
009 - Mental & Physical Skills of the World's Best Athlete (with Damian Warner)
Over the course of two days, Olympic decathletes participate in ten different track and field events, ranging from pole vault and shot put to long jump and a 1500-meter run. It’s a grueling competitio...
1 Feb 202455min

008 - The Coach Up: This Concept Will Change How You Think About Motivation
Have you ever noticed that your behavior is sometimes misaligned with your goals? You go to school to learn, or take a job to do meaningful work, or join Instagram to keep up with friends. But instead...
29 Jan 20248min

007 - Be Yourself and Go All the Way
What type of leadership builds a culture of winning and excellence? Is an approach that prioritizes joy, care, and love, more effective than one that's more demanding or authoritarian? Using examples ...
25 Jan 202444min

006 - The Coach Up: 5 Lessons on Focus, Leadership, and Greatness (with NFL coach Andy Reid)
A special edition of The Coach Up! In the wake of the Kansas City Chiefs' playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills, Clay revisits a 2020 conversation he had with the Chiefs' head coach, Andy Reid. Coach...
22 Jan 20248min

005 - How the Cult of Wellness is Failing Us (with Kate Bowler)
What if I told you our country's approach to wellness was heavily influenced by the history of American religion? Kate Bowler, a professor of religious history at Duke, traces the self-betterment move...
18 Jan 202457min

004 - The Coach Up: Why You Should Stop Your Workout (Just) Short
Throughout his many years of coaching, Steve Magness has put together a unique set of tools for training mental toughness. In this week's Coach Up, he walks you through a clever way to approach the en...
15 Jan 20248min

003 - Fantasy Draft: Our 12 Favorite Movies & Shows About Performance
We are living in an entertainment boom, which is both a blessing and a curse: there's more great content than ever before, but you have to sort through a lot of noise to find it. In an effort to help ...
11 Jan 202447min

002 - The Coach Up: How to Set Better Goals
For the first episode of The Coach Up, we've got three different experts—Brad, Steve, and Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist at Wharton—offering three different perspectives on how to think through ...
8 Jan 202419min



















