Better By The Season

Trent connects with former pro basketball player Josh Duinker, who's now leading a sports ministry organization in Maui!
Trent and Josh talk:
- Living where everyone dreams of visiting
- The first time Josh saw a peer reading the Bible
- Discovering purpose
- Playing ball on 6 different continents
- Finding community away from home
- Why he retired in his prime
- Using sports to impact youth and more...
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Trent talks with longtime professional basketball player turned non-profit CEO, Marcellus Sommerville.
Trent and Cellus discuss:
- the importance of basketball to the city of Peoria, IL
- consistency throughout a long career
- living abroad with a growing family
- leading The Friendship House, a non-profit that served his family while growing up
- using the game to teach life lessons through Next Generation Academy
- communication is key and more...
*More on Cellus's transition to CEO
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The "Game Day Mindset" series is an ongoing discussion between Theresa and Trent. These are thoughts, ideas, principles Theresa encouraged Trent with throughout his pro basketball career...and that are also applicable to life.

In this episode T and T talk about the truth: You are divinely equipped to succeed right where you're at.

What is success?
- Why do we not feel equipped or capable?
- How to overcome...
- Run your highlight reel
- "What's the worst that could happen?"
- Thinking small
- Write a new script
- Focusing on the controllables and on the moment
- God is enough. There is enough. I am enough.
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Trent and Theresa talk about the benefit of differences -- in cultures, in a marriage, on a team, in a business, in thinking...
T & T discuss:
- Why we resist different
- Why different can be difficult
- Opposites attract, then attack
- Seeking first to understand
- Welcoming differences
- Leading through questions
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Trent talks with former teammate and current coach in Japan Kyle Bailey. Kyle's a global citizen and deep-thinker. He shares his story, talks racism and provides some heady and practical things we can all do to fight racism and better our world.
- growing up as a mixed kid in Alaska
- learning from the German and Japanese cultures
- racism in athletics
- being more than an athlete
- the beauty of competition
- why we can't multitask with racism
- reprogramming our minds and more...
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