Beyond Sport Coaching LLC

Beyond Sport Coaching LLC Athletes, Coaches, Professionals around the Sports Industry:

Who supports BOTH your competitive goals & personal growth beyond the game?

Stephanie Bernthal (M.Ed., P.C.) is passionate about helping you align passion for sport with purpose beyond it

✨A time to look back, reflect, and chart a new path for 2026✨1:1 coaching can help you ignite growth and restore abundan...
12/28/2025

✨A time to look back, reflect, and chart a new path for 2026✨1:1 coaching can help you ignite growth and restore abundance in sport and your life outside of it. See link in bio to start your growth journey!



📸: Jon Gordon

12/24/2025

Part 1: When holidays are sad, difficult, and lonely. This vid is for young people feeling like everyone else is living it up while you struggle to face adult life. This is for parents watching kids struggle with the hard decisions/responsibilities of real life. 20ish years ago I had one of the most difficult holiday seasons. A time that usually offered me respite from the stress of my life only accentuated it. My parents could have rescued me. They didn’t and on principle they never did. And I’m grateful for it. Part one of this video is for those seeing all the good times others are having. If I’m honest, my entire 20’s were a challenge of working/grinding/building while it seemed others were handed an easier path. When you are experiencing your painful/lonely seasons of life, social media can make you feel even worse. I was super disciplined about how I engaged on social media and still am. I am here to tell you that the loneliest times are where you meet yourself and your strength. You wrestle and reckon. You have to if you want to grow in life. You can become a victim or your own advocate. I am here today as a testament to that. I’ve learned to actually welcome those times, because I recognize something incredible is going to come out of me on the other side of them. I’ve learned deep faith from my times of challenge and seen the miracle of just making it thru, one baby step at time.

End of year mental health hack for athletes and coaches —> GRATITUDE! Swipe for some reflection prompts. What are you gr...
12/23/2025

End of year mental health hack for athletes and coaches —> GRATITUDE! Swipe for some reflection prompts. What are you grateful for this year?

Mental health hack for athletes and coaches —> GRATITUDE! Take a moment to reflect (swipe for questions you can start wi...
12/23/2025

Mental health hack for athletes and coaches —> GRATITUDE!
Take a moment to reflect (swipe for questions you can start with). What are you grateful for this year?!

I’ve been asked about how to manage the pressure and mental health strain of college head coaching. One way is organizat...
12/16/2025

I’ve been asked about how to manage the pressure and mental health strain of college head coaching. One way is organization and planning. Here is an example of the broad areas of program management from my D1 head coaching days. When our 🎯 is clear, we can make clearer decisions and better evaluate ourselves. Swipe to see more ➡️

What methods have you used for organization?

12/10/2025

Hoping college head coaches can learn from this video. I so often hear coaching clients finally open up about what is institutional or staff betrayal/misconduct. It’s devastating, because so many people have to walk through these things in silence. Often there is little justice. Head Coaches can be so focused on presenting a united front & holding a program together that they allow someone to stay too long on their staff. Coaches, you cannot mentor people out of certain things. I would consider this my greatest mistake as a head coach, and yet we have to have grace for the fact that we did the best with what we knew. If you have experienced this, know you are not alone! These are the ugly but real parts of this industry.

College football has created quite a debate recently regarding the integrity and purpose of sport. Reminders: Disappoin...
12/09/2025

College football has created quite a debate recently regarding the integrity and purpose of sport. Reminders: Disappointment is a part of the sports journey! Injustice is an unavoidable part of life. We are forgetting the power is in our ability to respond, not in putting our energy into controlling what happens to us. Withdrawing when we don’t get our way is a costly pattern to develop in life. The main source of regret my clients express is decisions made in defense of their ego. The regret is over what they missed out on. Never take an opportunity to compete for granted!

Wins are cool, but the reality of coaching is we accept the challenge of pushing our athletes toward growth, knowing it ...
11/24/2025

Wins are cool, but the reality of coaching is we accept the challenge of pushing our athletes toward growth, knowing it won’t always be easy. Our relationships with athletes are built through fractures and repairs, but it’s in these moments that true growth happens. I’m grateful for the lessons learned from my first college team. I was 25 and a college head coach building a program with no other staff. The job exposed every weakness and deficit I had yet to face. The best things happen when our ego is crushed, believe it or not.

I am also grateful for this athlete who taught me that coaching is about leading with humility and patience. My first instinct, coming from the blueprint for success I had as an athlete, was to address this athlete’s challenging behavior with a show of force/authority. That was the only thing I knew or saw modeled. I forced myself to step back and consider other possibilities. Could there be a better way to lead?

My decision was to take the problematic team issues as an invitation to lean in and listen. Trauma and pain was finally brought to a safe where it could then be healed by people beyond our team. It started with one, extremely difficult conversation. It reminds me how easy it has been as a coach to miss the mark in these moments. That is humbling. It’s been over a decade of conversations since that time. Sometimes through written letters when this young woman didn’t have words to speak. And here and there, we have a moment just for reflection and gratitude. That’s pretty cool.

I have never been a perfect coach, and you will never be either. Presence > Perfection. Don’t do this for thanks. And remember you sign up for the pressure and hard work regardless of if you get the glory. Often you will not know if the labor is or was worth it. But whether you see it or not, it always is!

A blast to be back speaking with this group again. Recruiting Information Night with and Courtney Sakellaris from . Sh...
10/21/2025

A blast to be back speaking with this group again. Recruiting Information Night with and Courtney Sakellaris from . Sharing tips for the process and more importantly insider info on a healthy approach/mindset/focus. The goal is not just to GET to the next level, it’s to thrive there. The pressure on athletes and parents is higher than ever. When done well, the recruiting process is one of the first big steps in a young person figuring out who they are and gaining confidence in their decision-making abilities. Navigating individual focus vs. team focus through this journey takes strength. When in doubt remember these words from a former D1 Head Coach who has seen the good, bad, and ugly - it’s about the team. People (athletes and parents) who understand that are RARE gems to find today. Another reminder in this era of saying a lot - coaches are wary of over-branding. Let your game be the loudest thing about you. Don’t brand yourself into a place you don’t belong or can’t perform. Be realistic, seek fit, love the game, embrace adversity, understand there is a day the game will be gone, and after that… who will you be and what legacy have you left?

Do you want to see growth and change in your life? For many of us, we fall into a trap of focusing on external change (p...
10/17/2025

Do you want to see growth and change in your life? For many of us, we fall into a trap of focusing on external change (people to understand our triggers, a better partner, a better team, a better coach, a new school, a new job). Yet, ownership and accountability of ourselves are the key to growth and our mental health and wellness within sport & life. So where does trauma/injustice/loss fit in? We can believe in accountability and still understand the realities of trauma. Where do we put the real feelings that come from these experiences? For some people, trauma has contributed to their inability to see what they have ownership over. Or has left them feeling powerless. Without realizing it, life is happening TO them. And yet, with healing, there is the ability to consciously move toward a new future. Empowered.

Mustering the effort within oneself to be “tougher” is not the pathway forward, finding support and guidance in healing is! Processing in a safe place can take you places you never knew were possible.

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