Travis Wyckoff, Kingdom Coaching: Helping Coaches Become Better Leaders

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My guest today is Travis Wyckoff, founder of Kingdom Coaching, a consulting business for coaches to help provide the tools, strategies, and skills you need to transform how you lead yourself, lead others, and win in all areas. He also hosts the podcast called Coaching DNA, which I was recently a guest on. Previously, he coached college baseball for 11 years and spent six years leading on a church staff.

In this episode, we discuss the transition from coaching college baseball to starting Kingdom Coaching. He explains the different ways he works with coaches, whether it is one-on-one coaching, staff coaching, Tribe Membership, or cohorts. We spend a lot of time around leadership, a topic he is incredibly passionate about. After his time spent working with some of the top coaches, like Tim Corbin and Anson Dorrance, he distills a great leader down to character, emotional intelligence, clarity, psychological makeup.

Where to connect with Travis: Website | Twitter | Podcast or email him at travis@kingdomcoachingtw.com

Resources Discussed:

Coaching DNA Podcast with Rodney Hobbs

End of Episode Questions:

1.    What’s 1 book every coach should read?

• InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives by Joe Ehrmann

• Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey's Greatest Coaches by Craig Custance

• Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann

2.    Who is one person you’d want to hear as a guest on this podcast? 

• Dabo Swinney

3.    What’s one area you’re looking to improve in over the next year? 

• Be more present with others

4.    What’s popular advice you hear people say that you think is wrong?

• Be yourself – no, be the best version of yourself

5.    What advice do you have for young coaches who are listening to this?

• Be a continuous learner

6.    What’s the darkest moment you experienced professionally and how did you overcome it?

• One season while coaching was really hard with poor pitching and tough to handle as the team went through it. He overcame it via grit.

Favorite Quote:

“John Maxwell talks a ton about: your leadership ability will determine the lid on, in my case the people I'm working with, it'll determine the lid of your program. So if your leadership is growing, if you're a really excellent leader, your program is going to rise. If not, you will put the lid on your program based on what your leadership capacity is.”