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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Jen Welter: First Female Coach In NFL History | #ThePlaybook 181

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jen Welter, the first female coach in NFL history, talks about how understanding the psychology of excellence has aided her groundbreaking journey on and off the football field and empowered her to break barriers. Dr. Jen Welter and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, discuss a range of topics including why coaches need to be coachable themselves, the overlapping symptoms of excitement and anxiety, and why she wanted to be the voice in her players’ head. Dr. Welter also sheds light on the impact that her military hero father has had on the way she views the challenges that life hands you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On this episode of the Playbook, I have Dr. Jen Welter, the first female coach ever in the NFL,

0:07.4

and we talk about how the symptoms of excitement and anxiety have such a strong overlap.

0:14.0

Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.

0:17.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook,

0:19.0

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host and CEO of Sports One Marketing, David

0:37.0

Melzer. This Dave Melzer with entrepreneurs, the Playbook and I have a dear friend here and she is an incredible woman

0:44.9

she's an incredible athlete and she also Jen Welter was the first woman NFL coach in

0:51.1

history an extraordinary person who is breaking barriers and you know this office

0:56.3

that you're in is about breaking barriers.

0:58.2

We're about first.

0:59.5

When I ran Lee Steinberg was always about first and I look up on the wall today with you coming in

1:04.6

and I saw Marlon Brisco, Doug Williams, Warren Moon,

1:10.0

and last night I was watching the game with Lamar Jackson and Michael Vick on the sideline.

1:15.2

I took my son to that game and I'm thinking to myself, when will the day come when, you know,

1:21.4

it's just not like having a black quarterback.

1:24.9

They were just quarterbacks out there.

1:26.6

And now I want to see, I have three daughters,

1:30.4

and I want to see them with the same options and opportunities that I was given as a kid that wasn't true.

1:39.0

I don't think people give credit to Marlon Brisco, Doug Williams, Warren Moon enough of how many

1:46.3

chuckle, sneers, and laughs that they faced before people applauded them.

1:51.6

And so I want to get down and dirty with you about the chuckle, sneers and laughs, because this is an

1:56.2

entrepreneur show and I always say people are going to laugh at you, they're going to snicker at you,

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