Episode 231 | Megan Young on Coaching, Learning, and Living a High-Performance Lifestyle

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of the podcast with Megan Young, Performance Coach with the Seattle Sounders professional soccer club. Megan is a rockstar with 15 years of experience working in collegiate athletics, and men’s and women’s professional soccer. She’s the 2023 National Strength and Conditioning Association Professional Coach of the Year and a voracious learner with numerous degrees and certifications on her resume. This was the first time I’ve ever spoken to Megan and it felt like catching up with an old friend. Megan has an incredible story and mission. In addition to her coaching successes, she was a collegiate thrower at UNC-Wilmington, she’s survived acute myeloid leukemia, and, as she wrote to me in some of our initial correspondence, her purpose in life is “building community and impacting others through education of a high performance lifestyle.”

We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, including where her insatiable appetite for learning comes from, the importance of establishing effective communication strategies with athletes and colleagues, and what she means by living a high-performance lifestyle. Megan told me who and what opened her eyes toward coaching as a career path, what that path has looked like for her over the past 15 years, and why she believes coaches need coaches. She also talked about the importance of care and connection in the role of a coach, understanding the difference between passion and purpose, her personal goal to impact 100 million lives through her work, and a lot more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the morning shakeout podcast.
0:04.0	I love to run, period.
0:07.0	You can always run faster.
0:09.0	Forever, you're going to feel something.
0:11.0	You're going to run into roadblock, but that's also going to feel something. You're going to run into roadblocks,
0:14.0	but that's also going to teach you how to handle things in life.
0:17.0	I don't think we want to be like rocks,
0:19.0	where we're not accepted by anything.
0:21.0	It's not maybe a physical thing, but it's a mental thing.
0:24.0	There's like two voices in Alpha and Beta.
0:27.0	All I was really trying to do was just keep moving forward.
0:32.0	Every single runner knows what that means.
0:35.0	My life has a purpose and maybe it's not what I thought it was going to be, but...
0:40.0	There were times when I didn't think I would be able to come back
0:44.4	There's a lot of people that had different gifts and they don't use it. I think if we all use our guests we could do something really special not for ourselves but our family if we're really good
0:55.2	we could do something for our community wherever we live. Hey, what's up everyone, it's your host, Mario Freoli, we are back with the fourth and final installment of our
1:15.0	coach to coach series for the morning shakeout podcast and here once again to set
1:19.2	this one up with me is my right-hand man Chris Douglas Chris how are you doing well I'm doing well how are you I'm doing well I'm doing well
1:28.0	That's all I got for now. So you got well I'm gonna add something. So this is just you know recording this on Wednesday
1:34.6	This past weekend your wife Christine raced Ironman California
1:38.8	And you know there's a lot of unsung heroes in these things not just because Christine needs to train for these races but you know Sherpa duties are very important and I know you take these really seriously so why don't you tell us a little bit about how your shirt
1:53.0	buying went.
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