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Redeeming The Game

Redeeming The Game

By: Matt Sanders
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 This is a space for coaches, trainers, and leaders who love the game — but don’t want the game to cost them their family, their integrity, or their soul. Here, we talk about leadership, pressure, culture, identity, and the quiet tensions no one prepares you for when you step into coaching. This isn’t about chasing wins at all costs. It’s about restoring what the game was meant to form in us — and in the players we lead. This podcast is presented by the Beloved Coaches Collective, a community committed to coaching from identity, not insecurity. I’m Coach Sanders. Let’s redeem the game — one coach at a time.© 2026 Redeeming The Game by Matt Sanders
Episodes
  • The Cost of Always Being Available

    The Cost of Always Being Available
    Feb 15 2026

    Somewhere along the way, availability became the standard for care.
    If you weren’t answering every call, every text, every late-night concern —it felt like you weren’t doing enough.
    But constant availability has a cost. I believed being available made me a better coach.
    And for a while, it did. But slowly, availability turned into expectation, and expectation turned into exhaustion.
    I didn’t lose my passion —I lost my margin.
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    20 mins
  • What the Game Reveals Under Pressure

    What the Game Reveals Under Pressure
    Feb 9 2026

    Pressure doesn’t change who we are —it reveals what we’re leaning on.
    The game has a way of exposingwhat’s been holding us together all along.
    I’ve coached in moments where pressure made me sharper…and moments where it made me smaller.
    Short-tempered.Reactive.Tight.
    That’s when I realized pressure wasn’t the problem.
    It was showing me where my identity was anchored.
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    15 mins
  • Urgency is Not Leadership

    Urgency is Not Leadership
    Feb 2 2026

    What in your leadership feels urgent
    but isn’t actually important?

    And what is your urgency communicating
    to your players, your staff, and your family?
    Beloved coaches lead from rest —
    not from scramble.
    Urgency says, “If I don’t act now, I lose.”
    Beloved leadership says,
    “I can wait — because I’m not trying to prove anything.”
    Calm is not complacency.
    It’s confidence rooted in identity.
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    14 mins
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