In this episode of Beyond Coaching, Rob sits down with two guests who live at the intersection of faith, sport, and formation: Matt Moberg – professional artist and chaplain for the Minnesota Timberwolves Mike Jaderston – Dean of Campus Ministries at Friends University and third-generation coach’s kid. The conversation starts with Matt’s unusual path to […]

In this short episode of Beyond Coaching, Rob and Dustin sit in a tension that every competitive leader feels but few articulate clearly. Winning matters. It always has. The time, preparation, and emotional investment are real. Losses still sting—even years removed from the sideline. Rob admits that as an Athletic Director, he still goes home […]

Bruce Brown has been coaching and consulting for decades. He is practical and someone I learn so much from every time I talk to him. So, when he told me in a recent conversation on the Beyond Coaching podcast that he spent an entire summer rethinking how he approached conditioning, I paid attention even though […]

I recently had Bruce Brown from Proactive Coaching back on the Beyond Coaching podcast, and we ended up in a conversation that I think a lot of coaches need to hear. We talked about conditioning, but not in the way most of us learned it. Bruce makes the case that conditioning should not be used […]

Your Nervous System’s Best Investment — Part 4 of 4 By Eva Selhub, MD Over the past few weeks, we have been exploring how the nervous system, as a living system in constant pursuit of balance, may perform, heal and sustain more effectively when its preferred strategy for achieving that balance is supported rather than […]

Your Nervous System’s Best Investment — Part 3 of 4 By Eva Selhub, MD Think back to a moment when you felt at your best — a time when everything came together with an ease that felt almost effortless: your thinking was clear and fast, and you felt genuinely connected to the people around you […]

Your Nervous System’s Best Investment — Part 2 of 4 By Eva Selhub, MD It is Sunday evening, but it feels like you are already in Monday. The week ahead is running through your mind — the meetings, the decisions, the people who need things from you. Your body might be in the room, but […]

By Eva Selhub, MD The nervous system invests in love as a biological strategy. The brain has one primary directive: maintain balance, or restore it as quickly as possible. Every physiological response the body generates — every hormone released, every immune cell deployed, every behavioral impulse activated — exists in service of that directive. Restored […]

For my entire career as an Athletic Director, I send out an email at 8 AM on Monday morning. For years — and even now — I am not sure if I am rewarding the right things. In this email, I celebrate successes, communicate important things for the next week, and reiterate our goals as […]

I coined the phrase #Story Tourism many years ago to describe what happens we travel to a new place whether it’s another country or another part of the United States. We see the place with a fresh eye whether we looking at the local architecture or the plants that are grown. The other benefit is […]