Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.

Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.

Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life. And I'm going to share

insights I learned from mentors and teachers that hugely impacted me and changed my life

and performance. And so it's only fitting that the first guy up today is going to be what I

learned from Lou Holtz, the legendary football coach. He wrote a

fabulous book called Wins, Losses, and Lessons, and in it he details the six programs he took

over. He took over six losing football teams, and within two years took every single one of those programs to a bowl game.

He had a formula. He had principles. He had practices, and he applied those to be a winner

consistently and everywhere he went. Now, I had the great privilege of first being exposed to

Lou Holtz in 1986. In fact, right when he took over Notre Dame,

he was at a conference, a conference that turned out to be a life-changing conference for me.

Also at that conference was the great Jim Rohn, Zig Zigler, Tom Hopkins,

a number of people that had a huge impact on my life, great presenters and speakers.

But today I'm going to focus on

Coach Holtz, a brilliant man throughout the years developed a relationship with him by him

first coming to speak at our conferences. And then we became friends and golfing buddies

and now so much more. And he's really without any strings attached. It's been just a mentor. And basically,

he's the guy that any time I need him, I reach out to him. And other than that, he just doesn't need

an and doesn't need acknowledgement, doesn't need me to shout him out, doesn't need anything,

just a great man. So I'm going to walk you through kind of my journey with Lou.

And I'm also going to do a few cool things today. We're going to play some live footage of

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