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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Having the Courage to Be The Best With Tom Allen: Head Football Coach, Indiana University | #ThePlaybook 471

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Tom Allen, Head Football Coach at Indiana University, shares his thoughts on the mindset it takes to step up and help out your team when you’re needed most, as well as why love is the core component of every successful team he’s been a part of. Allen and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a range of topics including why being the best always takes a lot of courage and how to avoid letting your past determine your future, as well as why everyone should be setting high standards, no matter the level of competition or obstacles that you are facing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Playbook, I have the incredible winning coach, Tom Allen, head coach of Indiana University,

0:08.7

and we're going to talk about courage and being a Leo and how to truly chase your prey.

0:16.9

Join me for all this and more on the Playbook.

0:20.5

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:22.8

For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs

0:28.0

to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions

0:33.8

on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host David Meltzer.

0:38.6

I have an incredible guest, the head coach of the striving and thriving Indiana University football

0:46.5

program. Tom Allen, welcome to the Playbook. Great to be here with you. Oh my goodness,

0:52.5

well I have done my due diligence on this one and I can tell you that I haven't been this excited

0:57.9

to do an interview because you sing my song and you walk the walk and talk the talk

1:04.5

about empowering others and elevating others to elevate yourself and along the way, you just

1:09.8

happen to keep winning football games ever since you started coaching in high school and you just

1:16.7

keep winning. How much do you think that your attitude and your mindset have to do with winning

1:25.1

on the football field? Well, you know, I think there's a pattern has been developed, you know,

1:31.2

over time, you know, that you're able to see, you know, we've been to lemon different schools

1:35.3

over the years, both high school and college and eight of those lemon schools had losing season,

1:39.9

year full, we got there. And so not necessarily by design, it's just kind of way it's worked out,

1:45.3

you know, but those opportunities were there and then I just think you go into those places and

1:49.8

and you be who you are and I believe and build relationships with people and I think it's about

1:56.6

people and it's about them, you know, learning how to believe in themselves and empowering them to

2:02.4

do that because all those places that I went to that had been struggling, there was a lot of, you

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