Episode 24 - Justin Kavanaugh

On this podcast episode we have a fantastic guest speaker in Justin Kavanaugh. Justin talks about his past as a high athlete and how an injury ultimately made him shift into coaching. He talks about his parents being the primary role models that helped shape his coaching ways. He talks deeply into his injury and how it made him realize important life lessons that stuck with him as he became a coach.He then talks about how coaching and training athletes became his outlet as a coach and helped people that trusted his coaching. He goes into how injuries or bad stuff that will happen to you will ultimately change your outlook of stuff in life. He talks about the constant battle within his thoughts and what he did to keep calm and overcome these thoughts. He then mentions the mentors he met and influenced him about coaching. He then talks about how failures should become motivations to try even harder to change for the better. He then finishes off the episode talking about what he does whenever he is faced in a new environment and how he would adapt to it.

 

04:83 - 5:14  Justin Kavanaugh talks about how his mom and dad and how they became his role models in coaching.

06:20 - 7:23 Justin Kavanaugh talks about his injury and how it gave him an important lesson that stuck with him as he became a coach.

07:55 - 8:37 Justin Kavanaugh talks about what fast tracked him into coaching and how it became an outlet for him to help people that trusted him.

12:14 - 13:02  Justin Kavanaugh talks about how an injury can change your outlook on certain stuff in your life.

17:56 - 18:59 Justin Kavanaugh talks about the days were he has thoughts that he couldn't do it but pushed himself to overcome it and what he does to keep calm when he has those thoughts

24:54 - 25:51 Justin Kavanaugh talks about the mentors that influenced him in coaching.

41:06 - 41:21 Justin Kavanaugh talks about how coaches and clients should take failures personally and how it would push the to make better changes in their life.

47:48 - 48:23 Justin Kavanaugh talks about how important it is for athletes to document their growth as they train.

55:49 - 56:54 Justin Kavanaugh talks about what he does whenever he’s in a new environment.