Episode 7: Season 4 Episode 7- Carl ‘Shep’ Sheppard- “How important is it for coaches to be educators?”

Today we have an awesome discussion on building a performance program and department with Carl “Shep” Sheppard. Shep has been given the unique challenge of building the new preparation program for Space Force, which is (obviously) an extremely unique branch of the military.  Throughout the 37-minute discussion Shep and I dive into:

1)    The role a soldier and an educator has driven his professional development

2)    How the “average make up” of the operators he works with makes developing a preparation program a unique challenge

3)    What aspects of human physiology they’re evaluating and how they’re looking to develop those qualities.

4)    How using the health of the operators is the most value and first level of their preparedness

5)    The battle between forward thinking and the way it’s always been.

6)    Where wearables do and do not fit in the development of these operators

Such an interesting assignment, and an awesome discussion with Shep Sheppard diving into how they’re building the preparation program for these operators. I can’t thank him enough for being so open to sharing the directions of this process with us today. I hope that you’ve found value in the discussion, and if so please feel free to share it with a colleague and please subscribe and leave us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform.