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Battlefields and Ballfields: Adaptability, Risk, and Tone

2026-09-3038:51

Leadership maturity comes down to three decisions: knowing when to push, knowing when to trust, and knowing how to regulate. In this episode, Derin McMains and former Navy SEAL Josh Cox unpack all three — pulling lessons from recent guests Steve Gilbert, Bruce Arians, and NBA Coach of the Year Joe Mazzulla, and translating them from ballfields and battlefields straight into your boardroom. ReliaQuest exists to Make Security Possible, allowing security teams to detect and contain threats withi...

56 Years, One Rule: Adapt or Die - Lin Dunn, Women's Hall of Fame Basketball Coach

2026-09-2345:02

Fifty-six years in one profession will teach you two things: how to win and how to adapt. Lin Dunn has done both. And she'll tell you the second one is what makes the first one possible. Dunn founded women's athletics at Austin Peay in 1970, led Purdue to a Final Four, became the first head coach and general manager of the WNBA's Seattle Storm, won a championship as head coach of the Indiana Fever in 2012, and was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. But this conversatio...

Inside the Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy: Lessons from Rising Star Taj Darby - Austin College Football Coach and National Coaching Academy Finalist

2026-09-0930:44

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Coaching Academy was established to create new pathways for coaches trying to break into the NFL. Austin College football coach Taj Darby was 1 of 25 to earn a coveted spot in this year's class at the Academy, and then selected as 1 of 5 to return for NFL Training Camp. In this conversation, Taj unpacks the philosophy that got him here: patience, delayed gratification, and belief - built through years of coaching underdogs and turning down Division I opportun...

The Climb from NCAA Champion to Top 50 in the World - Ethan Quinn, American Professional Tennis Player

2026-08-2647:12

At 19, Ethan Quinn won an NCAA tennis championship and turned pro, and then lost 12 matches in a row. In this episode, the youngest guest ever on No Show Dogs, unpacks what it actually takes to survive the jump from "top of your world" to starting over at the bottom. Leaders will hear how Ethan handled self-inflicted pressure, the four-part mental reset he uses after every point, why his coaches gave him permission to quit — and why that's exactly when he chose discomfort instead. He talks ab...

Leadership Starts With Your Example - Mike Norvell, Florida State University Football, Head Coach

2026-08-1245:44

You can say all the right words. But if you won't put the action in front of them, nobody's going to listen. That's the standard Florida State head football coach Mike Norvell holds himself to and it started long before he was the youngest FBS head coach in the country at 34. From graduate assistant at the University of Central Arkansas to head coach of the Seminoles, Norvell built his career on a single conviction: never hold a title too big for a task that's necessary. This conversation isn...

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