Playing it Forward Coaching

05/25/2026

05/11/2026

From the Locker Room to the Real Life of Entrepreneurship, How Doing Something Hard Everyday Will Allow You to Adapt to That Life

05/06/2026

In just their second year as a team, this group and their great coaches, punched their ticket into the state tournament with Jenny Kramer and Chloe Meador. The grit and determination of all these ladies was very impressive!

04/28/2026

From the Locker Room to Life......

This incredible book of wonderful, mentally tough role models is now available on Amazon and the enclosed stories will certainly encourage others to take similar actions!

The stories include the new Lady Bobcat Wrestling Team; Everest Conqueror, Wendy Gustin Brauneis of Hancock and Northeast PA; Northeastern HS Soccer standouts, Seth Sidle and Evan Jennings; Brian Geller and his tennis and life journey; Tom Kessler, former York College Wrestling Coach and Division three Hall of Fame; Tom Kersting, Nationally renowned expert on the challenges and solutions to the overuse of addictive screens and phones; Jordan Sowers and his overcoming a major challenge from his childhood; Robin Hickey, French teacher extraordinaire and a tribute to my college wrestling Coach, James Howard of Oswego State College, a giant on and off the mat who passed away on February 9th at age 93.

If you choose to get this book, please take a minute or so to post a review. The time and efforts to present great role models such as those here is the result of about 150 hours, no small task.

07/13/2025

A big thank you to Leah Barnes, Samantha Burns, Trish Motter, Jon Urey, Bryan Group, Owen and Levi Beshore, Nick Geller, Xavior Castelli, Vinnie Angelo and Carrie Hatton as their individual stories are very impressive! All of these contributors have shown incredible resilience and mental toughness in their journeys for becoming entrepreneurs.
The kindle/ebook is out and the hardcover and paperback versions is now out as well.
If you want true inspiration with those in the book, use them as role models with ideas, strategies and non-stop persistence for reaching your business goals.

If they can do it, so can you!

07/12/2025

This new book has a number of very successful young entrepreneurs, their incredible stories and I am sure you will enjoy and be inspired by them. If they css an do it, so can you!
For full disclosure, the cover was AI assisted.

12/12/2024

Thank you so much to Brittney Shearer for the book purchase and wonderful Amazon review!

12/12/2024

A big thank you to Brittney Shearer for her wonderful support for my book, “Mental Toughness for Teen Athletes, Post COVID-19.” So far, it has 66 five star reviews, very humbling!

05/29/2024

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