Athlete Builder

Jim Beebe

We work with high school and college athletes. Our goal is to reach and help 20,000 college athletes and 2 national title winners by the end of 2028. We have 6 Core Values: Integrity, Discipline, Kaizen (constant improvement in all matters), Teamwork, Enjoyment, and Sisu (never ever quitting). Our mantra is Relentless. And our mission statement is that we are Forging Unbreakable Athletes. The athlete's head is impacted by 3 components or inch blocks: their Mindset, their Knowledge of their sport, and how they interact with all Teammates (leadership, support, and game Teammates). The athlete's body also has 3 inch blocks: their Training, Nutrition, and Recovery. And each athlete needs a Playbook or roadmap guiding them to advance as quickly and effectively as possible. We help guide and identify the next targets in an athlete's 6 blocks and push him/her forward. We do this systematically and strategically. We are Relentless in this approach. This podcast will have on guests that can help provide insights and ideas for athletes and coaches. We'll have on athletes, coaches, doctors, military personnel and others. We'll dissect books and look for other approaches to help athletes as well. We want more info and ideas for advancing athletes in the 6 blocks. Hop on board and keep pushing forward. Be an athlete!

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    148 No Fear of Failure: From Motocross to Calling a College Football Offense | Taggart Brown

    Taggart Brown traded dirt bikes for a headset — and never lost the mentality that got him down the track. The offensive coordinator and QB coach at Bethel College joins Jim to talk about coaching without hesitation, the Event + Response = Outcome formula he teaches his quarterbacks, the grind of college coaching with a newborn at home, and why he believes most young athletes aren't physically strong enough for what the game asks of them. A walk-on turned conference player of the year turned play-caller, Taggart's story is about competing with no fear of failure — on the bike, on the field, and in life. In this episode: — How a motocross racer's "no fear of failure" mindset transfers to calling plays — Event + Response = Outcome: the one thing you can always control — The walk-on tryout that produced his best man — The real cost of the coaching grind on family — Why he thinks most young athletes aren't strong enough — and how to fix it — The four most powerful words you can tell a young man: "I believe in you" Connect with Taggart Brown 𝕏 Twitter: @taggart_brown 📸 Instagram: @taggart.brown 🎧 Full episode everywhere you listen 📊 How good is your athlete? Take the free Athlete Builder Scorecard: athlete-builder.com/assessmenttest 📰 Two Minute Drill newsletter: athlete-builder.com/newsletter 🌐 athlete-builder.com | ✉️ info@athlete-builder.com Win the Day. Stay Relentless.

    148 No Fear of Failure: From Motocross to Calling a College Football Offense | Taggart Brown
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    #147 I Love You Right Where You're At — But I Love You Too Much to Keep You There | Kristin Wodrich

    Athlete Builder Podcast  ·  Kristin Wodrich  ·  Women's Basketball · Leadership · Youth Sports · Faith · Coaching EPISODE SUMMARY "I had a baby December 11th. I was back on the bench January 3rd. I would never suggest that to anybody — but that's coaching." Kristin Wodrich spent 18 years on the sideline of women's college basketball. She started as a GA at Texas Tech — sleeping on couches, walking dogs for extra money, and losing a kid at camp her first summer. She went on to become a head coach, an assistant AD, and one of the more honest voices on what it actually takes to build leaders, not just players. In this episode, Jim and Kristin cover peer-to-peer accountability, the leadership courage most coaches don't talk about, what's actually broken in youth sports, why specialization is destroying young athletes, when to start lifting, what happens when your sport becomes your identity, and the one line that stopped Jim mid-sentence: "I love you right where you're at — but I love you too much to keep you there." She also talks about practicing hard conversations before you have them, why the transfer portal is the enemy of culture, why women coaching women matters, and what Romans 15:13 has to do with how she coached every team she ever had. LESSONS 1. "I love you right where you're at — but I love you too much to keep you there." 2. The best leaders aren't always liked — but they're always respected 3. Peer-to-peer accountability is the hardest leadership skill — and it has to be practiced 4. Your #1 asset is culture — and the portal is destroying it 5. Youth sports expectations are the problem — not the kids 6. Specialization is behind the injury epidemic — and lifting is the fix 7. Your sport will fail you — don't make it your identity   TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro — Kristin Wodrich, 18 years in women's college basketball 1:10 Welcome to D1 — 45-minute defensive workout she almost couldn't walk after 2:00 GA life at Texas Tech — lost a kid at camp, walking dogs, sleeping on couches What GAs think they're signing up for vs. what it actually is 3:50 The support team — why athletes who take care of GAs and interns always get it back 6:55 What separates leaders from equally talented players They say the right thing when it's hard — and don't care about the response 8:15 Peer-to-peer courage — Ryan Day's 5 C's and why captains have it harder than coaches 9:00 "I love you right where you're at — but I love you too much to keep you there." The line that stopped Jim mid-sentence 10:15 Snapchat friends vs. real relationships — surface-level culture and why it kills teams 11:00 Trust building in the portal era — why your non-negotiables cannot waver 13:20 Leadership lesson she wishes she'd learned year one Hard doesn't mean bad — it means necessary 14:00 Practicing hard conversations — writing them out, rehearsing, praying over them 15:20 Confidence only comes from reps — Jim's take on preparation 17:25 Two coaches married — what dinner actually looks like And why parents should think the way her husband did 20:33 Youth sports — what's broken "Play hard" should never be a skill set 22:15 The math on who actually plays college sports 23:10 Burnout, injury rates & early specialization — is single-sport the problem? 24:30 Multi-sport development, neuropathways & the Da Vinci analogy Why swimmers are bad at change-of-direction sports 26:05 Repetitive use injuries and strength training as the competitive advantage nobody uses 29:30 When to start lifting — push heavy things, carry heavy things Farm boy strength is real and any kid can build it 31:50 Women in coaching — why the numbers are declining Had a baby Dec 11th. Back on the bench Jan 3rd. 33:50 Seasons of life — priorities change and that's okay 35:00 Faith — "When Jesus is my identity, things line up" Your sport will fail you. Don't build your identity on it. 37:45 How to find one limiting factor in a new athlete — Jim's SWOT approach 40:00 The full INCHES breakdown — head, body, six habits, one priority 41:25 Training for a half marathon — "I'm a runner again" 43:00 Bucket list — The Masters Less than 5% of a round of golf is actually swinging the club 44:00 Rapid fire — Rudy, basketball, Jackie Stiles, Atomic Habits, Wonder Woman 45:10 Power cleans, Romans 15:13 & where to find Kristin

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    AB Champion Builder #4: Talent Doesn't Win | The three circles that raise — or cap — your athlete's ceiling.

    The most talented team loses to the team that plays for each other. The shortstop with a cannon can't turn the double play because she doesn't trust her second baseman. That's not talent — that's teammates. In Episode 4 of Build Champion Athletes, Jim Beebe breaks down the inch that multiplies every other inch. The three circles every athlete has (squad, leadership team, support team), the "Now what?" lens that turns ideas into action, and the climb from Survive to Thrive to Win — told through softball. Plus how coaches engineer chemistry instead of hoping for it, why allies beat friends, and how to work backwards from elite culture to daily behavior. In this episode: • The three circles: squad, leadership team, support team (and the one everybody neglects) • "Now what?" — the lens that turns every idea into an action item • Survive → Thrive → Win, in softball: do your job → turn the double play → carry the culture • Why you label the play before it happens — trust is built out loud • Tom Ryan: the size of your fight is proportionate to the depth of your love • Chemistry isn't luck — how coaches engineer connection reps • Scott Bird: give respect to get respect; be authentic and consistent • Allies vs. friends — every player needs a mirror • Be worth following: your standard on your worst day sets the team's floor • The Teammate SWOT — and the real threat isn't the loss, it's losing a kid for 12 months • Work backwards: HS gets one connection habit; college defines elite culture first ▶️ SCORE YOUR TEAM — FREE ASSESSMENT (about 10 minutes) 👉 https://athlete-builder.com/assessmenttest 📬 The Two Minute Drill (weekly newsletter): https://athlete-builder.com/newsletter 📘 The book — Athlete Builder: The Blueprint to Build Champion Athletes: https://athlete-builder.com/booka 🔔 Subscribe for the rest of the series. Follow: IG @athlete_builder | TikTok @athlete.builder Keep stacking wins. Win the day. Stay relentless.

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    #146 Tom Ryan: Gratitude Crushes Suffering | Ohio State Wrestling

    Description: Tom Ryan has coached Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder, 80 All-Americans, and a national championship team at Ohio State. None of that is what shaped him. In this conversation, the two-time NCAA Coach of the Year and author of Chosen Suffering goes to the places most coaches won't: the day he walked into Dan Gable's wrestling room and got beaten unmercifully, the loss of his five-year-old son Teague and the question it forced him to answer, and why there's no such thing as a quantum leap — only dogged persistence that ends up looking like one. Jim and Tom get into the non-negotiable standards behind every elite athlete Tom has coached, how to actually know your athletes before the world labels them, why ultra-competitors don't break when fatigue and pressure hit, and what it means to be the landlord of your own mind. Timestamps: 02:30 — Walking on at Iowa: the "Are you warm?" moment 07:30 — Getting cut from basketball and finding wrestling 15:30 — Losing Teague, and the question Tom couldn't answer 21:00 — "Gratitude crushes suffering" 25:45 — No quantum leaps: the unseen work 29:15 — Choosing the hard thing and living in reality 31:30 — The non-negotiable standard (Snyder's 5:28 mile) 37:15 — Landlord of your mind: I love tos, I believes, I ams 46:00 — Why ultra-competitors don't break under pressure 57:00 — What Tom wants his athletes to carry with them 57:50 — Rapid fire Find your athlete's weak link — take The Athlete Builder Scorecard, our free assessment that scores all six blocks (knowledge counts double): link https://athlete-builder.com/assessmenttest Get the Two Minute Drill — two ideas, two takeaways, two questions, every Thursday. Tom Ryan: @buckeye158 on Instagram and X · Chosen Suffering wherever books are sold.

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    AB Champion Builder Series: The Knowledge Gap / Why your hardest workers still stall and the fix.

    He sprints every play. Never dogs a rep. And never gets the ball. Why? He doesn't know the routes...or he does, BUT doens't know something else. In Part 3 of the Build Champion Athletes series, Jim Beebe breaks down Knowledge — the second inch in the head, and the quiet limiting factor nobody talks about. Effort without mastery is just fast confusion. Using a wide receiver's route tree, Jim shows the three levels every athlete climbs, and how to move up them. He then applies it to other sports. In this episode: • Why the hardest worker on the team can still be invisible • The playbook — and why knowledge "counts double" • The route tree: Survive → Thrive → Win • Survive: know the routes. Thrive: master the craft. Win: read the game. • Why every sport has a route tree — baseball, basketball, wrestling • Learn faster than anyone: ask questions, film, mentors • Life knowledge — school, sleep, time, money • Diagnosing it with the Knowledge SWOT and one habit ▶️ SCORE YOUR TEAM — FREE ASSESSMENT (about 10 minutes) 👉 https://athlete-builder.com/assessmenttest 📬 The Two Minute Drill (weekly newsletter): https://athlete-builder.com/newsletter 📘 The book — Athlete Builder: The Blueprint to Build Champion Athletes: https://athlete-builder.com/booka 🔔 Subscribe for the rest of the series. Follow: IG @athlete_builder | TikTok @athlete.builder Keep stacking wins. Win the day. Stay relentless. #AthleteBuilder #BuildChampionAthletes #SportsIQ #Coaching #AthleticDevelopment #SportsPerformance #YouthSports

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    #145 What Actually Separates Elite Athletes (It's Not Talent) | Scott Bird — 31 Yrs, Coached Max Scherzer

    Talent isn't what separates the ones who make it — and Scott Bird has spent 31 years proving it, coaching Max Scherzer, 37 All-Americans, and a room full of future pros across five major programs. In this one he breaks down how he diagnoses what an athlete actually needs (it starts with a conversation, not a test), why he rated a future 3× Cy Young winner's work ethic "average" as a freshman — and what changed — the four-word philosophy behind three decades of results, why patience is the skill young athletes and young coaches botch most, and how "investing in the relationship" builds a culture that holds a room of alphas accountable. Plus the basics that never die, why admitting you're wrong to your team earns more respect, and the gratitude habit that runs his best days. 1. MINDSET — Fix the mind first. Before any physical test, Scott reads mindset and hunger: "It starts with a conversation… I want to see where his mindset's at." The wrong mindset stalls everything; commitment beats a one-time decision. 2. MINDSET / KNOWLEDGE — Growth mindset is the separator. Scherzer wasn't the most gifted freshman — he named his gaps and attacked them with "focused intensity," carrying the weight-room mentality to the mound. The elite aren't afraid of the work or of where they're weak. 3. KNOWLEDGE — "Take roll and pay attention." Diagnosis is observation plus a conversation, not a gadget. You can read what an athlete needs by how they walk in the room — the day after they compete, the first question is simply "How do you feel?" 4. TEAMMATES — Invest in the relationship. Be the same person every day (no eggshells). Understand where each athlete is coming from so you know when to get in a face and when to whisper. Admit when you're wrong to the team — it builds more respect, not less. 5. TRAINING — Basics never die; patience is the missing skill. Bench, squat, clean still work — don't reinvent the wheel. Of consistency, intensity, and patience, patience is the one athletes and young coaches get wrong. Stack small wins ("better than last week = a win"); one step up the stairs at a time. 6. KNOWLEDGE / RECOVERY — Science serves the athlete, not the reverse. Use the tech, but keep your "visual analytics" — believe what you see (à la LaRussa). Don't get so buried in data you forget there are real people performing. •        Welcome to Oklahoma: 1985, Barry Switzer, and the surreal freshman moment •        Scout-team stories and the kicker who lived in the weight room •        The loudest stadiums: Kansas State 2000 and Neyland at night •        Who is Scott Bird — 31 years, Scherzer, 37 All-Americans •        The "why" that keeps him in the weight room for three decades •        Focus forward, not on the mistake — the message a player remembered 25 years later •        From coaching athletes to coaching coaches at Logan University •        What's different between the ears: growth mindset and Scherzer's turn •        How to diagnose what an athlete really needs: take roll and pay attention •        Building culture in a room of alphas: investing in the relationship •        Consistency, intensity, patience — the one everyone gets wrong •        Small wins and the 'month of June' method •        What's changed in S&C — and the basics that never die •        Fix one thing first: mindset before the physical •        What he wants his athletes to say about him •        Rapid fire: Rockies, Larry Bird, Batman, and gratitude over expectations CONNECT WITH SCOTT BIRD Instagram / X: @Birdman8500   ·   LinkedIn: /in/scott-bird-807b6b59 FOLLOW ATHLETE BUILDER Instagram @athlete_builder · TikTok @athlete.builder · YouTube @Athlete-Builder · athlete-builder.com

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We work with high school and college athletes. Our goal is to reach and help 20,000 college athletes and 2 national title winners by the end of 2028. We have 6 Core Values: Integrity, Discipline, Kaizen (constant improvement in all matters), Teamwork, Enjoyment, and Sisu (never ever quitting). Our mantra is Relentless. And our mission statement is that we are Forging Unbreakable Athletes. The athlete's head is impacted by 3 components or inch blocks: their Mindset, their Knowledge of their sport, and how they interact with all Teammates (leadership, support, and game Teammates). The athlete's body also has 3 inch blocks: their Training, Nutrition, and Recovery. And each athlete needs a Playbook or roadmap guiding them to advance as quickly and effectively as possible. We help guide and identify the next targets in an athlete's 6 blocks and push him/her forward. We do this systematically and strategically. We are Relentless in this approach. This podcast will have on guests that can help provide insights and ideas for athletes and coaches. We'll have on athletes, coaches, doctors, military personnel and others. We'll dissect books and look for other approaches to help athletes as well. We want more info and ideas for advancing athletes in the 6 blocks. Hop on board and keep pushing forward. Be an athlete!