Designed for coaches, parents and other stakeholders in the world of youth, scholastic, and amateur sports, this show brings you interviews with leaders at the highest levels of their respective sports.
Hear from coaches and performance experts with experience in the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Olympics, and NCAA Division-I, plus those who run elite youth programs, successful high school teams, and more. Hear about their motivations, philosophies, and strategies for success, and take away actionable insights to support the athletes in your life.
Gabe Nosseir — Elevating Soccer Players Through Transformative Coaching
Gabe Nosseir is a soccer coach, performance coach and life coach. He works with professional soccer players and does individual coaching.
In this episode, we discuss:
Goals for his athletes
What is transformative coaching?
Elevating soccer players to become better versions of themselves through transformative coaching to recognize and overcome obstacles
What holds talented athletes back from succeeding?
When athletes get into a state of dysregulation that negatively impacts performance
Kids these days are under so much pressure from coaches, parents, teammates. Last place they need pressure is at home.
How parents of young athletes can better support their children
About the host
Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies (https://septemberstrat.com/), a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossromano) or Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/rossromano.bsky.social).
15 Jul 2025
Dan O’Connor — St. Louis Cardinals Major League Video & Advance Information Assistant Coordinator
We have a great guest to kick off season 4 of Sideline Sessions. Dan O’Connor is Major League Video & Advance Information Assistant Coordinator with Major League Baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals.
Before joining the Cardinals organization, he worked in a variety of baseball operations and player development roles with the New York Yankees in addition to a number of other positions in the game of baseball.
We talk about:
Dan’s journey through baseball
Progression through roles and finding your fit
“As long as you think you’re green, you’ll grow. As soon as you think you’re ripe, you’ll rot.”
Who he learns from and what he’s improved the most
What players gain by making use of video
What’s important when working with young players with aspirations?
Advice for players to be successful
About the host
Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies (https://septemberstrat.com/), a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossromano) or Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/rossromano.bsky.social).
5 Feb 2025
Matt Doherty — NCAA Champion Basketball Player and Former North Carolina Head Coach on the 6 Principles of Leadership
This is the final episode of Sideline Sessions season 3, also simulcast on The Authority (https://authoritypodcast.net/). I speak with Matt Doherty, former head coach at Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina, Florida Atlantic, and SMU.
As a starter on the 1982 National Championship team at UNC, with his teammate Michael Jordan, Matt began his leadership journey under the legendary Dean Smith. As a coach, he was the 2001 AP National Coach of the Year after leading UNC to the ACC regular season championship. After his coaching career, Matt worked with ESPN, the Indiana Pacers, and the Atlantic 10 Conference. He’s also author of the book, Rebound: From Pain to Passion (https://a.co/d/dhik6x5).
Hear about:
Who Matt learned from, as he played for and worked for Hall of Fame coaches, played with HoF athletes, and coached many great athletes
What he wishes he learned sooner
His mission statement
Leadership is a learned behavior
Putting yourself in position to learn
6 principles of leadership
Adversity: What went wrong? Why did this happen? How do you prepare for your next opportunity?
Gaining perspective on the things outside your control
Culture and culture-building
Connect with Coach Doherty at https://dohertycoaching.com (https://dohertycoaching.com)
About the host
Ross Romano is a co-founder of the Be Podcast Network and CEO of September Strategies (https://septemberstrat.com/), a coaching and consulting firm that helps organizations and high-performing leaders in the K-12 education industry communicate their vision and make strategic decisions that lead to long-term success. Connect on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossromano) or Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/rossromano.bsky.social).
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Best of Sideline Sessions: Boundary-breaking football coach Jen Welter
Published 27 Jun 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I tell people that and I'm like listen, you'll talk about perfection perfection is only possible in the intention, right. I can look at somebody's tape and I can do my very best to give you the very best breakdown that I have, but there are also changing things too, right. So I can be perfect in my intention and then we have a relationship so that we can talk and get better and know that if I didn't tell you something, it wasn't like I was holding something back and did the best that I could. So our intention can be perfect, our execution can get incrementally better and it's a coach's job to make a player better as a person and as a performer and those two are not inseparable. […]
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