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Life-Coach Warning: story of Joanna, San Francisco (twisted life-coaching) – Video
Posted: May 6, 2012 at 6:18 am
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Life coach in India, part 4 – Video
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Trailblazer Reynaud Alexander has a legacy in local track & field
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Reynaud Alexander has dedicated his life to teaching young black women to run fast. So, it should come as no surprise that Alexander, a 72-year-old retired track and field coach, refuses to slow down.
He plans to attend the Southwestern Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships at Tad Gormley Stadium this weekend, and he surely wont resist the temptation to impart a bit of coaching wisdom on the competitors.
I tell my athletes that the key to success is about balancing intensity and volume, said Alexander, who was born and reared in New Orleans. You dont want to burn out too early.
And judging by a lifetime of accomplishments as a coach, teacher and civil rights activist, Alexander has maintained a strict adherence to this credo.
He is an exceptionally giving person, and he cares about everybody, said his wife, Loretta Alexander. I have to fight for time because he is always so giving of himself to everyone else.
Alexander has been coaching for more than 50 years and said he routinely receives calls from parents wanting him to mentor their daughters. He ran track at Southern, served as head coach at McDonogh High School from 1980 to 1991 and as an assistant coach at Mississippi State from 1991 to 2002 before retiring.
During the past year, Alexander has stepped away from his role as volunteer coach at Higgins High School and New Era (AAU) Track and Field Club, focusing instead on his family. He now bides his time coaching grandsons Donovan Carraby, 11, and Niles Cosey, 8.
Hes always so busy, said Carraby, an aspiring baseball star. It means a lot to me that my grandfather can help me with my speed.
Glynn Alexander, who was a defensive back at Grambling State and with the Buffalo Bills, said coaching is in his older brothers DNA.
Its in his nature, Glynn Alexander said. Hes always been involved in coaching.
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Pojoaque coaching prospect accused of sexual harassment at previous job
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A volleyball coach investigated for sexual harassment in Texas is the top choice to take over the prestigious volleyball program at Pojoaque Valley High School.
Michael Littlejohn, the Elkettes' coach-in-waiting, said in a phone interview Friday that he engaged in behavior and made comments to Borger High School employees that could be interpreted as sexual harassment, but denied more serious allegations made by six accusers.
According to a 2011 Borger internal investigation, accusers said Littlejohn, 56, made inappropriate comments, improperly interacted with minors, indecently touched an assistant coach's breast and sent her illicit text messages. He was placed on paid administrative leave at the school on Sept. 15 while the investigation was ongoing. He resigned Feb. 9.
The allegations, made by a former assistant coach and five current district employees, cover a two-year span.
At Borger, 50 miles northeast of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, Littlejohn admitted making inappropriate jokes and touching some of his players during workouts, but disputed sending his former assistant coach illicit text messages or touching her breast.
"I didn't think it was sexual harassment," Littlejohn said.
Littlejohn said he disclosed the allegations to Pojoaque athletic director Matt Martinez, but refused to say when.
Martinez said last week that Littlejohn, the former Texico volleyball coach who retired after being reassigned following 29 years with the program, was recommended by the Pojoaque coaching search committee and is waiting for a teaching opening.
Martinez, who is on the coaching search committee, said Friday he was aware of the allegations, but didn't say to what extent. When asked if Pojoaque planned to move forward with hiring Littlejohn, Martinez said, "That's a personnel issue. I'm not going to answer that. You're going to have to ask somebody else about that."
Then he hung up the phone.
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Hokies' hire a reminder that ADs need to be realistic with coaching search
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Seven BCS-level jobs in college basketball opened this offseason for reasons that spanned from terminations (Illinois) to retirements (Mississippi State). But they're all filled now. And what we were reminded once again from this annual carousel is that convincing a safe and content BCS coach to voluntarily leave one school for another is among the sport's most difficult tasks.
It almost never happens.
The proof is in the numbers.
Just one power-conference school was able to hire a power-conference head coach this offseason, and the only reason it happened is because said power-conference head coach, Frank Martin, decided he'd rather take what is a historically bad SEC job and try to compete with John Calipari and Billy Donovan than work at Kansas State another day under athletic director John Currie. I realize Martin has denied this in the sense that he's claimed there was never a real rift between him and his old boss. But that's just Martin taking the high road. The truth is that he and Currie went together about as well as Amar'e Stoudemire and glass. So while it's true that moving from Manhattan (Kansas) to Columbia (South Carolina) gets Martin and his wife closer to their East Coast roots, it's also true that Martin would still likely be KSU's coach if he didn't spend the past year frustrated by his buttoned-up AD.
But whatever.
I'm not here to write about Frank Martin.
I'm here to once and for all convince ADs and fans that the key to your school not looking silly during a coaching search is to set reasonable sights on one of these three things:
1. Coaches who are out of coaching 2. BCS assistants 3. Non-BCS head coaches not named Mark Few, Brad Stevens or Shaka Smart.
If you're not shopping for a coach on one of those aisles you're almost certainly shopping on the wrong aisle and wasting time. For proof consider that just five of the 32 BCS-level jobs that have opened over the past three years were filled with BCS-level head coaches, and that none of them was filled by Few, Stevens or Smart. The only BCS-level head coaches who have voluntarily changed jobs over the past three offseasons are Martin (KSU to South Carolina), Mike Anderson (Missouri to Arkansas), Oliver Purnell (Clemson to DePaul), Frank Haith (Miami to Missouri) and Mark Turgeon (Texas A&M to Maryland), and Turgeon is the lone person of the group who left purely for basketball reasons.
Martin hated his boss. Anderson wanted to move back to Arkansas. Haith probably only had one year left at Miami. And Purnell, well, he just decided to take a big check and the city of Chicago rather than remain in South Carolina, and, with all due respect to South Carolina, who could blame him? Chicago is a great place to live. A big check makes it better. And at DePaul these days, nobody cares if you lose in the NCAA tournament (or if you even make it). Pressure is nonexistent, which must be nice for a man approaching 60 years old. OP is living the good life. We should all be so lucky.
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Indulging Spirit as a Life Goal
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One of the most common goals Ive worked on with life coaching clients in the last decade is to develop and nurture their spirituality.
As one who has been on this blessed journey myself, I enjoy seeing others blossom in this area of their lives. This goal usually takes the shape of deepening the childhood religion the client learned, perhaps paying it more heed in their harried lives, or exploring other options to learn this individuals best path to the divine.
I am not ordained nor schooled in theology. I take with me some parts of my Christian upbringing, but love to draw from Buddhism, New Thought and some modern spiritual teachers as well. As so many Americans, I feel a divine hand in all of what I do and I am ecstatic to live in a place where this opening and receiving of spirit is possible. As a coach, I particularly like that clients are not just working on career or creative goals, but becoming more well-rounded people.
To be clear, this runs the gamut from a client who wants to, in her words, fulfill the gifts the Holy Spirit has given her to another client who reads tarot cards. Very different approaches to spiritual expression, but similar in that they feel a connection to something bigger than themselves.
There is so much positive about this, so much thats rewarding about it as an aspect of what I do, that when I see religion or spirit being used to legitimize acts of cruelty or manipulation or discrimination on the national stage it stops me cold. This should be a joyful part of us. It should be an open door to soul searching when life hands us big victories or devastating losses and all thats in between.
It shouldnt be wielded as a stick to bash or as a gavel to judge. It shouldnt be imposed.
My clients want to be enriched as people. They want to give themselves permission to learn the bible more intimately or do a daily meditation from the Tao Te Ching or keep a gratitude journal. I am all too happy to shepherd this, but it certainly gets tested along the way.
In response to a recent Game Plan column, a reader wrote, I have an issue when people such as yourself think that one can pick and choose from religions to suit their own agendas ... I have a source that tells me that there is only one way to God. This gentleman went on to quote the bible. I expressed my respect and admiration for his faith, but noted that I disagreed.
Every so often I receive mail like this and I welcome the diversity, but I also marvel at the arrogance. Note that this reader didnt just share his belief, but put down mine in the process. Some of the best people I know are Christians and yet are comfortable with the idea that other faiths exist and are to be respected.
So much of this has been manifesting these days in the issue of how our country treats homosexuals, both socially and legislatively. A former colleague, a church-going Christian, recently wrote a Facebook post saying how proud he was of his soon-to-be-college student son for coming out as gay. I commented on the post that it made my day.
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Coaching styles forced to change
Posted: May 2, 2012 at 4:18 am
Perception of abuse is the driving force
Chris Brinckerhoff, assistant superintendent of the Middletown Recreation and Parks Department, oversees more than 1,000 kids involved in sports and camps throughout the year.TOM BUSHEY/Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 04/30/12
Chris Brinckerhoff used to think nothing of sleeping in the same hotel room as teen girls while helping coach the Diamond Dolls travel softball team. Parents preferred the cost-friendly arrangement knowing their children were in good hands.
A decade later, Brinckerhoff wouldn't consider such a scenario.
She suspects the 24-hour news cycle created by the Internet and social networks have spotlighted the existence of sexual predators. That focus has made coaches, concerned over being perceived as a pedophile by parents, other adults or children, careful in their dealings with kids.
Coaches talk about sticking to fist bumps and high-fives. Most coaches wouldn't even consider the once-acceptable congratulatory smack on the butt. The climate makes coaches leery of how an innocent hug could be perceived by witnesses. Their means of affection essentially have been reduced to hand-to-hand contact the handshake, the fist bump, the high-five.
Brinckerhoff, the assistant superintendent of the Middletown Recreation and Parks Department, helps oversee more than 1,000 kids involved in sports camps and various other activities throughout the year. She holds up a multiple-sheet directive from the state outlining procedures the department must follow to help prevent and deal with issues involving children.
Brinckerhoff and fellow employees in the department must attend an orientation that encompasses dealing with kids victimized physically, emotionally or sexually what to look for, and what to do when problems arise. She said she fields about one child-related issue per year, but has never had a coach/child complaint sexual in nature.
Background checks commonly are used as a deterrent. But they generally only weed out folks convicted of crimes. They can't fix a whole other set of issues between children and even the best-intended counselors, many of whom are teens and young adults. Alluding to the pre-teen crowd, generally 10- to 12-year-old girls, Brinckerhoff said, "Kids make up stuff.'' It can be the interpretation of actual contact between the counselor and child say an accidental bump during a game or something fabricated by the child. Brinckerhoff said her office occasionally deals with cases of kids letting their imaginations run wild. She discusses such accusations with the counselor and child, as well as the child's parents.
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WRIGHT TURNS DOWN NEW DEAL | Sporting Life – Cricket News | Live ball-by-ball scorecards, County Cricket, IPL
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John Wright has opted to announce his resignation as New Zealand coach after failing to see eye-to-eye with director of coaching John Buchanan.
Wright's current contract is due to expire after the tour to the West Indies - with New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White having offered the former opener a new deal.
However Wright claims differences of opinion with Buchanan were a key factor in his decision to turn down the extension.
"I think he's probably in a better position to do that," Wright said. "We're probably not that different, we just see things a little differently.
"As I explained earlier, the planning systems that John wants to implement are probably suited to another head coach. I think it's just a difference of style. We see things very differently. I wish him and everyone else success.
"I never really envisaged going through to the 2015 Cricket World Cup, so the change has to be made at some stage.
"During the review process with the current cricket director, we both agreed the planning systems that he (Buchanan) wants to implement don't complement the style and the way I coach, so that was another factor.
"It's part of sport. I've enjoyed the opportunity to coach the New Zealand cricket team."
During his tenure, Wright led New Zealand to the semi-finals of the ICC World Cup as well as a first Test success in Australia for 26 years.
And White hailed the impact Wright has had on the side.
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Beau Henderson: Helping Others Find Their RichLife
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GAINESVILLE, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
For anyone grappling with the current state of their finances or nervously stalking their 401Ks and portfolios, Beau Hendersons approach to financial planning comes as a breath of fresh air.
It is my goal to help people move toward the definition of a fulfilled life or a rich life. I want you to have $2 million in the bank, too, dont get me wrong, he laughs, but too many times I think people are putting a cookie cutter on what they think should make you happy.
As CEO and founder of RichLife Advisors, a full-service financial planning and coaching agency, Henderson offers more than 13 years of successful financial experience on retirement income planning alongside a refreshing, authentic approach to securing not just financial wealth, but spiritual, physical, and emotional health, too.
Henderson has doubled his business twice in three years and secured more than 3,000 clients in the last 10 and while hes always experienced great success, it wasnt until he encountered two very different clients that his philosophy began to change.
One client was extremely wealthy but devastatingly unhappy and the other was a man making ends meet on a middle-class income living a happy, fulfilled life.
Thats when the flip switched for Henderson, he says. He not only wanted the true rich life for his clients, he also wanted it for himself.
Since adopting his new two-fold approach, Henderson has launched RichLife Advisors and has attracted clients and top executives from Atlanta to California.
The agency offers multiple programs to help their clients realize their financial and life goals including a weekly radio show on Saturdays called The RichLife Show and a best-selling book, The RichLife: Ten Investments for True Wealth both available at http://www.richlifeadvisors.com.
Between his authentic approach, fresh philosophy, and experience with thousands of clients, Henderson is finding success on a whole other level for his clients, his employees and himself.
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Another assistant coaching change
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A Louisville Courier-Journal report says Kareem Richardson will be named a Louisville assistant today. Richardson will replace Richard Pitino, whos now at Florida International.
Richardson leaves Xavier after one year with the program. He missed 10 games because of a collapsed left lung that required four surgeries.
His departures creates a second staff opening following Rasheen Davis move to Manhattan College. Its been quite a state of flux in the last week with these two announcements, plus the Mark Lyons news, but all three originated for different reasons/opportunities.
Louisvilles news conference is at 3 p.m. today.In the meantime, heres a look back at the story I wrote on Richardson when he returned from the lung crisis.
As Xavier mens basketball assistant coach Kareem Richardson readied himself for the Nov. 15 game against IPFW, he couldnt shake the odd feeling in his upper body.
He chalked it up to heartburn but found the malaise worsening during the Musketeers win.
It was my scout and I was trying to stand up and give instructions and match-ups for guys, and I was getting really short of breath and light-headed, Richardson said.
Team doctors urged him to visit the hospital afterward. Richardson did only to learn he had a collapsed left lung, setting in motion a chain of events that included four surgeries and 12 days in the hospital.
Richardson emerged from the health crisis sore, tired and 20 pounds lighter, but the 37-year-old Evansville graduate said he gained a new perspective during the 10 games he missed. He returned to Cintas Center following the Muskies Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii with a greater appreciation of work-life balance.
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Another assistant coaching change