Coachable Players
Coachable Players is hosted by Jon O'Brien a lifelong sports fan and passionate advocate for small businesses.
The qualities that make someone great on the field - humility, discipline, teamwork - are the same ones that build successful careers and thriving companies. In each episode, business owners, professionals and sports coaches will share life lessons that come from being coachable, like how to take feedback, improve under pressure and lead with purpose.
Coachable Players
Latest Episodes
Terrance Dennis: From Playing at a High Level to Coaching at a High Level
Terrance Dennis' has been on a journey through football. In his youth sports days, he displayed a coachable attitude, doing whatever the team needed to succeed, which helped his high school team win three consecutive state championships. In col...
Drew Simpson: When Plan A Goes Away, Build A Better Plan
In this episode, we sit down with Drew Simpson, a former youth wrestling stud who would take his athletic talents to the University of Kentucky. This top recruit's collegiate career was cut short when UK ended its wrestling program. Now what???...
The Noble 'Bud' Quandel Interview: Coachability Built This
This episode of the Coachable Players Podcast features Noble 'Bud' Quandel, Chairman of Quandel Enterprises, a company founded in 1882. When Bud joined Quandel around fifty years ago, they were doing about one million dollars and he helped dire...
Kaleigh Badecki: What Separates Coachable Athletes from Others
In this episode, Coachable Players welcomes Coach Kaleigh Badecki, a women's basketball coach at Gettysburg College for the past ten years. Coach Badecki sets the stage by first defining coachability as embracing constructive critic...
Marines Corps Leadership & Basketball Culture
The Coachable Players Podcast sits down with Nate Davis, Gettysburg College women's basketball coach and former Marine. In this interview, Coach Nate shares how his Marine Corps experience shaped his leadership approach as a coach, ...
