Does Car Racing Explain Leadership, Too? with Dion von Moltke, Co-founder of Blayze & Former Pro Race Car Driver, and Mike Semenza, Lead Blayze Soccer Coach & Former Pro and College Player

In Episode 85, Dion von Moltke, Founder of Blayze and former Pro Race Car Driver, and Mike Semenza, Lead Blayze Soccer Coach and former pro and college player, talk with Phil about Blayze, their online coaching platform, fostering coaching relationships online, how car racing and soccer have taught them life and leadership lessons, sacrifice, prioritization, resilience, adversity, mental performance, and more. Specifically, Dion and Mike discuss:

• Their stories and how they developed their passions for race car driving and soccer, respectively, leadership, and coaching (2:40)
• What Blayze Coaching is, how it is different from other coaching platforms, and how you can get involved with it (5:58)
• How they are able to foster interpersonal relationships through an online platform, and how their online coaching complements and supplements the live coaching their players are receiving (10:30)
• What lessons from car racing have taught Dion about life and leadership (17:02)
• What lessons from soccer have taught Mike about life and leadership (19:15)
• The need for sacrifice and prioritization to reach elite levels in any sport or other area of life (23:46)
• What Dion learned about overcoming adversity and resilience, and mental performance from crashing into walls and losing races (40:52)
• How soccer taught Mike problem-solving skills (44:00)
• Their personal whys/mission statements, and how they are living them out in their daily lives (49:07)
• What lessons learned from auto racing and/or soccer they have used in their personal relationships outside of sports (52:14)
• Their recommendations (59:11)

Resources and Links from this Episode

• Blayze Website
• Dion's TED Talk, "What does it take to be a race car driver"
• Uncut Video of the Episode
• HSEL Facebook Group
• Coaching the Bigger Game Program
• Warrior Way Soccer
• Open: An Autobiography, by Andre Agassi
• Paul Graham's Essays
• Free Solo (Documentary)
• Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure, by Alex Honnold
• The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life, by Mark Synnott