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Responsible Sports Podcast Series:  Jim Thompson chats with sports celebrities

Each episode, Positive Coaching Alliance Founder and Executive Director, Jim Thompson, interviews prominent former athletes, coaches and general managers who share their insights on Responsible Sports from their own sports careers.  Listen in as they talk about filling emotional tanks, bouncing back from mistakes, staying motivated through long seasons to continually give 100% effort, and how they translated their sports experience to invaluable life lessons.

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Nov 20, 2009
31:11
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Tony Dorsett | Overcoming Adversity & Mistakes

In this episode, Jim talks with Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett, who shares rarely heard stories from professional athletes on how they overcome challenges, how coaches help them bounce back from mistakes, and how parents can help young athletes focus on learning valuable life lessons from youth sports.


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Nov 6, 2009
30:13
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Alexi Lalas | Setting Goals

In this episode, Jim talks with former World Cup soccer player Alexi Lalas. Alexi shares with Jim how he set goals for himself as a premiere defenseman and how he stayed motivated to achieve both his goals and his team’s goals.


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Oct 23, 2009
30:06
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Ronnie Lott | Emotional Tanks

In this episode, Jim talks with Hall of Fame NFL cornerback and safety Ronnie Lott, about the notion of an Emotional Tank and how, just like a gas tank, when it’s full we can go anywhere we want to, but when it’s empty we can’t go at all. Ronnie shares his thoughts on how his tank was filled by coaches and fellow players, how he fill his son’s tank on and off the football field, and how he even works to fill the tank of his son’s coaches.


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Oct 9, 2009
33:08
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Doug Wilson | ELM Tree of Mastery

In this episode, Jim talks about the principle of coaching for mastery with Doug Wilson, former NHL hockey player and current general manager of the NHL San Jose Sharks. You’ll hear Jim and Doug discuss how parents and coaches can encourage youth athletes to focus on three main principles – effort, learning and bouncing back from mistakes – the “ELM Tree of Mastery.”