Episode 5: Ken Vick—"What If We Don't Speak Up?"

In team environments, we consistently teach our athletes they need to be willing to be THE ONE: whether it’s winning a 50-50 challenge, coming through with a clutch hit, or stepping up to take a charge, effective players bypass the “maybe someone else will do it” instinct.

In Episode 5 of the Truth In The Arena podcast, Coach Ken Vick discusses the need for coaches to be willing to step up and be the ones to offer leadership beyond the team setting and to enforce norms of acceptable behavior at the community-state-national levels. We bring up the widely-accepted coaching truism, “your team culture is set by the worst behavior you are willing to tolerate” and expand that to broader applications where our social and political cultures are set by the most toxic, corrupt, or divisive behaviors that WE are willing to tolerate.

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