Pre-Zero Sports Talk
Pre-Zero Sports Talk is a sports leadership podcast exploring high performance, coaching, athlete development, sports business, faith, purpose, innovation, sustainability, clean progress, and life beyond the game.
Hosted by Sid Bensalah, with over 30 years of global sports industry experience, the podcast brings honest, long-form conversations with athletes, coaches, leaders, founders, innovators, and changemakers.
This is not only a podcast about sport. It is about what sport reveals about people, how we lead, how we handle pressure, how we pursue meaning, and how we build lives, teams, and communities with purpose.
Through real conversations beyond the game, Pre-Zero Sports Talk explores leadership, performance, faith and purpose, identity, resilience, human potential, athlete well-being, coaching culture, community impact, sports governance, clean progress, sustainability, technology, innovation, and the future of sport.
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Achievement Addiction, Faith, and Identity | Dr. Jack Groppel
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What happens when success, achievement, and external validation are still not enough?
In Episode #100 of Pre-Zero Sports Talk, Sid Bensalah sits down with Dr. Jack Groppel, sports science pioneer, author of Mountains Within, and former leader at the Human Performance Institute.
Jack shares his deeply personal journey from a childhood shaped by pressure and a lifelong drive to prove himself, to confronting what he calls achievement addiction, the pursuit of success without true peace or identity.
This conversation explores sports science, elite performance, faith, identity, fatherhood, fear, purpose, resilience, character, adoption, Mount Kilimanjaro, and learning what really matters beyond achievement.
Learn more about Dr. Jack Groppel: https://jackgroppel.net/
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Full episode details: https://prezerosportstalk.com/podcast/i-spent-my-life-trying-to-prove-myself-until-i-found-what-really-matters/
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