Jesse Mermuys - Orlando Magic Assistant Coach on Using Joy to Improve Your Culture, Chasing Individual Goals to Create Team Success, How Tech is Shaping the Future of Youth Sports, and More.

Coach Forward is an interview-style podcast hosted by Jason Mejeur (Coach J), accomplished Coach, Mentor, and Founder/CEO at OWN IT.

Highlights from the episode:

[05:35] Valuing experience over compensation
[12:56] Using joy to improve your culture
[20:05] Chasing individual goals to create team success
[27:32] The best NBA teams are led by the players
[32:28] What technology is changing locker rooms
[36:33] Integrating mental practices into training

Coach Forward is an interview-style podcast hosted by Jason Mejeur (Coach J), accomplished Coach, Mentor, and Founder/CEO at MaxOne. To see the MaxOne platform, schedule some time here.

I’m excited to be joined today by Coach Jesse Mermuys, Assistant Coach with the Orlando Magic.

His 20 year career includes coaches experiences that started at the middle school level and includes stops in high school, college, the G League, and now at the NBA level.

His 15 years in the NBA include time with the Sacramento Kings, the LA Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Houston Rockets. At the college level, he spent time at the University of Arizona, New Mexico State, and Southern Utah.

Coach Mermuys is a true student of the game who is passionate about improving his craft every day, and is a living testimony that prioritizing experience over pay does pay off in the long-run.

About Jason Mejeur (Coach J)

Jason has 15+ years of experience coaching basketball at the college and high school level and has lived on the sidelines and in the locker rooms working to build teams and inspire athletes. His mission is to build authentic relationships with his players so that he can impact them beyond the basketball court.

More recently, Jason founded the OWN IT System to help bring data-driven sleep and health coaching to student-athletes and their teams.

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