It’s opening day of the track driving season. About two sessions in a student says some idiot came flying past her into a corner super aggressively. Everyone was fine, but it ruined the session for my student. The move was rude and dangerous. It happened so quickly tha...

The title of this coaching conversation “Keep on Learning” refers to being curious and how my guest, Life Coach, Jean Haynes, explained what curiosity has done for her and her clients. The idea of using our curiosity brings me to the growth mindset concept that Dr. Car...

                                                                                       Rich racing his BMW at Sebring - January 2019...

Karen Watai is an executive coach, Founder and President of Welcome Change, and the author of Lead Your Way: Practical Coaching Advice for Creating the Career You Want. When I spoke with Karen, I discovered that before becoming a coach, she had spent almost 20 years in...

When I walk into my classroom full of drivers at the racetrack, I don’t know much about them, and they don’t know me or each other. Tension is too strong a word to describe the atmosphere, but it is accurate to say that there is plenty of performance anxiety in a room...

Coach Conversations is my opportunity to hear coaches and leaders talk about what has influenced them, lessons they’ve learned, and why coaching is an important thing for all of us.

I am proud to have had one of my first Coach Conversations with my fellow Dickinson Coll...

Per Merriam-Webster online, an instructor teaches, and a teacher is one whose occupation is to

instruct. The same resource states that a coach can be someone who instructs a player or student in the fundamentals of a sport and directs team strategy. Per my friend, Ross...

This is about coaching, but it is going to take a little bit to get there-

I love friction, but friction doesn’t always feet the same about me. Over, say, the last forty years I’ve used my bike to get me somewhere, see sights, and keep me pretty fit. There have, however...

When we were kids we rode all over the place. Natural enough. It was always fun, and then we didn’t exactly get serious, but it became even more fun to get out of the house for an overnight adventure. We had a few of those, but in between those two patches of years, we...

This is the view from my favorite place to cycle. It looks east and south from a bit more than a mile up. The climb is 10 miles long and usually takes me an hour or so including a stop at mile eight at the Santuario d’Oropa for refueling.

Oropa has been a mountain top f...