OC 17 // Kevin Dessart-Coaching and the Parent's Role #HomeCoaching #keepitFun

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06/10/20 • 56 min

In the time of COVID parents are being asked to do many things that we haven't done before. Home schooling and home coaching are now two more things on our already full plates. This week Kevin Dessart, former head of coaching for USA Cycling and the current Head Coach of University of Colorado Women's Hockey, gives some insight on what makes a great coach and what the ideal parent role is for their developing athlete.

We take that a step further as we talk about the new role for parents amid COVID, Home Coaching. How do balance being a parent, but also helping kids get their sports work done while in lockdown? He has great insight. We also talk to Sara Vaughn about how she and her husband Brent are dealing with this topic.

From kids teaching parents to tip on keeping it fun, this is a great listen for all coaches, athletes and parents.

From kids teaching parents to tip on keeping it fun, this is a great listen for all coaches, athletes and parents.

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OC 16 // Flora Duffy #taketherisk FloraeffingDuffy

This week we catch up with World Champion ITU and Xterra triathlete Flora Duffy at her home in South Africa. We talk about how the sport of triathlon has changed for her through the years and how she came to love the sport again and become a multi time wold champion.

We talk about the struggles of expectations and how she has learned to deal with them and accept them. We talk about the mindset that Flora has when she races and trains and how it can be very different than her typical persona.

Flora has become a mentor and a role model in the sport of triathlon and has found ways to give back to her sport and to her home country of Bermuda. Join us as we work through her amazing career, the up and downs and the pressures and the triumphs.

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OC 18 // Mara Abbott #ALLIN #retiredinWyoming

In 2016, at the Rio Olympics, Mara Abbott was caught by a group of 3 less than 200m to the finish line. She took home a 4th place and in her heart she knew she gave everything she had. Little did she know this was the race that would define her racing career. Not having won the Giro Rosa twice or the National Championships, but instead having just missed out on a medal in her career's finale.

Mara takes some time to talk about how that feel, to have people view a race you view as a disappointment as a triumph. She lets us in on here thoughts during and after that race and the ongoing process of dealing with retirement.