Win More, Live Better

One of the best ways to prepare people for difficult moments is to intentionally create more of them in training. Borrowing inspiration from Olympic gold medalist and Team USA volleyball coach Karch Kiraly, this episode explores an exercise he calls the "escape room" and how to challenge athletes to embrace difficulty, navigate frustration, and develop resilience.
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Dr. Barry Davis is a Hall of Fame baseball coach whose career spans nearly four decades and more than 1,000 victories across three levels of college baseball.
Barry began his head coaching career at Gloucester County College, where he won four NJCAA Division III national championships and earned four National Coach of the Year awards. He later led Georgia Southwestern to a conference championship and a school-record 49-win season before taking over at Rider University in 2005.
Across 21 seasons at Rider, Barry transformed the Broncs into a consistent MAAC contender, winning five conference tournament championships, making five NCAA Regional appearances, and earning three MAAC Coach of the Year honors. In 2026, he returned to lead Rider to the first season in program history featuring both regular-season and tournament championships.
Barry also holds a Ph.D. in Sports Leadership and now shares his experience through speaking, coaching, and his book, Old Dog, New Tricks: The Power of Leading with Emotional Intelligence.
Here's some notable highlights from our conversation:
[5:54] — Returning to Rider as a Different Coach
[10:27] — The Gift of Perspective With Stepping Away
[14:17] — What Winning Conceals
[19:10] — The Greatest Leadership Talk He Ever Heard
[24:35] — Barry's Self-Talk Walk
[29:03] — Learning to Coach With Empathy
[33:30] — Barry's Dissertation on Sustainable Winning Programs
[39:27] — Leaders Have to Be Repeaters
[46:52] — The EQ Edge
[53:57] — Old Dog, New Tricks Book
[58:41] — Moving From Knowledge to Execution
[1:04:28] — What Comes After 1,000 Wins?
[1:08:38] — A Lifetime of Chasing Excellence

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What if you hired someone whose only job was to keep you from reaching your goals? What would they tell you to do? In this episode, Zach explores the concept of red teaming and how thinking like a saboteur can expose the vulnerabilities that might derail you or your team. With references to a famous speech by NFL Head coach, John Harbaugh, and a simple strategic planning team exercise, you'll learn how proactively identifying what could go wrong can help you build the systems, habits, and responses to prevent it.
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If you repeated today’s habits and decisions for the next 100 days, would you be closer to what matters most or further away? That question and a lesson from NASA's Apollo missions is at the heart of today's episode. We explore how drift develops, why adjusting your route can help you stay committed to your goals, and how to recover when you veer off course. Whether you’re evaluating your leadership, relationships, or personal routines, this conversation offers a simple way to check your direction and make a purposeful adjustment.
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You can’t force someone to change, but you can create the conditions that make change more likely. In this From the Other Side of the Mic episode, Zach joins Billy Allen on the "Coach Your Brains Out" podcast with additional guests Bernie Holliday and Ceci Clark for a wide-ranging conversation about one of the most important (and complicated) parts of coaching and leadership: Helping people change their behavior.
They explore why advice alone rarely creates lasting change, how to build greater ownership and buy-in, the role of honest feedback and difficult conversations, why environment can sometimes teach more effectively than a coach, and what leaders can do when growth initially looks and feels like regression.
Whether you’re a coach, leader, parent, or teacher, you’re in the behavior-change business. This conversation explores how to help people move forward without trying to force them there.
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