In his book Maintenance of Everything: Part One, Stewart Brand opens with the story of the 1968 Golden Globe Race. The more I sit with it, the more it feels like a parable for coaching. In 1968, the Sunday Times of London sponsored a race for the first solo, nonstop circumnavigation of the world. Roughly […]
For our newer subscribers: most of what we publish is about coaching and player development, but every so often we take on a current issue shaping the world coaches and athletes operate in. This is one of those pieces. Athletic conferences across the country have been expanding aggressively over the last several years. The recent […]
What separates a program people remember forever from one they forget the moment they graduate? Dr. Hunter Taylor has spent his career chasing that question — first as a basketball coach, then as a researcher embedded inside a high school football program, and now as a professor running coaching fellowships across three states. In this […]
We asked successful coaches in a survey to share a story that showed their culture in action. One of them stuck with me. It was the biggest game of their season. Their best player, the guy they depended on, choked. Played horribly and selfishly. The team lost. No single player loses a game, but his […]
What happens to the body when we contribute Contributing to someone else’s wellbeing changes the physiology of the person doing the contributing. This is not a philosophical claim — it is a measurable biological event. Research using daily diary data from the nationally representative MIDUS study found that on days when people engaged in volunteer […]
Eva Selhub, MD Physician | Resilience Authority | Chief of Medical Affairs at ForHumanity | Executive Coach to High-Performing Leaders | Bestselling Author | Former Harvard Medical School Faculty | Keynote Speaker May 15, 2026 I believe I speak for many in that most of us want to be seen. I don’t mean just seen […]
Paid subscribers can scroll to the bottom to watch the full video conversation. This week on Beyond Coaching, I sit down with Dr. Chad Carlson — professor at Hope College, longtime coach, and co-founder of Sport Faith Life. Chad studies sport for a living, and he still lives inside the same tension every coach knows: […]
The first draft of our new book is done. As a paid subscriber, you’re getting it before anyone else. We’re still working through titles. Right now it’s “Sustaining Success.” Below the paywall you’ll find the full manuscript along with some early drafts of the book cover. A few things to know before you read: This […]
In 2015, I wrote a piece for Harvard Health titled “Nutritional Psychiatry: Your Brain on Food”that introduced many readers to a then-emerging field: the science connecting what we eat to how our brains function and how we feel. A decade later, that piece continues to circulate — cited in academic papers, republished across health platforms, referenced […]
Dr. Jesse Godding, the Athletic Director at Nelson University and a man I deeply admire, sent me an email after I published “What Replay Can’t Fix” a few months ago. His response was so well thought out and thought provoking that I asked if I could run it here. He agreed. Before you read it, […]
