HeyJaredCaptains & Coaches Podcast
The Fast-Track to Becoming a Game-Changing Leader.Discover how the greatest minds in sports build winning cultures. Dive into raw, no-nonsense conversations with elite coaches and captains who've been in the trenches.
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146 - Conquer Loss Aversion & the Locker Room w/ Dr. Ben Freakley (opens the original)
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What happens when a team stops playing to win and starts playing not to lose? Dr. Ben Freakley, Certified Mental Performance Consultant and founder of Ready Set Resilient, knows that shift firsthand. Over two decades, Ben has worked inside some of the highest-pressure locker rooms in sport and the military, serving as a college soccer head coach, Head of Mental Performance for the Toronto Blue Jays, and a mental performance coach with Atlanta United and the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. In this e
145 - Team Conflict Toolkit: 5 Styles Every Captain Needs to Read (opens the original)
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Every locker room has small dragons. Left alone, they grow. Handled early, they're just Tuesday. In this episode, we break down the five conflict styles every captain will run into on a roster: Competing, Avoiding, Compromising, Accommodating, and Collaborating. For each one, you get a specific tool to manage it, so you can catch tension before it splits your team apart. This isn't about eliminating conflict. It's about reading it, meeting it where it is, and keeping your team focused on the sta
144 - Sports, Shame & the Weight of Words w/ Tim Fletcher (opens the original)
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In this episode, Tex sits down with Tim Fletcher [@timfletcherco [https://www.instagram.com/timfletcherco/]], founder of RE/ACT and the LIFT program, to talk about the hidden driver behind so much of sports culture: shame. Tim breaks down what shame actually is. Not the emotion most people think of, but the belief underneath it. He explains the difference between big T trauma and little t trauma, the kind that comes not from what happened to you, but from what should have happened and didn't. He
143 - Funishment: Reframing Discipline in Athletics (opens the original)
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Coach blows up over something innocent. Wrong route. Empty water bottle. Kids laughing in the back of the huddle. So we hand out up-downs, bear crawls, and sprints and call it discipline. But what is that actually teaching? In this solo episode, Tex breaks down why punishment-based conditioning teaches compliance, not character, and why it quietly trains athletes to resent the very movement we need them to embrace. Then he introduces Funishment: movement-based discipline that builds a skill inst
142 - Living Legends Lead By Example w/ Shawn Lyght | Notre Dame Lacrosse (opens the original)
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Shawn Lyght [@slyght_90 [https://www.instagram.com/slyght_90/]] made history as the first defenseman ever to win the Tewaaraton Award (the Heisman Trophy of lacrosse). A national champion at Notre Dame, he's back for his senior season carrying the weight of a program built to win it all again. In this episode, Shawn breaks down what separates a high school captain from a college captain, how to call out a friend without losing him, why his defense huddles as one voice, and how a quiet leader ear
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