Jason Sacks: Positive Coaching and Centering Athlete Wellbeing in Sport
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Jason has been with Positive Coaching Alliance since 2006 and currently serves as President. He oversees national partnerships, fundraising, and regional operations, working with professional sports leagues and youth organizations. Previously, he held roles such as Chief Development Officer and Executive Director of PCA’s Chicago chapter. Jason began his career in sports television production and worked with the New York Knicks' Basketball Operations. He holds degrees from Syracuse University and NYU. Outside PCA, Jason teaches at Northwestern and coaches youth sports.
We are huge fans of youth sports but understand there are lots of challenges in youth coaching. We also know that with challenges, come opportunities. Positive Coaching Alliance does a masterful job of training not only coaches, but also parents and athletes to be better, more effective members of the sports system to enable everyone involved to have a positive experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to the Ready State podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | We are thrilled to have Jason Sacks from the Positive Coaching Alliance today on the podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Jason has been with PCA since 2006 and currently serves as president. |
| 0:25.7 | He oversees national partnerships, fundraising, and regional operations, working with professional |
| 0:30.7 | sports leagues and youth organizations. |
| 0:33.2 | Previously, he held roles such as chief development officer and executive director of PCA's |
| 0:37.8 | Chicago chapter. Jason began his career in sports television production and worked with the New York |
| 0:43.3 | Knicks basketball operations. He holds degrees from Syracuse University and NYU. Outside |
| 0:48.9 | PCA, Jason teaches at Northwestern and coaches youth sports. He lives in suburban Chicago with his wife and twins. |
| 0:55.7 | Where do we begin, Juliet? Yeah, I mean, this is this conversation, I think, is one of my favorite. |
| 1:02.2 | Because it's the most important? Yeah. And because you're living it. Well, I mean, I think for all those |
| 1:06.3 | reasons, I think we are such fans of youth sports. And coaches. We are fans of coaches. |
| 1:12.3 | We are pro coach. |
| 1:14.0 | We often think coaches are underappreciated and underpaid. |
| 1:17.6 | And the job of coach is so important and so impactful in kids' lives. |
| 1:22.0 | And at the same time, we think there are a lot of serious challenges in youth sports. |
| 1:26.7 | That's really nice of you to say challenges. I think there's a lot of opportunity challenges in youth sports. That's really nice of you to say challenges. |
| 1:28.2 | I think there's a lot of opportunity to level set here. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | We need to be better at communicating as coaches to athletes, as athletes to coaches, and |
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