Plan B - Athletes supporting Athletes
Success in sports is 90% mental, yet we rarely talk about what goes on behind the scenes. Plan B - Athletes supporting Athletes pulls back the curtain on the athletic experience. Coach B sits down with athletes from across the globe to discuss the high-pressure moments, the transitions, and the mental strategies that keep them going. This isn't just a sports podcast; it’s a toolkit of support and knowledge designed to help active and retired athletes navigate their careers with confidence and authenticity
Episodes
30 episodes
Junior College Built The Player I Became
He was written off early: school felt like a fight, his grades cratered, and trouble found him before football ever did. Then one coach took a chance and everything shifted. Coach Ryan Jensen joins us to tell the full story, from getting humble...
How A Montana Family Raises Multi Sport BMX Racers
A BMX gate drops and everything you’ve trained for shows up in 40 seconds or less. That’s why I brought the Priest Family Racing crew onto the Plan B Podcast: Lisa and David plus sisters Savannah and Alexa, a Montana family living the real day ...
The D1 Reality Check
The moment you step on campus, the story can change. Your recruiter might be gone. The training plan you expected might never show up. The team culture you pictured might not exist in your event group yet. Coach B sits down with Syracuse D1 tra...
Wrestling Mindset
Six minutes can feel like a full day when it is just you, an opponent, and a referee on the mat. We bring on high school wrestler Jayden Wanalista, a rising name in a sport that deserves more attention, to talk about what wrestling really deman...
You Do Not Need Permission To Belong In Combat Sports
The fastest way to understand where women’s jiu-jitsu is headed is to listen to someone living it. We sit down with Adriana Gutovska, a rising competitor and coach, to talk about the real world of Brazilian jiu-jitsu for women: how you get star...
Silent Soldiers - Why Male Athletes Stay Quiet And How Coaches Can Help
Silence can look like discipline, toughness, and focus. It can also be a warning sign we are trained to ignore. “Silent Soldiers” is my clearest message yet about male athlete mental health, why so many young men learn to bury distress, and wha...
A D1 Water Polo Player Rebuilds Coaching Culture
The water polo season ends, the noise fades, and that’s when a lot of athletes finally feel what they’ve been carrying. Coach B sits down with Jasper Dale, fresh off his final season as a D1 men’s water polo player at UC Irvine, to talk about w...
Coaching Brains That Play Differently
What if half your roster processes the game in a completely different way—and that’s not a problem to fix, but an edge to unlock? Coach B sits down with psychologist and coach Dr. “Coach Carey” Heller to rethink how we talk to athletes so they ...
How A Cornell Freshman Turned Passion For Watching Sports Into Real-World Impact
A lot of us fall in love with sports from the couch, not the court. Anya did exactly that—and then turned her love of watching games into real-world impact that lifted entire teams. We sit down with this Cornell freshman to unpack how she co-fo...
Scroll Less, Perform Better!
Athletes the mind body connection is real don't ignore it ! This week we dig into how pre-game scrolling hijacks motivation, dulls focus, and undercuts team connection. Using Neuroscientist TJ Power’s DOSE model as a guide, from his book ...
Building A Life After College Sports
The final whistle doesn’t have to mean game over. Former D1 soccer player Case Montanile joins us to unpack how injuries pushed him to step away from the game he loved and redirect that same competitive drive into commercial real estate. What e...
How A Teen Sprinter Uses Faith, Nutrition, And Precision To Run Faster
Ten seconds can hold a season’s worth of pressure. Nick, a senior 100, 200, and 4x100 sprinter, walks us through how he turns that pressure into speed by starting months early, lifting with purpose, and translating gym gains into cleaner mechan...
Inside The Trans Youth Sports Debate: Data, Fairness, And Real Solutions
We cut through the noise on trans youth in sport by examining real participation numbers, performance gaps after puberty, and the mental health stakes of belonging. We challenge glossy campaigns, map the current legal landscape, and offer a con...
She Quit After Getting Lapped—Then Built a Program Where Every Swimmer Belongs
A coach’s origin story doesn’t always start with a medal. Coach Monica begins with love for the water, isolation in adolescence, and a brutal race that sent her out of the sport—only to return years later with a philosophy built on belonging, c...
From Couch Flips To UCLA Bars
What if the best season starts when you finally stop forcing it? That’s the turning point Maddie shares as we trace her path from a three-year-old flipping off couches to a UCLA D1 Gymnast and now a senior balancing bars and degree in applied m...
What If The Toughest Rep Is Rest?
Welcome to Season 2 - A season opener should feel like a spark—and Olav brings the fire. He’s a NorCal senior, a multi‑sport athlete, and a defensive end who finished his last season with an ACL and meniscus tear. What follows is a candid, unfi...
How to Spot a Snake in Sport - learning that deception is part of the game!
Deception is not a flaw in sport; its one of the main features that make elite sport so enjoyable to watch and so difficult to master but it is also the reason why it attracts individuals who exhibit and produce this type of behavior for the sa...
We Honor A Sporting Legend While Talking Honestly About Suicide And Support
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) as of March 2025 More than 720 000 people will die due to suicide every year. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds. Suicide Preventi...
The Quarterback supporting the Quarterbacks
As high school athletes we never want our sporting days to end. The enjoyment of the game, being part of a team, our love of the sport, it is still there when we graduate, it doesn’t fade overnight...well what if you were to learn that it doesn...
Meet Tyla..part of the growing talent in the field event athletes in USA Track and Field.
In this week's episode we have some wisdom for youth athletes from one of our younger podcast guests. Tyla, a throwing champion from Texas, is a Junior in high school and a two time competitor at the World Junior Olympics. Born in the USA Tyla'...
Episode 6 - Luke Pruter. Rising star GK from Southern California shares his journey to Pro Futbol
This week we sit down with professional soccer player Luke Pruter. A native from Southern California, be inspired as you hear how Luke not only navigated the demands of being a college student athlete but also held a job at a Pizza shop that ke...
Welcome to the 1st Episode of Plan B featuring NBA Player Anthony Lamb
Former Golden State Warriors Player Anthony Lamb drops into the Plan B studio to share with us where he has been in the last couple of years and what he is up to now. An incredible young man who is not only an inspiring athlete but a kind and t...
Episode 5 - Liquid Psychology with Dr Callum Gowling
Today's episode we speak with one of the UK's leading sport psychologist Dr Callum Gowling as he shares with us his first book Liquid Mindset. Dr Gowling PHD, is former D1 Tennis player who studied in the US before returning to the UK to comple...