excited to welcome sports performance coach John Bloom to the basketball podcast.

John Bloom has worked as a sports performance coach at Albion Christian University,

Weber State, Texas Tech, and Oral Roberts, before founding elevated athlete development.

John's mission is to provide holistic development for athletes while creating platforms for coaches to learn, connect, and build.

Bloom's book, Strengthen Numbers and Encyclopedia of Authentic Coaching Wisdom

uncovers career-defining insights from over 100 elite coaches across all levels from high school to professional sports.

Strengthen Numbers is your essential guide to building a successful, impactful

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Today to learn more and start analyzing your games for free john welcome to

the basketball podcast chris i'm really grateful for you have him here and in honor to be here with

you strength and numbers and excite the key of authenticdom. We'll dive into the book a little bit,

but maybe John just start with a little bit of where the book came from. Where was it born? Yeah. If people are familiar with Tim Ferriss, he's got a book called Tribe of Mentors. And basically in the introduction to his book, he's talking about how he had these 12 questions, he was trying to figure out for himself.

And he's, I'm going to, I'm going to make this easier.

And I'm going to just send these questions to, to his book. He's talking about how he had these 12 questions he was trying to figure out for himself.

And he's, I'm going to, I'm going to make this easier. And I'm going to just send these questions to top people in the world, business people, coaches, actors, all types of top people. And he got all their answers back and put it into a book. So that's his book, Travel Mentors. And I was, I'd read that book before. And then I was rereading the intros.

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