Coach Her Game

Is Drama Killing Your Team? Here’s How Great Coaches Respond

• Coach Bre • Season 1 • Episode 15

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If drama, gossip, and locker room tension are dragging your team down, you’re not alone. From the group chat chaos to passive-aggressive side eyes—this stuff can tank team culture FAST. But great coaches don’t just manage drama…they prevent it. 

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on how I stopped drama after losing two players on a state championship team and built a team culture rooted in trust, clarity, and emotional resilience. You’ll learn exactly how to reduce drama and increase connection using simple, research-backed tools you can apply this week.

 👋 I’m Coach Bre — a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a longtime head volleyball coach and 4-time state champion. I’ve coached girl athletes for 14+ years and helped hundreds of coaches go from “managing moods” to mentally strong teams that win on and off the court. 

🎯 You’ll walk away with:

  • The real reason drama starts (hint: it’s not just “bad attitudes”)
  • Why confidence—not character—is the foundation of dramaless teams
  • How to implement the Snapback Routine for fast mistake recovery
  • A simple way to run biweekly athlete check-ins that prevent spirals
  • How the 3-2-1 BRAVE Routine builds focused, emotionally regulated athletes
  • Systems that actually work to stop gossip, cliques, and team division
  • How to build role clarity that boosts buy-in, even from non-starters
  • A full breakdown of the Leadership Core, behavior standards, and the Open Circle Method for weekly connection 

🕓 Key Moments

  • 00:00 Introduction to Team Drama 
  • 00:13 Personal Experience with Team Drama 
  • 00:48 Addressing the Root Cause of Drama 
  • 01:12 Shoutout to Coach Jackie 
  • 03:12 Building Confidence to Reduce Drama 
  • 06:19 Implementing Mental Training 
  • 11:21 Role Clarity and Regular Check-ins 
  • 16:30 Leadership and Behavior Standards 
  • 19:32 Conflict Resolution Strategies 
  • 23:09 Dealing with Existing Team Drama 

👇 Coaches - comment below: What’s the biggest challenge you face when it comes to team culture? 

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Kristina & Breanne Smedley:

Drama, drama, drama. If your team has ever been sidetracked by the gossip in the group chat, the silence or the side eyes between players, then first of all, join the club. Second. This episode is for you. As a long time head volleyball coach myself and a mental performance coach for girl athletes. I've been there and still am from time to time. And honestly, my lowest point in all of this team drama talk was after a championship season nonetheless, when I had two players quit my team. It never happened in the history of coaching for me, and it was devastating. And as much as I can look to kind of what was going on with those individual players, I also had to look at my team culture and what was going on to cause two players to want to quit. So in this episode. We're gonna talk about the real cause of drama and how to fix it at its source. A simple system that I started implementing after those two players quit my team, and things that have made a huge difference in our culture and lessened the drama that has happened and what to do if you feel like you're already losing the locker room, like drama has already taken over and you're not really sure where to turn. So we're gonna get into it. Before I do, I wanna give a shout out to a coach in our community. This coach's name is Jackie. She's a head volleyball coach. She's using our plug and play Elite Mental Game for Teams system. It's our mental training system that makes it very easy for coaches to be able to facilitate mental training and as little as 30 minutes a week or less with their team. And Jackie actually recently came on the podcast to share her experience around using Plug and Play Elite Mental Game. And this is what she said, one of the amazing things that she said of multiple things that she said, but she said, when I took over the program, we had talent, but in high pressure situations, players struggled to move on from mistakes. We started mental training because we needed something deeper. That first season that we did it, we made it to state, and one of the biggest shifts was their mental toughness. Even in our tougher season this past year, our mindset never wavered, and I have to tell you this, we had a freshman who started off unsure crying during games, pulling herself out, and two years later. She's our team captain, mentally solid. Her teammates look up to her. That kind of transformation doesn't happen by accident. It's because we trained it. So you wanna just give a huge congratulations to Jackie, not only for the success of your team, but also for recognizing that this is really where you're going to move the needle with your team. Yes, you can train physically and you should. You should make sure that you're investing in the best resources so that your players can get better physically. But when it comes down to it, that's probably not the reason. Why you are struggling in games just like Jackie, right? It's because your best players are crumbling when the pressure is on. It's because athletes don't know how to bounce back from mistakes, and they need to, they need to fast. Sometimes your bench is not very deep, so you need them back in the moment, and if you don't train those skills, then they don't have them to use them. That's a pretty simple concept. So Jackie, nice job for recognizing the need for that, for implementing mental training with your team, and also for being able to reap the benefits of it. All right, let's get into this episode. First, let's talk about the root cause of drama. I'll tell you right now, it comes down to confidence, not character. Okay? I will preface this, that you can't control every single part of every single aspect of your program, right? Your, all of your athletes come in from different backgrounds, different parenting, different situations, and you just are tasked. With this, I mean, sometimes big task of figuring out how to get them all to work together, all these different personality styles, all these different, um, you know, backgrounds that these athletes come from. So I just wanna like, recognize that and, and give that a nod from the start. Okay. But that doesn't give us a pass. We still have to figure out how do we get everybody to work together? What do we do when there's drama looming under the surface? And. I like to think of this as an inside out approach. So if you think of like a target where, and there's only three layers deep, um, in this target. So the, the innermost layer, you know, let's just say that it's, it's red and it's big. Okay? That is where we start. And then you have two more rings as it goes out. So maybe you have a white one and a blue one that's just for, um, just to kinda give you an image in your head. So we're gonna start with the inner most. Part, and that is really your player's confidence and their mental game. So your team's confident and confidence in mental game. Confident players actually don't create chaos. Okay? They don't. If you remember the, um, the analogy of the, the crab that is trying to. Take other people back down in the bucket when other, when other crabs try to escape, escape a bucket, and then the crab pulls everybody else down. Okay. That crab, you know, you, you maybe have those type of people in your culture and typically they're the ones that are the least confident. They're the most insecure with themselves. So you think to the person or the multiple people who are creating the most drama in your program, it's probably the ones that are the least. Secure in themselves. They, um, are the ones that are not very confident for whatever reason. And so they're trying to pull other people down to make themselves feel better. Okay. So if you can kind of strip back to what we're really looking at here, it's, we find that hurt people. Hurt people. Okay. And maybe they're not recognizing that, like they're, they're, you're, I don't really know what they're hurt about, but basically. Um, we have found, and I'm sure that this rings true for you too, that confident athletes, confident players in your program are typically not the ones that are causing chaos and pulling other people down. And so it actually, this drama is a symptom of insecurity. It's a symptom of. Lack of confidence, a symptom of comparison, or a fear of not belonging or not mattering. And girls tend to internalize conflict, right? It turns into this relational thing like they exclude themselves or they give people the silent treatment. Um, all of these things and confident players don't necessarily do that. They don't compete for status. They're, they're secure in themselves. So that's why it's really useful and worth your time to build the confidence in the mental game. Of your players, because this is not just gonna impact the player themselves, right? It's great for our athletes to be confident, it's great for'em to have strong mental games, but it's going to impact your team culture. Okay? So how do we do that? Now, I break all of this down in much more detail at our free training. It's called Coach Free Training, or you can go to coach free training.com to find it. It's called How to Quickly, uh, level Up Your Team's Mental Game to Create a Winning Edge this season. And basically, I lay out and go into detail all of the mental game strategies that I teach with my team on how to quickly increase the mental strength of your team. That's also where I talk about the Plug and Play Elite Mental Game, that signature mental training program that you heard about at the beginning of this episode. And so if you want more detail on how to do that, go to coach free training.com. So that you can kind of get a, an overview of like, here are the key skills that you can be teaching your team. Now, the ones that I think that you really, we really need to have in place is some sort of reset method. Okay? We call ours this snapback routine. If you've been around our community for a while, you've heard this, but this is basically athlete's ability to get back into the present moment quickly. So when they make a mistake, they don't spiral. So how this is connected to their confidence and how this can have a ripple effect on the rest of your program is basically if athletes don't have a way. To get back to the present moment after they make a mistake. Instead, they're spiraling, and now they're having a really bad game. And now they're internalizing that game and their performance and feeling bad about themselves, and they're then going to potentially start to deflect onto other people and cause drama for why they played how they didn't wanna play. It can be this like real, real terrible ripple effect. Instead, if they have just a quick way to get back to the present moment and get over that mistake. AKA by using a snapback routine, it's a lot easier. Okay. And now they're feeling more confident because they can actually, like, just get back. And they're also not causing, like, drama on the court or the field. So if you have players, and I've seen this, um, in my coaching history, like, you know, they, they make a mistake and then they shut down and they start like yelling at their teammates or, um, not talking to their teammates. So, and then that causes all sorts of drama as well. So instead they just have a simple way that they can reset. The snapback routine for us is a combination of a breath. A reset word at the top that is found based on their best playing moments and how they wanna feel in that, in that present moment. And on their exhale, they're doing some sort of reset signal. They're also training for those moments. They recognize that when they are getting in situations that are causing them to spiral a little bit and they have pre-planned and pre-visualize how they're going to respond. So. It's really useful to give them a little tool like this, and it can actually prevent a lot of the extra drama that happens on your team because now they're not shutting down, they're not blaming other people for their mistakes. They're not internalizing their failures and then feeling bad about themselves and pulling other people down. So I find that that is one of the like biggest bang for your buck when it comes to teaching mental skills. It's some sort of failure recovery method, like a snapback routine. And the other thing is having a, a daily mindset routine. Some carved out time before your practice. We spend five minutes at the beginning of practice doing something called 3, 2, 1, brave, and this is a combination of like a journaling and reflection, reflection exercise. Where they're writing down their three affirmations based on their goals for the season. Um, they're writing down two minutes of guided journals, so I have like journal prompts for them to help them kind of like get some stuff out. Um, they're writing down what they're grateful for. One piece of gratitude, one piece of evidence that one of their affirmations is coming true. Then we do a simple like three minute visualization that includes some breath work. So all in all that takes like five minutes at the start of practice. I am willing to give up five minutes of my practice time at the beginning for them to do their 3, 2, 1 break because it focuses them so much and now they're able to like key into what their goals are and their more. You know, focused also on gratitude. Like there's all of these, um, these wonderful benefits to making sure that their mind is in the right place and that they're letting go of some of the stress that they come into practice with. So it's very worthwhile not having to spend like. You know, half the practice trying to get their focus back and they're not as distracted by other stuff that's going on. So those are two big things, and again, I talk about these in detail at that free training. So go to coach free training.com if you want more strategies around how to make sure that you're building confident mentally strong players. Okay. But honestly, that is where it starts when we talk about the inside out approach and this like, you know, target image, the middle part of it, and building your con your, your athlete's confidence and their mental strength. Is really where it starts, because confident athletes typically don't create a bunch of chaos and drama and pull other people down because they're confident in themselves. Why, why would they need to do that? Okay. And so it's worth, you know, developing, um, just some really simple strategies and we have it all laid out for. For you. Okay. Like I'm a mental performance coach, done this for many, many years in my program. The results have spoken for themselves. When we started implementing mental training about six years ago, that's really when it clicked.'cause I have high talent athletes as well, but we were falling apart and we were letting team drama kind of deal rail derail our season. And so when we started actually giving players tools to be able to handle this side of the game, which typically they're not taught how, um, that's really when. It made a big difference. So four state championships later, and I'll tell you right now, my players will too. That mental training is worth it. They love being able to have tools to train the mental side of the game so that their physical game can pay off. Okay. So that's the first part. Second, I'm gonna talk about kind of a lot in this second part around the structure to help drama stop before it starts, because, and I know some of you are in this spot where you're like, well, it's happening right now, so I need some tools now. And we'll talk about that in, in part three. Okay. I'll give you some strategies there, but. If you do have some time to set some intentionality when it comes to planning your season and your culture. These are the things that I would have in place. This is what I changed between my season where I had a couple people quit into the next season. I spent that whole off season really doing a deep dive into what can we do. Mental training was a big one. Okay. So really like honing in on what those mental skills were, but then also setting up some systems to help be proactive when it comes to. Drama. Okay. Like why drama actually happens. And one of the main reasons that drama happens is players are not sure what their role is on the team. So the first thing is to make sure that you have role clarity conversations with your players and have them early on. So we do something called the Role Clarity blueprint. I have, um, an impact plan for every player that I give them within the first week of the season. And it tells them really, really. Really straight up like, here's what your strengths are, here's what you need to work on, here's what your role is on the team. So I've created roles on my team, and maybe you have too, but I want, I challenge you to go a little bit deeper in your roles to go beyond like starter versus non-starter. Like be very specific about what the roles are on your particular team. If we're talking volleyball for me, um, I have like some of the traditional ones like, you're a sixth rotation outside hitter, or you're a front row. Player, you're a back row player, um, you are a backup setter, but then also go deeper on like, what are some of the roles that they bring to like the, the energy and the culture of the team. Like some of the specific things that you can, you can pull in. Um, maybe there's even some specific jobs and roles around like. Film and you know, you're looking at some offensive things if you wanna go a little bit deeper, like you are in charge of looking at, you know, the offense on our team and giving me some, some information in a game. So you can take this as deep as you want, or you can make it as surface level as you want, but create roles and make sure your players know what their role is. So on this impact plan that I give them, it's like a Google doc. I have all this filled in. Okay. And then, um, I have their, their role on it. I have a very specific, like, here's what this means. Here's how much playing time is associated with that role so that they know. And then I sign it, they sign it, I send a copy to their parents as well, so that their parents are on the same, um, same page so that everybody knows, because a lot of times. We think athletes know what their role is, and it's very obvious to us, but they don't know. And then if they don't know, they're gonna create stories. They're going to then create some sort of narrative on why they're not playing and why this other person shouldn't be playing ahead of this person. And so it doesn't mean that they're gonna love their role, but it's also, it's going to give them purpose. It's gonna give them clarity on what it is and what you expect from them. So. Right out the gate roll. Clarity needs to be done and then check in with them. Okay. Give. We also build in like a mid-season meeting around this in a post-season as well, but I also have standing meetings with every one of my players every other week, and that is another piece of it. Okay. So going a little bit deeper, not just roll clarity. But build in check-ins with your players on a regular basis. I know this sounds like a lot, but you're gonna deal with the the, the time. Either way, you're either gonna deal with it, trying to undo drama, and maybe that's where you are right now. You're like, I'm in a mess and I have to spend practice time, like having a team meeting and talking about all the drama. Or you can spend five minutes, you know, three times a week with your players checking in with them. And I do it during the JV and the C team game. So I coach high school and so there's games before the varsity game. I'm on the bench for some of the JV and C team games, but I tell my coaches and I tell my players I also need to use 15 minutes of time or 15 minutes of that time to meet with my players. So I meet with three players at the start of um, uh, the JV or C team games, five minutes each. Okay. And I do this. Two times a week.'cause we have two games a week, right. I have 12 players on my varsity team. So I'm able to meet with every player every other week. And just those five minutes actually provides so much insight to kind of what's going on with my, my players, but also allows them an opportunity to, to share like, you know. Any sort of concern that they have or a question that they have. And I'll tell you what, like just building that in is so important. And also it takes some pressure off your players because you sometimes probably like me, are like, I've got an open door. Come talk to me whenever. And it's, but we also create some unintentional barriers around that because it's like, well now you're busy. Like if you're, if you're like me, I've got kids, I'm running into practice always. Like I don't have a lot of wiggle room, right? I have to leave pretty much right after practice as well because I've got kids and I've got a family. I gotta get back to you. And so. We make it hard sometimes for our players, even though we say, come and talk to me whenever you want. So building in this time where they know like, I have a standing meeting, and obviously if there's something more pressing, you can talk to them like before that time, but they know they have it built in. Okay. And just those touch points, just those check-ins can make a real difference when it comes to helping our athletes so that they're not creating stories in their heads of what's going on. Okay, so those are two quick tips. Another one, your leadership team. And this takes a, this takes a little bit to develop, but if your leadership on your team is strong and you have systems in place where you have leaders who can be kind of checking the pulse of things and addressing things as they go, like. That that is a huge, a huge thing. So I have something created called the Leadership Core, and I actually have a video about this so you can actually go check out that video. It's all about how to create leaders that actually lead. I break down what the leadership core is, what the role is, um, all the things related to the leadership core. So you can check that video out. I highly suggest that you go to there next, but. Basically what it is is allows leaders on your team to have a specific role, not just say like, you're a leader and they just do the coin flip and, and things like that. But they also meet on a, on a regular cadence and they're identifying issues in the program. They're identifying like what they need to step in and handle and what they need to bring to the coach. So allowing your leaders some autonomy in that and allowing them to kind of notice what's going on and keep a pulse on things can also be very, very helpful. The next little tip behavior standards, and I'm sure we talk a lot about behavior standards at the beginning of the season, but then we forget to like reinforce them throughout or reference them throughout. So what are the standards of behavior when it comes to how you treat people on your team? And so some things that we fall back on on our, in our program is talk to people, not about people. And so we really make it clear and, you know, gossip happens and you know, it, it might happen even, even with you telling them that we talk to people, not about them, but what it's gonna do is it's gonna make people feel very uncomfortable when they do start to gossip because it's like, we know that this is wrong and we know that this is not productive. And we tell our athletes, like, if you're, if you have an issue, you've gotta go to the source. Okay? You cannot talk about people instead of to them, because it's just gonna create more and more. Trauma and more and more turmoil. Right. Um, call up, not call out. So we talk about how, what it looks like to call up, meaning like, engage with people. Instead of saying like, Hey, you didn't touch the line, you know, going with them and being like, Hey, let's touch the line. Let's go, let's do this. You know, being a leader in that way, protect the locker room is another one we talk a lot about, like what goes on on our team, and obviously this is within reason. Okay. Like what goes on. We, we protect our team. No one knows. People can talk and they can judge, but we protect each other and we don't engage in, in badmouthing one another, especially with people outside of our locker room. Okay? And you can reinforce these by, by calling out and, um, you know, awarding and praising, um, character. Weekly. So we do like Player of the Week, but it's all based on like standards like this, you know, and, and engaging in, in really good ways to, um, to treat each other on the team. So you can praise it, you can reward it, and you can also make sure that you're emphasizing it by always coming back to. Okay. Um, all right, another, another little tip that really helps with this drum, and I'm giving you a lot. Take what's gonna take, what's gonna work for you, okay? Is make sure athletes actually have a way to resolve conflict when it comes up. If it, because a lot of times they're good at identifying it, but they don't know what to do. Um, and that's not their fault. They're still learning and we're, it's our job to teach how to do this. And so. If we're just like, you gotta resolve your conflict, but they're like, I don't know how, okay. They're probably just gonna talk about it to somebody else and then it's gonna make it worse and people are gonna take sides and it's, it's gonna become an issue. So, um, we talk a lot about Brene Brown's very simple. Clear is kind, okay. And they, we need to teach them how to have con hard conversations. So, um, we teach them just three steps. State the facts. Share the impact, ask for clarity or change. Okay. So state the facts and I tell athletes like, I identify this ahead of time. Right? Plan your, your chat with somebody ahead of time and if you need me to sit in to help you with your words or just to like, be there, then great. Okay. So state the facts. Something like, um. You know, you didn't acknowledge me in line. You know, that might sound simple, but it happens. Okay? Like you gave me the side eye, I, whatever. Okay. Share the impact. It made me feel like there was something going on between us. All right. Ask for clarity and change. Can you help me understand why you did that? Okay. Very simple. You didn't acknowledge me. It made me feel like there was something going on or that you didn't like me. Can you help me understand or can you help me clear the air? Okay. And so just very, very simple. Like keep it, keep it simple. Three steps, state the facts, state the impact, ask for clarity or ask for change. And so allowing kids to have just like these very simple steps, and obviously there's a lot of nuance. We can teach sentence starters, like the, um, you know, I feel that, or the story I'm telling myself. Those are all really good, but just having them have like a framework is so important to helping them actually deal with conflict. Okay. All right. The last little tidbit I'll give you in this section of like how to like stop drama before it starts is. Open circle method. So this is another thing that I love. I started implementing this after those two girls quit. Um, because I found that especially with girls, they have to, we've gotta connect. They, they like, in order for them to play for each other and to play well, they have to trust each other. And they don't trust each other if they don't know each other. And if they don't have an opportunity to know each other, there's no way that's gonna happen. And so, um, we have just a weekly meeting with my team. It's about 10 minutes long. We call it the open circle method, um, because we want everybody to be open and to be sharing, and we have a structure. It can be as simple as roses and thorns, so like highlights, low lights from the week. But basically I'm having them reflect and I have like kind of a series of questions that I go through, reflect and share on things that are not volleyball related or not sport related. Allowing them to show a little bit about themselves outside of their sport to show, Hey, I'm human too. And it a little bit goes. A long way. It also provides some structure, right? So that if you're doing this on a weekly basis, you can also bring up anything that might be happening with the team. So it's another just like good touch point that you can have with your team so that you can address things before they start. And. You can allow players to connect with each other. Uh, like I said, a little bit goes a long way, honestly. Okay, so I went over a lot of things there. I'll do a little bit of a recap. First of all, role cl role clarity, and if you want more help with this, I have a video all about, um, the role Clarity Blue CL Blueprint and how to help your athletes accept in thrive in their roles. Um, weekly meetings. I, I actually do biweekly meetings, five minute check-ins with athletes, your leadership core. Okay. I also have a video on that that you can check out. Um, behavior standards, making sure that those are clear, giving them like some sort of easy conflict resolution, and then having some sort of weekly culture rhythm where you're meeting, we call ours the open circle, just so that they're, they're connecting. Okay. This last part, what do you do if teen drama has already taken over, and maybe you're here because you're like, yeah, I didn't do any of that stuff. And, and it shows, okay, that's fine. I was there too and have been multiple times. And you sometimes think like, well, it'll all just work out, right? And then it doesn't, and you're like, shoot, okay. Now you don't need to rescue everyone, but it is your responsibility to kind of reset the culture and get back to it and. So warning signs around this are obviously isolation, sarcasm, clicks, silent. Maybe parents are starting to bicker a little bit. Don't ignore it, we've gotta redirect it. Okay. So the first thing we can do is I would have one of those meetings where it's like, you know what? We've gotta reflect something is impacting our culture. Something is impacting how we're playing. And it's not skill related, it's, it's has to do with something in our, in our culture. So what's working, what's not have, have people do that individually. Journaling out, kinda reflecting, and then sharing out and modeling what that looks like to share. So as a coach, and I didn't really talk about this, but like the more that you model what it looks like to have. Open communication with your players, the more that they will do it as well. Okay. Um, so reflect, reset and reconnect. That's kind of the three things that I would go to. So have them reflect like what's working, what's not? What's my contribution to this? What am I con contributing positively to my team? How am I taking away from my team? That's always a good thing for athletes to reflect on. Reset, okay. We've gotta revisit our team standards and reassign roles if needed. Maybe if you have not done any role clarity, it's not too late to do that. Okay. Like just acknowledge that and be like, I haven't been clear on what everyone's role is on the team and, and what I expect from that. So moving forward, I'm going to be more clear about that. So reset, and I'm sure you have some sort of St. Teton standards and likely we need to just kind of revisit what those are and then reconnect. So. Let's, let's be intentional. Let's be intentional about how we're gonna do this. And a lot of times sharing gratitude for one another is a really great activity. Um, you know, that simple thing, and this isn't gonna solve all your problems, but you know, doing the thing where you're passing around one piece of paper and it has like every person's name on it and they have to like write one thing that they appreciate about that person on the team. It's just kind of a good way to reconnect. Um, but also if there's like a specific issue, like between two players or something like that, like. Get those two players together. I, I find that it's, it's really annoying. I players tell me this, when we're trying to address an issue and it's really just between two players and you're addressing it, like generally and broadly with the whole team, it's like, no, we've got two people who are causing problems. You need to like address it with them. And I'm not saying that this is clear. Um, like meaning, it's not always like clear what the, what the direction should be. It's, um, sometimes can be a little messy. Sometimes you gotta get parents involved. So that's another whole topic in and of itself. But. The worst thing you can do is just ignore it and kind of gloss it over. So I would say if you're in it right now and you're in the thick of it, like the best thing you could do is just re like, get everyone together, reflect, have them do that individually, reset, refer back to your team standards, and then reconnect with some sort of intentional activity where you are, um, you know, realigning to what your goals are for the season. And then, you know, pinpointing what those specific. Things are, those people are, that are causing some drama on your team. And then I would do a overhaul and that's kinda what I did like in the off season. I'm like, we've gotta like do this, kind of cultivate the ground here instead of trying like. Figure out the weeds that are, that are cropping up. Like we have to make sure that we're nurturing, like the environment that these athletes are in. So that really is the best thing that you can do. And if you need more help with this, you've got tons of resources, coach free training.com. But also check out that this next video around how to develop. Um, role clarity blueprint for your team. Um, also impact plans are really great too. I have a whole video on that, so Got you, coach. If you're in the thick of it, stay strong. Okay. I see you. I've been exactly where you are, and that's exactly why I've created resources to help you with that. All right, coach. I'm Coach Bree. I am the host of the Coach Your Game podcast, and the co-creator of the Plug and Play Elite Mental Game. I will see you in the next episode.