Coaches tend to focus on a clients future rather than psychoanalyze the past. They stress a more holistic evaluation of the clients life than a business consultant might offer. In theory, if they encounter a client with serious mental health problems, they refer the person to a medical professional, but the line between coaching and therapy is not always distinct, and the industry is essentially unregulated. Professional associations like the International Coaching Federation offer accreditation and oversight. But anyone can call herself a life coach and following the model of yoga studios, which have long drawn significant income from certification courses for new instructors offer a pricey training program to make you a life coach, too. (Life coaching is like any new, unregulated profession, with its share of peddlers of false promises.)

Over the past generation, life coaching has split into a dozen subdisciplines, almost all of them dominated by women. Women account for 75 percent of coach practitioners in North America, according to a 2019 study by the federation. One reason for the demographic imbalance, Ms. Mook speculated, is that early on, many coaches came from the worlds of counseling, nursing and other caring professions that also employ many women. And as gender disparities in pay and professional advancement persist in many fields, women let down by traditional support systems may find the sustenance they need in a coach. This may be a way that women are finding support in their lives, she said. Spiritual coaching seems to feature the starkest gender imbalance of any coaching field.

Typically, spiritual coaches offer a mix of one-on-one counseling and group coaching, as well as certification programs for aspiring coaches. Some people say, Youre just a coach that coaches coaches, Drea Guinto, who runs Soul Flow Co., based in Central California, told me. My response is, maybe coaching is an emerging trade that is filling a true need in the population, and that is the reason why people are saying, I see there is profitability in this. She offers a lifetime-access group coaching program for $3,333, aimed at, according to her website, soul-preneurs who are ambitious yet also spiritual and seeking to launch their own businesses. I see my clients as healers of different modalities, and my premise is that the world needs more healing, she said.

Spiritual coaches face an extra dose of mistrust because they base their claim to transform lives and careers not just on self-taught psychology and dubious certifications but also on supernatural beliefs and rituals that they swear have worked for them. Coaches I interviewed told me that trusting the universe can replace chemotherapy, that healing prayers drive away chronic bladder infections, that a professional clairvoyant can read a clients future in the universes nonphysical, vibrational library," as a recent Goop article put it, of past lives and future events called the Akashic records.

How should a skeptic think about such claims? It would surely be pedantic and overscrupulous for those who can get their savage and primitive philosophy of mental healing verified in such experimental ways as this, to give them up at a word of command for more scientific therapeutics, wrote the pragmatist philosopher William James when he considered testimonies of healing through supernatural mind cure more than a century ago. What are we to think of all this? Has science made too wide a claim? Perhaps such experiences show the universe to be a more many-sided affair than any sect, even the scientific sect, allows for.

Attention to unseen forces in the universe especially the divine feminine is partly a means for these coaches to counter the machismo that dominates American entrepreneurial culture. Many spiritual coaches target female would-be entrepreneurs with spiritual business accelerator programs that promise to help you find fulfillment while you make money. Part of it is strategy, but I come more from the point of view of consciousness what wants to be birthed through me versus a more capitalistic, masculine approach to business, Ms. Guinto said. Of course we love profit, but the point is unleashing that soul purpose.

In American culture, entrepreneurship is the highest spiritual discipline. A successful start-up requires the self-abnegation that a monastic vocation used to demand: little sleep, coming to terms with your own failure and sacrificing bodily comforts in the service of a higher cause. The gig economy is an ersatz way to open this vocation to lesser souls, but it seems to fail many seekers. Spiritual coaches are responding to this failure. And in a culture where the feeling of truthiness is more important than scientifically verified facts, its natural to embrace a mishmash of spiritual healing practices that just feel right.

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Last week, the Voice From The Bullpen began a comparison of a cats storied life of nine lives, to that of his own, and got through the first two lives with a promise of continuing the comparison in todays narrative. So here we go

Life Three was Coaching/Officiating Life. I love sports, and had opportunities to expand on that, combining it with my Teaching Life, by coaching baseball, football, and softball at schools and in communities for many years. First, I loved the sports I was teaching to the kids I was coaching. I loved going to clinics to get better at teaching the skills and learning more organizational and motivational skills. I loved practicing, sometimes more than the games, as practicing was where I got to teach the sport. I expected much from players too, and I set those bars high as well, again, with some kids and adults, there were disgruntlements regarding my philosophy, but I always felt integrity, and consistency had to be key components in what we were doing. Coaching also gave me opportunities to take kids to places outside the area to play in tournaments, (Cooperstown, Buffalo (NY), Myrtle Beach (SC), Reading, Scranton (PA), Mentor, East Lake (OH), teaching social skills (behavior responsibilities, manners, respect in hotels, restaurants, etc.), too.

When I wasnt coaching I was umpiring baseball at all levels (youth to college) for many years, too. There were some years I did both. Started umpiring at 15 and umpired on and off (some years while coaching, some not) for 24 years between 1969 and 2018. It kept me near my favorite sport and with coaching, gave me both perspectives and a greater appreciation of the game.

Life Four is Parrothead Life. My retirement gift from Sally in 2008, was two tickets, Row 12, Center Stage, to a Jimmy Buffett concert just outside of Pittsburgh, Pa. Always wanting to go a Buffett concert, this was an unbelievable thrill. Never being to one before, we didnt know about the tailgating experience of a Buffett concert. Walking around before the concert began, we decided we would definitely do it again, and not just be a part of the concert inside the venue, but would become Parrotheads like those who prepared for the concert hours before the music started. Weve now totaled 15 Buffett concerts, and the off-Broadway theater production of Escape to Margaritaville, which we saw last November in Buffalo. Our concerts have included numerous more trips to Burgettstown, Pa., two in Cincinnati (and tickets to Cincy this summer), twice in Virginia Beach, and once each in Detroit, Nashville, and Charlottesville, Va. In those experiences weve met great people of all ages, but have become very close to a couple from the Sandusky, Ohio, area, whom weve now shared numerous Buffett concerts along with a wine tasting weekend in Erie, Pa., a Billy Joel concert in Cleveland and this summer well meet them for Buffett in Cincy and Elton John in Cleveland. All this from a parking lot meeting at a Buffet concert in Burgettstown, Pa.

Life Five is baseball fan life. When I was a kid, Dad would take us to a Cleveland Indians doubleheader against the Yankees for many years, and I carried on that tradition with my kids after we got married. Sally and the girls werent really into it, but humored me, going to a few games a year. After Jon was born and he got older (about two years older) we went to games more frequently. I started buying six-game packages, progressed to 20, and now 40-game packages. Ive attended two World Series, and the All-Star game and four days of activities too. Also, my love for coaching/umpiring baseball, having my car decaled to resemble a baseball, and our living room, and my man cave, looking like a baseball museum, says my baseball life is a huge part of my whole life.

Life Six is Browns Backers, NFL Draft and college football life. Ive been honored to serve a group of Cleveland Browns fans chartered with the Browns Backers Worldwide in Berea, Ohio. We spend a solid four months together cheering for the Cleveland Browns, while also trying to assist groups, causes, and charities in our community with donations made as a result of fundraisers we hold during the season. Those donations have accumulated to the tune of over $32,000, since we began doing it back in 2010. Two out of the last three years weve held an after season dinner welcoming guests who are locals whove make their mark with the NFL, some with the Browns.

I also enjoy college football, especially Ohio State and Notre Dame. I love watching the NFL Draft religiously, each year, and have done so for many years except last, when I was fortunate enough to be at the draft in Cleveland. What a rush that was!

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Cheryl Reeve was a 5-year-old New Jersey kid playing baseball with the boys because there was no girls' softball to be found. Such was life on June 23, 1972, the day President Richard Nixon signed Title IX legislation into law.

No one, especially this young righthanded hitter, knew what this new law would bring.

"At 5, 6, you don't know things,'' said Reeve, coach and general manager of the Lynx.

She has coached four WNBA champions and won two Olympic gold medals. Fifty years ago who could have imagined this?

Not Reeve.

"You don't realize it when you're 6, or 10, or even 16,'' Reeve said. "But the opportunities I had. To play basketball at a great institution like La Salle. I was just a lover of sports. Now, as I've gotten older, I've thought about all the other [women] who didn't have the same opportunities. There is no question that, without Title IX, I'm not sitting here as a professional basketball coach.''

As Title IX turns 50, we look at its impact on a grand scale. Participation numbers, financial commitments, growth of high school and college sports. Let's also look at one life.

Reeve, 55, is an example of the first generation of women whose life was changed simply by opportunity. She was able to be a three-sport athlete in high school (by the way, softball was her best sport). She was able to play college basketball (on a partial scholarship at first; change sometimes comes slowly), where she still can be found on several La Salle all-time career lists. She was able to begin her coaching career in college, then move to a fledgling WNBA, a league she has been a part of for 22 of its 26 seasons.

Timing, it seems, is everything.

"I thank God I wasn't born 20 years prior,'' Reeve said. "Because I would have been in jail for the way they treated women, the lack of opportunities.''

If today's young women take some sports opportunities for granted, Reeve is old enough to realize how much things have changed. Plus, when it comes to this issue, Reeve is a historian.

She knows the stories of legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt having to coach, wash the team's uniforms and drive the team bus. She is aware of the journey taken by someone like Lin Dunn, who was born 20 years before Reeve. Dunn's junior high coach used to sneak the team across state lines to Tennessee to play because it was illegal for girls to play in her native Alabama.

All that was starting to change by the time Reeve approached middle school and high school. But Reeve says that it's not just the timing that helped her get where she is. It's the people she met along the way.

"I say that a lot,'' she said. "It's the people I had a chance to work for that led to some great things and opportunities. I do feel fortunate.''

Washington Township High School is in Sewell Township, N.J., just 13 miles from Philadelphia. Reeve thrived in softball and loved tennis but in the early days of Title IX, basketball was one of the first sports to see a funding bump at the college level.

Reeve was gently pushed toward hoops. In those days, players would sit down and write letters to colleges and send them off with some clips.

But that wasn't how Reeve wound up playing college ball. Her high school team had five starters who would play Division I sports. Among them was a young phenom named Karen Healey, who would go on to star at Villanova. Reeve got noticed because college coaches came to watch Healey.

"That's how I got an opportunity to play at La Salle,'' Reeve said.

That started things. Acceding to her father, Reeve studied computer science at La Salle. Her parents wanted her to go to into that field.

But coaching was an idea taking hold. Each summer she would work as a counselor at the Cathy Rush camps, where she got an inkling of the rush that comes with helping someone succeed. She spent two years as a graduate assistant at La Salle while she got her master's degree. From there she went to George Washington, where she was an assistant for Joe McKeown for five years. Then it was on to Indiana State, where she was head coach for five years.

As a season-ticket holder for the brand new Indiana Fever, Reeve felt drawn to the WNBA. One spring she drove up to Chicago for the league's pre-draft combine. There she met Charlotte Sting coach Anne Donovan, who offered her a $5,000 job as a second assistant. She took it, before the 2001 season.

"Can you imagine that call home?'' Reeve said.

Not much was easy about the WNBA's early days. Reeve was in Charlotte when the Hornets skipped town to New Orleans. Worried about the future of the Sting, Reeve went to work with Dan Hughes in Cleveland in 2003. But the Rockers were disbanded a year later. Reeve went back to Charlotte for two seasons, after which the Sting's head coach was fired.

About that time, Reeve's father, Larry, had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

"I was very close to not being in the WNBA anymore,'' Reeve said. "I had to make a decision. Each season was met with, I didn't know if the team would be there, if the league would be there. It's hard, because your family has to hear about your hardships. But I distinctly remember going, 'I'm in this thing. I'm going to go down with the ship if it goes down. Just do it. Obviously, things got better.''

Reeve went to Detroit to be Bill Laimbeer's assistant with the Shock in 2006. Over the next four seasons the Shock made three WNBA finals, winning two. On Dec. 8, 2009, Reeve was named head coach of the Lynx.

There is more to do. Where does she see herself 10 years down the line?

"I hope it means ownership,'' she said. "That's probably what I would set my sights on. That I'm involved, still involved, but on a grander level. Impacting and being a participant in the opportunities that are available.''

It's a big goal. But possible, given talk of eventual WNBA expansion.

What a life arc. From playing baseball with the boys in 1972 to a basketball boss.

"That's what I hope for,'' she said. "We need more teams. Perhaps that will get there by the time I'm 70.''

. . .

An occasional Star Tribune series focused on gender equity in Minnesota sports. Read previous installments of our series at startribune.com/titleix.

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Cheryl Reeve was a 5-year-old New Jersey kid playing baseball with the boys because there was no girls' softball to be found. Such was life on June 23, 1972, the day President Richard Nixon signed Title IX legislation into law.

No one, especially this young righthanded hitter, knew what this new law would bring.

"At 5, 6, you don't know things,'' said Reeve, coach and general manager of the Lynx.

She has coached four WNBA champions and won two Olympic gold medals. Fifty years ago who could have imagined this?

Not Reeve.

"You don't realize it when you're 6, or 10, or even 16,'' Reeve said. "But the opportunities I had. To play basketball at a great institution like La Salle. I was just a lover of sports. Now, as I've gotten older, I've thought about all the other [women] who didn't have the same opportunities. There is no question that, without Title IX, I'm not sitting here as a professional basketball coach.''

As Title IX turns 50, we look at its impact on a grand scale. Participation numbers, financial commitments, growth of high school and college sports. Let's also look at one life.

Reeve, 55, is an example of the first generation of women whose life was changed simply by opportunity. She was able to be a three-sport athlete in high school (by the way, softball was her best sport). She was able to play college basketball (on a partial scholarship at first; change sometimes comes slowly), where she still can be found on several La Salle all-time career lists. She was able to begin her coaching career in college, then move to a fledgling WNBA, a league she has been a part of for 22 of its 26 seasons.

Timing, it seems, is everything.

"I thank God I wasn't born 20 years prior,'' Reeve said. "Because I would have been in jail for the way they treated women, the lack of opportunities.''

Changemakers

If today's young women take some sports opportunities for granted, Reeve is old enough to realize how much things have changed. Plus, when it comes to this issue, Reeve is a historian.

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She knows the stories of legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt having to coach, wash the team's uniforms and drive the team bus. She is aware of the journey taken by someone like Lin Dunn, who was born 20 years before Reeve. Dunn's junior high coach used to sneak the team across state lines to Tennessee to play because it was illegal for girls to play in her native Alabama.

All that was starting to change by the time Reeve approached middle school and high school. But Reeve says that it's not just the timing that helped her get where she is. It's the people she met along the way.

"I say that a lot,'' she said. "It's the people I had a chance to work for that led to some great things and opportunities. I do feel fortunate.''

A $5,000 salary

Washington Township High School is in Sewell Township, N.J., just 13 miles from Philadelphia. Reeve thrived in softball and loved tennis but in the early days of Title IX, basketball was one of the first sports to see a funding bump at the college level.

Reeve was gently pushed toward hoops. In those days, players would sit down and write letters to colleges and send them off with some clips.

But that wasn't how Reeve wound up playing college ball. Her high school team had five starters who would play Division I sports. Among them was a young phenom named Karen Healey, who would go on to star at Villanova. Reeve got noticed because college coaches came to watch Healey.

"That's how I got an opportunity to play at La Salle,'' Reeve said.

That started things. Acceding to her father, Reeve studied computer science at La Salle. Her parents wanted her to go to into that field.

But coaching was an idea taking hold. Each summer she would work as a counselor at the Cathy Rush camps, where she got an inkling of the rush that comes with helping someone succeed. She spent two years as a graduate assistant at La Salle while she got her master's degree. From there she went to George Washington, where she was an assistant for Joe McKeown for five years. Then it was on to Indiana State, where she was head coach for five years.

As a season-ticket holder for the brand new Indiana Fever, Reeve felt drawn to the WNBA. One spring she drove up to Chicago for the league's pre-draft combine. There she met Charlotte Sting coach Anne Donovan, who offered her a $5,000 job as a second assistant. She took it, before the 2001 season.

"Can you imagine that call home?'' Reeve said.

On the edge

Not much was easy about the WNBA's early days. Reeve was in Charlotte when the Hornets skipped town to New Orleans. Worried about the future of the Sting, Reeve went to work with Dan Hughes in Cleveland in 2003. But the Rockers were disbanded a year later. Reeve went back to Charlotte for two seasons, after which the Sting's head coach was fired.

About that time, Reeve's father, Larry, had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

"I was very close to not being in the WNBA anymore,'' Reeve said. "I had to make a decision. Each season was met with, I didn't know if the team would be there, if the league would be there. It's hard, because your family has to hear about your hardships. But I distinctly remember going, 'I'm in this thing. I'm going to go down with the ship if it goes down. Just do it. Obviously, things got better.''

Reeve went to Detroit to be Bill Laimbeer's assistant with the Shock in 2006. Over the next four seasons the Shock made three WNBA finals, winning two. On Dec. 8, 2009, Reeve was named head coach of the Lynx.

Climbing higher

There is more to do. Where does she see herself 10 years down the line?

"I hope it means ownership,'' she said. "That's probably what I would set my sights on. That I'm involved, still involved, but on a grander level. Impacting and being a participant in the opportunities that are available.''

It's a big goal. But possible, given talk of eventual WNBA expansion.

What a life arc. From playing baseball with the boys in 1972 to a basketball boss.

"That's what I hope for,'' she said. "We need more teams. Perhaps that will get there by the time I'm 70.''

. . .

Title IX at 50

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It already has been quite a year for Sean McVay.

In February, the Rams coach completed a boom-or-bust season by guiding the team to victory in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium and then turned down broadcasting overtures that reportedly would have paid him $10 million annually.

A few weeks later, in the aftermath of Russias invasion of Ukraine, he began navigating with fianc Veronika Khomyn the challenges faced by her family members in her war-torn home country.

In April, McVay purchased and moved into a $14 million home in Hidden Hills. In May, he donned Aviator shades and starred in a commercial for the Tom Cruise sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.

On Saturday, McVay, 36, will experience another personal milestone when he marries Khomyn.

Whats easier for McVay: putting together a Super Bowl game plan? Or whittling down a wedding invite list?

Definitely the first one, McVay said after practice Wednesday. Because I have a boss that can override me on the second one.

But for how long will McVay, only 30 when he was hired in 2017, be wed to the Rams?

Before a new season starts in September, the Rams are expected to announce McVay has signed an extension that will make him one of the highest-paid coaches in the NFL.

McVay is believed to have earned about $8.5 million last season. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick reportedly earned more than $12 million, but he also serves as general manager. Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll reportedly earned $11 million.

McVays regular-season record is 55-26, and twice in his five seasons the Rams reached the Super Bowl.

Former Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula is the NFLs all-time leader in victories. He amassed 328 regular-season wins and won two Super Bowls in 33 seasons before retiring at age 65 after the 1995 season, according to profootballreference.com.

George Halas won 318 games and six NFL championships in 40 seasons with the Chicago Bears. He retired in 1967 at age 72. Belichick, 70, has 290 victories and six Super Bowl titles in 27 seasons, including his first five with the Cleveland Browns.

Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry won 250 games and two Super Bowls in 29 seasons before retiring after the 1988 season at age 64. Andy Reid, 64, has won 233 games and a Super Bowl in 23 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.

Carroll, 70, has won 152 games in 15 seasons with the New York Jets, Patriots and Seahawks. He coached USC for nine seasons before joining the Seahawks in 2010 and leading them to a Super Bowl title in the 2013 season.

Coach Sean McVay holds the Lombardi Trophy after the Rams won Super Bowl LVI.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

If you said, Do I have a desire to try to chase like Belichick or Don Shula in wins? I really dont.

Rams coach Sean McVay, on his longevity in NFL

McVay has averaged 11 victories per season. At that rate, he would need to coach 25 more seasons to match Shulas record.

If you said, Do I have a desire to try to chase like Belichick or Don Shula in wins? I really dont, McVay said in an interview after the NFL owners meetings in March.

What about potentially being voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?

Hell yeah, McVay said, adding, But if you said, Who is the best of all time, or the most successful of all time in terms of longevity that hasnt ever been something that really has been appealing to me.

Questions about McVays potential longevity as an NFL coach began in February, a few days before the Super Bowl, when McVay hinted he might not be in it for the long haul.

During a news conference, he went back and forth when asked if he could see himself coaching into his 60s, a la Belichick.

No chance, he said initially. I love this. But if Im doing it till 60, I wont make it.

A reporter followed by asking if McVay, an acknowledged football junkie, really could put aside rallying players and coaches?

I love this so much, that its such a passion, he said. But I also know that what Ive seen from some of my closest friends, whether its coaches or even some of our players.

Its a balancing act, he acknowledged.

Im going to be married this summer, he said. Want to have a family.

Speculation about McVays future ramped up immediately after the Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, a win that helped McVay erase the sting felt after Belichick schooled him in Super Bowl LIII.

Asked the next morning by Times columnist Dylan Hernandez whether he would return to coach the Rams this season, McVay was noncommittal.

Well see, he said.

Amid the celebration of the Rams victory parade two days later, McVay and star defensive lineman Aaron Donald attempted to quell rumors that they might not return to the Rams.

From left, Robert Woods, Cooper Kupp, Matthew Stafford and coach Sean McVay celebrate during the Rams victory parade in Los Angeles.

(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Im genuinely interested in doing that. Now, I also know that the things I love the most are the things that you would miss in coaching. But theres lot ... that I wont miss.

Sean McVay, on potential to become a broadcaster post NFL

There was a part of me thats like, Man, theres never going to be a better time to step away, McVay said after the owners meetings a month later. But when you really think about like all the people that came as a result of it, I wouldnt have had the stomach to leave behind a lot of people that I love and care about, even if there was a [lot of] financial rewards and good things that would have come with that.

Carroll understood.

Its a real grind and the stress of it and the opportunity to leave on top is so intoxicating, he said. I know that real well. It can wear you out, wear you down, so I totally understand that.

McVay was flattered by the possibility of transitioning to broadcasting and did not rule it out in the future. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported after the Super Bowl that ESPN, Fox and Amazon Prime Video were interested in McVay.

McVay watched mentor Jon Gruden transition from coaching to broadcasting, with phenomenal success.

After Gruden was fired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the 2008 season McVays first in the NFL the then-45-year-old Gruden began a nine-year run as an analyst on Monday Night Football and became a crossover entertainment personality.

Gruden, who had coached 11 seasons in the NFL with the Raiders and Buccaneers, returned to the league as the Raiders coach in 2018, reportedly signing a 10-year, $100-million contract, at the time the NFLs richest.

Now, former New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton is reportedly set to join Fox as a studio analyst, though it is regarded as a holding pattern until he returns to coaching. Jimmy Johnson, Bill Cowher and Tony Dungy are other Super Bowl champion coaches who work in broadcasting. And analysts such as Tony Romo and Troy Aikman are beneficiaries of skyrocketing compensation for top analyst talent.

McVay has enjoyed his limited TV work.

Its not like Im just doing it to stay engaged Im genuinely interested in doing that, he said. Now, I also know that the things I love the most are the things that you would miss in coaching. But theres lot of [stuff] that I wont miss.

McVay does not want to miss out on starting and enjoying a family.

During the last few months, he has repeatedly lauded Khomyn for the grace and strength with which she has dealt with the situation in Ukraine.

Veronika Khomyn, left, and Sean McVay arrive at the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards in March. They will be married this month.

(Jordan Strauss / Jordan Strauss/invision/ap)

McVay said before the Super Bowl that he always had a dream about being able to be a father and wanted to be able to spend time with his wife and children.

Finding a balance is the challenge for a coach who said his safe space is when he is on the field or in meeting rooms with players and coaches.

Ive reflected enough about it to know myself like this balance thing in the season, that just will never happen for me, he said after the owners meetings. I feel like Id be cheating the game and cheating the way that I know that I have the work capacity. ... And so, its a love/hate thing.

Bengals coach Zac Taylor, 39, worked under McVay with the Rams for two seasons. Taylor, married and the father of four, said that as an NFL coach, for seven months you disappear, and then as my wife likes to call it, you have the reentry phase.

But Taylor said the work-life balance with family can be navigated so that coaches dont miss on those moments with children.

Fortunately, in Cincinnati, he said, Im 12 minutes from my house.

Reid, after nearly a quarter century as a head coach, said that a secret to coaching longevity in the NFL is working with good players, coaches and ownership.

Ownership Ive worked for, both of them, have been phenomenal, so theyve made it as easy on me as they can, he said. So, I do what I love to do.

Carroll said that McVay whom he described as a great ball coach is entering a phase that he called the best life yet off the field, though it is starting in the middle of everything as an NFL coach.

But its always in the middle of everything, Carroll said. So, I wish him the best.

Then he paused.

If he wants to step down, the NFC West rival added with a laugh, thats OK with me.

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Being conscious of ones identity doesnt just help physicians connect with patients; it also helps them coach the next generation of doctors to professional success.

A textbook published this spring, Coaching in Medical Education: Students, Residents and Faculty, explores how successful medical school coaching programs further learners personal goals. Chapter 8, "Coaching and Ethics, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, looks at how coaches understanding of their own identities can help them fight the inequities facing medical students, residents and fellows from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups.

Separately, the AMA Academic Coaching in Medical Education Video Series features nine short videos that explore academic coaching competencies through hypothetical situations involving both experienced and inexperienced coaches. All of these videos can be accessed for free on the AMA YouTube channel and the AMA Ed Hub.

We are very attached to our stories, our identities of who we are, the chapter authors wrote. But how do we know what those are and how we developed those identities?

Each reader is encouraged to craft a personal story based on those beliefs. This process begins with simply completing the statement, I am which could include being a white woman, an Indian man, a Black surgeon, a middle-aged physician. Think hard about your most important identities, the authors advised, but no more than two of them.

Then, reflect on the following:

By consciously gathering this story in your mind, you can bring honor and awareness to your identity, shining a light on how it may influence how you make decisions. It can also help you reflect on how that identity has shaped your experiences, how it sends unconscious signals to the people around you, and how those signals affect the ways in which you interact with colleagues or direct reports who identify differently.

Academic medicine has a legacy of marginalization and continues to be shaped by structural racism, so it is important to be thoughtful in designing faculty development that is inclusive. This should be an ongoing endeavor, the authors noted, not a one-time activity.

The reflections that physicians gain in this exercise are essentially meant to help us know ourselves better, such that we are more open and mindful about receiving others life experiences and are able to minimize the impact as educators and caregivers, they wrote.

The chapter also includes guidance on ethical principles in the context of coaching, how inequities may exist for learners from racial and ethnic groups historically excluded from medicine, considerations in coaching a diverse group of learners, the ubiquity of bias and its structural basis, and the importance of self-awareness in overcoming bias.

For more insight on the new textbook, read this great Q&A with the lead authors, who are: Maya M. Hammoud, MD, Nicole M. Deiorio, MD, Margaret Moore, and Margaret Wolff, MD, MHPE. The textbook is part of the AMA MedEd Innovation Series, which provides practical guidance for local implementation of the education innovations tested and refined by the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium.

An earlier reference, It Takes Two: A Guide to Being a Good Coachee (PDF) focuses on what medical students, residents and fellows need to know to get the most out of a coaching relationship.

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Utah Warriors assistant coach Robbie Abel watches over his players prior to a game against Austin Gilgronis, May 21, 2022 at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman. (Davey Wilson, Utah Warriors)

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HERRIMAN Robbie Abel took a look around Zions Bank Stadium during his final week of practice with the Utah Warriors before wrapping up the 2022 Major League Rugby season and smiled.

After six months in the league, in the team, and with the state, the forwards coach could only reflect on what his time with the fifth-year franchise has meant to the club. He hoped it would be for the better, even if the past year has been another but easy in his mind.

The Warriors wrapped up one of the more challenging seasons in the club's five-year history Saturday, a 5-11 campaign filled with lengthy losing skids and some surprise moments like a 22-8 win over an Austin, which led the league at the time before eventually being disqualified from the postseason due to a violation of league rules.

Hopefully, he says, Abel has left the Warriors in a better place than he found them even through a midseason coaching change that saw the departure of reigning MLR Coach of the Year Shawn Pittman and a lineup reshuffle that included the return of former BYU standout Paul Lasike from England's Harlequins, among others.

"Leave the jersey a little better than when we found it; I feel like we've done that," Abel told KSL.com prior to the club's 33-5 road win over the expansion Dallas Jackals in Saturday's season finale. "It feels like we're in a really good spot right now, and in a good place to carry that on for years to come. And that was a goal: to get to the end of the season with something we are proud of, with something that this whole organization can be proud of, regardless of who is coaching or who is playing."

Abel doesn't know when he'll return to Utah; the Australian native and New Zealand hook is still under contract back home with Auckland Rugby Union, where he will play for at least one more season in New Zealand's National Provincial League.

After that, it's anybody's guess. Abel will turn 33 in July, and even if he doesn't know exactly how much time he has left in the game it could be one more year, it could be five, depending on how this upcoming season treats him he's confident that the playing days behind him are greater than the ones in front.

Which is why his time in Utah was so important to him.

"It's an opportunity for me to kind of see what it's like coaching, and being involved on this end," he said, before adding: "I've loved it so far.

"I've loved it, loved being in Utah. The people have been amazing, the fans are amazing, and it's just been a great experience for me and my family to be here."

Abel was a rising star in the Austral "A'' School ranks when as he began his journey to professional rugby. Coming from a rugby-mad family, the future Maori All Black international started his career at St. Edmund's College in Canberra in 2006 before enrolling in the Brumbies Academy from 2007 until 2010, with a brief stint at Northland in 2009.

But as the budding standout's career began to take shape, a new priority also rose in his life: the desire to serve a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Coaches, players and even more incredulous news media back home couldn't understand it; why would Abel set aside rugby the national sport of New Zealand for 24 months to knock on doors, set up appointments, and preach scripture? Couldn't Abel be a shining light for his faith in the pro ranks, any ways?

But for Abel, it did't feel like a sacrifice. He knew what he had to do.

"At the time, I didn't feel like I was giving up anything to serve a mission," said Abel, who served as a full-time missionary in Western Australia. "Now looking back, I understand that it was quite a bit; it took me a while to come back and be ready to perform at a professional level. It was a hard road trying to get back.

"But I knew, like other athletes who went on missions, that it was the place for me. I was totally content with where it would take me whether that was rugby or not. Everything I gained from going on a mission, it really did shape my life."

Other professional athletes followed a similar path as Abel, including another rising rugby standout in Australia native and Tongan international Will Hopoate, who served just a few years later in 2012-13. Still other pros have opted to start their careers early, and have helped shine a light on the church that way.

For Abel, perhaps the most important example he could've set was to his younger brothers Charlie and Jake, who followed him in professional rugby. Just a few years after Abel's mission, Charlie Abel who currently plays in MLR for the LA Giltinis opted to hit pause on his career for two years, as well.

"Maybe it helped him, and some of my cousins," said Robbie Abel, a bit sheepishly, "but I also had great examples, greater leaders, great parents growing up and for me, it never felt impossible.

"If anything, going made feel like more was possible out of my life."

Abel returned from missionary service in 2012, but he admits it took him nearly two years to get back into full conditioning. He returned to Brumbies in 2013 after a year and 17 appearances with Northland's B team, and also represented Perth, Canberra and Auckland.

In 2014, Abel earned his first callup to Super Rugby Pacific, which features top teams in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Pacific islands, by signing with Perth-based Force Rugby. He stayed in the competition until 2020, moving from Force to Brumbies to Rebels and finally Waratahs in New South Wales.

But he always knew his playing career had an expiration date, and mortality comes for every man. So when he started inquiring on the next chapter, Abel's eyes turned to the startup Major League Rugby in the United States and a founding franchise at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, a community that means plenty to his faith.

In many ways, his rugby accolades speak for themselves; why wouldn't the Warriors want that experience on their staff, alongside backs coach and former BYU standout Shawn Davies?

Abel hasn't even changed much in his brief "internship" in coaching.

"He's such a nice guy that I think he just naturally pulls the boys together. He's a good gauge, a good uncle, and everything else," said Zion Going, the Warriors' 20-year-old scrum half and a nephew of Abel from his mother's side. "He's easy to talk to. But when it's time to be serious, he knows how to be serious, too."

But when Abel contacted Warriors CEO Kimball Kjar about an opportunity, one of the first things he mentioned wasn't just the chance to coach rugby but to bring his three children and baby brother to Utah for a few months while he put his whole heart into coaching.

"To be honestly, I've had my own struggles spiritually and for me, coming here has been more than just rugby," he said. "It's been an opportunity to tap into that part of my life that means so much to me. It's been really good to me, to my kids, and to my little brother who came here with me."

With his wife Taila staying back home for work-related reasons, Abel spent his working hours trying to make the Warriors' forwards better and then took his children to a dozen Latter-day Saint temples in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding areas.

It's been so cool to be here," said Abel, who credits his wife for making allowing the children to move to the States with dad. "It's been such a good experience for us."

Abel doesn't know how much longer he has left in his playing days; again, it could be a year, it could be longer. Those kinds of things change quickly in professional sports.

But when he does finally hang up the boots on the old knothole for the last time, he would love to make a return trip to Utah and formally start his coaching career with a Warriors franchise that has embraced him and his family.

"I'd love to come back," he said. "I thoroughly enjoyed being with the players, the fans, the staff here. I'd love to come back. I feel like we started something special here, and I'd love to see that through."

Sean Walker graduated from Syracuse University and returned to his home state to work for KSL.com covering BYU, prep sports and anything else his editors assign him to do. When he's not covering a game, he's usually listening to Broadway soundtracks or hiking with his dog.

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A weekly look at high school sports in the state of Alabama for the past week and a look ahead to what is on tap. This is an opinion piece (sort of).

It didnt work out for Greg Crager as head football coach at Thomasville High School.

He was among a mass of employees pink-slipped at the end of the school year. He could re-apply for a job there, but he wont.

You can tell when you are wanted and when you are not, Crager said.

He coached just one year at Thomasville after replacing long-time coach Jack Hankins.

The Tigers went 5-6 overall, beating rival and eventual state champion Clarke County 15-14 in overtime to end the regular season before losing at Hillcrest-Evergreen in the first round of the playoffs.

There were off-the-field challenges almost from Day 1. Those only intensified when the athletic director, principal and superintendent, who played big roles in hiring Crager away from Millry, all left.

I dont know enough about the situation to get into Thomasville politics, so I wont.

What I will say is that Greg Crager is a good man, the best kind in fact. He will land on his feet and, whatever school he lands at, will be better for having him.

It didnt work out at Thomasville long-term, but Im guessing that his one year there will still have a long-term impact on many of those student-athletes.

My biggest take away is that I was proud of re-starting the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes), he said. Every Friday, we had a cafeteria full of young people wanting to do positive things throughout the school and the campus. That was the highlight.

As many challenges as there were, I felt good about that fact that we were really impacting young people and leading in the right direction and trying to establish a good foundation. We hired some great people and great men who led the right way. Im proud of that.

Crager started the difficult days at Thomasville the way he starts every day.

Every morning when you get up and face the challenges, you pray, he said. I felt like God gave me certain scriptures that kept me going. Whatever is happening in life, God is in it, and He will lead you through it. I never panicked or lost my composure.

Sometimes people have different goals or want to go a different direction. Regardless, God has a purpose, and you continue to be obedient to that. I want to hear His voice and do what He wants me to do.

Crager, vacationing in San Antonio this week, said he had several interviews set up later this month and will likely take an assistant job for next year before trying his hand again at being a head coach.

He went 32-24 in five years as head coach at Millry. Hes also been a key part of Mark Freemans staffs at both Spanish Fort and Thompson.

I tell my coaches all the time, When you go through tough times, that is your testimony, he said. It is then now for me that my testimony is more visible than when everything is going well and you are winning state championships. At the end of the day, in the good and the bad, I want to glorify God.

The next door will fly open soon for Crager.

Undeterred by an experience he didnt expect in the last year, he will step through it and continue to impact our student-athletes in the best ways possible.

New coach at Glencoe

Glencoe has named Scott Martin as its new head football coach.

Martin won 57 games in seven seasons at Ohatchee from 2014-2020. That included a run to the 3A state semifinals in 2016 and two trips to the quarterfinals.

He also spent two years as head coach at Calera (2009-2010) and Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa (2012-2013).

Martin will try to turn around a Yellow Jacket program that has been in a rough patch. Glencoe has won just 10 of its last 60 games. Martin is the fourth coach since former Alabama player Lee Ozmint left in 2015.

The 2021 team went just 1-9 and gave up 395 points.

Not so fast

Earlier in the week, it looked like Murphy had a new football coach.

The Panthers have been looking to replace Rico Jackson, who left for Tarrant earlier in the spring.

Murphy social media accounts announced that Kevin Schultz had been named the new head coach. However, that post since has been taken down.

Officials have said the post was premature and the school is now in a holding pattern.

Comeback kid?

According to Ron Balaskovitz of the Sand Mountain Reporter, Dale Pruitt is returning as head football coach at Plainview for the third time.

Pruitt coached the Bears from 1984-2000, going 147-59 in that span, and from 2006-2014, going 67-35.

He also was head coach at Albertville from 2015-2018.

Pruitt replaces Nick Ledbetter.

Other coaching news:

Former Dothan and Park Crossing head coach Smitty Grider has been named head coach at Benjamin Russell. He follows Aubrey Blackwell.

On Monday, Pike Liberal Arts announced the hiring of veteran coach Hugh Fountain. PLA moves from the AISA to the AHSAA this fall, thought it wont be eligible for the playoffs for two more years.

Ty Lockett has replaced L.C. Cole as head coach at Park Crossing.

Tyler Johnson is the new head coach at New Hope.

Current head coaching openings include Eufaula, Williamson, Murphy, Sidney Lanier, Marengo, Escambia County, Sardis, Houston County.

Montgomery Catholic head coach Kirk Johnson works with his players during the Trinity at Montgomery Catholic high-school football game, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, in McCalla, Ala. (Vasha Hunt | preps.al.com)Vasha Hunt

Awards season

Congratulations to Montgomery Catholic football coach Kirk Johnson, who has been named Huntingdon Colleges Outstanding Young Alumni.

Johnson is one of two winners of the award this year.

He will be honored during Huntingdons homecoming weekend on Oct. 29.

Johnson led Catholic to a 13-1 record in his first year as head coach in 2021.

All-State honors on tap

The Alabama Sports Writers Association will release its softball All-State team this Sunday. You can find that on AL.com around 5 a.m. and in the Mobile Press-Register, Huntsville Times and Birmingham News as well.

The All-State baseball team will be released June 12.

Mr. Baseball and Miss Softball will be announced and honored at the ASWAs 50th annual convention in Birmingham the night of June 12.

80s quote of the week

You ought to spend a little more trying to do something with yourself and a little less trying to impress people. Richard Vernon, The Breakfast Club (1985)

Thought for the week

Believe that the ultimate outcome in whatever you are facing is in the Lords hands. Tony Dungy, Uncommon Life

Ben Thomas is the high school sportswriter at AL.com. Follow him on twitter at @BenThomasPreps or email him at bthomas@al.com. His weekly column is posted each Friday on AL.com.

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Providence enters the state championship series undefeated and ranked No. 1. But for coach Danny Hignight, it's not about wins but knowing the value of hard work.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Providence High School will play for a baseball state championship this weekend in a best-of-three series starting Friday.

The Panthers will take on Pinecrest at 5 p.m. Friday with the second game scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday. The Panthers enter the championship series a perfect 32-0 and ranked No. 1 in the state. They're ranked third nationally on the strength of their undefeated season.

But for longtime Providence baseball coach Danny Hignight, it's about a lot more than wins. In fact, you can usually catch him on a mower trimming the outfield more often than coaching drills.

"I mow five days a week," he said. "I mow a lot."

That's five days a week, every week, for the past 19 years. That's some 4,500 times he's mowed the Providence outfield.

It's easy to get caught up in the numbers. The Panthers have zero losses this season, they've won 21 conference championships and 15 players have gone on to be drafted with three Major League Baseball players coming through the program.

It took Hignight 11 years to win a state title, finally accomplishing that feat in 2015. Of course, the moment really sank in the next time he was mowing the field.

Ill never forget when we won it in '15, I was mowing from second to center and I stopped the mower and I started crying because that was something I had thought about for at that time, 11 years and we finally accomplished it, Hignight said.

This year's team can accomplish it again this weekend. For Hignight, though, it's not about the perfect record or any stats they pile up along the way.

"I truly believe you've got to get your hands dirty in life and work hard," he said.

Work ethic is what makes this year's team special. Hignight shows it by keeping the lines on the field straight, washing uniforms and hanging them back up in lockers. He goes through the trouble because he knows a group of impressionable young men is watching.

I love the relationships, I love to watch them grow up, Hignight said.

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And he has watched kids grow up. He said he averages about eight weddings a year and talks to his old players about their new kids. Thats why he coaches.

When Im dead and gone, nobody is going to remember how many games I won. They won't," Hignight said. "But I might've coached your son and impacted his life, and he became a better father or a better husband. Maybe."

They're better baseball players, too. The team will compete to win two games out of three this weekend for that prestigious state championship.

Dont get me wrong, we want to win this weekend," Hignight said. "But in reality, it's about when you're gone, what impact did you make on the world?"

On Monday, no matter the outcome, hell be back on his mower setting an example of hard work.

As of Friday night, the team is off to a good start, winning Game 1 3-0.

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October 1, 2021, was the last day of my longtime TV news career, but putting that date on a calendar and sticking to it was no easy feat. I knew I wanted to pursue entrepreneurship about a year before my eventual departure and I went into a cave of training and planning to make it happen. The secret weapon behind leaving a six-figure job to be my own boss? A coach. I hired a certified life and business coach, Kara Gaisie, and within six months she had me all the way together.

I had the external elements worked out for my career transition but Kara helped me prepare my internal thoughts for a big move, because they were a mess. I didnt believe I could replace my income as an entrepreneur and deep down I thought that kind of success, the kind you build from the ground up, wasnt meant for me. Its the type of career dreams are made of, not reality.

Kara had her work cut out for her but she was laser-focused on helping me change my thoughts about starting my own business. She knew if I believed I could be a successful entrepreneur then I could be a successful entrepreneur. She taught me I couldnt just repeat cute affirmations and expect real change. I had to think thoughts that served me and that I believed.

Because you want it to stick, said Kara.You want it to replace some of the beliefs that arent serving you. And if you dont believe in it, you dont feel like, oh yes, thats me. Thats true for me. It wont stick. Youll go back to what you truly do believe: that it doesnt serve you. So thats why its important for you to believe it.

Gaisie was a successful certified public accountant making six-figures before she left job to become a coach. But even she started off with negative thoughts around entrepreneurship before she started doing quality thought work.

I had this belief once I became a certified life coach that I could not replace my salary as a coach. Like it felt so, so true to me. Although I looked around and I saw other people doing it, I was like, no, they have something that I dont have. And I cant do that. Like a six-figure salary Kara. Really? No, you cant do that. And so of course I created the reality of staying in my job. I was never going to leave unless I confronted that belief, she said.

Kara worked on changing that thought and played around with other possibilities and started to think If I could, what would be the reason? Soon, she believed she was a woman who could make six figures no matter what work she did. She did it as an accountant, she could do it as a coach.

I built upon it over and over and over again until it became my main thought of like, this is who I am. Im a six-figure person. And I can create that anywhere I go. And I created that reality. Now Ive made $250,000 in my coaching business, said Gaisie.

I would likely still be sitting at a job that no longer fulfilled me if I didnt pay attention to what I was thinking and tossed out what didnt serve me and create new thoughts that moved me forward. And if it werent for Kara doing her own thought work I wouldnt be here teaching you what I know about the power of our thoughts. You see how this works!

If you want to learn a simple exercise that helps you observe your thoughts and start making changes watch the full interview with Kara Gaisie on The Reset.

Letisha Bereola is a life coach who helps ambitious women overcome burnout and reach their career goals so they feel great at work and happy at home. Shes a former Emmy-nominated TV news anchor, Podcast host of AUDACITY and speaker. Learn more: http://www.coachtish.co

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