Episode 383: Danny Mackey – Head Coach of the Brooks Beasts TC
I'll Have Another with Lindsey Hein Podcast
SandyBoy Productions
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Danny Mackey is the head coach of the Brooks Beasts. He began his pro coaching career with a handful of athletes but quickly transitioned into the first and only coach for the Brooks Beasts. Danny has coached an Olympian, a World Record Holder, an American Record Holder, a Scottish Record Holder, and 4 World Medal winners. He focuses on helping professional athletes find their paths and overcome the complexities of high performance.
Danny talks about his career, what coaching looks like for him and being a whistleblower of the Nike Oregon Project.
What we talked about:
5:55- Danny’s own running career
11:10- Working with athletes to prioritize running
16:10- Working with athletes that are too laser focused on running
22:30- The cold plunge that he does
27:25- Getting the job at Brooks Beasts
30:10- Working at Nike and being a whistleblower on Alberto Salazar
49:35- Getting hired as the Brooks Beasts coach
54:55- Taking matters into his own hands when he wasn’t getting coaching jobs
1:01:45- Creating a team culture at Brooks Beasts
1:06:30- Coaching a wide range of distances
1:07:55- End of podcast questions
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sandiway Productions Podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:18.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to all have another podcast with Lindsay Heine. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host Lindsay and I'm so grateful you are joining us today. |
| 0:28.2 | Today you are listening to episode 383 and my guest is Danny Mackie. |
| 0:34.9 | Danny is the head coach for the Brooks Beasts. |
| 0:38.8 | He began his bro coaching career with a handful of athletes but quickly transitioned into the first and only coach for the Beasts track club. |
| 0:48.6 | Danny has coached an Olympian, a world record holder, an American record holder, a Scottish national record holder, |
| 0:56.6 | and four world medal winners. |
| 0:59.4 | He focuses on helping professional athletes find their paths and overcome the complexities of high performance. |
| 1:06.6 | Okay, this was a really great conversation. |
| 1:10.6 | Danny talks about his career, what coaching looks like for him. |
| 1:14.5 | And I know I recently talked about this with Steve Magnus on the podcast but Danny Mackie was also involved in the whistle blowing with the Nike Oregon Project as well. |
| 1:25.6 | And that had a really huge impact on his life and he will share about that in this episode. |
| 1:31.8 | And it's kind of wild what he's been through. |
| 1:34.2 | I truly appreciated Danny's honesty in this podcast and just being totally real and upfront about the ups and downs in his life. |
| 1:43.8 | And I really think that the people that he coaches are really fortunate to have a coach who cares so much about them. |
| 1:50.9 | I hope you enjoy getting to know Danny just like I did. |
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