Joanne P McCallie - Former Duke Women's Basketball Head Coach On Resilience, Adapting, & Mental Health

Building Excellence with Bailey Miles

#154: Joanne P. McCallie is the former Duke University head women’s basketball coach.
She is an author and elite-level NCAA basketball coach with nearly 700 career wins. She received a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from Auburn University, and has coached at Maine, Michigan State, and Duke, making National Coach of the Year in 2005, and winning numerous championships at all three schools. She is the only coach in history to win Coach of the Year in four different conferences.
An advocate for mental health and melanoma, she is also a wife, and mom of two, Maddie and Jack. She has extensive media experience on radio shows and podcasts, and has provided color commentary for four years in the WNBA. She previously published Secret Warrior: A Coach & Fighter On and Off the Court and Choice Not Chance: Rules for Building a Fierce Competitor.
On the show she shares her story, growing up, playing sports, excelling at basketball, getting into coaching, dealing with bipolar disorder, melanoma, mental health, leadership, and much more.
For more on Coach P her books, and foundation check out coachp4life.org as well as all social media platforms.
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