E24 | Roy Holmes: Embracing the Grey Area & The Danger(s) of Passionate Leadership

The Art Of Coaching

Brett Bartholomew

Health & Fitness, Business, Education

5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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On Episode 24 of the Art Of Coaching Podcast I am honored to be joined by coach Roy Holmes. Roy is a veteran coach who worked his way up in the industry from physical therapy aid and IKEA employee to being the performance manager at Exos as well as overseeing NFL combine and veteran training. Tune in to hear how Roy has successfully navigated the gray areas of coaching and more. Topics Covered On This Episode Roy's background How working in the customer service industry plays a role in coaching development Why skipping the journey never works Living in the grey area and why dogma shouldn't exist in coaching How to get out of a situation where you are getting burnt out The keys to being good in a managerial role If you want to succeed you have to fail Developing mastery through repetition The value of doing the little tasks the right way How to filter information & to know what's valuable Links https://www.instagram.com/coach_holmes/ https://twitter.com/Coach_Holmes This information is kept free by our partnership with Momentous. To learn more about Momentous and what they do to help our community go to livemomentous.com/brett. As part of the Art of Coaching audience, you can receive $20 off your 1st order of Momentous by using code BRETT20 at checkout. (Minimum purchase amount of $50). Learn More About My Courses, Clinics and Live Events At: artofcoaching.com Read My Book: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Coaching-Science-Building-Buy/dp/1543179479/ref=nodl_

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Art of Coaching podcast. I'm here this morning with my good friend and strength and conditioning coach Roy home for Roy. What up?
0:14.0	How's it going man? Get there. Get there. Have me on here man. Yeah, good to have you on man. Roy, before we jump on, why don't you give everybody a little bit of background about yourself and you know, feel free to go into as much detail as possible, but just kind of touch on your career
0:27.5	and then how you and I know each other.
0:29.3	Yeah, so I think my career kind of started off a little bit as a journeyman.
0:34.2	I started off always playing sports.
0:36.6	So as a youth athlete, I've always baseball, football, different things like that.
0:42.4	And then I'll go out college, I'll walk on football player at a small school out in Arizona.
0:50.1	And then after I left school,
0:52.7	that's when I started coaching actual high school football.
0:56.1	And that's where I kind of started to cut my teeth
0:58.6	in the kind of like the coaching industry.
1:01.7	So I did two years in Flagstaff at a small school up there and then I relocated
1:06.4	to the Valley in the Phoenix area and that's really where I started becoming or started
1:13.6	doing strength conditioning. So I started off as a PTA. I was doing really like working
1:20.0	alongside with some physical therapists, really getting to learn what they knew and then
1:24.4	they said, hey, we have some opportunities for you to kind of branch off what you're
1:28.8	doing with our patients to our actual clients.
1:33.4	And so I started getting a few professional guys, professional baseball players, some
1:37.4	guys that were in a minor leagues, a couple NFL guys.
1:40.3	And I started doing that for about six or seven years at the same time. Working at IKEA and at the same time, working at a bar.
1:48.9	I was pretty much doing a bunch of different things in there, but I really, really knew I wanted
1:55.3	to get into the strength and conditioning field because I was like, man, this is just a natural
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