Zach Brandon
@MVP_Mindset • 8,801 subscribers
Leadership & Performance Advisor | Serving head coaches and executives in MLB, NBA, NFL, & NCAA | Speaker | Podcast Host | My favorite role: Dad
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Pat Murphy uses climbing a mountain to explain how he wants his team to handle getting closer to its goal. “As you get closer, you just got to keep your footing…you can’t look too far ahead. When you look up for the prize…you might step in a crack or a pothole.” Getting close to a goal can pull a team away from the very things that put it within reach. Players start pressing. Coaches feel compelled to say more. Everyone wants to make something happen. Part of leading in those moments is helping people trust the work they’ve done and stay connected to what the next play (and moment) requires. Keep the goal in view and the next step in focus. 🎥: NLCS Press Conference
Zach Brandon313,741 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
Tom Brady explains his mental edge and why practice (not gameday) creates separation. "There was a part of me that was a psychopath out there. I was extremely hypercompetitive every day. I didn't feel like let's get to Sunday and now it's the time...Every day is the time to give your best, even in practice." Every day your standards are either reinforced or lowered by how you treat practice. You don’t flip a switch into excellence. You rehearse it daily. 📹: Impaulsive Podcast
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NLCS MVP Jake Bauers shares how letting go of results helped him find a different level of freedom as a competitor. "I think what changed for me this year was I stopped caring about results. I started caring about competing. I started caring about being in the moment and getting out of my own way." Sometimes, the biggest obstacle to performing at your best isn't a lack of preparation or ability. It's the pressure you place on yourself to produce a particular outcome. You become so concerned with what you want to happen that you lose touch with what the moment actually requires. Any performer can unlock a new level when they learn how to be fully invested in the competition without becoming imprisoned by the outcome. 🎥: Fox Sports
Zach Brandon228,148 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen
Rory McIlroy on the paradox of chasing success. “I think it would be a pretty unfulfilling pursuit if you’re just chasing records and chasing results…If all you’re thinking about is winning and results, you’re playing the wrong game.” One of the great paradoxes of performance is that the outcomes we want are rarely achieved by obsessing over the outcomes themselves. Ironically, the less your identity depends on the outcome, the more freedom you often have to perform at your best. If you enjoy golf or mental game lessons, follow along this weekend as I’ll be sharing more highlights and insights from the Open championship. 🎥: The Open
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Mookie Betts describes his nerves in Game 7 of the World Series and what he told himself before the final out. "That 9th inning is probably the most nervous I've ever been on a baseball field...As Yoshi was throwing the ball, I was literally talking to myself like 'Be nasty, Mook. Be nasty right now.'" Even the best in the world need to remind themselves of their greatness. When nerves make the game speed up, your inner voice is a tool to slow it down. 📹: MLB Network
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Nick Saban reflects on the loneliness of being a head coach and the value of having people who help you see beyond your own perspective. “Especially once you get to be a head coach, who do you talk to?...It’s interesting sometimes that the outside perspective is a little different than your perception of what it might be. And that’s very, very helpful.” When you’re immersed in the daily demands of leading a team, it can be difficult to recognize your own blind spots, question your assumptions, or see the toll the job is taking. As the saying goes, it’s hard to read the label from inside the jar. People outside your day-to-day world can help you recognize what you might otherwise overlook. Those relationships also give you space to speak honestly and work through challenges without feeling like you need to have every answer. Coaches spend so much time investing in others. They deserve relationships where someone is invested in them. If you’d like to build more support around you, I’m happy to help you explore what that could look like and who/what might help. 🎥: This Past Weekend with Theo Von
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JJ Redick shares a big lesson from last season was learning that some of the qualities that made him successful as a player can actually work against him as a coach. “I had a great revelation towards the second half of last year that I talked about with my performance coach this summer. Some of the things that helped me as a player are deterrents for me as a coach.” As you transition from playing to coaching, don't automatically assume what made you a great player will directly translate to being a great coach. Sometimes growth isn’t developing a new strength. It’s learning when an old strength no longer serves you. 📹: Laker Nation
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After his first season as Arizona State’s head coach, Kenny Dillingham asked his leadership council what the program could do better. Their answer: Leave the facility earlier. “We were trying to trap people in the facility…They were like, ‘Get out of here earlier.’ I’m like, ‘You’re probably right. We’re not getting enough accomplished to override sleep here.’” One of the marks of a secure leader is the willingness to question practices they once believed were necessary. It’s also recognizing the difference between time spent and value created. At some point, another hour of work stops helping people improve and starts taking away from the energy, focus, and recovery they need tomorrow. More time isn’t always more productive. 🎥: The Player's Club
Zach Brandon134,870 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Tiger Woods on what it takes to be a savage. "It's do all the nitty gritty details that are ugly, hard, and mundane...Quite frankly, a lot of times you don't see the results for maybe years to come, but it's the little details that it takes each and everyday to be successful." Excellence filters people out through boredom, discomfort, and delayed rewards. It lives in the details that most people don't have the discipline or patience to honor every day. 📹: Skratch
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Nick Saban on why he learned to put limits around his work as a head coach. “It was just too stressful to carry it with you all the time...I was so committed, it was not healthy.” I don’t know any coach who doesn’t bring some degree of work home with them. It’s a natural byproduct of caring about your craft, your people, your program, and wanting to do things at a high level. Those responsibilities don’t disappear when you leave the building. But I appreciate Saban’s acknowledgment that commitment has a threshold where it begins to tax your health, your relationships, and your ability to lead. If you never give yourself relief from the job, eventually your team gets the version of you with less patience, less energy, and less perspective. Your commitment matters. So does your capacity to sustain it. 🎥: This Past Weekend with Theo Von
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Dusty May on how his ambition has evolved and how becoming a dad led him to redefine success. "I was probably 25 and I was incredibly ambitious and and I was trying to get to the top quickly. And then once Ann and I started having children, my entire perspective changed. I simply wanted to enjoy who I worked with, enjoy who I coached, and try to be the absolute best coach I could be." The longer I work with coaches, the more I realize that the most fulfilled ones aren't always the ones with the premier titles or the highest paid. They're the ones who have clarity about why they coach in the first place. Ambition isn't just chasing bigger jobs or dream destinations. Real ambition is chasing a better version of yourself. You don't have to choose between being ambitious and being fulfilled. The goal is to chase excellence while protecting the people and priorities that make the pursuit worthwhile in the first place. 📹: Dallas Mavericks
Zach Brandon226,933 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
"I'd say this to any coach...If your job is your identity, you're really going to struggle." This was part of Rick Barnes’ response to being asked what advice he’d give Lady Vols’ head coach, Kim Caldwell, following the birth of her son last year. He emphasized the importance of finding a balance between coaching and parenting and offered this reminder for all coaches: "This is what we do, it can't be who you are." 🎥: Emilie Rae Cochrane
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Mike Vrabel on the most important thing he's learned about building a culture in the NFL. "I've learned that we can have different personalities. We can't have different mentalities." Strong cultures don’t ask people to be the same. They ask people to commit to the same standards and non-negotiables. 📹: Bussin' With the Boys
Zach Brandon395,321 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
Dan Hurley shares why coaching players effectively requires knowing which version of you they need in each moment. “In practices, I’ve got to push for game-like reps so that on game night they can execute. On game night, I go to boxing trainer in the corner with the fighter, pumping them up and building up their confidence.” Great coaches are adaptable and attuned to the needs of the moment and the people they serve. They know when to push, when to teach, when to reassure and when to get out of the way. But keep in mind, the standard can remain consistent even when the delivery changes. 🎥: How Leaders Lead Podcast
Zach Brandon91,684 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Bob Chesney on the everyday work of building a program’s culture. “If I just sit at my desk and talk to no one and go on the field and stand in the corner and do nothing, it's really hard to identify if I'm building that culture and that environment or not.” A great speech on Saturday can help your team, but your team’s identity takes shape in how you show up Monday through Friday. Your players learn what matters through their daily experience of being coached by you. Give them a message worth hearing AND give them evidence of it throughout the week. 🎥: Big Ten Network
Zach Brandon45,247 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
Chris Petersen on why head coaches need to start by leading themselves first. “You can’t give away what you don’t possess.” Coaches often ask how to develop better habits, focus, self-awareness, and resilience in their players. The uncomfortable answer is that it starts with you. You won’t be able to sustainably lead people past the work you’re unwilling to do yourself. 🎥Source: Win More, Live Better Podcast (Ep. 81)
Zach Brandon114,381 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Christian McCaffrey describes his mentality over the course of an NFL season. “It’s 17 one-week seasons is the way I look at it…As a player in the NFL, you’re trained to forget…forget the last gameplan, forget the last play, forget the last team you played.” “You’re in this constant mode of on to the next, completely being present where you are now.” Letting go is a skill. Being present is a skill. Elite performance requires both. 🎥: B Scar TV podcast
Zach Brandon381,463 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
Matthew Stafford shares how his QB coach, Dave Ragone, once studied his performance after turnovers and sacks. They found his stats on the next possession are exponentially better than league average. “I just equate that to being able to compartmentalize…Be honest and real about it and not ultra emotional.” In performance environments, your execution on the next play often depends on how long you stay attached to the last one. The key is not wasting energy arguing with reality and training yourself to respond and re-engage quickly. 📹: Magic Mind
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Chris Petersen led Boise State to an undefeated season and discovered that achieving the goal didn’t feel anything like he expected. “Two weeks later, I’m feeling let down. I’m like, ‘Wait, what am I missing here?’...When you’re operating from an all-or-none proposition in life, that’s a bad way to exist.” Achievement provides an incredible high, but it is often temporary. The more our identity depends upon it, the steeper and darker the valleys between those moments can become. This doesn't mean you shouldn't pursue excellence. Just make sure you don't build a life and career that requires constant achievement to feel meaningful. Because human beings are remarkably good at reaching the destination and immediately inventing somewhere else we need to be. Great interview here from Jordan Smith. 📹: KTVB
Zach Brandon87,446 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Steve Kerr offers a 3-minute masterclass on leadership and culture building. #MVPMind
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