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So I get this question a lot… “Why did you make the jump from how-to writing to fictional storybooks?” In my podcast interview with Jon Gordon, he shared some great principles and strategies for why he writes the way he does. Watch this video below to learn more about the new fictional storybooks: The 12 Pillars of Peak Performance are the 20% of the entire field of Peak Performance that will get you 80% of the benefit. Learn more about my new fictional storybooks! Your Peak Performance Coach, BRIAN CAIN PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: So I get this question a lot from people. Why the jump? Why did you make the jump from writing the how to follow the process and system to Peak Performance book into fictional writing? I get that question a lot. I want to try to answer that question here. A big part of that inspiration – which you’ve probably heard if you listened to the September podcast I did with John Gordon. Gordon: I really am about these fables because I realized when I first wrote The Energy Bus that that is a great way to share a message. That is a great way to empower others and to share a story with them that as they read it it becomes their story. We learn best through parables. Cain: I’ve been a huge fan of John Gordon’s writings from The Energy Bus to The Hard Hat to The Seed and all of his books are all fictional books. What I also like about them is that they share very strong core principles and some strategies that you can use to be your best. As I was goi...

To become more, you’ve got to surround yourself with people who are doing what you do at a higher level. Watch this video below to learn how you can surround yourself with the best coaches on the planet: Inside of the Inner Circle, you immediately surround yourself with the best. If you are a coach who is ready to take your game to another level, click here. It is my mission to equip you with the tools you need to make a massive impact on your athletes, as quickly, effortlessly and powerfully as possible. >> BrianCain.com/InnerCircle Your Peak Performance Coach, BRIAN CAIN PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: In our last Monday Message we talked about a concept that proximity is power. To have maximum influence and impact with others you have to be with them. You have to have that connection. If you stand up and you raise that right hand I want you to raise it as high as you possibly can. As high as you possibly can. Give me your best effort, yes or no? Crowd: Yes. Cain: Now give a little bit more. Give a bit more. Everyone gave more. Can I continue? Best effort. Best effort. Give a little bit more. Give a little more. Okay, hands down. How many of you were able to give a little bit more when I asked to give more? Raise your hand and say “I could.” Crowd: I could. Cain: So do that with your kids. You can always give a little bit more. If you do that you’ll find kids jumping up on the table. You’ll find kids climbing up the scaffolding and putting their hand in the air. They can always do a little bit more. But get them to raise their hand and think just when you think you’ve given enough you can always give a little bit more. Always give more. I can always give more. I can always give more. I can always give more. Why is that? I’m going as high as I can but I can still give more. Sometimes it’s just t...

This week, you get to hear from Inner Circle member Ed Padalecki. Coach Padalecki is a high school baseball and football coach in Flower Mound, Texas. On this episode, you’ll learn about: The #1 biggest improvement Coach Padalecki has experienced in the last year The power of a community of like-minded individuals What it takes to coach 2 sports and lead a family (with a newborn!) The 2016 Inner Circle Moment of the Year and much more… PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Morse: Throwing you a change up this week. It’s Matt Morse here hosting this episode of the Peak Performance Podcast. I’m joined by Inner Circle member and high school football/baseball coach, Ed Padalecki. Great to have you here today, Ed. Padalecki: Thank you, Matt. It’s a pleasure to be here and an honor. Morse: Awesome. If you would tell us a little bit about how you got to where you are today as a successful high school baseball/football coach here in the state of Texas. Padalecki: Well I guess it started shy of my 30th birthday. I was at a point in life where I was living in San Antonio. I had a financial firm, wealth management firm, and was doing the Wall Street thing for most of my 20s. I got to a point to where I was evaluating my life and I liked what I did but I didn’t love what I did. I was always passionate about sports and I looked back on my life and who had the biggest impact on me growing up and that was my teachers and coaches so I was able to tran...

This week we take you live inside The Brian Cain Experience event from McKinney, Texas, July 30-31, 2016. You’ll learn from members of the Inner Circle and how they use the mental game on a consistent basis to help better develop themselves as coaches so that they can best develop and train their players. Better coaches make better players. In this podcast, some of the best coaches in the country explain how they use the Inner Circle to become more so that they can achieve more.

“Are you a coach of success or a coach of significance?” This week, we reach into the Peak Performance Vault for a episode featuring leadership & culture guru Jeff Janssen from 2007! On this episode, you’ll learn: How to KNOW you are making a difference in the lives of your athletes The training needed to develop true leadership The importance of keeping the main thing the main thing How to build confidence in your players and much more… The Janssen Sports Leadership Center develops college and high school student-athletes and coaches into world-class leaders who are committed to a lifetime of service, success, and significance. PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: This is Brian Cain live with Jeff Janssen of Janssen Peak Performance out of Cary, North Carolina. I’m sure a lot of listeners to this interview have already been to his fantastic website: it’s www.JeffJanssen.com. Jeff, thanks for sitting down and taking the time to chat with us today. I really appreciate it. For the Inner Circle members most of them are (I’m sure) familiar with your stuff already but for those who aren’t Jeff is one of the world’s leading authorities on leadership development and Peak Performance. It’s an absolute honor to be able to sit down with him today. Jeff, could you give us your background in the Peak Performance industry and how you got to be where you are today as one of the top authorities in the world. Janssen: I’d be happy to. I was real privileged to start out at the University of Arizona. I got my Master’s degree there and while we were there the stuff we were learning and the experiences that we were having it just seemed like it really needed to be shared with the coaches and student athletes there. Mike Candrea, who is their softball coach and a big baseball kind of guy at heart who has applied a lot ...

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This week’s guest is one of the top high school football coaches in the nation. Hal Wasson has been the head football coach at Southlake Carroll in Southlake, TX, since 2007. The Dragons are widely recognized as a top high school football program and annually find themselves ranked in the top 25 nationally and competing for a Texas high school football state championship. In this podcast Wasson shares how he develops a championship culture, an elite mindset and a one-play-at-a-time mentality within his program. He also shares advice for fathers who are coaching their sons. You can follow Coach Wasson and Southlake Carroll HS Football @SLCDragonFB. PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today I’m super fired up to have our guest Hal Wasson. Hal is the head football coach of the Carroll Dragon football program in Southlake, Texas, one of the most sought after clinicians and speakers on program building, culture building, and winning at the highest level of high school football. Coach Wasson thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us here on the podcast. Wasson: I’m really happy to be here, Brian. I’m feeding off your energy right now. I’m excited to just be around you today. Cain: Awesome. Well I’m glad you’re here. The feeling is mutual. If you would could you give our listeners kind of your background in terms of where you played football and then how you got to be the head football coach here at Southlake Carroll. Wasson: Well you know it’s a journey. It was a long process. I grew up in a small town in East Texas – Kerens, Texas. I was a multisport guy. I played all four sports in my high school. You played the sports, you were in the band, student council, beta club, all those things. I graduated from high school. Obviously I thought was better than what I was and I jumped into a junior college. I played a couple years at Navarro Junior College. I was fortunate to be on a couple of championship team...

This week’s guest is Alan McDougal, head baseball coach at Colleyville Heritage High School in Colleyville, TX. Alan is widely regarded as one of the top coaches in the game when it comes to developing a mindset and a championship culture. He has coached multiple Major League players and routinely puts players into Division One college baseball. In this podcast McDougal shares insight into how he uses the classroom to develop the mental game with his players, DUDES as the acronym for his program’s championship culture, and how he runs a fast-paced and up-tempo style practice with his program. He also shares one of the most amazing stories about former Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham that you won’t want to miss. You can follow Alan and Colleyville Heritage Baseball on Twitter @CHHS_Baseball. PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with another episode of the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is Colleyville Heritage High School head baseball coach Alan McDougal. He just wrapped up his tenth season of success and he is here to talk to us today about how to build a mindset in your baseball program, how to create a championship culture, and how to coach the mental game. Alan has now been coaching the mental game for a number of years and is one of the best in the country when it comes to creating a one-pitch-at-a-time approach within his culture. Something I’m super excited to talk about today is how he runs a fast-paced up-tempo practice in baseball which you don’t see all the time. Alan, welcome to the podcast. I appreciate you making the time to join us. McDougal: Brian, it’s a pleasure to be here face-to-face with you for the first time getting to talk about the mental game and share it with some other coaches. Cain: Awesome. If you would could you kind of take us through your background in kind of a quick one minute snapshot of where you grew up and how you got to where you are ...

This week’s guest is one of the most respected high school football coaches in the nation. Randy Jackson is the head football coach at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, TX, and was named the 2015 Tom Landry High School Football Coach of the Year. He is one of the most sought-after speakers on Championship Culture, Team Building and Mental Toughness. In this podcast he breaks down some of the best strategies you will ever hear for building mental toughness and a championship culture in your program. You can follow Coach Jackson on Twitter @CoachJacksonTPW. PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance coach here with another episode of the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is Randy Jackson. He is the head football coach at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas, and one of the most sought after coaches and speakers on creating a championship culture and building mental toughness through high school sports. The motto of his program is very simple – TPW, tough people win. That is something that Randy Jackson does. When he took over the Grapevine high school football program, before he got there they had a string of losing seasons. They were 1-9 in their last season in 2013. He took over the helm in 2014 and immediate success going 3-8. Then in 2015 they pushed the envelope to 8-3 and he was named 2015 Tom Landry High School Football Coach of the Year. This is going to be one podcast that you are definitely going to want to listen to over and over again as part of automobile university – as you’re driving – and one that you’re go into want to listen to and sit down and take notes. Coach Jackson, thanks for joining us on the podcast. Jackson: Thanks Brian. I’m honored to be here. I’ve listened to your podcast for a long time and I’m really honored to get to sit down with you today. Cain:<span style="font-weig...

This week’s guest is LSU Softball head coach Beth Torina. She has led the Tigers to Oklahoma City and the Women’s College World Series in three of her first five seasons and has quickly become one of the game’s most respected coaches. In this podcast she shares how TIGERS is an acronym for their championship culture and how they build an elite mindset in their players to give them the best chance for success. She also shares part of her routine for being at her best on game day as a head coach. You can follow Beth Torina on Twitter @BethTorina and LSU Softball @LSUSoftball. PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. We’ve got LSU head softball coach, Beth Torina, fresh off back-to-back Women’s College World Series appearances in 2015 and 2016. Beth, thank you so much for taking time to join us here on the podcast. Torina: Thanks. I’m happy to be with you guys. Cain: If you would could you talk to us a little bit about at LSU you guys are the Tigers and in your softball programs “Tigers” is really the acronym that you use for the core principles of your program. Would you talk about Tigers and how you use that with your softball team. Torina: We had this genius mental conditioning coach that directed us to having this Tigers standard. Is that what you want me to say? Cain: No I want you to talk about how you use it. Torina: Tigers – trust, integrity, grit, energy, relentless, selfless. I think the coolest thing about it is that all of our players could tell you that instantly which is something that we were missing before. Now they understand the standards. They can define the standards. I think that’s step one to being able to do anything is having a good ...