What's Wrong With Youth Sports? | NFL Great, Greg Olsen

Greg Olsen (0:00)

I think we live in a world where positive affirmation and positive feedback and look at the vacation I took and look how amazing my life is and look how amazing my wife's, my marriage is, and my kids hit a home run.

Well, guess what? That's bullshit. Yes, we all want great times. Don't get me wrong, no one wants to suffer. But part of the human condition of existence is suffering and the understanding that suffering doesn't make you weird. It makes you normal.

Michael Gervais (0:38)

Welcome, I'm Dr. Michael Gervais, and this is the Finding Mastery Podcast where we learn from people who challenge the edges and the reaches of the human experience in business and sport and science and life in general. We pull back the curtain to explore how they have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds in an effort to express their potential.

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Now, along with his career as a sportscaster, Greg co-launched a media company, Audiorama, with his flagship podcast called Youth, Inc. Where Greg discusses the changing world, the complicated changing world of youth sports in America. There's much more to Greg than meets the eye or what's read on his NFL resume. The majority of this conversation is about what sits underneath his success. It's about learning, it's about leading, parenting, and how sport can play an integral role in our kid's upbringing. But we also dive into the more intimate part where we talk about how his family dealt with the crisis. And they did that in an extremely public manner.