The first female coach in the NFL: Dr. Jen Welter w/ Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jen Welter became the first female coach in the NFL. How do you achieve a goal when there is no roadmap? A commitment to greatness in each moment. “ if we can change football, we can change the world.” says Dr. Jen Welter. She never listened to the doubts of others and at 5’ 2” went toe-to-toe on the field and got up after every tackle. She broke the glass for female athletes in this sport and as she said - breaking glass is contagious. Earning a Masters in Sports Psychology and PhD in Psychology, she has pioneered communications strategies that has her players leaning-in. Hips, wrap & drop the mic on this awesome episode.
LESSONS
- Hips, wrap & drop
- Step up to every challenge that is put in your way
- Believe in yourself- it keeps you going
- Don’t let dollars define you
- Don’t listen to what others tell you you shouldn’t/ couldn’t do
- When you're tackled in life- get back up!
- Commit to being great in every moment
- Diversity is strength: pure muscle to pure hustle
- Unify your vision & goals
- Communication is a choice: lean-in
- Own who you are- love your brand of crazy
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LINKS
https://www.jenwelter.com
TIME STAMPS
0:00 Joe De Sena introduces this week’s episode about carving your own path
1:15 Interview begins with Dr. Jen Welter- 1st female NFL coach
3:00 Learning her fathers mentality of how to face fear- playing rugby
4:30 Hips, wrap & drop
6:00 Playing pro football for 15 years- stepping up to the challenge
7:00 The strong belief that keeps you going- not letting dollars define you
8:00 There’s no game a women cannot play
9:00 People will always think an undefined path is crazy
10:00 Going head to head with the males in training camp- shifting her destiny
11:00 What you learn from getting tackled- scratching to get back up
12:45 Catching the former Dallas Cowboys coaches attention
13:45 Learning about herself & being offered a coaching job
14:35 Being drop-kicked to success
16:00 Contacting the Cardinals & getting invited to OTAs
18:00 SpartanX Leadership break
18:30 Interview continues with committing to being great in every moment
19:45 Diversity is strength- pure muscle to pure hustle
23:00 Learning to communicate in a different way: lean-in
24:00 Own who you are
25:30 Loving your brand of crazy
26:50 Joe recaps this awesome interview & how to fill in the gaps
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Joe De Sena
The Colonel, Dr. Johnny Waite & Sefra Alexandra are off at spring training
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Spartans, welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. We are your grit and resiliency partner. We rip you off the |
| 0:06.4 | couch, we shake you out of bed in the morning, we come to you at least two times a week, and we do this because |
| 0:11.9 | look, everybody has the greatest intentions right |
| 0:14.6 | January 1st just passed you had all these great resolutions 80% of the people have |
| 0:18.9 | already given up here's one we got for you today, Dr. Jen Welter. |
| 0:24.9 | It always stuck in my head that people said that football was the final frontier |
| 0:29.5 | for women in sports. |
| 0:30.9 | So I just kind of had this invincibility or this belief about me that if we could change football, we could change the world. |
| 0:37.0 | She knew what her destination was, but there was no roadmap to get there. There was never a female NFL coach that |
| 0:44.9 | existed and that happens a lot in life. It happened with JFK trying to get to the |
| 0:49.5 | moon. If you're as old as me it happened in a book called The Message to Garcia, you got a chance to check that book out. |
| 0:56.5 | It was written in the late 1800s. |
| 0:58.5 | Anyway, point is, it's really hard to go somewhere when there's no map. |
| 1:02.7 | She's going to show us how you do it. |
| 1:05.7 | Stand up. |
| 1:06.2 | I was going to say sit down. |
| 1:07.1 | Stand up and watch this or listen to it. |
| 1:09.8 | You're going to love it. |
| 1:10.4 | We are here for Spartan Up podcast. I am with Dr. Jen Welter, first ever female |
| 1:18.8 | NFL coach. Absolutely. That's a big deal. Thanks. |
| 1:23.0 | Arizona Cardinals. |
| 1:24.0 | Yes. |
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