Drew Mearns: Leading with Listening

An interview for the Spirituality and Sustainability Global Network

For more than 20 years since retiring from the management of elite, professional athletes, Drew Mearns has helped parents, coaches, high school teams and club programs improve performance, attitudes, and college opportunities for young distance runners. Through proven principles, programs and practice strategies, Drew has developed and grown runners (including five of his own children) into some of the top youth and high school distance runners and teams in the country.

Maddie: How would you explain your approach to combining sports and spirituality? 

Drew: It’s not denominational, but it springs off the word relationship, which is the idea that relationships with each other, even relationships with your adversaries or competitors, are something to consider and use as energy that powers your performance. It’s the question, where should I be paying my attention? 

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