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Josh Pate's College Football Show

Brent Venables joins Josh Pate - Pate Speaker Series

Josh Pate's College Football Show

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

I heard you talk the other day in a press conference setting. I think it was about job pressure.

0:20.0

And I loved it. I like punched the steering

0:21.9

wheel when you talked about it because, you know, someone brought up this specific year. And I know,

0:26.5

there's a lot of expectation. You've made staff changes. You must be feeling a lot of pressure.

0:30.9

And you just, you basically shared your life philosophy. You basically shared your professional

0:35.2

philosophy of, well, I felt that way every day

0:37.8

when I've walked into the office forever. And the way you metaphorically put it is, I just pretend

0:42.5

like someone's holding my head down underwater every day. And I got to fight to get air. And then

0:47.2

you said something I love. You said, ah, you may think that's coach speak, but that's not. That's the

0:51.5

way I really feel. Have you always been that way? And then secondly, how does that almost make it easier when you enter a year where the outside world thinks, oh, you got a lot of pressure on you because you're just kind of used to it?

1:03.0

Yeah. What a great question. But I've always felt that that's a lifestyle. That mindset, it's just a lifestyle i'm very um comfortable in that

1:13.9

space and uh and on the flip side if you're doing life if you're chasing passion things that

1:22.9

uh you love if you're comfortable doing it, then you're probably doing it wrong.

1:28.6

And so where's that balance?

1:32.3

It's really hard.

1:34.0

The challenges of winning and being successful, but something I've never shied away from.

1:40.6

You know, I've just looked it right dead the eyeball and uh have gone right at it head first

1:48.0

um not flinching again got clear vision on you know the things that it takes to be successful

1:56.2

and the things that i'm in control of and there's so many components that you're not in control of.

2:02.2

And so not getting distracted, not letting things that, again, I can't control, affect you in any way,

2:08.8

shape, or form, and be committed to doing things, living your life in a certain type of way.

2:15.3

And so you've got to run right towards all the suffering that help shape you and develop

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