March 21, 2025 • 28 mins
What happens when an athlete's passion for sports transforms into a mission to develop the next generation? In this captivating conversation, Tyler Disney shares his remarkable journey from college football player to Director of Athletic Performance at Home Field KC, where he's now shaping the athletic futures of over 6,000 young athletes.
Tyler's story begins with a moment of clarity while wearing a hazmat suit cleaning trucks—this wasn't the life he was meant for. After playing football at Pittsburg State and earning his exercise science degree, he found his calling in athletic development through a series of pivotal encounters and what he calls "God winks." Today, he leads a comprehensive sports performance organization that serves athletes across baseball, basketball, volleyball, softball, and football.
Beyond the impressive facilities—which include multiple courts, fields, and even a restaurant—what truly sets Home Field KC apart is their holistic approach to athlete development. Tyler shares their innovative "nutrition fast facts" system that teaches young athletes the crucial difference between "fun foods" and "fuel foods" without creating negative relationships with eating. This blend of physical training and life skills development creates transformational experiences that extend far beyond sports.
The conversation reveals fascinating insights into how Tyler builds community through fitness, including their "108" workout group with its notorious "Skippy jar" punishment wheel (imagine eating 21 pancakes at IHOP as a consequence for missing workouts!). These accountability systems create bonds among athletes while keeping training engaging and meaningful.
With ambitious plans to franchise their model to other cities and a commitment to economic development through strategic partnerships, Home Field KC represents the future of athletic development—where physical performance, nutrition education, and character building combine to create not just better athletes, but better people.
Ready to discover how modern sports training can transform young lives? Check out homefieldkc.com or follow Tyler @ty_disney on Instagram to learn more about their programs and philosophy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to the Spandex and Wine podcast.
I'm your host, robin Hackney,and I'm so happy that you're
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Together we'll explore allthings wellness and wine.
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know you're not alone on thisbalanced wellness journey.
Ready to jump in?
Pour something in your glassthat makes you happy, because
it's time for spandex and wine.
Hey, it's Robin.
Welcome back to the podcast.
I feel like I am always sayinghow much I love meeting new
people on the show, but not allof them are new to me.
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Some have been friends that Igrew up with, some are
acquaintances or friend of afriend and, yes, some are total
strangers that I randomly reachout to and they are gracious
enough to say yes, even thoughthey know nothing about me.
But today's guest falls intothe I've known him since he was
a little boy category.
So for all of you empty nesters, I am sure most of you
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experienced at least a littleemptiness when your kids left
home, if not a lot.
I mean, we all knew it wascoming right.
What I didn't think about wasnot being able to see my boys as
friends.
I always loved when they cameover.
Well, I guess there's probablyone or two occasions where it
may not have been so lovely, butall in all, good kids and I
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really do miss seeing them.
I have had the pleasure ofinterviewing a couple of them
and today I have a conversationwith Tyler Disney, director of
Athletic Performance for HomeField KC.
Tyler was always one of myfavorites to see walk through
the door, so genuine andpersonable and as an athlete his
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entire life.
It is no surprise to me that heis now giving back and shaping
the next generation.
Take a listen and then go checkout homefieldkccom for more
info.
Here is Tyler.
Welcome to the podcast, thankyou so?
much for being here.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I love that you do it .
I was looking at it when youinvited me.
I didn't realize you were doingit until.
Welcome to the podcast.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
So you have a lot of reallygood content on there that's
healthy, and you see somecontent online that's not that
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healthy and sometimes you dodeep dives in that.
So it's like junk food versuswhole foods and you got a very
whole food type of Instagrampage, which is great.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Thank you, and what a great analogy.
I love that I haven't evenheard that before, so that's
wonderful.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How long have you been doing it?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I have been.
I started it October 2023.
Yep, my first episode was on mybirthday, so and this is an
episode number, I don't knowI'll have to look, I think maybe
140.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Consistent, I love it .
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, yeah.
So it's a lot of fun.
I get to meet so many amazingpeople and I say this to a lot
of my guests that one thing thatit's taught me is just to be in
the moment, because you can'tor I guess people some people do
, but you can't really have aconversation and not truly
listen to the person, right?
So it's it's nice to just havethis one-on-one time where I can
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learn more about you and whatyou do and get word out about
all of your services.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah Well, I'm grateful for you extending the
invite.
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, so what happened after Pitt?
You left Pitt, you playedfootball there and then did you
go straight to home field.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, so Pittsburgh State played football until
2014,.
Graduated with an exercisescience degree, thinking that I
actually was going to be achiropractor.
Graduated with an exercisescience degree, thinking that I
actually was going to be achiropractor, and actually so.
Bruce Swickard was a mentor, isa mentor and was at that point.
He was like, hey, I'd love toshow you some stuff.
Well, I actually did aninternship in Pittsburgh, kansas
, and you think you know whatyou want until you're actually
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doing the day-to-day stuff andthe intern, the, the
chiropractor in Pittsburgh wasawesome, uh, very nice guy.
But, like for me, I knew,without really knowing what
passion was, you know, outsideof football, because that's all
I really knew.
Um, I knew that my heart, mysoul, was not on fire for
chiropractic.
In that setting, at least, Iknew I wanted to be involved in
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helping people in some capacity.
Um, but the chiropractic thingwas just, I just was trying to
get into it and then when Irealized the cost, time and
financial costs, I'm like man, Idon't know if I want to take
that type of leap, being halfwayin this thing.
So I ended up pivoting a buddyof mine, a roommate of mine in
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college.
He and I actually started ourown company for about six months
and it was like a part-time jobthat we were trying to make a
full-time job for two people.
It was like a part-time job forone person.
It was just, you know, 21 yearsold, out of college, just
trying to figure it out.
It was an automotive consultingwhich was completely out of my
realm of interest or expertise,but I knew that I wanted to do
something a little different,like I didn't want to be.
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I have to be busy, I have to bemoving, I have to be active,
and I didn't want to be stucklike nine to five and doing
something that was just like ajob.
So that was what I thought wasmy, my solution to it and
quickly realized, like this alsois not.
I was actually in the middle ofit was like a December, wintery
, cold day.
I'm in a hazmat suit, likespraying down a semi truck,
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cleaning it out.
I'm like what in the world am Idoing?
I had an epiphany.
Like this is not where I belong.
I was like, for some people,this is it Great.
I just know God did not put meon earth to do this.
I need to find somethingdifferent.
Um, so I actually ran into uh,who was the GM at the time was
Dustin Lewis at Prairie lifefitness.
That would have been 2015, juneof 2015.
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And he's like hey, we're alwayslooking for certified, educated
coaches, apply and we'll havean interview process and go from
there.
So that got me into the fitnessside of things, which then, at
that point early on, you and Iwere doing some stuff a little
bit, where I come and do someboot camps once or twice a week
for at least a couple of monthsand that just got me in love
with it.
And then from there I got inlove with more of the business
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side and was an assistantdirector, then a fitness
director, and then that was allthe way up through again.
So he and I kind of traveledfrom place to place and he
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offered me a job at home field.
And again it was another likeGod wink where I was walking I'm
like I don't know what to doLike I was talking to God and
praying and I stepped off thecurb and I've never had like an
audible like God moment wherehe's like this is what you
should do.
It was just a question thatpopped in my head when I was 40.
The question was where do yousee yourself at 40?
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And immediately my foot hit thepavement.
I'm like the answer was homefield.
It wasn't where I was at thatpoint.
So that was what made mydecision, which was hard because
I was with a lot of people thatI was um, working with and
hired and work, you know,brought, brought to this next
place, and it was front doorfitness, which they do an
awesome job.
Um, it just was.
It was.
Um, I felt like the next stagefor me was to go into more of
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the sports performance side andgrow something from nothing.
So, um, giving you thedissertation.
I know this is a 30-minutepodcast, I'll try to be quick
it's fine.
No, you're good so, anyway, the20 uh 2021, I think, is when
that would have been um 2022maybe is when I ended up getting
to home field and uh, takingtaking on a director role so
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director of sports performanceat home field where there were
zero people, it was a onebaseball team, it was a double-A
baseball team called the Blazeand we had a 250,000 square foot
building and I just didn't, Ididn't know anything from
anything at that point.
I've learned a lot more aboutlike running a 250,000 square
foot building and what thatmeans as far as utilization and
who needs to be in there and howto make it profitable, and
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we're definitely still learning.
But, uh, we're now at a pointwhere we went from like 200
athletes in baseball to like6,000 athletes, where we've got
five different sports inbaseball basketball, softball,
football, um, and thenvolleyball is the fifth sport
there.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So wow, to grow that fast, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, it's grown very fast and it's been through
acquisitions and mergers andgrassroots and, um, you know,
we're in a really cool spot.
I say we um, uh, in the roomcurrently with Nick Jaley, he's
a co-director at home field aswell Um, so he and I have like
built this and we've hired somecoaches on staff that are now
grown into leadership rolesCaleb Rivera, Sam Cunningham,
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Drew Burden and Jackson Barnes.
Like we've got now sixfull-time coaches on staff and
some seasonal coaches and it'sbecoming a lot more like a
strength and conditioningsetting that you'd see at a
larger university, where you'vegot our strength and
conditioning in the middle.
And then we've got theseacademies that we go and train a
few months out of the year andthey're all season.
So not all figured out, butwe've got a lot figured out in
the four years that I've beenhere.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, no, it sounds like you're making great
progress and I'm just so happyfor you.
It makes perfect sense to mebecause you have always been
such a good leader andeverything that you've done
growing up, you know, in all thesports that you were in, you
were always in a leadership role, and so that you're able to
give back to young athletes now.
(09:31):
I think that's incredible and Ifeel like you probably touch
their lives in a way where it'snot just on the ball field or on
the court or whatever it mightbe.
You probably give them somelife skills that they're going
to take with them for years.
So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, and that's, I think, the fulfilling part about
being here and we talk a lotabout that.
We've got weekly, daily, weeklyand monthly meetings and part
of that monthly meeting is wejust go over like a testimonial,
like what a coach did on staffthat was like impactful for that
month, or maybe a couple ofcoaches did, and then we take
time to talk about testimonialsthat we get from parents and
players and that's that'shonestly like when we hire the
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person on staff, like that's ifthat doesn't fire them up, then
they're probably not in theright spot.
Like this, this is a you know,three o'clock PM to nine o'clock
PM job, monday through Thursday, and then there's Fridays and
Saturdays that you're working.
So you're working nights.
It's a little bit differentthan your typical nine to five,
which careful what you ask forCause then you'll get um and
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then in my role, like I'm doingstuff in the morning and some
administrative stuff too.
But the coaching, the meat ofit's like on the time that you
know at the time that the kidsaren't in school.
So if the, if the feedback fromparents and players, like that
positive feedback, thetransformational stuff, isn't
something that lights you up andthey're probably not the right
person for the job, regardlessof the resume.
So it's it's intentional thatwe talk about those things.
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Like we just had a kid that istransitioning into baseball and
he reached out to a couple ofcoaches, say, hey, just want to
let you know, you guys havechanged my life, maybe push me
to limits that I haven't been tobefore.
I appreciate you guys foreverything that you've done, and
he's getting ready to go tocollege here in summer.
So it's kind of like a farewell.
But like those little thingsthat maybe can be overseen If
you're not like engaged in thatconversation, you just kind of
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get, you move on and you're justin the right wheel.
But it's good to take time andhit pause and say, okay, well,
6,000 kids maybe 20% of them atleast that we can impact, like
that's more than what we'd haveotherwise.
So it's definitely a platformthat we don't take for granted.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, that's great.
That's great, and you've beenan athlete your whole life.
So talk to me about theprogression that you have seen
since you were in, let's justsay, high school.
Then you were, you playedcollege in football.
How that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
the training has changed and now what you see in
athletes.
I think, um, being in blueValley system was beneficial,
like I went to.
So I went to Pitt State, as wealready mentioned, and there
were a handful of kids that Iplayed with that were division
two pretty high level athletesthat never saw a weight room.
Blue Valley did a really goodjob of introducing you to it and
the coaches on staff like wentto seminars and some of them got
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certified.
It's becoming more and more ofa thing.
Now I've got more buddies thatare coaches and strength and
conditioning coaches, but alsolike a football coach, um, and
it's become they're, they'rebecoming more.
It's.
The standard is more um, uh oflike get a certification If
you're going to be a coach, andthe teaching and the coaching is
more standardized than it usedto be, I think, even when we
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were in high school, which wouldhave been 2010,.
Um, every year it seems likethere's more and more
information that comes out.
I think, as you know, thefitness world is can be really
confusing, um, I know yourecently had something on there
about kids protein too much.
Are you like some?
Sometimes there's if that's anexample of like people on line
demonizing something that feelslike a really good thing.
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It could be a bad thing.
Do I eat too much?
Do I eat too little?
Do I not eat at all?
It's like all these things.
So, um, same thing withstrength and conditioning.
There's a lot of nuances in itand if you get caught in the
weeds, it feels, it feels stuck.
You feel stuck, it feels hardto know, like what to do and
where to go.
So we want to keep it reallysimple.
I mean, we're training as youngas four-year-olds all the way
up to, you know, honestly,80-year-olds.
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Our meat and potatoes is likeeight to 18.
But you're going to talk to aneight-year-old about nutrition
differently than you're going totalk to an 18-year-old,
differently than you're going totalk to a 28-year-old.
So we have what's callednutrition fast facts At the end
of each.
We have three movements.
At the end of each 20 minutemovement, a coach brings the
team together, the grouptogether, and we'll talk about
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whatever that nutrition fastback.
So yesterday's, for instance,was what to be eating after you
get done training, practicing orplaying.
So we want to have protein anda carbohydrate.
So what's an example of aprotein that you know?
And then, if you get blankstairs, which you typically do
for the first time with a bunchof eight-year-old kids.
You say and give me some animalmeats, those are some proteins,
and then they'll start rattlingoff and they get involved.
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And then carbohydrates what aresome carbohydrates?
Start with fruits and veggiesand then they start throwing
that out.
So you just it's like Chinesewater torture.
They'll get that three times inone hour and they start to
hopefully absorb some of that.
And it's cool to see some ofthese kids that have been
trained with us for a while.
You know, after a couple ofmonths you'll ask these we have
about 30 fast facts, um, sothey'll recycle them a couple of
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times and they know likeimmediately what these are.
And that's the goal is like notto overwhelm them with all the
information, but give them somebasic nutrition skills that way
they can take it and move on,you know, outside of a home
field.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yes, that's awesome, Cause I feel like so many
athletes feel like they need tojust, you know, put on weight
and they'll just eat whateverthey want or have all the you
know sugary drinks and monsterdrinks and things like that, and
oh my gosh, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, we get.
You know, volleyball players,for whatever reason, they are
obsessed with Celsius.
So they're always asking can Ihave Celsius?
It's like you can have whateveryou want.
There's no good food.
There's nothing, nothinginherently good or bad about
food or drink.
But understand, there is funand there is fuel.
Fun Oreos and Celsius would bein that 20% category.
Fuel would be your whole foods.
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That would be in the 80%category.
And you know, of course wedon't have control outside of
these walls as much as we'd like.
But you know well, inevitablywe'll see a Celsius come through
and like the girls are startingto hide us.
That don't hide it from us.
Like it is, that's a fun food.
Have a fun food and then justmake sure you're getting your
fuel.
So it's trying to trying tokeep it light around the
nutrition.
You don't want to create any um, some negative feelings around
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food or drink.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
But absolutely, absolutely.
Yeah, and you mentioned olderadults, so do you do personal
training or group fitnessclasses for people that aren't
athletes?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, so that's part of our coaches on staff are
certified.
Most of them, or all of them,are certified through what's
called a CSCS, which is yourcollegiate strength and
conditioning specialist, andthat's going to be predominantly
for, like I mentioned, the bulkof what we do, uh, youth and
high school, college and proathletes.
But with that, um, humanmovement is human movement,
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whether you're training forsport or training for life,
coaches are certified for forone-on-one adult clientele.
So, outside of our coachinghours, which is three o'clock to
eight o'clock or nine o'clockdepending on the season, um, we
will train in the mornings andafternoons, uh, our adult
clientele, and we've got like asmall group right now.
Um, most of it is like from ourown adult employees that are
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training, but it's Wednesdaysand Fridays at noon.
But open to if you want tospread the word, open to
expanding that out more in themornings I know there's a couple
of books that are interested indoing some morning stuff as
well.
So definitely open to that.
It's just hard to advertisethat demographic.
It's hard to advertise to thatdemographic even though they're
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in here, they come in home fieldand it's got baseball, it's got
turf and free weights and abathroom but no showers, and
it's just doesn't have the sametype of amenities that you'd see
, maybe, at a commercial setting.
But the training in and ofitself we've got 20,000 square
feet and every tool that you canthink of and, um, like I said,
the most important thing is thecoaches, and the coaches are
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equipped to handle, you know,the adult clientele for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen pictures and reels and your
facility looks amazing.
Where are you guys located?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We've got two locations now.
So we've got our Olathelocations.
Off of 119th and Strangline.
There is a big old Bass Proshop right off of I-35.
It's just next to that, or it'sreally right next to that
furniture mall.
And then we just built a brandnew facility in KCK right off of
90th and State Avenue, so youcan literally see the Speedway
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about a mile west of where weare, and that facility is really
cool too.
I'm not sure if you've seenpictures, but we've got 10
basketball courts that can beconverted to 12 volleyball
courts and we'll run tournaments, practices.
I mentioned our academyathletes.
We've got about 400 volleyballplayers I think I might be plus
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or minus some and then we've gotum.
So mokan basketball has justmerged with home field, which
mokan is like the top program inthe country, not just locally.
I know we just got I just gotoff the phone with matt suther
who's the owner of Mo Can Nisa.
I think they're projecting 55youth teams this year.
So we need the space tofacilitate practices and
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training and then also we'll runtournaments there and our space
is about 8,000 square feet inthat facility.
We've got a full restaurantinside called the experience,
which is really just it'supscale.
Bar food is the best way, Ithink, to put it OK like a yard
house would be a very comparablemenu.
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So really good food, qualityfood.
And then outside of thefacility we have a baseball or
lacrosse field that you can dosome, some, some stuff on uh,
some turf, so that's one pieceof it.
And then, uh, next to that,about a half mile down the road,
we've got eight syntheticbaseball fields uh, so turf
baseball fields, so we'll runbaseball tournaments out there.
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Um, very cool, we've gotbuilding champions.
Baseball is a part of homefield.
Uh, there was a.
It was a couple years ago.
We acquired them.
So that's another 500 kidsright there in the BC side.
So lots of kids, lots of space.
A pretty complicated business,but I think we've got the right
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people and leadership roles todirect it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh, that's so cool, and it sounds like you have
plenty of room for cornhole.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You should have some cornhole tournaments.
You and Dave are in a league,aren't you?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Oh, we play all over.
Yes, we love it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
We used to do a cornhole tournament and one of
our.
We had two facilities in Olathethat we've since condensed into
just one, but we used to do Ican't remember who.
I have to reach out to theperson that ran that.
So Chris Obermeyer was hisdirector of food and Bev.
He would definitely know, butI'm shocked that we didn't see
you out there.
It was talk about competitive,holy smokes.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I know it is.
People don't realize.
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Well, I love again like thatyou're doing this.
I don't know if you saw theepisode or listen to the episode
with Jake Griggs.
I've talked to Jake, yeah, yeah, oh, my gosh, and I love what
he's doing too different thanyou, but I love how he's going
(20:25):
about his fitness business, um,and I'm hoping that I can get
Anthony.
I need to reach out to Anthonytoo.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So Anthony, he and Kirstie just opened up there.
I guess they're opening it upat the end of this month, so
it'd be a good time to reach out.
Alfred, I think, is the name oftheir studio, so he'd be great.
And then Jake, yeah, it was funto talk to.
I got maybe a year ago is whenI was talking to him.
He reached out and very muchlike you, like just wants to
learn and wants to provide, youknow, good stuff to other people
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.
And he was just askingquestions on like what was the
route, like what do you?
What's the best way to reachthese people?
And he had an idea already.
But I think what's great aboutJake and you and others in this
same field is like you know whatyou know, but you're also
willing to learn what otherpeople have done and take it and
take pieces of it and expand onit.
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Jake's done a really good job.
I've seen his videos and it's alot like your page where he
just wants to build community.
And I think, as you get olderand I've seen this on your page
too it's like well, what do youdo when you're in your forties?
What do you do in your fifties?
It's harder to make friendswhen you get older.
It's not impossible, but it isharder.
So, finding a group of peopleand they don't always have to be
like-minded, but people thathave some shared values um, that
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I think that's, that's thesweet spot.
We've actually found that hereWe've got a workout group.
It's called one oh eight.
We just uh, it's like a teetime.
We train at one oh eight,roughly plus or minus a few
minutes, but there's about 10 or15 of us that show up on a
regular basis and, um, there's alot of accountability there.
Like, we work out for an hour,um hour and a half, and we play
some spike ball a couple oftimes per week and that's kind
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of our cornhole escape, um, orcompetitive escape.
And if you miss a workout, youput your name on a sheet and you
put your name in the Skippy jar, like literally a peanut butter
Skippy jar, and at the end ofthe training block you pull it
out and if your name gets picked, there's a wheel of punishment
and you spin it, so like, forinstance, our buddy Blake ended
up getting picked and he's gotum at one point.
(22:18):
This is pretty brutal.
He got a 24 hours in an IHOP sohe had to sit in an IHOP and
every pancake he ate was onehour off of his 24 hour limit.
He ended up getting out ofthere in like 22 hours or in
three hours.
So he ended up eating 22 or 21pancakes and oh my gosh.
So that was a little bit moreaggressive.
(22:39):
But yes, accountability.
There is the most recent one.
You did like some gator rolls,so he's rolling 30 yards down on
his stomach and rolls 30 yardsback.
So it all changes.
But the point is like if youcommit to three days per week of
training or four days or fivedays, we are going to hold you
accountable and we're all goingto keep ourselves accountable
too.
So I think that's what Jake'sdoing, coming full circle.
I think he's doing a reallygood job with that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
I love all of it.
So how can the listeners findyou?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Um, I am.
So.
A couple of years ago I startedgetting more involved in social
media.
Um, whether you like socialmedia, don't like social media,
you have to accept that that isa way to to get ahold of people,
and I'm on Instagram mainly so.
(23:27):
My handle is Ty, underscoreDisney.
I will put.
I'll put a couple of posts aweek, I'll put stuff on stories
daily.
Nutrition will be on there,training will be on there.
So that would be the best way.
I do have a Twitter, but I'mnot on it very actively, not
enough to know exactly even whatit is.
My Twitter handle is, butmainly Instagram, at tight
underscore Disney.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, okay, and I'm assuming home field has their
own social media.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yep, so I help manage our own department social media
accounts.
That's at home field, kansascity, and we'll have a lot, a
ton of content.
As far as um, what we're doing,you know daily, weekly, monthly
, but informational types ofthings, and also like we have
camps this summer for baseballand softball.
You can find some camps if yourson or daughter was interested
(24:11):
in doing some stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So okay, okay.
And just one more question.
So are you just in in Kansascity or are you?
Have you expanded?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
currently in Kansas city only, but I think the three
to five year goal is tofranchise it and expand out to
other parts of the country.
So Chicago I know we've hadconversations with Chicago, um,
I think, east coast, west coast,eventually, with a lot of these
brands being locally recognized, I think it's important we nail
it down first here, but there'salso, like the Mocan name, for
(24:41):
instance, is more of anationally recognized name.
I think as we continue to getbigger and have more brand
recognition, it will be moreenticing for other cities to
then look at expanding, having ahome field inside their city,
something that's unique and Idon't know how, if your
listeners even care to hearabout how this happens.
(25:04):
But Starbonds is really apivotal piece of this.
So Starbonds is basically atax-incentivized program.
The way the Speedway was built,the way that um legends area,
so sporting cities building, wasbuilt, as the same way home
field kck was built.
So we are involved with thekansas city, kansas, um, you
(25:28):
know, and this is the, the cityand the state, and basically we
have to.
Our goal is to presentsomething to that area and
guarantee that we're going tohave other taxpayer dollars come
through.
So having I tell you all ofthis because we need to have
more.
It's more than strength andconditioning.
It's basically it's a wholecampus that we are trying to
draw people towards.
That's where you get thefootball or the baseball
(25:50):
facility and the softballfacility.
That's where you get thebasketball tournaments and
volleyball tournaments.
We're getting people outside ofjust that local area and even
outside of Kansas and Missourito come to these tournaments,
hopefully spend some money onfood and beverage and
entertainment and build what'swhat's really becoming more of a
district in that KCK area.
(26:11):
And I think, outside of just theimpact on these kids, like
having an impact on the city andthe state is a really cool
thing.
I've, as you know, born andraised in Stilwell, kansas, like
this is home to me, soexpanding out to other cities
seems cool and it is fun.
But I think being able to bringsomething to the state and
allow people to see our stateand our cities, I think that's a
(26:33):
really cool thing.
So we're doing that on a prettylarge scale and it's continuing
to get bigger.
Like we just had a combinerecently uh, just a couple of
weeks ago and I'm calling somepeople from Florida.
Uh, I think I had a phone callfrom Hawaii.
Um, I had another phone callfrom California, so let me
literally all over the countryPeople are coming to to
experience a home field.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh, so wonderful to see Tyler and share that time
with him.
Unfortunately, my internet cutout so we kind of ended abruptly
, so I'm sorry for that.
I hope, if you have a youngathlete, that you will check out
home field Casey, trust me whenI say he or she will be in good
hands with Tyler, and I'm sureall the other coaches and staff
as well.
You can check them out athomefieldkccom.
(27:18):
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guest today.
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Hello and welcome to the Spandex and Wine podcast.
I'm your host, robin Hackney,and I'm so happy that you're
here.
This podcast is a place forconversations about balancing a
healthy lifestyle and beinghappy more specifically, happy
hour.
Together we'll explore allthings wellness and wine.
I hope you learn a little,laugh a lot and, along the way,
(00:22):
know you're not alone on thisbalanced wellness journey.
Ready to jump in?
Pour something in your glassthat makes you happy, because
it's time for spandex and wine.
Hey, it's Robin.
Welcome back to the podcast.
I feel like I am always sayinghow much I love meeting new
people on the show, but not allof them are new to me.
(00:43):
Some have been friends that Igrew up with, some are
acquaintances or friend of afriend and, yes, some are total
strangers that I randomly reachout to and they are gracious
enough to say yes, even thoughthey know nothing about me.
But today's guest falls intothe I've known him since he was
a little boy category.
So for all of you empty nesters, I am sure most of you
(01:06):
experienced at least a littleemptiness when your kids left
home, if not a lot.
I mean, we all knew it wascoming right.
What I didn't think about wasnot being able to see my boys as
friends.
I always loved when they cameover.
Well, I guess there's probablyone or two occasions where it
may not have been so lovely, butall in all, good kids and I
(01:28):
really do miss seeing them.
I have had the pleasure ofinterviewing a couple of them
and today I have a conversationwith Tyler Disney, director of
Athletic Performance for HomeField KC.
Tyler was always one of myfavorites to see walk through
the door, so genuine andpersonable and as an athlete his
(01:48):
entire life.
It is no surprise to me that heis now giving back and shaping
the next generation.
Take a listen and then go checkout homefieldkccom for more
info.
Here is Tyler.
Welcome to the podcast, thankyou so?
much for being here.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I love that you do it .
I was looking at it when youinvited me.
I didn't realize you were doingit until.
Welcome to the podcast.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
So you have a lot of reallygood content on there that's
healthy, and you see somecontent online that's not that
(02:26):
healthy and sometimes you dodeep dives in that.
So it's like junk food versuswhole foods and you got a very
whole food type of Instagrampage, which is great.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Thank you, and what a great analogy.
I love that I haven't evenheard that before, so that's
wonderful.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How long have you been doing it?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I have been.
I started it October 2023.
Yep, my first episode was on mybirthday, so and this is an
episode number, I don't knowI'll have to look, I think maybe
140.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Consistent, I love it .
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, yeah.
So it's a lot of fun.
I get to meet so many amazingpeople and I say this to a lot
of my guests that one thing thatit's taught me is just to be in
the moment, because you can'tor I guess people some people do
, but you can't really have aconversation and not truly
listen to the person, right?
So it's it's nice to just havethis one-on-one time where I can
(03:19):
learn more about you and whatyou do and get word out about
all of your services.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah Well, I'm grateful for you extending the
invite.
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, so what happened after Pitt?
You left Pitt, you playedfootball there and then did you
go straight to home field.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, so Pittsburgh State played football until
2014,.
Graduated with an exercisescience degree, thinking that I
actually was going to be achiropractor.
Graduated with an exercisescience degree, thinking that I
actually was going to be achiropractor, and actually so.
Bruce Swickard was a mentor, isa mentor and was at that point.
He was like, hey, I'd love toshow you some stuff.
Well, I actually did aninternship in Pittsburgh, kansas
, and you think you know whatyou want until you're actually
(03:58):
doing the day-to-day stuff andthe intern, the, the
chiropractor in Pittsburgh wasawesome, uh, very nice guy.
But, like for me, I knew,without really knowing what
passion was, you know, outsideof football, because that's all
I really knew.
Um, I knew that my heart, mysoul, was not on fire for
chiropractic.
In that setting, at least, Iknew I wanted to be involved in
(04:18):
helping people in some capacity.
Um, but the chiropractic thingwas just, I just was trying to
get into it and then when Irealized the cost, time and
financial costs, I'm like man, Idon't know if I want to take
that type of leap, being halfwayin this thing.
So I ended up pivoting a buddyof mine, a roommate of mine in
(04:39):
college.
He and I actually started ourown company for about six months
and it was like a part-time jobthat we were trying to make a
full-time job for two people.
It was like a part-time job forone person.
It was just, you know, 21 yearsold, out of college, just
trying to figure it out.
It was an automotive consultingwhich was completely out of my
realm of interest or expertise,but I knew that I wanted to do
something a little different,like I didn't want to be.
(05:01):
I have to be busy, I have to bemoving, I have to be active,
and I didn't want to be stucklike nine to five and doing
something that was just like ajob.
So that was what I thought wasmy, my solution to it and
quickly realized, like this alsois not.
I was actually in the middle ofit was like a December, wintery
, cold day.
I'm in a hazmat suit, likespraying down a semi truck,
(05:24):
cleaning it out.
I'm like what in the world am Idoing?
I had an epiphany.
Like this is not where I belong.
I was like, for some people,this is it Great.
I just know God did not put meon earth to do this.
I need to find somethingdifferent.
Um, so I actually ran into uh,who was the GM at the time was
Dustin Lewis at Prairie lifefitness.
That would have been 2015, juneof 2015.
(05:49):
And he's like hey, we're alwayslooking for certified, educated
coaches, apply and we'll havean interview process and go from
there.
So that got me into the fitnessside of things, which then, at
that point early on, you and Iwere doing some stuff a little
bit, where I come and do someboot camps once or twice a week
for at least a couple of monthsand that just got me in love
with it.
And then from there I got inlove with more of the business
(06:10):
side and was an assistantdirector, then a fitness
director, and then that was allthe way up through again.
So he and I kind of traveledfrom place to place and he
(06:34):
offered me a job at home field.
And again it was another likeGod wink where I was walking I'm
like I don't know what to doLike I was talking to God and
praying and I stepped off thecurb and I've never had like an
audible like God moment wherehe's like this is what you
should do.
It was just a question thatpopped in my head when I was 40.
The question was where do yousee yourself at 40?
(06:55):
And immediately my foot hit thepavement.
I'm like the answer was homefield.
It wasn't where I was at thatpoint.
So that was what made mydecision, which was hard because
I was with a lot of people thatI was um, working with and
hired and work, you know,brought, brought to this next
place, and it was front doorfitness, which they do an
awesome job.
Um, it just was.
It was.
Um, I felt like the next stagefor me was to go into more of
(07:18):
the sports performance side andgrow something from nothing.
So, um, giving you thedissertation.
I know this is a 30-minutepodcast, I'll try to be quick
it's fine.
No, you're good so, anyway, the20 uh 2021, I think, is when
that would have been um 2022maybe is when I ended up getting
to home field and uh, takingtaking on a director role so
(07:41):
director of sports performanceat home field where there were
zero people, it was a onebaseball team, it was a double-A
baseball team called the Blazeand we had a 250,000 square foot
building and I just didn't, Ididn't know anything from
anything at that point.
I've learned a lot more aboutlike running a 250,000 square
foot building and what thatmeans as far as utilization and
who needs to be in there and howto make it profitable, and
(08:04):
we're definitely still learning.
But, uh, we're now at a pointwhere we went from like 200
athletes in baseball to like6,000 athletes, where we've got
five different sports inbaseball basketball, softball,
football, um, and thenvolleyball is the fifth sport
there.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So wow, to grow that fast, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, it's grown very fast and it's been through
acquisitions and mergers andgrassroots and, um, you know,
we're in a really cool spot.
I say we um, uh, in the roomcurrently with Nick Jaley, he's
a co-director at home field aswell Um, so he and I have like
built this and we've hired somecoaches on staff that are now
grown into leadership rolesCaleb Rivera, Sam Cunningham,
(08:50):
Drew Burden and Jackson Barnes.
Like we've got now sixfull-time coaches on staff and
some seasonal coaches and it'sbecoming a lot more like a
strength and conditioningsetting that you'd see at a
larger university, where you'vegot our strength and
conditioning in the middle.
And then we've got theseacademies that we go and train a
few months out of the year andthey're all season.
So not all figured out, butwe've got a lot figured out in
the four years that I've beenhere.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, no, it sounds like you're making great
progress and I'm just so happyfor you.
It makes perfect sense to mebecause you have always been
such a good leader andeverything that you've done
growing up, you know, in all thesports that you were in, you
were always in a leadership role, and so that you're able to
give back to young athletes now.
(09:31):
I think that's incredible and Ifeel like you probably touch
their lives in a way where it'snot just on the ball field or on
the court or whatever it mightbe.
You probably give them somelife skills that they're going
to take with them for years.
So that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, and that's, I think, the fulfilling part about
being here and we talk a lotabout that.
We've got weekly, daily, weeklyand monthly meetings and part
of that monthly meeting is wejust go over like a testimonial,
like what a coach did on staffthat was like impactful for that
month, or maybe a couple ofcoaches did, and then we take
time to talk about testimonialsthat we get from parents and
players and that's that'shonestly like when we hire the
(10:12):
person on staff, like that's ifthat doesn't fire them up, then
they're probably not in theright spot.
Like this, this is a you know,three o'clock PM to nine o'clock
PM job, monday through Thursday, and then there's Fridays and
Saturdays that you're working.
So you're working nights.
It's a little bit differentthan your typical nine to five,
which careful what you ask forCause then you'll get um and
(10:36):
then in my role, like I'm doingstuff in the morning and some
administrative stuff too.
But the coaching, the meat ofit's like on the time that you
know at the time that the kidsaren't in school.
So if the, if the feedback fromparents and players, like that
positive feedback, thetransformational stuff, isn't
something that lights you up andthey're probably not the right
person for the job, regardlessof the resume.
So it's it's intentional thatwe talk about those things.
(10:57):
Like we just had a kid that istransitioning into baseball and
he reached out to a couple ofcoaches, say, hey, just want to
let you know, you guys havechanged my life, maybe push me
to limits that I haven't been tobefore.
I appreciate you guys foreverything that you've done, and
he's getting ready to go tocollege here in summer.
So it's kind of like a farewell.
But like those little thingsthat maybe can be overseen If
you're not like engaged in thatconversation, you just kind of
(11:18):
get, you move on and you're justin the right wheel.
But it's good to take time andhit pause and say, okay, well,
6,000 kids maybe 20% of them atleast that we can impact, like
that's more than what we'd haveotherwise.
So it's definitely a platformthat we don't take for granted.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, that's great.
That's great, and you've beenan athlete your whole life.
So talk to me about theprogression that you have seen
since you were in, let's justsay, high school.
Then you were, you playedcollege in football.
How that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
the training has changed and now what you see in
athletes.
I think, um, being in blueValley system was beneficial,
like I went to.
So I went to Pitt State, as wealready mentioned, and there
were a handful of kids that Iplayed with that were division
two pretty high level athletesthat never saw a weight room.
Blue Valley did a really goodjob of introducing you to it and
the coaches on staff like wentto seminars and some of them got
(12:10):
certified.
It's becoming more and more ofa thing.
Now I've got more buddies thatare coaches and strength and
conditioning coaches, but alsolike a football coach, um, and
it's become they're, they'rebecoming more.
It's.
The standard is more um, uh oflike get a certification If
you're going to be a coach, andthe teaching and the coaching is
more standardized than it usedto be, I think, even when we
(12:32):
were in high school, which wouldhave been 2010,.
Um, every year it seems likethere's more and more
information that comes out.
I think, as you know, thefitness world is can be really
confusing, um, I know yourecently had something on there
about kids protein too much.
Are you like some?
Sometimes there's if that's anexample of like people on line
demonizing something that feelslike a really good thing.
(12:53):
It could be a bad thing.
Do I eat too much?
Do I eat too little?
Do I not eat at all?
It's like all these things.
So, um, same thing withstrength and conditioning.
There's a lot of nuances in itand if you get caught in the
weeds, it feels, it feels stuck.
You feel stuck, it feels hardto know, like what to do and
where to go.
So we want to keep it reallysimple.
I mean, we're training as youngas four-year-olds all the way
up to, you know, honestly,80-year-olds.
(13:15):
Our meat and potatoes is likeeight to 18.
But you're going to talk to aneight-year-old about nutrition
differently than you're going totalk to an 18-year-old,
differently than you're going totalk to a 28-year-old.
So we have what's callednutrition fast facts At the end
of each.
We have three movements.
At the end of each 20 minutemovement, a coach brings the
team together, the grouptogether, and we'll talk about
(13:36):
whatever that nutrition fastback.
So yesterday's, for instance,was what to be eating after you
get done training, practicing orplaying.
So we want to have protein anda carbohydrate.
So what's an example of aprotein that you know?
And then, if you get blankstairs, which you typically do
for the first time with a bunchof eight-year-old kids.
You say and give me some animalmeats, those are some proteins,
and then they'll start rattlingoff and they get involved.
(13:57):
And then carbohydrates what aresome carbohydrates?
Start with fruits and veggiesand then they start throwing
that out.
So you just it's like Chinesewater torture.
They'll get that three times inone hour and they start to
hopefully absorb some of that.
And it's cool to see some ofthese kids that have been
trained with us for a while.
You know, after a couple ofmonths you'll ask these we have
about 30 fast facts, um, sothey'll recycle them a couple of
(14:17):
times and they know likeimmediately what these are.
And that's the goal is like notto overwhelm them with all the
information, but give them somebasic nutrition skills that way
they can take it and move on,you know, outside of a home
field.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yes, that's awesome, Cause I feel like so many
athletes feel like they need tojust, you know, put on weight
and they'll just eat whateverthey want or have all the you
know sugary drinks and monsterdrinks and things like that, and
oh my gosh, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, we get.
You know, volleyball players,for whatever reason, they are
obsessed with Celsius.
So they're always asking can Ihave Celsius?
It's like you can have whateveryou want.
There's no good food.
There's nothing, nothinginherently good or bad about
food or drink.
But understand, there is funand there is fuel.
Fun Oreos and Celsius would bein that 20% category.
Fuel would be your whole foods.
(15:05):
That would be in the 80%category.
And you know, of course wedon't have control outside of
these walls as much as we'd like.
But you know well, inevitablywe'll see a Celsius come through
and like the girls are startingto hide us.
That don't hide it from us.
Like it is, that's a fun food.
Have a fun food and then justmake sure you're getting your
fuel.
So it's trying to trying tokeep it light around the
nutrition.
You don't want to create any um, some negative feelings around
(15:28):
food or drink.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
But absolutely, absolutely.
Yeah, and you mentioned olderadults, so do you do personal
training or group fitnessclasses for people that aren't
athletes?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, so that's part of our coaches on staff are
certified.
Most of them, or all of them,are certified through what's
called a CSCS, which is yourcollegiate strength and
conditioning specialist, andthat's going to be predominantly
for, like I mentioned, the bulkof what we do, uh, youth and
high school, college and proathletes.
But with that, um, humanmovement is human movement,
(16:00):
whether you're training forsport or training for life,
coaches are certified for forone-on-one adult clientele.
So, outside of our coachinghours, which is three o'clock to
eight o'clock or nine o'clockdepending on the season, um, we
will train in the mornings andafternoons, uh, our adult
clientele, and we've got like asmall group right now.
Um, most of it is like from ourown adult employees that are
(16:24):
training, but it's Wednesdaysand Fridays at noon.
But open to if you want tospread the word, open to
expanding that out more in themornings I know there's a couple
of books that are interested indoing some morning stuff as
well.
So definitely open to that.
It's just hard to advertisethat demographic.
It's hard to advertise to thatdemographic even though they're
(16:44):
in here, they come in home fieldand it's got baseball, it's got
turf and free weights and abathroom but no showers, and
it's just doesn't have the sametype of amenities that you'd see
, maybe, at a commercial setting.
But the training in and ofitself we've got 20,000 square
feet and every tool that you canthink of and, um, like I said,
the most important thing is thecoaches, and the coaches are
(17:04):
equipped to handle, you know,the adult clientele for sure.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen pictures and reels and your
facility looks amazing.
Where are you guys located?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We've got two locations now.
So we've got our Olathelocations.
Off of 119th and Strangline.
There is a big old Bass Proshop right off of I-35.
It's just next to that, or it'sreally right next to that
furniture mall.
And then we just built a brandnew facility in KCK right off of
90th and State Avenue, so youcan literally see the Speedway
(17:39):
about a mile west of where weare, and that facility is really
cool too.
I'm not sure if you've seenpictures, but we've got 10
basketball courts that can beconverted to 12 volleyball
courts and we'll run tournaments, practices.
I mentioned our academyathletes.
We've got about 400 volleyballplayers I think I might be plus
(18:01):
or minus some and then we've gotum.
So mokan basketball has justmerged with home field, which
mokan is like the top program inthe country, not just locally.
I know we just got I just gotoff the phone with matt suther
who's the owner of Mo Can Nisa.
I think they're projecting 55youth teams this year.
So we need the space tofacilitate practices and
(18:24):
training and then also we'll runtournaments there and our space
is about 8,000 square feet inthat facility.
We've got a full restaurantinside called the experience,
which is really just it'supscale.
Bar food is the best way, Ithink, to put it OK like a yard
house would be a very comparablemenu.
(18:46):
So really good food, qualityfood.
And then outside of thefacility we have a baseball or
lacrosse field that you can dosome, some, some stuff on uh,
some turf, so that's one pieceof it.
And then, uh, next to that,about a half mile down the road,
we've got eight syntheticbaseball fields uh, so turf
baseball fields, so we'll runbaseball tournaments out there.
(19:07):
Um, very cool, we've gotbuilding champions.
Baseball is a part of homefield.
Uh, there was a.
It was a couple years ago.
We acquired them.
So that's another 500 kidsright there in the BC side.
So lots of kids, lots of space.
A pretty complicated business,but I think we've got the right
(19:28):
people and leadership roles todirect it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh, that's so cool, and it sounds like you have
plenty of room for cornhole.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You should have some cornhole tournaments.
You and Dave are in a league,aren't you?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Oh, we play all over.
Yes, we love it.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
We used to do a cornhole tournament and one of
our.
We had two facilities in Olathethat we've since condensed into
just one, but we used to do Ican't remember who.
I have to reach out to theperson that ran that.
So Chris Obermeyer was hisdirector of food and Bev.
He would definitely know, butI'm shocked that we didn't see
you out there.
It was talk about competitive,holy smokes.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I know it is.
People don't realize.
Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of fun.
Well, I love again like thatyou're doing this.
I don't know if you saw theepisode or listen to the episode
with Jake Griggs.
I've talked to Jake, yeah, yeah, oh, my gosh, and I love what
he's doing too different thanyou, but I love how he's going
(20:25):
about his fitness business, um,and I'm hoping that I can get
Anthony.
I need to reach out to Anthonytoo.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
So Anthony, he and Kirstie just opened up there.
I guess they're opening it upat the end of this month, so
it'd be a good time to reach out.
Alfred, I think, is the name oftheir studio, so he'd be great.
And then Jake, yeah, it was funto talk to.
I got maybe a year ago is whenI was talking to him.
He reached out and very muchlike you, like just wants to
learn and wants to provide, youknow, good stuff to other people
(20:51):
.
And he was just askingquestions on like what was the
route, like what do you?
What's the best way to reachthese people?
And he had an idea already.
But I think what's great aboutJake and you and others in this
same field is like you know whatyou know, but you're also
willing to learn what otherpeople have done and take it and
take pieces of it and expand onit.
(21:11):
Jake's done a really good job.
I've seen his videos and it's alot like your page where he
just wants to build community.
And I think, as you get olderand I've seen this on your page
too it's like well, what do youdo when you're in your forties?
What do you do in your fifties?
It's harder to make friendswhen you get older.
It's not impossible, but it isharder.
So, finding a group of peopleand they don't always have to be
like-minded, but people thathave some shared values um, that
(21:36):
I think that's, that's thesweet spot.
We've actually found that hereWe've got a workout group.
It's called one oh eight.
We just uh, it's like a teetime.
We train at one oh eight,roughly plus or minus a few
minutes, but there's about 10 or15 of us that show up on a
regular basis and, um, there's alot of accountability there.
Like, we work out for an hour,um hour and a half, and we play
some spike ball a couple oftimes per week and that's kind
(21:57):
of our cornhole escape, um, orcompetitive escape.
And if you miss a workout, youput your name on a sheet and you
put your name in the Skippy jar, like literally a peanut butter
Skippy jar, and at the end ofthe training block you pull it
out and if your name gets picked, there's a wheel of punishment
and you spin it, so like, forinstance, our buddy Blake ended
up getting picked and he's gotum at one point.
(22:18):
This is pretty brutal.
He got a 24 hours in an IHOP sohe had to sit in an IHOP and
every pancake he ate was onehour off of his 24 hour limit.
He ended up getting out ofthere in like 22 hours or in
three hours.
So he ended up eating 22 or 21pancakes and oh my gosh.
So that was a little bit moreaggressive.
(22:39):
But yes, accountability.
There is the most recent one.
You did like some gator rolls,so he's rolling 30 yards down on
his stomach and rolls 30 yardsback.
So it all changes.
But the point is like if youcommit to three days per week of
training or four days or fivedays, we are going to hold you
accountable and we're all goingto keep ourselves accountable
too.
So I think that's what Jake'sdoing, coming full circle.
I think he's doing a reallygood job with that.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
I love all of it.
So how can the listeners findyou?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Um, I am.
So.
A couple of years ago I startedgetting more involved in social
media.
Um, whether you like socialmedia, don't like social media,
you have to accept that that isa way to to get ahold of people,
and I'm on Instagram mainly so.
(23:27):
My handle is Ty, underscoreDisney.
I will put.
I'll put a couple of posts aweek, I'll put stuff on stories
daily.
Nutrition will be on there,training will be on there.
So that would be the best way.
I do have a Twitter, but I'mnot on it very actively, not
enough to know exactly even whatit is.
My Twitter handle is, butmainly Instagram, at tight
underscore Disney.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, okay, and I'm assuming home field has their
own social media.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yep, so I help manage our own department social media
accounts.
That's at home field, kansascity, and we'll have a lot, a
ton of content.
As far as um, what we're doing,you know daily, weekly, monthly
, but informational types ofthings, and also like we have
camps this summer for baseballand softball.
You can find some camps if yourson or daughter was interested
(24:11):
in doing some stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So okay, okay.
And just one more question.
So are you just in in Kansascity or are you?
Have you expanded?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
currently in Kansas city only, but I think the three
to five year goal is tofranchise it and expand out to
other parts of the country.
So Chicago I know we've hadconversations with Chicago, um,
I think, east coast, west coast,eventually, with a lot of these
brands being locally recognized, I think it's important we nail
it down first here, but there'salso, like the Mocan name, for
(24:41):
instance, is more of anationally recognized name.
I think as we continue to getbigger and have more brand
recognition, it will be moreenticing for other cities to
then look at expanding, having ahome field inside their city,
something that's unique and Idon't know how, if your
listeners even care to hearabout how this happens.
(25:04):
But Starbonds is really apivotal piece of this.
So Starbonds is basically atax-incentivized program.
The way the Speedway was built,the way that um legends area,
so sporting cities building, wasbuilt, as the same way home
field kck was built.
So we are involved with thekansas city, kansas, um, you
(25:28):
know, and this is the, the cityand the state, and basically we
have to.
Our goal is to presentsomething to that area and
guarantee that we're going tohave other taxpayer dollars come
through.
So having I tell you all ofthis because we need to have
more.
It's more than strength andconditioning.
It's basically it's a wholecampus that we are trying to
draw people towards.
That's where you get thefootball or the baseball
(25:50):
facility and the softballfacility.
That's where you get thebasketball tournaments and
volleyball tournaments.
We're getting people outside ofjust that local area and even
outside of Kansas and Missourito come to these tournaments,
hopefully spend some money onfood and beverage and
entertainment and build what'swhat's really becoming more of a
district in that KCK area.
(26:11):
And I think, outside of just theimpact on these kids, like
having an impact on the city andthe state is a really cool
thing.
I've, as you know, born andraised in Stilwell, kansas, like
this is home to me, soexpanding out to other cities
seems cool and it is fun.
But I think being able to bringsomething to the state and
allow people to see our stateand our cities, I think that's a
(26:33):
really cool thing.
So we're doing that on a prettylarge scale and it's continuing
to get bigger.
Like we just had a combinerecently uh, just a couple of
weeks ago and I'm calling somepeople from Florida.
Uh, I think I had a phone callfrom Hawaii.
Um, I had another phone callfrom California, so let me
literally all over the countryPeople are coming to to
experience a home field.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh, so wonderful to see Tyler and share that time
with him.
Unfortunately, my internet cutout so we kind of ended abruptly
, so I'm sorry for that.
I hope, if you have a youngathlete, that you will check out
home field Casey, trust me whenI say he or she will be in good
hands with Tyler, and I'm sureall the other coaches and staff
as well.
You can check them out athomefieldkccom.
(27:18):
And a big thank you and alittle hug to Tyler for being a
guest today.
Thank you for listening.
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