The Story Underneath the Story

The Story Underneath the Story

I'm a coach. I read what's underneath the surface for a living. On Sunday, the story was right in front of me on a tee box, and I missed it completely. A while back, in a Zoom breakout with a stranger, I asked one question. When the breakout ended, he repeated it to a room of sixty people. As this episode goes out, I'm on a flight to New York for dinner at his home. In this episode: a tee box, a Zoom breakout, and two questions I want you to sit with until next week. If it lands, CoachReg.net [https://coachreg.net/] (click the conversation button). Newsletter: coachreg.beehiiv.com [https://coachreg.beehiiv.com/].

The Thing You Keep Dismissing Because It Seems Too Simple

There's an idea I've been sitting on for a long time, and I kept dismissing it, because you're really not supposed to be able to do this. You're not supposed to say you can build a business around something that feels completely playful, something you thoroughly enjoy, something that, if somebody else had the guts to build it first, you'd say yes to before they finished the pitch. But as an entrepreneur, you already know the tell. The thing you most want to build is often the exact thing the world is waiting for you to build. This week I stopped dismissing it. In this episode: what I'm finally putting together, the reason most people kill ideas like this in their own heads before they ever take a step, and one question I want you to sit with until next week. If it lands, CoachReg.net [https://CoachReg.net] (click the conversation button). Newsletter: coachreg.beehiiv.com [https://coachreg.beehiiv.com].

The Thing You Can't Say From Stage

In May of 2023, a month after my mom passed, I stood on a friend's stage and said something out loud that you're not supposed to say. I want to spend as much time as I possibly can on a golf course, and as much time as I can with my wife. I had no idea what I was setting in motion. A year later I retired from 38 seasons of basketball coaching. A year after that, I was handed the golf program at my alma mater. From August through October 3rd, there wasn't a day I wasn't on a course. Life just kind of filled in the details. This is Season 2, Episode 1 of the newsletter and podcast formerly known as SPARK Insights. New name, new format. Things You Can't Say. Each week I'll say something you're not supposed to say, and I'll leave you with a question. This week's question: What are you not allowing yourself to choose? If you sit with it and you're ready to answer it, book a Diagnostic Session with me at CoachReg.net. LINKS * Book a diagnostic: CoachReg.net [https://CoachReg.net] (click the conversation button) * Newsletter: coachreg.beehiiv.com [https://coachreg.beehiiv.com]

The Night SPARK Died

About 10 days ago, lightning struck close enough to my house to do real damage. Fried a printer, killed a sofa, knocked out two DirecTV receivers, and took out the internet. It happened while I was in the middle of removing SPARK from everything I do. In this episode I talk about what I found when I went back through a hundred coaching sessions, the four questions that showed up in almost every one of them, and what happened when I stopped hiding behind frameworks, acronyms, and credentials I'd been stacking for years. This is the companion episode to the final issue of SPARK Insights. Next week everything becomes The Thing You Can't Say. New site: https://CoachReg.net [https://coachreg.net] Subscribe to The Thing You Can't Say newsletter: https://sparkinsights.beehiiv.com/subscribe [https://sparkinsights.beehiiv.com/subscribe]

Tiger Woods and the Question Nobody's Asking

This week's episode isn't about golf. Michael Bamberger wrote something on Golf.com after Tiger's latest car accident that stopped Coach Reg in his tracks: "It's not easy...to have to find meaning in your life when that chapter of your life is over." Bob walks through why that statement fuels his work, runs a thought experiment applying the Purpose Factor® framework to Tiger's public career, and connects it to the pattern he sees in athletes, founders, and executives who've never done identity work beneath their performance. Links: * Read this week's newsletter: https://sparkinsights.beehiiv.com/p/tiger-woods-and-the-question-nobody-s-asking?draft=true [https://sparkinsights.beehiiv.com/p/tiger-woods-and-the-question-nobody-s-asking?draft=true ] * Michael Bamberger's article: https://golf.com/news/tiger-woods-car-accident-same-conclusion/ [https://golf.com/news/tiger-woods-car-accident-same-conclusion/] * Purpose Factor® Assessment: https://bobregnerus.com/purpose [https://bobregnerus.com/purpose] * Book a conversation with Coach Reg: https://calendly.com/bobreg/conversation-with-coach-reg [https://calendly.com/bobreg/conversation-with-coach-reg]