John O'Sullivan: Changing the Game
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
John O'Sullivan is the founder of Changing the Game Project, whose mission is to ensure that we return youth sports to our children by providing the resources needed to make sports a healthy, positive, and rewarding experience for kids. After two decades playing and coaching soccer, John is an expert at training high-performing athletes by creating player-centered environments. He is also the best selling author of both Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids and Is it Wise to Specialize? John offers some really practical advice on how parents and coaches can help bring the fun back into youth sports.
For more about John and Changing the Game Project, visit their website, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:13.5 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:20.9 | On today, you've got it you've been to stop it ooh you've got it |
| 0:23.2 | you got it |
| 0:24.0 | on today's episode of the Ready State |
| 0:26.2 | we are delighted to welcome |
| 0:27.5 | John O'Sullivan |
| 0:28.6 | of Changing the Game Project |
| 0:29.8 | he's the author of two books |
| 0:31.3 | the first is Changing the Game |
| 0:32.9 | the Parents Guide to Raising Happy |
| 0:34.5 | High Performing Athletes |
| 0:35.8 | and giving youth sports |
| 0:37.1 | back to our kids. |
| 0:38.4 | And his second book is called Is It Wise to Specialize? |
| 0:40.9 | We had the great fortune of hearing John talk about a year ago in a little symposium of local |
| 0:46.7 | coaches and parents trying to unravel this Gordian knot that is and has become youth sports. |
| 0:53.4 | The specialization, the professionalization, the crazy |
| 0:57.1 | parents, how do we untangle this so we can give sports back to our kids? I think his ultimate |
| 1:02.2 | message is that kids sports are supposed to be fun and he definitely offers some practical |
| 1:06.5 | tools and strategies for parents and coaches to help bring the fun back into youth sports. |
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