by Krystal Gail | Aug 24, 2026 | Newsletter
For my first three years of high school football, we won two games. Total. Three years. Then came senior year. Before the season even started, our coaches took us away to camp — three workouts a day, out in the heat, nowhere to hide from it. When we got back to...
by Krystal Gail | Jul 27, 2026 | Newsletter
How to Find the Belief Before It Finds You Here is a simple practice I use with the leaders I coach. It takes about ten minutes and it is uncomfortable in exactly the right way. Finish these three sentences — honestly, not aspirationally — then interrogate each answer...
by Krystal Gail | Jul 27, 2026 | Newsletter
The Beliefs You Don’t Know You’re Carrying Limiting beliefs rarely announce themselves. In leaders especially, they tend to show up disguised as something that sounds perfectly reasonable: “I’m just not a details person.”...
by Krystal Gail | Jul 27, 2026 | Newsletter
Are You Still Not Making Pancakes? My brother graduated college, moved into his first apartment, and decided to make pancakes. What came out of that pan was burnt on the outside and raw in the middle. A culinary disaster by any measure. His response? “I...
by Krystal Gail | Jul 27, 2026 | Newsletter
The Line I Keep Coming Back To Believing is seeing. Your record is real. I’m not telling you to ignore it. But your record is also just a history of what you’ve done so far — it was never a ceiling on what you’re capable of becoming. Somewhere right...
by Krystal Gail | Jul 27, 2026 | Newsletter
Building Belief Before You Have Proof If belief has to come first, how do you actually build it — in yourself, or in a team you lead? 1. Change the environment before you change the record. Our coaches didn’t run a normal preseason. They pulled us out of...