Coffee & Beer Garden "Tell Me Something Good" segment.

Recently, ESPN and the SEC Network released a documentary titled Hold the Rope, telling the story of my legendary baseball coach at LSU, Skip Bertman, and his quest to turn the LSU baseball program into a perennial power. "Hold the Rope" was a phrase/motto that we and all LSU baseball teams used on a regular basis that encapsulated the trust and unity that Coach Bertman instilled in the teams he coached. In this episode, I want to take a deep dive into what it meant to "Hold the Rope" every day. We didn't always have the most talent, but what we did have was trust in our teammates, coaching staff, and the system, which was ultimately enough to win 5 national championships in the span of 10 years.

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On a Tuesday Edition of The Jordy Culotta Show, we are joined by maybe the greatest player in LSU Baseball history, Ben McDonald. We talk LSU's feature on SEC Network "Hold The Rope", and how the 2021 team can follow the mantra going into the SEC Tournament in Hoover. LSU Radio's Hunt Palmer stops by the UDL to give us his insight into LSU Baseball's chances in the SEC Tournament and what the Tigers have to do in Hoover for a chance to join a Regional. Former LSU 1st Baseman Pete Bush calls in to give his thoughts on Skip Bertman's Legacy, the curious case of Albert "Joey" Belle, and more! Also, we start picking at the LSU Football schedule. Would you rather the Tigers lose game one, or take a loss in the SEC? 0:00 - Capital City Soul 2:30 - Welcome In! 5:00 - LSU SEC Network's Ben McDonald 18:00 - Hold The Rope Review 32:00 - LSU Radio's Hunt Palmer 50:00 - Do You Wear Socks to Bed? 1:00:00 - LSU Football Talk 1:25:00 -Julio Jones Trade? 1:31:00 - LSU Football Swing Games? 1:42:00 - LSU Baseball Pete Bush

We are packed on this Monday Edition of the Jordy Culotta Show! The SEC Network's Tom Hart, former LSU Football, LSU Basketball and LSU Baseball commentator Jim Hawthorne, Advocate writer Wilson Alexander, and New Orleans Pelicans' developmental coach Darnell Lazare join the show! Tom Hart discusses LSU Baseball winning the series in Aggieland as the Tigers took two of three from Texas A&M. How important is the emergence of M'Khail Hilliard to the LSU rotation, and how does Paul Mainieri's decision to sit Landon Marceaux impact game one in the SEC Tournament. The former voice of LSU Football, LSU Basketball, and LSU Baseball and Mr. Do It All, Jim Hawthorne joins the show to talk Skip Bertman's Hold The Rope. He relives the glory days of LSU baseball as he was on the call for every game that built LSU Baseball's legacy under Coach Bertman. The Advocate's Wilson Alexander continues LSU Baseball joins us. We ponder if the Paul Mainieri magic is being conjured with the Tigers back in Hoover facing off against Georgia. Former LSU Basketball player Darnell Lazare and now New Orleans Pelicans' player development coach Darnell Lazare talks NBA Playoffs, the state of the Pelicans, and how LeBron James' run as top-dog in the NBA is unfathomable. Also, we have an exclusive interview with TJ Finley. The former LSU quarterback talks about his decision to transfer within the SEC to Auburn and compete for the starting job in Auburn.

Bart and Charlie talk with former LSU coach Skip Bertman about his friendship with Ron Polk and the State-LSU rivalry; Kendall Graveman of the Seattle Mariners looks back at his MLB career and what's made him successful.

No one in the game has more wins than Paul Mainieri. LSU's head baseball coach is nearing 1,600 for his career, so I couldn't think of a better first guest for a podcast about winning than Coach Mainieri. Even better is that he has as many stories as he does victories. On today's show, we talk about milestones, mentors, leaving LSU to find out how good he was as a player, and coming back to find out how good he was as a coach. For a full transcript of the episode, click here. Show outline: Milestones [1:11] The value of taking the long route [5:21] Why he went into coaching [7:40] The Humble Wall [9:44] Mentors [12:45] Why he left LSU after his freshman season [14:06] Learning from failure [18:33] Tough love [23:45] Striving for perfection [25:40] Success vs. Confidence [31:10] Why he came back to LSU as a coach [36:05] The Magic of LSU [39:00] What success looks like in the future [42:25] Paul Mainieri Bio Mainieri has guided the Tigers to the 2009 College World Series national championship and five CWS appearances. During Mainieri's tenure, LSU has captured a remarkable 30 team championships, including the 2009 NCAA title, eight NCAA Regional championships, five NCAA Super Regional championships, four Southeastern Conference championships, six SEC Tournament titles and six SEC Western Division crowns. Mainieri has a 1,467-752-8 (.661) record in 38 seasons of collegiate coaching at St. Thomas University (1984-88), Air Force (1989-94), Notre Dame (1995-2006) and LSU (2007-present). He is No. 1 on the career wins list for active NCAA coaches and No. 9 in all-time NCAA wins, and he is one of only six coaches in NCAA history to have won over 1,400 games and a national championship. Mainieri is 603-260-3 (.698) at LSU, and he has the third-highest winning percentage in SEC history, trailing only former LSU coach Skip Bertman, who was 870-330-3 (.724) from 1984-2001, and former South Carolina coach Ray Tanner, who posted a 738-316 (.700) mark from 1997-2012. Mainieri earned his 600th LSU win on March 6, 2020, when the Tigers defeated UMass Lowell in Alex Box Stadium. Mainieri became just the 12th coach in SEC history – and the second at LSU – to compile 600 wins at a league school. Under Mainieri, the Tigers earned an NCAA Tournament National Seed in six consecutive seasons from 2012-17, making LSU and Stanford (1999-2004) the only schools in NCAA history to capture six straight National Seeds. Since 2008, LSU has earned nine NCAA Tournament National Seeds, the second-best mark in the country over the past 13 seasons.

From Rooster’s Men’s Grooming Center, it’s HOUR ONE of Sport Shorts Radio! Ronie Rantz and Joel Davis preview the Saints’ divisional round matchup against the Buccaneers. Ronnie also tells a Skip Bertman story, and the guys touch on the other playoff games this weekend.     The post Sport Shorts HOUR ONE 1-16 appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

Skip Bertman and Dan Canevari fill in for Hester and Hanny and break down the NFL playoff picture in Hour one. They also discuss the Saints’ win over the Vikings as they clinch their fourth straight NFC South title. They also welcome LSU head baseball coach Paul Mainieri and LSU gymnastics coach Jay Clark onto […] The post Hangin’ with Hester and Hanny 12-28-20 Hour 1 | Paul Mainieri | Jay Clark | Saints win NFC South Title appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

Today we have on Bhrett McCabe Clinical and Sports Psychologist. Bhrett has worked with professional athletes including 12+ PGA and LPGA Tour players whose rankings have reached #1 in the world. He has been a consultant and Sports Psychologist for The University of Alabama Athletic Department, working with all teams and coaching staffs and he has been a featured speaker to numerous Fortune 500 companies and organizations.   On the show dive deep into his experiences at LSU playing for Skip Bertman, we go over practical mental game strategies, and we discuss "how to win awareness" which includes classroom sessions and how we can coach in game strategy to players.      Contact https://www.bhrettmccabe.com/ https://twitter.com/DrBhrettMcCabe    

It’s another edition of Hold the Rope with Skip Bertman and Dan Canevari! Dan and Skip discuss the Tigers’ gritty win over Arkansas and the Saints’ eighth straight victory. They also welcome LSU volleyballl coach Fran Flory onto the show, talk some baseball, and Skip tells his story of the week! The post Hold the Rope 11-24 appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

It’s another edition of Hold the Rope with Skip Bertman and Dan Canaveri! The guys recap LSU’s first win of the season against Vanderbilt. They also welcome former Vanderbilt and NFL running back Jimmy Williams onto the show, talk some MLB playoffs and more! The post Hold the Rope with Skip and Canoe 10-6 appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

Skip Bertman stops by to talk on how the impact of cancelled games in the fall would effect an athletic dept. The post Hangin’ with Hester and Hanny with Skip Bertman appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

Hangin’ with Hester and Hanny, in hour 3 Skip Bertman leads off on how the impact of cancelled games in the fall would effect an athletic dept, Tim Brando joins the show and explains why College Football must happen,and wrap up the week with “Ask Us.” The post Hangin’ with Hester and Hanny Hour 3 appeared first on 1045 ESPN.

This ABCA Father-Son Miniseries episode features Mike, Ben, Drew and Sam Bianco. Mike has been the head coach at Ole Miss for 19 seasons and is the winningest and longest active coach in the SEC among all baseball, basketball and football coaches. He has 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, six Super Regional berths and one College World Series appearance. He won three national championships as a member of Skip Bertman's staff at LSU. Ben is a junior at Louisville, Drew is a sophomore at LSU and Sam is a senior at Oxford HS and is committed to play at the University of Louisiana.

This ABCA Father-Son Miniseries episode features Mike, Ben, Drew and Sam Bianco. Mike has been the head coach at Ole Miss for 19 seasons and is the winningest and longest active coach in the SEC among all baseball, basketball and football coaches. He has 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, six Super Regional berths and one College World Series appearance. He won three national championships as a member of Skip Bertman's staff at LSU. Ben is a junior at Louisville, Drew is a sophomore at LSU and Sam is a senior at Oxford HS and is committed to play at the University of Louisiana.

This ABCA Father-Son Miniseries episode features Mike, Ben, Drew and Sam Bianco. Mike has been the head coach at Ole Miss for 19 seasons and is the winningest and longest active coach in the SEC among all baseball, basketball and football coaches. He has 16 NCAA Tournament appearances, six Super Regional berths and one College World Series appearance. He won three national championships as a member of Skip Bertman's staff at LSU. Ben is a junior at Louisville, Drew is a sophomore at LSU and Sam is a senior at Oxford HS and is committed to play at the University of Louisiana.

Chad Durbin pitched parts of 14 seasons in the big leagues. But before that, he was a relatively unknown third rounder who jumped directly into professional baseball from high school. Part one of our conversation with Durbin discusses how he was recruited to LSU -- including an impressive recruiting tactic by legendary LSU coach Skip Bertman -- and ultimately chose to go professional right away. We also talk his rise through Kansas City's system, some humorous stories from his time in the lower minors, and his path to becoming a big leaguer. Like what you hear? Consider supporting Baseball America. ( https://www.baseballamerica.com/sign-up/ ) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

On todays episode, we talk to actor, stuntman, and former LSU Baseball player Michael Papajohn about LSU memories and his prolific career in the film industry. He has had roles in many movies, including The Waterboy, For Love of the Game, The Longest Yard, and Spider-Man. He also shares some great stories about legendary LSU Baseball coach, Skip Bertman.

There are some coaches that don't need an introduction. Coach Skip Bertman's legacy is as storied as college baseball itself. In this episode, we speak with this living legend about the influence of working under Ron Frazier (at Miami), developing a booster club at LSU, building the program from day one, his thoughts on travel ball, motivating players, one of the greatest trick plays in College World Series history, his other experiences in Omaha, changing his role from coach to LSU Athletic Director, Nick Saban and much more. Have a listen!

Coach Kurt Hester joined the Louisiana Tech Family after serving as a National Director of Training for the D1 Sports Training Center in Nashville, Tenn. since 2008. He worked with training several professional athletes from leagues such as the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Soccer (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL) and the NFL Combine classes. From 1997-2008, Hester was the owner and Director of Performance at HS2 Athletic Performance in Mandeville. He developed and mentored area coaches for college and professional coaching careers with several going on to BCS-level schools and NFL teams. Over 500 athletes he worked with received collegiate scholarships during that time as he oversaw the development of over 400 junior and senior high students per day. Hester was an assistant strength coach at LSU from 1995-98, working with the speed development program for then-football coach Gerry Dinardo and worked primarily with the LSU baseball team as it won two national championships under legendary coach Skip Bertman. Hester also worked with the men's basketball, women's soccer and women's golf programs as well as with the varsity cheerleaders. He graduated from Tulane University in 1995 with a Bachelors of Science degree in exercise physiology. He also served as a graduate strength coach at Tulane for two years. Hester has certifications as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) from the National Strength & Conditioning Association and also has his Speed Agility & Conditioning certification as well as his Level 1 certification from the United States Weightlifting Association. Coach Hester Contact Info Email - khester@latech.edu Instagram - hesterkurt Twitter - TheKurtHester Book - "Rants of a S&C Madman" - https://www.amazon.com/Rants-Strength-Conditioning-MadMan-Hester/dp/1096791722 "Crush Cancer!" and the #REPSFORRILEY Challenge - 67 workouts, 67 days in a row - Follow Gage Rosier on instagram (g.rosier) or twitter (gdrosier) for the workout schedule - Buy your copy of "Crush Cancer!" today if you want to participate! BUY THE EBOOK NOW - crushcancerbook.com  TeamBuildr Thank you TeamBuildr for sponsoring today's episode. Teambuildr is the leading software for high schools and colleges by providing coaches the ability to write programs online, generate over 13 reports and even train athletes remotely for side-income. Right now, if you sign up with code BigTime, you will receive a free APRE programming template which works automatically within TeamBuildr. No more spreadsheets and workout cards to track training maxes that change day by day. Automate your programming without outsourcing your programming with TeamBuildr." af.tbldr.co/BigTime Power Lift Power Lift is the leading manufacturer and distributor of heavy duty strength training equipment for Collegiate and High School athletic performance centers around the world. Power Lift brings over 20 years of experience to the strength and conditioning world. All products are manufactured in their state of the art manufacturing facility in Jefferson, IA.  Power Lift is proud to support all coaches making it the Big Time where they are at. Mike Richardson - mrichardson@power-lift.com Big Time Strength Contact Info Email: bigtimestrength@gmail.comTwitter: @BigTime_SC, @gdrosier, @CoachPedersenMV Instagram: bigtimestrength, g.rosier, mvmustangstrength Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe, like, share, or leave a comment.

On this episode we sit down with Pete Bush, the owner of Horizon Financial Group where he is a certified financial planner and has been for 30 years. Pete got a "head start" in life following his 4 years at LSU playing baseball with Skip Bertman, who taught him the importance of building relationships and taking ownership in the pursuit of success.  We discuss the ways in which Pete injects confidence into his clients, has grown his business, and also get some awesome insight into how one of the greatest collegiate coaches of all time ran his program. 

What goes into creating a college baseball powerhouse? What does it take to attract and develop college players at the highest level? What is it like to coach in major college sports and then become the head of a major athletic department? Listen to this edition of "Exploring The MindSide" to hear Dr. McCabe talk with his college coach, LSU's Skip Bertman, about his incredible career as a coach, athletic director and leader. For more information about The MindSide: Sports and Performance Psychology, visit www.TheMindSide.com

Baseball coaches have long debated how much of this game is truly mental - is it 90, 95, or even 99 percent? If that is the case, it is time to connect our listeners to loyal ABCA member Dr. Bhrett McCabe from The Mind Side. Playing for and being mentored by ABCA Hall of Famer and legendary LSU skipper Skip Bertman, McCabe learned early in his career that training the mental game was not only paramount to success but a focus that he wanted to dedicate his career toward. In this episode, McCabe takes us on a journey through defining his position on sports psychology, the role that coaches play, mental toughness, and investing in the person first. McCabe also develops his thoughts on self belief and how this can be viewed differently from the hitter and pitcher. He delivers tangible takeaways that can help any coach further his practice plans to bring mental training material to the dugout and into their programs.

Baseball coaches have long debated how much of this game is truly mental - is it 90, 95, or even 99 percent? If that is the case, it is time to connect our listeners to loyal ABCA member Dr. Bhrett McCabe from The Mind Side. Playing for and being mentored by ABCA Hall of Famer and legendary LSU skipper Skip Bertman, McCabe learned early in his career that training the mental game was not only paramount to success but a focus that he wanted to dedicate his career toward. In this episode, McCabe takes us on a journey through defining his position on sports psychology, the role that coaches play, mental toughness, and investing in the person first. McCabe also develops his thoughts on self belief and how this can be viewed differently from the hitter and pitcher. He delivers tangible takeaways that can help any coach further his practice plans to bring mental training material to the dugout and into their programs.

Baseball coaches have long debated how much of this game is truly mental - is it 90, 95, or even 99 percent? If that is the case, it is time to connect our listeners to loyal ABCA member Dr. Bhrett McCabe from The Mind Side. Playing for and being mentored by ABCA Hall of Famer and legendary LSU skipper Skip Bertman, McCabe learned early in his career that training the mental game was not only paramount to success but a focus that he wanted to dedicate his career toward. In this episode, McCabe takes us on a journey through defining his position on sports psychology, the role that coaches play, mental toughness, and investing in the person first. McCabe also develops his thoughts on self belief and how this can be viewed differently from the hitter and pitcher. He delivers tangible takeaways that can help any coach further his practice plans to bring mental training material to the dugout and into their programs.

In this episode, Brian talks with Mixed Martial Arts fighter Charlie "The Spaniard" Brenneman and his remarkable story going from working his dream job as a Spanish teacher, to winning UFC fights in the Octagon. Follow Charlie on Twitter @SpaniardMMA Follow Charlie on Instagram @MMASpaniard Check out his website Charlie-Brenneman.com You will learn about... Charlie's journey going from Spanish teacher to UFC fighter Charlie's 5 Elements of Excellence that have lead him to great success Charlie's AM and PM routines Charlie's daily video posted on Facebook and YouTube where he shares knowledge from the book he is reading that day How you can have Charlie come speak to your team or school   PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Brenneman: That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal. Cain: This is Brian Cain with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman, has not only fought the who's-who in the Mixed Martial Arts world as a UFC veteran but he is also a former high school teacher. Charlie has a fascinating story that has come out with his book Driven: My Unlikely Journey from Classroom To Cage. Charlie, I'm just fired up to have you on. Thanks for making the time to be a part of the Peak Performance Podcast. Brenneman: It's my pleasure to be here. I love talking to likeminded people and you're one of them so I'm happy to be here. Cain: Well Charlie if you would for our listeners they probably have seen you in the cage. They've seen you with the who's-who in the UFC from Johny Hendricks and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. What they probably don't know is your story up until that point in the UFC. Could you give kind of a quick snapshot of your career as a high school/college athlete, into teaching, and then what kind of got you into MMA? Brenneman: I'm from central Pennsylvania. I grew up in a small town. I'm a wrestler. Even today when I speak one of my lines is “I'm a wrestler who learned to fight.” That is basically what I did. The sport of wrestling taught me mental toughness, it taught me mindset, it taught me discipline, sacrifice. Those are the things that I carried up with me through high school. I would always come close to achieving my goals but I would fall short. I started to keep track and understand that the reason I was falling short was because I ultimately lacked the self confidence at the highest level. I ended up losing a state title two years in a row in high school. I took my athletic career into wrestling and for my first four years of my collegiate wrestling I red shirted a year. I completely underperformed. The last year it was like I had a mental breakthrough that really changed my last year, it changed the trajectory of my future. I ended up capping off my college career in a great way. I still felt short of my goal but I finished in a round of twelve at Division One Nationals. Then I thought it was all done. I thought all that discipline and sacrifice was over. I was ready to go home. I was ready to get fat and sit on the couch. After about a year of doing that I realized that I needed something. I needed to compete again. Around that time the sport of Mixed Martial Arts was starting to come to the forefront and started to kind of make a little bit of progress in the mainstream. Then literally one day I decided I'm going to leave my Spanish teaching position and I'm going to be a UFC fighter. Up until two years ago it'll be my last fight but I spent the last decade training with, competing against, fighting, beating, losing to, the biggest baddest toughest fighters in the world. I came from a small town, became a teacher, then fighting, and now I'm on the other side of it where I'm kind of taking everything I learned, condensing it, and delivering it through speaking and mentoring. Cain: I know we just kind of got off of a good discussion before we got onto the podcast. What are some of the key principles that when you're going in to speak to a school or you're going in to work with a team what are some of the key principles - basically your framework, Charlie, that you share with them that made you successful that you know if they would adopt and they'll heed to you teachings you know that they'll be more successful. What are some of those key principles or key concepts within your framework? Brenneman: So what I did when I had my last fight and I thought “what am I going to do,” the first thing I did was I sat down and I literally wrote a book. I had had so many questions about I left my job, I got called crazy, I got called stupid, I got called all kinds of things because it was against the norm. So I sat down and I wrote a book about it. I'm a note taker and I'm a writer so I condensed all of the notes, the principles, the things that I've recorded over the years and I boiled them down into five what I call “elements of excellence.” Those things together create a fighter's mindset. When you're talking about a fighter's mindset you think of the best fighters in the world. There is this resilience and perseverance and mental toughness and discipline - all these things. But the five things that I really focus on is the idea of a vision, knowing where you want to go, always having that North Star. The next thing is your core values whether it's in your personal life, whether it's in your athletic life, your professional life. I read a lot of books and so many of them focus on this idea of core values, knowing who you truly are and being that person in competition. The next one is defining success. To me that took me a lifetime of winning and losing. That took me a lifetime of competing to really truly appreciate the process versus the outcome. The fourth one is living with accountability. To me accountability - when I decided to leave my teaching position and I decided to literally drive into the unknown, this unknown world, it was all on me. It was on my shoulders. I had no paycheck. I had no leads. I had to create it. So that idea of accountability, (as Jocko Willink in Extreme Ownership says) assuming extreme ownership in everything you do and say. Then the last part - I don't want to say the most powerful, but - is the idea of surrounding yourself with the best every day. Even today in my life connecting with you, connecting with other speakers and mentors and podcasters, I'm obsessed with surrounding myself with the best. Looking at the best in the world then literally trying to talk to them. The first two guys I communicated with in Mixed Martial Arts were Eddie Alvarez and Frankie Edgar. Eddie is the current UFC Champion. Frankie is one of the best in history. So I believe in the power of influence. Those five elements are kind of my keys to living with a fighter's mindset. Cain: I love that. I think you hit the nail right on the head and as it ties back with what a lot of our listeners have gone through and are familiar with some of the work that I've done with the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance and in talking about vision and values (that's Pillar #2) and kind of defining your success is that process. The process over the outcome. Then surrounding yourself with the best. As we say you become the average of the five people that you hang out with most. In one of the books that you mentioned from Jocko Willink about extreme ownership, one of the top reads (I think) from people in our Inner Circle and people that are going to be listening to this podcast. I'm assuming you've seen his video where he talks about good and making adversity your advantage. What are some of the other best books that you've read that have had the biggest impact on your mindset? Brenneman: I literally read every morning. It's one of the things I started doing 42 days ago. I read every morning. I've been reading for years and years and one of the things I've been doing is making a daily video summarizing and applying what I have read that day to everyday life. There are 100 books I could say.   Some of the coolest recent ones that I've read, The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday. It talks about using adversity to your advantage. Certainly The Obstacle Is The Way. Start With Why by Simon Sinek which just really gets back to kind of along the lines of your values. Figure out what's your purpose. Why do I get up every morning at 4:30? Why do I still do treadmill sprint workouts when I have no fight? Really getting to the core of that.   I'll give you a third one. The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson talks about small consistent actions repeated over a long period of time resulting in giant results. Those are three of the top ones. Reading is a habit that I would encourage everyone to get into. Cain: Those are definitely four books that are in my library and four books that I think many of our listeners have gone through. It's funny, The Slight Edge is a book that was given to SMU's athletic director, Rick Hart, gave that book to all of their coaches. Then The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday, he's got another book The Ego Is The Enemy that the TCU athletic director gave to all of their coaches. So you're reading books, Charlie, that are right up there with our audience. The videos that you make, is that something that you put out on social media and  something that our listeners could follow along as well so they could kind of learn through what they're learning? Brenneman: Absolutely. I'm glad that you mentioned that. I do Facebook Live. I tested it out a little with Periscope, a little with Facebook Live, and I seem to get the most views on Facebook Live. From there I upload them to YouTube so you can subscribe to me on YouTube to get them on a daily basis or you can follow me on my personal page, Charlie Brenneman, or my business page, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman. Every morning 5:30 I'm there with a smile on my face kind of reciting. I feel kind of weird because I've been an athlete, I've been a fighter, that's what I do, but I get so amped up about reading and learning and just pushing it out. So yeah I put them out every day on my social media. Cain: I love it. So your social media. The best place for people to follow you. What is your Twitter handle? Brenneman: @SpaniardMMA. My website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com has all of my links in the upper right-hand corner. I'm SpaniardMMA across the board. Instagram I'm MMASpaniard because I can't get SpaniardMMA so that is the only hiccup. Cain: Then your YouTube channel is SpaniardMMA? Brenneman: Yep. If you just search Charlie Brenneman or SpaniardMMA on YouTube it will come up. Cain: Awesome. I think that would be something that our listeners definitely will want to follow. I didn't realize you did that so that is going to be something I go and get on for sure and check those out in the morning. You talk about getting up every morning and doing a video at 5:30. You sound like you're a machine of routine. Tell us about your morning routine and kind of what you do on a daily basis. Brenneman: This is something for the listeners out there. I'm a fan of Gary Vaynerchuk who - you can call him an internet marketer, entrepreneur, he's a lot of things. One of the things that I learned from him - actually I didn't learn it from him. I felt comfortable because I heard him reaffirm it, this idea of trying a bunch of different things. The very first person who turned me on to this idea of a morning routine is Hal Elrod in The Miracle Morning. Since then I've tried maybe 10-20 different routines in the morning. For me basically it's simple. My alarm is set for 4:30 every morning. I get up early every morning. On Sundays I sleep in till a whopping 6:00 or 6:30. There is really only two things: I drink 32 ounces of water basically right out of the gate and I read for at least 30 minutes a day. Those two things when it's completely quiet, when the bids aren't even chirping, it's dark, I'm sitting here with water, a coffee, and my book. If I can get that in my day then that puts me up in the right direction. Cain: Hal Elrod, one of my favorite books The Miracle Morning where he talks about the acronym SAVERS. The first S is silence, the A if affirmation (so positive), the V is visualization, the E is exercise, the R is that you read, and the last S is that you scribe and you write and you actually do that without knowing and putting it to the SAVERS acronym that Hal talks about in The Miracle Morning. You're actually doing that on a daily basis. Maybe instead of writing you're speaking into your video and putting it out there for others which is probably a more easier digestible way for people to learn these days. But I love that morning routine. What about your PM routine? Do you have a shutdown routine at the end of the day to help you kind of log off and get more dialed in with your family? Brenneman: We just had a son three weeks ago and I have a daughter that is three years old. Where I'm at in this phase of my life I'm probably done fighting for several different reasons. I realize it's like the work is there, the tasks are there, and I could literally work every hour of every day. This is a transition period for me and my wife. We've seen in the last decade when it went from teaching to fighting and fighting now into speaking and mentoring that these different transition phases - and they're tough. For any goal driven person in a relationship who has a family it's tough. It's not easy. What we've done is develop - that's partially the reason I get up at 4:30 in the morning, so I have the time to do the things I need to do. But I really - we're recording now in the PM and this is an anomaly. I normally shut off by - I'm done with my workout by 5:30 and then it's all family. Just because if I didn't draw that hard line it would go on forever. Mixing that business and family time is just not a winner in our home. Cain: That one hit me pretty hard as I'm sitting here on a cruise and I'm looking at my wife who is sitting out on the balcony waiting for me to get done doing work so that I can take her to dinner. I think you hit the nail on the head. For the coaches that are listening to this you've got to have that hard shutdown routine. You've got to have that time in your day where you said “hey what's done is done and what's not done can be put off until tomorrow” because if you don't draw that hard line you're right, you could literally work 24 hours in a day when you're uber motivated and a guy who is excited to go out there and make a difference which our listeners are. So I think I they can start to learn about that shutdown routine as well. That's going to be important. Now when you shut down at 5:30 after that workout are you done with technology and you're turning off the computer and the email and the cell phone and all that so you can engage? Or do you still have that digital distraction sometimes? Brenneman: Yeah I'm not going to sit here and say I'm perfect by any means. But no, my objective is to - I actually am up in my office right now (it's on the third floor of my house) and I leave my computer up here because what I've found is that when I would bring my computer downstairs I would be tempted. If my wife went in to get something to eat or to fix something to eat I'd be tempted to hop on my computer and check my email real quick. So by leaving it up here in the attic it's kind of the idea of if you don't want to eat junk food don't keep it in your cupboards. It's that same idea. If I don't want to be on my computer I should leave it upstairs. So I do that. My cell phone, I've flirted with some different strategies here and there but it's in my pocket but I've done a good enough job - and I know this from my wife saying “you know what you've done a really great job in the last couple months of staying off your cell phone after hours.” The computer is the hard up in the attic. The cell phone is just in awareness that I'm aware of how much I'm on it. Cain: Love it. That's awesome. That's great advice for everybody. Charlie, if we can let's go back to your I think you call them your five “elements of excellence?” Is that right? Brenneman: Yep. Cain: And with the five elements of excellence - vision, core values, defining success, living with accountability, and surrounding yourself with the best - how do you define success for yourself? Brenneman: Whenever you're explaining it you kind of mention the process. What happened to me is from a young age, honestly from the earliest I can remember I was dead set on getting straight As and I was dead set on winning a state championship in wrestling. Those were my goals. I would achieve those goals often but I would fall short of those goals almost as often. One of the things I tell coaches and parents as often as I can is expose your kids - both your real kids and your athletes - expose them to winning and losing as often as possible. That builds resilience and that builds mental fortitude. What I learned - honestly the heartbreak of losing two state titles, especially the second one, in high school. I was an 18 year old kid and you would think as a 35 year old man who experienced all this other stuff in the last 15 years those two nights I can't think of a more painful athletic night than those two nights. I still kept going. I still kept moving forward, keeping my values, having that vision clear of who and what I wanted to be. But it wasn't until I was fighting. You see in UFC you fight but every 3-5 months. So what would happen is I would win a fight, I would come home and I would feel like a million bucks. That was great, I had money, this and that. But then if I lost I would come home and just feel like absolute garbage. Like absolute terrible garbage. Everything was terrible. Then after that happening 3, 4, 5 times I started to - honestly it was like I just got fed up with it and I thought “there has to be another way to do this because this is not worth it, this up and down is not worth being a professional fighter.” Then it was like one day it clicked and it was like “wait a minute that's silly” to judge my self worth, to judge my feeling, to judge my mental state on the winning and the losing is wrong. I truly believe it's wrong. That's where it goes back to the process that you mentioned and Nick Saban mentions it. The idea of defining success to me - and whether you want to quote John Wooden also - is the process. Putting in the work on a daily, on an hourly, on a minute basis to produce that result in the end. That result is there. We want it, we want it, we want it. But just above that - slightly more important than that - is the process, is the pursuit of that goal not the attainment of that goal. Cain: I love that. You just mentioned two of the greatest coaches of all time (I think) in Saban and Wooden. Wooden, since we mentioned books and I'm keeping a list of your books that you mentioned here which we'll put out in the notes with this episode, is one of John Wooden's books A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On And Off the Court. It's a little blue book. it's fantastic. Brenneman: Yep. Blue and yellow. Cain: Yeah you got it. Then Nick Saban's book How Good Do You Want to Be I think is one of the best that I've ever read as well. The one I have has this cover of him at LSU on it. I know the new one has him in Alabama. So he talked about the process and I think you're so spot on with that. What about your core values? Brenneman: I was going to say another just little caveat I wanted to throw in there is this idea of excellence. Honestly when I started this pursuit (speaking and mentoring etc.) the term “excellence,” (“elements of excellence” hence the Elements of Excellence) that word really stuck to me. That stuck with me. As a kid my parents taught me, one, do the best you can in everything you do, and two, inspire other people to do the same. It was like those were kind f the two things that I thought were normal. I thought “oh yes every person does their best and every person inspires other people.” I just thought that was normal. This standard of excellence I've carried with me in my life. None of us are perfect. I've done less than perfect things and haven't maintained that standard. But I believe in operating with a mindset of excellence on a daily basis. It's like you know the cliché you shoot for the stars, you miss, you still land hot. If your objective, if your mission is excellence you're going to be good across the board no matter what. I really want to stress and emphasize the importance of setting your bar at excellence. Cain: I love that. Skip Bertman, who was the baseball coach at LSU for a number of years, I had a dream come true and got a chance to do a book with him within the last year. One of the things that Skip talked about is he says there are three doors you can go through. You can go through the door of win, you can go through the door of loss, or you can go through the door of excellence. Excellence is bigger than winning. Sometimes you can give an excellent performance and not win. I'm sure in the octagon you've had those fights where you've gone out there and fought great and fought the way you wanted to and because of the judges or because the other guy was just a little bit better that night it didn't go the way you wanted it to. But I think that happens in athletics all the time is that the process doesn't always lead to the result but the process does give you the best chance to get the result. I think if you're committed to excellence and being the best that you possibly can be and have that growth mindset you're going to be able to achieve a lot more over the marathon than the person who is focused on win-loss. Would you agree? Brenneman: Absolutely. 100%. The process versus the achievement or the process versus the outcome, yeah, it's - and I'm not saying this to make myself feel better because I lost three fights in a row to end my career. I'm not saying this to make the listeners feel good about themselves because they lost and they need a pat on the back. I'm saying this because it's tried and true from experience. This is what I learned. This is what the most successful people in the world have learned. If you're not going to take it from me take it from Saban, take it from Wooden, take it from all of these other people who say the same thing. Cain: No question. We use a term a lot that says “success leaves clues.” You've reaffirmed and (I think) brought to the table a lot of the same concludes that we try to teach and that coaches try to teach. But coaches that are listening to this and myself, I've never stepped in the octagon. I've been on either side of the octagon - fence, corner, and some guys - but you've been in there with the who's-who of MMA. For the coaches or the teachers or the athletic directors listening to this if they wanted to bring you in to deliver your message on the five elements of excellence and talk about the importance of vision, talk about core values and knowing who you are, redefining success as it relates to the process and the pursuit of excellence, being more accountable (which I know every coach has issues with trying to grow accountability in their program), and then talking about that surrounding yourself with the best and you becoming one of those people that those coaches associate with, what is the best way for people to get a hold of you and do you go in and speak to schools and do you go in and work with athletes and programs? Talk a little bit more about that process and how they can get you and what you do when you go in there. Brenneman: I appreciate that. absolutely that is what I do. If you go to my website www.Charlie-Brenneman.com it's very simple to navigate. There is a contact tab up top. Contact me. Speaking events, workshops, mentoring, it's right there for you to clearly define why you're making contact. Honestly one of the more enjoyable things I do is these workshops, these fighter's mindset workshops. There are six one hour sessions. I take them through the elements of excellence. I cap it off with a leadership session. It works great with coaches and it works great with athletes. One of the things I've learned from experience and I've heard said across the board is these success principles, these fighter mindset principles, they're going to work for you in high school athletics, they're going to work for you in college athletics, they're going to work for you in a coaching position, in a professional position, they're success principles that don't falter. They work across the board. It's awesome. For much of my life I was the guy in the fire. I was the guy in the octagon. I was the guy on TV. And I loved it, trust me. It was awesome. I loved every second of it. But now that I'm able to kind of 10x, 20x, 1,000x, 1,000,000x that into affecting people around me - I don't want to say it's more enjoyable but it's just slowly becoming more enjoyable. Cain: I think they say that the true measure of a man's life is the positive impact that he's had on others. You have a positive impact through inspiration. When you're in the cage and you're fighting it's entertaining but I think you being able to take your experience, Charlie, of what you've done and what you've learned through that journey of being an elite MMA warrior and a guy who has fought the best of the best. You are in there with a UFC World Champion and Johny Hendricks. You are in there with Anthony Johnson who I think was a World Champion as well? Brenneman: He was almost. He still might be. Well first of all I fought him at 170 lbs. Now he's at 205 lbs. So he's the number one contender at 205. Cain: I remember the days of him and his weight class changing. He's probably at his natural weight now of 205. I can only imagine how much of a beast he was at 170. But being able to have gone through and done that and now being able to take what you've learned from all the punches and the trials and tribulations and now being able to decipher that into the five elements of excellence and share that with young people who are in the pursuit of excellence (and for coaches who are trying to support their young people in pursuit of excellence) I think is fantastic. The beauty of just getting to know you a little bit here on the podcast today and in our time before is you were also a high school teacher and you are able to communicate that and you can communicate it in Spanish. It's something that I think is very unique. I will say having spent a lot of time in MMA there is not a lot of UFC fighters that I'd be comfortable with having been a former athletic director rolling them out in front of my coaches or rolling them out in front of my students because some of them - the full student body that would be non athletes - and having you go out there to talk about the five elements of excellence, that fits across the board. And the fact that you have been in a classroom and are comfortable in that setting and know what is appropriate to do with high school student athletes and high school students I think makes you at least at the top of my list of people that I would bring in to speak to my student athletes and coaches if I were still a high school athletic director. So Charlie, I'm fired up to have had the opportunity to get to know you. I appreciate you making time. I apologize for keeping you past 5:30 so please apologize to your wife for me. Brenneman: No worries. Cain: For all of our listeners again you want to follow him at @SpaniardMMA on YouTube, SpaniardMMA, and go to www.Charlie-Brenneman.com. Looking forward to getting you back on here as a repeat guest. This is one of my favorite podcasts we've done and it's exciting for me personally having watched you fight and compete in the cage as much as I have to be able to get you on a podcast here. It's very impressive to get to meet the guy who was inside of the cage. Pretty cool. Brenneman: I appreciate it. One more thing I don't think I mentioned at all is my podcast The Fighter's Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast. What I do is I dive deep into - it's called A Fighter's Mindset and to be honest I was debating whether to call it that because it's not about fighting. It's about applying the mindset, a fighter's mindset, to everyday life whether it's competition in sports, competition in life, being a better father, you name it. It's those ideas - self confidence, perseverance, resilience - all those things that make us successful inside the octagon, translating that into sports and other areas of life. You can also find that on the podcast page on my website or check us out on iTunes at A Fighter's Mindset: The Spaniard Podcast. Cain: Fantastic. I'm fired up. I'm going to get on the bike tomorrow morning and pound it out as I'm training for an Iron Man coming up here and I'm going to listen to episodes on there. Brenneman: Nice. Cain: Yeah I don't know how nice it is. It's a pain in the ass really. Brenneman: I hear you. Cain: But it's just something you set a goal and you want to go do it and it's something I'm not sure I can finish so we're going to find out here. But I'm going to work the process and give myself the best chance for success and that's all I can ask. I believe that if I do that I'll cross the finish line. I think if you keep sticking to the process and doing what you're doing you're going to have a tremendous impact and influence on a lot of people's lives out there. Charlie, thanks for your humility, thanks for your commitment to excellence, and thanks for being a guest on the Peak Performance Podcast. Brenneman: My pleasure. I want to throw this last thing out there. I am not okay with having fought the best guys in the world. I wanted to beat them. I wanted to win a world championship but I didn't. That fire and that passion is coming out of me and I'm instilling it in other people. That is what's driving me every morning to get up at 4:30 and to keep doing these sprint workouts is to share that with the up and coming group of kids and coaches that still have that opportunity. Cain: Wow I hate to say this but I guess I'm thankful for the fact that you never got the chance to put the UFC Gold around your waist because if you weren't on the mission that you're on right now I don't think you would have impacted as many people's lives as you're going to. So maybe the best thing that never happened to you was winning a UFC title because you are going to influence and impact a hell of a lot more people by what you're doing now (I think) than you would if you were still in the cage my friend. Brenneman: The obstacle is the way. Let's end it with that.

In this episode, Brian goes solo to talk about The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program and how it will help YOU.   You will learn about... The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training Program How this program will help you and your team grow mentally Teach you why this system will get you 80% of the results in 20% of the time The process the Digital Training Program will take you through to become more Why there is no other training program out there like The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance Digital Training program   PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: If you're looking for a 12 week solution and you're looking for a way to dominate the day and build mental toughness in your program and you're looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance/mental conditioning, here is it. In this episode I'm going to teach you a 12 week solution for mastering the mental game. There was an Italian Economist. His name was Vilfredo Pareto. What he found was that 80% of the wealth in the country of Italy was held by 20% of the population. When he went out to his garden he found out that 80% of his tomatoes were grown on 20% of the plants. If you look at any typical NHL roster 80% of the goals are scored by 20% of the roster. And if you look at Major League Baseball 80% of the Homeruns are hit by 20% of the roster. If you've been with me for any time you know what we're talking about - the 80/20 principle known as Pareto's Law. 80% of the benefit that you get comes from 20% of what you do. I'm a big Tim Ferriss fan. Tim Ferriss would refer to the 80/20 principle similarly to the minimum effective dose. If you've read his book The Four Hour Body or The Four Hour Work Week he talks about what is the minimum effective dose, the minimum effective thing that you can do to get the maximum return. Well as we talk about here your 12 week solution, in the last 15+ years of going around the country over 280 days a year working with top coaches, athletes, and athletic programs all over the country, what I've been on a mission to find out is what is it that they all do that if you did you'd become elite? You'd cut through the crap and cut through the noise and cut through the learning curve and get more done in less time. That is what the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance is. Your 12 week solution is very simple especially if you're a Texas high school coach who has got an athletic period or you're a California coach with an athletic period, or a college coach that has an offseason where you can access your athletes on a consistent basis, or a coach that has got even minimal access to your athletes because the beautiful part about the digital training program is it's all online and your athletes can access it anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. What you're going to get with the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance digital training program is you're going to get a spiral bound manual that has got a worksheet that you fill out as you watch the video. Imagine this. Imagine you're driving listening to this podcast or imagine your athletes' cell phones out watching me teach a video - just like I would if I was there with you in person - and they're filling out a worksheet. Then you get together with them and you talk about it. You talk about how does this Pillar #1 Elite Mindset relate to our program? Or Pillar #2 Championship Culture? What is our culture that is going to dictate behavior and set the stage for success in our program? Again it's the most user friendly easy to use and execute program that has ever been made. Let me talk to you about the 12 Pillar of Peak Performance and give you a little background of what they are. Pillar #1 is about training an elite mindset. Everybody wants to know how do you build mental toughness? Well you build mental toughness the same way you build physical toughness and physical strength - you've got to do a little a lot, not a lot a little. By doing a little a lot every day - for example reading a page of the Daily Dominator, following me on Snapchat, listening to this podcast once a week, following the Monday Messages that come out - those are all examples of what is called spaced repetition. Spaced repetition is doing a little a lot. If you want to grow that elite mindset that is how it has got to happen. For example one of the videos in the program (one of my favorites) talks about lessons learned from the Navy SEAL community. We'd show our videos and talk about how you want to never show weakness. Always be big with your body language. How you never feel sorry for yourself because feeling sorry for yourself is a worthless useless emotion that is going to get you nowhere. We talk about staying patient in the face of adversity. The number one way that you stay patient in the face of adversity is through taking a deep breath and oxygenating your brain so that you can be where your feet are. Another one of those lessons is that it pays to be a winner. You got it. When we talk about winning that helps us move into Pillar #2 which is that championship culture. Let me ask you this as you're listening to this podcast. If you and your team were together having a breakfast or dinner before you went on to play for a championship and I were to hand you an index card and everyone in your program were to write down the core principles - (or what I would refer to as the MVP Process: M the mission, V the vision, P the core principles; the mission being that eulogy, that big picture of why we're all together doing this; the V, the vision, the tangible resume specifics here is what we're after; and then the core principles) - if we were to hand that index card to your team would they all write down the same things? On some programs (for example) if we were to hand that out to Cliff Godwin and the East Carolina Pirates the players would write down that the purpose of the program is to learn how to be successful on and off the field for the rest of their lives. Their vision would be to win 40 games, to win the American Conference, to host a regional, host a super, go to the College World Series and win a National Championship - they all would know that. They would know their principles of PIRATES - purpose, integrity, responsibility, attitude, toughness, energy, selfless. They would know the core principles of their program and they would know the MVP Process. If you don't [know the MVP Process] you're not going to have people on the same page. What you're going to have is people come into your program (especially if you're in a college program or a varsity high school program) that are strong willed that think they know what it's going to take to be successful instead of coming in and fitting into your culture. Culture is not something that just happens. It's intentional. It's talked about. It's taught. It's something that you have to make a conscious decision to be a part of. Speaking of conscious decisions to help you become more, that takes us to Pillar #3 which is time is ticking. There is one factor that is the same for you and your competition and it is time. 86,400 seconds in a day. 168 hours in a week. The best coaches I‘ve been around are savages of time. They're detailed with where every minute of every day goes. If you're somebody who is not mapping out your entire 160 hours a week when you meet the person in the competitive arena who is they're probably going to beat you because they have prepared more. We know that separation is in preparation so if you're not putting time on your side time is going to beat you when the time comes to getting the ring with somebody who has maximized their time. Part of knowing time is also knowing your numbers. That is Pillar #4. You can't improve what you can't measure. If you're not measuring your time and knowing where your time is going, if you feel like you don't have enough time in the day it's not that you don't have enough time it's that you don't have enough priorities. You can't improve what you can't measure. Measurement provides motivation. In your program what are those measurements that you're using? When you go through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance digital training program one pillar a week, when you are in Pillar #4 (which would probably be during week four) you are going to learn about what are the process-based measurements in your sport that when you focus on you give yourself the best chance for success? For example did you realize that in the NFL Super Bowl (at the time of this recording there have been 50 of them) 48 of the first 50 Super Bowl Champions won this one statistic - the turnover margin. Jim Schlossnagle (the baseball coach at TCU who led his team to three straight College World Series appearances) has got an 81% winning percentage when his team simply scores first. If they score in the top of the first, give up three in the bottom of the first, they still have that 81% winning percentage. They know their numbers. They know what they're after. The question is do you and do your athletes? If they don't you're just playing the game versus strategically trying to win the game based off of metrics that you know are proven to give you the best chance for results. Pillar #5 - when we get into week five we are going to talk about sailing the right ships. What does that mean? Well a guy who knows a lot about championships and winning games, Mack Brown, the former football coach at the University of Texas, when I asked him the million dollar question I said “Mack what do you know now you wish you knew when you were getting started coaching?” He said “you've got to sail the right ships” and he kind of looked at me and smiled. I didn't really know what he was talking about so I asked him. He said “you've got to invest in relationships before championships because it's relationships that will lead to championships.” In Pillar #5 we really dive into how to create those great relationships in your programs. We talk about the five major motivators. We talk about different activities that you can do with your teams so you get to know each other better. When you know each other better you are more likely to live Pillar #6 which is that present moment focus where you focus on being where your feet are, right here, right now. The time is always now. The place is always here. If you want to win you've got to focus on what is important now. That is a present moment focus. We'll take you through some different breathing exercises that you can use. I'm sure if you've watched any teams compete that have gone through the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance system you'll see them take a deep breath every snap or every pitch or every possession because the deep breath is what helps to scientifically oxygenate their brain and get you into the present moment with a better focus. Simply by breathing you are increasing your chances for success in that moment. We know that success over the course of a season or over a competition is simply a result of moment to moment to moment awareness and moment to moment to moment execution. Speaking of moment to moment that leads us to Pillar #7 Process Over Outcome. Matt Carpenter (the great all-star third baseman or infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, former TCU Horned Frog) says that in the game of baseball when you're playing at the major league level you are going to have some slumps but your routine can never slump. Your process can never slump. Nick Saban (arguably the greatest coach of all time, the head football coach at the University of Alabama) always talks about the process over the outcome. You're going to learn about how the process is simply investing into those things that you can control because that is where the greatest return on your investment comes from - maximizing the things that you can control. You can control developing mental toughness. You can control your championship culture. You can control maximizing your time, how you measure performance in relationships, a present moment focus, and a process-based focus over the outcome. You can also control Pillar #8 Your Attitude. We know that in life there are energy givers and energy suckers. What we need is we need more energy takers. We know that your positive energy has got to be stronger than everyone else's negative energy. We know that the attitude you take is a decision you make and your attitude is contagious. The only question is is your attitude worth catching or is it worth avoiding? We know that when we're talking about positive energy there are people that are juiceful and useful and there are people that are juiceless and useless so you've got to BTJ - you've got to bring the juice. We share with you 38 different ways to spike your attitude, to spike your energy, and to bring the juice in your program. You don't have to do all 38 of them but there is a whole buffet there for you to go and choose from. These are 38 exercises that I have used, I have used consistently, and I have seen bring results in programs like yours. Speaking of results we know that in Pillar #9 Everything Happens Twice. I learned that from Skip Bertman, the former baseball coach at LSU who won five national championships in the 90s. I got a chance to sit down with him at LSU and ask him the million dollar question. I said “Coach Bertman, you won five national championships in a decade, you then wanted to go and be a speaker and LSU wouldn't let you because they needed to hire you to be the athletic director to lead the department.” I said “what do you know now you wish you knew when you were just getting started?” He said “everything happens twice, first in your mind then in reality.” We take you specifically through the four steps of mental imagery where we go through the importance of relaxation first and then confidence, conditioning, mental recall where you go back and replay your best performances and then mental rehearsal where we go forward and you see yourself playing the way you want to play in the future. We also outline how to use mental imagery like a football team doing it Friday night in the hotel at the college level before they go play on Saturday. Or a high school team doing it on Friday during class or after school together before they suit up to go play. A baseball team or softball team having audios that players are listening to on the bus on a way to a game. How you can make individual audios with your athletes in five minutes or less using a simple system of the four steps for mental imagery so they have those custom audios on their phone. It doesn't get easier ladies and gentleman. This is the easiest Peak Performance program that has ever been made. The reason why it was designed this way is because my main mission, my Pillar #2, my championship culture, the M of my life, is to educate, empower, and energize others. There are only so many people you can impact when you do it in person so you've got to recreate yourself. This is a recreation of me and my teachings at this point that you can use to help your players become more. If you want more, if you want more wins, if you want more juice, if you want more success, you've got to become more. This program is guaranteed to help you become more. With all of our programs any investment you make at www.BrianCain.com if it doesn't exactly help you the way you want it to we'll refund 100% no questions asked and we'll help you get to where you want to go. We're here for you. This is about helping you to be your best. If you're going to be your best you're going to have to implement Pillar #10 Routines and Habits of Excellence. Why? First we set our habits and then our habits set us. No one ever has or ever will escape the destiny of their decisions and most of your decisions are made by your habits. If you're aware of your routines and aware of your habits you are going to be successful. If you are not aware of those routines and habits they're going to dominate you. Excellence - it's a lifestyle, not an event. Your routines and your habits are going to create your lifestyle. We're going to talk about intentionally setting triggers within the habit loop where we discuss Charles Duhigg and his great book The Power of Habit where we're going to break down how a trigger sets you into a routine and a routine then gives you a reward. And if you have a routine that you don't like, how you can break that by changing and becoming more aware of the triggers in your life and then changing your routine and getting a different reward. But if we're going to do that, if we're going to change those routines, we've got to have Pillar #11. You've got to be able to recognize your signal lights. You've got to have that heightened awareness and you've always got to be in control of yourself because you've got to be in control of yourself before you can control your performance. You've got very little control of what goes on around you but total control of how you choose to respond to it. So recognizing your signal lights. Just like driving a car. You are driving right now listening to this podcast. When you come to a green light it's easy - you go. When you come to a red light you stop. But if you've been driving a car for any time you know you could have driven through a red light before and you're still alive to talk about it. In athletic performance you can drive through red lights - especially when you're more talented - and you can have success. But in a competition where the two teams are even that is like driving through red lights consistently. If you were to drive across the country and go through every red light obviously you're going to crash and burn. We've got to learn to recognize our red lights and most importantly recognize our yellow lights which we are in most of the time. In our yellow lights we either need to speed up or we need to slow down. A lot of mental game coaches are going to say “just slow the game down.” Well shoot, sometimes you've got to speed it up. Just like driving a car. If you get to a yellow light you don't always slow down. Sometimes you punch the gas. It's the same thing in athletics. Most of the time you are going too fast and you've got to slow down but sometimes you've got to pick it up. I've been around teams that have lost games because they were uninspired and they didn't have the juice just as much as I have been around teams that were trying too hard. So how do you recognize where you're at mentally, emotionally, physically? How do you recognize it through your body language, your focus, your self-talk, and various situations that maybe happen during the game or physical feelings that trigger you of whether you are in a green, yellow, or red? Then if you recognize when you're yellow or red you go to Pillar #12 and you Release. You follow the specific three step release of physical action - a physical action, a deep breath, and a verbal trigger to help you release that and then refocus on getting back to the moment. A lot of people say “you've got to flush it, you've got to move on, play the next play.” Well how do you do that? It's not just something you talk about. It's something you have to drill and you have to practice - just like all the fundamentals of your sport - and that is Pillar #12 How You Release and Refocus. We show you numbers of examples of athletes in training, in competition, having a release that they go to and a refocus to help them to stay present. So the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance. If you're looking for a 12 week solution and you're looking for a way to Dominate the Day and build mental toughness in your program and a systematic frameworked approach with a start and with an end and you're looking for that 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance mental conditioning here it is. I'll give you the 80% of the benefit. If you want to get started it's very simple. Head over to www.BrianCain.com and check out our digital training program on the 12 Pillars of Peak Performance, your 12 week solution to mastering the Mental Game. Now go Dominate the Day.

Skip Bertman’s name is nearly synonymous with the rise of college baseball as we know it today. What he crafted at Louisiana State University started a ripple effect through the SEC and across the nation. [...]

The fourth episode of the ABCA's "Calls from the Clubhouse" reflects on the College World Series in Omaha with former LSU head coach Skip Bertman, whose Tigers advanced to the CWS 11 times.

The fourth episode of the ABCA's "Calls from the Clubhouse" reflects on the College World Series in Omaha with former LSU head coach Skip Bertman, whose Tigers advanced to the CWS 11 times.

The fourth episode of the ABCA's "Calls from the Clubhouse" reflects on the College World Series in Omaha with former LSU head coach Skip Bertman, whose Tigers advanced to the CWS 11 times.