Sherri Coale: Finding Substance Over Superficiality | The Compost Pile & Authentic Leadership
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this inspiring episode of The Mike Litton Experience, former University of Oklahoma Hall of Fame women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale joins us to share her wisdom on leadership, authenticity, and the pursuit of substance over superficiality.
After stepping away from an incredible career in college coaching, Sherri has become a bestselling author, blogger, and speaker. Her latest book, The Compost Pile, reminds us that life’s most meaningful lessons often come from tension, sacrifice, and paying attention to what really matters.
In this conversation, you’ll discover:
Why choosing substance over noise changes everything How tension shapes every worthwhile pursuit—whether in leadership, parenting, or competition The power of discipline and storytelling through her weekly blog A Way of Life What makes Sherri’s writing—and her life—deeply authentic and resonant Where to find her book and how to get a personalized copy
Sherri’s work has inspired athletes, students, and readers around the world. Now, she’s sharing those same lessons with you.
Order Sherri’s book The Compost Pile: SherriCole.com Also available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and select bookstores in Oklahoma.
Don’t forget to subscribe to The Mike Litton Experience for more powerful conversations with leaders, authors, and changemakers who inspire us to live with purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | How much of what he teaches in his writings did you implement when you were coaching basketball? |
| 0:08.9 | Oh, everything I could. I mean, all the way from the socks that you put on first and make sure you don't have any wrinkles in them to, |
| 0:17.9 | it's not just how much you practice, it's how you practice. |
| 0:23.3 | Lessons learned, maybe another would be the tension that exists in all things worthwhile. |
| 0:32.7 | When you're leading, there's great sacrifice and there's great reward. |
| 0:38.5 | And there's a tension between those two things. |
| 0:41.7 | Lessons learned, maybe another would be the tension that exists in all things worthwhile. |
| 0:51.8 | When you're leading, there's great sacrifice and there's great reward. |
| 0:57.3 | And there's a tension between those two things. Like, I'm there right now and I swear it got me |
| 1:03.0 | through the week. Or I would be at a thunder game or I would be at church or wherever I was, |
| 1:07.8 | someone that week, five or six times, different people said, this mattered. |
| 1:13.1 | It changed my approach. |
| 1:15.0 | Maybe, who knows, maybe it's changed my life. |
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| 1:44.4 | Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience podcast. Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience podcast. |
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