Win More, Live Better
Win More, Live Better is a podcast for sport coaches and high-performing leaders who care deeply about results, but refuse to compromise their well-being, joy, or relationships in the process.
This show explores what it really means to win more and live better on your terms. Through stories, conversations, and practical frameworks, each episode helps you sharpen your leadership, strengthen your inner game, and build systems that support sustainable performance for you and those you lead.
Hosted by Zach Brandon, a nationally recognized performance and leadership advisor who partners with elite sport coaches, executives, and high performers to help them thrive using practical tools, systems, and mindset frameworks.
Episodes
304 episodes
Dr. Barry Davis | Hall of Fame Baseball Coach, Consultant, and Author | The EQ Edge for Coaches
Dr. Barry Davis is a Hall of Fame baseball coach whose career spans nearly four decades and more than 1,000 victories across three levels of college baseball.Barry began his head coaching career at Gloucester County College, where he won...
Red Teaming: How Would You Sabotage Your Success?
What if you hired someone whose only job was to keep you from reaching your goals? What would they tell you to do? In this episode, Zach explores the concept of red teaming and how thinking like a saboteur can expose the vulnerabilities that mi...
Recalculating: Off Course Doesn’t Mean Off Track
If you repeated today’s habits and decisions for the next 100 days, would you be closer to what matters most or further away? That question and a lesson from NASA's Apollo missions is at the heart of today's episode. We explore how drift develo...
The Art and Science of Behavior Change: Lessons from 3 MLB Coaches
You can’t force someone to change, but you can create the conditions that make change more likely. In this From the Other Side of the Mic episode, Zach joins Billy Allen on the "Coach Your Brains Out" podcast with additional guests Ber...
The Six Jobs of a Head Coach | Episode #300 Masterclass
To celebrate the production of 300 episodes for Win More, Live Better and more than 40+ conversations with championship coaches across sports, Zach steps back to examine a larger question: What are the common themes great coaches consistently r...
Behavior Has a History: Understanding the Athlete Behind the Performance
When it comes to athletes, coaches see their qualities such as competitiveness, perfectionism, insecurity, confidence, work ethic and need to prove people wrong, to name a few. What they don’t always see is where those behaviors and qualities c...
The Mirror and the Spotlight: How Leaders Handle Success and Failure
Leadership requires knowing when to use the mirror and when to use the spotlight. When your team falls short, can you examine your own contribution before pointing elsewhere? When your team succeeds, can you step aside and give others the credi...
Give People Evidence They Matter
You can hold the retreat, organize the team-building exercise, bring in the guest speaker, and put your values on the wall, but some of your most important culture-building opportunities happen in the ordinary moments in between. In this episod...
Jay Johnson | Head Baseball Coach, LSU | The Standard Starts With You
Jay Johnson is the head baseball coach at LSU and one of the most accomplished coaches in college baseball.In five seasons at LSU, Johnson has led the Tigers to two national championships, winning the College World Series in 2023 and 202...
The Path Forward Isn't Always Straight
Human nature is to expect progress to be steady, visible and linear, but most meaningful goals are accompanied by setbacks, course corrections and periods when you have to take a step backward in order to go forward. Through the metaphor of tac...
Background Check Your Beliefs
We conduct background checks before giving people important responsibilities. So why not do the same with the beliefs we give influence over our lives? In this episode, Zach shares a simple way to examine the evidence behind your assumptions an...
Paul Goldstein | Head Coach and Director of Men's Tennis, Stanford University | The Weight of Caring, Building Culture & Coaching Under Pressure
Paul Goldstein is the Director of Men’s Tennis and Head Coach at Stanford University. Across 12 seasons leading the Cardinal, Goldstein has compiled more than 200 wins, guided Stanford to the NCAA Championships every season, won conference cham...
Your Culture Has a Job to Do
Culture matters, but not simply for the sake of having a great culture. It matters because of what it enables people and organizations to accomplish. This episode explores how leaders can connect culture to behavior and performance, why there i...
The Iron Cowboy: Building the Capacity to Handle Hard Things
Growth often comes with an uncomfortable period where the demands of what we’re doing exceed our current capacity to handle them. Using the remarkable story of James Lawrence’s 50 Ironman triathlons in 50 states in 50 days, this episode explore...
How Many Other People Would Quit Right Now?
The moments when you most want to quit may also be the moments where you have the greatest opportunity to create separation. Inspired by a question Chris Bosh learned from Kobe Bryant, this episode explores how performers can create separation ...
The Show Goes On: Performing When You Don’t Feel Your Best
Not every great performance starts with feeling great. Last week, two of the world's top music artists, Taylor Swift and Noah Kahan, reminded me of the same key lesson that is relevant for elite performers in any domain. In this episode, we exp...
Mark Gottfried | Former D1 Basketball Coach, Speaker, and Author | "Winning is intoxicating, but the relationships established supercede any kind of trophy."
Mark Gottfried has experienced college basketball from nearly every angle including as a player, assistant coach, head coach, broadcaster, and now as a speaker, mentor, and podcast host.Mark began his coaching career at UCLA, where he sp...
Make the Invisible Visible: How Great Leaders Make Progress Visible
In 1943, Edwin Land’s three-year-old daughter asked him a simple question after he took her picture: Why couldn’t she see it right away? Her question helped activate an idea that had been developing in Land’s mind for years and ultimately contr...
The Conversation You're Avoiding
What conversation are you currently talking yourself out of? Difficult conversations rarely become easier simply because we avoid them. More often, the frustration, assumptions, and tension continue to build beneath the surface. In this episode...
John O'Sullivan | Author, Coach, & Speaker | "Stop treating leadership as a character trait and start treating it as a skill."
John O’Sullivan is a former collegiate and professional soccer player, longtime coach, author, speaker, and the founder of the Changing the Game Project—an organization dedicated to creating better experiences for athletes by transforming the w...
Your Attention Goes Everywhere You Go: Why Elite Performance Starts With Focus
Wherever you go, your attention goes with you. So why wouldn’t you deliberately train it? In this episode, Zach explores how training attention can strengthen other mental skills, why calm isn’t necessarily the goal of meditation, and what it m...
Play the Piano You Have: How to Adapt When Things Don’t Go as Planned
How do you respond and adapt when you confront conditions you didn't prepare for? In this episode, Zach shares the remarkable story of a world-renowned pianist who was forced to perform on an instrument that was far from what he expected and cr...
Josh Steinbach | Head Volleyball Coach, Villanova University | Coaches Are Human Beings Too
Josh Steinbach is the head volleyball coach at Villanova University, where he is entering his 20th season and has become the winningest coach in program history with more than 300 career victories.Before arriving at Villanova in 2007, Jo...
Emotion is the Currency for Learning
Why do some lessons stick with us for years while others disappear almost immediately? In this After the Whistle segment, Zach builds on a lesson from his conversation with Maryland Basketball's Josh Chambers about the role emotion plays in lea...
From the Other Side of the Mic: Winning Without Losing What Matters Most
In this From the Other Side of the Mic episode, Zach joins Colin Jonov on The Playbook podcast to discuss the paradoxes of leadership, the role of identity and values in decision-making, and how preparing for adversity, not av...