The Line Ends Here (But the Story Doesn't)
This isn’t just a podcast. It’s breath. It’s legacy. It’s the story underneath the field.Hosted by Ian Fitzpatrick, father, coach, nonprofit builder, and Executive Director of Mendocino County Sports Academy, this show explores what it means to build something real in an age…
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The Town's Living Room - Episode 34 (opens the original)
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Jon Frech started Black Oak Coffee Roasters at the end of 2012 with a camp stove and a popcorn popper on a back porch in the hills of Ukiah. Today it's a coffee company with national recognition that never left town. MCSA started a few months later in the spring of 2013. Neither knew what they were building at the time, to be honest. Ian sat down with Jon to ask how you build something world-class in a small community, and Jon flipped the question on him. The small town isn't the obstacle, he sa
Show Up Correct - Episode 33 (opens the original)
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Saturday, Ian took his U9 boys to Santa Rosa, where the parents behind the goal screamed so much that his keeper said he couldn't hear anything else. Sunday, MCSA ran its Developmental Soccer League (DSL) tournament in Mendocino with 200 kids, and it was the total opposite. Same sport, one day apart. This episode is about the difference. A scheduling quirk that accidentally created a real championship final between 8- and 9-year-olds. A girl who cried over a medal, and what her parents got right
First Touch is Everything - Episode 32 (opens the original)
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Spain just won the World Cup on our soil. All three host nations, the US included, were gone by the Round of 16. So why, with all our money and all our fields, does American soccer still come up short when it matters most? The answer isn't pay-to-play. It's deeper than that, and it starts on a Monday night in Ukiah with an eight-year-old and a ball. In this one, Ian gets into why the land of faster, bigger, stronger keeps losing the one game that rewards none of those things, what Spain holding
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