Coach Your Brains Out is founded by professional beach volleyball players and college coaches John Mayer and Billy Allen. The primary goal is practical, useful education that will help you become a better coach. Our podcasts are released every Thursday, so set your notifications accordingly!

Exploring volleyball's heart and soul through players' stories and experiences. 🏐 Join us for inspiring chats! 🎙️ #VolleyballPodcast #BumpSetChat

The Volleyball By Design podcast gives you simple, actionable, step by step strategies so you can get clarity in your training and apply what you learn right away.

The Volleyball Coach Pod 🏐 Hosted by Alejandro De Mendoza This podcast is for players, coaches, and parents who want to take their volleyball journey to the next level. Alejandro De Mendoza — club director, private trainer, club coach, and professional experience — dives deep into the game each week with expert guests and solo episodes. You’ll hear from college coaches, pro athletes, sports psychologists, and volleyball specialists about training, mindset, and performance strategies that actually work. Each episode is designed to give you actionable tips, stories, and insights you can apply right away — whether you’re grinding for tryouts, leading a team, or supporting your athlete. If you love volleyball and want to grow in the game, this is your new home.

The VolleyPod is all about coaching kids volleyball! Each episode we cover 3 segments that are each designed to help you become a better volleyball coach. First, we focus on a specific volleyball skill, talk about how to teach it, and provide drills and video links for further help with that skill. Then, we present a common coaching scenario and discuss tips for how to (and how not to) handle it. In the third segment we share a resource that has helped us to become a better coach, with the hopes that it can help you too! See you on The VolleyPod!

Collecting older episodes of the volleyball coaching podcast hosted by Billy Allen and John Mayer. For the latest episodes, subscribe to Coach Your Brains Out.

My Business and life coach, Kevin Cape joins the show to teach us all about how to achieve our goals, about the power of Somatic healing, and how to do the work!00:00 - start3:00 - His experience as a middle blocker for Long Beach State6:30 - Kevin’s favorite David Lee story 12:45 - How to become ungovernable 23:00 - Relationship between play and work 26:00 - Kevin’s problem with “professionalism” in the work environment 31:00 - Producing content, and my internal battle wi...

In this episode, I break down eight advanced ways to make your jump serve more dangerous — without changing your technique. After playing at three World Championships, I’ve learned that great serving isn’t only about mechanics. It’s about identity, intention, psychology, vision, landing control, and how you handle pressure. I’ll tell you how to build your serving identity, reset your mind with a quick routine, attack passers with purpose, read their body language, and train under real m...

 In this episode we talk with Kyle Paquette. Kyle is the mental performance coach responsible for leading the Canadian men's national team to three consecutive Olympic appearances. He's a PhD in sports psychology and is the current director of the National Wheelchair Curling Team. We discuss how your brain is wired to lie to you most of the time and how we can combat it. We dive into why perfectionism is ruining your progress and how to use gratitude as a superpower. We also talk about the ro...