Brave & Big
What if you could live a Brave and Big life? One where you have great friends, a thriving marriage, a plan to accomplish your goals; a life where you’re fit, spiritually healthy, and constantly becoming everything God created you to be.
Welcome to Brave & Big.
We are Chris Hart, founder and CEO of Brave Coaches, and Joey Odom, public speaker, author, and former tech co-founder, and we have been friends for over 25 years. Throughout our friendship, we have had thousands of conversations, have gotten better from each one, and want you to be part of those conversations. We’ll talk about what it means to be Brave and live Big - things like grit, living with no excuses, following Jesus, being a great parent, spouse, and friend. Sometimes it will just be the two of us and sometimes it will be high performing athletes, business leaders, and performers.
At the end of each episode, you will walk away with a small step that you can immediately implement to take ground in your life.
We’re glad you’re here. Let’s be Brave & live Big.
Episodes
19 episodes
Guardrails: How To Protect The Vision For Your Life
Where there's no vision, people cast off restraint. Joey Odom and Chris Hart build this episode on the half of Proverbs 29:18 most of us skip: vision isn't only about where you're going. It also decides what you're willing to say no to along th...
The Man in the Arena: Vanderbilt’s Blaze Berlowitz & Cole Adams
Joey Odom wrote a card to Vanderbilt head coach Clark Lea after this one, because he'd never been more impressed with two young men. Quarterback Blaze Berlowitz and wide receiver Cole Adams sit down with Joey and Chris Hart, and what comes out ...
Wartime: How To Win The Hardest Season (Part 2)
Part one named the season. Part two is the playbook. Joey Odom and Chris Hart pick up right where they left off with the first-ever Brave & Big two-parter, and this time it's all practice: what a wartime life actually looks like, day to day...
Wartime: Marriage & Parenting In The Hardest Season (Part 1)
Joey Odom was in a Las Vegas casino at 3 a.m. with a five-year-old and a three-year-old back home when the phone rang: his wife's parents were in crisis. Looking back, he can name exactly what was wrong with that picture. He was in wartime, liv...
Protecting Purpose: Overcoming Isolation, Insecurity, and Inconsistency
Chris Hart kept noticing the same three problems in every pastor he met with. Then in every CEO. Then in everybody. Isolation, insecurity, and inconsistency: three attacks on your purpose that don't have to knock you out to win. They just have ...
Leadership: How to Be a Leader Worth Following
Pastor Bill Scheer looked at a twenty-year-old Chris Hart and said something that changed the trajectory of his life: you can't make a mess I can't clean up. That's what a leader does. They take someone somewhere they couldn't get on their own....
Technology and Relationships: How to Become a 1% Family
Joey Odom looked down at his phone and missed his five-year-old's first soccer goal, and the moment his son turned to the sideline to find his face. That miss reframed everything, and it opens this conversation about technology, attention, and ...
Vision: You Can’t Build a Life You Can’t See
Plenty of people have sight and no vision. Joey Odom and Chris Hart spend this episode on the difference, and on the fact that vision isn't reserved for the naturally visionary. It's something you can go get.They start with blind Bartim...
Effort Is a Talent: David Pollack on Making Every Day Count
When David Pollack broke his neck on an NFL field, the career he'd chased since he was four years old ended in a single moment. What he found in the stillness became the message he carries now: every day counts, and how you respond is the only ...
Stewardship: The Four Word Question That Changes Everything
Years ago Chris Hart asked Joey Odom a four-word question that Joey has asked himself hundreds of times since: what's in your hand? This episode is built around it, and around the principle that quietly changes everything once it lands. Increas...
Alignment: Find the Wedge That's Keeping You Grounded
A plane built to fly 600 miles an hour gets stopped cold by one small chock behind the tire. Chris Hart watched it happen on a runway and couldn't shake the question: what's the wedge in my own life? Joey Odom and Chris spend this episode on al...
Grit and Grace: Your Best Effort + Supernatural Power
You don't have grit or lack it. You do grit. Joey Odom and Chris Hart open this episode by flipping the whole question: grit isn't a trait you're born with, it's a muscle you choose to use, and it's available to every single one of us.Th...
Balance Is a myth: Building Your Daily Spiritual Rhythms
Most of us admire other people's discipline and never build our own. Joey Odom and Chris Hart spend this episode on the fix: a daily spiritual rhythm simple enough that you'll actually keep it.Joey grew up in church and somehow never re...
Authority: What You Carry Into Every Room
Most of us are chasing leadership when the thing we're actually missing is authority. Joey Odom and Chris Hart spend this episode on the difference, and why it changes how you walk into every room.Chris starts simple. Authority is not a ...
Harder to Kill: Fitness, Food, and Staying Ready
In college, Joey and Chris made a bet about who'd be the fattest at 40. They both showed up to that birthday in better shape than they started. This week, two average athletes (not trainers, not experts, just two guys who've stayed in it) talk ...
Progress or Excuses: You Can't Do Both
The first sin in human history was followed immediately by an excuse. Adam pointed at Eve. Eve pointed at the serpent. Nobody pointed at themselves. Joey Odom and Chris Hart open episode three with that observation and spend the next forty minu...
Covenant Friendship: The Friends Who Make You Invincible
Most people have friends but not true covenant relationship. Joey Odom and Chris Hart spend this week unpacking the difference — and why it matters more than almost anything else in your life.It starts with two stories. A five-hour driv...
The 20 Mile March: A Life Worth Following
After 27 years of friendship, Joey Odom and Chris Hart are finally doing the thing they've been talking about since college. Every week, they're sitting down to have the kind of conversations that make both of them better men.Episode...