Ep 251 - High Performance Secrets From The Best Of The Best with Alan Stein Jr.

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 8 a.m.

Are you interested in improving your performance? \xa0Have you been struggling to grow your business?\xa0 Today, we\u2019re figuring out how performance coaching for athletes can actually impact your business. We\u2019re talking about important skills like listening, confidence, humility, and getting out of your comfort zone. In this episode, I talk with Alan Stein, Jr., performance coach and public speaker. He spent 15 years working with the highest-performing athletes on the planet (including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Kobe Bryant), and now teaches groups like Pepsi, Starbucks, American Express, Under Armour, and UGG proven strategies to improve individual and organizational performance, create effective leadership, increase team cohesion and collaboration, and develop winning mindsets, rituals, and routines. Alan joins us to discuss why you need a good work ethic, as well as how performance coaching can help your business grow. We also discuss why failure can be a learning tool, in order to grow to the next level.

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Questions I asked:

  • How did you get started as a performance coach?
  • Can you share how you worked with Kobe?
  • Why is failure our best teacher?
  • What is one failure that you learned from?
  • Why is listening so important?
  • What do you think makes a person coachable?
  • Why do you think it\u2019s important to know where we\u2019re weak?
  • Why do we need to step outside our comfort zone?
  • How can we use the pandemic to improve ourselves?
  • What are the five commonalities of a champion?
  • What mantras do you say when you\u2019re trying to achieve a goal?

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Topics Discussed:

  • You don\u2019t need to outwork everyone.
  • Solid work ethic.
  • Failure and opportunity.
  • Performance coaching.
  • Importance of listening.
  • Humility and Confidence.
  • Knowing your weaknesses.
  • Preparation is vital.

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Quotes from the show:

  • \u201cFailure, if approached correctly, can be a learning tool.\u201d @AlanSteinJr @SisterhoodSweat
  • \u201cIf you don\u2019t get the result you wanted, it\u2019s a learning opportunity.\u201d @AlanSteinJr @SisterhoodSweat
  • \u201cThe skill of listening alone has changed my life.\u201d @AlanSteinJr @SisterhoodSweat
  • \u201cWe all love to talk to someone who is a great listener.\u201d @AlanSteinJr @SisterhoodSweat
  • \u201cConfidence is earned through demonstrated performance, but we need to blend it with humility.\u201d @AlanSteinJr @SisterhoodSweat
  • \u201cYou need to make sure that the way you view yourself is accurate.\u201d @AlanSteinJr @SisterhoodSweat

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