<![CDATA[SPARK Insights With Coach Reg]]>30bf8044-b52d-513d-b789-29aa6d89a2faWed, 01 Apr 2026 16:11:13 +0000Captivate.fmCoach Reghttps://artwork.captivate.fm/de151e7b-035d-4473-962e-de14ad2e62c4/SPARKi.pngSPARK Insights With Coach RegCoach RegCoach RegI'm Bob Regnerus. Coach Reg. I've coached basketball for 38 seasons, I coach high school golf now, and I've spent the last 30 years in marketing and business alongside all of it. But the work I do now is the work I was always heading toward. SPARK Insights started as a weekly newsletter. It became something more. Every week I sit down and write about what I'm seeing in coaching sessions, in conversations, in the patterns that keep showing up across every person I work with. Athletes in transition. Founders who built the thing and lost themselves inside it. Executives who are successful by every measure and quietly miserable. And people who are still in the middle of it - still building, still competing, still leading - who sense that the way they're carrying it isn't sustainable. The common thread is identity. It's always identity. I help people see what's actually driving them, because most people are running on programming they never chose. And the moment they see it, everything shifts. Their decisions get clearer. Their energy comes back. They stop forcing and start building from a place that's actually theirs. You don't have to wait for the performance to end to do this work. Some of the most powerful shifts I've seen come from people who are still in the arena but willing to look underneath while they're there. This podcast brings those weekly letters and the conversations behind them to your ears. It's direct, it's personal, and it's not for everyone. If you're in a season where the question "Who am I really?" keeps surfacing, you're in the right place.https://bobregnerus.com/trueepisodicnopodcastTiger Woods and the Question Nobody's AskingTiger Woods and the Question Nobody's AskingThis week's episode isn't about golf. Michael Bamberger wrote something on Golf.com after Tiger's latest car accident that stopped Coach Reg in his tracks: "It's not easy...to have to find meaning in your life when that chapter of your life is over." Bob walks through why that statement fuels his work, runs a thought experiment applying the Purpose Factor® framework to Tiger's public career, and connects it to the pattern he sees in athletes, founders, and executives who've never done identity work beneath their performance.

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]]>This week's episode isn't about golf. Michael Bamberger wrote something on Golf.com after Tiger's latest car accident that stopped Coach Reg in his tracks: "It's not easy...to have to find meaning in your life when that chapter of your life is over." Bob walks through why that statement fuels his work, runs a thought experiment applying the Purpose Factor® framework to Tiger's public career, and connects it to the pattern he sees in athletes, founders, and executives who've never done identity work beneath their performance.

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]]>154a4013-28e6-4e40-b0f7-337b913e1377Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:11:00 -050016:19truefull55The Switch-a-RooThe Switch-a-RooI asked someone a question on a call this week and it boomeranged right back at me. A guy from overseas was pitching me on his AI marketing tools, and I did what I've been doing more and more lately - I flipped the conversation. I asked him what part of himself he gets to express through building those tools. He didn't have an answer. Most people don't.

Then my inner voice decided to have some fun with me and asked me the same question. That sent me all the way back to a basketball bench when I was sixteen years old, through twenty-four years of running marketing agencies, and into the coaching work I do now. Different rooms, different scoreboards, same Bob underneath all of it.

This episode is about containers - the roles we play, the businesses we build, the teams we lead - and the thing you're actually expressing inside of them. I share what I've seen happen when someone figures that out, and I tell you the part I don't usually say out loud: I need the same mirror held up for me that I hold for everyone else.

If something in this episode sits with you, don't let it pass. Hit reply or reach out.

Subscribe to the SPARK Insights™ newsletter: https://sparkinsights.net

Book a SPARK Session: https://bobregnerus.com/spark-session/

]]>I asked someone a question on a call this week and it boomeranged right back at me. A guy from overseas was pitching me on his AI marketing tools, and I did what I've been doing more and more lately - I flipped the conversation. I asked him what part of himself he gets to express through building those tools. He didn't have an answer. Most people don't.

Then my inner voice decided to have some fun with me and asked me the same question. That sent me all the way back to a basketball bench when I was sixteen years old, through twenty-four years of running marketing agencies, and into the coaching work I do now. Different rooms, different scoreboards, same Bob underneath all of it.

This episode is about containers - the roles we play, the businesses we build, the teams we lead - and the thing you're actually expressing inside of them. I share what I've seen happen when someone figures that out, and I tell you the part I don't usually say out loud: I need the same mirror held up for me that I hold for everyone else.

If something in this episode sits with you, don't let it pass. Hit reply or reach out.

Subscribe to the SPARK Insights™ newsletter: https://sparkinsights.net

Book a SPARK Session: https://bobregnerus.com/spark-session/

]]>6d880e13-9b30-49a6-85b2-727cbecc6368Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:11:00 -050016:07truefull44Magic Showed Up on My Lunch BreakMagic Showed Up on My Lunch BreakI was out walking, listening back to yesterday's episode on MAGIC, and an Amazon driver was barefoot in the grass dancing with ribbons on their lunch break. So I stopped and said "Hi". Goes by the handle beloveflows: What does this human do? They are a fire performer, and within about a minute we were deep into identity, performance, and what drives us. Just a raw conversation captured in the moment. Hear what I experienced.

Follow Brendan: https://www.instagram.com/beloveflows/

Grab the Magical Scorecard: https://bobregnerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Coach-Reg-Magical-Scorecard.pdf

Learn more and subscribe to SPARK Insights: https://sparkinsights.net

]]>I was out walking, listening back to yesterday's episode on MAGIC, and an Amazon driver was barefoot in the grass dancing with ribbons on their lunch break. So I stopped and said "Hi". Goes by the handle beloveflows: What does this human do? They are a fire performer, and within about a minute we were deep into identity, performance, and what drives us. Just a raw conversation captured in the moment. Hear what I experienced.

Follow Brendan: https://www.instagram.com/beloveflows/

Grab the Magical Scorecard: https://bobregnerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Coach-Reg-Magical-Scorecard.pdf

Learn more and subscribe to SPARK Insights: https://sparkinsights.net

]]>2853dd1f-7573-4fad-b88c-6a8d9055c322Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:11:00 -050003:07truefull33The Magical ScorecardThe Magical ScorecardI was sitting on a beach in Mexico after leading a fire ceremony when I realized something. Magic was showing up in my life constantly and I was ignoring most of it. A nickel that rolled to my feet on my 55th birthday. A Billy Joel concert that appeared out of nowhere the same morning. Both delivered without me chasing, forcing, or hustling anything.

In this episode I tell the full double nickel and Billy Joel stories, share how a late night conversation on a beach led me to build a new kind of scoreboard, and introduce the Magical Scorecard - a simple tool built around five categories that spell MAGIC. I also talk about what happened when I started using it (8 things the first week, 20 the next, 25+ by the third) and why this matters for the high performers, athletes, and coaches I work with.

Download the Magical Scorecard PDF: https://bobregnerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Coach-Reg-Magical-Scorecard.pdf

Subscribe to SPARK Insights™ (weekly newsletter): sparkinsights.beehiiv.com

Connect with Coach Reg: bobregnerus.com

]]>I was sitting on a beach in Mexico after leading a fire ceremony when I realized something. Magic was showing up in my life constantly and I was ignoring most of it. A nickel that rolled to my feet on my 55th birthday. A Billy Joel concert that appeared out of nowhere the same morning. Both delivered without me chasing, forcing, or hustling anything.

In this episode I tell the full double nickel and Billy Joel stories, share how a late night conversation on a beach led me to build a new kind of scoreboard, and introduce the Magical Scorecard - a simple tool built around five categories that spell MAGIC. I also talk about what happened when I started using it (8 things the first week, 20 the next, 25+ by the third) and why this matters for the high performers, athletes, and coaches I work with.

Download the Magical Scorecard PDF: https://bobregnerus.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Coach-Reg-Magical-Scorecard.pdf

Subscribe to SPARK Insights™ (weekly newsletter): sparkinsights.beehiiv.com

Connect with Coach Reg: bobregnerus.com

]]>340cf339-a998-40b7-ac27-af84f4eb174cWed, 18 Mar 2026 11:11:00 -050013:36truefull22The Content Was Mine. The Voice Wasn't. And Once I Saw the Patterns I Couldn't Unsee Them.The Content Was Mine. The Voice Wasn't. And Once I Saw the Patterns I Couldn't Unsee Them.This is the first audio episode of SPARK Insights and it exists because three friends showed me something I couldn't ignore.

I've been using AI to help write my newsletter for over seventy issues. I speak everything first, run it through Claude, and edit the draft. The ideas have always been mine. But a conversation with Caitlin, Amy Birks, and Brandon Fong from a community called Curiosity Island made me look at something I'd been avoiding: the voice on the page didn't sound like me.

In this episode I walk through what happened when I saw the patterns AI leaves behind in writing, the three filters I built to fix it, and why my writing started landing different with people before I even told anyone what I changed.

I'm also sharing the AI Writing Filter I built so you can do the same thing with your own content. And I close with an original song called "Worth Knowing."

To read and subscribe to SPARK Insights, visit https://sparkinsights.net

Key Moments:

[00:00] Why you're hearing my voice for the first time [02:00] How I've used AI to write 70+ issues of SPARK Insights [05:00] The process: I speak it, transcribe it, shape it, edit it [06:30] The question that changed everything: does the content still land? [08:30] The decision I had to make once I saw the patterns [09:30] The three filters I built: AI Tells, Voice, and Sovereignty [11:15] What shifted when people started telling me the writing was landing different [13:00] What Caitlin, Amy, and Brandon mirrored back to me [14:13] "Worth Knowing" - an original song

]]>This is the first audio episode of SPARK Insights and it exists because three friends showed me something I couldn't ignore.

I've been using AI to help write my newsletter for over seventy issues. I speak everything first, run it through Claude, and edit the draft. The ideas have always been mine. But a conversation with Caitlin, Amy Birks, and Brandon Fong from a community called Curiosity Island made me look at something I'd been avoiding: the voice on the page didn't sound like me.

In this episode I walk through what happened when I saw the patterns AI leaves behind in writing, the three filters I built to fix it, and why my writing started landing different with people before I even told anyone what I changed.

I'm also sharing the AI Writing Filter I built so you can do the same thing with your own content. And I close with an original song called "Worth Knowing."

To read and subscribe to SPARK Insights, visit https://sparkinsights.net

Key Moments:

[00:00] Why you're hearing my voice for the first time [02:00] How I've used AI to write 70+ issues of SPARK Insights [05:00] The process: I speak it, transcribe it, shape it, edit it [06:30] The question that changed everything: does the content still land? [08:30] The decision I had to make once I saw the patterns [09:30] The three filters I built: AI Tells, Voice, and Sovereignty [11:15] What shifted when people started telling me the writing was landing different [13:00] What Caitlin, Amy, and Brandon mirrored back to me [14:13] "Worth Knowing" - an original song

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