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Olympic Gold Medalist🏅 Executive Coach ☯️ Author ✍🏼 Follow Your Flow, Achieve Impacting Wins, & Ride Better Life Waves

While Joe offers a variety of performance coaching and executive training, "5 with Joe" is his flagship program - a 5 week intensive that teaches a framework to improve habits, make empowered choices, stimulate creativity, and increase performance. This is:

The framework I use to move out of the short game and over to the long game. The framework that anchors my life, growth, and relationships. The framework I share with all kinds of clients - school teachers, entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs - women and men who are looking to shake up their routine and change patterns that are not working for them. Simply said, the framework that charges the battery. The concepts and strategies I share are more than just words - they are the concepts and strategies I used to:

Along with my canoe partner, Scott Strausbaugh, win America's first ever Olympic Gold Medal in Whitewater Canoe Slalom at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. To get unstuck and healthy again after a low point during my time as CEO for Olympic and Paralympic sport.

02/02/2026

Restrictors Of Flow…

(Shared with the assistance of another stunning snow day during this Catalan winter for the ages!🎿❄️)

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Tuixent la Vansa, Catalunya
January, 2026

08/09/2025

Thinking In Waves….

If someone had tried to introduce the concept of “Thinking In Waves” when I was the CEO of an Olympic/Paralympic sport organization, I would have dismissed it and them quickly.

Back then, who had time to think about learning from the principles of waves? To pause, be patient, and let go?

For I was too busy sprinting, grinding, hacking, and rigidly pressing forward….

At the expense of

Seeing, feeling, understanding, and aligning with

The Waves that were always around me…

Waves that could have shifted the nature of my health, creativity, relationships and transformed the nature of my work.

It’s so easy to see now how much Free Energy I lost.

Today, the Waves - and the Free Energy they yield - are central to a life I could not have imagined a few years ago.

And in this next season of Thinking In Waves, which begins this week, I’ll resume my weekly essays about the pursuit of spectacular rides on Life’s Waves with new ideas and innovative platforms that will give you clarity about the Waves that surround you and how to leverage them to your advantage.

Ready to join us? Subscribe in the link below.

See you on the Wave!🌊

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Llançà, Costa Brava, Catalunya
Summer, 2025

02/04/2025

The Olympic Dream…

Mine? It was hard to imagine without a sense of place.

Once I came to La Seu d’Urgell for the first time in 1991, the spirit of the people and culture of the country anchored a clear vision for what was possible.

For many years, I’ve called La Seu home… which today makes the 60 second walk to the Parc del Segre as frequent as it is simple - where I get to watch a new generation of athletes bring their own Olympic dreams into focus…

Which for the next three years is now anchored to Oklahoma City, an unexpected but beautiful choice for the Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross events at the 2028 Olympic Games.🇺🇸

The line between my current home and past home stands to deliver some rich connection in both directions over the next few years… and hopefully shorten that line in the process.

I may not completely understand dropping off the ramp in La Seu the way Olympians like Manu Ochoa and David Llorente do…

But that splash upon landing? From this past week forward, there is a clear vision of the excitement and legacy that these athletes and Oklahomans are going to create together.

Enhorabona OKC! 🙌🏼

10/11/2024

How NOT To Win An Olympic Gold Medal…

Over the past 32 years, I’ve brought a unique perspective into many conversations about the thin lines that differentiates success at the Olympics…

And how to rethink and reposition these lines to better serve our focus, performance, and satisfaction towards our most meaningful pursuits - in business, health, and relationships.

One of my best insights from these conversations is helping to reset what kind of mindset is really needed show up as the best version of ourselves in the situations that matter most.

Check out this favorite clip from my most enjoyable conversation on The Kintsugi Podcast: Conversations about Resilience with Michael O’Brien.

Watch the full conversation

08/11/2024

What Difference Can 5 Minutes Make?

A short clip about the smallest and simplest step to creating a daily practice...

From a wonderful conversation from the Keep The Line Moving podcast with Chris Gargano. (Link to full conversation in the comments.)

17/09/2019

The Daily Coaching Question

A friend recently shared some thoughtful questions that coaches should ask themselves after a game or competition. These were questions that help us review leadership, communication, and points of improvement - all valid and important “Post-Game” boxes to check.

Here’s the question I ask myself BEFORE every training session with athletes and BEFORE every client call with leaders that anyone can implement starting now:

How is my contribution today to this person going to make a positive difference in her/his life 20 years from now?

Change performance.
Change culture.
Change lives.

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Athlete: Laura Pellicer, Andorra

Parc del Segre
La Seu d’Urgell, Catalunya

02/09/2019

If I had to simplify my work with executives and elite athletes to a single theme, it would be this:

Quiet the noise around you just enough so that you can hear your inner voice again.

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Hendaye, France
August 29, 2019

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It’s Planting Season

One of my favorite sports physiologists says, “Big trees grow slowly.”

And the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago.

The envy-factor kicks in when you come across someone just like you, who is accomplished at a skill or is fulfilled in their dream job or the place they choose to live their life.

It’s human to wish we had started to learn a skill in our youth, or a decade ago, even five years or one year ago.

Who stood in your way? What blocked your momentum?

Start Now = Seed Plant

There is a quest that pulls at you right now. What is it? Ten years from now you can feel it as a regret or you can relish it as an accomplishment.

To plant seeds every day means to exercise a daily practice of self-investment, far removed from the immediacy of what appears to be in your way.

Whether its work, relationships, or life skills… by all means, find a few tactics that reduce friction of taking a small step forward, the only trade-off is a little time in your day.

And with that little bit of time each day, you plant a seed.

Consistency and patience in our practice anchor a culture where we compassionately place ourselves ahead of our challenges. Turning inward, not out, for a few minutes with no comparison to someone more accomplished or judgment about yourself, IS the seed to plant every day.

And the good news is that every day in YOUR space, it is planting season.

That’s how a few minutes becomes 10 years.

Hi, I’m Joe, the owner of 5 With Joe Performance Coaching. My clients are leaders, organizations, and teams who utilize my Olympic Gold Medal performance strategies and 40 years of navigating whitewater river rapids to streamline decision making and actions when engaged in complicated river currents of business and life.

The best way to interact with me is through Sunday Morning Joe, my weekly newsletter that explores the art of improving performance, overcoming challenge, and aligning with purpose for Sunday readers in search of more depth and motivation. Subscribe HERE for free.