Volleyball Great Karch Kiraly on Leadership, Passion, Risk

Michael Gervais (0:09)

Welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am Michael Gervais, and I am so excited to be able to begin this process. And basically, the attempt that we're going to do here, sit down with world leading performers or people that are hungry for mastery in their life and really understand how they work. And it's an opportunity to listen and learn.

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And in this next conversation, I'm just honored to be able to learn from this athlete now coach. And it's just an amazing experience to be able to sit in front of folks and have them share their dialogue about how they work and how they're understanding progression. And in this conversation, it was with the legendary Karch Kiraly. And he's most notably known as one of the best male volleyball players to ever play the game. Matter of fact, there's some stats in here that he'll reference, but there's 148 tournament wins on the professional beach volleyball. And it's currently the record.

And he has Kerry Walsh Jennings nipping right at his heels. And so we'll see how that plays out. That's a really exciting kind of piece of information. But most importantly, he just brings a level of ferocity and fire and competitive spirit.

And it's authentic. He's not interested. I want to say he's not interested in beating the other person, but what he's more interested in is progression and making it happen at the highest possible level right now. And there's some amazing gems and nuggets in here about parenting, about how his dad helped him value the process and the performance progression as opposed to just getting caught in, you know, being the best kid in Santa Barbara, which is one of the meccas for beach volleyball. And at a young age, he was one of the best around, and he didn't care about it. He didn't get caught up in it. He was purposely positioning his efforts towards progression.