Mike McGivern joins host Steve Teel on this edition of Very Bold Radio.

Steve interviews Mike (Mac) McGivern: host of Milwaukee’s radio show “Faith In The Zone,” 6-time State Champion Coach inWisconsin High School Basketball, Member of not one, but 2 High School Hall of Fames. Mac talks about his coaching career, lessons learned, building a winning culture, coaching his own son, transforming his style into relationship-building, and he shares coming to faith in Jesus thanks to the prayers of his wife, Terrie. We also borrow Mac’s Faith In The Zone question: What one uniform or coaching shirt would you want to put on just one more time?

TIME STAMPS

0:00 Steve Introduces Coach Mike (Mac) McGivern)

2:00 Faith In The Zone Radio Show On Big 920 Milwauke3

3:30 Talking Mac’s Bio: Being In 2 Hall of Fames in Wisconsin

5:30 Surprising Mac with Hall of Fame Induction

6:30 3 Basketball State Championships Head Coach, 3 State Championships as Ass’t Coach

9:00 AAU Playing Another Player In Front of His Son Matthew

10:00 Son Went On To Be 4-year Starter in High School & College

11:00 Eyes on Prize To Set Assist Record in College

12:30 How Book “Coaching Our Sons” Helped Mac Adjust Those Last 2 Years

14:45 Coach Moves To Private School (Calvary Baptist) But Takes On Public High Schools (Beat Milwaukee Hamilton)

17:00 Those 3 Years Mac’s Best of the 36 Year Career and Why?

20:00 Son’s Freshman Year at College Hitting Two Game-Winning Free Throws

23:00 Getting Fired His One and Only Time

24:30 Going to Greendale Martin Luther (Where They Had Won 3 Games in 2 Years) and Turning It Around (2019) State Championship

26:15 Not Sure Did a Good Enough Job Getting Those Kids to College Ball Opportunities

28:00 Overcoming Racial Divide

29:00 Building A Winning Culture And Good Cop / Bad Cop

32:00 A Player Telling Him: “You Get To Know Us, Then We’ll Run Through a Wall For You”

33:30 Best Overall Player He Coached: J.R. Blount Now Iowa State Ass’t Coach

35:00 Building Relationships Outside the Gym

36:00 Giving A Player A Ride To Gym

37:00 The Only Man In My Life Who Made a Commitment to Me and Stuck To It

38:45 Tell Us About McGivern Agency

42:00 Mike Shares His Testimony:

43:30 Who I Thought I Was…

45:00 Walking Into Pastor’s Office… 20+ Years Later Alcohol-free and Drug-free

46:30 Don’t Have To Lie Anymore

47:00 The Lord Came To A Dark Place To Reach Him

52:20 How Did Your Coaching Change After Christ?

53:30 The Faith In The Zone Question Mac Asks Of His Guests: Turned Around To Mac

54:40 What’s One More Uniform You Would Put On If You Could Play One More Time

55:50 Put On My Coaching Shirt One More Time (A Heartbreaking Loss)

57:00 Put On Coaching Shirt One More Time (A Meaningful Win)

58:30 What Were Your Strengths As A Coach?

60:00 Steve Closes This Episode With Coach Mac McGivern

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