Welcome to It's a Good Life, the podcast for entrepreneurs, where it's all about growing

yourself and your business.

Here's your host, Fander of America's largest business coaching company, Brian the Feeney.

Well, the top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life.

Today we're going to introduce a series we're going to do throughout the years, kind of

every month or two, we're going to share a program entitled What I Learned From.

And I'm going to share insights I learned from mentors and teachers that hugely impacted

me and changed my life and performance.

And I'm going to share what I learned from them.

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 was 34 years in the coaching business, obviously from 1986 to 96 is when he was the

coach of the fight in Irish when I identified with him the most.

He wrote a fabulous book called Winds, 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 ballgame.

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

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