Speaking
Talks that send athletes out with one action.
Austin is honest about the decisions that cost him and what it took to come back. Athletes tend to listen to that. Athletic programs come first, and every talk ends with something your people can do this week.
Talks
Keynote, about 30 minutes
Own the Next Move
For high school and college teams, captains, and athletic programs.
A talk that helps athletes stop explaining and start owning their next choice.
What athletes walk away withOne specific action to take this week.
Team session
Four Laps
For a single team, a position group, or a whole program.
Austin tells the four laps, eight laps, twelve laps story from the hospital floor, then hands your coaches a seven-day challenge to run with the team.
What athletes walk away withA seven-day challenge your coaches can run.
Coaches and staff session
Build People Who Refuse to Quit
For head coaches, assistants, and athletic directors.
A working session from a coach who has been the athlete who got cut, on building character and accountability that holds up when the season goes badly.
What athletes walk away withOne team standard and one honest conversation to have this month.
Mindset topics
Also available for teams in a hard season, an injury, or a rebuilding year.
Adversity Is Fuel
How to turn a setback into training fuel, with a story from the adversity he chose and the adversity he did not.
Locked In
How to lock in again after a mistake, told through the semester Austin went from losing his scholarship to a 3.8 GPA.
When Everything Is Going Wrong
A talk for the middle of a hard season, from someone who kept going when everything went wrong.
“Championships aren’t won when everything is going right. They’re built when you learn how to keep going when everything is going wrong.”
What to expect
- Athletic programs first: teams, captains, coaches, athletic directors.
- Austin is a coach and speaker, not a clinician.
- Length and format are set with you. The keynote runs about 30 minutes.
- Every talk ends with one action your athletes can take this week.

