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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Faith in the Zone on the Big nine
twenty in your iHeart Radio app. This Mike mcgiffrin flying
solo this week. Pastor Ken Keltner from Brookside Baptist Church.
We'll be back in studio with me next week, coming
from the Donovan and Jorganson Heating and Cooling Studios. I
can tell you this, it's about forty degrees in the studio.
(00:22):
We got to get the boys Dinavan and Jorgensen to
come on up and check the ac in this studio.
And since they are the sponsor of the studio, they
should probably come in and give us a hand. I
am probably where I should be, wearing a parka and
my producer Andrew's got like a turtleneck, a big turtleneck on,
so you know he knew it was cold in here.
(00:43):
Our special guest today, I want to thank Pete Weary
and Pete Wearry Nations of Coach has a good friend
of mine and Pastor Ken Caltner has certainly been a
great friend to the show, to Faith in the Zone
with giving us ideas on guys at work Forations of
Coaches to have them on and talk to them about
their life in sports and asked to share their testimony,
(01:07):
so for the entire hour, our guest is the regional
director in the state of Florida for Nations of Coaches.
He is Jim. Good Jim, how you doing today.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Man, I'm doing great, Mike, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, you know you need air conditioning this time you're
down in Florida. I could borrow you some of the
air conditioning in the studio. I can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was laughing when you were talking about that ACB
and forty is. It's about ninety five right now, and
our air conditioner got dropped down. Yesterday we were comfortable
sixty eight. It was freezing in our house. But yeah,
it's pretty warm in South Florida in July.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You know, our sponsor, our studio sponsor for this show
and all the shows that I do, is a place
called Donovan and Jorgans and Heating and Cooling, and I
do a home improven show, I do a high school
sports show, and I do Faith in the Zone and
I'm at their office a lot. My company, the McGivern Agency,
does a lot of their marketing, and nobody talks to
me about the home improvement show I do. Nobody talks
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to me about the high school sports show I do.
But when I'm in those offices, there's somebody who comes
up to me and says, Hey, I'm really happy we
sponsor Faith in the Zone. And now this next time
I'm over there. In fact, I'm recording a TV commercial
there here really soon, and I'm going to ask them
to come over to these studios and find out why.
(02:29):
It doesn't matter what it's on. It feels like it's
about sixty degrees, so we need to be able to
get that thing done and they'll take care of it
for us. Hey, Jim, how long have you been involved
with Nations of Coaches.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I am entering year three so excited to be serving
in that capacity as a regional director down here in Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's awesome. You know, when as we are talking and
I didn't talk to Jim about this, and I don't
talk to these guys at all when I have them on.
But if you go to Nations of Coaches dot com,
Nations of Coaches dot Com, and during the conversation when
we're talking to Jim about his ministry, and that's what
this is there is you can go online Nations of
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Coaches find a picture of Jim Good, read his bio
and if you're feeling led to help support him, and
I honestly, I don't care if it's it's a one
time support of twenty five dollars or a monthly support.
I know that we've done that for Kelly Kennedy, we've
done that. We talked to Billy Dunn a few weeks ago,
and ask people if they're feeling led to support these
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guys because the work they're doing is incredible and that's
how that's how they make a living. And I just
think it's really important that we put that out there
Nations of Coaches dot com. His name is Jim Good.
He's the regional director for the state of Florida. And
there's just a button right below his picture and bio
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to support him. And if again you're feeling led to
do that, please do it. Hey, what were you doing
prior to working for Nations of Coaches And let's talk
a little bit about your background.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh, I'd love to, But first, thanks for sharing that man.
That means a lot like and thank you for what
you're doing with this platform, you know, just interviewing, sharing
the gospel and using your platform so I appreciate what
you're doing in your church, in this ministry. So honored
to be a guest. Before I share that, I thought
we were going to make fun of pet A little
bit man, a little disappointed. I'll move on.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No no, oh no, no no no, I've got I've
got three pages and stuff that I can make fun,
you know, and all kiddy decide. I'm a big fan
of his. But and we talked about the South there.
You know, he had he coached at the there's two
Baptist colleges here in the state of Wisconsin back then,
and he coached at Northland and my son played at
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Marinatha Baptist Bible College. Okay, and I can tell you this.
You know, when they played against each other, you had
to get there by about five o'clock for a seven
o'clock tip to make sure you could get in because
those games sold out, and it was it was so fun,
and I would be so nervous. I had I coached
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high school basketball for a long time, and I coached
my son for three of the four years that he
played in high school. And yeah, that was good. It
worked out really well. The first year wasn't so good. Jim.
You know, I was the adult in the room, and
I need to make some adjustments to when I was
his coach and when I was his father, and I
think I made those adjustments. So it's junior and senior
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year are really good. And then I got to sit
up in the crowd and watch him play, and that
was really hard for me. And whenever they played Northland
and Pete came down to watch my son play in
high school a few times, and Matthew and Pete knew
each other, and so they put a little extra pressure
on the point guard for Maranatha because Pete said, look,
we want to pick him up full and we want
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to we want to wear him down a little bit.
And if we at home, you know, felt pretty good
about that. But we went up in the middle of nowhere.
The standard was NASA and you know, Pete's having the
referees over the night before for dinner. Man, I knew
we were in trouble. I think Pete stood up in
one of their weddings and all that stuff. Yeah, so
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every call and I had a hard time sitting in
the crowd and not yelling about the home cooking that
Pete was getting every time we showed up up there.
So I'll tell you this, he's a really good man. Yeah.
And Pete says nothing but really good things about you, Jim.
And and you know, Pete doesn't say a lot of
good things about anybody, so when he talks about good
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things with you, Hey, let's start with this. Where were
you born and raised?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I was born and raised outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so
a small town, Western PA, Aliquippa, PA. And I'll tell
you this. I tell a lot of people Pittsburgh is
a great place to be from. I loved growing up
in there. Blue collar. My dad worked in the steel
mill right on the Ohio River. He was our volunteer
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basketball coach, so I got to play for my dad.
He coached my three younger brothers. And then my mom
was a Christian school teacher and she taught second grade
for about twenty five years. So throughout high school, they
just planted those roots and I saw their testimony and
them giving back, and I decided to place go to
Clearwater Christian. So when you were talking about Maranatha and Northland,
(07:30):
I'm familiar with that. As I played small college basketball
Clearwater Christian, I just felt God using my parents and
watching their life to go into education, go into coaching,
and I got my degree in physical education.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Man, that's awesome. So a boy from Pittsburgh you get
to Clearwater, Christian. That's a whole different world, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That was an experience, Mike. And I'll tell you what
I was just sharing with somebody the other day. They
dropped me off when I was seventeen years old. I
was a young graduate senior, and I'm looking at palm trees.
I'm looking at the beach and the water. And when
we grew up, our vacation in Pittsburgh, we would go
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to Lake Erie for the weekend, and so that's the
only body of water I knew. And so I didn't
come home till Christmas, and I stayed down there three
straight months. And when I visited the first time, I
was like, man, Pittsburgh's kind of kind of bleak here, Man,
what's going on? My mom and dad are like, well,
you're in a postcard now, man, Clearwater is beautiful. And
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I ended up, you know, staying there those four years,
and then had an opportunity to maybe start my career
in teaching at a school in Pittsburgh. And I remember
my dad said, hey, let's let's think this through. Man,
don't be afraid to get uncomfortable. Maybe there's something down
in Florida. And Pompino Beach, South Florida offered me a job.
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And I've been down here ever since.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Man, well, I could tell you this that I don't
know if there's a better group of Sandwich than Frenchies. Clear.
My brother lives in tarp And Springs and and uh,
I was in Sarasota and I went and got a
group of Sandwich. And then I said, I traveled to
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spend some time with my brother Tim and I said, man,
I had the best group of Sandwich. He said, no,
you haven't. You have not had a good group of
Sandwich till we get the Frenchies and on faith in
the zone and we had Tony dunge On years ago,
and I brought it up and Tony wanted to talk
about for about ten minutes about Frenchies, about being out
of the beach, having that group of Sandwich and a
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man that that and I think that's the original Frenchies.
It seats about fifteen people. I mean, it's just a
small little place. But boy, oh boy, you have one
group of sandwich from there, and it kind of ruins
every other group of sandwich you've ever had. Agreed, Man,
just great. Hey, when when you grow in Pittsburgh and
(10:01):
I've been to We talked about this off the air.
I've been to Pittsburgh a few times and I absolutely
fell in love with the city. And I tell people that.
I told my kids. And then I took my son
to an AAU basketball tournament and from the airport, we're
driving and he said, you oversaw this a little bit.
I said, just wait for it. Yeah, I said, wait
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until we go through the tunnel. We get out of
the tunnel and all of a sudden, he was like,
holy cow.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I said, exactly, Hey, that is one of that is, Mike,
one of my favorite views and sits when you drive
through the Fort pitt Tunnels. And when we were younger,
we had a tradition, you know, as kids, we would
hold our breath and it would be about a minute
forty and we timed it and had the music playing.
And when we kind of saw that that end of
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the tunnel and the light and the city and the
landscape at three Rivers Stadium and now PNT Park and
it's just, man, it is a beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It really is. The first time I was there, I
worked for a sports marketing company. We flew on the
Packer team plane to Pittsburgh for a Monday night game
against the Steelers, and when we came out of that tunnel,
I just went, you got to be kidding me. And
then Jim I. I was there for a few days
and walked around and got a chance to meet people
(11:22):
from the area, and I'd have a Packer hat on
or a Packer shirt, and these guys would be like, Hey,
you guys are going to get your buck kicked on
Monday night. Hey, what's it like in Green Bay? Hey?
Where are you from? And they it reminded me so
much of Milwaukee, Green Bay, Wisconsin people where you know,
we're going to follow our team and we're going to
be all for our team. But we were. They were
(11:44):
just really nice people, like you said, hard working people
that are just huge Steeler fans.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So my wife we started dating. We're clear water. She
was a cheerleader, I was a basketball player. She was
studying elementary education. I was in education and when I
brought her home for the first time, She's originally from
outside Orlando. We went to Walmart, we went out to eat,
we went to a couple of places and she's like,
(12:11):
why is everybody saying like hi to me and excuse
me and kind of like she said, I'm not used
to that. I said, well, we're nice people up here now,
We're passionate people about the Black and Gold, and we'll
let you know that. But you are right, there's just
there's just kind of that culture up up in Pittsburgh
where you know, family, a lot of just celebration, man,
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good food. And I love my upbringing. I love growing
up in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So Jim, you guys tell me with with Jimmy and
Jack and Jennifer and Julia, is it Julia? Are they
Steeler fans?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
They are bad boys. One of the things when they
were born we were putting them in black and gold man,
so we kind of indoctrinated them. And my wife's a
Steeler fan now. So when it's when it's the season,
we got that game on, we are all in, all
out want to know Steelers.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Hey, Jim, I got to tell you, We've been doing
faith in the Zone for about ten years and there's
not there's not an NFL team that we've had more
guys join us on this show than Steelers. We've had
a number number of Pittsburgh Steeler guys that that that
have joined us over the years. And with Tony Dungee
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being the first, and with him talking about his testimony,
him talking about his days early days with the Steelers
and Mel Blunt and some of these guys that he said, look,
I was nervous with these guys. Yeah, And they were like, hey,
we're doing Bible study tonight, are you in?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And he said, people they were not afraid, you know.
And the question I used to ask a lot on
this show is where it was it easier for you
to walk worthy in the locker room or outside of
the locker room. And I can tell you Tony Dungee
and Don Babe, I said inside by far, inside the
locker room, because we had we had grown men and
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leaders of the of the teams I was on that
that that were there to help and a guide and
to hold you accountable. And then all of a sudden
the year ends and guys like reg you White and
Mel Blount right there talking to you. And both guys
answered that by saying, inside the locker room. Most of
the baseball players I've had on Jim and you know,
(14:29):
major league baseball players, minor league baseball players say oh,
by far outside of the locker room, because that's my
people inside the locker room, because are you know, people
are coming and going a lot, and you know, the
word Bible thumper gets thrown out a little bit. But
but football players, it's just a different breed. And man,
I'm really glad that your four kids you've you've raised
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them correctly.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, I did, I did. And coach Mike Tomlin is
a he's a stud and he's doing a great job.
And just that ownership, there's like at that culture of man,
three head coaches over what fifty years and the same
Rooney family as the owners. My brother and I went
we went to a game in Jacksonville a few years ago,
and then we went to a game down in Miami.
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And let's just say there's more Steeler fans at those games,
you know, so they travel well.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, my brother is trying to get the mcgiffern family
to go to Jacksonville for a Packer game this year,
So we'll see how that goes. Hey, last question before
we get to a break. You're a boys varsity basketball
coach and an athletic director. Now this is a really
big answer because if you answer incorrectly, I might not
be able to continue to interview. Were you a Manda
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man or a zone guy?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'll tell you what. It depended what kind of players
I had, But mostly Manda Man.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, I'll let you keep going. Mostly man. Thank goodness.
My co host, Pastor Ken kultners in here. I coached
his boys along with my son at at Calvary Baptist
Mnami Falls and Jim he always wanted me to put
in that Syracuse two three zone and I go, our
biggest kid is six ' three, like, yeah, they got
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wings at six ' nine that could cover. And he said, no, no,
that's Syracuse. And I thought, boy, we're gonna stay with that. Man.
I was a man guy, and you didn't have to
scout us much defensively. You knew what we were gonna run.
Our special guest he is Jim Good. He's the regional
director for the state of Florida for Nations of Coaches.
We're gonna ask him to share his testimony and talk
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much more about Nations of Coaches and the things that
he's accomplishing in the State of Florida. Again, you can
go to Nations Offcoaches dot com see a picture of
Jim and read his bio and again there's a support
tab and if you're feeling led to support Jim in
this ministry of his, please do so. This is Faith
in the Zone on the Big nine twenty in your
(16:52):
iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to Faith and the Zone
on a Big nine twenty and your iHeartRadio app up again.
I'm Mike mcgiffrin flying solo this week. Pastor Ken Keltner
from Brookside Baptist Church were back in studio. Next week
we're coming from the Donovan to Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios,
and our special guest he is Jim Good, the regional
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director of the State of Florida for Nations of Coaches. Jim,
the second segment is the one that we get the
most response on, and we just ask our guests to
share their testimony and if you'd be so kind.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh, thank you for the opportunity and join the conversation. Mike,
My parents were very influential in my spiritual life and development.
So they were believers, accepted Christ as their savior in
their early marriage and then so when I was born
in nineteen seventy five, when I was about two or three,
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is when they became serious about their faith, and so
we were involved in our church. And I can remember
Sunday morning, Sunday night getting involved, Wednesday going to a
Christian school. But then it was very clear to me
about the age of eight, and I don't remember all
the details, but I knew after that service that I
wanted to place my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
(18:16):
And I remember talking to my dad in my living
room and just sharing about you know, I wanted to
be in heaven, and as an eight year old boy,
didn't understand everything, but I prayed the prayer and I
honestly believed when I prayed that I meant it. And
I was serious about accepting Christ as my savior. And
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I emphasized savior because it then that sanctification process. Of course,
is the journey. And two key kind of defining moments
that happened when I was nineteen, I was going into
my junior year playing basketball at Clearwater. God had to
get a hold of my attention, where again a believer,
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a Christian, but my priorities were messed up a little bit,
probably like a lot of college kids. And I'll say
basketball was at the top and girls were second, and
my faith was on that list. But there was no
way it was where it needed to be. And I
had a shoulder injury, shoulder surgery, I was out for
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about six months. I had the opportunity to play baseball
there as well, and so sports were a big part
of my life. It was almost like my idol, my God,
little g And when God removed that from my life,
I remember really at nineteen saying, all right, God, your
number one. Fast forward just about five six years ago, Mike,
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I was forty three years old and I was going
through I would say, the halftime of my life. I
remember reading Bob Bufer's book Halftime, and I was trying
to climb this ladder of success as a coach and
just realizing that it was about me and trying to
chase that high school championship, that banner and kids into colleges.
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Look what I've done, Look what I've done. And God
really humbled me and I said, it's about significance. It's
not about me, It's about others. And I'll tell you what.
At that moment, I feel God now became my lord.
He was my favor and I think when I learned
about priorities, I had him on the list. I was
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able to put him to the top. But around that
that age five six years ago, he became my list,
and that's when God really became my lord and I
really started growing. And ironically, it was a basketball game.
We lost at the Buzzer, and it was a very
heart moving experience. It was hard. I went through a
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time of kind of just questioning, maybe a little depression,
and just to kind of go. Alongside of that, I
went through a really physical transformation where at age forty three,
let's just say I couldn't heat the things I was
at twenty three, right, and the weight started creeping up.
I wasn't as disciplined with some of my exercise and
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eating habits, and I got a certain weight and I
decided that I was going to go on this major,
major diet, eating clean, working out, and the spring of
twenty eighteen, I decided to do that. And by time
school started in August, and I just I lost forty pounds.
And when I went through that physical transformation of working out,
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eating healthier. I'll tell you what it did for me, Mike.
It kind of rejuvenated me into my purpose, my passion.
But I remember in our church service walking down and Nile,
August nineteenth, twenty eighteen, I got on my hands and
knees and just cried to Jesus and said, Lord, you
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changed me physically, change me spiritually. And I was ready.
And I'll tell you what. During those next couple of months,
I got serious about the word, I got serious about
my prayer life, and it just it was that loss
that kind of became a moment. And then Man, six
months later, I was resigning from being an ad and
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a basketball coach, and God had something else planned for me.
I had no idea about nations of coaches, but I
needed a middle I needed a bridge, and I spent
three years at another Christian school in the area, and
then God, just through his sovereignty, had nations of coaches
lined up. And so I am grateful for how God works,
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how he breaks you, how he gets you to where
you fully surrender and there's man no turn back. And
I just wake up every day humble, blessed that He
allows me to do what I get to do.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Ay, man, we're talking to Jim Good, Regional director State
of Florida for Nations of Coaches Again, go to Nations
of Coaches dot com. You know, Jim, if Pastor Ken
was here when you talked about in the beginning when
you were eight years old, his favorite line for that is,
you know, God makes it so simple that even a
child can understand it. And and you know, I love
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the fact that you're willing to open up about this journey.
Right at nineteen, had some bad priorities at that point
in basketball and girls, and and the Lord was somewhere
on that list. God was somewhere on the list. And
then again at forty three, I think is just you know,
for me personally, I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I
was born and raised and went to Catholic schools, and
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I was very stubborn, as a lot of us Irish
people are. And it took me a lot longer, Jim,
to figure this stuff out. And I like the fact
that you're willing to say. Look, I as an eight
year old, I accepted, but boy, there were some hiccups
along the way and some other parts of this journey
that I needed to refocus and I needed to turn
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it back over and say, Lord, maybe I can't do
this on my own. And the fact that you know
you've gotten really healthy and fit. I look that part
of your journey I think is really incredible and I
commend you has where is even this process? I know
being part of Nations of Coaches, this isn't something that
you can do on your own. It's got me the family.
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Everybody's got to buy in because if you go, look,
this is what I'm going to do, and you don't
have the support of your wife and kids, it's a
really difficult job to do without their support.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You're right. And Eve is my best friend. She's my hero.
She is a fourth grade school teacher, mother of my
poor kids, and she has been with me on this
journey again since we started dating at eighteen and now
just celebrated twenty six years of our anniversary. We got
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married in July of nineteen ninety eight. But I'll tell
you what, Mike, I was real comfortable and being that
athletic director of that basketball coach, it was my world.
And God, he rocked me and he said let's get
let's get comfortable with being uncomfortable. And he started working
in my life with even our relationship of tuning in
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and being in sync. And when I shared what God
was doing in my life and then I was approached
by nations of coaches to you know, consider the role.
I knew this is what God had planned. I just
was I was better way. I was just in fellowship
with God that I knew that. But I had to say, hey, gentlemen,
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I'm honored, I'm humbled, but I need to talk with
my wife. I got to make sure she is in
tune with this. I've made some bad decisions in the past,
and a lot of them were when I wasn't consulting
my wife. So if I learned anything in marriage, I
mean talked to my wife about the big decisions, you know.
And so the first time I brought it up to her,
and you know, we were approached with raising support and
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switching careers for me, she looked at me and she said,
hold on, I'm not I'm not ready yet. How was
this look? And I was so glad for her honesty
and I'm so glad that we have the relationship that
she's just not like, okay, whatever, yeah, go, And it
was it was soul searching for about ten to twelve
days fasting, praying, and I remember in the living room
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one time she looked at me eye to eye and
she said, you are born to do this. I'm in
And I get chilled thinking about that. To now have
my wife's support, and I think the ministry really respected
the time where I told them we're still praying, we're
considering this. And then as a husband, when you know
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your wife is linked up, armed to arm, side to
side with you, and you run through walls. And so
my wife has just been an incredible help me support
her and she's all in, you.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Know, reading Jim Goods bio, and you know, I asked
him that question because I know, stepping out and being
part of Nations of Coaches and something like that, you
have to have everybody supporting you because it's a difficult
thing to do. And he's only been doing it three years,
and I think it and I don't know this for
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a fact, Jim, but I think the guys who have
been there five years and longer, you know, you build
that support and people continue to support and they understand
the struggles. But man, that first, you know, one, two, three,
four and five years have got to be very difficult.
And this is all on faith. You are doing this
purely on faith. But Nations of Coaches does a great
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job of marriage and family and some of the things
that they do in that category, not just coaches, but
marriage and family and coaching couples and things like that.
And on your bio when when you say, Jim's passions
use the platform of basketball to share the gospel of
Jesus Christ. His purpose and mission is to impact players
and coaches for the Kingdom of Christ. I like reading
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people's bio and what their mission statement is, Jim, because
you can't run for that. Now, that's inviting. And and
when you're when you're talking to coaches and talking to
people in the state of Florida and they say, listen,
why why are you here? What's your purpose? And you
can point to this and say, look, my mission is
to impact players and coaches for the Kingdom of Christ.
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So whatever I need to do, whatever you need for me,
you need me to pick up water bottles or drive
somebody the airport, like, I'll be present for you. And
it's really interesting because when when we talked to Billy
Dunn last week or two weeks ago, he brought that up.
He said, Look, the power of being present is the
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is the key to this thing. They just got to
know you're there. They might not want to talk to
you today or tomorrow, but they need to know that
you're there. And when you put that on your bio
and your mission statement, it's to utilize the game of
basketball to share the gospel and then to impact players
and coaches for the Kingdom of Christ. I just think
that that's a perfect place to have you wrote, because
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you can't run from it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well said man, Well said. And Billy's a stud. We're
so excited to have him, especially in my home state
up in PA. So he's been a great addition to
the team. But as you say that, a couple of
things came to my mind. Just what we do with coaches,
wives and family. It's unbelievable. I'm blown away with you know,
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the things that we're able to do, you know, with
God's help of marriage retreats, coaches connections. Coaches wives are
a special breed. My mom was a coach's wife, my wife,
of course a former coach's wife. My sister in law,
my brother coach basketball soccer for twenty plus years, and
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a lot of times, you know, to put up with
us as coaches and our personality and who we are,
and you know, not sleeping the night before the big
game or watching film when we get home. And it's
just like these coaches. When I meet a new coaches wife,
I literally I shake their hand, I hug them and
I say thank you, And they say, what are you
thinking me for? I said, for loving your husband because
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I know he's crazy, right, thank you for being a
coaches wife. So those are the heroes, and I just
I'm grateful for the ones that are doing it well.
You mentioned that, you know, ministry of presence and that
word serve twenty nineteen, As I share a little bit
about my testimony, I was a guy Mike that had
the New Year's resolutions, right, a type personality list, goals,
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have all that, and I would come up with my
resolutions and I remember listening to a podcast from John
Gordon and said, hey, you know, eighty five percent of
people that make resolutions, ninety percent of them they don't
get past January fifteenth, Right, that's two weeks. And that
was me. You know, hey, I'm going to do my
fifty push ups every day, I'm going to read the
Bible every day. I'm going to floss every day. I
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couldn't floss till January fourth, right, you know, I had
these resolution and the idea he presented was, hey, what's
your one word? Come up with just one word for
the year and focus on that in twenty nineteen and
getting chills thinking about it. My one word the first
year I did this was served. And what started happening
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as a coach, as a father, as a dad, as
a husband, it started becoming less about me. And I
remember the quote, you know, you don't have to be
great to serve, but you have to serve to be great.
And what did Jesus teach us in that upper room? Man,
he got down on his hands and feet and he
was serving. He was washing the feet. And I just
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think of those great coaches when I get to visit
these gyms and go to practices, they're the one servant
and it's this kingdom opposite mindset of I want to
serve and God. Just honestly, it became a word, but
then it became a life. I don't do it well
all the time, but man, when I hear that word serve,
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I light up because I'm now getting to as you said,
fulfill my mission statement with an organization. When I read
we serve coaches, Hey, Joe, what a perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Marriage, man, jee, I just I love that and the
word serve. You know, if you keep that and that's
the one word for the year and you stay with that,
it's amazing what you can do in a year. How
old are your kids nowadays?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I have a twenty one year old, I have a
seventeen year old, and then my daughters are sixteen and eleven.
So it is an amazing time in our life where
they're getting to be young adults. You know, we're not
disciplining as much as we're kind of letting out that
rope and having some adult conversation. And my wife and
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I are really just enjoying this phase.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Man. That's awesome. Well, i'm looking we need to change
the picture on the on the website of the Nations
of Coaches.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yes, yes, you're right. I looked at that the other
day too. I think that's about five years old. My
one son is uh. He went through his chubby stage
in sixth and seventh grade. Now now he's balking, working out,
hitting the wave room every day. He has changed the
men'sly and He's like, hey, Dan, you want to up.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
There, just picture that's upgraded and and you know what
I can and I say this a lot, but you'll
kick your coverage a bit, you know that, right?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah? I know, man, I know. I'm blessed.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, yeah, you are blessed. And and I married a
former cheerleader as well, and I kicked my coverage by
a mile. We just celebrated our fortieth so we've been
we've been hold the hands a long long time. And
and she doesn't know this, but I always tell her
she took a run at the championship and she won.
I don't believe that for a minute, not even for
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a minute. Hey, Jim, we're gonna get to a break.
On this side of the break, will continue our conversation.
He is Jim Good, regional director in this Florida for
Nations of Coaches, and we'll get an idea on a
day to day basis what he's looking to accomplish in
the state of Florida. On the other side of the break,
this is Faith in the Zone on the Big nine
twenty in your iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to Faith
(34:16):
in the Zone on the Big nine twenty year iHeart
radio app. I'm Mike mcgiver flying solo this week coming
from the Dotavan and Jordanson Heating and Cooling Studios. Man,
this has been really a fun show. Our special guest
he is Jim Good, Regional director State of Florida Nations
of Coaches, and I think he told me he's buying
a French He's next time I'm down visiting my brother
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a type and springs. I think that's what he said,
but we'll figure that part out. Hey, Jim, on a
day to day basis, can you talk about the impact
that you're trying to have in the state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Man, thank you for the opportunity, Mike again and join
the conversation. We have over sixty colleges and universities here
in this to Florida. So we have eleven Division one,
by twelve, thirteen, Division two, several anai A, twenty plus
JUCO and that that's an amazing opportunity to it's my
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mission field, you know, these college programs, and so what
I'm trying to do is touch base with these coaches,
make a visit, visit practice and being a high school coach,
that gives me kind of some leverage, you know, going
in and seeing a practice and visiting them, and then
you can tell the ones that are hungry about what
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do you do? Jim, tell me about the ministry. And
there's so many that already know about what we do,
from maybe maybe the head coach being involved, assistant being involved,
knowing some of our staff. So when I'm going in,
I'm just really trying to use some of the God
given gifts that I have with connection, encouragement, building relationship.
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And then what happens is that trust is developed and
you know the power of power of trust, and then
you have a contact, you have a cell number, and
you're starting to maybe share a Bible versus congrats on
the game. And then as that relationship develops, we're now
able to share a little bit about maybe getting them
a character coach. And so a character coach is now
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providing a chapelain the faith aspect to the program. And
our ministry has placed over one hundred and eighty character coaches,
and you know, right now in the state of Florida,
last year, I'm looking back, we had probably ten or
eleven character coaches, and so I'm just praying that God
sends the right people the right coaches get hungry about
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what we're doing. And in the next few months we're
kind of working through adding about four or five new
character coaches for the next season. So that's really exciting
to see how God's working that.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hey, Jim, when you know, we all have to have
elevator pitches, right when you have a few minutes to
talk to I head coach that that maybe had not
given you time, or somebody in the program that hasn't
given you time, how do you talk about what a
good character coach can do for his or her program.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Man, that's a great question, and a lot of times
what I share is coach our role is to serve
at the pleasure of the head coach. And a lot
of times people say, well what does that mean? You know,
and it goes into coach we want to be that
outside person. Where what I'm learning is when when a
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coach trusts somebody, they can open up to someone who's
not on staff. Maybe it's they need to share about
a staff situation, maybe something about their family, maybe a player,
and it even reaches to the player. Hey, coach with
with this, you know, mental health awareness with these players
with the portal, the ni L. We just want to
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be a sounding board. We want to you know, have
that ministry of presence where we're just we're just coming
alongside and serving you. And once they kind of understand
that we walk them through a little bit, most of
them are like, all right, how much does this cost?
You know, and we're like, coach, there's no cost. We
were trying to provide you with this service. And it's
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it happens kind of organically, you know, the relationship develops
meeting the proposed character coach. We go through a training
process and I've seen just some really good character coaches
able to invest not with just the staff, but with
the players as well. And that's what we're looking to do.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Man, that's awesome. Guys. If you go to Nations of
Coaches and it's a little bit old, but it's really good,
there is a character coach orientation. Maybe it's from twenty
twenty three, so not too old at all, but there
is about a fifteen minute that I watched video. If
there's somebody out there that is a coach and believes
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that this is something they want to know more about,
I know that when we had Grayson Wakefield on and
when we had Billy on. We had people other coaches
ask me what does that look like? And I sent
them to Nations of Coaches and you think maybe Florida
is the place you want to go. You know, there's
a number of coaches throughout the country that you might
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be able to talk to, But watch that orientation first
and kind of get a feel for if that's something
that you want to get more information on. And there's
a number of ways to get a hold of these guys.
We're going to get to a break. Our special guest
for the entire hour is Jim Good, the Regional director
of State of Florida for Nations of Coach and Coaches,
and we're going to ask him that question that we
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always ask at the end of this show. On the
other side of the break, this is Faith in His
Zone on the Big nine twenty in your iHeartRadio App.
Welcome back to Faith in the Zone on the Big
ninet twenty in your iHeartRadio app. Coming live or coming
recorded from the Diavan in Jordanston Heating and Cooling Studios.
Our special guests, he's Jim Good, Regional Director State of
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Florida for Nations of Coaches. Go to nationsofcoaches dot Com
to find out more about this organization than about Jim.
Hey Jim. This last segment, it was a throwaway question
a number of years ago, but we asked it and
I just like hearing the answer. All the uniforms you've
ever put on. You know, you played baseball and a
basketball in college, so you played little league baseball and
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a college or little league basketball in high school, all
of it. We put all those uniforms in the closet.
You get to pick one out to get one more
game with that team. What you've uniform do you pull out?
Who do you play against? And why?
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Man with al a batting my eye, I'm wearing number
thirty two Christian Warriors my senior year. My dad's my
high school coach. My younger brothers a sophomore. We played
in a little Christian league, but it meant everything. It
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was our it was our sec March Madness NBA. We
probably played sixteen games. We went in an advance to
the state tournament, and we lost the championship game. So
we finished sixteen and one. Tried like a baby, hugged
my dad, hugged my brother, hugged my mom, and I
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knew it was done for high school, so if I
could do it one more time. And here's what's funny.
My principal sent me my high school jersey about three
months ago. I was hanging in my office so I
could actually put it on. Can't play like I used to.
But it's not really just that game. It's just being
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in that moment with my dad being my coach, playing
with my younger brother, and having a chance to go
undefeated and run the show there one more time.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
It's really funny, Jim, because Matthew and I, my son,
Matthew and I we got to the state final his
senior year as well, and we did. We got that,
we got to win. We won it, but very similar
to what you went through. We I would tell people,
you know, he played at a place called Calvary Baptist
and their sixty five kids in the whole school, and
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we had we're a pretty good basketball team. I once
I got over there, I took us to play in
the city of Milwaukee, and I played against some schools
that people are like you out of your mind. I said, no,
we got seven boys on the team. Were the Caucasian invasion.
We'll come and invade, We'll be okay. And our kids
they didn't know any better. And I used to tell people,
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they live on this postage stamp. That's the world, and
I'm going to try to make it a little bit bigger,
and we're gonna take some lumps, but come the end
of the year, you know, it should pay back. And
we had a chance to win that his senior year.
We knew it was our last game together, and we
went out and won the thing. And and I would look,
if I could get one game back, I would probably
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take that one. You know. It was just such a
great experience for him and I and and for that
school and our family, and man, it was good. It
was really good. Hey do you does your other kids
do they play sports as well?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
They do? They do? So, of course, my oldest played
for me, and when I was coaching, and when I
made the transition to Nations of Coaches, my son was
going into his UH sophomore year and my nephew is
a sophomore as well, so they both played basketball. So
that was part of the sacrifice where I knew calling
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involved sacrifice obedience, but called, you know, involved sacrifice. So
I didn't have an opportunity to coach my my my
second son. But I love being a fan and a
spectator and watching him. My oldest daughter plays volleyball, and
then my youngest daughter's in sixth grade and she's gonna
try out for the middle school volleyball team this year.
So I give all those young parents this advice. My
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indoor sports baby sport.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
I agree. He is Jim Good. This has been a
great show. Jim. Thank you so much. Jim Good, Regional Director,
State of Florida. Nations of Coaches go to Nations of
Coaches dot com for more information. Hey Jim, have a
good day. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Thank you. Mike enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
You got it. This is Faith in the Zone on
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Welcome to Faith in the Zone on the Big nine
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solo this week. Pastor Ken Keltner from Brookside Baptist Church.
We'll be back in studio with me next week, coming
from the Donovan and Jorganson Heating and Cooling Studios. I
can tell you this, it's about forty degrees in the studio.
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We got to get the boys Dinavan and Jorgensen to
come on up and check the ac in this studio.
And since they are the sponsor of the studio, they
should probably come in and give us a hand. I
am probably where I should be, wearing a parka and
my producer Andrew's got like a turtleneck, a big turtleneck on,
so you know he knew it was cold in here.
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Our special guest today, I want to thank Pete Weary
and Pete Wearry Nations of Coach has a good friend
of mine and Pastor Ken Caltner has certainly been a
great friend to the show, to Faith in the Zone
with giving us ideas on guys at work Forations of
Coaches to have them on and talk to them about
their life in sports and asked to share their testimony,
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so for the entire hour, our guest is the regional
director in the state of Florida for Nations of Coaches.
He is Jim. Good Jim, how you doing today.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Man, I'm doing great, Mike, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, you know you need air conditioning this time you're
down in Florida. I could borrow you some of the
air conditioning in the studio. I can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was laughing when you were talking about that ACB
and forty is. It's about ninety five right now, and
our air conditioner got dropped down. Yesterday we were comfortable
sixty eight. It was freezing in our house. But yeah,
it's pretty warm in South Florida in July.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You know, our sponsor, our studio sponsor for this show
and all the shows that I do, is a place
called Donovan and Jorgans and Heating and Cooling, and I
do a home improven show, I do a high school
sports show, and I do Faith in the Zone and
I'm at their office a lot. My company, the McGivern Agency,
does a lot of their marketing, and nobody talks to
me about the home improvement show I do. Nobody talks
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to me about the high school sports show I do.
But when I'm in those offices, there's somebody who comes
up to me and says, Hey, I'm really happy we
sponsor Faith in the Zone. And now this next time
I'm over there. In fact, I'm recording a TV commercial
there here really soon, and I'm going to ask them
to come over to these studios and find out why.
(02:29):
It doesn't matter what it's on. It feels like it's
about sixty degrees, so we need to be able to
get that thing done and they'll take care of it
for us. Hey, Jim, how long have you been involved
with Nations of Coaches.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I am entering year three so excited to be serving
in that capacity as a regional director down here in Florida.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's awesome. You know, when as we are talking and
I didn't talk to Jim about this, and I don't
talk to these guys at all when I have them on.
But if you go to Nations of Coaches dot com,
Nations of Coaches dot Com, and during the conversation when
we're talking to Jim about his ministry, and that's what
this is there is you can go online Nations of
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Coaches find a picture of Jim Good, read his bio
and if you're feeling led to help support him, and
I honestly, I don't care if it's it's a one
time support of twenty five dollars or a monthly support.
I know that we've done that for Kelly Kennedy, we've
done that. We talked to Billy Dunn a few weeks ago,
and ask people if they're feeling led to support these
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guys because the work they're doing is incredible and that's
how that's how they make a living. And I just
think it's really important that we put that out there
Nations of Coaches dot com. His name is Jim Good.
He's the regional director for the state of Florida. And
there's just a button right below his picture and bio
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to support him. And if again you're feeling led to
do that, please do it. Hey, what were you doing
prior to working for Nations of Coaches And let's talk
a little bit about your background.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Oh, I'd love to, But first, thanks for sharing that man.
That means a lot like and thank you for what
you're doing with this platform, you know, just interviewing, sharing
the gospel and using your platform so I appreciate what
you're doing in your church, in this ministry. So honored
to be a guest. Before I share that, I thought
we were going to make fun of pet A little
bit man, a little disappointed. I'll move on.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
No no, oh no, no no no, I've got I've
got three pages and stuff that I can make fun,
you know, and all kiddy decide. I'm a big fan
of his. But and we talked about the South there.
You know, he had he coached at the there's two
Baptist colleges here in the state of Wisconsin back then,
and he coached at Northland and my son played at
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Marinatha Baptist Bible College. Okay, and I can tell you this.
You know, when they played against each other, you had
to get there by about five o'clock for a seven
o'clock tip to make sure you could get in because
those games sold out, and it was it was so fun,
and I would be so nervous. I had I coached
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high school basketball for a long time, and I coached
my son for three of the four years that he
played in high school. And yeah, that was good. It
worked out really well. The first year wasn't so good. Jim.
You know, I was the adult in the room, and
I need to make some adjustments to when I was
his coach and when I was his father, and I
think I made those adjustments. So it's junior and senior
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year are really good. And then I got to sit
up in the crowd and watch him play, and that
was really hard for me. And whenever they played Northland
and Pete came down to watch my son play in
high school a few times, and Matthew and Pete knew
each other, and so they put a little extra pressure
on the point guard for Maranatha because Pete said, look,
we want to pick him up full and we want
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to we want to wear him down a little bit.
And if we at home, you know, felt pretty good
about that. But we went up in the middle of nowhere.
The standard was NASA and you know, Pete's having the
referees over the night before for dinner. Man, I knew
we were in trouble. I think Pete stood up in
one of their weddings and all that stuff. Yeah, so
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every call and I had a hard time sitting in
the crowd and not yelling about the home cooking that
Pete was getting every time we showed up up there.
So I'll tell you this, he's a really good man. Yeah.
And Pete says nothing but really good things about you, Jim.
And and you know, Pete doesn't say a lot of
good things about anybody, so when he talks about good
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things with you, Hey, let's start with this. Where were
you born and raised?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I was born and raised outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so
a small town, Western PA, Aliquippa, PA. And I'll tell
you this. I tell a lot of people Pittsburgh is
a great place to be from. I loved growing up
in there. Blue collar. My dad worked in the steel
mill right on the Ohio River. He was our volunteer
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basketball coach, so I got to play for my dad.
He coached my three younger brothers. And then my mom
was a Christian school teacher and she taught second grade
for about twenty five years. So throughout high school, they
just planted those roots and I saw their testimony and
them giving back, and I decided to place go to
Clearwater Christian. So when you were talking about Maranatha and Northland,
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I'm familiar with that. As I played small college basketball
Clearwater Christian, I just felt God using my parents and
watching their life to go into education, go into coaching,
and I got my degree in physical education.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Man, that's awesome. So a boy from Pittsburgh you get
to Clearwater, Christian. That's a whole different world, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That was an experience, Mike. And I'll tell you what
I was just sharing with somebody the other day. They
dropped me off when I was seventeen years old. I
was a young graduate senior, and I'm looking at palm trees.
I'm looking at the beach and the water. And when
we grew up, our vacation in Pittsburgh, we would go
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to Lake Erie for the weekend, and so that's the
only body of water I knew. And so I didn't
come home till Christmas, and I stayed down there three
straight months. And when I visited the first time, I
was like, man, Pittsburgh's kind of kind of bleak here, Man,
what's going on? My mom and dad are like, well,
you're in a postcard now, man, Clearwater is beautiful. And
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I ended up, you know, staying there those four years,
and then had an opportunity to maybe start my career
in teaching at a school in Pittsburgh. And I remember
my dad said, hey, let's let's think this through. Man,
don't be afraid to get uncomfortable. Maybe there's something down
in Florida. And Pompino Beach, South Florida offered me a job.
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And I've been down here ever since.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Man, well, I could tell you this that I don't
know if there's a better group of Sandwich than Frenchies. Clear.
My brother lives in tarp And Springs and and uh,
I was in Sarasota and I went and got a
group of Sandwich. And then I said, I traveled to
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spend some time with my brother Tim and I said, man,
I had the best group of Sandwich. He said, no,
you haven't. You have not had a good group of
Sandwich till we get the Frenchies and on faith in
the zone and we had Tony dunge On years ago,
and I brought it up and Tony wanted to talk
about for about ten minutes about Frenchies, about being out
of the beach, having that group of Sandwich and a
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man that that and I think that's the original Frenchies.
It seats about fifteen people. I mean, it's just a
small little place. But boy, oh boy, you have one
group of sandwich from there, and it kind of ruins
every other group of sandwich you've ever had. Agreed, Man,
just great. Hey, when when you grow in Pittsburgh and
(10:01):
I've been to We talked about this off the air.
I've been to Pittsburgh a few times and I absolutely
fell in love with the city. And I tell people that.
I told my kids. And then I took my son
to an AAU basketball tournament and from the airport, we're
driving and he said, you oversaw this a little bit.
I said, just wait for it. Yeah, I said, wait
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until we go through the tunnel. We get out of
the tunnel and all of a sudden, he was like,
holy cow.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I said, exactly, Hey, that is one of that is, Mike,
one of my favorite views and sits when you drive
through the Fort pitt Tunnels. And when we were younger,
we had a tradition, you know, as kids, we would
hold our breath and it would be about a minute
forty and we timed it and had the music playing.
And when we kind of saw that that end of
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the tunnel and the light and the city and the
landscape at three Rivers Stadium and now PNT Park and
it's just, man, it is a beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It really is. The first time I was there, I
worked for a sports marketing company. We flew on the
Packer team plane to Pittsburgh for a Monday night game
against the Steelers, and when we came out of that tunnel,
I just went, you got to be kidding me. And
then Jim I. I was there for a few days
and walked around and got a chance to meet people
(11:22):
from the area, and I'd have a Packer hat on
or a Packer shirt, and these guys would be like, Hey,
you guys are going to get your buck kicked on
Monday night. Hey, what's it like in Green Bay? Hey?
Where are you from? And they it reminded me so
much of Milwaukee, Green Bay, Wisconsin people where you know,
we're going to follow our team and we're going to
be all for our team. But we were. They were
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just really nice people, like you said, hard working people
that are just huge Steeler fans.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So my wife we started dating. We're clear water. She
was a cheerleader, I was a basketball player. She was
studying elementary education. I was in education and when I
brought her home for the first time, She's originally from
outside Orlando. We went to Walmart, we went out to eat,
we went to a couple of places and she's like,
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why is everybody saying like hi to me and excuse
me and kind of like she said, I'm not used
to that. I said, well, we're nice people up here now,
We're passionate people about the Black and Gold, and we'll
let you know that. But you are right, there's just
there's just kind of that culture up up in Pittsburgh
where you know, family, a lot of just celebration, man,
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good food. And I love my upbringing. I love growing
up in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So Jim, you guys tell me with with Jimmy and
Jack and Jennifer and Julia, is it Julia? Are they
Steeler fans?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
They are bad boys. One of the things when they
were born we were putting them in black and gold man,
so we kind of indoctrinated them. And my wife's a
Steeler fan now. So when it's when it's the season,
we got that game on, we are all in, all
out want to know Steelers.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Hey, Jim, I got to tell you, We've been doing
faith in the Zone for about ten years and there's
not there's not an NFL team that we've had more
guys join us on this show than Steelers. We've had
a number number of Pittsburgh Steeler guys that that that
have joined us over the years. And with Tony Dungee
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being the first, and with him talking about his testimony,
him talking about his days early days with the Steelers
and Mel Blunt and some of these guys that he said, look,
I was nervous with these guys. Yeah, And they were like, hey,
we're doing Bible study tonight, are you in?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And he said, people they were not afraid, you know.
And the question I used to ask a lot on
this show is where it was it easier for you
to walk worthy in the locker room or outside of
the locker room. And I can tell you Tony Dungee
and Don Babe, I said inside by far, inside the
locker room, because we had we had grown men and
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leaders of the of the teams I was on that
that that were there to help and a guide and
to hold you accountable. And then all of a sudden
the year ends and guys like reg you White and
Mel Blount right there talking to you. And both guys
answered that by saying, inside the locker room. Most of
the baseball players I've had on Jim and you know,
(14:29):
major league baseball players, minor league baseball players say oh,
by far outside of the locker room, because that's my
people inside the locker room, because are you know, people
are coming and going a lot, and you know, the
word Bible thumper gets thrown out a little bit. But
but football players, it's just a different breed. And man,
I'm really glad that your four kids you've you've raised
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them correctly.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, I did, I did. And coach Mike Tomlin is
a he's a stud and he's doing a great job.
And just that ownership, there's like at that culture of man,
three head coaches over what fifty years and the same
Rooney family as the owners. My brother and I went
we went to a game in Jacksonville a few years ago,
and then we went to a game down in Miami.
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And let's just say there's more Steeler fans at those games,
you know, so they travel well.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, my brother is trying to get the mcgiffern family
to go to Jacksonville for a Packer game this year,
So we'll see how that goes. Hey, last question before
we get to a break. You're a boys varsity basketball
coach and an athletic director. Now this is a really
big answer because if you answer incorrectly, I might not
be able to continue to interview. Were you a Manda
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man or a zone guy?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I'll tell you what. It depended what kind of players
I had, But mostly Manda Man.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, I'll let you keep going. Mostly man. Thank goodness.
My co host, Pastor Ken kultners in here. I coached
his boys along with my son at at Calvary Baptist
Mnami Falls and Jim he always wanted me to put
in that Syracuse two three zone and I go, our
biggest kid is six ' three, like, yeah, they got
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wings at six ' nine that could cover. And he said, no, no,
that's Syracuse. And I thought, boy, we're gonna stay with that. Man.
I was a man guy, and you didn't have to
scout us much defensively. You knew what we were gonna run.
Our special guest he is Jim Good. He's the regional
director for the state of Florida for Nations of Coaches.
We're gonna ask him to share his testimony and talk
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much more about Nations of Coaches and the things that
he's accomplishing in the State of Florida. Again, you can
go to Nations Offcoaches dot com see a picture of
Jim and read his bio and again there's a support
tab and if you're feeling led to support Jim in
this ministry of his, please do so. This is Faith
in the Zone on the Big nine twenty in your
(16:52):
iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to Faith and the Zone
on a Big nine twenty and your iHeartRadio app up again.
I'm Mike mcgiffrin flying solo this week. Pastor Ken Keltner
from Brookside Baptist Church were back in studio. Next week
we're coming from the Donovan to Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios,
and our special guest he is Jim Good, the regional
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director of the State of Florida for Nations of Coaches. Jim,
the second segment is the one that we get the
most response on, and we just ask our guests to
share their testimony and if you'd be so kind.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh, thank you for the opportunity and join the conversation. Mike,
My parents were very influential in my spiritual life and development.
So they were believers, accepted Christ as their savior in
their early marriage and then so when I was born
in nineteen seventy five, when I was about two or three,
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is when they became serious about their faith, and so
we were involved in our church. And I can remember
Sunday morning, Sunday night getting involved, Wednesday going to a
Christian school. But then it was very clear to me
about the age of eight, and I don't remember all
the details, but I knew after that service that I
wanted to place my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
(18:16):
And I remember talking to my dad in my living
room and just sharing about you know, I wanted to
be in heaven, and as an eight year old boy,
didn't understand everything, but I prayed the prayer and I
honestly believed when I prayed that I meant it. And
I was serious about accepting Christ as my savior. And
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I emphasized savior because it then that sanctification process. Of course,
is the journey. And two key kind of defining moments
that happened when I was nineteen, I was going into
my junior year playing basketball at Clearwater. God had to
get a hold of my attention, where again a believer,
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a Christian, but my priorities were messed up a little bit,
probably like a lot of college kids. And I'll say
basketball was at the top and girls were second, and
my faith was on that list. But there was no
way it was where it needed to be. And I
had a shoulder injury, shoulder surgery, I was out for
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about six months. I had the opportunity to play baseball
there as well, and so sports were a big part
of my life. It was almost like my idol, my God,
little g And when God removed that from my life,
I remember really at nineteen saying, all right, God, your
number one. Fast forward just about five six years ago, Mike,
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I was forty three years old and I was going
through I would say, the halftime of my life. I
remember reading Bob Bufer's book Halftime, and I was trying
to climb this ladder of success as a coach and
just realizing that it was about me and trying to
chase that high school championship, that banner and kids into colleges.
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Look what I've done, Look what I've done. And God
really humbled me and I said, it's about significance. It's
not about me, It's about others. And I'll tell you what.
At that moment, I feel God now became my lord.
He was my favor and I think when I learned
about priorities, I had him on the list. I was
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able to put him to the top. But around that
that age five six years ago, he became my list,
and that's when God really became my lord and I
really started growing. And ironically, it was a basketball game.
We lost at the Buzzer, and it was a very
heart moving experience. It was hard. I went through a
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time of kind of just questioning, maybe a little depression,
and just to kind of go. Alongside of that, I
went through a really physical transformation where at age forty three,
let's just say I couldn't heat the things I was
at twenty three, right, and the weight started creeping up.
I wasn't as disciplined with some of my exercise and
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eating habits, and I got a certain weight and I
decided that I was going to go on this major,
major diet, eating clean, working out, and the spring of
twenty eighteen, I decided to do that. And by time
school started in August, and I just I lost forty pounds.
And when I went through that physical transformation of working out,
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eating healthier. I'll tell you what it did for me, Mike.
It kind of rejuvenated me into my purpose, my passion.
But I remember in our church service walking down and Nile,
August nineteenth, twenty eighteen, I got on my hands and
knees and just cried to Jesus and said, Lord, you
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changed me physically, change me spiritually. And I was ready.
And I'll tell you what. During those next couple of months,
I got serious about the word, I got serious about
my prayer life, and it just it was that loss
that kind of became a moment. And then Man, six
months later, I was resigning from being an ad and
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a basketball coach, and God had something else planned for me.
I had no idea about nations of coaches, but I
needed a middle I needed a bridge, and I spent
three years at another Christian school in the area, and
then God, just through his sovereignty, had nations of coaches
lined up. And so I am grateful for how God works,
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how he breaks you, how he gets you to where
you fully surrender and there's man no turn back. And
I just wake up every day humble, blessed that He
allows me to do what I get to do.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Ay, man, we're talking to Jim Good, Regional director State
of Florida for Nations of Coaches Again, go to Nations
of Coaches dot com. You know, Jim, if Pastor Ken
was here when you talked about in the beginning when
you were eight years old, his favorite line for that is,
you know, God makes it so simple that even a
child can understand it. And and you know, I love
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the fact that you're willing to open up about this journey.
Right at nineteen, had some bad priorities at that point
in basketball and girls, and and the Lord was somewhere
on that list. God was somewhere on the list. And
then again at forty three, I think is just you know,
for me personally, I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I
was born and raised and went to Catholic schools, and
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I was very stubborn, as a lot of us Irish
people are. And it took me a lot longer, Jim,
to figure this stuff out. And I like the fact
that you're willing to say. Look, I as an eight
year old, I accepted, but boy, there were some hiccups
along the way and some other parts of this journey
that I needed to refocus and I needed to turn
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it back over and say, Lord, maybe I can't do
this on my own. And the fact that you know
you've gotten really healthy and fit. I look that part
of your journey I think is really incredible and I
commend you has where is even this process? I know
being part of Nations of Coaches, this isn't something that
you can do on your own. It's got me the family.
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Everybody's got to buy in because if you go, look,
this is what I'm going to do, and you don't
have the support of your wife and kids, it's a
really difficult job to do without their support.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
You're right. And Eve is my best friend. She's my hero.
She is a fourth grade school teacher, mother of my
poor kids, and she has been with me on this
journey again since we started dating at eighteen and now
just celebrated twenty six years of our anniversary. We got
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married in July of nineteen ninety eight. But I'll tell
you what, Mike, I was real comfortable and being that
athletic director of that basketball coach, it was my world.
And God, he rocked me and he said let's get
let's get comfortable with being uncomfortable. And he started working
in my life with even our relationship of tuning in
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and being in sync. And when I shared what God
was doing in my life and then I was approached
by nations of coaches to you know, consider the role.
I knew this is what God had planned. I just
was I was better way. I was just in fellowship
with God that I knew that. But I had to say, hey, gentlemen,
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I'm honored, I'm humbled, but I need to talk with
my wife. I got to make sure she is in
tune with this. I've made some bad decisions in the past,
and a lot of them were when I wasn't consulting
my wife. So if I learned anything in marriage, I
mean talked to my wife about the big decisions, you know.
And so the first time I brought it up to her,
and you know, we were approached with raising support and
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switching careers for me, she looked at me and she said,
hold on, I'm not I'm not ready yet. How was
this look? And I was so glad for her honesty
and I'm so glad that we have the relationship that
she's just not like, okay, whatever, yeah, go, And it
was it was soul searching for about ten to twelve
days fasting, praying, and I remember in the living room
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one time she looked at me eye to eye and
she said, you are born to do this. I'm in
And I get chilled thinking about that. To now have
my wife's support, and I think the ministry really respected
the time where I told them we're still praying, we're
considering this. And then as a husband, when you know
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your wife is linked up, armed to arm, side to
side with you, and you run through walls. And so
my wife has just been an incredible help me support
her and she's all in, you.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Know, reading Jim Goods bio, and you know, I asked
him that question because I know, stepping out and being
part of Nations of Coaches and something like that, you
have to have everybody supporting you because it's a difficult
thing to do. And he's only been doing it three years,
and I think it and I don't know this for
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a fact, Jim, but I think the guys who have
been there five years and longer, you know, you build
that support and people continue to support and they understand
the struggles. But man, that first, you know, one, two, three,
four and five years have got to be very difficult.
And this is all on faith. You are doing this
purely on faith. But Nations of Coaches does a great
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job of marriage and family and some of the things
that they do in that category, not just coaches, but
marriage and family and coaching couples and things like that.
And on your bio when when you say, Jim's passions
use the platform of basketball to share the gospel of
Jesus Christ. His purpose and mission is to impact players
and coaches for the Kingdom of Christ. I like reading
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people's bio and what their mission statement is, Jim, because
you can't run for that. Now, that's inviting. And and
when you're when you're talking to coaches and talking to
people in the state of Florida and they say, listen,
why why are you here? What's your purpose? And you
can point to this and say, look, my mission is
to impact players and coaches for the Kingdom of Christ.
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So whatever I need to do, whatever you need for me,
you need me to pick up water bottles or drive
somebody the airport, like, I'll be present for you. And
it's really interesting because when when we talked to Billy
Dunn last week or two weeks ago, he brought that up.
He said, Look, the power of being present is the
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is the key to this thing. They just got to
know you're there. They might not want to talk to
you today or tomorrow, but they need to know that
you're there. And when you put that on your bio
and your mission statement, it's to utilize the game of
basketball to share the gospel and then to impact players
and coaches for the Kingdom of Christ. I just think
that that's a perfect place to have you wrote, because
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you can't run from it.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well said man, Well said. And Billy's a stud. We're
so excited to have him, especially in my home state
up in PA. So he's been a great addition to
the team. But as you say that, a couple of
things came to my mind. Just what we do with coaches,
wives and family. It's unbelievable. I'm blown away with you know,
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the things that we're able to do, you know, with
God's help of marriage retreats, coaches connections. Coaches wives are
a special breed. My mom was a coach's wife, my wife,
of course a former coach's wife. My sister in law,
my brother coach basketball soccer for twenty plus years, and
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a lot of times, you know, to put up with
us as coaches and our personality and who we are,
and you know, not sleeping the night before the big
game or watching film when we get home. And it's
just like these coaches. When I meet a new coaches wife,
I literally I shake their hand, I hug them and
I say thank you, And they say, what are you
thinking me for? I said, for loving your husband because
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I know he's crazy, right, thank you for being a
coaches wife. So those are the heroes, and I just
I'm grateful for the ones that are doing it well.
You mentioned that, you know, ministry of presence and that
word serve twenty nineteen, As I share a little bit
about my testimony, I was a guy Mike that had
the New Year's resolutions, right, a type personality list, goals,
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have all that, and I would come up with my
resolutions and I remember listening to a podcast from John
Gordon and said, hey, you know, eighty five percent of
people that make resolutions, ninety percent of them they don't
get past January fifteenth, Right, that's two weeks. And that
was me. You know, hey, I'm going to do my
fifty push ups every day, I'm going to read the
Bible every day. I'm going to floss every day. I
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couldn't floss till January fourth, right, you know, I had
these resolution and the idea he presented was, hey, what's
your one word? Come up with just one word for
the year and focus on that in twenty nineteen and
getting chills thinking about it. My one word the first
year I did this was served. And what started happening
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as a coach, as a father, as a dad, as
a husband, it started becoming less about me. And I
remember the quote, you know, you don't have to be
great to serve, but you have to serve to be great.
And what did Jesus teach us in that upper room? Man,
he got down on his hands and feet and he
was serving. He was washing the feet. And I just
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think of those great coaches when I get to visit
these gyms and go to practices, they're the one servant
and it's this kingdom opposite mindset of I want to
serve and God. Just honestly, it became a word, but
then it became a life. I don't do it well
all the time, but man, when I hear that word serve,
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I light up because I'm now getting to as you said,
fulfill my mission statement with an organization. When I read
we serve coaches, Hey, Joe, what a perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Marriage, man, jee, I just I love that and the
word serve. You know, if you keep that and that's
the one word for the year and you stay with that,
it's amazing what you can do in a year. How
old are your kids nowadays?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
I have a twenty one year old, I have a
seventeen year old, and then my daughters are sixteen and eleven.
So it is an amazing time in our life where
they're getting to be young adults. You know, we're not
disciplining as much as we're kind of letting out that
rope and having some adult conversation. And my wife and
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I are really just enjoying this phase.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Man. That's awesome. Well, i'm looking we need to change
the picture on the on the website of the Nations
of Coaches.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yes, yes, you're right. I looked at that the other
day too. I think that's about five years old. My
one son is uh. He went through his chubby stage
in sixth and seventh grade. Now now he's balking, working out,
hitting the wave room every day. He has changed the
men'sly and He's like, hey, Dan, you want to up.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
There, just picture that's upgraded and and you know what
I can and I say this a lot, but you'll
kick your coverage a bit, you know that, right?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah? I know, man, I know. I'm blessed.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, yeah, you are blessed. And and I married a
former cheerleader as well, and I kicked my coverage by
a mile. We just celebrated our fortieth so we've been
we've been hold the hands a long long time. And
and she doesn't know this, but I always tell her
she took a run at the championship and she won.
I don't believe that for a minute, not even for
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a minute. Hey, Jim, we're gonna get to a break.
On this side of the break, will continue our conversation.
He is Jim Good, regional director in this Florida for
Nations of Coaches, and we'll get an idea on a
day to day basis what he's looking to accomplish in
the state of Florida. On the other side of the break,
this is Faith in the Zone on the Big nine
twenty in your iHeart Radio app. Welcome back to Faith
(34:16):
in the Zone on the Big nine twenty year iHeart
radio app. I'm Mike mcgiver flying solo this week coming
from the Dotavan and Jordanson Heating and Cooling Studios. Man,
this has been really a fun show. Our special guest
he is Jim Good, Regional director State of Florida Nations
of Coaches, and I think he told me he's buying
a French He's next time I'm down visiting my brother
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a type and springs. I think that's what he said,
but we'll figure that part out. Hey, Jim, on a
day to day basis, can you talk about the impact
that you're trying to have in the state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Man, thank you for the opportunity, Mike again and join
the conversation. We have over sixty colleges and universities here
in this to Florida. So we have eleven Division one,
by twelve, thirteen, Division two, several anai A, twenty plus
JUCO and that that's an amazing opportunity to it's my
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mission field, you know, these college programs, and so what
I'm trying to do is touch base with these coaches,
make a visit, visit practice and being a high school coach,
that gives me kind of some leverage, you know, going
in and seeing a practice and visiting them, and then
you can tell the ones that are hungry about what
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do you do? Jim, tell me about the ministry. And
there's so many that already know about what we do,
from maybe maybe the head coach being involved, assistant being involved,
knowing some of our staff. So when I'm going in,
I'm just really trying to use some of the God
given gifts that I have with connection, encouragement, building relationship.
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And then what happens is that trust is developed and
you know the power of power of trust, and then
you have a contact, you have a cell number, and
you're starting to maybe share a Bible versus congrats on
the game. And then as that relationship develops, we're now
able to share a little bit about maybe getting them
a character coach. And so a character coach is now
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providing a chapelain the faith aspect to the program. And
our ministry has placed over one hundred and eighty character coaches,
and you know, right now in the state of Florida,
last year, I'm looking back, we had probably ten or
eleven character coaches, and so I'm just praying that God
sends the right people the right coaches get hungry about
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what we're doing. And in the next few months we're
kind of working through adding about four or five new
character coaches for the next season. So that's really exciting
to see how God's working that.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hey, Jim, when you know, we all have to have
elevator pitches, right when you have a few minutes to
talk to I head coach that that maybe had not
given you time, or somebody in the program that hasn't
given you time, how do you talk about what a
good character coach can do for his or her program.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Man, that's a great question, and a lot of times
what I share is coach our role is to serve
at the pleasure of the head coach. And a lot
of times people say, well what does that mean? You know,
and it goes into coach we want to be that
outside person. Where what I'm learning is when when a
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coach trusts somebody, they can open up to someone who's
not on staff. Maybe it's they need to share about
a staff situation, maybe something about their family, maybe a player,
and it even reaches to the player. Hey, coach with
with this, you know, mental health awareness with these players
with the portal, the ni L. We just want to
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be a sounding board. We want to you know, have
that ministry of presence where we're just we're just coming
alongside and serving you. And once they kind of understand
that we walk them through a little bit, most of
them are like, all right, how much does this cost?
You know, and we're like, coach, there's no cost. We
were trying to provide you with this service. And it's
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it happens kind of organically, you know, the relationship develops
meeting the proposed character coach. We go through a training
process and I've seen just some really good character coaches
able to invest not with just the staff, but with
the players as well. And that's what we're looking to do.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Man, that's awesome. Guys. If you go to Nations of
Coaches and it's a little bit old, but it's really good,
there is a character coach orientation. Maybe it's from twenty
twenty three, so not too old at all, but there
is about a fifteen minute that I watched video. If
there's somebody out there that is a coach and believes
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that this is something they want to know more about,
I know that when we had Grayson Wakefield on and
when we had Billy on. We had people other coaches
ask me what does that look like? And I sent
them to Nations of Coaches and you think maybe Florida
is the place you want to go. You know, there's
a number of coaches throughout the country that you might
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be able to talk to, But watch that orientation first
and kind of get a feel for if that's something
that you want to get more information on. And there's
a number of ways to get a hold of these guys.
We're going to get to a break. Our special guest
for the entire hour is Jim Good, the Regional director
of State of Florida for Nations of Coach and Coaches,
and we're going to ask him that question that we
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always ask at the end of this show. On the
other side of the break, this is Faith in His
Zone on the Big nine twenty in your iHeartRadio App.
Welcome back to Faith in the Zone on the Big
ninet twenty in your iHeartRadio app. Coming live or coming
recorded from the Diavan in Jordanston Heating and Cooling Studios.
Our special guests, he's Jim Good, Regional Director State of
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Florida for Nations of Coaches. Go to nationsofcoaches dot Com
to find out more about this organization than about Jim.
Hey Jim. This last segment, it was a throwaway question
a number of years ago, but we asked it and
I just like hearing the answer. All the uniforms you've
ever put on. You know, you played baseball and a
basketball in college, so you played little league baseball and
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a college or little league basketball in high school, all
of it. We put all those uniforms in the closet.
You get to pick one out to get one more
game with that team. What you've uniform do you pull out?
Who do you play against? And why?
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Man with al a batting my eye, I'm wearing number
thirty two Christian Warriors my senior year. My dad's my
high school coach. My younger brothers a sophomore. We played
in a little Christian league, but it meant everything. It
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was our it was our sec March Madness NBA. We
probably played sixteen games. We went in an advance to
the state tournament, and we lost the championship game. So
we finished sixteen and one. Tried like a baby, hugged
my dad, hugged my brother, hugged my mom, and I
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knew it was done for high school, so if I
could do it one more time. And here's what's funny.
My principal sent me my high school jersey about three
months ago. I was hanging in my office so I
could actually put it on. Can't play like I used to.
But it's not really just that game. It's just being
(41:56):
in that moment with my dad being my coach, playing
with my younger brother, and having a chance to go
undefeated and run the show there one more time.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
It's really funny, Jim, because Matthew and I, my son,
Matthew and I we got to the state final his
senior year as well, and we did. We got that,
we got to win. We won it, but very similar
to what you went through. We I would tell people,
you know, he played at a place called Calvary Baptist
and their sixty five kids in the whole school, and
(42:30):
we had we're a pretty good basketball team. I once
I got over there, I took us to play in
the city of Milwaukee, and I played against some schools
that people are like you out of your mind. I said, no,
we got seven boys on the team. Were the Caucasian invasion.
We'll come and invade, We'll be okay. And our kids
they didn't know any better. And I used to tell people,
(42:50):
they live on this postage stamp. That's the world, and
I'm going to try to make it a little bit bigger,
and we're gonna take some lumps, but come the end
of the year, you know, it should pay back. And
we had a chance to win that his senior year.
We knew it was our last game together, and we
went out and won the thing. And and I would look,
if I could get one game back, I would probably
(43:11):
take that one. You know. It was just such a
great experience for him and I and and for that
school and our family, and man, it was good. It
was really good. Hey do you does your other kids
do they play sports as well?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
They do? They do? So, of course, my oldest played
for me, and when I was coaching, and when I
made the transition to Nations of Coaches, my son was
going into his UH sophomore year and my nephew is
a sophomore as well, so they both played basketball. So
that was part of the sacrifice where I knew calling
(43:46):
involved sacrifice obedience, but called, you know, involved sacrifice. So
I didn't have an opportunity to coach my my my
second son. But I love being a fan and a
spectator and watching him. My oldest daughter plays volleyball, and
then my youngest daughter's in sixth grade and she's gonna
try out for the middle school volleyball team this year.
So I give all those young parents this advice. My
(44:09):
indoor sports baby sport.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
I agree. He is Jim Good. This has been a
great show. Jim. Thank you so much. Jim Good, Regional Director,
State of Florida. Nations of Coaches go to Nations of
Coaches dot com for more information. Hey Jim, have a
good day. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Thank you. Mike enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
You got it. This is Faith in the Zone on
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