The Thing You Can't Say With Coach Reg

Coach Reg

I'm Bob Regnerus. Coach Reg. I've coached basketball for 38 seasons, I coach high school golf, and I've spent 26 years working with entrepreneurs. But the work I do now is the work I was always heading toward. Every week I sit down and write about what I'm seeing — in sessions, in conversations, on the course, in the patterns that keep showing up across every person I work with. Athletes in transition. Founders who built the thing and lost themselves inside it. Executives who are successful by every measure and quietly miserable. And people still in the middle of it — still building, still competing, still leading — who sense that the way they're carrying it isn't sustainable. The common thread is always the thing they're not saying out loud. I help people name it. The thing they've been avoiding. The decision they keep circling. The truth that everyone around them is too polite to say. I don't use frameworks. I don't run programs. I sit with people and ask the question that makes them hear themselves say it. Then everything shifts. You don't have to wait for the performance to end to do this work. Some of the most powerful shifts I've seen come from people who are still in the arena but willing to look underneath while they're there. This podcast brings those weekly letters and the conversations behind them to your ears. It's direct, it's personal, and it's not for everyone. If you've been circling something you can't quite name — you're in the right place.

Episodes

  1. Mar 10

    The Content Was Mine. The Voice Wasn't. And Once I Saw the Patterns I Couldn't Unsee Them.

    This is the first audio episode of SPARK Insights and it exists because three friends showed me something I couldn't ignore. I've been using AI to help write my newsletter for over seventy issues. I speak everything first, run it through Claude, and edit the draft. The ideas have always been mine. But a conversation with Caitlin, Amy Birks, and Brandon Fong from a community called Curiosity Island made me look at something I'd been avoiding: the voice on the page didn't sound like me. In this episode I walk through what happened when I saw the patterns AI leaves behind in writing, the three filters I built to fix it, and why my writing started landing different with people before I even told anyone what I changed. I'm also sharing the AI Writing Filter I built so you can do the same thing with your own content. And I close with an original song called "Worth Knowing." To read and subscribe to SPARK Insights, visit https://sparkinsights.net Key Moments: [00:00] Why you're hearing my voice for the first time [02:00] How I've used AI to write 70+ issues of SPARK Insights [05:00] The process: I speak it, transcribe it, shape it, edit it [06:30] The question that changed everything: does the content still land? [08:30] The decision I had to make once I saw the patterns [09:30] The three filters I built: AI Tells, Voice, and Sovereignty [11:15] What shifted when people started telling me the writing was landing different [13:00] What Caitlin, Amy, and Brandon mirrored back to me [14:13] "Worth Knowing" - an original song

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About

I'm Bob Regnerus. Coach Reg. I've coached basketball for 38 seasons, I coach high school golf, and I've spent 26 years working with entrepreneurs. But the work I do now is the work I was always heading toward. Every week I sit down and write about what I'm seeing — in sessions, in conversations, on the course, in the patterns that keep showing up across every person I work with. Athletes in transition. Founders who built the thing and lost themselves inside it. Executives who are successful by every measure and quietly miserable. And people still in the middle of it — still building, still competing, still leading — who sense that the way they're carrying it isn't sustainable. The common thread is always the thing they're not saying out loud. I help people name it. The thing they've been avoiding. The decision they keep circling. The truth that everyone around them is too polite to say. I don't use frameworks. I don't run programs. I sit with people and ask the question that makes them hear themselves say it. Then everything shifts. You don't have to wait for the performance to end to do this work. Some of the most powerful shifts I've seen come from people who are still in the arena but willing to look underneath while they're there. This podcast brings those weekly letters and the conversations behind them to your ears. It's direct, it's personal, and it's not for everyone. If you've been circling something you can't quite name — you're in the right place.