#32 featured John Nee, who has been an English teacher, head baseball coach, and assistant football coach at St.Rita High School on the south side of Chicago for the past 25 years.  My main takeaways: Happiness in life comes from finding yo…

Tom & Steve Winiecki are one of the most successful father-son coaching duo's in IL coaching history, combining for over 70 years, 330 victories, 23 playoff appearances, state & city championships. Tom Winiecki is synonymous with G…

As if being a first-time head coach isn't tough enough, Brennan Spain was named Head Football Coach at Cardinal Ritter College Prep (St. Louis, MO) in the midst of a global pandemic. How has Coach Spain's teams responded? With back-to-back trips to …

I believe perspective and understanding from a variety of vantage points is what ultimately leads to sound decision-making, and who better to give an objective view of best practices in coaching than the sideline reporter? Episode 29 features J…

Had fun recording this episode! I have known Kelly Henkel for 5 years, and have such respect for how he establishes inclusive environments and builds genuine relationships with both his students and athletes he coaches. Kelly is a fan…

I have found Twitter to be a phenomenal networking and professional development tool, which led to me Greg Koenig. Although he is the newly named Head Football Coach at Bennett High School (Bennett, CO), Coach Koenig is not new to educatio…

Sometimes life's responsibilities knock us off track, which happened to me.  My apologies! Since I have fallen behind providing show notes, below contains my takeaways from episode 25 featuring Jim Bloch and episode 26 featu…

As I previously mentioned, listeners appreciate the variety of guests featured on The "I" in Win. Leaders, regardless of the profession, are tasked with leading people & therefore must find the balance between what's best for the …

One positive comment I hear often from listeners is the variety of guests featured on The "I" in Win. In my opinion, leadership  centered on people first is pivotal regardless of the profession, which I why I intentionally strive to provid…

Episode 12 featured Tom Livatino, Loyola Academy (Wilmette, IL) Head Boys Basketball Coach, and as we were wrapping up our conversation, he asked if I was familiar with his assistant coach, Paul Pryma. While describing Dr. Pryma, the word&…