After taking three weeks off to contemplate the future of the podcast, I arrived at a few interesting conclusions: It’s time to start interviewing parents and coaches. I really feel that the parents are the first coaches of the student-athlete.

To further this thought, I addressed my Facebook community. What I had in mind was to start a conversation with parents and coaches that would lead to an interview. The goal is to share information, experience, stories and dialogue to better help our student-athletes.

Erin M. was the first to respond to my questions and survey. 

• What is your #1 strategy that you use at home to develop discipline with your student-athlete?

• When you find your student-athlete procrastinating how do you motivate him or her to take action?

• How do you use reflective thinking to support achievement and well being?

• What are your student-athlete’s barriers and limitations?

I am looking to do 200 interviews with parents and coaches over the next year. If you’d like to come on the show and share your thoughts, don’t hesitate to reach out to me.

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Over the last several months, I’ve been asked how listeners could support the Sports Mastery podcast. After several hours of research, interviews, and phone calls I decided on creating a Patreon page. I did this to be all inclusive. Check out the link to review my goals for the podcast and to see the rewards for becoming a Patron.

Financial support from you, the listeners is what keeps this going and the podcast really really needs more funding to grow not only to become financially stable but to grow. A budget to interview guests globally instead of locally is one of my dreams. Because of the intimate nature of the interviews, in-person conversations are necessary.

Your support will allow me to dedicate more time to working on the show. It will allow me to hire an audio editor, sound engineer, videographer, publicist, and social media manager. Put simply, the more you help out, the better quality of podcasts I can produce and develop for you.

Thanks,

DeShawn Fontleroy

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