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Hail Mary In Heels - Coach Mikki
Bring It in!!
I’m Coach Mikki, football coach, Transformational leader, and mindset mentor.
For over 17 years, I’ve coached in a male-dominated sport, proving that toughness, leadership, and passion have no gender.
I created Hail Mary in Heels for every woman who’s ever been told she doesn’t belong on the field, in the boardroom, or in the game. This podcast is where strength meets style, faith meets fight, and ambition meets authenticity.
Each week, we dive into real conversations about leadership, mindset, courage, and breaking barriers, on and off the field. Whether you’re chasing dreams, rebuilding after a setback, or calling your own play in life, this is your huddle for inspiration, strategy, and unapologetic toughness.
Because sometimes, life calls for a bold move, a Hail Mary, and we do it in heels.
Start Strong - Finish Strong - Dominate Everything In Between!! - Coach Mikki
Hail Mary In Heels - Coach Mikki
Stop Waiting, Start Choosing - S2E3
Ever notice how waiting to feel ready quietly becomes a habit? We kick off with a quick huddle, a gratitude shoutout to our community, and a road trip that turned into a moving workshop on decisions, detours, and the simple courage to act. The spark is a timeless line from Cicero: “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” From there, we dig into why hesitation feels safe, how it steals time and confidence, and what it really means to confuse caution with wisdom.
I share the practical framework I use with clients: start with one small move. Micro choices create momentum, and momentum builds belief. We talk about the emotional traps,fear of being wrong, craving certainty, overanalyzing options, and replace them with action steps that fit real life. You’ll hear how to set a short learning loop, decide on your minimum viable next step, and shift the question from “What if I fail?” to “What will I learn?” This is the mindset that turns stuck energy into forward motion.
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Okay, bring it in. Bring it in. Listen up. Hey, I'm Coach McKee and you're here on Hail Mary and Heels. And if this is your first time joining me on my field, well, come on in. Let's lace it up. Let's lock it up. And for those of you that listen here and join my team each week, you know that we get straight to work and uh just get out there and start calling the plays on what we need to make success in our life this coming week. And I want to thank some of you for coming out this past week to my book signing that was up in Northern California. It was pretty awesome to see so many team members that uh support here, Hail Mary, and heels, and also to see who you are and listen to your stories. And it was it was pretty awesome. So I want to thank many of you for coming out and doing that. And as I told you, uh the ones that I did meet, and for those of you that wouldn't know at the moment, uh, I actually drove up. I drove up from Southern California up to Northern California, and it's about a 12-hour drive. By the time you get done getting gas and goofing around and traffic, it ends up being about 13, 14 hours, which is fine. Um, but I love it because I get to see some amazing things and meet some great people, but also it really gives me time to think. It gives me an opportunity to really step back, you know, regroup, revisit, and think about things along my trip, whether it's for myself, whether I what I want to talk to you guys about, what I feel my future is gonna hold. And then sometimes I just get hit with things that just go, wow, that's pretty profound. And it's like I really need to share that. So today I want to talk about something that I think all of us seem to deal with on a regular basis. And I'm gonna read a quote. Uh, and this really hit me hard because when I tell you who said it and the time frame, it's it's gonna blow your mind. Anyway, uh, more is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. Now, that is so profound and it really hits home because a lot of us get stuck in not making choices, and we think it's gonna be safe not to make a choice. And if you've heard it before, you know, when you decide not to choose, you still have made a choice. But anyway, the first quote is by uh a philosopher called Marcus Tilius Cicero, and his time frame, which is going to blow your mind, his time frame was 75 BC. He was born in 106 BC and he died in 43 BC, and he was from Italy, and he was influenced by Aristotle and Plato uh and and the list of other people. And to think about it, now let's let's look at this realistically. So here is somebody that was born or that was during 106 BC, struggling, or being able to let every other people let other people know, or he spoke about it, or he uh had an opportunity to internalize it, that not making a choice is or not making a decision is is the thief of opportunity. You know, and again, I'm gonna read again more is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. And if that hits you hard, I hope it does. I really do, because I think with most of the people I've worked with, it's not because they're failing, and it's because of the fear of making the wrong choices. And let me tell you something, things don't move ahead unless you make a choice. And you get stuck because you haven't made any choice at all. And indecision doesn't feel dangerous at first because it feels safe. We feel like we're being responsible, we feel like we're being thoughtful, we think like we're not ready. But what we're really going with saying, okay, maybe I just need a little bit more clarity. Um, I'm not ready yet. Uh, what if I mess this up, which always seems to be the biggest one that comes across. Uh, let me think about this a little bit longer. Um, I want to, I don't want to jump on this choice, which is okay. Sometimes I get it. Sometimes you have to evaluate and and not make a quick choice because it could be something that you want to kind of think through, especially if it's something big. Uh but here's the part that I think that we're not getting is that while you're thinking about what you need to do, life is moving, things are happening, opportunities are are in front of you. And opportunities don't wait for confidence. And they don't wait for you to go, okay, yeah, let's do this. They're gonna keep coming and going while you're in that, I guess, limbo stage is the word I want to put on it, because I don't like to say we're stuck because eventually you do something or you do nothing, which means you're gonna still keep getting the same things. And it's it's kind of a catch 22 because we want to think things through, but we don't want to lose out an opportunity. So where is the miracle in the middle? Where is the miracle in the middle where we have to keep moving forward without allowing things to pass us by? And yeah, I know you don't want to be reckless and you don't want to be wrong, and you don't want to feel like, well, maybe I'll fail at this if I make the wrong choice. And we start overthinking and we think that we're overprepared, we start overanalyzing it. And the reality is, let me tell you something, just put it all aside, just forget it, because somewhere along the way, you're confusing caution with wisdom. And a lot of times we have got to just stop and think, what am I afraid of? You know, so what if I made a mistake? A lot of times some of the best things are found, a lot of the times some of the best opportunities have happened because you've made the biggest mistakes, because you've ran into something else different, because you had a detour that you had to go through to be able to get you to where you are now. Everything you've done in your life up to today, up to the time frame you're listening to this podcast, has brought you to where you are. And I say that because I've learned to meet people where they are. Every past, every mistake, everything that's transpired has brought you to where you are. It's even brought me to where I am today. And believe me, my life has not been smooth sailing. I've had a lot of rocky roads. I've had, for lack of better words, I've had some shit storms in my life. But what I've learned to do is to say, how am I gonna deal with this? What am I gonna do with it? And where do I go from here? So you learn that you have to adjust, sometimes you have to pivot, and you grow stronger. But when you decide to do nothing or you're indecisive about something, you're gonna keep getting the same thing over and over again. And I think this is where we make our biggest mistakes. Just choose, even if it's just one small choice, even if it's something even you're not sure, even if it's something where you go, okay, I'm just gonna do this and I'm just gonna figure it out anyway as I go along. Because I guarantee once you start making those micro changes, they turn into minor changes, which turn into major changes, which turns into the future that you're looking for, but you got to take that one step. And confidence does not come before decision, it comes after you make one. And action is going to build belief and movement's gonna build momentum, and you don't need to have certainty, you just need to have courage. And I and I look at this, and this is why I titled this podcast, Hail Mary and Heals. Because if you know what a Hail Mary is, it you know that you're going for it when you're not sure about something. And for those of you that don't, the phrase Hail Mary comes from uh a Hail Mary and football. I guess I should look for Hail Mary. Hail Mary, you know, but a lot of time is a religious prayer, but the way I'm referring to is Hail Mary is a football play that is made when it's the very last play of the game, you've got nothing left on the clock, and you've got one shot at throwing the football. Usually it's this exorbitant amount of yards, which is like forever, it seems like. And you have got to throw it down into the end zone in a crowd of people, and you just pray that one of your teammates is gonna catch it so you can have the winning touchdown. But that quarterback doesn't have a guarantee. He doesn't have a guarantee that it's gonna be a loss or a win. He doesn't have a guarantee. All he knows is he's got to make that choice right then, right there, and believe in himself without a doubt that what's within him and everything he's got, from the moment he looks down that field and throws that football, he's going to make contact with the right person. And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I can tell you something that's pretty amazing. They always choose to go for it. And that is what you have to do. You have to be able to take that next step and just throw the Hail Mary in your life. But I'm gonna tell you what, it won't work. You cannot throw a Hail Mary unless you get off the bench. You have to get off the bench, you have to be able to make that first choice, make that first step, and just go for it. And I don't know if it's something where you need to leave the situation you're in, leave the job that you don't like, maybe start a new business, maybe say yes to an opportunity. How about just bet on yourself for once? And so what if it's the wrong move? But the better question is if you're not moving, you're never gonna know and you're never gonna learn. So again, I just want to leave this with you guys. More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Not because wrong decisions don't hurt, but because indecision steals your time, your growth, your confidence, and your opportunity. So ask yourself today, where am I hesitating? What decisions have I been avoiding? What opportunity am I letting slip because I'm waiting to feel ready? Then just do one brave thing. Even if it feels imperfect, even if you feel scared, you always see me say, even if you feel like your voice and your hands are trembling a little bit, even if you're unsure, because every moment you do is going to make a little notch in time that's going to benefit you closer to your end zone to success. So thank you for joining me today. I wanted to end with our with our power word today as we break this huddle. And our power word today is belief. I want you to believe in yourself. So let's break on me. Ready? One, two, three, belief. I'm Coach Mickey. Let's go.