Daniel Coyle
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1,298 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Mar
Daniel Coyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They went and he gathered the players at a center table.
And as the bus pulled up, the observer said the coach was Greg Popovich.
He looked as broken as a person could be.
He was absolutely spent.
He'd given everything this game and they lost.
The bus pulled up.
He stood up, straightened himself up, took a deep breath and then started warmly greeting
everybody as they came in the restaurant greeting their families pouring wine for people people said watching him was like seeing a dad at a wedding like he just was absolutely locked into making sure everybody had a great time and by the end of the night like they had reconnected they had processed together they had turned toward each other in their worst moment and that became the foundation for the next few years at san antonio they actually kept the unopened champagne bottles and they popped them the next year when they won
it's really cliched it's so much of this stuff it sounds like a cliche at first oh adversity you should stay tough and everything and it's a cliche partly for a reason that there's a like a deep truth to there that those moments do both reveal character but also give you the opportunity to grow that character together
And the story I see over and over in the places that I visit for the new book is that same instinct, like experiencing adversity and then turning toward that adversity with other people and creating community.
That's what's happening in each of these places.
And that's what Pop was doing that night.
He was creating community.
And that's what we see.
That's the deep pattern that we see in flourishing places, people, groups, and businesses is this turning toward and this community that is ready to be unlocked and gets awakened.
Right.
It's a little town, Norwich, Vermont, that resembles every other New England town, right?
If you do a picture of your idyllic, there's a steeple and there's a town common.
And the only thing that's unusual is that they produced, I think, 11 Olympians over the last 30 or 40 years.
And what is unique about it is our normal instincts for explaining that is, well, they must have a set of incredible coaches or some incredible Olympic program or something.
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