Wide Open with Tony Gonzalez

This week’s solo episode of Wide Open is all about coaches & coaching. Coaches are a lot like mentors; the best coaches are the ones that play to your strengths, motivate you, and help make you better! In this episode, I’ll talk to you about some of the best coaches I’ve ever had, what they taught me, and how you can use some of these learnings to help motivate yourself and others, whether it’s in sports, business or life.

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Let's talk about authenticity! I truly believe that being authentic is one of the most important and valuable qualities you can have. From the importance of truth in the news to being a genuine partner, friend, and communicator, authenticity is in many ways the bedrock of success and progress. In the end, a person who is authentic is just someone who is 100% themselves — and some more people will want to be around and engage with. ...

Let's talk about sleep! I think sleep is one of the most important things we can understand as human beings. Sleep makes us happier, healthier, stronger, and more in control of our emotions. Whether you're someone who sleeps a lot or a little, having more knowledge about the science of sleep and how it can work wonders for your mind is essential to increasing your full potential. In this week's solo episode of Wide Open, I'm giving...

This week’s solo episode of Wide Open is about how you can overcome fear in your life and the world. It's hard for me to think about a more relevant topic for the moment right now, as well as one that I've experienced at different points throughout my life. I tell people a lot that life starts out on the other side of fear, which for myself means that you can't truly improve or thrive unless you discover ways to move past fear. Thr...

Marriage is what brings us together, though that doesn't mean it's always easy! In the second solo episode of Wide Open, I'm joined by my wife, October Gonzalez, for an intimate and fun conversation about the wonderfully winding road that is marriage. From the story about how we met to our most challenging moments, the importance of trust, and how our relationship has leveled up over the years, our discussion is one that could only...

Welcome to the first SOLO episode of Wide Open, with me, Tony Gonzalez. These solo episodes will cover some of the subjects and learning techniques that have been influential to my journey, helping me get better, stronger, and smarter.  This week’s episode will cover something I can’t imagine living without: meditation.

Before answering some audience questions, I’ll talk about my history with meditation, and how you c...

Jeezy has one of the most inspiring success stories in rap music. He started his life growing up abroad as part of a military family, and after his parents separated, eventually became a lonely kid growing up in the South being raised between different family members. He soon fell in with the wrong crowd and was sent to a correctional facility for boys at a young age. Decades later, Jeezy is one of the most respected names in rap, ...

Alexi Lalas is a sports ICON, full stop. The minute he, his red beard, and iconic long hair stepped onto the field at the 1994 World Cup (located here in the US), people met a unique and powerful personality that would influence and inform the game of soccer for decades to come. But playing soccer for the likes of MLS and European leagues was always just one part of Alexi's story. Throughout his life, he's been a star hockey player...

You won't go long in the world of basketball and video games without hearing the name Ronnie2K. Ronnie Singh passed on a promising career in law to chase his dreams of working in sports, and more specifically, finding ingenious ways to break through the noise and build great products. Ronnie's obsessive passion and knowledge of basketball, and more specifically, NBA2K, eventually scored him his dream gig as the face of the NBA2k fr...

Few artists in history have leveled up as much as Snoop Dogg has. Born Calvin Broadus Jr., in Long Beach, California, the beloved rapper and entertainer went from a life navigating crime in a gang-ridden neighborhood to becoming the face of a musical movement that would change culture forever. His debut album, Doggystyle, produced by his friend and early producer, Dr. Dre, put West Coast rap on the map and catapulted Snoop into the...

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, and the same goes for heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson. The New York-native’s troubled youth was full of tough times, loss, and years in and out of crime. But along the way, Mike’s natural talent as a fighter and truly unique human being was discovered and led to him winning the heavyweight boxing title at the unheard-of age of 20. He’d go on to become one of the most naturally talented ...

From coming to America after growing up in Mexico to getting traded five times, MLB All-Star and legend Adrián González has experienced some pretty powerful moments of change in his life and career. He’s someone who can tell you firsthand that there’s a lot more to professional athletes than people think. On Wide Open, Adrián took us through some milestones from his historic career, touching on how he overcome the low points, the p...

This week on Wide Open, I'm joined by three of the most inspiring, successful, and 100% badass women in the sports and entertainment industry. Constance Schwartz-Morini co-founded SMAC Entertainment alongside Michael Strahan, a multi-dimensional talent management, music, branding and production company that represents the likes of Wiz Khalifa, Deion Sanders, and Erin Andrews. Kim Pegula was a child living homeless on the streets of...

If you’re looking for advice about how to understand the universe—and yourself—you can’t go wrong listening to a guy that many consider one of the smartest humans alive. Welcome astrophysicist, author, and much-loved host of shows like Cosmos and Startalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Neil’s ability to take complex topics about science and package them in playful and approachable ways has cemented him as one of the most interesting and uni...

It’s primetime, my friends. This week on Wide Open, I welcome one of the most versatile and talented athletes and entertainers in modern history, Deion Sanders. From the NFL Hall of Fame to the MLB, Deion redefined human potential by becoming one of the few athletes to play two different professional sports.

Deion’s story is all about maintaining deep focus and refusing to give in to outside voices, all while accomplishing many dif...

This week on Wide Open we have a guy with one of the greatest success stories ever, Quest Nutrition and Impact Theory founder, Tom Bilyeu. Tom’s journey from an underachieving teen and failing film school student to the founder of a billion-dollar company personifies how if you set your mind to learning—and learn to love what you do—your growth potential can become truly limitless. Tom and I shared a jam packed conversation about h...

Who wants to learn more about control while mastering the art of negotiation? If you’re not raising your hand, you should be. Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss became one of the bureau's top assets for neutralizing high priority situations, from bank robberies to acts of terror. Today, he advises Fortune 500 CEOs on the art of negotiation, and even inspired actors like Denzel Washington’s character in like Inside Man” and “M...

Tony Hawk is the greatest skateboarder of all time, but that doesn’t mean his road to the top was always easy or straightforward. On Wide Open the podcast, Tony talked about how doing things his own way—from landing the world’s first 900 to launching a video game and massive shoe empire—helped him put extreme sports on the map. From advice for aspiring athletes to tips for dealing with the haters, and how to turn risk into massive ...