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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to Be a Strong Leader | Interview With Michigan State Head Football Coach, Mel Tucker

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Mel Tucker, Head Football Coach at Michigan State University, sits down to discuss: [2:42] - How he works to create a “relentless” mindset for his football team [4:37] - The lessons he learned from spending time with legendary coaches like Nick Saban, Jim Tressel, and Barry Alvarez [5:58] - How a 360° approach to leadership will leader to a greater impact on others, even when you are not “in charge” [14:49] - The first message he shares with every recruit that he meets Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You just don't know who you're affecting and then how that's multiplying.

0:05.1

So it's a good spot to be in to be able to help people and influence people in a positive way.

0:12.9

This is the paper. I have the incredible Mel Tucker with us. He is the head coach today.

0:18.8

At Michigan State University, a former football player, a buckeye from Cleveland, Ohio,

0:25.2

University of Colorado's former head coach, interim head coach for the Jacksonville,

0:29.2

Jaguars as well. Welcome to the playbook, Mel. Hey, Dave, thanks for having me.

0:35.8

Well, I love your journey. First of all, I love anyone from Ohio because it's a great place

0:40.0

to be from. And there's, you know, a work ethic. You know, people ask me Dave, how have you

0:46.2

attained the success that you have? I said, because I'm consistent and persistent in the pursuit

0:50.7

of my potential. My grandfather sold tires out of the back of the truck six days a week,

0:55.0

12 hours a day, and he wasn't anything special in Ohio. Everybody had that mindset of,

1:00.8

you go to work and you do your best, you learn lessons, you have fun, and you go back to work,

1:05.6

do your best, learn lessons and have fun. It wasn't difficult coming from that part of the world.

1:11.0

What were some of the lessons that you learned about work ethic and then how have you applied that

1:16.7

to instill that into a generation that may not have the same perspective of discipline and work

1:23.7

ethic that we had growing up in Ohio in the 70s? Yeah, no, thank you for that. So I've always been

1:32.6

taught that it's all about, it's all about the work that you put into something. And, you know,

1:39.0

my parents, my parents taught me that, you know, my dad was a tireless worker. Now I saw him,

1:47.0

you know, get up early and go to work and I saw him stay late, and I was the only child for eight

1:54.7

years. And so I spent a lot of time with my parents. And so I saw, I saw the work ethic

2:02.0

from them and, you know, and their friends, you know, people that they were, they were with,

2:08.3

you know, whether they were school teachers or they worked at the, at the steel, at the steel mill,

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