Product of Our Coaches: On Being Coachable in Life

Life is a series of making failures and learning from them. Sometimes, we have the best people that can help guide us through all of these ups and downs. They are our coaches who continually inspire and push us to become better and to reach our goals. Scott shares how the coaches of his past have helped to shape and mold him for today. Calling on to people who have created an impact on his life, he shows how we are the product of our coaches and imparts as well the things he has learned from them. He shares to us the importance of being coachable and to not fear failures, especially in the note business where things can become unpredictable.

"This episode is a little bit different. I always get excited this time of the year because of football season. College football is kicking off. The NFL is in the pre-season and the High School football is rock and rolling along. I’m a big football fan. I played in high school and I played two seasons in college. I enjoyed football. It helped shape my life in a variety of ways. More importantly, the coaches that I’ve had while playing helped mold me more so than anything else. In football, you have ups and downs like anything else. We had some ups and downs growing up. I’ll give you an example. My parents were pretty dead set against me playing football in high school, especially my dad. My dad was always phrasing that I’d get injured and hurt. I went through a bit of a big growth spurt between seventh and eighth grade.

The first coach who has helped shape me a lot was my junior high coach and high school coach, Wayne Stevens. He retired from Ingleside School District and Ingleside High School. Stevens is one of the guys that was on my dad quite a bit. He’d come into the hardware store and he would say, “When are you letting your son play?” He’s a bit of a character and a big guy. He pitched in college for TCU as a pitcher form, but he shaped me early on in doing the right things and being a leader from the get-go. That evolved as I went into high school. Coach Stevens did a great job as well as the Titan’s coach in high school. Coach John Robledo, my linebacker coach, Coach James Heath, our defensive coordinator, Coach Larry Peel was the head coach. Also, Coach Aubie Glover was a position coach. I’ve always learned a lot from these men early on. It shaped me through my high school career and helped me get to the college level. I also took what I learned from them and put it into business."

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