The Secrets to Winning with Dr. Bhrett McCabe

This week's guest is Mike Adams, a nationally renowned golf instructor known as the “Swing Doctor”, who has been teaching the game of golf for over 33 years. He has been listed on every GOLF Magazine Top 100 Instructor and Golf Digest Top 50 Teacher list that has ever been produced. Known as the ‘Teacher of Teachers’ , he has helped mentor, train, influence and develop 20 current members of the GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher List.

This week's guest is at the top of his field in the game of golf. Eric Eshleman is very well well known as a teaching professional for PGA Tour players such as Graeme McDowell, Patton Kizzire, and Paul Dunne. Even former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, an avid golfer, turns to Eshleman for all of her golf swing needs. Earlier this year, Eshleman, the director of golf at the Country Club of Birmingham, was named the 2019 PGA Golf Professional of the Year solidifying him at the top of his field!

This week on The Secrets to Winning, we have a bit of a unique situation. Recently, a PGA Tour player said to me "You've got some amazing guests on your show. But I feel like I'm missing is YOUR perspectives. You do a good job of integrating your ideas into the conversation, but I want to hear from YOU." So, we flipped the script. I am the guest being asked the hard-hitting questions. If you want to know what it takes to be an elite performer from my perspective, you are in the right place!

This week's guest on The Secrets to Winning overcame a life-threatening injury to get back on the field. Gina Snyder was a starting pitcher for Purdue University's softball team until she encountered a life-threatening brain illness, forcing her to return home to Tucson, AZ to retrain her brain how to think, how to walk, and eventually, how to dominate on the field again.  Once fully healed, Gina gave softball another shot and walked-on at the University of Arizona, a perennial softball power.

As a psychologist, I am a huge fan of The Bachelor and Bachelorette series’. Whether you watch them or not, I think these are the best two shows on human behavior and competition that have ever been created. Our guest on this week’s episode is Garrett Powell, someone who has experienced all of the craziness that is The Bachelorette first-hand as a contestant on Season 15. In real life, Garrett is a PGA Tour Professional at Shoal Creek Golf Club in Birmingham, Alabama.

This week's guest on the Secrets to Winning is former Major League Baseball player and current ESPN Baseball Analyst Chris Burke. Chris was an "All-Everything" player in college at Tennessee where he was a 2x consensus All-American and the 10th overall pick in the 2001 MLB Draft by the Houston Astros. Chris now serves as one of the lead college baseball analysts for ESPN, and you can find him in the booth for large events such as the NCAA Tournament and College World Series.

Our guest this week is none other than bestselling author Ryan Holiday talking about his new book Stillness is the Key and how that applies to performers and competitors in all walks of life. All great leaders, thinkers, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan calls it stillness--to be steady while the world spins around you. How can you be calm in the midst of chaos?

People that come to see me aren't doing so because everything is awesome. The people I see are frustrated and feel like they are stuck in what I call Suckville - the dreaded space between our reality and our potential or where we "think" we should be. Suckville can be a tough place to get out of. You're constantly frustrated with your current reality vs. where you think you should be. You feel like you are taking way too long to reach your goals and you want success RIGHT NOW. I want to help you get out!

At the age of 24, he was homeless, addicted to heroin and facing long jail sentences. In the years, since he has found a way to recover from addiction and build a life worth living. This week's guest on The Secrets to Winning is Eric Zimmer. Eric is a behavior change coach 7 hosts an award-winning podcast, The One You Feed based on an old parable about two wolves at battle within us. The show features conversations with experts across many fields about how to create a life worth living.

Alan Stein, Jr. is a speaker & author who spent 15+ years as an NBA performance coach working with the highest-performing basketball players on the planet including Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and Victor Oladipo. He now teaches audiences how to utilize the same strategies in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level. Alan specializes in improving individual and organizational leadership, performance and accountability. 

This week's guest is Marty Reichenthal, a savvy investor and entrepreneur. I had the opportunity to do a live event with Marty earlier this year, and I was very impressed with his content. In addition to many other business ventures, Marty purchased and developed 21 OrangeTheory locations over the span of 5 years. He recently sold a majority of the company to a private equity firm, and remains on the board of directors.

There is only one Wright Thompson. His work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close). To say his pieces are ALL about sports is not the case - Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full

Ole Miss named Mike Bianco head coach of the Rebel baseball program on June 7, 2000. Since then, Bianco has become the winningest coach in program history and one of the top coaches in Southeastern Conference history while establishing Ole Miss as one of the premier programs in college baseball. In this episode of the Secrets to Winning, I sat down with a coach that had a tremendous impact on my career as a player and on my life.

Ready or not, the emerging generations of Gen Y and Gen Z are entering the age of adulthood. Unless we make some adjustments in the way we interact with and lead them, our organizations could suffer. Throughout this podcast, I want to help you better understand generational differences and who exactly you are dealing with, provide tools to help you connect with and equip the emerging generation, and establish standards of high demand, high feedback with team members

This week, we take a dive into a new field of performance - music. But it's not different - Still training to be elite, dealing with the same high intensity and pressure, and demonstrating a commitment to discipline, excellence, and accountability. Our guest this week is international musician Skip Snead. Skip is known as one of the best horn players alive, performing for audiences all over the world. He is also an accomplished instructor serving as the Director of Univ. of Alabama's School of Music.