The Coach for Life Podcast w/ Coach Barry Ryan helping coaches build players that win in life CFL 03 | Ali Smith on Going to the NFL draft with Dre Kirkpatrick, Social Media’s Impact on the High School Game, the Coach that Would Fire You For Missing Your Son’s Game ✅ Going to the NFL draft with Dre Kirkpatrick

✅ The impact social media has had on the high school game

✅ Fatherless kids have already been let down enough

✅ “We don’t do ball at the house”

✅ Coach Billingsly would fire you if you didn’t go to your kid’s games

✅ We’re not making a 4 year investment

✅ How to handle a player’s mistake Episode 03 Host: Barry Ryan Guest: Coach Ali Smith

✅ The time his dad chewed him out in front of his friends

✅ How to handle the trust your players put in you

✅ How to know when to challenge and when to hug

✅ Coaching kids that come from father-deficient homes

✅ You’ll always be “Coach”

✅ Kids are more entitled and the parents are to blame

✅ How he’s using his fitness gym to build more than physical strength

Man, the sheer amount of TIME that coaches have to build their players is incredible. How do you use that time? How do you avoid mishandling the trust your players put in you? How do you form future fathers each day in practice? How do you know when to challenge and when to hug? We’re talking about all of it with Coach Brett Ellis today. He’s owns his own fitness gym, where he trains men and women on a daily basis and is also the strength and conditioning coach at Gadsden City High School. I’m fired up about this episode. Coach, it’s gonna inspire you.

The Coach for Life Podcast w/ Coach Barry Ryan

helping coaches build players that win in life

"Dad's Phone Call, Post-Hole Diggers, and our First State Championship"

• How to build a program that goes beyond the scoreboard
• How to effectively be dad and coach to your son
• Why he changed the way he coached 20 years into his career
• His phone call to his dad after winning the state championship
• Emotional story about the night before his dad’s passing

Episode 01

Host: Barry Ryan

Guest: Matt Kennedy