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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Light the Fight.

And as you can see or hear by my voice, there's not a lot of light in this fight right now.

Been struggling off and on with the cold and did a little traveling this week. So like usual, got a made things a little bit worse.

It's probably a sinus infection because that's what happened to me every winter. Get a cold.

Can't shake it for a while. It turns into a sinus infection. or as my wife calls it, a severe man cold, I complain, I ask her to do all these

little things for me that I could do for myself. You know the deal. If you're a wife listening

to this and you're married, or if you're a guy, you can empathize with me. So if you want to hit up my GoFundMe account, just kidding. Today's episode, though, comes from a request of a father.

And the request is an easy request for me to fill because I have answered this question

or helped many families with this question throughout the course of my career.

And because of the time of year, most of, well, I shouldn't say most, a lot of families are

dealing with this thing called youth sports. If you're not currently dealing with it, you just

got done with the season or you're about to go into a season or you're in the middle of a season

of youth sports. And you may not be aware, but sometimes in you sports, there is something called politics.

And sometimes the politics is in your favor.

Sometimes it's not in your favor.

Well, today's episode I'm going to be talking about how do you approach a coach with a difficult situation?

And the situation I'm referring to usually has to do with you do not feel

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