Episode #141

How to Breakthrough the Good to Great Barrier with 4X NCAA Championship Coach Brian Boland

Key Takeaways

Clarify and deeply live your purpose to shift from extrinsic outcomes to intrinsic motivation, creating peace of mind and unlocking performance.

Truly embrace the process by making bold, long-term decisions—even at short-term cost—to build trust and enable your team to play free.

Redefine failure as a lack of intentional preparation and learning; in adversity choose to fight, and use reflective pauses to gain clarity and act.

Top Quotes

simply to make the world a better place to live through tennis.

you kind of have three choices. You can freeze, you can flee, or you can fight in extremely adverse situations.

a productive pause is a short period of focused reflection around specific questions that leads to clarity of action and peace of mind.

Episode Summary

4x NCAA Championship Coach Brian Boland.

Today I bring you Coach Brian Boland. Coach Boland is the USTA Player Development Head of Men’s Tennis. He accepted the position in 2017 after being the head coach of the University of Virginia men’s tennis team where his teams won 4 of the last 5 NCAA Championships. Boland’s Virginia team held a 140 match winning streak against ACC opponents which spanned from April 2006 to February 2016. This streak is the longest winning streak in any sport in ACC history.

Guest Bio & Links

Brian Boland

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