Join Chris and Corinne Stevens, long time high school football couple, as they look in to the lives of other coaches, their wives and families. They will share about the wins, the losses and the journey along the way. You will gain encouragement and inspiration as you listen to the tales these coaches share about their teams, football seasons, anecdotes in their family dynamics and insight into their marital relationships. Get ready to feel motivated, inspired and connected into the lives of ...
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Joshua and Kristen Eargle: Choose Joy Today!
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067. TFNL would like to introduce to you Joshua and Kristen Eargle! Joshua is the Deputy Head - Offensive Line Coach for FIU! Key Stops Prior to FIU: -Kansas - Recruiting Coordinator/Tight Ends#3 Big 12 Recruiting Class -Austin Peay - OC - #1 FCS Recruiting Class, helped to turn program around, rewrote record books offensively -ETBU - Head Coach tu…
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Kevin Swift: From So Cal Surf to Gold Beach
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#066. Like a lot of football coaches (myself included), breaking film down at the age of 10 with his father, a high school science teacher and football coach for 52 years, was the inspiration for Coach Kevin Swift to get into coaching. He attended Servite High School in Anaheim, California. At Servite, he was coached and mentored by some of the fin…
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Chad and Talisha Alligood: God's Plan is Bigger
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065. TFNL welcomes Chad and Talisha Alligood to the podcast. Coach Alligood is currently the Athletic director for the Jones County School System in Georgia. He has been in high school coaching for 30 years. He was the head football coach and Athletic director for Northside high School in Warner Robins, Ga and Washington- Wilkes High School in Wash…
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Justin and Haley Brown-Woods 2.0: Coaching Our Way out of Debt
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064. TFNL welcomes back The Price of Avocado Toast! Haley and Justin Brown-Woods are financial coaches and came back to catch up with us about life, finances and paying down debt. Since their last time on our show their lives have changed quite a bit. They've grown from a family of 3 to a family of 5, paid down over $130,000 in debt, Justin is now …
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Andrew Lachelt: Once a Knight...Always a Knight!
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63. The old adage, "What goes around comes around", speaks to how you treat people. But in the case of Andrew Lachelt, this can be used in regards to his football journey as well. He attended Ontario Christian High School from 2006-2010. And then after his college playing career came to an end (which included a stint at University of Oklahoma), he …
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Friday Night Wives: Ashley Hover & Shelby Ashley
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62. Corinne sat down (virtually) with the ladies of "Friday Night Wives". Friday Night Wives is an online community whose mission is to bring support and encouragement to other Coaches Wives from all different sports. In this episode you'll hear how this unlikely partnership has turned out to be such a sweet friendship. They also talk Mom life, Coa…
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61. Chris and Corinne welcomes Brett and Brittany Sloan. In this conversation, The Sloan's share their football coaching journey which includes both wonderful moments and some hard ones as well. Some key points in our conversation: How the AFCWA has been a source of encouragement and support for Brittany. The realities of moving 6 times in 8 years …
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Chris and Corinne Stevens: Season Four... Here We Go!
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#60. And Here we go! Chris and Corinne are about to conclude their second year up in the Central Valley. They recap on the year and how they're doing. Corinne shares what her role is at the school along with Chris sharing his take on being a "sophmore" Athletic Director and what's next for them as a family this coming year. Corinne is stepping into…
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#059. TFNL welcomes back Solmaz Chadwell with a 1 v. 1 interview with Corinne. Solmaz sits down with Corinne via zoom and is able to share her personal testimony of immigrating to America from Iran. It's a wonderful story of Faith, Hope and the pursuit of Freedom. You will come away from this episode understanding a true story of immigration from I…
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Chris Stevens: 5 Points for a Successful Fall Camp
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#58. Fall Camp is an exciting time for football Programs all across America. The opening game is right around the corner, the armor is coming out, Friday Night Lights are getting ready to fire up again! Are you ready for the final push? The final tune up for the season? Fall Camp is here! Top 5 Points to making sure that this Fall Camp will be succ…
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Corinne Stevens: 5 ways to get ready for this football season!
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#57. The Stevens change up their normal recording format and Corinne takes over the recording sesh alone for the first time. She shares 5 things that the Coach's Wife should prioritize to better prepare for the upcoming football season. Here's the convo in a nutshell.... 1. Open Communication and Support 2. Personal Self-Care 3. Setting realistic g…
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Jamey and Solmaz Chadwell: A Journey to Liberty
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#056. Jamey Chadwell is the new head coach at Liberty University. In this episode we get to chat with the Chadwell's on how they got together, and their journey from college all the way up to their new home at Liberty University. Solmaz also shares her journey with us in immigrating to the United States. In addition to listening to their journey sh…
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#055. Ashley is the founder of The Game Day Family. She's married to Heath Hover, the Offensive Coordinator for South Forsyth High School in Cummings, GA. She started The Game Day Family as an Etsy shop filled with fun little onesies for babies and other gifts and it quickly turned into her creating children's books for the coach's kid. We had a gr…
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Beth Walker: Organization in the Moving Chaos
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#054. Organization in the Moving Chaos TFNL would like to welcome back Beth Walker. Beth has become a good friend of Corinne’s. She’s encouraged and mentored her in the last few years especially this last year going through the move up to Central Valley. Beth is an author, mentor, speaker, marketing director, encourager, blogger and a fellow coach’…
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Jennifer Gorman: Registered Dietician and Nutritionist
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#053. Welcome Jennifer Gorman to the TFNL Family! Jennifer is a fellow Coach’s Wife and also a Registered Dietician and Nutritionist. Her husband, Justin Gorman, is the Passing Game Coordinator/Head Track Coach at Abilene in Abilene, TX. She’s a momma of 3, Cooper and Masyn (8) are twins and Crawford, 2 years old. On this episode, Jennifer and Cori…
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Christine Flores: The Coaching Family Foundation
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#052. Christine Flores is the founder and CEO of the Coaching Family Foundation. She's married to David Flores who is the O. C. and recruiting coordinator for Evangel University. Christine is a social worker and mental health therapist as well. In 2015 she began her blog and social media accounts, Coach Wife Life, where she strives to create a comm…
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#051. Season 3 Ya'll and Chris and Corinne are excited to share all that has happened since they moved up to Central Valley. Chris shares about his experiences as being an athletic director, how the move has impacted Corinne, their time in North Carolina for the AFCA Conference and the recent passing of Chris's father. http://www.thefridaynightlife…
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Chris and Corinne Stevens: So You're a New Head Coach...Now What?
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#050. Greetings! It's Chris and Corinne again with another solo episode. In this episode, we talk about what it 's like to get that very first gig. You are now a HEAD FOTBALL COACH! So what's next? What do you do? What's your first order of business? We recap the experiences we have been through in hopes it helps those first timers out there, or ma…
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Chris and Corinne Stevens: Big Change Is Coming!
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#049. Hey Hey....it's just us....your hosts, Chris and Corinne Stevens. We have some big changes coming this year in 2022. We recap some of our past guests, catch you all up on what's going on, and fill you in on a huge change to our lives this year. Thanks again for tuning in and taking the time to listen to our podcast. The Friday Night Life webs…
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Wayne Voorhees: USA Football, How to Open a School, and a Fatal Bus Crash
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#048. Coach Wayne Voorhees and I have a unique relationship. Wayne was the Head Football Coach at Legacy HS in 2016, and was looking to travel to California to play a football game. The organization he was connected to found me looking for a game the very same week, and we set up the contest. We had a great game, right down to the wire. Upon return…
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Masai and Crystal Dalton: Football Newlyweds
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#047. Masai went to and graduated from Clemson University and went straight into the Army after graduating. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! After retiring from the Army, he began coaching at a small private school in rural Georgia where he was the 1st African-American coach/teacher on the staff. Since then, he has coached at some of the largest and mos…
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#046. Coach Stevens shares his thoughts on the most important aspect of his "Building a QB From the Ground Up" talk at the Southern California Coaches Clinic. This is a recap of the leadership part of that talk. The Friday Night Life website: https://www.thefridaynightlife.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefridaynightlife/?hl=en Twitter:…
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Jason and Veronica Bornn: Saugus Strong
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#045. Jason Bornn is a 30+ year coaching veteran, and his 19th as Head Coach of the Saugus Centurions with a record of 104 wins 94 losses, three Foothill League titles (2008, 2011, 2020), while reaching the playoffs 12 out of the past 16 seasons, with four CIF Semi-Final appearances (2016, 2013, 2008, and 2007). Prior to coaching at Saugus, Coach B…
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Erica Hardin and Jennifer Giugliano: A "Coaches Wives Night Out"
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#044. Coaches Wives Night Out (South Carolina) was started by Erica Hardin and Jennifer Guiliano. Corinne had the chance to sit down with them (via zoom) and talk about why they began this great event for coaches wives and how important it is for us, football wives to feel supported. Both Erica and Jennifer are married and their husbands coach toge…
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Tim and Anne Rulo: Leadership and Lightning Strikes
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#043. Tim and Anne Rulo. A wonderful couple that has impacted and continues to impact lives everywhere. Tim is the Head Football, Head Strength & Conditioning, Assistant Track, Leadership Coordinator at Russellville High School (Missouri). He has been coaching for 18 years, 14 as head coach. His main focus is leadership and character development. A…
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Randy and Carolyn Allen: 400+ Wins, a Fidora, and the Top of Texas
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#042. Randy and Carolyn Allen met through Kanakuk ministries at one of the camps in Missiouri. However they were reunited when Carolyn was attending Texas A &M and Randy was asked to play the guitar and entertain some college students. They have two children, Zac and Ashley (which you will have to hear how Coach Allen became "matchmaker"), and 8 gr…
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Kirby Toribio: Faith, Fitness, Family, and College Football
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#041. This is a great episode as we introduce you to Kirby Toribio. Kirby shares about life as a college football coach's wife. Kirby's husband is Anthony Toribio and they've been married for 6 years now. They met when Kirby was in college at Carson-Newman University in Tennessee. Anthony had attended Carson-Newman but had since graduated and was p…
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#040. John and Luz Rice have a riveting "together story" unlike any other. Luz is from Columbia and has not known American Football before she met John. You have to hear their story to believe it. Now, Luz and John have four children and they are all in on being a "footbal family", so much so that their daughter is the Director of Football Operatio…
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Jeff and Jocelyn Steinberg: Attacking the Day With Enthusiasm Unknown to Mankind!
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#039. Jeff and Jocelyn Steinberg has a great story. From Canada to Southern California. 4 kiddos, 4 dogs, 5 horses, and a partridge in a pear tree! Coach Steinberg is the Head Football Coach at Beaumont High School in Southern California. He joined Beaumont after successful stints at Rancho Verde, Corona Santiago, AB Miller and Ridgecrest Burroughs…
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Masaki Matsumoto: His Journey From Japan and the Coaches of Influence in His Life
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#038. Coach Masaki Matsumoto was born in Japan, but grew up in Seattle, WA and attended King's High School and played for Jim Shapiro (Episode #007). After graduating from high school, Coach Matsumoto received a scholarship to play football at Trinity International University in Chicago, IL. He went onto receive his Bachelor's degree in Physical Ed…
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Laing and Holly Stevens: Where It All Began
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#037. Ladies and Gentlemen...Corinne and I have been looking forward to this episode since the moment we started this podcast. This is where it all began in my journey to become a Head Football Coach. I would like to introduce to you my Mom and Dad, Laing and Holly Stevens. They have a powerful story of love and forgiveness, restoration and perseve…
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Herb and Joe Meyer: A Championship Legacy and the "Mount Rushmore" of California High School Football
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#036. Arguably one of the greatest Father - Son coaching teams in California, and maybe the nation. Joe and Herb Meyer have spent their entire football coaching careers in San Diego, California. Herb is on the "Mount Rushmore" of California high school football with 338 total wins (only three coaches have accomplished this to date) and 10 CIF title…
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PJ and Kristin Gibbs: Film in the Firehouse, "For Pete's Sake", and Team Japan
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#035. PJ and Kristin Gibbs have a fascinating and intriguing story. Palmetto Ridge High School in Naples Florida. Coach Gibbs' Defensive Unit was the #1 Ranked Defense in SWFL this year allowing 6.9 Points per game while creating 33 Turnovers and having a Havoc Rate of 42% for the season. Coach has completed his 3rd year at Palmetto Ridge and has h…
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Dallas and Becca Hartwell: The Sweet Science of Love, Cornhuskers, and Canadian Football
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#034. Meet Dallas and Becca Hartwell. Dallas is originally from Nebraska and served in our United Sates Army from 2005-2012. He participated in escort and security missions in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. He also worked for the railroad and was a plumber before pursuing a career in teaching and coaching. Be…
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Harlon and Tammy Barnett: Spartan Pride and Unwrapping Imperfection
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#033. Tammy C. Barnett holds a Ph. D in Christian Counseling. She has served for over 25+ years educating, empowering and equipping people to self-reflect, accept that their imperfections are perfectly them, and overcome any challenges or adversities they might encounter. Her professional experience includes counseling, mentoring and facilitating. …
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John and Cecelia Simon: Youth Football to the NFL and Inspiring the Hearts of Coaches Wives
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#032. We have Cecelia and John Simon on the show with us and we talk Faith, Family and as always Football. Cecelia is a Faith Based author, speaker and teacher who has written 2 books. One is a devotional called “The one day hope: A Christian guide to learning life” and her second book is entitled Married to Coach submitted to Both. Cecelia’s heart…
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RJ Feild: From RJ's Law, to Meaningful Mentorship, to a CIF Championship
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#031. Football reaches and impacts so many lives in so many different ways. And for RJ Feild, it reached him in high school, and he wasn't even playing the game. So how does a young man become a football coach without even playing the game? What kept RJ from playing the game? Who reached out to him and introduced him to the game of football? And ho…
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Halakilangi and Lenora Muagututi'a: A Va'a of Love
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#030. Decisions determines destiny. A life mantra for The Muagututi'as. Halakilangi was a 5'7 160 pound safety coming out of high school who had a dream and a Coach who inspired him to follow that dream to be a Division I football player. And Lenora, as a young girl who moved 23 times in her childhood before settling in California. Their paths woul…
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Ordell and Beth Walker: Walking Through The Friday Night Life
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#029. Today we have Ordell and Beth Walker talking with us about Faith Family and Football. I have followed Beth on social media for quite some time. She has always posted such wonderful posts encouraging women to “Thrive in their Sweet Spot”. What I love about her is that she has such a heart for her husband, her family, football and coaches’ wive…
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Mark and Julie Pasquarella: An Adoption Story and How to Coach Your Own Son
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#028. I have a special connection with Mark and Julie. Mark was my first boss coming out of college. He hired me in 1994 at Ayala HS, and I served under him for 3 three years before I had to go get a teaching contract in another District. In those years, we went to the CIF Division 2 Finals twice! I was spoiled to be a part of a staff that had mult…
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Aaron and Jody Masden: On a Mission to Save Lives Through Football
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#027. Aaron Masden played his High School Football at La Crosse Central HS, La Crosse, WI. He was a college RB at Luther College (NCAA DIII), Decorah IA and at the University of Thomas (NCAA DIII), St. Paul MN. He is the current Head Football Coach at Spring Mountain HS. He has a very impressive resume', but that only begins to scratch the surface …
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Jose "Coco" Jarin: TAK Time All the Time!
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#026. Coach Coco started coaching football at the Pop Warner level in 1980. As a coach, Coco learned early that a coach is as good as the players that he coaches. In 1980, Coco was fortunate to coach a team blessed with talent with 7 players going on to play major college football. The 1980 team went on to post a 15-0 record and a midget division s…
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Rob Griffing, Danny Faulkenstein, and Aaron Masden: No AFCA Convention? No Problem! Review/Preview and Tuesday Morning QB
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#025. Corinne and I had the privilege of traveling to Nashville, Tennessee this January for the AFCA Convention. The bad news was the convention was cancelled due to lockdowns. The good news was I still got to sit around and talk football with some great men and coaches. The great news was I recorded our conversations for you! Rob Griffing, Danny F…
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DeChon Burns: Multi-Sport Athletes, Push-ups for Pops, His Kids, and Wisdom for Young Coaches
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#024. Coach DeChon Burns is the Head Football Coach at Linfield Christian HS (Temecula, CA). He has coached at every level (see below), and has worked with some HOF coaches and athletes. In this episode, he takes us inside his childhood and playing sports was an "all-the-time" thing. Listen how he reminisces about his Father and the legacy he left …
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Justin and Haley Brown-Woods: Football, Finances, and The Price of Avocado Toast
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#023. Justin is a QB Coach at his Alma Mater El Molino High School in Sonoma County, in Northern California. He is also a QB Coach at Ground Force Quarter Back Acadmey. Haley is a substitute teacher in the school district and is a swim coach as well. They have their own podcast called "The Price of Avocado Toast" where they help young people with t…
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Peyton Erickson: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
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#022. We have a great episode to share with you! I had the opportunity to talk with Peyton Erickson. I had been following her for sometime on social media. She’s a banker, beach body coach, a fellow coach’s wife and also the host of her own podcast called The Coach’s wife Playbook podcast. She’s married to Spencer Erickson who is an Assistant Defen…
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Chris and Corinne Stevens: Happy Thanksgiving!
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#022. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! 2020 has been one for the books, and can be viewed as forgettable. A lot has happened, and a lot of people have had traumatic experiences that have radically altered the course of their lives. From death, to loss of businesses, to political divide. Our focus and goal in this episode is to bring you a change in …
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Dominic and Adriana Farrar: Overtime Edition - Coaches of Impact
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#021. Our first "Overtime edition" with Dominic and Adriana Farrar. We had so much great content in our conversation with Dominic and Adriana, that we felt to leave anything out would be a disservice to their family and the extended village of The Farrar Family and The Charter Oak Football Family. So is an extra 20 minutes or so, of Dominic and Adr…
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Dominic and Adriana Farrar: In Memoriam of Lou Farrar, a Coaching Legend
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#020. in this episode, Corinne and I got to talk with Dominic and Adriana Farrar. Dominic is currently the Head Football Coach at Charter Oak HS (Covina, CA). He and Adriana have three kids: Louis (20), Vincent (17), and Sophia (12). Dominic has an impressive resume'... 25+ years in the District. Co-founded an educational award-winning program Odys…
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Robyn Hoekstra and Anita Rix: The Friday Night Wives Edition
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#019. Corinne sits down with Robyn Hoekstra and Anita Rix for some candid talks about the first Fall without football and how the wives can uplift and support their Friday Night Husbands in and out of season. Robyn, along with her husband Matt, were our very first guests on our very first episode. And Anita, along with her husband Chris, have been …
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